- They left an application open and tried to perform all further tasks within this application. For instance, they created a new folder using the file dialog of the word processor.
That's my dad! He cannot understand why he can create a new file in MSword, but he cannot delete a file from MSword. It made me laugh at first, but thinking about it, he was quite logical.
Nothing is wrong with pen & paper. I entirely agree with you there. I think this electronic thing is simply stupid. What's the reason for it? You'll get the results faster. Whoa! Who cares. When I lived in the Netherlands, I voted there for the European elections on an electronic machine. I hated it. It left me with a taste of unfinished business. In France, I voted with paper, then in the evening went back to sort and count the votes. It was fun and symbolic of democracy in action.
After having been told to shut up in Germany, I wonder if SCO is concentrating all its lawyers/money in a US-battle. Has anyone in Europe heard anything from SCO?
Would you be saying this if Utah was a Muslim or Jewish state? Why do people on here keep bringing up religion anyway?
You imply by this that Utah is a mormon state, which, as far as I know is not the case. If a company mostly employed jews or muslims when the majority of the population was neither, yes, I would be saying the same. Replace mormon, jewish or muslim by any religion or even nationality if you wish. It might sound surprising but I believe people should be employed on their own merit, not on their gender, religion, race or whatnot.
Name one new "trend" that appeared in the last 15 years. That is the problem. People (I mean teenagers) tend to buy music when something new and exciting comes out. For the first time in about 50 years, teenagers are listening to the same music as their parents. Scary.
Do you really want these people to lose their jobs?
That reminds me of this great advert in GTA3: Vice City:
Speaker: What makes a real American? A cowboy hat? Enjoying a fine T- bone steak? Going to a baseball game? Shooting a gun? Maybe it's the freedom to go into a poor country and tell them how to do things! Heh! Those are all great qualities! But one thing that makes a true patriot is the ability to choose an American car. When you buy an import you take a hot meal off a hard working American's table. There, there! This poor girl is going to starve to death, just because you bought a cheaper, more efficient Maibatsu. Without gross symbols of excess, what will Americans have to look up to? Our great industries are threatened! Cars, pornography, armaments! And they need your help! So the next time you buy a car, a piece of adult literature or a missile defence system! Make sure you do the American thing!
seems like proof to me that the war decreased the amount of terror in our world. LOL. In fact the only thing it did was to increase the amount of hue in the colours!
I'm fairly confident I can have an english conference in Germany, and a german conference in Canada, but neither in France. AFAIK the French law on conferences was fortunately changed. The point of the French law about conferences was that the conference organisers had to provide simultaneous translations of every non-French speech. I live in France, I am a scientist, I have been to countless conferences/meetings and I have never seen this law applied.
BTW, searching in google for something in English about local language laws might not necessarily provide answers.
I checked your example 2 and so what? It just says that commercial product descriptions, guarantees and the like must be in French. I am sure the same type of law exists in most countries in the world.
France's banning of the word "e-mail" Could people please stop with this crap. Every administration in the world has a set of precisely defined words that must be used within the administration and within the law. Anyone in France can use whatever word they want. French law and thus French administration (when not on strike) has to use one precise word for e-mail. That's it.
"Stealing the music and listening to it anyway" sure did solve EVERYTHING for that poster Exactly. My point was that copy protection forces me to steal the music (if I want to listen to it). Linux users should understand that copy protection or web systems like buymusic or itunes are going to lock us out of music.
1) You could've kept it, downloaded the songs, and listened to them. At least then you would've paid for music, which is the legal thing to do. Sorry, but that is wrong. It has been said multiple times by RIAA members that downloading music is illegal EVEN if you own the CD.
2) You could've returned it Done explained why you were returning it Done written a letter to the music company explain what you did Funny but I tried their website and you need MSIE to view it. So I was not going to buy MSWindows. and then chosen to not buy any more copy protected CDs. Done.
I have concert tickets for this group's next show. It cost much more than the CD. My conscience is clear.
Same for me. I bought a CD. It was copy protected. Can't play on my linux boxes, plays very poorly on my mac, can't put it on my ipod, AND it does not play on my 1 year old hifi. I returned it and copied it from some p2p network. I don't like to do it, but I had no choice if I wanted to listen to it. copy protection -> p2p
From the article: Spammers have ways to get around anti-spam filters, he said, but it's possible to collect patterns from their e-mails and block certain logarithms.
What's the point? They will use polynoms! Oh.. I guess they meant algorithms.
No that is for complaining about the EU administration itself.
Correct. From this press release about a guide for citizens. This Guide highlights the Ombudsman's efforts in recent years to solve citizens' problems with the Community's administration... I hope that it gives citizens a clear picture of the service that the European Ombudsman's office can provide.
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In other news, the USA has declared war on Greenland claiming that weapons of mass destructions might be hidden in some igloos.
- They left an application open and tried to perform all further tasks within this application. For instance, they created a new folder using the file dialog of the word processor.
That's my dad! He cannot understand why he can create a new file in MSword, but he cannot delete a file from MSword. It made me laugh at first, but thinking about it, he was quite logical.
Well, because!
Why?
Nothing is wrong with pen & paper. I entirely agree with you there. I think this electronic thing is simply stupid. What's the reason for it? You'll get the results faster. Whoa! Who cares.
When I lived in the Netherlands, I voted there for the European elections on an electronic machine. I hated it. It left me with a taste of unfinished business. In France, I voted with paper, then in the evening went back to sort and count the votes. It was fun and symbolic of democracy in action.
After having been told to shut up in Germany, I wonder if SCO is concentrating all its lawyers/money in a US-battle.
Has anyone in Europe heard anything from SCO?
Big mistake. Scientists (at least the modern type) do not know. Religious zealots, OTOH, think they know.
Would you be saying this if Utah was a Muslim or Jewish state? Why do people on here keep bringing up religion anyway?
You imply by this that Utah is a mormon state, which, as far as I know is not the case. If a company mostly employed jews or muslims when the majority of the population was neither, yes, I would be saying the same. Replace mormon, jewish or muslim by any religion or even nationality if you wish.
It might sound surprising but I believe people should be employed on their own merit, not on their gender, religion, race or whatnot.
Name one new "trend" that appeared in the last 15 years.
That is the problem. People (I mean teenagers) tend to buy music when something new and exciting comes out. For the first time in about 50 years, teenagers are listening to the same music as their parents. Scary.
Go to the source: http://www.caldera.com/company/history.html
1994 Caldera Inc formed by Ray Noorda & Ransom Love.
SCO, Novell and Canopy group, all have (at least) one person in common: Ray Noorda
He is/has been:
founder of Caldera
Chairman of Novell
Founder of Canopy group
Moreover, the mormon Church is involved somewhere there too (3 in SCO's board are mormon). What does that mean? I have no idea.
Do you really want these people to lose their jobs?
That reminds me of this great advert in GTA3: Vice City:
Speaker: What makes a real American? A cowboy hat? Enjoying a fine T-
bone steak? Going to a baseball game? Shooting a gun? Maybe it's the
freedom to go into a poor country and tell them how to do things! Heh!
Those are all great qualities! But one thing that makes a true patriot
is the ability to choose an American car. When you buy an import you
take a hot meal off a hard working American's table. There, there!
This poor girl is going to starve to death, just because you bought a
cheaper, more efficient Maibatsu. Without gross symbols of excess, what
will Americans have to look up to? Our great industries are threatened!
Cars, pornography, armaments! And they need your help! So the next time
you buy a car, a piece of adult literature or a missile defence system!
Make sure you do the American thing!
LOL. What you are saying here, is what many philosophers have been saying for about 200 years. Without the references to the Matrix, obviously.
Not that I'm an atheist or anything
Sounds like you think that being an atheist is a bad thing. It is not.
seems like proof to me that the war decreased the amount of terror in our world.
LOL. In fact the only thing it did was to increase the amount of hue in the colours!
I'm fairly confident I can have an english conference in Germany, and a german conference in Canada, but neither in France.
AFAIK the French law on conferences was fortunately changed. The point of the French law about conferences was that the conference organisers had to provide simultaneous translations of every non-French speech. I live in France, I am a scientist, I have been to countless conferences/meetings and I have never seen this law applied.
BTW, searching in google for something in English about local language laws might not necessarily provide answers.
I checked your example 2 and so what? It just says that commercial product descriptions, guarantees and the like must be in French. I am sure the same type of law exists in most countries in the world.
France's banning of the word "e-mail"
Could people please stop with this crap. Every administration in the world has a set of precisely defined words that must be used within the administration and within the law. Anyone in France can use whatever word they want. French law and thus French administration (when not on strike) has to use one precise word for e-mail. That's it.
Do I need to tell you he was British
I assume you meant Scottish. That would explain a lot.
"Stealing the music and listening to it anyway" sure did solve EVERYTHING for that poster
Exactly. My point was that copy protection forces me to steal the music (if I want to listen to it).
Linux users should understand that copy protection or web systems like buymusic or itunes are going to lock us out of music.
1) You could've kept it, downloaded the songs, and listened to them. At least then you would've paid for music, which is the legal thing to do.
Sorry, but that is wrong. It has been said multiple times by RIAA members that downloading music is illegal EVEN if you own the CD.
2) You could've returned it
Done
explained why you were returning it
Done
written a letter to the music company explain what you did
Funny but I tried their website and you need MSIE to view it. So I was not going to buy MSWindows.
and then chosen to not buy any more copy protected CDs.
Done.
I have concert tickets for this group's next show. It cost much more than the CD. My conscience is clear.
Same for me. I bought a CD. It was copy protected. Can't play on my linux boxes, plays very poorly on my mac, can't put it on my ipod, AND it does not play on my 1 year old hifi. I returned it and copied it from some p2p network. I don't like to do it, but I had no choice if I wanted to listen to it.
copy protection -> p2p
Let us not forget that one of the UK industries that export the most is the music industry. Now you might understand the logic behind this report.
From the article:
Spammers have ways to get around anti-spam filters, he said, but it's possible to collect patterns from their e-mails and block certain logarithms.
What's the point? They will use polynoms! Oh.. I guess they meant algorithms.
No that is for complaining about the EU administration itself.
Correct. From this press release about a guide for citizens.
This Guide highlights the Ombudsman's efforts in recent years to solve citizens' problems with the Community's administration... I hope that it gives citizens a clear picture of the service that the European Ombudsman's office can provide.
They might intervene to kill it off...
Linux is a Weapon of Microsoft's Destruction.