Yeah, I locked the wheels on a 18 foot moving truck once, and also got one side stuck in the mud. This happened when parking it for the night before returning it to the rental company. A small wrecker came out, mind you, and he just dragged the thing locked wheels and all where he wished. Not good for the car or truck, but very easily done.
Heh, maybe they can replace him with a digital Jackie Chan near the end of the movie. If I remember right, Jackie Chan was the man who stepped in to be Bruce Lee once the origional died.
A penny a page may seem like very little to the US, but for those in poorer countries, it may be too much.
Forget the costs, think of the international laws on sales. How do you bill someone in China, if the Chinese government says up yours. The business models will fail when governments get involved. If the actual method of data transmission is owned or subsidized by the government, I seriously doubt a foreign business can do a damn thing to bill that countries users if the government refuses.
Take for example, Mexico. American companies put a lot of money into developing oil rigs, refineries, etc. in Mexico. Of course, the companies pissed off the Mexican government - corruption, rape of environment, using Mexicans as cheap labor while taking vast resources out of the country, the normal corporate shit. The, the Mexican government said, "enough". They said we now own all oil in the country, we own the equipment, the wells, everything. The Mexican stance was American companies, we will pay you what we feel is fair and you will leave the country. While a company may be large, they can't battle a country.
Not to mention, how well do different countries have trade relations with each other. If the government does see the other government as a valid ruling body, how do the financial institutions go about conducting business. It can be done, but what a damn nightmare it would be.
Finally, who will draft the laws of how this will operate. Right now the WTO can't even agree on traditional trade methods and regulations. For a global billing idea, everyone in the world would need to agree. What content is allowed, what gets charged for what, who has the responsibility for the content that is produced. After all, if the content is being sold, soon a regulations body will have to placed over it. So who is it, the FCC, an UN based regulations body, some private governing board that may be biased and sure to be corrupted. The one reason the Web is free is that it is just to damn big to regulate.
Does import/export laws have any effect on this? If the content is being sold, can you sell your content from America to say Cuba if it is in violation of existing trade embargoes?
For some reason, the whole idea of penny for page is blazing at me just like the cue cat. All hype, not smart. Basically, the web is like public access TV. If you can't afford to produce your inane crap that.001% of the world population gives a damn about, then just dump of your web site. I mean, too many people are posting with what sounds like the altitude that they have a rite to have a web site, and that it should make money for them. If your content is that important, turn it into a BBS and see who actually gives a shit about you or your web page. If it makes money, you would be one of the very few who actually should have a real web site on the web.
Any other pay method is an IT/Marketing scramble to keep the web site they blew $20,000+ dollars to have built and set up and running so their CEO, CTO, CIO doesn't can their asses for wasting so much money on the web site and their salaries.
Look at this way, the content of a computer must be in compliance with the laws of the physical location the computer is at.
The problem to me seems is that France is going after Yahoo, even trying to get content on American servers removed, when they have no legal basis. What are there choices? 1) Do like China, just don't allow access to sites against their laws. They would take responsability for blocking. 2) Have Yahoo set up a totally seperate network for France. 3) Try going after the actual ones breaking the law, the people who know they are illegally buying items from Yahoo.
For an extreme example, try this example. Some countries have a lower age of consent, so a porn site with 16 year old girls is legal by the laws of the country where their server is hosted. The unspoken part is it is legal for the citizens of that country, not every country. If you are in say America where the age of consent is 18, this is child pornography and illegal to own. Of course, the owner of the server is not the law breaker, but the person who chooses to use this service where it is illegal. As a user of the internet, you are responsable for the laws you break, not your ISP, the Web Master where you browse, etc.
So, in short, if France has a problem with what is sold from an American company from an American server, then they either need to shut of access on their end or the need to enforce the laws against the actual criminal, which is the person in their country.
You are correct. The Bible tells that they waited several days to cross the sea. Of course, the Bible also tells of God traveling with them in the form of a cloud of smoke in the day and a pillar of fire at night to guide them. Also, it is stated that God held back the Egyptians at the Sea in the form of the pillar of fire until the Israelites had started their crossing and were well on their way.
Looking at the full details make it a we bit harder to explain.
You could be like me. I went out and bought a modem that supported Linux and it still won't work under my Mandrake install. And Mandrake was supposed to have such good hardware install tools and support.
I would say if you bought a Compaq computer you should already be put in jail for stupidity.
But on a serious note, this just won't financially fly to my thinking. Nothing you can provide me is worth it if I had to put up with that shit. You produce a DVD I can't use, I just won't use it. Company looses a sell. My CD player can't play it; oh well, no sell..Net style software that makes me have to validate or download party of the software every time I use it, news flash - I have the old software and you haven't made an advance worth buying in years. I will stick to what I have that works, you loose an upgrade customer.
I would agree that the over kill of Data laws is stupid, but just wait until the congress men get arested for their own stupid laws, then they will change pretty damn quick. Even in America, greater demand still will rule. Look at the two dumbest amendments to the Constitution. One outlaws liquor, then several years later one allows liquor. It's as simple as this, when a law pisses off enough people, the law makers finally understand they will loose their "jobs" unless they capitulate to the public.
Actually, the CD players can play them, it is just certain software can't read them. I bought the Gorillaz CD. It is protected, WinAmp can't play it. Of course, Microsoft's shitty little CD player has absolutly no problems playing the CD. When looking at the files on the CD, their is no directory for music visable, nor any music files. Those are CDA extension, right? Anyway, it does play.
From what I gathered in the book, if the ring didn't want to be carried by you, you wouldn't be able to carry it. It describes a long history of the ring causing the downfall of it's owner and being lost. It was lost in a river and the owner killed, so Gollem could find it. Bilbo happened upon it before Gollem could recover it. Bilbo felt it wanted to be lost from him at times. Heck, Frodo didn't even destroy the ring, but rather lost it when Gollem bit his finger off. So the ring was sort of destroyed in accident, when it tried to loose itself from Frodo.
Remember also, the elves, men and dwarves had rings designed for their races. The One ring was an aberation for something like a demon/mage. As it has been stated in other posts, the ring was deadly. It's usage was corupting and others did fear it. Besides, as is also pointed out, while hobbits are little creatures, they have solid souls. Out of all the races, they were the least effected by the ring's evil.
Also, I would guess, even if an army was raised they could not have stormed Morador. There were many more orcs, wargs and evil humans. So, even if the battle was won, both sides would be dead. Remeber how many died just defending attacks from Morador. Where is the victory if everyone died. Also, in the story, there were petty disputes. Some people wanted the ring, to lead them into battle against Morador, others wanted it for personal power. All in all, how do you get an army, when there are 4 or 5 major plans of attack and there is internal fighting?
Truthfully, on a technological scale, about the only type of equal retaliation is to steal their camels and crash them into their tents.
Also, right now the internet has been outlawed by the Taliban, except for high level Taliban elders. I imagine the amount of internet based communication from Afghanistan is at what we would consider a very extreme minimum.
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Heh, or just figure a way to kill them in a manner that will not allow them to go to their idea of heaven. Inject whiskey into em, until they die of alcohol poisoning. Does that violate their "no drinking" policy?
Could they be a martyr if they are damned by their religious tenants when they are dead?
1) I would think no. None of the items are presented to have any value. And since they are created by Blizzard, Blizzard has the right to set the market value. Blizzard can open them for sell to all players for 5 cents a piece. All that does is make you a stupid investor.
2) Blizzard has any right to make any code changes they wish. They own it, end of story.
3) No criminal charges that I could see. Blizzard would probably fire the coder, though. This would be very unethical.
4) Already has happened. Blizzard just patches this. Just view it as the world will change, so does the game world. Changes in the underlying rules can always happen.
Yeah, but to point out the flaw in this analogy, Cledus did not name his product "Macrodix".
It seems what has been said is that the programmer infringed on a naming right. Of course the lawyers are going to try to kneecap him however they can to protect the Lego name. If that means stopping him via IP infringment, then the goal is completed - just in an over kill sort of way.
Crap, if they can just sue him into long term bancrupcy, they will to protect the Lego name. As it has been pointed out, many businesses have gone under or nearly have gone under - just for loosing a trademarked name, like yo-yo.
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Yeah, I locked the wheels on a 18 foot moving truck once, and also got one side stuck in the mud. This happened when parking it for the night before returning it to the rental company. A small wrecker came out, mind you, and he just dragged the thing locked wheels and all where he wished. Not good for the car or truck, but very easily done.
Heh, maybe they can replace him with a digital Jackie Chan near the end of the movie. If I remember right, Jackie Chan was the man who stepped in to be Bruce Lee once the origional died.
I would say Collin makes those guys the three amigos, muskateers, etc. for that show.
How about marking it with "Warning: Biological Agent. Highly Infective Medical Agent".
If the government does see the other government as a valid ruling body
does = doesn't
To expand upon what was stated above.
.001% of the world population gives a damn about, then just dump of your web site. I mean, too many people are posting with what sounds like the altitude that they have a rite to have a web site, and that it should make money for them. If your content is that important, turn it into a BBS and see who actually gives a shit about you or your web page. If it makes money, you would be one of the very few who actually should have a real web site on the web.
A penny a page may seem like very little to the US, but for those in poorer countries, it may be too much.
Forget the costs, think of the international laws on sales. How do you bill someone in China, if the Chinese government says up yours. The business models will fail when governments get involved. If the actual method of data transmission is owned or subsidized by the government, I seriously doubt a foreign business can do a damn thing to bill that countries users if the government refuses.
Take for example, Mexico. American companies put a lot of money into developing oil rigs, refineries, etc. in Mexico. Of course, the companies pissed off the Mexican government - corruption, rape of environment, using Mexicans as cheap labor while taking vast resources out of the country, the normal corporate shit. The, the Mexican government said, "enough". They said we now own all oil in the country, we own the equipment, the wells, everything. The Mexican stance was American companies, we will pay you what we feel is fair and you will leave the country. While a company may be large, they can't battle a country.
Not to mention, how well do different countries have trade relations with each other. If the government does see the other government as a valid ruling body, how do the financial institutions go about conducting business. It can be done, but what a damn nightmare it would be.
Finally, who will draft the laws of how this will operate. Right now the WTO can't even agree on traditional trade methods and regulations. For a global billing idea, everyone in the world would need to agree. What content is allowed, what gets charged for what, who has the responsibility for the content that is produced. After all, if the content is being sold, soon a regulations body will have to placed over it. So who is it, the FCC, an UN based regulations body, some private governing board that may be biased and sure to be corrupted. The one reason the Web is free is that it is just to damn big to regulate.
Does import/export laws have any effect on this? If the content is being sold, can you sell your content from America to say Cuba if it is in violation of existing trade embargoes?
For some reason, the whole idea of penny for page is blazing at me just like the cue cat. All hype, not smart. Basically, the web is like public access TV. If you can't afford to produce your inane crap that
Any other pay method is an IT/Marketing scramble to keep the web site they blew $20,000+ dollars to have built and set up and running so their CEO, CTO, CIO doesn't can their asses for wasting so much money on the web site and their salaries.
Bhudda.
The problem to me seems is that France is going after Yahoo, even trying to get content on American servers removed, when they have no legal basis. What are there choices? 1) Do like China, just don't allow access to sites against their laws. They would take responsability for blocking. 2) Have Yahoo set up a totally seperate network for France. 3) Try going after the actual ones breaking the law, the people who know they are illegally buying items from Yahoo.
For an extreme example, try this example. Some countries have a lower age of consent, so a porn site with 16 year old girls is legal by the laws of the country where their server is hosted. The unspoken part is it is legal for the citizens of that country, not every country. If you are in say America where the age of consent is 18, this is child pornography and illegal to own. Of course, the owner of the server is not the law breaker, but the person who chooses to use this service where it is illegal. As a user of the internet, you are responsable for the laws you break, not your ISP, the Web Master where you browse, etc.
So, in short, if France has a problem with what is sold from an American company from an American server, then they either need to shut of access on their end or the need to enforce the laws against the actual criminal, which is the person in their country.
Looking at the full details make it a we bit harder to explain.
Um, Pharaoh did not die at the Red Sea, according to the Bible.
You could be like me. I went out and bought a modem that supported Linux and it still won't work under my Mandrake install. And Mandrake was supposed to have such good hardware install tools and support.
Quantum effects happen
So, I guess I can time travel within my lifetime and have a hologram buddy too. This will be some fun technology.
Heh, I didn't loose my 5 1/4" DOS 5 disks nor my 5 1/4" Disk drives that I keep in all my systems. Never know when the old crap will be handy.
Yeah, saw that watch at a store. Casio also has a limited PDA watch and a 32Meg storage MP3 player watch.
I just wonder if something like this was heard in the Senator's office....
Yes Sir, back doors to cryptography do mean your child and animal porn will no longer be secure from snooping media.
I would say if you bought a Compaq computer you should already be put in jail for stupidity.
.Net style software that makes me have to validate or download party of the software every time I use it, news flash - I have the old software and you haven't made an advance worth buying in years. I will stick to what I have that works, you loose an upgrade customer.
But on a serious note, this just won't financially fly to my thinking. Nothing you can provide me is worth it if I had to put up with that shit. You produce a DVD I can't use, I just won't use it. Company looses a sell. My CD player can't play it; oh well, no sell.
I would agree that the over kill of Data laws is stupid, but just wait until the congress men get arested for their own stupid laws, then they will change pretty damn quick. Even in America, greater demand still will rule. Look at the two dumbest amendments to the Constitution. One outlaws liquor, then several years later one allows liquor. It's as simple as this, when a law pisses off enough people, the law makers finally understand they will loose their "jobs" unless they capitulate to the public.
Actually, the CD players can play them, it is just certain software can't read them. I bought the Gorillaz CD. It is protected, WinAmp can't play it. Of course, Microsoft's shitty little CD player has absolutly no problems playing the CD. When looking at the files on the CD, their is no directory for music visable, nor any music files. Those are CDA extension, right? Anyway, it does play.
Bhudda
Not really, just less than 5 minutes of writing and a good memory of a book series I haven't read in several years. Schmuck.
Bhudda
From what I gathered in the book, if the ring didn't want to be carried by you, you wouldn't be able to carry it. It describes a long history of the ring causing the downfall of it's owner and being lost. It was lost in a river and the owner killed, so Gollem could find it. Bilbo happened upon it before Gollem could recover it. Bilbo felt it wanted to be lost from him at times. Heck, Frodo didn't even destroy the ring, but rather lost it when Gollem bit his finger off. So the ring was sort of destroyed in accident, when it tried to loose itself from Frodo.
Remember also, the elves, men and dwarves had rings designed for their races. The One ring was an aberation for something like a demon/mage. As it has been stated in other posts, the ring was deadly. It's usage was corupting and others did fear it. Besides, as is also pointed out, while hobbits are little creatures, they have solid souls. Out of all the races, they were the least effected by the ring's evil.
Also, I would guess, even if an army was raised they could not have stormed Morador. There were many more orcs, wargs and evil humans. So, even if the battle was won, both sides would be dead. Remeber how many died just defending attacks from Morador. Where is the victory if everyone died. Also, in the story, there were petty disputes. Some people wanted the ring, to lead them into battle against Morador, others wanted it for personal power. All in all, how do you get an army, when there are 4 or 5 major plans of attack and there is internal fighting?
Truthfully, on a technological scale, about the only type of equal retaliation is to steal their camels and crash them into their tents.
Also, right now the internet has been outlawed by the Taliban, except for high level Taliban elders. I imagine the amount of internet based communication from Afghanistan is at what we would consider a very extreme minimum.
Heh, or just figure a way to kill them in a manner that will not allow them to go to their idea of heaven. Inject whiskey into em, until they die of alcohol poisoning. Does that violate their "no drinking" policy?
Could they be a martyr if they are damned by their religious tenants when they are dead?
Bah, too evil if it would work.
Then they just loose business, right?
No way in hell I am going to fill out a form to read their public info.
Besides, instead of Starbucks, get thee a coffe pot and make your own.
Bhudda
Easy, to answer.
1) I would think no. None of the items are presented to have any value. And since they are created by Blizzard, Blizzard has the right to set the market value. Blizzard can open them for sell to all players for 5 cents a piece. All that does is make you a stupid investor.
2) Blizzard has any right to make any code changes they wish. They own it, end of story.
3) No criminal charges that I could see. Blizzard would probably fire the coder, though. This would be very unethical.
4) Already has happened. Blizzard just patches this. Just view it as the world will change, so does the game world. Changes in the underlying rules can always happen.
Bhudda
Yeah, but to point out the flaw in this analogy, Cledus did not name his product "Macrodix".
It seems what has been said is that the programmer infringed on a naming right. Of course the lawyers are going to try to kneecap him however they can to protect the Lego name. If that means stopping him via IP infringment, then the goal is completed - just in an over kill sort of way.
Crap, if they can just sue him into long term bancrupcy, they will to protect the Lego name. As it has been pointed out, many businesses have gone under or nearly have gone under - just for loosing a trademarked name, like yo-yo.
Well, if this article has done one thing, it has made me want to go out and buy me some legos.
Now to wrangle up some extra cash for them, after I spent it all on building up my computer.