This is part of the problem with legislation. It should be a case of "if not explicitly forbidden" (like murder) then it is allowed. You know, freedom and all that. Now there is so much "if not explicitly allowed" (like transferring to a different carrier) then it is forbidden that it muddies the waters unnecessarily.
Instead of adding more contrary viewpoint legislation, existing legislation should be amended to reflect it. In this case it should be "carriers are forbidden from refusing transfers / unlocking". There is no need for extra legislation items to undo existing ones.
However, there is prior art which pretty much knackers this. The prohibition amendment and its repealing one springs to mind.
Now, them Prenda boys was in a whole heap o' trouble...
Justice Wright: "Well, boys, there's several kinds of shit in the world; bullshit, horseshit and pigshit, to name but three. You've given me fine examples of all of those, but now, I gotta tell you, there's a whole other type of shit. This kind don't wash off, and you're in a real big steaming pile of it."
Why else do zombies eat brains? There's plenty more nutritive parts of the human body. They want to delay the aging process (decay in their case) just like anybody else...
I think of the Star Trek universe, in particular Picard explaining to characters in "First Contact" that as money is outmoded (apart for the stubbornly mercantile Ferengi situation) the utopia of self advancement for the betterment of all as a primary activity is pretty much a reality in the Federation.
Then there is this, the dystopia, just a few hundred years early. GP can access all this accumulated knowledge and better themselves, maybe even the world, yet their view is so etiolated it seems like too much effort. Gene Roddenberry is spinning in space right now.
Perhaps we ought to let it all go to hell and become servile chattels of a corporate controlled stagnated "society" because no one gives a flying fuck apart from getting their fix of kitten pictures.
Even these warrants are pointless if you live in a soft water area as statutory rights covers you for the defined lifetime of the washing machine, one of the longest in legislation. If you're in a hard water area then use Calgon regularly.
Even then it probably isn't necessary to use Calgon. I've never bought any, have water with a Chuck Norris level hardness and still have a fully functional washing machine of over 15 years.
Usually there is a maximum (albeit low) number of dead pixels before it won't even make it off the assembly line. Unless the single dead pixel is pretty much in the centre of the screen you won't normally get a replacement. At least in UK, where there are lots of replace / refund avenues open to the consumer mandated by legislation. Even refurbished electronic goods have an automatic warranty.
Best part is you have to wait until you receive the codes (how?) from these friends in order to access your account. What if one friend is off line because they've gone backpacking in the wilds of NoInternetLand for a month? What if they take their time responding (you're BFFs but you had a disagreement)? What if you don't receive the response?
You're stuffed using this method as there are too many points of failure.
Plus there's over 30 distinct bodies who have requested access to this data. Really important ones involved with "national security", like the Charity Commission, Ambulance Service and the Welsh Tourist Board. This then means that rather than a select few whose job is to safeguard the nation / populace over 250000 people who are prone to gossip like any member of the public well have access to *everything* you do. That snotty bitch in the chemist who is good friends with a friend of your SO? She knows how much porn (and what type and when) you look at.
It's our version, an original and unchanged since the "consultation" (a public one would take a year and then be uncomfortably close to the 2015 election so that's not going to happen) and ISPs only have to store details of all communications for a year at their expense. You know, just in case.
Before you get all jingoistic about the state of justice in UK, consider that we also look across the pond in horror at how your legal system treats ordinary people. Both seem to be borrowing the worst from each other.
How many comments here are along the lines of "the Constitution is dead"? At least you have one to give you some faint hope.
There's been no proof yet that they were the actual perpetrators - they may have just been a couple of known badasses who got identified after being in the wrong place at the wrong time - so, even if they were, expect more "suspects" to be gathered up as this is a golden opportunity to get rid of some other undesirables. Who cares if they happen to die "resisting arrest"? They are all terrorists, right?
The only thing analogue about PSTNs nowadays is the user punching numbers into a dial pad. The problem is the telcos just swapped out the analogue for digital with the same capacity and only increased it because of demand for new lines. Sure, it cost a bit when they first did it but now it's piddly shit to upgrade by comparison.
If the passenger is still airside there is no reason to remove baggage, especially if it is an organised deplane to a holding area (because you aren't getting landside again until cleared) with an expectation of the flight taking place. Should it then be cancelled the usual routine of removing baggage would take place, just like with any arrival.
XBL was disregarded long before HTML 5 by all browser makers except Mozilla, so trying to pin blame on something that didn't even exist is ignorant and downright rude.
Personally, I'd rather not know there was an inbound missile as spending the last few minutes of my life going "WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!" (are you really going to be calm and phone a loved one [who you can't contact because they're trying to phone you] to say goodbye?) doesn't sound much fun.
UK Life on Mars tapped into the collective memory of at least two generations of Brits remembering how dismal life was for the average family in the 70s. The country was nearly bankrupt (UK was described as the "poor man of Europe"), inflation was in double figures, there were three day weeks (meaning less pay) because of electricity blackouts, rising unemployment, the Government in thrall of the trade unions calling strikes every other week, Brent crude prices (when oil was a major export revenue stream) were tanking and it was the height of the Troubles with IRA attacks happening with alarming frequency.
While the US had its own problems, most Brits only saw US life through glitzy imported shows and saw lifestyles that were almost incomprehensible in their luxuriousness. Even Hill Street Blues. That's how much in the shit we were.
US Life on Mars couldn't tap into despair felt by an entire nation, especially as it is a peculiarly British mannerism to be nostalgic for hard times.
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This is part of the problem with legislation. It should be a case of "if not explicitly forbidden" (like murder) then it is allowed. You know, freedom and all that. Now there is so much "if not explicitly allowed" (like transferring to a different carrier) then it is forbidden that it muddies the waters unnecessarily.
Instead of adding more contrary viewpoint legislation, existing legislation should be amended to reflect it. In this case it should be "carriers are forbidden from refusing transfers / unlocking". There is no need for extra legislation items to undo existing ones.
However, there is prior art which pretty much knackers this. The prohibition amendment and its repealing one springs to mind.
We still don't have software patents though, whatever we're called.
Could be worse:
Now, them Prenda boys was in a whole heap o' trouble...
Justice Wright: "Well, boys, there's several kinds of shit in the world; bullshit, horseshit and pigshit, to name but three. You've given me fine examples of all of those, but now, I gotta tell you, there's a whole other type of shit. This kind don't wash off, and you're in a real big steaming pile of it."
Why else do zombies eat brains? There's plenty more nutritive parts of the human body. They want to delay the aging process (decay in their case) just like anybody else...
The plot for that (In The Line Of Fire) was referenced repeatedly on a recent CSI where there were fire once printed guns used in several murders.
I think of the Star Trek universe, in particular Picard explaining to characters in "First Contact" that as money is outmoded (apart for the stubbornly mercantile Ferengi situation) the utopia of self advancement for the betterment of all as a primary activity is pretty much a reality in the Federation.
Then there is this, the dystopia, just a few hundred years early. GP can access all this accumulated knowledge and better themselves, maybe even the world, yet their view is so etiolated it seems like too much effort. Gene Roddenberry is spinning in space right now.
Perhaps we ought to let it all go to hell and become servile chattels of a corporate controlled stagnated "society" because no one gives a flying fuck apart from getting their fix of kitten pictures.
Sometimes I really despair of this world.
Even these warrants are pointless if you live in a soft water area as statutory rights covers you for the defined lifetime of the washing machine, one of the longest in legislation. If you're in a hard water area then use Calgon regularly.
Even then it probably isn't necessary to use Calgon. I've never bought any, have water with a Chuck Norris level hardness and still have a fully functional washing machine of over 15 years.
Then again, they built them to last back then...
Usually there is a maximum (albeit low) number of dead pixels before it won't even make it off the assembly line. Unless the single dead pixel is pretty much in the centre of the screen you won't normally get a replacement. At least in UK, where there are lots of replace / refund avenues open to the consumer mandated by legislation. Even refurbished electronic goods have an automatic warranty.
Best part is you have to wait until you receive the codes (how?) from these friends in order to access your account. What if one friend is off line because they've gone backpacking in the wilds of NoInternetLand for a month? What if they take their time responding (you're BFFs but you had a disagreement)? What if you don't receive the response?
You're stuffed using this method as there are too many points of failure.
That's because everybody tends to use the metric Helen (1k ship launching capability) instead of the more accurate Troy Helen (1.186k ships)...
The last time a bunch of people popped by the Falklands unannounced they weren't tourists...
Plus there's over 30 distinct bodies who have requested access to this data. Really important ones involved with "national security", like the Charity Commission, Ambulance Service and the Welsh Tourist Board. This then means that rather than a select few whose job is to safeguard the nation / populace over 250000 people who are prone to gossip like any member of the public well have access to *everything* you do. That snotty bitch in the chemist who is good friends with a friend of your SO? She knows how much porn (and what type and when) you look at.
It's our version, an original and unchanged since the "consultation" (a public one would take a year and then be uncomfortably close to the 2015 election so that's not going to happen) and ISPs only have to store details of all communications for a year at their expense. You know, just in case.
That was the original 1471, before that was changed to "who last called this number" when the 17070 extended system was introduced.
Before you get all jingoistic about the state of justice in UK, consider that we also look across the pond in horror at how your legal system treats ordinary people. Both seem to be borrowing the worst from each other.
How many comments here are along the lines of "the Constitution is dead"? At least you have one to give you some faint hope.
Governments would rather subvert their talents for their own purposes and then destroy them when they dare to become a liability.
There's been no proof yet that they were the actual perpetrators - they may have just been a couple of known badasses who got identified after being in the wrong place at the wrong time - so, even if they were, expect more "suspects" to be gathered up as this is a golden opportunity to get rid of some other undesirables. Who cares if they happen to die "resisting arrest"? They are all terrorists, right?
All the invites I receive are unlikely as I'm not on LinkedIn. Straight to spam they go...
The only thing analogue about PSTNs nowadays is the user punching numbers into a dial pad. The problem is the telcos just swapped out the analogue for digital with the same capacity and only increased it because of demand for new lines. Sure, it cost a bit when they first did it but now it's piddly shit to upgrade by comparison.
If the passenger is still airside there is no reason to remove baggage, especially if it is an organised deplane to a holding area (because you aren't getting landside again until cleared) with an expectation of the flight taking place. Should it then be cancelled the usual routine of removing baggage would take place, just like with any arrival.
XBL was disregarded long before HTML 5 by all browser makers except Mozilla, so trying to pin blame on something that didn't even exist is ignorant and downright rude.
That means I am as well *sob*
Personally, I'd rather not know there was an inbound missile as spending the last few minutes of my life going "WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!" (are you really going to be calm and phone a loved one [who you can't contact because they're trying to phone you] to say goodbye?) doesn't sound much fun.
Neither is a letter (SMS also has an envelope). Yet letters are protected.
UK Life on Mars tapped into the collective memory of at least two generations of Brits remembering how dismal life was for the average family in the 70s. The country was nearly bankrupt (UK was described as the "poor man of Europe"), inflation was in double figures, there were three day weeks (meaning less pay) because of electricity blackouts, rising unemployment, the Government in thrall of the trade unions calling strikes every other week, Brent crude prices (when oil was a major export revenue stream) were tanking and it was the height of the Troubles with IRA attacks happening with alarming frequency.
While the US had its own problems, most Brits only saw US life through glitzy imported shows and saw lifestyles that were almost incomprehensible in their luxuriousness. Even Hill Street Blues. That's how much in the shit we were.
US Life on Mars couldn't tap into despair felt by an entire nation, especially as it is a peculiarly British mannerism to be nostalgic for hard times.