It's really interesting for me to read about so many places in the USA having power outages. I've lived in south africa most of my life, and there were only power outages where Iived starting about a year/a year and a half, ago. Since moving to the UK I've not had any power outages. why is American electricity so unstable?

With our economy the way it is, I'd not be surprised if "libel tourism" was actively supported, just taxed more.

I did the same thing, but when I went to the bottom of the page found this from google trends:

you make it sound so... reasonable.

I think i4i left the bargaining table when ballmer started chanting "money money money money money money" and wouldn't quit it, making them all feel a little uncomfortable.

As a brit, I honestly never expected to, in my life, hear the words "the British have it right" regarding our government. What you say makes sense, but it just doesn't quite compute...

Too little, too late.

Like the story about the frogs? throw a frog in boiling water? it jumps out. throw a frog in cold water and slowly boil it? boiled frog.

If I leave/am fired from my current company, are they allowed to ask me for the passwords a week later, because they lost them? and if I've forgotten them? do I end up in a court case for stealing? No, the company would be "laughed out of court"

The IP is the companies, but they can't stop it from leaving in the minds of the people who leave the company. That's why there's usually clauses in contracts against using information to benefit a competitor.

Also, by my logic, he could do just that, unless, while in the employ of said company, he was ordered to reveal the passwords.

It sucks to be them, but they only have a leg to stand on if they demanded the passwords BEFORE firing him.

This is how physical property and intellectual property differ. Those things all belong to the company, and it let him use them. He left them there when he left. The passwords belong to the company, and it let him use them. When he leaves, are you saying he has to have his memory wiped of all that companies IP? he left, it's now "their" problem. he didn't deprive the company of their passwords by "stealing" them, the company misplaced them and he has no obligation to help them look.

I'm explaining this horribly badly, I know, but still, I feel he has no obligation once he's been fired.

I believe that little gem came from "Politicians book of bullshit statistics, vol. 3".

I think people would be right to mod you down.

Firstly, Australia & America have been friends since WW2 when the shock of the british defeat by japan in the asian theatre(most importantly, the loss of singapore) lead to australia moving further from britain to america for defensive pacts, which would lead to trade, etc etc.

Secondly, that has _WHAT_ to do with internet censorship?

if they fired him first, wouldn't he have no obligation to even speak to them, let alone give them passwords? Sure, it's "their" property, but if they misplaced it prior to him being fired, so what?

I'm british you insensitive clo- where'd he go?

someTHING of value. Slavery only applies to the developers. ;)

Let's just hope he doesn't screw everyone over by patenting it ;)