To all those railing against Mandrake/France for preventing US citizens from investing in the IPO, please read the notice on Mandrake's site. Heres an extract:
If you do not reside in France, or if you are a "US Person" (as defined under Regulation S of the Securities Act 1933 of the USA, as modified) wherever you reside, you should not access this site's content.
Big hint there - US citizens cannot invest in this IPO becaude US, NOT French, laws prevent them from doing so. Same with Australia, Japan etc.
Does anyone even bother to read the linked articles anymore? It is the defendant (the WSJ) that is using the C19 English precedent to argue that the act of publication occured in the US and that New Jersey is the proper forum for a defamation suit.
Secondly, this is a civil case - there is no 'prosecution', just a plaintiff (a claimant in English new-lawyer speak) and a defendant.
Please point to the UK legislation that makes barbed wire fences 'almost' illegal, and that puts you at fault if a trespasser drowns in your pool. You can't can you. Because you made them up.
Barbed wire is perfectly legal, traps designed to injure intruders, such as electrified door handles etc are not.
Similarly, an injured trespasser might possibly bring a civil action for damages if he can demonstrate that you have unsafe premises. The classic example is a child trespassing on a construction site and being injured by improperly secured building materials. An adult trespasser half-drowning themselves in a swimming pool would not have much chance of winning such an action.
On a separate note, and perhaps pertaining more to the topic at hand, wire tap evidence is inadmissable in UK courts, and entrapment by law enforcement officers is unlawful - if entrapment can be demonstrated by the defence, the case will be usually be thrown out.
Suitboys = office workers who go out straight from the office wearing their (usually cheap and tacky) suits. Think trainee realtors, supermarket junior managers and the like.
Designer-clothed lager louts = 'expensively' dressed (i.e. D+G, Hillfiger etc.) large packs of guys looking for alcohol, Essex girls and trouble. Usually from Essex themselves.
Essex girls = The county of Essex is to London what the state of New Jersey is to New York City. Big hair, white stilleto heels etc.
God, I'm such a snob....
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One that springs to mind is AirMISR. Ok, it's a satellite instrument mounted on a ER-2 (i.e. U2) spy plane but it comes close.
Mind you, in my opinion (as an AirMISR user) they would have been better off using a real RTOS...
Certain classes of weapons are illegal - principally fully automatic weapons and handguns. The ownership of shotguns and rifles is perfectly legal although a permit is required. There is also an age limit - 14 for shotguns (up to 16 now?) and 18 for rifles.
Check the Vibe Bar in Brick Lane (AKA 'Click Lane' - ugh!) London. Surrounded by startups, geeky but cool clientele, fast netwrok connection for the free computers, great layed-back DJs, excellent projector visuals and a chill out area. And it's so much fun watching the suitboys, designer-clothed lager louts and Essex girls not getting past the front door...
In the UK, bills are single purpose, however, as with most things in the British Constitution, this is simply customary and theoretically rider bills could be introduced. However, in practice this will not happen.
If such a bill were introduced it would cause a constitutional crisis, as there is no operational veto system. Technically, the head of state (i.e. the queen) can veto a bill, but as this tends to lead to having their heads cut off for going against the will of parliament, monarchs have been loathe to do this for a few hundred years....
If things are so bad, then why don't more high-earners flee to tax havens abroad?
>Because the US charges a lot more when you don't live in the US. Also, having a corporation outside the US would increase tarriffs.
To elaborate - there is effectively no such thing as a tax haven for US citizens - US citizens have to pay US taxes even if they are not resident in the US - I think the US is the only major country to do this.
One country benefiting from this is Ireland (which has low income taxes.) Many wealthy US citizens of Irish descent are claiming Irish citizenship, renouncing their US citizenship and retiring to Ireland - taking their money with them.
Melting of the Arctic ice cap will cause NO increase in sea levels and there are NO climate models that would predict such a thing - you just made them up.
If you can't work out why melting of the Arctic ice cap would not cause an increase in sea level then I suggest a few remedial experiments with an ice cube and a glass of water.
Look at the webpage - the distribution is done through UMI.
From the UMI agreement form I have to sign to get my PhD:
I hereby grant B&H the non-exclusive right to reproduce and distribute my dissertation, in whole or in part, in and from microfilm along with the non-exlusive right to reproduce and distribute my abstract in any format in whole or in part.
etc. etc.
Seems pretty clear cut to me - nothing illegal is going on here. If you signed the UMI agreement when you submitted your diss, then contentville are free to distribute it.
How about a WAP interface? All the major news sites have them BBC, CNN etc.
And surely it can't be too hard to do as I'm sure the slashdot guys would have had the foresight to do all their content management in XML and therefore just need to knock up a quick XSL to do the translation into WML...
Whales have exactly the same ear setup as any other mammal - an aural canal, ear drum, 3 inner ear bones and a cochlea. Toothed whales however pick up sound mainly through their jawbones which transmit directly to the cochlea.
What you are 'thinking' of is the spermaceti organ of the sperm whale - it is not thought that this has anything to do with hearing but it might be an acoustic lens used in the emitting half of the sonar system, or a buoyancy regulator.
BTW, TinMan00, if you are going to correct someone, especially in the rather graceless way you did rgmoore, it is advisable to check facts first.
Remember that the review was American therefore mileage was given in US gallons which are 0.75 of an Imperial gallon. Judging by your spelling (arse), I suspect the figures you quote for the Lupo are in Imperial gallons.
Qt is platform independent - currently available for X11 and Win32. And the Win32 port is not an afterthought, it's what trolltech actually make their money from.
It sometimes seems to me that you Americans would ban everything and turn into a fascist police state within a year if you didn't have a constitution writ in stone as it were...
How come this article did not make a single mention of Arianespace which are easily the largest commercial launch company? Boeing and L-M are definitely also-rans in comparison.
The WTO might actually have some legitimite work to do here. Blocking the NTT-Verio deal on the grounds that NTT is not a US company is might be seen as protectionism by the WTO who could rule against the US.
On the other hand, seeing as most of the time the WTO behaves like the US' jailyard bitch I doubt it...
Let me guess - you're one of those idiots on an YZF R-1 or a Hyabusa wearing no helment, no gloves, sneakers, t-shirt and shorts...I'd love to see one of those guys go for the big red smear.
Funny thing is, most of these guys can't ride - check out the rear tire, usually about 2" of unscrubbed rubber on either side.
Might as well be riding a Harley (fate worse then death)
If you call France small, what is your definition of large?
France has the worlds 4th largest economy (after US, Japan and Germany) - larger than China, India and Russia combined according to The Economist book of Vital World Statistics I have on my desk.
Plus it's a nuclear power, the world's leading commercial satellite launcher and the second largest producer of commercial aircraft. World's most popular tourist destination. Huge energy, water, electronics and comms industry (can you say Vivendi?)
And it can call (sort of) on the backing of the other EU states.
So how is it small? Can't imagine you would say that if China or Russia pulled the same stunt...
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Secondly, this is a civil case - there is no 'prosecution', just a plaintiff (a claimant in English new-lawyer speak) and a defendant.
Barbed wire is perfectly legal, traps designed to injure intruders, such as electrified door handles etc are not.
Similarly, an injured trespasser might possibly bring a civil action for damages if he can demonstrate that you have unsafe premises. The classic example is a child trespassing on a construction site and being injured by improperly secured building materials. An adult trespasser half-drowning themselves in a swimming pool would not have much chance of winning such an action.
On a separate note, and perhaps pertaining more to the topic at hand, wire tap evidence is inadmissable in UK courts, and entrapment by law enforcement officers is unlawful - if entrapment can be demonstrated by the defence, the case will be usually be thrown out.
Designer-clothed lager louts = 'expensively' dressed (i.e. D+G, Hillfiger etc.) large packs of guys looking for alcohol, Essex girls and trouble. Usually from Essex themselves.
Essex girls = The county of Essex is to London what the state of New Jersey is to New York City. Big hair, white stilleto heels etc.
God, I'm such a snob....
Mind you, in my opinion (as an AirMISR user) they would have been better off using a real RTOS...
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Certain classes of weapons are illegal - principally fully automatic weapons and handguns. The ownership of shotguns and rifles is perfectly legal although a permit is required. There is also an age limit - 14 for shotguns (up to 16 now?) and 18 for rifles.
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Any sillier than the current trade war between Europe and the US over bananas - which are not produced in either country/trade bloc?
If such a bill were introduced it would cause a constitutional crisis, as there is no operational veto system. Technically, the head of state (i.e. the queen) can veto a bill, but as this tends to lead to having their heads cut off for going against the will of parliament, monarchs have been loathe to do this for a few hundred years....
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>Because the US charges a lot more when you don't live in the US. Also, having a corporation outside the US would increase tarriffs.
To elaborate - there is effectively no such thing as a tax haven for US citizens - US citizens have to pay US taxes even if they are not resident in the US - I think the US is the only major country to do this.
One country benefiting from this is Ireland (which has low income taxes.) Many wealthy US citizens of Irish descent are claiming Irish citizenship, renouncing their US citizenship and retiring to Ireland - taking their money with them.
If you can't work out why melting of the Arctic ice cap would not cause an increase in sea level then I suggest a few remedial experiments with an ice cube and a glass of water.
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From the UMI agreement form I have to sign to get my PhD:
etc. etc.
Seems pretty clear cut to me - nothing illegal is going on here. If you signed the UMI agreement when you submitted your diss, then contentville are free to distribute it.
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Have you registered the trademark in Ireland or at the EU trademark office? If not, I suspect you are SOL.
And surely it can't be too hard to do as I'm sure the slashdot guys would have had the foresight to do all their content management in XML and therefore just need to knock up a quick XSL to do the translation into WML...
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What you are 'thinking' of is the spermaceti organ of the sperm whale - it is not thought that this has anything to do with hearing but it might be an acoustic lens used in the emitting half of the sonar system, or a buoyancy regulator.
BTW, TinMan00, if you are going to correct someone, especially in the rather graceless way you did rgmoore, it is advisable to check facts first.
Nick
Why the hell can't we just all use litres???
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How come this article did not make a single mention of Arianespace which are easily the largest commercial launch company? Boeing and L-M are definitely also-rans in comparison.
- In my passport it says 'British Citizen'.
- I am the legal owner of a 12-bore shotgun, a
.22LR rifle and .375 H&H rifle - all kept in the UK - You're full of shit
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NTT is a Japanese company, genius.
On the other hand, seeing as most of the time the WTO behaves like the US' jailyard bitch I doubt it...
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Funny thing is, most of these guys can't ride - check out the rear tire, usually about 2" of unscrubbed rubber on either side.
Might as well be riding a Harley (fate worse then death)
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France has the worlds 4th largest economy (after US, Japan and Germany) - larger than China, India and Russia combined according to The Economist book of Vital World Statistics I have on my desk.
Plus it's a nuclear power, the world's leading commercial satellite launcher and the second largest producer of commercial aircraft. World's most popular tourist destination. Huge energy, water, electronics and comms industry (can you say Vivendi?)
And it can call (sort of) on the backing of the other EU states.
So how is it small? Can't imagine you would say that if China or Russia pulled the same stunt...
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