well, I'm no teenager but I still can't see any point to coffee without caffiene...
Oh the possibilities for abuse are amusing
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I might be evil but when I read this it made me think "wouln't this be a great way to remove websites you don't like". If it is that easy to remove websites it would be pretty easy to abuse as well.
The evidence suggests that all life would have died off not just the big reptiles. The meteor theory gives no compelling explaination as to why some things survived and others didn't, and why those particular survivors?
I seem to remember once reading that a few yeard ago Darl was the CEO of a company that sued IBM over intellectual property rights. The article stated that on that occasion IBM bought out the company and Darl received a big payout from the shareholders.
Some people say that SCO are only attacking IBM this time in an attempt to be bought out. In fact I just found this, an open statement by Darl that he would welcome IBM buying SCO to make the problem go away: SCO's CEO says buyout could end Linux fight. I think that settles it. SCO doesn't want to win in court they don't even want to go to court, they just want to scare IBM into buying them out.
yes you could, and the waves hitting it will be bent and you cound detect that. And you could hear it's engines, and it's propeller moving in the water using old fashioned sonar, a completely "silent" boat engine is impossible.
Well at least James Bond will find that one easier to destroy than the last stealth ship he dealt with, all he would have to do is give it's IP to some script kiddies.
If we continue climate research and do nothing it will be too late to do anything before we really know for sure if we really are contributing to global warming with pollution. However, if we assume that warming is a fact and that it is our fault we lose little and may just save the world. The cost of doing nothing is too high to tolerate.
Incidently figures collected state that the temperature was rising steadily for 1000s of years but started rising much faster once the industrial revolution started.
Most, if not all, Climatologists now believe the evidence of global warming through pollution and human activity has been proven beyond reasonable doubt.
Actually I heard recently that the US Department of Defence now list global warming as a risk to US national security (ABC tv Australia, Landline).Landline global warming report.
XBOX is costing Micro$oft money because they make a loss from the console and make their money from game sales, as does the PS2. Unfortunately a rather large proportion of Xbox users mod their consoles and use them as cheap pcs and media players instead of playing games. No game sales = no profit for a console.
The problem is caused by the fact that the XBox is grossly overpowered (especially with a harddrive) and is built of standard components, making it easy to "misuse"
XBOX sells so badly in Australia that they have continuing to drop the price even though Sony seem to have refused to play the price-war game this time.
on incidentally I was stating that moderating something as "Overrated" when it hadn't been moderated up as an act that made no sense. If you don't think I had somethign intelligent to say, I don't care really but moderating something down from 1 to 0 unless it is flamebait or a troll is silly.
Enforcement isn't happening, receiving end software doesn't work, the solution is not going to be simple. I was just stating an idea that probably hasn't been tried.
If enforcement is truly not being performed it states a lot about the USA. Spam is costing business millions and if that isn't the incentive the US government needs to make examples of some spammers I don't think enforcement is ever going to happen as there will never be a more compelling reason than the loss of income to business.
do any of the current anti-spam laws allow prosecution even when the spam is sent from another country? Because that is what I think is needed. I assume that it is currently sent from china because you can get arrested for sending if from the USA, make sending spam from anywhere an arrestable offence.
well the problem with determining how birds would have survived the extinction event is that there is no really compelling evidence that exctinction was caused by a meteor as the mainstream media implies. We have to know what caused extinction before we find out how they survived it.
My vote is on toxins produced by angiosperms (flowering plants) killing off all the large plant eating mammals and overbalancing the ecology.
The USA is quite obviously the source of the spam. It is up to the USA to legislate in some way to stop the flood of spam that is hurting people all over the world. The real question is: how do you stop the spam when it is being sent from countries like China where the USA has no power to arrest spammers?
Well I think I have a possible solution and it can be illustrated by a case study. In Australia we had an international Paedophilia problem, Paedophiles were travelling to countries like Thailand where sex with children was not illegal and thus were not getting arrested. The solution that was eventually found was new laws whereby anyone who broke Australia's anti-paedophile laws could be arrested no matter where the offence was enacted. Offenders were met at the airport by police and arrested for crimes in other countries and the problem of "paedophile sex tourism" was solved.
My Solution to spam is similar. The USA needs to pass laws allowing them to track down the companies and individuals that are using the Chinese spam services and arrest them. Make the law such that sending spam is illegal no matter which country it is sent from. The spammers might get so scared they will stop Spamming
There seems to be only one true solution to spam, don't use e-mail. Maybe rather than trying to fix e-mail it should be thrown out and a new paradigm for communication sought.
The problem with free-trade agreements is that when a country with power is negotiating with a less economically powerful nation the agreement is never free and equal. In order to get the agreement at all the poorer country normally has to sign on to an agreement that would not be to their benefit. It is not uncommon for the more powerful country to maintain it's tarrifs, subsidies and other "protective" practices while the less powerful country has to truly open up their trade.
The other main problem with FTAs is that they push labour laws (such as decent pay and workplace safety) down to that of the country with the lowest level laws in the agreement, thus in the deal with Mexico there was a pressure for US workplace laws to lower to a comparable level with Mexico. The same thing happens to environmental laws. Most new agreements contain provisions whereby companies can sue soverign nations for not removing laws that would be an "obstacle to trade" thereby massively reducing the power of the people of a "democracy" to make laws.
Under FTAs companies can have more power to make decisions than the people of the country.
I hate to think that our parallel import laws that damaged Australian music so much and that were fought for by American music companies might die now that US business has started to lose money from those same laws.
It warms my heart that Region Coding is illegal in Australia and modding your dvd player to multiregion is ligal.
I agree totally, and that is exactly what I would see changed. I want to live in a country where our intelligence and education benefit the country rather than benefiting the USA.
I don't think it's that insane, it might be a bit of a stretch, maybe but if you remember that Aus has a paritcularly high level of innovation for our population it becomes almost possible. I remeber back to the 80s when inventions in Australia were flying out at an incredible rate; people were making amazin inovations and then having to sell their patent to US countries because business and the government wouldn't fund setting up plant for further development.
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well, I'm no teenager but I still can't see any point to coffee without caffiene...
I might be evil but when I read this it made me think "wouln't this be a great way to remove websites you don't like". If it is that easy to remove websites it would be pretty easy to abuse as well.
Maybe it's Cursor from Automan... Oh please don't say I am the only person who remembers Automan.
The evidence suggests that all life would have died off not just the big reptiles. The meteor theory gives no compelling explaination as to why some things survived and others didn't, and why those particular survivors?
I seem to remember once reading that a few yeard ago Darl was the CEO of a company that sued IBM over intellectual property rights. The article stated that on that occasion IBM bought out the company and Darl received a big payout from the shareholders.
Some people say that SCO are only attacking IBM this time in an attempt to be bought out. In fact I just found this, an open statement by Darl that he would welcome IBM buying SCO to make the problem go away: SCO's CEO says buyout could end Linux fight. I think that settles it. SCO doesn't want to win in court they don't even want to go to court, they just want to scare IBM into buying them out.
yes you could, and the waves hitting it will be bent and you cound detect that. And you could hear it's engines, and it's propeller moving in the water using old fashioned sonar, a completely "silent" boat engine is impossible.
Well at least James Bond will find that one easier to destroy than the last stealth ship he dealt with, all he would have to do is give it's IP to some script kiddies.
If we continue climate research and do nothing it will be too late to do anything before we really know for sure if we really are contributing to global warming with pollution. However, if we assume that warming is a fact and that it is our fault we lose little and may just save the world. The cost of doing nothing is too high to tolerate.
Incidently figures collected state that the temperature was rising steadily for 1000s of years but started rising much faster once the industrial revolution started.
Most, if not all, Climatologists now believe the evidence of global warming through pollution and human activity has been proven beyond reasonable doubt.
Actually I heard recently that the US Department of Defence now list global warming as a risk to US national security (ABC tv Australia, Landline).Landline global warming report.
Microsoft has made impressive headway - done well in the US and Europe, but absolutely slaughtered the competition in some markets like Australia.
*bzzt* Sorry, you fail. PS2 still controlls the market in Australia.
XBOX is costing Micro$oft money because they make a loss from the console and make their money from game sales, as does the PS2. Unfortunately a rather large proportion of Xbox users mod their consoles and use them as cheap pcs and media players instead of playing games. No game sales = no profit for a console.
The problem is caused by the fact that the XBox is grossly overpowered (especially with a harddrive) and is built of standard components, making it easy to "misuse"
XBOX sells so badly in Australia that they have continuing to drop the price even though Sony seem to have refused to play the price-war game this time.
on incidentally I was stating that moderating something as "Overrated" when it hadn't been moderated up as an act that made no sense. If you don't think I had somethign intelligent to say, I don't care really but moderating something down from 1 to 0 unless it is flamebait or a troll is silly.
Enforcement isn't happening, receiving end software doesn't work, the solution is not going to be simple. I was just stating an idea that probably hasn't been tried.
If enforcement is truly not being performed it states a lot about the USA. Spam is costing business millions and if that isn't the incentive the US government needs to make examples of some spammers I don't think enforcement is ever going to happen as there will never be a more compelling reason than the loss of income to business.
do any of the current anti-spam laws allow prosecution even when the spam is sent from another country? Because that is what I think is needed. I assume that it is currently sent from china because you can get arrested for sending if from the USA, make sending spam from anywhere an arrestable offence.
well the problem with determining how birds would have survived the extinction event is that there is no really compelling evidence that exctinction was caused by a meteor as the mainstream media implies. We have to know what caused extinction before we find out how they survived it.
My vote is on toxins produced by angiosperms (flowering plants) killing off all the large plant eating mammals and overbalancing the ecology.
why moderate the above comment down? Makes no sense
that;s the problem with new paradigms, it is very difficult to see into them from within the old paradigm.
The USA is quite obviously the source of the spam. It is up to the USA to legislate in some way to stop the flood of spam that is hurting people all over the world. The real question is: how do you stop the spam when it is being sent from countries like China where the USA has no power to arrest spammers?
Well I think I have a possible solution and it can be illustrated by a case study. In Australia we had an international Paedophilia problem, Paedophiles were travelling to countries like Thailand where sex with children was not illegal and thus were not getting arrested. The solution that was eventually found was new laws whereby anyone who broke Australia's anti-paedophile laws could be arrested no matter where the offence was enacted. Offenders were met at the airport by police and arrested for crimes in other countries and the problem of "paedophile sex tourism" was solved.
My Solution to spam is similar. The USA needs to pass laws allowing them to track down the companies and individuals that are using the Chinese spam services and arrest them. Make the law such that sending spam is illegal no matter which country it is sent from. The spammers might get so scared they will stop Spamming
There seems to be only one true solution to spam, don't use e-mail. Maybe rather than trying to fix e-mail it should be thrown out and a new paradigm for communication sought.
The problem with free-trade agreements is that when a country with power is negotiating with a less economically powerful nation the agreement is never free and equal. In order to get the agreement at all the poorer country normally has to sign on to an agreement that would not be to their benefit. It is not uncommon for the more powerful country to maintain it's tarrifs, subsidies and other "protective" practices while the less powerful country has to truly open up their trade.
The other main problem with FTAs is that they push labour laws (such as decent pay and workplace safety) down to that of the country with the lowest level laws in the agreement, thus in the deal with Mexico there was a pressure for US workplace laws to lower to a comparable level with Mexico. The same thing happens to environmental laws. Most new agreements contain provisions whereby companies can sue soverign nations for not removing laws that would be an "obstacle to trade" thereby massively reducing the power of the people of a "democracy" to make laws.
Under FTAs companies can have more power to make decisions than the people of the country.
I hate to think that our parallel import laws that damaged Australian music so much and that were fought for by American music companies might die now that US business has started to lose money from those same laws.
It warms my heart that Region Coding is illegal in Australia and modding your dvd player to multiregion is ligal.
I vote green, have done since the second time I ever voted. I also vote below the line, no way someone else is deciding where my preferences flow!
I agree totally, and that is exactly what I would see changed. I want to live in a country where our intelligence and education benefit the country rather than benefiting the USA.
But there is not enough room in this posting.
I don't think it's that insane, it might be a bit of a stretch, maybe but if you remember that Aus has a paritcularly high level of innovation for our population it becomes almost possible. I remeber back to the 80s when inventions in Australia were flying out at an incredible rate; people were making amazin inovations and then having to sell their patent to US countries because business and the government wouldn't fund setting up plant for further development.