I'll pass on seeing "Spinal Tap 11D". It would be my luck that I'd end up in the seat with a drummer's kit and get blown up just as the movie was getting interesting.
1. Slashdotters don't go outside.
2. Slashdotters live with parents, i.e. don't have debt.
3. Didn't have any special christmas memories, except maybe that promised X850 that failed to show up.
4. What resolutions?
5. What motivation?
Looks like a divide by zero error there...
'President Bush strongly opposes any treaty or policy that would cause the loss of a single American job, let alone the nearly 5 million jobs Kyoto would have cost,' said James Connaughton, chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
I guess Environmental Quality doesn't have anything to do with NAFTA and other "Free Trade" (so called) treaties.
If I recall, there is some legal precedent that if a judgement should be found against someone or some entity that is not residing the U.S., the judgement can be executed against any assets that the person or entity has in the U.S.
I would not be surprised to discover that there are similar laws in other jurisdictions. (What was that Human Rights treaty the U.S. pulled out of because it didn't want its soldiers coming to trial in foreign jurisdictions?)
It is not difficult to imagine that if a person had a succession of judgements against them in a foreign jurisdiction they could be declared "persona non grata" by that jurisdiction and thus denied permission to travel there.
Additional research topic: How much of this stuff is also showing up in World Trade Organization, etc. treaties?
To this (legally uneducated) observer there also seem to be similarities with some states having laws against "defamation" of their pet local industries (e.g., Oprah getting sued in Texas for giving beef some hard knocks).
Could Ralph Nader write "Unsafe at Any Speed" in today's legal climate? (Wow, does that reference date me!)
And this just in from (Seems like AOL/TW is putting even more $$ where their mouth is):
Mozilla.org has been investigating the large number of reports problems associated with attempts at downloading the most recent 0.9.9 milestone release.
Early investigation points to a large increase in the traffic and demand for this release. To date it appears that approximately 135,000 downloads have been successfully completed, plus additional as yet uncounted downloads of localizations, stub installers and source code. We are uncertain about the additional download requests that we haven't been able to support.
We are looking at options for quickly increasing ftp download capacity. AOL/TW has volunteered to provide additional network and ftp services to accommodate this unprecedented user demand. We are hoping to have additional resources in place very soon, hopefully later today. Please bear with us and be patient until we finalize a plan and get this extra capacity on-line. We'll post additional details once they have been finalized.
Mozilla.org thanks AOL/TW for its generous response.
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I'll pass on seeing "Spinal Tap 11D". It would be my luck that I'd end up in the seat with a drummer's kit and get blown up just as the movie was getting interesting.
All your personal information are belong to us. [It was real tempting to post as "Anonymous Coward."]
1. Slashdotters don't go outside. 2. Slashdotters live with parents, i.e. don't have debt. 3. Didn't have any special christmas memories, except maybe that promised X850 that failed to show up. 4. What resolutions? 5. What motivation? Looks like a divide by zero error there...
'President Bush strongly opposes any treaty or policy that would cause the loss of a single American job, let alone the nearly 5 million jobs Kyoto would have cost,' said James Connaughton, chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
I guess Environmental Quality doesn't have anything to do with NAFTA and other "Free Trade" (so called) treaties.
If I recall, there is some legal precedent that if a judgement should be found against someone or some entity that is not residing the U.S., the judgement can be executed against any assets that the person or entity has in the U.S.
I would not be surprised to discover that there are similar laws in other jurisdictions. (What was that Human Rights treaty the U.S. pulled out of because it didn't want its soldiers coming to trial in foreign jurisdictions?)
It is not difficult to imagine that if a person had a succession of judgements against them in a foreign jurisdiction they could be declared "persona non grata" by that jurisdiction and thus denied permission to travel there.
Additional research topic: How much of this stuff is also showing up in World Trade Organization, etc. treaties?
To this (legally uneducated) observer there also seem to be similarities with some states having laws against "defamation" of their pet local industries (e.g., Oprah getting sued in Texas for giving beef some hard knocks).
Could Ralph Nader write "Unsafe at Any Speed" in today's legal climate? (Wow, does that reference date me!)
And this just in from (Seems like AOL/TW is putting even more $$ where their mouth is):
Mozilla.org has been investigating the large number
of reports problems associated with attempts at downloading the
most recent 0.9.9 milestone release.
Early investigation points to a large increase in the traffic
and demand for this release. To date it appears that
approximately 135,000 downloads have been
successfully completed, plus additional as yet
uncounted downloads of localizations, stub installers and source code.
We are uncertain about the additional download requests
that we haven't been able to support.
We are looking at options for quickly increasing ftp download capacity.
AOL/TW has volunteered to provide additional network and ftp services
to accommodate this unprecedented user demand. We are hoping to have
additional resources in place very soon, hopefully later today. Please
bear with us and be patient until we finalize a plan and get this extra
capacity on-line. We'll post additional details once they have been
finalized.
Mozilla.org thanks AOL/TW for its generous response.
Mitchell