Wall St. can't keep itself from trying to blow up investment bubbles. There's a sucker born every minute (and then the taxpayers bail the investment banks out).
I'm not at all sure that the war on "politically unpopular drugs" leads to "serious resource misallocation." If meth were legal we would experience an almost instantaneously stratospheric increase in divorce rates and child abandonment (and many other things (like road rage)). Those costs, while not direct, would be staggering and society would have to pay them instead of the drug enforcement costs.
Some drugs are too destructive to the social network that we depend upon. Those drugs must be illegal.
Why would you locate something that demands cooling resources in the MIDDLE OF A DESERT? Because an influential Senator wants the facility there, perhaps?
I think that the law is and should be used to protect the secrecy of people's electronic records. Medical records are a classic example, that I think everyone would agree on. Most people would probably agree that publishing another person's password and PIN with the intent that the recipient of the password/PIN would steal from the other person is, and should be a crime.
The argument that numbers must be kept "free" has its problems. In this case, the users of the numbers are "good guys" who just want to use the numbers to do "good things." Tomorrow, the users of the numbers might be thieves or corporations intent on stealing from you.
Would you make that same argument if all your PINS and passwords were about to be distributed all over the world by a clever black hat hacker, or would you seek the help of the law?
It won't ever BE evidence, but it will lead to evidence. I'm sure the NSA uses software like this along with speech recognition software and voiceprint recognition software to create investigative leads for follow-up.
The only person who gets to do the seventeen virgins in heaven is the foolish suicide bomber. The people that make the suicide bomb and give the bomber directions don't get to participate in the seventeen virgin fun. Such leaders are pragmatic and they seek their virgins here on Earth. They use fools as tools.
Saying that religion is the biggest threat to the survival of our species is beyond ridiculous. The biggest threat to the survival of our species is population pressure. That much is obvious. Furthermore, no amount of telling "them to go fuck themselves" is going to lessen religious violence. Insulting people increases violence. And . . . Newsflash . . . With few exceptions, violent conflict increases, not lessens, violent conflict.
The United States is NEVER (never, never, ever) going to nation-build a Muslim country. That's not going to happen. Not now. Not ever. Disengagement with Countries that support or tolerate terror is the only hope of getting those in power to see the tangible benefits of friendly engagement with the US..
Would the highways become a nightmare? What about domestic violence? You would certainly see increased dependency actions against doped parents. You would see lost job production. It would be difficult to keep dope away from servicemen.
It would make our country weaker if all drugs were legalized. A weak country is prey.
Legalizing marijuana is one thing. Legalizing meth and cocaine is an entirely different thing.
Once I was walking in the mountains, traversing a very wide draw. I saw an ibex sprint all the way across that draw in seconds. It took me fifteen or twenty minutes to get to the other side of the draw. I was constrained by my slow speed and my need to stay on the trail; the ibex wasn't.
A mechanized cheetah could be much faster than a wheeled vehicle travelling over irregular terrain. The cheetah can leap over terrain obstacles that a wheeled vehicle must negotiate.
“By granting district court judges the discretion to refer Title 11 cases to the bankruptcy courts and the authority to withdraw the reference once made, Congress ensures that ‘the judicial power of the United States will be ultimately exercised by an Article III Court.’ In re Parklane/Atlanta Joint Venture, 927 F.2d 532, 538 (11th Cir. 1991). This means that any judge who is going to exercise federal power must be an "Article III judge."
Article III judges have lifetime tenure. Const. Art. III.
Congress can't do tricky stuff to create courts with judges with expiring terms to replace Article III judges. Congress tried, and failed, to do so with bankruptcy judges a few years ago. See Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co., 458 U.S. 50, 76 (1982).
This guy was hired as an expert by the SCO attorneys on behalf of SCO. He was paid a generous retainer. The attorneys MUST have included confidentiality language in the expert's contract.
Isn't this guy breaching his contract with SCO and/or SCO's attorneys?
Why would anybody hire a guy as an expert if he's the kind of guy who is going to turn on them later?
Something is not computing here? Maybe its as simple as this guy just can't keep is mouth shut, but maybe there's more to the story.
Do you really think Congress would pass a law that would allow cash tracking? Think of the mayhem such a law would create with the current "system" of campaign financing and "political contributions." Get real. This will never happen.
It seems to me that a forced crippling of somebody's ability to communicate confidentially would be the essence of a prior restraint. The government can get prior restraint, but only in extremely unusual situations.
A artist/craftsman, using todays video editing, drawing, and compositing tools could make a fantastic movie based on comic book heroes. The tools are out there. It would take thousands of man-hours, but it could be done. I also think that there are people out there who would consider such work a labor of love. Computing power is getting fabulous. Pretty soon, real-time previewing a near-photographic quality 3D vector-based animation for minutes at a time, is going to be affordable for every cartoon movie-maker wannabe. The only limitation will be artistic skill--and intellectual property law.
Copyright law prevents this kind of work because copyrights last a REALLY long time. No artist or collective will labor thousands of hours over a comic-book movie if it will be suppressed by the copyright holder as soon as it sees the light of day. Trademark law is also a killer. Tarzan, Superman, Spiderman, etc. are active trademarks for brands of products. You might be able to make a Tarzan movie, but you couldn't call the hero Tarzan.
Comic books exploded in the 1930s. Why won't animated cartoon movies explode in the near future? There are lots of forgotten comics with lapsed copyrights that are out there. . . .
Ahmadinejad craves Western technology while rejecting the social structure necessary to create that technology. They are the biggest bunch of hypocrites.
A leak "superstore" is a stupid idea. A centralized repository is a centralized target. A centralized target is bad for everything except Assange's need for attention.
Assange is a pig. He hoards information so that it can be disclosed for maximum benefit for himself, rather than sharing it freely with others. He is only a conduit--he doesn't provide any analysis.
He created publicity for a service category that has social value. Great. His 15 minutes are up. Now, maybe a more responsible service, or better yet a distributed amorphous cluster of unlinked services will take up the slack.
Domscheit-Berg's group appears to be just another competitor in an endeavor that should be open and non-competitive. If these people are commercial, I hope they all go straight to hell.
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Wall St. can't keep itself from trying to blow up investment bubbles.
There's a sucker born every minute (and then the taxpayers bail the investment banks out).
Advantage in the modern era depends upon technological development.
An enemy of the United States would present exactly the same kind of bill that this state representative did.
I'm not at all sure that the war on "politically unpopular drugs" leads to "serious resource misallocation." If meth were legal we would experience an almost instantaneously stratospheric increase in divorce rates and child abandonment (and many other things (like road rage)). Those costs, while not direct, would be staggering and society would have to pay them instead of the drug enforcement costs.
Some drugs are too destructive to the social network that we depend upon. Those drugs must be illegal.
Thanks for the link!!!
Not only can they do this with nylon, they can do it with TITANIUM! I'm wondering if their layering process is good enough to make bike tubes.
Wow!! This post makes up for months of slashdot sludge!!!
Why would you locate something that demands cooling resources in the MIDDLE OF A DESERT?
Because an influential Senator wants the facility there, perhaps?
I think that the law is and should be used to protect the secrecy of people's electronic records. Medical records are a classic example, that I think everyone would agree on. Most people would probably agree that publishing another person's password and PIN with the intent that the recipient of the password/PIN would steal from the other person is, and should be a crime.
The argument that numbers must be kept "free" has its problems. In this case, the users of the numbers are "good guys" who just want to use the numbers to do "good things." Tomorrow, the users of the numbers might be thieves or corporations intent on stealing from you.
Would you make that same argument if all your PINS and passwords were about to be distributed all over the world by a clever black hat hacker, or would you seek the help of the law?
It won't ever BE evidence, but it will lead to evidence. I'm sure the NSA uses software like this along with speech recognition software and voiceprint recognition software to create investigative leads for follow-up.
This controversy is a metaphor of the beautiful paradox that is the USA.
We have a flag for free speech, yet the flag is legally unavailable unless a contract with the owner of the flag is secured.
The only person who gets to do the seventeen virgins in heaven is the foolish suicide bomber. The people that make the suicide bomb and give the bomber directions don't get to participate in the seventeen virgin fun. Such leaders are pragmatic and they seek their virgins here on Earth. They use fools as tools.
Saying that religion is the biggest threat to the survival of our species is beyond ridiculous. The biggest threat to the survival of our species is population pressure. That much is obvious. Furthermore, no amount of telling "them to go fuck themselves" is going to lessen religious violence. Insulting people increases violence. And . . . Newsflash . . . With few exceptions, violent conflict increases, not lessens, violent conflict.
The United States is NEVER (never, never, ever) going to nation-build a Muslim country. That's not going to happen. Not now. Not ever. Disengagement with Countries that support or tolerate terror is the only hope of getting those in power to see the tangible benefits of friendly engagement with the US..
Imagine the USA with all drugs legalized.
Would the highways become a nightmare?
What about domestic violence?
You would certainly see increased dependency actions against doped parents.
You would see lost job production.
It would be difficult to keep dope away from servicemen.
It would make our country weaker if all drugs were legalized. A weak country is prey.
Legalizing marijuana is one thing. Legalizing meth and cocaine is an entirely different thing.
Once I was walking in the mountains, traversing a very wide draw. I saw an ibex sprint all the way across that draw in seconds. It took me fifteen or twenty minutes to get to the other side of the draw. I was constrained by my slow speed and my need to stay on the trail; the ibex wasn't.
A mechanized cheetah could be much faster than a wheeled vehicle travelling over irregular terrain. The cheetah can leap over terrain obstacles that a wheeled vehicle must negotiate.
Parent post is nonsense. Absolute nonsense.
“By granting district court judges the discretion to refer Title 11 cases to the bankruptcy courts and the authority to withdraw the reference once made, Congress ensures that ‘the judicial power of the United States will be ultimately exercised by an Article III Court.’ In re Parklane/Atlanta Joint Venture, 927 F.2d 532, 538 (11th Cir. 1991). This means that any judge who is going to exercise federal power must be an "Article III judge."
Article III judges have lifetime tenure. Const. Art. III.
Congress can't do tricky stuff to create courts with judges with expiring terms to replace Article III judges. Congress tried, and failed, to do so with bankruptcy judges a few years ago. See Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co., 458 U.S. 50, 76 (1982).
This guy was hired as an expert by the SCO attorneys on behalf of SCO. He was paid a generous retainer. The attorneys MUST have included confidentiality language in the expert's contract.
Isn't this guy breaching his contract with SCO and/or SCO's attorneys?
Why would anybody hire a guy as an expert if he's the kind of guy who is going to turn on them later?
Something is not computing here? Maybe its as simple as this guy just can't keep is mouth shut, but maybe there's more to the story.
Even somebody as awful as Mugabe has supporters enough to keep him in power. Same with Hitler. Same with Saddam.
The trick to being a good dictator is to satisfy a hard-core minority of your supporters so that they will control the majority.
Do you really think Congress would pass a law that would allow cash tracking?
Think of the mayhem such a law would create with the current "system" of campaign financing and "political contributions."
Get real. This will never happen.
I don't think you RTFA. They're talking about 20th Century books--books that are subject to copyright. This is a very good thing.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!
The Blender contributors should be very proud!
It seems to me that a forced crippling of somebody's ability to communicate confidentially would be the essence of a prior restraint. The government can get prior restraint, but only in extremely unusual situations.
"My unstated mindset?"
You should go into extrasensory psychology!
My subject matter was framed by the topic, not by my unstated mindset.
A artist/craftsman, using todays video editing, drawing, and compositing tools could make a fantastic movie based on comic book heroes. The tools are out there. It would take thousands of man-hours, but it could be done. I also think that there are people out there who would consider such work a labor of love. Computing power is getting fabulous. Pretty soon, real-time previewing a near-photographic quality 3D vector-based animation for minutes at a time, is going to be affordable for every cartoon movie-maker wannabe. The only limitation will be artistic skill--and intellectual property law.
Copyright law prevents this kind of work because copyrights last a REALLY long time. No artist or collective will labor thousands of hours over a comic-book movie if it will be suppressed by the copyright holder as soon as it sees the light of day. Trademark law is also a killer. Tarzan, Superman, Spiderman, etc. are active trademarks for brands of products. You might be able to make a Tarzan movie, but you couldn't call the hero Tarzan.
Comic books exploded in the 1930s. Why won't animated cartoon movies explode in the near future? There are lots of forgotten comics with lapsed copyrights that are out there. . . .
It was the threat of embarrassment that kept them away from the conference.
Ahmadinejad craves Western technology while rejecting the social structure necessary to create that technology. They are the biggest bunch of hypocrites.
Is there somebody out there keeping a grand total of all the mod points in the sky?
A leak "superstore" is a stupid idea. A centralized repository is a centralized target. A centralized target is bad for everything except Assange's need for attention.
Assange is a pig. He hoards information so that it can be disclosed for maximum benefit for himself, rather than sharing it freely with others. He is only a conduit--he doesn't provide any analysis.
He created publicity for a service category that has social value. Great. His 15 minutes are up. Now, maybe a more responsible service, or better yet a distributed amorphous cluster of unlinked services will take up the slack.
Domscheit-Berg's group appears to be just another competitor in an endeavor that should be open and non-competitive. If these people are commercial, I hope they all go straight to hell.