If you bought a copy of this putative banned National Geographic magazine in the US and then brought it to France, would National Geographic be liable? No; NG has no control over where you take the magazine once you bought it.
Likewise, since Yahoo cannot prevent packets leaving its website from going into France, they are not responsible. And since when does France have jurisdiction over a website hosted in another country? (Though they can (and presumably do) hold Yahoo France hostage against Yahoo US's good behavior, of course.)
Would you care to explain what features other webmail services supply that would allow Outlook Express to provide access to them? Outlook Express isn't an HTML screen-scraper, you know.
In fact, they didn't tell him he'd been fighting actual battles until he'd won the war by all but slaughtering the entire alien race. All that was left was one seed pod to build a sequel with...
In the original novella, of course, there wasn't even that.
The name you're looking for is Fred Saberhagen, I believe. Excellent author. Of course, they also used the general concept of a berzerker in an episode of Star Trek. That was a mindless automaton, though; part of the horror of Saberhagen's berzerkers was that they were so fiendishly intelligent.
...would have to be run not just on a separate network, but separate computers. You wouldn't want potentially sensitive information jumping the barrier...
Expecting a company to post a clear and unbiased analysis of a competing technology is like expecting Hitler allowing Jews to publicly voice thier opinion of concentration camps.
Godwin's Law says you lose.:-)
Seriously, though, tone down the rhetoric just a smidgen, okie?
Rejecting software because it was written by a member of the Church of Scientology is not like rejecting it because it was written by a Muslim - it's like rejecting it because it was written by a member of Hezbollah.
There is such a thing as the Free-zoners - people who apply the doctrines of Scientology to their lives without being members of the Church of Scientology. I'd have no problem hiring a Free Zoner or using software written by them.
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...at least if you loved the original Myst, that is. If you didn't love the original Myst, you probably won't give a damn. After all, with the exception of one new age, it's just Myst all over again with better graphics and sound.
But it's much better graphics and sound. If you're not sure whether you'd care about realMyst, but you have decent bandwidth and hardware, download the demo and give it a try. Myself, aside from marveling over the graphics, I was surprised to learn that I still remembered how to solve the Age.:-)
What I should've asked is, who popularized the phrase "War on Drugs"?
I don't know who initally started the war on some drugs, in fact; it's entirely possible that the first ludicrous restrictions on, say, pot were signed into law by a Democratic president, many decades ago. Also, it's fair to fault Clinton and Gore for not standing up to the drug warriors. But don't you dare let Reagan and Bush the First off so easily.
There's another thing that makes money on the internet, actually: auctions. (Auctions would make money even if people weren't auctioning porn.) This is because an auction site doesn't have to maintain an inventory - it's just a middleman.
Mind you, auction sites do have a strong need to cultivate confidence amongst its userbase, mind you, and that can cost money in the form of insurance and other such services.
In defense of Slashdotters, it's not that we're male and not very gender-aware, it's that we're single and don't have any kids. Now that the issue's been pointed out to me, I have to think that any parent, male or female, would have something to say about being on-call.
I'm hoping that by that time we'll also have advanced political systems that won't have such a concept as National. Except possibly the nation of Earth.
Hey, this could be a handy way to gauge manager performance - effigies that need more frequent replacement indicate that the manager's pissing off his or her workers too much. If the next layer of management has a clue, that is, which I admit is a big if.
Frankly, what I hear about Singapore reminds me of Genua under the rule of Lilith Weatherwax. The whole populace was joyful and merry the livelong day... OR ELSE.
They do know - there are blocks of phone numbers specifically allocated to carriers for cell phones. And the telemarketers also know that it's illegal to solicit to a cellphone number.
So just obey the cease and desist letter if you can't afford to defend yourself. It still costs them a certain amount in legal bills to generate every C&D letter. Better yet, insist on a snailmailed C&D letter - so far as I know, email has not been established as a legal means of serving a legal demand.
Think of it as a DoS attack on their legal resources. This isn't the RIAA - that money will run out sooner or later, and I doubt they'll be getting much more.
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Likewise, since Yahoo cannot prevent packets leaving its website from going into France, they are not responsible. And since when does France have jurisdiction over a website hosted in another country? (Though they can (and presumably do) hold Yahoo France hostage against Yahoo US's good behavior, of course.)
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Would you care to explain what features other webmail services supply that would allow Outlook Express to provide access to them? Outlook Express isn't an HTML screen-scraper, you know.
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In the original novella, of course, there wasn't even that.
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The name you're looking for is Fred Saberhagen, I believe. Excellent author. Of course, they also used the general concept of a berzerker in an episode of Star Trek. That was a mindless automaton, though; part of the horror of Saberhagen's berzerkers was that they were so fiendishly intelligent.
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...would have to be run not just on a separate network, but separate computers. You wouldn't want potentially sensitive information jumping the barrier...
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Do you find the Palm Beach ballot confusing?
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Seriously, though, tone down the rhetoric just a smidgen, okie?
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...nor is it claimed to be. The wording of the write-up is a little confusing, but all this is meant to do is free up your phone line.
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There is such a thing as the Free-zoners - people who apply the doctrines of Scientology to their lives without being members of the Church of Scientology. I'd have no problem hiring a Free Zoner or using software written by them.
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So you're calling for a boycott on Ford?
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Virtua On: Oratorio Tangram is indeed out for the Dreamcast. A friend of mine has it. Of course, it's nigh unplayable without a twinstick...
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But it's much better graphics and sound. If you're not sure whether you'd care about realMyst, but you have decent bandwidth and hardware, download the demo and give it a try. Myself, aside from marveling over the graphics, I was surprised to learn that I still remembered how to solve the Age. :-)
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Software companies didn't move overseas, they brought the overseas here. Haven't you heard of H1B's? :-)
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If Bush gets elected, I for one will be tempted to do more than just claim to not be an American citizen...
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I don't know who initally started the war on some drugs, in fact; it's entirely possible that the first ludicrous restrictions on, say, pot were signed into law by a Democratic president, many decades ago. Also, it's fair to fault Clinton and Gore for not standing up to the drug warriors. But don't you dare let Reagan and Bush the First off so easily.
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(The War on Some Drugs is insane, don't get me wrong. But the Republicans are every bit as much a part of the insanity as the Democrats are.)
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Mind you, auction sites do have a strong need to cultivate confidence amongst its userbase, mind you, and that can cost money in the form of insurance and other such services.
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In defense of Slashdotters, it's not that we're male and not very gender-aware, it's that we're single and don't have any kids. Now that the issue's been pointed out to me, I have to think that any parent, male or female, would have something to say about being on-call.
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I'm hoping that by that time we'll also have advanced political systems that won't have such a concept as National. Except possibly the nation of Earth.
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Hey, this could be a handy way to gauge manager performance - effigies that need more frequent replacement indicate that the manager's pissing off his or her workers too much. If the next layer of management has a clue, that is, which I admit is a big if.
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At least it's a different provincial worldview.
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You did know that the Beavers are MIT's mascot too, didn't you?
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Frankly, what I hear about Singapore reminds me of Genua under the rule of Lilith Weatherwax. The whole populace was joyful and merry the livelong day... OR ELSE.
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They do know - there are blocks of phone numbers specifically allocated to carriers for cell phones. And the telemarketers also know that it's illegal to solicit to a cellphone number.
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Think of it as a DoS attack on their legal resources. This isn't the RIAA - that money will run out sooner or later, and I doubt they'll be getting much more.
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