No system is perfect, but at least with this one, fear of losing a lawsuit can help stem the tide of frivolous lawsuits. Unfortunately, a lot of scumbag lawyers are doing the old "no win, no fee" thing now and the UK is beginning to look almost as bad and litigious as the USA.
Still got a bit to go before it catches up though, and as it seems america is still moving forward (backwards, shirley, Ed), the UK might be playing catchup for quite a while.
In the UK, the loser in such cases is often forced to pay the costs of both parties by default.
Which is how it should be. Why should an innocent person be bankrupted by legal fees just because some greedy infantile pathetic idiot sued him when he didn't do anything that deserved suing?
Perhaps you should invest that money in building MASSIVE YACHTS instead. And then give the MASSIVE YACHTS away in a FREE random-telephone-number PRIZE. draw.
Before some enterprising young cracker decyphered their radio control signal, took one over and crashed it into the house of commons, preferebly through one of the windows so they could set off the strobe/taser/deafening noise during prime minister's question time.
So, basically... It's "Wanted". In the 90s UK's channel 4 ran 2 series of it, the rules were, you were allowed to travel anywhere so long as you didn't cross your own path, you had to perform a task each day for the week, and on the final day of the week when the show was due to be broadcast, you had to be in a phone box while the tracker tried to locate you.
If you managed to evade capture you won 1000 quid for each day you didn't get photographed by the tracker AND completed the task. Then went on the run for another week, still bound by the rules of not crossing your path, so if you weren't careful, you could hem yourself in quite easily.
Of course, the tv audience was encouraged to grass them up and some of their tasks were quite tricky to do on the sly. "you must take a waterskiing lesson each day this week" was one of them.
The electromagnetic force holds everything together. It's the main force that explains why things are as they are. Why you are solid, why you can't walk through walls, etc.
With a magnet, the electrons in the iron (or other magnetic material) are aligned. They all rotating around their atoms in sync. So they attract other materials that can alter their electron's orbits easily, like more iron.
When a lot of atoms are all magnetically aligned like that, the force adds up. When the atoms are all higgledypiggledy, there's no magnetic force.
(Not exactly correct from a scientific standpoint, mainly because electrons don't orbit, they're a probability function, but it's ok for kids if you draw a few diagrams)
You can't really offer opera 10 as a fair comparison until the final version is released. The pre releases probably contain a lot of debugging information (which naturally bumps up the size quite a bit)
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No system is perfect, but at least with this one, fear of losing a lawsuit can help stem the tide of frivolous lawsuits. Unfortunately, a lot of scumbag lawyers are doing the old "no win, no fee" thing now and the UK is beginning to look almost as bad and litigious as the USA.
Still got a bit to go before it catches up though, and as it seems america is still moving forward (backwards, shirley, Ed), the UK might be playing catchup for quite a while.
In the UK, the loser in such cases is often forced to pay the costs of both parties by default.
Which is how it should be.
Why should an innocent person be bankrupted by legal fees just because some greedy infantile pathetic idiot sued him when he didn't do anything that deserved suing?
Perhaps you should invest that money in building MASSIVE YACHTS instead. And then give the MASSIVE YACHTS away in a FREE random-telephone-number PRIZE. draw.
Nonono
Call it Ghosts'n'Gobbling
Nearly
The 11th anniversary is next month.
13th of September to be precise.
Your living room has junk zipping around at thousands of miles per hour?
The original cybermen were probably destroyed in Silver Nemesis (sylvester mccoy story).
WHEN is Tron2 coming?
Tron 2 has been "coming" for the past 2 years!
Think you mean Richmond. He wasn't in series 3.
He got scurvy.
Before some enterprising young cracker decyphered their radio control signal, took one over and crashed it into the house of commons, preferebly through one of the windows so they could set off the strobe/taser/deafening noise during prime minister's question time.
Daleks are not unmanned drones.
Right to remain silent? What century are you living in?
So, basically...
It's "Wanted".
In the 90s UK's channel 4 ran 2 series of it, the rules were, you were allowed to travel anywhere so long as you didn't cross your own path, you had to perform a task each day for the week, and on the final day of the week when the show was due to be broadcast, you had to be in a phone box while the tracker tried to locate you.
If you managed to evade capture you won 1000 quid for each day you didn't get photographed by the tracker AND completed the task. Then went on the run for another week, still bound by the rules of not crossing your path, so if you weren't careful, you could hem yourself in quite easily.
Of course, the tv audience was encouraged to grass them up and some of their tasks were quite tricky to do on the sly. "you must take a waterskiing lesson each day this week" was one of them.
To use a pen and notebook and then copy it into the computer AFTER the lecture?
MPAA is concerned with motion pictures, not the written word.
If memory serves, it was "authors of america" or some such bunk organisation.
Listen to "Sean Locke's 15 minutes of misery" sometime. A radio comedy from the 1990s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1lGufUM7xM
One of the characters is a PRS dream come true. :)
Who?
So, we're back to the pre-global warming "We're due another ice-age" 1970s doom-mongering eh?
Never mind, since then, we've inadvertantly added a few blankets. We'll be fine.
At least until the ice-age ends. Then we'll be really in trouble.
Doesn't mean the gravitational waves aren't there.
Maybe they've just got the detection method wrong.
The electromagnetic force holds everything together. It's the main force that explains why things are as they are. Why you are solid, why you can't walk through walls, etc.
With a magnet, the electrons in the iron (or other magnetic material) are aligned. They all rotating around their atoms in sync. So they attract other materials that can alter their electron's orbits easily, like more iron.
When a lot of atoms are all magnetically aligned like that, the force adds up. When the atoms are all higgledypiggledy, there's no magnetic force.
(Not exactly correct from a scientific standpoint, mainly because electrons don't orbit, they're a probability function, but it's ok for kids if you draw a few diagrams)
You can't really offer opera 10 as a fair comparison until the final version is released.
The pre releases probably contain a lot of debugging information (which naturally bumps up the size quite a bit)
Where in europe? :)
The latest Lost episode is on sky one this weekend. It's only a 3 day wait.
(not that I don't agree, I downloaded it too)
Sound recordings in the 1950s were adequate quality so invest in some vintage vinyl.
Rip it, run it through a scratch and pop removal program, mp3 it and play that to the horses.
50 years, then copyright expires, so she can go and get any old record published before 1959 and play that without hindrance.
They take her to court, she screws them for libel. :)
But slashdot doesn't have an upside down font.
Change which I will resist to my last breath.
Education is what's needed, not bowing to the ignorant.