TFA poster: experience and many more users will inform you otherwise. WT/CEIP is forceware - you have no choice unless you KILL automatic updates, period. Even if you THINK you have it on just for security updates, you will still get CEIP if you think you've turned it off.
When vendors are still banging out tablets loaded with Jellybean and Kitkat, which is what 2011/2012 respectively, then three years is NOT a long time in tablet history at all!
>a href="http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/2682828.htm">Here's a CURRENT one that's running Jellybean, for £40 from a fucking HIGH STREET VENDOR.
footage from CCTV isn't admissable as evidence, it's useful for extracting confessions and that's it. Cell-site tracking, on the other hand, is not only admissable as evidence, so are call records that can be used to prove in the first instance that the handset was in the possession of the accused the entire time, and then the map is revealed showing a time-ticked track of the route he took with pinpointed location of CCTV cameras showing stills of him passing their fields of view and his signed confession that the images are in fact showing him.
Oh look, right here: 5.—(1) A contractual term which has not been individually negotiated shall be regarded as unfair if, contrary to the requirement of good faith, it causes a significant imbalance in the parties' rights and obligations arising under the contract, to the detriment of the consumer. [emphasis mine] (2) A term shall always be regarded as not having been individually negotiated where it has been drafted in advance and the consumer has therefore not been able to influence the substance of the term....
To remove any doubt as to the definition of "contract" in this context, a licence agreement (the clue is in the name) is an AGREEMENT between three parties (the seller, the buyer and the Law), hence it is a contract by the legal definition. As such, any terms that are by themselves unlawful are void. Not open to challenge, simply void.
unfair contract terms include those which restrict what you are allowed to do with even meta property such as computer software. If a contract says I can't transfer the licence to another machine, or say I upgrade the motherboard, then that's unfair hence illegal.
Source: UKSI 1999 2083: The Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999.
Natural medicine is the best medicine. I'm not one of those nutjobs, I believe that a balanced diet free of processed crap (or as free from processed crap as it's possible to get, and it is very possible) and knowledge of local flora goes a long way to freedom from dependence of synthetics. For example, did you know that aspirin is found naturally in willow bark? Or that garlic oil is an oral antiseptic? Or that spearmint oil is a great treatment for asthma? I'm about to break the law now (Cancer Act 1939) and tell you that cannabis cures CANCER. The Chinese have known about ALL of these things for six thousand fucking years, I have Chinese neighbours and they're showing me new (to me) stuff all the time. Yesterday they showed me how to make twine from banana skins. Awesome.
because we humans fucked it up in the first place by (accidentally) introducing the species to an alien environment. We humans are now (have been for the past thirty years) trying to fix things by removing every COTS we see on the reef. This isn't dictating to nature, this is damage control.
Would you rather cull the lions so that the survivors have enough food to survive the next season and make babies, or would you rather keep them all alive and this side of starving, no kittens next year, and forty or fifty very sick lions?
This isn't a fucking moral issue, it's a practical one.
it took human intervention (commercial fishing) to fuck things up. Now humans are trying to fix things, this is a step in the right direction since the sea stars' natural predators (giant-arsed snails) were farmed nearly to extinction because they happened to be tasty. Biological controls, eg invading predators, can get out of hand and take over in their own way causing even more damage. This is a great idea since we can simply pull the plug if the system fucks up.
For those of you wondering what the fuck I'm talking about, consider this:
1. Frozen chickens don't grow on trees. You want to eat meat? An animal has to die. 2. Carrots were alive once. You're anti-hunting? Draw the line somewhere. Even fungus is life. You're gonna give up Quorn for your moral stance, or are you going to be a hypocrite? 3. Ever take the train? Thank people like me for the fact that there are fewer rabbits digging under the ties, causing them to sink under their own weight and dropping away deforming the rails when a train runs over them. 4. Ever fly? Thank people like me for the fact that your flight doesn't swallow a flock of pigeons at 140mph.
On #3 and #4: I eat rabbits, they don't go to waste. Town pigeons go straight to the incinerator (I have my own, the city doesn't like burning biohazardous waste), wood pigeons which are visibly healthier and less likely to be carrying crippling parasites get cooked in with other game animals such as partridge, quail, hare and pheasant, and make great party nibbles.
I can't agree more with this. Countryside air is a lot easier to deal with than city air. The biggest mistake I ever made was moving back to the city. I should've stayed on the coast, where the offshore wind was clean and crisp, onshore blew over a dairy farm and while it smelled like a cow's bum, at least I could sleep through the night without bolting upright at Dark O'clock for a blast on the salbutamol..
maybe see if he's willing to bequeath it to the National Forest Service on the proviso that they classify the area as a Category VI wood? This would mean that the area sees not a single chainsaw with the sole exception of removing dead trees and for public safety (backcutting overhanging growth over roads and tracks, for instance).
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Hosts WILL NOT stop CEIP telemetry.
TFA poster: experience and many more users will inform you otherwise. WT/CEIP is forceware - you have no choice unless you KILL automatic updates, period. Even if you THINK you have it on just for security updates, you will still get CEIP if you think you've turned it off.
yes, and Shakespeare drafted his sonnets in Word.
I'll see your Xoom and raise you a Fujitsu Stylistic 3500 from 2001, with original battery that holds 20 minutes of charge.
yes I titted up my markup but you still got the link.
When vendors are still banging out tablets loaded with Jellybean and Kitkat, which is what 2011/2012 respectively, then three years is NOT a long time in tablet history at all!
>a href="http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/2682828.htm">Here's a CURRENT one that's running Jellybean, for £40 from a fucking HIGH STREET VENDOR.
footage from CCTV isn't admissable as evidence, it's useful for extracting confessions and that's it. Cell-site tracking, on the other hand, is not only admissable as evidence, so are call records that can be used to prove in the first instance that the handset was in the possession of the accused the entire time, and then the map is revealed showing a time-ticked track of the route he took with pinpointed location of CCTV cameras showing stills of him passing their fields of view and his signed confession that the images are in fact showing him.
your Macs and your Dells were likely built in the same building.
GPS capability not required at all. CST is accurate to 3 feet and to the second.
Been there, worn the t-shirt.
Nobody tells me I can't wash a king size 13.5tog quilt in a 7kg washing machine then claim damages when the thing eats the quilt.
Oh look, right here: ...
5.—(1) A contractual term which has not been individually negotiated shall be regarded as unfair if, contrary to the requirement of good faith, it causes a significant imbalance in the parties' rights and obligations arising under the contract, to the detriment of the consumer. [emphasis mine]
(2) A term shall always be regarded as not having been individually negotiated where it has been drafted in advance and the consumer has therefore not been able to influence the substance of the term.
To remove any doubt as to the definition of "contract" in this context, a licence agreement (the clue is in the name) is an AGREEMENT between three parties (the seller, the buyer and the Law), hence it is a contract by the legal definition. As such, any terms that are by themselves unlawful are void. Not open to challenge, simply void.
unfair contract terms include those which restrict what you are allowed to do with even meta property such as computer software. If a contract says I can't transfer the licence to another machine, or say I upgrade the motherboard, then that's unfair hence illegal.
Source: UKSI 1999 2083: The Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999.
Winner: me. The crowd goes wild.
Fuck you, come again.
First Sale Doctrine disagrees with you, and THAT one is centuries old.
show me the Law which says I can't do what I want to something I OWN.
TPP will have no teeth as long as BRICS is allowed to continue.
For good reason:
Natural medicine is the best medicine. I'm not one of those nutjobs, I believe that a balanced diet free of processed crap (or as free from processed crap as it's possible to get, and it is very possible) and knowledge of local flora goes a long way to freedom from dependence of synthetics. For example, did you know that aspirin is found naturally in willow bark? Or that garlic oil is an oral antiseptic? Or that spearmint oil is a great treatment for asthma? I'm about to break the law now (Cancer Act 1939) and tell you that cannabis cures CANCER. The Chinese have known about ALL of these things for six thousand fucking years, I have Chinese neighbours and they're showing me new (to me) stuff all the time. Yesterday they showed me how to make twine from banana skins. Awesome.
because we humans fucked it up in the first place by (accidentally) introducing the species to an alien environment. We humans are now (have been for the past thirty years) trying to fix things by removing every COTS we see on the reef. This isn't dictating to nature, this is damage control.
Would you rather cull the lions so that the survivors have enough food to survive the next season and make babies, or would you rather keep them all alive and this side of starving, no kittens next year, and forty or fifty very sick lions?
This isn't a fucking moral issue, it's a practical one.
it took human intervention (commercial fishing) to fuck things up. Now humans are trying to fix things, this is a step in the right direction since the sea stars' natural predators (giant-arsed snails) were farmed nearly to extinction because they happened to be tasty. Biological controls, eg invading predators, can get out of hand and take over in their own way causing even more damage. This is a great idea since we can simply pull the plug if the system fucks up.
For those of you wondering what the fuck I'm talking about, consider this:
1. Frozen chickens don't grow on trees. You want to eat meat? An animal has to die.
2. Carrots were alive once. You're anti-hunting? Draw the line somewhere. Even fungus is life. You're gonna give up Quorn for your moral stance, or are you going to be a hypocrite?
3. Ever take the train? Thank people like me for the fact that there are fewer rabbits digging under the ties, causing them to sink under their own weight and dropping away deforming the rails when a train runs over them.
4. Ever fly? Thank people like me for the fact that your flight doesn't swallow a flock of pigeons at 140mph.
On #3 and #4: I eat rabbits, they don't go to waste. Town pigeons go straight to the incinerator (I have my own, the city doesn't like burning biohazardous waste), wood pigeons which are visibly healthier and less likely to be carrying crippling parasites get cooked in with other game animals such as partridge, quail, hare and pheasant, and make great party nibbles.
show me the law which says I can't buy a Dell and install OSX on it?
Hereford is over a hundred miles, which is WAY more than two hours on a bike.
wrong. An offshore wind is one which originates offshore. An onshore wind is one which originates inland. The confusion is yours.
I can't agree more with this. Countryside air is a lot easier to deal with than city air. The biggest mistake I ever made was moving back to the city. I should've stayed on the coast, where the offshore wind was clean and crisp, onshore blew over a dairy farm and while it smelled like a cow's bum, at least I could sleep through the night without bolting upright at Dark O'clock for a blast on the salbutamol..
maybe see if he's willing to bequeath it to the National Forest Service on the proviso that they classify the area as a Category VI wood? This would mean that the area sees not a single chainsaw with the sole exception of removing dead trees and for public safety (backcutting overhanging growth over roads and tracks, for instance).