Yeah, and your post is an example of a statistical fallacy where from "an incompetent person is likely to use this defense" you conclude that "a person who uses this defense is likely to be incompetent". Classic.
You should ask for your money back from those speed reading classes. My conclusion is that "a person who uses this defense is likely to be treated as incompetent." Spot the difference.
Mostly the court said the defense sucked and they WOULD have been receptive to such fair use tactics but the defense didn't help them out there
So they're saying that "what is right and wrong" is not the focus of judgement, rather who had the better lawyer? Someone want to remind the judge he's not judging a debate tournament, and that innocence transcends protocol?
The focus of any court should be to give the defendant the lightest possible sentence they conscionably can. If the US shifted its focus back to that, we'd improve the state of healthcare and discipline. Barratry wouldn't be so ridiculously prevalent, and more people could do the Right Thing without worrying about vexatious litigants.
fired without cause as part of a witch hunt on a security breach.
Unfortunately, this sentence nullifies your credibility. This is what sociopaths say when they're fired for everything. This is what all my ex-con buddies say when they can't hold down a job for more than 6 months. It's what 16 year olds say when they get fired for doing 10 minutes of work in an hour, because they were too busy texting their friends about the movie on Friday. This is what unclever people say when they tried to pull something clever, got caught, and refused to believe that someone could see through the cleverness of their crappy plans.
I'm not saying that you fit into these categories, or that you did something wrong. Rather, I'm saying, you are simply using the same wording that they ALL use, which immediately triggers off "BULLSHIT" alarms in anyone over the age of 18 who doesn't use this line -- so don't bother with ever using it. Remove that line and your post carries much greater impact.
seriously, are the most dangerous bad guys really that stupid to communicate their plans almost in the clear?
Of course, then they leave to the command room to bring their plan of devastation to fruition -- assuming the hero will quietly meet his fate, encased in the trap the bad guy had so deviously invented, surrounded by the most expendable subordinates available, next door to the central power chamber and flashlight supply, which typically has a ventilation system, large, empty, and cool enough for a grown man to shimmy comfortably through, leading to the command room.
I could only hope this would end in disaster for both evil corporations.
Yet, I have serious doubts about that. When two legions that have sold their souls to the devil for money combine on a project that seems doomed from the start, I'm wary to dismiss it on the grounds that it defies common sense, and try to find out what they're looking at.
I have purchased the $35.00 a month plan (6 Mbs) yet in 6 months, I have never seen a single download exceed 400K/s -- should it be ok for them to charge me more than $19.95 for that month since I was only delivered their bottom tier?
It is a different branch from the same, corrupt tree. A very shady tree.
I like the part about there being no clear connection between homework and performance at school.
I saw an extremely clean negative correlation with assigned homework and my grades. The more assignments I was expected to do at home, the lower my grade was.
The Mainstream media LOVED Bush. They don't seem to like Obama as much
There is not a bridge large enough to contain this troll.
In the New York Times alone, according to the Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University, 405 stories on the Obama administration have appeared on the front page through mid-August of this year totaling 119,678 column inches. That's 9,973 column feet of Obama coverage on the Times front page alone.
But it is television that has been the most powerful draw for Obama.
As of mid-August, Obama submitted to a total of 66 television interviews, dramatically outstripping his two predecessors, according to Martha Joynt Kumar, director of the White House Transition Project at Towson University in Maryland.
During the same period of their own presidencies, President George W. Bush gave 16 television interviews and President Bill Clinton gave just six.
Obama is also out-hustling his predecessors with the print media, giving 36 interviews with newspapers and magazines during his first seven months in office -- nearly doubling the numbers given by Bush and Clinton.
I worked with someone who was duped by this stuff years ago. He was telling all our coworkers that a rogue planet was coming within 5 million miles of Earth and would destroy most of life on the planet, reverse the poles, etc. Some of my more gullible coworkers started asking me if this could be possible. I responded with the following conversation, in comic form:
Person 1: So I've looked into this "rogue planet" thing and here's what I found...
Person 2: Ok
Person 1: Let's say this planet passes within 5 million miles of Earth and is the size of Earth.
Person 2: Terrifying.
Person 1: Using a non-theoretical planet, Mars, we can stage a basic equation to find its impact on Earth's gravity, or "Tidal Force"
Person 2: I think I follow...
Person 1: This planet, if it were the size of Earth, would be 3.3 times bigger than Mars. That means 3.3. times stronger the force.
Person 2: Ok.
Person 1: It would be 6x closer than mars, which makes the Tidal Froce 36x stronger (since gravity is 3-dimensional) so 3.3 x 36 is about 119 times the strength of Mars's influence on Earth.
Person 2: So what is Mars's Tidal Force?
Person 1: Mars has a Tidal Force on Earth of about.000002 So the rogue planet would have a force of about.00024. The moon has a tidal force of 2.1 so that means the rogue planet would have almost 1/8000th the power of the moon on our gravity.
Person 2: That doesn't sound so bad...
Just then, the rogue planet swept by, obliterating all life on Earth.
Actually, it comes down to a difference of philosophy on how to build a brighter future. While Americans profess "We must learn from History, lest it repeat itself." -- Germany argues "We must not learn from History, lest someone get ideas on how to repeat it."
My father has a mutant strain of Vinca in his yard. We've found plants living for more than 6 months without water, light, and under extreme temperature swings (They were completely white, and were found practically boiling in their own juice when we uncovered them, but still very much alive) and some sections of the yard thrive on nothing but a steady supply of herbicides. That and the spearamint plants that cannot ever seem to be extinguished no matter how much they're cut down, dug up, and flattened, and the wild blackberries in the Southeast portion of his yard that made me think "Day of the Triffids" was a documentary of my life growing up. I always thought we should send samples of these plants to NASA for their consideration in terraforming anything.
The more I think about it, the less I'm convinced my dad is Batman, and the more I'm convinced my mom is Poison Ivy.
If you are causing a domestic panic and threatening to not only revoke many of the liberties outlined in the Bill of Rights, but also threatening to shut down communication lines, funneling billions into lobbying interests, while using fear tactics surrounding an illness that I would best describe my first-hand experience as a "laughably mild cold, without the annoyance of a stuffy nose" you're not supporting terrorism, you are practicing the definition of it.
You're telling me that carnivores are bad for the planet... If animals are bad for the planet, what planet, exactly, are you trying to save? The rocks? I can assure you that they don't care about carbon footprints. Plants? They'd be overjoyed if we had 6x the amounts of carbon in the atmosphere than we do now. What's the next release from these idiots? "Internal combustion BAD FOR CARS!"
I'll miss you http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/5568/index.html. You taught me HTML which helped me get my first IT job, and helped girls stalk me 8 years later after I forgot you existed, because in my pupal years, I had no concerns of privacy. May your green background with blinking red letters sleep soundly knowing they successfully burned over 200,000 retinas (according to my web counter) if people clicked on the "Don't click on this link!" link.
"Consenting Adult" in some countries is a 14 year old. In some Mexican cities, it's 12. If you want to draw a line in the sand with your "consenting adults", you'll soon see that where you are will quickly become "bigotry and close-minded" and a progressive movement will move to alter the definition of the line you've drawn.
Besides, the fact that you say "consenting adults" is biggoted, unfair, and close-minded to those who practice beastiality and statutory rape. They are people too, are they not? Who are you to say they can't show their love like you can?
Face it, when you call someone else a monster, someone behind you is calling you a monster. the only difference is that the person who YOU are accusing is not trying to take some "open-minded" highground.
Instead of arguing for the right to call a homosexual union a "marriage", the gay rights movement should be arguing for equal treatment of those unions to allow jail visits, hospital visits, burial rites, etc. The Women's Suffrage movement didn't fight so the word "male" would also mean "female". Picking your battles is 90% of the recipe for any political success.
And remember that any attempt to circumvent locking out third-party memory is a heinous violation of the DMCA and will leave *you* the crimino-consumer liable for a big fine or jail.
No it won't, because:
The prohibition... shall not apply to persons who are... adversely affected by virtue of such prohibition in their ability to make noninfringing uses of that particular class of works under this title. source
If all your data for legitimately purchased software gets erased every time you try to play, then by all means, you are showing substantial adverse effects on your non-infringing use of copyrighted works. By all means, circumvent the hell out of them!
Mormon theology is one of the most lenient when it comes to suicide. The person who died gets full burial rights and it's believed that if the dead was not 100% in control of their mental faculties (i.e. schizophrenia, drug side effects, clinical depression, etc), then they won't be held accountable for that act when the judgement day comes. Since no one knows but the dead and God if that was the case, then the church assumes the person was spiritually innocent and treats their service and their family as if it were natural causes, letting the judgement fall completely on the other side.
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YOU ARE ENCOURAGED, NAY REQUIRED TO QUESTION SCIENCE in order for it to prosper.
"Unless it's evolution. In which case, only an illogical idiot would question it. You aren't an illogical idiot, are you?" - Richard Dawkins
Yeah, and your post is an example of a statistical fallacy where from "an incompetent person is likely to use this defense" you conclude that "a person who uses this defense is likely to be incompetent". Classic.
You should ask for your money back from those speed reading classes. My conclusion is that "a person who uses this defense is likely to be treated as incompetent." Spot the difference.
Mostly the court said the defense sucked and they WOULD have been receptive to such fair use tactics but the defense didn't help them out there
So they're saying that "what is right and wrong" is not the focus of judgement, rather who had the better lawyer? Someone want to remind the judge he's not judging a debate tournament, and that innocence transcends protocol?
The focus of any court should be to give the defendant the lightest possible sentence they conscionably can. If the US shifted its focus back to that, we'd improve the state of healthcare and discipline. Barratry wouldn't be so ridiculously prevalent, and more people could do the Right Thing without worrying about vexatious litigants.
fired without cause as part of a witch hunt on a security breach.
Unfortunately, this sentence nullifies your credibility. This is what sociopaths say when they're fired for everything. This is what all my ex-con buddies say when they can't hold down a job for more than 6 months. It's what 16 year olds say when they get fired for doing 10 minutes of work in an hour, because they were too busy texting their friends about the movie on Friday. This is what unclever people say when they tried to pull something clever, got caught, and refused to believe that someone could see through the cleverness of their crappy plans.
I'm not saying that you fit into these categories, or that you did something wrong. Rather, I'm saying, you are simply using the same wording that they ALL use, which immediately triggers off "BULLSHIT" alarms in anyone over the age of 18 who doesn't use this line -- so don't bother with ever using it. Remove that line and your post carries much greater impact.
I always figure when I get 15 mod points, it's slashdot's way of telling me to stop posting and start reading.
there are microorganisms living in the Martian soil that are producing methane gas as a by-product of their metabolic processes
Finally, someone that slashdotters can relate to!
seriously, are the most dangerous bad guys really that stupid to communicate their plans almost in the clear?
Of course, then they leave to the command room to bring their plan of devastation to fruition -- assuming the hero will quietly meet his fate, encased in the trap the bad guy had so deviously invented, surrounded by the most expendable subordinates available, next door to the central power chamber and flashlight supply, which typically has a ventilation system, large, empty, and cool enough for a grown man to shimmy comfortably through, leading to the command room.
I could only hope this would end in disaster for both evil corporations.
Yet, I have serious doubts about that. When two legions that have sold their souls to the devil for money combine on a project that seems doomed from the start, I'm wary to dismiss it on the grounds that it defies common sense, and try to find out what they're looking at.
Perhaps this is a bit off-topic, but my telecom offers 4 tiers of service:
768Kb/s - $19.95/Mo
1.5 Mbs - $25.00/Mo
3 Mbs - $30.00/Mo
6 Mbs - $35.00/Mo
I have purchased the $35.00 a month plan (6 Mbs) yet in 6 months, I have never seen a single download exceed 400K/s -- should it be ok for them to charge me more than $19.95 for that month since I was only delivered their bottom tier?
It is a different branch from the same, corrupt tree. A very shady tree.
But what if we need to differentiate him from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle?
I'm finding it difficult to come up with a situation where that would be neccessary.
The word 'genetic' itself has nothing to do with DNA.
Yes it does. The usage of it, in this case, does not.
I like the part about there being no clear connection between homework and performance at school.
I saw an extremely clean negative correlation with assigned homework and my grades. The more assignments I was expected to do at home, the lower my grade was.
The Mainstream media LOVED Bush. They don't seem to like Obama as much
There is not a bridge large enough to contain this troll.
I worked with someone who was duped by this stuff years ago. He was telling all our coworkers that a rogue planet was coming within 5 million miles of Earth and would destroy most of life on the planet, reverse the poles, etc. Some of my more gullible coworkers started asking me if this could be possible. I responded with the following conversation, in comic form:
.000002 So the rogue planet would have a force of about .00024. The moon has a tidal force of 2.1 so that means the rogue planet would have almost 1/8000th the power of the moon on our gravity.
Person 1: So I've looked into this "rogue planet" thing and here's what I found...
Person 2: Ok
Person 1: Let's say this planet passes within 5 million miles of Earth and is the size of Earth.
Person 2: Terrifying.
Person 1: Using a non-theoretical planet, Mars, we can stage a basic equation to find its impact on Earth's gravity, or "Tidal Force"
Person 2: I think I follow...
Person 1: This planet, if it were the size of Earth, would be 3.3 times bigger than Mars. That means 3.3. times stronger the force.
Person 2: Ok.
Person 1: It would be 6x closer than mars, which makes the Tidal Froce 36x stronger (since gravity is 3-dimensional) so 3.3 x 36 is about 119 times the strength of Mars's influence on Earth. Person 2: So what is Mars's Tidal Force?
Person 1: Mars has a Tidal Force on Earth of about
Person 2: That doesn't sound so bad...
Just then, the rogue planet swept by, obliterating all life on Earth.
Actually, it comes down to a difference of philosophy on how to build a brighter future. While Americans profess "We must learn from History, lest it repeat itself." -- Germany argues "We must not learn from History, lest someone get ideas on how to repeat it."
I make all sales and IT in my company read Many Moons and then ask them why they think that children's story applies to their job.
How about a dashboard cam that simply sends the person a text if it sees them looking down at their phone while driving?
"Car ahead; 10 feet; brace for impact, retard."
My father has a mutant strain of Vinca in his yard. We've found plants living for more than 6 months without water, light, and under extreme temperature swings (They were completely white, and were found practically boiling in their own juice when we uncovered them, but still very much alive) and some sections of the yard thrive on nothing but a steady supply of herbicides. That and the spearamint plants that cannot ever seem to be extinguished no matter how much they're cut down, dug up, and flattened, and the wild blackberries in the Southeast portion of his yard that made me think "Day of the Triffids" was a documentary of my life growing up. I always thought we should send samples of these plants to NASA for their consideration in terraforming anything.
The more I think about it, the less I'm convinced my dad is Batman, and the more I'm convinced my mom is Poison Ivy.
Actually,
If you are causing a domestic panic and threatening to not only revoke many of the liberties outlined in the Bill of Rights, but also threatening to shut down communication lines, funneling billions into lobbying interests, while using fear tactics surrounding an illness that I would best describe my first-hand experience as a "laughably mild cold, without the annoyance of a stuffy nose" you're not supporting terrorism, you are practicing the definition of it.
You're telling me that carnivores are bad for the planet... If animals are bad for the planet, what planet, exactly, are you trying to save? The rocks? I can assure you that they don't care about carbon footprints. Plants? They'd be overjoyed if we had 6x the amounts of carbon in the atmosphere than we do now. What's the next release from these idiots? "Internal combustion BAD FOR CARS!"
I'll miss you http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/5568/index.html. You taught me HTML which helped me get my first IT job, and helped girls stalk me 8 years later after I forgot you existed, because in my pupal years, I had no concerns of privacy. May your green background with blinking red letters sleep soundly knowing they successfully burned over 200,000 retinas (according to my web counter) if people clicked on the "Don't click on this link!" link.
"Consenting Adult" in some countries is a 14 year old. In some Mexican cities, it's 12. If you want to draw a line in the sand with your "consenting adults", you'll soon see that where you are will quickly become "bigotry and close-minded" and a progressive movement will move to alter the definition of the line you've drawn.
Besides, the fact that you say "consenting adults" is biggoted, unfair, and close-minded to those who practice beastiality and statutory rape. They are people too, are they not? Who are you to say they can't show their love like you can?
Face it, when you call someone else a monster, someone behind you is calling you a monster. the only difference is that the person who YOU are accusing is not trying to take some "open-minded" highground.
Instead of arguing for the right to call a homosexual union a "marriage", the gay rights movement should be arguing for equal treatment of those unions to allow jail visits, hospital visits, burial rites, etc. The Women's Suffrage movement didn't fight so the word "male" would also mean "female". Picking your battles is 90% of the recipe for any political success.
And remember that any attempt to circumvent locking out third-party memory is a heinous violation of the DMCA and will leave *you* the crimino-consumer liable for a big fine or jail.
No it won't, because:
The prohibition ... shall not apply to persons who are ... adversely affected by virtue of such prohibition in their ability to make noninfringing uses of that particular class of works under this title. source
If all your data for legitimately purchased software gets erased every time you try to play, then by all means, you are showing substantial adverse effects on your non-infringing use of copyrighted works. By all means, circumvent the hell out of them!
Mormon theology is one of the most lenient when it comes to suicide. The person who died gets full burial rights and it's believed that if the dead was not 100% in control of their mental faculties (i.e. schizophrenia, drug side effects, clinical depression, etc), then they won't be held accountable for that act when the judgement day comes. Since no one knows but the dead and God if that was the case, then the church assumes the person was spiritually innocent and treats their service and their family as if it were natural causes, letting the judgement fall completely on the other side.