The main problem the U.S. has is that it demands other nations to play by the rules and bend over backwards, but whenever the issue arises and the U.S. has to change to play by the rules, it refuses to do so. This makes the WTO, which was installed by the U.S. in the first place, obsolete.
What if suddenly China and Russland are no longer compelled to play by the WTO rules when it took decades to persuade them to do so? What if AllofMP3.com gets up and operating again? What if China no longer feels the need to even seem as if they respected patents and trademarks? What arguments do you have against China left?
On the other hand Austria (the ones with the Alps and the cows and the fantastic ski athlets) was in 2003, during the buildup for the Iraq war, infact threatening to shoot down U.S. aircraft if the U.S. airforce were continuing to fly over Austria without a permit. In retailiation for that the U.S. were postponing sending the codes for the new Austrian military aircraft in 2007. So also Austria might be persuaded to crack U.S. codes.
That's why Antigua and Barbuda has asked the WTO to impose penal tariffs on U.S. products in retailiation, namely allowing all citizens of A&B to copy and redistribute Hollywood content for free.
The U.S. got already a cease-and-desist-letter from the WTO, and didn't comply even if the WTO council found the U.S. in violation of WTO statutes. So A&B has all rights to demand something in exchange.
Software Patents are still not valid in Europe, even though the EPA has handed out 30.000 of them already. They are deaf stone right now. So no. Microsoft can do no business as a patent holding company in Europe.
The people storming the Bastille were just looking for anything they could damage. The Bastille was just a luxury prison for noble people, it was not the fortress the legend tried to turn it to later. It was defended by a women's batallion, and the commander of the Bastille was ready to turn it over to the leaders.
When the front line was just starting to enter the Bastille peacefully, people further behind were pressuring and thus it turned into a mob, raging through the building and raping and massacring the female soldiers who had long ago surrendered.
Main problem: the latin virus, meaning 'slime' or 'poison', is a singularitantum. So there is no historical plural for virus. That allows us to just make one up. And we should make it so, that it doesn't interfere with the plural of vir (man).
Generating the assymmetric keys takes time, that's why you use symmetric keys for real time encryption. So changing the assymmetric keys too often is unfeasible right now. You want them to be valid for a longer time than just a few seconds.
It wasn't you who said it first. It was the European GSM provider who said it first. So they bundled the SMS-Service often for free or for very little money with their calling plans, because they just thought it a nice feature with not much practical use.
After all, SMS was never really thought for the broad public, it was more or less thought to replace the beeper in some circumstances or to send technical status messages.
But then the public discovered the SMS and turned them in a cheap chat system. And suddenly a technical byproduct became a main selling point for GSM plans, and the prices for SMS services skyrocketed.
I dont' see why they can't limit the OS of the computer to certain specifications that they will warantee. Because a mechanical fault within 5 month doesn't fall into normal warranty, according to European consumer laws this is covered by implied warranty, an this means that at first it is assumed that this fault has been there from the beginning (manufacturing fault or transport damage or whatever), and the shop has to prove that the fault occured later, and the laptop was fine at the time of sale.
This has nothing to do with what OS is installed on the system, or they can prove that installing the OS damaged the screen joint.
While it surely doesn't establish ownership, it surely informs you about an intention. So with this sticker the city informs you that by clamping your wheel they did not wanted to transfer ownership of the clamp to you.
It was not so much geography, but some rather silly and some very serious faults.
The first thing I remember until today was the ambulance car. It was a Mercedes Van with a yugoslavian license plate (from Zagreb, if I remember correctly). But the setting was in Czechoslovakia, and there they used either vans built with a license from Renault in Czechoslovakia, or Skoda-vans, also built there, for ambulance cars. At least they could have made some correct license plates!
Another thing was that the secret police was driving a black painted Checker cab, which seemed to me very silly. Everyone would remember such a car. It would have been outstanding even in the U.S., so more in East Europe! And if this should only symbolize some large limo for the nomenclatura, why not using a Tatra or a Volga, or even a swedish Volvo, as they were in fact used in East Europe?
But the biggest fault that blow the plot was the checkpoint to West Europe, MacGyver and his refugee were passing with some little tricks. It was some side street somewhere in a big forrest.
No single checkpoint from the Eastern Block to West Europe was at a side street. In fact all sidestreets were cut off, and the border was sealed with fences, automatic shooting gear, anti person mines and other nasty stuff. And on the big roads there was at least a second checkpoint some miles before the one at the border. The roads hat moveable steel walls which were raised automatically if some alarm were activated, and at least some concrete blocks forcing every car slow down to zigzag through the checkpoint. All trees along the borders were cut down for at least 500 yards to have free sight to the border and free shooting to potential targets (people trying to leave the country).
Imagine the U.S.-Mexican border. Now triple the enforcement and do away with anything like human rights. Then you get an idea.
It took more than just some MacGyverian scientific magic to cross that border illegally. We had enough MacGyvers trying. There is a whole museum in Berlin showing the gear they built: One-man-submarines, enforced 40t-trucks to break through, hand sown hot air balloons. If all it took to tear down the Berlin Wall was some american schmuck showing the downtrodden masses of the East how to do it, the Communist Block wouldn't have lasted 40 years. So in a certain way this episode was a belittling and an affront to all the people who were actually trying to overcome the Communism.
To me MacGyver had the adverse affect. Because in some case I knew how it really worked, I was very pissed off at the bad science shown in the show. It seemed always to play on the safe side, so if an interested child would actually try to try those effects at home they would utterly fail, do basicly nothing and thus not make the station liable for damage.
(A really bad turnoff for me was an episode where MacGyver frees an East European dissident from a psychological ward where he was locked in by his communist oppressors. This one was so wrong on so many details about East Europe before 1989 that I decided to never watch MacGyver again and still have have a problem with all movies starring Richard Dean Anderson... even though he himself may be completely innocent.)
Majordomo, for a long time the most common server for mailing lists, was always putting lines like "send email with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject:" below the messages it had processed. (of course you could switch it off or change the lines, but this was the standard behaviour).
Moreso: What the Hypervisor is thought to achieve in an attempt to circumvent the GPL is actually something that was designed into the GPL from the very beginning: It was never forbidden to run proprietary code and GPLed code on the same machine. It was only forbidden to make a derivative work from GPLed code and distribute this with a license that is incompatible with the GPL. The FSF stated from the very beginning: If the proprietary code and the GPLed code don't share GPLed libraries or run in the same segment, everything is fine. (See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLAndNon freeOnSameMachine)
The hypervisor is just another method to achieve exactly this behaviour that was built into the GPL from the very beginning: Make a clear distinction where the proprietary code runs, and where the GPLed code resides. So no: The hypervisor is not a "circumvention device against the GPL3".
I don't say abstinence is wrong. I just don't believe you can instill the wish to be abstinent by just preaching it. People who by themself would rather wait with their first sexual experience will wait if they hear the "abstinence" meme, people who weren't interested in abstinence anyway aren't put off by it. So the best you can do is to tell your child what it had to expect and how to deal with it. I was also abstinent until age 20, but in my case it was because of a very profound sexual education. I just knew what would happen, and so I wasn't pressured to find out by myself. When I had my first sexual encounter, it was with my later wife, and we are still married;)
There was never the question if we should put off sex until marriage. We had it when we felt it would be good. We married seven years later, when she had a position with the government, where the payment was higher if one was married. Basicly you could say we married because of the money.;)
Even though this is about abstinence and the effect on sexually transmitted diseases (NIL), I was carelessly extrapoliting this to teenage pregnancy (because the methods to avoid both are the same).
That's what sexual education is for. There is a direct relationship between the quality of sexual education in school and the number of teens who make it through puberty without causing pregnancy or getting pregnant.
Preaching "True love waits" has a proven effect of NIL.
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The main problem the U.S. has is that it demands other nations to play by the rules and bend over backwards, but whenever the issue arises and the U.S. has to change to play by the rules, it refuses to do so. This makes the WTO, which was installed by the U.S. in the first place, obsolete.
What if suddenly China and Russland are no longer compelled to play by the WTO rules when it took decades to persuade them to do so? What if AllofMP3.com gets up and operating again? What if China no longer feels the need to even seem as if they respected patents and trademarks? What arguments do you have against China left?
On the other hand Austria (the ones with the Alps and the cows and the fantastic ski athlets) was in 2003, during the buildup for the Iraq war, infact threatening to shoot down U.S. aircraft if the U.S. airforce were continuing to fly over Austria without a permit.
In retailiation for that the U.S. were postponing sending the codes for the new Austrian military aircraft in 2007. So also Austria might be persuaded to crack U.S. codes.
That's why Antigua and Barbuda has asked the WTO to impose penal tariffs on U.S. products in retailiation, namely allowing all citizens of A&B to copy and redistribute Hollywood content for free.
The U.S. got already a cease-and-desist-letter from the WTO, and didn't comply even if the WTO council found the U.S. in violation of WTO statutes. So A&B has all rights to demand something in exchange.
The Siemens Deployment Service for IP phones (Siemens optipoint 4xx) even sends VLAN number and Gatekeeper address via DCHP, using option 43.
So that's the reason why RMS talks about GNU/Linux, and not GNUOS or similar. He recognized the fact that Linux is running the toolchain.
Software Patents are still not valid in Europe, even though the EPA has handed out 30.000 of them already. They are deaf stone right now. So no. Microsoft can do no business as a patent holding company in Europe.
The people storming the Bastille were just looking for anything they could damage. The Bastille was just a luxury prison for noble people, it was not the fortress the legend tried to turn it to later. It was defended by a women's batallion, and the commander of the Bastille was ready to turn it over to the leaders.
When the front line was just starting to enter the Bastille peacefully, people further behind were pressuring and thus it turned into a mob, raging through the building and raping and massacring the female soldiers who had long ago surrendered.
Main problem: the latin virus, meaning 'slime' or 'poison', is a singularitantum. So there is no historical plural for virus. That allows us to just make one up. And we should make it so, that it doesn't interfere with the plural of vir (man).
Generating the assymmetric keys takes time, that's why you use symmetric keys for real time encryption. So changing the assymmetric keys too often is unfeasible right now. You want them to be valid for a longer time than just a few seconds.
It wasn't you who said it first. It was the European GSM provider who said it first. So they bundled the SMS-Service often for free or for very little money with their calling plans, because they just thought it a nice feature with not much practical use.
After all, SMS was never really thought for the broad public, it was more or less thought to replace the beeper in some circumstances or to send technical status messages.
But then the public discovered the SMS and turned them in a cheap chat system. And suddenly a technical byproduct became a main selling point for GSM plans, and the prices for SMS services skyrocketed.
I just said that the point is moot that the seller can limit the warranty to certain installations.
Even if he does, this case is not covered by his warranty, so all restrictions he comes up with in his warranty conditions are of no interest.
This has nothing to do with what OS is installed on the system, or they can prove that installing the OS damaged the screen joint.
While it surely doesn't establish ownership, it surely informs you about an intention. So with this sticker the city informs you that by clamping your wheel they did not wanted to transfer ownership of the clamp to you.
It was not so much geography, but some rather silly and some very serious faults.
The first thing I remember until today was the ambulance car. It was a Mercedes Van with a yugoslavian license plate (from Zagreb, if I remember correctly). But the setting was in Czechoslovakia, and there they used either vans built with a license from Renault in Czechoslovakia, or Skoda-vans, also built there, for ambulance cars. At least they could have made some correct license plates!
Another thing was that the secret police was driving a black painted Checker cab, which seemed to me very silly. Everyone would remember such a car. It would have been outstanding even in the U.S., so more in East Europe! And if this should only symbolize some large limo for the nomenclatura, why not using a Tatra or a Volga, or even a swedish Volvo, as they were in fact used in East Europe?
But the biggest fault that blow the plot was the checkpoint to West Europe, MacGyver and his refugee were passing with some little tricks. It was some side street somewhere in a big forrest.
No single checkpoint from the Eastern Block to West Europe was at a side street. In fact all sidestreets were cut off, and the border was sealed with fences, automatic shooting gear, anti person mines and other nasty stuff. And on the big roads there was at least a second checkpoint some miles before the one at the border. The roads hat moveable steel walls which were raised automatically if some alarm were activated, and at least some concrete blocks forcing every car slow down to zigzag through the checkpoint. All trees along the borders were cut down for at least 500 yards to have free sight to the border and free shooting to potential targets (people trying to leave the country).
Imagine the U.S.-Mexican border. Now triple the enforcement and do away with anything like human rights. Then you get an idea.
It took more than just some MacGyverian scientific magic to cross that border illegally. We had enough MacGyvers trying. There is a whole museum in Berlin showing the gear they built: One-man-submarines, enforced 40t-trucks to break through, hand sown hot air balloons. If all it took to tear down the Berlin Wall was some american schmuck showing the downtrodden masses of the East how to do it, the Communist Block wouldn't have lasted 40 years. So in a certain way this episode was a belittling and an affront to all the people who were actually trying to overcome the Communism.
To me MacGyver had the adverse affect. Because in some case I knew how it really worked, I was very pissed off at the bad science shown in the show. It seemed always to play on the safe side, so if an interested child would actually try to try those effects at home they would utterly fail, do basicly nothing and thus not make the station liable for damage.
(A really bad turnoff for me was an episode where MacGyver frees an East European dissident from a psychological ward where he was locked in by his communist oppressors. This one was so wrong on so many details about East Europe before 1989 that I decided to never watch MacGyver again and still have have a problem with all movies starring Richard Dean Anderson... even though he himself may be completely innocent.)
That a different can of spam.
Majordomo, for a long time the most common server for mailing lists, was always putting lines like "send email with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject:" below the messages it had processed. (of course you could switch it off or change the lines, but this was the standard behaviour).
Moreso: What the Hypervisor is thought to achieve in an attempt to circumvent the GPL is actually something that was designed into the GPL from the very beginning: It was never forbidden to run proprietary code and GPLed code on the same machine. It was only forbidden to make a derivative work from GPLed code and distribute this with a license that is incompatible with the GPL. The FSF stated from the very beginning: If the proprietary code and the GPLed code don't share GPLed libraries or run in the same segment, everything is fine.n freeOnSameMachine)
(See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLAndNo
The hypervisor is just another method to achieve exactly this behaviour that was built into the GPL from the very beginning: Make a clear distinction where the proprietary code runs, and where the GPLed code resides. So no: The hypervisor is not a "circumvention device against the GPL3".
I would have mod this as "-1 Purely hypothetical".
I don't say abstinence is wrong. I just don't believe you can instill the wish to be abstinent by just preaching it. People who by themself would rather wait with their first sexual experience will wait if they hear the "abstinence" meme, people who weren't interested in abstinence anyway aren't put off by it. So the best you can do is to tell your child what it had to expect and how to deal with it. I was also abstinent until age 20, but in my case it was because of a very profound sexual education. I just knew what would happen, and so I wasn't pressured to find out by myself. When I had my first sexual encounter, it was with my later wife, and we are still married ;)
;)
There was never the question if we should put off sex until marriage. We had it when we felt it would be good. We married seven years later, when she had a position with the government, where the payment was higher if one was married. Basicly you could say we married because of the money.
And according to the russian court, they were paying their suppliers (or at least the representatives of their suppliers) rightly.
For the first, there is: http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/publications/euro pean/summary.htm
For the second statement I advice you to read the British Medical Journal, http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/335/7613/248
Even though this is about abstinence and the effect on sexually transmitted diseases (NIL), I was carelessly extrapoliting this to teenage pregnancy (because the methods to avoid both are the same).
I guess, my teacher was pretty straight forward in that departement. But on the other hand, he was with the Stasi (the east german secret police...).
That's why I was talking not about the amount of sexual education, but about the quality of sexual education.
Probably your teacher messed up personal hygiene and sexual hygiene.
... and a governmental order of "no porn for you tonight" has a proven effect 30 mins, as we know now.
That's what sexual education is for. There is a direct relationship between the quality of sexual education in school and the number of teens who make it through puberty without causing pregnancy or getting pregnant.
Preaching "True love waits" has a proven effect of NIL.