ya know, that's only Slightly more power than the monarchy has in NZ. (in that there are limits on just Who can be appointed for the top executive jobs and i'm not sure exactly how much imput they have into the judiciary since our parliament somehow did an end run around the fact that the privy council (basically stand ins for the monarch as final court of appeal much as the GG is as head of the executive) after they had the nerve to rule Against the government. (somehow passed a law, (and how the Fuck the GG at the time thought signing it was in the best interest of Queen OR country, i don't know. should have been immediately replaced for that one, at best. *ponders* that may or may not have been when we somehow had a republican GG. i don't know how the fuck that happens.) that replaced the Privy council with a high court here in NZ... which was under the thumb of parliament... where do i sign up to become a cavalier again?)
i lost track of my nested parenthesis.... hopefully this is intelligible.
yes, it's angry rant on the state of the NZ government as compared to it's constitution. again. move along.
forget all the nonsense about sales and resales and liscences and what have you, the fact that the transaction goes beyond 'we have seeds. you want seeds. you have money, we want money. you give us money, we give you seeds. deal is done' in the first place is an utter nonsense.
they're bloody SEEDS.
if nothing else, they're naturally self replicating. attempting to write contracts saying they shouldn't is about as intelligent as contracts saying fish shouldn't swim, and if the farmer is doing the labour, and the thing is growing on his land, why should he not sell the result? he bought seed, he used seed, the end result was more seed, which was then used and/or sold.
gah.
forget the logic of the ruling, the logic of a system that allows the situation to arise in the first place is bad enough that the best solution to the problem involves judicious use of artillery.
while it's possible that it does, i can see all sorts of practical reasons why that would Not be encrypted.
i mean, every single tower and phone has to be able to decrypt it anyway, and the key would have to be standard across devices or something because it's basically a 'hey, i'm over here. ask me for the pass word so i can access your functions!' type message. that key would have to work cross-network, too. so it's highly likely that, due to the only meaningful differences being cost and that one bit of legal protection for their Customers, the cellphone companies wouldn't do it.
not that i actually know what the case is, of course. so it doesn't really answer your question, but does explain the logic. (i hope. if i did it right.)
more common is for another part of the apparatus of government to call them on it and things to be halted that way, but even that is not as common as it should be compared to instances of such activity.
heh. i can see your point, Any Mouse, the joke is, none the less, there.
'no, it's not just a bucket of pain thrown at the canvas, it's a deep meaningful expression of everything that is meaningful about all life!' 'come off it mate, i was standing right there. you took the lid off the can of pant and threw it at the canvas, then spent the rest of the day plotting how to market it!' 'either way, the gallery offered me several thousand for it.'
'tis amusing, however valid the points are or aren't.
for anyone who cares enough to wonder but not enough to do the maths, if i've not screwed up, the above can give you anywhere from 1 cent to 200 billion dollars if you execute at all. (though i think the first table had it right with the possiblity of getting negative numbers as outputs.)
(obviously, if you do nothing at all (no execution) you get nothing one way or the other.)
that's actually common behaviour. lots of people with issues end up doing that and don't even notice. heck, i'd go so far as to say that most people do it to some extent, at least occasionaly.
highly exasperating, at best, for those who notice it and have to deal with them.
*blinks* that... doesn't make much sense and doesn't actually line up with the nature of the articles (or in the case of this article, comments) posted here.
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harm aside, isn't that what happened with most US 'Discoveries' etc over the last century or so?
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ya know, that's only Slightly more power than the monarchy has in NZ. (in that there are limits on just Who can be appointed for the top executive jobs and i'm not sure exactly how much imput they have into the judiciary since our parliament somehow did an end run around the fact that the privy council (basically stand ins for the monarch as final court of appeal much as the GG is as head of the executive) after they had the nerve to rule Against the government. (somehow passed a law, (and how the Fuck the GG at the time thought signing it was in the best interest of Queen OR country, i don't know. should have been immediately replaced for that one, at best. *ponders* that may or may not have been when we somehow had a republican GG. i don't know how the fuck that happens.) that replaced the Privy council with a high court here in NZ... which was under the thumb of parliament... where do i sign up to become a cavalier again?)
i lost track of my nested parenthesis.... hopefully this is intelligible.
yes, it's angry rant on the state of the NZ government as compared to it's constitution. again. move along.
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there's a fundamental flaw in the logic of having a music store follow your plan. see if you can spot it.
(i do agree with the sentiment though.)
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they're bloody SEEDS.
if nothing else, they're naturally self replicating. attempting to write contracts saying they shouldn't is about as intelligent as contracts saying fish shouldn't swim, and if the farmer is doing the labour, and the thing is growing on his land, why should he not sell the result? he bought seed, he used seed, the end result was more seed, which was then used and/or sold.
gah.
forget the logic of the ruling, the logic of a system that allows the situation to arise in the first place is bad enough that the best solution to the problem involves judicious use of artillery.
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need a bit more of that.
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i mean, every single tower and phone has to be able to decrypt it anyway, and the key would have to be standard across devices or something because it's basically a 'hey, i'm over here. ask me for the pass word so i can access your functions!' type message. that key would have to work cross-network, too. so it's highly likely that, due to the only meaningful differences being cost and that one bit of legal protection for their Customers, the cellphone companies wouldn't do it.
not that i actually know what the case is, of course. so it doesn't really answer your question, but does explain the logic. (i hope. if i did it right.)
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more common is for another part of the apparatus of government to call them on it and things to be halted that way, but even that is not as common as it should be compared to instances of such activity.
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'no, it's not just a bucket of pain thrown at the canvas, it's a deep meaningful expression of everything that is meaningful about all life!' 'come off it mate, i was standing right there. you took the lid off the can of pant and threw it at the canvas, then spent the rest of the day plotting how to market it!' 'either way, the gallery offered me several thousand for it.'
'tis amusing, however valid the points are or aren't.
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'this should be funny'
but then somehow i'm not so much amused as lost.
wonder what's up with that?
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(obviously, if you do nothing at all (no execution) you get nothing one way or the other.)
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highly exasperating, at best, for those who notice it and have to deal with them.
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fun side effect of God not being limited to the same subset of dimensions as we are (if any).
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apparently.
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nice job being completely irrelevant.
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