There's this movie called "SpaceBalls", and in the movie, there's this air-shield around a planet, and the code to the air-shield is "12345". So then when that combination is given out, this other guy apparently has the same code on his luggage, just like you!
He just asked a question that he probably didn't know the answer to himself, and that knew would generate a lot of discussion. I think he did exactly what many politicians are too scared to do, and what many actors just didn't think of.
The Corporation is a documentary with left wing, right wing, capitalist, and academia views describing what the corporation really is and why these types of things occur.
In essense, big businesses are owned by shareholders who are far-enough removed that they can profit from a corporation's illegal actions without directly being responsible or affected (well, maybe with their shares falling in value).
So, this is not suprising, this will happen and in fact it *should* happen unless the likes of Ballmer can prove to their shareholders why it would be in Microsoft's best interests NOT to sue other entities that are violating their patents, or to put it another way - not playing the game according to the rules (that they sometimes write through lobbying).
Would they be prosecuted? And if so, then that would be a bad thing.
I'm just curious in case they ever in their life times ever want to visit the U.S. for whatever reason, and then they end up being on some terrorist watch list because of their involvement with the Pirate Bay.
From the pdf announcement:
...Newsgroups are
electronic bulletin boards which in recent years have become a major source of pirated content as users are able to attach movie, music and games files to their messages. The following is a list of the sites being sued by the MPAA and its member companies.
Recent years? Try over 10 years ago. (from my knowledge anyway, probably closer to 15-20)
Take the game back, and if they don't let you, make a really big scene at the store, I mean a *really* big scene for a good 30 minutes, and then they'll give you your money back.
Most border guards / customs officers are pricks to most of us, so don't take it too personally, even people driving regular cars and wearing plain clothes showing no political leanings get the third degree.
It's actually quite interesting how while one gets older, one becomes more and more aware of how truly racist / prejudice etc people are. In elementary school you play with all your classmates, in high school you start to form your cliques, and by university / college the asians stick with the asians, indians with indians, whites with whites, etc, and finally by the time you have kids of your own you're cursing one culture or another, but I digress...
Well actually he wasn't my friend (he was a friend of a friend's), and if anyone I know pulled that kind of shit I'd let them know it's just not cool.
I was once suckered in giving like $5 on my way out of a club (King & John area). The way the guy did it was, he was actually dressed decent, wearing a leather jacket and he told me this story where he lost his wallet and didn't have money for gas...so I ended up giving him $5, and only afterwards my girlfriend was like "Why the hell did you give him that money?" Being a little naive I should have seen through the scam, but at the same time she should have helped me by telling him to fuck off. I'm glad she didn't though because now I *never* give money to homeless people. There are two types of homeless: Mentally disturbed/challenged, and lazy...and I'm sure 0.1% good honest people that just had really bad luck, but they're a rarity.
The question that should be asked is: Does the person learning programming want to become a professional programmer and get his/her fundamentals down? Or do they want to just be able to build applications that aren't too complex to handle their own type of work. In this case then yeah, VB and some scripting language, if you want to get the basics down, I'd probably start with assembly or C++.
I remember a friend of mine once told me how one of his friends got stuck in downtown Toronto (lives in a suburb called Brampton) so he ends up pan handling for some change to get home.
Turns out the money's so good he ends up staying an extra day and comes home with like $150! He was a teenager back and it's a lot of money for a teenager even by today's standards.
Slashdot Mirror
When all you need to index is 6 sites? :P
What...
[1] Earth
[2] Care-a-lot
[3] Space
All you're going to do is piss off the care bears.
My bad.
Does the entire neighborhood get EMP'd to smithereens?
This even more crazy!
There's this movie called "SpaceBalls", and in the movie, there's this air-shield around a planet, and the code to the air-shield is "12345". So then when that combination is given out, this other guy apparently has the same code on his luggage, just like you!
The coincidence is astonishing.
He just asked a question that he probably didn't know the answer to himself, and that knew would generate a lot of discussion. I think he did exactly what many politicians are too scared to do, and what many actors just didn't think of.
US: A bug
Netherlands: A feature
...until I read the summary. It's interesting how my thought process automatically went to Bill Gates instead of a draft of a new law.
"People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke." --Will Rogers. Seems oddly appropriate.
if slashdot doesn't come out of the closet I'm going to shoot someone!
(South park ref.)
The Corporation is a documentary with left wing, right wing, capitalist, and academia views describing what the corporation really is and why these types of things occur.
In essense, big businesses are owned by shareholders who are far-enough removed that they can profit from a corporation's illegal actions without directly being responsible or affected (well, maybe with their shares falling in value).
So, this is not suprising, this will happen and in fact it *should* happen unless the likes of Ballmer can prove to their shareholders why it would be in Microsoft's best interests NOT to sue other entities that are violating their patents, or to put it another way - not playing the game according to the rules (that they sometimes write through lobbying).
Your company "Web 2.0" sounds original and promising. Could I invest several million dollars into it?"
I think you're wrong!
Wait...if I say you're wrong...then my opinion differs from yours...and-$#!@%NO CARRIER *head explodes*
These Russian Hackers sure did.
Steve Kubby maybe?
Would they be prosecuted? And if so, then that would be a bad thing.
I'm just curious in case they ever in their life times ever want to visit the U.S. for whatever reason, and then they end up being on some terrorist watch list because of their involvement with the Pirate Bay.
From the pdf announcement:
Recent years? Try over 10 years ago. (from my knowledge anyway, probably closer to 15-20)
I think you're describing "The Hostel 2: Breakfast at Redmond"
Take the game back, and if they don't let you, make a really big scene at the store, I mean a *really* big scene for a good 30 minutes, and then they'll give you your money back.
Most border guards / customs officers are pricks to most of us, so don't take it too personally, even people driving regular cars and wearing plain clothes showing no political leanings get the third degree.
It's actually quite interesting how while one gets older, one becomes more and more aware of how truly racist / prejudice etc people are. In elementary school you play with all your classmates, in high school you start to form your cliques, and by university / college the asians stick with the asians, indians with indians, whites with whites, etc, and finally by the time you have kids of your own you're cursing one culture or another, but I digress...
Well actually he wasn't my friend (he was a friend of a friend's), and if anyone I know pulled that kind of shit I'd let them know it's just not cool.
I was once suckered in giving like $5 on my way out of a club (King & John area). The way the guy did it was, he was actually dressed decent, wearing a leather jacket and he told me this story where he lost his wallet and didn't have money for gas...so I ended up giving him $5, and only afterwards my girlfriend was like "Why the hell did you give him that money?" Being a little naive I should have seen through the scam, but at the same time she should have helped me by telling him to fuck off. I'm glad she didn't though because now I *never* give money to homeless people. There are two types of homeless: Mentally disturbed/challenged, and lazy...and I'm sure 0.1% good honest people that just had really bad luck, but they're a rarity.
The question that should be asked is: Does the person learning programming want to become a professional programmer and get his/her fundamentals down? Or do they want to just be able to build applications that aren't too complex to handle their own type of work. In this case then yeah, VB and some scripting language, if you want to get the basics down, I'd probably start with assembly or C++.
8 billion CAD at today's conversion (March 6th, 2006) is: 0.877586
:)
So 8 billion x 0.877586 is: $7,020,688,000 USD just over 7 billion.
So they're going after a 7 billion USD market.
Perhaps he wasn't. What's with the geography curriculum these days... :P
Getting purchasing to buy it is a different story on the other hand.
I remember a friend of mine once told me how one of his friends got stuck in downtown Toronto (lives in a suburb called Brampton) so he ends up pan handling for some change to get home.
Turns out the money's so good he ends up staying an extra day and comes home with like $150! He was a teenager back and it's a lot of money for a teenager even by today's standards.