I think there is something you haven't considered - with a secure distribution channel, child porn can and will be produced on a comercial basis. There is demand for it, and therefore children will be abused to meet that demand. These are children who would not be abused if there was no mechanism which allowed the resulting pornography to be sold.
I think it's more that his customers would spend their money on other things, thus helping the economy as a whole - I don't think you can argue that people breaking windows is anything but good for the glazier..
It's an idiomatic phrase who's common usage has strayed from its literal meaning
So what your saying is that the phrase was once used seriously and meant what it said? - Like the phrase "the exception proves the rule," which makes no sense until you realise that the word prove can also mean "test" (so actually means to opposite of its current usage).
However the rest of the English speaking world says "I couldn't care less," which makes me incline towards the simple fuck-up theory myself...
Seems like you've been conned into thinking the store did you a favour. If the product is faulty or doesn't work as intended you are covered by a 12 month manufacturers warranty, which guarentees you a repair or replacement. This a legal requirement for almost anything you buy.
Yes, but this is a procedure which must take place within a "reasonable timescale." I believe that this is usually defined as within 28 days.
If you buy something (in the UK anyway) and take it back 15 days later with a fault, you have no legal right to insist on an immediate replacement
Europe doesn't tend to have the same vast cost of election campaigns that you have in the US, which makes the campaign cotribution issue much less important. The EU itself does have a problem with outright corruption however..
I'd say the free market is what happens when you prevent that. Monopoly, oligarcy and cartels are a far more natural state of affairs than free competition.
It won't stop a "pirate" who knows anything about computers, true. It will stop people who know nothing about computers from sharing with friends. Won't matter to anyone who knows how to find stuff on the net, but there are a lot of people who can't. I'd say "DRM does little to stop pirates" is factually accurate.
I'm not sure where you have got the idea that the US is particularly efficent in terms of its CO2 usage - ranks number 40 in terms of GDP/CO2 ratio - well behind Europe.
There is a fair amount the US could do without real ecoonmoic pain, the obvious example being vehical fuel prices. A year-on-year rise of fuel tax of maybe $0.20 per year would change the cars Americans buy I'm sure. These cars already exist because European governments have been doing this very thing for a long time.
There is a problem with emisions trading due to Russia having far more credits that it needs after its industrial collapse, to be sure, but its actually a good system IMO. It allows countries to get a real benefit from becoming more efficent, in that they can trade unused carbon credits with those who lag behind. The real benefit is that investment goes into carbon efficent technologies somewhere.
I'm not claiming that Kyoto will have a noticable effect in and of itself, even with US participation, however it is forcing governemnts to take steps (often distorting their domestic market with false costs) to encourage investment in carbon efficent technologies and techniques, and this is what's really needed.
You don't think that the measures implemented by developed countries to meet their Kyoto commitments count as "Fostering our market to create and use technologies that are better for the environment"?
At the end of the day you can sue for libel. Not always a workable solution - especially if you had an orchestrated anonymous campaign against you - but an individual posting untruths about your company can be sued.
If what they are saying is true.. well you just have to live with it.
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Thanks for the link - I've got a FireWire drive that gets turned off fairly regularly, and that damned autoplay thing comes up every time it's turned on.
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Point taken, I was more replying to what I saw as a bad argument than trying to make a case for freenet being a facilitator for child porn.
I think there is something you haven't considered - with a secure distribution channel, child porn can and will be produced on a comercial basis. There is demand for it, and therefore children will be abused to meet that demand. These are children who would not be abused if there was no mechanism which allowed the resulting pornography to be sold.
I think it's more that his customers would spend their money on other things, thus helping the economy as a whole - I don't think you can argue that people breaking windows is anything but good for the glazier..
However the rest of the English speaking world says "I couldn't care less," which makes me incline towards the simple fuck-up theory myself...
If you buy something (in the UK anyway) and take it back 15 days later with a fault, you have no legal right to insist on an immediate replacement
Europe doesn't tend to have the same vast cost of election campaigns that you have in the US, which makes the campaign cotribution issue much less important. The EU itself does have a problem with outright corruption however..
but the free market exists to prevent that
I'd say the free market is what happens when you prevent that. Monopoly, oligarcy and cartels are a far more natural state of affairs than free competition.
it is illegal for the Commons to discuss the abolition of the Monarchy
Do you have a source for that? Surely if there is such a law, all that would be required would be for it to be repealed first.
Now that's funny
It won't stop a "pirate" who knows anything about computers, true. It will stop people who know nothing about computers from sharing with friends. Won't matter to anyone who knows how to find stuff on the net, but there are a lot of people who can't. I'd say "DRM does little to stop pirates" is factually accurate.
I'm not sure where you have got the idea that the US is particularly efficent in terms of its CO2 usage - ranks number 40 in terms of GDP/CO2 ratio - well behind Europe.
There is a fair amount the US could do without real ecoonmoic pain, the obvious example being vehical fuel prices. A year-on-year rise of fuel tax of maybe $0.20 per year would change the cars Americans buy I'm sure. These cars already exist because European governments have been doing this very thing for a long time.
There is a problem with emisions trading due to Russia having far more credits that it needs after its industrial collapse, to be sure, but its actually a good system IMO. It allows countries to get a real benefit from becoming more efficent, in that they can trade unused carbon credits with those who lag behind. The real benefit is that investment goes into carbon efficent technologies somewhere.
I'm not claiming that Kyoto will have a noticable effect in and of itself, even with US participation, however it is forcing governemnts to take steps (often distorting their domestic market with false costs) to encourage investment in carbon efficent technologies and techniques, and this is what's really needed.
You don't think that the measures implemented by developed countries to meet their Kyoto commitments count as "Fostering our market to create and use technologies that are better for the environment"?
Just in case you want to do the same to your PC.. T2002
GIMP is a really really really bad name.
this is all I could find. Hope its true...
Shouldn't that be "are fine"?
/ducks
Reminds me of a conversation I had with a customer:
...so I wouldn't recomend using DVDs for your backups, their shelf life is only a few years.
Me:
[long pause]
Customer: Really?
Me: Yes.
[long pause]
Customer: Well thank God I retire in two years.
While that is true, if you can stop stupid thieves then you've stopped 95% of the problem.
Smart people tend to find some other way of supporting themselves than petty theft - I've had some frighteningly stupid people try to rip me off.
At the end of the day you can sue for libel. Not always a workable solution - especially if you had an orchestrated anonymous campaign against you - but an individual posting untruths about your company can be sued.
If what they are saying is true.. well you just have to live with it.
More to the point, he invented five languages as a hobby, and then wrote a book to go with them.
Definately a geek...
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Thanks for the link - I've got a FireWire drive that gets turned off fairly regularly, and that damned autoplay thing comes up every time it's turned on.
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Thanks, that's fantastic