I don't know much about cell phones - but can't the 911 dispatchers see which cell tower the caller is on? With no GPS in older phones, that's the closest you'll get.
Subscriber information becomes irrelevant at that point. You need to know where the call is being placed from - why do you need to know who is calling? Let the guys/gals on the ground figure out what is going on.
Which is a shame. I'm not a conservative by any means, but out of the Republicans he's the only one who isn't trotting out the same BS over and over again. He's the only one who sounded any different from the others. Aside from Santorum - who is just strange. Thank f*** he's decided to bow out.
No they aren't. Jeez do I really have to explain the joke? Is American education really that bad? I know you guys like to mangle things like spelling, but really?
To "know your shit" implies you have a great understanding of something. To "know you are shit" implies you're a low life.
Whilst not mutually exclusive, they are not the same thing at all.
I think his point was that with censorship comes tighter and tighter copyright controls - meaning they can charge more for their "content". I put quotes around the content part because I suppose it is - but journalistic integrity (or integrity of any kind) is rarely practised by the Sun.
We end up having to pay for 'minor' revisions to keep concurrent or fail classes.
And shame on your tutors/college/university for making you keep on buying the latest books that apparently you need because someone couldn't be arsed to proof read the first copy.
It may also be that FedEx, UPS, Purolator and other couriers have already splashed out the $5000 to buy a copy of the database, in order to make the delivery of their mail easier.
Also, Copyright != Trademarks. In order to defend a trademark, you have to be actively using it. Not so with copyright.
The reason why Canada Post hasn't sued the companies you describe is because it benefits them for those post codes be out there - it encourages companies and people to use Canada Post's services.
Be careful with the creative expressions argument. I wouldn't say Britney Spear's work is particularly creative, but apparently it's covered by copyright law.
I don't know this as fact, but I would put money on Canada Post charging for these other phone directories to put the postal codes in. Even Geocoder says that Canada Post does this, they quote it being around $5000 per copy of the database.
And Canada Post has an easy to use, comprehensive webpage where you can search for listings.
Whilst I don't necessarily agree that this is a copyright issue (see below), there are a number of problems with your arguments:
The Canadian taxpayer did pay for it, whilst supporting the state funded Canada Post. When companies pay the $5000 to buy the database, that makes it $5000 cheaper for the rest of the Canadian taxpayers to send mail - that money has to be found from somewhere after all. Ergo, net benefit to the Canadian taxpayer.
There isn't a public listing of email addresses - unlike both phone numbers and postal codes. That list you've been selling spammers doesn't count.
I understand that most search engines don't actually contain a copy of the page - merely references too it. Many search engines contain a hash of the page to tell when it's been changed, and keywords associated with the page. But again there's a good to society - people post pages on the 'net because they want society to read them, and search engines allow people to find those pages. The fact that search engines make money from those searches means they can continue to make those searches available to the public.
Whilst telephone numbers are not copyrighted, the phone books that phone companies hand out certainly are. I've heard rumours that the companies put in false data in them, which makes detection of copyright infringement much easier.
As for a free listing where the Canadian taxpaying public can look up address: Try this one Canada Post's own search engine. They even have apps for that.
Having said all that, I agree - I'm not sure how this is a copyright issue. It's obviously not misappropriation of data, because it's crowd sourced data (i.e. they didn't hack into Canada Post and steal it). Royal Mail did a similar thing not so long ago, sued a company for copyright infringement that was serving up UK postcodes. I don't remember how that case turned out.
The only way I can see this is a case for copyright is that copyright is a legal instrument created for the benefit of society by creating a monopoly, and that Canada Post and Royal Mail being able to make money from the databases to lower their costs for the benefit of the taxpayer serves a benefit to society.
My wife and I have commented along these lines several times with regards our son (and soon our daughter too). You have 5 or 6 years in which to instill in them the ability to tell right from wrong, and to hang out with the "right" crowd. After that, it becomes 100 times harder to keep them on track and out of trouble.
Of course they didn't stop. And American history (and other parts of the world too) is littered with examples where Christians were 'reluctant' in consummating marriage, and only using sex for procreation.
As with most religions, Christianity uses sex as a weapon to control the population. Wanna have sex? Must be part of our religion, or you'll be damned to an unprovable hell for all eternity. Wanna masturbate? That's a sin too - every sperm is sacred after all.
Religion is nothing to do with saving your soul, or ensuring you're a "good person". It is ALL about control. You only have to look at the recent controversy over birth control in Congress. The only people permitted to testify were male religious figures. Not a single woman was allowed, and yet who does it effect? The women. It's all about control, the right of women to control their own reproductive capabilities. Incidentally, the rest of the civilised world has moved on from such barbaric nonsense - only in backwards America is this kind of crap still perpetuated.
You think the government is all about control and rights restriction? Ha! They've got nothing on the church. The worse the government can do is put you to death. The church has your eternal soul! (Allegedly)
Unfortunately they rarely do use it for such mundane things as catching murderers and child molesters. Sure - they'll catch a few to show how benign such a system is. But then they'll start using it on ordinary citizens who might for example want to make some political changes that they don't like. Or they'll sell the information to private companies who use it to gain an advantage over their competitors. The possibilities are endless.
What the teacher does outside of school is none of the school's business.
If the teacher is stupid enough to friend her pupils, then he/she is going to find themselves in trouble. Teachers are by definition in a position of authority over their class, and they shouldn't be seen as a friend. Mentor perhaps - someone the kids can turn to if the going gets tough - but never a friend in the truest sense of the word.
If that is the way it is in classrooms these days - no wonder there's no discipline amongst school kids.
And quite right too! Too many in America just accept that their employer has the right to do anything they want, at any time even if they aren't paying their employee 24/7/365.
(Caveat: I'm assuming this isn't a April Fools joke seeing as it was posted after 12)
It's been a while since I did anything firewall related - but surely it would be easier to white list sites for the IP address of the TV? *.youtube.com for example?
Except from memory (and IANAL so this might be incorrect, and I'm too tired right now to go look it up) but a black guy can't be convicted of a racially motivated crime in the UK - just the crime. It's fucked up - but there you have it.
The will of the people in the UK (regardless of whether Americans think it's right or wrong), is that racist pieces of shit like this should be locked up.
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I don't know much about cell phones - but can't the 911 dispatchers see which cell tower the caller is on? With no GPS in older phones, that's the closest you'll get.
Subscriber information becomes irrelevant at that point. You need to know where the call is being placed from - why do you need to know who is calling? Let the guys/gals on the ground figure out what is going on.
Which is a shame. I'm not a conservative by any means, but out of the Republicans he's the only one who isn't trotting out the same BS over and over again. He's the only one who sounded any different from the others. Aside from Santorum - who is just strange. Thank f*** he's decided to bow out.
No they aren't. Jeez do I really have to explain the joke? Is American education really that bad? I know you guys like to mangle things like spelling, but really?
To "know your shit" implies you have a great understanding of something.
To "know you are shit" implies you're a low life.
Whilst not mutually exclusive, they are not the same thing at all.
So yet more non-content for them to drivel over.
They should have named it "Not the News Of The World". In true Murdoch style he could have lied and told the truth - it's not news, but it is NoTW.
I think his point was that with censorship comes tighter and tighter copyright controls - meaning they can charge more for their "content". I put quotes around the content part because I suppose it is - but journalistic integrity (or integrity of any kind) is rarely practised by the Sun.
Or the importance of knowing apostrophes/spelling as in:
Understanding the difference between knowing your shit, and knowing you're shit.
We end up having to pay for 'minor' revisions to keep concurrent or fail classes.
And shame on your tutors/college/university for making you keep on buying the latest books that apparently you need because someone couldn't be arsed to proof read the first copy.
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Out of interest, how much did Canada Post want to charge for their database?
It may also be that FedEx, UPS, Purolator and other couriers have already splashed out the $5000 to buy a copy of the database, in order to make the delivery of their mail easier.
Also, Copyright != Trademarks. In order to defend a trademark, you have to be actively using it. Not so with copyright.
The reason why Canada Post hasn't sued the companies you describe is because it benefits them for those post codes be out there - it encourages companies and people to use Canada Post's services.
Be careful with the creative expressions argument. I wouldn't say Britney Spear's work is particularly creative, but apparently it's covered by copyright law.
I don't know this as fact, but I would put money on Canada Post charging for these other phone directories to put the postal codes in. Even Geocoder says that Canada Post does this, they quote it being around $5000 per copy of the database.
And Canada Post has an easy to use, comprehensive webpage where you can search for listings.
Whilst I don't necessarily agree that this is a copyright issue (see below), there are a number of problems with your arguments:
The Canadian taxpayer did pay for it, whilst supporting the state funded Canada Post. When companies pay the $5000 to buy the database, that makes it $5000 cheaper for the rest of the Canadian taxpayers to send mail - that money has to be found from somewhere after all. Ergo, net benefit to the Canadian taxpayer.
There isn't a public listing of email addresses - unlike both phone numbers and postal codes. That list you've been selling spammers doesn't count.
I understand that most search engines don't actually contain a copy of the page - merely references too it. Many search engines contain a hash of the page to tell when it's been changed, and keywords associated with the page. But again there's a good to society - people post pages on the 'net because they want society to read them, and search engines allow people to find those pages. The fact that search engines make money from those searches means they can continue to make those searches available to the public.
Whilst telephone numbers are not copyrighted, the phone books that phone companies hand out certainly are. I've heard rumours that the companies put in false data in them, which makes detection of copyright infringement much easier.
As for a free listing where the Canadian taxpaying public can look up address: Try this one Canada Post's own search engine. They even have apps for that.
Having said all that, I agree - I'm not sure how this is a copyright issue. It's obviously not misappropriation of data, because it's crowd sourced data (i.e. they didn't hack into Canada Post and steal it). Royal Mail did a similar thing not so long ago, sued a company for copyright infringement that was serving up UK postcodes. I don't remember how that case turned out.
The only way I can see this is a case for copyright is that copyright is a legal instrument created for the benefit of society by creating a monopoly, and that Canada Post and Royal Mail being able to make money from the databases to lower their costs for the benefit of the taxpayer serves a benefit to society.
My wife and I have commented along these lines several times with regards our son (and soon our daughter too). You have 5 or 6 years in which to instill in them the ability to tell right from wrong, and to hang out with the "right" crowd. After that, it becomes 100 times harder to keep them on track and out of trouble.
Of course they didn't stop. And American history (and other parts of the world too) is littered with examples where Christians were 'reluctant' in consummating marriage, and only using sex for procreation.
As with most religions, Christianity uses sex as a weapon to control the population. Wanna have sex? Must be part of our religion, or you'll be damned to an unprovable hell for all eternity. Wanna masturbate? That's a sin too - every sperm is sacred after all.
Religion is nothing to do with saving your soul, or ensuring you're a "good person". It is ALL about control. You only have to look at the recent controversy over birth control in Congress. The only people permitted to testify were male religious figures. Not a single woman was allowed, and yet who does it effect? The women. It's all about control, the right of women to control their own reproductive capabilities. Incidentally, the rest of the civilised world has moved on from such barbaric nonsense - only in backwards America is this kind of crap still perpetuated.
You think the government is all about control and rights restriction? Ha! They've got nothing on the church. The worse the government can do is put you to death. The church has your eternal soul! (Allegedly)
Unfortunately they rarely do use it for such mundane things as catching murderers and child molesters. Sure - they'll catch a few to show how benign such a system is. But then they'll start using it on ordinary citizens who might for example want to make some political changes that they don't like. Or they'll sell the information to private companies who use it to gain an advantage over their competitors. The possibilities are endless.
The early part of the Old Testament has an awful lot of "begatting" going on!
"Oh just think of the children!"
What the teacher does outside of school is none of the school's business.
If the teacher is stupid enough to friend her pupils, then he/she is going to find themselves in trouble. Teachers are by definition in a position of authority over their class, and they shouldn't be seen as a friend. Mentor perhaps - someone the kids can turn to if the going gets tough - but never a friend in the truest sense of the word.
If that is the way it is in classrooms these days - no wonder there's no discipline amongst school kids.
And quite right too! Too many in America just accept that their employer has the right to do anything they want, at any time even if they aren't paying their employee 24/7/365.
(Caveat: I'm assuming this isn't a April Fools joke seeing as it was posted after 12)
See my comment about reparations to Nicaragua.
It's been a while since I did anything firewall related - but surely it would be easier to white list sites for the IP address of the TV? *.youtube.com for example?
Except from memory (and IANAL so this might be incorrect, and I'm too tired right now to go look it up) but a black guy can't be convicted of a racially motivated crime in the UK - just the crime. It's fucked up - but there you have it.
IANAL - but I believe you are correct. Many of the racial equality laws have stemmed from the race riots that occurred in places like Brixton.
I think he pleaded guilty. Also I understand it was a magistrates court - which doesn't have a jury.
This!
The will of the people in the UK (regardless of whether Americans think it's right or wrong), is that racist pieces of shit like this should be locked up.