I'm not sure what you mean here. Do you mean that it would be easier to defend against charges, or easier to prove the charges? In either case, the higher burden of proof required in a criminal case would just about shut down the RIAA's assault on random targets. The possibility of criminal penalties, however, would probably cause too many of it's victims to plead nolo contendre, giving them an artificially high "conviction rate" and making it easier for them to attack others. There's a nasty trade-off here, and I'm not at all sure it's worth it.
well, they can't tell how much you've uploaded or downloaded, can they?
They can't tell how much you've uploaded AFAIK, but they can usually tell how much you've downloaded. Unless your client is set to act as a leach, it's advertising what parts of the file it has available, and if you're downloading you'll have something to upload.
Here's to hoping that it screws up a few of their copyright infringement lawsuits!
I agree, but it probably won't have that much affect. Remember, in a civil suit, the plaintiff doesn't need to prove it's case "to a moral certainty and beyond a reasonable doubt" as the prosecution does in a criminal case. The standard is the more simple "preponderance of evidence." That means that if the jury feels it's more likely that the plaintiff is right than that the defendant is, they vote for the plaintiff even if they're not completely sure. This would make their claims less believable, but probably wouldn't be enough in and of itself to disprove them.
No, Crassus was killed by the Parthians. Pompey and Caesar fought a civil war (Documented by Caesar in his Commentaries.) with Pompey leading the forces of the Roman Senate, and thus, of the established order. Pompey lost and was assassinated by one of his followers.
When Crassus was ejected from the Roman empire, for a failed coup...
What failed coup? Crassus was the Governor of Syria and was killed when he invaded Parthia. There may have been a later general that was ejected as you write, but not Crassus!
...the testudo (+5 Overrated military formation of all time)...
There's at least one case related in a Roman work about a siege where the defenders toppled a siege engine off the walls hoping to break a testudo that was attacking them. I don't know if it succeeded or not, but that doesn't sound like that bad a formation. I agree that it wasn't the be-all and end-all of formations, but it worked quite well when used properly. Probably it's best to think of it as the Roman equivalent of a tank with the same advantages and weak points.
It all depends on what you want to do. Do you want to sell them on Linux or are you willing to settle for getting them interested in it and start them thinking about switching? If the latter is enough, fifteen minutes should be more than enough.
A street address tells you where somebody is physically, while neither a phone number or an IP address do. When I did tech support for an ISP I used the analogy of a large office with a PBX/Centrix system to have multiple extensions and one public phone number to explain NAT. Never had a bit of trouble making people understand it.
In practice, the stricter of the two applies. Thus, if your state's minimum wage is lower than the federal, you must pay at least the federal minimum. If, however, the opposite is true and you pay exactly the federal minimum, you're still in violation of state law.
Going off on a completely off-topic tangent, this reminds me of a very old article in Mad Magazine about "famous name" brands: the George Washington refrigerator, the Thomas Jefferson washer, the General Patton TV and so on.
If the only people who want this new tld are the registers, nobody will use it. If so, what harm is done? As far as first post, I'm not a subscriber, and I'm astonished to have gotten it. At least it's something relevant, not a comment about getting first post.
What if it's strictly voluntary? If you have an adult site, you can have it under.xxx or not as you see fit. Then, those who don't want to be exposed to adult content can avoid it if that's what makes them happy and those who are interested in it can find it easier. So what if some countries block it at the routers? Isn't the Internet designed to work around damage?
Be done with what? The arguing over whether or not we should have the domain. Once we get it, I'd bet most of the pr0n will move there for "prestige" reasons, and most new adult sites will be there. In the long run, I can't see what possible harm it can do to let them have their tld.
Why not just give the pr0n industry its own tld and be done with it? Yes, the bluenoses will scream bloody murder, but they're doing that about pr0n already, so what's the difference?
As a minor nitpick, I think you meant Occam's razor. More important, you clearly don't understand it. Occam's razor simply says that you shouldn't add more assumptions than you need. To pick a real-world example, don't assume there's a Vast Conspiracy behind the War in Iraq if everything can be explained without it. Yes, atheists use Occam's razor to show that you can explain the universe without assuming the existence of God, but that's not all it's good for by any means.
My attitudes toward moderates: if I say 2 + 2 = 4, and you say it's 6, does the truth "lie in the middle?"
Being a moderate doesn't affect your perception of objective reality, unlike how some people on the far-out edge of both liberal and conservative seem to think. Facts are facts and, to a moderate, opinions to the contrary won't change them.
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I'm not sure what you mean here. Do you mean that it would be easier to defend against charges, or easier to prove the charges? In either case, the higher burden of proof required in a criminal case would just about shut down the RIAA's assault on random targets. The possibility of criminal penalties, however, would probably cause too many of it's victims to plead nolo contendre, giving them an artificially high "conviction rate" and making it easier for them to attack others. There's a nasty trade-off here, and I'm not at all sure it's worth it.
They can't tell how much you've uploaded AFAIK, but they can usually tell how much you've downloaded. Unless your client is set to act as a leach, it's advertising what parts of the file it has available, and if you're downloading you'll have something to upload.
I agree, but it probably won't have that much affect. Remember, in a civil suit, the plaintiff doesn't need to prove it's case "to a moral certainty and beyond a reasonable doubt" as the prosecution does in a criminal case. The standard is the more simple "preponderance of evidence." That means that if the jury feels it's more likely that the plaintiff is right than that the defendant is, they vote for the plaintiff even if they're not completely sure. This would make their claims less believable, but probably wouldn't be enough in and of itself to disprove them.
No, Crassus was killed by the Parthians. Pompey and Caesar fought a civil war (Documented by Caesar in his Commentaries.) with Pompey leading the forces of the Roman Senate, and thus, of the established order. Pompey lost and was assassinated by one of his followers.
What failed coup? Crassus was the Governor of Syria and was killed when he invaded Parthia. There may have been a later general that was ejected as you write, but not Crassus!
There's at least one case related in a Roman work about a siege where the defenders toppled a siege engine off the walls hoping to break a testudo that was attacking them. I don't know if it succeeded or not, but that doesn't sound like that bad a formation. I agree that it wasn't the be-all and end-all of formations, but it worked quite well when used properly. Probably it's best to think of it as the Roman equivalent of a tank with the same advantages and weak points.
It all depends on what you want to do. Do you want to sell them on Linux or are you willing to settle for getting them interested in it and start them thinking about switching? If the latter is enough, fifteen minutes should be more than enough.
I very seriously doubt it. Your parents may have been paying that much, but I find it hard to believe you had that kind of money at that age.
A street address tells you where somebody is physically, while neither a phone number or an IP address do. When I did tech support for an ISP I used the analogy of a large office with a PBX/Centrix system to have multiple extensions and one public phone number to explain NAT. Never had a bit of trouble making people understand it.
In practice, the stricter of the two applies. Thus, if your state's minimum wage is lower than the federal, you must pay at least the federal minimum. If, however, the opposite is true and you pay exactly the federal minimum, you're still in violation of state law.
Going off on a completely off-topic tangent, this reminds me of a very old article in Mad Magazine about "famous name" brands: the George Washington refrigerator, the Thomas Jefferson washer, the General Patton TV and so on.
Exactly. Not only that, it's just as easy to put a filter into all nannywear, to protect the chilllllllllllldren.
If the only people who want this new tld are the registers, nobody will use it. If so, what harm is done? As far as first post, I'm not a subscriber, and I'm astonished to have gotten it. At least it's something relevant, not a comment about getting first post.
Would you rather see gwnaked.com, gwnaked.net, gwnaked.org, gwnaked.us, gwnaked.info or gwnaked.biz?
It's not "p0rn," it's "pr0n." Haven't you ever heard of cut and paste?
What if it's strictly voluntary? If you have an adult site, you can have it under .xxx or not as you see fit. Then, those who don't want to be exposed to adult content can avoid it if that's what makes them happy and those who are interested in it can find it easier. So what if some countries block it at the routers? Isn't the Internet designed to work around damage?
You misspelled V1@gr4.
Be done with what? The arguing over whether or not we should have the domain. Once we get it, I'd bet most of the pr0n will move there for "prestige" reasons, and most new adult sites will be there. In the long run, I can't see what possible harm it can do to let them have their tld.
Why not just give the pr0n industry its own tld and be done with it? Yes, the bluenoses will scream bloody murder, but they're doing that about pr0n already, so what's the difference?
They don't have to, because they don't deny that the impact took place. They just don't think it was the cause of the extinction.
And how is that going to affect computers in other countries? Do you really expect every, single nation in the world to pass a law like that?
As a minor nitpick, I think you meant Occam's razor. More important, you clearly don't understand it. Occam's razor simply says that you shouldn't add more assumptions than you need. To pick a real-world example, don't assume there's a Vast Conspiracy behind the War in Iraq if everything can be explained without it. Yes, atheists use Occam's razor to show that you can explain the universe without assuming the existence of God, but that's not all it's good for by any means.
I've started a new tag, just for this article: piquepaille. The idea is to warn everybody that it's Just Another Slashvertizement.
If you have complaints about the article, why did you post it?
Being a moderate doesn't affect your perception of objective reality, unlike how some people on the far-out edge of both liberal and conservative seem to think. Facts are facts and, to a moderate, opinions to the contrary won't change them.