Picking up a knife from the kitchen on the way to investigate the breaking glass sound in your living room could be considered preparation. It isn't as cut-and-dry as many think.
What the law demands: "To the person who has entered my house without my permission: My possessions are insured, and I shall not interfere in your actions while removing them. My family are their own persons, and I may not legally act in their defense, so please feel free to attack my wife and children. If you threaten me with a knife, I must wait until you actually make an attacking motion towards me to act in self defense, so please feel free to pick up a kitchen knife and hack the place up as long as you don't actually attempt to do the same to me. I may not pick up any item which could be considered a weapon with which to defend myself, as that could be considered a threatening gesture on my part to which you could justly retaliate in self defense, using the weapon you have already demonstrated to be carrying. Finally, if all of these situations have been fulfilled, I reserve the right to use reasonable force to prevent you from harming me, and me alone."
What really happens, scenario 1: "To the perso*STABBED." Ain't no respawns in real life, queue credits.
What really happens, scenario 2: *Cave burglar's skull in with a bat* "Best call this guy an ambulance. I'm not an asshole, I don't want him to die." *Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass Go. Do not collect £200.*
The "patent pledge" Microsoft made with the mono developers can evaporate in the wink of an eye and then the whole project, and anyone using it, are at risk of patent infringement.
Isn't that commonly known as the "bait and switch"? Sucker guys in with promises of riches or benefit of some kind, change the rules, profit? Sounds... Hazardous.
I subscribe to the theory that Stephen Hawking eludes to; If there really is a supreme being, he only input it had into creating the universe was to create Gravity, Electromagnetism, and the Weak and Strong Nuclear Force. The rest sort of took care of itself.
Some of the worst atrocities conducted by humanity have been done in $deity's name, yet all combined they'd still number less than the total losses from the situations you described above. I wouldn't be surprised if that wasn't some form of irony on his part.
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In bygone times, people would compare animals and indeed human beings to clocks or steam engines. Comparing them to computers is just a flawed and just as misleading.
Absolutely! Everyone here knows they're much more like cars. The brain, obviously, is the steering wheel, as it controls the direction of the car. Or is the brain the ECU? Either way, the engine is the heart of the car. And the lungs are the carburetors.
Hey, when are we going to get our direct-injection circulatory systems?
The problem is that, in America, Fair Use is a defense against a civil lawsuit, not a right enshrined in their Constitution. That means that you need to prove fair use in a court which is filled with lawyers on annual bankrolls higher than many people will see in their lifetime, against laws which have been paid for through campaign contributions by the very same people who fund the lawyers.
Not entirely without precedent. I understand that Lindows was not a parody and therefore is not in the same situation, but it's hardly the first time a huge company has sued a much smaller one just for having a similar name.
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Yeah, but they're losing money on potential game sales!
Quick! Hire some RIAA lawyers and sue John Doe's for not buying games!
Like most common cold "remedies" it's a treatment for the symptom, not the disease.
They should have left the network cards inside and claimed they were dumb terminals.
Picking up a knife from the kitchen on the way to investigate the breaking glass sound in your living room could be considered preparation. It isn't as cut-and-dry as many think.
A dodecahedron is more like a D12. What you want is a tetrahedron, like a D4.
The D&D Devastator! B-)
What the law demands: "To the person who has entered my house without my permission: My possessions are insured, and I shall not interfere in your actions while removing them. My family are their own persons, and I may not legally act in their defense, so please feel free to attack my wife and children. If you threaten me with a knife, I must wait until you actually make an attacking motion towards me to act in self defense, so please feel free to pick up a kitchen knife and hack the place up as long as you don't actually attempt to do the same to me. I may not pick up any item which could be considered a weapon with which to defend myself, as that could be considered a threatening gesture on my part to which you could justly retaliate in self defense, using the weapon you have already demonstrated to be carrying. Finally, if all of these situations have been fulfilled, I reserve the right to use reasonable force to prevent you from harming me, and me alone."
What really happens, scenario 1: "To the perso*STABBED." Ain't no respawns in real life, queue credits.
What really happens, scenario 2: *Cave burglar's skull in with a bat* "Best call this guy an ambulance. I'm not an asshole, I don't want him to die." *Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass Go. Do not collect £200.*
The "patent pledge" Microsoft made with the mono developers can evaporate in the wink of an eye and then the whole project, and anyone using it, are at risk of patent infringement.
Isn't that commonly known as the "bait and switch"? Sucker guys in with promises of riches or benefit of some kind, change the rules, profit? Sounds... Hazardous.
Never mind where the oil came from. The generator was probably imported from China.
This would only be of benefit in the Deep South.
And Norfolk.
Well for guys, it's the subscriber's "trunk" which may be the problem.
The original testing and review was going to be done by a guy called Bob, but they changed at the last minute and asked a guy called Micturate it.
If only I'd known about this six years ago!
It's important to know how many Libraries of Congress this power would fill. Yes, I want a volume of electricity.
Bonus points for units of dB.
I subscribe to the theory that Stephen Hawking eludes to; If there really is a supreme being, he only input it had into creating the universe was to create Gravity, Electromagnetism, and the Weak and Strong Nuclear Force. The rest sort of took care of itself.
Some of the worst atrocities conducted by humanity have been done in $deity's name, yet all combined they'd still number less than the total losses from the situations you described above. I wouldn't be surprised if that wasn't some form of irony on his part.
Either way, this is off topic.
Not all people are terrorists, but all terrorists are people.
Tautology is.
Only the skin. We all know that bones are ground up to make bread.
Quick! Call Ben Afleck! I sense a sequel...
I'm fairly sure a lot of the /. readership would like to participate in the creation of ESCs.
[Giggedy]
Introduce her to some memes.
"All your Profile are belong to us!"
"I herd u leik rulin countrees..."
"Y HALO THAR [posting from work]"
"Hey, click this link! [Rickroll]"
"Hey, click this link! [Goatse]"
"Hey, click this link! [Lemonparty]" - Make a joke about Philip
"Hey, click this link! [Link to own profile, click many times. Laugh privately]
She has no idea what she's in for.
In bygone times, people would compare animals and indeed human beings to clocks or steam engines. Comparing them to computers is just a flawed and just as misleading.
Absolutely! Everyone here knows they're much more like cars. The brain, obviously, is the steering wheel, as it controls the direction of the car. Or is the brain the ECU? Either way, the engine is the heart of the car. And the lungs are the carburetors.
Hey, when are we going to get our direct-injection circulatory systems?
Oh my God! That's a 50% chance of getting cancer!
DOOOOOOOooooooooooomed...
The problem is that, in America, Fair Use is a defense against a civil lawsuit, not a right enshrined in their Constitution. That means that you need to prove fair use in a court which is filled with lawyers on annual bankrolls higher than many people will see in their lifetime, against laws which have been paid for through campaign contributions by the very same people who fund the lawyers.
It's very much one-sided.
Uhhh... Microsoft v. Lindows
Not entirely without precedent. I understand that Lindows was not a parody and therefore is not in the same situation, but it's hardly the first time a huge company has sued a much smaller one just for having a similar name.
I shall definitely be calling my child Adam, not Fred. I will absolutely forbid grey Lycra in the house.
Sincerely,
P. West.
It means "not including scientific research stations."