Sure they should. Then the EU should simply impound all of MS's European assets, and strip them of all patent and copyright protection, thus allowing Europeans to install their new open source, free operating system quite legally under the laws of the EU.
Microsoft is headquartered in the US. I don't think the EU has the authority to simply demand money from them.
Sure, they can kick 'em out of the country, but MS should call their bluff. Would they go as far as saying every citizen must install the (now-illegal) windows software? It would simply be undoable.
I don't beleive the post office can ignore you here.
Seriously, why don't mailmen simply take any package that's not insured, then, and blatantly defend the act? "You didn't insure it so I have no responsibility".
Hit the nail right on the head. Everyone uses paypal because there's no alternative and the potential for profit is worth the risk. If Google can equal them merely in fees, the acceptance will follow. And even with all the Google "sometimes do evil" stories, they're still infinitely more trustworthy than paypal.
I disagree, and I've got systems as far back as the Atari 2600.
Mario 64 was my high point in the series. The sheer size of the world, the open-ended nature... It was really the first time I felt I was in a game instead of playing a game.
The only thing I think that would've improved it was to use the same format but on the mario RPG system, where you walk from town to town, get equipment, and level up.
Each participating company would scan its users' images for matches."
Now, I know nothing about hashing. But I'd assume that you'd need every bit of a the original file to determine if a file you have is exactly the same. So now they're going to share this database with every ISP on the planet? Gee, can't imagine anything ominous about that!
Especially if its a 16 year old that looks like shes 18? or a 18 year old that looks like shes 16? What about Art? Family photograph from a country where theyre open about nudity(okay, would still be illegal here, but you get what I'm getting at).
Excellent point, since the database would by its nature be off-limits to public checks and balances. It'd just "be illegal because government organization X says so."
What about your right to confront your accuser (the database software). Can't imagine they'd be too keen on showing the stuff in court. Like breathalyzers, the magic box would always be right.
Presumedly you'd be able to defend yourself and prove your innocence
It'd be pretty hard to defend yourself without the evidence at hand -- they sieze the computer in about 101% of all cases. In addition, any password-protected or otherwise secured files will require you to unlock them (whatever they might be) or you will surely end up in PMITA prion. This also opens the door for:
1) incomptence -- "can't find the pics now, judge, but I swear they were here before" and
2) willful malice -- cops simply planting evidence because they couldn't find any and beleive you were a perv anyway so it balances out
Besides I rather have someone like a teacher arrested because they found Child Porn on his PC, vs. Having him just work there for years not knowing because the ISP has blocked the traffic.
See, that's the problem -- "rather 100 innocent jailed than one guilty man go free." It's supposed to be the other way around.
The school DID say "If you want to participate in our optional program, or continue to receive funding from us, then you will not do this."
Actually, the school says "then you will not do this", then a few years later said "oh, and this too."
It's a state institution, that means the government is in charge. Would you let them change the terms of other contracts on a whim? Like your bond payout. Or your army service contract?
I imagine you have to provide them with your username and password (which, if you're a seller, includes credit card information)
Why don't you just unplug your mouse, grab the plug firmly, and shove it in your eye? If you're going to do something that stupid, you should at least be doing it to yourself.
God created everything. God is Good. God created free-will and choice.
See, there's the paradox. Either he is good (and everything emanating from him -- all life, is good, and acts in goodness to all others), or he created free will.
A god that created the world as it is and said "alright, see ya!" is completely plausible and logically defendable. However, none of the major world religions beleive that's how it happened.
I disagree. There is a real difference between "lack of good" (null value, presumably) and "evil" (negative value)
Since God is good and perfect, he must have a good and perfect reason for allowing evil to exist.
A good and perfect being would create life that enjoyed only goodness and perfection. Surely having happiness for 100% of your soul-span is preferable to having it for X% of you soul-span after learning it through suffering.
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Sure they should. Then the EU should simply impound all of MS's European assets, and strip them of all patent and copyright protection, thus allowing Europeans to install their new open source, free operating system quite legally under the laws of the EU.
Ah, touche!
What exactly is wrong with that, other than it being a crummy thing to do. You can't expect to legislate away poor decisions by the public.
Microsoft is headquartered in the US. I don't think the EU has the authority to simply demand money from them.
Sure, they can kick 'em out of the country, but MS should call their bluff. Would they go as far as saying every citizen must install the (now-illegal) windows software? It would simply be undoable.
change how they bundle Media Player.
//open to pointers on how to excise MP10 from my new machine completely.
I don't think you can bundle anything more than making it completely uninstallable.
Because that would be theft, and they'd go to jail
In the colonies, mail is the property of the government while its in their hands. They just about go Storm Saxon on citizens who steal it.
I don't beleive the post office can ignore you here.
Seriously, why don't mailmen simply take any package that's not insured, then, and blatantly defend the act? "You didn't insure it so I have no responsibility".
Hit the nail right on the head. Everyone uses paypal because there's no alternative and the potential for profit is worth the risk. If Google can equal them merely in fees, the acceptance will follow. And even with all the Google "sometimes do evil" stories, they're still infinitely more trustworthy than paypal.
...and destroy all other information
(http://www.theonion.com/content/node/40076)
I disagree, and I've got systems as far back as the Atari 2600.
Mario 64 was my high point in the series. The sheer size of the world, the open-ended nature... It was really the first time I felt I was in a game instead of playing a game.
The only thing I think that would've improved it was to use the same format but on the mario RPG system, where you walk from town to town, get equipment, and level up.
Each participating company would scan its users' images for matches."
Now, I know nothing about hashing. But I'd assume that you'd need every bit of a the original file to determine if a file you have is exactly the same. So now they're going to share this database with every ISP on the planet? Gee, can't imagine anything ominous about that!
Especially if its a 16 year old that looks like shes 18? or a 18 year old that looks like shes 16? What about Art? Family photograph from a country where theyre open about nudity(okay, would still be illegal here, but you get what I'm getting at).
Excellent point, since the database would by its nature be off-limits to public checks and balances. It'd just "be illegal because government organization X says so."
What about your right to confront your accuser (the database software). Can't imagine they'd be too keen on showing the stuff in court. Like breathalyzers, the magic box would always be right.
Presumedly you'd be able to defend yourself and prove your innocence
It'd be pretty hard to defend yourself without the evidence at hand -- they sieze the computer in about 101% of all cases. In addition, any password-protected or otherwise secured files will require you to unlock them (whatever they might be) or you will surely end up in PMITA prion. This also opens the door for:
1) incomptence -- "can't find the pics now, judge, but I swear they were here before" and
2) willful malice -- cops simply planting evidence because they couldn't find any and beleive you were a perv anyway so it balances out
This destroys the society over time by punishing the high-achievers for trying to make the system work.
Yeah, those billionaires really got it awful, don't they?
Besides I rather have someone like a teacher arrested because they found Child Porn on his PC, vs. Having him just work there for years not knowing because the ISP has blocked the traffic.
See, that's the problem -- "rather 100 innocent jailed than one guilty man go free." It's supposed to be the other way around.
The school DID say "If you want to participate in our optional program, or continue to receive funding from us, then you will not do this."
Actually, the school says "then you will not do this", then a few years later said "oh, and this too."
It's a state institution, that means the government is in charge. Would you let them change the terms of other contracts on a whim? Like your bond payout. Or your army service contract?
That aside, I don't see what the big deal is here. It's not as if this is being imposed as a requirement for attendance at the University
Step 1: Become coach
Step 2: Demand female athletes put out on command or lose their scholarship
Step 3: Profit (every day and twice on sunday)
It's okay by you, right? Because they can just drop out of school.
I imagine you have to provide them with your username and password (which, if you're a seller, includes credit card information)
Why don't you just unplug your mouse, grab the plug firmly, and shove it in your eye? If you're going to do something that stupid, you should at least be doing it to yourself.
I ALWAYS do this, and it makes me wonder what idiots bid on something early?
People who forget easily and lack the willpower to make a bunch of bookmarks and set computer alarms.
I have heard that Idea before, and it seems to be a win win for everyone, why won't ebay chage their model?
Hi, welcome to Human Nature. We tend to not change our methods because it shows that we were originally wrong.
He invented the machine that goes "BING!", right?
Don't be japanese
God created everything. God is Good. God created free-will and choice.
See, there's the paradox. Either he is good (and everything emanating from him -- all life, is good, and acts in goodness to all others), or he created free will.
A god that created the world as it is and said "alright, see ya!" is completely plausible and logically defendable. However, none of the major world religions beleive that's how it happened.
I disagree. There is a real difference between "lack of good" (null value, presumably) and "evil" (negative value)
Since God is good and perfect, he must have a good and perfect reason for allowing evil to exist.
A good and perfect being would create life that enjoyed only goodness and perfection. Surely having happiness for 100% of your soul-span is preferable to having it for X% of you soul-span after learning it through suffering.
Hey, if they just threw some hardcore masturbation scenes in Friday the 13th too, we wouldn't have this problem.
since we can't disprove the existance of God or anything
Oh, sure we can.
God is all Good. God created everything. There is evil. Evil is not good.
Therefore God (at least as depicted in the Magic Books) cannot exist. This is not a difficult proof.