If the case was flawed, a reasonable person or persons would not attempt such a case in the first place with the intent on 'winning'.
That is faulty reasoning. Just about every side of every case is flawed in some ways. A flawed argument is not necessarily wrong, and in this case many of the issues hinge on interpretations of law that it is not the attorney's job to be the final arbiter on.
Can't we just applaud a good ruling without the kneejerk slashdot desire to punish people we disagree with?
Usually, when I download software I need, it comes with some clever bash scripts that detect my compiler and what versions of libraries I have, and configures a custom build of the software for my specific needs. It's quite remarkable!
Astounding! Your experience is diametrically opposed to that of myself and many, many other linux users. On many, many, many occasions I have seen./configure fail because the libraries gcc needs have a slightly different version number. And even when autorun successfully finishes, I have not infrequently seen the compiler crash because something went wrong that was undetected by the configuration script. And that's not even dealing with those programs that are distributed in binary format.
It is fabulous that configure always works for you, and that you have somehow managed to avoid needing one of the many programs with poorly written configure scripts. But your experience is not the same as a lot of people.
You know, Texas just might leave the union (with other states not far behind) in the next eight years if our nation's situation doesn't improve at the federal level.
Most of the problems with the current state of the union and the overreach of the federal government were caused by Texans.
Are you smoking some form of new, experimental, highly-potent form of crack? Are you seriously asking this?
It's not an issue of "omg too many choices," it's an issue of lack of standardization. Want to download software you need? Better hope it supports your package system, and better hope it was made for Gnome or GTK or whatever you're using. The messed up patchwork of packages that constitutes sound on linux is an embarassment, and sure, pick 1, then hope the software you downloaded uses it.
Sure The Matrix trilogy is a good movie (yes I have DVDs of The Matrix trilogy), but once the story ends (The Matrix Revolutions), people won't focus on/ talk about it anymore.
Well it's a trilogy, not a movie. And two of the movies sucked. And one was alright but still overrated.
The list of badly thought out rationalizations to prohibit free speech is indeed long, but the number of people who subscribe to them that I know is not large. Admittedly, I live in an area where even the state government has rejected the federal position on many of these issues -- we have laws *against* eminent domain, *against* federal firearms authority,
You think a state can outlaw a federal authority? Interesting...
The legal system is being driven by people in violation of the highest law in the land. Fact.
Actually, that's opinion. You can't make something fact by saying something is fact.
If the nation really wanted a really good SCOTUS justice, it should obviously pick me. I'd protect rights as written in the constitution
You presumably don't have legal training and your post evidences a fanaticism and paranoia that would not serve you as a justice. The Constitution is ambiguous, intentionally so, and interpreting takes more background than reading through a list of libertarian talking points.
I suppose if I had a choice in the matter, I'd probably pick a thinker like Nick Gillespie. But I don't.
Thinker? Reason Magazine is a bastion of shoddy thinking and dishonest analysis. Rather than honestly analyze issues, they start with an ideological position and then massage the facts to fit into that ideology. Most of them would make lousy Justices too.
Those servers you're visiting? They're not just belonging to european companies, they are actually located in a european data center, connected to a european fibre network run by a european ISP. The Internet doesn't belong to the US anymore.
Not the ones I'm visiting. I'd guess that 95% of my internet usage is to US-based sites, with a small number of foreign news sites and the occasional web page making the rest.
Putting down the first stone does not magically grant you ownership of the whole house.
I don't know about magic, but we actually do get to keep DNS if we want to. What are you going to do about it? Typical European ingratitude.
Do I want it taken away from us? Heck no. We hold all the power in this area right now. But if we're talking about fair and right, then it really should be handled by the UN rather than any single country.
Why is that fair and right? Looking at it from a moral standpoint rather than a purely policy standpoint, the US created the internet, and has freely and openly allowed the rest of the world access to the technology. What moral reason does the world have to gain control? "We would make better owners of your property than you."?
Now, can we please stop seeing topics like this based entirely on nostalgia?
But if they stop posting topics like this, in a few years we'll start reminiscing about them. "Remember those old topics based entirely on nostalgia? Weren't those great? I miss those days..."
that we'd need to bring in foreign contractors just to make up the intelligence gap.
Nonsense. NASA's a big agency, but not so big that it couldn't meet its hiring requirements purely by hiring Americans (not that that is necessarily a good idea for other reasons).
Name a single scientific or technical field where it is impossible to find an American.
Whatever Linux's actual marketshare is, I think we can all agree that it is far lower than anyone expected 15 or 10 or even 5 years ago. By this point most people in the linux community expected a significant marketshare.
I found the script well written and a plot that actually flowed with continuity from one episode to the next, which is unusual with popular programming these days.
Unusual? What are you talking about? It's VERY common these days, look at 24 or Lost or Heroes or Alias or Prison Break or Sopranos or The Shield or Sopranos or any number of shows that have been playing for the past few years. Terminator rode those coattails.
There is a difference between taking people off to their death and scanning them a little bit too intimately. I know it's the fashion on slashdot to turn everything into a binary system, but there really is a continuum here.
And the reporter asked "If these deaths were caused by the swine flu, the media, government, and the public would be be all over it. But because it's just urban violence, nobody cares about these deaths."
Because every time someone does try to complain, they're immediately screamed down by the bible-thumping redneck politicians who until recently held power in their country, and they're joined in by the slashdot libertarian gun nut contingent who whine and cry incessantly over any sort of attempt to stop guns pouring into these communities.
It's not about sex, I'm talking about her agreeing to do it, then getting it stuck in her mind over the next few years. It's not going to sink a relationship maybe, but it might start it off with a slight seed of doubt that can't really be helpful.
It's not their fault, it's the fault of the people setting the idiotic policies. They just follow the rules they're given, and I'm sure they're frequently tested by having undercover TSA inspectors go through the security lines.
It's only christianity that brainwashed people about not wanting to be seen naked.
Are you on some form of highly potent crack? Both Islam and Judaism also have severe strictures against nudity, in fact probably more severe than Christianity; in fact, Christianity is basically a blend of old testament Judaism and Greek philosophy (guess which side they got their nudity taboos from).
It's not really that easy; when you're asking your fiancee to sign a prenuptial you could already be poisoning the marriage. "I think this might not work, and if it doesn't work I'm going to assume you will be greedy."
If you're smart and discreet there are plenty of ways to arrange your finances to protect most of your assets without telling your soon-to-be-wife-or-husband how sleazy you think they are. Generally what you bring into the marriage stays yours, unless you commingle funds. Spousal support used to be a big thing, but if your husband or wife has their own career then you're not usually going to be asked to support them, or support them to any large extent.
If you win the lottery or join a successful start-up, then yes, they will probably get a share of it. But the reverse is true, too. You'll live with your 10 million instead of 20 million, believe me.
If you have children, it gets more complicated in terms of having to pay support, but a pre-nuptial agreement won't change that at all, they're not binding on how child support is established.
That is the ONLY function the civil court system performs well.
That's just ignorant. The whole function of the civil court system is to make it so when you have an argument with someone his only recourse isn't to just get a gun and shoot you.
There is really no point to work to earn money. Some lawyer to just make up some reason to take it from you.
Riiiiiiiiiiiight. So your contention is everyone is sued, constantly, and lose all their money.
Or did you lose a court case and now you're mad? Did you ever think that maybe you lost because you were in the wrong?
AMD does note that Asus, Club 3D, Diamond Multimedia, Force3D, GECUBE, Gigabyte, HIS, MSI, Palit Multimedia, PowerColor, SAPPHIRE, XFX and others are all aligning to release higher performance cards."
Wait, let me get this straight. Graphics card manufacturers are actually attempting to make their graphics cards perform better? Why was I not informed of this before???
I always thought it was interesting how the past two decades in computer science saw every prediction of the state of the field in the 50's-70's easily surpassed, except artificial intelligence. It's the great failure of computer science, forcing researchers to scale back what they were aiming for (from general, self-aware machines to more focused problem-solving systems like neural nets).
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But it seems that lawyers are almost always megaphones for who is signing their paycheck.
Whoa, stop the presses...you mean lawyers act as advocates for their clients?? That's crazy.
If the case was flawed, a reasonable person or persons would not attempt such a case in the first place with the intent on 'winning'.
That is faulty reasoning. Just about every side of every case is flawed in some ways. A flawed argument is not necessarily wrong, and in this case many of the issues hinge on interpretations of law that it is not the attorney's job to be the final arbiter on.
Can't we just applaud a good ruling without the kneejerk slashdot desire to punish people we disagree with?
What sarcasm?
Usually, when I download software I need, it comes with some clever bash scripts that detect my compiler and what versions of libraries I have, and configures a custom build of the software for my specific needs. It's quite remarkable!
./configure fail because the libraries gcc needs have a slightly different version number. And even when autorun successfully finishes, I have not infrequently seen the compiler crash because something went wrong that was undetected by the configuration script. And that's not even dealing with those programs that are distributed in binary format.
Astounding! Your experience is diametrically opposed to that of myself and many, many other linux users. On many, many, many occasions I have seen
It is fabulous that configure always works for you, and that you have somehow managed to avoid needing one of the many programs with poorly written configure scripts. But your experience is not the same as a lot of people.
You know, Texas just might leave the union (with other states not far behind) in the next eight years if our nation's situation doesn't improve at the federal level.
Most of the problems with the current state of the union and the overreach of the federal government were caused by Texans.
Where are the downsides?
Are you smoking some form of new, experimental, highly-potent form of crack? Are you seriously asking this?
It's not an issue of "omg too many choices," it's an issue of lack of standardization. Want to download software you need? Better hope it supports your package system, and better hope it was made for Gnome or GTK or whatever you're using. The messed up patchwork of packages that constitutes sound on linux is an embarassment, and sure, pick 1, then hope the software you downloaded uses it.
Sure The Matrix trilogy is a good movie (yes I have DVDs of The Matrix trilogy), but once the story ends (The Matrix Revolutions), people won't focus on/ talk about it anymore.
Well it's a trilogy, not a movie. And two of the movies sucked. And one was alright but still overrated.
The list of badly thought out rationalizations to prohibit free speech is indeed long, but the number of people who subscribe to them that I know is not large. Admittedly, I live in an area where even the state government has rejected the federal position on many of these issues -- we have laws *against* eminent domain, *against* federal firearms authority,
You think a state can outlaw a federal authority? Interesting...
The legal system is being driven by people in violation of the highest law in the land. Fact.
Actually, that's opinion. You can't make something fact by saying something is fact.
If the nation really wanted a really good SCOTUS justice, it should obviously pick me. I'd protect rights as written in the constitution
You presumably don't have legal training and your post evidences a fanaticism and paranoia that would not serve you as a justice. The Constitution is ambiguous, intentionally so, and interpreting takes more background than reading through a list of libertarian talking points.
I suppose if I had a choice in the matter, I'd probably pick a thinker like Nick Gillespie. But I don't.
Thinker? Reason Magazine is a bastion of shoddy thinking and dishonest analysis. Rather than honestly analyze issues, they start with an ideological position and then massage the facts to fit into that ideology. Most of them would make lousy Justices too.
Those servers you're visiting? They're not just belonging to european companies, they are actually located in a european data center, connected to a european fibre network run by a european ISP. The Internet doesn't belong to the US anymore.
Not the ones I'm visiting. I'd guess that 95% of my internet usage is to US-based sites, with a small number of foreign news sites and the occasional web page making the rest.
Putting down the first stone does not magically grant you ownership of the whole house.
I don't know about magic, but we actually do get to keep DNS if we want to. What are you going to do about it? Typical European ingratitude.
Do I want it taken away from us? Heck no. We hold all the power in this area right now. But if we're talking about fair and right, then it really should be handled by the UN rather than any single country.
Why is that fair and right? Looking at it from a moral standpoint rather than a purely policy standpoint, the US created the internet, and has freely and openly allowed the rest of the world access to the technology. What moral reason does the world have to gain control? "We would make better owners of your property than you."?
That's why we lawyers usually get retainers. Hard to get stiffed when we can pay ourselves directly with your money.
Now, can we please stop seeing topics like this based entirely on nostalgia?
But if they stop posting topics like this, in a few years we'll start reminiscing about them. "Remember those old topics based entirely on nostalgia? Weren't those great? I miss those days..."
that we'd need to bring in foreign contractors just to make up the intelligence gap.
Nonsense. NASA's a big agency, but not so big that it couldn't meet its hiring requirements purely by hiring Americans (not that that is necessarily a good idea for other reasons).
Name a single scientific or technical field where it is impossible to find an American.
Whatever Linux's actual marketshare is, I think we can all agree that it is far lower than anyone expected 15 or 10 or even 5 years ago. By this point most people in the linux community expected a significant marketshare.
I found the script well written and a plot that actually flowed with continuity from one episode to the next, which is unusual with popular programming these days.
Unusual? What are you talking about? It's VERY common these days, look at 24 or Lost or Heroes or Alias or Prison Break or Sopranos or The Shield or Sopranos or any number of shows that have been playing for the past few years. Terminator rode those coattails.
It wasn't the Gestapo's fault either....
There is a difference between taking people off to their death and scanning them a little bit too intimately. I know it's the fashion on slashdot to turn everything into a binary system, but there really is a continuum here.
And the reporter asked "If these deaths were caused by the swine flu, the media, government, and the public would be be all over it. But because it's just urban violence, nobody cares about these deaths."
Because every time someone does try to complain, they're immediately screamed down by the bible-thumping redneck politicians who until recently held power in their country, and they're joined in by the slashdot libertarian gun nut contingent who whine and cry incessantly over any sort of attempt to stop guns pouring into these communities.
It's not about sex, I'm talking about her agreeing to do it, then getting it stuck in her mind over the next few years. It's not going to sink a relationship maybe, but it might start it off with a slight seed of doubt that can't really be helpful.
It's not their fault, it's the fault of the people setting the idiotic policies. They just follow the rules they're given, and I'm sure they're frequently tested by having undercover TSA inspectors go through the security lines.
It's only christianity that brainwashed people about not wanting to be seen naked.
Are you on some form of highly potent crack? Both Islam and Judaism also have severe strictures against nudity, in fact probably more severe than Christianity; in fact, Christianity is basically a blend of old testament Judaism and Greek philosophy (guess which side they got their nudity taboos from).
It's not really that easy; when you're asking your fiancee to sign a prenuptial you could already be poisoning the marriage. "I think this might not work, and if it doesn't work I'm going to assume you will be greedy."
If you're smart and discreet there are plenty of ways to arrange your finances to protect most of your assets without telling your soon-to-be-wife-or-husband how sleazy you think they are. Generally what you bring into the marriage stays yours, unless you commingle funds. Spousal support used to be a big thing, but if your husband or wife has their own career then you're not usually going to be asked to support them, or support them to any large extent.
If you win the lottery or join a successful start-up, then yes, they will probably get a share of it. But the reverse is true, too. You'll live with your 10 million instead of 20 million, believe me.
If you have children, it gets more complicated in terms of having to pay support, but a pre-nuptial agreement won't change that at all, they're not binding on how child support is established.
That is the ONLY function the civil court system performs well.
That's just ignorant. The whole function of the civil court system is to make it so when you have an argument with someone his only recourse isn't to just get a gun and shoot you.
There is really no point to work to earn money. Some lawyer to just make up some reason to take it from you.
Riiiiiiiiiiiight. So your contention is everyone is sued, constantly, and lose all their money.
Or did you lose a court case and now you're mad? Did you ever think that maybe you lost because you were in the wrong?
AMD does note that Asus, Club 3D, Diamond Multimedia, Force3D, GECUBE, Gigabyte, HIS, MSI, Palit Multimedia, PowerColor, SAPPHIRE, XFX and others are all aligning to release higher performance cards."
Wait, let me get this straight. Graphics card manufacturers are actually attempting to make their graphics cards perform better? Why was I not informed of this before???
When he says pirates, he means people out to make money using material they have no rights to reproduce otherwise.
In other words, a tiny, tiny, tiny percentage of pirates.
I always thought it was interesting how the past two decades in computer science saw every prediction of the state of the field in the 50's-70's easily surpassed, except artificial intelligence. It's the great failure of computer science, forcing researchers to scale back what they were aiming for (from general, self-aware machines to more focused problem-solving systems like neural nets).