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Lessig's Thoughts On Eldred v. Ashcroft Arguments
yokem_55 writes "Lawrence Lessig has updated his blog giving his thoughts on how the oral arguments for Eldred vs. Ashcroft went before the Supreme Court on Wednesday. He discusses the goals and methods he used in framing his arguments to convince the court to overturn the Sony Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, how he felt he did in presenting his arguments, and also provides some analysis on how he thinks the court might rule."
No Bono rocks, you just troll.
Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these??? :D (Sorry, couldn't resist.. Every real hacker has to write at least one Beowulf joke on Slashdot. This was mine.)
Screw this trial crap... It's too boring. The average eMpTyV-watching American does not have the attention span required to care about a trial, unless it's about a minority former football player turned comedy actor who is accused of stabbing his wife. I propose a change... A change that will lead us into the 21st century! Oh wait, we're already here, aren't we? Nevermind! This change is so overdue, it should have happened YEARS ago!
First, we'll build a GRAND arena. It'll make the French collusem look like the local cineaplex 8. Yea, BIG baby. Then we fill it with MUD. I don't care what kind of mud, it can be trucked in from the everglades or made right there for all I care. It just has to be wet and dirty, and I think any kind of mud can meet those requirements.
After we've got this arena built, we can have people settle their differences IN THE MUD. It'll be great, I'm sure they'll be plenty of companies eager to sponser the contestants and lots of live webcam brodcasts.
For a better future and the sake of the children, write your representitives today and tell them you support arena mud wresling today!
Might I add: Way not to argue or add anything of value, trollboy.
doesn't anybody code any more?
Sigs are bad for your health.
The "militia" is legally defined as all able bodied men and woman who are NOT part of the military, national guard, formal state militias, or police. In other words, just about everyone.
If we went by your slippery interpretation of the Constitution, only formal newspapers would have the right to free press. Fortunately, it is understood that free press applies to anyone and everyone.
What part of "shall not be infringed" did you not understand?
-- Will program for bandwidth
On the other hand, the clause that you quoted specifically states that the militia be "well-regulated" - not a free-for-all situation where everyone and their dog can stock up on all the high-powered arms & ammunition they can get their hands on.
That said, I hope this thread doesn't get hijacked into another gun control discussion.
Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
I'm not sure how I feel with the neighbor down the street possessing an atomic bomb, but the point was that the government couldn't wield a bigger stick to keep all the population in line. The founders fully intended the government to fear the population.
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------Now, I agree that it has since been distorted. What we need (IMO) is repeal of those unconstituional retroactive copyright extensions, a shorter term for future copyrights, and (similiar to Russia) a law on the books making it illegal to create fair-use proof works
---Oh and another thing about slavery, is that it started out as short term indentured servitude for blacks and whites that could not be inherited. After the term you got freedom and your own property. Sounded like a good deal, except (grammar correction) there was one problem, it planted the seed for a system that was outright evil and caused a lot of damage in the long run for America.
I see indentured servants as nothing wrong at all. A richer person paid full a pooer person's full voyage to North America, in price of 7-10 years work. I see that is no different than the situation of credit cards today. They "give" you money, but you end up paying in the long run. If you mention bancurupcy courts, I'll add that the courts end up taking stuff from you to pay your creditors.
Still, promised work and slavery are two totally different things. Slavery has been around since the beginning of the human race, and will always be around. After wars, the citizens of a country were considered slaves (revert back to Art of War, by Sun Tzu for how to treat war slaves) The US had a slightly different view of things as we saw 1 race as a slave pool. We paid Nigeria (dont they seem to keep popping up in nefariuous schemes, ne?), Congo, and other Africa costal countries for bounty. The Black Men SOLD EACH OTHER. We just happened to buy them, as did Europe, but the stigma of "war slaves" held there.
Still, how did slavery set the seeds of evil in our country? If you're reffering to the Civil War, that was a war about States Rights. Not Slavery. That choice involved slavery, along with other various details, but was mainly an argument about the power of states over national. I am directly for everybody (not just citizens) here in the US having the same Bill of Rights, along with the 3 freedons, but in the case of the Civil war, I'd have sided with the South. In terms of military and currency, that was the national's job. The rest should have been with the states.
I did go a bit off-topic, but I think that problems with our laws go back further than a few years. They all coincide at some points.. I'm figuring I did piss a whole bunch of people off. Too bad. I speak my mind about things like this.
I put a lot of poetry ([...] St. Vincent Millay [if you win :-)])
A number of her early works are in the public domain - Renassance and A Few Figs from Thistles, for poetry. A Few Figs from Thistles is a very nice collection of poems; it always made me wonder why my high school textbook had "God's World", a beautiful poem, but so staid in some ways, when they could have grabbed the attention of any high school student with one of the saucy poems from A Few Figs.