Funny how when Orrin Hatch hires another company to run his website and that company violates copyright laws, it's Orrin Hatch's fault and he should be responsible.
But when the allegedly net-savvy Dean does the same, it's an honest mistake.
The world is a parasitic circle jerk system, everyone screws the next little guy down the ladder and those at the bottom of the ladder are slaves for those above them. Those at the top are the oppressors and the tyrants.
You should seek professional help for your paranoia.
Human society is a system where people collaborate to achieve more than they could by themselves. So instead of having to learn how to hunt and cook and make shoes and build a home and make clothes, people can specialize in a single skill, perform it more efficiently and achieve more collectively. Money is what you use to facilitate this trade.
Do you think Bush's approval ratings would be so high if everyone knew that we've killed 6,000 civilians in Iraq? I vote "no."
Do you think Clinton's apprroval ratings would have been so high if everyone knew that the sanctions he kept on Iraq killed hundreds of thousands of civilians?
I'd love it if taxicabs started following that model: Here you are, I've driven you 3 miles on this nicely paved road. However, last week I had to take this guy to rural Arkansas and drive on a gravel road and I busted a tire doing so. Anyway, based on all that you owe me $200 for your ride.
Don't worry. This is Slashdot. As long as it is something from Microsoft that you are criticising you will come off as insightful, not as a troll.
It absolutely doesn't matter that there are hundreds of thousands of people out there who have played FPS's on virtually every other platform who are still in love with Halo.
What this case boiled down to was that it would cost more than $199 for the vendor to fight this in court and therefore the vendor cut its losses and didn't fight it.
Do this too often to the point where the vendor thinks their total expenses will be more than it will cost to fight it and they will. And they won't need to fight every case, just the first one and use that as precedent.
In the US, it's usually the "geeks" and "nerds" who go into engineering and math. Engineering does not usually attract the best, the brightest and the most driven.
In India it is the opposite. In India, it is actually considered cool to be good at Math and Science in high school. The kids getting the best grades in Math and Science are the ones who carry the most respect there - not the jocks.
One of the reasons for this is that the engineering professions pay much more in India than almost any of the other professions including doctors, lawyers and sports people (except for a handful of sports celebrities).
Geez, is reading really becoming that hard? From the article:
In older contracts, Microsoft agreed to pay all legal fees for volume license customers who got sued because of Microsoft, but only up to the value of the software they bought.
Under the new provision, which took effect March 1, Microsoft removed the liability cap in intellectual property suits and altered other parts of the agreements that potentially expand its liability. (Emphasis mine)
In older contracts, Microsoft agreed to pay all legal fees for volume license customers who got sued because of Microsoft, but only up to the value of the software they bought.
Under the new provision, which took effect March 1, Microsoft removed the liability cap in intellectual property suits and altered other parts of the agreements that potentially expand its liability.
As someone whose school only had a 1.5kbps link to the internet, I consider myself qualified to comment on this subject.
The ability to not download text only already exists. We used lynx to look at pages and downloaded images only when we thought they were relevant - and killed the download as soon as we saw enough to either understand the picture or realize it was not what we wanted to see.
Also the ability to share your cache between computers would be huge if they can't have a server to do that for them. At any rate, means of transferring those precious pages you downloaded to another computer - on a floppy, unless you have local email.
As far as I can see, that seems to be the only cool feature of this. Everything else already exists.
I can imagine your brainwaves are somewhere along the lines of:
[_______________________________]
Ok, you are obviously someone incapable of making a point without resorting to childish insults. In my experience this usually correlates well with inferior mental capacity so I would encourage you to read the below slowly:
Downloading the contents of 20 pages when one page is the one you're looking for is vastly inefficient.
Its very likely, that since the target is to use this for information, that the pages would be _highly_ compressed, either reducing image quality or removing many images altogether.
Ooh! High compression achieved by not downloading fancy images or code! That's absolute genius. We can only download the text and then the user can choose if they want a particular image to be downloaded. Someone should really inform the makers of lynx so they can put this feature in the next version. Maybe the makers of IE and Netscape can have an option where they don't download images by default.
And since you seem to be particularly dense, I will have to point out that the above paragraph is intended to be sarcasm since that functionality already exists.
He can retrieve the compressed results a few days later with only a minutes of dialing up.
Huhh?? How? If you download just the results page, then that is pretty useless since you then have to click on the links to see if it is the relevant link or not.
If on the other hand you download the actual contents of the top 20 pages then given how slow your connection is supposed to be, I don't see how you could do that in "only a few minutes".
So now, you're going to have all the pages downloaded to your PC for you, when it's quite likely that the very first link was the one you wanted anyway?
What about the bandwidth costs of doing that? And exactly how slow are these connections anyway? Google's search page is a few KBs - I can't imagine how downloading every possible hit (say top 20 hits) is feasible where downloading a single page of a few KBs is not.
You mean those poor oppressed slave colonies that America has colonized after occupying? You mean France, Germany, Japan and South Korea?
Oh wait, those are some of the richest, most successful nations in the world - and that after they were in complete shambles when the US came to occupy them.
It seems that intellectual thought is not a forte with you. Why don't you just confine yourself to being brainwashed by the leftist media?
There is ample, well-documented, undisputed evidence that Saddam had insane amounts of the stuff in 1998. There is absolutely no evidence that any of this material was destroyed between 1998 and 2003. Also, given the undisputed information we do know about Saddam there is no reason to believe he would have destroyed these weapons.
I don't need doctored documents to draw the obvious conclusions from this. Note that NO ONE - not Iraq, not France, not Hans Blix has ever disputed any of the above facts.
Your original point was about the US only attacking where there was oil. Do you still stand by that or is this just a pointless attempt to deflect attention away from your original statement.
My views are dictated by an intelligent analysis of available information culled from various sources. The US military will and should act in US interests. It should not be beholden to the opinion and/or interests of other countries.
Attacking Iraq was the right thing to do - just like standing up to the Nazis in France or the North Koreans was the right thing to do. Saddam was a cruel and oppressive dictator and the world is better for his being ousted from power. The fact that he had weapons of mass destruction was just one of the many reason why he had to go.
You don't understand. It is ok to make fun of him because he's a rich white guy. You seem in need of a lesson in the liberal thought process (bit of an oxymoron, isn't it?).
Liberals believe that the same teacher who can't teach 4th graders how to read is somehow qualified to teach those same kids about sex.
Liberals believe that guns, in the hands of law-abiding Americans, are more of a threat than U.S. nuclear weapons technology in the hands of Chinese communists.
Liberals believe that global temperatures are less affected by cyclical, documented changes in the earth's climate, and more affected by yuppies driving SUVs.
Liberals believe that gender roles are artificial but being homosexual is natural.
Liberals believe that businesses create oppression and governments create prosperity.
Liberals believe that hunters don't care about nature, but loony activists from Seattle do.
Liberals believe that self-esteem is more important than actually doing something to earn it.
Liberals believe the military, not corrupt politicians, start wars.
Liberals believe the NRA is bad, because it supports certain parts of the Constitution, while the ACLU is good, because it supports certain parts of the Constitution.
Liberals believe that taxes are too low, but ATM fees are too high.
Liberals believe that Margaret Sanger and Gloria Steinem are more important to American history than Thomas Jefferson, General Robert E. Lee or Thomas Edison.
Liberals believe that standardized tests are racist, but racial quotas and set-asides aren't.
Liberals believe that homosexual parades displaying drag, transvestites and bestiality should be constitutionally protected and manger scenes at Christmas should be illegal.
The parent is NOT flamebait. This thread has turned into an anti-american debate. That's a fact.
Everytime anything tangentially related to the Republican party or the US is mentioned on Slashdot, the thread turns into an anti-american debate. That is also a fact.
Maybe you moderators should spend your moderation points on moderating all the offtopic comments about Ronald Reagans economic policy which have nothing to do with the aircraft carrier or its technology?
The military power gets projected where it's needed.
South Korea didn't have oil. Afghanistan does not have oil. France didn't have oil. Panama did not have oil. Rwanda didn't have oil.
Liberia does not have oil and will not have it by the the the US troops are there.
The US does the right thing by ignoring fuck-brains like you. In your world they're damned if they do and damned if they don't. When the US does not send troops to Liberia it is "because they don't have oil". If the US then decides to send troops to Liberia it is "because they have oil and diamonds".
Don't forget that it is the US governments policy of poking its nose into other peoples business and its evil foreign policy that is the only reason that most of Europe isn't speaking Russian/German right now and still has the right to free speech.
To those of us who actually have a brain, we understand the price of democracy and freedom and know how to distinguish between those who fight for it and those who fight against it.
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Funny how when Orrin Hatch hires another company to run his website and that company violates copyright laws, it's Orrin Hatch's fault and he should be responsible.
But when the allegedly net-savvy Dean does the same, it's an honest mistake.
The world is a parasitic circle jerk system, everyone screws the next little guy down the ladder and those at the bottom of the ladder are slaves for those above them. Those at the top are the oppressors and the tyrants.
You should seek professional help for your paranoia.
Human society is a system where people collaborate to achieve more than they could by themselves. So instead of having to learn how to hunt and cook and make shoes and build a home and make clothes, people can specialize in a single skill, perform it more efficiently and achieve more collectively. Money is what you use to facilitate this trade.
Do you think Bush's approval ratings would be so high if everyone knew that we've killed 6,000 civilians in Iraq? I vote "no."
Do you think Clinton's apprroval ratings would have been so high if everyone knew that the sanctions he kept on Iraq killed hundreds of thousands of civilians?
I'd love it if taxicabs started following that model: Here you are, I've driven you 3 miles on this nicely paved road. However, last week I had to take this guy to rural Arkansas and drive on a gravel road and I busted a tire doing so. Anyway, based on all that you owe me $200 for your ride.
Don't worry. This is Slashdot. As long as it is something from Microsoft that you are criticising you will come off as insightful, not as a troll.
It absolutely doesn't matter that there are hundreds of thousands of people out there who have played FPS's on virtually every other platform who are still in love with Halo.
What this case boiled down to was that it would cost more than $199 for the vendor to fight this in court and therefore the vendor cut its losses and didn't fight it.
Do this too often to the point where the vendor thinks their total expenses will be more than it will cost to fight it and they will. And they won't need to fight every case, just the first one and use that as precedent.
Sony doesn't care how many units of PS2 it sells. The PS2 hardware units don't make Sony big profits. The real profits are in the games sales.
Actually, the opposite is true.
In the US, it's usually the "geeks" and "nerds" who go into engineering and math. Engineering does not usually attract the best, the brightest and the most driven.
In India it is the opposite. In India, it is actually considered cool to be good at Math and Science in high school. The kids getting the best grades in Math and Science are the ones who carry the most respect there - not the jocks.
One of the reasons for this is that the engineering professions pay much more in India than almost any of the other professions including doctors, lawyers and sports people (except for a handful of sports celebrities).
1. Set up 1-900 number.
2. Spam Russian minister.
3. Profit.
Ha!
Geez, is reading really becoming that hard? From the article:
In older contracts, Microsoft agreed to pay all legal fees for volume license customers who got sued because of Microsoft, but only up to the value of the software they bought.
Under the new provision, which took effect March 1, Microsoft removed the liability cap in intellectual property suits and altered other parts of the agreements that potentially expand its liability.
(Emphasis mine)
Now that wasn't that hard was it?
Read the article again:
In older contracts, Microsoft agreed to pay all legal fees for volume license customers who got sued because of Microsoft, but only up to the value of the software they bought.
Under the new provision, which took effect March 1, Microsoft removed the liability cap in intellectual property suits and altered other parts of the agreements that potentially expand its liability.
The new terms remove the liability cap.
Actually, I'd like to know why anyone thinks that is easier to remember than www.gnu.org.
you can find our phone number on our web page by searching for "s" on Google and clicking "I Feel Lucky."
It's almost scary how non-obvious that is.
As someone whose school only had a 1.5kbps link to the internet, I consider myself qualified to comment on this subject.
The ability to not download text only already exists. We used lynx to look at pages and downloaded images only when we thought they were relevant - and killed the download as soon as we saw enough to either understand the picture or realize it was not what we wanted to see.
Also the ability to share your cache between computers would be huge if they can't have a server to do that for them. At any rate, means of transferring those precious pages you downloaded to another computer - on a floppy, unless you have local email.
As far as I can see, that seems to be the only cool feature of this. Everything else already exists.
I can imagine your brainwaves are somewhere along the lines of:
[_______________________________]
Ok, you are obviously someone incapable of making a point without resorting to childish insults. In my experience this usually correlates well with inferior mental capacity so I would encourage you to read the below slowly:
Downloading the contents of 20 pages when one page is the one you're looking for is vastly inefficient.
Its very likely, that since the target is to use this for information, that the pages would be _highly_ compressed, either reducing image quality or removing many images altogether.
Ooh! High compression achieved by not downloading fancy images or code! That's absolute genius. We can only download the text and then the user can choose if they want a particular image to be downloaded. Someone should really inform the makers of lynx so they can put this feature in the next version. Maybe the makers of IE and Netscape can have an option where they don't download images by default.
And since you seem to be particularly dense, I will have to point out that the above paragraph is intended to be sarcasm since that functionality already exists.
He can retrieve the compressed results a few days later with only a minutes of dialing up.
Huhh?? How? If you download just the results page, then that is pretty useless since you then have to click on the links to see if it is the relevant link or not.
If on the other hand you download the actual contents of the top 20 pages then given how slow your connection is supposed to be, I don't see how you could do that in "only a few minutes".
I did RTFA.
So now, you're going to have all the pages downloaded to your PC for you, when it's quite likely that the very first link was the one you wanted anyway?
What about the bandwidth costs of doing that? And exactly how slow are these connections anyway? Google's search page is a few KBs - I can't imagine how downloading every possible hit (say top 20 hits) is feasible where downloading a single page of a few KBs is not.
This is the beginning of the end. SkyNet is .NET.
And don't expect John Connors to come rescue us. He's sold out already.
American style freedom (poverty),
You mean those poor oppressed slave colonies that America has colonized after occupying? You mean France, Germany, Japan and South Korea?
Oh wait, those are some of the richest, most successful nations in the world - and that after they were in complete shambles when the US came to occupy them.
It seems that intellectual thought is not a forte with you. Why don't you just confine yourself to being brainwashed by the leftist media?
There is ample, well-documented, undisputed evidence that Saddam had insane amounts of the stuff in 1998. There is absolutely no evidence that any of this material was destroyed between 1998 and 2003. Also, given the undisputed information we do know about Saddam there is no reason to believe he would have destroyed these weapons.
I don't need doctored documents to draw the obvious conclusions from this. Note that NO ONE - not Iraq, not France, not Hans Blix has ever disputed any of the above facts.
Your original point was about the US only attacking where there was oil. Do you still stand by that or is this just a pointless attempt to deflect attention away from your original statement.
My views are dictated by an intelligent analysis of available information culled from various sources. The US military will and should act in US interests. It should not be beholden to the opinion and/or interests of other countries.
Attacking Iraq was the right thing to do - just like standing up to the Nazis in France or the North Koreans was the right thing to do. Saddam was a cruel and oppressive dictator and the world is better for his being ousted from power. The fact that he had weapons of mass destruction was just one of the many reason why he had to go.
You don't understand. It is ok to make fun of him because he's a rich white guy. You seem in need of a lesson in the liberal thought process (bit of an oxymoron, isn't it?).
Liberals believe that the same teacher who can't teach 4th graders how to read is somehow qualified to teach those same kids about sex.
Liberals believe that guns, in the hands of law-abiding Americans, are more of a threat than U.S. nuclear weapons technology in the hands of Chinese communists.
Liberals believe that global temperatures are less affected by cyclical, documented changes in the earth's climate, and more affected by yuppies driving SUVs.
Liberals believe that gender roles are artificial but being homosexual is natural.
Liberals believe that businesses create oppression and governments create prosperity.
Liberals believe that hunters don't care about nature, but loony activists from Seattle do.
Liberals believe that self-esteem is more important than actually doing something to earn it.
Liberals believe the military, not corrupt politicians, start wars.
Liberals believe the NRA is bad, because it supports certain parts of the Constitution, while the ACLU is good, because it supports certain parts of the Constitution.
Liberals believe that taxes are too low, but ATM fees are too high.
Liberals believe that Margaret Sanger and Gloria Steinem are more important to American history than Thomas Jefferson, General Robert E. Lee or Thomas Edison.
Liberals believe that standardized tests are racist, but racial quotas and set-asides aren't.
Liberals believe that homosexual parades displaying drag, transvestites and bestiality should be constitutionally protected and manger scenes at Christmas should be illegal.
The parent is NOT flamebait. This thread has turned into an anti-american debate. That's a fact.
Everytime anything tangentially related to the Republican party or the US is mentioned on Slashdot, the thread turns into an anti-american debate. That is also a fact.
Maybe you moderators should spend your moderation points on moderating all the offtopic comments about Ronald Reagans economic policy which have nothing to do with the aircraft carrier or its technology?
The military power gets projected where it's needed.
South Korea didn't have oil. Afghanistan does not have oil. France didn't have oil. Panama did not have oil. Rwanda didn't have oil.
Liberia does not have oil and will not have it by the the the US troops are there.
The US does the right thing by ignoring fuck-brains like you. In your world they're damned if they do and damned if they don't. When the US does not send troops to Liberia it is "because they don't have oil". If the US then decides to send troops to Liberia it is "because they have oil and diamonds".
Don't forget that it is the US governments policy of poking its nose into other peoples business and its evil foreign policy that is the only reason that most of Europe isn't speaking Russian/German right now and still has the right to free speech.
To those of us who actually have a brain, we understand the price of democracy and freedom and know how to distinguish between those who fight for it and those who fight against it.