what does a company built around making inexpensive PCs know about HDTVs
Do they really need to know much about HDTV? It's probably like with PCs, buy cheap components in large volumes, assemble them together. Sell online at a discount. Works with pretty much anything.
Nope, Good Samaritan Act simply encourages good deeds by reducing the danger of being sued if you try to help someone. It most definitely does not "make it a legal responsibility to help someone in dying/imminent danger or death". Look it up. That would be considered (by most people although there is some controversy) an unconstitutional infringment on personal libery.
Besides, there is a whole legal minefield there. How far are you supposed to go in putting yourself at risk in helping someone? Where do you draw the line for a person needing help? For example if you live in most major cities there is probably a homeless or perhaps a starving person quite close to you right now. Are you a criminal for sitting there typing on your computer instead of helping them out?
France on the other hand does have such a law and from what I know it is difficult to apply in practice. For example photographers who took pictures of Princess Diana after her crash were charged with the something like involuntary manslaugther for failing to help. I don't think anything came out of it though.
Well, not sure about Australia, but in US it is perfectly legal to, for example, watch a child drown, even within your reach, and not do anything about it. Immoral sure, but not illegal. Something to do with infringment on personal liberty by compeling you to act being the greater evil.
Is anyone else finding Vonage ads particularly annoying. I just found their pop under ad, a first one in years. This was only a few minutes after hearing their sound ad on slashdot. Seriously, its some chick's voice suddenly coming out of nowhere urging me to buy something. Yes, I use Firefox.
Is it just me or is there a lot of misunderstanding here about what UN is. UN doesn't have an army that can stop genocides. UN is made up of sovereign nations that can choose to cooperate in order stop genocides (or whatever) or not. If the countries within it (especially the most powerful ones - guess where I'm going with this...) decide its in their interest not to stop genocides (or whatever), then by definition UN can't stop them. Seems unfair to cause UN to be powerless and then blame it for being powerless.
It's more like pandering to the hubris of the general public. This is essentially a marketing excercise, just like Asimo is a marketing excercise for Honda. I'm not saying this is not valid research, but there is plenty of other research in robotics that doesn't make the news cause who wants to see robots that look like spiders or whatever. But make them look like humans (or cute dogs - whatever its name was) and it becomes news.
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what does a company built around making inexpensive PCs know about HDTVs
Do they really need to know much about HDTV? It's probably like with PCs, buy cheap components in large volumes, assemble them together. Sell online at a discount. Works with pretty much anything.
Nope, Good Samaritan Act simply encourages good deeds by reducing the danger of being sued if you try to help someone. It most definitely does not "make it a legal responsibility to help someone in dying/imminent danger or death". Look it up. That would be considered (by most people although there is some controversy) an unconstitutional infringment on personal libery.
Besides, there is a whole legal minefield there. How far are you supposed to go in putting yourself at risk in helping someone? Where do you draw the line for a person needing help? For example if you live in most major cities there is probably a homeless or perhaps a starving person quite close to you right now. Are you a criminal for sitting there typing on your computer instead of helping them out?
France on the other hand does have such a law and from what I know it is difficult to apply in practice. For example photographers who took pictures of Princess Diana after her crash were charged with the something like involuntary manslaugther for failing to help. I don't think anything came out of it though.
Well, not sure about Australia, but in US it is perfectly legal to, for example, watch a child drown, even within your reach, and not do anything about it.
Immoral sure, but not illegal. Something to do with infringment on personal liberty by compeling you to act being the greater evil.
Is anyone else finding Vonage ads particularly annoying. I just found their pop under ad, a first one in years. This was only a few minutes after hearing their sound ad on slashdot. Seriously, its some chick's voice suddenly coming out of nowhere urging me to buy something. Yes, I use Firefox.
Is it just me or is there a lot of misunderstanding here about what UN is. UN doesn't have an army that can stop genocides. UN is made up of sovereign nations that can choose to cooperate in order stop genocides (or whatever) or not. If the countries within it (especially the most powerful ones - guess where I'm going with this...) decide its in their interest not to stop genocides (or whatever), then by definition UN can't stop them. Seems unfair to cause UN to be powerless and then blame it for being powerless.
Has 'free Internet access' finally arrived?
We have had telephone network access for about a centutry now.
It has never been free.
Why should Internet access be?
We have had television network access for half a century now.
It has always been free (well at least some of it).
Why shouldn't Internet access be?
It's more like pandering to the hubris of the general public. This is essentially a marketing excercise, just like Asimo is a marketing excercise for Honda.
I'm not saying this is not valid research, but there is plenty of other research in robotics that doesn't make the news cause who wants to see robots that look like spiders or whatever. But make them look like humans (or cute dogs - whatever its name was) and it becomes news.
Don't be ridiculous, it only predicts maaaaaaajor world events, apparently as selected by CNN. Princess Diana funeral etc..
Source: Daily Mail; London (UK)
Enough said...