Because this is one of the RIAA file sharing lawsuits. Making people suffer is their primary objective. The greater inconvenience in the initial stages, the less likely someone will actually challenge them.
He didn't ask why the RIAA wanted him to suffer - that part's obvious. What he asked is why he should suffer.
Here, I'll give you a free hint: A conviction is the verdict that results when a court of law finds a defendant guilty of a crime.
And here's your free clue - they don't put the actual word in there. For instance, when a judge says "the defendant is found guilty," he doesn't throw in a "P.S. just in case dedazo asks, this is a conviction."
The word conviction is a description of what happened.
to: 123 Fake street, Fakeville, NY, 12345. Thank you.
If he's sending them there, presumably you'll want a decaf with non-dairy creamer, and one of those cardboard pictures of a monitor like they have at Office Depot.
frankly, the reason I close my access point is the same reason I keep my front door locked.
When I grew up we never locked our doors and we left our bikes out in the yard. And it wasn't a small town. It's a shame that now that behavior would be considered so absurd that it even extends to encrypting the radio waves emanating from within.
There are too many other ways of tracking unique vs. returning visitors. If a site relies only on a tracking cookie, it's their own fault for misrepresenting the new hits to their site.
For instance?
Google relies on cookies for some things. From the Adwords Help Center:
If cookies are disabled, cookie-based analytics programs (such as Google Analytics) will not count the visit.
"Katherine McLane said the agency has spent more than $650,000 since 2003 to safeguard the database."
Wow, a whopping $650k? What's that, two salaries plus expenses?
I think that more accurately spun "the agency has spent less than $700,000 since 2003...."
you agree not to use the Service for operation as an Internet service provider
The very fact that you have to agree not to do so implies that it is technically possible to act as an ISP, so I'd think that would help support a defense that you were acting as an ISP. The violation of your contract with the ISP is a separate issue.
Many languages don't have separate words for the two sides of the transaction. If you would take the time to learn a second language you'll find that your tolerance for imperfect use goes way up. And you'll certainly stop thinking of people as "tools" for improperly using a word. Your use of the word tool, for instance, would have been considered laughably improper not very long ago. But now it gets the message across, and that's the real purpose of language.
Oh I wish we did live in such a world, really, I'm not kidding, it would be great.
The only way to get there is to start behaving like he is. And since you don't seem even close to ready to do that, it's going to take a while. You can't have a great society if nobody trusts anybody.
but they can fish up any excuse they like to give to the judges (who likely support their political position), who will happily look the other way.
I'm as cyncial as the next guy, but that's not always the case. When I was growing up I remember a Nazi group wanting to march in Skokie, IL, a city with a heavily Jewish population, many of them Holocaust survivors. Here's a summary of those events.
But the need to obtain a permit to march just goes to show how those claims are naught but a facade.
The permit gives you *extra* privileges. Being denied one doesn't mean you're not allow to, say, go to the park and start speaking. A large gathering of people puts an unfair burden on everybody else. But because society recognizes value in these things it is willing to grant temporary license to create that burden.
MS doesn't sell hardware, so how would it matter to them what Windows is running on?
Because of the fear that people switching to OS X, but keeping a Windows Virtual Security Blanket, will in time realize they don't really the blanket anymore.
Owned = black gangsta rap slang for "owning hoes", as in, women. It's fucking sexist.
Words mean whatever the general population that uses them says they mean. Nobody using "owned" thinks it has anything to do with "hoes." And so guess what? It doesn't.
Based on your careful due diligence, no doubt. Or is that just some number you pulled out of your ass that "seems more reasonable" to you.
So what you think happened? Google called them up, got a quote of 3.1 Billion, and said "OK, if that's what you think it's worth."?
I often wondered if these sayings are correct, if they were corrupted somehow
The "original" phrase was "Up Shit Creek without a paddle," which makes more sense, since you'd of course want to get out of it as soon as possible and not simply drift with the current.
I am a Tamil, born in Sri Lanka, have lived nearly all my life in the UK...Yet, because of the fact I am Tamil, you do gooders are supposed to now be looking at everything I do?
You're in the UK. They want to watch everything that *everybody* does. There are 32 surveillance cameras within 200 yards of George Orwell's Home.
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He didn't ask why the RIAA wanted him to suffer - that part's obvious. What he asked is why he should suffer.
And here's your free clue - they don't put the actual word in there. For instance, when a judge says "the defendant is found guilty," he doesn't throw in a "P.S. just in case dedazo asks, this is a conviction."
The word conviction is a description of what happened.
If he's sending them there, presumably you'll want a decaf with non-dairy creamer, and one of those cardboard pictures of a monitor like they have at Office Depot.
You're not reading it very well. The article says no such thing. But at least now I can see where your previously inexplicable onions come from.
When I grew up we never locked our doors and we left our bikes out in the yard. And it wasn't a small town. It's a shame that now that behavior would be considered so absurd that it even extends to encrypting the radio waves emanating from within.
In civil cases, "more likely than not" is all you need.
(Not that I'm siding with the Chicken Littles in this thread.)
For instance?
Google relies on cookies for some things. From the Adwords Help Center:
And in return they have to request permission for nearly everything they do.
Now you're just making stuff up. What are these 'safeguards?'
The notion that a pile of atoms arranged in a certain way has intrinsic value is silly. Unless of course it's your house, or car, or family, or you.
I think your razor could do with a sharpening. How does paying more money resolve any security issues?
Wow, a whopping $650k? What's that, two salaries plus expenses?
I think that more accurately spun "the agency has spent less than $700,000 since 2003...."
And so Microsoft is trying to figure out some way to discourage people from switching to a Mac at all, and keep on using a regular Windows computer.
The very fact that you have to agree not to do so implies that it is technically possible to act as an ISP, so I'd think that would help support a defense that you were acting as an ISP. The violation of your contract with the ISP is a separate issue.
Many languages don't have separate words for the two sides of the transaction. If you would take the time to learn a second language you'll find that your tolerance for imperfect use goes way up. And you'll certainly stop thinking of people as "tools" for improperly using a word. Your use of the word tool, for instance, would have been considered laughably improper not very long ago. But now it gets the message across, and that's the real purpose of language.
The only way to get there is to start behaving like he is. And since you don't seem even close to ready to do that, it's going to take a while. You can't have a great society if nobody trusts anybody.
I'm as cyncial as the next guy, but that's not always the case. When I was growing up I remember a Nazi group wanting to march in Skokie, IL, a city with a heavily Jewish population, many of them Holocaust survivors. Here's a summary of those events.
Because of questions about the first part. If the group is being systematically censored, then it's the "illegal" part that makes it news.
The permit gives you *extra* privileges. Being denied one doesn't mean you're not allow to, say, go to the park and start speaking. A large gathering of people puts an unfair burden on everybody else. But because society recognizes value in these things it is willing to grant temporary license to create that burden.
Because of the fear that people switching to OS X, but keeping a Windows Virtual Security Blanket, will in time realize they don't really the blanket anymore.
Sure, but "We don't like what you have to say" is not, by itself, sufficient grounds to deny one.
Words mean whatever the general population that uses them says they mean. Nobody using "owned" thinks it has anything to do with "hoes." And so guess what? It doesn't.
Based on your careful due diligence, no doubt. Or is that just some number you pulled out of your ass that "seems more reasonable" to you.
So what you think happened? Google called them up, got a quote of 3.1 Billion, and said "OK, if that's what you think it's worth."?
The "original" phrase was "Up Shit Creek without a paddle," which makes more sense, since you'd of course want to get out of it as soon as possible and not simply drift with the current.
You're in the UK. They want to watch everything that *everybody* does. There are 32 surveillance cameras within 200 yards of George Orwell's Home.