Instead of suing the customers, sue the guys who PAY the spammers to spam. Very few of these spamemrs are selling their own products...they're usually guns-for-hire for some website that wants to promote its product or service. So arrest the bastards.
It's against the law to hire someone to conduct an illegal activity in yout stead, you're generally charged with the same crime that person commits. (i.e. hiring a hitman gets you a nice fat murder trial) So...since states are making spamming illegal, by that logic, hiring a spammer is also illegal. This also opens up foreign website owners who employ spammers to extradition from friendly countries.
Now, we know that for the most part, it was a simple bacteria
It's H. Pylori. I'm taking antibiotics as we speak to get rid of the little fuckers. =/
Anyway, I'm speaking as far as our understanding permits. If they discover a virus that serves a useful purpose and is not introduced to the body by articifial means, I'll change my mind. Til then, I stick by my story.
Viruses aren't a normal part of our physiology though...they're not ubiquitous in the human body the way bacteria are. Useful viruses are usually deliberately inserted. (innoculations, virotherapy, and the like)
Things like E. Coli, L. Acidophilous, L. Casei are part of a normal functioning digestive tract for EVERYONE. They compete with pathogens for "real estate" to prevent growth of the baddies in addition to releasing trace amounts of useful chemicals. (though they're mostly wasted since they're in the large intestine)
Maybe he was robbing the liquor store to take the MONEY that they have there, with which he will buy food and clothing for his children. Didn't think of that one, didja smarty-pants?
So HL2 got delayed....most decent games get delayed more than once. The only games that ship on time are buggy pieces of crap. Your life will go on, I promise. (for those of you who happent to die in the interim, I assure you that you won't care about Halflife2 where YOU'RE going)
Fines that big open them up to criticism from shareholders. You'll see stock prices drop after that fine is levied and that's going to piss a lot of people off. Whether it means any changes for MS down the road is another story.
I know this may come as a shock, but your school costs money to run. Tuition doesn't cover everything, you know. Especially in state schools, they actually lose money on each student which has to be made up by the state. Since states are cutting back on education funding, schools have to do things like charge excess fees, lay off professors, and charge higher book prices. If they don't make enough money, they cannot stay open to teach you...end of story.
Generic sodas have been doing this for years. Sam's Club makes things like "Mountain Thunder" in a can with a similar color scheme to Mountain Dew. Many other generic products do the same thing.
If the name is a trademark, that doesn't mean they get the trademark for all similar sounding names.
I think a lot of it depends on what the consequences are of providing information. I could honestly care less if Company A tells Company B that I bought $500 worth of computer accessories last year...unless of course that means Company B is going to start emailing or calling me to try and sell me MORE computer accessories. Market studies don't bother me. Telemarketers and spammers bother me. Tell whatever you want to whomever you like, but if they don't leave me the fuck alone they have problems.
I question the validity of % increase when comparing two separate objects however. It's usually used for comparing levels of change for the same object between different time periods. For instance (hypothetically) 25% more people started using Widget A last year and 15% more start using it this year. Total number of users increase, but growth decreases.
But still, your point stands, in a graph of growth vs. time, Red Hat wins by a large margin.
You'll never hear a poor person espousing the greatness of capitalism. Your parent posted is obviously the "I've got mine, so fuck the rest of you" type, so of course he fears any change where someone else might benefit a little instead of him.
I bet you $10 that if this guy lost his job, his money, and his health insurance, he'd be voting Democrat this election. It was nice to see someone with a firm grasp of the political issues put him in his place.
There are far too many self-absorbed, selfish, xenphobic, misinformed fools these days. Lets hope they forget to head to the polls this year.
Except that diatoms are awfully bad for your lungs. Handling diatomaceous earth directly can dislodge thousands of little diatom skeletons into the air, which you then inhale. The effect on your lungs is not unlike that of asbestos.
Reference: I used to work in a lab that analyzed air and soil samples for asbestos, and one of the main things we also checked for were diatoms. (on the advice of the resident pulmonary toxicologist)
This is spoofed brilliantly in Trigger Happy TV. There's a recurring sketch where the main "actor" is somewhere appropriately quiet and you hear the traditional Nokia ringtone. (I think it's Nokia anyway...it's a very common default tone)
When he picks up the phone, it's about 2 feet high by 1 foot wide, and he screams at the top of his lungs into it. I can't stress how funny this really is to see.
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Instead of suing the customers, sue the guys who PAY the spammers to spam. Very few of these spamemrs are selling their own products...they're usually guns-for-hire for some website that wants to promote its product or service. So arrest the bastards.
It's against the law to hire someone to conduct an illegal activity in yout stead, you're generally charged with the same crime that person commits. (i.e. hiring a hitman gets you a nice fat murder trial) So...since states are making spamming illegal, by that logic, hiring a spammer is also illegal. This also opens up foreign website owners who employ spammers to extradition from friendly countries.
Now, we know that for the most part, it was a simple bacteria
It's H. Pylori. I'm taking antibiotics as we speak to get rid of the little fuckers. =/
Anyway, I'm speaking as far as our understanding permits. If they discover a virus that serves a useful purpose and is not introduced to the body by articifial means, I'll change my mind. Til then, I stick by my story.
that wooshing sound you just heard was that comment going over the heads of 90% of the /. reader-base.
Viruses aren't a normal part of our physiology though...they're not ubiquitous in the human body the way bacteria are. Useful viruses are usually deliberately inserted. (innoculations, virotherapy, and the like)
Things like E. Coli, L. Acidophilous, L. Casei are part of a normal functioning digestive tract for EVERYONE. They compete with pathogens for "real estate" to prevent growth of the baddies in addition to releasing trace amounts of useful chemicals. (though they're mostly wasted since they're in the large intestine)
Maybe he was robbing the liquor store to take the MONEY that they have there, with which he will buy food and clothing for his children. Didn't think of that one, didja smarty-pants?
Let me guess....you're not poor.
Actually, your urine should be sterile unless you have a urinary tract infection. Fecal matter, however, is 40% microbes by mass.
So HL2 got delayed....most decent games get delayed more than once. The only games that ship on time are buggy pieces of crap. Your life will go on, I promise. (for those of you who happent to die in the interim, I assure you that you won't care about Halflife2 where YOU'RE going)
It's those goddam Discordians, I tell ya.
Hail Eris, Ewige Blumenkraft, fnord, and all that nonsense.
Either that or its a coded URL for kiddie porn. Anyone tried some basic codebreaking on gibberish spam yet?
Fines that big open them up to criticism from shareholders. You'll see stock prices drop after that fine is levied and that's going to piss a lot of people off. Whether it means any changes for MS down the road is another story.
Except that element 115 probably measurably existed for about a nanosecond, giving it limited practical use.
NAFTA is NOT an immigration wild card for Americans.
It sure as fuck is for the Mexicans, though.
Actually, that was IBM. ;)
I really hope you're kidding. If not, read it again and think about what definition of 'legal' they're using.
I know this may come as a shock, but your school costs money to run. Tuition doesn't cover everything, you know. Especially in state schools, they actually lose money on each student which has to be made up by the state. Since states are cutting back on education funding, schools have to do things like charge excess fees, lay off professors, and charge higher book prices. If they don't make enough money, they cannot stay open to teach you...end of story.
Generic sodas have been doing this for years. Sam's Club makes things like "Mountain Thunder" in a can with a similar color scheme to Mountain Dew. Many other generic products do the same thing.
If the name is a trademark, that doesn't mean they get the trademark for all similar sounding names.
I think a lot of it depends on what the consequences are of providing information. I could honestly care less if Company A tells Company B that I bought $500 worth of computer accessories last year...unless of course that means Company B is going to start emailing or calling me to try and sell me MORE computer accessories. Market studies don't bother me. Telemarketers and spammers bother me. Tell whatever you want to whomever you like, but if they don't leave me the fuck alone they have problems.
They are probably using % growth.
Debian = around 25% growth (87283/355469 * 100)
Redhat = around 18% growth (219519/1231986 * 100)
I question the validity of % increase when comparing two separate objects however. It's usually used for comparing levels of change for the same object between different time periods. For instance (hypothetically) 25% more people started using Widget A last year and 15% more start using it this year. Total number of users increase, but growth decreases.
But still, your point stands, in a graph of growth vs. time, Red Hat wins by a large margin.
Come on now, if it hasn't been made, how would we know it's name?
When a guy named socialpariah has to scold you for your behavior in public, you know you're in trouble.
Nice jab at Democrats, but I'd say the current administration shows a distinct lack of principles on an even greater scale.
You'll never hear a poor person espousing the greatness of capitalism. Your parent posted is obviously the "I've got mine, so fuck the rest of you" type, so of course he fears any change where someone else might benefit a little instead of him.
I bet you $10 that if this guy lost his job, his money, and his health insurance, he'd be voting Democrat this election. It was nice to see someone with a firm grasp of the political issues put him in his place.
There are far too many self-absorbed, selfish, xenphobic, misinformed fools these days. Lets hope they forget to head to the polls this year.
Man, you fucking nailed it. I don't think it can be said any clearer.
All i have to say to that is "holy crap"
How big are they? I've seen 2-farad capacitors and they were almost the size of a small fire extinquisher.
How does this work, anyway? Does this stuff just have a huge dielectric constant?
Except that diatoms are awfully bad for your lungs. Handling diatomaceous earth directly can dislodge thousands of little diatom skeletons into the air, which you then inhale. The effect on your lungs is not unlike that of asbestos.
Reference: I used to work in a lab that analyzed air and soil samples for asbestos, and one of the main things we also checked for were diatoms. (on the advice of the resident pulmonary toxicologist)
This is spoofed brilliantly in Trigger Happy TV. There's a recurring sketch where the main "actor" is somewhere appropriately quiet and you hear the traditional Nokia ringtone. (I think it's Nokia anyway...it's a very common default tone)
When he picks up the phone, it's about 2 feet high by 1 foot wide, and he screams at the top of his lungs into it. I can't stress how funny this really is to see.