On dark nights with heavy rain, the white lines are invaluable for knowing where exactly the road is, and making an unexpected departure from the regular route.
I'm just in the market for a camera from this family and was tossing up between the Contour and the GoPro (with a slight leaning towards the GoPro).
The Sony was out due to their ongoing complicity with the RIAA et al (I won't buy anything even with Sony chips in it unless there is absolutely nothing else on the market that meets my needs).
Thankfully, my decision has now been made for me - thanks GoPro!
Ethical purchasing is the only way we'll fix these thing. The age old problem with capitalism - profit has nothing to do with morality.
I am not American, nor a lawyer, but my understanding is that they are doing a couple of things which very much violate the spirit of the law.
First, they file John Doe lawsuits, then use the discovery privileges they attain as a result of having those lawsuits filed to gather more information. As soon as the necessary information is gathered, the drop the original lawsuit (and offer settlement or go to court for a real lawsuit etc). The important thing here is that the John Doe lawsuit is never meant to be anything other than an abuse of process to give them wider investigative powers - definitely a violation of the spirit of the law.
Secondly, you get a knock on the door with a lawsuit from a multimillion (billion?) dollar company with the lawyers to match. Whether you've done something wrong or not, the temptation will be to buy the next couple of years of your life back by forking over 2 or 3 grand - the alternative is to fight for a year or 2 in court at great risk and expense... I think we'd all accept that the US litigation system favours he with the deepest pockets - so right or wrong, you still stand a shot of losing.. they know most folks will not take the risk for a couple of grand - that makes it extortion as plain as the hairs on my arse.
[i]#3 will have a long, successful stay at his company, which will reap the rewards of his hard work.[/i]
Will the fairies on his planet help him? Your idea of reaping the rewards gives us all the warm fuzzies, but such ideals sadly belong to the generation before us.
Seriously, part of the problem is it is no longer seen as cost effective to hold onto good employees. Take the UK, sometimes people can wheedle(sp?) an extra couple of grand from their employer every year or 3, but, a 10 grand pay rise doesn't even raise an eyebrow when someone changes company.
I thought their business model worked on the idea that they could datamine all your email and (among other things) offer you targeted email based on the content therein... this'll screw with that idea...
"BUY jjhHDJEy6786ERLKLXhdfeprERIOUPewoenOIhgshgrgeyrew now for a low price on Ebay.co.uk"
The advertising guys will love it.... Imagine it, a Pizza Hut advertisement comes on, yummy smells wafting through the air get the stomach acids pumping - call and order now! Consumers will be forced to learn yet another sales resistance technique.
So, by this logic, I pop a website up in the UK that is critical of the Elosian administration. It is illegal to criticise the Elosian administration in Elosia, so, they can request my extradition?
Better still, I publish my non DMCA compliant workarounds on my website in Elosia (which also has DMCA madness), US citizens can access it, does that mean that the US can extradite me when the Elosian court system has had it's fill with me?
While I agree, in this case.. well - do I even need to bother explaining.
However you raise a point worthy of thought in your post. I tend to disagree... simply because a theory is unprovable, doesn't make it a lousy theory, simply one that isn't yet (dis)provable.
There are plenty of mathematical theorems which are unprovable, yet appear to hold true. In that case I guess, at least you have a body of evidence supporting your position. But, to be fair, that is what the fruitloops^H^Hrepublic^H^Hrelig^H^H advocates of I.D. are claiming they have.
Hmmm.. ID debate in US, ID cards in UK... is that evidence of something?
I think it came from Vietnam, and it is the only piece of rhyming slang I know of from Australia.
Yank -> Septic Tank -> Seppo
The derivation sounds derogatory, but, it no longer holds any negative connotations - it is the equivalent to Kiwi for NZ'ers, or Ozzie for Australians...
Oh, c'mon - the grandparent here must be bollocks... an unqualified ridiculous statement.
By that logic, a US citizen, couldn't come to say, the UK, get a CAA issued license and fly with it coz they don't have permission from the FAA?
I know the Seppo's have been going a bit nuts lately, but, how do you imagine they'd enforce these sort of rules, arrest folks on re-entry into the US?/me hums a song about Cuba.
Wage slave: Can I have a raise. Management flunky: Of course not, there is a company wage freeze on. Wage slave: Ah, well, not your fault, that's OK then.
By implementing it as policy, they are pretending there is nothing they can do about it. Effectively they don't need to be fair because they have given you advance warning that they are going to be unfair to everyone.
Can't one place be free of McDonalds, MTV, Democracy and Coca-Cola?
Apparently not. I was in the Forbidden City in Beijing a few months ago. Bearing in mind that, after The Great Wall, it would have to be the most famous historical site in the entirety of China. What do you think is smack in the middle? A Starbucks.
I wish this post was a joke, but, I am very sorry to say, it isn't.
Ah - just noticed that wikipedia article above mentions it is there too, so I wasn't just seeing things.
Ah, that is interesting, and doesn't fit into any of the reading/understanding I have of the way it works.
Further, I just did a touch of research then, which does not support this claim.
Do you think it is possible that 'Polish law is still the highest and nor the Europen Constitution nor any other law will supercede Polish law' is simply a view presented to you by your politicians in an attempt to tell their electorate that they won't be told what to do by anyone - with the obvious political advantages a statement has.
They can always say they are misunderstood later.
To make myself clearer, everything I understand and have read about the EU requires member states to submit to the rule of the EU administration, even if this conflicts with local law. If you want to be a member state, then that is one of the conditions you have to agree to. I can't imagine Poland in particular being an exception to this - from what I gather Poland was particularly keen to get into the EU, the benefits to them being somewhat more pronounced than the benefits to some of the wealthier member states.
On a related note, I for one am pretty pleased with Poland's entry, and I expect it to be beneficial to both Poland and the EU at large - plus, it is one more interesting place to take a contract;)
I am genuinely curious about your statements above though, can you provide any links?
Hah - the IR35 thing got more of a bite than I expected, which wasn't what I meant to bring up at all.
My point with IR35 is that there have been challenges in the EU courts (whatever they are called) that IR35 breaches EU law. It looks like these claims are being upheld, but the rotund female has far from delivered us a tune yet.... (deliberately vague on exactly what's going on coz I haven't looked at it for a while).
To chime in on what people have picked up on, IR35 is to my mind a tax designed specifically to penalise a small subset of people, who are already caught in the taxation vice, but Inland Rev seems to want a second bite of the apple. Suffice to say that I am not a fan.
You might want to do a little reading before spouting off. EU law supercedes the law of member states when the 2 come into conflict. The recent developments in the IR35 debacle in the UK are a fine example.
This is why, as per the article you mention above, there is a lot of dissent among member states about what the constitution is, they are agreeing to that law for themselves.
Further, my understanding is that the policies with regard to monopolies and competition have already been agreed upon, hence, the 'European competition regulator' whose existence is made possible by The Treaty Establishing The European Community, article 81, at least I think it is 81. Either way, there is a list of what is already in play from that treaty with respect to fair competition here.
Take a glance at The EU online, and I would strongly suggest you do a modicum of research before spurting disinformation presented as fact.
Fair play, so you are saying that if MS UK breaches US law then MS US would be held accountable. Further, if MS UK breaks UK law, MS UK is accountable to the UK authorities.
To be a bit clearer - you are saying MS UK are subject to both US and UK law. If that is the case then it would seem to me that opening overseas branches of your company (as opposed to just forming new companies on foreign soil and calling them the same name) has some massive legal disadvantages.
You make a very interesting point. I guess it comes down to a definition in law as to:
a) What constitutes a product of Cuba? b) What products of Cuba are legal to import into the US?
With regard to point b, what I am getting at is, is it legal to take things from Cuba into the US if there is no profit involved, and no chance that some poor Cuban will get some money to pay for a bit of health care or food as a result of that product being shipped out?
Grr.. this thinking irks me. We are seeing a lot of it (RIAA, recent Iraqui kickback scandals with Scottish members of parliament). The US can make whatever damned laws they like - that doesn't make them enforcable outside the US.
How can MS (US) be held accountable for what MS (Country X) does? MS (US) is the only division of Microsoft to whom US law applies.
Tivo - proprietry, limited, not available (hardware and service) everywhere in the world.
MythTV - open, flexible, can do pretty much whatever you want with it if you are willing to put in the effort, will work anywhere someone has an internet connection, and where someone (else?) is willing to provide scheduling data.
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On dark nights with heavy rain, the white lines are invaluable for knowing where exactly the road is, and making an unexpected departure from the regular route.
I'm just in the market for a camera from this family and was tossing up between the Contour and the GoPro (with a slight leaning towards the GoPro).
The Sony was out due to their ongoing complicity with the RIAA et al (I won't buy anything even with Sony chips in it unless there is absolutely nothing else on the market that meets my needs).
Thankfully, my decision has now been made for me - thanks GoPro!
Ethical purchasing is the only way we'll fix these thing. The age old problem with capitalism - profit has nothing to do with morality.
I was thinking that your post pissed me off so much, Karma be damned, I am going to call you a wanker.... ... then I realized you'd done it for me.
I know that I'm STD free because I read slashdot.
:)
I really am truly sorry, but writing that was an itch I don't have the self-discipline not to scratch
I am not American, nor a lawyer, but my understanding is that they are doing a couple of things which very much violate the spirit of the law.
First, they file John Doe lawsuits, then use the discovery privileges they attain as a result of having those lawsuits filed to gather more information. As soon as the necessary information is gathered, the drop the original lawsuit (and offer settlement or go to court for a real lawsuit etc). The important thing here is that the John Doe lawsuit is never meant to be anything other than an abuse of process to give them wider investigative powers - definitely a violation of the spirit of the law.
Secondly, you get a knock on the door with a lawsuit from a multimillion (billion?) dollar company with the lawyers to match. Whether you've done something wrong or not, the temptation will be to buy the next couple of years of your life back by forking over 2 or 3 grand - the alternative is to fight for a year or 2 in court at great risk and expense... I think we'd all accept that the US litigation system favours he with the deepest pockets - so right or wrong, you still stand a shot of losing.. they know most folks will not take the risk for a couple of grand - that makes it extortion as plain as the hairs on my arse.
[i]#3 will have a long, successful stay at his company, which will reap the rewards of his hard work.[/i]
Will the fairies on his planet help him? Your idea of reaping the rewards gives us all the warm fuzzies, but such ideals sadly belong to the generation before us.
Seriously, part of the problem is it is no longer seen as cost effective to hold onto good employees. Take the UK, sometimes people can wheedle(sp?) an extra couple of grand from their employer every year or 3, but, a 10 grand pay rise doesn't even raise an eyebrow when someone changes company.
I thought their business model worked on the idea that they could datamine all your email and (among other things) offer you targeted email based on the content therein... this'll screw with that idea...
"BUY jjhHDJEy6786ERLKLXhdfeprERIOUPewoenOIhgshgrgeyrew now for a low price on Ebay.co.uk"
As the original link is slashdotted, here is a couple more for the same story
o /4766843.htmld =5263782
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metr
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=local&i
I'd scream at the ridiculousness of it all, but, then I'd probably be arrested for practising some sort of arcane terrorist warcry.
The advertising guys will love it.... Imagine it, a Pizza Hut advertisement comes on, yummy smells wafting through the air get the stomach acids pumping - call and order now! Consumers will be forced to learn yet another sales resistance technique.
So, by this logic, I pop a website up in the UK that is critical of the Elosian administration. It is illegal to criticise the Elosian administration in Elosia, so, they can request my extradition?
Better still, I publish my non DMCA compliant workarounds on my website in Elosia (which also has DMCA madness), US citizens can access it, does that mean that the US can extradite me when the Elosian court system has had it's fill with me?
While I agree, in this case.. well - do I even need to bother explaining.
However you raise a point worthy of thought in your post. I tend to disagree... simply because a theory is unprovable, doesn't make it a lousy theory, simply one that isn't yet (dis)provable.
There are plenty of mathematical theorems which are unprovable, yet appear to hold true. In that case I guess, at least you have a body of evidence supporting your position. But, to be fair, that is what the fruitloops^H^Hrepublic^H^Hrelig^H^H advocates of I.D. are claiming they have.
Hmmm.. ID debate in US, ID cards in UK... is that evidence of something?
http://www.netipedia.com/index.php/Cockney_rhyming _slang
Apparently the English use it to, but I have never heard one do so...
It is Australian slang for American...
I think it came from Vietnam, and it is the only piece of rhyming slang I know of from Australia.
Yank -> Septic Tank -> Seppo
The derivation sounds derogatory, but, it no longer holds any negative connotations - it is the equivalent to Kiwi for NZ'ers, or Ozzie for Australians...
Oh, c'mon - the grandparent here must be bollocks... an unqualified ridiculous statement.
/me hums a song about Cuba.
By that logic, a US citizen, couldn't come to say, the UK, get a CAA issued license and fly with it coz they don't have permission from the FAA?
I know the Seppo's have been going a bit nuts lately, but, how do you imagine they'd enforce these sort of rules, arrest folks on re-entry into the US?
I find scenarios like this terribly annoying.
Wage slave: Can I have a raise.
Management flunky: Of course not, there is a company wage freeze on.
Wage slave: Ah, well, not your fault, that's OK then.
By implementing it as policy, they are pretending there is nothing they can do about it. Effectively they don't need to be fair because they have given you advance warning that they are going to be unfair to everyone.
Can't one place be free of McDonalds, MTV, Democracy and Coca-Cola?
Apparently not. I was in the Forbidden City in Beijing a few months ago. Bearing in mind that, after The Great Wall, it would have to be the most famous historical site in the entirety of China. What do you think is smack in the middle? A Starbucks.
I wish this post was a joke, but, I am very sorry to say, it isn't.
Ah - just noticed that wikipedia article above mentions it is there too, so I wasn't just seeing things.
Ah, that is interesting, and doesn't fit into any of the reading/understanding I have of the way it works.
;)
Further, I just did a touch of research then, which does not support this claim.
Do you think it is possible that 'Polish law is still the highest and nor the Europen Constitution nor any other law will supercede Polish law' is simply a view presented to you by your politicians in an attempt to tell their electorate that they won't be told what to do by anyone - with the obvious political advantages a statement has.
They can always say they are misunderstood later.
To make myself clearer, everything I understand and have read about the EU requires member states to submit to the rule of the EU administration, even if this conflicts with local law. If you want to be a member state, then that is one of the conditions you have to agree to. I can't imagine Poland in particular being an exception to this - from what I gather Poland was particularly keen to get into the EU, the benefits to them being somewhat more pronounced than the benefits to some of the wealthier member states.
On a related note, I for one am pretty pleased with Poland's entry, and I expect it to be beneficial to both Poland and the EU at large - plus, it is one more interesting place to take a contract
I am genuinely curious about your statements above though, can you provide any links?
Hah - the IR35 thing got more of a bite than I expected, which wasn't what I meant to bring up at all.
My point with IR35 is that there have been challenges in the EU courts (whatever they are called) that IR35 breaches EU law. It looks like these claims are being upheld, but the rotund female has far from delivered us a tune yet.... (deliberately vague on exactly what's going on coz I haven't looked at it for a while).
To chime in on what people have picked up on, IR35 is to my mind a tax designed specifically to penalise a small subset of people, who are already caught in the taxation vice, but Inland Rev seems to want a second bite of the apple. Suffice to say that I am not a fan.
You might want to do a little reading before spouting off. EU law supercedes the law of member states when the 2 come into conflict. The recent developments in the IR35 debacle in the UK are a fine example.
This is why, as per the article you mention above, there is a lot of dissent among member states about what the constitution is, they are agreeing to that law for themselves.
Further, my understanding is that the policies with regard to monopolies and competition have already been agreed upon, hence, the 'European competition regulator' whose existence is made possible by The Treaty Establishing The European Community, article 81, at least I think it is 81. Either way, there is a list of what is already in play from that treaty with respect to fair competition here.
Take a glance at The EU online, and I would strongly suggest you do a modicum of research before spurting disinformation presented as fact.
People like you piss me off.
Fair play, so you are saying that if MS UK breaches US law then MS US would be held accountable. Further, if MS UK breaks UK law, MS UK is accountable to the UK authorities.
To be a bit clearer - you are saying MS UK are subject to both US and UK law. If that is the case then it would seem to me that opening overseas branches of your company (as opposed to just forming new companies on foreign soil and calling them the same name) has some massive legal disadvantages.
You make a very interesting point. I guess it comes down to a definition in law as to:
a) What constitutes a product of Cuba?
b) What products of Cuba are legal to import into the US?
With regard to point b, what I am getting at is, is it legal to take things from Cuba into the US if there is no profit involved, and no chance that some poor Cuban will get some money to pay for a bit of health care or food as a result of that product being shipped out?
Grr.. this thinking irks me. We are seeing a lot of it (RIAA, recent Iraqui kickback scandals with Scottish members of parliament). The US can make whatever damned laws they like - that doesn't make them enforcable outside the US.
How can MS (US) be held accountable for what MS (Country X) does? MS (US) is the only division of Microsoft to whom US law applies.
Let me know if I am missing something.
Tivo - proprietry, limited, not available (hardware and service) everywhere in the world.
MythTV - open, flexible, can do pretty much whatever you want with it if you are willing to put in the effort, will work anywhere someone has an internet connection, and where someone (else?) is willing to provide scheduling data.
I haven't even mentioned the geek value!
The company providing this stuff is LxM Suite but, unfortunately, according to their FAQ this is a US only offering.
Damn, I would be willing to pay for a decent service in the UK. Oh well, time will tell...
Heh - Darwinism at work keeping you types from depositing anywhere there might be a risk of propogating that sinister DNA ;)