You're right. In fact, these scammers use mail to find their victims, and then they proceed by fax. They even ask their victims to buy a fax machine if they don't already have one (this is not a problem, people see it as an investment). So the way the article talks about "800 scam websites" is a clear indication that the journalist/writer of the article is clueless about what he's talking about.
It is very clear that Murdoch would put Google on trial if Google removed his web sites from the results of its search engine (that would be a kind of intolerable discrimination and would cause a loss of profit). Murdoch doesn't really want his web sites to be removed from Google, he wants Google to continue to advertise his web sites for free. Wait, maybe he wants Google to pay for keeping the right to publish these links.
The quality of manuals of the PSP downloaded games is the first thing that prevents me to try the PSP Go. These all-text documents with static layout and absolutely no way to search into are quite difficult to use. There are no hyperlinks too, and sometimes it's just a series of multiple language versions that you must go through, without any mean to go directly to the intended page (no hyperlink, no goto_page feature, nothing else than +/-1 page and +/-10 pages buttons...). There is a weak zoom function that is quite useless (read one page or see two pages at the same time but with blurry text). In the article I was glad to see that the lack of manual was counted as a negative side of this new machine. Now please tell me I am not the only one to think Sony should improve the electronic manuals...
OK thank you for the explanation. At first it looked like all those antigovernement stuff you can read here and there. But anyway, once people do this kind of thing, the next step is to find other people who make the same things, and then gather. It's more efficient than staying alone on his own. So in the long term, your sentence "we don't need government, business or universities to make the world a better place" is plain wrong (in the long term, let me repeat myself).
Each time I heard someone saying that someone else needed help from a professional (counselor or something equivalent), I discovered later that the person making this statement needed a counselor. Oh oh, it seems I should apply this scheme to myself now:-S
We don't need government, business, or universities to make the world a better place; just a few ordinary folks who try to do extrodinary things!
Universities were created in order to share and distribute ideas. Before them, guys with good ideas were on their own, isolated. I don't want to go back to this dark age, we are not cave men.
Government was created in order to protect the weak againt the strong. I don't want to live without it. If you don't like strong governement, go live somewhere else, like Somalia for example. http://n3t.net/humor/AntiGovRegulationTaxationGunLovers.jpg
In the section "How it works", the article explains how to use it, but not how it works. At some point it talks about "motion controlled" earbuds and then it says it is "activated by body contact".
Frankly, if this article wanted me to consider a chance to buy this product, it should have been more precise. So far it is so vague that I just don't believe that this product will work as advertised.
This is lame journalism. In fact this is not even journalism, it looks like an ad.
That's true, the majority of criminals who are caught are unintelligent and/or uneducated. It's been a while since the writing on the bank doors that warns that the employees do not have access to cash money is seconded by a huge, obvious, easy-to-decipher picture of cash money that is barred. The reason of this big picture is that studies have shown that a significant part of the robbers can't read, thus making the old warnings in letters totally useless for these folks. So this picture is supposed to reduce the rate of robbery.
Want to know how to set the drug problems straight in this country? Legalize and regulate the shit. Those who are hooked on the hard shit like heroin will get their maintenance dose from a government clinic for free. Those who aren't yet hooked will find it harder to score in the first place as the street supply dries up. And pot? For fuck's sake, give the growers licenses and let them operate like micro-breweries. Keep big business out of it, don't let their marketing departments start trying to manipulate public demand. Can you imagine how much peace would be had in Mexico if illicit drug money from the US dried up? Hell, just imagine knowing your flat won't get broken into by a junkie looking for shit to fence.
Politicians don't have the fucking stones to put forward this kind of legislation.
Even if I try very hard, I don't see any relation to the HADOPI 2 question. I even wonder why such a misinformed comment was scored so high. Every place where drugs have been legalized saw a real and huge increase in drugs consumption ; it does not "dry up" magically.
All countries should have a law that prevents their governments from being allowed to repeatedly reattempt to pass a law the got turned down once already. Especially when the law has already been found to be unconstitutional.
That is a total nonsense. Laws evolve. Even when they are a project, laws evolve, thanks to the "amendements" system, which permits to both the majority and the opposition to propose evolutions of the text of the law.
Here Hadopi 2 is very different from Hadopi 1, and this is mainly because the unconstitutional points have been solved.
Nonetheless, the debate in France can be summed up like this : some people claim that "something must be done against piracy" and the others answer "yes something must be done but not this". By the same time, NOBODY gave a workable and satisfactory solution.
I think we have cultural bias here. Just think about all the people that live in a great city in Japan, with almost all the streets that have absolutely no names, and people who live there manage to do everything without problem. In fact they don't even realize this could be different.
Here is the tragic path from freedom to prison-in-your-own-car:
Step 1 = an insurance company promotes a free wireless video camera to help your child
Step 2 = it factually reduces risks, so this option becomes rewarded by a cut on insurance primes
Step 3 = this option extends to adults and all insurance companies
Step 4 = so many people use this option that it is socially considered as the norm ; those who refuse are the exception now
Step 5 = new insurance contracts describe the wireless video camera as a normal item, and excluding this camera is now described as a paying option, which by the way is so expensive that it has become a luxury
Step 6 = law forbids the option that excludes the camera, because it is efficient, because we want to protect the children and the people, because a lot of people use it, because those who refuse must have something illegal to hide or are just crazy.
Here is the joyful path:
Step 1 = the system works badly, many complaints for dysfunctions
Step 2 = a case of spying by an "isolated employee" is publicly revealed
Step 3 = law forbids this activity
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G. W. Bush has a high IQ among the general population, but he has a low IQ among the population of people who lead countries and big organizations.
You're right. In fact, these scammers use mail to find their victims, and then they proceed by fax. They even ask their victims to buy a fax machine if they don't already have one (this is not a problem, people see it as an investment). So the way the article talks about "800 scam websites" is a clear indication that the journalist/writer of the article is clueless about what he's talking about.
It is very clear that Murdoch would put Google on trial if Google removed his web sites from the results of its search engine (that would be a kind of intolerable discrimination and would cause a loss of profit). Murdoch doesn't really want his web sites to be removed from Google, he wants Google to continue to advertise his web sites for free. Wait, maybe he wants Google to pay for keeping the right to publish these links.
The quality of manuals of the PSP downloaded games is the first thing that prevents me to try the PSP Go. These all-text documents with static layout and absolutely no way to search into are quite difficult to use. There are no hyperlinks too, and sometimes it's just a series of multiple language versions that you must go through, without any mean to go directly to the intended page (no hyperlink, no goto_page feature, nothing else than +/-1 page and +/-10 pages buttons...). There is a weak zoom function that is quite useless (read one page or see two pages at the same time but with blurry text). In the article I was glad to see that the lack of manual was counted as a negative side of this new machine. Now please tell me I am not the only one to think Sony should improve the electronic manuals...
OK thank you for the explanation. At first it looked like all those antigovernement stuff you can read here and there. But anyway, once people do this kind of thing, the next step is to find other people who make the same things, and then gather. It's more efficient than staying alone on his own. So in the long term, your sentence "we don't need government, business or universities to make the world a better place" is plain wrong (in the long term, let me repeat myself).
Each time I heard someone saying that someone else needed help from a professional (counselor or something equivalent), I discovered later that the person making this statement needed a counselor. Oh oh, it seems I should apply this scheme to myself now :-S
First snow.
We don't need government, business, or universities to make the world a better place; just a few ordinary folks who try to do extrodinary things!
Universities were created in order to share and distribute ideas. Before them, guys with good ideas were on their own, isolated. I don't want to go back to this dark age, we are not cave men. Government was created in order to protect the weak againt the strong. I don't want to live without it. If you don't like strong governement, go live somewhere else, like Somalia for example. http://n3t.net/humor/AntiGovRegulationTaxationGunLovers.jpg
Given the fact that current french president bought/married a top(less) model, I'd like to know what he thinks of this project of law.
The only case where it really matters to know whether the boobies are natural is when you touch them, not when you look at them. :)
In the section "How it works", the article explains how to use it, but not how it works. At some point it talks about "motion controlled" earbuds and then it says it is "activated by body contact".
Frankly, if this article wanted me to consider a chance to buy this product, it should have been more precise. So far it is so vague that I just don't believe that this product will work as advertised.
This is lame journalism. In fact this is not even journalism, it looks like an ad.
That's true, the majority of criminals who are caught are unintelligent and/or uneducated. It's been a while since the writing on the bank doors that warns that the employees do not have access to cash money is seconded by a huge, obvious, easy-to-decipher picture of cash money that is barred. The reason of this big picture is that studies have shown that a significant part of the robbers can't read, thus making the old warnings in letters totally useless for these folks. So this picture is supposed to reduce the rate of robbery.
Want to know how to set the drug problems straight in this country? Legalize and regulate the shit. Those who are hooked on the hard shit like heroin will get their maintenance dose from a government clinic for free. Those who aren't yet hooked will find it harder to score in the first place as the street supply dries up. And pot? For fuck's sake, give the growers licenses and let them operate like micro-breweries. Keep big business out of it, don't let their marketing departments start trying to manipulate public demand. Can you imagine how much peace would be had in Mexico if illicit drug money from the US dried up? Hell, just imagine knowing your flat won't get broken into by a junkie looking for shit to fence.
Politicians don't have the fucking stones to put forward this kind of legislation.
Even if I try very hard, I don't see any relation to the HADOPI 2 question. I even wonder why such a misinformed comment was scored so high. Every place where drugs have been legalized saw a real and huge increase in drugs consumption ; it does not "dry up" magically.
All countries should have a law that prevents their governments from being allowed to repeatedly reattempt to pass a law the got turned down once already. Especially when the law has already been found to be unconstitutional.
That is a total nonsense. Laws evolve. Even when they are a project, laws evolve, thanks to the "amendements" system, which permits to both the majority and the opposition to propose evolutions of the text of the law. Here Hadopi 2 is very different from Hadopi 1, and this is mainly because the unconstitutional points have been solved. Nonetheless, the debate in France can be summed up like this : some people claim that "something must be done against piracy" and the others answer "yes something must be done but not this". By the same time, NOBODY gave a workable and satisfactory solution.
I think we have cultural bias here. Just think about all the people that live in a great city in Japan, with almost all the streets that have absolutely no names, and people who live there manage to do everything without problem. In fact they don't even realize this could be different.
Here is the tragic path from freedom to prison-in-your-own-car:
Step 1 = an insurance company promotes a free wireless video camera to help your child
Step 2 = it factually reduces risks, so this option becomes rewarded by a cut on insurance primes
Step 3 = this option extends to adults and all insurance companies
Step 4 = so many people use this option that it is socially considered as the norm ; those who refuse are the exception now
Step 5 = new insurance contracts describe the wireless video camera as a normal item, and excluding this camera is now described as a paying option, which by the way is so expensive that it has become a luxury
Step 6 = law forbids the option that excludes the camera, because it is efficient, because we want to protect the children and the people, because a lot of people use it, because those who refuse must have something illegal to hide or are just crazy.
Here is the joyful path:
Step 1 = the system works badly, many complaints for dysfunctions
Step 2 = a case of spying by an "isolated employee" is publicly revealed
Step 3 = law forbids this activity
OK. Wanna chose ?