In France, we have such thing and they can be enforced, but not only the clause has to be very restrictive, your former employer has to pay you to enforce it.
The way european democracy works is that if the non-elected european commission chooses to have SW patents after some hollidays sponsored by big american SW compagnies, all the european countries will have to implement them fast or be fined.
Don't give yourself too much importance. From what we translated from roman and greek scientific texts, the bible was already in contradiction whith the physics of the time it was written.
Evolution is a two phase process: diversification and selection and in those papers, only the selection part is important since we are talking about doctors using antimicrobial drugs and therefore selecting the resistant strains by killing the other ones, and not how these strains appeared in the first place (which is the intersting part of the evolution theory).
For many of those countries, having broadband internet is not exactly a top priority. When it starts with: -avoiding war areas. -securing clean food and water supply. -having access to decent medical services and education. -getting a job that pays more than the poverty level.... then even slow internet is a luxury that comes way behind a decent home, clothes, meat, a vehicule, electricity, a TV...
Yes, so maybe I should have written "significant proportion of O2". Photolysis does indeed produce some O2, but in very low quantities compared to the available water and energy (most of the energy goes into evaporation), and O2 is a very reactive (and therefore short-living) molecule.
Just remember than while the earth had large oceans for more than 90% of its existence (and life for almost as long), it has an atmospheric O2 percentage above 1% since only half of that duration (geological traces indicate that the O2 percentage rose in a very short duration (tens of millions years) from traces to approx. the current percentage just after the photosynthesis was invented).
Theorically, they could already since all they need is to detect O2, which is very very unlikely to exist without life, but the hardest part would be to be able to detect and scan rocky planets.
Maybe it is already the case. Remember that we are talking about about a country in which more member of the government had to resign due to personal issues going public than because of real political reasons. So I would bet they are already spying on each other just in case they could use those information to trash an opponent.
That's exactly the other way around. They agreed on a price and signed a contract, then Amazon realized it commited a mistake and unilaterally changed the contract afterwards to charge more than what they and the customer agreed on.
A better version of your analogy would have been "my bank accidentally transfered money to my account then called the police to arrest me".
This guy may be the first AMERICAN presidential candidate on second life, but we already have a few french presidential candidates there for a couple of mounthes now.
To me it, realy worked in both way. I bought many CDs from artists I wouldn't have considered purshassing without a free trial, and almost as often, I could avoid to buy a CD when I discovered that the "artist" could only produce total crap without the backup of the seasoned writers, composers, producers, techies and additional musicians called in to have a semi-decent single (I sometimes however check other works from these backup guys).
As a french, I'm also faced with a similar issue with TV series: many of them are released in DVD but never broadcast on TV, so downloading the first few episodes is often my only way of knowing if I want to buy them or not.
That's easy, all you have to do is to crash the moon, and as a bonus, you'll have far enough dust in the atmosphere to totally cancel the greenhouse effect and few enough survivors sothat you won't have to worry about natural resources for a few hundred million years.
Well, maybe they would have to send someone to the UN to show an ADSL modem and tell the security council that their attackers have hundreds of thousands of similar ones.
You're funny but wrong, TV suppress intelligent thoughts, not primitive reactions. It is useless for the purpose of reducing violent crimes, but of course, a dictatorship could really see the benefit of that tool.
While I'm on overall a nice person and I never used physical violence or voluntarily endangered anyone since the age of 15 (and never really hurt anyone ever) but beside the intelectual "conspiracy" ("Hey! their security is so lame I would just have to do this to walk away with a lot of cash"), I have at least 5 murder urges each day (towards my boss, politicians, bad drivers, the stupid IT guy down here, smokers... so cops randomly arresting and questionning me on something I didn't do and wasting a lot of public money in the process will have a 200% chance of triggering that, even if I know it could mean life (or death) sentence.
I'm sure of that because I'm the king of person who have an almost normal blood pressure, but a lethal one when I'm half naked on a doctor's table. My brain knows I'm not in danger, but my body is overreacting to the perceived threat.
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You mean, like the test page they made with every typewritter in the USSR?
In France, we have such thing and they can be enforced, but not only the clause has to be very restrictive, your former employer has to pay you to enforce it.
That foam really tied the fuel tank together, did it not?
How could someone who swear he believes in something he has never actually saw could be competent to testify as a witness?
The way european democracy works is that if the non-elected european commission chooses to have SW patents after some hollidays sponsored by big american SW compagnies, all the european countries will have to implement them fast or be fined.
Don't give yourself too much importance. From what we translated from roman and greek scientific texts, the bible was already in contradiction whith the physics of the time it was written.
You are absolutely right.
Evolution is a two phase process: diversification and selection and in those papers, only the selection part is important since we are talking about doctors using antimicrobial drugs and therefore selecting the resistant strains by killing the other ones, and not how these strains appeared in the first place (which is the intersting part of the evolution theory).
Well, as long as the bullies don't plan to go to Canada within the next 200 years, it should pose no problem.
For many of those countries, having broadband internet is not exactly a top priority. When it starts with: ...
-avoiding war areas.
-securing clean food and water supply.
-having access to decent medical services and education.
-getting a job that pays more than the poverty level.
then even slow internet is a luxury that comes way behind a decent home, clothes, meat, a vehicule, electricity, a TV...
Yes, so maybe I should have written "significant proportion of O2". Photolysis does indeed produce some O2, but in very low quantities compared to the available water and energy (most of the energy goes into evaporation), and O2 is a very reactive (and therefore short-living) molecule.
Just remember than while the earth had large oceans for more than 90% of its existence (and life for almost as long), it has an atmospheric O2 percentage above 1% since only half of that duration (geological traces indicate that the O2 percentage rose in a very short duration (tens of millions years) from traces to approx. the current percentage just after the photosynthesis was invented).
Theorically, they could already since all they need is to detect O2, which is very very unlikely to exist without life, but the hardest part would be to be able to detect and scan rocky planets.
Maybe it is already the case. Remember that we are talking about about a country in which more member of the government had to resign due to personal issues going public than because of real political reasons.
So I would bet they are already spying on each other just in case they could use those information to trash an opponent.
I hope he stays under the radar of any RIAA swat team.
As long as there is no shark among these 'new species', I'm really getting tired of that joke...
I knew there was a reason we love the Scotish so much.
That's exactly the other way around. They agreed on a price and signed a contract, then Amazon realized it commited a mistake and unilaterally changed the contract afterwards to charge more than what they and the customer agreed on.
A better version of your analogy would have been "my bank accidentally transfered money to my account then called the police to arrest me".
This guy may be the first AMERICAN presidential candidate on second life, but we already have a few french presidential candidates there for a couple of mounthes now.
To me it, realy worked in both way. I bought many CDs from artists I wouldn't have considered purshassing without a free trial, and almost as often, I could avoid to buy a CD when I discovered that the "artist" could only produce total crap without the backup of the seasoned writers, composers, producers, techies and additional musicians called in to have a semi-decent single (I sometimes however check other works from these backup guys).
As a french, I'm also faced with a similar issue with TV series: many of them are released in DVD but never broadcast on TV, so downloading the first few episodes is often my only way of knowing if I want to buy them or not.
I've just read an article a couples of hours ago saying that the song that Yahoo was selling without DRM seriously outperformed those with DRM.
That's easy, all you have to do is to crash the moon, and as a bonus, you'll have far enough dust in the atmosphere to totally cancel the greenhouse effect and few enough survivors sothat you won't have to worry about natural resources for a few hundred million years.
Next MS ad: ...yet"
"No one has ever been executed for having chosen a Microsoft product
Well, maybe they would have to send someone to the UN to show an ADSL modem and tell the security council that their attackers have hundreds of thousands of similar ones.
You're funny but wrong, TV suppress intelligent thoughts, not primitive reactions. It is useless for the purpose of reducing violent crimes, but of course, a dictatorship could really see the benefit of that tool.
While I'm on overall a nice person and I never used physical violence or voluntarily endangered anyone since the age of 15 (and never really hurt anyone ever) but beside the intelectual "conspiracy" ("Hey! their security is so lame I would just have to do this to walk away with a lot of cash"), I have at least 5 murder urges each day (towards my boss, politicians, bad drivers, the stupid IT guy down here, smokers... so cops randomly arresting and questionning me on something I didn't do and wasting a lot of public money in the process will have a 200% chance of triggering that, even if I know it could mean life (or death) sentence.
I'm sure of that because I'm the king of person who have an almost normal blood pressure, but a lethal one when I'm half naked on a doctor's table. My brain knows I'm not in danger, but my body is overreacting to the perceived threat.
How could you stop them? FBI snippers are not trained to aim at people performing circle-straff-rocket-jumps all the time.