If their service agreements didn't have a force majeure clause before this, I bet they will now. Yale Library says:
Force Majeure literally means "greater force". These clauses excuse a party from liability if some unforseen event beyond the control of that party prevents it from performing its obligations under the contract. Typically, force majeure clauses cover natural disasters or other "Acts of God", war, or the failure of third parties--such as suppliers and subcontractors--to perform their obligations to the contracting party. It is important to remember that force majeure clauses are intended to excuse a party only if the failure to perform could not be avoided by the exercise of due care by that party.
IANAL, but IIRC any enhanced copy could be used in court, but evidence is given significance according to its quality and originality. Original evidence carries more weight than a copy. Evidence that is in a format susceptible to manipulation would have less weight and would probably have no bearing on things if it could not be proven to have been safeguarded.
What a day. I saw my first BMW Mini Cooper on the road today, then this. I'm going to have to pull out the old video and see if the bus is still hanging over the cliff.
Everyone's arguing over intellectual property. IMO that isn't the real issue.
When I read this the first thing that hit me was that smelly tennis balls are yet another example of the ever-growing problem of sensory overload in the world. Every fast food joint pumps its smells out into the street to pull in more business. I was at Home Depot the other day -- they pipe musak out into the parking lot now, so loud you can hear it in the back corners. Magazines have scratch and sniff inserts. If you live in a city, go out late at night and check out the light pollution. Forget trying to see the stars. And on and on.
When the sensory flood is overwhelming and inescapable, and I'm pummelled by it all without my permission, isn't my freedom being infringed somehow?
Air Farce lost its edge a few years ago. It now borders on irrelevant. Here's another vote for 22 Minutes (http://www.salter.com/22minutes/22hour.htm).
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It was a two-foot wide wooden sculpture of the great seal of the United States, complete with a microwave resonant cavity, modulator and antenna.
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Yale Library says:
IANAL, but IIRC any enhanced copy could be used in court, but evidence is given significance according to its quality and originality. Original evidence carries more weight than a copy. Evidence that is in a format susceptible to manipulation would have less weight and would probably have no bearing on things if it could not be proven to have been safeguarded.
When you collect the evidence you make a copy. the original is kept under lock and key. The copy is used for enhancement.
Some folks I know of here in Ottawa have a nice little device for blind people to read paper money.
...a coffee mug someone gave me:
"If builders built buildings the way programmers write programs, the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization."
Am I the only one who "gets" this?
What a day. I saw my first BMW Mini Cooper on the road today, then this. I'm going to have to pull out the old video and see if the bus is still hanging over the cliff.
When I read this the first thing that hit me was that smelly tennis balls are yet another example of the ever-growing problem of sensory overload in the world. Every fast food joint pumps its smells out into the street to pull in more business. I was at Home Depot the other day -- they pipe musak out into the parking lot now, so loud you can hear it in the back corners. Magazines have scratch and sniff inserts. If you live in a city, go out late at night and check out the light pollution. Forget trying to see the stars. And on and on.
When the sensory flood is overwhelming and inescapable, and I'm pummelled by it all without my permission, isn't my freedom being infringed somehow?
Air Farce lost its edge a few years ago. It now borders on irrelevant. Here's another vote for 22 Minutes (http://www.salter.com/22minutes/22hour.htm).