Quite right. Ceasing the abuse when you get caught doing it is sufficient - you don't have to offer penance or remedy for the harm you've already done. I was explaining as much to the cops last night, as they stopped me from beating my wife.
Alternative translation: "Hey, Silverlight devs, you were great, really, but we've got an early meeting, so go call yourself a cab. We'll totally drop you a tweet or something though, kthnxbyenow."
And my reaction to anyone who invested in Silverlight could best be summed up as: Heh. Heheheh. Ah hah hah. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAhahahahahahahahahah. Suckas.
This wasn't a single spur of the moment offence. It was a pattern of deliberate, malicious and wilful repeat offences spanning years. Still, your strawman is very pretty.
What are you smoking? The law in question here specifically targets such acts. It could have been written with this spacker in mind.
(1)A person is guilty of an offence if he--
(a)sends by means of a public electronic communications network a message or other matter that is grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character; or
The biggest threat to democracy is wilfully uninformed voters.
Let me speak plainer: don't have Silverlight, never, ever needed Silverlight, don't know what Silverlight is, don't care. Plainest of all: Suck. My. Balls. Ballmer.
Just for a bit of context, this "shocking" business model is imported from South Korea, where pre-pay cards and promotions for Space Rabbit Teeny Witch Bikini Adventures have shared the behind-the-counter space with cigarettes, fizzy-rice-pisswater and rotgut for at least 5 years.
As we know, there are only two political viewpoints: right and wrong or, depending on your genetics, left and wrong.
The reason that I'm going to call bullshit on this is that empirically "lefties" tend to become "righties" through age or experience. A liberal is just a conservative who hasn't been mugged yet.
Actually, what the Mythbusters found was that their high end fingerprint lock, which claimed to check for pulse, heat and capacitance, could be fooled with nothing more than a (moistened) photocopy of a finger.
Laptop scanners fared better, but the door ones seem to be security theatre.
I don't mean the top one to buy a subscription, I mean the one lower down, where you can simply "donate". To a company that will then sue you for not donating enough.
There is not enough Epic for this Fail. They've used up the supply of Epic Fail right through to New Years.
So? How does Java make money for Oracle? Oracle is a database company. That's where they make their money. You pick the database first. The tools that you use to access it are irrelevant to Oracle. Oh noes, HyperCorp switched from Java to C#! Wait, they're still using Oracle DB? Then what do we care?
Not all developers. This developer will pack up and leave if forced to eat garbage.
And your manager is sitting on a pile of resumes thick enough to beat a rhino to death, many of whom will be prepared to work for significantly less than you're currently making. During a recession, the beatings will continue until morale (or the job market) improves.
We acknowledge your letter of 29th April referring to Mr J. Arkell. We note that Mr Arkell's attitude to damages will be governed by the nature of our reply and would therefore be grateful if you would inform us what his attitude to damages would be, were he to learn that the nature of our reply is as follows: fuck off.
Happy days, eh? I'd forgotten about the S3, the way you forgot about those things that Uncle Barney did to you that one Christmas.
Best memory is Microsoft's EMEA D3D Evangelist (that was his actual job title) refusing to look at us showing the same demo running at twice the frame rate on a Voodoo using glide than using D3DIM. I mean, he literally wouldn't turn his eyes towards the screen, he just kept banging on about how D3DIM was inherently superior to the native API of the hardware, so we must be mistaken about what we were seeing.
Still, I guess he did have the last laugh, but back in The Day, D3DIM was a pig, and D3DRM was a rabid, aroused pig that had you pinned down over a barrel. Good times.
Yeah, I wish I'd had one of those fancy-pants "nanoscopes" to look at slides of fly wings and flower pollen when I was a lad - we had to make do with primitive "microscopes".
Then offer $2 billion to put someone on Mars. The Chinese probably won't take your money for political reasons, but I'm damn sure India will, probably buying Chinese rocket parts off the shelf.
Oh, wait - you meant, how can we give $2 billion to Americans to do it? Well, forget it - you need to spend that much just on the Oversight Steering Committee Review Board's annual team building retreat to Aspen.
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Quite right. Ceasing the abuse when you get caught doing it is sufficient - you don't have to offer penance or remedy for the harm you've already done. I was explaining as much to the cops last night, as they stopped me from beating my wife.
If the law does not protect the vulnerable from those who abuse them, then what is its purpose?
Alternative translation: "Hey, Silverlight devs, you were great, really, but we've got an early meeting, so go call yourself a cab. We'll totally drop you a tweet or something though, kthnxbyenow."
And my reaction to anyone who invested in Silverlight could best be summed up as: Heh. Heheheh. Ah hah hah. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAhahahahahahahahahah. Suckas.
This wasn't a single spur of the moment offence. It was a pattern of deliberate, malicious and wilful repeat offences spanning years. Still, your strawman is very pretty.
The biggest threat to democracy is wilfully uninformed voters.
Let me speak plainer: don't have Silverlight, never, ever needed Silverlight, don't know what Silverlight is, don't care. Plainest of all: Suck. My. Balls. Ballmer.
All these teens and pre-teens you give many dollah to... you might want to keep quiet about that.
Users are largely incidental to the business model we're seeing exposed here.
Still, I expect there'll be a Starbucks there soon enough.
Which fantasy electrical grid is this 'gas' station plugged into? I can assure you, it's not any that currently exist in the USA or Europe.
Just for a bit of context, this "shocking" business model is imported from South Korea, where pre-pay cards and promotions for Space Rabbit Teeny Witch Bikini Adventures have shared the behind-the-counter space with cigarettes, fizzy-rice-pisswater and rotgut for at least 5 years.
As we know, there are only two political viewpoints: right and wrong or, depending on your genetics, left and wrong.
The reason that I'm going to call bullshit on this is that empirically "lefties" tend to become "righties" through age or experience. A liberal is just a conservative who hasn't been mugged yet.
Actually, what the Mythbusters found was that their high end fingerprint lock, which claimed to check for pulse, heat and capacitance, could be fooled with nothing more than a (moistened) photocopy of a finger.
Laptop scanners fared better, but the door ones seem to be security theatre.
I don't mean the top one to buy a subscription, I mean the one lower down, where you can simply "donate". To a company that will then sue you for not donating enough.
There is not enough Epic for this Fail. They've used up the supply of Epic Fail right through to New Years.
Oh, sure, sure, but you really had to hike there before all the tourists discovered it and ruined the local culture.
Hmm. This is such an egregious accident that it may cross the gulf from incompetence to malice.
No shuffling of the candidates? No finger-up before accepting a new input? Aren't these required reading at Voting Machine Academy?
As consistently as mean global temperatures have refused to rise for the past 20 years?
Seriously, how long are we going to keep funding Chicken Little to squawk that the sky is going to fall tomorrow, 4 REALZ TIHS TIEM!!!!!1!!?
So, he's been prosecuted in France? No, you say? Then what does your opinion of French law have to do with this case?
So? How does Java make money for Oracle? Oracle is a database company. That's where they make their money. You pick the database first. The tools that you use to access it are irrelevant to Oracle. Oh noes, HyperCorp switched from Java to C#! Wait, they're still using Oracle DB? Then what do we care?
And your manager is sitting on a pile of resumes thick enough to beat a rhino to death, many of whom will be prepared to work for significantly less than you're currently making. During a recession, the beatings will continue until morale (or the job market) improves.
Well, quite, but I don't think "duh" really captures it.
Duuh. Duuuuh. Duuuuuh DUUUUUUUUUUUH!
For extra points, add "spazz face". I mean, really, this is a "Bakers secretly intend to continue turning flour into bread" level revelation.
A fine precedent, I think.
Happy days, eh? I'd forgotten about the S3, the way you forgot about those things that Uncle Barney did to you that one Christmas.
Best memory is Microsoft's EMEA D3D Evangelist (that was his actual job title) refusing to look at us showing the same demo running at twice the frame rate on a Voodoo using glide than using D3DIM. I mean, he literally wouldn't turn his eyes towards the screen, he just kept banging on about how D3DIM was inherently superior to the native API of the hardware, so we must be mistaken about what we were seeing.
Still, I guess he did have the last laugh, but back in The Day, D3DIM was a pig, and D3DRM was a rabid, aroused pig that had you pinned down over a barrel. Good times.
Yeah, I wish I'd had one of those fancy-pants "nanoscopes" to look at slides of fly wings and flower pollen when I was a lad - we had to make do with primitive "microscopes".
Then offer $2 billion to put someone on Mars. The Chinese probably won't take your money for political reasons, but I'm damn sure India will, probably buying Chinese rocket parts off the shelf.
Oh, wait - you meant, how can we give $2 billion to Americans to do it? Well, forget it - you need to spend that much just on the Oversight Steering Committee Review Board's annual team building retreat to Aspen.