Ah well things have changed in the years since I worked at Halfords. Admittedly that was in 95 - then you could just waltz in and get any plate you wanted. Thanks for the heads up.
In the UK, it is illegal to deliberately obscure your numberplate. Most of the fixed speed cameras work thus. Radar measures your speed. If you're over the limit, then two pictures are taken about 0.5s apart. The majority of the cameras point in the direction of the traffic and use a white flash. There are some that point towards the front of the vehicle and use an infrared flash (the numberplate backing is reflective and the letters are black) and film.
Numerous methods of speed camera avoidance have been tested: hairspray, cling film (PVC film), refraction grid plate covers, etc. Absolutely none of them work.
However, my dad did come up with a couple of really good ideas to counter them. As the use of radar jammers (as opposed to detectors) is illegal, you need to disrupt the photo process. The cameras that use white flashes would be easiest to disrupt. Mount a photographic slave flash trigger above the numberplate, connected and adjacent to two fast-charging flash guns. Speed camera flashes, slave trigger fires and the two numberplate flash guns go off. Result: one completely over-exposed photo with the number plate hopefully obscured by a white smear.
For the infra-red cameras, drill a few holes at random in the plate and mount a number of high-intensity infra-red LEDs in the holes. Not sure how effective this would be, but it would certainly make life a bit more difficult for the people looking at the pics.
The UK does not have centrally-manufactured government-issued number plates. Most plates are simply fabricated by the dealer or an auto-spares outlet. When I used to work at one such outlet, we had a jig with an alignment stencil. You put the reflective backing plate down, laid the jig on top, dropped the required letters and numbers into the stencil, removed the stencil, and then placed a self-adhesive clear polycarbonate sheet over the top. Voila, one numberplate sandwich.
No proof of registration is needed to make up a plate, as there are perfectly valid reasons for having spare plates. Trailers and caravans don't have their own registration - they display the number plate of the vehicle towing them. So you might very well have a couple of spare plates for your main towing car lying around that you can use.
Even the dumbest of criminals will work around that problem before too long. Get spare false plates made up. Attach the false plates to the car using sticky-backed velcro or something similar. Immediately after you've carried out your robbery / murder / kidnap / etc. , duck into a car-park, rip the spare plates off, and drive away at a steady restrained place, happy in the knowledge that the cops won't be actually out looking for you, they'll be replying on Big Brother to spot your car.
Britain is unfortunately becoming a surveillance society. In addition to the number of speed cameras dotted around the country (they outnumber trees in some areas) almost every town centre is covered by CCTV. The latest plan, as referenced in TFA, wants to place cameras every 400 metres on trunk roads and motorways. No doubt it will be described by Bliar & cronies as a way to fight terrorism and crack down on crime; in effect, it will be a way for the police to massively increase their revenue by being able to monitor your speed constantly, and automatically ping you should exceed the limit. They'll then introduce per-mile road charges, motorway tolls, etc. on the back of the technology.
The longest I've stayed in any one IT job has been three years. During that time, I got no raises. In fact, I didn't even have a pay review despite my contract specifying I should have one bi-annually. Only when I announced my resignation did my manager ask if I was after more money. They had the money to give - it's just that they weren't going to do it unless they absolutely had to.
So I left, and got myself a 20% pay increase. Was I worth that? Well, I had three job offers, all offering the same 20% increase. Due to a company re-alignment (they were an outsourcing lot, and now they've been bought and rolled into a multi-national as an IT department), I'm leaving again. This time, going contracting, and my salary will increase by 66%.
Rule of thumb; if there are jobs out there, and you feel you're not earning what you're worth, then leave. Look for something else and see if they offer what you think you're worth.
Whilst I don't wish to insult your prophet, I'd argue that Mohammad hardly 'paved the way for the end of the slave trade in the Muslim world". At least 900 years after Mohammad's death, Muslim nations were both the importer of slaves, plus the slave trade was run by Muslim nationals.
As for Muslim treatment of slaves, I couldn't really comment from a position of knowledge, but it is certainly true that traditionally, Muslims have been very tolerant of Christians and Jews and usually allow - and allowed - them to practice their religions in peace. However, Muslims today are somewhat intolerant of the traditional animalist religions and cultures as practiced in parts of Africa. The current problems in and around Darfur in Sudan are 'disagreements' between Muslim Arabs in the north and animalists in the south. Historically, I'd be very interested to know how well slaves were treated under Muslim ownership, and especially interested in how much freedom to practice their religion they were granted, especially if the slaves did not follow the Judeo-Christian "one god" mantra.
It's probably a pretty safe bet to say they were treated better than in the southern US states.
Am I the only person who's kinda concerned about the statement in the In Depth: Daylight Saving Time section linked from TFA, that reads:
Some parts of Australia have adopted daylight time. Of course, it's done a little differently than in the Northern Hemisphere where seasons are opposite. So, when daylight time starts in Canada, it comes to an end in Australia and vice versa. When Canadians are waxing their skis in December, Australians are waxing their surfboards because it's summer there. (Emphasis mine)
Are there actually people who don't know that it's summer in the southern hemisphere when it's winter in the northern? Although I do know that you north americans have some stunningly thick people (+1 Insightful, -1 Troll), it beggars belief that this is sufficiently unknown to warrant comment.
Oh good, they brought a [slashdot] troll with them
Anyone who tries to blame "white man" for the world's evils is a) thoroughly ignorant and b) has a huge chip on his shoulder. Whilst white man is certainly guilty of stunning acts of intolerance and cultural genocide, it's not a trait peculiar to the caucasian. A couple of examples:
New Zealand's Maori often refer to themselves as 'tangata whenua' or 'first people'. The Maori are widely thought to have arrived in New Zealand around 700 to 800 years ago. However, they weren't the first people on the island. A previous race, the Moriori, were there already and in contrast to the Maori, were a peaceful hunter-gatherer race. The Moriori were systematically driven from their lands, and wiped out. The last Moriori died in the Chatham Islands off the south coast of New Zealand around (from memory) 1920 or so.
States on the Arabian peninsular are often credited with inventing the modern slave trade. Prior to the sixteenth century, the bulk of slaves exported from Africa ended up in modern day Saudi Arabia. Many of the big ports on the east coast of Africa were set up to service the slave trade; the name 'Zanzibar' has its roots in Arabic. Mohammed himself kept slaves, and showed remarkable compassion when he declared "do not separate mothers from children but sell them together".
In modern day Japan, Koreans are often treated as second-class citizens, despite many of them having been born in Japan and lived in Japan the whole lives.
China has been guilty of systematically oppressing cultural habits in the more remote areas of its sphere of influence. The Falun Gong is a prime example, but the same can also apply to the Chinese destruction of buddhist temples, execution of buddhist monks and the general repression of traditional ways of life and beliefs in Tibet. China also seeks to normalise culture over its spheres on influence by encouraging Han Chinese migration into these areas.
I don't know what race you are, and - quite frankly - I could not care less. However, when you launch into a protracted attack on 'white man', perhaps you should consider acts of other races as well.
White man may be bad, but they're certainly not the only parties guilty of cultural imperialism.
It's fun shooting down opionated bigoted trolls sometimes...
You mention Douglas Hurd's use of various acts of parliament to censor the IRA and INLA (both republican) but then correctly state that the censorship applied to eleven Irish political and military organisations. Yes, it did. Eleven organisations that had already been declared terrorist organisations by the UK government. These organisations lived on both sides of the sectarian divide and represented both republican and loyalist terrorist groups.
It's not like the US is entirely blameless in this regard either. The most obvious, though not that recent, example would be the various actions taken by the senate group led by one Sen. Joe McCarthy. His witch-hunts against people–he–suspected–of–once–having–spoken–to–a–cat –owned–by–a–guy–who–lived–three–doors–down–from–a– woman–whose–surname–might–indicate–she–came–from–a –country–that–was–run–by–communists were hardly a shining example of the free-speech ideals espoused by the US Constitution. More recently, various governmental bodies have enacted legislation, mainly on a state or regional level, to outlaw the teaching of sex education, Darwinism, etc. in state schools. Personally, I'd also regard the contents of some US history textbooks (I won't name names, as they were ones I flicked through briefly many years ago) as borderline censorship - according to them, the US actually won in Vietnam.
One might also regard the acts of the US in invading Iraq undemocratic. The invasion was, under international law, illegal in that there was no UN mandate. GWB's stated aim, of bringing freedom-and-democracy to the people of Iraq was all very well and good, but bringing down a sovereign government without a clear mandate is, in itself, undemocratic, even if the sovereign government is a dicatorship. One might also cite the US's refusal to sign up to Kyoto, etc.
The US is not an undemocratic place, but free-speech is under threat. Many countries in the EU (Germany is an obvious exception) do have less legal protection against censorship, but the common-law principles of free speech as espoused by Voltaire, live on. I'd regard the UK as a place in which free speech is more welcomed and accepted than in the US; Blair would like to see it another way, I'm sure though.
The problem with trying to represent superstrings visually is that the whole basis of superstring theory revolves around a multi-dimensional space. Superstrings (and I'm no particle physicist) are meant to oscillate both clockwise and anti-clockwise simultaneously, with each oscillation existing in both the four main dimensions plus up to seven more.
Whilst the skill of graphical artists continually amazes me, I think trying to represent eleven dimensions on a 2D plane would prove to be somewhat difficult, especially as humans have conceptual difficulty visualising, let alone representing, any other than the main four.
But if you've already got Xeons, which they had from the cluster they bought to do the CG in LoTR, you'd probably want to stick with Xeons when you upgrade. Just a thought.
Using phased acoustics to destroy kidney stones was a pretty revolutionary medical breakthrough. The previous best way of getting rid of them was by launching torpedoes up the urethra...
Dont even get me started on the likelihood of a handful of non-native animals surviving and reproducing for several generations in a vast, hostile environment.
How's about the rabbit? Twenty-four wild rabbits were released in Victoria, Australia in 1859 by some bloke called Thomas Austin. He wanted some fun hunting them. Within ten years, the original 24 rabbits had multiplied so that eradication of two million had no noticable effect on the population.
Unlike a cat, claws do not retract while it is walking (as evidenced in footprints)
Cheetahs do not have retractable claws. And they're cats.
Can make hefty leaps, capable of dragging a sheep carcass into a tree
Pound for pound, the leopard is the strongest of all the cats. They are more than capable of dragging a carcas weighing twice their own body weight into a tree. In fact, storage of kills in trees is quite the leopard speciality. They can also jump amazing heights.
...complete with an incredibly freaky roar
Leopards, tigers, lions and panthers are the four members of the Genus Panthera. What differentiates these four cats from the remainder of the cat family is an anatomical modification to the hyoid bone. This modification allows them to roar.
The XBox runs Windows. OK, it's modified a bit, but it's essentially just Windows. That's how Microsoft was able to get buy-in from games developers. XBox titles are essentially just normal Windows games, modified for use with different controllers.
Of course, all this will change with the XBox 360, as they're gonna have to port to PPC.
But the US was quite involved, in a round about way, in persuading the IRA to give up its arms. Shortly after 9/11, Bush made a speech that stated (roughly, 'cos I'm too lazy to go search out the exact text) that the USA would seek out and destroy those that supported terrorism, those that funded terrorism and those that provided shelter to terrorism.
In doing this, he rather overlooked the IRA, a body that had received considerable funding for decades from the Irish communities in Boston, New York, Chicago and other major centres. Despite years of pleading and appeals, the US had never agreed to designate the IRA a terrorist organisation, mainly because the politicos were scared of offending the Irish vote.
But they're not terrorists, they're freedom fighters!
That line's been used many many times before, and it's often said that the difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter is simply your point of view. Much of the Arab world regards Hamas, Hezbollah, etc and freedom fighters; poor oppressed people fighting the reclaim their land from a better-armed, better-equipped, better-funded foe. I personally regard the actions of these organisations as despicable, cowardly attacks carried out by hate-fuelled morons with no morals or respect for human life. But that's my viewpoint. I'm sure my viewpoint is also shared by a very large number of people in the UK who lived with the IRA setting of 40-ton fertiliser bombs outside a city-centre mall on a Saturday afternoon in the middle of summer. I'm sure some people in Northern Ireland would also share my view when they consider the bombing of Omagh on carnival day resulting in the deaths of over 30 people, many of them children, all in a town with no history of political or religious tension.
Whilst the invasion of Afghanistan attracted international support, the support for Bush's pet project - Operation Oil^h^h^h Iraqi Freedom - attracted very few countries: the UK, Australia, Italy, Spain and a handful of others. Some people in the UK feel there was a little deal done between Bush and Bliar (intentionally sic) in which UK support for the invasion was guaranteed against the US bringing pressure against the IRA through its US-based bank-rollers. What is certain is that Bush, Bliar, Cheney, Runsfeld, etc. lied through their teeth to their electorates and to the UN about the evidence they'd uncovered. Remember the 45 minute claim? Complete unmitigated bullshit, cribbed off the Internet from a doctoral thesis that was twelve years old. And then presented as compelling proof why the US/UK coalition should invade another soveriegn country and dispose a leader that they didn't approve of.
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Allowing a dog to roam free and unrestrained has obvious and predictable consequences. Canine behaviour is well understood.
However, a computer is a different (pardon the pun) beast. Do you know what your computer is doing with its network connection at all times? I doubt it, even if you have your machine well-firewalled and monitored. My personal machine is tied-down, virus and spyware free and regularly audited by myself, but I could not claim to know what it was doing at all times unless I sat there watching end-points and connections continuously. Expecting your average Joe User to do that is pure fantasy.
In law, there is ample precedent for treating actions which result from innocent oversight or accident differently to those that result from deliberate actions. Murder versus Manslaughter, for example. Although the offences stem from the untimely death of an individual, they are different offences carrying different penalties. Another more analagous example would be (in UK legal parlance) the offences of motor manslaughter and causing death by dangerous driving (link). Again, although the result is the same (someone dies) the penalties, burden of proof and offence is different.
If the RIAA were alledging that the mother in TFA was "allowing infringement of copyright", it'd be a different story. However, they're not. What they are alledging is that she was infringing copyright; an act with necessarily involves wilful action.
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Ah well things have changed in the years since I worked at Halfords. Admittedly that was in 95 - then you could just waltz in and get any plate you wanted. Thanks for the heads up.
Numerous methods of speed camera avoidance have been tested: hairspray, cling film (PVC film), refraction grid plate covers, etc. Absolutely none of them work.
However, my dad did come up with a couple of really good ideas to counter them. As the use of radar jammers (as opposed to detectors) is illegal, you need to disrupt the photo process. The cameras that use white flashes would be easiest to disrupt. Mount a photographic slave flash trigger above the numberplate, connected and adjacent to two fast-charging flash guns. Speed camera flashes, slave trigger fires and the two numberplate flash guns go off. Result: one completely over-exposed photo with the number plate hopefully obscured by a white smear.
For the infra-red cameras, drill a few holes at random in the plate and mount a number of high-intensity infra-red LEDs in the holes. Not sure how effective this would be, but it would certainly make life a bit more difficult for the people looking at the pics.
No proof of registration is needed to make up a plate, as there are perfectly valid reasons for having spare plates. Trailers and caravans don't have their own registration - they display the number plate of the vehicle towing them. So you might very well have a couple of spare plates for your main towing car lying around that you can use.
Even the dumbest of criminals will work around that problem before too long. Get spare false plates made up. Attach the false plates to the car using sticky-backed velcro or something similar. Immediately after you've carried out your robbery / murder / kidnap / etc. , duck into a car-park, rip the spare plates off, and drive away at a steady restrained place, happy in the knowledge that the cops won't be actually out looking for you, they'll be replying on Big Brother to spot your car.
Britain is unfortunately becoming a surveillance society. In addition to the number of speed cameras dotted around the country (they outnumber trees in some areas) almost every town centre is covered by CCTV. The latest plan, as referenced in TFA, wants to place cameras every 400 metres on trunk roads and motorways. No doubt it will be described by Bliar & cronies as a way to fight terrorism and crack down on crime; in effect, it will be a way for the police to massively increase their revenue by being able to monitor your speed constantly, and automatically ping you should exceed the limit. They'll then introduce per-mile road charges, motorway tolls, etc. on the back of the technology.
It really makes me very glad I left that country.
The copy protection system obviously extended to the artist's name as well...
But the DRM's written by a Welsh company. Wales, land of leeks and close harmony singing. And don't forget the rarebits.
So I left, and got myself a 20% pay increase. Was I worth that? Well, I had three job offers, all offering the same 20% increase. Due to a company re-alignment (they were an outsourcing lot, and now they've been bought and rolled into a multi-national as an IT department), I'm leaving again. This time, going contracting, and my salary will increase by 66%.
Rule of thumb; if there are jobs out there, and you feel you're not earning what you're worth, then leave. Look for something else and see if they offer what you think you're worth.
As for Muslim treatment of slaves, I couldn't really comment from a position of knowledge, but it is certainly true that traditionally, Muslims have been very tolerant of Christians and Jews and usually allow - and allowed - them to practice their religions in peace. However, Muslims today are somewhat intolerant of the traditional animalist religions and cultures as practiced in parts of Africa. The current problems in and around Darfur in Sudan are 'disagreements' between Muslim Arabs in the north and animalists in the south. Historically, I'd be very interested to know how well slaves were treated under Muslim ownership, and especially interested in how much freedom to practice their religion they were granted, especially if the slaves did not follow the Judeo-Christian "one god" mantra.
It's probably a pretty safe bet to say they were treated better than in the southern US states.
Some parts of Australia have adopted daylight time. Of course, it's done a little differently than in the Northern Hemisphere where seasons are opposite. So, when daylight time starts in Canada, it comes to an end in Australia and vice versa. When Canadians are waxing their skis in December, Australians are waxing their surfboards because it's summer there. (Emphasis mine)
Are there actually people who don't know that it's summer in the southern hemisphere when it's winter in the northern? Although I do know that you north americans have some stunningly thick people (+1 Insightful, -1 Troll), it beggars belief that this is sufficiently unknown to warrant comment.
Oh ... wait ...
Anyone who tries to blame "white man" for the world's evils is a) thoroughly ignorant and b) has a huge chip on his shoulder. Whilst white man is certainly guilty of stunning acts of intolerance and cultural genocide, it's not a trait peculiar to the caucasian. A couple of examples:
- New Zealand's Maori often refer to themselves as 'tangata whenua' or 'first people'. The Maori are widely thought to have arrived in New Zealand around 700 to 800 years ago. However, they weren't the first people on the island. A previous race, the Moriori, were there already and in contrast to the Maori, were a peaceful hunter-gatherer race. The Moriori were systematically driven from their lands, and wiped out. The last Moriori died in the Chatham Islands off the south coast of New Zealand around (from memory) 1920 or so.
- States on the Arabian peninsular are often credited with inventing the modern slave trade. Prior to the sixteenth century, the bulk of slaves exported from Africa ended up in modern day Saudi Arabia. Many of the big ports on the east coast of Africa were set up to service the slave trade; the name 'Zanzibar' has its roots in Arabic. Mohammed himself kept slaves, and showed remarkable compassion when he declared "do not separate mothers from children but sell them together".
- In modern day Japan, Koreans are often treated as second-class citizens, despite many of them having been born in Japan and lived in Japan the whole lives.
- China has been guilty of systematically oppressing cultural habits in the more remote areas of its sphere of influence. The Falun Gong is a prime example, but the same can also apply to the Chinese destruction of buddhist temples, execution of buddhist monks and the general repression of traditional ways of life and beliefs in Tibet. China also seeks to normalise culture over its spheres on influence by encouraging Han Chinese migration into these areas.
I don't know what race you are, and - quite frankly - I could not care less. However, when you launch into a protracted attack on 'white man', perhaps you should consider acts of other races as well.White man may be bad, but they're certainly not the only parties guilty of cultural imperialism.
Reckon $300 million worth of memory is enough to run Vista?
We've /.ed an entire planet.
You mention Douglas Hurd's use of various acts of parliament to censor the IRA and INLA (both republican) but then correctly state that the censorship applied to eleven Irish political and military organisations. Yes, it did. Eleven organisations that had already been declared terrorist organisations by the UK government. These organisations lived on both sides of the sectarian divide and represented both republican and loyalist terrorist groups.
But, did this change the British media organisation's ability to report? No, not one bit; they got around the legal restrictions by broadcasting the video of an interview, but using an actor to provide the words. Thus, the speeches of such upholders of freedom-and-democracy (© G.W.Bush) as Martin McGuinness carried on unabated. In fact, it was quite a disappointment when these restrictions were lifted; Gerry Adams' voice was rather puny compared to the actor the BBC used to use. Douglas Hurd's use of the various broadcasting acts was an attempt at censorship (and there have been plenty of others) but it actually had no effect whatsoever.
It's not like the US is entirely blameless in this regard either. The most obvious, though not that recent, example would be the various actions taken by the senate group led by one Sen. Joe McCarthy. His witch-hunts against people–he–suspected–of–once–having–spoken–to–a–cat –owned–by–a–guy–who–lived–three–doors–down–from–a– woman–whose–surname–might–indicate–she–came–from–a –country–that–was–run–by–communists were hardly a shining example of the free-speech ideals espoused by the US Constitution. More recently, various governmental bodies have enacted legislation, mainly on a state or regional level, to outlaw the teaching of sex education, Darwinism, etc. in state schools. Personally, I'd also regard the contents of some US history textbooks (I won't name names, as they were ones I flicked through briefly many years ago) as borderline censorship - according to them, the US actually won in Vietnam.
One might also regard the acts of the US in invading Iraq undemocratic. The invasion was, under international law, illegal in that there was no UN mandate. GWB's stated aim, of bringing freedom-and-democracy to the people of Iraq was all very well and good, but bringing down a sovereign government without a clear mandate is, in itself, undemocratic, even if the sovereign government is a dicatorship. One might also cite the US's refusal to sign up to Kyoto, etc.
The US is not an undemocratic place, but free-speech is under threat. Many countries in the EU (Germany is an obvious exception) do have less legal protection against censorship, but the common-law principles of free speech as espoused by Voltaire, live on. I'd regard the UK as a place in which free speech is more welcomed and accepted than in the US; Blair would like to see it another way, I'm sure though.
And now you know...
Whilst the skill of graphical artists continually amazes me, I think trying to represent eleven dimensions on a 2D plane would prove to be somewhat difficult, especially as humans have conceptual difficulty visualising, let alone representing, any other than the main four.
Isn't this rather like promising you'll only beat your wife once a week from now on?
Oh come on. It's funny. Someone mod him up.
But if you've already got Xeons, which they had from the cluster they bought to do the CG in LoTR, you'd probably want to stick with Xeons when you upgrade. Just a thought.
Using phased acoustics to destroy kidney stones was a pretty revolutionary medical breakthrough. The previous best way of getting rid of them was by launching torpedoes up the urethra...
How's about the rabbit? Twenty-four wild rabbits were released in Victoria, Australia in 1859 by some bloke called Thomas Austin. He wanted some fun hunting them. Within ten years, the original 24 rabbits had multiplied so that eradication of two million had no noticable effect on the population.
Unlike a cat, claws do not retract while it is walking (as evidenced in footprints)
Cheetahs do not have retractable claws. And they're cats.
Can make hefty leaps, capable of dragging a sheep carcass into a tree
Pound for pound, the leopard is the strongest of all the cats. They are more than capable of dragging a carcas weighing twice their own body weight into a tree. In fact, storage of kills in trees is quite the leopard speciality. They can also jump amazing heights.
Leopards, tigers, lions and panthers are the four members of the Genus Panthera. What differentiates these four cats from the remainder of the cat family is an anatomical modification to the hyoid bone. This modification allows them to roar.
The XBox runs Windows. OK, it's modified a bit, but it's essentially just Windows. That's how Microsoft was able to get buy-in from games developers. XBox titles are essentially just normal Windows games, modified for use with different controllers.
Of course, all this will change with the XBox 360, as they're gonna have to port to PPC.
In doing this, he rather overlooked the IRA, a body that had received considerable funding for decades from the Irish communities in Boston, New York, Chicago and other major centres. Despite years of pleading and appeals, the US had never agreed to designate the IRA a terrorist organisation, mainly because the politicos were scared of offending the Irish vote.
But they're not terrorists, they're freedom fighters!
That line's been used many many times before, and it's often said that the difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter is simply your point of view. Much of the Arab world regards Hamas, Hezbollah, etc and freedom fighters; poor oppressed people fighting the reclaim their land from a better-armed, better-equipped, better-funded foe. I personally regard the actions of these organisations as despicable, cowardly attacks carried out by hate-fuelled morons with no morals or respect for human life. But that's my viewpoint. I'm sure my viewpoint is also shared by a very large number of people in the UK who lived with the IRA setting of 40-ton fertiliser bombs outside a city-centre mall on a Saturday afternoon in the middle of summer. I'm sure some people in Northern Ireland would also share my view when they consider the bombing of Omagh on carnival day resulting in the deaths of over 30 people, many of them children, all in a town with no history of political or religious tension.
Whilst the invasion of Afghanistan attracted international support, the support for Bush's pet project - Operation Oil^h^h^h Iraqi Freedom - attracted very few countries: the UK, Australia, Italy, Spain and a handful of others. Some people in the UK feel there was a little deal done between Bush and Bliar (intentionally sic) in which UK support for the invasion was guaranteed against the US bringing pressure against the IRA through its US-based bank-rollers. What is certain is that Bush, Bliar, Cheney, Runsfeld, etc. lied through their teeth to their electorates and to the UN about the evidence they'd uncovered. Remember the 45 minute claim? Complete unmitigated bullshit, cribbed off the Internet from a doctoral thesis that was twelve years old. And then presented as compelling proof why the US/UK coalition should invade another soveriegn country and dispose a leader that they didn't approve of.
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Allowing a dog to roam free and unrestrained has obvious and predictable consequences. Canine behaviour is well understood.
However, a computer is a different (pardon the pun) beast. Do you know what your computer is doing with its network connection at all times? I doubt it, even if you have your machine well-firewalled and monitored. My personal machine is tied-down, virus and spyware free and regularly audited by myself, but I could not claim to know what it was doing at all times unless I sat there watching end-points and connections continuously. Expecting your average Joe User to do that is pure fantasy.
In law, there is ample precedent for treating actions which result from innocent oversight or accident differently to those that result from deliberate actions. Murder versus Manslaughter, for example. Although the offences stem from the untimely death of an individual, they are different offences carrying different penalties. Another more analagous example would be (in UK legal parlance) the offences of motor manslaughter and causing death by dangerous driving (link). Again, although the result is the same (someone dies) the penalties, burden of proof and offence is different.
If the RIAA were alledging that the mother in TFA was "allowing infringement of copyright", it'd be a different story. However, they're not. What they are alledging is that she was infringing copyright; an act with necessarily involves wilful action.