Their lawyer would have advised them who to sue and this would be whoever could pay the most. It wouldn't even matter if they knew for a fact the parents of the children responsible had given them guns, told them to practice on the computer first, then go out and do it for real, unless those parents happened to be equally wealthy.
The real problem here however is this attitude of seeking money to fix everything. Accidents happen, people do silly things, and sometimes somebody is truly negligent. But if you slip in some liquid in a shop and hurt yourself, tough luck you should have been looking where you were going. Hurt yourself because you're too stupid to operate a piece of equipment or too lazy to read the instructions - hey sorry, that't nature trying to eliminate the bad genes.
The only issue here is whether the parents of the guilty children should have been supervising those children. The answer is probably yes and they should therefore be charged with criminal negligence.
Complete rubbish. By that logic if I take a photograph of a photograph you took, then I own the copyright to that photograph; and similarly for copying anything else. Screenshots have no creative value, they are an exact copy of the screen.
This is just a case of some technically ignorant legal section throwing their weight around because they figure the DMCA is there for them to abuse and most people won't fight back. Would be great if they tried this with wrong person.
My girlfriend used to love diamonds until I described to her the things that have happened so she could wear that worthless rock on her finger - she stopped wearing diamond jewelry permanently; she also was not aware that her expensive jewelry was in fact nearly worthless because diamonds have no intrinsic value.
And I can't imagine why anyone would stay with a woman who would callously disregard the suffering of others just so she can show off to her friends. If you must, then the least you can do is describe in graphic detail the way children in Africa are maimed and killed so DeBeers can continue to enrich the scum that run the company.
By that logic why not ban cars altogether? Surviving being hit by a car depends heavily on the car - so what are the speeds going to be then?
It is quite rare to be in a situation where something can suddenly appear in the road. And as for adults anyone dumb enough to walk out into the road without checking has only themselves to blame if they get run down. What we have here is negligent people, and parents, who want the state to act as nanny.
A blanket 20mph speed limit on suburban roads will increase frustration levels and increase reckless behaviour - it is quite likely to increase the accident rate.
Even 80mph on the motorway is too slow and the speeds should be a recommendation - 80mph is as arbitrary as any other number despite the claims that speed limits are the maximum safe speed. Anyone who actually drives knows that rigid speeds do not work in the real world - you increase and decrease speed as necessary and according you and your cars limits. Worrying about whether you may or may not be travelling at the randomly assigned speed for that road, along with having to keep an eye out for cameras, makes driving far more dangerous.
The gun laws are great, they force your attacker to get even closer than they might with a gun (although most muggers are pretty dumb and stand well within reach even when they have a gun), making it much easier to take it away from them, then use it on them; knives of course inflict very serious injuries.
On the other hand gun laws do not actually keep guns out of the hands of criminals, it's just that your average thief doesn't expect to encounter a victim with one so he has no need to carry one either.
It remains debatable whether these laws actually make the public any safer.
Circumstances of those deaths? Percentage of total road users? Passenger miles is intended to skew the statistics, especially as most car accidents happen close to the origin of travel.
Regulation is not going to reduce the accident rate. Chances are it is unnecessarily low speeds leading to many accidents.
35 is certainly not too fast for urban roads. If you can't cope, then you drive slower.
Driving efficiently and safely requires constant adjustment of things like speed; stupid speed limits and rigid enforcement merely make the roads more dangerous.
But this is all part of the Labour government's plans to take control of every aspect of people's lives in the name of protecting us. Their goal is to make life perfectly safe.
I've never viewed albums as the equivalent of a teaser to see the band live. If the music on the album is good enough, then I'd also be inclined to see what they're like live. That said, most bands have always been utterly boring live.
I do expect quality when I see a band live, I expect the band to make a reasonable effort to play properly and in tune. As an example consider pre-Rattle and Hum U2 - their concerts were tight, but these days they sound like a bunch of tuneless amateurs. Spending more time on being showy and trying to outdo other concerts with idiotic fluff rather than concentrating on putting out decent music. There are those rare groups like Pink Floyd who manage to do spectacular concerts and decent music at the same time, but then they practically pioneered this type of thing.
It would be great if bands would drop all the choreographed rubbish, get out there, play and just do whatever feels right at the time. It should be live, not an exact replica of the concert they did in every other city around the world.
Currently my garbage goes into a huge communal pile from 50 residences so while they could search it they'd have a hell of a lot of garbage to wade through.
When it's just mine I shred important documents and I do not leave it outside my own house - I either put it in front of another house in the area, picked at random, or I drop it into a public dumpster in the city.
Yes, and these can be quite harmful at higher doses too, while like most things there are also some negative effects from consumption levels that help with heart disease.
It becomes a question of whether you're prone to the ailments they can help prevent or the ones they can help cause.
If you kill someone, you KILLED THEM, and you should get life in prison, or death.
Accidental, premeditated, heat of the moment?
The sentence should fit the severity of the crime and not all murders are an identical event.
The death penalty is never acceptable - at the very least you'd have to guarantee the police did their job properly, then there's the prosecutors, the unreliable witnesses, racial prejudice, judicial stupidity etc. Let me put it this way - if someone is wrongfully put to death then all those who contributed to this occurrence should be held just as liable as any other murderer.
Those with children:Try explaining to little Suzy why she can't have the latest Britney cd, or why you don't want her to go the movies because of your beliefs. I doubt she will care.
Err, so what? If she demands alcohol are you going to give to her? What if she wants an automatic weapon? After all her friends have them!
Teaching your child your values, imposing rules and boundaries is what parents do.
We have an organisation called SAFACT who have for the last 12-18 months been engaging in an harassment campaign specifically targeted at small retailers, primarily those that also sell used music, games and movies, but also anyone who imports directly rather than buy from the local distribution cartel who finance and run SAFACT. So far they have stolen hundreds of thousands of Rands (R9==$1) worth of merchandise, but in all cases except one charges laid at the time were dropped because no illegal material was found - needless to say not one of these retailers has ever seen their perfectly legal merchandise again.
There are currently various criminal cases pending against the members of SAFACT, including intimidation, harassment, assault, extortion and impersonating police officers. Various small retailers are trying to recover the cost of their merchandise (in some cases SAFACT destroyed it soon after stealing it and in others it has mysteriously just disappeared), but they're fighting against big money. The police are doing what they can, but few people are brave enough to come forward and risk various forms of retaliation.
it's possible to have a relaxed and wonderful holiday, and to exchange gifts
Only if you can manage to buy everything without going to any shops. This time of year I hate even having to go out and buy groceries. As always I'll be glad when this stupid feeding frenzy is over for another year.
Really? Christmas is just the appropriation of a pagan celebration by the Christians in an attempt to wipe out a competing belief system.
Personally I don't need these commercialised holidays* (and sorry they have been commercialised the entire 33 years I've been here) - I give gifts and help others at any time, I don't need one day a year set aside for such things.
*Valentine's Day, Easter, Fathers and Mothers Days to name just a few.
I doubt mine would, but that would depend where I raced it - driving them in boardrooms during important meetings would be a definite no (although they still wouldn't fire you for something so silly - in fact it would be illegal here).
Then again my company recognises that good developers are often a little strange and best humoured.
Or they could just have used the security in windows NT/2k/XP to prevent the users from messing with the system. So either they were using the 9x range which makes the systems getting messed up their fault or they just don't know how to configure NT et al, which again is their deficiency.
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Does this apply to .22 handguns as well?
They make great weapons for executions.
Get a bloody inhaler and stop whining.
Their lawyer would have advised them who to sue and this would be whoever could pay the most. It wouldn't even matter if they knew for a fact the parents of the children responsible had given them guns, told them to practice on the computer first, then go out and do it for real, unless those parents happened to be equally wealthy.
The real problem here however is this attitude of seeking money to fix everything. Accidents happen, people do silly things, and sometimes somebody is truly negligent. But if you slip in some liquid in a shop and hurt yourself, tough luck you should have been looking where you were going. Hurt yourself because you're too stupid to operate a piece of equipment or too lazy to read the instructions - hey sorry, that't nature trying to eliminate the bad genes.
The only issue here is whether the parents of the guilty children should have been supervising those children. The answer is probably yes and they should therefore be charged with criminal negligence.
Complete rubbish. By that logic if I take a photograph of a photograph you took, then I own the copyright to that photograph; and similarly for copying anything else. Screenshots have no creative value, they are an exact copy of the screen.
This is just a case of some technically ignorant legal section throwing their weight around because they figure the DMCA is there for them to abuse and most people won't fight back. Would be great if they tried this with wrong person.
Hey, as long as her means are at my disposal.
I suppose the real question is why she requires such proof, is this inherent to the female psyche or a product of culture?
And if those are her reasons I'd go out of my way to come up with something that fulfills the criteria, but is entirely not what she expected.
My girlfriend used to love diamonds until I described to her the things that have happened so she could wear that worthless rock on her finger - she stopped wearing diamond jewelry permanently; she also was not aware that her expensive jewelry was in fact nearly worthless because diamonds have no intrinsic value.
And I can't imagine why anyone would stay with a woman who would callously disregard the suffering of others just so she can show off to her friends. If you must, then the least you can do is describe in graphic detail the way children in Africa are maimed and killed so DeBeers can continue to enrich the scum that run the company.
By that logic why not ban cars altogether? Surviving being hit by a car depends heavily on the car - so what are the speeds going to be then?
It is quite rare to be in a situation where something can suddenly appear in the road. And as for adults anyone dumb enough to walk out into the road without checking has only themselves to blame if they get run down. What we have here is negligent people, and parents, who want the state to act as nanny.
A blanket 20mph speed limit on suburban roads will increase frustration levels and increase reckless behaviour - it is quite likely to increase the accident rate.
Most fatal accidents happen at 80kph or less.
Even 80mph on the motorway is too slow and the speeds should be a recommendation - 80mph is as arbitrary as any other number despite the claims that speed limits are the maximum safe speed. Anyone who actually drives knows that rigid speeds do not work in the real world - you increase and decrease speed as necessary and according you and your cars limits. Worrying about whether you may or may not be travelling at the randomly assigned speed for that road, along with having to keep an eye out for cameras, makes driving far more dangerous.
The gun laws are great, they force your attacker to get even closer than they might with a gun (although most muggers are pretty dumb and stand well within reach even when they have a gun), making it much easier to take it away from them, then use it on them; knives of course inflict very serious injuries.
On the other hand gun laws do not actually keep guns out of the hands of criminals, it's just that your average thief doesn't expect to encounter a victim with one so he has no need to carry one either.
It remains debatable whether these laws actually make the public any safer.
Circumstances of those deaths? Percentage of total road users? Passenger miles is intended to skew the statistics, especially as most car accidents happen close to the origin of travel.
Regulation is not going to reduce the accident rate. Chances are it is unnecessarily low speeds leading to many accidents.
35 is certainly not too fast for urban roads. If you can't cope, then you drive slower.
Driving efficiently and safely requires constant adjustment of things like speed; stupid speed limits and rigid enforcement merely make the roads more dangerous.
But this is all part of the Labour government's plans to take control of every aspect of people's lives in the name of protecting us. Their goal is to make life perfectly safe.
I've never viewed albums as the equivalent of a teaser to see the band live. If the music on the album is good enough, then I'd also be inclined to see what they're like live. That said, most bands have always been utterly boring live.
I do expect quality when I see a band live, I expect the band to make a reasonable effort to play properly and in tune. As an example consider pre-Rattle and Hum U2 - their concerts were tight, but these days they sound like a bunch of tuneless amateurs. Spending more time on being showy and trying to outdo other concerts with idiotic fluff rather than concentrating on putting out decent music. There are those rare groups like Pink Floyd who manage to do spectacular concerts and decent music at the same time, but then they practically pioneered this type of thing.
It would be great if bands would drop all the choreographed rubbish, get out there, play and just do whatever feels right at the time. It should be live, not an exact replica of the concert they did in every other city around the world.
MSNBC (oh, the irony)
Where's the irony?
Currently my garbage goes into a huge communal pile from 50 residences so while they could search it they'd have a hell of a lot of garbage to wade through.
When it's just mine I shred important documents and I do not leave it outside my own house - I either put it in front of another house in the area, picked at random, or I drop it into a public dumpster in the city.
polyphenols and bioflavonoids
Yes, and these can be quite harmful at higher doses too, while like most things there are also some negative effects from consumption levels that help with heart disease.
It becomes a question of whether you're prone to the ailments they can help prevent or the ones they can help cause.
If you kill someone, you KILLED THEM, and you should get life in prison, or death.
Accidental, premeditated, heat of the moment?
The sentence should fit the severity of the crime and not all murders are an identical event.
The death penalty is never acceptable - at the very least you'd have to guarantee the police did their job properly, then there's the prosecutors, the unreliable witnesses, racial prejudice, judicial stupidity etc. Let me put it this way - if someone is wrongfully put to death then all those who contributed to this occurrence should be held just as liable as any other murderer.
Naturally you have analysed all the data and eliminated other factors?
No?
Thought not.
Those with children:Try explaining to little Suzy why she can't have the latest Britney cd, or why you
don't want her to go the movies because of your beliefs.
I doubt she will care.
Err, so what? If she demands alcohol are you going to give to her? What if she wants an automatic weapon? After all her friends have them!
Teaching your child your values, imposing rules and boundaries is what parents do.
We have an organisation called SAFACT who have for the last 12-18 months been engaging in an harassment campaign specifically targeted at small retailers, primarily those that also sell used music, games and movies, but also anyone who imports directly rather than buy from the local distribution cartel who finance and run SAFACT. So far they have stolen hundreds of thousands of Rands (R9==$1) worth of merchandise, but in all cases except one charges laid at the time were dropped because no illegal material was found - needless to say not one of these retailers has ever seen their perfectly legal merchandise again.
There are currently various criminal cases pending against the members of SAFACT, including intimidation, harassment, assault, extortion and impersonating police officers. Various small retailers are trying to recover the cost of their merchandise (in some cases SAFACT destroyed it soon after stealing it and in others it has mysteriously just disappeared), but they're fighting against big money. The police are doing what they can, but few people are brave enough to come forward and risk various forms of retaliation.
it's possible to have a relaxed and wonderful holiday, and to exchange gifts
Only if you can manage to buy everything without going to any shops. This time of year I hate even having to go out and buy groceries. As always I'll be glad when this stupid feeding frenzy is over for another year.
Actually you can get them nothing. Nothing like teaching them to give the finger to peer pressure early on.
Really? Christmas is just the appropriation of a pagan celebration by the Christians in an attempt to wipe out a competing belief system.
Personally I don't need these commercialised holidays* (and sorry they have been commercialised the entire 33 years I've been here) - I give gifts and help others at any time, I don't need one day a year set aside for such things.
*Valentine's Day, Easter, Fathers and Mothers Days to name just a few.
> Or what all geeks are in need of. A girlfriend.
I don't do Christmas, but my girlfriend and her family do so I get have a quiet day away from her.
I doubt mine would, but that would depend where I raced it - driving them in boardrooms during important meetings would be a definite no (although they still wouldn't fire you for something so silly - in fact it would be illegal here).
Then again my company recognises that good developers are often a little strange and best humoured.
But for those that do, it is important that they receive some sort of carrot to keep them motivated.
Wrong, real scientists need no incentive other than their own internal urge to discover.
Or they could just have used the security in windows NT/2k/XP to prevent the users from messing with the system. So either they were using the 9x range which makes the systems getting messed up their fault or they just don't know how to configure NT et al, which again is their deficiency.