Oh, geeze, can you get any more pathetic with a response like that? That kind of response might have worked in kindergarten.

No, it isn't the same court, you idiot. Unless we had a change of government since 1945.

There are quite a number of cases in Germany where someone got money for something like that. Here are some examples:

http://www.jusmeum.de/urteile?tag=recht+am+eigenen+bild

"Same"? Did they put some Nazi judges into cryostasis back then, thawed them up again and nobody batted an eye?

Because that's what "same" means. And even if it didn't, your argument would still be retarded.

Sooo... how do you know who to connect to in such a "decentralised network"? Even the poster child for such connections, BitTorent, relies on someone telling you where to begin connecting.

I'm talking about match-making capabilities here - if you want to go back to exchanging IP addresses over SMS or something, be my guest.

You obviously never happened to notice how they deal with nudity of any kind. That's a bit more editorial control than mere copyright watch.

Actually, the German CEO did state recently that he considered it a help for startups if they were to give the Telekom (the German mothership) money in order to gain access to a fast lane. He also stated that he'd consider a "few percents of the total revenue" fair.

He was unable to discern between how some users behaved on his forum and how the same users behaved on another forum.

Thus the mass ban of all people from this other forum, even when they were completely innocent. The reasoning behind that move is The Daily WTF for us :)

Setting goals you cannot achieve so you cannot get a bonus?

We recently had a similar case in Germany where a woman went to court because her company had promised her a bonus, but didn't want to pay it because the company as a whole had missed its target.

The judge didn't quite agree and pointed out that boni coupled to targets have to be set in such a way that it's possible for the individual to achieve this goal.

As a result, your firing over impossible to meet targets would have cost them quite a bit in severance pay...

I definitely am signed in. Seems that "occasional" means "rarely if ever" for me :)

Updated both my desktop and my laptop to build 10565 and am not seeing those suggested apps.

When I'm doing my safety lecture, I'm always demonstrating why some behaviours are not smart. Either by showing videos and photos, or actually doing an experiment which "goes wrong".

Much better if pupils know why some stuff is forbidden.

However, I'm, also showing them that the acids and lyes they'll be working with are not something to be massively afraid of. Respectful, yes. Afraid, no.

Okay, I can only speak for 230 V (and 1,000,000 V due to my Van De Graaff generator :) but 230 V is perfectly survivable as well.

110 V is not lethal - hurts like a bitch, but lethal? Nope. The AC makes it even less dangerous. Plus, if 110 V were lethal then how do you think people survive being hit by a taser where the voltage is a multiple of 10,000 Volts?

It's the resulting current, the amount of charge transferred and the length of the current which make electric appliances dangerous. But at 110 V you almost have to work hard to kill yourself.

I actually expect a modicum of general knowledge from teachers and not merely the particulars of their field. And it should be general knowledge that a) a circuit board is not explosive and b) for a bomb to be explosive it needs to have actual explosives.

Not to mention there's this small matter of how serious they actually were about this "bomb" (as pointed out by another poster downthread):

They did not evacuate the school. They did not call the bomb squad.

THAT alone should tell you all you need to know about those guys. And now go away. Try to find excuses for some other abhorrent and idiotic behaviour, you won't have much luck here.