Well, duh...
The 'unwashed masses' have never been trust worthy...
Who will you trust better:
A doctor smelling of ether, or a doctor smelling of cheap wine?
Well, that is what the RIAA amd MPAA is really afraid of. Bittorrent opens up competition. They want you to watch and listen only to what they feed you, not stuff from other countries...
You don't get it. Someone can sue you for looking his way in the street. It doesn't mean that he is going to win the case. The point is that you can be sued for anything at all under the sun and there is nothing you can do to prevent it. That is the way the system works.
Socrates was sued for "corrupting the youth of Athens". He thought it was frivoulous (which it was), didn't provide a proper defense (since he was an old curmudgeon by then 70 years old) and LOST the case (and his life mind you).
The lesson being that you can be sued for ANYTHING and you have to take it seriously when it happens.
Well, that is the problem with living in a 'Rechtstaat' or something similar. Anybody can sue anyone, about anything, at any time, for any reason, real, or imagined.
The RIAA/MPAA probably won't be that stupid, but they can sue you for downloading Linux with a torrent. You cannot prevent people from sueing you, but that doesn't mean that they have a case or will win in court. Most likely, a Judge will throw such a case out and refuse to waste his time on it.
"willingness of the public labs to break international copyright laws?"
Absolutely. In Africa, your life isn't worth 50c and crime is rampant. People steal to stay alive. How much do think those same people will care about copyrights from other rich countries?
Africans are used to scrounging for anything that they can use to get by, so if they can install one copy of Windows 1000 times, they'll do that and frankly, I don't blame them.
No, I don't deny that the globe is warming - it has been warming for 11000 years - it probably isn't going to stop warming up any time soon either. Very long ago, the polar regions were as hot as the tropics is now, it may be heading that way again.
The interesting thing is that mankind depends on global warming. Long ago, only a small portion of the earth around the tropics was not covered in ice. It is the warming trend that freed up the world from its ice cover, allowing us to multiply and farm the land.
If it warms up a little more, then we'll be able to farm the northern tundra too, which would allow the world population to double again.
So, global warming is beneficial. The last thing we would want is global cooling. That would be a total disaster.
Man, go outside and look at the first city bus coming past. Diesel engine catalytic converters are bypassed during accelleration, so every time the bus pulls away from a bus stop, you get a black cloud of soot. That happens every 200 meters all day long. So, asshole, don't tell me diesels don't produce soot. Nuff sed.
Effectively these guys take clean CO2, which is not a pollutant, and turn it into a horrible, asthma causing pollutant, by feeding it into a school bus engine which emits it as diesel soot...
Linking copyright infringement to terrorism is just as silly as calling the Iraqi resistance insurgents.
If the Iraqi insurgents really were insurging, then the fighting would be on the borders of the country, not smack dab in the middle, but I guess being logical about things isn't good politics...
Well, I worked at a nameless company once where I encountered faxes sent to a former employer in another country. Industrial espionage is common and is the main purpose of certain nameless government agencies.
Governments only get upset once private companies start to do the same, thus encroaching on their spying monopolies...;-)
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No, but if you would shower daily, your luck would probably improve. ;-)
Well, duh... The 'unwashed masses' have never been trust worthy... Who will you trust better: A doctor smelling of ether, or a doctor smelling of cheap wine?
Germanium is a metal, so a germanium transistor is a single molecule transistor.
Pretty much the same thing for good quality silicon wafers.
The way I look at it, we are currently using single molecule processors consisting of millions of transistors...
Polymers can be infinitely long, so a single molecule of something doesn't necessarily mean that it is small.
Well, that is what the RIAA amd MPAA is really afraid of. Bittorrent opens up competition. They want you to watch and listen only to what they feed you, not stuff from other countries...
The imminent death of the last CRT must be due to global warming and the ozone hole...
Computer (TM), Documents (TM), Networks (TM)...
According to tTFA, it uses special WMA software. So screw the special software and use Nero...
You don't get it. Someone can sue you for looking his way in the street. It doesn't mean that he is going to win the case. The point is that you can be sued for anything at all under the sun and there is nothing you can do to prevent it. That is the way the system works.
Socrates was sued for "corrupting the youth of Athens". He thought it was frivoulous (which it was), didn't provide a proper defense (since he was an old curmudgeon by then 70 years old) and LOST the case (and his life mind you).
The lesson being that you can be sued for ANYTHING and you have to take it seriously when it happens.
...and on the tenth day, man created god...
Life on earth is statistically insignificant. Therefore, there is no life in the universe, nevermind intelligent life...
Well, that is the problem with living in a 'Rechtstaat' or something similar. Anybody can sue anyone, about anything, at any time, for any reason, real, or imagined.
The RIAA/MPAA probably won't be that stupid, but they can sue you for downloading Linux with a torrent. You cannot prevent people from sueing you, but that doesn't mean that they have a case or will win in court. Most likely, a Judge will throw such a case out and refuse to waste his time on it.
"willingness of the public labs to break international copyright laws?"
Absolutely. In Africa, your life isn't worth 50c and crime is rampant. People steal to stay alive. How much do think those same people will care about copyrights from other rich countries?
Africans are used to scrounging for anything that they can use to get by, so if they can install one copy of Windows 1000 times, they'll do that and frankly, I don't blame them.
No, I don't deny that the globe is warming - it has been warming for 11000 years - it probably isn't going to stop warming up any time soon either. Very long ago, the polar regions were as hot as the tropics is now, it may be heading that way again. The interesting thing is that mankind depends on global warming. Long ago, only a small portion of the earth around the tropics was not covered in ice. It is the warming trend that freed up the world from its ice cover, allowing us to multiply and farm the land. If it warms up a little more, then we'll be able to farm the northern tundra too, which would allow the world population to double again. So, global warming is beneficial. The last thing we would want is global cooling. That would be a total disaster.
Man, go outside and look at the first city bus coming past. Diesel engine catalytic converters are bypassed during accelleration, so every time the bus pulls away from a bus stop, you get a black cloud of soot. That happens every 200 meters all day long. So, asshole, don't tell me diesels don't produce soot. Nuff sed.
Effectively these guys take clean CO2, which is not a pollutant, and turn it into a horrible, asthma causing pollutant, by feeding it into a school bus engine which emits it as diesel soot...
Every country has some jobs that are deniable.
Besides, there is no way that its gonna pick up any satellites once installed inside a stainless steel chastity belt...
Linking copyright infringement to terrorism is just as silly as calling the Iraqi resistance insurgents.
If the Iraqi insurgents really were insurging, then the fighting would be on the borders of the country, not smack dab in the middle, but I guess being logical about things isn't good politics...
Well, I worked at a nameless company once where I encountered faxes sent to a former employer in another country. Industrial espionage is common and is the main purpose of certain nameless government agencies.
;-)
Governments only get upset once private companies start to do the same, thus encroaching on their spying monopolies...
Why?
EU population is 460 million, US population is only 300 million.
No surprises there - more people, more PCs.
Almost 2/3: USA = 295M EU = 457M