For my airline and almost every other one in the world, it's an instantly dismissible offense to be seen anywhere near alcohol wearing any part of a uniform. I agree with this 100%!
But what about a picture of someone in a halloween pirate costume (i.e. no part of any uniform shown, let alone an airline uniform) with an unidentifiable drink with the caption "drunken pirate". Do you believe that your airline would be justified? That is what the original article is talking about.
Also considering that one of the episodes on that A&E "reality" program about SouthWest Airlines showed a company sponsored junket for employees that included what certainly seemed to be copious amounts of alchohol.
For instance, the breathalyzer tests have been shown to read higher than actual in more than 25% of tests.
How did they test that, out of curiosity?
It has been a while since I saw the original article (like
the original poster). As I recall they compared the breathalyzer to
blood samples taken at the same time in a controlled situation.
People tend to forget that someone has to supply the hundreds of thousands "minor drug" users who are not a "big risk to society".
And that is why the resources should be targeted at the people who do the supplying. One of the best anti drug commercials I ever remember seeing started out with the typical scenes of low income neighbourhoods with the statistic that some % of drugs are consumed in low income neighbourhoods. I don't remember the % now but it was definitely less than 50%. It then cuts to a clean-cut kid on a skateboard in a upper middle class neighborhood who rolls up to a front steps of a friends house, and then lights a joint off of the other kids joint as the voice over says "Guess where the other drugs are consumed".
Legal targeting of minor drug use will never solve the problem. Only a change in society's attitudes
will ever make the change. When it becomes socially unacceptable to the peers that matter, then it will stop.
No difference in evidence. If you have made a significant number of sales on Ebay,
then there is prima facie evidence that you are in business and can be audited,
just like any other business. There may be some question about validy of Ebay data
such as someone signing up under a false identity, but I digress...
If you are making allusions to a criminal act, all you have is hearsay or possibly
bravado. There is no prima facie evidence of any act.
In the CS field, it is the convention that if the paper is sufficiently different, then the revision can be published separately. I have been guest editor of three journal special issues related to conferences. We require that there be at least 30% new material in the revised papers from the papers in the conference, and the referees for the revised papers are asked to comment on how different the extended paper is. To the best of my knowledge it has not been tested in court, but it is the accepted practice.
It does differ by field. In the Computer Science, Software Engineering fields, publication is free for academic submissions. For some journals (but not all), commercial submissions must pay a publication fee. They usually try to entice the academics to pay a voluntary publication fee by offering extra offprints. I've never had to pay a publication fee for any of my papers.
Looking at the actual motion at irweb, It appears that the judge may have erred slightly in procedure. Apparently the order and judgement were not put in separate documents or were not filed as separate documents. I'm not exactly clear since I am not a lawyer. The motion is to correct the paperwork by filing a judgment consistent with the court order of July 13, 2007.
I'm Canadian too. The NDP defeated the Liberals in Ontario when the
Liberals chose the date (Majority Gov't). The Conservatives had a
majority govt in Ontario when they were defeated by the current Liberal
govt. Trudeau had a majority govt when he lost to Joe Clark who won
with a minority govt. Turner lost a majority govt to Mulroney. In
Manitoba, the elections swing back and forth about every second or
third election. Alberta and Sask are a bit one sided
in their elections but every once in a while they switch.
The power to choose the date of the election gives an advantage but
not as much of an advantage as most people seem to think. I personally
believe that it is better than 1.5 years of campaigning by the candidates
as is evident south of the border.
Your comments on the Supreme Court are only starting to come true with
the current govt. Prior to the current govt, while the PM did have the power
to appt anyone with the basic qualifications to the SC, in practice the PM
was expected to confer with a significant number of other bodies including
senior judges, the CBA, provincial govts for the region affected, etc.
There is a strong tradition of Judicial Independence. The current PC govt
has changed that giving a house committee input as well, which is a big
mistake (IMHO) because it politicizes the process.
I personally believe that an elected Senate would be one of the worst things
that could be done in Canadian politics. I would support an abolishment of the
Senate, but not an elected body. As you pointed out, we are not a check and
balance system with a separate executive and attempting to introduce one
will have very unexpected consequences.
The real power in Canadian politics
has always been the civil service, in the finest(not!) tradition of the British
System. Yes Minister! had a significant amount of truth in the Canadian system.
Trudeau attempted to offset the power of the Deputy Ministers by strengthening
the PMO (he was a believer of counterweights, a fine grained check/balance
system) and look where that put us now.
Yet somehow in Britain, (and Canada, Australia and New Zeland) the ruling government is defeated.
What do I expect?
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SCO Loses
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I would expect that SCO would have to put up some real evidence before being allowed to drag out discovery over 4 years. In the US it appears you can say "we really believe something to be true, let us do discovery to find (i.e. fish for) the evidence" without providing any concrete evidence to support the belief. In most other countries you actually have to provide some actual evidence of your allegations before the court will grant you discovery.
In this case, SCO should have had to provide something to substantiate their claims long before this.
I am assuming that Sony carried out patent searches before building the Cell
Due to the current patent law in the US, the current practice is not to cary out patent searches in most of the
high tech world. If the plaintiff can prove you have knowledge of the patent then it becomes willful infringement
which triples the damages. As a result, most development firms have strict policies not to do any patent searches.
Depends on how big a print you want. For small,quick prints I use a Cannon Selphy. It is a dye sublimation printer, not an inkjet. However it only does 4x6 and 4x8. For larger pics I use a memory stick and the drugstore.
You are correct, it is going to get bigger. I have significant loss from a childhood illness (severe measles at 16 months). I grew up with the problem and I've been careful to keep what I have left. The true measure of the market recognizing the growth in the segment will be when most commercials are CC'd.
.. the market drives companies to produce closed captioning, so as to expand their viewing audience
*wipes soda off of the screen*. What planet are you from? The reason most close caption is because they are required to by law. Most really don't care about the small segment of the marketplace. If you want proof, look at the large number of complaints about poor close captioning, and the vast majority of commercials without CC (Commercials are not required to CC by law). If the market drove companies to produce close captioning, then the commercials would be CC'd as well. Your argument does not stand up to scrutiny.
I have not read your terms of service, but I can *almost* guarantee there is a clause that specifies that the ISP can modify the terms at any time by posting them on the website and that you agreed to it.
The latest, just announced last week, is the 100Kg, 99.999% gold coin with $1,000,000 face value ($2.4M bullion value). It is 0.5 meters wide. Very limited run, and almost all of the coins have already been sold.
This will never happen because of liabilty. As long as it is an algorithm
making the decision, then Google has a defense against the trolls. The moment that
they allow a human to override, then they are exercising discresion, and the legal
can of worms that opens is something that I would not want to touch.
How do you know you have their public key? How do you know that someone didn't intercept the public key transmission and send you a different public key?
The local noon drift against UTC was what I was talking about. If you set your very accurate clock (or even a quartz clock) against local noon in November, it will not read noon at local noon in February. it will be more than 30 minutes off.
I dont understand how the RIAA get a screenshot of your computer.
They don't. The screenshots that that are referring to are screenshots of Media Sentry's computers.
They search the various P2P networks and when they "find" a PC that is sharing what they "believe"
to be music, they take a screenshot of the P2P search page on their computer. The screenshot gives
the name of the file and the ip address of the hosting computer. It may also give a hash for the file,
but I am unsure about that. From what I've read, it doesn't seem like they actually download the
file to verify that it really is the music file in question.
Slashdot Mirror
And that is why the resources should be targeted at the people who do the supplying. One of the best anti drug commercials I ever remember seeing started out with the typical scenes of low income neighbourhoods with the statistic that some % of drugs are consumed in low income neighbourhoods. I don't remember the % now but it was definitely less than 50%. It then cuts to a clean-cut kid on a skateboard in a upper middle class neighborhood who rolls up to a front steps of a friends house, and then lights a joint off of the other kids joint as the voice over says "Guess where the other drugs are consumed".
Legal targeting of minor drug use will never solve the problem. Only a change in society's attitudes will ever make the change. When it becomes socially unacceptable to the peers that matter, then it will stop.
No difference in evidence. If you have made a significant number of sales on Ebay, then there is prima facie evidence that you are in business and can be audited, just like any other business. There may be some question about validy of Ebay data such as someone signing up under a false identity, but I digress...
If you are making allusions to a criminal act, all you have is hearsay or possibly bravado. There is no prima facie evidence of any act.
In the CS field, it is the convention that if the paper is sufficiently different, then
the revision can be published separately. I have been guest editor of three journal
special issues related to conferences. We require that there be at least 30% new material
in the revised papers from the papers in the conference, and the referees for the revised
papers are asked to comment on how different the extended paper is. To the best
of my knowledge it has not been tested in court, but it is the accepted practice.
It does differ by field. In the Computer Science, Software Engineering fields,
publication is free for academic submissions. For some journals (but not all),
commercial submissions must pay a publication fee. They usually try to entice
the academics to pay a voluntary publication fee by offering extra offprints.
I've never had to pay a publication fee for any of my papers.
Looking at the actual motion at irweb, It appears that
the judge may have erred slightly in procedure. Apparently
the order and judgement were not put in separate documents
or were not filed as separate documents. I'm not exactly clear
since I am not a lawyer. The motion is to correct the paperwork
by filing a judgment consistent with the court order of July 13, 2007.
I'm Canadian too. The NDP defeated the Liberals in Ontario when the Liberals chose the date (Majority Gov't). The Conservatives had a majority govt in Ontario when they were defeated by the current Liberal govt. Trudeau had a majority govt when he lost to Joe Clark who won with a minority govt. Turner lost a majority govt to Mulroney. In Manitoba, the elections swing back and forth about every second or third election. Alberta and Sask are a bit one sided in their elections but every once in a while they switch.
The power to choose the date of the election gives an advantage but not as much of an advantage as most people seem to think. I personally believe that it is better than 1.5 years of campaigning by the candidates as is evident south of the border.
Your comments on the Supreme Court are only starting to come true with the current govt. Prior to the current govt, while the PM did have the power to appt anyone with the basic qualifications to the SC, in practice the PM was expected to confer with a significant number of other bodies including senior judges, the CBA, provincial govts for the region affected, etc. There is a strong tradition of Judicial Independence. The current PC govt has changed that giving a house committee input as well, which is a big mistake (IMHO) because it politicizes the process.
I personally believe that an elected Senate would be one of the worst things that could be done in Canadian politics. I would support an abolishment of the Senate, but not an elected body. As you pointed out, we are not a check and balance system with a separate executive and attempting to introduce one will have very unexpected consequences.
The real power in Canadian politics has always been the civil service, in the finest(not!) tradition of the British System. Yes Minister! had a significant amount of truth in the Canadian system. Trudeau attempted to offset the power of the Deputy Ministers by strengthening the PMO (he was a believer of counterweights, a fine grained check/balance system) and look where that put us now.
Yet somehow in Britain, (and Canada, Australia and New Zeland)
the ruling government is defeated.
I would expect that SCO would have to put up some real evidence before
being allowed to drag out discovery over 4 years. In the US it appears
you can say "we really believe something to be true, let us do discovery
to find (i.e. fish for) the evidence" without providing any concrete evidence
to support the belief. In most other countries you actually have to provide
some actual evidence of your allegations before the court will grant you discovery.
In this case, SCO should have had to provide something to substantiate their
claims long before this.
Oops.. typo. make that *could* be an Ottawa number.
Mea coulpa
It is interesting that the number dialed in the video on the P138
613 599 5555 is an Ottawa Number.
Due to the current patent law in the US, the current practice is not to cary out patent searches in most of the high tech world. If the plaintiff can prove you have knowledge of the patent then it becomes willful infringement which triples the damages. As a result, most development firms have strict policies not to do any patent searches.
Depends on how big a print you want. For small,quick prints I use a Cannon
Selphy. It is a dye sublimation printer, not an inkjet. However it only does 4x6 and
4x8. For larger pics I use a memory stick and the drugstore.
Tom.
You are correct, it is going to get bigger. I have significant loss from a childhood illness (severe measles at 16 months). I grew up with the problem and I've been careful to keep what I have left. The true measure of the market recognizing the growth in the segment will be when most commercials are CC'd.
*wipes soda off of the screen*. What planet are you from? The reason most close caption is because they are required to by law. Most really don't care about the small segment of the marketplace. If you want proof, look at the large number of complaints about poor close captioning, and the vast majority of commercials without CC (Commercials are not required to CC by law). If the market drove companies to produce close captioning, then the commercials would be CC'd as well. Your argument does not stand up to scrutiny.
I have not read your terms of service, but I can *almost* guarantee there
is a clause that specifies that the ISP can modify the terms at any time
by posting them on the website and that you agreed to it.
Please look up laches. While it is true that you don't automatically loose if you don't defend, you still can loose.
The latest, just announced last week, is the 100Kg,
99.999% gold coin with $1,000,000 face value ($2.4M bullion value).
It is 0.5 meters wide. Very limited run, and almost
all of the coins have already been sold.
This will never happen because of liabilty. As long as it is an algorithm making the decision, then Google has a defense against the trolls. The moment that they allow a human to override, then they are exercising discresion, and the legal can of worms that opens is something that I would not want to touch.
How do you know you have their public key? How do you know that someone didn't intercept the public key transmission and send you a different public key?
I hit submit too soon. I also wanted to mention I was talking about mean solar noon.
The local noon drift against UTC was what I was talking about. If you set your
very accurate clock (or even a quartz clock) against local noon in November, it will
not read noon at local noon in February. it will be more than 30 minutes off.
After adjusting for the time of year, depending on how accurate you want to be (+-3deg)
They don't. The screenshots that that are referring to are screenshots of Media Sentry's computers. They search the various P2P networks and when they "find" a PC that is sharing what they "believe" to be music, they take a screenshot of the P2P search page on their computer. The screenshot gives the name of the file and the ip address of the hosting computer. It may also give a hash for the file, but I am unsure about that. From what I've read, it doesn't seem like they actually download the file to verify that it really is the music file in question.