My current landspeed record isn't the day I drove a Porsche 911 GT2, it's the day I took a train from Angoulême to Paris. 193 miles per hour. Average, not peak. TGV, Train à Grande Vitesse isn't a lie, it's pure truth. That motherf*cking thing is going at a serious 'vitesse'.
You see, Dutch copyright law says that since copyright's intent is to prevent counterfeiters from nicking the profits of creators, Dutch copyright law only applies to works which are to generate a profit. In other words, if you cannot demonstrate you were in any way harmed monetarily by Elsevier, you aren't any worse off than you were before so you shouldn't complain. I don't say I agree, but that's the law.
[citation needed]
I'll give you two examples of non-commercial use leading to fees: LJN:AV2506 LJN:AU9504
Poor Drew is depicted as a benefit-fraud. Replace 'commercial use' by 'slander' and re-apply American law, please? Any effect on the likely outcome if this came before an American court?
The going rate for use of a photo is, according to the Dutch photojournalist union, 700 euro's per use of a single picture in low resolution. Plenty of jurisprudence, so getting that shouldn't be a problem. TS's friend can contact the NVJ (http://www.nvj.nl/rechtshulp/) for assistance. Don't worry, their English is at least as good as most Dutch slashdotter's.
The British Scophony system was a mechanical system. Drums with rotating mirrors, ultrasound waves through a parafine-filled quartz tube. Capable of projecting an image up to three meters across. Displaying the same 405-line system.
Oddly enough the Qur'an doesn't mandate stoning. Strangly enough the Bible does. For 24 different 'crimes', like -for instance- not screaming hard enough to be heard while being raped inside the city walls.
Slinging random facts (excusez le mot) is a dangerous game.
PDF is in essence a PostScript-document (with restrictions of the use of external fonts and in a compressed form).
PostScript is a complete programming-language which implies that one could write PostScript that would react to the environment in which it runs. The problem with that has always been that one would have to know on what make and model printer it would run. But, thanks to Adobe, most people will run their PostScript in a 'virtual' printer inside an Adbode-product, and that makes usefull programming in PostScript a real possibility.
In generic legal terms an agreement is formed when one party makes an offer and the other party accepts the offer. (IANAL and do not live in America, but to the best of my knowledge this part of law is fairly generic). If Shell doesn't offer to sell gas to Chrysler-owners there's no way to complete on any agreement. Which is a good thing. Otherwise you could walk into your neighborhood grocery and demand them to sell you a pound of beef. If it's not on offer you cannot buy it, period. If an offer is conditional and you do not accept and fulfill the conditions you cannot buy it, another period.
Same goes for Hulu.
But, vote with your wallet and take your business elsewhere. If sufficient numbers do, they will see the light. (or more acurately, miss the stink of money..)
They have the right but that doesn't mean that we have to like it.
The reality is that TV used to be free. You put up an antenna and got TV for free. The networks made money by showing commercials.
If they block you they are not showing their commercials to you, and they are losing money. That is what you should be telling them. Companies need money, rejecting customers is losing money, or at the very least leaving money (that they could earn) to a competitor.
You don't want goverment stepping in, you want corporate greed winning from stupid RIAA/MPAA-inspired blocks.
Since when is blocking one specific Asian country being a racist asshole? You don't even know which country, or why.
If Hulu would block anything but IE that's fine by me. They have the right to do so. I for one wouldn't let a shortshigted biggot like you in my house and I have every right to do so.
If they did they would lose a lot of subscribers. And all those former subscribers would find another way to view the same content. Who is losing what?
Let's assume that Shell would only sell petrol to Ford trucks. Exactly how long would it take for them to go bust? Most petrol stations are francises. If you force the fancisee to lose two-thirds of his turnover he would gladly change sides and go with another brand. Exit market-share, and a couple of months later exit Shell America.
Should Goverment step in and force Shell to sell to all brands? Would you like to live in a nanny-state where goverment dictates who to sell to, or who not to sell to? And since your goverment dictates who to admit to websites and shops, it's a small step for that goverment to dictate who may enter your house.
'saving bandwidth' is not the term I would use. I call it 'stealing bandwidth and services'.
Hulu has every right to dictate how you may use their content. Being liberal in what they allow would be smart, since more viewers means more eyeballs for their advertisers, but at the end of the day it is their right and no-one else's.
I've been blocking certain sites and services for certain groups like forever. If you live in a specific Asian country you haven't been able to send email to me or any of my users for like ten years.
It's my website, and I allow or disallow you to see my content. Just like I allow or disallow people to enter my house. Why should things be different when you are Hulu, NBC or anybody/anything else? Within the bounds of law anybody has a right to discriminate.
Last time I checked the message was firmly attached to the medium. I have 250 year old books who still confirm to that basic principle.
In your eagerness to outsmugg Doctorow you missed his message completely, focussing on the medium itself. I 'own' a couple of e-books from the palmpilot-era which, thanks to DRM, are unreadable now. I can remedy that with an emulator, but the current generation of DRM 'promises' online checks which will fail when technologies change or companies fail.
I get to keep the medium, a bunch of scrambled bits, but somebody will steal the content of DRM-ed books, one day.
DRM will destroy books. Individual ones, and 'book' as generic term. Knowledge will no longer be transfered, it will be rented out for a limited time only.
You've missed the Flex-Fuel. It will run on any variation of ethanol/gas mixture, from E5 all the way up to E100. You decide how green you want to be and this engine will adapt to your choice of fuel.
Nobody mentioned UFO's because a gobo with exactly the same image is available in Rosco's online shop. Find it yourself at http://www.rosco.com/us/gobos/index.cfm
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My current landspeed record isn't the day I drove a Porsche 911 GT2, it's the day I took a train from Angoulême to Paris. 193 miles per hour. Average, not peak. TGV, Train à Grande Vitesse isn't a lie, it's pure truth. That motherf*cking thing is going at a serious 'vitesse'.
Thank you, sir. You are most gracious.
1993 called, reminding me to remind you that you must have missed their memo about the end of 'class C' and their new, shiny CIDR-plan.
You see, Dutch copyright law says that since copyright's intent is to prevent counterfeiters from nicking the profits of creators, Dutch copyright law only applies to works which are to generate a profit. In other words, if you cannot demonstrate you were in any way harmed monetarily by Elsevier, you aren't any worse off than you were before so you shouldn't complain. I don't say I agree, but that's the law.
[citation needed]
I'll give you two examples of non-commercial use leading to fees: LJN:AV2506 LJN:AU9504
Poor Drew is depicted as a benefit-fraud. Replace 'commercial use' by 'slander' and re-apply American law, please? Any effect on the likely outcome if this came before an American court?
The going rate for use of a photo is, according to the Dutch photojournalist union, 700 euro's per use of a single picture in low resolution. Plenty of jurisprudence, so getting that shouldn't be a problem. TS's friend can contact the NVJ (http://www.nvj.nl/rechtshulp/) for assistance. Don't worry, their English is at least as good as most Dutch slashdotter's.
You do realize that removing the rest of the penis will effectively stop all transmission of any STD?
You _do_ know that similar forces, albeith slightly mutated, have been observed in Arizona as well?
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=&aq=&sll=32.391848,-109.95276&sspn=0.03044,0.032616&g=32.391486,-109.952631&ie=UTF8&ll=32.391848,-109.95276&spn=0.03044,0.032616&t=h&z=15
The British Scophony system was a mechanical system. Drums with rotating mirrors, ultrasound waves through a parafine-filled quartz tube. Capable of projecting an image up to three meters across. Displaying the same 405-line system.
http://www.modulatedlight.org/Modulated_Light_DX/UltrasoundMod.html
This means stoning women.
Oddly enough the Qur'an doesn't mandate stoning. Strangly enough the Bible does. For 24 different 'crimes', like -for instance- not screaming hard enough to be heard while being raped inside the city walls.
Slinging random facts (excusez le mot) is a dangerous game.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajm
PDF is in essence a PostScript-document (with restrictions of the use of external fonts and in a compressed form).
PostScript is a complete programming-language which implies that one could write PostScript that would react to the environment in which it runs. The problem with that has always been that one would have to know on what make and model printer it would run. But, thanks to Adobe, most people will run their PostScript in a 'virtual' printer inside an Adbode-product, and that makes usefull programming in PostScript a real possibility.
I'd say: Happing programming, it isn't that hard.
Rest assured. That _will_ happen and you _will_ delay your travel-plans.
However, don't expect an instant victory. Or any victory,
In generic legal terms an agreement is formed when one party makes an offer and the other party accepts the offer. (IANAL and do not live in America, but to the best of my knowledge this part of law is fairly generic). If Shell doesn't offer to sell gas to Chrysler-owners there's no way to complete on any agreement. Which is a good thing. Otherwise you could walk into your neighborhood grocery and demand them to sell you a pound of beef. If it's not on offer you cannot buy it, period. If an offer is conditional and you do not accept and fulfill the conditions you cannot buy it, another period.
Same goes for Hulu.
But, vote with your wallet and take your business elsewhere. If sufficient numbers do, they will see the light. (or more acurately, miss the stink of money..)
RIAA/MPAA-customers like to be pissed on, otherwise they would leave. Right?
(think about it, next time you are waiting for that FBI-warning to disappear..)
They have the right but that doesn't mean that we have to like it. The reality is that TV used to be free. You put up an antenna and got TV for free. The networks made money by showing commercials.
If they block you they are not showing their commercials to you, and they are losing money. That is what you should be telling them. Companies need money, rejecting customers is losing money, or at the very least leaving money (that they could earn) to a competitor.
You don't want goverment stepping in, you want corporate greed winning from stupid RIAA/MPAA-inspired blocks.
Since when is blocking one specific Asian country being a racist asshole? You don't even know which country, or why.
If Hulu would block anything but IE that's fine by me. They have the right to do so. I for one wouldn't let a shortshigted biggot like you in my house and I have every right to do so.
If they did they would lose a lot of subscribers. And all those former subscribers would find another way to view the same content. Who is losing what?
Let's assume that Shell would only sell petrol to Ford trucks. Exactly how long would it take for them to go bust? Most petrol stations are francises. If you force the fancisee to lose two-thirds of his turnover he would gladly change sides and go with another brand. Exit market-share, and a couple of months later exit Shell America.
Should Goverment step in and force Shell to sell to all brands? Would you like to live in a nanny-state where goverment dictates who to sell to, or who not to sell to? And since your goverment dictates who to admit to websites and shops, it's a small step for that goverment to dictate who may enter your house.
Slippery slope indeed.
'saving bandwidth' is not the term I would use. I call it 'stealing bandwidth and services'.
Hulu has every right to dictate how you may use their content. Being liberal in what they allow would be smart, since more viewers means more eyeballs for their advertisers, but at the end of the day it is their right and no-one else's.
I've been blocking certain sites and services for certain groups like forever. If you live in a specific Asian country you haven't been able to send email to me or any of my users for like ten years.
It's my website, and I allow or disallow you to see my content. Just like I allow or disallow people to enter my house. Why should things be different when you are Hulu, NBC or anybody/anything else? Within the bounds of law anybody has a right to discriminate.
You're ignoring issues with the weight of glass or the strength of polycarbonate.
The error was not in percentages, but in what to include.
55 percent is at risk of flooding, but more than half that because of rivers. 26 percent is at risk from flooding by sealevel-rises alone.
Dutch supermarkets are doing that. Test your dutch: original or test google translate: translated.
Last time I checked the message was firmly attached to the medium. I have 250 year old books who still confirm to that basic principle.
In your eagerness to outsmugg Doctorow you missed his message completely, focussing on the medium itself. I 'own' a couple of e-books from the palmpilot-era which, thanks to DRM, are unreadable now. I can remedy that with an emulator, but the current generation of DRM 'promises' online checks which will fail when technologies change or companies fail.
I get to keep the medium, a bunch of scrambled bits, but somebody will steal the content of DRM-ed books, one day.
DRM will destroy books. Individual ones, and 'book' as generic term. Knowledge will no longer be transfered, it will be rented out for a limited time only.
You've missed the Flex-Fuel. It will run on any variation of ethanol/gas mixture, from E5 all the way up to E100. You decide how green you want to be and this engine will adapt to your choice of fuel.
Nobody mentioned UFO's because a gobo with exactly the same image is available in Rosco's online shop. Find it yourself at http://www.rosco.com/us/gobos/index.cfm
Looks like a cable termination inside a switching station.
http://www04.abb.com/global/gad/gad02007.nsf/0/BB71704EAD5AFA9AC12574F90052BE30/$File/Termination_SOT242_244-1_244-3_PB_Kabeldon_720.jpg for a similar picture.