it works the other way too. if the US can invade a country because it doesn't like its policies (legitimate or not) then those countries are also entitled to attack the US. Especially on the grounds of human rights. The US is one of the few countries that have not signed the declaration of human rights...
>G.W. Bush has publically said many times that he would throw the MS antitrust case out if he could. It is safe to say that MS will be spending millions to get him elected.
This touches something that is a BIG difference between the US vs. the Netherlands (and probably europe): companies funding political parties, candidates etc.
This simply isn't allowed. This means companies have slightly less influence on politicians in europe than in the US. slightly...
in the first draft of my contract there was a clause like this too. But programming is my hobby. a carpenter can make stuff at home if he wants to. a plumber can install his own toilet/shower/jacuzzi combo. a programmer should be allowed to write stuff in his own time. Most employers will understand..
I'm sticking to my stationary phone, I hate mobiles. I don't want to be reachable everywhere, and when people visit me, the mobile phone should be turned off. I already have a phone, and 2 phones in the house is overdoing it. But, here in the netherlands, with coverage of about 95% (give or take 5%) mobile phones are a reasonable alternative to stationary ones. if you don't mind the terrible soundquality of most phones. Now if only people would turn off their phones.. I really hate people (who always start talking VERY VERY LOUDLY) getting phonecalls in cinemas, bars, coffee-shops etc.
I got hit with basically the same thing. Wasn't much of a problem though. my contract approx. says:
everything I write at work is for the company. everything I write at home is my work, unless: -what I am writing at home is something I have been ordered to write, when I started writing it -what I write at home is something I know I will be ordered to write.
Bud sucks. but there is also the REAL Budweiser, from a place called Budweis in Tcheckoslovakia(sp?). Very good stuff. tastes quite a bit like Urquell. This is also the reason why there are countries where Bud is a trademark infringement. There is already a beer named Budweiser, Budweiser Budvar
it'll be covered in the netherlands. just sent a link to a journalist, and she had just started on the story. also, having read several of her articles she seems quite knowledgeable. for the dutch among us: It'll be covered in NRC.
>How would you like if someone took everything from your home and spread them all over the lawn, or perhaps your grades or other personal information and sent them out over the net for everyone to see?
I wouldn't like it. this is different however. MS didn't get burgled. This is like me putting a large poster on my window, proudly showing off my fantastic grades with a note attached that you cannot tell anyone else my grades.
Your arguement relies heavily on 'the right to make money off of someone'. I don't think there is such a right, there is only a 'right to *try* to make money off of someone'. And try they do, 'serving' me with hundreds of ads each day (not only the web). If I receive junkmail, I throw it away without reading it. Sure, someone spent money on sending it, but that doesn't mean I appreciate their efforts. I don't in any way feel obliged to read/view/listen to advertisements, nor should I be. If I want some company's pricelist I'll ask for it. And there is one more thing: Suppose the banner I got to see was some porn site. Even if I do not like to see porn, I would not be allowed to filter this. A banner itself may have objectionable content to some people.
There's a really good place in groningen, the netherlands to buy your pot: Coffee-shop CoCo, in the Gelkingestraat. hrmpf. to any lawyers out there: don't bother. I guess you also won't be allowed to tell kids: don't go to that house, they're selling crack. silly USA...
I tried bending CDs for use as handy and decentlooking CDholders. I gave up, I'm going back to vinyl. As for burning CDs quickly: I can really recommend an oldfashioned stove, preferably one running on coal. It can handle burning CDs by the dozens, and a microwave can't reach the temperature of burning coal. It is also stable, with uptimes known to be over 2 months. where a microwave needs to power down after each burning session, one can easily burn session after session in a stove without a single powerdown. And ofcourse there is the fact that you can quickly and easily, again without rebooting, add CDs to a burning session in progress.
>Tattoo the kid's forehead "cannot view sexual content more explicit than innuendo"?
innuendo can be a bloody lot worse...especially if you train for it. It's pretty fun to be able to give any conversation sexual connotations that are too ugly/sick to depict graphically.
I think yahoo will apply this to non-US citizens. They may have to, since COPPA sets yahoo's rules. if COPPA says: "no data-gathering on kids" that includes all kids, not just US kids. It's not a law (well... this part, and I don't know much about it) that regulates the user, it's a law that regulates the gatherer of data i.e. yahoo
After a nice discussion with my (now former) math-teacher, we both came to the conclusion that the use of calculators in school has actually made math-exams a little harder. Before that widespread use of calculators in schools, math-exam-ansers tended to give 'pretty' answers, i.e. answers with round numbers. Answers like: 42, 2*pi, 3*sqrt(2), 2/3. This made it easy to spot mistakes, since the form of the answer would stand out. If you got an answer 2.31172, it was probably wrong. The use of calculators however made such numbers just as easy to handle as the pretty ones, which closed off the quick'n'dirty approach to spot mistakes. It's not a big thing, let alone one to really complain about. Was a nice discussion though:)
That's fine, as long as you know what you are buying. If the license can be viewed before buying the product, that's fine with me. But if you buy something, and then later find out: "This is our product. but if it doesn't do what it is supposed to do, that's your problem and not ours" that's a whole different matter. especially if you can't return the software (not uncommon in the netherlands. You open the box to view the license, and if you don't agree there's no way back)
metallica is not a citizen, it's a company. and that is not a compliment. basically, metallica is just another money-hungry monopolist who'll do anything to screw over those who have supported them for a long time, and I want nothing to do with them any more.I sold my metallica cds, and I hope this whole thing bankrupts them. And before you start saying things like 'if you support cann^H^Hpitalism'... I don't.
not in europe, where it is specifically allowed to reverse engineer for interoperability, ie reading a document through a different reader, cos none is available for your OS.
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it works the other way too. if the US can invade a country because it doesn't like its policies (legitimate or not) then those countries are also entitled to attack the US. Especially on the grounds of human rights. The US is one of the few countries that have not signed the declaration of human rights...
//rdj
damn, you seem to have spotted the flaw in my logic.. ;)
//rdj
>G.W. Bush has publically said many times that he would throw the MS antitrust case out if he could. It is safe to say that MS will be spending millions to get him elected.
This touches something that is a BIG difference between the US vs. the Netherlands (and probably europe): companies funding political parties, candidates etc.
This simply isn't allowed. This means companies have slightly less influence on politicians in europe than in the US. slightly...
//rdj
in the first draft of my contract there was a clause like this too. But programming is my hobby. a carpenter can make stuff at home if he wants to. a plumber can install his own toilet/shower/jacuzzi combo. a programmer should be allowed to write stuff in his own time. Most employers will understand..
//rdj
I'm sticking to my stationary phone, I hate mobiles. I don't want to be reachable everywhere, and when people visit me, the mobile phone should be turned off. I already have a phone, and 2 phones in the house is overdoing it. But, here in the netherlands, with coverage of about 95% (give or take 5%) mobile phones are a reasonable alternative to stationary ones. if you don't mind the terrible soundquality of most phones. Now if only people would turn off their phones.. I really hate people (who always start talking VERY VERY LOUDLY) getting phonecalls in cinemas, bars, coffee-shops etc.
//rdj
I got hit with basically the same thing. Wasn't much of a problem though. my contract approx. says:
:)
everything I write at work is for the company.
everything I write at home is my work, unless:
-what I am writing at home is something I have been ordered to write, when I started writing it
-what I write at home is something I know I will be ordered to write.
this works for me, and for my boss.
okok.. sorry about that.. english isn't my first language :)
//rdj
yup.. the two are really comparable, they're supposed to do the same thing. yup. really. And MS excel is a way better spreadsheet than oracle.
//rdj
The furry kind :)
//rdj
and it is the computer used by Unseen University, Ankh-Morpork, Discworld. Just don't take away the nest of mice...
//rdj
Bud sucks. but there is also the REAL Budweiser, from a place called Budweis in Tcheckoslovakia(sp?). Very good stuff. tastes quite a bit like Urquell. This is also the reason why there are countries where Bud is a trademark infringement. There is already a beer named Budweiser, Budweiser Budvar
//rdj
it'll be covered in the netherlands. just sent a link to a journalist, and she had just started on the story. also, having read several of her articles she seems quite knowledgeable. for the dutch among us: It'll be covered in NRC.
//rdj
>How would you like if someone took everything from your home and spread them all over the lawn, or perhaps your grades or other personal information and sent them out over the net for everyone to see?
I wouldn't like it. this is different however. MS didn't get burgled. This is like me putting a large poster on my window, proudly showing off my fantastic grades with a note attached that you cannot tell anyone else my grades.
//rdj
Your arguement relies heavily on 'the right to make money off of someone'. I don't think there is such a right, there is only a 'right to *try* to make money off of someone'. And try they do, 'serving' me with hundreds of ads each day (not only the web). If I receive junkmail, I throw it away without reading it. Sure, someone spent money on sending it, but that doesn't mean I appreciate their efforts. I don't in any way feel obliged to read/view/listen to advertisements, nor should I be. If I want some company's pricelist I'll ask for it. And there is one more thing: Suppose the banner I got to see was some porn site. Even if I do not like to see porn, I would not be allowed to filter this. A banner itself may have objectionable content to some people.
//rdj
>By blocking the ads, you're taking money out of my pocket.
And by not sending me 1 million dollars you're taking money out of my pocket.
//rdj
There's a really good place in groningen, the netherlands to buy your pot: Coffee-shop CoCo, in the Gelkingestraat. hrmpf. to any lawyers out there: don't bother. I guess you also won't be allowed to tell kids: don't go to that house, they're selling crack. silly USA...
//rdj
would that be Prozac at no charge? if so then I may have to start making music.. if hanson can score with hmmmmbop, I can score with fooooobar.
//rdj
Don't have time to look up the link.. but you may also want to check out the scriptkiddie HOWTO.
//rdj
I tried bending CDs for use as handy and decentlooking CDholders. I gave up, I'm going back to vinyl. As for burning CDs quickly: I can really recommend an oldfashioned stove, preferably one running on coal. It can handle burning CDs by the dozens, and a microwave can't reach the temperature of burning coal. It is also stable, with uptimes known to be over 2 months. where a microwave needs to power down after each burning session, one can easily burn session after session in a stove without a single powerdown. And ofcourse there is the fact that you can quickly and easily, again without rebooting, add CDs to a burning session in progress.
//rdj
>Tattoo the kid's forehead "cannot view sexual content more explicit than innuendo"?
innuendo can be a bloody lot worse...especially if you train for it. It's pretty fun to be able to give any conversation sexual connotations that are too ugly/sick to depict graphically.
//rdj
I think yahoo will apply this to non-US citizens. They may have to, since COPPA sets yahoo's rules. if COPPA says: "no data-gathering on kids" that includes all kids, not just US kids. It's not a law (well... this part, and I don't know much about it) that regulates the user, it's a law that regulates the gatherer of data i.e. yahoo
//rdj
After a nice discussion with my (now former) math-teacher, we both came to the conclusion that the use of calculators in school has actually made math-exams a little harder. Before that widespread use of calculators in schools, math-exam-ansers tended to give 'pretty' answers, i.e. answers with round numbers. Answers like: 42, 2*pi, 3*sqrt(2), 2/3. This made it easy to spot mistakes, since the form of the answer would stand out. If you got an answer 2.31172, it was probably wrong. The use of calculators however made such numbers just as easy to handle as the pretty ones, which closed off the quick'n'dirty approach to spot mistakes. It's not a big thing, let alone one to really complain about. Was a nice discussion though :)
//rdj
That's fine, as long as you know what you are buying. If the license can be viewed before buying the product, that's fine with me. But if you buy something, and then later find out: "This is our product. but if it doesn't do what it is supposed to do, that's your problem and not ours" that's a whole different matter. especially if you can't return the software (not uncommon in the netherlands. You open the box to view the license, and if you don't agree there's no way back)
//rdj
metallica is not a citizen, it's a company. and that is not a compliment. basically, metallica is just another money-hungry monopolist who'll do anything to screw over those who have supported them for a long time, and I want nothing to do with them any more.I sold my metallica cds, and I hope this whole thing bankrupts them. And before you start saying things like 'if you support cann^H^Hpitalism'... I don't.
//rdj
not in europe, where it is specifically allowed to reverse engineer for interoperability, ie reading a document through a different reader, cos none is available for your OS.
//rdj