It's always been this way. The large corporations run the financially challanged off or into jail. Occasionally the legal dept loses, and it makes the news. The problem is that things like this aren't of any interest to the average joe. If it isn't important to him, why should politicians, pr depts, or any other type of human slime feel that it's important. Unless the lawmakers feel that something will adversely affect their elections, they will always side with the money. It's really quite simple.
It's easy to sit back and say "If they come knocking on my door, I'll see them in court!", especially when it's not you. If you want to fight the corporations, you need money. Chances are, if you can afford to pay a good lawyer, you're not worried about this sort of thing, because it helps you. I know I wish I could have taken Mattel to court, but when I recieved a copy of the permanent injunction because of my mirror site, I had no choice but to take down the files mentioned in it off the site, now all that remains is the essay. As if I (student) have the money to pay a lawyer, as well as having to go to Massachusetts for the contempt hearings and trial.
It's a shame that there's really nothing that most of us can actually do. Whatever options we have to fight this, it normally ends up being a fight against institutions that we ourselves funded, via taxes, or multinational corporations with deep pockets. I'm sorry to come off so negative, but lately everything has been sliding faster downhill than before. In order to take a stand in front of this mudslide, we need lawyers, and lots of them. Join the EFF and other such organizations, it's really all the little guy can do.
I've been waiting some time for the next installment of this series. Book two really left me hanging. For those of you who haven't read any of the Otherland books yet, GET TO A BOOKSTORE OR LIBRARY NOW! Tad Williams is a great author that just about every sci-fi fan will enjoy.
Blursk is my favorite. I like how with the right settings (contour lines, bump effect, and the right blur selection) it can look a lot like water. The ability to randomize all the settings would be nice though.
It seems like every week I read about debate on enhancing this, fixing that. Someone needs to get the balls, lawyers, and volunteers to actually test on a human.
The statute and rule apply to commercial Web sites and online services directed to, or that knowingly collect information from, children under 13.
Sounds like cookies to me.
If guardian allows child to store cookies from certain "parent approved" shopping site, is it then illegal for another "unapproved" site to look at these cookies?
http://loki.linuxgames.com/~loki/myth2-demo-x86.ta r.gz is the only site i could find that wasn't lagged to hell (for how long?:). i can't even access the loki page, so i don't know if this is their default download site or a mirror.
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It's always been this way. The large corporations run the financially challanged off or into jail. Occasionally the legal dept loses, and it makes the news. The problem is that things like this aren't of any interest to the average joe. If it isn't important to him, why should politicians, pr depts, or any other type of human slime feel that it's important. Unless the lawmakers feel that something will adversely affect their elections, they will always side with the money. It's really quite simple.
It's easy to sit back and say "If they come knocking on my door, I'll see them in court!", especially when it's not you. If you want to fight the corporations, you need money. Chances are, if you can afford to pay a good lawyer, you're not worried about this sort of thing, because it helps you. I know I wish I could have taken Mattel to court, but when I recieved a copy of the permanent injunction because of my mirror site, I had no choice but to take down the files mentioned in it off the site, now all that remains is the essay. As if I (student) have the money to pay a lawyer, as well as having to go to Massachusetts for the contempt hearings and trial.
It's a shame that there's really nothing that most of us can actually do. Whatever options we have to fight this, it normally ends up being a fight against institutions that we ourselves funded, via taxes, or multinational corporations with deep pockets. I'm sorry to come off so negative, but lately everything has been sliding faster downhill than before. In order to take a stand in front of this mudslide, we need lawyers, and lots of them. Join the EFF and other such organizations, it's really all the little guy can do.
I've been waiting some time for the next installment of this series. Book two really left me hanging.
For those of you who haven't read any of the Otherland books yet, GET TO A BOOKSTORE OR LIBRARY NOW! Tad Williams is a great author that just about every sci-fi fan will enjoy.
Blursk is my favorite. I like how with the right settings (contour lines, bump effect, and the right blur selection) it can look a lot like water. The ability to randomize all the settings would be nice though.
It seems like every week I read about debate on enhancing this, fixing that. Someone needs to get the balls, lawyers, and volunteers to actually test on a human.
The statute and rule apply to commercial Web sites and online services directed to, or that knowingly collect information from, children under 13.
Sounds like cookies to me.
If guardian allows child to store cookies from certain "parent approved" shopping site, is it then illegal for another "unapproved" site to look at these cookies?
They use a long flat "runway" that curves up at the end.
In other words, you pick up a lot of speed on the ground, then you hit a ramp, *whoosh*.
linuxmall normally gets their cds made pretty quickly. they're something like $1.99 for linux/*bsd.
Bug fixing, cleaning up, that sort of thing...
Admittedly fvwm isn't the prettiest manager out there, so don't use it. Enlightenment and WindowMaker blow it and win-whatever away.
http://loki.linuxgames.com/~loki/myth2-demo-x86.ta r.gz is the only site i could find that wasn't lagged to hell (for how long? :). i can't even access the loki page, so i don't know if this is their default download site or a mirror.
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