Illegally working to maintain their monopoly and extend it into other markets is a criminal act. Microsoft is guilty of this criminal act, that makes them a criminal. This really is not a difficult concept.
Ok I've bitten, now lets hear your rant so it can be properly debunked. Hopefully it's better than some nonsense about the technicallity of what class of law they have broken and the terms applied to ones who have broken which. Surely you have some argument less anal and can think of a better reason to claim that one is not justified in calling someone who has broken the law is a criminal.
Actually this criminal is now in direct violation of the highest law of the land. Since they pocketed a few judges and officials and slipped through a token anti-trust case to ensure that they won't be hit with a real one, that makes them a government granted monopoly.
hardly the whole point is that msfreepc.com was making it easy for people to claim funds. If people don't claim the funds Microsoft gets a huge percentage back straight off the top and the rest can be paid out in microsoft software valued at whatever microsoft wants. So in reality 99.99999% of all unclaimed funds stay right in microsoft's pocket.
The reason you NEED that expectation is that government has many guns, tanks and bombs and if you make the man at your door fuck off yourself rather than calling the government the government will instead come to your door and quite happily persue fucking you.
It's a bit of a push to assume the people are guilty. After all, in this case HE didn't even know if he was guilty. Many of the RIAA lawsuits have been against perfectly innocent people.
They don't have to SAY they are police officers. They have to intentionally give the impression. So if they wear those jackets and give those pink official ticket looking forms to people to make themselves seem like real serious official legal entities, they have broken the law.
Which is why if you read the article the LAPD spokesman didn't say to give them a call if they say they are police, he said to give the LAPD a call if you get the impression they are law enforcement.
That's great for science, but are the pictures released to the general public really for scientific purposes or for those who are curious what mars looks like?
I understand, there are wavelengths that that human eye can't see and that those are difficult to represent. That's simple, for the public consumption images... DON"T represent it. We wouldn't see it, so no need to represent it eh? Same with ultra-violet. It's not like this images which are released for the public have to represent all the data gathered in the image!
They must be getting ripped off pretty bad then, for $100 I can get you a digital camera that successfully renders images in what you see is what you get color.
I'm sorry but I find this entire issue disgusting.
Perhaps you are asian and that is why you feel this way? Let me explain something to you, perhaps you are not from the US and wouldn't understand this.
In the United States being politically correct has gotten so far out of hand it's disgusting. Short of the deep south and other very rural areas racism is actually a rather small issue these days and is enough of a two way street to be left be (this was not always the case). Because of how extreme this has become the tables have turned to the point where the race/gender which is in majority is actually the MOST discriminated against of all. It's actually discriminated against in law, at a disadvantage compared to other races and genders for college money, is less favorable to employ because of free government funds for hiring pretty much ANY other race. And forced to used the PROPER term of the day when refering to another race.
Because of this I for one refuse to acknowledge any of it. I have friends and I call a black child brother everytime I see him (my mother remarried to a black minister). Let's really look at this (I'll pick on blacks this time, because it's the hotter issue and hopefully due to my family people will be more likely to listen to my argument FIRST and THEN decided whether or not they agree with it).
List of some terms to refer to a person with dark colored skin:
African-american black spade nigger
What do these have in common? Well they are all words, and they all have EXACTLY the same meaning in the english language when used the context of refering to a human being. Why is it we give special meaning to some of the terms as opposed to others? Because some tend to be used in a derogatory manner? So what? Do you have any idea how many terms I can come up with to refer to a person in a derogatory manner that are considered perfectly acceptable?
Hell when I use the term nigger I've given it my own definition. It's an insult to be sure by it's not race specific. Personally I know more white people who fit my definition.
African-american I believe is the current politically correct term. Damn make up your mind, are you African or american? Hell most of the people insisting on being referred to by this term and getting offended otherwise didn't even have african ancestors! A very large portion of them are South American or from other portions of the southern hemisphere.
The problem isn't with someone calling another person a cracker, nigger, or chink(sp). The problem is with people thinking this is an insult. If you call me a cracker, should I be insulted? Why, all you did was refer to my race, I'm rather proud of my race. My race has been a driving force in most of the social, economical, and technological innovation throughout known and documented history. We've explored and mapped the world, we were the ones who invented computers, flight and first succeeded in landing on the moon.
If someone calls you a chink, why on earth would you be offended? They are calling you Asian and the asians also have a proud heritage, why are earth should be ashamed or insulted to be called one? If they mean it to be an insult that's all the more reason to disregard it, because they are stupid enough to believe it is one.
Claims from users who submit to msfreepc.com will be rejected according to the court. You can bet microsoft will use this to their advantage and crossreference. Anyone who files there WON'T get their claim anywhere else period.
" but gets donated to schools (minus lawyer fees)"
Please cut the crap, if it's unclaimed a small portion of the unclaimed funds gets donated to schools NOT the full unclaimed sum. Furthermore that portion unlike the settlement can be paid in MS products (.02 windows cd's that price at whatever they feel like calling fair value, $500, $1000 per copy if they want).
Because microsoft only has to pay claims and a tiny portion of the unclaimed funds to schools. And that tiny portion can be paid in microsoft products.
Microsoft is pissed because due to this site people were actually claiming the funds.
Your right on the first point. But what is your basis for this? Does the settlement explicitly forbid electronic signitures? Because physical signitures are no more or less legally binding.
That's a load of crap, the site in no way suggested you sign up if you were not eligible. It encouraged you to go through a series of web based questionaires to DETERMINE if you were eligable and sign up if you were.
At worst this site encouraged every eligable party to sign up and use the anti-trust settlement funds to purchase competiting products (which is what the money was for). It was entirely in spirit with the ruling, and there was nothing wrong about it.
Not really, Microsoft is a monopoly, EVERY eligable user making their FULL claim is the only way for the settlement to be properly realised.
Linux has commited no crimes and done nothing wrong.
Yes it's a double standard, criminals who are being punished are treated as criminals being punished. Non criminals are NOT treated like criminals. Two standards, for two different bodies in two different situations. What exactly is wrong with this?
Why? modding isn't about picking on someone, this post is redundant and the point is mentioned elsewhere. So it should be modded down that way they don't both display. Whether the posters had good or bad intentions SHOULD NEVER be a factor in determining whether or not a post is redundant.
"they get "All copyrights and trademarks, except for the copyrights and trademarks owned by Novell as of the date of the Agreement required for SCO to exercise its rights with respect to the acquisition of UNIX and UnixWare technologies.""
Is it just me or does that read, they get all rights, EXCEPT for any rights they need to excercise their rights.
It boggles my mind to think that there are people so damn anal about spelling and grammar they would waste breath to critic a perfectly readable post that has a perfectly clear meaning.
It's not as if it MATTERS if the meaning is clear.
In win95 explorer.exe was a seperate application. They integrated them together intentionally so they could complain if just that scenerio ever came to be.
What would be better would be if OO talked to existing access databases as well.
Those who need access already have access databases and it's not exactly like there is an easy and complete way to export the data out and import it into something like Rekall
In terms of technical functionality, Access sucks arse. It is without a doubt a piece of junk in terms of a Database. It loses data often and to achieve locking access clients broadcast everything they do on the network for other access clients to pick up, so the more clients, the more junk traffic that grows exponentially.
Access however is EXTREMELY easy to use and get a database up and running. 90% of the access databases out there could be built by a secretary with nothing more than the help files included with access to guide her. That is the benefit, as a result paper MCSE's everywhere have people running access databases and they are so deeply rooted and critical and so much data is locked into them that they can't be readily replaced.
"complaining about the choices available which is why he was properly modded as a troll."
I don't see how complaining makes one a troll. A troll is out to instigate problems or commenting just to waste space, try to start a stir.
A complainer may simply be voicing his honest opinion and curious how others feel.
Of this guy was clearly a troll, just getting picky about the details in case you should one day get mod points and don't want to me to metamoderate you to dust;)
ummm... yes, it's a FILE SELECTOR, this is not exactly something with much room for original thought here. The idea is to ummm make browsing to and opening files easy and to do so using little space.
You can pick most any file modern file selector out there and unless they are being unique just for the sake of being unique it will be similiar to those ideas, which also happen to be similar to each other.
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Illegally working to maintain their monopoly and extend it into other markets is a criminal act. Microsoft is guilty of this criminal act, that makes them a criminal. This really is not a difficult concept.
Ok I've bitten, now lets hear your rant so it can be properly debunked. Hopefully it's better than some nonsense about the technicallity of what class of law they have broken and the terms applied to ones who have broken which. Surely you have some argument less anal and can think of a better reason to claim that one is not justified in calling someone who has broken the law is a criminal.
Actually this criminal is now in direct violation of the highest law of the land. Since they pocketed a few judges and officials and slipped through a token anti-trust case to ensure that they won't be hit with a real one, that makes them a government granted monopoly.
hardly the whole point is that msfreepc.com was making it easy for people to claim funds. If people don't claim the funds Microsoft gets a huge percentage back straight off the top and the rest can be paid out in microsoft software valued at whatever microsoft wants. So in reality 99.99999% of all unclaimed funds stay right in microsoft's pocket.
The reason you NEED that expectation is that government has many guns, tanks and bombs and if you make the man at your door fuck off yourself rather than calling the government the government will instead come to your door and quite happily persue fucking you.
It's a bit of a push to assume the people are guilty. After all, in this case HE didn't even know if he was guilty. Many of the RIAA lawsuits have been against perfectly innocent people.
They don't have to SAY they are police officers. They have to intentionally give the impression. So if they wear those jackets and give those pink official ticket looking forms to people to make themselves seem like real serious official legal entities, they have broken the law.
Which is why if you read the article the LAPD spokesman didn't say to give them a call if they say they are police, he said to give the LAPD a call if you get the impression they are law enforcement.
That's great for science, but are the pictures released to the general public really for scientific purposes or for those who are curious what mars looks like?
I understand, there are wavelengths that that human eye can't see and that those are difficult to represent. That's simple, for the public consumption images... DON"T represent it. We wouldn't see it, so no need to represent it eh? Same with ultra-violet. It's not like this images which are released for the public have to represent all the data gathered in the image!
"That ain't no cheap digital camera up there."
They must be getting ripped off pretty bad then, for $100 I can get you a digital camera that successfully renders images in what you see is what you get color.
I'm sorry but I find this entire issue disgusting.
Perhaps you are asian and that is why you feel this way? Let me explain something to you, perhaps you are not from the US and wouldn't understand this.
In the United States being politically correct has gotten so far out of hand it's disgusting. Short of the deep south and other very rural areas racism is actually a rather small issue these days and is enough of a two way street to be left be (this was not always the case). Because of how extreme this has become the tables have turned to the point where the race/gender which is in majority is actually the MOST discriminated against of all. It's actually discriminated against in law, at a disadvantage compared to other races and genders for college money, is less favorable to employ because of free government funds for hiring pretty much ANY other race. And forced to used the PROPER term of the day when refering to another race.
Because of this I for one refuse to acknowledge any of it. I have friends and I call a black child brother everytime I see him (my mother remarried to a black minister). Let's really look at this (I'll pick on blacks this time, because it's the hotter issue and hopefully due to my family people will be more likely to listen to my argument FIRST and THEN decided whether or not they agree with it).
List of some terms to refer to a person with dark colored skin:
African-american
black
spade
nigger
What do these have in common? Well they are all words, and they all have EXACTLY the same meaning in the english language when used the context of refering to a human being. Why is it we give special meaning to some of the terms as opposed to others? Because some tend to be used in a derogatory manner? So what? Do you have any idea how many terms I can come up with to refer to a person in a derogatory manner that are considered perfectly acceptable?
Hell when I use the term nigger I've given it my own definition. It's an insult to be sure by it's not race specific. Personally I know more white people who fit my definition.
African-american I believe is the current politically correct term. Damn make up your mind, are you African or american? Hell most of the people insisting on being referred to by this term and getting offended otherwise didn't even have african ancestors! A very large portion of them are South American or from other portions of the southern hemisphere.
The problem isn't with someone calling another person a cracker, nigger, or chink(sp). The problem is with people thinking this is an insult. If you call me a cracker, should I be insulted? Why, all you did was refer to my race, I'm rather proud of my race. My race has been a driving force in most of the social, economical, and technological innovation throughout known and documented history. We've explored and mapped the world, we were the ones who invented computers, flight and first succeeded in landing on the moon.
If someone calls you a chink, why on earth would you be offended? They are calling you Asian and the asians also have a proud heritage, why are earth should be ashamed or insulted to be called one? If they mean it to be an insult that's all the more reason to disregard it, because they are stupid enough to believe it is one.
Claims from users who submit to msfreepc.com will be rejected according to the court. You can bet microsoft will use this to their advantage and crossreference. Anyone who files there WON'T get their claim anywhere else period.
" but gets donated to schools (minus lawyer fees)"
Please cut the crap, if it's unclaimed a small portion of the unclaimed funds gets donated to schools NOT the full unclaimed sum. Furthermore that portion unlike the settlement can be paid in MS products (.02 windows cd's that price at whatever they feel like calling fair value, $500, $1000 per copy if they want).
Because microsoft only has to pay claims and a tiny portion of the unclaimed funds to schools. And that tiny portion can be paid in microsoft products.
Microsoft is pissed because due to this site people were actually claiming the funds.
"(electronic signatures don't count)."
Your right on the first point. But what is your basis for this? Does the settlement explicitly forbid electronic signitures? Because physical signitures are no more or less legally binding.
"whether or not they were eligible"
That's a load of crap, the site in no way suggested you sign up if you were not eligible. It encouraged you to go through a series of web based questionaires to DETERMINE if you were eligable and sign up if you were.
At worst this site encouraged every eligable party to sign up and use the anti-trust settlement funds to purchase competiting products (which is what the money was for). It was entirely in spirit with the ruling, and there was nothing wrong about it.
Not really, Microsoft is a monopoly, EVERY eligable user making their FULL claim is the only way for the settlement to be properly realised.
Linux has commited no crimes and done nothing wrong.
Yes it's a double standard, criminals who are being punished are treated as criminals being punished. Non criminals are NOT treated like criminals. Two standards, for two different bodies in two different situations. What exactly is wrong with this?
bad spelling troll, begone.
I copied and pasted, what you mean is the parent post I quoted missed a comma after agreement. No go hide elsewhere grammar troll. Fly fly away.
Why? modding isn't about picking on someone, this post is redundant and the point is mentioned elsewhere. So it should be modded down that way they don't both display. Whether the posters had good or bad intentions SHOULD NEVER be a factor in determining whether or not a post is redundant.
"they get "All copyrights and trademarks, except for the copyrights and trademarks owned by Novell as of the date of the Agreement required for SCO to exercise its rights with respect to the acquisition of UNIX and UnixWare technologies.""
Is it just me or does that read, they get all rights, EXCEPT for any rights they need to excercise their rights.
No it's like claiming the drivers were negligent and hit you, so now you need the right to jump in front of their car.
It's hard to infringe somebody's copyright if they aquired the copyright AFTER you supposedly infringed it.
It boggles my mind to think that there are people so damn anal about spelling and grammar they would waste breath to critic a perfectly readable post that has a perfectly clear meaning.
It's not as if it MATTERS if the meaning is clear.
In win95 explorer.exe was a seperate application. They integrated them together intentionally so they could complain if just that scenerio ever came to be.
What would be better would be if OO talked to existing access databases as well.
Those who need access already have access databases and it's not exactly like there is an easy and complete way to export the data out and import it into something like Rekall
In terms of technical functionality, Access sucks arse. It is without a doubt a piece of junk in terms of a Database. It loses data often and to achieve locking access clients broadcast everything they do on the network for other access clients to pick up, so the more clients, the more junk traffic that grows exponentially.
Access however is EXTREMELY easy to use and get a database up and running. 90% of the access databases out there could be built by a secretary with nothing more than the help files included with access to guide her. That is the benefit, as a result paper MCSE's everywhere have people running access databases and they are so deeply rooted and critical and so much data is locked into them that they can't be readily replaced.
"complaining about the choices available which is why he was properly modded as a troll."
;)
I don't see how complaining makes one a troll. A troll is out to instigate problems or commenting just to waste space, try to start a stir.
A complainer may simply be voicing his honest opinion and curious how others feel.
Of this guy was clearly a troll, just getting picky about the details in case you should one day get mod points and don't want to me to metamoderate you to dust
ummm... yes, it's a FILE SELECTOR, this is not exactly something with much room for original thought here. The idea is to ummm make browsing to and opening files easy and to do so using little space.
You can pick most any file modern file selector out there and unless they are being unique just for the sake of being unique it will be similiar to those ideas, which also happen to be similar to each other.