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DeCSS: Jon Johansen Acquitted In Retrial
EssJay writes "DVD-Jon is acquitted in the retrial. The verdict was expected in January, but was announced today in the papers." We had posted about the retrial beginning - it's a good holiday present to get this early.
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What would it look like?
I know the truth and I know what you're thinking
But I bet Jon is still a VIRGIN!
- Dog robs gas station
- Cows rampage in Norway
- Children asked to sell new naked sports calendar
Ah, Norway...Maybe this from here?
" OMFG have you seen the Halo 2 trailer it's like slow and it's telling you all the stuff you did in the first one then the music kicks in and and the chief comes out and gets a gun the earf is on fire and chief is like fuck this im jumping and HE JUMPS PUT OF TEH SPACESHIP with angels singing and he lands on the bad guys and that annoying ai lady is like GO GET EM TIGER! WILDCAT IS ON TEH SPOKE!!!~`1 and theres less polys but rawkin bumb mappings you can view this on a special MICROSOFT xbox disk that comes with EB games store.
I used to troll slashdot, when I actually had free time in the office, and one of my last was the above... which I wrote right after I saw the Halo 2 trailer. After I posted it, I took to leaving "WILDCAT IS ON TEH SPOKE" as a little "Jeff was here" (not on slashdot, as I just don't have the time anymore). However, someone who I pester with said phrase on a regular basis was kind enough to point out to me that I might have a little meme going."
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heard that won from a native american otter. seems as legitimate as anything we've seen from the corepirate nazi FUDgePacking 'media' receNTly?
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SCO is depending on a flaw in the GPL:
Title 17 - COPYRIGHTS
Chapter 2 - Copyright Ownership and Transfer
Sec. 205. Recordation of transfers and other
documents(e) Priority Between Conflicting Transfer
of Ownership and Nonexclusive License. - A
nonexclusive license, whether recorded or not,
prevails over a conflicting transfer of copyright
ownership if the license is evidenced by a written
instrument SIGNED by the owner of the rights
licensed or such owner's duly authorized agent,
and if -
(1) the license taken before execution of
the transfer;
or
(2) the license was taken in good
faith before recordation of transfer and without
notice of it.
Everything contributed by Caldera etc. to Linux
under the UNSIGNED nonexclusive GPL prior to the
present SCO's purchase (transfer of ownership)
from Novell is eliminated by sec 205(e) from the
protection of the GPL under the Copyright Act.The
GPL is a binding contract held in public trust
though. So SCO still loses. IBM knows this e.g.
read their Amended Counterclaims.
Let's cross our toes and fingers.
And sandniggers, don't forget sandniggers. And a fuckload of chinks.
Good point, but tell that to the idiots suing gun manufacturers. Or the grandmothers suing McDonald's over hot coffeee. Or people suing violent video game manufacturers. If only our court system were as clear-headed as you... :\
jason
jason
Have a good day?! Impossible! I'm at work!
"This is a textbook example of a poster not knowing the full story"
...700 claims by people burned by its coffee between 1982 and 1992...McDonalds' knowledge about the extent and nature of this hazard."
No, I know all the facts and falsehoods even to the point that I have seen all your "twists" previously.
McDonald's was repeatedly warned that it was serving its coffee hotter than it should -- close to boiling
185 is many degrees away from boiling (Mis-stating the temperature is a common "spin" attempt). Also, the coffee was not hotter than it should have been: the customers preferred it this hot.
When the woman received third degree burns to her thighs because McDonald's repeatedly refused to.
No, she burned herself because of her OWN action. McDonald's sold millions of cups of this coffee. If it was really too hot, really too dangerous, there would be more than the 0.00007% rate of burn complaints. More like a 99% burn rate.
"sought to settle her claim for $20,000, but McDonalds refused"
Why bother to bring this up again and again, when it is obvious that frivolous and greedy demands of any amount are too high?
In other words, that there was no problem, when you look at the many millions of cups of the same temperature consumed with no problems at all.
So, McDonald's knew they were serving their coffee too hot, they'd been sued before, and now a woman who removed the lid to add cream and sugar had to had skin grafts as a result.
That is all false: they did not know the coffee was hoot hot because it WASN'T. There had been frivolous lawsuits before, and so what? Your last sentence left out the most important fact: the "stunned cow" poured hot coffee on herself. McDonald's did not pour it, and McDonald's did not sell her coffee that LEAPS when you "remove the lid to add cream".
Once you know the minute details of this meritless case, you know even more than it was totally frivolous.
get your facts straight. I hate it when people reference the McDonalds coffee case and don't know what the fuck they are talking about.
What I know about the case is, that the coffee temp still was no more than 184F. When a coffee or a tea is properly made, the water should be boiling, aka 212F. You should then only drink it, when you carefully test it with spoon and think it has cooled enough to be drinkable. And as you know it's boiling, you should avoid spilling it at any costs - if you do anyway, that's your fault.
This is common sense, at least here in Europe (well, in most countries anyway). But it seems to me, that the crazy U.S. system expects everyone to be capable of reading EULA-like lawyer speech, but at the same time requires "childish behaviour with this thing could kill you" -style warnings included everywhere, expecting people can't think by themselves at all.
Sure, there are always people who really can't think by themselves, but here it's considered to be their problem, not manufacturer's. There are many reasons to blame McDonalds, but this isn't really one of them.
“Wait for Hurd if you want something real” –Linus
Example Coffee Maker
Hell my instant hot water tap on my sink spits out 180 F degree water which I use to make hot chocolate and instant coffee when I'm lazy. Maybe i should spill it on myself and sue the manufactor. I mean 180 degrees is too dangerous. Please manufactors and companies, protect me from myself.
Have you ever been to a turkish prison?