But I am guessing that there is something written somewhere about distribution of illegally obtained information or material that is the property of United States of America. And Amazon being a U.S. company, situated in the U.S. is very much under the influence of any laws and regulations that might be pertinent to the case here.
Don't get me wrong - I'm all for Wikileaks and what they are doing. I'm just saying that they are HIGHLY vulnerable to various legal attacks.
And all this that is happening right now is about documents that were mostly not even deemed secret. Imagine if it was something actually BIG and "eyes only".
We are not talking laws or legality here. We are talking HOUSE RULES. If someone with authority at Amazon finds that they MAY be breaking any of the Amazon's RULES - they can kick them out. Simple as that.
Don't like that? Get a lawyer and argue your points in court. THEN you can call upon laws and illegality or absence thereof.
To paraphrase the words of Nicolas Cage in Con Air - it's THEIR barbecue.
In other words - those are Amazon's rules FOR THEIR CUSTOMERS. They don't apply for Amazon itself. Kinda like how the store owner can open a pack of crisps and start eating them right there, while a buyer doing the same thing might be accused of shoplifting.
But you are free to get a lawyer and contest in court that you are offended by Christmas.
You may not use the Services or AWS Site for any illegal, harmful or offensive use, or to transmit, store, display, distribute or otherwise make available content that is illegal, harmful, or offensive. Prohibited activities or content include:
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My favorite is "being offensive". Fuck. I could demand 90% of the Internet to be turned off permanently on account of that alone. You see, I'm very easily offended by a wide variety of things.
And don't you get me started on otherwise objectionable. Cause... Oh boy...
You're not missing anything. The word you are looking for is ignoring.
Second, the blog article advises that, "It is almost always better to forgive than to revenge".
Sure, article starts with "forgive and forget". But it ends with "make him/her suffer like you suffered".
Put into action a revenge plan that you think will work. Remember, keep your goal in mind, and make sure your victim suffers in the same way she made you suffer.
First, the blog article does not mention rape accusations at all.
The text of the post DIRECTLY indicates that the person making it has affinity towards "eye for and eye" revenge planing. The fact that they are MAKING such a post and putting it on their "very public" blog means that they are also PROMOTING such behavior AND indicates disproportionate affinity towards revenge. Which may easily translate into affinity towards disproportionate revenge methods.
What you need to ask is "What would be, for a person that promotes revenge in sexual encounters, the cause enough for an accusation of rape?". Sexual dissatisfaction? "Cheating" by having sex with another person soon after?
Like everything regarding the Wikileaks right now, the context is more important than the actual information.
You laugh, but a man, with the same first and last name as I, was murdered in Jamaica several years ago in a rather brutal fashion: he was decapitated with a machete. He was leading a ring of phone scammers and some of the other members of the ring had a disagreement over the money.
If your life sucks as it is (to whatever degree), why lengthen it?
A - Because it doesn't. B - Because there is a chance that it will suck less in the time to come. C - Because life is all about quantity not quality. Just like death. 50 years in prison beats 5 years being a dead hero in the casket of highest quality.
What I propose is making the code more efficient, so we get more out of it RIGHT NOW.
What you are SUPPOSING is that there is some universal 100% efficient code. News flash. There isn't. In fact, that's the beauty of it. The more inefficient it gets - the richer it gets.
You know... just like the code. Games today sure as hell take up more than 48k, but holy shit have you seen some of those graphics and heard some of those sounds and felt some of that feedback? We had none of those back in the ZX days. Not to mention that you can play them with no controllers on huge fucking screens with dozens of friends from all around the world.
It is not very likely that there will ever be found a cure for the bullet through the head condition. You will always have your way out.
Rest of us on the other hand would like to continue with this endless party called life for as long as possible. Heck... Just all that culture out there is worth the ticket. Not to mention all those humans, all that planet, all that space etc.
It is a controlled abstraction of climbing a mountain in a car. It is very similar to racing cars, only it is even more competitive as driver's weight, length of arms and the lack of ass (so as not to get it stuck in the door while rushing in to the "cockpit"), speed and skill at pressing the desired floor are HUGE factors in who will win. Plus it has a sudden death mode. It's when they race down with their cockpits unhooked and brakes disabled.
I know that you're trying to make me and everyone else here feel better but we all know that it's the same thing. Fast cars driving in circles on a fake road until one of them goes over a line in the road and then the driver of that car wins. And then they pour champagne all over him.
Alas, many of us here at Slashdot have been cursed at birth with middle-class families and above average IQs. Driving fast cars in circles, going nowhere... god.. I'm tearing up here... it will remain... just a dream to us. I'm sorry. I can't talk about this any more. I'm gonna... start crying like a little girl here.
The fact that someone of your... capacity, has had the intended jokes in both my posts above whooshing completely above their head... Well.. not only does that mean the world to me, but it also indicates that I had "hit the nail right on the head" so to speak.
Oh, and I'm taking whatever your mom had in her purse last night. Didn't have the time to pick up any of mine cause I was busy fucking her all night. Say "Hi!" to the old broad from me when you see her.
...and they would then like have boxes that said iPod on them... but it would be like changed to iPad... like with a pencil! Hunh-hunh! And then there would be "for real" and "nano" added right next to that! And the pencil would be all dull like and stuff... and then they would have to sharpen the pencil! But it would be like too sharp now and it would like PIERCE the box... Hunh-hunh! And that would be SOOOOOO funny... cause THE BOX WOULD HAVE HOLES IN IT!! Hunh-hunh-hunh-hunh!!
“If you have a lot of people who hate Obama, for instance, and you decided to rank on love or hate, you might not be able to find the White House and that would be terrible,” he says.
Tell that to the Irish who will have to emigrate. You are aware of the fact that a lot of European IT people moved (mostly temporary) to Ireland to work there as they had trouble to fill in all the positions ? Who do you think will first be shafted ?
The poor. Same as always.
Wealth has no nation or political affiliation. Nor does it smell. Just like Nazi gold didn't smell for the Swiss or the Vatican.*
"Correct me if I’m wrong, but are they [Radiohead] hoping that one of these guys from the G8 is on a quick 15-minute break at Gleneagles and sees Annie Lennox singing “Sweet Dreams” and thinks, ‘Fuck me, she might have a point there, you know?’"
That coming from a guy who was in that same interview quoted as "once said [he'd] never read a book", but he admits a book "called Angels and Demons by a guy called Dan Brown" to be "quite interesting"...
Well... Let me put it this way. Would you turn to a street performer like say... a juggler, for advice on international economy and politics? Cause THAT is what most (with few exceptions) of these ENTERTAINERS are. Glorified court jesters with zero qualification outside their limited scope of work.
It was created under benediction of THE fascist state which it has successfully outlived. Seriously, a single administration of a single country will not be the end of it. You would need an international body like UN or a complete decades long boycott of all their monetary sources BY THE ENTIRE POPULATION OF THE PLANET to put a stop to that.
And even then it would still stick around. Nazis and fascists sure did. And they entertained and made money for far less people than IFPI.
Everyone knows that BLACK is like the coolest color EVAR. And space is like very cool. And black. And that is why they paint the cool stuff like the supersecret space plane black - so it would be even more cool. Like in space cool.
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but in some sort of secret national security letter
No need for secret letters when you are three-letter-government-organization.
Just call the person responsible directly and "ask politely".
But I am guessing that there is something written somewhere about distribution of illegally obtained information or material that is the property of United States of America.
And Amazon being a U.S. company, situated in the U.S. is very much under the influence of any laws and regulations that might be pertinent to the case here.
Don't get me wrong - I'm all for Wikileaks and what they are doing. I'm just saying that they are HIGHLY vulnerable to various legal attacks.
And all this that is happening right now is about documents that were mostly not even deemed secret.
Imagine if it was something actually BIG and "eyes only".
We are not talking laws or legality here. We are talking HOUSE RULES.
If someone with authority at Amazon finds that they MAY be breaking any of the Amazon's RULES - they can kick them out. Simple as that.
Don't like that? Get a lawyer and argue your points in court.
THEN you can call upon laws and illegality or absence thereof.
To paraphrase the words of Nicolas Cage in Con Air - it's THEIR barbecue.
In other words - those are Amazon's rules FOR THEIR CUSTOMERS. They don't apply for Amazon itself.
Kinda like how the store owner can open a pack of crisps and start eating them right there, while a buyer doing the same thing might be accused of shoplifting.
But you are free to get a lawyer and contest in court that you are offended by Christmas.
... they were taken down for violating Amazon's "Acceptable Use Policy":
http://aws.amazon.com/aup/
No Illegal, Harmful, or Offensive Use or Content
You may not use the Services or AWS Site for any illegal, harmful or offensive use, or to transmit, store, display, distribute or otherwise make available content that is illegal, harmful, or offensive. Prohibited activities or content include:
* Illegal Activities. Any illegal activities, including advertising, transmitting, or otherwise making available gambling sites or services or disseminating, promoting or facilitating child pornography.
* Harmful or Fraudulent Activities. Activities that may be harmful to our users, operations, or reputation, including offering or disseminating fraudulent goods, services, schemes, or promotions (e.g., make-money-fast schemes, ponzi and pyramid schemes, phishing, or pharming), or engaging in other deceptive practices.
* Infringing Content. Content that infringes or misappropriates the intellectual property or proprietary rights of others.
* Offensive Content. Content that is defamatory, obscene, abusive, invasive of privacy, or otherwise objectionable, including content that constitutes child pornography, relates to bestiality, or depicts non-consensual sex acts.
* Harmful Content. Content or other computer technology that may damage, interfere with, surreptitiously intercept, or expropriate any system, program, or data, including viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, or cancelbots.
All attributes marked above could be argued by any of the parties affected by the leaks.
My favorite is "being offensive".
Fuck. I could demand 90% of the Internet to be turned off permanently on account of that alone.
You see, I'm very easily offended by a wide variety of things.
And don't you get me started on otherwise objectionable. Cause... Oh boy...
He's just resting.
Maybe I'm missing something
You're not missing anything. The word you are looking for is ignoring.
Second, the blog article advises that, "It is almost always better to forgive than to revenge".
Sure, article starts with "forgive and forget".
But it ends with "make him/her suffer like you suffered".
Put into action a revenge plan that you think will work.
Remember, keep your goal in mind, and make sure your victim suffers in the same way she made you suffer.
First, the blog article does not mention rape accusations at all.
The text of the post DIRECTLY indicates that the person making it has affinity towards "eye for and eye" revenge planing.
The fact that they are MAKING such a post and putting it on their "very public" blog means that they are also PROMOTING such behavior AND indicates disproportionate affinity towards revenge.
Which may easily translate into affinity towards disproportionate revenge methods.
What you need to ask is "What would be, for a person that promotes revenge in sexual encounters, the cause enough for an accusation of rape?".
Sexual dissatisfaction? "Cheating" by having sex with another person soon after?
Like everything regarding the Wikileaks right now, the context is more important than the actual information.
You laugh, but a man, with the same first and last name as I, was murdered in Jamaica several years ago in a rather brutal fashion: he was decapitated with a machete. He was leading a ring of phone scammers and some of the other members of the ring had a disagreement over the money.
If I were you, I'd make sure my toilet bowl is clean enough to drink from.
If your life sucks as it is (to whatever degree), why lengthen it?
A - Because it doesn't.
B - Because there is a chance that it will suck less in the time to come.
C - Because life is all about quantity not quality. Just like death. 50 years in prison beats 5 years being a dead hero in the casket of highest quality.
What I propose is making the code more efficient, so we get more out of it RIGHT NOW.
What you are SUPPOSING is that there is some universal 100% efficient code.
News flash. There isn't. In fact, that's the beauty of it. The more inefficient it gets - the richer it gets.
You know... just like the code.
Games today sure as hell take up more than 48k, but holy shit have you seen some of those graphics and heard some of those sounds and felt some of that feedback? We had none of those back in the ZX days.
Not to mention that you can play them with no controllers on huge fucking screens with dozens of friends from all around the world.
Hooray for inefficiency!
It is not very likely that there will ever be found a cure for the bullet through the head condition.
You will always have your way out.
Rest of us on the other hand would like to continue with this endless party called life for as long as possible.
Heck... Just all that culture out there is worth the ticket.
Not to mention all those humans, all that planet, all that space etc.
Elevator riding.
It is a controlled abstraction of climbing a mountain in a car.
It is very similar to racing cars, only it is even more competitive as driver's weight, length of arms and the lack of ass (so as not to get it stuck in the door while rushing in to the "cockpit"), speed and skill at pressing the desired floor are HUGE factors in who will win.
Plus it has a sudden death mode.
It's when they race down with their cockpits unhooked and brakes disabled.
That was the joke you missed, starting couple of posts up.
I know that you're trying to make me and everyone else here feel better but we all know that it's the same thing.
Fast cars driving in circles on a fake road until one of them goes over a line in the road and then the driver of that car wins. And then they pour champagne all over him.
Alas, many of us here at Slashdot have been cursed at birth with middle-class families and above average IQs.
Driving fast cars in circles, going nowhere... god.. I'm tearing up here... it will remain... just a dream to us.
I'm sorry. I can't talk about this any more. I'm gonna... start crying like a little girl here.
The fact that someone of your... capacity, has had the intended jokes in both my posts above whooshing completely above their head...
Well.. not only does that mean the world to me, but it also indicates that I had "hit the nail right on the head" so to speak.
Oh, and I'm taking whatever your mom had in her purse last night. Didn't have the time to pick up any of mine cause I was busy fucking her all night.
Say "Hi!" to the old broad from me when you see her.
Coming here and showing off with your luck and genes. We can't all be poor AND stupid you know?
You insensitive clod!
...and they would then like have boxes that said iPod on them... but it would be like changed to iPad... like with a pencil! Hunh-hunh!
And then there would be "for real" and "nano" added right next to that!
And the pencil would be all dull like and stuff... and then they would have to sharpen the pencil!
But it would be like too sharp now and it would like PIERCE the box... Hunh-hunh! And that would be SOOOOOO funny... cause THE BOX WOULD HAVE HOLES IN IT!! Hunh-hunh-hunh-hunh!!
You think THAT was something, wait till they release iPad nano. It's gonna blow you away.
The best solution is to add semantic information to hyperlinks - but that's not supported yet...
From TFA (which CAN be linked without the loginwall):
“If you have a lot of people who hate Obama, for instance, and you decided to rank on love or hate, you might not be able to find the White House and that would be terrible,” he says.
Tell that to the Irish who will have to emigrate.
You are aware of the fact that a lot of European IT people moved (mostly temporary) to Ireland to work there as they had trouble to fill in all the positions ? Who do you think will first be shafted ?
The poor. Same as always.
Wealth has no nation or political affiliation. Nor does it smell.
Just like Nazi gold didn't smell for the Swiss or the Vatican.*
*Just in case this topic wasn't Godwined by now.
"Correct me if I’m wrong, but are they [Radiohead] hoping that one of these guys from the G8 is on a quick 15-minute break at Gleneagles and sees Annie Lennox singing “Sweet Dreams” and thinks, ‘Fuck me, she might have a point there, you know?’"
-- Noel Gallagher on Radiohead's politics
That coming from a guy who was in that same interview quoted as "once said [he'd] never read a book", but he admits a book "called Angels and Demons by a guy called Dan Brown" to be "quite interesting"...
Well... Let me put it this way.
Would you turn to a street performer like say... a juggler, for advice on international economy and politics?
Cause THAT is what most (with few exceptions) of these ENTERTAINERS are.
Glorified court jesters with zero qualification outside their limited scope of work.
'I' in the IFPI stands for International.
It was created under benediction of THE fascist state which it has successfully outlived.
Seriously, a single administration of a single country will not be the end of it.
You would need an international body like UN or a complete decades long boycott of all their monetary sources BY THE ENTIRE POPULATION OF THE PLANET to put a stop to that.
And even then it would still stick around. Nazis and fascists sure did.
And they entertained and made money for far less people than IFPI.
Their name is Abobe - for there are many Bobs A-mong them.
I also believe that the Abobe are to blame.
Everyone knows that BLACK is like the coolest color EVAR.
And space is like very cool. And black.
And that is why they paint the cool stuff like the supersecret space plane black - so it would be even more cool.
Like in space cool.
and Steve Jobs is not going to show up with a baseball bat.>
Everyone knows he uses an iPhone for that.