Fine your taxes electronicly some time, they don't do it I agree style and there's a reason they don't.
I'm not sure this is a good example. If you try to deny the contract (which I suspect isn't actually a contract, but let's assume that it is) then you can be penalized for not filing your taxes.
There's no special button on our CD or DVD players to "Click to accept the license".
Even if there were, it would probably not be enforceable, due (among other thing) to the lack of a consideration made in exchange for the contract. "Your computer let you view the DVD in exchange for pressing the button" probably also doesn't count, since you can't enter into a contract with your computer, nor is it possible to defraud your computer.
People are way too gullible when it comes to the law. I completely fail to understand why people are willing to not only trust the legal advice of the second party to these alleged "contracts", but to repeat this dubious advice to others.
"Or else", followed by a full stop, is much more effective. Management-types are less likely to risk "managing the risk" when they don't know very much about their adversary.
Give the world of programming some credit, young Tiger.
Pff. According to the U.S. courts, the VFAT long filename shortening algorithm is non-obvious to the world of programming. Programmers must all be idiots.
If from biomass, the CO2 question is moot - the CO2 you release today is going to be reincorporated into plants tommorrow (and thus into your fuel in a week). Zero net CO2, and you don't even have to collect any waste.
Biomass energy is not a panacea.
Think for a moment. The "zero net CO2" claim is only valid if you are burning biomass at the same rate as you are growing it. Burning fossil fuels would also be "zero net CO2" if there were some process by which we were coverting solar energy and atmospheric CO2 back into crude oil and pumping it into the ground.
However, "zero net CO2" does not necessarily mean "environmentally friendly" or "sustainable". For example, if you are releasing a lot of fine particulate matter, you can still be harming the environment for air-breathing animals and affecting the global (or local) climate.
If you're not burning the biomass fuel in air at sufficiently high temperatures as to generate significant amounts of nitrogen oxides that are released into the atmosphere, then you are again creating problems for the environment. If you're burning the biomass fiel in a different part of the world than where you're growing it, you could have local environmental impacts.
"Zero net CO2" biomass energy, like hydrogen energy, is just another way of transporting solar energy, and its usefulness depends on how cheaply/efficiently it can do so.
One example: An IUD is a mechanical device for performing abortions on embryos a day or two old. NOBODY talks about this, even though it's common knowledge within the field.
Sun should really quit beating this dead horse. Java isn't "Write once, run anywhere", now (especially in embedded systems). Releasing an open-source Java implementation isn't going to change that.
I believe the Economist had a special on this a while ago, showing that Americans are four times less likely to achieve high net worth status than Canadians, even though they work more hours and take on more responsibilities.
Hmm... I wonder if this takes into account the generally higher 'welfare-stateness' of Canada. It would be interesting to see the same statistics conducted with the lowest tax brackets from both countries dropped (or some other measure that lets you reasonably predict that certain people will never accomplish much in their lives).
P.H. Boss, Manager of [department]: [Insert some completely random, infeasable, unmarketable request here]
Joe Engineer, Engineer: That won't work, because [insert perfectly good analysis here]
PHB: (Irate.) Why are you always rejecting my ideas? You're such a nay-sayer! You could never do my job!
Joe P. Eng, Engineer:...
Upper management: Hmm, that might not be a bad idea.
Joe P. Eng, Manager of [department]:...
Well, that made my life easier. Now when I try to decide what sort of anti-virus software to recommend to people, there is one fewer option that I have to consider. Clearly these "McAfee" people don't know a thing about what they're talking about.
You could probably bug them to fix their virus checker, and if they refuse, threaten to sue them for slander/libel/misrepresentation/restraint of trade/etc (ask your lawyer about what would actually apply).
In the United States the police can arrest you without a warrant only if they have very good reason to believe you have just committed, or or about to commit, a crime. Here and here and here are some legal references. "Very good reason" in this context means a reason that will convince a judge not only that you should have been arrested, but also that there wasn't time to get him (the judge) to sign off on it first.
No, you're exaggerating the requirements. The links that you referred to say nothing about a requirement "that there wasn't time to get him (the judge) to sign off on [an arrest] first". This one makes it abuntandly clear (emphasized and annotated):
A police officer may arrest you if he has an arrest warrant. An officer may not arrest you without a warrant unless it is reasonable for him to believe that a crime has been committed and that you are the person who committed it. [FULL STOP] This reasonable belief is called probable cause. Probable cause cannot be based on a hunch, a surmise, or a guess. Probable cause exists only if the facts and circumstances known to the officer would warrant a reasonably prudent person to believe that a crime has been committed and that you committed it.
If you are in your home, you have an additional layer of constitutional protection. Probable cause alone is not enough to allow a police officer to enter your home for the purpose of arresting you. The general rule is that an officer needs a warrant to enter your home for the purpose of arresting you. But there are important exceptions to that rule which are too complicated to discuss on this tape.
If the police establish resonable grounds to believe (not just suspect) that you murdered your neighbour, they can arrest you without a warrant at the grocery store, a conference, or any other place except your home. Even then, I suspect (based on the wording used above) that they can arrest you in your home, if you voluntarily allow them to enter your home (for example, if your wife calls the police because you're beating her).
It's mostly the same in Canadian Law (using the canlii.org link because the government site is down). I'll let you read that link on your own, but here are a few pointers for readers from the U.S.:
"Indictable offences" are similar to felonies (although you don't lose the right to vote in Canada if you're convicted of an indictable offence.)
"Summary offences", or more formally, "offences punishable on summary conviction" are similar to misdemeanors.
Police officers are "peace officers".
"Criminal offences", I think, are offences listed in the Criminal Code of Canada, but I haven't checked this.
Section 553 of the Criminal Code lists a bunch of offences for which the provincial courts have absolute jurisdiction.
One thing to note about the Canadian law, however, is this clause, which might have applied to this particular case if it were in Canada:
2) A peace officer shall not arrest a person without warrant ...
in any case where
(d) he believes on reasonable grounds that the public interest, having regard to all the circumstances including the need to
(i) establish the identity of the person,
(ii) secure or preserve evidence of or relating to the offence, or
(iii) prevent the continuation or repetition of the offence or the commission of another offence,
may be satisfied without so arresting the person, and
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It's called the Fair Trading Act. What section(s) are you referring to?
Which is why you say that as soon as you start taping.
I'm not sure this is a good example. If you try to deny the contract (which I suspect isn't actually a contract, but let's assume that it is) then you can be penalized for not filing your taxes.
Hah! I knew the CRTC was useful for something other than censorship!
Anyone else read this as "the $89.3 million plan"?
If the left-right dichotomy had any sort of validity, you might have a point.
Even if there were, it would probably not be enforceable, due (among other thing) to the lack of a consideration made in exchange for the contract. "Your computer let you view the DVD in exchange for pressing the button" probably also doesn't count, since you can't enter into a contract with your computer, nor is it possible to defraud your computer.
People are way too gullible when it comes to the law. I completely fail to understand why people are willing to not only trust the legal advice of the second party to these alleged "contracts", but to repeat this dubious advice to others.
"Or else", followed by a full stop, is much more effective. Management-types are less likely to risk "managing the risk" when they don't know very much about their adversary.
The is the local phone monopoly. Good luck getting anything done without a lawyer.
The problem is that they're also the phone company. If you want land-line phone service, you have to deal with them.
Pff. According to the U.S. courts, the VFAT long filename shortening algorithm is non-obvious to the world of programming. Programmers must all be idiots.
Biomass energy is not a panacea.
Think for a moment. The "zero net CO2" claim is only valid if you are burning biomass at the same rate as you are growing it. Burning fossil fuels would also be "zero net CO2" if there were some process by which we were coverting solar energy and atmospheric CO2 back into crude oil and pumping it into the ground.
However, "zero net CO2" does not necessarily mean "environmentally friendly" or "sustainable". For example, if you are releasing a lot of fine particulate matter, you can still be harming the environment for air-breathing animals and affecting the global (or local) climate. If you're not burning the biomass fuel in air at sufficiently high temperatures as to generate significant amounts of nitrogen oxides that are released into the atmosphere, then you are again creating problems for the environment. If you're burning the biomass fiel in a different part of the world than where you're growing it, you could have local environmental impacts.
"Zero net CO2" biomass energy, like hydrogen energy, is just another way of transporting solar energy, and its usefulness depends on how cheaply/efficiently it can do so.
You don't need brk(), just a paging VM, and mmap().
"Evolution" is a common noun, and this isn't German.
The rest of your post is refuted elsewhere, and a few hours with Google will reveal that. I'm not even going to bother.
Plausible explanation: s/even though/because/
Sun should really quit beating this dead horse. Java isn't "Write once, run anywhere", now (especially in embedded systems). Releasing an open-source Java implementation isn't going to change that.
Also, if your "Unix experience" doesn't include Linux and/or FreeBSD, then you have again pigeonholed yourself.
Do schools give out Bachelors of Science in engineering? I thought they were always Bachelors of Applied Science (BASc), or Bachelors of Engineering.
Re-read the post; Nowhere does it suggest that these dime-a-dozen "technical specialists" are the engineers.
... arguably because of religion.
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Hmm... I wonder if this takes into account the generally higher 'welfare-stateness' of Canada. It would be interesting to see the same statistics conducted with the lowest tax brackets from both countries dropped (or some other measure that lets you reasonably predict that certain people will never accomplish much in their lives).
P.H. Boss, Manager of [department]: [Insert some completely random, infeasable, unmarketable request here] ... ...
Joe Engineer, Engineer: That won't work, because [insert perfectly good analysis here]
PHB: (Irate.) Why are you always rejecting my ideas? You're such a nay-sayer! You could never do my job!
Joe P. Eng, Engineer:
Upper management: Hmm, that might not be a bad idea.
Joe P. Eng, Manager of [department]:
Well, that made my life easier. Now when I try to decide what sort of anti-virus software to recommend to people, there is one fewer option that I have to consider. Clearly these "McAfee" people don't know a thing about what they're talking about.
You could probably bug them to fix their virus checker, and if they refuse, threaten to sue them for slander/libel/misrepresentation/restraint of trade/etc (ask your lawyer about what would actually apply).
Canada.
No, you're exaggerating the requirements. The links that you referred to say nothing about a requirement "that there wasn't time to get him (the judge) to sign off on [an arrest] first". This one makes it abuntandly clear (emphasized and annotated):
If the police establish resonable grounds to believe (not just suspect) that you murdered your neighbour, they can arrest you without a warrant at the grocery store, a conference, or any other place except your home. Even then, I suspect (based on the wording used above) that they can arrest you in your home, if you voluntarily allow them to enter your home (for example, if your wife calls the police because you're beating her).
It's mostly the same in Canadian Law (using the canlii.org link because the government site is down). I'll let you read that link on your own, but here are a few pointers for readers from the U.S.:
One thing to note about the Canadian law, however, is this clause, which might have applied to this particular case if it were in Canada: