I fully expect Amazon to close this warehouse, maybe it will be contaminated with something radioactive for example, to make things easier and then it will shut down. Personally I root for the anarcho capitalist solution and wish Amazon to win this battle for its private property rights.
You can't refer back to some judge such-and-such who said something was ok in a similar lawsuit, so therefore it must be ok going forward in all future lawsuits.
It's not that clear cut.
Yes, the precedence doesn't have a strong a binding character as in yhe US, but treating everyone equally is a basic principle of law that goes back millennia, to thw verge beginning, long before there was even EU or America.
Therefore decisions in European courts, in particular higher ones, tend to have a "strongly suggestive" character. If lower courts go against the grain, the decisions get reversed.im revision courts at higher levels.
This is Italy just fleecing an America tech company because they tried to fleece italians first.
FTFY.
social engineering used in practice by the parent comment, now sitting at +4 Funny. Still waiting for that 1 autistic moderator.
corporate america [] got hung up on the "free" in "free software".
I agree with your words, but I'm not sure we mean the same thing. To be clear, corporate America didn't get hung up on the free as in "beer" part. It got up on the philosophical implications of free as in "speech". No more lock-ins, no more EULA that can restrict use of the software you paid for, no more "you're going tonuse what we decide is beat for you and you're going to like it", no more forced upgrades to versions that bring barely anything to the table besides new licensing costs and new bugs etc.
Nope. That was just by accident.
If it had been to mean hat it said on the tin, there wouldn't have been any necessity to introduce the term in the first place, as Free Software haf already been around fpr 15-ish years at that point.
I was around and... uhm... awakened, for lack of a better term, when ESR and the like introduced "OpenSource" to produce more corporate appeal.
There was 0 reason to do that solely to describe GPL'ed software, and every reason to avoid philosophical concepts like "freedom" when talking corporate-y, specifically because, back then as today, it was implicitly understood and accepted that "freedom" makes for bad business.
The phrase no longer means what it used to mean[...]
It means what it always has. It never meant the same as "free software", not now, not 25 years ago. It always meant " as much of 'free' as we need to in order to make corporate software development cheaper, while keeping as many options open as was can to close it up and charge for access down the line".
It just wasn't always this obvious (to some).
Well, apparently it's rich now, so you figure...
If you rent a van and a third party vandalizes it to the point it won't function, nobody altered the rental agreement. Shit happens [...]
So... does this mean that if "shit happens" while you're in possession of a rental van you're off scott free, not responsible?
Or that if "shit happens" after you've signed the rental contract and paid, but before pickup, it's tough titties "no van and no money for you"?
Did you ever rent a van?
You put your monkey in a bank, and the bank gets robbed - shit happens, your money is gone?
Have you ever been to a bank?
No, "shit" doesn't 'happen" when you earn money making yourself responsible for 150.000 people being able to drive their car. You either uphold your part of the deal or you're responsible for damages. Everything else is an invitation for abuse.
I say take the cash and open a new company under different management and build more offshore wind turbines, now that you have a billion.
Are we supposed to have sympathy for these sociopaths?
This isn't the point.
The point is that a fwir justice system should deliver the punishment exactly as established, not give off "I altered the deal, pray I don't alter it any further".
The original deal was: you don't drink, you get to drive your car. Not "maybe", not "if nothing comes im between."
If you think that's too soft on crime, we can also discuss "you never get to drive a car again".
In any case stick to the f-ing deal. Being a criminal doesn't make you vogelfrei.
you know, living is harmful to your life, every day is getting you closer to death. Eating many foods is harmful, drinking many things, breathing the air in many parts of the world and during different weather conditions. Having sex may be harmful, it can degrade your quality of life in the long term.
There are millions of harmful things, you will die and everyone else as well. I am not proposing for everyone to do everything, I am saying - if you enjoy it, don't allow people to dictate to you, do it.
you do understand we live only once, what's wrong with porn, gambling and drugs? Enjoy it if you want it.
is that a serious comment?
ever heard of team drivers? they exist to avoid sitting idle for half a day due to regulations.
Premature optimization is the root of all evil. -- D.E. Knuth
