Re:marketing makes the market more effective?
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Not for me. maybe for companies, but they are evil anyway. I say take any opportunity to mess with companies. false info. order something, and cancel the order just in time, anything to annoy the evil marketeers
//rdj
Re:If you are not doing anything wrong ...
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It's quite likely that there are things you do that aren't wrong, but you wouldn't like the whole world, or even anyone else to know. For instance.. I may not want people to know I go to a prostitute, even though it may be perfectly legal. But if I do, I don't go around telling my mom.
I'm not. I have abandoned all hope of intelligence springing from the US. This way I am never unpleasantly surprised by US stupidity, but sometimes, just once in a while I am surprised at a slight sign of reemerging intelligence.
As I see it, you cannot patent a substance that occurs naturally. If it occurse naturally, you have merely discovered it, not invented it. And there's a bloody lot of substances that occur naturally. Maybe you could patent the method of extraction or production of the substance, but those are very different things.
actually, for other technical reasons, trial by judge may be fairewr, but I'm not going to say which one I think is better( let alone which one actually IS better, I wouldn't know)..However.. the dutch legal system has quite a good reputation.
I dont know about other countries.. but in the netherlands, jurisprudence on the subject goes something like this:
If it's a normal thing for a kid to buy, it's binding. If it isn't, you should have watched out better. This means: A 12yr old kid buying a CD is binding (even if the parents don't like the CD), the same kid buying a stereo would NOT be binding. Ofcourse.. when the parents are present, it's binding too. But the store that sold the stereo to the unsupervised kid would have to take it back, if the parents wanted.
Overall the licence looks quite sound. But I am a little worried about the link to the AAA, not being an american and all. Nice job though, seems quite a fair licence.
I care. Nobody has any business spying on me downloading porn, mp3's or recipes for pipebombs using 3 pens, a rabbit and 7 liters of vasoline. neither is illegal, but their spying is bordering on illegality. Maybe we should all start packetsniffing the whitehouse. if the NSA can do it, than so can I.
I completely agree. What teachers should teach aren't facts, but understanding. I guess my old physics teacher put it best the first time we had a lesson from the guy: "Everything I am going to tell you the next few years is NOT true!" What it did was point out the difference between theory and truth, fundamental to ANY kind of science. It is a lot more important to know the reasons of the founding of the USA then the exact date it happened. Children are smart enough to understand the difference between a theory and the truth
Actually, a document about shooting people would be equal to a book about shooting people. The example you cite would be Action == thought. But I do agree it's a bad thing. Here in the netherlands you are also not required to answer questions that incriminate you, and that is how I would like to view keys to encryption too.
I wouldn't worry about the judge judging. It's his job, and trials by judge, without a jury work fine in a lot of countries. (granted, not in all, but neither can you say that trial by jury is infallible) a correctly handled trial by judge is always better than an incorrectly handled trial by jury. Judging a little on looks will always happen, whether by a jury or by a judge. Ofcourse, when your constitution states you have the right to trial by jury, then you have that right. But I don't think trial by jury is better than trial by judge.
Well ofcourse he(she?) may not be able to make a free COBOL, being an accountant and not a comp. sci. And ofcourse the fact that he doesn't like all the visual window stuff made me feel justified about my passionate love-affair with a commandline;) Linux is IMO an OS for people who like a little tinkering, but not every user has to be able to turn out a decent-sized piece of code.
But..I was not impressed with win200 bloat, and I've seen it crash already. Not even to mention the ridiculous pricing or the fact that a gamesOS doesn't need apps.. Word for Nintendo.. yippee!
the NSA doesn't do shit for me, it only invades my privacy. And destroy america should be a perfectly acceptable political statement in the USA too. Freedom of speech and all that. first get privacy, freedom of speech will automatically follow..
It would be nice if that fact at least appeared in the/. story.. would have saved me the trouble of clicking the link *sigh*. anyway.. this contest isn't news, and doesn't matter. I'd just like to add a quick idea here: a topic US only, for things that will not be useful for most people. Most people do not live in the US. I don't see any dutch only contests here, which would make just as much sense.
Oh.. it would be nice if a warning on P3s were mandatory, a bit like the mandatory healthwarnings on tobacco. And a good campaign on privacy, stressing its impoortance. But personally I'm all for a ban. corporations need regulation, persons need rights.
I for one will not use any more artX products. The company has shown it cannot be trusted. This tactic would be illegal in most countries probably.. and if it isn't.. well.. it's about time it was. I will never recommend any artX product, and will inform customers on their malicious spread of inaccurate information. With a bit of luck, artX will get a hefty fine.
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Not for me. maybe for companies, but they are evil anyway. I say take any opportunity to mess with companies. false info. order something, and cancel the order just in time, anything to annoy the evil marketeers
//rdj
It's quite likely that there are things you do that aren't wrong, but you wouldn't like the whole world, or even anyone else to know. For instance.. I may not want people to know I go to a prostitute, even though it may be perfectly legal. But if I do, I don't go around telling my mom.
//rdj
True, but most are. The goal of most companies is making money at any cost. Evil enough for me, by default I do not trust any company.
//rdj
I'm not. I have abandoned all hope of intelligence springing from the US. This way I am never unpleasantly surprised by US stupidity, but sometimes, just once in a while I am surprised at a slight sign of reemerging intelligence.
//rdj
As I see it, you cannot patent a substance that occurs naturally. If it occurse naturally, you have merely discovered it, not invented it. And there's a bloody lot of substances that occur naturally. Maybe you could patent the method of extraction or production of the substance, but those are very different things.
//rdj
Does that surprise you?
//rdj
actually, for other technical reasons, trial by judge may be fairewr, but I'm not going to say which one I think is better( let alone which one actually IS better, I wouldn't know)..However.. the dutch legal system has quite a good reputation.
//rdj
It was the hippopotamus that grossed me out...
//rdj
I can say that because trials by a judge work. And they work quite well, here in the netherlands. I see no reason for them NOT working in britain.
//rdj
This might actually be a good use for Visual C...
//rdj
I dont know about other countries.. but in the netherlands, jurisprudence on the subject goes something like this:
If it's a normal thing for a kid to buy, it's binding. If it isn't, you should have watched out better. This means: A 12yr old kid buying a CD is binding (even if the parents don't like the CD), the same kid buying a stereo would NOT be binding. Ofcourse.. when the parents are present, it's binding too. But the store that sold the stereo to the unsupervised kid would have to take it back, if the parents wanted.
//rdj
Overall the licence looks quite sound. But I am a little worried about the link to the AAA, not being an american and all. Nice job though, seems quite a fair licence.
//rdj
with M$, they know who they can't sue, with linux this is a little harder.
//rdj
I care. Nobody has any business spying on me downloading porn, mp3's or recipes for pipebombs using 3 pens, a rabbit and 7 liters of vasoline. neither is illegal, but their spying is bordering on illegality. Maybe we should all start packetsniffing the whitehouse. if the NSA can do it, than so can I.
//rdj
I completely agree. What teachers should teach aren't facts, but understanding. I guess my old physics teacher put it best the first time we had a lesson from the guy: "Everything I am going to tell you the next few years is NOT true!" What it did was point out the difference between theory and truth, fundamental to ANY kind of science. It is a lot more important to know the reasons of the founding of the USA then the exact date it happened. Children are smart enough to understand the difference between a theory and the truth
//rdj
Actually, a document about shooting people would be equal to a book about shooting people. The example you cite would be Action == thought. But I do agree it's a bad thing. Here in the netherlands you are also not required to answer questions that incriminate you, and that is how I would like to view keys to encryption too.
//rdj
Not god, but John, Paul, George & Ringo wrote the bible.. or was it Marc and Luke?
//rdj
I wouldn't worry about the judge judging. It's his job, and trials by judge, without a jury work fine in a lot of countries. (granted, not in all, but neither can you say that trial by jury is infallible) a correctly handled trial by judge is always better than an incorrectly handled trial by jury. Judging a little on looks will always happen, whether by a jury or by a judge. Ofcourse, when your constitution states you have the right to trial by jury, then you have that right. But I don't think trial by jury is better than trial by judge.
//rdj
Well ofcourse he(she?) may not be able to make a free COBOL, being an accountant and not a comp. sci. And ofcourse the fact that he doesn't like all the visual window stuff made me feel justified about my passionate love-affair with a commandline ;)
Linux is IMO an OS for people who like a little tinkering, but not every user has to be able to turn out a decent-sized piece of code.
//rdj
I think MS found the ArtX story...
But..I was not impressed with win200 bloat, and I've seen it crash already. Not even to mention the ridiculous pricing or the fact that a gamesOS doesn't need apps.. Word for Nintendo.. yippee!
//rdj
the NSA doesn't do shit for me, it only invades my privacy. And destroy america should be a perfectly acceptable political statement in the USA too.
Freedom of speech and all that. first get privacy, freedom of speech will automatically follow..
//rdj
It would be nice if that fact at least appeared in the /. story.. would have saved me the trouble of clicking the link *sigh*. anyway.. this contest isn't news, and doesn't matter. I'd just like to add a quick idea here: a topic US only, for things that will not be useful for most people. Most people do not live in the US. I don't see any dutch only contests here, which would make just as much sense.
//rdj
Oh.. it would be nice if a warning on P3s were mandatory, a bit like the mandatory healthwarnings on tobacco. And a good campaign on privacy, stressing its impoortance. But personally I'm all for a ban. corporations need regulation, persons need rights.
//rdj
I for one will not use any more artX products. The company has shown it cannot be trusted. This tactic would be illegal in most countries probably.. and if it isn't.. well.. it's about time it was. I will never recommend any artX product, and will inform customers on their malicious spread of inaccurate information. With a bit of luck, artX will get a hefty fine.
//rdj
Does the fact that certain others not respect human rights make it right for YOU to ignore human rights?
"Well.. my neighbour once raped a kid, so it's alright for me to do so too."
//rdj