You obviously are cherry-picking your examples. Famous right-wingers write books entitled Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism. Bill O'Reilly regularly calls liberals un-American. Criticising Bush got you tarred and feathered as a traitor by the right wing.
Prescription cough syrups may be useful.The linked article regarding cough syrups only covered over-the-counter cough medications. Prescription cough syrups that contain codeine or hydrocodone seem to work really well but are liable to abuse.
I think the article is using the term literally in its quantum mechanics meaning. The paper discusses a theory stemming from quantum mechanics that would defeat this theory of faster-than-light travel. In this regard, it is literally a setback coming from quantum mechanics.
The patent might actually be dealing with regulatory requirements. Perhaps there is a second big red button that you have to hit to shut off the UPS as well. I don't think Google got a patent for a laptop, but probably got something a little more substantive.
The future is now. Aricept can be used to delay the progression of Alzheimer's at all stages, but starting before the symptoms get bad is obviously very useful. Having a good test for Alzheimer's might make it easier to experiment for a cure.
I doubt the final injunction will be issued by the federal courts. The law generally stops federal courts from messing with state court proceedings via injunctions. (See the Anti-Injunction Act.) An exception deals with violations of a person's constitutional rights. (Younger v. Harris.) This temporary injunction will probably not issue as a final injunction. It's very difficult to prove malicious prosecution or a violation of their constitutional rights to free speech. Note that having to endure a criminal prosecution is not considered undue hardship.
These Apple vs. Dell competitions never account for the constant sales that Dell has on their products. They keep the list price relatively high so their salespeople can give "favorable pricing" to their corporate clients. Very frequently, though, Dell issues coupons good for huge discounts. You can get 10-25% off a new Dell laptop if you wait a few weeks. Apple hardly ever has huge sales.
Most rational consumers would wait a bit to save a few hundred dollars. I would love to see a comparison that took these Dell discounts into account.
Free speech cannot exist without the protection of anonymity. Without anonymous speech, the fear of reprisal would chill discussion. Keep in mind that the Founding Fathers published many of their seminal documents under pen names, lest they lose their heads to the King.
At the same time, the government has an interest in identifying certain publishers. Libel or slander should not be protected because it is a crime that hurts its victims. The government has to balance the interests of protecting anonymous speech against the rights of victims to seek relief. These factors have to be taken into consideration when deciding whether or not to grant government power such as subpoenas to pierce the veil of anonymity.
Here, the posts do not seem to be libel or slander. However, we do not know if any government force was used to identify the blogger. I think that it is perfectly fine if the blogger was careless or was betrayed by a friend she told. But if the politician used his office to investigate or to subpoena the information, I would be bullshit mad.
Extradition is governed by treaties and only applies to criminal cases. Most extradition treaties require the demanding country to prove a prima facie case of a crime. If the UK suddenly made libel a crime so it could extradite violators, most countries would change their extradition treaties accordingly.
The article is just being sensationalist. It sucks if you are in the UK, or have your servers there, or if you have property within the UK, but the rest of the world is not affected by the UK civil law. The end effect will be that servers will not be hosted in the UK and media companies will avoid it as well.
I am pretty sure a UK libel judgement against foreign citizens and servers cannot be enforced. A UK judgement cannot be enforced against servers located in the United States. That would be an abrogation of the rights of the United States to be the sole police of its citizenry. Imagine a world where foreign judgements are enforceable: courts in Nigeria would be issuing summons to Bill Gates for millions of dollars!
This is the reason why credit cards are so insecure. Banks are not adequately incentivized to prevent credit cards from being abused. Merchants eat the loss while the banks make money either way. I will bet you that credit cards will become much more secure if banks were legislatively forced to eat the cost of consumer fraud. I hate big government, but there is a market dysfunction here: there are only a few major credit card companies (Mastercard, Visa, American Express, and if you want to be generous, Discover).
Europeans have smart chips in their credit cards that make them impossible to duplicate. Meanwhile, in the United States, we have pieces of plastic with magnetic ribbons on them that can be faked by a twelve-year old with some spare time on his hands. We don't even have photos on the credit cards. Absolutely bizarre.
How do you know lobsters are tastier than humans unless you've sampled both? Humans and termites may taste fucking delicious, but most of us will not know. The only variable would be the revulsion against eating exotic foods. Anyone want to run a double-blind study on this topic?
Thank God we live in a country where morons like you do not have power. Perhaps these regulations will prevent the emission of a lot of carbon, thus helping our environment. Perhaps you can have black cars with this technology given some special treatment that makes the car even shiner. Did you discuss the merits like a rational person? No. You just rant without considering the details at all.
Loudmouthed ignorants are not the best people to have power.
All that RAM would be great for virtual systems. But you need to get ECC RAM, which is much more expensive than the regular stuff. Without ECC, random errors would wipe out your system especially if you have 192 GB of the stuff.
You have to teach the students something in science class. Teaching them evolution with an asterisk seems horribly inadequate. "We all came from monkeys." *rolls eyes*
Texas probably wants to teach intelligent design but cannot do a frontal assault on evolution, so they have chosen to flank it. Query whether or not they would be okay with teaching the African or Islamic genesis myths as opposed to the Judeo-Christian model.
Small pharmaceutical companies usually discover the novel compounds that may have medicinal value. However, it is the big companies that can perform human testing and bring it to market. Small companies may find it difficult to cover all medicinal uses for their products with only five patents. For instance, Viagra was designed for heart problems but turned out to be useful for erectile dysfunction. With these limitations, it is theoretically easier for big companies to bully small companies into giving up their invention without paying full price for it.
Recovering, fixing, and verifying the booster is an expensive proposition. How much does the recovered booster actually cost? The entire reusable Shuttle idea was kind of dumb because it was cheaper to stick with expendable launch vehicles than drag a huge piece of deadweight into space every time. What is the difference here? (Seriously.)
The modem/router that Verizon provided for their DSL service had the firmware remotely upgraded. There is no way to avoid these updates. I hope it is secure. If someone roots that process, it will be the mother of all DDOS attacks.
So you are okay with Bobby Jindal having no morals and lying as long as everyone else is lying? Two or three wrongs make a right? Or are you suggesting that every time you note someone is lying you have to find someone on the other side that lied in the last ten years (on matters that are irrelevant to the current discussion) to be "fair"?
Bullshit. Katrina wiped a ton of Americans out because the government didn't monitor the situation. Jindal says we should not monitor volcanoes. He lied about his experience. Why do you insist on changing the subject? Because you are a partisan hack yourself.
The Cylon colony was attacked by Galactica. The Raptor piloted by the dead Racetrack fired a bunch of nukes that knocked the colony into the black hole. Galactica FTL'd away in the nick of time.
The Apple Air has been out for a long time while the Dell Adamo just came out. The price of the Dell Adamo will drop in the next few months. Dell's MO is to drop prices through sales after the novelty (early adopters) wears off. And the Air is STILL more expensive.
The author bought damaged solar cells from eBay, selected the good ones, then soldered those together. Then he jury-rigged his own waterproof casing and electrical connections. Used goods are cheaper but that does not mean new ones are over-priced.
Let us know how long his cells last outside before insinuating all the solar cell producers in the world are selling overpriced gear.
You rent a house. You live there for a decade. You love it there. But the landlord never bothered with fire insurance. The house is out of code because he willfully ignored all the inspections. There is a fire. The firemen come. Do you tell them to let the house burn down to teach the landlord a lesson?
Cutting your nose off to spite your face makes for great populist claptrap, but it is not good governance. The right thing to do would be to put the fire out and make sure the same thing does not happen again.
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You obviously are cherry-picking your examples. Famous right-wingers write books entitled Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism. Bill O'Reilly regularly calls liberals un-American. Criticising Bush got you tarred and feathered as a traitor by the right wing.
Prescription cough syrups may be useful.The linked article regarding cough syrups only covered over-the-counter cough medications. Prescription cough syrups that contain codeine or hydrocodone seem to work really well but are liable to abuse.
I think the article is using the term literally in its quantum mechanics meaning. The paper discusses a theory stemming from quantum mechanics that would defeat this theory of faster-than-light travel. In this regard, it is literally a setback coming from quantum mechanics.
The patent might actually be dealing with regulatory requirements. Perhaps there is a second big red button that you have to hit to shut off the UPS as well. I don't think Google got a patent for a laptop, but probably got something a little more substantive.
The future is now. Aricept can be used to delay the progression of Alzheimer's at all stages, but starting before the symptoms get bad is obviously very useful. Having a good test for Alzheimer's might make it easier to experiment for a cure.
I doubt the final injunction will be issued by the federal courts. The law generally stops federal courts from messing with state court proceedings via injunctions. (See the Anti-Injunction Act.) An exception deals with violations of a person's constitutional rights. (Younger v. Harris.) This temporary injunction will probably not issue as a final injunction. It's very difficult to prove malicious prosecution or a violation of their constitutional rights to free speech. Note that having to endure a criminal prosecution is not considered undue hardship.
These Apple vs. Dell competitions never account for the constant sales that Dell has on their products. They keep the list price relatively high so their salespeople can give "favorable pricing" to their corporate clients. Very frequently, though, Dell issues coupons good for huge discounts. You can get 10-25% off a new Dell laptop if you wait a few weeks. Apple hardly ever has huge sales.
Most rational consumers would wait a bit to save a few hundred dollars. I would love to see a comparison that took these Dell discounts into account.
Free speech cannot exist without the protection of anonymity. Without anonymous speech, the fear of reprisal would chill discussion. Keep in mind that the Founding Fathers published many of their seminal documents under pen names, lest they lose their heads to the King.
At the same time, the government has an interest in identifying certain publishers. Libel or slander should not be protected because it is a crime that hurts its victims. The government has to balance the interests of protecting anonymous speech against the rights of victims to seek relief. These factors have to be taken into consideration when deciding whether or not to grant government power such as subpoenas to pierce the veil of anonymity.
Here, the posts do not seem to be libel or slander. However, we do not know if any government force was used to identify the blogger. I think that it is perfectly fine if the blogger was careless or was betrayed by a friend she told. But if the politician used his office to investigate or to subpoena the information, I would be bullshit mad.
... and I ran here. Does that make me a bad person?
Extradition is governed by treaties and only applies to criminal cases. Most extradition treaties require the demanding country to prove a prima facie case of a crime. If the UK suddenly made libel a crime so it could extradite violators, most countries would change their extradition treaties accordingly.
The article is just being sensationalist. It sucks if you are in the UK, or have your servers there, or if you have property within the UK, but the rest of the world is not affected by the UK civil law. The end effect will be that servers will not be hosted in the UK and media companies will avoid it as well.
I am pretty sure a UK libel judgement against foreign citizens and servers cannot be enforced. A UK judgement cannot be enforced against servers located in the United States. That would be an abrogation of the rights of the United States to be the sole police of its citizenry. Imagine a world where foreign judgements are enforceable: courts in Nigeria would be issuing summons to Bill Gates for millions of dollars!
This is the reason why credit cards are so insecure. Banks are not adequately incentivized to prevent credit cards from being abused. Merchants eat the loss while the banks make money either way. I will bet you that credit cards will become much more secure if banks were legislatively forced to eat the cost of consumer fraud. I hate big government, but there is a market dysfunction here: there are only a few major credit card companies (Mastercard, Visa, American Express, and if you want to be generous, Discover).
Europeans have smart chips in their credit cards that make them impossible to duplicate. Meanwhile, in the United States, we have pieces of plastic with magnetic ribbons on them that can be faked by a twelve-year old with some spare time on his hands. We don't even have photos on the credit cards. Absolutely bizarre.
How do you know lobsters are tastier than humans unless you've sampled both? Humans and termites may taste fucking delicious, but most of us will not know. The only variable would be the revulsion against eating exotic foods. Anyone want to run a double-blind study on this topic?
Thank God we live in a country where morons like you do not have power. Perhaps these regulations will prevent the emission of a lot of carbon, thus helping our environment. Perhaps you can have black cars with this technology given some special treatment that makes the car even shiner. Did you discuss the merits like a rational person? No. You just rant without considering the details at all.
Loudmouthed ignorants are not the best people to have power.
All that RAM would be great for virtual systems. But you need to get ECC RAM, which is much more expensive than the regular stuff. Without ECC, random errors would wipe out your system especially if you have 192 GB of the stuff.
You have to teach the students something in science class. Teaching them evolution with an asterisk seems horribly inadequate. "We all came from monkeys." *rolls eyes*
Texas probably wants to teach intelligent design but cannot do a frontal assault on evolution, so they have chosen to flank it. Query whether or not they would be okay with teaching the African or Islamic genesis myths as opposed to the Judeo-Christian model.
Small pharmaceutical companies usually discover the novel compounds that may have medicinal value. However, it is the big companies that can perform human testing and bring it to market. Small companies may find it difficult to cover all medicinal uses for their products with only five patents. For instance, Viagra was designed for heart problems but turned out to be useful for erectile dysfunction. With these limitations, it is theoretically easier for big companies to bully small companies into giving up their invention without paying full price for it.
That is the argument for it, anyway. Who knows?
Recovering, fixing, and verifying the booster is an expensive proposition. How much does the recovered booster actually cost? The entire reusable Shuttle idea was kind of dumb because it was cheaper to stick with expendable launch vehicles than drag a huge piece of deadweight into space every time. What is the difference here? (Seriously.)
The modem/router that Verizon provided for their DSL service had the firmware remotely upgraded. There is no way to avoid these updates. I hope it is secure. If someone roots that process, it will be the mother of all DDOS attacks.
So you are okay with Bobby Jindal having no morals and lying as long as everyone else is lying? Two or three wrongs make a right? Or are you suggesting that every time you note someone is lying you have to find someone on the other side that lied in the last ten years (on matters that are irrelevant to the current discussion) to be "fair"?
Bullshit. Katrina wiped a ton of Americans out because the government didn't monitor the situation. Jindal says we should not monitor volcanoes. He lied about his experience. Why do you insist on changing the subject? Because you are a partisan hack yourself.
The Cylon colony was attacked by Galactica. The Raptor piloted by the dead Racetrack fired a bunch of nukes that knocked the colony into the black hole. Galactica FTL'd away in the nick of time.
The Apple Air has been out for a long time while the Dell Adamo just came out. The price of the Dell Adamo will drop in the next few months. Dell's MO is to drop prices through sales after the novelty (early adopters) wears off. And the Air is STILL more expensive.
The author bought damaged solar cells from eBay, selected the good ones, then soldered those together. Then he jury-rigged his own waterproof casing and electrical connections. Used goods are cheaper but that does not mean new ones are over-priced.
Let us know how long his cells last outside before insinuating all the solar cell producers in the world are selling overpriced gear.
You rent a house. You live there for a decade. You love it there. But the landlord never bothered with fire insurance. The house is out of code because he willfully ignored all the inspections. There is a fire. The firemen come. Do you tell them to let the house burn down to teach the landlord a lesson?
Cutting your nose off to spite your face makes for great populist claptrap, but it is not good governance. The right thing to do would be to put the fire out and make sure the same thing does not happen again.
I am a patent lawyer, you insensitive clods!