You may be required to have the ID with you, but I have never been asked to show it on either outbound or inbound airport.
Just showing the ticket (or even just putting the ticket in the automatic check-in machine, not even talking to a human being) has been enough to get a boarding pass and that's it. But then I am neither dark skinned or wearing a head scarf (concerning the random check), not that the automatic machine knows that.
I believe the passport had to be shown once, when passing into one of the new EU countries, before it became a member. But showing the cover (EU passport) was enough then, they didn't bother opening it. (Kissing up?)
You are required to have valid ID (like EU passport) on you as an EU citizen while you are inside the EU.
You are not required to have or show any passport when passing internal EU country borders.
I have never heard of any EU citizen that's been asked by the police to show ID (passport).
Basically the ID requirement is part of the Schengen agreement (passport-less travel) which declares open internal borders, but requires identification so that when you do a felony and are picked up by the police can prove you are an EU citizen and hence may remain. Non-EU citizens are deported after jail-term.
Concerning your "how their laws could allow for such intrusion in basic marketing practices":
Well, I would say that in any country, union, federal state, etc, it is possible for the government or similar body to do just about anything.
You just have to pass a new law in the body that makes up laws, like the Congress in the USA. Or you pass a law that alter/kill an old law. It isn't like laws are cut in stone and eternal.
Also basically, with the government monopoly on violence (think police, military, etc), they don't really have to abide to the laws of the people.
Utilities
If the behavior required by POSIX.2, POSIX.2a, XPG4, SUS, or
SUSv2 conflicts with historical Solaris utility behavior,
the original Solaris version of the utility is unchanged; a
new version that is standard-conforming has been provided in /usr/xpg4/bin. For applications wishing to take advantage of
POSIX.2, POSIX.2a, XPG4, SUS, or SUSv2 features, the PATH
(sh or ksh) or path (csh) environment variables should be
set with/usr/xpg4/bin preceding any other directories in
which utilities specified by those specifications are
found, such as/bin,/usr/bin,/usr/ucb, and/usr/ccs/bin.
X/Open CAE Specification Description Release
XPG4 superset of POSIX.1-1990, Solaris 2.4
POSIX.2-1992, and
POSIX.2a-1992 containing
extensions to POSIX stan-
dards from XPG3
Well, among other things.../usr/bin contains the Solaris System V binaries, so for people needing legacy BSD stuff (for compatibility), there is/usr/ucb where you find those binaries. Sometimes the nakes clash you know. There is also/usr/ucbinclude and/usr/ucblib.
You also have/usr/xpg4 which contain other binaries, again with names that might clash with/usr. A "man pr" on Solaris 9 gives for example:
Not sure I would classify this as well-written considering the author seems to have no idea of Solaris legacy nor why for example directory hierarchy is as it is. Seems like the normal uninformed Linux-is-the-real-Unix review.
I do not see why you should remove the rights of the people to sell their vote. Seems like you like restricting what people are allowed to do and also would like to remove even more rights and liberties of the people. Commie???
Can you explain what is wrong with vote buying? We live in a democratic and market society, so why shouldn't people be allowed to sell their vote to the highest bidder? Seems a lot liek you are trying to force something onto people that they don't want.
Sure, but it takes years to change laws like that, and currently ink on paper is what is says in contract law.
Yeah, you can always go to your bank and say you didn't do the purcahse recorded.
There is nothing dishonest about it. EULA/click-wraps are not a valid agreement in the EU. Hence you can ignore them. You are not being dishonest, you are just ignoring "information" that is not relevant to you. You never enter into any agreement, as the form is not recognized as a legal form of contract.
I see your latter point, but that is not the current situation. The situation may change, but that day is the day to start worrying about clicking on EULAs. Until the law is changed, EULAs are just to be ignored, the toilet paper they are.
Lots of stuff in consumer law that can't be signed away, not even in an EULA. Things like right to give away product, right to 2 year limited warrenty, and so on. So using the EULA as a law modifier might be hard.
Sure, then you just don't buy their software and hence don't sign the paper.
It is up to you if you sign a contract or not. But there is no way they can wave some unsigned EULA at you and think it will ever hold.
A way around this is of course to have a friend buy and sign the contract, and then give the software to you as a gift. You are not under contract then and can do whatever. The right to resell/give away the software cannot be contracted away.
Also, there is consumer law which regulates the sellers obligation to you as consumer and your rights as a consumer. This law cannot be signed away in any contract.
I would say credit/debit cards are much less common in the EU than in the USA. Here you most likely pay by cash in a local store or when you order over the Internet, you pay for the parcel at the postal office when you pick it up.
Also, if you pay by credit/debit card you enter your 4 digit PIN code at the terminal (every store has had these terminals for more than 10 years now) and hence never sign any "slip".
That is, binding agreements must be signed (by pen, possibly by government approved digital signature), and maybe even witnessed by two people. This rules out non-signed agreements like click-wrapps and shrink-wrapps.
How is it in the USA? Are you allowed to record a conversation between two people if you are one of them?
Here it is legal to record conversations (anyone may do so) if one of the two participants know about the recording. So you may record the counter part on the phone as you know you are doing it.
The list was never released by the state department (UD) in Sweden due to fear of this as it happened earlier when lists such as this was released to the public. So somebody told you a lie about it happening this time.
The thing that did happen was that when newspapers and tabloids published names and photos of missing that relatives sent them; then some of those were robbed.
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You may be required to have the ID with you, but I have never been asked to show it on either outbound or inbound airport.
Just showing the ticket (or even just putting the ticket in the automatic check-in machine, not even talking to a human being) has been enough to get a boarding pass and that's it. But then I am neither dark skinned or wearing a head scarf (concerning the random check), not that the automatic machine knows that.
I believe the passport had to be shown once, when passing into one of the new EU countries, before it became a member. But showing the cover (EU passport) was enough then, they didn't bother opening it. (Kissing up?)
Wikipedia link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Treaty
You could consider this:
You are required to have valid ID (like EU passport) on you as an EU citizen while you are inside the EU.
You are not required to have or show any passport when passing internal EU country borders.
I have never heard of any EU citizen that's been asked by the police to show ID (passport).
Basically the ID requirement is part of the Schengen agreement (passport-less travel) which declares open internal borders, but requires identification so that when you do a felony and are picked up by the police can prove you are an EU citizen and hence may remain. Non-EU citizens are deported after jail-term.
Concerning your "how their laws could allow for such intrusion in basic marketing practices":
Well, I would say that in any country, union, federal state, etc, it is possible for the government or similar body to do just about anything.
You just have to pass a new law in the body that makes up laws, like the Congress in the USA. Or you pass a law that alter/kill an old law. It isn't like laws are cut in stone and eternal.
Also basically, with the government monopoly on violence (think police, military, etc), they don't really have to abide to the laws of the people.
ucb -> university california berkeley
You also have
Not sure I would classify this as well-written considering the author seems to have no idea of Solaris legacy nor why for example directory hierarchy is as it is. Seems like the normal uninformed Linux-is-the-real-Unix review.
I do not see why you should remove the rights of the people to sell their vote. Seems like you like restricting what people are allowed to do and also would like to remove even more rights and liberties of the people. Commie???
Can you explain what is wrong with vote buying? We live in a democratic and market society, so why shouldn't people be allowed to sell their vote to the highest bidder? Seems a lot liek you are trying to force something onto people that they don't want.
Sure, but it takes years to change laws like that, and currently ink on paper is what is says in contract law.
Yeah, you can always go to your bank and say you didn't do the purcahse recorded.
There is nothing dishonest about it. EULA/click-wraps are not a valid agreement in the EU. Hence you can ignore them. You are not being dishonest, you are just ignoring "information" that is not relevant to you. You never enter into any agreement, as the form is not recognized as a legal form of contract.
I see your latter point, but that is not the current situation. The situation may change, but that day is the day to start worrying about clicking on EULAs. Until the law is changed, EULAs are just to be ignored, the toilet paper they are.
Lots of stuff in consumer law that can't be signed away, not even in an EULA. Things like right to give away product, right to 2 year limited warrenty, and so on. So using the EULA as a law modifier might be hard.
Sure, then you just don't buy their software and hence don't sign the paper.
It is up to you if you sign a contract or not. But there is no way they can wave some unsigned EULA at you and think it will ever hold.
A way around this is of course to have a friend buy and sign the contract, and then give the software to you as a gift. You are not under contract then and can do whatever. The right to resell/give away the software cannot be contracted away.
Also, there is consumer law which regulates the sellers obligation to you as consumer and your rights as a consumer. This law cannot be signed away in any contract.
The EULA is not a recognized contract from start, so Microsoft can change their EULA all they want. It is no more legally binding because of that.
Whatever they write in their EULA, it is not enforcable unless you have signed it with ink on paper.
I would say credit/debit cards are much less common in the EU than in the USA. Here you most likely pay by cash in a local store or when you order over the Internet, you pay for the parcel at the postal office when you pick it up.
Also, if you pay by credit/debit card you enter your 4 digit PIN code at the terminal (every store has had these terminals for more than 10 years now) and hence never sign any "slip".
That is, binding agreements must be signed (by pen, possibly by government approved digital signature), and maybe even witnessed by two people. This rules out non-signed agreements like click-wrapps and shrink-wrapps.
EULA and click-wrapping are basically not enforcable in the EU. Worth their weight in toilet paper.
http://home.gna.org/drall/
You can turn off/on the file upload feature (and most other features as well), either globally or for specific users.
... people are starving. Great people spend time thinking of current problems.
How is it in the USA? Are you allowed to record a conversation between two people if you are one of them?
Here it is legal to record conversations (anyone may do so) if one of the two participants know about the recording. So you may record the counter part on the phone as you know you are doing it.
The list was never released by the state department (UD) in Sweden due to fear of this as it happened earlier when lists such as this was released to the public. So somebody told you a lie about it happening this time.
The thing that did happen was that when newspapers and tabloids published names and photos of missing that relatives sent them; then some of those were robbed.
Pretty swell. Friday after 7pm to Monday 7am means 2x overtime. More announcements of Friday afternoon please. Need that extra money.