Not really much difference between the current system and outright anarchy when people can sue you to death.
Replace "bastard feudal lord from hell" with "giant corporation", and "peasant" with "individual" and you will find things have really not much changed.
Replace "Gestapo" with "angry moralists" and you'll understand why we vote in secret.
It's hard enough working up the courage to make a stand on an issue when people who disagree with you are ready to peg you in the eyes with rotten tomatoes.
Add in the fact that some gaybashers are willing to use deadly force to support their positions and you'll come to appreciate the benefits that anonymous voting provides.
1. These guys are patent trolls and would probably sue their own grandmothers if they could make money on it. 2. This is America, home of the litigious. Common sense in the system is hard to come by.
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The Pirate Bay's *blatantly* defiant stance against legal action means they have actual knowledge of infringement.
They went down fair and square.
Anyone who thinks they were in the dark about what they were helping people get away with is naive to the extreme.
It could quite reasonably be argued that the torrent is a derived work.
Honestly I don't know if that would survive a constitutional challenge.
IMO, states trying to interfere with the electoral college system, ESPECIALLY in a presidential election, may be seen as usurping federal authority.
Anyone with relevant SCOTUS cases, please post references.
Isn't this called companding?
Network neutrality has been dead everywhere ever since Big Content bribed its way into the inner circle.
If it weren't for oligopoly, publication of their rules would become a bargaining point that would allow us to shop around.
We already have a mechanism for that.
It's called RFC 795.
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc795
"mount the CD"
So that's what that little hole is for...
Not really much difference between the current system and outright anarchy when people can sue you to death.
Replace "bastard feudal lord from hell" with "giant corporation", and "peasant" with "individual" and you will find things have really not much changed.
Beware the DMCA and hope the FBI isn't watching when you crack the encryption.
Then again, bring it on. I'd love for SCOTUS to kick the DMCA to the curb when it prevents you from enjoying first sale rights.
Why wait?
You can still pay them full price during the trial period.
In fact, I think that choosing to pay full price when you could choose not to makes a stronger statement.
I'm starting to wonder if the old biblical prohibition on "unclean meat" actually has merit these days.
It might be plagiarism but it most certainly isn't copyright infringement.
At least in theory...the american legal system is convoluted enough that might not be true.
The problem with open-source voting machines is that it would pour sunshine on the corrupt contractors making these blasted boxes in the first place.
Hence, it will be lobbied against.
The reason voting irregularities mean diddly squat in a presidential election is due to the fact that Joe Citizen's votes don't matter directly.
Thanks to the electoral college, any voting irregularities are overruled by the imprimatur elector fiat.
So why are those goodies disabled under Linux?
Come on NVIDIA, just release the specs and let us write our own damned drivers eh?
You mean "Oop, sa$^%~#@$NO CARRIER"
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Replace "Gestapo" with "angry moralists" and you'll understand why we vote in secret.
It's hard enough working up the courage to make a stand on an issue when people who disagree with you are ready to peg you in the eyes with rotten tomatoes.
Add in the fact that some gaybashers are willing to use deadly force to support their positions and you'll come to appreciate the benefits that anonymous voting provides.
There's nothing wrong by itself with supporting a petition.
The trouble comes when assholes try to use your support of said petition as an excuse to attack you.
I'm willing to stand up for my views. What I'm *not* as willing to do is be a martyr for my cause.
Buy shares in Cirrus Logic.
Damn, even *I* am creeped out now...
Try to visualize your goal...
You know it's a messed up system when an EMT has to ask you to break a federal law.
If 3Com knew about the infringement, but knowingly let it go anyway, then shouldn't laches and/or promissory estoppel be a factor?
1. These guys are patent trolls and would probably sue their own grandmothers if they could make money on it.
2. This is America, home of the litigious. Common sense in the system is hard to come by.