Have you paid any attention at all to balance of payments, outsourcing is crippling most western countries. Not only do job disappear but also the support infrastructure and the taxation base that goes with it. Then there is the old tax haven profit game, where somehow the profits between what is charged locally and what is paid offshore disappears.
In fact this whole thread seems infested with PR misdirection and blame it on the immigrants, even temporary immigrants.
Off shoring in service and support sucks, in point of fact the further you are from the service and support call centre the worse service and support becomes. Customer being able to make personal visits are a great motivator in service and support and provide accurate feed back. Outsourcing is all about cheap and ignore quality, getting things done as cheaply as possible and blaming some one else for the failures ie. the corporate dickwad who gets a million dollar bonus on saving 50% of service and support costs, versus the sales executives who regardless of the bullshit marketing about the quality of service and support loses 50% of their customers.
Outsourcing is corporate voodoo economics, local corporations still look very profitable whilst it strip mines customer base by putting them out of work, not only directly but also in supporting infrastructure services and also in the taxation base of local, state and federal government crippling the services they provide.
Outsourcing seems to be much more about getting the middle class to get used to less, less pay and, less quality of life while getting them used to third world working and living conditions, whilst the rich isolate themselves in their world of privilege.
No under the law, the public would define which works fulfil the requirements of the US constitution and are entitled to protection no different from patents. As copyrights infringe upon free speech, their must be public value as defined under the constitution for it to do so. I have no interest in what work is approved or rejected, just that copyrights as for patents should pass muster prior to wasting tax dollars protecting the profitability of it.
Then you just ignore their radical Tea Partier fundamentalist, not regular political supporters but gun bearing, angry radicals who demand observance of their religious sensibilities. You are obviously unaware how rapidly and aggressively they will attack those who betray them. So the religious right can be mocked for supporting politicians who support the use of tax payer dollars to protect the profitability of pornography.
Keeping in mind free speech is infringed by copyright and you are not preventing the production of it, you are just questioning whether tax payer dollars should be used to protect the profitability of it. Whether citizens should be punished for damaging the profitability of porn, which is of course the goal of the religious right whose tax dollars are currently used to promote the profitability of pornography vis copyright laws and via ACTA there will be an enormous increase in the tax funded protection of pornography profits.
The reality though is that a DDos attack on a political website is largely a ho hum because it doesn't ever last that long, those sites were affected for hours not months, so impermanent acts of graffiti not even really vandalism as the damage is only temporary.
Of course "caused the entire University of Akron computer network to be knocked off-line for approximately 8 12 hours" attacks on commercial sites is a different matter all together as it can involve major loss of income and productivity. Then there is "using the compromised machines to spread malware and harvest data from the compromised systems, including user names, passwords, credit card numbers, and CVV security codes".
It appears the headline in this case is more than just a little wildly misleading and the DDos attacks on the political sites had very little to do with the harsh sentencing. Now as Fox not-News actively censors the news and in fact sued for the right to actively and intentional lie in the news as it is entertainment only, can you really censor a censor, or are you practising freedom of speech by censoring an avowed censor of the truth.
Now technically as the movie can not demonstrate the ability to "promote the useful arts and sciences" under law it is not entitled to copyright protection. So for those who can stand the embarrassment of public admitting sharing that film, there is always a US constitutional challenge, bonus if you win you will strip the movie of it's copyright protection and challenge the whole MPA*/RIA* industry. What makes it interesting is that it will all be from a definitively conservative basis, it would be interesting to watch Republicans publicly attempt to defend copyright protections for pornography.
Want to regain all your rights, than pay more fucking attention to the primaries. There is nothing stopping you from stacking elections with your candidates, just like corrupt fucking corporations. Green Republicans and Labour Democrats, considering the numbers that actually participate in the primaries vote this is the easiest place to win the election ie win it well before the actual vote occurs. This is one lesson every one should have learned from the tea baggers but stubbornly seems to refuse to accept it.
I have seen exactly what engineers come out like from any university, they are all pretty useless and require substantial on the job training to become useful. This raises another issue the cost of on the job training and which employees are you most likely to retain, fancy university students desperate to recover their enormous education investment or local community college students with a substantially smaller investment and keeping in mind those community colleges are often very tightly tied to local industry and more accurately filling industry needs.
Rather than 'hmm' generating profit for the university, bloating university management wages, winning sporting events that have nothing to do with a quality education, giving passing grades to the spawn of rich and greedy (the rich and ugly psychopaths that marry pretty but stupid narcissists) to pay for new buildings and scholarships for the few actually good students the university brags about.
I wonder how the applications numbers would stack up if students had to pay for them, so that rather than applying to every university in creation they only applied to the ones they wanted to attend in reality and were likely to gain admittance too. It would be interesting to see if all university exams where do upon a federal standard basis with pass of fails locked into federally averaged curve, how many business universities for the rich and stupid would end up with a 100 percent fail class.
Under any principle of justice, the penalty most strongly ties to the evidence submitted. Where the evidence is weak or basically non existent as is the case of file sharing, there is no, zero, zip, evidence that the person in question committed the civil infraction of copyright infringement. iIn fact the only evidence submitted is IP address records keeping in mind those IP address records are only used to detail billing records for tens of dollars payment not records to justify thousand or millions of dollar payments as such they are only reliable for that level of cost ie. if the IP address records were required to justify millions of dollars in payments far more care, monitoring and auditing of those records would be required to substantiate their accuracy.
That these cases have been held to a civil court where the expertise of the lawyers in questions as well as the 'friendliness' of the judge and even the jury, is testament to the absurd weakness of the evidence submitted and no in way shape or form does the evidence submitted equal the weight of the penalty ie a complete absence of justice. The only other similar cases would be parking tickets and simple traffic offences, where no attempt is made to substantiate the person in question committed an infraction rather than a vehicle registered to that person. This obviously sets the scope for the level of penalties justified by the quality of the evidence supplied.
Anything else is a complete abuse of the principles of justice by a self evidently corrupt legal process, where all parties involved, lawyers, judges and politicians have abandoned any principle of justice for self serving greed.
Neither did they advertise and sell it on a mass scale to rip off mug punters.
We can assume the first kinect prototypes were far worse but it still does not excuse releasing a buggy V*.* product to the public because they felt with sufficient advertising and blame it on the consumers clumsy use they would be able to generate a profit and take some steam out of the Wii and the Playstation, sort of a parallel advertising superiority of technology thing, even when most customers will not buy Kinect.
Reason for M$ to release it now even when it is not fully functional, hmm, keep the investors happy with the Google notebook release just on the horizon especially after the success of Android.
Hate crime is treated differently because of it's nature. To rob someone with violence occur to satisfy greed and once filled ceases. Hate crime repeats until the target of hate is eliminated as such is a much more dangerous serial crime, to be repeated again and again upon a far more regular basis and including the elderly and children amongst it's victims. So as a focus of policing and to allow more severe penalties prior to escalation, assault to murder and repeat nature ie nip it in the bud.
Of course this would not be necessary if every convicted criminal underwent a psychiatric examination to detect the underlying psychological motivation like psychopathy and the sentence was based upon likely effectiveness of lack there of of rehabilitation ie once detected should psychopaths or those very likely to repeat their crimes be released back into the population. This is of course blocked by idiot knee jerk reactionaries who view mental conditions as excuses to avoid punishment and prisons should be places of sadistic punishment rather than constructive rehabilitation or long term humane isolation from the rest of the population.
As for cyber crimes, that is just nothing more than a 'neato' political term to get more money and win votes. So it has more to do with exaggerating crimes rather than diminishing them.
The most ironic thing about developing better batteries, computer are providing the necessary computational power to facilitate their design and mobile computers are driving and funding their development.
The electric car will likely owe it's successful existence to the desire for a smartbook with a 24 hour portable power supply.
It is inevitable, which makes investing money in better infernal combustion engines at this stags a little unwise.
Hell, just designing modern cities with the power cables running down the middle of roads so they can charge electric vehicles on the go via induction, kicks the infernal combustion engines to off road, marine or aviation use only.
The cost for one offs is a fallacy. The prototype of anything is always phenomenally expensive, simply fact of business life. If you only make one of a very complex custom device it will be very expensive, be it a car, plane or space station.
You seriously want the space station to be cheaper, than don't build one, build hundreds, incorporate all the required satellite services in them and as many other commercial services as imaginable and the cost per space station will drop.
Of course crack that gravity thing ie. build a gravity drive and the price will collapse all together. High capacity micro energy fields upon a macro scale sound interesting, high energy electron flows trapped within negative ion fields, charging those fields.
Consent is the basis for legitimising that kind of contact. So announce you accept a non sexual pat down and scream if they exceed that level of consent followed up with a lawsuit.
No the Federal government will be screwed for failing to obtain releases, or enquiring about prior doses (all accumulative) or for warning people about the risks. The negligence is theirs especially when you add Airport ionising radar into the mix. It will be quite clear the Federal government failed their duty of care and not only that but actively via routes of public and sexual humiliation to take the risk, including minors who have far greater risks for exposure that kind of radiation.
The glaringly obvious doesn't normally require numbers, statistics or references except of course for Republicans but of course they will simply ignore numbers, statistics or references, that don't agree with their point of view, so either way it is pointless wast of time to provide them. Just for your reference http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies because it seems that you do not understand the concept even when your argument was based around, 1)irrelevent conclusion, 2)fallacy of false cause.
The is more likely to be 'L'iberal, big L liberal as a distortion of libertarian (as it doesn't sound that good) from a political party that originally supported the idea that only property owners should be allowed to vote, rather than small l liberal in reference to a liberal education.
You mean there is a bull shit solution from the right, working in poverty employment. All those jobs were sent to China were employing people is cheaper than using robots. There are the unemployable and no amount of lies will ever make them successful employees and an effective welfare net is cheaper than prison. All societies that claim ownership of all resources owe their citizens as subsistence lifestyle of one form or another.
Of course a warning for the Mirror for that electronic disparagement of computer geeks, whilst Colm Cross was acting as a troll that has nothing to do with being a computer geek, in fact the exact opposite is more likely to be true.
Still really odd for the court to ignore the mental health of the person in question, that they derived pleasure from some pretty offensive behaviour is pretty indicative of mental instability especially at that age.
Is it legal for children to ride their bikes on the footpath at that location. Did the adult pedestrian take due care or was the adult pedestrian liable for stepping out in front of the children. Who is more negligent an adult that fails to take 'evasive action' or a four year on a bike with training wheels. Will the children's testimony in the civil suit be legally accepted.
One must also keep in mind for the child to be negligent they should be aware of age of the person they might impact, other than being old or with any notional idea of that age placing them at risk. If there are other adults acting as witnesses why didn't those adults act to prevent the accident or provide physical support for the elderly pedestrian. Whilst the impact did occur, did it actually cause the fall or did it only contribute to the fall ie would any reasonable 4 year expect that in the even of an impact they would more likely be the ones to fall over than any adult they collided with.
Nah, this case is all about lawyers making money both the offensive and the defensive teams, face it, losers pays laws are required to help settle things down.
When the intent is to touch the genitals, then is the intent to search or commit a sexual assault. At what stage when committing sexual assault is a search warrant required.
At least everyone is likely to have the last laugh on the TSA, how well are they shielded from the continually exposure to tumour inducing xrays. Of course there will always be people to protect idiots from their own ignorance http://epic.org/privacy/airtravel/backscatter/.
With regards to limits on ionising radiation "the maximum exposure to ionising radiation shall not be more than 1 mSv34 per year for members of the public and 20 mSv per year for exposed workers", what steps are the TSA taking to ensure they are not exceeding mandated limits. One would assume questionnaires are being handed out with risk warnings and notifications for people at risk or do they just no think they will be held legally liable for failing to take due care, especially with children.
How about all operational personal, flight crews, cleaners luggage handlers and TSA agents, are they also required to be scanned when entering areas of higher security risk.
It is not about monopoly lock in, simply it is about consumer cool versus consumer lame or product appeal. How readily they can launch a new product and how well it is received. So think Zune, silverfish, whatever their dead phone thing was called, and anything to do with MSN and Bing only get by on generating multiple searches on a single search and being the windows default.
Even with Steve Uncle Fester Ballmer disassociating himself from advertising retail products, they are still suffering from a couple of really lame retail advertising campaigns. The brand they should have worked on was MSN but they completely screwed it up first with live and then with bing.
Also Silver Tail will release endless end of the world press release about computer viruses infecting people and destroying the planet, unless of course they get hundreds of millions of dollars in CIA approved funding (which of course will be used in off the books hacks of other nations including and especially allies).
Liberal as it relates to a liberal education http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_education, "a philosophy of education that empowers individuals with broad knowledge and transferable skills, and a stronger sense of values, ethics, and civic engagement, characterized by challenging encounters with important issues, and more a way of studying than a specific course or field of study". Could it be any simpler.
There is a direct correlation between welfare net and crime, the more effective the social welfare net the lower the crime rate. It is simply enlightened self interest to have an effective social welfare net. For the idiot right wingers who refuse to accept the blindingly obvious, for the numb nuts of the political spectrum simply compare Canada, to the US, to Mexico, of course right wingers will want to waffle on all kinds of bullshit rather than accept the obvious.
The liberal gene could also be the empathic and or socially conscious gene, the basis upon which human societies are formed rather than the sociopath gene the basis upon which human societies are torn apart in bloody violence (the far right gene).
So the London stock exchange has updated it's operating system to accelerate it trades, just as it seems likely that laws will be implemented to decelerate trades. It makes logical sense that trades be slowed to a 24 hour cycle to stabilise the global share market a prevent algorithmic stock price collapse or major firms distorting the market electronically with rapid internal trades.
With various versions of mobile Linux becoming the dominate smart phone operating systems whether as Android, MeeGo or MobLin and the smart phone by becoming the dominant form of computer, creating applications for that environment becomes commercially important, especially when all those operating systems with a little tweaking can readily power smartbooks.
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Have you paid any attention at all to balance of payments, outsourcing is crippling most western countries. Not only do job disappear but also the support infrastructure and the taxation base that goes with it. Then there is the old tax haven profit game, where somehow the profits between what is charged locally and what is paid offshore disappears.
In fact this whole thread seems infested with PR misdirection and blame it on the immigrants, even temporary immigrants.
Off shoring in service and support sucks, in point of fact the further you are from the service and support call centre the worse service and support becomes. Customer being able to make personal visits are a great motivator in service and support and provide accurate feed back. Outsourcing is all about cheap and ignore quality, getting things done as cheaply as possible and blaming some one else for the failures ie. the corporate dickwad who gets a million dollar bonus on saving 50% of service and support costs, versus the sales executives who regardless of the bullshit marketing about the quality of service and support loses 50% of their customers.
Outsourcing is corporate voodoo economics, local corporations still look very profitable whilst it strip mines customer base by putting them out of work, not only directly but also in supporting infrastructure services and also in the taxation base of local, state and federal government crippling the services they provide.
Outsourcing seems to be much more about getting the middle class to get used to less, less pay and, less quality of life while getting them used to third world working and living conditions, whilst the rich isolate themselves in their world of privilege.
No under the law, the public would define which works fulfil the requirements of the US constitution and are entitled to protection no different from patents. As copyrights infringe upon free speech, their must be public value as defined under the constitution for it to do so. I have no interest in what work is approved or rejected, just that copyrights as for patents should pass muster prior to wasting tax dollars protecting the profitability of it.
Then you just ignore their radical Tea Partier fundamentalist, not regular political supporters but gun bearing, angry radicals who demand observance of their religious sensibilities. You are obviously unaware how rapidly and aggressively they will attack those who betray them. So the religious right can be mocked for supporting politicians who support the use of tax payer dollars to protect the profitability of pornography.
Keeping in mind free speech is infringed by copyright and you are not preventing the production of it, you are just questioning whether tax payer dollars should be used to protect the profitability of it. Whether citizens should be punished for damaging the profitability of porn, which is of course the goal of the religious right whose tax dollars are currently used to promote the profitability of pornography vis copyright laws and via ACTA there will be an enormous increase in the tax funded protection of pornography profits.
The reality though is that a DDos attack on a political website is largely a ho hum because it doesn't ever last that long, those sites were affected for hours not months, so impermanent acts of graffiti not even really vandalism as the damage is only temporary.
Of course "caused the entire University of Akron computer network to be knocked off-line for approximately 8 12 hours" attacks on commercial sites is a different matter all together as it can involve major loss of income and productivity. Then there is "using the compromised machines to spread malware and harvest data from the compromised systems, including user names, passwords, credit card numbers, and CVV security codes".
It appears the headline in this case is more than just a little wildly misleading and the DDos attacks on the political sites had very little to do with the harsh sentencing. Now as Fox not-News actively censors the news and in fact sued for the right to actively and intentional lie in the news as it is entertainment only, can you really censor a censor, or are you practising freedom of speech by censoring an avowed censor of the truth.
Now technically as the movie can not demonstrate the ability to "promote the useful arts and sciences" under law it is not entitled to copyright protection. So for those who can stand the embarrassment of public admitting sharing that film, there is always a US constitutional challenge, bonus if you win you will strip the movie of it's copyright protection and challenge the whole MPA*/RIA* industry. What makes it interesting is that it will all be from a definitively conservative basis, it would be interesting to watch Republicans publicly attempt to defend copyright protections for pornography.
Want to regain all your rights, than pay more fucking attention to the primaries. There is nothing stopping you from stacking elections with your candidates, just like corrupt fucking corporations. Green Republicans and Labour Democrats, considering the numbers that actually participate in the primaries vote this is the easiest place to win the election ie win it well before the actual vote occurs. This is one lesson every one should have learned from the tea baggers but stubbornly seems to refuse to accept it.
I have seen exactly what engineers come out like from any university, they are all pretty useless and require substantial on the job training to become useful. This raises another issue the cost of on the job training and which employees are you most likely to retain, fancy university students desperate to recover their enormous education investment or local community college students with a substantially smaller investment and keeping in mind those community colleges are often very tightly tied to local industry and more accurately filling industry needs.
Rather than 'hmm' generating profit for the university, bloating university management wages, winning sporting events that have nothing to do with a quality education, giving passing grades to the spawn of rich and greedy (the rich and ugly psychopaths that marry pretty but stupid narcissists) to pay for new buildings and scholarships for the few actually good students the university brags about.
I wonder how the applications numbers would stack up if students had to pay for them, so that rather than applying to every university in creation they only applied to the ones they wanted to attend in reality and were likely to gain admittance too. It would be interesting to see if all university exams where do upon a federal standard basis with pass of fails locked into federally averaged curve, how many business universities for the rich and stupid would end up with a 100 percent fail class.
Under any principle of justice, the penalty most strongly ties to the evidence submitted. Where the evidence is weak or basically non existent as is the case of file sharing, there is no, zero, zip, evidence that the person in question committed the civil infraction of copyright infringement. iIn fact the only evidence submitted is IP address records keeping in mind those IP address records are only used to detail billing records for tens of dollars payment not records to justify thousand or millions of dollar payments as such they are only reliable for that level of cost ie. if the IP address records were required to justify millions of dollars in payments far more care, monitoring and auditing of those records would be required to substantiate their accuracy.
That these cases have been held to a civil court where the expertise of the lawyers in questions as well as the 'friendliness' of the judge and even the jury, is testament to the absurd weakness of the evidence submitted and no in way shape or form does the evidence submitted equal the weight of the penalty ie a complete absence of justice. The only other similar cases would be parking tickets and simple traffic offences, where no attempt is made to substantiate the person in question committed an infraction rather than a vehicle registered to that person. This obviously sets the scope for the level of penalties justified by the quality of the evidence supplied.
Anything else is a complete abuse of the principles of justice by a self evidently corrupt legal process, where all parties involved, lawyers, judges and politicians have abandoned any principle of justice for self serving greed.
Neither did they advertise and sell it on a mass scale to rip off mug punters.
We can assume the first kinect prototypes were far worse but it still does not excuse releasing a buggy V*.* product to the public because they felt with sufficient advertising and blame it on the consumers clumsy use they would be able to generate a profit and take some steam out of the Wii and the Playstation, sort of a parallel advertising superiority of technology thing, even when most customers will not buy Kinect.
Reason for M$ to release it now even when it is not fully functional, hmm, keep the investors happy with the Google notebook release just on the horizon especially after the success of Android.
Hate crime is treated differently because of it's nature. To rob someone with violence occur to satisfy greed and once filled ceases. Hate crime repeats until the target of hate is eliminated as such is a much more dangerous serial crime, to be repeated again and again upon a far more regular basis and including the elderly and children amongst it's victims. So as a focus of policing and to allow more severe penalties prior to escalation, assault to murder and repeat nature ie nip it in the bud.
Of course this would not be necessary if every convicted criminal underwent a psychiatric examination to detect the underlying psychological motivation like psychopathy and the sentence was based upon likely effectiveness of lack there of of rehabilitation ie once detected should psychopaths or those very likely to repeat their crimes be released back into the population. This is of course blocked by idiot knee jerk reactionaries who view mental conditions as excuses to avoid punishment and prisons should be places of sadistic punishment rather than constructive rehabilitation or long term humane isolation from the rest of the population.
As for cyber crimes, that is just nothing more than a 'neato' political term to get more money and win votes. So it has more to do with exaggerating crimes rather than diminishing them.
The most ironic thing about developing better batteries, computer are providing the necessary computational power to facilitate their design and mobile computers are driving and funding their development.
The electric car will likely owe it's successful existence to the desire for a smartbook with a 24 hour portable power supply.
It is inevitable, which makes investing money in better infernal combustion engines at this stags a little unwise.
Hell, just designing modern cities with the power cables running down the middle of roads so they can charge electric vehicles on the go via induction, kicks the infernal combustion engines to off road, marine or aviation use only.
The cost for one offs is a fallacy. The prototype of anything is always phenomenally expensive, simply fact of business life. If you only make one of a very complex custom device it will be very expensive, be it a car, plane or space station.
You seriously want the space station to be cheaper, than don't build one, build hundreds, incorporate all the required satellite services in them and as many other commercial services as imaginable and the cost per space station will drop.
Of course crack that gravity thing ie. build a gravity drive and the price will collapse all together. High capacity micro energy fields upon a macro scale sound interesting, high energy electron flows trapped within negative ion fields, charging those fields.
Consent is the basis for legitimising that kind of contact. So announce you accept a non sexual pat down and scream if they exceed that level of consent followed up with a lawsuit.
No the Federal government will be screwed for failing to obtain releases, or enquiring about prior doses (all accumulative) or for warning people about the risks. The negligence is theirs especially when you add Airport ionising radar into the mix. It will be quite clear the Federal government failed their duty of care and not only that but actively via routes of public and sexual humiliation to take the risk, including minors who have far greater risks for exposure that kind of radiation.
The glaringly obvious doesn't normally require numbers, statistics or references except of course for Republicans but of course they will simply ignore numbers, statistics or references, that don't agree with their point of view, so either way it is pointless wast of time to provide them. Just for your reference http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies because it seems that you do not understand the concept even when your argument was based around, 1)irrelevent conclusion, 2)fallacy of false cause.
The is more likely to be 'L'iberal, big L liberal as a distortion of libertarian (as it doesn't sound that good) from a political party that originally supported the idea that only property owners should be allowed to vote, rather than small l liberal in reference to a liberal education.
You mean there is a bull shit solution from the right, working in poverty employment. All those jobs were sent to China were employing people is cheaper than using robots. There are the unemployable and no amount of lies will ever make them successful employees and an effective welfare net is cheaper than prison. All societies that claim ownership of all resources owe their citizens as subsistence lifestyle of one form or another.
It was a little bit more than that http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/10/30/geek-who-posted-jade-abuse-jailed-115875-22675276/ the message were apparently obscene in nature and minors were involved.
Of course a warning for the Mirror for that electronic disparagement of computer geeks, whilst Colm Cross was acting as a troll that has nothing to do with being a computer geek, in fact the exact opposite is more likely to be true.
Still really odd for the court to ignore the mental health of the person in question, that they derived pleasure from some pretty offensive behaviour is pretty indicative of mental instability especially at that age.
Is it legal for children to ride their bikes on the footpath at that location. Did the adult pedestrian take due care or was the adult pedestrian liable for stepping out in front of the children. Who is more negligent an adult that fails to take 'evasive action' or a four year on a bike with training wheels. Will the children's testimony in the civil suit be legally accepted.
One must also keep in mind for the child to be negligent they should be aware of age of the person they might impact, other than being old or with any notional idea of that age placing them at risk. If there are other adults acting as witnesses why didn't those adults act to prevent the accident or provide physical support for the elderly pedestrian. Whilst the impact did occur, did it actually cause the fall or did it only contribute to the fall ie would any reasonable 4 year expect that in the even of an impact they would more likely be the ones to fall over than any adult they collided with.
Nah, this case is all about lawyers making money both the offensive and the defensive teams, face it, losers pays laws are required to help settle things down.
When the intent is to touch the genitals, then is the intent to search or commit a sexual assault. At what stage when committing sexual assault is a search warrant required.
At least everyone is likely to have the last laugh on the TSA, how well are they shielded from the continually exposure to tumour inducing xrays. Of course there will always be people to protect idiots from their own ignorance http://epic.org/privacy/airtravel/backscatter/.
With regards to limits on ionising radiation "the maximum exposure to ionising radiation shall not be more than 1 mSv34 per year for members of the public and 20 mSv per year for exposed workers", what steps are the TSA taking to ensure they are not exceeding mandated limits. One would assume questionnaires are being handed out with risk warnings and notifications for people at risk or do they just no think they will be held legally liable for failing to take due care, especially with children.
How about all operational personal, flight crews, cleaners luggage handlers and TSA agents, are they also required to be scanned when entering areas of higher security risk.
It is not about monopoly lock in, simply it is about consumer cool versus consumer lame or product appeal. How readily they can launch a new product and how well it is received. So think Zune, silverfish, whatever their dead phone thing was called, and anything to do with MSN and Bing only get by on generating multiple searches on a single search and being the windows default.
Even with Steve Uncle Fester Ballmer disassociating himself from advertising retail products, they are still suffering from a couple of really lame retail advertising campaigns. The brand they should have worked on was MSN but they completely screwed it up first with live and then with bing.
Also Silver Tail will release endless end of the world press release about computer viruses infecting people and destroying the planet, unless of course they get hundreds of millions of dollars in CIA approved funding (which of course will be used in off the books hacks of other nations including and especially allies).
Liberal as it relates to a liberal education http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_education, "a philosophy of education that empowers individuals with broad knowledge and transferable skills, and a stronger sense of values, ethics, and civic engagement, characterized by challenging encounters with important issues, and more a way of studying than a specific course or field of study". Could it be any simpler.
There is a direct correlation between welfare net and crime, the more effective the social welfare net the lower the crime rate. It is simply enlightened self interest to have an effective social welfare net. For the idiot right wingers who refuse to accept the blindingly obvious, for the numb nuts of the political spectrum simply compare Canada, to the US, to Mexico, of course right wingers will want to waffle on all kinds of bullshit rather than accept the obvious.
The liberal gene could also be the empathic and or socially conscious gene, the basis upon which human societies are formed rather than the sociopath gene the basis upon which human societies are torn apart in bloody violence (the far right gene).
So the London stock exchange has updated it's operating system to accelerate it trades, just as it seems likely that laws will be implemented to decelerate trades. It makes logical sense that trades be slowed to a 24 hour cycle to stabilise the global share market a prevent algorithmic stock price collapse or major firms distorting the market electronically with rapid internal trades.
With various versions of mobile Linux becoming the dominate smart phone operating systems whether as Android, MeeGo or MobLin and the smart phone by becoming the dominant form of computer, creating applications for that environment becomes commercially important, especially when all those operating systems with a little tweaking can readily power smartbooks.