I am a resident of the UK, so I guess that is good news, kind of. What about UAE?
I am of Norwegian nationality. I carry a slip-joint pocketknife with me everywhere I go (legal in the UK, illegal in Norway). Can they extradite me?
I wonder. Would the UK extradite someone to Iran for some horrible crime, say, like looking at a non-nude picture of two shirtless guys kissing? (Or girls, if you are into that sort of thing.)
It's frightening, because every weekend I violate Saudi/UAE law by consuming alcohol. I hope I don't get extradited out there!
Tried to find a good link but all I found was this one.
Honesty tests conducted to determine most honest city/country. Just an excuse for me to brag about my home country of Norway, heh
Hmm I was under the impression using a crack for a game you own was legal..? Hence the legality of gamecopyworld (btw, use that for cracks/NOCD binaries and avoid torrents)
Let's not get into arguments about what "the law" is before we establish which jurisdiction we're talking about. I was under the impression the 24-hour law was only in Germany.
Out of interest, were they all pertaining to use of P2P programs? Had they seen P2P traffic?
All this talk of shutting down locker sites had me trying to figure out if the reason is that with these sites (just downloading over HTTP port 80) means the ISP cannot do much to see illegal downloads, so the *IAA go after the source instead, whereas with P2P they can see traffic over a different protocol which sets off alarm bells and therefore triggers more scrutiny of traffic.
There are absolutely rules against flammable/inflammable/combustible liquids. Have a look at the signs at the counter next time you're in the airport, they're pretty clear. Whether they are all enforced is another story (a friend once brought back an airsoft gun from Greece, nobody said anything).
Derogatory tone aside, that wasn't really the point of what I was saying. Yes, you code something to achieve something, but the motivation behind it isn't the use of the product itself (as the GP suggested) but for the experience and accomplishment of making something. You can bake a cake from ingredients or buy it in a shop. Price difference is negligible so you only really bake a cake at home because you like baking. Similarly, I recently threw together a Hangman style game in Java. There is probably ten hangman games for every programming language out there, open source, ready to use. So why make your own?
My point is, yes people do it for the reward, but the reward is not the end product. Rather, it's the experience of the process that *is* the reward.
Seeing as Anonymous is simply the name given to anyone who posts on 4chan, it doesn't really identify anyone. Indeed, Lulzsec recruits skiddies on/b/, and the idea of mass-DDOS was made famous by *chan style invasions, but other than that there is no correlation.
Here in Europe, the Polish are often seen as synonymous for cheap labour (they are the Mexicans of Europe, if that makes sense). I could see how some patriotic Mexicans might disagree with their fellow countrymen jumping the border to work in the US.
I would agree. I think by banning words from common use, we create a sort of Streisand effect. The n-word is not often uttered in public anymore, but the web is full of it. People clearly still want to say these things, so it's not like banning the words stamps out the intention behind it. Banning the word gives it more power, due to its taboo-ness. Who hasn't been called a (n-word) or (semite) in an online game?
Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino had the right idea. Racial slurs are aplenty in that film, but used jokingly as a term of endearment. That takes power away from the word, more effectively than banning it from use (though hatred will still prevail, so another word will likely be invented to replace the old one).
Have you tried this bad boy? We use it here at work for initiation of new guys. An amount the size of half a pea is enough to start you sweating and hyperventilating (and in some cases, panic, it would seem. Whoops.) Claims to be 6m scoville. I dunno about that, but it's definitely not something I could ever use as a condiment.
Right now I am having a disappointing pasta salad, made happy by this guy. Nice kick, garlic taste, lovely stuff.
I disagree, I think it is entirely possible to want to program for the sake of it. You need a goal, something you are making, but the motivation for doing it doesn't just need to be "I want that thing, so I'm gonna code it together!". It could simply be "I like programming, so I'm gonna build my own thing!"
It's the same reason you had Legos as a kid. Did you make functional things out of Lego, that improved your quality of life? Or did you just like building things?
Yeah when I move into my fibre house, I will bite the bullet and pony up £35pm for the full (50mb) package (100mb is not offered here, presumably because they know we cannot consume it with our FTTC infrastructure). It's just about tolerable a price (though I won't get any other services like phone or TV. Not that I use those things anyway). Also, I doubt I would ever hit the upload throttling limit, unless I am backing up large files to my website or a storage locker, in which case I could do that during a time it isn't throttled.
Forces you to go with their XXL package of 50mb. I don't have fibre right now but I will soon. I will need to get the 50mb package, to avoid throttling (they still throttle P2P but there is no download threshold like the other packages), even though I cannot actually get 50mb speed (probably tops out at around 40). Thats the only way unfortunately. It used to be 20mb was the highest and that was unlimited. Traditionally, VM's best package is the only unthrottled one.
Even the famous phrase goes "a well armed militia being necessary for the preservation of a free state, the right for the people to bear arms shall not be infringed" (i may have slightly paraphrased, but that's almost it). This implies that firearms aren't just for organised militamen, rather, the citizens themselves *are* the militia, and therefore everyone shall be allowed to own firearms.
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I am a resident of the UK, so I guess that is good news, kind of. What about UAE?
I am of Norwegian nationality. I carry a slip-joint pocketknife with me everywhere I go (legal in the UK, illegal in Norway). Can they extradite me?
I wonder. Would the UK extradite someone to Iran for some horrible crime, say, like looking at a non-nude picture of two shirtless guys kissing? (Or girls, if you are into that sort of thing.)
It's frightening, because every weekend I violate Saudi/UAE law by consuming alcohol. I hope I don't get extradited out there!
Hello there! Will you join me in jeering at the Swedes for being so untrustworthy?
Tried to find a good link but all I found was this one.
Honesty tests conducted to determine most honest city/country. Just an excuse for me to brag about my home country of Norway, heh
Where do you live where the cops are the voice of reason???
Everywhere I have lived, you don't get reason until your lawyer arrives.
Hmm I was under the impression using a crack for a game you own was legal..? Hence the legality of gamecopyworld (btw, use that for cracks/NOCD binaries and avoid torrents)
Let's not get into arguments about what "the law" is before we establish which jurisdiction we're talking about. I was under the impression the 24-hour law was only in Germany.
Out of interest, were they all pertaining to use of P2P programs? Had they seen P2P traffic?
All this talk of shutting down locker sites had me trying to figure out if the reason is that with these sites (just downloading over HTTP port 80) means the ISP cannot do much to see illegal downloads, so the *IAA go after the source instead, whereas with P2P they can see traffic over a different protocol which sets off alarm bells and therefore triggers more scrutiny of traffic.
There are absolutely rules against flammable/inflammable/combustible liquids. Have a look at the signs at the counter next time you're in the airport, they're pretty clear. Whether they are all enforced is another story (a friend once brought back an airsoft gun from Greece, nobody said anything).
Needlessly, because we have homeless shelters for them to go to.
Derogatory tone aside, that wasn't really the point of what I was saying. Yes, you code something to achieve something, but the motivation behind it isn't the use of the product itself (as the GP suggested) but for the experience and accomplishment of making something. You can bake a cake from ingredients or buy it in a shop. Price difference is negligible so you only really bake a cake at home because you like baking. Similarly, I recently threw together a Hangman style game in Java. There is probably ten hangman games for every programming language out there, open source, ready to use. So why make your own?
My point is, yes people do it for the reward, but the reward is not the end product. Rather, it's the experience of the process that *is* the reward.
Seeing as Anonymous is simply the name given to anyone who posts on 4chan, it doesn't really identify anyone. Indeed, Lulzsec recruits skiddies on /b/, and the idea of mass-DDOS was made famous by *chan style invasions, but other than that there is no correlation.
Here in Europe, the Polish are often seen as synonymous for cheap labour (they are the Mexicans of Europe, if that makes sense). I could see how some patriotic Mexicans might disagree with their fellow countrymen jumping the border to work in the US.
I am currently the servant of an Orange Tabby cat.
Finally, a cat owner acknowledges his role in the human/cat relationship!
I would agree. I think by banning words from common use, we create a sort of Streisand effect. The n-word is not often uttered in public anymore, but the web is full of it. People clearly still want to say these things, so it's not like banning the words stamps out the intention behind it. Banning the word gives it more power, due to its taboo-ness. Who hasn't been called a (n-word) or (semite) in an online game?
Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino had the right idea. Racial slurs are aplenty in that film, but used jokingly as a term of endearment. That takes power away from the word, more effectively than banning it from use (though hatred will still prevail, so another word will likely be invented to replace the old one).
Have you tried this bad boy? We use it here at work for initiation of new guys. An amount the size of half a pea is enough to start you sweating and hyperventilating (and in some cases, panic, it would seem. Whoops.) Claims to be 6m scoville. I dunno about that, but it's definitely not something I could ever use as a condiment.
Right now I am having a disappointing pasta salad, made happy by this guy. Nice kick, garlic taste, lovely stuff.
I disagree, I think it is entirely possible to want to program for the sake of it. You need a goal, something you are making, but the motivation for doing it doesn't just need to be "I want that thing, so I'm gonna code it together!". It could simply be "I like programming, so I'm gonna build my own thing!"
It's the same reason you had Legos as a kid. Did you make functional things out of Lego, that improved your quality of life? Or did you just like building things?
Well, unless they are stretching fibre to my front door, it won't make any difference. :(
Woosh!
Yeah when I move into my fibre house, I will bite the bullet and pony up £35pm for the full (50mb) package (100mb is not offered here, presumably because they know we cannot consume it with our FTTC infrastructure). It's just about tolerable a price (though I won't get any other services like phone or TV. Not that I use those things anyway). Also, I doubt I would ever hit the upload throttling limit, unless I am backing up large files to my website or a storage locker, in which case I could do that during a time it isn't throttled.
Hmm, at least here in the UK we get unlimited SMS (subject to Fair Use Policy, usually 2500 per month)
Forces you to go with their XXL package of 50mb. I don't have fibre right now but I will soon. I will need to get the 50mb package, to avoid throttling (they still throttle P2P but there is no download threshold like the other packages), even though I cannot actually get 50mb speed (probably tops out at around 40). Thats the only way unfortunately. It used to be 20mb was the highest and that was unlimited. Traditionally, VM's best package is the only unthrottled one.
Even the famous phrase goes "a well armed militia being necessary for the preservation of a free state, the right for the people to bear arms shall not be infringed" (i may have slightly paraphrased, but that's almost it). This implies that firearms aren't just for organised militamen, rather, the citizens themselves *are* the militia, and therefore everyone shall be allowed to own firearms.
The quickest and best way for us non-USians to protect ourselves is simply to disallow all connections coming from the US to our websites.
I was called a cracker once, on the subway in New York. I don't think the intended meaning was the same.