Don't forget that even the junk files are protected by copyright.
Anyway, these are civil cases, meaning they don't need definite proof. And personally I don't find it impossible to believe that people are downloading copyrighted material. People tell me it really happens sometimes.
Won't work, since it's too complicated. What's wrong with simple paper ballots? They're used in my country (>80million people), and the voting process is a non-issue. It just works.
Mod parent down, it's a stupid idea. Why should Boeing care about these issues? You can still use a notebook on a plane, and until that is outlawed, why should Boeing go further than the already-paranoid authorities and forfeit maybe considerable revenue? The truth is simply what they say: it wasn't making them any money.
Contrary to common wisdom, an informal exchange of promises can still be binding and legally as valid as a written contract. A spoken contract is often called an "oral contract", not a "verbal contract." Any contract that uses words, spoken or written, is a verbal contract. Thus, all oral contracts and written contracts are verbal contracts. This is in contrast to a "non-verbal, non-oral contract," also known as "a contract implied by the acts of the parties."
Courts in the United States have generally ruled that if the parties have a meeting of the minds (i.e., the same intent), consideration is paid or given by the parties, and they act as though there was a formal, written and signed contract, then a contract exists. However, most jurisdictions require a signed writing for certain kinds of contracts (like real estate transactions).
It's a common misconception that a contract has to be in written form. In reality, any business transaction is at least one contract. If you drop 50cents on the counter, take a newspaper an leave, that's a contract, without even a single word spoken.
Galileo is the European System, GPS is the American. "GPS" is kind of generic, so I guess it's going to be the name for the whole category, but I'd be nice if we could use something different to distingish between "some" GPS and the "American" GPS.
NO, the entire legal doctrine (at least in the free and english-speaking world) rests on the assumption that every human being has certain basic rights. These rights are not granted by law, but just "there". Constitutions and other legal documents just spell out these rights, not establish them.
The purpose of laws then is to regulate conflicts between these rights, i. e. the right to swing my fist ends, where the other man's nose begins.
It's true -- everyone told us it was crazy to try and give people a way to access their documents from anywhere -- not to mention share documents instantly, or collaborate online within their browsers
She sounds like Napoleon after starting the war against russia, or maybe Einstein telling someone time is relative and space is bent.
Oh my GOD, sharing DOCUMENTS??? REVOLUTION! Someone call Nobel. He has TO GIVE HER A PRICE.
This thing is awful, and I don't even hate MS. It doesn't work in Safari, and at least in Firefox the non-standard way of dynamically scrolling through search results is hard to control. Why does MS insist on fullfilling the stereotypes?
Your comment is somewhat true. However, trust is very important for an economy. I. e. you wouldn't buy anything without some trust, currencies are based only on trust (no more gold standard) etc.
I seem to recall that much of the economic success the jewish communities had in the early 20th century and before was based on trust, i. e. you could give someone locally some money and some business partner of them would pay the same sum (minus some fees maybe) to the final recipient. Very useful in the times before international banking systems were firmly established.
Why were they trustworthy? Because their reputation depended on it, and reputation is rather important in small communities.
Today, the communities are much larger, so you wouldn't know someone personally or be able to learn anything about his personal reputation. That's why there are companies like Western Union, Paypal and banks. These entities are under the rule of law, in which you trust. The law has therefore become a proxy for trust.
Wow, this summary is actually a lot better than digg's, where it sounded like ANY hardware >5 years old was banned from being sold.
With this explanation it actually starts making sense. It's just another overzealous government protecting it's citizen from unrealistic harms.
I read speculation earlier that Sony etc. had lobbied for this legislation to ban competition from the second hand market, but it doesn't sound like it any more. Firstly, this is a one-time effect, and secondly five year old stuff doesn't really compete with anything new.
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Don't forget that even the junk files are protected by copyright. Anyway, these are civil cases, meaning they don't need definite proof. And personally I don't find it impossible to believe that people are downloading copyrighted material. People tell me it really happens sometimes.
Won't work, since it's too complicated. What's wrong with simple paper ballots? They're used in my country (>80million people), and the voting process is a non-issue. It just works.
Mod parent down, it's a stupid idea. Why should Boeing care about these issues? You can still use a notebook on a plane, and until that is outlawed, why should Boeing go further than the already-paranoid authorities and forfeit maybe considerable revenue? The truth is simply what they say: it wasn't making them any money.
Two months ago, when I last rebooted my Powerbook :-)
Contrary to common wisdom, an informal exchange of promises can still be binding and legally as valid as a written contract. A spoken contract is often called an "oral contract", not a "verbal contract." Any contract that uses words, spoken or written, is a verbal contract. Thus, all oral contracts and written contracts are verbal contracts. This is in contrast to a "non-verbal, non-oral contract," also known as "a contract implied by the acts of the parties."
Courts in the United States have generally ruled that if the parties have a meeting of the minds (i.e., the same intent), consideration is paid or given by the parties, and they act as though there was a formal, written and signed contract, then a contract exists. However, most jurisdictions require a signed writing for certain kinds of contracts (like real estate transactions).
It's a common misconception that a contract has to be in written form. In reality, any business transaction is at least one contract. If you drop 50cents on the counter, take a newspaper an leave, that's a contract, without even a single word spoken.
post 12 posts on these 12 tennets?
Well, how could an invisible unicorn be pink??
For a nuclear warhead, traditional GPS' 5m-accuracy should be quite sufficient. It's not like they'd be trying to avoid "collateral damage"
Galileo is the European System, GPS is the American. "GPS" is kind of generic, so I guess it's going to be the name for the whole category, but I'd be nice if we could use something different to distingish between "some" GPS and the "American" GPS.
Quote: The upcoming "Leopard" OS is expected to be even slicker and faster than its predecessor OS X.
Your post started to nice and well-informed. To bad it ended like that :-)
...are not unfortunate since they don't need no real world metaphors.
Ballmer doen't have friends.
The purpose of laws then is to regulate conflicts between these rights, i. e. the right to swing my fist ends, where the other man's nose begins.
I think not!
Hopefully not amateursexchange.com. Sounds like pain.
Yeah, but they were right.
Actually, that sort of analysis is pretty easy to do with Google analytics.
She sounds like Napoleon after starting the war against russia, or maybe Einstein telling someone time is relative and space is bent.
Oh my GOD, sharing DOCUMENTS??? REVOLUTION! Someone call Nobel. He has TO GIVE HER A PRICE.
This thing is awful, and I don't even hate MS. It doesn't work in Safari, and at least in Firefox the non-standard way of dynamically scrolling through search results is hard to control. Why does MS insist on fullfilling the stereotypes?
I seem to recall that much of the economic success the jewish communities had in the early 20th century and before was based on trust, i. e. you could give someone locally some money and some business partner of them would pay the same sum (minus some fees maybe) to the final recipient. Very useful in the times before international banking systems were firmly established.
Why were they trustworthy? Because their reputation depended on it, and reputation is rather important in small communities.
Today, the communities are much larger, so you wouldn't know someone personally or be able to learn anything about his personal reputation. That's why there are companies like Western Union, Paypal and banks. These entities are under the rule of law, in which you trust. The law has therefore become a proxy for trust.
I can interface with it on the hardware level? Cool...
A Symantec engineer predicts a 'gradual erosion' of the idea that Macs are a safer operating system than Windows.
Now there's a neutral party with no agenda when it comes to security!
Honestly, the worst Mac malware I've seen so far had a Symantec sticker on the box.
Wow, this summary is actually a lot better than digg's, where it sounded like ANY hardware >5 years old was banned from being sold. With this explanation it actually starts making sense. It's just another overzealous government protecting it's citizen from unrealistic harms. I read speculation earlier that Sony etc. had lobbied for this legislation to ban competition from the second hand market, but it doesn't sound like it any more. Firstly, this is a one-time effect, and secondly five year old stuff doesn't really compete with anything new.