Science does not deal with proofs. Only mathematics and alcoholism do. Science is about the disproving of ideas, not the other way around.
Strange my science teacher always told me it's impossible to disprove something only show that's very very unlikely and why it's unlikely. Where as proving something is easy i.e. the solar sails NASA want to try out if they fail it won't disprove the theory just show that the current sail doesn't work. But if they do work it will clearly prove the theory.
You show me significant, non-fatal mutations of anything.
Albinos are a major genetic mutation yet so long as they are not a speciese that relies on camoflage they can learn, Dyslexia is a genetic mutation that hasn't killed me so im living proof. siamese twins can live for a very long time and i can't be botherd to think of more especially as those all poped into my in head about i second after looking the post. Please use common sense before typing.
To me, that's like stumbling upon a functioning laptop in the woods and assuming that *not only* did the plastics and metals eventually form themselves, but the hard drive generated it's data in such a precise way as to have a working operating system and applications
Its more like finding a plant and wondering wheter it's from a seed or did some all powerful being come down and place it there you decide
Its not just a simplistic theory it's an inability to take responsibility for there own actions, with a sick lawyer trying to cash in on it. This is just like those who sued McDonalds for being to fat when it's them who put the food in there own mouths. Or those who sued tobacco company's despite knowing the tobaco is highley a addictive habbit that will shorten there lifes they are the ones who put that cigaret in there mouths and lit it no one did it for them.
Below is a quote from the same lawyer but different case, there is a link to it in the main story
``Whatever happened (in JoLynn's death), it was not murder,'' Thompson wrote in a news release. ``The American video industry must share the blame.''
It most definitely is murder no matter how diminished there responsibility if someone is sick enough to do this and a computer game was the influence then they need locking up anyway. To protect society because just reading a violent book or even watching the news could cause them to kill, and you can't censor every little thing because a small minority of people can not handle living in a civilised society. Most 5 year olds know that murder is wrong.
There was much worse violence in the years before TV and Video where invented (crusades, both world wars, the entire middle ages, the American West, Etc) if anything they provide a release valve for people to blow of steam rather than blowing each other away.
If this were successful it would give all those who own remotely violent computer games a licence to kill. Which is just what Thompson want's so he can get a reputation of being able to get people let of what are really open and shut cases.
telemarketing are planning to counterattack consumers with a barrage of spam and junk mail in October"
That's not what the story says. Sheesh, don't the submitters even read the articles? This story isn't about counterattacking anyone.
Here's a quote that summarizes the story:
''"We plan to shift into other communication mediums, and rely more heavily on traditional TV advertising and e-mail marketing," Allstate acting Chief Marketing Officer Todd DeYoung told the paper.''
Sounds like a counter attack, they (the telemarkerters) have been attacked by this do not call list and they are countering this with more e-mail and tv advertising a classic counter attack
In other words, they will stop using telemarketing and shift over to snail mail and email. Will that email be Spam? Maybe, maybe not,
What else do you call unsolicited e-mail? All unsolicited/unwanted e-mail is Spam
but a Spam from Allstate is a heck of a lot better than a phone call from Allstate every time I sit down to a meal.
Not if you have dial up, not if you are sitting down to read your legitimate e-mails, not if that e-mail account is used for your own business. By the way the previous situations are not my experience but my dads, he ended up having to get broad band to cope with the e-mail coming in and his is only a 2 man operation, simply all direct marketing is bad.
Not in the slightest bit supprised as Managment never care about the long term only the short term, and anything that can produce revenue in the short term. By the time long term has come around they have already got there Golden Handshake/Parachute/bar of gold/Insert metaphor here.
There should be a small charge for e-mail say 1p that the reciver can refund if they want the e-mail, this wouldn't affect legitamate e-mail much and a couple of lost pennys because someone forgot to refund is not much of cost for anti spam. But it would cost spammers sending thousands a day alot.
Cars, under normal use, eventually break down. Software does not
Have you ever used windows it had/has and evil problem with not being able to clear used memory eventually it wore/run out then crashed. Also over years of use files become corrupted or lost programes do ware out and a re-install is sometimes impossable.
Typical car repairs due to wear-and-tear just don't have an equivalent in software.
Have you ever used a database? can only speak from my experiance of Accesse but that constantly needs tweakin and reparing due to corruption/wear and tear.
I do not care if I can open the hood of my car for the same reason most people don't care if they have the source of their software. I know as little about car engines as they do about programming.
I know far less about programing than i do about cars but i still want to look at them se how they operate and most importantly learn how they operate. There is nothing beter than doing something yourself if you can and long under the Bonnet (hood) is one of the best ways to learn. Ignorance is never an option, might change my sig to that.
Finally... I'm so sick of having to either change my phone number or pay higher rates every year when my contract runs up.
Acording to AT&T your not.
Mark Siegel, spokesman for AT&T Wireless, said the company would press ahead with an appeal of the recent court ruling. Verizon's decision "doesn't change the fact that number portability is bad public policy," he said.
Acording to that they think it would be bad for the public to do things easily
Socialism is not the same as communism the German national socialists where most definitely not communists if you abbreviated there name in German it would be NAZI, I know my memory is a bit fuzzy but Iâ(TM)m sure there was this big war about ideology between them and communist Russia.
Socialism is not the same as communism or facisim, basically if you pay taxes that go towards society in one way or another I.E education or health care you live in a socialist society regardless of the ideology of those in charge
There could be a way to keep Linux alive
This suit is taking place between two American based companies and it is in American courts that it will (probably) be decided, but American law has no standing on the rest of the world. So the worst case scenario as far is I can see is that Linux wonâ(TM)t be developed or used in America, but will still exist unchanged in the rest of the world. A big pain in the arse in know for you over the pond but Iâ(TM)m sure a lot of Linux users would carry on regardless. Also I imagine that this would apply to non-US distributors as well as the developers.
What are other peopleâ(TM)s views on the likely hood of Linux being in 2 worlds at the same time one where its free and open another where its IP?
I wish SCO would pick on some one in the UK there are laws and fines against frivolous lawsuits here.
This is all on the presumption that the judge is complete fool who sits on his elbows and nudges people out they way with his arse
IANAL but I play one on/.
Try medieval total war itâ(TM)s the perfect Christian game. You have to keep the pope sweet or he excommunicates you, and if the opposition is excommunicated then itâ(TM)s a free for all between you and the other Christian kings to grab to there land and take his head. You can also raise crusades, train inquisitors and priests to convert heathens and pagans the fact that it is one of the finest RTS games ever made is irrelevant itâ(TM)s the killing/converting thatâ(TM)s the real aim here.
Seriously this game reminds me every day that Religion has caused far more suffering than it has ever prevented
The GOV is still going to use GPL reason being you don't get tied in with one contractor who ups the cost as soon as your "hooked".
Whilst they would not use it in say military systems mainly because such things are highly sensitive. Normal office use is perfectly OK and infact much desired by the Gov.
The only thing delaying the complete roll out of linux in most GOV departments is training costs.
Strange that they object to freedom of speech AKA right to reply because it conflicts with freedom of speech. umm is it me or is there something strange there?
I love the way that one group suggest something and everyones knee starts jerking.
Under UK law this could be illegal IANAL but there is a law here that means you can't make false claims or word something so that it misleads you have to make clear what they can do and only what they can do.
The new wording of changing all USB 1.1 to 2 implies that it will work at the high speed so if anyone here in the UK Buys a USB 2 compatible product and it doesnâ(TM)t work at USB 2 speeds complain to trading standards and see if it is. I don't know if other countries have similer laws i hope so.
"The senator, a composer who earned $18,000 last year in song writing royalties,"
Umm conflict of interest or what. If this comment was made by an MP the UK papers would rip him apart, for trying to use his position to milk as much money as he can from the public. Its amazing that he was allowed to speak on the subject. I don't know what the situation is for American senators but MPs here have to declare their interests so that it is obvious if an MP has financial interest in a law being passed.
"Public hearings will be held in the House of Commons on the 3rd and10th July when MPs will hold oral evidence sessions with industry, Government and the public."
Didn't Clinton already do this before with the Monica thing? he was thinking a head (or about getting it) when he did this.
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Anonymous coward is just the right description for you and everything you stand for
But what if agree with evolution and deny all knowledge of calculus?
Strange my science teacher always told me it's impossible to disprove something only show that's very very unlikely and why it's unlikely. Where as proving something is easy i.e. the solar sails NASA want to try out if they fail it won't disprove the theory just show that the current sail doesn't work. But if they do work it will clearly prove the theory.
Albinos are a major genetic mutation yet so long as they are not a speciese that relies on camoflage they can learn, Dyslexia is a genetic mutation that hasn't killed me so im living proof. siamese twins can live for a very long time and i can't be botherd to think of more especially as those all poped into my in head about i second after looking the post. Please use common sense before typing.
To me, that's like stumbling upon a functioning laptop in the woods and assuming that *not only* did the plastics and metals eventually form themselves, but the hard drive generated it's data in such a precise way as to have a working operating system and applications Its more like finding a plant and wondering wheter it's from a seed or did some all powerful being come down and place it there you decide
Actual it is a direct copy of an ac post go to the end of the page and its there word for word either he is the orignal AC thats fair enough or he has Plagiarised it and thats the Litary equivelent of piracy it is a good point that needs atributing to the correct person.
An unidentified Windforce, Harlequin Crest, Grandfather, etc, would go for $300+. Wow there some mean bastards out there selling there grandparents
Below is a quote from the same lawyer but different case, there is a link to it in the main story
``Whatever happened (in JoLynn's death), it was not murder,'' Thompson wrote in a news release. ``The American video industry must share the blame.''
It most definitely is murder no matter how diminished there responsibility if someone is sick enough to do this and a computer game was the influence then they need locking up anyway. To protect society because just reading a violent book or even watching the news could cause them to kill, and you can't censor every little thing because a small minority of people can not handle living in a civilised society. Most 5 year olds know that murder is wrong.
There was much worse violence in the years before TV and Video where invented (crusades, both world wars, the entire middle ages, the American West, Etc) if anything they provide a release valve for people to blow of steam rather than blowing each other away.
If this were successful it would give all those who own remotely violent computer games a licence to kill. Which is just what Thompson want's so he can get a reputation of being able to get people let of what are really open and shut cases.
''"We plan to shift into other communication mediums, and rely more heavily on traditional TV advertising and e-mail marketing," Allstate acting Chief Marketing Officer Todd DeYoung told the paper.'' Sounds like a counter attack, they (the telemarkerters) have been attacked by this do not call list and they are countering this with more e-mail and tv advertising a classic counter attack
In other words, they will stop using telemarketing and shift over to snail mail and email. Will that email be Spam? Maybe, maybe not,
What else do you call unsolicited e-mail? All unsolicited/unwanted e-mail is Spam
but a Spam from Allstate is a heck of a lot better than a phone call from Allstate every time I sit down to a meal.
Not if you have dial up, not if you are sitting down to read your legitimate e-mails, not if that e-mail account is used for your own business. By the way the previous situations are not my experience but my dads, he ended up having to get broad band to cope with the e-mail coming in and his is only a 2 man operation, simply all direct marketing is bad.
There should be a small charge for e-mail say 1p that the reciver can refund if they want the e-mail, this wouldn't affect legitamate e-mail much and a couple of lost pennys because someone forgot to refund is not much of cost for anti spam. But it would cost spammers sending thousands a day alot.
oil? water? does your car run without these?
Have you ever used windows it had/has and evil problem with not being able to clear used memory eventually it wore/run out then crashed. Also over years of use files become corrupted or lost programes do ware out and a re-install is sometimes impossable.
Typical car repairs due to wear-and-tear just don't have an equivalent in software. Have you ever used a database? can only speak from my experiance of Accesse but that constantly needs tweakin and reparing due to corruption/wear and tear. I do not care if I can open the hood of my car for the same reason most people don't care if they have the source of their software. I know as little about car engines as they do about programming. I know far less about programing than i do about cars but i still want to look at them se how they operate and most importantly learn how they operate. There is nothing beter than doing something yourself if you can and long under the Bonnet (hood) is one of the best ways to learn. Ignorance is never an option, might change my sig to that.
Acording to AT&T your not.
Mark Siegel, spokesman for AT&T Wireless, said the company would press ahead with an appeal of the recent court ruling. Verizon's decision "doesn't change the fact that number portability is bad public policy," he said.
Acording to that they think it would be bad for the public to do things easily
Socialism is not the same as communism or facisim, basically if you pay taxes that go towards society in one way or another I.E education or health care you live in a socialist society regardless of the ideology of those in charge
What are other peopleâ(TM)s views on the likely hood of Linux being in 2 worlds at the same time one where its free and open another where its IP?
I wish SCO would pick on some one in the UK there are laws and fines against frivolous lawsuits here.
This is all on the presumption that the judge is complete fool who sits on his elbows and nudges people out they way with his arse IANAL but I play one on /.
Also you have proffited from other people's "free" work so don't complain, you can't have it both ways
Seriously this game reminds me every day that Religion has caused far more suffering than it has ever prevented
It's hard to tell if thats a joke or your insane
Its a possition paper from the computer industry not the GOV's position in fact they have a vastly diffrent opinion
Whilst they would not use it in say military systems mainly because such things are highly sensitive. Normal office use is perfectly OK and infact much desired by the Gov.
The only thing delaying the complete roll out of linux in most GOV departments is training costs.
OH one rule for you none for me oh one rule for you none for me thats the way the world should be (continue until you feel sick)
I love the way that one group suggest something and everyones knee starts jerking.
The new wording of changing all USB 1.1 to 2 implies that it will work at the high speed so if anyone here in the UK Buys a USB 2 compatible product and it doesnâ(TM)t work at USB 2 speeds complain to trading standards and see if it is. I don't know if other countries have similer laws i hope so.
Umm conflict of interest or what. If this comment was made by an MP the UK papers would rip him apart, for trying to use his position to milk as much money as he can from the public. Its amazing that he was allowed to speak on the subject. I don't know what the situation is for American senators but MPs here have to declare their interests so that it is obvious if an MP has financial interest in a law being passed.
Didn't Clinton already do this before with the Monica thing? he was thinking a head (or about getting it) when he did this.