The point as I took it was "If there is good reason why your courts shouldn't enforce certain of our laws, is the reverse true?"
Like I said, I might argue the McKinnon case if I had unlimited time, and a desire to dive off-topic. I think there are serious flaws in the argument if we look at the McKinnon case specifically, so it probably isn't the best way to illustrate the point as I read it. However, that still leaves the question of for which laws and under what circumstances should a court in one country legitimately refuse to enforce the ruling of a court in another country?
While I can understand your sentiments, I'm not on board with the world-government idea. For one thing, I don't like the idea of ramming constitutional changes down any country's throat, even though I might be tempted to do so myself. If I have the right to do that to another country, that means some other country has the right to do it to me, and there are plenty of nutjobs out there who would love to edit the US Constitution in ways that are abhorrent to me and many other Americans. For example, how many other countries would love to gut the 2nd amendment?
The current arrangement is more to my liking, although messy in some ways. As sovereign nations, we negotiate treaties with each other to balance relations between us, rather than seek to impose external control. The idea of sovereignty - as countries as well as individuals - does not reconcile well with externally imposed constitutional changes. Personally, I'd rather tell the UN to take a hike than change one letter of the Constitution to accommodate non-US interests and powers.
WTF is with the flamebait mod? I might or might not argue the Gary McKinnon question, but Dominic's point is on topic, valid, and does not appear to be designed to provoke an angry response. Please stop using mod points for "-1, Disagree".
He'll learn all that and more from sitting in the slammer with other criminals while getting his PhD in forgery anyway. Proper response would be to lean back and laugh "That? Jeez, that was just the first list of stuff you got wrong. I was just getting started. You're strictly a small-time amateur, pal" and walk away, shaking your head with amusement.
I mean you are already pirating the movie, why not download a couple torrents?
Actually, I'm not pirating. I already own the stuff I was ripping. I'm working on a movie library server, since it's easier to deal with, and physical media tends to get destroyed around my house. DVDShrink under WINE was one combination I played with.
Citation? 50% imagined/guessed/pulled out of my ass, and 50% read somewhere I can't remember, probably written by someone equally uninformed. So, bupkis.
I'm not an EE, so I'll take your word on things. That being said, I've heard of 3 factors in the antenna problem: a) software algorithm improperly displayed signal bars, fixed with update, b) hand position attenuating signal (ergo, rubber band -> distance might be helpful, as would different hand position), and c) hand contact shorting two adjacent uninsulated antennae. My "fix" was aimed at the last.
I'm not a chemical engineer either, so I'll gladly take your suggestion of oxide coatings over epoxy. My point was that there must be a solution to c) that is inexpensive and should have been readily apparent to the design team.
Success stories? For giggles and grins I ran DVDShrink and ImgBurn under Wine on my Debian system, to see how ripping^h^h^h^h^h backing up my DVDs would go. Ran flawlessly every time. Not one single tweak was needed.
I am only sorry that so many people end up bashing Wine. If they'd waste part of that time in contributing to the community, submitting patches, helping out in forums and irc, or simply stopping complaining, I think we'd be better.
Sure, but my guess is that 99% of the complainers don't have a fraction of the skill required to be helpful. (Disclaimer: I can't code my way out of a wet paper bag, but at least I'm not bitching about something that is free.) If they were that smart, don't you think they would have figured out how to tweak it to do what they want?
Wait, they had a video showing that all smartphones can have their antennae shorted out by a sweaty left palm? I must have missed that. Look, regardless of what design flaws others have, the Apple antenna design is flawed. By involving other smartphones, they are trying to draw fire away from themselves with a cheap stunt. What parent hasn't had one kid try to get out of trouble by pointing out how bad their sibling was? Anybody can see through it.
I wonder if there is a certain amount of subtle abuse you could inflict on your iPhone which would render it somewhat or completely useless, but be undetectable as abuse by Apple, resulting in you getting a new (hopefully working) one. Say. like microwaving it for x seconds on y power setting.
Disclaimer for the humor-impaired: I do not advocate fraud, and breaking something on purpose and trying to get warranty service is certainly fraud, not to mention that they might recognize it as fraud, and then you would have screwed yourself out of an iPhone with 2 years left on your AT&T contract. On the other hand, selling a defective product and refusing to properly fix a known problem under warranty is also a form of fraud, and some form of poetic justice might be entirely apropos here.
Not unless I had all the time in the world and a Rainman-like ability to memorize every little fleck of undersea god-knows-what that floats by, in an effort to find repeating patterns.
Come to think of it, that sounds like something that could either be crowdsourced in/. meatspace, or someone here could write a program to scan the video for repeating patters. Volunteers? Bueller? Bueller?
So, you're assuming that they've spent the last couple months building a dummy wellhead on an underwater movie set? I suppose stranger things have happened. I can't think of one at the moment, though.
I thought I read somewhere that it was an exploratory well that they were planning on abandoning. Just because oil is coming out doesn't mean that it is currently economical to collect it there. If oil exploration continues here, whoever does it would certainly just drill a new well anyway.
The great unwashed masses should at least have the ability. Most of them will probably never need to invoke their 5th amendment rights, either. It still should be there for all, right?
What would prevent patent trolls from eyeballing developments in NZ, and patenting them in the US? Even if their patents get overturned in court, they would still be forcing a company to unnecessarily defend their IP in order to do business here.
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AFAIK, none of those companies (with the possible fringe example of Disney) are in an industry where libel is a serious issue.
Incumbency. The pols who voted this through are facing reelection in November. Nothing is as red, white, and blue as defending the Constitution.
Nope. we're coming up on elections soon. Every last one of the incumbents was probably screaming "YES" to free speech at the top of their lungs.
The point as I took it was "If there is good reason why your courts shouldn't enforce certain of our laws, is the reverse true?"
Like I said, I might argue the McKinnon case if I had unlimited time, and a desire to dive off-topic. I think there are serious flaws in the argument if we look at the McKinnon case specifically, so it probably isn't the best way to illustrate the point as I read it. However, that still leaves the question of for which laws and under what circumstances should a court in one country legitimately refuse to enforce the ruling of a court in another country?
While I can understand your sentiments, I'm not on board with the world-government idea. For one thing, I don't like the idea of ramming constitutional changes down any country's throat, even though I might be tempted to do so myself. If I have the right to do that to another country, that means some other country has the right to do it to me, and there are plenty of nutjobs out there who would love to edit the US Constitution in ways that are abhorrent to me and many other Americans. For example, how many other countries would love to gut the 2nd amendment?
The current arrangement is more to my liking, although messy in some ways. As sovereign nations, we negotiate treaties with each other to balance relations between us, rather than seek to impose external control. The idea of sovereignty - as countries as well as individuals - does not reconcile well with externally imposed constitutional changes. Personally, I'd rather tell the UN to take a hike than change one letter of the Constitution to accommodate non-US interests and powers.
WTF is with the flamebait mod? I might or might not argue the Gary McKinnon question, but Dominic's point is on topic, valid, and does not appear to be designed to provoke an angry response. Please stop using mod points for "-1, Disagree".
He'll learn all that and more from sitting in the slammer with other criminals while getting his PhD in forgery anyway. Proper response would be to lean back and laugh "That? Jeez, that was just the first list of stuff you got wrong. I was just getting started. You're strictly a small-time amateur, pal" and walk away, shaking your head with amusement.
I mean you are already pirating the movie, why not download a couple torrents?
Actually, I'm not pirating. I already own the stuff I was ripping. I'm working on a movie library server, since it's easier to deal with, and physical media tends to get destroyed around my house. DVDShrink under WINE was one combination I played with.
Lucky me - I guess my collection must be that magical 0.1%.
Good info. Thanks.
Citation? 50% imagined/guessed/pulled out of my ass, and 50% read somewhere I can't remember, probably written by someone equally uninformed. So, bupkis.
I'm not an EE, so I'll take your word on things. That being said, I've heard of 3 factors in the antenna problem: a) software algorithm improperly displayed signal bars, fixed with update, b) hand position attenuating signal (ergo, rubber band -> distance might be helpful, as would different hand position), and c) hand contact shorting two adjacent uninsulated antennae. My "fix" was aimed at the last.
I'm not a chemical engineer either, so I'll gladly take your suggestion of oxide coatings over epoxy. My point was that there must be a solution to c) that is inexpensive and should have been readily apparent to the design team.
Success stories? For giggles and grins I ran DVDShrink and ImgBurn under Wine on my Debian system, to see how ripping^h^h^h^h^h backing up my DVDs would go. Ran flawlessly every time. Not one single tweak was needed.
I am only sorry that so many people end up bashing Wine. If they'd waste part of that time in contributing to the community, submitting patches, helping out in forums and irc, or simply stopping complaining, I think we'd be better.
Sure, but my guess is that 99% of the complainers don't have a fraction of the skill required to be helpful. (Disclaimer: I can't code my way out of a wet paper bag, but at least I'm not bitching about something that is free.) If they were that smart, don't you think they would have figured out how to tweak it to do what they want?
And to think I used up the last of my mod points earlier. Kudos. Well said.
Sorry, man, you might be stuck with that for awhile. Put it over there next to the Kin phones.
Well, a clear epoxy coating on the antenna would have fixed this poor design inexpensively. That's still within the laws of physics, isn't it?
Wait, they had a video showing that all smartphones can have their antennae shorted out by a sweaty left palm? I must have missed that. Look, regardless of what design flaws others have, the Apple antenna design is flawed. By involving other smartphones, they are trying to draw fire away from themselves with a cheap stunt. What parent hasn't had one kid try to get out of trouble by pointing out how bad their sibling was? Anybody can see through it.
He went on to say that only 0.55% of all iPhone 4 users have called in to complain about reception problems
I'm guessing the other 99.45% couldn't get a signal.
I wonder if there is a certain amount of subtle abuse you could inflict on your iPhone which would render it somewhat or completely useless, but be undetectable as abuse by Apple, resulting in you getting a new (hopefully working) one. Say. like microwaving it for x seconds on y power setting.
Disclaimer for the humor-impaired: I do not advocate fraud, and breaking something on purpose and trying to get warranty service is certainly fraud, not to mention that they might recognize it as fraud, and then you would have screwed yourself out of an iPhone with 2 years left on your AT&T contract. On the other hand, selling a defective product and refusing to properly fix a known problem under warranty is also a form of fraud, and some form of poetic justice might be entirely apropos here.
Not unless I had all the time in the world and a Rainman-like ability to memorize every little fleck of undersea god-knows-what that floats by, in an effort to find repeating patterns.
/. meatspace, or someone here could write a program to scan the video for repeating patters. Volunteers? Bueller? Bueller?
Come to think of it, that sounds like something that could either be crowdsourced in
Thanks for the info.
So, you're assuming that they've spent the last couple months building a dummy wellhead on an underwater movie set? I suppose stranger things have happened. I can't think of one at the moment, though.
I thought I read somewhere that it was an exploratory well that they were planning on abandoning. Just because oil is coming out doesn't mean that it is currently economical to collect it there. If oil exploration continues here, whoever does it would certainly just drill a new well anyway.
The great unwashed masses should at least have the ability. Most of them will probably never need to invoke their 5th amendment rights, either. It still should be there for all, right?
What would prevent patent trolls from eyeballing developments in NZ, and patenting them in the US? Even if their patents get overturned in court, they would still be forcing a company to unnecessarily defend their IP in order to do business here.