What are you talking about? The current system gives better tax breaks to the rich than to the common working man... Where's your Equal Protection in that?
I call BS. Extraordinary claims require exactly the same solid, persuasive evidence as all other claims. And once the evidence is provided, the claim is shown to be not extraordinary at all, but rather, factual.
Friends, agree or disagree with this law, but it's just a small additional step to make creating dvd rips punishable by 3 to 5 under the same public policy (which became public policy thanks to the political contributions of MPAA members)
Just to state the above cited rule with a ittle more precision, thanks to http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/matters/matte rs-9201.html...
"Under the U.S. legal system, each side pays their own attorney's fees, win or lose, unless there is a specific statutory provision for the recovery of such fees. The patent law includes such a provision, but it only authorizes the award at the discretion of the court or arbitrator in exceptional circumstances of the type which justify an increase in damages.
"On the other hand, the patent law also provides that the accused infringer may be entitled to attorney's fees under exceptional circumstances, such as when the patent was procured by fraud or the infringement suit was brought or prosecuted in bad faith."
If someone sues you and you don't lose, they pay your legal fees. If they offer you a reasonable settlement and you instead go to court and you lose, you pay their legal fees. So it doesn't exactly "cost them money whether they win or lose." If they win it doesn't cost them anything.
This is just incorrect in the United States. Absent some special statutory rule, each party pays its own fees, win or lose. This is called the American Rule.
What can I do for you? Don't expect much though..... I'm busy conjuring up new deviltry.... Ah, let's see.... How about if I include a feature only microscopic numbers of users want, yet will give advertisers full accesss to every user's system... Hmmmm (strokes beard)(smiles)....
Well, OK--here's my portal for geeks. Right now we're running 108 sets of geek headlines (you choose which ones you want to see), and other features, such as an anonymous surfing module, google's all-the-bells-and-whistles searches, and more. It's called DAILY ROTATION
OK--here's an interesting hypothetical question, brought to mind by the poster above. What would happen if Napster could show that every song distributed through its servers was ripped from a tape of the song made off the radio---wouldn't that change the nature of the case completely?
Now you're trying to tell me, to use a new, simpler example, that the investment in time (energy, money, or what ever terms you want to put it in), to build a wagon, is equivalent to, or more than, the time (energy, money or whatever terms you want to put the investment factor in) saved by the use of the wagon?
Bull! The Tao of Poo overgeneralizes, as do every one of you.
Practically speaking, if timesaving devices really saved time, there would be more time available to us now than ever before in history. But, strangely enough, we seem to have less time than even a few years ago
So I suppose the washing machine doesn't save time? How about the telephone? The computer, word processor, spreadsheet? The Tao of Pooh sufferes from a logical fallacy, overgeneralization.
I hope he sues the ass off the cops. They violated his civil rights by arresting him and seizing his equipment without adequate justification. (Parody cannot be an "unauthorized use," BTW. If it is, then the statute quoted above is unconstitutional, since it violates the 1st Amendment.)
One important clue no one is commenting on is this: The article doesn't say any of the observers "used" it, only that they observed it. If I were Bezos or Jobs, and it were a TRANSPORTATION device, I'd have wanted to jump on and try it. However, they only watched it and laughed..... This tells me it is not a transporter, but rather does something which makes a driver or user unnecessary. Course, I haven't a clue what that might be.
There are millions of them. In St. Louis there's the Climatron, a large tropical greengouse which has its fawcwts made of glass. In Illinois, the Department of highways uses them to store heavy snow moving equipment--it's a very common design, invented by Buckminster Fuller in the 1950's.
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Yeah, I used Primes for many years until they died. It would be a lot of fun to be able to bring up an old PrimOS prompt again.
You think 10 years, 20 years from now we'll be saying this kind of thing about Windows?
Heh! I doubt it!
What are you talking about? The current system gives better tax breaks to the rich than to the common working man... Where's your Equal Protection in that?
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
I call BS. Extraordinary claims require exactly the same solid, persuasive evidence as all other claims. And once the evidence is provided, the claim is shown to be not extraordinary at all, but rather, factual.
Friends, agree or disagree with this law, but it's just a small additional step to make creating dvd rips punishable by 3 to 5 under the same public policy (which became public policy thanks to the political contributions of MPAA members)
Just to state the above cited rule with a ittle more precision, thanks to http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/matters/matte rs-9201.html ...
"Under the U.S. legal system, each side pays their own attorney's fees, win or lose, unless there is a specific statutory provision for the recovery of such fees. The patent law includes such a provision, but it only authorizes the award at the discretion of the court or arbitrator in exceptional circumstances of the type which justify an increase in damages.
"On the other hand, the patent law also provides that the accused infringer may be entitled to attorney's fees under exceptional circumstances, such as when the patent was procured by fraud or the infringement suit was brought or prosecuted in bad faith."
If someone sues you and you don't lose, they pay your legal fees. If they offer you a reasonable settlement and you instead go to court and you lose, you pay their legal fees. So it doesn't exactly "cost them money whether they win or lose." If they win it doesn't cost them anything.
This is just incorrect in the United States. Absent some special statutory rule, each party pays its own fees, win or lose. This is called the American Rule.
I call BS
A scientist too in love with his thesis becomes a politician.
This has to be some kind of karma-whoring self-promoting bot...
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You're new here, aren't you?
This is maybe the 10th time I've seen you post a mirror, and the 10th time that the page didn't need one.
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You're new here, aren't you?
And you, my friend, might look at the connection between populat vote and electoral votes. They are not two separate, divorced, entities.
You might want to learn some civics.
Oh, and also some civility...
"47% likely to vote for the president"
That's enough to get him elected, if the Supreme Court helps....
I love Slashdot.... Please take the time to read the constant bikering of who was right and who was wrong for the following 150 or so posts.....
God bless ya, goddamnit!
Wikipedia is wonderful, but the point you're missing is that the internet itself is the greatest encyclopaedia ever created.
Wikipadea is just a small, small part of the accretion of articles available to anyone with net access.
You ring?
What can I do for you? Don't expect much though..... I'm busy conjuring up new deviltry.... Ah, let's see.... How about if I include a feature only microscopic numbers of users want, yet will give advertisers full accesss to every user's system... Hmmmm (strokes beard)(smiles)....
Well, OK--here's my portal for geeks. Right now we're running 108 sets of geek headlines (you choose which ones you want to see), and other features, such as an anonymous surfing module, google's all-the-bells-and-whistles searches, and more. It's called DAILY ROTATION
It's perfectly logical-- ox, oxen. box, boxen. What language do you speak? It's an irregular English plural...
OK--here's an interesting hypothetical question, brought to mind by the poster above. What would happen if Napster could show that every song distributed through its servers was ripped from a tape of the song made off the radio---wouldn't that change the nature of the case completely?
Now you're trying to tell me, to use a new, simpler example, that the investment in time (energy, money, or what ever terms you want to put it in), to build a wagon, is equivalent to, or more than, the time (energy, money or whatever terms you want to put the investment factor in) saved by the use of the wagon?
Bull! The Tao of Poo overgeneralizes, as do every one of you.
Practically speaking, if timesaving devices really saved time, there would be more time available to us now than ever before in history. But, strangely enough, we seem to have less time than even a few years ago
So I suppose the washing machine doesn't save time? How about the telephone? The computer, word processor, spreadsheet? The Tao of Pooh sufferes from a logical fallacy, overgeneralization.
"local colorful character is colorful"
Shouldn't that be "local colorful character is"?
My compression's more logical than yours.... If you don't under stand what "is" is, then just let me alone.
I hope he sues the ass off the cops. They violated his civil rights by arresting him and seizing his equipment without adequate justification. (Parody cannot be an "unauthorized use," BTW. If it is, then the statute quoted above is unconstitutional, since it violates the 1st Amendment.)
One important clue no one is commenting on is this: The article doesn't say any of the observers "used" it, only that they observed it. If I were Bezos or Jobs, and it were a TRANSPORTATION device, I'd have wanted to jump on and try it. However, they only watched it and laughed..... This tells me it is not a transporter, but rather does something which makes a driver or user unnecessary. Course, I haven't a clue what that might be.
There are millions of them. In St. Louis there's the Climatron, a large tropical greengouse which has its fawcwts made of glass. In Illinois, the Department of highways uses them to store heavy snow moving equipment--it's a very common design, invented by Buckminster Fuller in the 1950's.
Yes---but if you used it in the nursery, the next morning your child would have either a great tan, or one heck of a sunburn.
Yes, you have to read the damn docs, yes, you have to learn how to do certain things, tough...
And you complain that Windows is on 98% of desktops.