The Bush administration Us government....you want to sue them.
The same government that outright refses to cplmy with any subpoenas? The very same administration that would have you labelled in the mainstream media as a terrorist (thanks, Fox News!) before you even got the phone off the hook to call the ACLU? The same administration who have time and again shown to be criminally negligent in its blatant disregard of the Constitution? And you think people will just fall over themselves to help you, a known terrorist, at the risk of their own assets?
While it's trendy to bash mr Stevens for his "tubes" remark on such a technology-minded website, it's far from bring his only or even most notable act of incompetence. Here is a Senator who routinely votes on pork-laden bills that give kickbacks to himself and local Alaskan contractors - liek the inafmous "Bridge to Nowhere" that would have costmillions and allowed a small town (can you even call it a town when there's not even 1000 people lviing there? I'd say a village) to save itself a bit of travelling by crossing the river directly.
Stevens' case is not particularly odd either; it's symptomatic of Congress' Culture of Corruption (if you want it to be catchier, replace them with "Edgy" Ks) wherein a bunch of fatcats scratch each otheR's back. I know its a cliché - but damn it, it's true and casesd like these and Tom Delay's just shove it down our throats day after day after day. What will it take for the ystem to change, or BE changed (forcefully)?
I think the scariest part of your post was how eerily accjurate it is, no matter what PR release statement you apply it to (provided it comes from an Evil Company (tm)). Has Doublespeak really creeped up on us that quickly?
Just as easily as statistics are used to prove anything, they are disproved with the simple wave of a magic wand....
Person X is biased!...would you rather the research be accomplished by a complete moron with no knowledge of the topic whatsoever?
Person X estimated number Y! Yeah, as if the current system wasn't based on estimates. Unless you cna prove his estimate was wrong the fact that he chose a median value is irrelevant.
I'll give you that any good statistic research should include the interval for which it is valid. This is a glaring omission. The rest of your complaints are dubious at best.
Grandma who can't possibly be interested in massive copyright infringement? Check.
Ultra-high-speed connection, even if it has no bearing on its use? Check.
Foreign and not even subject to US legislature? Check.
If the RIAA want to outdo themselves in the "Really fucking bad lawsuit target" department they have the perfect target now...
After the last outrageous cloning claim by S.Korea was revealed to be pure bullshit, can we really believe this claim? Or that they even stand a good chance of suceeding?
There is nothing derogatory about "liking long-established brands" that, you know, happen to be from Japan. Shit, people in the 60's were reluctant to buy an asian car because they wwren't "made in the good ol' U.S. of A". Doesn't mean Americans back then were racist.
Any other poltiically-correct bullshit you want to add?
Okay so that is an oversimplification, but you cannot force someone to enter a contract to use something AFTER they have already paid for that privilege. The only legally valid EULA would be one you sign before purchasing the software.
Note that IANAL and that this is not valid legal advice not an endorsement of any practices explictiely forbidden by EULAs.
..in pretty much the same way most people take things like their roads, police dpt, fire dpt, military, etc. for granted and assume they cost "nothing". Ever hear anybody complain about minor road refection? That's what a minor surgery costs.
It involves an elastic band, a free cell phone from the carrier of your choice (look around. They all have at least one model that's free) and your nano..
Of CURSE if you include catastrophic cascading failures ANY system is going to look shitty. Simply put, considering the rate of transactions occuring on the market at nay given time, I can safely say that if you invest yourm noey right now it WILL average out to 11% annual gain over any kind of a foreseeable future.
The Nikkei's downfall has nothing to do with the stock market and everything to do with the housing/construction market, which is an entirely different beast. It would be like blaming Ditech for the Krash.
Is there any sort of law in the EU that prevents mobiles from being restricted to a single carrier? I simply don't see Apple switching to an open model "out of the kindness of their hearts" or some such as it's not nearly as profitable- and I imagine that AT&T would be mighty miffed when the Euro iPhones are imported to the US....and promptly activated with other carriers for their better service and lower price.
There is no metathesis involved in pronouncing "tomato" as "tomahto" - it's just prononucing the vowel "a" wrong, not MANGLING the word like meathesis involves. Seriously, comfortable as "Cumftable"? That just makes you sound like an indred redneck and it has no place in any even semi-literary register.
The Big Bang did not create the Universe. Matter already had to exist at that point for it to be concentrated intio the singularity which ex/imploded. The Big Bang began the Universe's expansion. Nothing more.
...so basically you'd want to prevent the widespread use of video cameras, ACLU or otherwise?... a bit too late for that my friend, most police cruisers come with a dashboard camera....a good number of stoplights have cameras....if you live in the UK, the damn street corners have cameras. They're already everywhere.
Not only is this an idiotic oversimplification, it also utterly fails to account for the spirit of the law as it is currently upheld; no childre are harmed by the viewing of said pornography. No crime has been committed by the mere sight of some moving pixels.
Keep your trashy right-wing "arguments" out of this discussion.
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The Bush administration Us government....you want to sue them.
The same government that outright refses to cplmy with any subpoenas?
The very same administration that would have you labelled in the mainstream media as a terrorist (thanks, Fox News!) before you even got the phone off the hook to call the ACLU?
The same administration who have time and again shown to be criminally negligent in its blatant disregard of the Constitution?
And you think people will just fall over themselves to help you, a known terrorist, at the risk of their own assets?
Keep dreaming.
He probably meant "adress request" as in "Your place or mine?"
Least I hope he did, or he was really missing out!
While it's trendy to bash mr Stevens for his "tubes" remark on such a technology-minded website, it's far from bring his only or even most notable act of incompetence. Here is a Senator who routinely votes on pork-laden bills that give kickbacks to himself and local Alaskan contractors - liek the inafmous "Bridge to Nowhere" that would have costmillions and allowed a small town (can you even call it a town when there's not even 1000 people lviing there? I'd say a village) to save itself a bit of travelling by crossing the river directly.
Stevens' case is not particularly odd either; it's symptomatic of Congress' Culture of Corruption (if you want it to be catchier, replace them with "Edgy" Ks) wherein a bunch of fatcats scratch each otheR's back. I know its a cliché - but damn it, it's true and casesd like these and Tom Delay's just shove it down our throats day after day after day. What will it take for the ystem to change, or BE changed (forcefully)?
I think the scariest part of your post was how eerily accjurate it is, no matter what PR release statement you apply it to (provided it comes from an Evil Company (tm)). Has Doublespeak really creeped up on us that quickly?
Just as easily as statistics are used to prove anything, they are disproved with the simple wave of a magic wand....
...would you rather the research be accomplished by a complete moron with no knowledge of the topic whatsoever?
Person X is biased!
Person X estimated number Y! Yeah, as if the current system wasn't based on estimates. Unless you cna prove his estimate was wrong the fact that he chose a median value is irrelevant.
I'll give you that any good statistic research should include the interval for which it is valid. This is a glaring omission. The rest of your complaints are dubious at best.
Grandma who can't possibly be interested in massive copyright infringement? Check.
Ultra-high-speed connection, even if it has no bearing on its use? Check.
Foreign and not even subject to US legislature? Check.
If the RIAA want to outdo themselves in the "Really fucking bad lawsuit target" department they have the perfect target now...
Our new overlords, for a few, welcome me.
and it seems the battle in modern Japan saw the Wii hit the ps3 in its weak spot for MASSIVE DAMAGE.
After the last outrageous cloning claim by S.Korea was revealed to be pure bullshit, can we really believe this claim? Or that they even stand a good chance of suceeding?
Every time I try to get out, they pull me back in.
Stop making me smoke you damned scientists!
There is nothing derogatory about "liking long-established brands" that, you know, happen to be from Japan. Shit, people in the 60's were reluctant to buy an asian car because they wwren't "made in the good ol' U.S. of A". Doesn't mean Americans back then were racist.
Any other poltiically-correct bullshit you want to add?
Okay so that is an oversimplification, but you cannot force someone to enter a contract to use something AFTER they have already paid for that privilege. The only legally valid EULA would be one you sign before purchasing the software.
Note that IANAL and that this is not valid legal advice not an endorsement of any practices explictiely forbidden by EULAs.
..in pretty much the same way most people take things like their roads, police dpt, fire dpt, military, etc. for granted and assume they cost "nothing". Ever hear anybody complain about minor road refection? That's what a minor surgery costs.
It involves an elastic band, a free cell phone from the carrier of your choice (look around. They all have at least one model that's free) and your nano..
Of CURSE if you include catastrophic cascading failures ANY system is going to look shitty. Simply put, considering the rate of transactions occuring on the market at nay given time, I can safely say that if you invest yourm noey right now it WILL average out to 11% annual gain over any kind of a foreseeable future.
The Nikkei's downfall has nothing to do with the stock market and everything to do with the housing/construction market, which is an entirely different beast. It would be like blaming Ditech for the Krash.
Is there any sort of law in the EU that prevents mobiles from being restricted to a single carrier? I simply don't see Apple switching to an open model "out of the kindness of their hearts" or some such as it's not nearly as profitable- and I imagine that AT&T would be mighty miffed when the Euro iPhones are imported to the US....and promptly activated with other carriers for their better service and lower price.
like E-mplosion 2.0 and a snazzy new web interface!
Music Industry : Who are you and why aren't you giving us money yet?
Sems to be about the only thing they care about.
There is no metathesis involved in pronouncing "tomato" as "tomahto" - it's just prononucing the vowel "a" wrong, not MANGLING the word like meathesis involves. Seriously, comfortable as "Cumftable"? That just makes you sound like an indred redneck and it has no place in any even semi-literary register.
I don't know, do you call it a "nuculus" or a "nu-klee-us"?
I, for one, profoundly hate our car-analogy making overidiots.
The lack of a sufficient population precludes a Student test; any sample would be meaningless.
The Big Bang did not create the Universe. Matter already had to exist at that point for it to be concentrated intio the singularity which ex/imploded. The Big Bang began the Universe's expansion. Nothing more.
...so basically you'd want to prevent the widespread use of video cameras, ACLU or otherwise?... a bit too late for that my friend, most police cruisers come with a dashboard camera....a good number of stoplights have cameras....if you live in the UK, the damn street corners have cameras. They're already everywhere.
Not only is this an idiotic oversimplification, it also utterly fails to account for the spirit of the law as it is currently upheld; no childre are harmed by the viewing of said pornography. No crime has been committed by the mere sight of some moving pixels.
Keep your trashy right-wing "arguments" out of this discussion.