The US restricts speech as well. Try telling a police officer that you'll pay them a million dollars to kill someone for you and see how things turn out.
It went well 'till he found out I didn't have the money!
No way we need a manly game where the players dress up in tights and protective gear. And have a good portion of the game staring at each others butts.
I'm a rugby fan you insensitive clod! OK replace tights with shorts and reduce the protective gear to a floppy helmet but the rest is the same.
You may think that it is some grand anti-piracy conspiracy, but Microsoft is right. TPB is infested with torrents that contain malware. There are people who use it to spread viruses and malware. It makes sense too - it's quite easy method to infect peoples computers.
It depends on what you call "right". I would expect a messaging app to send any message, not block something that it thinks won't be good for me. What if I work for a studio and want to let someone know that our latest blockbuster has been pirated? Or if I am researching antivirus software and want to tell someone of a zero-day virus I have discovered?
More importantly where does it end? When AI is good enough will I be prevented from discussing "dangerous" topics, like making explosives? Or dangerous political parties? Or making non-PC criticisms of religions? Will there be calls for email services to do the same? I want to be able to send any message and discuss any topic I want.
I always find comments like this funny. Because really only the American people are impressionable and stupid. No one in the rest of the world could possibly be unintelligent right?
Have you seen his tricks? They're actually quite impressive, he's bringing some new ideas to spice up the dusty old "pull-white-rabbits-out-of-a-hat" magician community.
Though there still are some dusty old "pull-white-rabbits-out-of-a-hat" magicians around I think this is an unfair comparison. The modern "conventional" magicians like David Blaine, Derren Brown, and eve Penn and Teller have moved on quite a bit since then.
Without this monitoring Iranian children could be reading all sorts of evil perverted stuff on the internet. The Bible, the United nations declaration of human rights, or even the Bhagavad Gita.
It's a well known fact that Chinese produce low-quality knock-offs that can't stand the test of time (or your pesky and stubborn dissidents).
I strongly suggest you procure top-quality American equipments - they let you go to eleven. Pay a little now and nail whole lot more pests in the long haul.
I'm afraid you're 15 years out of date. The boards in the "top-quality American equipment" probably have "made in China" stamped on them.
except in the UK where they ask your religion, your sexual preference, your race etc.
True, but it always says "you do not have to supply this information" then something about not doing so won't affect your likelihood of getting a job but that they hope you will because it helps them monitor their diversity.
Not really a gender difference but managers who have worked up through IT though development, analysis, team leader, project management, etc. are at an advantage in dealing with IT departments. More men go through this. I have had one male IT manager who was brought in through HR who really didn't have a clue what was going on, when projects slipped his response was to shout "do it faster". I have had several women managers in the same position, who responded in a similar way. There is a school of management which says that a good manager can manage anything, from a chain gang to a research project. My experience is that this is not the case.
Your argument works on the premise that men and women are of equal ability in this role. I'm not saying that they are not. However, how do you account for the fact that men are over represented within the prison system of every society? If men and women are equal, surely this would mean that men are suffering disadvantages on a massive scale?
Actually there is a lot of evidence that they are.
That's because oil is a global commodity and U.S. production has only a tiny influence on supply. Factors far beyond the control of a nation or a president dictate the price of gasoline.
Basically you either have some form of protectionism or you pay the price that world markets will pay for your fuel. A company isn't going to sell it at $2 a gallon in the USA if they can ship it to Europe for $.10 a gallon then sell it for $3
Every piece of music is could be an interpretation of pi.
It's just a matter of identifying a part of pi such that the mapping is sufficiently simple as not to be copyrightable.
Same applies for all creations and ideas whatsoever.
Absolutely. There will be digits in pi that equate to all torrent feeds. Your ID 39443409 occurs at position 30,329,023. Come to that there will be a sequence somewhere matching the entire contents of a video stream of the latest blockbuster movie. Does that mean its not copyrightable?
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The US restricts speech as well. Try telling a police officer that you'll pay them a million dollars to kill someone for you and see how things turn out.
It went well 'till he found out I didn't have the money!
No way we need a manly game where the players dress up in tights and protective gear. And have a good portion of the game staring at each others butts.
I'm a rugby fan you insensitive clod! OK replace tights with shorts and reduce the protective gear to a floppy helmet but the rest is the same.
You're idiots. I have refused to travel to the UK since RIPA. I'll never travel there again.
And now you've called us idiots you could face prison if you do come.
You may think that it is some grand anti-piracy conspiracy, but Microsoft is right. TPB is infested with torrents that contain malware. There are people who use it to spread viruses and malware. It makes sense too - it's quite easy method to infect peoples computers.
It depends on what you call "right". I would expect a messaging app to send any message, not block something that it thinks won't be good for me. What if I work for a studio and want to let someone know that our latest blockbuster has been pirated? Or if I am researching antivirus software and want to tell someone of a zero-day virus I have discovered?
More importantly where does it end? When AI is good enough will I be prevented from discussing "dangerous" topics, like making explosives? Or dangerous political parties? Or making non-PC criticisms of religions? Will there be calls for email services to do the same? I want to be able to send any message and discuss any topic I want.
One hand holding a cognac, the other holding the girl... The chauffeur sits in the front and drives whatever way he wants.
It worked so well for Dodi Al Fayad.
Having lived in Europe, I hate to say it but seatbelts aren't as uniform as you'd like to believe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_belt_use_rates_by_country
So yeah. Despite your "Stupid Americans!" attitude, seems like Europe in general could benefit from the US standard.
The reason Italy is missing from the list is that most people questioned did not know what a seat belt was for.
It certainly doesn't help that in a lot of cars you operate the horn by pressing the middle of the steering wheel, either.
Italian cars would also have improved ergonomics if the default was on and you pushed the horn button to turn it off
He transports nuclear warheads IN A PINTO.
Its the defence cutbacks.
I always find comments like this funny. Because really only the American people are impressionable and stupid. No one in the rest of the world could possibly be unintelligent right?
You know I think you have just convinced me.
As a linux fanboi it sticks in my throat but well done Microsoft.
Have you seen his tricks? They're actually quite impressive, he's bringing some new ideas to spice up the dusty old "pull-white-rabbits-out-of-a-hat" magician community.
Though there still are some dusty old "pull-white-rabbits-out-of-a-hat" magicians around I think this is an unfair comparison. The modern "conventional" magicians like David Blaine, Derren Brown, and eve Penn and Teller have moved on quite a bit since then.
Without this monitoring Iranian children could be reading all sorts of evil perverted stuff on the internet. The Bible, the United nations declaration of human rights, or even the Bhagavad Gita.
It's a well known fact that Chinese produce low-quality knock-offs that can't stand the test of time (or your pesky and stubborn dissidents).
I strongly suggest you procure top-quality American equipments - they let you go to eleven. Pay a little now and nail whole lot more pests in the long haul.
I'm afraid you're 15 years out of date. The boards in the "top-quality American equipment" probably have "made in China" stamped on them.
I'd rather see them tortured for life (actual life, not whatever bastardized meaning has become of it in the law system)
Actually you could have your cake and eat it, as they say. Remove kidneys and liver, sew him up and release him.
they are obviously worried about having a chink in their IT infrastructure,
sorry I couldn't resist it
except in the UK where they ask your religion, your sexual preference, your race etc.
True, but it always says "you do not have to supply this information" then something about not doing so won't affect your likelihood of getting a job but that they hope you will because it helps them monitor their diversity.
The solution is to tell that employer to fuck off and go find work somewhere else if they don't like it.
Have you come across any employers who do like to be told to fuck off?
Not really a gender difference but managers who have worked up through IT though development, analysis, team leader, project management, etc. are at an advantage in dealing with IT departments. More men go through this. I have had one male IT manager who was brought in through HR who really didn't have a clue what was going on, when projects slipped his response was to shout "do it faster". I have had several women managers in the same position, who responded in a similar way. There is a school of management which says that a good manager can manage anything, from a chain gang to a research project. My experience is that this is not the case.
Your argument works on the premise that men and women are of equal ability in this role. I'm not saying that they are not. However, how do you account for the fact that men are over represented within the prison system of every society? If men and women are equal, surely this would mean that men are suffering disadvantages on a massive scale?
Actually there is a lot of evidence that they are.
Basically you either have some form of protectionism or you pay the price that world markets will pay for your fuel. A company isn't going to sell it at $2 a gallon in the USA if they can ship it to Europe for $.10 a gallon then sell it for $3
Are you seriously implying that any entity operating "on foreign soil" is by definition doing something illegal?
Not only that but Un-American too
I'd be worried more about the fact everything you send over wireless may not be encrypted...
But all the important stuff is over SSL/TLS anyway
Every piece of music is could be an interpretation of pi.
It's just a matter of identifying a part of pi such that the mapping is sufficiently simple as not to be copyrightable.
Same applies for all creations and ideas whatsoever.
Absolutely. There will be digits in pi that equate to all torrent feeds. Your ID 39443409 occurs at position 30,329,023. Come to that there will be a sequence somewhere matching the entire contents of a video stream of the latest blockbuster movie. Does that mean its not copyrightable?
Can I get one on my dick?
I told him that the Toulouse shooter was a Muzzie, it was obvious by the way he killed little kids without compassion.
He just implies that it wasn't - he didn;t outright deny it.