Sure, but his comment is about green house gas emissions, not the price($) of anything.
The main reason to not want to emit greenhouse gases is the "cost" of global warming. You will notice that people who view that cost as very high: already use solar panels and live "off the grid", and people who think that cost is a joke: drive Hummers with the A/C on and the windows down. NASA, like everyone else, is going with the lowest percieved cost.
and he was then required to get a third party to verify that it was the correct amount.
You could make a good case for that being a violation of "legal tender for all debts public and private". If the state is going to be greedy little pricks about finding every last way to tax their residents, it's only fittting that their residents be able to use federal law to make a response that is just as retardedly bureaucratic.
If they don't want their service to be used for "blazing fast downloads" and "streaming video at the click of a button" why are they being advertised that way? It didn't say "blazing fast text-only" or "monitored traffic" in the ad, when I signed up.
So could this be seen as a form of price fixing? The major ISPs all having the same ridiculously one-sided contracts offers the consumer no viable alternatives. Isn't that what price fixing laws and anti-trust laws are meant to protect us from?
"The early Christian writers Tertullian and Origen metion the existence of a British church in the third century AD and in the fourth century British bishops attended a number of the great concils of the Church such as the Council of Arles in 314 and the Council of Rimini in 359."
No it wasn't titled "The Church of England" but they claim their roots go back that far. Maybe the Archbishop of Manchester would like to edit the Church of England website while he's rethinking his responsibilty in influencing the social standards of Manchester.
The Bishop of Manchester called the game 'highly irresponsible' due to the history of gun crime in the city.
I call the Church of England "highly irresponsible" due to the history of gun crime in the city. After all which entity has had a greater influence ove rthe citizens of Manchester, this video game which has been out of less than a year, or the Church of England which traces roots back to the 3rd century at least. Maybe the Bishop should tend to his violent flock instead of abdicating responsiblity to a video game.
"Two of its patents cover the concept of translating phone numbers into Internet addresses."
Patents should not be able to cover concepts only very specific processes. If Gene Roddenberry's heirs patent the "concept" of a teleporter, should that give them rights over someone who actually figures out the physics and machinery to make one? Even if the inventor got the idea from watching Star Trek?
so that the music punches through when it competes against background noise in pubs or cars.
I find nothing more annoying than a bar or pub with no dance floor cranking the music. I don't want the music to fucking punch through the conversation I'm trying to have. I go to the pub to talk to people, why the hell is the music so loud that i have to yell to the person beside me?
I have to pay my TV license every year for the BBC.
And here across the pond I have to pay the music industry for every RW-CD I buy regardless of use. But they still want to sell you the same thing twice. I think you in the UK stand a better chance of getting DRM-free BBC, than we do of getting rid of the music tax. For us Yankees just how much is your TV liscense? I might want to pay it from here, If that got me some BBC DVDs.
"GAMBLING IS A SIN" would only equal "NEEDS A MAN MADE LAW" in a Theocracy. I think a good portion of following the teachings of the Bible is that it should be something done out of free will, not a requirement of the state.
I second you're approval of the 5-10% better is great, and would like to take it a step farther. How about the most experienced level 9000 character still dies when a level 1 orc runs a sword through them. The whole thing with the story was that these complete non-warriors, these hobbits, that were smaller and weaker than just about anything else were somehow the ones to save the world.
(through some deep secret kung fu no customer should ever know how to do)
I was under the impression that the tech "had received his training direct from Microsoft" and then should have this kung fu that no customer should know how to do. of course should doesn't mean that he did, the test could still be faulty. On a different note, I find it interesting that you feel there is product knowledge that should be forbidden to the customer.
I have to wonder if the the Linden Dollar (and linden real estate) having a real world value weighs the need for a two sided arbitration more heavily. From the courts view (I imagine) the only thing at stake in a WoW arbitration is your $15 subscription fee, where as Second Life has some more significant monetary attachments. When there is real money involved the government is sure to follow.
If enough armor can be packed on it, the "mech" platform might be more effective in urban combat than tanks. At least for patrolling an area, if not the original capture of an urban environment. Of course then we would only be a few years away from police in the US and EU from using "mechs" in riot control, and then we would be screwed. As it is G8 already has 1000 injured protesters. "http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6728303.stm
More and more governments are realising the utility of controlling what people see online and major internet companies, in an attempt to expand their markets, are colluding in these attempts,"
I don't think this is so much "changeing the face of the internet" as allowing the internet to grow into places where censorship has long been a part of life. The governments that are censoring are not comeing to any new realisations about controlling informantion, they are ust applying existing policies to a new medium. Any international companies that want to do business in those markets has a different set of rules there then they do in the US or UK. Internet based or not. This is not much different than when Nike started making shoes in China and there were outcries of the "inhuman sweatshops". It was crap pay by 1st world standards but a decent job in China at the time. Yes censorship sucks, but there is a long list of things that suck in most countries that censor heavily. Would a lack of international companies in the PRC make it a better place to live? I don't think so.
"At what point does the intrinsic need for privacy override the need to prevent societal decay?
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Privacy has a lot of grey area to it, and I think different places in that grey area are appropriate in different circumstances. Sexual predators might need to be known to the local police and school officials, but not the media. Politicians' campaign donations need to be known to the media, but are not of special concern to local police. The trick is who gets to decide, what info is databased and shared. If someone goes to the doctor for an STD medication, should that info be attached to their online dating profile? If someone is in Alcoholics Anonymous, should their children's teacher be informed? There is a difference between allowing someone's reputation to follow them, and having institutionalzed gossip. But it's a tough call as to exactly where that difference lies. http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=237213&cid =19375351
So this contorted arcane language is more prescise than simple sentences in common English? This would only be the case if you had judges who ignored the intention of the law and adhered strictly to some strange word game played with the code of law. So... yeah, I guess we do need lawyers to write the law here.
There are way too many ties between the people who write the law and the people who make money knowing the law. Politicans aren't about to put lawyers out of work by making the legal system intelligible to the common citizen. Besides, without ridiculous wording how would they hide the boondoggles?
So Someone could make the radiator on a hybrid out of this and get even more efficiencey out of a gallon of gas. Suddenly thwe waste becomes wanted heat.
You don't think the fact that you occassionally like to "flame and act silly" or play "an annoying lowbie ganker" is telling ? It tells me that when you can hide behind the veil of Anonymous Coward, you don't have much respect for the people around you. Because let's face it, when you do those things you are causing real frustration for real people, and you do it for fun.
Don't be so gullible as to think someone's behavior is necessarily consistent no matter where they go on the internet.
This would be a case of adding "but ONLINE" and thinking it's something new and different. I don't think anyone's personality is 100% consistent as they go from one social setting to another, but it is all facets of the same actual person.
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4) lose customer loyalty
5) lose market share
6) cash in multi-million dollar golden parachute... aka Profit!
Sure, but his comment is about green house gas emissions, not the price($) of anything.
The main reason to not want to emit greenhouse gases is the "cost" of global warming. You will notice that people who view that cost as very high: already use solar panels and live "off the grid", and people who think that cost is a joke: drive Hummers with the A/C on and the windows down. NASA, like everyone else, is going with the lowest percieved cost.
and he was then required to get a third party to verify that it was the correct amount.
You could make a good case for that being a violation of "legal tender for all debts public and private". If the state is going to be greedy little pricks about finding every last way to tax their residents, it's only fittting that their residents be able to use federal law to make a response that is just as retardedly bureaucratic.
I hope he pays in pennies. Dumptrucked to the front steps of the courthouse.
If they don't want their service to be used for "blazing fast downloads" and "streaming video at the click of a button" why are they being advertised that way? It didn't say "blazing fast text-only" or "monitored traffic" in the ad, when I signed up.
"because most ISPs have similar conditions."
So could this be seen as a form of price fixing? The major ISPs all having the same ridiculously one-sided contracts offers the consumer no viable alternatives. Isn't that what price fixing laws and anti-trust laws are meant to protect us from?
No it wasn't titled "The Church of England" but they claim their roots go back that far. Maybe the Archbishop of Manchester would like to edit the Church of England website while he's rethinking his responsibilty in influencing the social standards of Manchester.
The Bishop of Manchester called the game 'highly irresponsible' due to the history of gun crime in the city.
I call the Church of England "highly irresponsible" due to the history of gun crime in the city. After all which entity has had a greater influence ove rthe citizens of Manchester, this video game which has been out of less than a year, or the Church of England which traces roots back to the 3rd century at least. Maybe the Bishop should tend to his violent flock instead of abdicating responsiblity to a video game.
Why oh why, would we take water to Mars? There is no one there to drink it.
at least some one is listening us. 'cause the recording industry and the politicians sure as hell aren't.
"Two of its patents cover the concept of translating phone numbers into Internet addresses."
Patents should not be able to cover concepts only very specific processes. If Gene Roddenberry's heirs patent the "concept" of a teleporter, should that give them rights over someone who actually figures out the physics and machinery to make one? Even if the inventor got the idea from watching Star Trek?
so that the music punches through when it competes against background noise in pubs or cars.
I find nothing more annoying than a bar or pub with no dance floor cranking the music. I don't want the music to fucking punch through the conversation I'm trying to have. I go to the pub to talk to people, why the hell is the music so loud that i have to yell to the person beside me?
"now no one will use torrentspy."
Yes, now everyone will have to use torrent5py. Stupid internet-illiterate gavel-banger.
I have to pay my TV license every year for the BBC.
And here across the pond I have to pay the music industry for every RW-CD I buy regardless of use. But they still want to sell you the same thing twice. I think you in the UK stand a better chance of getting DRM-free BBC, than we do of getting rid of the music tax. For us Yankees just how much is your TV liscense? I might want to pay it from here, If that got me some BBC DVDs.
"GAMBLING IS A SIN" would only equal "NEEDS A MAN MADE LAW" in a Theocracy. I think a good portion of following the teachings of the Bible is that it should be something done out of free will, not a requirement of the state.
I second you're approval of the 5-10% better is great, and would like to take it a step farther. How about the most experienced level 9000 character still dies when a level 1 orc runs a sword through them. The whole thing with the story was that these complete non-warriors, these hobbits, that were smaller and weaker than just about anything else were somehow the ones to save the world.
(through some deep secret kung fu no customer should ever know how to do)
I was under the impression that the tech "had received his training direct from Microsoft" and then should have this kung fu that no customer should know how to do. of course should doesn't mean that he did, the test could still be faulty. On a different note, I find it interesting that you feel there is product knowledge that should be forbidden to the customer.
I have to wonder if the the Linden Dollar (and linden real estate) having a real world value weighs the need for a two sided arbitration more heavily. From the courts view (I imagine) the only thing at stake in a WoW arbitration is your $15 subscription fee, where as Second Life has some more significant monetary attachments. When there is real money involved the government is sure to follow.
...but hey, it's a bit like a Mech!"
If enough armor can be packed on it, the "mech" platform might be more effective in urban combat than tanks. At least for patrolling an area, if not the original capture of an urban environment. Of course then we would only be a few years away from police in the US and EU from using "mechs" in riot control, and then we would be screwed. As it is G8 already has 1000 injured protesters. "http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6728303.stm
More and more governments are realising the utility of controlling what people see online and major internet companies, in an attempt to expand their markets, are colluding in these attempts,"
I don't think this is so much "changeing the face of the internet" as allowing the internet to grow into places where censorship has long been a part of life. The governments that are censoring are not comeing to any new realisations about controlling informantion, they are ust applying existing policies to a new medium. Any international companies that want to do business in those markets has a different set of rules there then they do in the US or UK. Internet based or not. This is not much different than when Nike started making shoes in China and there were outcries of the "inhuman sweatshops". It was crap pay by 1st world standards but a decent job in China at the time.
Yes censorship sucks, but there is a long list of things that suck in most countries that censor heavily. Would a lack of international companies in the PRC make it a better place to live? I don't think so.
"At what point does the intrinsic need for privacy override the need to prevent societal decay? "
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Privacy has a lot of grey area to it, and I think different places in that grey area are appropriate in different circumstances. Sexual predators might need to be known to the local police and school officials, but not the media. Politicians' campaign donations need to be known to the media, but are not of special concern to local police. The trick is who gets to decide, what info is databased and shared. If someone goes to the doctor for an STD medication, should that info be attached to their online dating profile? If someone is in Alcoholics Anonymous, should their children's teacher be informed?
There is a difference between allowing someone's reputation to follow them, and having institutionalzed gossip. But it's a tough call as to exactly where that difference lies. http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=237213&ci
So this contorted arcane language is more prescise than simple sentences in common English? This would only be the case if you had judges who ignored the intention of the law and adhered strictly to some strange word game played with the code of law. So... yeah, I guess we do need lawyers to write the law here.
There are way too many ties between the people who write the law and the people who make money knowing the law. Politicans aren't about to put lawyers out of work by making the legal system intelligible to the common citizen. Besides, without ridiculous wording how would they hide the boondoggles?
So Someone could make the radiator on a hybrid out of this and get even more efficiencey out of a gallon of gas. Suddenly thwe waste becomes wanted heat.
You don't think the fact that you occassionally like to "flame and act silly" or play "an annoying lowbie ganker" is telling ? It tells me that when you can hide behind the veil of Anonymous Coward, you don't have much respect for the people around you. Because let's face it, when you do those things you are causing real frustration for real people, and you do it for fun.
Don't be so gullible as to think someone's behavior is necessarily consistent no matter where they go on the internet.
This would be a case of adding "but ONLINE" and thinking it's something new and different. I don't think anyone's personality is 100% consistent as they go from one social setting to another, but it is all facets of the same actual person.