What's really odd is that dexia, an bank, now uses his effigy in my country to promote its services. I don't get the connection. The slogan is "combattons les idées reçues" (fight the established ideas).
Strange... I work at a bank (heck, I have worked at many banks) and there are tons of people maintaining and coding COBOL apps. I see them daily in front of their green terminals.
These people make a living from it, and *nobody* even *thinks* of replacing existing COBOL apps. They work, and that is what counts. Heck, I'm pretty sure that *suggesting* to replace those COBOL apps will get you fired;-) Any newer development (think ebanking) mainly is a application server that will connect to the mainframes deep in the entrails of banks by means of MQSeries or some other way of communication.
A language that doesn't grow, is stable... That is what counts for banks (and insurances and any bigger financial institutions)
Have you noticed you hardly comment in/. articles? All your comments are in other's journals.
No shit? I know... When at home I only do journals. At work I read the articles, but I have to download them to diskette, then I read them from my workstation. I cannot reply, that is essentially why.
Uhm...for your question about THHGTTG, I'll need to check out the DVD. I have it lying around, but as far as I remember you only see her very short and Arthur is not around.
Your sig looks indeed like shit on Mozilla 1.3.1 on OS X
The fact that I copied/pasted it has no effect on it's validity
Does the "redundant" moderation has any meaning to you? You're lucky the moderators have gone by now. It needlessly clutters the discussion. That's of course netiquette, so you might want to diss the good old values.
No, you are only seeing the AFTER obligations and completely missing the PRIOR obligations
What prior obligations? I do not see the prior obligations. If you are using the internet as means of communication (you publish there for pete's sake), but aren't using it to be joinable, what are you on the internet for in the first place? All actions in your life have a consequence. Your action of publishing something has a consequence. If you cannot cope with consequences, don't publish.
Speech has been stiffled.
Exactly how? It allows me as the small guy to actually exercise my right of free speech.
>>You need to be *responsible* for your ctions
>Sure, if I do something wrong
No, that is wrong. You are always responsible for your actions. Whether your criminal actions or your legal actions. This means you are responsible for all you say and do during your lifetime.
Speech is not a privilege that must be earned. Rights don't come with strings attached.
Free speech is guaranteed by your constitution. That is a right. It does not come with strings attached.... However, once you *use* your right, they become your "actions" and that is where your responsibility jumps in. Having a "guaranteed unalienable" right does not make you "not responsible" for the actions make.
I will not go on about the document you wrote for the simple reason it was not an opinionated piece of writing. So it is completely irrelevant in this discussion.
Having Free Speech might be a right, *but* nobody said that it should be easy. You need to be *responsible* for your actions, yes, even if you are a 10 year old girl. I mean if I go to a bad black neighborhood and start to yell "fucking niggers die", I am exercing my rights of free speech. However, I am guaranteed to end up in hospital. Free speech comes with a responsibility, which means you need to do an effort.
As for your example. You clearly state that it was informational. Meaning, it did not contain any *opinions*. If you reverse engineered, for example, the protocol used between your PC and PDA, and then you provide this information it is *not* an opinion. Hence it does not require a rebuttal by anyone. Even then: since you took the time to write that document, wouldn't you be proud enough to leave your contact info? I mean if you missed a part and some nice fellow likes your doc but want to email your a correction. That's how How-to's and FAQ's evolve. The internet is about communication, use it that way.
The law only goes for opinionated pieces of writing. How can you rebutt an informational piece is beyond my understanding. (Apart from disproving theories in science. But that's what peer-review is for)
By your logic, I wouldn't exerce my right of free speech because I'm scared that I will have to host a rebuttal? Wow.... I'd really rather have to host a rebutall than to get a Cease and Desist letter from a lawyer of the company I insulted. As you know, I can't fight a corporation as an individual.
You misunderstand.... She will have to verify the identity of Mattel. Not of anyone else. Her idenitity is not important, and can be kept hidden. I she would write a rebuttal to Mattel, even then her identity would be kept secret. It is authentication between the two paries that is important.
Individual privacy is kept in a much higher importance in Europe than it is in the US. Just don't look at this single law, try to understand the European mind, then you will understand. We don't think like Americans. You can believe me on that one, I just lost my American girlfriend.
Make it a link. That doesn't cost you a damned thing. Just learn to think of the internet as it was intended to work.
I would not mind a second posting a link to (for example) Microsoft because I have bashed their MS Exchange server (which I did on serveral occasions). My readership is limited, my server sees maximum 10 visits a day. If I write something there, it will be read by a few people, the rebutall of the organization I critisize will be only read by the few people that already visit my page.
Sulli, this does not limit free speech. Quite the contrary. Imagine the following: I make an enemy and this enemy is a big head at, let's say, RTL. He makes an editorial where he insults my coding skills, and technically ensures I will never ever find work again in Luxembourg.
Now what do I do? Post my rebuttal on my own site, hosted on a lousy residential DSL, or in my slashdot journal. Nobody, I repeat, nobody, is going to read my rebuttal. However, if I let them publish my rebuttal I might at least find the same readers the other article found. Perhaps even enough so that I can be hired again.
In the US, I would need to sue RTL, which of course is impossible because you know well that the one with money wins. Quite inconvenient if I just lost my job due to that article at RTL.
Apart from that: nobody forces anyone to read my rebuttal. They still can see my rebuttal, say: Oh, it's that crackpot Jawtheshark, I don't care what he has to say. What this kind of law ensures is that I have the same chance to be heard than a powerful news organisation. (And don't say RTL isn't powerful, unless you start to see what kind of mighty group that organisation is)
Wait a second. Your readers are still free not to read the comment of the one you critisized. People come to your site, see the link/article (link would be better in my humble opinion) where you clearly state in top that it is a rebuttal of the critisized party, and then you say: Pfff, I don't care, and go away.
Nobody forced you to read the rebuttal.
Well look at the alternative we have nowadays on the internet: you post something someone doesn't like and you have to remove it. How is that better? I'd rather link to a rebuttal that having to remove the stuff I wrote using my free speech. Removing is worse. I am opposed to hosting the rebuttal, linking to it is more than enough.
You are not the only one that feels that way. I fully agree with all your points.
I wonder what happens down 5 years down the road, when the AOL system is completly clogged with ugly stupid usernames. I mean, at a certain point, someone will need to chose a name and "JohnSmith" won't work. He'll probably have to take JohnSmith65535. But, hey, names are easier to remember than numbers, right? (This particular example *is* easy to remember)
Sure its not great for wimps who can't remember their ICQ numbers.
I have a 7 digit ICQ number and I don't know it by heart. However, if I need it somewhere, I just surf over to the icq whitepages and search on my email! Finished... Alternatively, call someone that has you on your list, you surely don't just talk to complete strangers?
People that "lose their ICQ" number because they "forgot their number" are just not being logical. Very easy to find it back. Forgot your password? No problem! Just go over to the ICQ webpage.
You can easily unregistrer your number using any supported client. It's a menu option.
If you mean that you can't stand that that stupid agent is running all the time (MSN and AIM do this to, I hate that), you can easily disable that in the registry at \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Cur rentVersion\Run There probably is a menu option for it, but I just don't bother with programs that hog my systray. They get kicked out of the registry.
I love putting myself invisible if I just want to chat with a few close friends (whitelisted on the visible list). Personally, I can't stand AIM. I love ICQ, and the Mac client doesn't even have ads and is pretty sweet.
I just have an AIM account for historical reasons, but really, I disklike using AIM. It's just too simplistic. Even cellphones provide a better IM experience. I just do not see what people like in AIM (oh, and the horrible fact that the primary key of their database is your nick... Gimme a number and free choice of nick anyday!)
Luxembourg is most definately more than just a city. I know, I live there. Yeah, I know, it is as small as one of the big US cities, but don't diss the small things.
Besides, did you know that Luxembourg is the only remaining Grand Duchy in the world? Bet, ya didn't.
In short, if I would have had modpoints today, your post would lose that +5 status right away. As noted in many posts replying to you, most of these *are* countries. If you start to say that "small" != country, then where is your boundary? Belgium is small compared to some States in the US, but is it not a country?
Mostly country dependent. I still have to meet an European that has to pay for receiving anything. I've been a cellphone user since 1996. I know very well how it works. Back then SMS was not even common.
Well, you see... I agree with your point. However people get fed up with spam on their email. Most of them ditch the email address that gets spammed too much. That's why I got my own domain. I don't get spam on my own domain, strangely enough.
If SPAM gets too abundant on cellphones people will start to complain resulting either in legislation or cellphone providers that are going to get scared losing bussiness. If I get 50 SPAM SMSes per day, I'm just going to stop using my cell. It has lost it purpose at that point. My cellphone provider wants business, if I don't use my phone they don't get any money. (I have a 0Euro subscription, paying only for the calls...no it's not a prepaid card)
How do you pay? If I get an SMS, I don't pay anything. If I send one however... Usually when you get an SMS you reply, so in that logic indeed you pay. Roaming is different of course, but how often do you really Roam? (Well okay, 2 times a month at least, I agree)
I don't get much SPAM on my cell either. The occasional advertisement on a game/contest that my cellphone provider offers, but apart from that. Oh, I once had one that really freaked me out. I was speeding badly on small roads and my cell went with a message from the ministry of transportation "Speed Kills". I thought: how in heavens sake did they know I was speeding. Later on, I heard my dad got the same while just being at work. Just coincidence... *phew*
This story is/was still in "The Mysterious Future"
Well, if it is in the Mysterious future, you cannot post to it and thus moderators have no business moderating inexisting posts. Moderators and posters are unleashed at the same time.BR>
I know, I am a subscriber. You cannot post until it's really on the frontpage.
Is there a multiplayer mode on the PS2? I've only seen it on PC, my brother is a GTA3 and Vice City addict. You will not believe how he plays that game, he knows the city by heart. If I'm playing and he's around and I need, let's say, some armor, I just ask him and he says: oh, there you go left, now two intersection, right, over there in the bushes. He tries about everything I would not even think of.
Apart from that, I'd kill for a girlfriend that plays GTA3 with me. Luckily I have my sister who loves PS2, and we found that we enjoy late-night beer-filled evenings playing Dark Alliance on the PS2. Girl, was I drunk last saturday. My sis laughed her ass off when I lost orientation in the game. (Read: 5 litres of beer is not a good combination with playing games)
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Misst ech deen PDF mol liesen. Huess de een link? Naja, mer geet dei pub ee besschen op d'nerv, mee daat sinn secher nemmen ech. :-)
Ech verstinn dei pub net mol.... :-(
Waat huet daat elo mat enger bank ze dinn.
Very strange....
These people make a living from it, and *nobody* even *thinks* of replacing existing COBOL apps. They work, and that is what counts. Heck, I'm pretty sure that *suggesting* to replace those COBOL apps will get you fired
A language that doesn't grow, is stable... That is what counts for banks (and insurances and any bigger financial institutions)
No shit? I know... When at home I only do journals. At work I read the articles, but I have to download them to diskette, then I read them from my workstation. I cannot reply, that is essentially why.
Uhm...for your question about THHGTTG, I'll need to check out the DVD. I have it lying around, but as far as I remember you only see her very short and Arthur is not around.
Your sig looks indeed like shit on Mozilla 1.3.1 on OS X
We are obviously going in rounds here, you don't understand my points, I don't understand your points.
It's as simple as that....
Does the "redundant" moderation has any meaning to you? You're lucky the moderators have gone by now. It needlessly clutters the discussion. That's of course netiquette, so you might want to diss the good old values.
No, you are only seeing the AFTER obligations and completely missing the PRIOR obligations
What prior obligations? I do not see the prior obligations. If you are using the internet as means of communication (you publish there for pete's sake), but aren't using it to be joinable, what are you on the internet for in the first place? All actions in your life have a consequence. Your action of publishing something has a consequence. If you cannot cope with consequences, don't publish.
Speech has been stiffled.
Exactly how? It allows me as the small guy to actually exercise my right of free speech.
>>You need to be *responsible* for your ctions
>Sure, if I do something wrong
No, that is wrong. You are always responsible for your actions. Whether your criminal actions or your legal actions. This means you are responsible for all you say and do during your lifetime.
Speech is not a privilege that must be earned. Rights don't come with strings attached.
Free speech is guaranteed by your constitution. That is a right. It does not come with strings attached.... However, once you *use* your right, they become your "actions" and that is where your responsibility jumps in. Having a "guaranteed unalienable" right does not make you "not responsible" for the actions make.
I will not go on about the document you wrote for the simple reason it was not an opinionated piece of writing. So it is completely irrelevant in this discussion.
Having Free Speech might be a right, *but* nobody said that it should be easy. You need to be *responsible* for your actions, yes, even if you are a 10 year old girl. I mean if I go to a bad black neighborhood and start to yell "fucking niggers die", I am exercing my rights of free speech. However, I am guaranteed to end up in hospital. Free speech comes with a responsibility, which means you need to do an effort.
As for your example. You clearly state that it was informational. Meaning, it did not contain any *opinions*. If you reverse engineered, for example, the protocol used between your PC and PDA, and then you provide this information it is *not* an opinion. Hence it does not require a rebuttal by anyone. Even then: since you took the time to write that document, wouldn't you be proud enough to leave your contact info? I mean if you missed a part and some nice fellow likes your doc but want to email your a correction. That's how How-to's and FAQ's evolve. The internet is about communication, use it that way.
The law only goes for opinionated pieces of writing. How can you rebutt an informational piece is beyond my understanding. (Apart from disproving theories in science. But that's what peer-review is for)
By your logic, I wouldn't exerce my right of free speech because I'm scared that I will have to host a rebuttal? Wow.... I'd really rather have to host a rebutall than to get a Cease and Desist letter from a lawyer of the company I insulted. As you know, I can't fight a corporation as an individual.
Individual privacy is kept in a much higher importance in Europe than it is in the US. Just don't look at this single law, try to understand the European mind, then you will understand. We don't think like Americans. You can believe me on that one, I just lost my American girlfriend.
I would not mind a second posting a link to (for example) Microsoft because I have bashed their MS Exchange server (which I did on serveral occasions). My readership is limited, my server sees maximum 10 visits a day. If I write something there, it will be read by a few people, the rebutall of the organization I critisize will be only read by the few people that already visit my page.
It does not change a damned thing.
Now what do I do? Post my rebuttal on my own site, hosted on a lousy residential DSL, or in my slashdot journal. Nobody, I repeat, nobody, is going to read my rebuttal. However, if I let them publish my rebuttal I might at least find the same readers the other article found. Perhaps even enough so that I can be hired again.
In the US, I would need to sue RTL, which of course is impossible because you know well that the one with money wins. Quite inconvenient if I just lost my job due to that article at RTL.
Apart from that: nobody forces anyone to read my rebuttal. They still can see my rebuttal, say: Oh, it's that crackpot Jawtheshark, I don't care what he has to say. What this kind of law ensures is that I have the same chance to be heard than a powerful news organisation. (And don't say RTL isn't powerful, unless you start to see what kind of mighty group that organisation is)
Wait a second. Your readers are still free not to read the comment of the one you critisized. People come to your site, see the link/article (link would be better in my humble opinion) where you clearly state in top that it is a rebuttal of the critisized party, and then you say: Pfff, I don't care, and go away.
Nobody forced you to read the rebuttal.
Well look at the alternative we have nowadays on the internet: you post something someone doesn't like and you have to remove it. How is that better? I'd rather link to a rebuttal that having to remove the stuff I wrote using my free speech. Removing is worse. I am opposed to hosting the rebuttal, linking to it is more than enough.
Really? Is that so? I have an old AIM account that I created back in 1998 and which I din't use for *years*. It still works, yes, I tried recently.
I wonder what happens down 5 years down the road, when the AOL system is completly clogged with ugly stupid usernames. I mean, at a certain point, someone will need to chose a name and "JohnSmith" won't work. He'll probably have to take JohnSmith65535. But, hey, names are easier to remember than numbers, right? (This particular example *is* easy to remember)
I have a 7 digit ICQ number and I don't know it by heart. However, if I need it somewhere, I just surf over to the icq whitepages and search on my email! Finished... Alternatively, call someone that has you on your list, you surely don't just talk to complete strangers?
People that "lose their ICQ" number because they "forgot their number" are just not being logical. Very easy to find it back. Forgot your password? No problem! Just go over to the ICQ webpage.
Only stupid people can lose their ICQ number. ;-)
If you mean that you can't stand that that stupid agent is running all the time (MSN and AIM do this to, I hate that), you can easily disable that in the registry at \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Cur rentVersion\Run There probably is a menu option for it, but I just don't bother with programs that hog my systray. They get kicked out of the registry.
I just have an AIM account for historical reasons, but really, I disklike using AIM. It's just too simplistic. Even cellphones provide a better IM experience. I just do not see what people like in AIM (oh, and the horrible fact that the primary key of their database is your nick... Gimme a number and free choice of nick anyday!)
Besides, did you know that Luxembourg is the only remaining Grand Duchy in the world? Bet, ya didn't.
In short, if I would have had modpoints today, your post would lose that +5 status right away. As noted in many posts replying to you, most of these *are* countries. If you start to say that "small" != country, then where is your boundary? Belgium is small compared to some States in the US, but is it not a country?
Mostly country dependent. I still have to meet an European that has to pay for receiving anything. I've been a cellphone user since 1996. I know very well how it works. Back then SMS was not even common.
If SPAM gets too abundant on cellphones people will start to complain resulting either in legislation or cellphone providers that are going to get scared losing bussiness. If I get 50 SPAM SMSes per day, I'm just going to stop using my cell. It has lost it purpose at that point. My cellphone provider wants business, if I don't use my phone they don't get any money. (I have a 0Euro subscription, paying only for the calls...no it's not a prepaid card)
Europe here... I don't know anyone who pays for receiving calls or SMSes. US might be different, but here it is definately that way.
I don't get much SPAM on my cell either. The occasional advertisement on a game/contest that my cellphone provider offers, but apart from that. Oh, I once had one that really freaked me out. I was speeding badly on small roads and my cell went with a message from the ministry of transportation "Speed Kills". I thought: how in heavens sake did they know I was speeding. Later on, I heard my dad got the same while just being at work. Just coincidence... *phew*
Well, if it is in the Mysterious future, you cannot post to it and thus moderators have no business moderating inexisting posts. Moderators and posters are unleashed at the same time.BR> I know, I am a subscriber. You cannot post until it's really on the frontpage.
Is there a multiplayer mode on the PS2? I've only seen it on PC, my brother is a GTA3 and Vice City addict. You will not believe how he plays that game, he knows the city by heart. If I'm playing and he's around and I need, let's say, some armor, I just ask him and he says: oh, there you go left, now two intersection, right, over there in the bushes. He tries about everything I would not even think of.
Apart from that, I'd kill for a girlfriend that plays GTA3 with me. Luckily I have my sister who loves PS2, and we found that we enjoy late-night beer-filled evenings playing Dark Alliance on the PS2. Girl, was I drunk last saturday. My sis laughed her ass off when I lost orientation in the game. (Read: 5 litres of beer is not a good combination with playing games)