OMG you mean they can disable my service if I violate their usage terms or fail to pay them? What an outrageous policy!
Works great as long as you trust them to be 100% honest and fair. If they try to screw you, you have no recourse; you're out of business as soon as you object to anything they do. Maybe you'll get a little money back once your case makes it through the courts.
Oh, wait, did I say through the courts? No, there's probably a mandatory arbitration clause anyway. But you'll still be out of business until you get in front of this theoretically-neutral arbiter.
The main article then states that "a single officer may check 1400 a day". OK, time for maths! There are 480 minutes in an 8 hour day, assuming no breaks for potty or lunch. We'll assume the officer is equipped with a sandwich and depends. But he obviously is spending LESS than "a minute" reviewing the entire citation so lets go down to seconds.
The officer's name is R. Stamp. There's no cop actually reviewing the tickets, that's just a lie they tell because it gets convictions. Everyone knows it, but no one in power cares to challenge it (because the judges are law-n-order types who don't want to hear nitpicking from some damn worthless babykilling speeder).
On their deathbed, I bet not one person thinks "I wish I'd have spent time working even longer than 8 hours a day for another 10-15% pay - what a waste of time my free leisure time was".
No, they think that when their rent is due and they're short.
If it weren't for the Chinese, the US would have wiped out the North Korean government and installed our own kinder and gentler dictatorship (really!) back in the 50s. Oil or no oil.
A satellite that, worst case, smashes into one of the US Military's satellites (say a GPS one, not one so secret they'd just go "WHAT SATELLITE, IT WAS A TRAINING EXERCISE").
Can't smash into a GPS satellite, because they're in a much higher orbit.
According to the US Census bureau, 4 out of 5 Americans live in an urban area.
According to the US Census bureau, the entire state of New Jersey is an urban area. Including the pine barrens, the cranberry bogs, and the highlands of northwest New Jersey. Now, I'll grant you these places aren't the open lands of Montana, but they're not cities in the sense that Chicago or New York (or even Kansas City) is. It's a matter of their measure being insufficiently fine; an area is either "urban" or "rural".
The reality is, that most users don't really care if someone sees their bookmarks. It's only a problem for privacy-obsessed nerds who project their mania onto other people.
And for anyone who has gotten burned by someone seeing the wrong bookmark/history entry. The difference with privacy-obsessed nerds is 1) They see the problem before it actually happens to them and 2) They have nobody to actually object to their viewing horse porn.
What some companies do when they have to comply with the GPL, is to make their software insanely hard to compile.
That's a violation too.
"The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable."
So unless it's insanely hard to compile for you, it can't be insanely hard to compile for downstream receipients.
What I don't get is how rabidly so many people here oppose the existence of dark matter. I'm having trouble grokking a financial or religious motive for that one.
It's an "X" invented to plug a hole between a theory and observation, and with no evidence for it other than that discrepancy (despite much searching for it). That makes it inherently suspicious. That it supposedly makes up the lion's share of matter in the universe makes it even worse that we can't detect it in some other way.
However, attempts to plug the hole by modifying the theory of universal gravitation have been unsuccessful. So dark matter as a theory survives.
It doesn't matter. The nervous nellies are going to insist that every device, and every possible combination of devices in every possible mode, be tested before the ban is relaxed. They know that's impossible so they'll just sit back smugly and imply that you're willing to risk a crash for trivial reasons.
When you board, they tell you that when they close the door, you have to turn off your electronic devices and they won't leave the gate until you do. Ostensibly, that's to prevent interference with the radio while they talk to the tower.
I believe they're lying. Therefore I continue to leave my electronic device (an Android smartphone) turned on. Further, while they often announce that you must turn the device all the way off and not just airplane mode, very few people actually do this.
Lawyers in the UK aren't free, and there are plenty of lower-cost lawyers in the US.
You know what you call the party who hires a "lower-cost" lawyer? The LOSER. You may as well not show up and lose by default, at least then you don't have to pay the lawyer.
But perpetuating the meme that there is no real justice in the US is precisely the sort of thing that allows the politicians to get away with undercutting the justice system.
Long story short, you're trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist, and in doing so, you're making an actual problem worse.
The actual problem is that once you can be sued for a review (win, lose, or draw), you're less likely to post one. While for a business suing and being sued is just a normal part of doing business, for an individual being sued totally fucks up your life while the suit is going on (and suing does too, if the other side has a halfway decent lawyer). It costs you significant amounts of money and time you'll never recover at best, and can bankrupt you. So if people start regularly being sued for posting bad reviews, even if all the lawsuits are without merit and are resolved in favor of the defendant, people will stop posting bad reviews; it's a chilling effect. Without bad reviews, review sites are worthless.
The legal system can't fix this because the legal system IS the problem.
Apparently the ITU, in its bid to take over the Internet, has decided to adhere to the worst totalitarians it can find as allies. Fortunately what they don't appear realize is that this alienates them with their natural allies inside the US, left-wing anti-DoD (if not outright anti-US) intellectuals.
And there's always the risk that Vint Cerf will take his Internet and go home.
The elevators in my building are user-hostile. Door closing delays set so short that if the first person isn't fast, they'll close after the stream of people leave but before the first person enters. And while they won't actually cut you in half (that I know of), they will give you a bruise if you go in while they're closing. One elevator goes both up and down from the lobby but has no indicator for which way it's going. The annoying door beeper has no delay; it beeps whenever anyone is in the doorway. They frequently break down. All in all, exactly what you'd expect from NYC elevators.
Which brings me to my ideal retirement job. I'd love to maintain the software.... for escalators.
As a nerdy engineer, I have to travel to South Korea for product support. Those guys can match me with Johnny Walker when I'm drinking beer. It's astounding - I don't know how they are alive.
Yeah, they can drink. When I was there, they drank my boss under the table, and he outweighed the heaviest of them by a factor of 2 at least. Fortunately for me I was low enough on the totem pole not to be expected to match drink for drink.
What I want to know is why the US has quarters instead of 20c coins.
Pieces of eight, Spanish dollars; a quarter is two bits, which of course got you a shave and a haircut at some time in the distant past. But there never was a single bit coin, as far as I know.
I do, however, care about the ongoing usefulness of copyright, and it's daft to think that epidemic levels of wanton infringement that can occur on copyright because of websites like TPB are not damaging to the value of copyright, as a whole.
You've got it backwards. TPB, or at least its widespread popularity, is a result of the value of copyright being damaged. That's why it's only one of the more recent in a succession of similar popular venues, extending back long past Napster. There are probably many reasons for this, but I suspect a major one is "The more you tighten your grip, the more that slips through your fingers". Jack Valenti probably didn't start it with his "Boston Strangler" remark about the VCR (and the ensuing lawsuit), but it certainly didn't help, nor did the RIAAs attempt to ban the MP3 player, nor the Girl Scout song crackdowns, nor the antics of ASCAP/BMI/SESAC in shaking down venue owners. When copyright's greatest advocates are cartoony villains, it's hard to keep up public respect for it.
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Works great as long as you trust them to be 100% honest and fair. If they try to screw you, you have no recourse; you're out of business as soon as you object to anything they do. Maybe you'll get a little money back once your case makes it through the courts.
Oh, wait, did I say through the courts? No, there's probably a mandatory arbitration clause anyway. But you'll still be out of business until you get in front of this theoretically-neutral arbiter.
The officer's name is R. Stamp. There's no cop actually reviewing the tickets, that's just a lie they tell because it gets convictions. Everyone knows it, but no one in power cares to challenge it (because the judges are law-n-order types who don't want to hear nitpicking from some damn worthless babykilling speeder).
No, they think that when their rent is due and they're short.
Unfortunately correct, for air-to-air heat pumps. Also the air they blow is only slightly above room temperature, and so tends to feel cold.
If it weren't for the Chinese, the US would have wiped out the North Korean government and installed our own kinder and gentler dictatorship (really!) back in the 50s. Oil or no oil.
Don't make it so hard, "Meredith Baxter tits" still gets you what you want. (Birney is long out of the picture)
A similar search for Marion Cotillard gets the tits in the wrong place, unless you're into benippled foreheads... I have no idea what's up with that.
Some quick experimentation reveals that "wet pussy" is still considered porn seeking. Hooray!
Can't smash into a GPS satellite, because they're in a much higher orbit.
According to the US Census bureau, the entire state of New Jersey is an urban area. Including the pine barrens, the cranberry bogs, and the highlands of northwest New Jersey. Now, I'll grant you these places aren't the open lands of Montana, but they're not cities in the sense that Chicago or New York (or even Kansas City) is. It's a matter of their measure being insufficiently fine; an area is either "urban" or "rural".
And for anyone who has gotten burned by someone seeing the wrong bookmark/history entry. The difference with privacy-obsessed nerds is
1) They see the problem before it actually happens to them and
2) They have nobody to actually object to their viewing horse porn.
That's a violation too. "The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable." So unless it's insanely hard to compile for you, it can't be insanely hard to compile for downstream receipients.
200 nations... but all the major ones will either be exempted by the new treaty (China, India) or won't accede to it (US, Russia).
It's an "X" invented to plug a hole between a theory and observation, and with no evidence for it other than that discrepancy (despite much searching for it). That makes it inherently suspicious. That it supposedly makes up the lion's share of matter in the universe makes it even worse that we can't detect it in some other way.
However, attempts to plug the hole by modifying the theory of universal gravitation have been unsuccessful. So dark matter as a theory survives.
That was Topeka, not KC. (Leading to Google declaring a name change to "Topeka", the next April 1st)
It doesn't matter. The nervous nellies are going to insist that every device, and every possible combination of devices in every possible mode, be tested before the ban is relaxed. They know that's impossible so they'll just sit back smugly and imply that you're willing to risk a crash for trivial reasons.
I believe they're lying. Therefore I continue to leave my electronic device (an Android smartphone) turned on. Further, while they often announce that you must turn the device all the way off and not just airplane mode, very few people actually do this.
In my day, we used C and sometimes assembler.... no, on second thought, you win.
You know what you call the party who hires a "lower-cost" lawyer? The LOSER. You may as well not show up and lose by default, at least then you don't have to pay the lawyer.
It's not just a meme.
The actual problem is that once you can be sued for a review (win, lose, or draw), you're less likely to post one. While for a business suing and being sued is just a normal part of doing business, for an individual being sued totally fucks up your life while the suit is going on (and suing does too, if the other side has a halfway decent lawyer). It costs you significant amounts of money and time you'll never recover at best, and can bankrupt you. So if people start regularly being sued for posting bad reviews, even if all the lawsuits are without merit and are resolved in favor of the defendant, people will stop posting bad reviews; it's a chilling effect. Without bad reviews, review sites are worthless.
The legal system can't fix this because the legal system IS the problem.
Apparently the ITU, in its bid to take over the Internet, has decided to adhere to the worst totalitarians it can find as allies. Fortunately what they don't appear realize is that this alienates them with their natural allies inside the US, left-wing anti-DoD (if not outright anti-US) intellectuals.
And there's always the risk that Vint Cerf will take his Internet and go home.
The elevators in my building are user-hostile. Door closing delays set so short that if the first person isn't fast, they'll close after the stream of people leave but before the first person enters. And while they won't actually cut you in half (that I know of), they will give you a bruise if you go in while they're closing. One elevator goes both up and down from the lobby but has no indicator for which way it's going. The annoying door beeper has no delay; it beeps whenever anyone is in the doorway. They frequently break down. All in all, exactly what you'd expect from NYC elevators.
Which brings me to my ideal retirement job. I'd love to maintain the software.... for escalators.
Where would you ever find a million Ayn Rand fans?
Yeah, they can drink. When I was there, they drank my boss under the table, and he outweighed the heaviest of them by a factor of 2 at least. Fortunately for me I was low enough on the totem pole not to be expected to match drink for drink.
Pieces of eight, Spanish dollars; a quarter is two bits, which of course got you a shave and a haircut at some time in the distant past. But there never was a single bit coin, as far as I know.
You've got it backwards. TPB, or at least its widespread popularity, is a result of the value of copyright being damaged. That's why it's only one of the more recent in a succession of similar popular venues, extending back long past Napster. There are probably many reasons for this, but I suspect a major one is "The more you tighten your grip, the more that slips through your fingers". Jack Valenti probably didn't start it with his "Boston Strangler" remark about the VCR (and the ensuing lawsuit), but it certainly didn't help, nor did the RIAAs attempt to ban the MP3 player, nor the Girl Scout song crackdowns, nor the antics of ASCAP/BMI/SESAC in shaking down venue owners. When copyright's greatest advocates are cartoony villains, it's hard to keep up public respect for it.