I assume by Europe that you mean Europe-excluding-the UK.
In this country if you let your children see you naked the social services will come round and take them away from you for child-protection reasons and on most UK beaches you can always have a brilliant laugh at the pathetic sight of white pimply brits trying to get changed under a towel, as if anyone would want to look at their white wobbly lardy bodies.
The UK also has the highest number of teen pregnancies in the known universe, which sort of confirms your thesis.
On the other hand, there is equal correlation between the crapiness of the food eaten and teen-pregnancies as well. The food is crappiest in the North East which also has the highest teen pregnancy rates.
If by us, you mean you Mr "I-can't-be-arsed-reading-the-article-properly-and -realising-that the-headline-is-just-an-attention-grabbing-out-of- context-quote" Taco then your summary is probably correct, however what he is saying is that the way that our children use the internet in the future will amaze us. For those of use who experienced the arrival of the Internet and the Web, something like Wikipedia is astounding. For our children something like that is perfectly normal and they will be able to use the internet in creative ways that we can't imagine.
Sheeesh! It's not that hard to read an article properly. Do you get paid for what you do?
Not a troll, just another ignorant schoolkid on Slashdot spouting off about something she/he know nothing about and helping the ignorant of the rest of world confirm their stereotypes about ignorant Americans.
You, Sirrah, are talking out of your arse, you know nothing about economics, geography, business and probabkly quiet a few other things.
Yes but, it's a probably good thing that RMS gets to know, through a Slashdot discussion, that a lot of people think that penalising companies who use DRM, or patents, is a very bad idea, so that he can free up his mind for thinking about other parts of the licence before he start putting pen to paper to write the draft.
..when I read an article which starts by saying that [some | many| a group of| concerned] scientists are claiming that $SOME_NONSENSE, I reach for my Browning.
Maybe you could try a few things like: reading the article properly, try to listen to what RMS really said as opposed to what you think he said, try to refrain from judging someones arguments based upon who they are rather than on their arguments..etc.. maybe then you might be able to understand
Maybe not, but according to some of the new laws our authoritarion government here in the UK is pushing through (in the bid to keepo the Muslim vote, but of course they don't admit that) regarding religious hatred, it may soon be illegal.
If there's not a single video image, as you claim, how come the IPCC (as you know so much about it I shouldn't have to tell you what that stands for) have video footage showing that Jean Charles de Menezes entered the station without running, took a free newspaper and passed normally through the ticket barrier?
Could it be that you are talking out of your arse?
"but has anyone taken into consideration that the earth has been warming up steadily for the past several thousand years? (give or take a millennia)"
Of course they have you dickhead! That's what fucking scientists do. Or do you think they'll be hitting their foreheads in labs all over the world saying "Doh! Bornbitter (813458) on Slashdot mentioned that we should consider that the Earth has been warming up for several thouasnd years. Such insight! Why didn't we think of that and build it into our climactic models"
If I have a contract with an ISP that promises me Internet Access then I expect to receive access to the whole Internet, nto for them to hide bits that they didn't want me to see. If I was a customer of this ISP I'd now be thinking "legal action".
This gives a lot more information than the short summary in the on-line Times Eudcational Supplement. As well as hassling the teachers (I hope your being a little facetious using the term "hassle") it's a good idea to approach any councillors who sit on the LEAs education committee, the LEA itself and, of course, the school governors. But before you do anything else speak to the Head Teacher. Without his/her support, or at least informing them what you are doing, you will find things difficult.
I would think that in this case the issue is not with people downloading a page and keeping it, it is with making this page available at a later date to someone else, which is effectively re-distribution. As another poster mentioned it's suprising that noboday has sued Google for something like their cache up to now.
There you can email him politely that it is not the business of the UK government to help line the pockets of some of the richest companies in the land.
The whole point for these people is that they are sitting in a coffee shop with a laptop, other people can see them sitting in a coffee shop with a laptop and they can tell their friends that they spent time sitting around in a coffee shop with a laptop.
Sitting around in a coffee shop with a laptop is in itself a fashion statement; it has nothing to do with drinking coffee and nothing to do with sitting in front of a laptop doing interesting stuff.
The probably spend their time updating their boring blogs (a tautology, maybe ?) where they write about sitting about in a coffee shop with a laptop.
Slashdot Mirror
I assume by Europe that you mean Europe-excluding-the UK.
In this country if you let your children see you naked the social services will come round and take them away from you for child-protection reasons and on most UK beaches you can always have a brilliant laugh at the pathetic sight of white pimply brits trying to get changed under a towel, as if anyone would want to look at their white wobbly lardy bodies.
The UK also has the highest number of teen pregnancies in the known universe, which sort of confirms your thesis.
On the other hand, there is equal correlation between the crapiness of the food eaten and teen-pregnancies as well. The food is crappiest in the North East which also has the highest teen pregnancy rates.
If by us, you mean you Mr "I-can't-be-arsed-reading-the-article-properly-and -realising-that the-headline-is-just-an-attention-grabbing-out-of- context-quote" Taco then your summary is probably correct, however what he is saying is that the way that our children use the internet in the future will amaze us. For those of use who experienced the arrival of the Internet and the Web, something like Wikipedia is astounding. For our children something like that is perfectly normal and they will be able to use the internet in creative ways that we can't imagine.
Sheeesh! It's not that hard to read an article properly. Do you get paid for what you do?
Not a troll, just another ignorant schoolkid on Slashdot spouting off about something she/he know nothing about and helping the ignorant of the rest of world confirm their stereotypes about ignorant Americans.
You, Sirrah, are talking out of your arse, you know nothing about economics, geography, business and probabkly quiet a few other things.
Yes but, it's a probably good thing that RMS gets to know, through a Slashdot discussion, that a lot of people think that penalising companies who use DRM, or patents, is a very bad idea, so that he can free up his mind for thinking about other parts of the licence before he start putting pen to paper to write the draft.
..when I read an article which starts by saying that [some | many| a group of| concerned] scientists are claiming that $SOME_NONSENSE, I reach for my Browning.
Anybody who stupid enough to spend hundreds of dollars on Office deserves to have their documents locked up in a proprietary format.
Peer pressure and the fear that "everybody else uses it" is enough to make people pay for Office, but no-one pays full-price for it, do they?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/
or any other reputable UK news web site
For the same reason that dogs lick their bollocks...because they can.
Maybe you could try a few things like: reading the article properly, try to listen to what RMS really said as opposed to what you think he said, try to refrain from judging someones arguments based upon who they are rather than on their arguments..etc..
maybe then you might be able to understand
Maybe not, but according to some of the new laws our authoritarion government here in the UK is pushing through (in the bid to keepo the Muslim vote, but of course they don't admit that) regarding religious hatred, it may soon be illegal.
If there's not a single video image, as you claim, how come the IPCC (as you know so much about it I shouldn't have to tell you what that stands for) have video footage showing that Jean Charles de Menezes entered the station without running, took a free newspaper and passed normally through the ticket barrier?
Could it be that you are talking out of your arse?
"To prevent more FUD being spread ..." ?
You must be new round here !
Judging by the number of lard-arse Americans around I would think more sport funding would be necessary, espcially to encourage greater participation.
So what you are saying is that the US troops are badly trained to handle the situation they find themselves in.
"but has anyone taken into consideration that the earth has been warming up steadily for the past several thousand years? (give or take a millennia)"
Of course they have you dickhead! That's what fucking scientists do. Or do you think they'll be hitting their foreheads in labs all over the world saying "Doh! Bornbitter (813458) on Slashdot mentioned that we should consider that the Earth has been warming up for several thouasnd years. Such insight! Why didn't we think of that and build it into our climactic models"
America broke off from Europe 200 some odd years ago
You may missed it but there's a small club called NATO, which the Amerecian Government has a passing interest in now and then.
If I have a contract with an ISP that promises me Internet Access then I expect to receive access to the whole Internet, nto for them to hide bits that they didn't want me to see. If I was a customer of this ISP I'd now be thinking "legal action".
If you want a bit more information on the BECTA reports in this area go to:
1 4_9_1
http://www.becta.org.uk/leas/display.cfm?section=
This gives a lot more information than the short summary in the on-line Times Eudcational Supplement. As well as hassling the teachers (I hope your being a little facetious using the term "hassle") it's a good idea to approach any councillors who sit on the LEAs education committee, the LEA itself and, of course, the school governors. But before you do anything else speak to the Head Teacher. Without his/her support, or at least informing them what you are doing, you will find things difficult.
I would think that in this case the issue is not with people downloading a page and keeping it, it is with making this page available at a later date to someone else, which is effectively re-distribution. As another poster mentioned it's suprising that noboday has sued Google for something like their cache up to now.
Shouldn't the headline read: "Record companies in trouble because of free music"
www.jamespurnell.org.uk
There you can email him politely that it is not the business of the UK government to help line the pockets of some of the richest companies in the land.
Let me guess...
You're not a rocket scientist.
What !?!?! Both of them !?!?! Mary and Kate...I'm de-vasted
and in further news Microsoft's sales in Europe fall 10%.
Work that one out fuckwit
The whole point for these people is that they are sitting in a coffee shop with a laptop, other people can see them sitting in a coffee shop with a laptop and they can tell their friends that they spent time sitting around in a coffee shop with a laptop.
Sitting around in a coffee shop with a laptop is in itself a fashion statement; it has nothing to do with drinking coffee and nothing to do with sitting in front of a laptop doing interesting stuff.
The probably spend their time updating their boring blogs (a tautology, maybe ?) where they write about sitting about in a coffee shop with a laptop.