I always lie on the discrimination monitoring forms - I usually tick Chinese or Black African, claim to be homosexual and give my religion as islamic or jewish. It's not supposed to be relevant so why should I give them real answers.
The romans had one of the first social security systems ever and handed out bread and olive oil to roman citizens (as well as providing free entertainments).
As Juvenal lamented:
Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions -- everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses
Wind genies are generally not very helpful - bottle genies give wishes but wind genies almost never do. Wind genies are also less amenable to being cited you could end up having copyright issues and as many people know the RIAA employ wind genies for magical purposes.
I think I've finally worked out step 3.
1. Visit lots of suspicious websites and make some large downloads of legal files over encrypted connections (eg Linux Distros)
2. Get banned for illegal downloading.
3. Sue for slander, breach of contract and maybe some other stuff.
4. Profit!
I'm wondering if there's a way to get your fingerprints permanently removed without causing too much other serious damage. If you've got no fingerprints what are they going to do? If they refuse you a passport on those grounds then you'd likely have a good case in law.
That may be the case in the US but it's not necessarily true in the UK. I don't know, and given that we've got some of the best lawyers in the country arguing the rights and wrongs of it at the moment I suspect it's not that clear cut.
Anyway, what I was really pointing out was that the police believed they didn't need a warrant for this reason and weren't (at least as they saw it) blatantly conducting an illegal search.
I certainly agree with you about this teacher's actions in the classroom. Given a disruptive student handing out CDs with unknown contents I'd probably do exactly the same thing - confiscate them for the moment and talk to the student afterwards.
Where she went wrong was to then write an ignorant, stupid and threatening email to an adult she did not know before properly investigating the matter. Ignorance is correctable and one could argue that there was no particular reason for this individual to know about OS software, however the correct action would therefore have been to contact the adult and request an explanation - certainly not go off on some idiotic rant about harming children's education and illegal copying.
Given that she has not been identified (yet) and therefore any embarrassment is limited to a few colleagues and pupils I think she thoroughly deserved what she's got. Perhaps it will be a learning experience and next time she won't go off flapping her mouth when she doesn't know what she's talking about.
They didn't need a warrant because they had the permission of the Speaker.
Analogy: The managing director of a company giving police permission to search a cubicle in the company's offices.
Copyright infringement is distributing material without the copyright holders permission. So it wouldn't make any difference whether it's.5% or 100%. Since they're operating on behalf of the copyright holder and they just requested the file, uploading copyright material to them doesn't constitute an infringement.
I'm surprised they've not changed their EULA yet to eliminate this whole refund bit.
Because they can't. The (dodgy) legal ground EULAs stand on relies on the users acceptance of the terms and conditions, if they don't offer a refund for people who don't accept then they've sold a defective product.
Furthermore, PLEASE stop trotting out the old "Global Cooling" thing - that was NEVER a strongly accepted theory anywhere by anyone (I'm not saying NO-ONE believed it, just that it was a very small number of people, and they were rather stupid)
Unlike the GW proponents I don't believe that whether a theory is stongly accepted makes it valid or not. However, I think you'd find it hard to find an informed scientist who wouldn't accept that another ice age is inevitable or that it will come in the near future (geologically speaking). Who's to say the drop in temperatures over the last ten years isn't the start of a long term trend - leaping to wild conclusions is fun!
The lawyer will tell you that the odds are no better than fifty-fifty
I can see you haven't dealt with lawyers very much. A lawyer will always tell you you've got a good case. If they tell you you're bound to lose you won't fight the case and they won't get their fat fees.
The only exception is when you've so obviously got no case that any other advice is clearly professional incompetence that they could get sued for themselves.
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I always lie on the discrimination monitoring forms - I usually tick Chinese or Black African, claim to be homosexual and give my religion as islamic or jewish. It's not supposed to be relevant so why should I give them real answers.
Oh yes, all us Europeans would very much like to thank you Americans for inventing democracy for us.
The romans had one of the first social security systems ever and handed out bread and olive oil to roman citizens (as well as providing free entertainments).
As Juvenal lamented:
Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions -- everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses
Some things never change.
No, in fact the UK hasn't signed up to the European Declaration of Human Rights - only to some articles of it.
Wind genies are generally not very helpful - bottle genies give wishes but wind genies almost never do. Wind genies are also less amenable to being cited you could end up having copyright issues and as many people know the RIAA employ wind genies for magical purposes.
I think I've finally worked out step 3. 1. Visit lots of suspicious websites and make some large downloads of legal files over encrypted connections (eg Linux Distros) 2. Get banned for illegal downloading. 3. Sue for slander, breach of contract and maybe some other stuff. 4. Profit!
I don't agree that the 'common English word "theft"' includes copyright infringement but even if it did then it's irrelevant to a court. '
I'm wondering if there's a way to get your fingerprints permanently removed without causing too much other serious damage. If you've got no fingerprints what are they going to do? If they refuse you a passport on those grounds then you'd likely have a good case in law.
"In the long run." is not a sentence, it is a prepositional phrase. Please attach it to an appropriate sentence.
More importantly it's a sentence adverbial which is the real reason it needs to be attached to a sentence.
That may be the case in the US but it's not necessarily true in the UK. I don't know, and given that we've got some of the best lawyers in the country arguing the rights and wrongs of it at the moment I suspect it's not that clear cut.
Anyway, what I was really pointing out was that the police believed they didn't need a warrant for this reason and weren't (at least as they saw it) blatantly conducting an illegal search.
I certainly agree with you about this teacher's actions in the classroom. Given a disruptive student handing out CDs with unknown contents I'd probably do exactly the same thing - confiscate them for the moment and talk to the student afterwards.
Where she went wrong was to then write an ignorant, stupid and threatening email to an adult she did not know before properly investigating the matter. Ignorance is correctable and one could argue that there was no particular reason for this individual to know about OS software, however the correct action would therefore have been to contact the adult and request an explanation - certainly not go off on some idiotic rant about harming children's education and illegal copying.
Given that she has not been identified (yet) and therefore any embarrassment is limited to a few colleagues and pupils I think she thoroughly deserved what she's got. Perhaps it will be a learning experience and next time she won't go off flapping her mouth when she doesn't know what she's talking about.
They didn't need a warrant because they had the permission of the Speaker. Analogy: The managing director of a company giving police permission to search a cubicle in the company's offices.
Hey, do you want to buy a stone that keeps away tigers?
And even if it is copyright material that's still not an infringement.
Copyright infringement is distributing material without the copyright holders permission. So it wouldn't make any difference whether it's .5% or 100%. Since they're operating on behalf of the copyright holder and they just requested the file, uploading copyright material to them doesn't constitute an infringement.
Even if this type of copyright infringement were criminal - you can't be prosecuted for intending to commit a crime.
The birth of a new meme?
Yes, because most browsers don't recognise
you have to use
which does seem like missing the point.
A true nerd would know:
0. exploit nerds' nerdiness
1. go outside the normal channels of influence,
2. increase . . .
You know, it's real easy to take a case to the small claims court.
I'm surprised they've not changed their EULA yet to eliminate this whole refund bit.
Because they can't. The (dodgy) legal ground EULAs stand on relies on the users acceptance of the terms and conditions, if they don't offer a refund for people who don't accept then they've sold a defective product.
Would easy be enough - how about blind, or unconcious?
Furthermore, PLEASE stop trotting out the old "Global Cooling" thing - that was NEVER a strongly accepted theory anywhere by anyone (I'm not saying NO-ONE believed it, just that it was a very small number of people, and they were rather stupid)
Unlike the GW proponents I don't believe that whether a theory is stongly accepted makes it valid or not. However, I think you'd find it hard to find an informed scientist who wouldn't accept that another ice age is inevitable or that it will come in the near future (geologically speaking). Who's to say the drop in temperatures over the last ten years isn't the start of a long term trend - leaping to wild conclusions is fun!
The lawyer will tell you that the odds are no better than fifty-fifty
I can see you haven't dealt with lawyers very much. A lawyer will always tell you you've got a good case. If they tell you you're bound to lose you won't fight the case and they won't get their fat fees.
The only exception is when you've so obviously got no case that any other advice is clearly professional incompetence that they could get sued for themselves.
Who shall guard the guards?
A reference to the notorious Praetorian Guards.