Well, there are two ways to solve the problem. The first is the right to cancel an online contract within two weeks. So she should delete the files, download OpenOffice.org from http://de.openoffice.org/ and send them a letter that she wants to cancel the contract.
The second way it to loock at the download site if the price is clearly visible. If it is not visible before completing your personsal information or is it hidden somewhere in a long EULA or wherever then take some screenshops and keep them. Ignore all payment requests until you receive a summons (in German: Mahnbescheid) from a court. Then hire a lawyer, give him/her the screenshots.
"Cuba (Cuba? they're not even allowed to buy Microsoft products!),"
That's not true. Microsoft isn't allowed to sell ist software to Cuba but Cubans are allowed to buy Microsoft software from non US 3rd parties. But I guess that mnost Microsoft software which is used on Cuba is pirated.
Not poor countries but in Portugal, Germany and Switzerland there were serious irregularities. In Germany chair of the committee which had to dicide was a guy from Fraunhofer Institut For open Communications which is doing a lot of r&d funded by Microsoft. Like IBM in Portugal Google ind Deutsche Telekom were locked out.
Despite of international agreements, the German Wether Service (Deutscher Wetterdienst, DWD) doesn't publish data for free. They sell them to commercial companies which provide forecasts for media. The DWD publishes weather forcasts ans warnings but not the data the forecasts are based on. Tzey worward station measurements to other weather serveces for free according to the WMO agreement but the other European weather services don't publish them either because most of them have similar policies than the DWD. But the NOAA publishes them and so European hobby meteorologists get their weather data from the NOAA.
The really strange thing is that a lot of commercial services in Europe obtain the free GFS oputput and plot weather maps from that which are copyrighted to them. So we may have the crazy situation that the national weather services in Europe such as DWD or UKMO would like the bill and ther commercial services won't.
Even the most EU member states don't have governments which are directly chosen by the people. In most memberstates the government is elected by the parliament. The same could be done in the EU but the national governments still want to keep control.
Well, if Bush wants a manned mission to mars then it makes sence to keep the ISS. There is still a lot of research in a zero gravity environment needed which can be done on the ISS. And to answer a question from another thread, the Russians have already done a lot of medical research on the Mir but it is not finished yet. Medical research to prepare manned missions to other planets was one of the goals of the ISS when it was planned.
The other reason are international contracts. There are lab modules under development in Europe and Japan which shoult be attached to the ISS after 2006 but now it may be delayed. If Bush wants to get out of the contract he may have to pay out Europeans and Japanese.
Stefan
The temporary injunction which a German court issued last June is still in force. Before they can try to force Germam companies to buy "licences" they must get the injunction dropped. This will be impossible until they can present proof of copyright ownership to the court. But es long as the injunction in in force they will have to pay a fine for any attempt to talt a German company or a German resident into buying a "license".
In Germany conditional donations would be considered as bribery and public pressure would cause the politician who received the donation to resign. However, it is legal to donate money to a party. All parties must publish a list of their donators anually. It is illegal to donate money under conditions.
Well, is a party more lobby friendly it may get more donations than other but less votes on public elections.
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Well, there are two ways to solve the problem. The first is the right to cancel an online contract within two weeks. So she should delete the files, download OpenOffice.org from http://de.openoffice.org/ and send them a letter that she wants to cancel the contract.
The second way it to loock at the download site if the price is clearly visible. If it is not visible before completing your personsal information or is it hidden somewhere in a long EULA or wherever then take some screenshops and keep them. Ignore all payment requests until you receive a summons (in German: Mahnbescheid) from a court. Then hire a lawyer, give him/her the screenshots.
They sould publish the proofs at Wikibooks and linf from the Wikipedia articles to the book.
"Cuba (Cuba? they're not even allowed to buy Microsoft products!)," That's not true. Microsoft isn't allowed to sell ist software to Cuba but Cubans are allowed to buy Microsoft software from non US 3rd parties. But I guess that mnost Microsoft software which is used on Cuba is pirated.
Not poor countries but in Portugal, Germany and Switzerland there were serious irregularities. In Germany chair of the committee which had to dicide was a guy from Fraunhofer Institut For open Communications which is doing a lot of r&d funded by Microsoft. Like IBM in Portugal Google ind Deutsche Telekom were locked out.
C: ISO 9899
C++: ISO/IEC 14882
Beckstein is not interior minister of Germany, he is interior Minister of the German state Bavaria.
Despite of international agreements, the German Wether Service (Deutscher Wetterdienst, DWD) doesn't publish data for free. They sell them to commercial companies which provide forecasts for media. The DWD publishes weather forcasts ans warnings but not the data the forecasts are based on. Tzey worward station measurements to other weather serveces for free according to the WMO agreement but the other European weather services don't publish them either because most of them have similar policies than the DWD. But the NOAA publishes them and so European hobby meteorologists get their weather data from the NOAA. The really strange thing is that a lot of commercial services in Europe obtain the free GFS oputput and plot weather maps from that which are copyrighted to them. So we may have the crazy situation that the national weather services in Europe such as DWD or UKMO would like the bill and ther commercial services won't.
Even the most EU member states don't have governments which are directly chosen by the people. In most memberstates the government is elected by the parliament. The same could be done in the EU but the national governments still want to keep control.
Ever tried to search for Xfree86 on search.msn.com?
Stefan
Well, if Bush wants a manned mission to mars then it makes sence to keep the ISS. There is still a lot of research in a zero gravity environment needed which can be done on the ISS. And to answer a question from another thread, the Russians have already done a lot of medical research on the Mir but it is not finished yet. Medical research to prepare manned missions to other planets was one of the goals of the ISS when it was planned.
The other reason are international contracts. There are lab modules under development in Europe and Japan which shoult be attached to the ISS after 2006 but now it may be delayed. If Bush wants to get out of the contract he may have to pay out Europeans and Japanese. Stefan
The temporary injunction which a German court issued last June is still in force. Before they can try to force Germam companies to buy "licences" they must get the injunction dropped.
This will be impossible until they can present proof of copyright ownership to the court. But es long as the injunction in in force they will have to pay a fine for any attempt to talt a German company or a German resident into buying a "license".
I hope this will remain vaporware at least as long as GNU/Hurd ;-)
Stefan
If a company of the "private sector" wants to export their products to other countries they have to deal with the "metric crap".
Stefan
Besides Oktoberfest in Munich and Volksfest in Stuttgart - Try Carnival in Cologne!
In Germany conditional donations would be considered as bribery and public pressure would cause the politician who received the donation to resign. However, it is legal to donate money to a party. All parties must publish a list of their donators anually. It is illegal to donate money under conditions.
Well, is a party more lobby friendly it may get more donations than other but less votes on public elections.
Stefan