The process has to be served. If the plaintiff cannot give the court instructions on how to serve you with the suit, the court must throw the case out.
A good example of this is a case a few years back of somebody who filed a suit against the devil, but had it thrown out because they could not give the court the devil's address.
It takes away a number of defenses you could use if they sue you for a future infraction. You can't claim that you have no history of this sort of thing (if you do, you've perjured yourself and could be imprisoned for that). It also could be introduced as evidence of your character in the trial.
While it's generally true that Murdoch tends toward the tabloid style that he perfected, he does have quality newspapers in his capabilities (because quality newspapers take much longer to become profitable [the opposite is true in the US, though], Rupert avoids them; the Australian wasn't profitable until the 1980's).
The main problem is that both countries claim to be the government of all of China/Taiwan. To the Republic of China, the Beijing government is a rebel organization, and the reverse is true of the People's Republic. Taiwan basically refuses to accept any recognition of it that recognizes Beijing as having any status whatsoever. As a result, only a few nations recognize the Republic of China.
About the only thing that will suffice to solve this is for the West (plus Japan) to declare that they consider the true government of China to be the PRC, but that Taiwan is not part of China and is the independent nation of Taiwan.
At this point, I honestly doubt that the PRC/ROC thing will be solved through military means; while China could invade, the US has armed the Taiwanese to the point that they could probably fend them off, unless the PRC decides that it's worth sending the whole army in. As for nuclear options, there's a deterrence there (Taiwan most likely has nuclear cruise missiles aimed at Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and other centers of industry in the PRC; while Taiwan can kill maybe 10% of the PRC's population in a nuke attack before being annihilated by the PRC's nukes, the Beijing government would likely not survive having their economy pushed back 30 to 40 years in one fell swoop).
UMass does something sort of similar on it's resnet.
Each semester, the first DHCP request from a given MAC address results in the assignment of an IP in a non-routable (I think they use 192.168.0.0/16) subnet with the DNS servers set to a server that will resolve all A requests to the registration page, where the user enters their username and password. After this, the MAC address is now bound to that user and an IP unique to that user is assigned. Each semester, the MAC->user database is flushed, requiring re-establishment of credentials.
Both Bud and Coors do brisk business in Europe (which is depressing in it's way). That's to say nothing of the extent to which the beer industry is globalized.
For instance the main mass-produced beer in the UK is Carling, which is owned by Coors. Anheuser-Busch owns a number of European brewers, as well.
Of course, SAB from South Africa owns Miller and the related brands and Interbrew (Belgian, IIRC) owns Labatts, Dos Equis, and Rolling Rock. There's also a major Indian brewer, whose name I forget, that's been buying up just about every medium-size brewery available in the US.
Among fans of the NFL Europe League, Schlosser Alt is legendary, especially when drunk at the Knoten in Dusseldorf. I hope to experience the Knoten and Schlosser next fall when I attend World Bowl XII.
Not sure I'd say that, as what makes High Life great is that it's the best cheap 'merican beer out there ($4 for a 6-pack at my local packie), though Pabst Blue Ribbon is pretty close.
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The process has to be served. If the plaintiff cannot give the court instructions on how to serve you with the suit, the court must throw the case out.
A good example of this is a case a few years back of somebody who filed a suit against the devil, but had it thrown out because they could not give the court the devil's address.
It takes away a number of defenses you could use if they sue you for a future infraction. You can't claim that you have no history of this sort of thing (if you do, you've perjured yourself and could be imprisoned for that). It also could be introduced as evidence of your character in the trial.
Indeed, press releases are supposed to include a paragraph at the end identifying the issuer of the release.
You see the words "Press Release" at the top of the article?
You haven't read The Australian or The Times, then.
While it's generally true that Murdoch tends toward the tabloid style that he perfected, he does have quality newspapers in his capabilities (because quality newspapers take much longer to become profitable [the opposite is true in the US, though], Rupert avoids them; the Australian wasn't profitable until the 1980's).
The main problem is that both countries claim to be the government of all of China/Taiwan. To the Republic of China, the Beijing government is a rebel organization, and the reverse is true of the People's Republic. Taiwan basically refuses to accept any recognition of it that recognizes Beijing as having any status whatsoever. As a result, only a few nations recognize the Republic of China.
About the only thing that will suffice to solve this is for the West (plus Japan) to declare that they consider the true government of China to be the PRC, but that Taiwan is not part of China and is the independent nation of Taiwan.
At this point, I honestly doubt that the PRC/ROC thing will be solved through military means; while China could invade, the US has armed the Taiwanese to the point that they could probably fend them off, unless the PRC decides that it's worth sending the whole army in. As for nuclear options, there's a deterrence there (Taiwan most likely has nuclear cruise missiles aimed at Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and other centers of industry in the PRC; while Taiwan can kill maybe 10% of the PRC's population in a nuke attack before being annihilated by the PRC's nukes, the Beijing government would likely not survive having their economy pushed back 30 to 40 years in one fell swoop).
Get the Hentai Channel, and save some money!
UMass does something sort of similar on it's resnet.
Each semester, the first DHCP request from a given MAC address results in the assignment of an IP in a non-routable (I think they use 192.168.0.0/16) subnet with the DNS servers set to a server that will resolve all A requests to the registration page, where the user enters their username and password. After this, the MAC address is now bound to that user and an IP unique to that user is assigned. Each semester, the MAC->user database is flushed, requiring re-establishment of credentials.
So IBM has entered into a sponsorship deal with the NFL... lessee what the League's webservers are running:
yep, NFL.com runs Linux.
Grolsch is a much better beer than Heineken any day of the week.
Everyone, at least once in their life, should experience a 40 of Olde English 800.
Both Bud and Coors do brisk business in Europe (which is depressing in it's way). That's to say nothing of the extent to which the beer industry is globalized.
For instance the main mass-produced beer in the UK is Carling, which is owned by Coors. Anheuser-Busch owns a number of European brewers, as well.
Of course, SAB from South Africa owns Miller and the related brands and Interbrew (Belgian, IIRC) owns Labatts, Dos Equis, and Rolling Rock. There's also a major Indian brewer, whose name I forget, that's been buying up just about every medium-size brewery available in the US.
Among fans of the NFL Europe League, Schlosser Alt is legendary, especially when drunk at the Knoten in Dusseldorf. I hope to experience the Knoten and Schlosser next fall when I attend World Bowl XII.
Not sure I'd say that, as what makes High Life great is that it's the best cheap 'merican beer out there ($4 for a 6-pack at my local packie), though Pabst Blue Ribbon is pretty close.
WinXP isn't cheap, and isn't that good.
Are you living the High Life?
Fixed link for HuSi (HuSi being Hulver's Site).
HuSi: where it seems that most of the UKian K5 contingent has retreated after the recent crapflooding spree...
I kind of inherited it from a sister who's a Duke fan. Being a UMass basketball fan is just pitiful and I won't stoop that low.
I know! I know! Exactly one!
And it only took about 20 years!
True. But then again, maybe another Steve Spurrier will come again and lead Blue Devil football to greatness (well, at least adequacy) again...
I was referring to the fact that, as Va Tech is joining the ACC, they'll get beaten twice a year by 40 points by the Blue Devils.
And it'll get skunked by 40 teraflops by Duke's supercomputer every year!
Robin:
Are you contemplating a move from K5 to HuSi?
If you're running Mandrake Cooker (or the current rc's) and have a Cooker contrib source defined, you can just "urpmi kernel-2.6".
Thanks go to Olivier Thauvin for the contribution.
Then I won't tell the truth.