The patents are apparently in regards long filenames, meaning cameras just need to follow the 8.3 filename format to by pass the problem.
Incidently I've use digital cameras from 4 different companies & all 4 kept to the 8.3 name format (eg DSCF0004.JPG), maybe they have nothing to worry about afterall.
Contemporary economists consider anything under 1% growth a recession, while anything over 4% is a boom/
Now considering the fact that for over 30 years US taxpayers provided Israel with between 5% & 15% of GNP annually (it varies year to year, much of it hidden to, coming from many US depts under many different titles), it's amazing Israel's doing so poorly - with 10% inflation, 10% interest rates & 10% unemployment (figures may have changed a little over the last year). Gez it took 15 years of the US providing Israel with up to 15% of it's GNP every year for Israel to shake off it's 3 digit inflation rates.
It's ironic the way US tax-payers are subsidising one of the most socialist countries in the would to such a extent, where Kibutzes & Moshavs get millions in subsidies & still can't breakeven, unlike the remaining Israeli Arab farms - basically almost the only agricultural enterprises in Israel that seem to cope without subsidies,
When you get down to it the main reason the Palestinian/Israeli coflict exists today is because the the zionist lobbies (funded by US tax-payers no less) have half the American polies in their pockets.
Because the simple fact is that without being propped up by US tax-payers there's absolutelly no way Israel could fund the occupation, let alone their apartheid expropiation wall that zig zags all over the West Bank, expropiating land left, right 'n centre, in contravention of the Hague 'n Geneva Conventions. Look what they are doing to the villagers of Kaffin - using the wall to expropiate thousands of dunans of their lands & bulldozening 10,000 of their olive trees (that their ancestors have tendered for hundreds of years) destroying the livelyhoods of 9000 people - no wonder Palestinians are so willing to scarifice themselves to get back at these foreign intruders. & to think Shrubie has not even dared to ask them why can't they build their wall along their side of the border, IE in Israel proper. Maybe because he knows that Israel would rather destroy the lives of the native Palestinian population ### than midly inconveniance their own chosen people
Ontop of which but for the US using the threat of it's veto to weaken UN resolutions against Israel to the point of uselessness (or to weaken the enforrcement of UN resolutions to the same effect) Israel would've suffered the ignomy of 20 years of South African like sanctions, to the point that they would've given in & ended the apartheid policies there too.
Fact is it's the Hague Convention (1903C), the Geneva Convention (A49P6), the International Declaration of Human Rights & the conditions of Israel's creation (UNPR 181) that give Palestinian refugess the right of return, (plus of course a good number of UN resolutions, many of which Israel agreed to abide by as it's condition of joining the UN), meaning Israel is a war criminal state as much as Baathist Iraq was.
Imagine ethnically cleansing the majority of the population just because they were the wrong ethnicity - it's as if the Zionists colonialists in Palestine felt they had as much right to meddle with demographics via war crimes there as the Nazi invaders had to meddle with the demographics in Poland via war crimes. Afterall how can one have a democratic Jewish state with descriminatory immigration laws favouring foreign Jews, if the majority of the population is Arab. Hence the refuseal to permit the refugees back, in contradiction of the conditions set down for the UN mandated partition of Palestine & creation of Israel.
The Zionists really conned the world, & to think just as Hitler had let out his intention in Mein Kampf to anyone who bothered checking, so did the Zionist ideologue, David Ben Gurion:-
"Everybody see
What is it with America's love of voting machines?
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What is it with America's love of voting machines? They don't use them virtually anywhere else.
Haven't you bloody Americans learnt the KISS system - Keep It Simple Stupid.
This means no bloody machines, period !!! If Australia (& also virtually the rest of the democratic world) can do hand counted paper ballots, then so can the US.
The only reason they use machine systems in the US is to cut costs, but the simple fact is they arn't as good (they invalidate more votes then hand counts do, they intimidate & confuse a good percentage of voters & they increase the odds of something fucking up (murphy's law)
Look at the mess, as well as the fucked up punch card machines you have counties with lever machines, other with optical machines, toggle switch machines, push button machines & also touch screen systems too. Then there are places like Oregon where all votes are of the mail in variety (which obviously discriminates against the homeless & disorginised). The simple fact is that huge numbers of people are intimidated with this complicated mess that's one of the reasons why most Americans don't vote & why the US has about the lowest voter turnout in the OECD.
Look at all the people that are intimidated by machines & even now still refuse to use Automatic Teller Machines, & there are plenty more people like that then just the illiterate, the elderly & immigrants that have poor 2nd language skills.
Its as if the bureaucracy in the US are on purposefully trying to discourage the masses from voting.
The only way to go is to Keep It Simple Stupid. Which means aiming at the lowest common denominator & designing a system that the stupidist simpleton can understand.
Which means 'X marks the spot' / 'tick the box' hand ballots.
That means a piece of paper with the candidates listed in a columne & another columne of boxes on the side with just one box next to each candidate.
Here are a couple of examples of 'KISS' paper ballots, the 1st one is an example of an Australian preferential ballot (any Americans who support 3rd parties should be demanding that the US system be made either preferential or proportional, otherwise no 3rd parties will ever make any long term headway), the 2nd ballot is an example of an 'tick the box' ballot.
As far as counting goes the US should be doing what Australia does (& most of the rest of the developed world does similar) & hold the vote on a Saturday (I wonder how many blue collar workers in the US chose not to vote because of the incoveniance of voting on a Tuesday), using local schools as voting centres. Then leasing indoor stadiums & convention centres nationwide which are to be used as counting centres for the thousands of temp workers employed to count the votes. Each counter also has a Labour & conservative coalition scrutineer looking over his/her shoulders. You see by voting on Saturday it means there's a huge availability of temp workers to count ballots (useally teachers & other public servants after extra dosh) & party volunteers to scrutineer counting, which wouldn't be available if voting occured for some bizarre reason on a Tuesday
Sure its labour intensive, but as any UN election observer will tell you this is the best system if you want high turnouts with low rates of invalid votes & a result that's as accurate as can be, by Monday morning at the latest (actually in the vast majority of elections we know who's won by about 8pm the same night).
Also all politicians must be removed from any decision making processes as far as the running of elections are concerned, etc.
Look at the way democratic afiliated local officials OKed the hand count iin Palm Beach & then the Republican Florida SoS blocked the hand count (& she was Bush's co-campaign manager, which makes it an even worse conflict of interest). That sort
I seem to be the bloke that's always knocking together the computers for my circle of mates & my extended family, & every time I set up the internet connection invariably the ISP documentation or tech support bloke says to make sure that 'Internet connection firewall'.
From my experiance, more often than not, computers won't even log on with that ticked (& that goes for both dial up & broadband).
So if someone has XP & they're having trouble getting their new internet commection working, they should make sure start/settings/network connections/new connection name/properties/advanced/internet connection firewall is unticked
Optus in Oz simply slows the cable connections of those who use more than 30GB a month (or something) down to modem speeds till the beginning of the next month..
It's still unlimited in that they can download as much as they wanted without getting charged more.
What is it with America's love of voting machines? They don't use them virtually anywhere else.
Haven't you bloody Americans learnt the KISS system - Keep It Simple Stupid.
This means no bloody machines, period !!! If Australia (& also virtually the rest of the democratic world) can do hand counted paper ballots, then so can the US.
The only reason they use machine systems in the US is to cut costs, but the simple fact is they arn't as good (they invalidate more votes then hand counts do, they intimidate & confuse a good percentage of voters & they increase the odds of something fucking up (murphy's law)
Look at the mess, as well as the fucked up punch card machines you have counties with lever machines, other with optical machines, toggle switch machines, push button machines & also touch screen systems too. Then there are places like Oregon where all votes are of the mail in variety (which obviously discriminates against the homeless & disorginised). The simple fact is that huge numbers of people are intimidated with this complicated mess that's one of the reasons why most Americans don't vote & why the US has about the lowest voter turnout in the OECD.
Look at all the people that are intimidated by machines & even now still refuse to use Automatic Teller Machines, & there are plenty more people like that then just the illiterate, the elderly & immigrants that have poor 2nd language skills.
Its as if the bureaucracy in the US are on purposefully trying to discourage the masses from voting.
The only way to go is to Keep It Simple Stupid. Which means aiming at the lowest common denominator & designing a system that the stupidist simpleton can understand.
Which means 'X marks the spot' / 'tick the box' hand ballots.
That means a piece of paper with the candidates listed in a columne & another columne of boxes on the side with just one box next to each candidate.
Here are a couple of examples of 'KISS' paper ballots, the 1st one is an example of an Australian preferential ballot (any Americans who support 3rd parties should be demanding that the US system be made either preferential or proportional, otherwise no 3rd parties will ever make any long term headway), the 2nd ballot is an example of an 'tick the box' ballot.
As far as counting goes the US should be doing what Australia does (& most of the rest of the developed world does similar) & hold the vote on a Saturday (I wonder how many blue collar workers in the US chose not to vote because of the incoveniance of voting on a Tuesday), using local schools as voting centres. Then leasing indoor stadiums & convention centres nationwide which are to be used as counting centres for the thousands of temp workers employed to count the votes. Each counter also has a Labour & conservative coalition scrutineer looking over his/her shoulders. You see by voting on Saturday it means there's a huge availability of temp workers to count ballots (useally teachers & other public servants after extra dosh) & party volunteers to scrutineer counting, which wouldn't be available if voting occured for some bizarre reason on a Tuesday
Sure its labour intensive, but as any UN election observer will tell you this is the best system if you want high turnouts with low rates of invalid votes & a result that's as accurate as can be, by Monday morning at the latest (actually in the vast majority of elections we know who's won by about 8pm the same night).
Also all politicians must be removed from any decision making processes as far as the running of elections are concerned, etc.
Look at the way democratic afiliated local officials OKed the hand count iin Palm Beach & then the Republican Florida SoS blocked the hand count (& she was Bush's co-campaign manager, which makes it an even worse conflict of interest). That sort
The Cyrix 686 used the socket 7 format, while the VIA Cyrix 3 (really a next generation IDT Winchip) used the Intel Socket 370 format. Not a Duron compatible Socket A format anywhere to be seen
Mind you I'm not arguing with the point you're making.
Why make all the fuss about terrorists being able to make a missle using off the shelf parts?
Why call the thing a cruise missle? No one would've noticed if you just called it a remote controll aerial drone.
Why tell the govt that Iranians wanted to buy them?
When the govt said 'that's ok Iran's a soverign state & there's no embargo against them, meaning you have as much right to sell them misssles as you have to sell them to the US' you should have just said ok, instead of making another fuss. Even if you didn't want to sell them to Iran, no one was forcing you too, so why use this as another excuse to make more of a fuss.
Lets be honest, if you had just called them remote controlled aerial drones, shut the fuck up & had never told the whole world all the sensationalist drivel you told, & just kept your paperwork up to date, no public servent would've cared, even the ones who would've rubber stamped your export licenses.
GM, firestone & Philip's Petroleum created a front company that purchased over 400 suburban railway & tram systems in the US, then ran them down & replaced them with buses. They even got a $10,000 fine when the govt prosecuted them under the anti-trust statutes. Yep they destroyed infrastructure that today would cost millions or billions to replace for a then $10,000 penalty.
Really AFAIC railways systems should be publically run & financed through consilidated revenue, just as roads are. Public transport will never reach it's full potential while it's expected to make a profit (or break even), while there's no equilivent expectation in regards roads
We all want the web to be above national legislation & if that's the case we should stop sulking & adapt to the realities this implies.
Meaning taking personal responsability & modifying our computers with code that protects our computer from undesirable code we openly chose to expose our computer to by chosing to go on-line
It really is so simple.
Actually AFAIC even computer viruses shouldn't be banned - IMAO by chosing to go online with a windows computer one is by default chosing to expose one's computer to viruses. One should accept that fact & adapt. Why the business of zeros & ones going up & down cables is the business of govt is beyond me.
IE what stop's Small film companies from simply sending out screener copies to awards voters any way?
It's not as if either small film companies or awards voters are under any obligation to comply with MPAA decisions.
AFAIC MPAA decisions only effect MPAA members, which I assume are the big studios. Anyway if the small makers are members they could simply renounce their memberships
They're assuming the tomatoes contain a OD quantity of nicoteine - they haven't tested them yet. If each tomato contains the same amount as what's absorbed from the average smoke then the tomatoes are no problem as far as eating are concerned.
The zionists colonised the place in total disregard of the wishes & interests of the vast majority of people that were actually living.
Remember there was no conflict between Palestine's (native shephardic) Jews & the rest of the population there. Then Zionists atarted immigrating en masse with thoughts of colonisation & displacement on their mind (they weren't immigrating into a 95+% Arab region to learn Arab & intigrate into Arab communities) & in so doing created a new sectarian conflict that never existed till zionism raised its ugly head
Australia Bangladesh Brazil Brunei China Indo nesia Kuwait Malaysia Mexico New Zealand Nepal Northern Island Papua New Guinea Romania Singapore Soloman Islands Sri Lanka Taiwan Thailand Vietnam Western Samoa
They even took out a partnership with a Belgium company during development & formed a joint venture (Securency)in the hope of gaining the Euro contract , but the national mints didn't want to lose out.
The polymer sheets are made in a huge rould building, like a gas storage tank, about the size of a footy oval, where the plastic's blown into balloons that fill the room & then collapse into sheets. They can be recycled too.
As you can see here the colours are very distinguishable from each other, the clear part on each note is in fact a transparent hologram.
I think Yellowtap may have purchased axcess to the BeOS source from Palm or something, which maybe means axcess to Intel's contributions such as drivers 'n patches (mmx, etc?).
You forget patent's civil law, not criminal law
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Yes the govt can't prosecute anyone for contravening patents.
One can only take on a private law suit, & the basic structure of a law suite for patent infringment is commercial, they just don't apply to end users knocking things together for themselves, well unless the end user is planing on using it commercially (like a post office building hundreds of them for it's postmen to use).
Afterall there's thousands of patents that get infringed every day by hobbyists in their sheds & garages
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The patents are apparently in regards long filenames, meaning cameras just need to follow the 8.3 filename format to by pass the problem.
Incidently I've use digital cameras from 4 different companies & all 4 kept to the 8.3 name format (eg DSCF0004.JPG), maybe they have nothing to worry about afterall.
& just can't cope with wet weather unless a rubber glove is tied arround it's dizzy, I mean its electronics, & it rained on launch day.
Now considering the fact that for over 30 years US taxpayers provided Israel with between 5% & 15% of GNP annually (it varies year to year, much of it hidden to, coming from many US depts under many different titles), it's amazing Israel's doing so poorly - with 10% inflation, 10% interest rates & 10% unemployment (figures may have changed a little over the last year). Gez it took 15 years of the US providing Israel with up to 15% of it's GNP every year for Israel to shake off it's 3 digit inflation rates.
It's ironic the way US tax-payers are subsidising one of the most socialist countries in the would to such a extent, where Kibutzes & Moshavs get millions in subsidies & still can't breakeven, unlike the remaining Israeli Arab farms - basically almost the only agricultural enterprises in Israel that seem to cope without subsidies,
When you get down to it the main reason the Palestinian/Israeli coflict exists today is because the the zionist lobbies (funded by US tax-payers no less) have half the American polies in their pockets.
Because the simple fact is that without being propped up by US tax-payers there's absolutelly no way Israel could fund the occupation, let alone their apartheid expropiation wall that zig zags all over the West Bank, expropiating land left, right 'n centre, in contravention of the Hague 'n Geneva Conventions. Look what they are doing to the villagers of Kaffin - using the wall to expropiate thousands of dunans of their lands & bulldozening 10,000 of their olive trees (that their ancestors have tendered for hundreds of years) destroying the livelyhoods of 9000 people - no wonder Palestinians are so willing to scarifice themselves to get back at these foreign intruders. & to think Shrubie has not even dared to ask them why can't they build their wall along their side of the border, IE in Israel proper. Maybe because he knows that Israel would rather destroy the lives of the native Palestinian population ### than midly inconveniance their own chosen people
Ontop of which but for the US using the threat of it's veto to weaken UN resolutions against Israel to the point of uselessness (or to weaken the enforrcement of UN resolutions to the same effect) Israel would've suffered the ignomy of 20 years of South African like sanctions, to the point that they would've given in & ended the apartheid policies there too.
Fact is it's the Hague Convention (1903C), the Geneva Convention (A49P6), the International Declaration of Human Rights & the conditions of Israel's creation (UNPR 181) that give Palestinian refugess the right of return, (plus of course a good number of UN resolutions, many of which Israel agreed to abide by as it's condition of joining the UN), meaning Israel is a war criminal state as much as Baathist Iraq was.
Imagine ethnically cleansing the majority of the population just because they were the wrong ethnicity - it's as if the Zionists colonialists in Palestine felt they had as much right to meddle with demographics via war crimes there as the Nazi invaders had to meddle with the demographics in Poland via war crimes. Afterall how can one have a democratic Jewish state with descriminatory immigration laws favouring foreign Jews, if the majority of the population is Arab. Hence the refuseal to permit the refugees back, in contradiction of the conditions set down for the UN mandated partition of Palestine & creation of Israel.
The Zionists really conned the world, & to think just as Hitler had let out his intention in Mein Kampf to anyone who bothered checking, so did the Zionist ideologue, David Ben Gurion:-
What is it with America's love of voting machines? They don't use them virtually anywhere else.
Haven't you bloody Americans learnt the KISS system - Keep It Simple Stupid.
This means no bloody machines, period !!! If Australia (& also virtually the rest of the democratic world) can do hand counted paper ballots, then so can the US.
The only reason they use machine systems in the US is to cut costs, but the simple fact is they arn't as good (they invalidate more votes then hand counts do, they intimidate & confuse a good percentage of voters & they increase the odds of something fucking up (murphy's law)
Look at the mess, as well as the fucked up punch card machines you have counties with lever machines, other with optical machines, toggle switch machines, push button machines & also touch screen systems too. Then there are places like Oregon where all votes are of the mail in variety (which obviously discriminates against the homeless & disorginised). The simple fact is that huge numbers of people are intimidated with this complicated mess that's one of the reasons why most Americans don't vote & why the US has about the lowest voter turnout in the OECD.
Look at all the people that are intimidated by machines & even now still refuse to use Automatic Teller Machines, & there are plenty more people like that then just the illiterate, the elderly & immigrants that have poor 2nd language skills.
Its as if the bureaucracy in the US are on purposefully trying to discourage the masses from voting.
The only way to go is to Keep It Simple Stupid. Which means aiming at the lowest common denominator & designing a system that the stupidist simpleton can understand.
Which means 'X marks the spot' / 'tick the box' hand ballots.
That means a piece of paper with the candidates listed in a columne & another columne of boxes on the side with just one box next to each candidate.
Here are a couple of examples of 'KISS' paper ballots, the 1st one is an example of an Australian preferential ballot (any Americans who support 3rd parties should be demanding that the US system be made either preferential or proportional, otherwise no 3rd parties will ever make any long term headway), the 2nd ballot is an example of an 'tick the box' ballot.
As far as counting goes the US should be doing what Australia does (& most of the rest of the developed world does similar) & hold the vote on a Saturday (I wonder how many blue collar workers in the US chose not to vote because of the incoveniance of voting on a Tuesday), using local schools as voting centres. Then leasing indoor stadiums & convention centres nationwide which are to be used as counting centres for the thousands of temp workers employed to count the votes. Each counter also has a Labour & conservative coalition scrutineer looking over his/her shoulders. You see by voting on Saturday it means there's a huge availability of temp workers to count ballots (useally teachers & other public servants after extra dosh) & party volunteers to scrutineer counting, which wouldn't be available if voting occured for some bizarre reason on a Tuesday
Sure its labour intensive, but as any UN election observer will tell you this is the best system if you want high turnouts with low rates of invalid votes & a result that's as accurate as can be, by Monday morning at the latest (actually in the vast majority of elections we know who's won by about 8pm the same night).
Also all politicians must be removed from any decision making processes as far as the running of elections are concerned, etc.
Look at the way democratic afiliated local officials OKed the hand count iin Palm Beach & then the Republican Florida SoS blocked the hand count (& she was Bush's co-campaign manager, which makes it an even worse conflict of interest). That sort
I seem to be the bloke that's always knocking together the computers for my circle of mates & my extended family, & every time I set up the internet connection invariably the ISP documentation or tech support bloke says to make sure that 'Internet connection firewall'.
From my experiance, more often than not, computers won't even log on with that ticked (& that goes for both dial up & broadband).
So if someone has XP & they're having trouble getting their new internet commection working, they should make sure start/settings/network connections/new connection name/properties/advanced/internet connection firewall is unticked
For instance Caldera had a graphical installer before Mandrake
Optus in Oz simply slows the cable connections of those who use more than 30GB a month (or something) down to modem speeds till the beginning of the next month..
It's still unlimited in that they can download as much as they wanted without getting charged more.
What is it with America's love of voting machines? They don't use them virtually anywhere else.
Haven't you bloody Americans learnt the KISS system - Keep It Simple Stupid.
This means no bloody machines, period !!! If Australia (& also virtually the rest of the democratic world) can do hand counted paper ballots, then so can the US.
The only reason they use machine systems in the US is to cut costs, but the simple fact is they arn't as good (they invalidate more votes then hand counts do, they intimidate & confuse a good percentage of voters & they increase the odds of something fucking up (murphy's law)
Look at the mess, as well as the fucked up punch card machines you have counties with lever machines, other with optical machines, toggle switch machines, push button machines & also touch screen systems too. Then there are places like Oregon where all votes are of the mail in variety (which obviously discriminates against the homeless & disorginised). The simple fact is that huge numbers of people are intimidated with this complicated mess that's one of the reasons why most Americans don't vote & why the US has about the lowest voter turnout in the OECD.
Look at all the people that are intimidated by machines & even now still refuse to use Automatic Teller Machines, & there are plenty more people like that then just the illiterate, the elderly & immigrants that have poor 2nd language skills.
Its as if the bureaucracy in the US are on purposefully trying to discourage the masses from voting.
The only way to go is to Keep It Simple Stupid. Which means aiming at the lowest common denominator & designing a system that the stupidist simpleton can understand.
Which means 'X marks the spot' / 'tick the box' hand ballots.
That means a piece of paper with the candidates listed in a columne & another columne of boxes on the side with just one box next to each candidate.
Here are a couple of examples of 'KISS' paper ballots, the 1st one is an example of an Australian preferential ballot (any Americans who support 3rd parties should be demanding that the US system be made either preferential or proportional, otherwise no 3rd parties will ever make any long term headway), the 2nd ballot is an example of an 'tick the box' ballot.
As far as counting goes the US should be doing what Australia does (& most of the rest of the developed world does similar) & hold the vote on a Saturday (I wonder how many blue collar workers in the US chose not to vote because of the incoveniance of voting on a Tuesday), using local schools as voting centres. Then leasing indoor stadiums & convention centres nationwide which are to be used as counting centres for the thousands of temp workers employed to count the votes. Each counter also has a Labour & conservative coalition scrutineer looking over his/her shoulders. You see by voting on Saturday it means there's a huge availability of temp workers to count ballots (useally teachers & other public servants after extra dosh) & party volunteers to scrutineer counting, which wouldn't be available if voting occured for some bizarre reason on a Tuesday
Sure its labour intensive, but as any UN election observer will tell you this is the best system if you want high turnouts with low rates of invalid votes & a result that's as accurate as can be, by Monday morning at the latest (actually in the vast majority of elections we know who's won by about 8pm the same night).
Also all politicians must be removed from any decision making processes as far as the running of elections are concerned, etc.
Look at the way democratic afiliated local officials OKed the hand count iin Palm Beach & then the Republican Florida SoS blocked the hand count (& she was Bush's co-campaign manager, which makes it an even worse conflict of interest). That sort
That's news to me
The Cyrix 686 used the socket 7 format, while the VIA Cyrix 3 (really a next generation IDT Winchip) used the Intel Socket 370 format. Not a Duron compatible Socket A format anywhere to be seen
Mind you I'm not arguing with the point you're making.
Well at least some of them
Why make all the fuss about terrorists being able to make a missle using off the shelf parts?
Why call the thing a cruise missle? No one would've noticed if you just called it a remote controll aerial drone.
Why tell the govt that Iranians wanted to buy them?
When the govt said 'that's ok Iran's a soverign state & there's no embargo against them, meaning you have as much right to sell them misssles as you have to sell them to the US' you should have just said ok, instead of making another fuss. Even if you didn't want to sell them to Iran, no one was forcing you too, so why use this as another excuse to make more of a fuss.
Lets be honest, if you had just called them remote controlled aerial drones, shut the fuck up & had never told the whole world all the sensationalist drivel you told, & just kept your paperwork up to date, no public servent would've cared, even the ones who would've rubber stamped your export licenses.
It makes no differance to them
like roads
Problem solved
GM, firestone & Philip's Petroleum created a front company that purchased over 400 suburban railway & tram systems in the US, then ran them down & replaced them with buses. They even got a $10,000 fine when the govt prosecuted them under the anti-trust statutes. Yep they destroyed infrastructure that today would cost millions or billions to replace for a then $10,000 penalty.
If it wasn't for that fact, many US cities today could [b]potentially[/m] have suburban railway systems as extensive as Sydney's suburban & inter-urban Cityrail system
Really AFAIC railways systems should be publically run & financed through consilidated revenue, just as roads are. Public transport will never reach it's full potential while it's expected to make a profit (or break even), while there's no equilivent expectation in regards roads
Invaribly these scams rip off those who are so greedy that they put their greed before commonsense.
Anyone sticking their life savings into a get rich quick scheme deserves to be ripped off.
It's called karma
We all want the web to be above national legislation & if that's the case we should stop sulking & adapt to the realities this implies.
Meaning taking personal responsability & modifying our computers with code that protects our computer from undesirable code we openly chose to expose our computer to by chosing to go on-line
It really is so simple.
Actually AFAIC even computer viruses shouldn't be banned - IMAO by chosing to go online with a windows computer one is by default chosing to expose one's computer to viruses. One should accept that fact & adapt. Why the business of zeros & ones going up & down cables is the business of govt is beyond me.
IE what stop's Small film companies from simply sending out screener copies to awards voters any way?
It's not as if either small film companies or awards voters are under any obligation to comply with MPAA decisions.
AFAIC MPAA decisions only effect MPAA members, which I assume are the big studios. Anyway if the small makers are members they could simply renounce their memberships
It only hurts those who are so selfish that they put their greed before commonsense.
As such anyone conned by the Nigerian scam deserves to be ripped off & the govt should turn a blind eye to then being scammed.
& News Limited sued them
They're assuming the tomatoes contain a OD quantity of nicoteine - they haven't tested them yet. If each tomato contains the same amount as what's absorbed from the average smoke then the tomatoes are no problem as far as eating are concerned.
The zionists colonised the place in total disregard of the wishes & interests of the vast majority of people that were actually living.
Remember there was no conflict between Palestine's (native shephardic) Jews & the rest of the population there. Then Zionists atarted immigrating en masse with thoughts of colonisation & displacement on their mind (they weren't immigrating into a 95+% Arab region to learn Arab & intigrate into Arab communities) & in so doing created a new sectarian conflict that never existed till zionism raised its ugly head
Yeb the Oz mint now makes polymer notes for:
o nesia
Australia
Bangladesh
Brazil
Brunei
China
Ind
Kuwait
Malaysia
Mexico
New Zealand
Nepal
Northern Island
Papua New Guinea
Romania
Singapore
Soloman Islands
Sri Lanka
Taiwan
Thailand
Vietnam
Western Samoa
They even took out a partnership with a Belgium company during development & formed a joint venture (Securency)in the hope of gaining the Euro contract , but the national mints didn't want to lose out.
The polymer sheets are made in a huge rould building, like a gas storage tank, about the size of a footy oval, where the plastic's blown into balloons that fill the room & then collapse into sheets. They can be recycled too.
As you can see here the colours are very distinguishable from each other, the clear part on each note is in fact a transparent hologram.
for a while.
That may have helped.
I think Yellowtap may have purchased axcess to the BeOS source from Palm or something, which maybe means axcess to Intel's contributions such as drivers 'n patches (mmx, etc?).
Yes the govt can't prosecute anyone for contravening patents.
One can only take on a private law suit, & the basic structure of a law suite for patent infringment is commercial, they just don't apply to end users knocking things together for themselves, well unless the end user is planing on using it commercially (like a post office building hundreds of them for it's postmen to use).
Afterall there's thousands of patents that get infringed every day by hobbyists in their sheds & garages
in the Netherlands. Yes the age of consent is 16, which also happens to be the closest to the standard age of consent on the planet.
BTW, screwing teenagers under the age of consent (when one is more than 2 years older than them) is carnal knowledge not pedophilia.
Pedophilia is screwing people under 13 (again when one is more than 2 years old than them)