The university, ideally, should be fighting to control their computers, in service of its students, as they wish without outside influences
Yes, and the first thing they should do is kick the bandwidth wasting hogs off. Some people are trying to use the network to do research, study - the stuff they're paid or paying to do. Not be hampered by those treating a degree as a three year holiday, and sitting in their rooms downloading music rather than going to lectures. It's yet another reason why the researchers are happy when all the students go away - the network speeds up noticeably.
By giving the subjects no democracy at all and machine gunning them when we felt it necessary (well, the ones with the darker skin colours anyway)? And you people complain that Microsoft are evil?
You're missing the point - governments tax so they can spend it on things. Whether it is to educate kids or buy new shiny bombs, or give it back to their friends, governments just love getting their hands on money. They'd tax the internet because they think they can.
If someone gives you a contract in.001 font size, no it is not illegal. It is up to you to say "I won't sign this, and I won't use your product."
Sorry, but that is just nonsense. You honestly think that a passage hidden in font size that is 1/10,000 the normal size is even visible, let alone legal?
Not sure if it is actually law yet (as the member states have until October of 2003 to comply), but the following is from Directive 2002/58/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 July 2002 concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector (Directive on privacy and electronic communications)
1 The use of automated calling systems without human intervention (automatic calling machines), facsimile machines (fax) or electronic mail for the purposes of direct marketing may only be allowed in respect of subscribers who have given their prior consent.
2 Notwithstanding paragraph 1, where a natural or legal person obtains electronic contact details for electronic mail directly from its customers, in the context of the purchase of a product or a service, in accordance with Directive 95/46/EC, the same natural or legal person may use these electronic contact details for direct marketing of its own similar products or services, provided that customers clearly and distinctly are given the opportunity to object, free of charge and in an easy manner, to such use of electronic contact details when they are collected and on the occasion of each message where the customer has not initially refused such use.
So where I am, it's illegal because they say it is.
You can basically just wardrive around your neighborhood until you find an open network, and then download all your warez from there.
If I'm going to have to get in my car, drive around, and then sit there patiently waiting for ages to get the whole film, I might as well go to the cinema...
The British used to do this. They'd send in the gunboats to shell the capital of a country if a Brit had been 'mistreated', or if the wrong person had declared themselves ruler. Now the Multinationals send in the lawyers.
Scientists are prone to this fallacy, perhaps because they are temperamentally uncomfortable with uncertainty
No, human beings are temperamentally uncomfortable with uncertainty. Scientists should strive to overcome this, but when they've spent 30 years working on one topic, the human instinct to defend their work can often overcome their scientific training to dispassionately analyse the evidence. Similarly, when you're stood in front of 300 of your peers, saying "That requires further study to resolve" or "This is a very complex process, and a full understanding of the underlying processes is not yet available" is much better than "I Don't know". In other words, we rather say "No-one knows, but I'm working on it".
My question is, when marlboro eventually goes broke (don't tell me you don't see it coming), who's going to fill out Ferrari's $400mil budget?
Phillip Morris have got a billion Chinese and Indians to give cancer first... Anyway, Ferrari get a chunk load of sponsorship money from other companies ($150 million over three years from Vodafone). Other sponsors (Foster's Lager) spend a fortune to have their logo plastered around the side of the tracks, and the car makers are big players nowadays (e.g. Mercedes with McLaren, Ford with Jaguar, and Fiat had a very large share of Ferrari last time I paid any attention). So they're not reliant purely on tobacco.
Perhaps more interesting is who directed it. The video for A-Ha's 'Take on Me' was directed by Irishman Steve Barron, who also did the video for Dire Strait's 'Money for Nothing' (anoter animated style video, which had the band as blocky computer-character removals men). He went on to work on the 'Storyteller' miniseries, and the animated TV series 'Reboot'. He also directed the miniseries 'Merlin' and 'Arabian Nights'. His most recent film is 'Mike Bassett England Manager', which isn't animated at all.
Right, and how much do tankers have to pay to go through, for example, the Straits of Malacca? Nothing! - an extract from this source -
In 1995, there were 2148 tankers which transited the Straits ofMalacca and Singapore. Their breakdown by destination is as follows: 969 for Japan, 341South Korea, 388 Singapore, 124 Taiwan, 4 Hong Kong, 77 Thailand, 26 Indonesia, 37 China,Liberia 8 and 7 Malaysia. Except for Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Japan, the rest has notcontributed a single cent for expenses in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore
Asia is a pretty big place (as anyone who has tried to start a land war there has found out). Also, the advantage of the North West Passage is that any encounter with fanatics in speed boats is more likely to end with them hanging a banner on the side of your boat complaining about your business ethics and contamination of a pristing environment than them blowing a large hole in the side of your boat.
Less people will die in the long term because of this decision. A farmer who doesn't have any grain to plant isn't a farmer. African farmers tend to retain grain to plant in future if they have any more than the minimum they need to survive. The only way to guarantee this does not happen is to supply the grain in a form that cannot be planted. Once planted, it will cross contaminate enough to make the Europeans not trust it (and cross contamination happens in Canada, let alone Africa). African nations cannot force the Europeans to buy grain they don't want to buy, and they can't be sure they'll ever persuade Europeans to buy GM grain (even if you have no tariffs on it whatsoever, people will not buy products made from it - you can argue the rights or wrongs, but the fact is they currently don't want to touch it with a bargepole). Hence, loss of large market, loss of future money, more reliance on aid in future, more deaths. The bottom line is, these countries need to make money in the future, whether it is by selling grain to Europe or making cheap PDAs. If they don't, they starve.
Politics is keeping sacks of corn in a warehouse in Africa, the same corn I ate last night, but some politician told the African not to eat it because of genetic engineering. Though this is a small case compared to the politics of tribal wars in Africa.
You ate it happily. Others do not wish to eat it (i.e. European consumers). Importing GM grain will inevitably result in contamination, and then Europe won't buy grain from them any more, because the consumers don't want it. End result - the African nation is poorer in future, and more likely to need further aid. This isn't an African politician being stupid, this is a politician thinking about the long term need for the country to produce exports (mostly because we keep demanding debt repayments).
In your scenario, you would buy stock in Intel, and it would basically never go up, but occasionally you would earn a dividend (assuming Intel gives one). You might as well invest in a bank.
Yes, but given the current stock market, you might as well stick your money in a sock and bury it...
Er... no, the Met stopped using the police boxes a long time ago (1960s), then the BBC started selling T-shirts with the TARDIS on them (1970s), the Met did nothing, but then when the BBC got the trademark on it on the grounds that they still used the image, and the Met had long ceased to do so (1990s), the Met tried to claim that they should have the trademark on it. By the time the BBC tried to get the trademark, the actual boxes were referred to regularly as 'TARDIS type'.
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Yes, and the first thing they should do is kick the bandwidth wasting hogs off. Some people are trying to use the network to do research, study - the stuff they're paid or paying to do. Not be hampered by those treating a degree as a three year holiday, and sitting in their rooms downloading music rather than going to lectures. It's yet another reason why the researchers are happy when all the students go away - the network speeds up noticeably.
By giving the subjects no democracy at all and machine gunning them when we felt it necessary (well, the ones with the darker skin colours anyway)? And you people complain that Microsoft are evil?
You're missing the point - governments tax so they can spend it on things. Whether it is to educate kids or buy new shiny bombs, or give it back to their friends, governments just love getting their hands on money. They'd tax the internet because they think they can.
Nupedia and Wikipedia were Slashdotted (see Slashdot effect) on Thursday July 26 2001 and Wednesday January 22 2003.
Sorry, but that is just nonsense. You honestly think that a passage hidden in font size that is 1/10,000 the normal size is even visible, let alone legal?
1 The use of automated calling systems without human intervention (automatic calling machines), facsimile machines (fax) or electronic mail for the purposes of direct marketing may only be allowed in respect of subscribers who have given their prior consent.
2 Notwithstanding paragraph 1, where a natural or legal person obtains electronic contact details for electronic mail directly from its customers, in the context of the purchase of a product or a service, in accordance with Directive 95/46/EC, the same natural or legal person may use these electronic contact details for direct marketing of its own similar products or services, provided that customers clearly and distinctly are given the opportunity to object, free of charge and in an easy manner, to such use of electronic contact details when they are collected and on the occasion of each message where the customer has not initially refused such use.
So where I am, it's illegal because they say it is.
Well, it'll impress the hospital administrator...
Girl And then I was like.. replay..., and he was like... replay... So I was like replay of Girl saying 'duh'...
If I'm going to have to get in my car, drive around, and then sit there patiently waiting for ages to get the whole film, I might as well go to the cinema...
The British used to do this. They'd send in the gunboats to shell the capital of a country if a Brit had been 'mistreated', or if the wrong person had declared themselves ruler. Now the Multinationals send in the lawyers.
This sign points to who is behind it. In other words, The Usual Corporate Suspects - not just Microsoft and Intel, but Apple, AMD, etc. etc.
No, human beings are temperamentally uncomfortable with uncertainty. Scientists should strive to overcome this, but when they've spent 30 years working on one topic, the human instinct to defend their work can often overcome their scientific training to dispassionately analyse the evidence. Similarly, when you're stood in front of 300 of your peers, saying "That requires further study to resolve" or "This is a very complex process, and a full understanding of the underlying processes is not yet available" is much better than "I Don't know". In other words, we rather say "No-one knows, but I'm working on it".
Phillip Morris have got a billion Chinese and Indians to give cancer first... Anyway, Ferrari get a chunk load of sponsorship money from other companies ($150 million over three years from Vodafone). Other sponsors (Foster's Lager) spend a fortune to have their logo plastered around the side of the tracks, and the car makers are big players nowadays (e.g. Mercedes with McLaren, Ford with Jaguar, and Fiat had a very large share of Ferrari last time I paid any attention). So they're not reliant purely on tobacco.
Perhaps more interesting is who directed it. The video for A-Ha's 'Take on Me' was directed by Irishman Steve Barron, who also did the video for Dire Strait's 'Money for Nothing' (anoter animated style video, which had the band as blocky computer-character removals men). He went on to work on the 'Storyteller' miniseries, and the animated TV series 'Reboot'. He also directed the miniseries 'Merlin' and 'Arabian Nights'. His most recent film is 'Mike Bassett England Manager', which isn't animated at all.
Asia is a pretty big place (as anyone who has tried to start a land war there has found out). Also, the advantage of the North West Passage is that any encounter with fanatics in speed boats is more likely to end with them hanging a banner on the side of your boat complaining about your business ethics and contamination of a pristing environment than them blowing a large hole in the side of your boat.
Does that include the comparative costs in cleaning up afterwards, though?
Less people will die in the long term because of this decision. A farmer who doesn't have any grain to plant isn't a farmer. African farmers tend to retain grain to plant in future if they have any more than the minimum they need to survive. The only way to guarantee this does not happen is to supply the grain in a form that cannot be planted. Once planted, it will cross contaminate enough to make the Europeans not trust it (and cross contamination happens in Canada, let alone Africa). African nations cannot force the Europeans to buy grain they don't want to buy, and they can't be sure they'll ever persuade Europeans to buy GM grain (even if you have no tariffs on it whatsoever, people will not buy products made from it - you can argue the rights or wrongs, but the fact is they currently don't want to touch it with a bargepole). Hence, loss of large market, loss of future money, more reliance on aid in future, more deaths. The bottom line is, these countries need to make money in the future, whether it is by selling grain to Europe or making cheap PDAs. If they don't, they starve.
You ate it happily. Others do not wish to eat it (i.e. European consumers). Importing GM grain will inevitably result in contamination, and then Europe won't buy grain from them any more, because the consumers don't want it. End result - the African nation is poorer in future, and more likely to need further aid. This isn't an African politician being stupid, this is a politician thinking about the long term need for the country to produce exports (mostly because we keep demanding debt repayments).
Yes, but given the current stock market, you might as well stick your money in a sock and bury it...
You sure it wasn't 'Help, there aren't any brakes on these things'?
Er... no, the Met stopped using the police boxes a long time ago (1960s), then the BBC started selling T-shirts with the TARDIS on them (1970s), the Met did nothing, but then when the BBC got the trademark on it on the grounds that they still used the image, and the Met had long ceased to do so (1990s), the Met tried to claim that they should have the trademark on it. By the time the BBC tried to get the trademark, the actual boxes were referred to regularly as 'TARDIS type'.
Oh come on, the Brits have had bomb disposal robots for years (for obvious reasons). Mind you, they sometimes end up like the Daleks did...
They WERE taken out of service. The one you saw was put back after the only place people saw them for decades was as the TARDIS.
But he's never referred to as 'Doctor Who' in the series itself, just 'The Doctor' [/ultra uber nerd mode]
Well, except once. But then the Who nerds (what's the real term for them? Whoies? Whoites? Whovians?) got angry, so they never did it again.