Be careful of contractual obligations, but be aware that you cannot sign over your first born child - doesn't matter if your John Hancock is on it.
In Oz you can sue for lost income in the period, including any income potentially earnt if your reputation had not been impugned.
Basically - they have not taken even a modicum of "due care" in the collection of this "evidence".
You PC should have been quarantined and audited by a security professional, the firewall logs (all of them DHCP etc., not just the access logs) should have been readonly archived and analysed, and statements should have been taken by every person involved in the creation, maintenance, and analysis of said logs.
Without some or all of this information it is not allowed to even proceed to civil court in Oz.
Hence it is merely a wrongful termination as others have said.
One of the constants among small tribal societies is the pressure of genetic diversity.
Even with no concept of inbreeding - inter-tribe DNA exchange becomes of great importance for long term viability of your genetic material.
Many tribal systems revolve around the theft model, mostly as it requires little or no inter-tribal coordination or cooperation.
It would seem at least feasible that he carried off another tribes woman, was pursued by the men, involved in a battle (abandoning the woman), and was eventually killed.
P.S. The retrieval of undamaged arrows was commonplace right up until the age of mass production. The flight characteristics of each arrow was unique (so you had favourites), they were laboriously hand crafted, and if they did not strike a bone are almost sure to still be usable.
Not to be anti-dane (my stepfather and half brothers are all danes) but as far as I can recall it was a Dane who was tried for the "fish in a blender" installation art (see the BBC article).
Besides, people are only just coming to terms with the whole Germany=DE country code thing (makes perfect sense if you speak Deutsche), so I can understand Denmark=DK may seem a bit too sensible.:)
Recently computers have been maturing as a market.
Initially most new products have very little expectations built up around them - new users are instead constantly being surprised and (hopefully) pleased with the new abilities and possibilities on offer. This is analogous to the model T era of car manufacturing.
As a product becomes established within a market the expectations and preconceptions of what they can achieve increases. This leads to a diminishing user experience as they feel they are being "let down".
This is not to say that the functionality, rate of change, or any other product metric has relatively decreased, only that our expectations have increased.
The 90's vapourware phenomenom also helped push users expectations beyond what can be delivered. Developers are still paying for this hyperbole.
An issue I have never seen addressed by the tire manufacturers is the issue of harmonics.
If a wheel has 50 distinct nodules/strips of tread pattern, and is rotating at 264rpm, then it will produce a tone at around 220Hz (or concert pitch A).
If tires were constructed in a less repetitious tread design - perhaps a log periodic or goedel sequence - then it would help eliminate these stray harmonics .
Engineers looking at the problems of car crashes decided it would be advantageous to have rubber bumpers so that cars don't smash into each other, but instead bounce "harmlessly" off each other.
Unfortunately, this converted the energy that had previously been lost as deformation, noise, etc. into spring recoil energy...
Consider two cars colliding head on, both moving at the modest speed of 10Km/h. Instead of each driver deccelerating from 10Km/h to 0Km/h in the space of say one meter, they will deccelerate from 10kM/h to -10Km/h (assuming a perfectly inelastic collision).
This basically doubled the force applied to the passengers of the cars and dramatically increased passenger injuries...
Funnily enough they stopped making rubber bumpers.:)
The major counter to this argument depends upon the increased elasticity of the "collision" between a portion of tire tread and a portion of the road.
If the elasticity is increased such that a mild rebound effect is produced, this will decrease the effective friction. However, I would not expect this to be a major issue.
In addition, I would expect the initial friction to be of higher importance than kinetic friction for standard (i.e. not emergency braking with wheel lock) driving conditions.
Or alternatively, we could use the tech to ensure people actually know how to drive before they are allowed to on the roads (yes, it's limited - but it would help).
I don't know about anyone else but I am sick of having incompetent drivers in high powered turbo sports cars trying to kill me and my family every time we venture on the road.
"Yes, yes, I know that, Sidney... everybody knows that!... But look: Four wrongs squared, minus two wrongs to the fourth power, divided by this formula, do make a right."
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Be careful of contractual obligations, but be aware that you cannot sign over your first born child - doesn't matter if your John Hancock is on it.
In Oz you can sue for lost income in the period, including any income potentially earnt if your reputation had not been impugned.
Basically - they have not taken even a modicum of "due care" in the collection of this "evidence".
You PC should have been quarantined and audited by a security professional, the firewall logs (all of them DHCP etc., not just the access logs) should have been readonly archived and analysed, and statements should have been taken by every person involved in the creation, maintenance, and analysis of said logs.
Without some or all of this information it is not allowed to even proceed to civil court in Oz.
Hence it is merely a wrongful termination as others have said.
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Even with no concept of inbreeding - inter-tribe DNA exchange becomes of great importance for long term viability of your genetic material.
Many tribal systems revolve around the theft model, mostly as it requires little or no inter-tribal coordination or cooperation.
It would seem at least feasible that he carried off another tribes woman, was pursued by the men, involved in a battle (abandoning the woman), and was eventually killed.
P.S. The retrieval of undamaged arrows was commonplace right up until the age of mass production. The flight characteristics of each arrow was unique (so you had favourites), they were laboriously hand crafted, and if they did not strike a bone are almost sure to still be usable.
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Besides, people are only just coming to terms with the whole Germany=DE country code thing (makes perfect sense if you speak Deutsche), so I can understand Denmark=DK may seem a bit too sensible. :)
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Initially most new products have very little expectations built up around them - new users are instead constantly being surprised and (hopefully) pleased with the new abilities and possibilities on offer. This is analogous to the model T era of car manufacturing.
As a product becomes established within a market the expectations and preconceptions of what they can achieve increases. This leads to a diminishing user experience as they feel they are being "let down".
This is not to say that the functionality, rate of change, or any other product metric has relatively decreased, only that our expectations have increased.
The 90's vapourware phenomenom also helped push users expectations beyond what can be delivered. Developers are still paying for this hyperbole.
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If a wheel has 50 distinct nodules/strips of tread pattern, and is rotating at 264rpm, then it will produce a tone at around 220Hz (or concert pitch A).
If tires were constructed in a less repetitious tread design - perhaps a log periodic or goedel sequence - then it would help eliminate these stray harmonics .
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Engineers looking at the problems of car crashes decided it would be advantageous to have rubber bumpers so that cars don't smash into each other, but instead bounce "harmlessly" off each other.
Unfortunately, this converted the energy that had previously been lost as deformation, noise, etc. into spring recoil energy...
Consider two cars colliding head on, both moving at the modest speed of 10Km/h. Instead of each driver deccelerating from 10Km/h to 0Km/h in the space of say one meter, they will deccelerate from 10kM/h to -10Km/h (assuming a perfectly inelastic collision).
This basically doubled the force applied to the passengers of the cars and dramatically increased passenger injuries...
Funnily enough they stopped making rubber bumpers. :)
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Each year I moved house one street further away from the uni, and each year at final exam time they would scrape the top of the road for resurfacing.
It would take a good month for them to do one street, and the noise was truly horrendous.
If a solution is found to this noise then I will be impressed. :)
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If the elasticity is increased such that a mild rebound effect is produced, this will decrease the effective friction. However, I would not expect this to be a major issue.
In addition, I would expect the initial friction to be of higher importance than kinetic friction for standard (i.e. not emergency braking with wheel lock) driving conditions.
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Oh well, two out of three ain't bad. :)
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They do not contain enough explosives to kill an average soldier, but will blow off feet and pepper the rest of the torso with plastic shrapnel.
Unlike standard steel casing armament shrapnel, the fragments are virtually impossible to detect with X-rays.
The goal here is not to kill the enemy soldier(sic), but to permanently disable them and create a further drain on resources.
These carbon composite shells are far to familiar sounding for my liking.
I hope I am proven wrong - but I doubt it.
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You know when a topic is close to the bone on slashdot :)
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Reminds me of a few uni students I knew...
(In case it is a local vernacular - "sculling" is a colloquial expression for downing ones drink without in one go).
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Works out as damn cheap advertising for them (i.e. don't ask game developer for licensing payments - thats pretty cheap).
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I don't know about anyone else but I am sick of having incompetent drivers in high powered turbo sports cars trying to kill me and my family every time we venture on the road.
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If they are only interested in one section of the gaming community (ie. car sims(sic) on current generation consoles) then they could well be correct.
Let's face it - the kids playing Tekken aren't exactly the target audience...
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Oh wait - that was /.
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"Yes, yes, I know that, Sidney
-- Gary Larson
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Now that is retarded.
If someone writes 2.000,00 - I have a damn good idea of what they mean.
If you write 11/7/2003 - I have no idea what you meant.
It is the USA that is backward.
PS. I am australian so I agree with you on the numbers notation - you can keep your attitude though.
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-- Oscar Wilde.
Let sleeping dogs lie.
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