According to Wikipedia, Oracle's operating income is US$8.32e+09. If we compare it to a nice salary of, say, $100K, the $10K fine would be equivalent to fining the hypothetical person 12 cents.
If you look at the animals that are considered unclean in the Bible, Torah, or Qur'an, they are all animals which are likely to carry diseases that can pass to humans.
Please explain how the camel is more likely to carry such diseases than, say, the ox, goat, gazelle, deer or giraffe. Similarly, please make the case against the eel and the sturgeon. On the other hand, please explain why the locust is safer than any other insect. While you're at it, I'd like to hear your take on why horses and rabbits are more likely to transmit diseases to Jews than to Muslims.
I went the other way... I read the bible and became a non-christian! I've also got the Koran and the Torah in my collection, and I'm not Muslim nor Jew.
Armed civilians? In Israel? Haha, no. (except for those yahoos in their settlements). Those gun-toting folks in every public place in Israel are soldiers and reservists on leave, and are required to have access to their weapon at all times.
You are forgetting a couple of facts:
1. Israel has mandatory conscription (with few exceptions) therefore most male (and some female) citizens aged between 18 and mid-forties are either reservists or on active duty.
2. Sometime in the late '80s the IDF decided to mandate that all officers and career military personnel carry a firearm when they are in uniform (including en-route to or from leaves). Quite a number of them, particularly those in non-combat units who commuted daily to their bases and back, opted to purchase a personal handgun instead of lugging an assault rifle or a sub-machine gun. As you have correctly noted, a CCW permit is very easy to get when you're on active duty. However, it is also very easy to keep it after you get discharged. While a lot of those relinquished their firearms after being discharged (gun ownership does come with some inconveniences, especially if you have kids around the house), some decided to keep them. [Note: the requirement was canceled some time in the '90s so the dynamics changed then]
3. Work as a security guard often requires CCW permits and the process of getting one, once you're hired, is simplified. But, as I noted above, keeping (actually, renewing) a permit is easier than obtaining one.
Disclaimer: My information is pre-2000, I don't know if anything changed after that.
Only civilians wont have the years of training, experience, teamwork, and radio communications to reduce such catastrophic fuck ups.
They would also not have the feeling that they are above the law and the resources to cover up and/or misrepresent the incidents.
Look at it that way, if the average miscreant has a choice between shoving someone that can shove back and someone who cannot, who would they choose? Now put that miscreant in a uniform and suddenly the number of people able to shove back is drastically reduced.
Perhaps if more big names come out in opposition of measures like this the PRS in Britain and the RIAA in the US won't be able to hide behind excuses like "we're doing this for the artists".
It was never about the artists. From the beginning of copyright it was about the publishers.
You can run Skype on many PC's at the same time and answer on which ever one you are sitting at.
Good thing in principle, does not work so well in my case.
When I run Skype on 2 machines (e.g., at home and at work), it does not recognize when I am "away" and shows my status as "online" 24/7. It is enormous fun to get calls at 4am from relatives halfway across the globe because they see you as "at the keyboard". The Skype forum has been friendly but ultimately useless in addressing the problem.
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No you won't. He won't allow you to.
Counterexample: Discrete Fourier Transform and Discrete Wavelet Transform.
Sorry, but CS is not engineering by any stretch of the imagination.
"Computer science is as much about computers as astronomy is about telescopes."
- Edsgar Dijkstra.
I assume that meant the back seat.
Otherwise, the phrase "put the kids in the back" takes on a whole new meaning.
I suspect that the original figure was a nice, round, 2600 Kelvin.
So here's a question:
How does MSE compare to a combination of free AntiVirus and firewall (say, Avast! + Comodo)?
According to Wikipedia, Oracle's operating income is US$8.32e+09.
If we compare it to a nice salary of, say, $100K, the $10K fine would be equivalent to fining the hypothetical person 12 cents.
Where to I sign up?
Some animals are more equal than others.
Um, no. Corporations are amoral.
Under the presumption of innocence, the ones you don't hear about are, by definition, not criminals.
You do not advertise that you have a knife when it can goad your foe into getting a gun.
Has anyone, anywhere was ever brought up on "perjury charges for deliberately making a false DMCA claim"?
In most of the places I've worked, I was lucky to have managers, not bosses.
The difference is subtle but very important.
Thanks!
I hate to go [citation needed] on you but I'd really like to see your data.
So far my googling managed to find:
http://nces.ed.gov/timss/table07_1.asp
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0930085.html
http://imo.math.ca/results/CRBY.html
[citation needed]
And by "citation", I mean "peer-reviewed results of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study".
Unfortunately for eBay, they originally bought them for quite a bit more.
Please explain how the camel is more likely to carry such diseases than, say, the ox, goat, gazelle, deer or giraffe. Similarly, please make the case against the eel and the sturgeon. On the other hand, please explain why the locust is safer than any other insect. While you're at it, I'd like to hear your take on why horses and rabbits are more likely to transmit diseases to Jews than to Muslims.
Were you a Christian, Moslem or Jew before?
You are forgetting a couple of facts:
1. Israel has mandatory conscription (with few exceptions) therefore most male (and some female) citizens aged between 18 and mid-forties are either reservists or on active duty.
2. Sometime in the late '80s the IDF decided to mandate that all officers and career military personnel carry a firearm when they are in uniform (including en-route to or from leaves). Quite a number of them, particularly those in non-combat units who commuted daily to their bases and back, opted to purchase a personal handgun instead of lugging an assault rifle or a sub-machine gun. As you have correctly noted, a CCW permit is very easy to get when you're on active duty. However, it is also very easy to keep it after you get discharged. While a lot of those relinquished their firearms after being discharged (gun ownership does come with some inconveniences, especially if you have kids around the house), some decided to keep them.
[Note: the requirement was canceled some time in the '90s so the dynamics changed then]
3. Work as a security guard often requires CCW permits and the process of getting one, once you're hired, is simplified. But, as I noted above, keeping (actually, renewing) a permit is easier than obtaining one.
Disclaimer: My information is pre-2000, I don't know if anything changed after that.
They would also not have the feeling that they are above the law and the resources to cover up and/or misrepresent the incidents.
Look at it that way, if the average miscreant has a choice between shoving someone that can shove back and someone who cannot, who would they choose?
Now put that miscreant in a uniform and suddenly the number of people able to shove back is drastically reduced.
How about the newer HTC Touch Pro2?
Or, for that matter, the Samsung OmniaPRO or Acer M900?
It was never about the artists.
From the beginning of copyright it was about the publishers.
It is a sad day when US citizenry turns to China to protect their freedoms.
Good thing in principle, does not work so well in my case.
When I run Skype on 2 machines (e.g., at home and at work), it does not recognize when I am "away" and shows my status as "online" 24/7. It is enormous fun to get calls at 4am from relatives halfway across the globe because they see you as "at the keyboard". The Skype forum has been friendly but ultimately useless in addressing the problem.