Reminds me of an article in yesterday's NY Times about how the Germans are following around a guy they know financed Mohammed Atta, but won't arrest him because they have such a respect for individual rights there.
Curse those Germans and their rights. Maybe they should follow the USA's lead and forget about enshrined rights whenever it suits some higher purpose.
I was going to call you some very bad names for being so stupid but the fact that you and your entire nation are probably blissfully unaware of being trounced by Germany in the World Cup today makes up for it all. In fact it must come as a surprise that there is a sports tournament with 'World' in the title and yet foreign teams are allowed to enter.
I choose Moldavia then, since copyright infringment carries a mandatory death sentence. Or Afganistan where I can set up my own kangaroo court. Or my private island nation of Baronga where I am the law! Or in international waters where I can do what I want. Hopefully you get the picture.
Shakespeare was throwaway entertainment for the masses. Rembrant painted pictures for money so some rich tart could have something nice to hang on her wall DaVinci was the Duke of Milan's biatch. 95% of everything is crap. Hindsight is everything. I hate art snobs.
I was thinking the same thing myself.
I always thought that there was 12 kinds of people (as told to me in the astrology section of my newspaper). Its nice to know that its even simpler than that.
Please! I work with the same kind of 'stupid' non-techies as you obviously do and I have no problem showing 'secretaries' (and even artists) how to use FTP Explorer. You are either lying or you didn't even try.
"Open FTP Explorer, find your file in Windows Explorer and drag it from one to the other" - if people can't work that out then you need to hire from within the human gene pool.
I know its not exactly productive, but I just have to say of your comment - what a pile of shite. You must live in a putrid little world if those are your beliefs (and if they represent the rest of Redneck, USA its not wonder the killing goes on, and on, and on...) Americans fought a War of Indepence over less than than what they now impose on much of the world. Tour the world, get some real perspective.
So you're the guy Uncle Sam's been aiming the propaganda at all these years. Its nice to know it hasn't all been wasted.
Negligence is still negligence
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Of course you can. Its called negligence and it only applies if they are 'directly responsible' for the effects. So you could sue a manufacturer who sold you a Firewall product with a claim that it was unbreakable (assuming it was broken and cost you money/sales/loss of reputation), or perhaps a database company with the same claim, or an OS company that kept serious security holes a secret. You couldn't sue a web server programer because _you_ didn't bother setting it up properly and left a glaring hole, or you didn't bother applying an available patch or because you downloaded a 10 year old mail program and used it as the company Internet mail server. I'm pretty sure that even in the US you couldn't sue Ford because your self modified engine block exploded, or because your car skidded off the road when you'd been using the same tyres for 10 years. You sure could sue them if one model consistently toppled over going round corners and Ford did nothing about it.
Negligence - look it up in the dictionary and then tell me why it should apply to every product and service in the western world _except_ software?
Self regulation, like communism, is a utopian dream that can never exist in the real world where too many people are greedy, self serving, amoral, liars, etc.
So why didn't they? Plenty of companies other than MS were allowing people to play xboxes as I'm sure MS were aware. In fact it seems a funny coincedence, considering the 'no hands on' rule is generally ignored, even by the organisers, that MS chose to not have any hands on demoing of the xbox, AND chose not to complain about its own partners rule breaking.
To be honest, its not the dirty tricks that get my goat, its the infantile manner in which they 'told teacher' then denied it was them.
Not forgetting those other fallicies - acid rain, smog, asthma, polluted rivers, industrial waste, etc. All made up to prevent George W Bush from increasing his personal fortune.
Its lucky you're here to save us from ourselves, after all it would really fuck the world up if we were to pollute less!
Sadly what Amazon did was take that old round cart roller thing, that people have used since before any can remember and which everybody takes for granted, and given us "with our new patented 'Wheel(tm)' technology you shall never have to drag your cart again".
"Watch out next week for the launch of 'Fire(pat pending)'"
Not any more it isn't. From what I heard about our new install you have to buy the server license (eg Win2K Server), the client licenses (Win2K, XP, etc) AND a CAL license per client (basically a license to connect clients to the server). The only step left is to charge for a license to have the licenses.
Yeh, right on man!!! That's the Merkin way!!! Fuck the little guy - its his own fault - probably just lazy or stoopid.
If they can't be bothered to get of their fat, immigrant behinds and move to New York for a cushy job as an Ad Exec then the Packard family deserve to make another couple of billion bucks off their backs. I might employ a couple of the stoopidist ones myself, as human torches to light my seegars with.
This is very true. Broadband will not take off until it holds the public imagination, and it won't do that until there is a killer app (or apps) that the general public 'must have'.
Sadly this will never happen as long as all the corporations want to give us is sub-standard pay-to-view non-interactive one way content like streaming movies and music. Why the hell would Sally Housecoat and Joe Sixpack want to pay an extra $50 + viewing charges when they already have a TV and a radio (and a modem if they really need anything from the internet)?
I know its bad form to simply agree but - I totally agree. This is almost exactly what I was going to say myself and you've said it very well.
Its about time some social responsibility was forced onto these businesses and the only way I think that will happen is if the people at the top are held responsible for their actions, bad as well as good. At the moment for these people its win-win.
This is the paradox of utilitarianism, you will always have to step on some individual freedoms to ensure maximum benefit to society.
And with this statement you make the assumption that individual freedom is a better choice than all the others - this is a product of US society not a universal constant. Democracy (much like communism) is about the power of many over the power of few. Absolute personal freedom is anarchy (personal responsibility) not democracy
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Curse those Germans and their rights. Maybe they should follow the USA's lead and forget about enshrined rights whenever it suits some higher purpose.
I was going to call you some very bad names for being so stupid but the fact that you and your entire nation are probably blissfully unaware of being trounced by Germany in the World Cup today makes up for it all. In fact it must come as a surprise that there is a sports tournament with 'World' in the title and yet foreign teams are allowed to enter.
Yeh, curse the Royal Air Force and their destructive ways. Why can't they just drop flowers from their aerial death machines.
I choose Moldavia then, since copyright infringment carries a mandatory death sentence. Or Afganistan where I can set up my own kangaroo court. Or my private island nation of Baronga where I am the law! Or in international waters where I can do what I want.
Hopefully you get the picture.
Shakespeare was throwaway entertainment for the masses.
Rembrant painted pictures for money so some rich tart could have something nice to hang on her wall
DaVinci was the Duke of Milan's biatch.
95% of everything is crap.
Hindsight is everything.
I hate art snobs.
I was thinking the same thing myself.
I always thought that there was 12 kinds of people (as told to me in the astrology section of my newspaper). Its nice to know that its even simpler than that.
Donnie Murdo (DangerMouse)
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Padraig Post (Postman Pat)
Of course none of this will mean anything to non-Brits anwyay.
Another great product of the US education system.
Please! I work with the same kind of 'stupid' non-techies as you obviously do and I have no problem showing 'secretaries' (and even artists) how to use FTP Explorer. You are either lying or you didn't even try.
"Open FTP Explorer, find your file in Windows Explorer and drag it from one to the other" - if people can't work that out then you need to hire from within the human gene pool.
Its nice to know that President Bush is actually doing it all for our own good.
"If it won't work, don't try" - are you Homer Simpson?
Just don't go to the US on holiday if you work for Kazaa
Well, you might not but I do - under the European Convention on Human Rights, now passed into law in the UK, I have a right to privacy.
I know its not exactly productive, but I just have to say of your comment - what a pile of shite. You must live in a putrid little world if those are your beliefs (and if they represent the rest of Redneck, USA its not wonder the killing goes on, and on, and on...)
Americans fought a War of Indepence over less than than what they now impose on much of the world.
Tour the world, get some real perspective.
So you're the guy Uncle Sam's been aiming the propaganda at all these years. Its nice to know it hasn't all been wasted.
I'm pretty sure that even in the US you couldn't sue Ford because your self modified engine block exploded, or because your car skidded off the road when you'd been using the same tyres for 10 years. You sure could sue them if one model consistently toppled over going round corners and Ford did nothing about it.
Negligence - look it up in the dictionary and then tell me why it should apply to every product and service in the western world _except_ software?
Self regulation, like communism, is a utopian dream that can never exist in the real world where too many people are greedy, self serving, amoral, liars, etc.
In fact it seems a funny coincedence, considering the 'no hands on' rule is generally ignored, even by the organisers, that MS chose to not have any hands on demoing of the xbox, AND chose not to complain about its own partners rule breaking.
To be honest, its not the dirty tricks that get my goat, its the infantile manner in which they 'told teacher' then denied it was them.
I remember fighting the same battle when they wanted us to stop dumping our shit in the streets.
After all pumping pollution into the air has so many benificial effects that we should really encourage more of it.
All made up to prevent George W Bush from increasing his personal fortune.
Its lucky you're here to save us from ourselves, after all it would really fuck the world up if we were to pollute less!
But not as pressing as making more money.
Sadly what Amazon did was take that old round cart roller thing, that people have used since before any can remember and which everybody takes for granted, and given us "with our new patented 'Wheel(tm)' technology you shall never have to drag your cart again".
"Watch out next week for the launch of 'Fire(pat pending)'"
Not any more it isn't. From what I heard about our new install you have to buy the server license (eg Win2K Server), the client licenses (Win2K, XP, etc) AND a CAL license per client (basically a license to connect clients to the server).
The only step left is to charge for a license to have the licenses.
If they can't be bothered to get of their fat, immigrant behinds and move to New York for a cushy job as an Ad Exec then the Packard family deserve to make another couple of billion bucks off their backs. I might employ a couple of the stoopidist ones myself, as human torches to light my seegars with.
Sadly this will never happen as long as all the corporations want to give us is sub-standard pay-to-view non-interactive one way content like streaming movies and music.
Why the hell would Sally Housecoat and Joe Sixpack want to pay an extra $50 + viewing charges when they already have a TV and a radio (and a modem if they really need anything from the internet)?
Its about time some social responsibility was forced onto these businesses and the only way I think that will happen is if the people at the top are held responsible for their actions, bad as well as good. At the moment for these people its win-win.
What, you mean those religions nutbags that we threw out? Good riddence to bad rubbish is the phrase that springs to mind.
And with this statement you make the assumption that individual freedom is a better choice than all the others - this is a product of US society not a universal constant. Democracy (much like communism) is about the power of many over the power of few.
Absolute personal freedom is anarchy (personal responsibility) not democracy