TFA is mostly about China's counterfeit industry rather than an iPhone clone in particular. The iPhone clone of interest though is the Meizo M8 miniOne.
Loads of pics online if you google it.
Being unknown to the filthy masses is the mark of the true Engineer. Ah yes. Like these chaps, all unknown in their time: Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Gustave Eiffel, James Watt, George Stephenson, Thomas Telford...
You found your belief in God on what is known as the Teleological Argument. There are a number of formal reasons why this argument is a poor one. The wiki link I've given you is a good place to start learning why it's not good, and Richard Dawkins' The Blind Watchmaker" has a fairly exhaustive treatment.
You should NOT have to be able to claim to a right in order to have that right.
Infants and the mentally impaired can't lay claim to rights and we grant them rights anyway. This is right and good.
There may be reasons why creatures with more mental capabilities than some humans (again, infants or the mentally impaired) should not be given certain rights, but their inability to ask for them isn't one.
If the laws in question had been American the headline would have read something like "Shock reversal by US Justice system as it forces Microsoft to comply with its rulings". Just maybe a little shorter.
$100,000 is "only" £50,000. There are plenty of geeky city boys getting bonuses way over that amount. To me & you (I assume), that's a lot of money. But when you're 30 somthing and pulling down over £500,000 a year working for a hedge fund in London, £50,000 isn't that much.
Hell, one guy's bonus this year was £50,000,000. And then there's the Russian millionaires & billionaires floating around London.
Yes and no. The site-host has to respond to the Takedown notice within 24 hours. They will always take the site down first and then restore it later if there's no issue. From the hoster's point of view that's the best course of action - they can't get legal advice on every single takedown request they get. But it does mean the process is open to abuse by copyright holders. This is a good example of that.
The flipside to this is that, under Australian Copyright law, using copyrighted material for the purposees of satire is OK. It's great that this is getting so much attention. The satirists are within their rights and it makes the (enourmously powerful) mining lobby look like a bunch of wankers with no sense of humour. And in Australia it's almost sinful if you can't cope with having the piss taken out of you.
No, you don't have to pay it if you just plug a game console into it. You would need to show that you don't have the aerial plugged in. I have a friend who has a TV but only uses it for watching videos/DVDs. She doesn't have to pay the license either.
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TFA is mostly about China's counterfeit industry rather than an iPhone clone in particular. The iPhone clone of interest though is the Meizo M8 miniOne. Loads of pics online if you google it.
Hey - I heard that. And I resent the implication.
You found your belief in God on what is known as the Teleological Argument. There are a number of formal reasons why this argument is a poor one. The wiki link I've given you is a good place to start learning why it's not good, and Richard Dawkins' The Blind Watchmaker" has a fairly exhaustive treatment.
Nice one - I missed that. And it worked for me - it certainly made your post stand out.
Dude - was that a poem?!
You should NOT have to be able to claim to a right in order to have that right.
Infants and the mentally impaired can't lay claim to rights and we grant them rights anyway. This is right and good.
There may be reasons why creatures with more mental capabilities than some humans (again, infants or the mentally impaired) should not be given certain rights, but their inability to ask for them isn't one.
I believe they even mention this study in TFA!
Yeah it's funny, but it's actually true too. Interesting, and Insightful.
Genius! Thanks very much - I LOVED that!
How is an apocalypse predicted by another civilisation's religion a secular apolcalypse?
If the laws in question had been American the headline would have read something like "Shock reversal by US Justice system as it forces Microsoft to comply with its rulings". Just maybe a little shorter.
This!
Would you be happier to pay $25 a ticket if you didn't have to watch the advertising?
$100,000 is "only" £50,000. There are plenty of geeky city boys getting bonuses way over that amount. To me & you (I assume), that's a lot of money. But when you're 30 somthing and pulling down over £500,000 a year working for a hedge fund in London, £50,000 isn't that much.
Hell, one guy's bonus this year was £50,000,000. And then there's the Russian millionaires & billionaires floating around London.
Yes and no. The site-host has to respond to the Takedown notice within 24 hours. They will always take the site down first and then restore it later if there's no issue. From the hoster's point of view that's the best course of action - they can't get legal advice on every single takedown request they get. But it does mean the process is open to abuse by copyright holders. This is a good example of that.
The flipside to this is that, under Australian Copyright law, using copyrighted material for the purposees of satire is OK. It's great that this is getting so much attention. The satirists are within their rights and it makes the (enourmously powerful) mining lobby look like a bunch of wankers with no sense of humour. And in Australia it's almost sinful if you can't cope with having the piss taken out of you.
No, you don't have to pay it if you just plug a game console into it. You would need to show that you don't have the aerial plugged in. I have a friend who has a TV but only uses it for watching videos/DVDs. She doesn't have to pay the license either.
MOre info here.
Nice one - thanks very much for explaining. I hadn't seen it before & was curious.
Anyone know what the "you are invited to take a drink at the firehose" thing means on the front page?
And they'd only just got electricity too!
I keed, I keed - just a dig from a Kiwi (hey, we're still on candles.On the other hand, we can play cricket!)
Tomato, Tomato.
No water after all?
FWIW I learned (the basics) of vi so that when X screws up I can use an editor to fix it.
I thought you were joking (look at the date of the interview - 1 April 2000) but a little googling brought up the transcript. http://archive.salon.com/politics2000/feature/2000 /04/22/leo/
Not that great, but not bad.