You can act as if, but you can always go "Fuck you, cooww and shee-keeenn! Now you can't use it anymore!" if they are stupid enough to fall for it.
If an author signs a contract with another party granting an exclusive license to publish a given work, is that unenforceable?
Of course it's enforceable. The OP doesn't have a clue.
which is subsidized by the electricity consumers (NOT by the goverment, as some seem to think).
Even worse, it's not subsidized by the industry, only by households which consume only a fraction of the total energy output.
Where's the news? This is called quote stuffing and has been going on for ages. The reason is simply to mislead or overwhelm the HFT algos of competitors.
Since when are the USA at war with Pakistan?
A gay, a Vietnamese, a guy in a wheelchair, and an elderly East German woman walk into to a bar. "You're a funny bunch," says the bartender. "No, we're the German government."
In the original draft, even single sentences would have been regarded as "significant parts", but that would then also mean that you cannot quote from any news article anymore in any other publication, which would have significant negative side effects.
You could still quote articles. But that quote has to be embedded in another non-trivial work. Aggregation of news has never been quoting in the sense of German copyright law.
Because they almost blew it with the faked moon landing and don't want to risk that again. Also the cold war is over, so there no good reason to fake such accomplishments.
I've bought Kindle books from Amazon.de without a credit card for ages. You should have the same payment options as for any other Amazon article.
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First of all, the Soviet Union wasn't a dictatorship. They used military force in some of their satellite states like Poland or Czechoslovakia but they never had world-wide imperialistic ambitions. Their military strategy has been mainly defensive for the last 200 years.
They wanted to rule the world
Actually, no. Of course, the USSR was concerned about countries in its immediate vicinity. But they never wanted to force communism on the rest of the world. That was only the paranoid fear or propaganda of the US.
The leaders of Iran never called for the destruction of Israel. I guess you're referring to Ahmadinejad's alleged "wiped of the map" statement. See here for what he really said. Although he really is a nutcase if he denies the holocaust.
The "fundamental" problem from Google's perspective is Javascript's lack of typing. They want a language with optional typing and think that the ECMAScript 4 route isn't viable.
Something like shadyurl.com? This has always been one of my favorite URL "shorteners".
Noone is seriously pushing for Sharia law in Europe or the US. Not even Bin Laden was. Bin Laden has made his intentions pretty clear, although this has been willfully suppressed by US media. Just read the transcripts of Bin Laden's video speeches and you will understand what this conflict is all about. Take this one for example:
"Security is an important foundation of human life and free people do not squander their security, contrary to Bush's claims that we hate freedom."
"We fought you because we are free and because we want freedom for our nation. When you squander our security we squander your's."
A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. -- Thomas Jefferson
