Depending on countries fines are very different, if you go in France because in some part of Paris, police never seal or take the cars away, so people just park and pay the fine occasionally.
Should the fines be like in some parts of the City in London, where cars are taken away and police put seals very quickly, illegal parking would be like in the City in London (quite rare).
I also agree that on murder it is not the same, death penalty and lifetime sentences have probably few effect in murder statistics since only a fraction of the murderers would think about the "fine/penalty" for it.
However look at this link experiment. It shows how people replaced an incentive by another one.
The difference is only moral, if you replace murder by illegal parking and prison by fine, you can admit that the amount of the fine is what will mostly determine the number of offenders.
People react to stimulus whether you want to believe that the human has a good nature or not...
I give over $100 every month, not just in one time, to local bums in the area (like £3 every day because I live in the UK) where I work and live in addition to give to various charities...
I have put "Clean in front of your own door before to look at other's." because the reaction of people in this thread are way to extreme, they just speak about giving rights to animals, without specifying what do they want to implement.
Well anyway you seem a good guy... no need to bet on the amount given to charities, let's say that I can give quite a high percentage of my salary for tax reasons. And I thought because of the article that you were implying that they could be integrated to human society in the actual way... no worries... sorry for my misunderstanding...
Intelligence should not be a factor for this kind of rights, since someone with brain damage or an anomaly that would push his cognitive abilities under an animal could not claim these rights.
Just because we haven't solved the biggest problems doesn't mean all the others should be ignored. Should we stop trying to cure AIDs because we haven't killed cancer, and people in Africa will die of cancer instead? Of course not.
You seem not too bad about being narrow minded. I never said that you should not give rights to animals, it is just that the actual phenomena, is that people want animals to have everything the same than humans. You just have to see websites about animal charities and such.
Yet, some people cannot understand why it is laughable when somebody pointed out that it should be called animal rights and some others replied "WHY SHOULD THEY GET DIFFERENT RIGHTS THAN US ?"
What's particularly sad is that you are probably some guy sending money to help cats while 5 blocks away there is a ghetto.
I am not speaking about some far away country, just ask yourself when is the last time you gave 0.1% of your salary to bums in the street.
Why shouldn't animals be afforded the right to exist in a suitable environment, free from molestation and protected from harm? Nobody's saying they should get to vote, but what makes humans deserving of protection from harm and not anyone else?
I never said the opposite, what makes me sad is that you care and will post about animals, you will probably even send money to charities, but you won't care about families getting killed for money by order of the peeps you voted just for money. I guess it looks like something far away.
How can you say that an animal would "never give you the same rights"? Have you experience on a planet where humans are livestock and dolphins run the show? We should protect the environment and wildlife precisely because we're the only ones who CAN and simultaneously pose the greatest harm to them.
No but I expect a hungry crocodile to eat me, not to think "hey sup ? I am gonna snack on bamboo and other crap vegetables since killing living organisms is bad".
But I am all for environmental decisions, no unnecessary cruelty on animals (but I am for the experimentation for medication), and we all know who did not sign at Kyoto, unfortunately, people seem to care more about next door cat and dog than real politics that affects real people (and animals).
Yet it is the countries that destroyed the most of the biological ecosystem and are polluting the most who cares the most about animals and who wants to decide in other countries what should be done, just go in Kenya and try to argue with locals that they should not kill that animal because it is bad and see how they will look at you.
No offense, but it is probably caused by the grade and education system in the first place ?
If teachers were more involved with each of their pupils(good or bad) maybe they would continue to work harder ? Instead of that you get people who always care for the best students and leave the others behind, the teachers are the first to tell the parents of students to kind of specialize by saying that they are good in maths/physics then he should not care that much about english... etc
The current system should leave some room for personal improvement and personal interest.
But did you consider that in fact they managed to get away with it not because of their grades but because these persons are the kind of guy who will do anything to succeed ? Which is what is needed in most of the managing positions in large companies and in sales positions... unfortunately...
When I hear this kind of arguments, it kind of makes me sad. Granted, you can give rights to animals even if they would never give you the same rights... we already do the same with killers. But to give what is defined in human rights to animal ??? Do you even get out of your home and country ? Or the most exotic thing you have seen in the world is your cat ?
There are hundred of millions people dying out there for non respect of basic human rights. Clean in front of your own door before to look at other's.
Perhaps because Microsoft will patch this and render the boot kit useless in less time that it takes to say "oh my god, my unsigned drivers don't work anymore"?
KB45641348 - Fix for boot kit (Vista)
This fix patches a problem for the boot kit for Vista, after installation, Clippy will appear at boot time and ask you if you want to really boot the infected CD.
[Allow/Cancel]
Next headline: Security experts find a security breach in Lilo, by physically accessing the machine, a malicious hacker can be root by typing "linux single" at LILO boot !
From the vague description of the patents, it seems that these so-called patents are alit bit abusive, I wonder if the patent system should not be changed so in the case of an invalid patent, you would have to pay a fee for trying to abuse the system.
There is no barrier to make a patent, for a company it is ridiculously easy and cheap, an australian lawyer even patented the wheel to prove the flaws in the system.
I work in trading and saw that Goldman patented an automatic trading system, but the description is so vague that anything that would be a database + a statistical engine + an order system could fall under this patent, it is quite ridiculous since there is no other way to make an automatic trading system, and since the patent is only from the late 90s I know that people wrote such systems before they patented it...
IMHO an invalid patent should be punishable by a fine.
This blog website is intended to support British citizen Gary McKinnon, who is facing "fast track" extradition to the USA (after over three four years since his initial arrest !).
Gary was indicted by a US court in November 2002, accused of "hacking" into over 90 US Military computer systems from here in the UK.
The unjust treatment of British citizens (and others) when facing the might of the US Military "justice" sysem, which practices detention without trial in Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere, and stands accused of making use of torture by allied regimes ("extraordinary rendition") is an ongoing scandal. It cannot be excused even by a "war on terror".
It seems only just that Gary should face any charges in a British court, and to serve any sentence, if he is found guilty, in a British prison.
Wikipedia Entry:Wikipedia entry for McKinnon
Synopsis:
Gary McKinnon, also known as Solo, (born in Glasgow in 1966) is a British hacker accused by the United States of perpetrating the "biggest military computer hack of all time." Following legal hearings in the UK it was decided in July 2006 that he should be extradited to the United States. In February 2007 his lawyers argued against this ruling in an appeal to the High Court in London [1], which was turned down on April 3 [2].
From what I just read, he just looks like a typical nerd who is good at hacking systems.
I think that once again, the judge didn't realize how this represents a violation of human rights and the plaintiffs should bring more proofs of their accusations before to proceed, I am no pro-terrorist, but it is not because you are the army that you should have the right to bring people outside of civil courts (remember Guantanamo Bay and people who were falsely accused, remember the so-called WMD that we never found), unless you have real reasons to conclude that he is a threat and did sell/use information he collected.
It is much more of an infamy to use such reasons to bring him outside of a civil court using the deaths of the 9/11 than to let him go.
Though, I would be totally fine with a prison sentence... and of course, I would be also totally fine with this decision if the army can bring proofs that he misused this information.
Compuserve?
Compuserve?... That bloated, expensive, pretend internet thing that became AOL... that Compuserve? In the top 50?
*Checks date to see if it's still 1st April*
Obviously, by reading your post and trying to determine its utility, I know that you were not on Compuserve.
My biggest gripe with this kind of list is not that only it is very subjective, like most of the peeps here said, but also the items are ranked.
Why do you want to rank one item #45 and the other #46 ? Just make a list of 100 items that were quite innovative and do not rank them, just order them by category, decade, platform... etc but there is no point to rank them
I saw that the Ipod was ranked quite high. For me the Ipod is quite innovative but it is ranked way too high, you could find plenty of MP3 players that were quite close to the Ipod just after it was released, it was more about marketing than a real breaktrough...
For the ones who do not know the scheme, it forces emitters to buy contracts if they go over the quota allowed by the government and is supposed to give an incentive to the companies to modernize... although it has been reported that the EU has issued too large quotas rendering the system ineffective...
Slashdot Mirror
In Soviet Europe, the unions create silly rules that the government forces upon the companies ...
Your example is not the average Joe example, your dorm is obviously downloading more like 99% or 95% from P2P alone and/or alot of game demos/patches.
Depending on countries fines are very different, if you go in France because in some part of Paris, police never seal or take the cars away, so people just park and pay the fine occasionally.
Should the fines be like in some parts of the City in London, where cars are taken away and police put seals very quickly, illegal parking would be like in the City in London (quite rare).
I also agree that on murder it is not the same, death penalty and lifetime sentences have probably few effect in murder statistics since only a fraction of the murderers would think about the "fine/penalty" for it.
However look at this link experiment. It shows how people replaced an incentive by another one.
The difference is only moral, if you replace murder by illegal parking and prison by fine, you can admit that the amount of the fine is what will mostly determine the number of offenders.
...
People react to stimulus whether you want to believe that the human has a good nature or not
I give over $100 every month, not just in one time, to local bums in the area (like £3 every day because I live in the UK) where I work and live in addition to give to various charities ...
... no need to bet on the amount given to charities, let's say that I can give quite a high percentage of my salary for tax reasons. And I thought because of the article that you were implying that they could be integrated to human society in the actual way ... no worries ... sorry for my misunderstanding ...
I have put "Clean in front of your own door before to look at other's." because the reaction of people in this thread are way to extreme, they just speak about giving rights to animals, without specifying what do they want to implement.
Well anyway you seem a good guy
Intelligence should not be a factor for this kind of rights, since someone with brain damage or an anomaly that would push his cognitive abilities under an animal could not claim these rights.
I feel like we will have to pay alot more taxes to support all the Chimps at Medicare ...
What should I check for "ethnic background" for my cat to apply at the Green Card Lottery ?
Just because we haven't solved the biggest problems doesn't mean all the others should be ignored. Should we stop trying to cure AIDs because we haven't killed cancer, and people in Africa will die of cancer instead? Of course not.
You seem not too bad about being narrow minded. I never said that you should not give rights to animals, it is just that the actual phenomena, is that people want animals to have everything the same than humans. You just have to see websites about animal charities and such.
Yet, some people cannot understand why it is laughable when somebody pointed out that it should be called animal rights and some others replied "WHY SHOULD THEY GET DIFFERENT RIGHTS THAN US ?"
What's particularly sad is that you are probably some guy sending money to help cats while 5 blocks away there is a ghetto.
I am not speaking about some far away country, just ask yourself when is the last time you gave 0.1% of your salary to bums in the street.
Why shouldn't animals be afforded the right to exist in a suitable environment, free from molestation and protected from harm? Nobody's saying they should get to vote, but what makes humans deserving of protection from harm and not anyone else?
I never said the opposite, what makes me sad is that you care and will post about animals, you will probably even send money to charities, but you won't care about families getting killed for money by order of the peeps you voted just for money. I guess it looks like something far away.
How can you say that an animal would "never give you the same rights"? Have you experience on a planet where humans are livestock and dolphins run the show? We should protect the environment and wildlife precisely because we're the only ones who CAN and simultaneously pose the greatest harm to them.
No but I expect a hungry crocodile to eat me, not to think "hey sup ? I am gonna snack on bamboo and other crap vegetables since killing living organisms is bad".
But I am all for environmental decisions, no unnecessary cruelty on animals (but I am for the experimentation for medication), and we all know who did not sign at Kyoto, unfortunately, people seem to care more about next door cat and dog than real politics that affects real people (and animals).
Yet it is the countries that destroyed the most of the biological ecosystem and are polluting the most who cares the most about animals and who wants to decide in other countries what should be done, just go in Kenya and try to argue with locals that they should not kill that animal because it is bad and see how they will look at you.
No offense, but it is probably caused by the grade and education system in the first place ?
... etc
If teachers were more involved with each of their pupils(good or bad) maybe they would continue to work harder ? Instead of that you get people who always care for the best students and leave the others behind, the teachers are the first to tell the parents of students to kind of specialize by saying that they are good in maths/physics then he should not care that much about english
The current system should leave some room for personal improvement and personal interest.
I see exactly what you mean ...
... unfortunately ...
But did you consider that in fact they managed to get away with it not because of their grades but because these persons are the kind of guy who will do anything to succeed ? Which is what is needed in most of the managing positions in large companies and in sales positions
When I hear this kind of arguments, it kind of makes me sad. Granted, you can give rights to animals even if they would never give you the same rights ... we already do the same with killers. But to give what is defined in human rights to animal ??? Do you even get out of your home and country ? Or the most exotic thing you have seen in the world is your cat ?
There are hundred of millions people dying out there for non respect of basic human rights. Clean in front of your own door before to look at other's.
KB45641348 - Fix for boot kit (Vista)
This fix patches a problem for the boot kit for Vista, after installation, Clippy will appear at boot time and ask you if you want to really boot the infected CD.
[Allow/Cancel]
No it depends of your distrib ... or the way you configured your boot ...
...
You can also try this "init=/bin/bash single" instead of single
Next headline:
Security experts find a security breach in Lilo, by physically accessing the machine, a malicious hacker can be root by typing "linux single" at LILO boot !
I need a modified one ... that is pointing away from my wife.
From the vague description of the patents, it seems that these so-called patents are alit bit abusive, I wonder if the patent system should not be changed so in the case of an invalid patent, you would have to pay a fee for trying to abuse the system.
...
There is no barrier to make a patent, for a company it is ridiculously easy and cheap, an australian lawyer even patented the wheel to prove the flaws in the system.
I work in trading and saw that Goldman patented an automatic trading system, but the description is so vague that anything that would be a database + a statistical engine + an order system could fall under this patent, it is quite ridiculous since there is no other way to make an automatic trading system, and since the patent is only from the late 90s I know that people wrote such systems before they patented it
IMHO an invalid patent should be punishable by a fine.
Vonage found guilty of infringing three Verizon patents
I, for one, welcome our new overseas governing overlords !
From the blog:
About this blog
This blog website is intended to support British citizen Gary McKinnon, who is facing "fast track" extradition to the USA (after over three four years since his initial arrest !).
Gary was indicted by a US court in November 2002, accused of "hacking" into over 90 US Military computer systems from here in the UK.
The unjust treatment of British citizens (and others) when facing the might of the US Military "justice" sysem, which practices detention without trial in Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere, and stands accused of making use of torture by allied regimes ("extraordinary rendition") is an ongoing scandal. It cannot be excused even by a "war on terror".
It seems only just that Gary should face any charges in a British court, and to serve any sentence, if he is found guilty, in a British prison.
Wikipedia Entry: Wikipedia entry for McKinnon Synopsis: Gary McKinnon, also known as Solo, (born in Glasgow in 1966) is a British hacker accused by the United States of perpetrating the "biggest military computer hack of all time." Following legal hearings in the UK it was decided in July 2006 that he should be extradited to the United States. In February 2007 his lawyers argued against this ruling in an appeal to the High Court in London [1], which was turned down on April 3 [2].
Interview (Saturday July 9, 2005)
From what I just read, he just looks like a typical nerd who is good at hacking systems.
I think that once again, the judge didn't realize how this represents a violation of human rights and the plaintiffs should bring more proofs of their accusations before to proceed, I am no pro-terrorist, but it is not because you are the army that you should have the right to bring people outside of civil courts (remember Guantanamo Bay and people who were falsely accused, remember the so-called WMD that we never found), unless you have real reasons to conclude that he is a threat and did sell/use information he collected.
It is much more of an infamy to use such reasons to bring him outside of a civil court using the deaths of the 9/11 than to let him go.
Though, I would be totally fine with a prison sentence
They should have called it, "the most innovative we just remembered during our coffee break this morning after partying until 4AM"
Obviously, by reading your post and trying to determine its utility, I know that you were not on Compuserve.
My biggest gripe with this kind of list is not that only it is very subjective, like most of the peeps here said, but also the items are ranked.
... etc but there is no point to rank them
...
Why do you want to rank one item #45 and the other #46 ? Just make a list of 100 items that were quite innovative and do not rank them, just order them by category, decade, platform
I saw that the Ipod was ranked quite high. For me the Ipod is quite innovative but it is ranked way too high, you could find plenty of MP3 players that were quite close to the Ipod just after it was released, it was more about marketing than a real breaktrough
I learnt on Visual Stud ... oh you said programming ? Nevermind then ...
I work in trading and saw these articles when I bumped onto this entry ... thought it could be interesting as it gives a different point of view ...
... although it has been reported that the EU has issued too large quotas rendering the system ineffective ...
Is carbon the new uranium ?
EU too lax on emission permits
For the ones who do not know the scheme, it forces emitters to buy contracts if they go over the quota allowed by the government and is supposed to give an incentive to the companies to modernize