@1: this seems to be typical of most of northern Europe,as far as I can tell from Wikipedia (yes, that most reliable of sources).
@2: this comes from the idea that you would fill up the basin first, then use the water in the basin, a practice which originates in using a jug and washstand. I think this is considered by some to e the "proper" or more "classy" way to do it, and so they buy this sort of basin to make it look like that is what they do.
@3,4: yes I don't like this either, but there are a lot of votes from these people, and there isn't a party with the balls to cut off thier income, unless they could get away with disenfranchising them (but there is still the risk that someone will re-enfranchise them and keep their votes for decades, so that isn't an option either). It's hardly a UK-only problem, more's the pity.
In my opinion, the punitive/deterrent part should be paid tot he government, and treated as a criminal fine, while the plaintiff should only get what they can prove they lost.
ARM or x86 CPUs are so cheap that it is easier and cheaper to write on top of an existing stack than to implement your own. This is no different to people getting upset that we no longer code our kernels in assembly code to speed things up. These features are added partly because they can, partly to keep marktetroids happy, and probably partly to stop people noticing that the problem (whatever it is) was solved a long time ago, and that they could just fire most of the engineers and just change the front panels from year to year.
Illegal in some places. Any laser-based projector is illegal in some places under offensive weapons laws, unless it is so dim as to be almost useless, or it is mains powered (this is the case in South Aus.). This even applies to some Class I lasers. This is a shame,s ince the technlogy is nice, but then we aren't allowed 18+ rated games either because of the same AG.
It is an easily-abused feature, which is a fairly common argument for removing/omitting a feature from a language (just look at the argument over operator overloading in Java).
The MS EULA states that if you do not agree to it, you can return the MS software to the place you bought it for a refund. If the local laws do not require OEMs to accept these returns, then MS would probably have included terms into the contract they have with the OEMs to cover the situation. Either way, hard luck.
I don't know why MS doesn't use a slightly different licence which would be agreed to before sale, so that (a) vendors don't have to deal with this problem, and (b) to potentially prevent people getting computers without Windows.
Alternatively, someone free from patent concerns will produce a H264 plugin for Firefox, and those in the US will just use it illegally (like DVD players and so on).
Saying that it is where the server is also makes sense, since this simplifies international sales rules as well, but raises issues where there are many mirrors of the site. The analogy would be a telephone call to someone there, or better yet, sending an agent to there, to meet with the vendor's agent.
Whatever the case, the location for all legal purposes (tax, consumer protection laws, etc.) should be the same.
What about Transnistria, which is reasonably stable, but isn't recognised by anyone except South Ossetia or Abkhazia, so has no particularly good reason to give you or your money to US authorities, and would probably be quite happy to have you paying taxes on $65G. It doesn't seem as nice as Grand Cayman, but that much money can fix a lot of problems.
I would like a keyboard built like Model M, but with the full complement of modifier keys, so i can map them as i currently do with Control in caps lock, then along the bottom row Greek, front, meta, space, alt, super, hyper, lock (toggles lock on shift, front or Greek when chorded). The other things which would be nice would be a metal shell and keys, and a drainage channel like on the modern imitations.
It seems to have been generally established that it is the uploader who is copying, not the downloader, at least from the RIAA cases (and similar ones outside the USA), where people are being sued for uploading files. IANAL, but I think the idea is that if you get a copy of something, you aren't expected to know if it is legit or not, and that it is the distributor who is harming the copyright holder, not the recipient.
Datum is the singular noun in formal British English. The problem is people who don't realise that data != information, and that data are always countable, since it is made up of many individual measurements.
The metric system was originated by Napoleon, and there was a movement to use metric before the SI was standardised. Remember that for scientific purposes the CGS system had been in use before the SI was adopted.
People keep using the units they have learnt as children, which is why yoing people are far more likely to use metric than imperial
Joining the Euro would mean giving more power over fiscal policy to Europe, which would further undermine British sovereignty, and that is unacceptable to a lot of voters.
When [Luther] nailed his Theses to the church door, the Bible was not written in the vulgate
Actually, it was written in the Vulgate. the problem was that the vulgate hadn't been the vernacular for a thousand years, even in the areas where it had been spoken. Vulgate was the common Latin dialect(s) of the western empire, spoken by the common people, which is why the Bible was translated into that. This was originally a move to make the bible more accessible to the masses. but then bureaucracy and inertia took over and we all know where that leads.
Making available is not the infringement, uploading is. Of course, if they can prove that you were making available, it is more likely than not that you were uploading, but the distinction is still important.
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@1: this seems to be typical of most of northern Europe,as far as I can tell from Wikipedia (yes, that most reliable of sources).
@2: this comes from the idea that you would fill up the basin first, then use the water in the basin, a practice which originates in using a jug and washstand. I think this is considered by some to e the "proper" or more "classy" way to do it, and so they buy this sort of basin to make it look like that is what they do.
@3,4: yes I don't like this either, but there are a lot of votes from these people, and there isn't a party with the balls to cut off thier income, unless they could get away with disenfranchising them (but there is still the risk that someone will re-enfranchise them and keep their votes for decades, so that isn't an option either). It's hardly a UK-only problem, more's the pity.
In my opinion, the punitive/deterrent part should be paid tot he government, and treated as a criminal fine, while the plaintiff should only get what they can prove they lost.
Whatever happens, we have got
the Gatling gun, and they have not
- from a poem about the Abyssinian campaign
ARM or x86 CPUs are so cheap that it is easier and cheaper to write on top of an existing stack than to implement your own. This is no different to people getting upset that we no longer code our kernels in assembly code to speed things up. These features are added partly because they can, partly to keep marktetroids happy, and probably partly to stop people noticing that the problem (whatever it is) was solved a long time ago, and that they could just fire most of the engineers and just change the front panels from year to year.
Illegal in some places. Any laser-based projector is illegal in some places under offensive weapons laws, unless it is so dim as to be almost useless, or it is mains powered (this is the case in South Aus.). This even applies to some Class I lasers. This is a shame,s ince the technlogy is nice, but then we aren't allowed 18+ rated games either because of the same AG.
It is an easily-abused feature, which is a fairly common argument for removing/omitting a feature from a language (just look at the argument over operator overloading in Java).
Personally, I am in favour of them.
The MS EULA states that if you do not agree to it, you can return the MS software to the place you bought it for a refund. If the local laws do not require OEMs to accept these returns, then MS would probably have included terms into the contract they have with the OEMs to cover the situation. Either way, hard luck.
I don't know why MS doesn't use a slightly different licence which would be agreed to before sale, so that (a) vendors don't have to deal with this problem, and (b) to potentially prevent people getting computers without Windows.
Alternatively, someone free from patent concerns will produce a H264 plugin for Firefox, and those in the US will just use it illegally (like DVD players and so on).
Not just windows. Firefox 3b5 does that under Linux (not my fault, idiot admins using RHEL)
Saying that it is where the server is also makes sense, since this simplifies international sales rules as well, but raises issues where there are many mirrors of the site. The analogy would be a telephone call to someone there, or better yet, sending an agent to there, to meet with the vendor's agent.
Whatever the case, the location for all legal purposes (tax, consumer protection laws, etc.) should be the same.
What about Transnistria, which is reasonably stable, but isn't recognised by anyone except South Ossetia or Abkhazia, so has no particularly good reason to give you or your money to US authorities, and would probably be quite happy to have you paying taxes on $65G. It doesn't seem as nice as Grand Cayman, but that much money can fix a lot of problems.
Corn-based ethanol should be flavoured with juniper and reserved for human consumption!
But I washed these underpants specially, and they even *bend*! How much fancier can you get?
I would like a keyboard built like Model M, but with the full complement of modifier keys, so i can map them as i currently do with Control in caps lock, then along the bottom row Greek, front, meta, space, alt, super, hyper, lock (toggles lock on shift, front or Greek when chorded). The other things which would be nice would be a metal shell and keys, and a drainage channel like on the modern imitations.
C-w/M-w/C-y
It seems to have been generally established that it is the uploader who is copying, not the downloader, at least from the RIAA cases (and similar ones outside the USA), where people are being sued for uploading files. IANAL, but I think the idea is that if you get a copy of something, you aren't expected to know if it is legit or not, and that it is the distributor who is harming the copyright holder, not the recipient.
Datum is the singular noun in formal British English. The problem is people who don't realise that data != information, and that data are always countable, since it is made up of many individual measurements.
The metric system was originated by Napoleon, and there was a movement to use metric before the SI was standardised. Remember that for scientific purposes the CGS system had been in use before the SI was adopted.
People keep using the units they have learnt as children, which is why yoing people are far more likely to use metric than imperial
Joining the Euro would mean giving more power over fiscal policy to Europe, which would further undermine British sovereignty, and that is unacceptable to a lot of voters.
Better a gram than a damn.
Actually, it was written in the Vulgate. the problem was that the vulgate hadn't been the vernacular for a thousand years, even in the areas where it had been spoken. Vulgate was the common Latin dialect(s) of the western empire, spoken by the common people, which is why the Bible was translated into that. This was originally a move to make the bible more accessible to the masses. but then bureaucracy and inertia took over and we all know where that leads.
regarding point 1, do you really believe Microsoft wouldn't punish the companies anyway?
Making available is not the infringement, uploading is. Of course, if they can prove that you were making available, it is more likely than not that you were uploading, but the distinction is still important.
Maybe it is more a case of "Not this shit again". We have had this argument so many times, and there are no new points, that it just becomes tedious.
I think the fans just wish it had been.