This is why most good programmers will stop contributing to the global community because there are those who will steal their work, pass it off as their own, never acknowledge or give credit, and then shamefully stick their head in the sand and ignore the consequences
But how can a treaty on COPYRIGHT be about national security?
By _securing_ our _nations_ income by charging for the same item a few tens of times over and making it a crime if you don't willingly let them steal that money?
so if i'm a scientist, and i'm doing pharmaceutical research, can i use that as my excuse for a small mountain of cocaine on my coffee table?
What it means is, if cocaine is "bad" but the law outlaws all white powders, then yes having a non-cocaine white powder which is illegal as it violates the cocaine law, would be perfectly fine. (Yes, for you too!) Throwing everyone in jail who has white powder, under cocaine laws, is BAD (and exactly what happens)
Using the USA as an example, as I don't know the legal age over there, here it is 18 years old. Adjust the numbers accordingly for your country...
If I have pictures of a 17 year 11 month 28 day old girl, and/or next to it a 23 year old girl who looks 17, both of which are illegal under the law and will get me sent to prison as a child porn distributer, that should be fine. (Just like in your example)
I'm not saying anything about what he does or does not have. I don't know. I wasn't there. But when the government claims he had child porn, I have proof that in 99.(high number) percent of the time it is NOT child porn and just a smear campaign, I will firmly side with the idea that "The government just told a horrible life ruining lie" instead of think they have anything to do with child porn. I have decades and tens of thousands of court cases to back up my default assumption, out of 4-5 that turned out to be real child porn possessors of prepubescent children.
(This also might be a USA thing too) Just as when a police officer claims they tasered that 7 year old boy because it was their "last option", i instantly do not believe them. Under such rare cases would that be the case, that I now dismiss all of them as bullshit, even on that one in a hundred years time it WAS the last option. Here, tasering for no cause happens so many times a day, that there is no possible way for a sane rational human being to believe it.
As much as I hate people that abuse children, at that ratio, everyone ever arrested for it needs released. That will not do, as real pedophiles need to be in jail. Thus, to keep tens of thousands of innocent people out of jail, AND to keep real pedophiles in jail, the only solution is to fix the broken laws. THAT is what needs done.
The odds are in favor of this man doing nothing wrong, and the government using their ole staple lie to ruin the life of someone they don't like. The odds they actually managed to catch a real pedophile are too low.
That sucks. I would like to think that if I made a millions selling a company with 50 people in it, the I would hook up the guys that got whacked who helped make it possible.
If slashdot has learned anything from copyright law, it's that a) the people that make it possible aren't important, and b) not only do you not owe the people that made it possible anything, but they owe you!
Probably because, as in all the examples you have listed, no one wants to dangle an adapter that weighs more than the phone, to the cell phone, to get what you claim the others do.
I can't plug my TV into a single cable company to take advantage of their services, i need a converter box that ONLY works with them.
I can't plug my computer into any internet service. I need a modem/router/bridge device that generally only works with their service.
Only the land line (POTS) phone is a ligit example, and you have to remember for the first few decades of the phone company, that was no possible either. It took major government intervention to allow it, on the scale that I doubt we will ever see again in this country.
I suppose that's true, and maybe she was figuring she wanted to be the poster child for this fight and would just file for bankruptcy if it didn't work out the way she wanted it to. Not a road I would have chosen, but to each their own I guess.
The thing about filing for bankruptcy is, with the new changes to bankruptcy law made just this past year, a judge can rule specific debts be inadmissible for bankruptcy and you must pay it (Or face potential jail time if you can't.)
These judges are clearly so bought by the media companies to so obviously violate the letter and spirit of the law, I can't see them allowing her any of her other rights such as illegal financial slavery.
A legal strategy only works when there are set rules to play by and the score keepers follow them. That hasn't been true for a time now, so legal strategy is impossible and pointless.
You'd have better luck spinning the mad max thunder-dome wheel if justice is what you are wanting....
This is just a simple case of some little dick trying to be a big dick and then cry about it when he got called.
It is no different how you are being a big dick by not letting me look through all of your possessions, with the poor excuses of "They aren't yours" and "These things are mine" and "You have no right to touch and keep my property"
For this situation, nothing, because no one (but you) has said their songs are worth $80000 in value. All the jury said was each infringement is worth $80000 in damages.
I guess I've only half-lost my scent, but it can be frustrating when people try to have me smell things, forgetting I'm the only person they know who can't smell.
Yes I know what you mean. Fortunately I am noticing a larger number of my friends remembering, even if it is still along the lines of "Hey does this smell like... oh yea, my bad" But at this point most of the others don't really need me to say much, some just a laugh reminds them, so I'm not having to retell about it each time that comes up.
I use gas for the stove and heating, I get concerned sometimes there could be a leak I don't notice. I'm just glad I don't like alone anymore.
I too have gas heat, but here it's a gas water heater instead of stove. But only because I brought my own electric stove with me to replace the gas range that was already here, which is now stored unused in the basement until I move out.
I too have that concern, however there are gas detectors available from any home depot type place, or even department stores (Same place they keep the smoke detectors) and I have one next to each smoke detector, and some on the walls where the gas lines lead to, like the kitchen, and in the area of the basement with the meter and mains. I rotate their batteries the same time as the smoke detectors so its no additional hassle. Using a valve for a camping propane tank, a three second burst in the center of the room set off the gas detector a couple seconds later. In the tiny quantities of gas we tested with, I was more than pleased with their results. Unfortunately they run noticeably more than a smoke detector, but my life runs (to me) a lot more than that.
Granted, another person in the house is a better and usually preferred method, still, I don't think anyone would be offended or think you don't trust them to alert you to a gas leak, if you also put up a gas detector or two:}
I've heard that when you can't smell you can't taste, which is bullshit. I can't tell the difference between some things but I do very much have a vivid sense of taste still.
I have had anosmia since the age of three, from a botched medical nose cauterization. I am in my 30s, and to this day am still frequently surprised to learn from others all sorts of things that do have smells which I can not smell, and I would have assumed are fairly inert (Like plastic)
Many foods to me have no flavor at all, and all that remains is consistency. This makes any steak to me, no matter how well prepared and how praised by others eating it, feels like chewing cardboard to me. I can attest it is far from bullshit, and if you do have a vivid sense of taste, you have not lost your sense of smell fully.
On a side note, if I had to choose a sense to lose, this would be the one. Only once every few weeks or so do I hear comments such as "oooh doesn't that smell wonderful?! mmm", however much more frequently I do hear comments such as "Uhh awww who the hell.. oh my god" and room fleeing. In fact if I don't have a day off work, it can be a week filling occurrence:P
Sadly, I too have experienced the same lack of my other senses sharpening:{
Another down side is, this has multiple times given others the genius idea to ask me to change their cat litter or some crap because "I wouldn't mind" (obviously!)
It is also the reason why I have most of three gas grills sitting out back. One was in need of some parts, of which each of the other two grills have. I figured like many other things can be, I would just combine three nonfunctional items into one functional one with a crap load of spare parts. Except they have been out there for years. I can't smell the additives to propane gas that give it a smell. I have no method to detect a leak, or that I would be about to light a flame in an area with a cloud of gas around me. Thus I don't even mess with it.
This "Assurance" is bullshit. XP WILL die eventually, and it will be due to the hardware vendors not writing drivers anymore, not because Microsoft has "assured" you by taking your money. It's already getting difficult to find XP driver support for new hardware out there TODAY, much less 12 - 24 months from now when businesses will still be looking to run XP.
Sounds to me like the best solution there in 3 years, where according to Murphy our desktop machines will be 4x 8 core CPUs with 2gb vram, 24gb system ram sitting on 4-5 TB of storage space in one drive bay... The best method to stick with our current software is to run a stripped down Linux install who's only job is to run a VMware (or similar technology) hypervisor with 64 windows xp machines running within it.
In virtual machines, drivers use hardware, not the other way around. There is right now virtual hardware with XP drivers. That virtual hardware API *NEVER* has to change, thus the driver already made for XP long ago will still work.
It's going to be next to impossible to morally argue pirating XP after microsoft has refused to take our money for it for years despite offering payment.
If it wasn't for their license scheme making this prohibitively unfordable, would have been an ideal setup Now, and we have had the technology for some time, with only Microsofts greed being in the way.
But you are correct for the long term. XP will die off eventually, because something better will take its place. With enough time passing, backwards compatibility will be less and less important. It is guaranteed to happen, only the when is in question.
But we will have no problems even a decade from now, let alone the 12 - 24 months you imply.
You're saying only men made of straw are "fine" and other types of crow-scaring men such as those stuffed with hay or wool are not only inferior, but the work of Satanic Communist Pedophiles?!
Imagine the conversation between this guy and the person sitting next to him on the plane who didn't know any better...
(Seat 13-A) So, what do you do for a living? (Keiji) I am the head of flu! (Seat 13-A) Uhh wait, what? Who do you work for again? (Keiji) Yes, WHO. (Seat 13-A)... * Seat 13-A is now known as Seat 27-F
What happens when you pull that much energy out of the jetstream?
"That much energy" is not really all that much energy actually. At best we could only hope to extract a billionth of a percent or less, with current technology and for at least a little while to come still.
It's similar to the scale of the effect of humanity putting many large heavy city sized boats on our oceans. This does not displace enough water for there to be any measurable effect on the water line at shore. The fractions are just too small to need to worry about for now.
The SF explanation : all the missing matter is made of Dyson spheres...
For some reason that I don't understand it's not supposed to be baryonic matter. I.e., no protons. This rules out the Dyson spheres.
All of the data from our observations is based on the assumption that what we are seeing is not being influenced by an intelligence.
And you have to admit, if a Dyson sphere could be designed engineered and built, there would probably have to be a little bit of intelligence behind it!
Yea I know, but it makes for some wonderful sci-fi story lines:D
I was aware of the whole molten sodium ball thing because I remember that spinning 13 tons of molten sodium could be a REALLY bad idea. However, the last I saw of it they were still preparing and had not actually done anything yet.
The last I've heard on that very subject was from a NOVA documentary called Magnetic Storm, which aired in November 2003. In that documentary, they were just preparing for the experiment with the molten sodium, but did not start. Which sounds like about the same state you have last heard about as well.
I would have hoped in 6 years time they would have been able to start their experiment but I can not find any updates on their work. I too would be curious to know what resulted from it.
So what, we shouldn't fix it then? The fix is dead-simple: the browser should load all "a:visited" images, regardless of whether or not it will display them.
Yes, that is a brilliant solution, and to me (Probably in hindsight to your comment) just seems like the most sane action for the browser to take anyway.
It does make the prefetch data larger that needs transfered, but for most people I don't think that would be a big deal anyway, and especially so if pointed out of this attack it counters. At the very worst it could be an option in about:config that defaults to always load, which could be disabled back to current behavior if data transfer is that much of a concern (as you already would want to cut down other prefetch options in that case.)
I have to question however, is there really a good need or use for a hidden flag on iframes at all?? I honestly don't know, maybe its one of the more handy features in there, and I just don't see it from the user side of things, but 'hidden' is not an attribute I would ever imagine wanting on a frame or iframe...
Stop funding tasks that aren't improving urgent concerns
So in your world, nothing not urgent should be worked on? I take it you're not a fan of preventative maintenance then.
Yea see that too is the wrong extreme.
This is like doing the 'preventative maintenance' of washing your cars hubcaps, while something more 'urgent' is going on, like the engine block being on fire, a human arm hanging out of the partially closed trunk, and that horrid florescent pink and yellow paint job.
Just create your own EULA on your PC, and at the top in cap letters be sure to type "By allowing your companies software to be installed on this computer, you agree to this ECLA, and any/all updates made in the future" then just email a copy to the company you got the software from.
ECLA = End company license agreement.
Should be equally as legally sound, since all the agreement terms are the same (You don't have to do anything to agree, nor read or understand it)
Or for companies who think clicking OK is agreeing, change the wording to "By closing this email, you consent to the terms outlined in this ECLA"
Then just have fun filling it up with all the terms you want to use to rape them.
If they ever take you to court for an EULA violation, you can counter with their much more massive ECLA violations.
If one sticks, the other has to. If one doesn't, neither does the other. Win-Win!
Lets get a good mastery of our own solar system before we go running off looking up Andromeda's skirt!
Sorry to feed the trolls, but...
So in your world, how do you plan on learning anything about our solar system if you refuse to compare it to, well, ANYTHING else in the universe? By that logic, you could claim life is everywhere in the universe, as it exists in every solar system you looked at so far (1 of 1)
Seriously, if you want any say-so on what science gets done, then you best get your ass out there and start doing some science! Till then you have less than zero rights to complain what others are doing with their time.
We have learned more about solar systems from looking at both, ours and the others, than you personally ever will hope to learn or know.. so i really don't see what justifications you have for your complaint.
If you want something specific to be done, its no ones fault but your own that it isn't being done. Get out there and do it already!
Slashdot Mirror
But I don't think the slashdot crowd was very well served.
I am very sorry you are unhappy with what you have gotten for free.
This is why most good programmers will stop contributing to the global community because there are those who will steal their work, pass it off as their own, never acknowledge or give credit, and then shamefully stick their head in the sand and ignore the consequences
It's not stealing, it's a copyright violation :P
But how can a treaty on COPYRIGHT be about national security?
By _securing_ our _nations_ income by charging for the same item a few tens of times over and making it a crime if you don't willingly let them steal that money?
Yea, no, its just BS :/
I don't understand how it is legal to enact a law whose text is not public. Somebody please explain!
It isn't legal.
That hasn't appeared to be a requirement for our government to do something for some time now however.
so if i'm a scientist, and i'm doing pharmaceutical research, can i use that as my excuse for a small mountain of cocaine on my coffee table?
What it means is, if cocaine is "bad" but the law outlaws all white powders, then yes having a non-cocaine white powder which is illegal as it violates the cocaine law, would be perfectly fine. (Yes, for you too!)
Throwing everyone in jail who has white powder, under cocaine laws, is BAD (and exactly what happens)
Using the USA as an example, as I don't know the legal age over there, here it is 18 years old. Adjust the numbers accordingly for your country...
If I have pictures of a 17 year 11 month 28 day old girl, and/or next to it a 23 year old girl who looks 17, both of which are illegal under the law and will get me sent to prison as a child porn distributer, that should be fine. (Just like in your example)
I'm not saying anything about what he does or does not have. I don't know. I wasn't there.
But when the government claims he had child porn, I have proof that in 99.(high number) percent of the time it is NOT child porn and just a smear campaign, I will firmly side with the idea that "The government just told a horrible life ruining lie" instead of think they have anything to do with child porn. I have decades and tens of thousands of court cases to back up my default assumption, out of 4-5 that turned out to be real child porn possessors of prepubescent children.
(This also might be a USA thing too) Just as when a police officer claims they tasered that 7 year old boy because it was their "last option", i instantly do not believe them. Under such rare cases would that be the case, that I now dismiss all of them as bullshit, even on that one in a hundred years time it WAS the last option.
Here, tasering for no cause happens so many times a day, that there is no possible way for a sane rational human being to believe it.
As much as I hate people that abuse children, at that ratio, everyone ever arrested for it needs released.
That will not do, as real pedophiles need to be in jail. Thus, to keep tens of thousands of innocent people out of jail, AND to keep real pedophiles in jail, the only solution is to fix the broken laws. THAT is what needs done.
The odds are in favor of this man doing nothing wrong, and the government using their ole staple lie to ruin the life of someone they don't like. The odds they actually managed to catch a real pedophile are too low.
Unlike you, I will wait for proof to be found.
That sucks. I would like to think that if I made a millions selling a company with 50 people in it, the I would hook up the guys that got whacked who helped make it possible.
If slashdot has learned anything from copyright law, it's that a) the people that make it possible aren't important, and b) not only do you not owe the people that made it possible anything, but they owe you!
Probably because, as in all the examples you have listed, no one wants to dangle an adapter that weighs more than the phone, to the cell phone, to get what you claim the others do.
I can't plug my TV into a single cable company to take advantage of their services, i need a converter box that ONLY works with them.
I can't plug my computer into any internet service. I need a modem/router/bridge device that generally only works with their service.
Only the land line (POTS) phone is a ligit example, and you have to remember for the first few decades of the phone company, that was no possible either. It took major government intervention to allow it, on the scale that I doubt we will ever see again in this country.
That is why.
woosh
As you missed it, I was mirroring the parents obvious incorrectness with sarcasm
Parent said it is being a dick to not let the TSA illegally search through his property, and keep it.
I simply said the same exact thing back to him, but put myself in the TSA officers place, which is apt as me and them have equal rights in the law.
nevermind
I suppose that's true, and maybe she was figuring she wanted to be the poster child for this fight and would just file for bankruptcy if it didn't work out the way she wanted it to. Not a road I would have chosen, but to each their own I guess.
The thing about filing for bankruptcy is, with the new changes to bankruptcy law made just this past year, a judge can rule specific debts be inadmissible for bankruptcy and you must pay it (Or face potential jail time if you can't.)
These judges are clearly so bought by the media companies to so obviously violate the letter and spirit of the law, I can't see them allowing her any of her other rights such as illegal financial slavery.
A legal strategy only works when there are set rules to play by and the score keepers follow them. That hasn't been true for a time now, so legal strategy is impossible and pointless.
You'd have better luck spinning the mad max thunder-dome wheel if justice is what you are wanting....
This is just a simple case of some little dick trying to be a big dick and then cry about it when he got called.
It is no different how you are being a big dick by not letting me look through all of your possessions, with the poor excuses of "They aren't yours" and "These things are mine" and "You have no right to touch and keep my property"
What are the laws for this situation?
For this situation, or for the one you describe?
For this situation, nothing, because no one (but you) has said their songs are worth $80000 in value.
All the jury said was each infringement is worth $80000 in damages.
It's a fine, not a repayment.
I guess I've only half-lost my scent, but it can be frustrating when people try to have me smell things, forgetting I'm the only person they know who can't smell.
Yes I know what you mean. Fortunately I am noticing a larger number of my friends remembering, even if it is still along the lines of "Hey does this smell like... oh yea, my bad" But at this point most of the others don't really need me to say much, some just a laugh reminds them, so I'm not having to retell about it each time that comes up.
I use gas for the stove and heating, I get concerned sometimes there could be a leak I don't notice. I'm just glad I don't like alone anymore.
I too have gas heat, but here it's a gas water heater instead of stove. But only because I brought my own electric stove with me to replace the gas range that was already here, which is now stored unused in the basement until I move out.
I too have that concern, however there are gas detectors available from any home depot type place, or even department stores (Same place they keep the smoke detectors) and I have one next to each smoke detector, and some on the walls where the gas lines lead to, like the kitchen, and in the area of the basement with the meter and mains. I rotate their batteries the same time as the smoke detectors so its no additional hassle. Using a valve for a camping propane tank, a three second burst in the center of the room set off the gas detector a couple seconds later. In the tiny quantities of gas we tested with, I was more than pleased with their results. Unfortunately they run noticeably more than a smoke detector, but my life runs (to me) a lot more than that.
Granted, another person in the house is a better and usually preferred method, still, I don't think anyone would be offended or think you don't trust them to alert you to a gas leak, if you also put up a gas detector or two :}
I've heard that when you can't smell you can't taste, which is bullshit. I can't tell the difference between some things but I do very much have a vivid sense of taste still.
I have had anosmia since the age of three, from a botched medical nose cauterization. I am in my 30s, and to this day am still frequently surprised to learn from others all sorts of things that do have smells which I can not smell, and I would have assumed are fairly inert (Like plastic)
Many foods to me have no flavor at all, and all that remains is consistency. This makes any steak to me, no matter how well prepared and how praised by others eating it, feels like chewing cardboard to me. I can attest it is far from bullshit, and if you do have a vivid sense of taste, you have not lost your sense of smell fully.
On a side note, if I had to choose a sense to lose, this would be the one. :P
Only once every few weeks or so do I hear comments such as "oooh doesn't that smell wonderful?! mmm", however much more frequently I do hear comments such as "Uhh awww who the hell.. oh my god" and room fleeing. In fact if I don't have a day off work, it can be a week filling occurrence
Sadly, I too have experienced the same lack of my other senses sharpening :{
Another down side is, this has multiple times given others the genius idea to ask me to change their cat litter or some crap because "I wouldn't mind" (obviously!)
It is also the reason why I have most of three gas grills sitting out back. One was in need of some parts, of which each of the other two grills have. I figured like many other things can be, I would just combine three nonfunctional items into one functional one with a crap load of spare parts.
Except they have been out there for years. I can't smell the additives to propane gas that give it a smell.
I have no method to detect a leak, or that I would be about to light a flame in an area with a cloud of gas around me. Thus I don't even mess with it.
It's not all ponies and rainbows
This "Assurance" is bullshit. XP WILL die eventually, and it will be due to the hardware vendors not writing drivers anymore, not because Microsoft has "assured" you by taking your money. It's already getting difficult to find XP driver support for new hardware out there TODAY, much less 12 - 24 months from now when businesses will still be looking to run XP.
Sounds to me like the best solution there in 3 years, where according to Murphy our desktop machines will be 4x 8 core CPUs with 2gb vram, 24gb system ram sitting on 4-5 TB of storage space in one drive bay... The best method to stick with our current software is to run a stripped down Linux install who's only job is to run a VMware (or similar technology) hypervisor with 64 windows xp machines running within it.
In virtual machines, drivers use hardware, not the other way around. There is right now virtual hardware with XP drivers. That virtual hardware API *NEVER* has to change, thus the driver already made for XP long ago will still work.
It's going to be next to impossible to morally argue pirating XP after microsoft has refused to take our money for it for years despite offering payment.
If it wasn't for their license scheme making this prohibitively unfordable, would have been an ideal setup Now, and we have had the technology for some time, with only Microsofts greed being in the way.
But you are correct for the long term. XP will die off eventually, because something better will take its place. With enough time passing, backwards compatibility will be less and less important. It is guaranteed to happen, only the when is in question.
But we will have no problems even a decade from now, let alone the 12 - 24 months you imply.
You're saying only men made of straw are "fine" and other types of crow-scaring men such as those stuffed with hay or wool are not only inferior, but the work of Satanic Communist Pedophiles?!
I *KNEW* it!!
Finally, my theory confirmed on the internet!
Keiji Fukuda, head of flu at the WHO
Now THAT is one awesome job title!
Imagine the conversation between this guy and the person sitting next to him on the plane who didn't know any better...
(Seat 13-A) So, what do you do for a living? ...
(Keiji) I am the head of flu!
(Seat 13-A) Uhh wait, what? Who do you work for again?
(Keiji) Yes, WHO.
(Seat 13-A)
* Seat 13-A is now known as Seat 27-F
We're too late. They're already here. They're even running for public office gawker.com!
But it's a two party system, so go ahead, throw your vote away!
[Insert Kang and Kodos laughter]
What happens when you pull that much energy out of the jetstream?
"That much energy" is not really all that much energy actually. At best we could only hope to extract a billionth of a percent or less, with current technology and for at least a little while to come still.
It's similar to the scale of the effect of humanity putting many large heavy city sized boats on our oceans. This does not displace enough water for there to be any measurable effect on the water line at shore. The fractions are just too small to need to worry about for now.
The SF explanation : all the missing matter is made of Dyson spheres...
For some reason that I don't understand it's not supposed to be baryonic matter. I.e., no protons. This rules out the Dyson spheres.
All of the data from our observations is based on the assumption that what we are seeing is not being influenced by an intelligence.
And you have to admit, if a Dyson sphere could be designed engineered and built, there would probably have to be a little bit of intelligence behind it!
Yea I know, but it makes for some wonderful sci-fi story lines :D
I was aware of the whole molten sodium ball thing because I remember that spinning 13 tons of molten sodium could be a REALLY bad idea. However, the last I saw of it they were still preparing and had not actually done anything yet.
The last I've heard on that very subject was from a NOVA documentary called Magnetic Storm, which aired in November 2003.
In that documentary, they were just preparing for the experiment with the molten sodium, but did not start.
Which sounds like about the same state you have last heard about as well.
I would have hoped in 6 years time they would have been able to start their experiment but I can not find any updates on their work.
I too would be curious to know what resulted from it.
In case you are interested:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/magnetic/about.html
So what, we shouldn't fix it then? The fix is dead-simple: the browser should load all "a:visited" images, regardless of whether or not it will display them.
Yes, that is a brilliant solution, and to me (Probably in hindsight to your comment) just seems like the most sane action for the browser to take anyway.
It does make the prefetch data larger that needs transfered, but for most people I don't think that would be a big deal anyway, and especially so if pointed out of this attack it counters.
At the very worst it could be an option in about:config that defaults to always load, which could be disabled back to current behavior if data transfer is that much of a concern (as you already would want to cut down other prefetch options in that case.)
I have to question however, is there really a good need or use for a hidden flag on iframes at all??
I honestly don't know, maybe its one of the more handy features in there, and I just don't see it from the user side of things, but 'hidden' is not an attribute I would ever imagine wanting on a frame or iframe...
There's no guarantee whatsoever that the gamblers themselves weren't going to pay taxes on the money that they won.
Awesome excuse!
They should just say "No no your honor, we do not have *illegal* gambling! The house wasn't taking a cut, we were *withholding taxes*"
Stop funding tasks that aren't improving urgent concerns
So in your world, nothing not urgent should be worked on? I take it you're not a fan of preventative maintenance then.
Yea see that too is the wrong extreme.
This is like doing the 'preventative maintenance' of washing your cars hubcaps, while something more 'urgent' is going on, like the engine block being on fire, a human arm hanging out of the partially closed trunk, and that horrid florescent pink and yellow paint job.
Just create your own EULA on your PC, and at the top in cap letters be sure to type "By allowing your companies software to be installed on this computer, you agree to this ECLA, and any/all updates made in the future" then just email a copy to the company you got the software from.
ECLA = End company license agreement.
Should be equally as legally sound, since all the agreement terms are the same (You don't have to do anything to agree, nor read or understand it)
Or for companies who think clicking OK is agreeing, change the wording to "By closing this email, you consent to the terms outlined in this ECLA"
Then just have fun filling it up with all the terms you want to use to rape them.
If they ever take you to court for an EULA violation, you can counter with their much more massive ECLA violations.
If one sticks, the other has to. If one doesn't, neither does the other. Win-Win!
Lets get a good mastery of our own solar system before we go running off looking up Andromeda's skirt!
Sorry to feed the trolls, but...
So in your world, how do you plan on learning anything about our solar system if you refuse to compare it to, well, ANYTHING else in the universe? By that logic, you could claim life is everywhere in the universe, as it exists in every solar system you looked at so far (1 of 1)
Seriously, if you want any say-so on what science gets done, then you best get your ass out there and start doing some science! Till then you have less than zero rights to complain what others are doing with their time.
We have learned more about solar systems from looking at both, ours and the others, than you personally ever will hope to learn or know.. so i really don't see what justifications you have for your complaint.
If you want something specific to be done, its no ones fault but your own that it isn't being done. Get out there and do it already!