There was a Constitutional amendment passed in the state that banned gay marriage, but somehow the courts decided that the amendment was unconstitutional.
Not to get into the ethics of the law or not, but the federal ruling was that the California amendment violated the US Constitutional 14th amendment, which takes precedent over the California constitution. The amendment can be unconstitutional if it violates a higher constitution, not just its own.
The term Yuppie has long since morphed to mean more than its original intent. Its very much the American version of the term Petite Bourgeoisie; both terms tend to identify the same personality types in different contexts. In the US this means the inhabitants of gentrified areas - pretentiousness, self importance, superficiality - the See and Be Seen crowd.
In other words, it morphs to mean whatever type of person the speaker doesn't like? Sounds like it could be a meaningless term then.
sounds like a decent first step to teach a child about math and get him interested without scaring him/her off. Not everyone learns the same.
But isn't that the problem? The program seems structured under the belief that everyone does learn the same. There's no wriggle room, especially for teacher creativity.
Previously, online "matchmaking" consisted of sharing server IP addresses on forums and IRC.
At least that worked. Being shuttled into GameSpy when they bought earlier multiplayer services like Heat made getting those games running orders more difficult. But multiplayer in the last 90s and early 2000s SUCKED, as almost every game assumed a computer was attached directly to the Internet connection with no NAT and no firewall. Diablo 2 was amazing in its simplicity: if you didn't want to use Battle.net, you could use the direct TCP/IP method. Just poke one port in your firewall and it just worked. None of this "forward 10 UDP ports" idiocy. None of this "the IP address of your computer is embedded in the data stream and the other game tries to connect to that, but your machine is NATted so that will never work" bullshit. And none of that Microsoft DirectX networking idiocy. Now NAT and firewalls are everywhere because everyone has multiple devices connected to their broadband and no one uses IPv6.
I can see that for fiction shows, but 60 Minutes is a documentary.
60 Minutes is trash. It used to be a fantastic show with real standards, but in the past few decades it frittered away its reputation. Now it's simply known for the embarrassing mistakes it makes.
I know you're just trolling, but the next time you're going to write out a screed ("I hate it when people on Slashdot move goalposts in discussions!") and search for a post to hang it on, pick a better example post.
Because it's simple biology - gay couples can't have children on their own
Sure, that's fine, but it sounds like your anger is misplaced. As a society, we separated the requirement for children and marriage long ago. Couples who are incapable of conceiving or don't intend to have children can get married. And men and women can have children without getting married.
Marriage has far less to do with children than you think.
If you want to talk practice, there are quite a few sociopathic people all over the world committing far worse acts. It really depends on how important you consider IP law practices. For me, that falls pretty far down the list of important things in the world, but many geeks on slashdot will tunnel vision on these issues.
When many sociopaths butcher their own people, kidnap women and sell them as sex slaves, and invade other countries and create refugee crises... yeah, I just don't care as much whether Samsung will have to pay a royalty for Apple's stupid rounded corners or unlock swipes.
Neither patent nor trademark, but "design patent". US law unfortunately decided to call legally protected designs "design patents", which then every time someone sues over a design patent provokes an outcry of idiots on slashdot and elsewhere that don't understand the difference between a "utility patent" and a "design patent".
I don't think they're confused, so much as every time they hear about design patent enforcement, they don't think that's the sort of thing that should be patentable.
Yes, but what you fail to understand is that people have to go to work, and the times of day and night shift over the year. It's not like businesses could just adopt "winter hours" and "summer hours" - everybody must upset their entire day to accommodate it.
Yeah, this is what I've been grumbling about for years myself. It's just easier doing it the DST way.
Well, except for Home Depot, Walmart, all the parks, and all those businesses that do have different summer hours. But nobody else could possibly do that - it would be pure anarchy.
Ooooh, this is a good point! Oh my God, I want to hug you! We'll be friends forever.
I mean, children wouldn't even get to go to sleep while it's till light out in June if we did something crazy like keep the clocks the same all year!
Wait... WAIT. Are you advocating abolishing DST and going with standard time the entire year? No fucking way. You can pry my glorious, DST summer from my cold, dead hands. I'm no fan of time zone shifts, but I sure as hell will go with standard/DST if that's the only alternative. That's it, our friendship is OVER.
This is what I've been saying about the DST ker-fuffle for years: We have found that it is far far easier to change the definition of the hours twice a year than to convince businesses that they should open earlier/later as the seasons change. They are far too wedded to the "9-5" notion, so we have to change what 9am actually means in order to have an evening in the summer months.
The only plausible reason for having DST in the modern world is so that people can get up with the dawn to go to their jobs. But with it beginning so early in the year, on the first day of DST most people have to get up before the dawn, which is just awful. I don't have any hard evidence to back up this idea, but I bet if you moved the DST start date to the end of April (and the end date to the end of August) there would be a lot fewer heart attacks and a lot less complaining.
Better yet -- DST all the time. No time switches. Standard time sucks.
Necessary to keep teams together? I don't think so. How about, maybe, paying well enough that people people aren't tempted to jump ship in the middle of a project?
Eh.... The salaries and benefits they get are almost certainly out of proportion with the work they do. They are very well paid at Apple, Good, et all. All the tech sector is.
Because I have to respond to every post on this thread (apparently), if you liked those, there are a few more I could recommend:
*) Family (aka, the Best of Both Worlds, Part 3). Almost no sci-fi in this one, Picard spends time with his family on Earth, trying to live with the crushing guilt of his unwilling assimilation into the Borg.
*) Cause and Effect. Others have done this since -- the Enterprise is stuck in a time loop, exploding, then resetting back to about 8 hours earlier, with none of the characters remembering. However, each time through the loop, they remember a little more from the previous times through the loop...
*) Tapestry. Picard dies on the operating table, meets "Q" in the afterlife where they discuss how Picard got that artificial heart which failed. To say the episode becomes "It's a Wonderful Life" is slightly accurate, but doesn't do justice to the execution.
Wesley Crusher was annoying, yes. But really, the deck was stacked against him from the beginning. Here are many of the ways: *) The writers (especially the early writers) did not know how to write for children. So instead Wesley had a bunch of "child prodigy" stereotypes. Contrast that with Sisko's son Jake in and the ferengi child Nog in Deep Space Nine -- both became really good, believable characters. *) The writers took a single concept, then threw out a bunch of story treatments with the intention of filming a few of them. One of those concepts was "Wesley saves the Enterprise." Then the writer's strike of (1988? 1989?) happened and a bunch of these story concepts were shoveled into production. Queue a ton of Wesley episodes in a season; that will try even the hardcores' patience. *) Too much Gene Roddenberry. Wesley became wish fulfillment for Roddenberry. Hell, Gene's middle name is "Wesley," he might have tried to shove too much "bright youngster corrects all the dumb adults" into the character. *) At least back then, Wheaton wasn't a great actor. Sure, he got terrible dialogue, but he didn't exactly deliver it well either.
He was wisely put on a bus---errrr, shipped off to Starfleet Academy later. His guest star appearances afterwards were sometimes good.
I still don't believe the story that Babylon's plot was entirely preplanned, and stick to my theory that Bruce Boxleitner replaced Michael O'Hare because the latter was such an -amazingly bad- actor.
I think Kate Mulgrew was the only good actor and only good character on the series.
Unfortunately the writing in the show was so bad she became a legendarily-bad Startfleet captain. So many examples why... but one of them being that Voyager could have easily returned to Starfleet in the first episode, but she -couldn't- because it would break the Prime Directive. Ok... but then she breaks the Prime Directive casually in episode after episode after that. Ugh.
Was it the first two seasons? Because if so I'd agree, they were pretty shitty. Except for that Borg episode, that was pretty good.
They fired/"let go" a good portion of the writing staff between seasons 2 & 3 and brought in Michael Pillar, Jeri Taylor, and Ronald D Moore. It got a lot better after that.
Not including international DVD/Bluray sales or streaming
The problem is that the DVD/BluRay revenue has been shrinking year over year since sales peaked in the early 2000s. Studios are trying to figure out how to make up the difference, so they are trying to make the revenue model of streaming rather aggressive.
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There was a Constitutional amendment passed in the state that banned gay marriage, but somehow the courts decided that the amendment was unconstitutional.
Not to get into the ethics of the law or not, but the federal ruling was that the California amendment violated the US Constitutional 14th amendment, which takes precedent over the California constitution. The amendment can be unconstitutional if it violates a higher constitution, not just its own.
Yes, it also applies to rowdy teenagers who just want to stay up all night on a school night and their fascist parents ordering them to bed.
Relevant: Powerdad
Oh shut up you pretentious twat. No one cares what you think.
If you can't be bothered to converse civilly, then no one will care what you think either.
a) my platform would be too logically-consistent (and therefore "non-mainstream" compared to the standard Democrat or Republican platform),
Oh? Democrats and Republicans can be quite logically-consistent. They're called "ideologically pure."
The term Yuppie has long since morphed to mean more than its original intent. Its very much the American version of the term Petite Bourgeoisie; both terms tend to identify the same personality types in different contexts. In the US this means the inhabitants of gentrified areas - pretentiousness, self importance, superficiality - the See and Be Seen crowd.
In other words, it morphs to mean whatever type of person the speaker doesn't like? Sounds like it could be a meaningless term then.
sounds like a decent first step to teach a child about math and get him interested without scaring him/her off. Not everyone learns the same.
But isn't that the problem? The program seems structured under the belief that everyone does learn the same. There's no wriggle room, especially for teacher creativity.
All you can do with somebody like that is just look them over, wince, be perplexed for a moment, and then move on.
They pay your bills. Sadly, you (the scientists) don't have the option of ignoring them and moving on.
Previously, online "matchmaking" consisted of sharing server IP addresses on forums and IRC.
At least that worked. Being shuttled into GameSpy when they bought earlier multiplayer services like Heat made getting those games running orders more difficult.
But multiplayer in the last 90s and early 2000s SUCKED, as almost every game assumed a computer was attached directly to the Internet connection with no NAT and no firewall. Diablo 2 was amazing in its simplicity: if you didn't want to use Battle.net, you could use the direct TCP/IP method. Just poke one port in your firewall and it just worked. None of this "forward 10 UDP ports" idiocy. None of this "the IP address of your computer is embedded in the data stream and the other game tries to connect to that, but your machine is NATted so that will never work" bullshit. And none of that Microsoft DirectX networking idiocy. Now NAT and firewalls are everywhere because everyone has multiple devices connected to their broadband and no one uses IPv6.
45 out of 102 colonists in Plymouth died in the first winter. I think we could do better than that on Mars today
They will live as long as the supplies they take with them last. After that, 100%, guaranteed, will die in short order.
So what's the point?
I can see that for fiction shows, but 60 Minutes is a documentary.
60 Minutes is trash. It used to be a fantastic show with real standards, but in the past few decades it frittered away its reputation. Now it's simply known for the embarrassing mistakes it makes.
I know you're just trolling, but the next time you're going to write out a screed ("I hate it when people on Slashdot move goalposts in discussions!") and search for a post to hang it on, pick a better example post.
Because it's simple biology - gay couples can't have children on their own
Sure, that's fine, but it sounds like your anger is misplaced. As a society, we separated the requirement for children and marriage long ago. Couples who are incapable of conceiving or don't intend to have children can get married. And men and women can have children without getting married.
Marriage has far less to do with children than you think.
If you want to talk practice, there are quite a few sociopathic people all over the world committing far worse acts. It really depends on how important you consider IP law practices. For me, that falls pretty far down the list of important things in the world, but many geeks on slashdot will tunnel vision on these issues.
When many sociopaths butcher their own people, kidnap women and sell them as sex slaves, and invade other countries and create refugee crises... yeah, I just don't care as much whether Samsung will have to pay a royalty for Apple's stupid rounded corners or unlock swipes.
Neither patent nor trademark, but "design patent". US law unfortunately decided to call legally protected designs "design patents", which then every time someone sues over a design patent provokes an outcry of idiots on slashdot and elsewhere that don't understand the difference between a "utility patent" and a "design patent".
I don't think they're confused, so much as every time they hear about design patent enforcement, they don't think that's the sort of thing that should be patentable.
Yes, but what you fail to understand is that people have to go to work, and the times of day and night shift over the year. It's not like businesses could just adopt "winter hours" and "summer hours" - everybody must upset their entire day to accommodate it.
Yeah, this is what I've been grumbling about for years myself. It's just easier doing it the DST way.
Well, except for Home Depot, Walmart, all the parks, and all those businesses that do have different summer hours. But nobody else could possibly do that - it would be pure anarchy.
Ooooh, this is a good point! Oh my God, I want to hug you! We'll be friends forever.
I mean, children wouldn't even get to go to sleep while it's till light out in June if we did something crazy like keep the clocks the same all year!
Wait... WAIT. Are you advocating abolishing DST and going with standard time the entire year? No fucking way. You can pry my glorious, DST summer from my cold, dead hands. I'm no fan of time zone shifts, but I sure as hell will go with standard/DST if that's the only alternative. That's it, our friendship is OVER.
This is what I've been saying about the DST ker-fuffle for years: We have found that it is far far easier to change the definition of the hours twice a year than to convince businesses that they should open earlier/later as the seasons change. They are far too wedded to the "9-5" notion, so we have to change what 9am actually means in order to have an evening in the summer months.
The only plausible reason for having DST in the modern world is so that people can get up with the dawn to go to their jobs. But with it beginning so early in the year, on the first day of DST most people have to get up before the dawn, which is just awful. I don't have any hard evidence to back up this idea, but I bet if you moved the DST start date to the end of April (and the end date to the end of August) there would be a lot fewer heart attacks and a lot less complaining.
Better yet -- DST all the time. No time switches. Standard time sucks.
Necessary to keep teams together? I don't think so. How about, maybe, paying well enough that people people aren't tempted to jump ship in the middle of a project?
Eh....
The salaries and benefits they get are almost certainly out of proportion with the work they do. They are very well paid at Apple, Good, et all. All the tech sector is.
You are right about how racist start-ups are in silicon valley. They refuse to hire any employees that are not white
What??? Clearly you've never set foot inside a single silicon valley start-up.
Hey, sometimes they had a Good Troi Episode.
Because I have to respond to every post on this thread (apparently), if you liked those, there are a few more I could recommend:
*) Family (aka, the Best of Both Worlds, Part 3). Almost no sci-fi in this one, Picard spends time with his family on Earth, trying to live with the crushing guilt of his unwilling assimilation into the Borg.
*) Cause and Effect. Others have done this since -- the Enterprise is stuck in a time loop, exploding, then resetting back to about 8 hours earlier, with none of the characters remembering. However, each time through the loop, they remember a little more from the previous times through the loop...
*) Tapestry. Picard dies on the operating table, meets "Q" in the afterlife where they discuss how Picard got that artificial heart which failed. To say the episode becomes "It's a Wonderful Life" is slightly accurate, but doesn't do justice to the execution.
Wesley Crusher was annoying, yes. But really, the deck was stacked against him from the beginning. Here are many of the ways:
*) The writers (especially the early writers) did not know how to write for children. So instead Wesley had a bunch of "child prodigy" stereotypes. Contrast that with Sisko's son Jake in and the ferengi child Nog in Deep Space Nine -- both became really good, believable characters.
*) The writers took a single concept, then threw out a bunch of story treatments with the intention of filming a few of them. One of those concepts was "Wesley saves the Enterprise." Then the writer's strike of (1988? 1989?) happened and a bunch of these story concepts were shoveled into production. Queue a ton of Wesley episodes in a season; that will try even the hardcores' patience.
*) Too much Gene Roddenberry. Wesley became wish fulfillment for Roddenberry. Hell, Gene's middle name is "Wesley," he might have tried to shove too much "bright youngster corrects all the dumb adults" into the character.
*) At least back then, Wheaton wasn't a great actor. Sure, he got terrible dialogue, but he didn't exactly deliver it well either.
He was wisely put on a bus---errrr, shipped off to Starfleet Academy later. His guest star appearances afterwards were sometimes good.
I still don't believe the story that Babylon's plot was entirely preplanned, and stick to my theory that Bruce Boxleitner replaced Michael O'Hare because the latter was such an -amazingly bad- actor.
I think Kate Mulgrew was the only good actor and only good character on the series.
Unfortunately the writing in the show was so bad she became a legendarily-bad Startfleet captain.
So many examples why... but one of them being that Voyager could have easily returned to Starfleet in the first episode, but she -couldn't- because it would break the Prime Directive. Ok... but then she breaks the Prime Directive casually in episode after episode after that. Ugh.
Forced myself through two seasons.
Nope. No redeeming qualities.
Was it the first two seasons? Because if so I'd agree, they were pretty shitty. Except for that Borg episode, that was pretty good.
They fired/"let go" a good portion of the writing staff between seasons 2 & 3 and brought in Michael Pillar, Jeri Taylor, and Ronald D Moore. It got a lot better after that.
Not including international DVD/Bluray sales or streaming
The problem is that the DVD/BluRay revenue has been shrinking year over year since sales peaked in the early 2000s. Studios are trying to figure out how to make up the difference, so they are trying to make the revenue model of streaming rather aggressive.