Several years ago I had a shower of sparks from a grinding machine hit me in the face and I had fine pieces of metal in my skin and eyes. Skin does not matter as the skin will force the metal out itself, but they felt that it was important to get the metal out of my eyes and the pain made me agree. I had to sit still on the wrong end of a sort of magnifying glass while they used hypodermic needles to hook the bits of metal out. As with all eye surgery it is important to remain consious. I could see each needle going into my eye and I could feel the click as they hooked each piece of metal out.
Even worse though, was a friend that was in a car wreck and they took his eyes out, again fully concious, to remove pieces of windscreen. He told me that it was very strange to be looking at his own chest like that while his eyeballs were on his cheeks.
And, since the internet is practically filled with people who think they know more than you, there's an endless supply of folks willing to type of wiki entries! =)
The problem lies in the fact that too many people think that Wikipedia is fact based when it is often mearly one persons opinion of something. I wish there could be a fact or fiction tag that clarified which claims are verified and which are not.
Strange that it is America that is forcing Britain to accept these laws... In legal terms Britain always had the concept of State Secrets just the same as the US but it is the US that has re-introduced the era of the guilds, trade secrets like that went out in the middle ages in Britain.
It is not ignorance that causes me to se that there are no clear objective, it is the lack of clear objectives. You may be stupid enough to consider the wooly idealology as clear but it is not. Just because you are a grunt does not make you more knowledgeable about these things. It is not arrogant of me to tell you that you are wrong, because you are wrong. Your arrogance does not make you right or more intelligent, just more stupid. I have a lot of grasp of what I am talking about, far more than you. You are the one that is stupid enough to rant about how clever you are and how stupid I am when you have no idea who I am, just your arrogant stupidity. You think that the good guys can do no wrong because they are the good guys. That is the most dumb arsed idea you had. The good guys can do no right because they are the good guys and good is expected. The good guys are only seen to do wrong because that is the only thing that is noticed.
WWII was not anything to do with idealism. Or didn't you know about the countries that were invaded and the fact that Germany declared war on your country? Bosnia was not about ideals but it was more so than WWII but at least in Bosnia the politicians got their noses out and let the military do their job which is why there was so much more success than anywhere else since WWII. As for research on Vietnam and the current situation, I did far too much research on Vietnam and I walked away from the current situation and refused to take part becuase I could see it was wrong. It was not the highway of death that stopped us in GWI, it was the clearly stated objectives that included the fact that we were not allowed to go into Iraq. That was part of the deal that was made to get the coalition together. To get the Arabs on side we agreed not to go into Iraq. I had friends that were inside Iraq from an early stage and were prepared to sort the mess out and it angered me for a long time that they risked their lives and were never given the green light but that is the problem with politically driven wars. The politicians should lose control once the war starts and control should be given to those that know what they are doing.
How does his comments have anything to do with "terrorism is ok because cars kill more people"? Are you really that dumb that you think that anyone that thinks that our leaders have it wrong must support the terrorists?
1: WE'RE LOSING THE WAR! As there are no clear objectives it is impossible to win. All military leaders have known for centuries that it is stupid to fight a war without clear objectives that your soldiers can understand, read Sun Tzu. We cannot win so it is not that different from losing. Each strike we make strengthens the opposition because we kill so many innocent people the bad guys look better than us.
2: IT'S ANOTHER VIETNAM! It is just like Vietnam. It is a war against an ideal (then it was communism, now it Islam) being faught without clear objectives. Just like Vietnam we cannot win. In Vietnam the US was soundly beaten and that ending is unlikely this time but we still cannot win because there is no objective. Do you really think that by killing innocent people you will stop people wanting to kill Americans?
3: THE SKY IS FALLING! The last 2 were right so now you have me worried:(
The stupidity of this is very much like Vietnam, it is a politically led war rather than one lead by the military. It is about as rational as 'Duck and cover', make the people think that we are doing something but do not worry about what it is that we are doing. Most people do not understand how foreigners think so they will not stop to think that each time we kill 10 innocent people 20 people will join the enemy. In fact most people are stupid enough to think that we can win...
we are being bombarded with more and more of these "attempted attacks"
This is true. This was not a "terrorist plot", it was a couple of hotheads blowing air about something they knew nothing about. It will get blown out of all proportion and people will say "look what we are doing to fight terrorism"... if everytime someone was blowing air on/. they got arrested there would be no one left. This is just propoganda.
I currently live in northern Thailand. The skanky copies of software seep through the northern borders from China through Burma. It is a sound market and one which is completely missunderstood. These are not lost sales because it does not matter what law enforcement you introduce, bring in the death penalty if you like, the average wage is about $50 - $70 dollars a month and they cannot afford genuine copies of software. Most of the software they want is to run on old machines and cannot be bought any more anyway. With a 300Mhz machine the latest version of Photoshop is too slow etc.
I think that this is exactly what happened and I think that it is inexcusable that a legal team that are paid that much could do something that stupid. In the US lawyers look for the letter of the law and look for loop holes whereas in Europe they are expected to have the intelligence to understand the meaning or essence of what is being said and the court takes offence when someone tries to trick them... I think that the legal team let the US bosses control the play when they should have had Europeans in control.
There is no reason to even discuss the idea of stopping them from trading. There is a standard and established process for getting the money from people who default and that is to take away their property. Microsoft has a lot of property in Europe, far in excess of this penalty and the courts will take possession of that property if Microsoft fails to pay. There is no problem here at all, the courts have been doing this for 100s of years.
The EU does not control individual countries copyright laws and as such cannot 'TELL' individual countries what to do. The EU can take a decision which the individual countries can follow and are unlikely to refuse to do so unless it is completely stupid.
For example the EU decided that computer functions etc. are not copyrightable and it is up to the individual countries whether or not to allow the copyrighting of computer functions. It would be stupid of one country to allow such a copyright when the others do not as it would only hurt that country... etc.
When I was doing forensic work it was a legal requirement that there was no change whatsoever to the data on the disk when we imaged. It was not a complicated task and the instructions can be found on the internet. Although I do not imagine that the average thief would do this I think it is stupid in the extreme to assume that it has not been done.
This court action has no prospect of closing the site and to me, seems to only act as advertising. There will be people in the UK who have not heard of the site yet read about the court case and think "that sounds great, I will get some of that" when they would not have heard of it if it had been ignored.
I think that one of the main facts that has been changed in the re-write of history (read propoganda) is that Iraq was our ally up until GWI. I was working on an important military project for Iraq and they were a well thought of customer. The reason that their air force was useless was not just because it was small but because all the ground crew were British and American, they could not operate without us. Saddam is such a bad guy now but he was our friend then? Now we sell nuclear technology to Pakistan and they are our friends. You know, the country that uses gang rape as a punishment for crimes like insulting someone more important than you... The country that keeps attacking its neighbour, India... Oooh sorry, we are also selling nuclear technology to the Indians so that is OK. As long as those nasty Iranians don't get it we'll be perfectly safe.
So the current Administration has increased, not reduced, the risk of Americans to be victims of terrorists.
It is not just Americans that are more at risk. It was mainly Australians that died in Bali and if you read up on that it was simply because the terrorists are too stupid to tell the difference. Even for the average Iraqi, life under Saddam was oppressive but as long as you did not criticise the state you could lead a safe and prosperous life. Now all Iraqi life is a mess of trigger happy soldiers (in various uniforms), fundementals and insurgents. They do not know who is going to kill them now. The whole world has become much more dangerous and nothing is being done to reduce the real threat from terrorist action. You cannot make a private phone call but some nutter could quite easily put a bomb on a railway bridge over a river and just wait for the next passenger train...
I taught at high school for a couple of years before running off screaming to Asia. I wish I had taken every kid that threatened me to court because then I would have been in court every day instead of in front of all those arguementative teenagers.
The school definately overreacted, the parents overreacted and the boy needed to be punished for what he did. It should not have been treated as a death threat as that is not only stupid but gives the event more credability than it deserves. The kid is now an anti hero when he should have been a boy that got caught being excessively rude. This sort of system teaches kids to be anti heroes. He will enjoy the notoriety and respond to it by becoming the person they are making him into. This is more likely to create the sort of child that they want to avoid.
OSS will continue unhampered in Europe where software cannot be patented. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4274811.stm Most of the world does not recognise software patents and this could end up as a wake up call for the gov. as work starts to leave the US. They may finally realise that this is a bad thing for the US. In the short term this will be a bad thing for OSS as it will lose a lot of contributors but in the long term it could be a good thing for the US if the rest of the world moves on and gov. realise that the US is simply being left behind.
I now have a mental image of a guy in an anorak, standing on a small hill with a little black box (8" x 8") with a long aerial sticking out the top and two joysticks on the front, guiding the shuttle in to land... but I do not think the short cable was a good idea...
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That all sounds too complicated for me, I think I will just stay poor instead...
sounds like a load of shit to me...
Several years ago I had a shower of sparks from a grinding machine hit me in the face and I had fine pieces of metal in my skin and eyes. Skin does not matter as the skin will force the metal out itself, but they felt that it was important to get the metal out of my eyes and the pain made me agree. I had to sit still on the wrong end of a sort of magnifying glass while they used hypodermic needles to hook the bits of metal out. As with all eye surgery it is important to remain consious. I could see each needle going into my eye and I could feel the click as they hooked each piece of metal out.
Even worse though, was a friend that was in a car wreck and they took his eyes out, again fully concious, to remove pieces of windscreen. He told me that it was very strange to be looking at his own chest like that while his eyeballs were on his cheeks.
And, since the internet is practically filled with people who think they know more than you, there's an endless supply of folks willing to type of wiki entries! =)
The problem lies in the fact that too many people think that Wikipedia is fact based when it is often mearly one persons opinion of something. I wish there could be a fact or fiction tag that clarified which claims are verified and which are not.
Bless me father for I have sinned,
Today I thought that the evil satanic Hollywood was right...
very British but very unAmerican.
... In legal terms Britain always had the concept of State Secrets just the same as the US but it is the US that has re-introduced the era of the guilds, trade secrets like that went out in the middle ages in Britain.
Strange that it is America that is forcing Britain to accept these laws
They have to learn to make them fly before they worry about where they land...
It is not ignorance that causes me to se that there are no clear objective, it is the lack of clear objectives. You may be stupid enough to consider the wooly idealology as clear but it is not. Just because you are a grunt does not make you more knowledgeable about these things. It is not arrogant of me to tell you that you are wrong, because you are wrong. Your arrogance does not make you right or more intelligent, just more stupid. I have a lot of grasp of what I am talking about, far more than you. You are the one that is stupid enough to rant about how clever you are and how stupid I am when you have no idea who I am, just your arrogant stupidity. You think that the good guys can do no wrong because they are the good guys. That is the most dumb arsed idea you had. The good guys can do no right because they are the good guys and good is expected. The good guys are only seen to do wrong because that is the only thing that is noticed.
WWII was not anything to do with idealism. Or didn't you know about the countries that were invaded and the fact that Germany declared war on your country? Bosnia was not about ideals but it was more so than WWII but at least in Bosnia the politicians got their noses out and let the military do their job which is why there was so much more success than anywhere else since WWII. As for research on Vietnam and the current situation, I did far too much research on Vietnam and I walked away from the current situation and refused to take part becuase I could see it was wrong. It was not the highway of death that stopped us in GWI, it was the clearly stated objectives that included the fact that we were not allowed to go into Iraq. That was part of the deal that was made to get the coalition together. To get the Arabs on side we agreed not to go into Iraq. I had friends that were inside Iraq from an early stage and were prepared to sort the mess out and it angered me for a long time that they risked their lives and were never given the green light but that is the problem with politically driven wars. The politicians should lose control once the war starts and control should be given to those that know what they are doing.
YP ??? The new Windows YP, just right for today world...
Since when did Microsoft wait until software was stable to release it?
How does his comments have anything to do with "terrorism is ok because cars kill more people"? Are you really that dumb that you think that anyone that thinks that our leaders have it wrong must support the terrorists?
:(
1: WE'RE LOSING THE WAR! As there are no clear objectives it is impossible to win. All military leaders have known for centuries that it is stupid to fight a war without clear objectives that your soldiers can understand, read Sun Tzu. We cannot win so it is not that different from losing. Each strike we make strengthens the opposition because we kill so many innocent people the bad guys look better than us.
2: IT'S ANOTHER VIETNAM! It is just like Vietnam. It is a war against an ideal (then it was communism, now it Islam) being faught without clear objectives. Just like Vietnam we cannot win. In Vietnam the US was soundly beaten and that ending is unlikely this time but we still cannot win because there is no objective. Do you really think that by killing innocent people you will stop people wanting to kill Americans?
3: THE SKY IS FALLING! The last 2 were right so now you have me worried
The stupidity of this is very much like Vietnam, it is a politically led war rather than one lead by the military. It is about as rational as 'Duck and cover', make the people think that we are doing something but do not worry about what it is that we are doing. Most people do not understand how foreigners think so they will not stop to think that each time we kill 10 innocent people 20 people will join the enemy. In fact most people are stupid enough to think that we can win...
we are being bombarded with more and more of these "attempted attacks"
/. they got arrested there would be no one left. This is just propoganda.
This is true. This was not a "terrorist plot", it was a couple of hotheads blowing air about something they knew nothing about. It will get blown out of all proportion and people will say "look what we are doing to fight terrorism"... if everytime someone was blowing air on
I currently live in northern Thailand. The skanky copies of software seep through the northern borders from China through Burma. It is a sound market and one which is completely missunderstood. These are not lost sales because it does not matter what law enforcement you introduce, bring in the death penalty if you like, the average wage is about $50 - $70 dollars a month and they cannot afford genuine copies of software. Most of the software they want is to run on old machines and cannot be bought any more anyway. With a 300Mhz machine the latest version of Photoshop is too slow etc.
Own eBay...
I think that this is exactly what happened and I think that it is inexcusable that a legal team that are paid that much could do something that stupid. In the US lawyers look for the letter of the law and look for loop holes whereas in Europe they are expected to have the intelligence to understand the meaning or essence of what is being said and the court takes offence when someone tries to trick them... I think that the legal team let the US bosses control the play when they should have had Europeans in control.
There is no reason to even discuss the idea of stopping them from trading. There is a standard and established process for getting the money from people who default and that is to take away their property. Microsoft has a lot of property in Europe, far in excess of this penalty and the courts will take possession of that property if Microsoft fails to pay. There is no problem here at all, the courts have been doing this for 100s of years.
The EU does not control individual countries copyright laws and as such cannot 'TELL' individual countries what to do. The EU can take a decision which the individual countries can follow and are unlikely to refuse to do so unless it is completely stupid.
For example the EU decided that computer functions etc. are not copyrightable and it is up to the individual countries whether or not to allow the copyrighting of computer functions. It would be stupid of one country to allow such a copyright when the others do not as it would only hurt that country... etc.
Why does Yahoo China get the can for this?
Maybe they need the advertising...
When I was doing forensic work it was a legal requirement that there was no change whatsoever to the data on the disk when we imaged. It was not a complicated task and the instructions can be found on the internet. Although I do not imagine that the average thief would do this I think it is stupid in the extreme to assume that it has not been done.
This court action has no prospect of closing the site and to me, seems to only act as advertising. There will be people in the UK who have not heard of the site yet read about the court case and think "that sounds great, I will get some of that" when they would not have heard of it if it had been ignored.
I think that one of the main facts that has been changed in the re-write of history (read propoganda) is that Iraq was our ally up until GWI. I was working on an important military project for Iraq and they were a well thought of customer. The reason that their air force was useless was not just because it was small but because all the ground crew were British and American, they could not operate without us. Saddam is such a bad guy now but he was our friend then? Now we sell nuclear technology to Pakistan and they are our friends. You know, the country that uses gang rape as a punishment for crimes like insulting someone more important than you... The country that keeps attacking its neighbour, India... Oooh sorry, we are also selling nuclear technology to the Indians so that is OK. As long as those nasty Iranians don't get it we'll be perfectly safe.
So the current Administration has increased, not reduced, the risk of Americans to be victims of terrorists.
It is not just Americans that are more at risk. It was mainly Australians that died in Bali and if you read up on that it was simply because the terrorists are too stupid to tell the difference. Even for the average Iraqi, life under Saddam was oppressive but as long as you did not criticise the state you could lead a safe and prosperous life. Now all Iraqi life is a mess of trigger happy soldiers (in various uniforms), fundementals and insurgents. They do not know who is going to kill them now. The whole world has become much more dangerous and nothing is being done to reduce the real threat from terrorist action. You cannot make a private phone call but some nutter could quite easily put a bomb on a railway bridge over a river and just wait for the next passenger train...
I taught at high school for a couple of years before running off screaming to Asia. I wish I had taken every kid that threatened me to court because then I would have been in court every day instead of in front of all those arguementative teenagers.
The school definately overreacted, the parents overreacted and the boy needed to be punished for what he did. It should not have been treated as a death threat as that is not only stupid but gives the event more credability than it deserves. The kid is now an anti hero when he should have been a boy that got caught being excessively rude. This sort of system teaches kids to be anti heroes. He will enjoy the notoriety and respond to it by becoming the person they are making him into. This is more likely to create the sort of child that they want to avoid.
OSS will continue unhampered in Europe where software cannot be patented.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4274811.stm
Most of the world does not recognise software patents and this could end up as a wake up call for the gov. as work starts to leave the US. They may finally realise that this is a bad thing for the US. In the short term this will be a bad thing for OSS as it will lose a lot of contributors but in the long term it could be a good thing for the US if the rest of the world moves on and gov. realise that the US is simply being left behind.
I now have a mental image of a guy in an anorak, standing on a small hill with a little black box (8" x 8") with a long aerial sticking out the top and two joysticks on the front, guiding the shuttle in to land... but I do not think the short cable was a good idea...