Posts by Alan Firminger 508 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Aug 2008
Copyright exists as soon as a work is generated. No-one can copyright their work, there is no authority.
Copyright can be transferred. The copyright label tells you who claims to own the right, so a thief has no excuse.
But critical for any legal action is the measurement of loss. If something is freely available what is lost if it is duplicated for more public benefit ? The answer might be traffic.
I am glad to see the adult reaction of contributors above.
I well knew and liked John Friary, 1994 - 98, during my single term on Southwark Council.
And this is very, very sad. John is gross in form, weighing about 25 stone in old money. I doubt if he ever stood much chance of the mutual pleasures most of us take for granted.
The article tells that he was sentenced but not what he got, 21 months here : http://www.4ni.co.uk/northern_ireland_news.asp?id=135100 . I hope he gets out soon and recovers well.
The Comet skin was glued to the skeleton. No rivets didn't catch on, despite being innocent of causing the Comet 1 disasters.
The Comet 2 came into use at about the same time as the Boeing 707. As the Comet carried half the number of passengers than the 707 there was a lot of chatter about the advantages of point to point over hub to hub. The 707 sorted that out pretty quickly.
Ah memories! I went to Melbourne in a Comet, flying 1000 mile legs. At a refueling stop in the jungle they ushered us to tables for refreshment. The packs of sugar were labeled "Untouched by human hand."
I left W for U 10.04 , delightful.
I gave 10.10 a miss.
I took 11.04 , awful. The Admin drop down has gone so I have to learn the Linux commands, Firefox is cut back with no tab history drop down and the launcher strip down the side is dreadful with dancing ikons that all look the same. Location is more important than appearance, suppose at breakfast you pick up the marmalade and everything shifts round one place.
I think emigration is the only option.
The word patent means open for anyone to know. A secret patent is a contradiction in terms. It isn't just linguistics. Patents are open for anyone to know so that when the period of exclusivity expires everybody has access to the invention.
What is meant is that MS have thousands of patents and they are not saying which ones are being infringed.
1 Where's the 'plane.
The mousehole in the Pentagon was made by something much smaller than a Boeing 757. When an airliner crashes it leaves plenty of debris, outside the Pentagon the ground was totally clean.
2 Building 7 collapse
When a large building is demolished this is seen from the outside as a series of collapses that are designed to drop the structure into its own footprint. That pattern is exactly seen in film of the collapse.
Anyone who voices doubt is bombarded with challenges about the implications. I know nothing about the implications.
But many of Hitler's 'poor' decisions were the result of allied deception, which was constructed using all the decrypt evidence. And the Fish decrypts from Colossus were vital to that.
Hitler led the Germans into a terrible mess, which made him the worst person to lead an escape. Leadership is about leadership. Of course that's a tautology but we often think that it is primarily about decisions. We have an example in recent UK history.
No. Think photons.
We already bend the path of photons by passing them obliquely through a progressing change of refractive index. So lets not worry about the inside and the outside track of the particle.
The most common example of this is sunlight entering our planet's atmosphere.
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