what's to stop them from setting down terms and conditions for when you're allowed to quit? Sorry, you can't quit this week...
I think the answer to this is the 13th amendment. I recognize there is a certain fairness to allowing both sides to terminate the relationship at will, though.
You may have a point, but when Bush's people point out that he's been drug-free since 1974, it's certainly tempting to speculate that he was not drug-free prior to that year. It seems rather similar.
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While we're nitpicking about the comparison to a VW, I thought I'd point out that while the article says the largest version weigh 500 tons and is 15 meters in length, Science and Technology Review just says that the reactor will be no larger than 500 tons and 15 meters in length. I'm not sure there's any reason to expect a smaller reactor. I think that's a lot closer to the size of a locomotive than a VW.
I know you're kidding, but when Solomon (or the preacher, in any case) says "under the sun," he doesn't mean outside, he means anywhere. That doesn't make him a nerd, it makes him Jean-Paul Sartre.
TiVo has a published API for the existing Home Media Option, which JavaHMO takes advantage of. It wouldn't be surpising if they do the same for their next generation Home Media offering.
I don't understand the Open Source Sizzles graph. It looks to me like market penentration, if I can call it that, goes from 2.8% in 2002 to 3% in 2003, after nearly doubling in the prior year. Doesn't that mean that market penetration is levelling off? I would think the extrapolation would put it at something like 3.5% in 2006, not 6%.
Apple also has to keep in mind that proclaiming its OS "certified 100% virus-free" would essentially be inviting trouble by issuing a challenge. Why should they make themselves a target?
Some women over 40 can in fact bear children, and I very much doubt that smallpox would have a 100% mortality rate among the unvaccinated. So I'd readliy vote for the smallpox over the H-bombs if given the choice.
It's hard to identify true root causes, but certainly between the 1920s and the 1950s, american culture and spending patterns had fallen so heavily into the pattern of the automobile
Surely it's not that hard to identify the causes. Automakers and others involved in the auto industry (oil companies, tire makers) bought up trolley lines right and left and closed them down, giving people no recource but the internal combustion engine.
Here's a very good audio link to a story on This American Life. The argument is that while the German government was quite serious about sabotage, the would-be sabateurs themselves were by-and-large not fully committed.
I have to concede that having an additional user is presumably some sort of potential benefit to the hosting service, or the service provider wouldn't be seeking new users (and at one point this provider was signing up new users). However, to argue that a contract was formed, I believe you'd have to articulate what that benefit was.
I'm still not quite with you on the terms of service. The proper comparison isn't a user with the TOS agreement against a user without (where the former is admittedly preferable for the service provider). To determine whether the service provider is receiving a benefit from a new user, we would have to compare a user with TOS agreement against no user at all. A user who agrees to the TOS restricting his use of the services hasn't really given up anything, because he'd have no access at all to the service absent the agreement.
Consideration does not have to be something received of value.
Actually, consideration does have to be something of value, although it could be an agreement or promise to perform some act. I can easily see how users receive consideration for their promise to abide by the TOS in the form of hosting services.
However, consideration must be mutual, and each additional user is a cost, not a benefit, for the hosting service. I don't see how the user's promise to abide by the TOS puts the hosting service in a better position than if no service were provided at all.
As others have mentioned, there's probably a better argument for reliance here, but action in reliation is actually an alternative to consideration, not a form of consideration.
I believe the grandparent intended to say, "Those would be the beautiful beaches of Al-Andalus, infidel swine!" as the Islamic state in Spain was known. This term in the origin of the English
Andalusia and the Spanish Andalucía, so it's not far off.
It's also true that interpreters never translate the names of individuals, and interpreters are presumably the real world analog on which the universal translator is based. That's not just because it would be confusing to translate individuals' names, but also because the interpreter needs to come up with a semantic equivalent. Since "Joe Smith" doesn't really make an English speaker think of the forging of metal implements, it would be misleading to translate it into another language.
I'd be the last to propound a literal interpretation of the Bible, but I believe the traditional interpretation of Genesis is that all of humanity is descended from Noah's children. Asians are presumed to be the descendants of Shem. You'll have to look for the origins of racism elsewhere.
The distinction between Soca-Cola and Lindows is that "windowing interface" or "window" is a generic term in the English-speaking world, so Microsoft can claim a trademark for "Microsoft Windows," but not the mere term "Windows."
On the other hand, I imagine different terminology would be used in Dutch, so this decision makes some sense to me. In the U.S., for example, I might be able to get away with trademarking "Le Voiture", but not "The Automobile" (assuming the product is a car).
That's partly correct. The Hebrew names did tend to be the first word of the book. The Greek and Latin names of the books of the bible tend to describe the main topic (which is still the Western custom, of course). For example, Exodus is Latin from the Greek exodos, the road out, describing the emigration from Egypt. The Hebrew name of the same book is Shmot, meaning Names (I believe that's because the book happens to open with a geneology.)
With B'reshit, it's just a happy coincidence that the first Hebrew word describes beginnings, which is the main topic.
Re: Illegals flying into the twin towers and the Pentagon and a field in PA?
While they certainly were illegal in the sense that they were terrorists, they weren't illegal immigrants. They all entered the country legally. Three of them had overstayed their visas, but the new system would not be likely to catch overstays until they attempted to leave (which of course they never planned to do).
You were not hallucinating about Syria. After Alexander the Great's death, his Greek empire was split into three territories, one of which became the Selucid empire. This empire was centered more or less around modern Syria, and they were occupiers the Maccabees were fighting against.
I was thinking that too, but they do address that on the Slimdevices site by pointing out that no TV is required. So the total footprint of the Squeezebox is much smaller.
I'm also old enough to remember Plato, and I also am irritated when people IM me with matters that don't really require immediate attention. Do you suppose there's any connection?
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You may have a point, but when Bush's people point out that he's been drug-free since 1974, it's certainly tempting to speculate that he was not drug-free prior to that year. It seems rather similar.
While we're nitpicking about the comparison to a VW, I thought I'd point out that while the article says the largest version weigh 500 tons and is 15 meters in length, Science and Technology Review just says that the reactor will be no larger than 500 tons and 15 meters in length. I'm not sure there's any reason to expect a smaller reactor. I think that's a lot closer to the size of a locomotive than a VW.
I know you're kidding, but when Solomon (or the preacher, in any case) says "under the sun," he doesn't mean outside, he means anywhere. That doesn't make him a nerd, it makes him Jean-Paul Sartre.
TiVo has a published API for the existing Home Media Option, which JavaHMO takes advantage of. It wouldn't be surpising if they do the same for their next generation Home Media offering.
I don't understand the Open Source Sizzles graph. It looks to me like market penentration, if I can call it that, goes from 2.8% in 2002 to 3% in 2003, after nearly doubling in the prior year. Doesn't that mean that market penetration is levelling off? I would think the extrapolation would put it at something like 3.5% in 2006, not 6%.
Apple also has to keep in mind that proclaiming its OS "certified 100% virus-free" would essentially be inviting trouble by issuing a challenge. Why should they make themselves a target?
Some women over 40 can in fact bear children, and I very much doubt that smallpox would have a 100% mortality rate among the unvaccinated. So I'd readliy vote for the smallpox over the H-bombs if given the choice.
Here's a very good audio link to a story on This American Life. The argument is that while the German government was quite serious about sabotage, the would-be sabateurs themselves were by-and-large not fully committed.
I'm still not quite with you on the terms of service. The proper comparison isn't a user with the TOS agreement against a user without (where the former is admittedly preferable for the service provider). To determine whether the service provider is receiving a benefit from a new user, we would have to compare a user with TOS agreement against no user at all. A user who agrees to the TOS restricting his use of the services hasn't really given up anything, because he'd have no access at all to the service absent the agreement.
However, consideration must be mutual, and each additional user is a cost, not a benefit, for the hosting service. I don't see how the user's promise to abide by the TOS puts the hosting service in a better position than if no service were provided at all.
As others have mentioned, there's probably a better argument for reliance here, but action in reliation is actually an alternative to consideration, not a form of consideration.
I believe the grandparent intended to say, "Those would be the beautiful beaches of Al-Andalus, infidel swine!" as the Islamic state in Spain was known. This term in the origin of the English Andalusia and the Spanish Andalucía, so it's not far off.
It's also true that interpreters never translate the names of individuals, and interpreters are presumably the real world analog on which the universal translator is based. That's not just because it would be confusing to translate individuals' names, but also because the interpreter needs to come up with a semantic equivalent. Since "Joe Smith" doesn't really make an English speaker think of the forging of metal implements, it would be misleading to translate it into another language.
I'm no Republican, but this is a distortion of the facts.
I suspect it was inspired by this rover.
I'd be the last to propound a literal interpretation of the Bible, but I believe the traditional interpretation of Genesis is that all of humanity is descended from Noah's children. Asians are presumed to be the descendants of Shem. You'll have to look for the origins of racism elsewhere.
On the other hand, I imagine different terminology would be used in Dutch, so this decision makes some sense to me. In the U.S., for example, I might be able to get away with trademarking "Le Voiture", but not "The Automobile" (assuming the product is a car).
That's partly correct. The Hebrew names did tend to be the first word of the book. The Greek and Latin names of the books of the bible tend to describe the main topic (which is still the Western custom, of course). For example, Exodus is Latin from the Greek exodos, the road out, describing the emigration from Egypt. The Hebrew name of the same book is Shmot, meaning Names (I believe that's because the book happens to open with a geneology.) With B'reshit, it's just a happy coincidence that the first Hebrew word describes beginnings, which is the main topic.
Actually, a zebra crossing is not quite synonymous with crosswalk, at least as I had it told to me. It's a specially marked crossing where traffic is theoretically required to stop for pedestrians. That's why the notion of being run down in a zebra crossing has a certain irony.
While they certainly were illegal in the sense that they were terrorists, they weren't illegal immigrants. They all entered the country legally. Three of them had overstayed their visas, but the new system would not be likely to catch overstays until they attempted to leave (which of course they never planned to do).
You were not hallucinating about Syria. After Alexander the Great's death, his Greek empire was split into three territories, one of which became the Selucid empire. This empire was centered more or less around modern Syria, and they were occupiers the Maccabees were fighting against.
There might also be a claim for tortious interference. Here's an example under Georgia law that's more to the point.
I was thinking that too, but they do address that on the Slimdevices site by pointing out that no TV is required. So the total footprint of the Squeezebox is much smaller.
I'm also old enough to remember Plato, and I also am irritated when people IM me with matters that don't really require immediate attention. Do you suppose there's any connection?