If you know where some murderers and rapists are hiding in mass numbers I'm sure the police would be interested to know. Last I heard they didn't hang out on websites advertising their activities to the world, hoping nobody would ever have the balls to cross a border to get them.
Perhaps Sweden isn't a big player in the global entertainment industry and that's why they don't really care. Nah, you're probably right, it's because the government is ignoring murderers and rapists. The police just aren't thinking of the children.
I get the impression you are regurgitating some story you read in our 'unbiased' media.
Let me see here. What ammunition specifically are you talking about? Virtually any round fire from a rifle has the power to penetrate a 'bullet-proof' vest. They are only designed to stop handgun bullets. And that's about all they do.
The same ammunition used in common hunting rifles would slice through a kevlar vest like butter. If, perhaps, you are referring to the 5.7x28mm pistol round that was recently making the frenzied media headlines, the steel-cored version can't be sold here.
There have been such cases where negligence can be proven on the part of the gun manufacturer or the owner of the store where the gun was sold. Normally, however, these suits are dismissed because they are suing the wrong person for a wrongful death suit.
We always kind of assumed that something like BitTorrent would be safer because it has more legit uses than most P2P software does. However with this ruling and the elaboration that the legal uses are more or less not relevant if it can be used for mass copyright distrubution, I wonder if this will spell doom for BitTorrent and similar programs.
I think the Supreme Court has made some really questionable decisions as of late. Precedent and politics rather than Constitutionality and liberty are the driving factors behind everything.
Thomas Jefferson opined in the Federalist Papers that we would not be in danger of losing our guaranteed liberties until all three branches of the government became united in their views and doctrines. It seems that we are moving in that direction, or perhaps we are already there.
I wonder if the entertainment industry will keep bankrolling his election campaign after he has failed to help them.
One of the most needed pieces of legislation in this country is a Federal-level law that states the amendments and provisions of a bill must directly relate to its topic. I know a few states have this now but Congress uses this backdoor to get all sorts of shady and illegal legislation passed every year.
You do have to consider how it scales to the corporate world. A thief may spot an easy target in the home and steal something, just like a hacker spots an easy target on the Internet and plants his software. The cop tells you, "Put a better lock on that shed" and the ISP tells you "Install a firewall". However, you wouldn't expect a theif to have an easy time walking into a bank and walking out with a bag of cash so why would anyone expect a hacker to have an easy time breaking into a corporate system and stealing personal information? The amount of private information stored and the financial impact levies a greater burden of responsibility on the bank/corporation than it does the individual.
Who's tortured? Hope you're not talking about Gitmo or Abu Ghraib. The prisoners in Gitmo eat better meals than our military in Iraq or schoolchildren in our schools. The localized abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib was hazing at worst. Frat pledges endure worse than these prisoners have had to put up with. Doesn't make it right, but it's a far cry from torture.
Seriously, when people look at one of these things in a store what are they going to think? "Hey here are these cheaper ones with the cheap Windows knock-off". I think Linux is great but Linspire is really just Linux contorted to be as much like Windows as possible. So to the public who doesn't know what Linux is, it becomes "that cheap Windows knock-off".
Linux power users probably won't be interested unless they only want the hardware. So that just leaves the in-the-middle folks looking for a cheap computer. Heck I'll bet half of them will just install a pirated Windows copy on it.
Your driver argument makes no sense, because lots of hardware manufacturers already provide drivers for OS X. It's not another straggling unix distro; it's an operating system with customers who are willing to spend money for what they want. Accordingly, hardware vendors generally support them.
It's a bit more complicated than that. Take for example someone who built their machine and has Windows running on it. If OS X was all it was hyped up to be then if an x86 version came out they should be able to just install it and everything would run smoothly. The reality is another matter. My point is that you'd probably end up in a Linux-like situation. Your PC boots, the OS loads, but some stuff doesn't work. Perhaps your sound card manufacturer hasn't written an OS X driver yet. Same for hardware acceleration on your video card maybe. The point is OS X is known for its stability and plug-and-play features, both of which will disappear when it takes the plunge into the PC realm where there are limitless combinations of hardware, each one of which could present its own little problem to the OS. Until hardware vendors make a firm commitment to an OS, its availability on the x86 platform is not really noteworthy.
I'm sure the zealots will mark me a troll but what will happen in reality if they do that is they will have to start writing support on their OS for more than just their own hardware. This means they cannot control quality anymore. When you start introducing the third party hardware and accompanying drivers, the stability of Mac OSX will get shaky and it will start to act more like Windows. Comparing Windows to OS X is apples and oranges right now, because Macs are more akin to video game consoles as far as the software/hardware mix is concerned. Seriously, if OS X came out for x86 what you'd have is basically yet another Linux/Unix distro.
You'd have to wait around for the companies to decide they need to support their hardware on OS X with drivers and all of that. It would be the same kind of issues Linux has now for the most part, except for the decentralization problem.
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checking for car... yes checking for scheduling availability... yes checking if living with mother... no checking for cash... no
**ERROR cash >2.01 not found. REQUIRED.
$ make make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
If an individual or group intentionally leaked or sold this information it is most certainly a crime. Laws are a punishment, not a absolute way to prevent crimes. If the perpetrator is convinced they can get away with this and profit from it, then they are not going to be worried about the fine print of the numerous laws they are breaking.
OTOH, if they know about the problem and don't issue a recall and even one more person gets hurt, they could be sued for quite a bit more than it would cost to issue the recall.
In the US, lawsuits are the enforcers of business integrity.
You believe scientific research should be funded and run by the federal government? How is that not a communistic principle?
To be clear, I disagree with Bush's views on this issue and I do not think schools should be denied funding they would have otherwise gotten based on stem cell research, but I do not believe companies should be getting some kind of tax stipend to do it.
Sure, which is why I disagree with Bush. However, many people are under the impression that there is some federal 'ban'. This is just a myth and misunderstanding.
Well I don't agree with Bush's stance on this issue either, but it is important to note that there is nothing prohibiting stem cell research in the US at this time. You just don't get to do it on the taxpayer's dime (unless you live in California where they force you to).
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Perhaps Sweden isn't a big player in the global entertainment industry and that's why they don't really care. Nah, you're probably right, it's because the government is ignoring murderers and rapists. The police just aren't thinking of the children.
Thank you for pointing that out.
Let me see here. What ammunition specifically are you talking about? Virtually any round fire from a rifle has the power to penetrate a 'bullet-proof' vest. They are only designed to stop handgun bullets. And that's about all they do.
The same ammunition used in common hunting rifles would slice through a kevlar vest like butter. If, perhaps, you are referring to the 5.7x28mm pistol round that was recently making the frenzied media headlines, the steel-cored version can't be sold here.
There have been such cases where negligence can be proven on the part of the gun manufacturer or the owner of the store where the gun was sold. Normally, however, these suits are dismissed because they are suing the wrong person for a wrongful death suit.
I think the Supreme Court has made some really questionable decisions as of late. Precedent and politics rather than Constitutionality and liberty are the driving factors behind everything.
Thomas Jefferson opined in the Federalist Papers that we would not be in danger of losing our guaranteed liberties until all three branches of the government became united in their views and doctrines. It seems that we are moving in that direction, or perhaps we are already there.
Unconstitutional legislation is illegal legislation. Perhaps an oversimplification on my part but a truth nonetheless.
One of the most needed pieces of legislation in this country is a Federal-level law that states the amendments and provisions of a bill must directly relate to its topic. I know a few states have this now but Congress uses this backdoor to get all sorts of shady and illegal legislation passed every year.
You do have to consider how it scales to the corporate world. A thief may spot an easy target in the home and steal something, just like a hacker spots an easy target on the Internet and plants his software. The cop tells you, "Put a better lock on that shed" and the ISP tells you "Install a firewall". However, you wouldn't expect a theif to have an easy time walking into a bank and walking out with a bag of cash so why would anyone expect a hacker to have an easy time breaking into a corporate system and stealing personal information? The amount of private information stored and the financial impact levies a greater burden of responsibility on the bank/corporation than it does the individual.
Charles, would you free up my "shejal" this afternoon to I can watch my programme on the telly.
Who's tortured? Hope you're not talking about Gitmo or Abu Ghraib. The prisoners in Gitmo eat better meals than our military in Iraq or schoolchildren in our schools. The localized abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib was hazing at worst. Frat pledges endure worse than these prisoners have had to put up with. Doesn't make it right, but it's a far cry from torture.
Linux power users probably won't be interested unless they only want the hardware. So that just leaves the in-the-middle folks looking for a cheap computer. Heck I'll bet half of them will just install a pirated Windows copy on it.
It's a bit more complicated than that. Take for example someone who built their machine and has Windows running on it. If OS X was all it was hyped up to be then if an x86 version came out they should be able to just install it and everything would run smoothly. The reality is another matter. My point is that you'd probably end up in a Linux-like situation. Your PC boots, the OS loads, but some stuff doesn't work. Perhaps your sound card manufacturer hasn't written an OS X driver yet. Same for hardware acceleration on your video card maybe. The point is OS X is known for its stability and plug-and-play features, both of which will disappear when it takes the plunge into the PC realm where there are limitless combinations of hardware, each one of which could present its own little problem to the OS. Until hardware vendors make a firm commitment to an OS, its availability on the x86 platform is not really noteworthy.
I'm sure the zealots will mark me a troll but what will happen in reality if they do that is they will have to start writing support on their OS for more than just their own hardware. This means they cannot control quality anymore. When you start introducing the third party hardware and accompanying drivers, the stability of Mac OSX will get shaky and it will start to act more like Windows. Comparing Windows to OS X is apples and oranges right now, because Macs are more akin to video game consoles as far as the software/hardware mix is concerned. Seriously, if OS X came out for x86 what you'd have is basically yet another Linux/Unix distro. You'd have to wait around for the companies to decide they need to support their hardware on OS X with drivers and all of that. It would be the same kind of issues Linux has now for the most part, except for the decentralization problem.
$ cd girl ./configure
$
checking for car... yes
checking for scheduling availability... yes
checking if living with mother... no
checking for cash... no
**ERROR cash >2.01 not found. REQUIRED.
$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
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If an individual or group intentionally leaked or sold this information it is most certainly a crime. Laws are a punishment, not a absolute way to prevent crimes. If the perpetrator is convinced they can get away with this and profit from it, then they are not going to be worried about the fine print of the numerous laws they are breaking.
In the US, lawsuits are the enforcers of business integrity.
Like I said, that order is against federal FUNDING of programs that destroy embryos. It is not a ban on the practice itself.
To be fair, buildings and bridges aren't quite as susceptible to little kids launching attacks from their basement thousands of miles away...
To be clear, I disagree with Bush's views on this issue and I do not think schools should be denied funding they would have otherwise gotten based on stem cell research, but I do not believe companies should be getting some kind of tax stipend to do it.
Sure, which is why I disagree with Bush. However, many people are under the impression that there is some federal 'ban'. This is just a myth and misunderstanding.
The multibillion dollar drug industries who do this research seem to be doing just fine off of their own capitalistic powers at the time.
Only a Slashdotter would dream of using this technology to further masturbation instead of a way to have real sex.
I think you are confused about something.
Well I don't agree with Bush's stance on this issue either, but it is important to note that there is nothing prohibiting stem cell research in the US at this time. You just don't get to do it on the taxpayer's dime (unless you live in California where they force you to).
Why, does the Patriot Act mention God or something?