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Hardly a red herring. If the information is so easy to get to, then why put road blocks to get it online? Sure, you can say they don't need to get it online, but why have rules for one medium that do not apply to another?
And school sex ed is a joke. That was the only class I had in high school where the teacher talked about sex, suicide, and drugs, and repeatedly had to tell the entire front row of the class to wake up. Oh yeah. That is the way to get the safe sex message across.
you don't hear of these things nowadays because of labor laws
Correction: you don't hear of these things nowadays in the US. A little bit of looking outside our borders will show that the fuck the worker mentality is still alive and well in countries that do not have such laws.
Getting no negative feedback is very rare, given that people will complain that you didn't help them find the "any" key fast enough, or that it is your fault the Internet broke.
The picture quality is BAD - actually very bad. It's technically inept. It looks atrocious. To say that the picture quality gives you "a sense that you are watching some post-apocalpyse news item" is just rubbish. A good director can make you see grit and realism while presenting you with a perfect picture - a poor director will just show you a gritty picture. It's not clever to make a picture look deliberately bad - it's a slur on the audience who payed good money to see a movie that looks worse than many student movies I've seen.
You know- this comment would come off a lot better coming from someone who has directed or produced one or more internationally aclaimed movies. Coming from someone who has seen "many student movies", the comment seems a bit less insightful. Given that the movie was picked up by the US theaters a year after it was released in the UK, I am going to go out on a limb and say that your opinion is not one that is included in a professional filmmaking process.
You've obviously never worked in a library or listened to stories from people who have. The adults tend to cause more problems then the kids do with that sort of thing, and the librarians (people with a masters degree in library science mid you) have others things to do then look over everyone's shoulder. Just like they have better things to do then to have to manually shut off a filter for an adult for those who request it.
Because asking a human can be embarassing. That human could report them to their parents, ridicule them, or do any of a number of other things that someone asking a sensitive question would not want to risk. The annonimity given online can be very comforting in looking up sensitive topics. This ruling helps to limit that.
They don't do it "all the time". They do it rarely, and only then when there is new evidence or a changed social climate can be demonstrated. You'll notice that your own comment says that the anit-abortion people "try" to get them to hear it. They haven't heard it again because there is no new evidence to listen to.
Because you can be sued for giving faulty legal advice. I'm sure that there are logs somewhere that could be traced back to you. I'm sure you feel nice and cozy in your annonomous would, but then I'm sure those poor shmucks that use Verizon and were caught trading files felt that way too.
I'm not sa lawyer either, but if the contract was not fulfilled then it is void. That would mean the transfer of copyrights is also void. Which means that the author still owns them, not the company that failed to live up to the contract.
Yeah, because anyone posting internal company directions would really love to have a whole bunch of/.'ers come in and ask "are you really doing this?" to their boss or PR group.
If government officials can look at open source and see value, why is it so hard for your to believe that a company's board of directors (some of whom might have been stung by MS's license audits with their other companies) would like to get away from paying money to MS?
Most companies will own at least some of their own stock. When the price drops, that value goes down, and the value of the company's holdings go down. That can affect their credit rating, borrowing power, and a number of other things.
First off, which is more likely- that you have information that the NSA is curious about on your machine or that some random loser with test it for various vulnerabilities? If I remember correctly, the idea behind the NSA distro was to provide a free, secure solution to slow or stop the DDOS attacks and the like. If you have anything that the NSA would REALLY be interested in, other then a pron stash that everyone else has, (meaning actual illegal, get-you-jail-time stuff) why on earth would you put that on a machine conencted to the internet? Put it on a separate machine behind a firewall and encrypt it if you are that concerned about it.
Sure... you get it free this year. Then when you have everything installed and all the people trained, do you expect them to be as generous the next time?
The OS and Office are their only cash sources. They can't afford to give them away forever.
I know this is a joke, but that is something I've missed in the new films. Chewbacca talked a lot, but was never translated. What he said was always inferred, which was more immersive I thought. A few other aliens were like that, but none of them are in the new films. Much less interesting storytelling, I think.
If there wasn't any chance then there wouldn't be that many lawyers involved.
He has a pretty decent chance with that many laywers to throw at it and if they are smart and not too greedy, they will do what every single other similar patent recipient has done- go after small shops that can't afford to defend against a patent. Then use that money to finance further lawsuits. Very profitable and very effective.
Big difference between getting some energy back during the braking process and getting back 100% or more then 100% of the original energy expended to get it up to speed.
First I would check your site's legal disclaimers on privacy and the like. If it says anything about not sharing information with third party vendors, then contact your legal group and the market droids and tell them bad things have happened. That will be your biggest stick.
After that, find out what statistics the marketing people want and see if you can write somethign that will give them the same info, or provide some anonomized statistics that they can give to a thrid party for analysis. Marketing sorts are usually just ignorant of what they do, so if you tell them you can do for free what they just paid $200,000 or more for, they will listen.
You need to pass that on to the companies that send all the catalogs I'm getting with the names of the last two or three owners of this place. Much like email spammers, they just need to get a few sales per hundred to make it worthwhile.
You are obviously not a lawyer either. Depending on the state, both parties in a conversation must give permission for a conversation to be recorded, some only require one to give consent. If you are stupid enough to talk to an answering machine yet not give consent to have your conversation recorded, then the court will laugh at you if you contest it.
The email you create is copywritten. That is where the illegal nature of reposting it is. Someone else is reproducing your copywritten work.
Sure... Just imagine if all products had to be labeled like that. You would barely even be able to figure out what software is in an MS box for all the ethical warning labels!
Why does evreything have to be a "insert current dominant player"-killer? Is Microsoft's business model doing that so pervasive that we don't see any other option? If the market will only support one company's product, is it really worth spending the time and effort to get into an existing market?
I took a quick look on the blogs linked to hte Raging Cow page and none of them mention it, and a few of them included links or photos to the Raging Cow page, and referenced it like it was just another blogger.
Pretty sad.
Of course, it is pretty stupid of Dr. Pepper to have paid the money to fly them out if all they are doign is putting a link in their blog.
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Hardly a red herring. If the information is so easy to get to, then why put road blocks to get it online? Sure, you can say they don't need to get it online, but why have rules for one medium that do not apply to another?
And school sex ed is a joke. That was the only class I had in high school where the teacher talked about sex, suicide, and drugs, and repeatedly had to tell the entire front row of the class to wake up. Oh yeah. That is the way to get the safe sex message across.
Working in the auto industry, I know that very few suppliers have the spare cash to shoulder the costs of an unknown startup like this.
you don't hear of these things nowadays because of labor laws
Correction: you don't hear of these things nowadays in the US. A little bit of looking outside our borders will show that the fuck the worker mentality is still alive and well in countries that do not have such laws.
Do you work in IT?
Getting no negative feedback is very rare, given that people will complain that you didn't help them find the "any" key fast enough, or that it is your fault the Internet broke.
The picture quality is BAD - actually very bad. It's technically inept. It looks atrocious. To say that the picture quality gives you "a sense that you are watching some post-apocalpyse news item" is just rubbish. A good director can make you see grit and realism while presenting you with a perfect picture - a poor director will just show you a gritty picture. It's not clever to make a picture look deliberately bad - it's a slur on the audience who payed good money to see a movie that looks worse than many student movies I've seen.
You know- this comment would come off a lot better coming from someone who has directed or produced one or more internationally aclaimed movies. Coming from someone who has seen "many student movies", the comment seems a bit less insightful. Given that the movie was picked up by the US theaters a year after it was released in the UK, I am going to go out on a limb and say that your opinion is not one that is included in a professional filmmaking process.
You've obviously never worked in a library or listened to stories from people who have. The adults tend to cause more problems then the kids do with that sort of thing, and the librarians (people with a masters degree in library science mid you) have others things to do then look over everyone's shoulder. Just like they have better things to do then to have to manually shut off a filter for an adult for those who request it.
Because asking a human can be embarassing. That human could report them to their parents, ridicule them, or do any of a number of other things that someone asking a sensitive question would not want to risk. The annonimity given online can be very comforting in looking up sensitive topics. This ruling helps to limit that.
They don't do it "all the time". They do it rarely, and only then when there is new evidence or a changed social climate can be demonstrated. You'll notice that your own comment says that the anit-abortion people "try" to get them to hear it. They haven't heard it again because there is no new evidence to listen to.
Because you can be sued for giving faulty legal advice. I'm sure that there are logs somewhere that could be traced back to you. I'm sure you feel nice and cozy in your annonomous would, but then I'm sure those poor shmucks that use Verizon and were caught trading files felt that way too.
I'm not sa lawyer either, but if the contract was not fulfilled then it is void. That would mean the transfer of copyrights is also void. Which means that the author still owns them, not the company that failed to live up to the contract.
Yeah, because anyone posting internal company directions would really love to have a whole bunch of /.'ers come in and ask "are you really doing this?" to their boss or PR group.
If government officials can look at open source and see value, why is it so hard for your to believe that a company's board of directors (some of whom might have been stung by MS's license audits with their other companies) would like to get away from paying money to MS?
Most companies will own at least some of their own stock. When the price drops, that value goes down, and the value of the company's holdings go down. That can affect their credit rating, borrowing power, and a number of other things.
First off, which is more likely- that you have information that the NSA is curious about on your machine or that some random loser with test it for various vulnerabilities? If I remember correctly, the idea behind the NSA distro was to provide a free, secure solution to slow or stop the DDOS attacks and the like. If you have anything that the NSA would REALLY be interested in, other then a pron stash that everyone else has, (meaning actual illegal, get-you-jail-time stuff) why on earth would you put that on a machine conencted to the internet? Put it on a separate machine behind a firewall and encrypt it if you are that concerned about it.
'Cause the idea of all that work being done to simulate one person posting on Slashdot is just sad :)
Sure... you get it free this year. Then when you have everything installed and all the people trained, do you expect them to be as generous the next time?
The OS and Office are their only cash sources. They can't afford to give them away forever.
The first one is always free.
I know this is a joke, but that is something I've missed in the new films. Chewbacca talked a lot, but was never translated. What he said was always inferred, which was more immersive I thought. A few other aliens were like that, but none of them are in the new films. Much less interesting storytelling, I think.
If there wasn't any chance then there wouldn't be that many lawyers involved.
He has a pretty decent chance with that many laywers to throw at it and if they are smart and not too greedy, they will do what every single other similar patent recipient has done- go after small shops that can't afford to defend against a patent. Then use that money to finance further lawsuits. Very profitable and very effective.
Big difference between getting some energy back during the braking process and getting back 100% or more then 100% of the original energy expended to get it up to speed.
First I would check your site's legal disclaimers on privacy and the like. If it says anything about not sharing information with third party vendors, then contact your legal group and the market droids and tell them bad things have happened. That will be your biggest stick.
After that, find out what statistics the marketing people want and see if you can write somethign that will give them the same info, or provide some anonomized statistics that they can give to a thrid party for analysis. Marketing sorts are usually just ignorant of what they do, so if you tell them you can do for free what they just paid $200,000 or more for, they will listen.
Riiiight...
You need to pass that on to the companies that send all the catalogs I'm getting with the names of the last two or three owners of this place. Much like email spammers, they just need to get a few sales per hundred to make it worthwhile.
You are obviously not a lawyer either. Depending on the state, both parties in a conversation must give permission for a conversation to be recorded, some only require one to give consent. If you are stupid enough to talk to an answering machine yet not give consent to have your conversation recorded, then the court will laugh at you if you contest it.
The email you create is copywritten. That is where the illegal nature of reposting it is. Someone else is reproducing your copywritten work.
Sure... Just imagine if all products had to be labeled like that. You would barely even be able to figure out what software is in an MS box for all the ethical warning labels!
Why does evreything have to be a "insert current dominant player"-killer? Is Microsoft's business model doing that so pervasive that we don't see any other option? If the market will only support one company's product, is it really worth spending the time and effort to get into an existing market?
"You make too much money and have to hire more accountants. Trust me- you don't want to have problems like that"
I took a quick look on the blogs linked to hte Raging Cow page and none of them mention it, and a few of them included links or photos to the Raging Cow page, and referenced it like it was just another blogger.
Pretty sad.
Of course, it is pretty stupid of Dr. Pepper to have paid the money to fly them out if all they are doign is putting a link in their blog.