Did you ever see a press release or a press map? The ones I have seen do not contain such permission notes, the permission to use the material is implicit.
"They've regularly sent the site info, free clips, previews and information about the show."
In hindsight, the fan site owner should have verified the legality of the clips/info he was sent - it sounds dumb, but ultimately he is responsible for the information on his site.
The owner can very much make the case that he got permission to show the info. To him, he can assume his marketing department contact rightfully represents the company and has proper authority. More so as together with PR, marketing is the department in charge of handling press et al. Note: It is not his obligation to inform himself about Discovery's organigram, whether they have a PR department and whether marketing had to coordinate with PR or similar. Discovery's internal arrangements are not his concerns.
When a clerk in a shop sells you gooods or gives you a sample, you do not have to check with management first if he has the authority to do so. You can rightfully assume he has.
Aside: For legal to claim him embedding Youtube clips from Discovery's channel is copyright infringement shows that they do not have the proper technical competence and that did not consult with technical staff first. Every department its own island, no contact wanted.
"If this bus is a tenth of what a subway costs, then that shows that you get what you pay for."
It is incredibly expensive and complicated to drill undergrouds in populated areas.
In my town, there is a new subway line being build. It is just 4km long. They started in 2004 and looks like they may be operational in 2012. 60% of buildings along the route had some kind of damage due to the ground yielding more than predicted. Current cost estimates are 1.1 Billion Euros.
Completely different topic. The OP was talking about "Seems like any accident could leave debris in the tracks", i.e. how debris from some accident could somehow be a problem. Which it is not.
Given this, ehm, quite short list of U.S. agencies, I guess I would call the police to get patched through to their office to verify their identity in really all cases.
I think you are quite right on that - very orthodox and conservative.
Janet Jackson's nipple slip would have been just an amusing side-note in Europe. Gay couples can form a civil union that is legally on equal terms with a traditional marriage. The German Foreign Minister is openly gay and it was never any problem politically. No one cares how religious Chancellor Merkel is, if and how much she goes to mess. You need to at least faint religiousness to get elected President in the US, it seams.
All in all, religion plays a very small role in politics and daily lives. There are hardly any religious nut jobs, and they have no influence or media presence.
I went to a high school in Germany that was funded and run by the catholic church. But for a school (and their diploma) to be officially recognised, the curriculum has to be accepted by a expert board in the ministry of education.
So there was no teaching or mentioning of Creationism and the likes in biology. And even in religion classes, this was not a topic at all. No teacher and no parent would even entertain that notion. I was born in Poland and my parents are deeply religious and they would not think about that. The push to creationism in the US leaves me astonished and in disbelieve. It is mental.
Aside: Although the catholic religion classes were mostly just that, you were not grated on your faith or being able to cite the bible at all. It was about interpretation, comparison of the books of the new testament etc. We even had a fairly objective study about other religions (Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism), their history, their believes and customs. And even as it is a catholic school, we had about 40% evangelical christians, who had their own religion classes, and a few muslims, whose parents choose the school for its education quality and good standing.
Why is that stupid? Any deviation from a self-balancing equation of economics will lead to an eventual collapse of some sort.
You mean the self-balancing equations that require a homo oeconomicus? That is a fantasy world long overcome. Or to stay in that world view: Human behaviour itself is a system inherit deviation.
Well, the title of any legislation is mostly chose using the "does it form a nice acronym" criteria. And the amount of petriotic words like freedom, america etc. Only very slightly kidding.
Also, net neutrality is not about your selection of ISP.
Presuming that to be the case, would it not be a rational course of action to wait until this began to happen before passing new legislation?
It is one possible course of action. Most probably effective. But the legislative process is very lengthy, especially when the opponents drag it by stirring-up controversy though lies, and consumers would suffer during that time. I believe preventing measures are a better course of action. The legislation would be effective and efficient with no ill-effects.
Producing, obtaining and possession of child porn is a criminal offence in Germany.
Before election (who would have thought) there was a law passed that mandated ISP would have to redirect (via DNS) to a warning website any request made to a website on a secret block list. Anyone redirected was to be logged and investigated. Linkbomb anyone?
The concerns: 1. This list was to be secret and maintained by the federal police without any legislative oversight. Basically a censorship infrastructure for the executive. 2. The measure is widely inefficient and easily to circumvent. 3. It has been demonstrated by the opponents of the law that contacting the hosting company will get the stuff deleted and fast. Many were just hijacked.
Therefore the counterproposal was to make the police do no. 3, as this removes the material (the police was not doing this at all, at most they sometimes contacted the police in the hosting country -> bureaucracy). In contrast to the passed law, that simply tries to hide it behind a paper screen.
Of cause politicians do not want to admit they are wrong, so in spite of a wide protest and against all expert opinion, the law was passed. After some nasty mud-slinging against all opponents of the law.
And a week after the election and the pirate party's 2% result, the other partys started to worry about losing the younger voters. And they saw that the "you are a kiddieporn supporter" tactic did not work. So the former coalition parties were quickly trying to retract the law and politicians were saying they were always against the law but had to stay in the party line.
No, not stretchable at all. A legal entity cannot have personal honour. This is limited to natural persons. A major difference to the US , which seems to be on the verge of granting corporations citizenship.
Oh, stickers are obviously the way to go then, because these cheating customers would NEVER switch them.
Let me tell you buy not-prepacked produce that is sold by weight in a supermarket in Europe.
You put the fruits you want into a thin plastic bag, put them on a scale, press the buttom for the product (by picture/name or the number shown at the shelf) and attach the printed sticker to your bag. In some markets, the scale is integrated into the cash register, so the cashier weights it for you.
The different kinds of apples/oranges etc. usually cost the same, so no problem there. And the cashiers usually know their produce, but they can check with an illustrated chart if in doubt.
Might sound strange, but it works, and for a very long time know. Maybe it would not work in your country because of education issues you mentioned or because people act too dishonest to offset the cost savings for the market.
It is not about getting in unnoticed. Delivery, maintenance, janitors, cleaning people, refilling the candy and sode machines etc. These are the people he is talking about. And the thiefs inpersonating them.
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Did you ever see a press release or a press map? The ones I have seen do not contain such permission notes, the permission to use the material is implicit.
"They've regularly sent the site info, free clips, previews and information about the show."
Same thing.
In hindsight, the fan site owner should have verified the legality of the clips/info he was sent - it sounds dumb, but ultimately he is responsible for the information on his site.
The owner can very much make the case that he got permission to show the info. To him, he can assume his marketing department contact rightfully represents the company and has proper authority. More so as together with PR, marketing is the department in charge of handling press et al. Note: It is not his obligation to inform himself about Discovery's organigram, whether they have a PR department and whether marketing had to coordinate with PR or similar. Discovery's internal arrangements are not his concerns.
When a clerk in a shop sells you gooods or gives you a sample, you do not have to check with management first if he has the authority to do so. You can rightfully assume he has.
Aside: For legal to claim him embedding Youtube clips from Discovery's channel is copyright infringement shows that they do not have the proper technical competence and that did not consult with technical staff first. Every department its own island, no contact wanted.
"If this bus is a tenth of what a subway costs, then that shows that you get what you pay for."
It is incredibly expensive and complicated to drill undergrouds in populated areas.
In my town, there is a new subway line being build. It is just 4km long. They started in 2004 and looks like they may be operational in 2012. 60% of buildings along the route had some kind of damage due to the ground yielding more than predicted. Current cost estimates are 1.1 Billion Euros.
And think of the children!!1
>>>Never seems to slow them down much.
Yes actually it does
Completely different topic. The OP was talking about "Seems like any accident could leave debris in the tracks", i.e. how debris from some accident could somehow be a problem. Which it is not.
And how many non-geeks really care about such a thing?
You do realize that you're posting it on a website titled "news for nerds", right?
He was replying to "It is determining how portable device will be used by the mainstream". And he is right, IMHO.
Given this, ehm, quite short list of U.S. agencies, I guess I would call the police to get patched through to their office to verify their identity in really all cases.
I think you are quite right on that - very orthodox and conservative.
Janet Jackson's nipple slip would have been just an amusing side-note in Europe. Gay couples can form a civil union that is legally on equal terms with a traditional marriage. The German Foreign Minister is openly gay and it was never any problem politically. No one cares how religious Chancellor Merkel is, if and how much she goes to mess. You need to at least faint religiousness to get elected President in the US, it seams.
All in all, religion plays a very small role in politics and daily lives. There are hardly any religious nut jobs, and they have no influence or media presence.
I went to a high school in Germany that was funded and run by the catholic church. But for a school (and their diploma) to be officially recognised, the curriculum has to be accepted by a expert board in the ministry of education.
So there was no teaching or mentioning of Creationism and the likes in biology. And even in religion classes, this was not a topic at all. No teacher and no parent would even entertain that notion. I was born in Poland and my parents are deeply religious and they would not think about that. The push to creationism in the US leaves me astonished and in disbelieve. It is mental.
Aside: Although the catholic religion classes were mostly just that, you were not grated on your faith or being able to cite the bible at all. It was about interpretation, comparison of the books of the new testament etc. We even had a fairly objective study about other religions (Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism), their history, their believes and customs. And even as it is a catholic school, we had about 40% evangelical christians, who had their own religion classes, and a few muslims, whose parents choose the school for its education quality and good standing.
Why is that stupid? Any deviation from a self-balancing equation of economics will lead to an eventual collapse of some sort.
You mean the self-balancing equations that require a homo oeconomicus? That is a fantasy world long overcome. Or to stay in that world view: Human behaviour itself is a system inherit deviation.
What help are you talking about? Who wants help in not preserving net neutrality?
Well, the title of any legislation is mostly chose using the "does it form a nice acronym" criteria. And the amount of petriotic words like freedom, america etc. Only very slightly kidding.
Also, net neutrality is not about your selection of ISP.
Presuming that to be the case, would it not be a rational course of action to wait until this began to happen before passing new legislation?
It is one possible course of action. Most probably effective. But the legislative process is very lengthy, especially when the opponents drag it by stirring-up controversy though lies, and consumers would suffer during that time. I believe preventing measures are a better course of action. The legislation would be effective and efficient with no ill-effects.
Well, the summary is very, very wrong.
Producing, obtaining and possession of child porn is a criminal offence in Germany.
Before election (who would have thought) there was a law passed that mandated ISP would have to redirect (via DNS) to a warning website any request made to a website on a secret block list. Anyone redirected was to be logged and investigated. Linkbomb anyone?
The concerns:
1. This list was to be secret and maintained by the federal police without any legislative oversight. Basically a censorship infrastructure for the executive.
2. The measure is widely inefficient and easily to circumvent.
3. It has been demonstrated by the opponents of the law that contacting the hosting company will get the stuff deleted and fast. Many were just hijacked.
Therefore the counterproposal was to make the police do no. 3, as this removes the material (the police was not doing this at all, at most they sometimes contacted the police in the hosting country -> bureaucracy). In contrast to the passed law, that simply tries to hide it behind a paper screen.
Of cause politicians do not want to admit they are wrong, so in spite of a wide protest and against all expert opinion, the law was passed. After some nasty mud-slinging against all opponents of the law.
And a week after the election and the pirate party's 2% result, the other partys started to worry about losing the younger voters. And they saw that the "you are a kiddieporn supporter" tactic did not work. So the former coalition parties were quickly trying to retract the law and politicians were saying they were always against the law but had to stay in the party line.
You got to love politics...
No, not stretchable at all. A legal entity cannot have personal honour. This is limited to natural persons.
A major difference to the US , which seems to be on the verge of granting corporations citizenship.
"managed to do something that US Presidents often find difficult: to make 59 US Senators from both sides of the aisle agree on something."
The lobbists agree => the senators agree.
Oh, stickers are obviously the way to go then, because these cheating customers would NEVER switch them.
Let me tell you buy not-prepacked produce that is sold by weight in a supermarket in Europe.
You put the fruits you want into a thin plastic bag, put them on a scale, press the buttom for the product (by picture/name or the number shown at the shelf) and attach the printed sticker to your bag. In some markets, the scale is integrated into the cash register, so the cashier weights it for you.
The different kinds of apples /oranges etc. usually cost the same, so no problem there. And the cashiers usually know their produce, but they can check with an illustrated chart if in doubt.
Might sound strange, but it works, and for a very long time know. Maybe it would not work in your country because of education issues you mentioned or because people act too dishonest to offset the cost savings for the market.
I can't. Thankfully, there are signs on the shelves.
Same thing here for my ISP, Netcologne in Germany. Works like this for years. They even provide a malware removal download.
Institute of air and space law at the university of cologne, Germany, founded 1925. OK, I guess the space part was added later.
As for no. 1: Not sure. Widgets can link to Objective-C libraries, so it might be possible. (There are games widgets that use a Obj-C engine)
No. 2: No problem. Well in the realm of moderately complicated Javascript / HTML / CSS.
Has anyone written them already? Check yourself: http://www.dashboardwidgets.com/
It is not about getting in unnoticed. Delivery, maintenance, janitors, cleaning people, refilling the candy and sode machines etc. These are the people he is talking about. And the thiefs inpersonating them.
No disagreement on that.
Actually, making Jobs driving around in search of a parking lot is quite an uneffective use of the CEO's time. This is wasteful.
There was an interesting article about the bonds soldiers have with their robots: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/05/AR2007050501009_pf.html