The company I worked for was making "Energyy Management sytems" that contained ALL the features that are possible (apart from connection to the internet - which didn't exist at that time) in 1982.
It wasn't a great seller - because it was overkill on a trivial problem. Plus ca change....
Re: Re: Re: ...the US military is deeply involved in this practice
Assad is indeed a murdering tyrant.
No he isn't. He is a "front man" entrapped by the organisation of murdering tyrants that his father set up. (I know someone who actually met him before he was president!)
The trouble is the opposition are also murderous people
Not entirely - but then again they might as well be because if the opposition wins the endgame will inevitably be a takeover by people worse tha Assad's government. The non-murderous parts of the opposition are tolerated by the murderous parts because they attract western support. However once that western support is no longer needed they will be liquidated.
The practice was recently exposed by journalist, activist and mother Lyuda Savchuk, who spent three months employed as such a troll -- before successfully suing the Russian government for a single ruble on principle.
Note that this was a Russian court.
SO those who run Putin's "troll army" are not above the rule of law in Russia.
Compare and contrast with the way related issues are handled in the US. (Manning, Snowden, Assange etc).
I agree with his post and would have posted something similar and I can assure you that I not paid, neither have I been threatened.
The problem is this. Before 1917 Russia had an empire roughly equivalent to what later became the Soviet Union. Within that empire and on its immediate borders were peoples of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Many of these were hangovers from previous empires in the region (the Mongols , Poles and Lithuanians) and hence not truly indigenous. These peoples resented the Russians and looked back to earlier eras when they had been in charge.
The revolution (and some of the stupidity that followed it) temporarily weakened Russia and, between the wars some of these peoples gained independence. The war forced the communists to be a bit more pragmatic and restored Russian power.
After the war the Soviet Union expanded back to cover most of the old Russian Empire - and also gained control of a chunk of central europe (Poland, Hungary, East Germany etc ).
In our attempts to undermine communism we enlisted the help of disaffected nationalist groups in Central Europe and the old Russian Empire. This may have been a natural thing - since these groups were the best organised opponents of communism BUT their agenda was never purely anti-communist. It was always partly anti-Russian. We made the mistake of continuing to support them uncritically after communism fell. At that point we should have taken a deep breath and resolved not to take sides in any dispute that did not concern us directly. Instead we have simply continued to back any individual, group or government that opposes Russia no matter how bad they are. It is no surprise that the Russians are fed up with us and back Putin's hard line. They see a west that is determined to rub Russia's nose in the failure of the Soviet Union forever. I'm really quite surprised that Putin needs to bribe them to put his point of view on the net,
A little magnanimity in victory at the end of the cold war might have been a good idea.
t is important to note that the lost sales estimated in this report represent hypothetical additional revenue that the recorded music sector would have earned, had infringement not taken place.
I can give an accurate figure for that!
A big fat ZERO.
If the infringement had not taken place then the infringement would not have taken place - but that does not mean that anything else would necessarily have happened at all - and speially not anything that would have generated revenue.
He can't coach Man U until the deal is concluded. Presumably Man U want some of these rights as part of the deal and are trying to sort it out. However they have decided that they will go ahead anyway if it doesn't work out.
Customers are the nutcase protecting their wallet, so you need to crack them. And that requires to some degree an actual or seeming good which you need to provide them in order to bootstrap your business until you can replace them with suckers who don't get anything in return for their money.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Given the rather low percentages of terrorists out there
your liberties to drive like a maniac, drunk or unlicensed have been removed
Actually speed limits are rather more restrictive than that - and often quite a bit more restrictive than they need to be to achieve the stated purpose.
It follows exactly the same pattern.
I see those in authority behaving in exactly the same way in both cases.
witch-hunts (lovely Christian tradition a few centuries ago) Not a Christian tradition at all - at most a relatively recent Roman Catholic idea surprisingly adopted later by Protestants and almost never practised by Eastern Christians. see http://departments.kings.edu/womens_history/witch/werror.html
Re: Re: Regarding porn involvement as a negative...
I find it interesting that religions that are the most prudish in these matters (Islam, and it seems now Mormonism) often seem to be quite the opposite when it comes to the rights and behaviour of the ruling patriarchy. In particular both of these have allowed and in fact encouraged polygamy and even child marriage. I don't really take kindly to the idea of being given lessons in sexual morality from a bloke with four wives!
Re: Call out the intentional misuse of terminology
they were original articles that infringed on copyright. Is it copyright here - or trademark. I wouldn't have thought that there could be copyright in a logo and a simple phrase. There could however be trademark.
I think the result for Voltage Pictures should be like the result from WW1 for the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Like Austria-Hungary (in respect of Serbia) they have made a set of demands that they believe are unacceptable in the hope that their non-acceptance will give them an excuse to do what they want. Like Serbia Amhari has accepted the demands and now they are stuck.
The final result for the Austro-Hungarian empire was that it ceased to exist.
Let us hope that the same happens to Voltage Pictures.
This is a solution that can work. There is no reason, besides a stupid law, that prevents a school from doing this in a classroom, gym or a whole school. Block WiFi and flip a switch to cut of hard-wired internet.
That won't work because it ias the teachers (who would presumably have to implement it) who are responsible for the cheating!
she had sponsored the law which was aimed at keeping news publications from publishing photographs of those accused of crimes if they were wearing handcuffs or in scenes where it might somehow indicate a presumption of guilt. That in itself is a silly bit of control exerted by government over what might otherwise be a free press.
No it isn't - as anyone familiar with this case will be aware. People's lives can easily be ruined unnecessarily by the press jumping to conclusions - so in fact the law itself is a completely reasonable thing.
However I fully agree that in the current situation this law is clearly being misapplied to a ridiculous degree.
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Re: The devices are pretty much feature-complete
It wasn't a great seller - because it was overkill on a trivial problem. Plus ca change....
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Re: Re: Re: ...the US military is deeply involved in this practice
No he isn't. He is a "front man" entrapped by the organisation of murdering tyrants that his father set up. (I know someone who actually met him before he was president!)
The trouble is the opposition are also murderous people
Not entirely - but then again they might as well be because if the opposition wins the endgame will inevitably be a takeover by people worse tha Assad's government. The non-murderous parts of the opposition are tolerated by the murderous parts because they attract western support. However once that western support is no longer needed they will be liquidated.
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Rule of law
Note that this was a Russian court.
SO those who run Putin's "troll army" are not above the rule of law in Russia.
Compare and contrast with the way related issues are handled in the US. (Manning, Snowden, Assange etc).
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Propaganda
The problem is this. Before 1917 Russia had an empire roughly equivalent to what later became the Soviet Union. Within that empire and on its immediate borders were peoples of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Many of these were hangovers from previous empires in the region (the Mongols , Poles and Lithuanians) and hence not truly indigenous. These peoples resented the Russians and looked back to earlier eras when they had been in charge.
The revolution (and some of the stupidity that followed it) temporarily weakened Russia and, between the wars some of these peoples gained independence. The war forced the communists to be a bit more pragmatic and restored Russian power.
After the war the Soviet Union expanded back to cover most of the old Russian Empire - and also gained control of a chunk of central europe (Poland, Hungary, East Germany etc ).
In our attempts to undermine communism we enlisted the help of disaffected nationalist groups in Central Europe and the old Russian Empire. This may have been a natural thing - since these groups were the best organised opponents of communism BUT their agenda was never purely anti-communist. It was always partly anti-Russian. We made the mistake of continuing to support them uncritically after communism fell. At that point we should have taken a deep breath and resolved not to take sides in any dispute that did not concern us directly. Instead we have simply continued to back any individual, group or government that opposes Russia no matter how bad they are. It is no surprise that the Russians are fed up with us and back Putin's hard line. They see a west that is determined to rub Russia's nose in the failure of the Soviet Union forever. I'm really quite surprised that Putin needs to bribe them to put his point of view on the net,
A little magnanimity in victory at the end of the cold war might have been a good idea.
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Re: "Infringement" != Loss
t is important to note that the lost sales estimated in this report represent hypothetical additional revenue that the recorded music sector would have earned, had infringement not taken place.
I can give an accurate figure for that!
A big fat ZERO.
If the infringement had not taken place then the infringement would not have taken place - but that does not mean that anything else would necessarily have happened at all - and speially not anything that would have generated revenue.
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Re:
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Wrong question.
Nice piece of propaganda for Karl Marx!
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Given the rather low percentages of terrorists out there
Actually speed limits are rather more restrictive than that - and often quite a bit more restrictive than they need to be to achieve the stated purpose.
It follows exactly the same pattern.
I see those in authority behaving in exactly the same way in both cases.
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Re:
Do you mean face=palm? beacuse there are any out there who believe that they can read that information about people from their palms!
http://palmistryforyou.com/2014/12/the-hand-reading-of-terrorist.html
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Re:
Not a Christian tradition at all - at most a relatively recent Roman Catholic idea surprisingly adopted later by Protestants and almost never practised by Eastern Christians.
see http://departments.kings.edu/womens_history/witch/werror.html
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Re: Re: Re: Given the rather low percentages of terrorists out there
How about those pesky things called speed limits?
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Espeically
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Re: Child Marriage
And those same churches were also extremely prudish - which is exactly the point I was trying to make.
The key issue here is people in authority making one set of rules for everyone else - whilst living by a quite different set themselves.
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Re: Re: Regarding porn involvement as a negative...
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Re: Call out the intentional misuse of terminology
Is it copyright here - or trademark. I wouldn't have thought that there could be copyright in a logo and a simple phrase. There could however be trademark.
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Austro-Hungarian Outcome
The final result for the Austro-Hungarian empire was that it ceased to exist.
Let us hope that the same happens to Voltage Pictures.
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Re: A Common Sense Solid Solution.
That won't work because it ias the teachers (who would presumably have to implement it) who are responsible for the cheating!
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The original purpose of the law
No it isn't - as anyone familiar with this case will be aware. People's lives can easily be ruined unnecessarily by the press jumping to conclusions - so in fact the law itself is a completely reasonable thing.
However I fully agree that in the current situation this law is clearly being misapplied to a ridiculous degree.
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