there is not a state in the union that will find myself responsible for this if I include the proper EULA
By clicking on this attachment you have accepted this license agreement: IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES WHATSOEVER ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY RELATED TO THIS VIRUS.
The very first version of Microsoft Windows did something similar. I found it awfully primitive, and I get the same feeling now.
When the first MS Windows came, at home I had an Amiga, a truly modern system, while at work the "professional" MS-DOS and later MS Windows seemed so fantastically primitive I found it quite amazing that anyone would want to use such archaeological curiosities for serious work.
The strange, tiled windows and some other things in MS Windows made me feel that it was so primitive that I just disregarded it as completely uninteresting. Thus I never really used that early version of MS Windows.
Back then Microsoft was small and on the side of the good guys. IBM was the huge ogre controlling the market and FUDing as much as it could. Some things have changed a lot since then.
But some things don't change. Technical excellence wasn't the market winner back then and still isn't today. *Sigh*
Give a man a fish, and you have fed him for one day. Give him a fish every day, and you can control him for a lifetime. -- MS Marketing Strategy Department.
Why is it so important to get Linux accepted on the desktop?
To diminish M$ oligopoly. With a single company registering more than a hundred million users in their Passport system, potentially able to control people's software use, etc, this is becoming very important.
It boils down to what kind of society you want. M$ isn't a democracy, you don't get to vote there. Only democracies should have the kind of power M$ is getting. Not even democracies in many cases. (Depending on what society you want, of course.)
Give a man a fish, and you have fed him for one day. Give him one fish every day, and you can control him for a lifetime. -- M$ Strategy Department.
Amiga 500, Amiga 2000, Amiga 600, Amiga 1200. Did I miss any?
Yes, before that there was the Amiga 1000 (yes, the 1000 did come before the 500, very curious).
I bought one of the ten very first Amigas sold in my country, Sweden. I waited at the shop's doorstep as they came in, more or less. It was the incredible Amiga 1000, miraculous technology in those days, light-years ahead of anything else. Aaahhh, those days... Sniff...
It was a strange feeling to go to work and sit down at the stone-age "professional technology" PC.
Give a man a fish, and he can eat for one day. Teach him to fish for you, and you can eat for a lifetime.
Are you serious? Lots of things that you can own are immaterial. Copyrights, trademarks, patents...
If the law of supply and demand is to operate properly in the net, they have a duty to break their contract in favour of the highest bidder.
This would be a revolutionary change. Everyone could count on losing their domain names to some wealthy company. Micro$oft could wreak havoc among its competitors simply by buying up domain names.
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish for you and eat for a lifetime.
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If this were true, Arab newspapers would denounce CNN. There would be Arab news sites on the Web denouncing this.
This is very, very obvious. Unfortunately, at Indymedia they like building myths about the evils of the mainstream media, and then lots of other myths that follow from these myths about the media.
Quite often it's very, very obvious. Just like this case.
The US is the most powerful country in the world. It's only natural that people have opinions about those who have power over them.
This is natural, it's healthy, it's good.
It's also in the nature of democracy. The US is always proud to stand for democracy and freedom. I don't think the US would want the world to function like some sort of dictatorship, where the great leader can't be criticized and everyone must keep quiet. Such dictatorship is not in the nature of the US.
We don't get to vote in the system that leads the world. We talk instead.
I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.
In the San Francisco earthquake many countries offered help, including Pakistan!
Today, here in Sweden, reports say Sweden wants to send a team of rescuers. It isn't very much, some 80 people I think, but what can our small country do at this early point? The US is still deciding whether to accept or not. This morning it was reported that many countries are offering to help, including Cuba of all countries! AFAIK help is being offered from all around the globe.
It seems such things don't get much coverage in the press over there. That's too bad, the world could use some unity and warm feelings right now, to counteract the new fear and suspicion.
But it is happening, even if you don't get to read about it in your paper.
This does not deny that the historic debt of the rich and democratic West to the US is immense, truly immense. Without the help of the US we might now suffer under Nazism or Communism, or under poverty similar to the Third World, or some such.
That debt is immense. However, the debt of all rich countries, together, to the former colonies is even greater.
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I didn't click on anything, so that means that I can sue them, right?
You know, you might be able to settle out of court, if you're fortunate enough to deal with a mature and responsible virus writer.
there is not a state in the union that will find myself responsible for this if I include the proper EULA
By clicking on this attachment you have accepted this license agreement: IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES WHATSOEVER ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY RELATED TO THIS VIRUS.
The very first version of Microsoft Windows did something similar. I found it awfully primitive, and I get the same feeling now.
When the first MS Windows came, at home I had an Amiga, a truly modern system, while at work the "professional" MS-DOS and later MS Windows seemed so fantastically primitive I found it quite amazing that anyone would want to use such archaeological curiosities for serious work.
The strange, tiled windows and some other things in MS Windows made me feel that it was so primitive that I just disregarded it as completely uninteresting. Thus I never really used that early version of MS Windows.
Back then Microsoft was small and on the side of the good guys. IBM was the huge ogre controlling the market and FUDing as much as it could. Some things have changed a lot since then.
But some things don't change. Technical excellence wasn't the market winner back then and still isn't today. *Sigh*
Give a man a fish, and you have fed him for one day. Give him a fish every day, and you can control him for a lifetime. -- MS Marketing Strategy Department.
Why is it so important to get Linux accepted on the desktop?
To diminish M$ oligopoly. With a single company registering more than a hundred million users in their Passport system, potentially able to control people's software use, etc, this is becoming very important.
It boils down to what kind of society you want. M$ isn't a democracy, you don't get to vote there. Only democracies should have the kind of power M$ is getting. Not even democracies in many cases. (Depending on what society you want, of course.)
Give a man a fish, and you have fed him for one day. Give him one fish every day, and you can control him for a lifetime. -- M$ Strategy Department.
Amiga 500, Amiga 2000, Amiga 600, Amiga 1200. Did I miss any?
Yes, before that there was the Amiga 1000 (yes, the 1000 did come before the 500, very curious).
I bought one of the ten very first Amigas sold in my country, Sweden. I waited at the shop's doorstep as they came in, more or less. It was the incredible Amiga 1000, miraculous technology in those days, light-years ahead of anything else. Aaahhh, those days... Sniff...
It was a strange feeling to go to work and sit down at the stone-age "professional technology" PC.
Give a man a fish, and he can eat for one day. Teach him to fish for you, and you can eat for a lifetime.
Are you serious? Lots of things that you can own are immaterial. Copyrights, trademarks, patents...
If the law of supply and demand is to operate properly in the net, they have a duty to break their contract in favour of the highest bidder.
This would be a revolutionary change. Everyone could count on losing their domain names to some wealthy company. Micro$oft could wreak havoc among its competitors simply by buying up domain names.
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish for you and eat for a lifetime.
If this were true, Arab newspapers would denounce CNN. There would be Arab news sites on the Web denouncing this.
This is very, very obvious. Unfortunately, at Indymedia they like building myths about the evils of the mainstream media, and then lots of other myths that follow from these myths about the media.
Quite often it's very, very obvious. Just like this case.
At this Danish site you can light a candle for the victims.
At this Norwegian site you can light a candle for the victims.
those who would dare to criticize the USA
The US is the most powerful country in the world. It's only natural that people have opinions about those who have power over them.
This is natural, it's healthy, it's good.
It's also in the nature of democracy. The US is always proud to stand for democracy and freedom. I don't think the US would want the world to function like some sort of dictatorship, where the great leader can't be criticized and everyone must keep quiet. Such dictatorship is not in the nature of the US.
We don't get to vote in the system that leads the world. We talk instead.
I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.
In the San Francisco earthquake many countries offered help, including Pakistan!
Today, here in Sweden, reports say Sweden wants to send a team of rescuers. It isn't very much, some 80 people I think, but what can our small country do at this early point? The US is still deciding whether to accept or not. This morning it was reported that many countries are offering to help, including Cuba of all countries! AFAIK help is being offered from all around the globe.
It seems such things don't get much coverage in the press over there. That's too bad, the world could use some unity and warm feelings right now, to counteract the new fear and suspicion.
But it is happening, even if you don't get to read about it in your paper.
This does not deny that the historic debt of the rich and democratic West to the US is immense, truly immense. Without the help of the US we might now suffer under Nazism or Communism, or under poverty similar to the Third World, or some such.
That debt is immense. However, the debt of all rich countries, together, to the former colonies is even greater.