In his written testimony, Mr. Jones said the states' proposals would confuse consumers, enabling competitors to cover up icons like the "Start" button on the Windows desktop screen that consumers use to navigate and even allowing a competing operating system like Linux to start up instead of Windows.'
What Jones is describing here isn't any fuzzy "abuse of monopoly power" or anything of that sort. It is fraud. Fraud is a criminal offence, and thus fraud charges cannot be avoided by writing legalese license agreements.
Let us see the Finnish law, for example. This practice causes "financial losses" (to the competitor and the customer) and gains Microsoft "financial gain". Microsoft has "a power to control the interests of the victim". The law also states that one possible type of fraud is "inputting false information to the computer or otherwise interfering with it, so that the result of the computation is distorted and thus causes financial losses to the victim. Attempting is punishable."
The fraud could also be declared "severe": "If fraud 1) is used to gain substantial profit... 3) is committed by exploiting the trust given to one in a responsible position..."
Fraud: fines or max. 2 years in prison. Severe fraud: 2-4 years in prison. Just try it.
I see that the chemists describe a method of extracting purer CO2, not tackling global warming. No one could seriously say that you could get all the quicklime needed to bind the billions and billions of tons of excessive carbon in the atmosphere. And how do you produce quicklime? Heat it up. How? Burning more fossil fuels. There ain't such a thing as a free lunch.
The chemistry involved can be not only understood, but predicted by high school kids. Carbon dioxide is the "ground state" for freely floating carbon in this oxygen-rich atmosphere. Study the electron structure of carbon and you will understand why. Burning carbon gives energy, so you need energy to reverse the reaction.
Then, replying to the heading. "Imagine No Restrictions On Fossil-Fuel Usage And No Global Warming". Horrrribly stupid. The journalist forgets that burning fossil fuels does not result in CO2 only.
First, the most vicious ingredients in the smoke are the microparticles. No matter what you do to the smoke-poisoned air - filter it, use activated sludge, afterburn it - there is always some microparticle emission. Microparticles cause asthma and other lung problems. Millions of people die because of microparticles.
The second substance is radon. Whenever you dig the bedrock, some radon will be emitted. There is about 2 kg of radon in the atmosphere and 160 tons in the ground. 2 kg sounds like nothing, but remember that it's highly radioactive and its effect can be clearly seen in lung cancer statistics. It's the second most common cause of lung cancer, smoking being the first. A well-functioning nuclear plant radiates 0.0004 mSv/h, but a coal power plant gives 0.003 mSv/h, or 7.5 times more! (Distance of 50 km. Chem. Matters.)
Given that the mass of Earth is 5.677e24 kg, the size of the asteroid is "70 km", the distance is 461000 km, it has the same density as Earth, or 5250 kg/m^3, and it is a sphere;
Asteroid has V = (4pi/3)r^3, m = Vd.
m = (5250 kg/m^3)(4pi/3)(70000 m)^3 = 7.543e18 kg
Newton said F = GMm/r^2.
F = G * 4.282e43 / (461000000 m)^2 = 1.344e16 N
This is the estimated gravitational attraction. Now let us calculate the maximum speed of the comet for Earth to "catch" it to its orbit, at that distance.
Centripetal force F = (mv^2)/r
GMm/r^2 = mv^2/r; GM/r = v^2;
v = sqrt(GM/r).
v = sqrt(G * 5.677e24 kg / 461000000 m) = 906 m/s.
The conclusion is that the comet would have had to be very slow, with a velocity less than 0.9 km/s, to hit the Earth from that distance. Usually they go ten to hundred times faster. However, the value is only 1-2 orders of magnitude away. If it went closer, Earth's gravity would at least slingshot it, if not suck it in.
Imagine someone reading for example Pekka Siitoin's pages. Does that give a good impression on Nazism? NO! People laugh at it. They can see themselves how stupid their ideologies are.
Rumours and similar memes are much more dangerous. The badly html-formatted, speling erorr-containing sites can actually do more good than harm, because no one trusts them. Face-to-face, it is harder to disagree and laugh.
Hate speech is already banned on many of the countries of EC, so for example here in Finland nothing would change. There are always providers outside Europe, and they will host the sites no matter what EC legistlation is. Tracing them is not feasible.
Finland is opt-in: this law is in effect in Finland. I have a legal right to deny sending anything commercial, spam, Finnish "DoubleClick databases", etc. I can check the box "Do not share my personal information with advertisers" in a form, and then they have no legal right to sell my personal information. Everyone has a right to remove his info from a personal information registry, so the only really compulsory registries are the in government. Even with those, I have the right to check and correct it at a minimum of once a year. I can check what is written about me in the registry of Supo, the national security agency. Wager my donkey that the CIA and NSA of USA would never permit that!
Consequently, it is illegal to track down people with cookies without their consent. I welcome the extension of this law to a EU-wide directive.
Wtf? Don't you TRUST your employees? Why should you "lock", or in better words, cripple the system and hamper the development, when you can adjust the MONEY valve instead? "You screw it up, I don't pay for fixing it." The Wintel system "locking" is usually so fascist that it makes the system annoying for ordinary users, useless for developers.
It is a good idea to have a lab where you can always reimage. Then the bad code couldn't crash the whole company.
My name isn't too interesting. I was thinking, what I am, after all. "Image Flux" sounded cool. I shortened it into "Imgflux" (yuck), but realized how ugly that is. "Flux" was reserved for one guy at #Linux.fi. Then I thought, why in the hell should I use English, that ugly Anglosax babble? The Finnish word for flux, Vuo, was unique and compact.
Vuo is used also by Veterans United Online and a Finnish folk music group. Screw them.
But the story about Sepponen is much more
interesting.
My BBS friend was grouping with his friends.
Their theme was wedding, thus they named their group "Just Married". Then it shortened to jma. This friend picked up the name "Best Man". It was shortened to "Bemari" (btw nick for Mercedes-Benz) and then to "Bemmu". "Bemmu" was stuck in the use. Year 2000 he changed his official first name into Bemmu. He used to be Mikko Oskari Sepponen, now he's Bemmu Mikko Sepponen. The officials didn't like it, but accepted it when Bemmu said he's gonna go to Japan, where Mikko is a girl's name.
French bureaucracy is horrible. It's a shame France belongs to EU.
http://www.co.jyu.fi/~np/hate/FranceHate.html
http://staff.semel.fi/~kribe/mielipid/ranska.htm
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In his written testimony, Mr. Jones said the states' proposals would confuse consumers, enabling competitors to cover up icons like the "Start" button on the Windows desktop screen that consumers use to navigate and even allowing a competing operating system like Linux to start up instead of Windows.'
What Jones is describing here isn't any fuzzy "abuse of monopoly power" or anything of that sort. It is fraud. Fraud is a criminal offence, and thus fraud charges cannot be avoided by writing legalese license agreements.
Let us see the Finnish law, for example. This practice causes "financial losses" (to the competitor and the customer) and gains Microsoft "financial gain". Microsoft has "a power to control the interests of the victim". The law also states that one possible type of fraud is "inputting false information to the computer or otherwise interfering with it, so that the result of the computation is distorted and thus causes financial losses to the victim. Attempting is punishable."
The fraud could also be declared "severe": "If fraud 1) is used to gain substantial profit ... 3) is committed by exploiting the trust given to one in a responsible position ..."
Fraud: fines or max. 2 years in prison. Severe fraud: 2-4 years in prison. Just try it.
Source: Finlex, http://www.finlex.fi/
I see that the chemists describe a method of extracting purer CO2, not tackling global warming. No one could seriously say that you could get all the quicklime needed to bind the billions and billions of tons of excessive carbon in the atmosphere. And how do you produce quicklime? Heat it up. How? Burning more fossil fuels. There ain't such a thing as a free lunch.
The chemistry involved can be not only understood, but predicted by high school kids. Carbon dioxide is the "ground state" for freely floating carbon in this oxygen-rich atmosphere. Study the electron structure of carbon and you will understand why. Burning carbon gives energy, so you need energy to reverse the reaction.
Then, replying to the heading. "Imagine No Restrictions On Fossil-Fuel Usage And No Global Warming". Horrrribly stupid. The journalist forgets that burning fossil fuels does not result in CO2 only.
First, the most vicious ingredients in the smoke are the microparticles. No matter what you do to the smoke-poisoned air - filter it, use activated sludge, afterburn it - there is always some microparticle emission. Microparticles cause asthma and other lung problems. Millions of people die because of microparticles.
The second substance is radon. Whenever you dig the bedrock, some radon will be emitted. There is about 2 kg of radon in the atmosphere and 160 tons in the ground. 2 kg sounds like nothing, but remember that it's highly radioactive and its effect can be clearly seen in lung cancer statistics. It's the second most common cause of lung cancer, smoking being the first. A well-functioning nuclear plant radiates 0.0004 mSv/h, but a coal power plant gives 0.003 mSv/h, or 7.5 times more! (Distance of 50 km. Chem. Matters.)
Given that the mass of Earth is 5.677e24 kg, the size of the asteroid is "70 km", the distance is 461000 km, it has the same density as Earth, or 5250 kg/m^3, and it is a sphere;
- Asteroid has V = (4pi/3)r^3, m = Vd.
- m = (5250 kg/m^3)(4pi/3)(70000 m)^3 = 7.543e18 kg
- Newton said F = GMm/r^2.
- F = G * 4.282e43 / (461000000 m)^2 = 1.344e16 N
This is the estimated gravitational attraction. Now let us calculate the maximum speed of the comet for Earth to "catch" it to its orbit, at that distance.The conclusion is that the comet would have had to be very slow, with a velocity less than 0.9 km/s, to hit the Earth from that distance. Usually they go ten to hundred times faster. However, the value is only 1-2 orders of magnitude away. If it went closer, Earth's gravity would at least slingshot it, if not suck it in.
Yes! Hate speech is good!
Imagine someone reading for example Pekka Siitoin's pages. Does that give a good impression on Nazism? NO! People laugh at it. They can see themselves how stupid their ideologies are.
Rumours and similar memes are much more dangerous. The badly html-formatted, speling erorr-containing sites can actually do more good than harm, because no one trusts them. Face-to-face, it is harder to disagree and laugh.
Hate speech is already banned on many of the countries of EC, so for example here in Finland nothing would change. There are always providers outside Europe, and they will host the sites no matter what EC legistlation is. Tracing them is not feasible.
Finland is opt-in: this law is in effect in Finland. I have a legal right to deny sending anything commercial, spam, Finnish "DoubleClick databases", etc. I can check the box "Do not share my personal information with advertisers" in a form, and then they have no legal right to sell my personal information. Everyone has a right to remove his info from a personal information registry, so the only really compulsory registries are the in government. Even with those, I have the right to check and correct it at a minimum of once a year. I can check what is written about me in the registry of Supo, the national security agency. Wager my donkey that the CIA and NSA of USA would never permit that!
Consequently, it is illegal to track down people with cookies without their consent. I welcome the extension of this law to a EU-wide directive.
Wtf? Don't you TRUST your employees? Why should you "lock", or in better words, cripple the system and hamper the development, when you can adjust the MONEY valve instead? "You screw it up, I don't pay for fixing it." The Wintel system "locking" is usually so fascist that it makes the system annoying for ordinary users, useless for developers.
It is a good idea to have a lab where you can always reimage. Then the bad code couldn't crash the whole company.
I have no coding skills and no ideas, but I could design interfaces or levels to games. Is there any way I could contribute?
My name isn't too interesting. I was thinking, what I am, after all. "Image Flux" sounded cool. I shortened it into "Imgflux" (yuck), but realized how ugly that is. "Flux" was reserved for one guy at #Linux.fi. Then I thought, why in the hell should I use English, that ugly Anglosax babble? The Finnish word for flux, Vuo, was unique and compact.
Vuo is used also by Veterans United Online and a Finnish folk music group. Screw them.
But the story about Sepponen is much more interesting.
My BBS friend was grouping with his friends. Their theme was wedding, thus they named their group "Just Married". Then it shortened to jma. This friend picked up the name "Best Man". It was shortened to "Bemari" (btw nick for Mercedes-Benz) and then to "Bemmu". "Bemmu" was stuck in the use. Year 2000 he changed his official first name into Bemmu. He used to be Mikko Oskari Sepponen, now he's Bemmu Mikko Sepponen. The officials didn't like it, but accepted it when Bemmu said he's gonna go to Japan, where Mikko is a girl's name.
French bureaucracy is horrible. It's a shame France belongs to EU. http://www.co.jyu.fi/~np/hate/FranceHate.html http://staff.semel.fi/~kribe/mielipid/ranska.htm
In Finland, where approx. 4-5 million people vote for a President, the counting of votes by hand takes one (1) hour.
The mercury could be frozen. Then the telescope could point anywhere.