In cosmology, dark matter refers to matter particles, of unknown composition, that do not emit or reflect enough electromagnetic radiation (light) to be detected directly, but whose presence may be inferred from gravitational effects on visible matter such as stars and galaxies.
The obvious immediate safety of soldiers isn't what I'm talking about. It's the side effect, that comes later, I'm talking about.
Say a gun can no longer take out an enemy soldier? What do you do? Surrender? Of course not. You take a bigger gun and blow half the building along with the enemy soldier (leaving him with more than just a bullet whole - or less than a full body).
The difference? Half a building gone compared to just a few holes in the walls; plus higher death rate even among soldiers. And that's just a tiny example.
I'm not looking at it from the legal point of view (since I'm not qualified enough to do so). But hey, they can prohibit selling of, say, heroin, can't they? So just make Vista bundled in a certain way and owned by monopolical company simply illegal and they can't sell it. Isn't that possible?
1) It's clearly dangerous to society (otherwise this whole thing wouldn't exist). 2) Yeah, a law that would prohibit selling of bundled products by monopolical companies. That's a law always handy to have in the future. 3) Right from the summary: "all 25 member states of the EU have found Microsoft guilty of non-compliance". That might as well mean all would choose to follow this law. But anyway, why can't it be non-volutary? Sadly IANAL, so I just don't know... Please, enlighten me.;) 4) Why wouldn't they support it? Once again, the fine went through, didn't it?
From TFA:
"The next stage of the research is to work out how to make the glass stable at room temperature and pressure."
BBC got it right - it's not stable at the room temperature yet.
I have to say, it's not about whether being hypocritical makes you wrong or not. They aren't hypocrite in the first place.
They aren't asking everyone else to be nice, while they are being mean. They are asking for a rule, that would forceeveryone, that is including themselves, to play nice. There's no hypocricy in that, because right now they are bound by different rules and they have to behave according to these rules.
I agree, that clearly the content can be considered valuable. But it's arguable, whether personal information can be considered valuable too.
Besides, what kind of personal information did they give up? If it's just email address for the purpose of verification (selling it without explicit permission is illegal, as far as I know), then it can't possibly be considered valuable.
Imagine having a bar with a sign out front saying "if you are under the legal age you cannot purchase alcohol here. By entering you are agreeing you are of legal age". You can't just sell alcohol to anyone entering because they agreed they were old enough.
This is exactly, what's being used on many web sites (games, porn). Either just a message, that you're agreeing you're over certain age, or a button "I accept"/"I agree" or several fields, allowing you to enter your date of birth. Does that mean that all of the mentioned are completely useless, don't protect anyone from anything and have no reason to annoy visitors?
The 20+% in the U.S., though, should be causing them a lot of concern.
No, the same applies to the US. If the (subjective) value you see in a product is less than it's (objective) price, then you won't buy it. The only price you pay for pirated software/music is some time, hence even junk can be popular, if pirated.
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This could interest you then... optimus_project: OM3 Plays Pong.
In cosmology, dark matter refers to matter particles, of unknown composition, that do not emit or reflect enough electromagnetic radiation (light) to be detected directly, but whose presence may be inferred from gravitational effects on visible matter such as stars and galaxies.
Sorry for being off-topic, but your sig sounds like another Soviet Russia joke... just replace drugs with vodka. :)
The obvious immediate safety of soldiers isn't what I'm talking about. It's the side effect, that comes later, I'm talking about.
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Say a gun can no longer take out an enemy soldier? What do you do? Surrender?
Of course not. You take a bigger gun and blow half the building along with the enemy soldier (leaving him with more than just a bullet whole - or less than a full body).
The difference? Half a building gone compared to just a few holes in the walls; plus higher death rate even among soldiers. And that's just a tiny example.
But enough with the negativity.
With better armor there'll be a need for better weapons capable of penetrating said armor.
(Guess why modern soldiers don't wear full plate anymore. History repeats itself.)
As armor gets better, weapons get more damaging - not only to the targets protected by armor, but also everything else.
I'm not looking at it from the legal point of view (since I'm not qualified enough to do so). But hey, they can prohibit selling of, say, heroin, can't they? So just make Vista bundled in a certain way and owned by monopolical company simply illegal and they can't sell it. Isn't that possible?
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1) It's clearly dangerous to society (otherwise this whole thing wouldn't exist).
2) Yeah, a law that would prohibit selling of bundled products by monopolical companies. That's a law always handy to have in the future.
3) Right from the summary: "all 25 member states of the EU have found Microsoft guilty of non-compliance". That might as well mean all would choose to follow this law. But anyway, why can't it be non-volutary? Sadly IANAL, so I just don't know... Please, enlighten me.
4) Why wouldn't they support it? Once again, the fine went through, didn't it?
But they can prohibit Microsoft from selling Windows Vista.
Sadly, nothing drives evolution like death.
Just because it was originally robbery at sea doesn't imply that's the only meaning for the word.
piracyn., pl. -cies.
[Medieval Latin prtia, from Late Greek peirteia, from Greek peirts, pirate. See pirate.]
From TFA: "The next stage of the research is to work out how to make the glass stable at room temperature and pressure." BBC got it right - it's not stable at the room temperature yet.
I have to say, it's not about whether being hypocritical makes you wrong or not. They aren't hypocrite in the first place.
They aren't asking everyone else to be nice, while they are being mean. They are asking for a rule, that would force everyone, that is including themselves, to play nice. There's no hypocricy in that, because right now they are bound by different rules and they have to behave according to these rules.
I hear ping is pretty high on station wagons.
Most people own laptops because...
Guess what? This isn't a notebook for most people.
Online multiplayer spreadsheets, where you can chat with other people while editing it?
Somebody's been playing MMORPG too much.
I agree, that clearly the content can be considered valuable. But it's arguable, whether personal information can be considered valuable too.
Besides, what kind of personal information did they give up? If it's just email address for the purpose of verification (selling it without explicit permission is illegal, as far as I know), then it can't possibly be considered valuable.
As long as you play on windows with a bunch of applications running in the background, there's always a use for a second processor.
Congratulations, you've just created a new slashdot cliché.
At least one of the parties didn't give anything up, hence there could not possibly be any contract.
The difference is, he wasn't kicking anyone out. He just sued them afterwards.
Imagine having a bar with a sign out front saying "if you are under the legal age you cannot purchase alcohol here. By entering you are agreeing you are of legal age". You can't just sell alcohol to anyone entering because they agreed they were old enough.
This is exactly, what's being used on many web sites (games, porn). Either just a message, that you're agreeing you're over certain age, or a button "I accept"/"I agree" or several fields, allowing you to enter your date of birth. Does that mean that all of the mentioned are completely useless, don't protect anyone from anything and have no reason to annoy visitors?
The 20+% in the U.S., though, should be causing them a lot of concern.
No, the same applies to the US. If the (subjective) value you see in a product is less than it's (objective) price, then you won't buy it. The only price you pay for pirated software/music is some time, hence even junk can be popular, if pirated.
Why stop there? Let's ban thinking, because it's the very foundation of crime. Hello police state, where people aren't allowed to think.
And when there's a need to test a new antibiotic, you'll be told your infection can't be cured in any other way to make you agree to the treatment.