Phone calls: everyone Video calls: nobody (seriously, who wants to have a conversation while holding his phone at arms' length? ok you want to do it once and that's it) Share pictures online: some people Share live video feeds to website right from phone (Qik): Send/Receive/Forward MMS: can't get the damn thing to work most of the time (and I'm a fucking sysadmin), and most of my intended recipients can't either Send/Receive/Forward SMS: everyone uses that Load videos to youtube: could be useful Many chat applications: very useful indeed Webbrowsing: everyone who buys a smartphone
Fact is, web browsing on the iPhone is great. On every Nokia device I've seen it sucks. Maybe they have a new version of their web browser... but who cares? they won't provide upgrades if you have an "ancient" model from 6 months ago!
I'm no iPhone fanboy, I don't have one and I'm probably not going to get one because I'm Linux-only. I'm going to get an Android device. But those features you list, with few exceptions, are *gadgets*. About as useful as Zune's squirting, because the implementation sucks. It's not necessarily the developer's fault. MMS fails because operators suck. Email does the job *much* better, and it works, even with spam and shit.
Apple decided to ditch useless crap and focused on implementing the core features superbly. Nokia (and Microsoft) chose to check as many boxes as they could while delivering buggy, unusable crapware.
You sue for wrongful termination, the court says they shouldn't have fired you, so they have to re-hire you. It would be too much trouble so they pay a nice sum instead.
It's been times and times again considered a disguised for a firing. The courts are not stupid, and in particular they really don't like it when someone is trying to bamboozle them.
The first forward was kosher IMO, part of the job of the MP's staff is to route the questions they get to the appropriate authorities. What's REALLY dodgy however is the 2nd forward, because unless we learn something completely new about this situation, the motivation was purely punitive. I don't know what kind of law was broken here, it's unclear at this point.
Damage awards in most matters are usually a few orders of magnitude less than in the US, but labor law is one of the exceptions; probably because there is so little protection in the US to begin with. In this case he could get a year or two's worth of wages, tax free.
The issue is not whether the mail was not supposed to be forwarded, the issue is whether he made actual public statements. He sent an email to one person, Mme. de Panafieu; that's not "public," regardless of whether she, in turn, publicizes it.
They fired him for "public statements;" but as far as I can tell, he never made any public statements, he only wrote, privately, to his MP. This kind of incident is great for us fighting this law; it produced some more ammos for the opposition in parliament, and it made the gov't look like the assholes they are. On top of that, it's proof positive -- if it was ever needed -- of the collusion between the gov't and the major media.
It's completely absurd. It's been twisted and distorted by two centuries of legalism to the point where it's not fulfilling its function anymore, and, just like the banking system, instead of providing a non productive but necessary service, it confiscates a significant part of the GDP to keep on keepin' on. Take jury trial. Jury of peers, supposedly. Ok then, why are patent disputes handled by the same type of jury as a murder trial? There is something disturbing about companies making hundred of billions paying millions to top lawyers who can then basically have random people kidnapped into a courtroom to serve their litigation needs. The amount of punitive damages towards individuals is also staggering. I see many stories, such as those involving RIAA vs individuals, where the latter are facing damages that would bankrupt many small businesses. This doesn't make any fucking sense. Just like 300 year prison terms -- what's the damn point? Don't these people realise that even the scariest murderers don't live that long? No, they don't rejuvenate by drinking the blood of their victims, Your Honor, that is F-I-C-T-I-O-N. And the cost of getting justice is also staggerlingly high. When someone with deep enough pockets can basically out-lawyer any commoner, well, you know your revolution is over; there is a higher class and it doesn't have to obey the same rules. You really need to take a look outside your country and see how it's done -- it's certainly not perfect anywhere, esp. not in mine, but it's not the massive clusterfuck I'm seeing over and over.
In fact, it's the complete opposite: depressed people are much more complacent than not. Depression is not "being sad."
If you'd ever met a bipolar person you'd know what I mean. In their manic phases they'd go fight an army by themselves, they don't care about rules and retribution. In their depressed phase they can't get out of bed, let alone rebel against the established social order.
I'm working on a project where some of the customers, major companies, insist that we deliver the extranet IE6-compatible, because that's what they use. Even if it's a big turd, even if it's basically not supported anymore. We have to spend a lot of time and money on supporting this complete crap.
My MP reused one of my argument in the assembly, another, and he, along with the few main opponents, thanked us for our contributions; in fact they all met [I couldn't attend due to a last minute obligation] with the few MPs in a bar after the surprise vote of the 9th
I sure hope child porn and spammers get banned from access.
And I want cancer to be cured. I'm going to get a law passed to make cancer illegal. It's gonna be as useful as what you're defending here.
I've been calling MEPs, meeting with my MP, writing a tech memo at the request of another, doing research and doing writeups for our advocacy group's wiki, fixing up websites and so on and so forth.
The GNU licence uses copyright law against itself. It doesn't mean the FSF condones copyright law. Just like if I don't agree with ill-considered tax-breaks doesn't mean I'm going to be the only fucker paying them.
That reminds me, pardon my Godwin, of an old line from the late Pierre Desproges: "You will never manage to completely convince me that jews weren't at least a LITTLE bit guilty of irrationnal anti-nazi bias."
We're changing the law right here. That's what we are doing with the fine people at LQDN. In any case, I'm more than capable of doing whatever it takes not to be disconnected, me and all my high end pirated software.
Yes, I admit it, all my software is PIRATED. I downloaded it for free on the internet! Sue me! I can even give you the name and addresses of the copyright holders, even better, I'm going to GIVE YOU copies of ALL my software. For free. Oh my god I'm such a thief. Surely the makers of that software are all gonna die instantly and/or go bankrupt!1!!!
Enoguh with your tired propaganda. Sharing is not a crime. Destroying the internet for the benefit of coke snorting, whore fucking, disgusting music industry execs ought to be one.
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Phone calls: everyone
Video calls: nobody (seriously, who wants to have a conversation while holding his phone at arms' length? ok you want to do it once and that's it)
Share pictures online: some people
Share live video feeds to website right from phone (Qik):
Send/Receive/Forward MMS: can't get the damn thing to work most of the time (and I'm a fucking sysadmin), and most of my intended recipients can't either
Send/Receive/Forward SMS: everyone uses that
Load videos to youtube: could be useful
Many chat applications: very useful indeed
Webbrowsing: everyone who buys a smartphone
Fact is, web browsing on the iPhone is great. On every Nokia device I've seen it sucks. Maybe they have a new version of their web browser ... but who cares? they won't provide upgrades if you have an "ancient" model from 6 months ago!
I'm no iPhone fanboy, I don't have one and I'm probably not going to get one because I'm Linux-only. I'm going to get an Android device. But those features you list, with few exceptions, are *gadgets*. About as useful as Zune's squirting, because the implementation sucks. It's not necessarily the developer's fault. MMS fails because operators suck. Email does the job *much* better, and it works, even with spam and shit.
Apple decided to ditch useless crap and focused on implementing the core features superbly. Nokia (and Microsoft) chose to check as many boxes as they could while delivering buggy, unusable crapware.
while $cieno milks them.
I have no sympathy for religion, organized or not, but $cieno is a special kind of evil.
It's a good idea alright.
"Homo" is latin for "human."
Françoise de Panafieu
motivated by what?
The US had more oil deals than France to begin with, and they have all of them now. Plus they killed a million people.
But hey.
You sue for wrongful termination, the court says they shouldn't have fired you, so they have to re-hire you. It would be too much trouble so they pay a nice sum instead.
You can't fire people easily in Germany or Japan either. That's why their cars suck. Oh wait.
It's been times and times again considered a disguised for a firing. The courts are not stupid, and in particular they really don't like it when someone is trying to bamboozle them.
The first forward was kosher IMO, part of the job of the MP's staff is to route the questions they get to the appropriate authorities.
What's REALLY dodgy however is the 2nd forward, because unless we learn something completely new about this situation, the motivation was purely punitive. I don't know what kind of law was broken here, it's unclear at this point.
Damage awards in most matters are usually a few orders of magnitude less than in the US, but labor law is one of the exceptions; probably because there is so little protection in the US to begin with.
In this case he could get a year or two's worth of wages, tax free.
The issue is not whether the mail was not supposed to be forwarded, the issue is whether he made actual public statements. He sent an email to one person, Mme. de Panafieu; that's not "public," regardless of whether she, in turn, publicizes it.
They fired him for "public statements;" but as far as I can tell, he never made any public statements, he only wrote, privately, to his MP.
This kind of incident is great for us fighting this law; it produced some more ammos for the opposition in parliament, and it made the gov't look like the assholes they are.
On top of that, it's proof positive -- if it was ever needed -- of the collusion between the gov't and the major media.
It's completely absurd. It's been twisted and distorted by two centuries of legalism to the point where it's not fulfilling its function anymore, and, just like the banking system, instead of providing a non productive but necessary service, it confiscates a significant part of the GDP to keep on keepin' on.
Take jury trial. Jury of peers, supposedly. Ok then, why are patent disputes handled by the same type of jury as a murder trial? There is something disturbing about companies making hundred of billions paying millions to top lawyers who can then basically have random people kidnapped into a courtroom to serve their litigation needs.
The amount of punitive damages towards individuals is also staggering. I see many stories, such as those involving RIAA vs individuals, where the latter are facing damages that would bankrupt many small businesses. This doesn't make any fucking sense. Just like 300 year prison terms -- what's the damn point? Don't these people realise that even the scariest murderers don't live that long? No, they don't rejuvenate by drinking the blood of their victims, Your Honor, that is F-I-C-T-I-O-N.
And the cost of getting justice is also staggerlingly high. When someone with deep enough pockets can basically out-lawyer any commoner, well, you know your revolution is over; there is a higher class and it doesn't have to obey the same rules.
You really need to take a look outside your country and see how it's done -- it's certainly not perfect anywhere, esp. not in mine, but it's not the massive clusterfuck I'm seeing over and over.
That should fix your problem.
In fact, it's the complete opposite: depressed people are much more complacent than not. Depression is not "being sad."
If you'd ever met a bipolar person you'd know what I mean. In their manic phases they'd go fight an army by themselves, they don't care about rules and retribution. In their depressed phase they can't get out of bed, let alone rebel against the established social order.
I'm working on a project where some of the customers, major companies, insist that we deliver the extranet IE6-compatible, because that's what they use. Even if it's a big turd, even if it's basically not supported anymore. We have to spend a lot of time and money on supporting this complete crap.
My MP reused one of my argument in the assembly, another, and he, along with the few main opponents, thanked us for our contributions; in fact they all met [I couldn't attend due to a last minute obligation] with the few MPs in a bar after the surprise vote of the 9th
I sure hope child porn and spammers get banned from access.
And I want cancer to be cured. I'm going to get a law passed to make cancer illegal. It's gonna be as useful as what you're defending here.
I've been calling MEPs, meeting with my MP, writing a tech memo at the request of another, doing research and doing writeups for our advocacy group's wiki, fixing up websites and so on and so forth.
WTF are you rambling about?
The FSF is against copyright, it just so happens to use copyright to protect itself from copyright abusers.
The GNU licence uses copyright law against itself. It doesn't mean the FSF condones copyright law. Just like if I don't agree with ill-considered tax-breaks doesn't mean I'm going to be the only fucker paying them.
That reminds me, pardon my Godwin, of an old line from the late Pierre Desproges: "You will never manage to completely convince me that jews weren't at least a LITTLE bit guilty of irrationnal anti-nazi bias."
We're changing the law right here. That's what we are doing with the fine people at LQDN. In any case, I'm more than capable of doing whatever it takes not to be disconnected, me and all my high end pirated software.
Yes, I admit it, all my software is PIRATED. I downloaded it for free on the internet! Sue me! I can even give you the name and addresses of the copyright holders, even better, I'm going to GIVE YOU copies of ALL my software. For free. Oh my god I'm such a thief. Surely the makers of that software are all gonna die instantly and/or go bankrupt!1!!!
Be a good boy. Go hide under your bed.
Enoguh with your tired propaganda. Sharing is not a crime. Destroying the internet for the benefit of coke snorting, whore fucking, disgusting music industry execs ought to be one.
Stealing is a subtraction.
Sharing is a multiplication.
Stick your tired propaganda talking points up where your proctologist can find them.