since lisbon treaty last year, ANYthing that is done by Eu commission has to be approved by parliament to be valid. Parliament can also cancel anything Eu commission did before they had to take their approval. Like the SWIFT bank transfer treaty that required eu to give out private about people doing bank transactions with u.s.
since lisbon treaty last year, Eu parliament has the power. they canceled the swift agreement with usa that allowed cia, nsa to gather info about swift users.
and what is the fucking reason they are going bankrupt ? huh ? the very fact that a particular G5 nation allowed its finance industry to SCAM entire world, to the extent of bankrupting countries ?
and DESPITE the fact that they are going bankrupt, they have been able to hand out over $1 trillion combined with no hassles, and with REAL money instead of printing money from their central banks, in order to fix the global crisis YOU have created ? your congressmen have been whining that us govt didnt have the money to do the bailout in the meantime, and fed has been printing money like a banana republic to ready the cash.
excuse me mister, but, your country is being a burden on entire world. its time you fixed those private bloodsucker corporations of yours.
until 1-2 years ago, lobbies of private interests ignored Eu parliament, because it held no power and it was a 'novelty' parliament. Pretty little parliament.
Lisbon treaty ended up giving powers to Eu parliament. Now, there is a powerful parliament, members of which were elected not through lobby support, but popular support and concerns.
right at the time they were trying to push acta to put a stranglehold on internet and emerging technologies and people's rights.... and there is not enough time to wait for reelection so that they can support their puppet representatives to power - not that they could easily though - europe is close to 1 billion people, and members get elected from all countries. its not something similar to dominating us houses or brit parliament...
if you are a eu citizen, or if you are a eu candidate country's citizen, or if you are working for a company with its headquarters is in eu, you can petition Eu parliament directly.
send your petition. be warned, this is not an ordinary 'web' petition. if you fill your details correctly, it is a real petition that will be processed by real people in relevant Eu parliament offices. and its the official page.
European parliament have been trying to fight for ordinary people's rights even when they had NO authority in the previous decades. leave aside a parliament representing entire europe not to have any authority being an appalling thing, it would be even appalling and so 'american like' if they hadnt used their authority right now, in this issue.
and, its about acta. acta undermines VERY fundamental european ideals regarding freedoms. like, freedom of thought, speech. this is why the parliament outright stated that no form of 3 strikes can be allowed under any circumstances.
i dont know why some people spew shit without having their facts straight...
European Union and European Parliament represent the age of enlightenment and humanist ideals. Upon these facts were all the previously warring countries were united. (they were in ww 2 just 5-10 years ago). And up to this point, Eu and Eu Parliament have properly acted as people's organizations, protecting the rights of 'the people' rather than industries' and private interests', even at the risk of hampering those industries.
no its not quite clever. if you try hard, you can find a 'self preservation' motive in everything.
first of all, noone, no country on the face of the planet would want to be american corporations' bitch in regard to intellectual property and internet.
it was in low countries (netherlands and belgium) that the first baselines for age of reason were laid, and it was in late 18th century france that age of enlightenment (which has created the concept of rights of the ordinary man and equality) has come to being.
there is nothing to be ashamed or feel inferior or hate. these are fundamental principles that go beyond and above nationalities and locales. we should all support these from wherever, from whomever they come out.
it was the acta participant countries' ministers who were going along with acta. Eu, with its bureaucracy and parliament, havent supported acta at any point. and see, Parliament acted against it.
now we all need to gather behind the parliament, regardless who and where are we from. american and belgian, swedish or italian. even hindu, japanese, brasilian.
if you are from Eu or from an Eu candidate status country, you can officially petition European Parliament. this is a legal right. you can do it online, or you can do it with snail mail, as long as you put your name, address correctly. they all are valid and processed.
they are implemented good. so far what i have seen in all those 'physics' engine games (irrelevant of whose engine is it) has been geometrically constructed splinters and pieces flying around. it takes more away from realism than it delivers, because the visuals they create (ie the distribution and nature of the destruction) is generally unrealistic.
i wouldnt even care if physx was the biggest software innovation of the century - in gaming, especially in regard to graphics, we have suffered a lot because of proprietary shit in the last 2 decades. i dont want to see that again. even if its coarse, inadequate at the start, everyone should push for open standards so that we wont get in deep trouble later.
whenever i discuss with a conservative american, they always counter with the bullshit that is 'american system is the best there can be, and "socialism has failed"'. after reminding them socialism != communism, and what they term socialism is named social democracy in europe and has been working miracles in the latter half of the century, i end up having to give them examples. generally i give scandinavian countries as examples. because they have been made believe 'america is the best and there is nothing else', they generally come up never having researched or wondered how people live in other countries.
it always ends up the same way ; when i establish it with various citations and statistics from international sources that all the stuff they thought cannot work well (like public healthcare etc) has been working very well in these countries, they always come up with the same brainmelting objection ; 'but it curtails innovation and enterprise'. no surprise, because since they never wondered what was happening around the world elsewhere, being so self-indulged, i end up having to establish that a lot of the innovations and inventions we have been using lately has been coming from those places. (first osmosis plant, wood chip plant, recently ended 30 year long gsm usage versus cancer rate research, first humongous, datacenter-grade home internet connection test - examples are countless).
this is just another example i will end up using while waking them up to the wide, wide world.
Even in Europe a class action will be a hard sell to judges.
Eu has its own bureaus that deal justice to bloodthirsty companies. suing is generally not needed.
ESRI, who prefer to license ArcGIS yearly haven't had their product shoved anywhere by EU regulations, same with Pitney Bowes. Why, because they put a whole bunch of legalese in their license agreement which is accepted by the customer at the time of purchase. In order for Ubisoft to do the same the most they will have to do is put a small warning on the outside of the box.
why, because probably no customer saw any reason to file a complaint, leave aside sue, and the commissions involved with regulations have probably didnt see these as any notable offenses.
world of warcraft is not a game that is sold. its an online service. its contract renewes every month. its a month to month contract. either party can back out of the contract at month's end.
world of warcraft client is sold to you at game purchase, and a right to an account. the real game is at the servers, it is an online service.
assassins creed 2 on the other hand, is sold as a product that is standalone, but it forces you to be online to play it.
unbelievable that there are innumerable people buying into the same shit. ill quote another response of mine - there seems to be a lot of people who doesnt have their legislative history straight:
you think this is something that can happen starting from 2006 and popping out in 2008 ? so, you think scamming ENTIRE world takes just 2 years ?
did you know that when then democratic congress, starting from 2006 attempted to check into banks, they were barred by bush administration and republicans, yelling 'hands off business - you'll cost americans jobs !' ?
did you know that this 'deregulation' process has been started with alan greenspan in reagan era and continued picking up pace, culminating in its apex with bushies getting elected on top of a republican congress ?
during 2001-2006 they went all out with that 'deregulation'. leave aside bringing new standards to financial institutions, they even didnt employ the existing regulation mechanics in that era. banks could do anything they want without any interference.
before having an opinion, get your history straight first.
these are your promises. what you have to do will be defined by law in the end. just remember how some software companies are trying to push pay for use licenses, and trying to find ways to force previously paid customers to those licenses.
there is no such thing as british law. there's english law, scots law, northern ireland law, and what changes ? semantics.
the main core of the 'union' that is there is england. if the disparage in between england's and other member's laws increase, it will either lead to the adoption of same laws in the other members or dissolution of the union at its ultimate end.
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since lisbon treaty last year, ANYthing that is done by Eu commission has to be approved by parliament to be valid. Parliament can also cancel anything Eu commission did before they had to take their approval. Like the SWIFT bank transfer treaty that required eu to give out private about people doing bank transactions with u.s.
since lisbon treaty last year, Eu parliament has the power. they canceled the swift agreement with usa that allowed cia, nsa to gather info about swift users.
good relations with microsoft. neither for their partners, nor their consumers.
and if ie imposes its own standards to w3c, we developers are going to ignore their standards. its simple as that.
before they 'implemented' modern democracy, modern democracy was being practised in netherlands, britain already long before.
and what is the fucking reason they are going bankrupt ? huh ? the very fact that a particular G5 nation allowed its finance industry to SCAM entire world, to the extent of bankrupting countries ?
and DESPITE the fact that they are going bankrupt, they have been able to hand out over $1 trillion combined with no hassles, and with REAL money instead of printing money from their central banks, in order to fix the global crisis YOU have created ? your congressmen have been whining that us govt didnt have the money to do the bailout in the meantime, and fed has been printing money like a banana republic to ready the cash.
excuse me mister, but, your country is being a burden on entire world. its time you fixed those private bloodsucker corporations of yours.
until 1-2 years ago, lobbies of private interests ignored Eu parliament, because it held no power and it was a 'novelty' parliament. Pretty little parliament.
Lisbon treaty ended up giving powers to Eu parliament. Now, there is a powerful parliament, members of which were elected not through lobby support, but popular support and concerns.
right at the time they were trying to push acta to put a stranglehold on internet and emerging technologies and people's rights .... and there is not enough time to wait for reelection so that they can support their puppet representatives to power - not that they could easily though - europe is close to 1 billion people, and members get elected from all countries. its not something similar to dominating us houses or brit parliament...
funny how things turned out ...
https://www.secure.europarl.europa.eu/parliament/public/petition/secured/submit.do?language=EN
if you are a eu citizen, or if you are a eu candidate country's citizen, or if you are working for a company with its headquarters is in eu, you can petition Eu parliament directly.
https://www.secure.europarl.europa.eu/parliament/public/petition/secured/submit.do?language=EN
send your petition. be warned, this is not an ordinary 'web' petition. if you fill your details correctly, it is a real petition that will be processed by real people in relevant Eu parliament offices. and its the official page.
free market never works that way.
European parliament have been trying to fight for ordinary people's rights even when they had NO authority in the previous decades. leave aside a parliament representing entire europe not to have any authority being an appalling thing, it would be even appalling and so 'american like' if they hadnt used their authority right now, in this issue.
and, its about acta. acta undermines VERY fundamental european ideals regarding freedoms. like, freedom of thought, speech. this is why the parliament outright stated that no form of 3 strikes can be allowed under any circumstances.
i dont know why some people spew shit without having their facts straight ...
European Union and European Parliament represent the age of enlightenment and humanist ideals. Upon these facts were all the previously warring countries were united. (they were in ww 2 just 5-10 years ago). And up to this point, Eu and Eu Parliament have properly acted as people's organizations, protecting the rights of 'the people' rather than industries' and private interests', even at the risk of hampering those industries.
no its not quite clever. if you try hard, you can find a 'self preservation' motive in everything.
first of all, noone, no country on the face of the planet would want to be american corporations' bitch in regard to intellectual property and internet.
it was in low countries (netherlands and belgium) that the first baselines for age of reason were laid, and it was in late 18th century france that age of enlightenment (which has created the concept of rights of the ordinary man and equality) has come to being.
there is nothing to be ashamed or feel inferior or hate. these are fundamental principles that go beyond and above nationalities and locales. we should all support these from wherever, from whomever they come out.
it was the acta participant countries' ministers who were going along with acta. Eu, with its bureaucracy and parliament, havent supported acta at any point. and see, Parliament acted against it.
i told you Eu parliament wouldnt stand for this.
now we all need to gather behind the parliament, regardless who and where are we from. american and belgian, swedish or italian. even hindu, japanese, brasilian.
if you are from Eu or from an Eu candidate status country, you can officially petition European Parliament. this is a legal right. you can do it online, or you can do it with snail mail, as long as you put your name, address correctly. they all are valid and processed.
here is the link to official petition information page of Eu parliament :
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/parliament/public/staticDisplay.do?id=49
in decades now, a parliament is acting on people's behalf with no agenda. support your parliament.
the food health standards are forced too. despite most of the populace knowing no shit about them. but, it is necessary.
same thing here.
but i wonder what are Harald and Jarlssen doing. they havent been around since the last pillage ....
(sorry i couldnt resist)
they are implemented good. so far what i have seen in all those 'physics' engine games (irrelevant of whose engine is it) has been geometrically constructed splinters and pieces flying around. it takes more away from realism than it delivers, because the visuals they create (ie the distribution and nature of the destruction) is generally unrealistic.
i wouldnt even care if physx was the biggest software innovation of the century - in gaming, especially in regard to graphics, we have suffered a lot because of proprietary shit in the last 2 decades. i dont want to see that again. even if its coarse, inadequate at the start, everyone should push for open standards so that we wont get in deep trouble later.
whenever i discuss with a conservative american, they always counter with the bullshit that is 'american system is the best there can be, and "socialism has failed"'. after reminding them socialism != communism, and what they term socialism is named social democracy in europe and has been working miracles in the latter half of the century, i end up having to give them examples. generally i give scandinavian countries as examples. because they have been made believe 'america is the best and there is nothing else', they generally come up never having researched or wondered how people live in other countries.
it always ends up the same way ; when i establish it with various citations and statistics from international sources that all the stuff they thought cannot work well (like public healthcare etc) has been working very well in these countries, they always come up with the same brainmelting objection ; 'but it curtails innovation and enterprise'. no surprise, because since they never wondered what was happening around the world elsewhere, being so self-indulged, i end up having to establish that a lot of the innovations and inventions we have been using lately has been coming from those places. (first osmosis plant, wood chip plant, recently ended 30 year long gsm usage versus cancer rate research, first humongous, datacenter-grade home internet connection test - examples are countless).
this is just another example i will end up using while waking them up to the wide, wide world.
had you realized to do that sooner, like maybe 10 years ago, a lot might have changed in those countries by now.
Even in Europe a class action will be a hard sell to judges.
Eu has its own bureaus that deal justice to bloodthirsty companies. suing is generally not needed.
ESRI, who prefer to license ArcGIS yearly haven't had their product shoved anywhere by EU regulations, same with Pitney Bowes. Why, because they put a whole bunch of legalese in their license agreement which is accepted by the customer at the time of purchase. In order for Ubisoft to do the same the most they will have to do is put a small warning on the outside of the box.
why, because probably no customer saw any reason to file a complaint, leave aside sue, and the commissions involved with regulations have probably didnt see these as any notable offenses.
world of warcraft is not a game that is sold. its an online service. its contract renewes every month. its a month to month contract. either party can back out of the contract at month's end.
world of warcraft client is sold to you at game purchase, and a right to an account. the real game is at the servers, it is an online service.
assassins creed 2 on the other hand, is sold as a product that is standalone, but it forces you to be online to play it.
unbelievable that there are innumerable people buying into the same shit. ill quote another response of mine - there seems to be a lot of people who doesnt have their legislative history straight :
you think this is something that can happen starting from 2006 and popping out in 2008 ? so, you think scamming ENTIRE world takes just 2 years ?
did you know that when then democratic congress, starting from 2006 attempted to check into banks, they were barred by bush administration and republicans, yelling 'hands off business - you'll cost americans jobs !' ?
did you know that this 'deregulation' process has been started with alan greenspan in reagan era and continued picking up pace, culminating in its apex with bushies getting elected on top of a republican congress ?
during 2001-2006 they went all out with that 'deregulation'. leave aside bringing new standards to financial institutions, they even didnt employ the existing regulation mechanics in that era. banks could do anything they want without any interference.
before having an opinion, get your history straight first.
these are your promises. what you have to do will be defined by law in the end. just remember how some software companies are trying to push pay for use licenses, and trying to find ways to force previously paid customers to those licenses.
SO .
there is no such thing as british law. there's english law, scots law, northern ireland law, and what changes ? semantics.
the main core of the 'union' that is there is england. if the disparage in between england's and other member's laws increase, it will either lead to the adoption of same laws in the other members or dissolution of the union at its ultimate end.