True, fluoride in drinking water can slightly improve children's dental health. Then again, so can them brushing their lazy-ass teeth with some fluoride toothpaste. On the other hand, fluoride in drinking water has been associated with several health *problems*, one of which happens to be tooth 'mottling' which causes teeth to get blotches on them. Great solution. Damage a large proportion of the nation's teeth to slightly improve the minority's.
So maybe this isn't all that outdated of an idea after
OK, I'm not usually a grammar Nazi, but do you realise you made FOUR errors in that single fucking sentance??
1) You DO NOT start a sentance with 'So...'. 2) You DO NOT say 'that outdated of an idea', you say 'that outdated an idea'. 3) You it's 'after all', not 'after'. 4) You put a full stop at the end of a sentance.
Learn English, or fuck off.
Sorry, I'm in a bad mood. Male period. Or something.
The fact is that Microsoft serves its consumers better than Linux, Amiga, or any of the other minor companies (Apple, etc.).
Stop right there! That, sir, is also a mistaken assumption. It may well be that Microsoft's popularity these days is merely down to inertia, the pressure of Microsoft software being so ubiqutous, and MS clients feeling they have no other realistic choice than Microsoft.
Couldn't you have a scenario like Mission: Impossible happening, where terrosists break in to the US govt. headquarters and download all vital information onto a minidisc?
I have to agree with the grandparent poster. Freenet may be similar to HTTP, but it is *NOT* HTTP, and in fact, if you look at the specification, it's *NOTHING* like HTTP. It's perfectly possible that a search function be added to the protocol, in the same way that content is requested over Freenet, ie. A search request is forwarded over x levels of node, and the results sent back to you. The only problem I could see would be a Gnutella-like CPU/bandwidth resource problem, because of the sheer volume of searches. Maybe that's why they haven't implemented it.
But don't you have to admit that the UK is one of the worst nanny states in the world? They're even trying to force water companies to put fluoride in our drinking water, for chrissakes! I want to get out, now, before it gets any worse.
Should a neighbor be allowed to amplify his voice outside my house and recite pornography at 120 db without restriction? I suggest that the answer is no.... -- I'm a pimp. Be my ho. [cheats4us.org]
I think it should cost them a darn sight less than the typical charge for Microsoft software. We all know the kind of markups Microsoft put on their software, and here are Linux providers putting even higher ones on!! Scandalous.
I'm astounded that IBM-Suse could come up with such a damn expensive Linux solution. They use an opensource OS, and they manage to charge MILLIONS MORE than Microsoft for it?? That means that they're charging MORE for the support of Linux than Microsoft are for their software AND support. Now that's ridiculous.
Then I let them all know that my IP address is "grc.com" and that I have practically unlimited bandwidth. Lots of hosts begin sending spoofed UDP packets at grc.com with no valid return address. Repeat until grc.com vanishes under all the traffic..
How exactly do they grow enough food for people to eat in Japan? With that kind of population density and space at a premium, it must be difficult. Does Japan have to import much food to keep its people fed?
1-Ogg develops the principle of compressing sound information whilst maintaining wonderful quality. 2-RIAA develop DRM technologies they can hide their data behind. 3-They also start throwing expensive lawsuits at Ogg. 4-Ogg develops anonymous filesharing networks and circumvention measures. 5-Etc, etc, etc.:-)
Mozilla could also do with a more Windows-like way of dealing with filetypes. ie. Base the helper application on the file extension, and look up the registered helper app for that file type. That's what IE does, and I like it infinitely better than fscking MIME types that all have to be registered seperately, and you need to install a PLUGIN just to use a download manager! grr...
Obviously this option would be limited to the Windows version of Mozilla... maybe that's what they don't like. 'Everything Mozilla does has to be done on all platforms'. But I think that's a rather inflexible attitude to take, considering all platforms are different, often in important ways.
I don't see your proposal as a solution to there being too much litigation
It's not a proposal, it's the current status of the English legal system, where LESS abuse happens than in America. Apparently I'm not the only one who likes the idea.
But as per the general issue, how would fees and costs as part of the award help?
Theoretically, in a good system (which I admit isn't really in place at the moment), the person with the *BEST CASE* wins (not the best lawyer). So, the loser deserves to lose. Paying the winner's legal fees would help to achieve this, because it wouldn't be a battle of who has the most money anymore; even the 'little guy' can hire an expensive lawyer if he knows he has a good case. With the current system, he can have a good case, WIN, and still lose bigtime, financially. How stupid is that?
And if lawyers don't get rich, why are they so f(&&)U*AUing expensive??
Isn't there? If not a problem on a large scale, there _certainly_ seems to be some frivoulous abuse of the US legal system by rich companies, suing (sueing?) people who don't have enough money to defend themselves in court. The defendants know that, even if they win the case, they'll lose lots of money, and so give in even if they could argue their case in defence!
Sorry, slight mistake. What I meant to say in that post was: If that's the plaintiff, they should realise their case is weak, and never bring it to court. Great way of deterring frivoulous lawsuits.
I never said it was my dad's opinion. It's MY opinion that the 'loser pays winner's costs' (that includes if the defendant loses, too) is by far the most sensible system. Cases where both parties could reasonably win are very rare; most of the time, it's pretty likely that one of the other is going to win, and has the stroner case. If that's the defendant, they should settle out of court. If that's the plaintiff, they should *pay the defendant's legal fees* because they should've realised their case was weak and never brought it to court, causing the defendant emotional stress and financial loss.
OK, it might deter the odd prosecution on cost grounds, but it's a darn sight better than the US alternative, and it's not like we don't already have enough lawsuits, is it??
Yes, they do. Because they claim to be protesting 'against globalization', which is such a wishy washy phrase, no wonder nobody listens to them. Now they have a list of damn good reasons to hate the WTO, maybe they could start producing some when asked by journalists.
it does appear that both continents are inevitably compelled to act similarly. Instances - Iraq
Ahem... what?? Iraq was an example of one of the biggest splits of opinion between the US and certain EU countries ever!!!
, NATO
Again, Iraq caused quite a big split in NATO too.
, DMCA
I'll give you this one. The EU's copying the dumb US law word for word.
, MS anti-trust case
Eh? The US didn't get anywhere against Microsoft with their legal action, but it seems Europe might.
Presently the US seems to have the upper hand, in that it can act more independently, and care less about repercussions from pissing off own citizens...
I totally disagree. They're introducing most of the ridiculous, fascist laws *first* as a template for other countries! They hardly seem scared of citizens rising up and revolting.
Europe adopting this attitude(resistance to Euro) is sickening
How is resisting the Euro helping corporations? If anything it's the PEOPLE of Britain that are against the Euro, and the multinational corps that would be helped most by it, which is probably why Labour is all for it (the corps have massive influence over our 'government').
whats the point of creating technology that plays compressed music files to enable us to carry around loads of our (paid for) music in a small package if they make it illegal.
Actually, that's probably the last thing they'd do. If they made MP3 players illegal, it'd get them a lot of bad press, such is the popularity now of MP3 players. They install them in new cars, for God's sake! MP3 players will probably be one of those things that's technically illegal, but they 'let it happen' anyway.
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Why over WiFi equipment, and not just over any internet connection?
Do you have a clue? Silly question.
True, fluoride in drinking water can slightly improve children's dental health. Then again, so can them brushing their lazy-ass teeth with some fluoride toothpaste. On the other hand, fluoride in drinking water has been associated with several health *problems*, one of which happens to be tooth 'mottling' which causes teeth to get blotches on them. Great solution. Damage a large proportion of the nation's teeth to slightly improve the minority's.
So maybe this isn't all that outdated of an idea after
OK, I'm not usually a grammar Nazi, but do you realise you made FOUR errors in that single fucking sentance??
1) You DO NOT start a sentance with 'So...'.
2) You DO NOT say 'that outdated of an idea', you say 'that outdated an idea'.
3) You it's 'after all', not 'after'.
4) You put a full stop at the end of a sentance.
Learn English, or fuck off.
Sorry, I'm in a bad mood. Male period. Or something.
So? I've got a big bottle of benzodiazepines!
The fact is that Microsoft serves its consumers better than Linux, Amiga, or any of the other minor companies (Apple, etc.).
Stop right there! That, sir, is also a mistaken assumption. It may well be that Microsoft's popularity these days is merely down to inertia, the pressure of Microsoft software being so ubiqutous, and MS clients feeling they have no other realistic choice than Microsoft.
Couldn't you have a scenario like Mission: Impossible happening, where terrosists break in to the US govt. headquarters and download all vital information onto a minidisc?
WARNING: KEYSTROKES LOGFILE DOWNLOADED!
I have to agree with the grandparent poster. Freenet may be similar to HTTP, but it is *NOT* HTTP, and in fact, if you look at the specification, it's *NOTHING* like HTTP. It's perfectly possible that a search function be added to the protocol, in the same way that content is requested over Freenet, ie. A search request is forwarded over x levels of node, and the results sent back to you. The only problem I could see would be a Gnutella-like CPU/bandwidth resource problem, because of the sheer volume of searches. Maybe that's why they haven't implemented it.
But don't you have to admit that the UK is one of the worst nanny states in the world? They're even trying to force water companies to put fluoride in our drinking water, for chrissakes! I want to get out, now, before it gets any worse.
Should a neighbor be allowed to amplify his voice outside my house and recite pornography at 120 db without restriction? I suggest that the answer is no. ...
--
I'm a pimp. Be my ho. [cheats4us.org]
Enough said.
I think it should cost them a darn sight less than the typical charge for Microsoft software. We all know the kind of markups Microsoft put on their software, and here are Linux providers putting even higher ones on!! Scandalous.
I'm astounded that IBM-Suse could come up with such a damn expensive Linux solution. They use an opensource OS, and they manage to charge MILLIONS MORE than Microsoft for it?? That means that they're charging MORE for the support of Linux than Microsoft are for their software AND support. Now that's ridiculous.
Then I let them all know that my IP address is "grc.com" and that I have practically unlimited bandwidth. Lots of hosts begin sending spoofed UDP packets at grc.com with no valid return address.
:-)
Repeat until grc.com vanishes under all the traffic..
And that's a bad thing... how?
Correction: Microsoft offers the latest versions of/updates for IE *as part of* their latest operating systems.
If you packed half the US population into 1/20th of the land space,
:-)
Or the whole US population into 1/10th of the land space
How exactly do they grow enough food for people to eat in Japan? With that kind of population density and space at a premium, it must be difficult. Does Japan have to import much food to keep its people fed?
Except, of course, when you're actually sitting at the computer.
More like:
:-)
1-Ogg develops the principle of compressing sound information whilst maintaining wonderful quality.
2-RIAA develop DRM technologies they can hide their data behind.
3-They also start throwing expensive lawsuits at Ogg.
4-Ogg develops anonymous filesharing networks and circumvention measures.
5-Etc, etc, etc.
Mozilla could also do with a more Windows-like way of dealing with filetypes. ie. Base the helper application on the file extension, and look up the registered helper app for that file type. That's what IE does, and I like it infinitely better than fscking MIME types that all have to be registered seperately, and you need to install a PLUGIN just to use a download manager! grr...
Obviously this option would be limited to the Windows version of Mozilla... maybe that's what they don't like. 'Everything Mozilla does has to be done on all platforms'. But I think that's a rather inflexible attitude to take, considering all platforms are different, often in important ways.
I don't see your proposal as a solution to there being too much litigation
It's not a proposal, it's the current status of the English legal system, where LESS abuse happens than in America. Apparently I'm not the only one who likes the idea.
But as per the general issue, how would fees and costs as part of the award help?
Theoretically, in a good system (which I admit isn't really in place at the moment), the person with the *BEST CASE* wins (not the best lawyer). So, the loser deserves to lose. Paying the winner's legal fees would help to achieve this, because it wouldn't be a battle of who has the most money anymore; even the 'little guy' can hire an expensive lawyer if he knows he has a good case. With the current system, he can have a good case, WIN, and still lose bigtime, financially. How stupid is that?
And if lawyers don't get rich, why are they so f(&&)U*AUing expensive??
Isn't there? If not a problem on a large scale, there _certainly_ seems to be some frivoulous abuse of the US legal system by rich companies, suing (sueing?) people who don't have enough money to defend themselves in court. The defendants know that, even if they win the case, they'll lose lots of money, and so give in even if they could argue their case in defence!
Sorry, slight mistake. What I meant to say in that post was: If that's the plaintiff, they should realise their case is weak, and never bring it to court. Great way of deterring frivoulous lawsuits.
I never said it was my dad's opinion. It's MY opinion that the 'loser pays winner's costs' (that includes if the defendant loses, too) is by far the most sensible system. Cases where both parties could reasonably win are very rare; most of the time, it's pretty likely that one of the other is going to win, and has the stroner case. If that's the defendant, they should settle out of court. If that's the plaintiff, they should *pay the defendant's legal fees* because they should've realised their case was weak and never brought it to court, causing the defendant emotional stress and financial loss.
OK, it might deter the odd prosecution on cost grounds, but it's a darn sight better than the US alternative, and it's not like we don't already have enough lawsuits, is it??
Yes, they do. Because they claim to be protesting 'against globalization', which is such a wishy washy phrase, no wonder nobody listens to them. Now they have a list of damn good reasons to hate the WTO, maybe they could start producing some when asked by journalists.
At the risk of being modded Flamebait
I think you should be modded -1 Plain Wrong.
it does appear that both continents are inevitably compelled to act similarly. Instances - Iraq
Ahem... what?? Iraq was an example of one of the biggest splits of opinion between the US and certain EU countries ever!!!
, NATO
Again, Iraq caused quite a big split in NATO too.
, DMCA
I'll give you this one. The EU's copying the dumb US law word for word.
, MS anti-trust case
Eh? The US didn't get anywhere against Microsoft with their legal action, but it seems Europe might.
Presently the US seems to have the upper hand, in that it can act more independently, and care less about repercussions from pissing off own citizens...
I totally disagree. They're introducing most of the ridiculous, fascist laws *first* as a template for other countries! They hardly seem scared of citizens rising up and revolting.
Europe adopting this attitude(resistance to Euro) is sickening
How is resisting the Euro helping corporations? If anything it's the PEOPLE of Britain that are against the Euro, and the multinational corps that would be helped most by it, which is probably why Labour is all for it (the corps have massive influence over our 'government').
whats the point of creating technology that plays compressed music files to enable us to carry around loads of our (paid for) music in a small package if they make it illegal.
Actually, that's probably the last thing they'd do. If they made MP3 players illegal, it'd get them a lot of bad press, such is the popularity now of MP3 players. They install them in new cars, for God's sake! MP3 players will probably be one of those things that's technically illegal, but they 'let it happen' anyway.