I admit it wasn't the best example possible. Perhaps a better one would be if they entered my lawn and stepped on a rake, puctured their foot and smacked their face on it. Could they sue me? In the USA, probably for everything i own. Where I live? Not if hell froze over and Satan himself passed out free rides on his personal snowsled. There are many things I like about the USA, and I'd definately like to visit again, but the mentality of suinng others for your own mistakes/stupidity etc really scares me.
The spyware people should be treated like programming commands and scripts: "Carried out and executed".
In general, I think the USA should change its name to "SueSA". When are people going to take responsibility for their own actions? If someone walks on my sidewalks and trips in a hole in it, it's their own g*dd*mn f**ing fault for not watching where they are going, not mine.
Your theory floats, but just barely. How much harder is it to pull the card through a megnetic reader than waving it in front of an RFID scanner? Not much, I'd say.
I agree that there has to be some motive, and you can be pretty sure the goal is to increase the income for the company, which boils down to getting it from the card users/customers.
Still, the fact that the merchant/bank has to cover any fraud except for the first $50 isn't good enough. If I have my card scanned and stolen ten times, that ads up to $500, and I'm sure as hell not willing to pay even $5 for the convenience of waving my card to pay. Not even if the gorgeous girl behind the counter in the perfume shop has to touch my a$$ with the scanner where my card is.
Saying that the tabbed windows make IE into FireFox is like saying that a fat guy's man-tits makes him a woman. It doesn't, although in both cases some twisted people might think otherwise.
10-12 years ago, in the "good ol' DOS times" you could do this by typing "Copy con >lpt1" (or something like that) on the command prompt, and any keystroke would be redirected to the printer. Worked just fine with my Star LC-20. Of course backspace and some other keys functioned rather poorly, but as long as you typed text it worked fine.
You might be sued by the norwegian company "Fjord 1" for doing that. It's a company that runs lots offerries and busses in the western part of Norway in case you didn't know.;-)
On a side note, in Norway most people earn money by hard work, not suing for stupid things such as having a name similar to another, so you could probably safely start your business and call it Fjord.
On a second side note, by the way, a local burger shop called Mac Williams was forced tu change their font on the sign (It's not a franchise, just a single little shop), because Mc Donalds thought their BLUE "W" in the name was too similar to their own curved M. Given, the Mac Williams font used a curved W, but for crying out loud.... In my opinion McD should have a HUGE fine for wasting norwegian tax dollars about it, and an even huger fine for making crappy food.
I would believe sending os OK, as long as you send on frequencies that you are allowed to send on. That your neighbour happens to pick up the signal and route in onto his broadband connection should be his problem. He can easily stop that by securing his network.
You could also say it is like singing in the shower. If you sing loud and people stop outside to listen, they should be welcome to. If you don't want them to hear you, shut the windows or shut up. Both your voice and the WiFi signal is broadcasted through public space.
BTW, I wonder how long before some stupid guy sues his neighbour for broadcasting his WiFi signal onto his property.;-)
I think the dolphins are actually talking already. They are just talking to each other, and in a language we don't understand yet. I think I'v watched something about understanding som eof the dolphins whistles on Discovery or somewhere else about it a while ago. I bet a google search could come up with something as usual.
I totally agree! I miss Full throttle, Simon the Sorcerer, The Dig and games like that. Games are much better "cartoon style", because then it looks right. I have never seen a game that looks anything but fake till this day, no matter hog good the graphics. Why? It's just to "perfect", in some stramge way. Like the space station i Babylon 5. Looks like a brand new tin can where any dirt or damage is a design feature.
People might laugh about this, but my experience is that this law in many cases actually apply. In some cases it won't such as when I receive elctronic bills. I might ignore the mail, but then I might end up having my property confiscated for not paying my bills. I have ignored mail from my boss in order to get away from tasks. Sometimes I get away with it, other times he comes to give me the order in person. Hell, I have mails in my inbox now that is old enough that the tasks described are no longer valid. So I'd say tha law applies, with some exceptions.
Keep in mind that some people are "chained" to their beds for various reasons and cannot simply walk to the livingroom to watch the big TV. That said, I know what you are implying, and I thought along the same lines myself.:-)
I'd say $700 is pretty cheap then you take the lamp life into concideration. Most projectors I've seen have a lamp life of 2-4000 hours, and a new lamp cost almost as much as the projectros. Especially if it's a projector with a price suited for personal use rather than a corporation paying for it.
So, how long before there is software that "scans" the picture side of my CDs? Then the kids can have "real" copys of their CDs to wear out, insted of just the ones that have handwriting on them. The ones that don't read yet recognize them better by the picture on them.
My god, this has to be (another) a text book example of "American cancer". Don't people over there have thing to do but suing each other?!? Seems like suing somebody is the best way to get rich quick, right?
"OMFG, I saw a nipple on TV! Somebody is going to pay! Millions!" People like that should be cooked in acid!
If you trip on the sidewalk and break your ankle, it's your own god damn fault. You should have been watching where you were walking. If you can't stand the sight of a nipple, you should be institutionalised. Everybody has them, and they are not that different. If you cook your dig in the microwave you should be punished for animal cruelty. It's NOT the oven manufacturers fault that you're stupid.
I could probably go on and on and on with examples, but I have other things to do, too.
It just makes me wonder if the Americans really are so stupid as it seems. Warning labels on everything. . . Is nobody over there able to think for themselves!?
That's what started my computer interest.:-) I got one when I was about 8 after trying one at a friends house. At first I only had one cartridge with just one game, so if I wanted to try other games I had to type them in from computer magazines. That's how I started programming; by typing inn code, trying the game, and just hoping I didn't make a mistake so that the machine would have to be rebooted. Debugging was a pain I'll tel you!
After a while I got a tape recorder to save games, and from there on it was almost straight to a PC. I used a friends Commodore 128 for a couple of years, then another friends 8088, and finally got my first PC around 1990 (an 80286). From then on the computers "multiplied", and I now have 3 servers and I'm-not-sure-how-many computers at home.
The first attraction was the games, but the programming is what makes computers fun these days, I think.
I would also think there is a difference between the bartender-example where you bitch about you being screwed by your partner and the bartender offers a "service", and if you come in and say that you need help finding someone to whack your partner, thereby explicitly asking for that information.
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I admit it wasn't the best example possible. Perhaps a better one would be if they entered my lawn and stepped on a rake, puctured their foot and smacked their face on it. Could they sue me? In the USA, probably for everything i own. Where I live? Not if hell froze over and Satan himself passed out free rides on his personal snowsled. There are many things I like about the USA, and I'd definately like to visit again, but the mentality of suinng others for your own mistakes/stupidity etc really scares me.
Have they no shame!??
The spyware people should be treated like programming commands and scripts: "Carried out and executed".
In general, I think the USA should change its name to "SueSA". When are people going to take responsibility for their own actions? If someone walks on my sidewalks and trips in a hole in it, it's their own g*dd*mn f**ing fault for not watching where they are going, not mine.
Of course, the free speach should weigh heavy, but they should dampen the ones that try to fuel the fire.
Your theory floats, but just barely. How much harder is it to pull the card through a megnetic reader than waving it in front of an RFID scanner? Not much, I'd say.
I agree that there has to be some motive, and you can be pretty sure the goal is to increase the income for the company, which boils down to getting it from the card users/customers.
Still, the fact that the merchant/bank has to cover any fraud except for the first $50 isn't good enough. If I have my card scanned and stolen ten times, that ads up to $500, and I'm sure as hell not willing to pay even $5 for the convenience of waving my card to pay. Not even if the gorgeous girl behind the counter in the perfume shop has to touch my a$$ with the scanner where my card is.
More like on the back of your jacket where you can't see who is taking a note of you number.
Saying that the tabbed windows make IE into FireFox is like saying that a fat guy's man-tits makes him a woman. It doesn't, although in both cases some twisted people might think otherwise.
... that the carrier of said immune system kills HIV carrying patient in the process.
10-12 years ago, in the "good ol' DOS times" you could do this by typing "Copy con >lpt1" (or something like that) on the command prompt, and any keystroke would be redirected to the printer. Worked just fine with my Star LC-20. Of course backspace and some other keys functioned rather poorly, but as long as you typed text it worked fine.
You might be sued by the norwegian company "Fjord 1" for doing that. It's a company that runs lots offerries and busses in the western part of Norway in case you didn't know. ;-)
On a side note, in Norway most people earn money by hard work, not suing for stupid things such as having a name similar to another, so you could probably safely start your business and call it Fjord.
On a second side note, by the way, a local burger shop called Mac Williams was forced tu change their font on the sign (It's not a franchise, just a single little shop), because Mc Donalds thought their BLUE "W" in the name was too similar to their own curved M. Given, the Mac Williams font used a curved W, but for crying out loud.... In my opinion McD should have a HUGE fine for wasting norwegian tax dollars about it, and an even huger fine for making crappy food.
Exactly! Wouldn't it be like leaving your basement open for terrorists to gather ane make evil plans?
I would believe sending os OK, as long as you send on frequencies that you are allowed to send on. That your neighbour happens to pick up the signal and route in onto his broadband connection should be his problem. He can easily stop that by securing his network.
You could also say it is like singing in the shower. If you sing loud and people stop outside to listen, they should be welcome to. If you don't want them to hear you, shut the windows or shut up. Both your voice and the WiFi signal is broadcasted through public space.
;-)
BTW, I wonder how long before some stupid guy sues his neighbour for broadcasting his WiFi signal onto his property.
I think the dolphins are actually talking already. They are just talking to each other, and in a language we don't understand yet. I think I'v watched something about understanding som eof the dolphins whistles on Discovery or somewhere else about it a while ago. I bet a google search could come up with something as usual.
I totally agree! I miss Full throttle, Simon the Sorcerer, The Dig and games like that. Games are much better "cartoon style", because then it looks right. I have never seen a game that looks anything but fake till this day, no matter hog good the graphics. Why? It's just to "perfect", in some stramge way. Like the space station i Babylon 5. Looks like a brand new tin can where any dirt or damage is a design feature.
I wonder how he wired his bathroom to avoid execution when taking a shower.
And with as high a caliber as you can get your hands on.
People might laugh about this, but my experience is that this law in many cases actually apply. In some cases it won't such as when I receive elctronic bills. I might ignore the mail, but then I might end up having my property confiscated for not paying my bills. I have ignored mail from my boss in order to get away from tasks. Sometimes I get away with it, other times he comes to give me the order in person. Hell, I have mails in my inbox now that is old enough that the tasks described are no longer valid. So I'd say tha law applies, with some exceptions.
Keep in mind that some people are "chained" to their beds for various reasons and cannot simply walk to the livingroom to watch the big TV. That said, I know what you are implying, and I thought along the same lines myself. :-)
I'd say $700 is pretty cheap then you take the lamp life into concideration. Most projectors I've seen have a lamp life of 2-4000 hours, and a new lamp cost almost as much as the projectros. Especially if it's a projector with a price suited for personal use rather than a corporation paying for it.
No wonder your computer caught on fire if you had two wondows open at the same time! Mine gets pretty hot just from running on einstance of windows.
So, how long before there is software that "scans" the picture side of my CDs? Then the kids can have "real" copys of their CDs to wear out, insted of just the ones that have handwriting on them. The ones that don't read yet recognize them better by the picture on them.
My god, this has to be (another) a text book example of "American cancer". Don't people over there have thing to do but suing each other?!? Seems like suing somebody is the best way to get rich quick, right?
"OMFG, I saw a nipple on TV! Somebody is going to pay! Millions!" People like that should be cooked in acid!
If you trip on the sidewalk and break your ankle, it's your own god damn fault. You should have been watching where you were walking. If you can't stand the sight of a nipple, you should be institutionalised. Everybody has them, and they are not that different. If you cook your dig in the microwave you should be punished for animal cruelty. It's NOT the oven manufacturers fault that you're stupid.
I could probably go on and on and on with examples, but I have other things to do, too.
It just makes me wonder if the Americans really are so stupid as it seems. Warning labels on everything. . . Is nobody over there able to think for themselves!?
So, file size would be measured in Logs and Twigs, then?
That's what started my computer interest. :-) I got one when I was about 8 after trying one at a friends house. At first I only had one cartridge with just one game, so if I wanted to try other games I had to type them in from computer magazines. That's how I started programming; by typing inn code, trying the game, and just hoping I didn't make a mistake so that the machine would have to be rebooted. Debugging was a pain I'll tel you!
After a while I got a tape recorder to save games, and from there on it was almost straight to a PC. I used a friends Commodore 128 for a couple of years, then another friends 8088, and finally got my first PC around 1990 (an 80286). From then on the computers "multiplied", and I now have 3 servers and I'm-not-sure-how-many computers at home.
The first attraction was the games, but the programming is what makes computers fun these days, I think.
I would also think there is a difference between the bartender-example where you bitch about you being screwed by your partner and the bartender offers a "service", and if you come in and say that you need help finding someone to whack your partner, thereby explicitly asking for that information.