Except the consequence is that if "virtual property" is just like real property, it could be taxed. And you get the bizarre situation that you can be thrown in real jail for crimes against virtual objects and avatars.
Well, "virtual property" may well be taxable, but its actual value is probably much too small to bother. Just like nobody is going to bother to tax you for owning a (cheap) watch - yet if somebody steals it from you, he still goes to jail.
Most countries have (often quite recently) added hacker paragraphs to their criminal law which make deletion, manipulation or even plain access to somebody else's (private) data against their will an offense. Even if he gave her the password, he didn't want her to access his account anymore. Yes, it was stupid not to change the password (just like it is stupid to break up with a girlfriend and tell her to simply leave the key to your apartment you gave her in the mail box) - but stupidity is not a crime nor is the stupidity of the victim a good defense.
Yeah, maybe decades of warming is just noise in the measurements that'll go away in a year, but two years of cooling prove that it was. Right. Got you loud and clear. Insurmountable proof there.
So which "natural cycle" is it? We've looked at the ones which have caused past climate change (e.g., solar variations, volcanoes, changes in ocean circulation), and ruled them out as the cause of the current warming.
"CLIMATE cannot be accurately predicted more than a few weeks ahead" - yeah, one more idiot who can't tell the difference between climate and weather. What this has to do with your claim is beyond me - unless it's the silliness of both.
...we are ramping atmospheric CO2 up to levels not seen in millions of years...
Don't you mean "There is hard evidence showing carbon dioxide concentrations are much lower now than in recent geological ages - as recent as millions of years ago"?
Global warming doesn't predict that every location on Earth gets monotonically hotter every year.
What cooling? Your source says nothing about "the current cooling since 1998." Not to mention that you only get a correlation between his beloved PDO and an oscillation on top of an upward trend in temperature - and we've got so many of those that they are probably a correlated block linked to solar output and completely besides man-made Global Warming.
Science also once thought flies spontaneous-generated from rotting meat. That light traveled through an invisible fluid in space. That planets moved in perfect circles (because God is perfect, and his creation is perfect).
The point I was making is that scientific beliefs (yes that's the correct word) change from generation-to-generation.
Yep, and 3 generations ago, science believed that there was no way man could change climate. Then they realized that was not the case. Get up with the times.
Yeah, let's counterbalance the "soapbox" of a couple of climatologists with that of a guy who studied philosophy, politics, economics and mathematics, and later worked for an oil drilling company while he started that soapbox.
30,000 "scientists", meaning "anybody with a scientific degree". Certainly not 30,000 climate scientists.
Yeah, when a couple of dozen scientists sign petitions that there is no Global Warming, they are all climate scientists. Well apart from those who are geologists and economists working for oil companies.
It mad me leery of the global warming crowd, but a couple decades of solid evidence has 95% convinced me otherwise.
The evidence for global cooling was just as strong. About 25 years ago we really were going to be frozen into a big ball of ice by 2025.
Well, the "evidence" only convinced the Global Warming Deniers, who convinced the media. The only thing that has changed is that even the media isn't on your side anymore. Admit you are wrong after all.
In principle, the government can nationalize the trademark and after that, enforce against "unauthorized use" by the bikers
Don't they then have to defend the trade mark? Show that they are using it? It might have to appear on Government stationary;)
What does "defending" have to do with "using"? They are defending by forcing all who use it not to do so. The law says nothing about that they have to "use" it themselves - just that they can use it any way they want (including not using it), and that they can defend it.
So you think not allowing people to wear certain symbols is the same as forcing certain people to always visibly wear certain symbols (not to mention murdering them by the millions later)?
thats what struck me as well - this isn't criminal, don't the police have plenty enough other shit to bust bikies over?
You think the police can just stop any biker and arrest him because there's plenty of shit he will be guilty of? Now stopping him because he is violating a court order against by proudly wearing a trademarked logo, and seizing his cloths with said logo is something else completely.
Regardless, it would be a civil violation, not a criminal one. The owner would have to pursue civil measures to get them to stop wearing it; the police can't enforce trademark usage without a court order to that effect, since no crime is being committed until the person using the trademark violates a court order. Of course, they may have committed a tort and be liable, but that still doesn't mean the police can take their stuff until a court specifically says so.
And what does TFA say? The indictment seeks a court order....
BTW, a customs official can seize goods violating Trademark without any court order - at least when they are imported.
Are you just stupid or what? Stealing T-shirts may well be something someone could be sued for. Wearing one of these T-shirts is not stealing and therefore law has nothing to say about it.
The thing is, that Dell laptop really isn't the equivalent of a MacBook. Dell's real equivalent of a really nicely equipped, beautiful machine is the XPS m1330, which is the same price as the MacBook.
That is after the insta rebate - which reminds me: why does Dell have those rebates on everything anyway?
In TFA it is stated on page 3 that the MacBook costs 1299$ while the Lenovo is 1264.84$, the Sony is $1194.99 and the Dell is $819. Yet, in order to make the MacBook appear to be not so expensive in comparison, it states that they are all of comparable value and therefore, as you should ignore price differences in the scale of 100$, they all cost the same. I mean, WTF?
You mean WTF about that, yet gloss over the fact that the "of comparable value" Dell is seriously lacking in some regards (like processor, graphics card, display)? Why am I not surprised?
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Except the consequence is that if "virtual property" is just like real property, it could be taxed. And you get the bizarre situation that you can be thrown in real jail for crimes against virtual objects and avatars.
Well, "virtual property" may well be taxable, but its actual value is probably much too small to bother. Just like nobody is going to bother to tax you for owning a (cheap) watch - yet if somebody steals it from you, he still goes to jail.
Most countries have (often quite recently) added hacker paragraphs to their criminal law which make deletion, manipulation or even plain access to somebody else's (private) data against their will an offense. Even if he gave her the password, he didn't want her to access his account anymore. Yes, it was stupid not to change the password (just like it is stupid to break up with a girlfriend and tell her to simply leave the key to your apartment you gave her in the mail box) - but stupidity is not a crime nor is the stupidity of the victim a good defense.
Yeah, maybe decades of warming is just noise in the measurements that'll go away in a year, but two years of cooling prove that it was. Right. Got you loud and clear. Insurmountable proof there.
So which "natural cycle" is it? We've looked at the ones which have caused past climate change (e.g., solar variations, volcanoes, changes in ocean circulation), and ruled them out as the cause of the current warming.
Oh? Who, I ask, ruled them out? Wasn't it just a few coercively-financed scientists whose bread and butter depend on getting more government grants to "prove" that only government solutions can solve the computer-model-predicted crisis?
"CLIMATE cannot be accurately predicted more than a few weeks ahead" - yeah, one more idiot who can't tell the difference between climate and weather. What this has to do with your claim is beyond me - unless it's the silliness of both.
...we are ramping atmospheric CO2 up to levels not seen in millions of years...
On what evidence do you base this claim? There is hard evidence showing carbon dioxide concentrations are much lower now than in recent geological ages.
Don't you mean "There is hard evidence showing carbon dioxide concentrations are much lower now than in recent geological ages - as recent as millions of years ago"?
Global warming doesn't predict that every location on Earth gets monotonically hotter every year.
The theory of Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming doesn't predict the current cooling since 1998.
What cooling? Your source says nothing about "the current cooling since 1998." Not to mention that you only get a correlation between his beloved PDO and an oscillation on top of an upward trend in temperature - and we've got so many of those that they are probably a correlated block linked to solar output and completely besides man-made Global Warming.
You are an idiot. The Dell has exactly the same specs as the Apple
You are the idiot, because it hasn't.
Science also once thought flies spontaneous-generated from rotting meat. That light traveled through an invisible fluid in space. That planets moved in perfect circles (because God is perfect, and his creation is perfect).
The point I was making is that scientific beliefs (yes that's the correct word) change from generation-to-generation.
Yep, and 3 generations ago, science believed that there was no way man could change climate. Then they realized that was not the case. Get up with the times.
Yeah, let's counterbalance the "soapbox" of a couple of climatologists with that of a guy who studied philosophy, politics, economics and mathematics, and later worked for an oil drilling company while he started that soapbox.
So it's now colder than it was 30 years ago? Or are you just quoting some nutcase without a clue but with an agenda?
What the hell is a "carbon credit company"?
Actually, someone here on Slashdot told me Global Warming was an invention of BigOil to drive up prices.
30,000 "scientists", meaning "anybody with a scientific degree". Certainly not 30,000 climate scientists.
Yeah, when a couple of dozen scientists sign petitions that there is no Global Warming, they are all climate scientists. Well apart from those who are geologists and economists working for oil companies.
What part of sun cycles and sun weather don't you guys get?
Unlike you, we don't miss the part where there is no correlation between any of a dozen measures for "sun cycles and sun weather" and Global Warming.
It mad me leery of the global warming crowd, but a couple decades of solid evidence has 95% convinced me otherwise.
The evidence for global cooling was just as strong. About 25 years ago we really were going to be frozen into a big ball of ice by 2025.
Well, the "evidence" only convinced the Global Warming Deniers, who convinced the media. The only thing that has changed is that even the media isn't on your side anymore. Admit you are wrong after all.
In principle, the government can nationalize the trademark and after that, enforce against "unauthorized use" by the bikers
Don't they then have to defend the trade mark? Show that they are using it? It might have to appear on Government stationary ;)
What does "defending" have to do with "using"? They are defending by forcing all who use it not to do so. The law says nothing about that they have to "use" it themselves - just that they can use it any way they want (including not using it), and that they can defend it.
So you think not allowing people to wear certain symbols is the same as forcing certain people to always visibly wear certain symbols (not to mention murdering them by the millions later)?
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thats what struck me as well - this isn't criminal, don't the police have plenty enough other shit to bust bikies over?
You think the police can just stop any biker and arrest him because there's plenty of shit he will be guilty of? Now stopping him because he is violating a court order against by proudly wearing a trademarked logo, and seizing his cloths with said logo is something else completely.
Regardless, it would be a civil violation, not a criminal one. The owner would have to pursue civil measures to get them to stop wearing it; the police can't enforce trademark usage without a court order to that effect, since no crime is being committed until the person using the trademark violates a court order. Of course, they may have committed a tort and be liable, but that still doesn't mean the police can take their stuff until a court specifically says so.
And what does TFA say? The indictment seeks a court order ....
BTW, a customs official can seize goods violating Trademark without any court order - at least when they are imported.
Are you just stupid or what? Stealing T-shirts may well be something someone could be sued for. Wearing one of these T-shirts is not stealing and therefore law has nothing to say about it.
So you do blame Apple for all your woes - and I'm the one under a RDF.
And next you'll tell me that it's Apple's fault that Windows centric programmers are incompetent. But then we knew that, because they can't even write a simple alternative QuickTime player. http://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleApplications/Conceptual/iWork2-0_XML/Chapter01/chapter_1_section_1.html
IOW the Mac locks you in because it forces you outside the Windows lock-in?
"As before, Im not going to weight the importance of the categories."
So, Lenovo wins on CPU, Hard disk, display AND Graphics.
Coincidently, so does the MacBook.
The thing is, that Dell laptop really isn't the equivalent of a MacBook. Dell's real equivalent of a really nicely equipped, beautiful machine is the XPS m1330, which is the same price as the MacBook.
That is after the insta rebate - which reminds me: why does Dell have those rebates on everything anyway?
In TFA it is stated on page 3 that the MacBook costs 1299$ while the Lenovo is 1264.84$, the Sony is $1194.99 and the Dell is $819. Yet, in order to make the MacBook appear to be not so expensive in comparison, it states that they are all of comparable value and therefore, as you should ignore price differences in the scale of 100$, they all cost the same. I mean, WTF?
You mean WTF about that, yet gloss over the fact that the "of comparable value" Dell is seriously lacking in some regards (like processor, graphics card, display)? Why am I not surprised?