Maybe the reason why we Brits don't get sued so much is because in the UK, the loser generally has to pay the winner's fees if a lawsuit is without factual merit.
Therefore it's just less risky to sue people in the US than in the UK.
You're confusing the posited life purpose with the purpose of the purpose.
Not all purposes have "higher" purposes, just as not all reasons have "higher" reasons. The chain has to stop somewhere, otherwise you get a ridiculous infinite regress, like the old myth that the world is flat, and is held up by an infinite succession of turtles. Turtles, turtles, all the way down...
I know you were joking, but, that wouldn't prove anything, because they could be one of the 10% that figured out how to cheat it. In fact that's more likely, since they've had time to experiment with it in secret.
How many people with poor social skills have an extreme attachment to daily routine and become upset - even enraged - when that routine is broken? Not many, I'd wager. Yet that's one of the key criteria for classifying someone as autistic.
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I believe it's called "corn derivatives in food", or something like that.
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It's not that easy unfortunately because neither Wine nor Mono are complete. I think there are a bunch of distros already trying to snag desktop users specifically - Linspire for example, although they're a bit dodgy.
But this argument is pointless because if the government wants to make airlines require ID they can do so, and there's no constitutional protection against airlines requiring you to show ID.
That's pretty obvious. Most Slashdot readers aren't Chinese, because it's in English - and it's probably also censored by the Chinese government, I would assume. So it's more a case of "their rights online" than "your rights online".
I don't think it's actually a court judgment. It's my impression that here in the EU we do things a little differently than in the US when it comes to anti-trust. In the EU, the executive just decides if a company has broken the law and threatens fines if they don't change their behaviour. The decision can be appealed to the courts of course. In the US, the executive starts off by suing the company, which takes years, during which time said company blatantly continues and extends its monopolistic behaviour.
Obviously on pragmatic grounds this would be completely insane, the courts would be overwhelmed. But I'm not sure if this exception is enshrined in law.
I'll recognise that as non-free, just as soon as corporations recognise the harm they do to communities as theft from those communities that should be stopped or compensated for. I'm not holding my breath.
Surely they only get their legal fees paid if they win - in which case it is only profitable for them to file cases which they have a 50% or more probability of winning.
I'm trying to work out what your problem is with an organisation that defends peoples rights talking to "suspected terrorists" (note: suspicion does not equate to proof) to gain information. So, are you against the right of freedom of speech, or do you believe that the ACLU is somehow pro-terrorist? Which is it?
you provider just put too many VPSs on a single server.
That doesn't sound likely, since the GP stated the memory allocated was doubled. Or perhaps you are saying that Virtuozzo is not designed to support as many concurrent VPSs as UML on the same machine?
That would mean Virtuozzo is very poor, because UML is a major resource hog, and is not designed to be particularly efficient. In theory, partitioning software should be the most efficient possible way to create "virtual root jails".
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Therefore it's just less risky to sue people in the US than in the UK.
That's a ridiculous assertion. Try convincing the Oxford English Dictionary that purpose is a meaningless word.
Not all purposes have "higher" purposes, just as not all reasons have "higher" reasons. The chain has to stop somewhere, otherwise you get a ridiculous infinite regress, like the old myth that the world is flat, and is held up by an infinite succession of turtles. Turtles, turtles, all the way down...
Do you have any idea of what you are talking about?
But I bet the Chinese government will block google.com now that google.cn is being censored for them.
That doesn't sound likely, since the GP stated the memory allocated was doubled. Or perhaps you are saying that Virtuozzo is not designed to support as many concurrent VPSs as UML on the same machine?
That would mean Virtuozzo is very poor, because UML is a major resource hog, and is not designed to be particularly efficient. In theory, partitioning software should be the most efficient possible way to create "virtual root jails".
I think that you are the one who should be embarassed.