If you do not know who Ron Paul is, do yourself and others a favor and look him up. But if you really do not think honesty is important, go ahead and vote for any of the others.
What if I know all about Ron Paul's positions and disagree with a lot of them? What if I don't think we should disband all federal agencies and withdraw from both the UN and NATO? What if I don't think the federal income tax should be abolished?
Because Linux is highly reliable and a great platform for running server software, Linux machines are desired by phishers
So when phishers target windows servers, it's because windows has horrible security, but when they target linux servers, it's because linux is just awesome?
I've always believed, naively perhaps, that juries usually got it right. How freaking brain-dead do these people have to be? $220K for 24 songs? That's $9250 per song! That's substantially more than what the RIAA was claiming they lost on each instance (unless I mis-remembered?).
It's statutory. The jury was told what the law mandates regarding damages, and they followed the law. And I can guarantee a good percentage of the people here complaining about the jury and/or justice system have also complained about "activist judges" who don't follow laws they don't like.
This jury of 12 idiots decided to ruin someone's life for 24 songs. Great going, guys.
Her life isn't "ruined". She'll have a large judgment against her. She might get her wages garnished but that's pretty much it.
Just because a dental problem is not causing you pain yet, doesn't mean it isn't there.
would you rather your dentist just ignored the smaller holes and waited until they became huge holes?
Do a google news search for "'dentist' AND 'unnecessary procedures'". There are plenty of honest dentists, but there are a fair number of dishonest ones. It's harder for the guy on the street to distinguish between the two, especially as compared to physicians.
There is only conjecture and hypothesis that is substantiated by biased studies.
CFCs break down into certain chemicals when they reach the stratosphere (for example, bromine and chlorine). These chemicals break down ozone molecules. Where exactly is the "bias"?
The even think that man has the power to change the climate or environment of the whole planet is a sign of arrogance beyond belief.
OK, it's wrong because it's "arrogant". I don't think I've ever seen that reasoning in any science textbook. News flash, biological organisms effect the global climate. Why do you think we have all this nice oxygen to breathe?
I think it was around 1997 or 1998 for me. The annoying thing is I'm convinced I made a user ID that first year, but I could never remember it so I had to make this one. Now I don't get that instant geek low-UID cred.
As a practicing dentist I can positively say that health care is NOT recession proof.
Dentistry might not be, but MDs might be a little luckier about that. People tend to put off going to the dentist unless it's drastically needed. Especially since dentists have a habit of finding things wrong where you didn't think there was any problem.
Most Americans can't afford that much education because they are caught up with materialism
Why on earth do you think so many foreign students come here for graduate studies? You think even a modest number are doing it out personal interest?
Let's be honest here, it's a lot more likely for any individual American student to be in engineering because he or she is interested in it, in comparison to foreign students. There are of course exceptions (I'm sure plenty of them are reading this right now), but for the vast majority of Indian students studying here, for example, that whole IIT undergrad-American grad path is about money, prestige, and upward mobility, not personal interest in the subject.
Still, AT&T has no shortage of highly-paid lawyers. They ought to have developed less-inflammatory wording.
I'm guessing this whole idea came from some ego-driven MBA who insisted it go in. I wouldn't be surprised if any less-inflammatory wording was vetoed by the MBA.
One of the (many) differences between Vista and Linux is that if you want to, you can march up to any of the core Linux kernel architects and tell them they have some fundamental long-standing unix interface totally wrong.
You can do that to the Vista kernel architect, too. In either case they're not going to do anything about it.
So? Why should people in rural areas have their power subsidized by people who live in cities?
I don't mind subsidizing the rural folks. What irritates me is then having them turn around and whine about how all those evil poor people in the cities are getting government handouts, and bragging about how self-sufficient they themselves are.
You ask a bunch of geeks if they've kissed a co-worker...and no surprise, over half of them have! Of course, 57% of us are also blackbelts and monster-truck drivers in our spare time. The girls we supposedly kissed? Yeah, they're totally hot. But they live in Idaho, so you wouldn't know them.
You're all a bunch of liars who should be ashamed of yourselves. I, on the other hand, learned a little something called integrity and truthfulness back when I was going through astonaut training.
Confidence is sexy, according to my wife and most of her girlfriends. Be nervous, introspective, self-conscious, and "girls don't like nerds" becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Yet "cockiness" is a turnoff. How do women distinguish? If he's not attractive it's cockiness, if he is its confidence.
My opinion: Morgan did it better but he's gone and I don't there's anybody alive today that would have that kind of character.
So you think we should go back to a system of rolling the dice and hoping that for any economic crisis there's at least one person principled and rich enought to singlehandedly fix what's wrong?
Just be grateful he's spending long hours, night after night protecting us from the gays. Maybe he should move to Iran I hear they don't have gay people there.
Just for the record, it was just brilliant for a homophobe like him to decide to live in Miami, not like you're going to run into any gay people here...
of course the likelihood is that refusing to allow juries to be made aware of this right is precisely because of the fact it limits the power of the state to enforce unjust laws.
It also limits the power of juries to commit gross injustice out of racist ideology. Look at how much jury nullification there was in the 1950's in murder trials in the South where the victims were black (or white civil right workers)
Seriously though, why would ANYONE consider it smart to get out of jury duty when the decisions of the juries impacts case law like no other.
Ehh...not really. Juries decide questions of fact. Questions of law are decided by judges. A jury's decision rarely has any sort of precedential effect at all.
But what then shall we do? Unless we want to deny the seriousness of this problem?
Sue? I know the kneejerk reaction on slashdot is lawsuits are always bad, but if the bullying reaches a severe enough status, and the school unreasonably refuses to try and fix it, there are a bunch of federal and state claims open to the bullied kids and their parents.
I suspect that that doesn't apply to contract law. Otherwise, things like minimum wage and any number of other labor laws would take years to reach full effect after they are modified or created, and that doesn't seem to be the case (AFAIK).
I probably shouldn't have made that assertion about something I don't really know that much about; I was going by employment statutes I'm familiar with that have provisions saying stuff like "This statute applies to covenants entered into after date x". However, those statutes didn't pertain to wages. Employment law is not my area of expertise.
For your records, though, the Constitutional provision does apply to civil contracts (I'm not sure how it could apply to criminal law). It's one of the few Constitutional provisions that restricts the state rather than the federal government, so I don't think it conflicts with Federal minimum wage and hours laws. A little bit of research reveals that the restriction on the states has been severely watered down over the 20th century, so this California law might actually be upheld by the courts.
Something many of the folks don't like to admit on/. is that most of the executives at successful companies put in as many if not more hours than the average worker.
But I didn't imply otherwise. My point isn't that executives don't deserve to be well-compensated, or that they don't put in the hours their subordinates do, but rather that the level of compensation has reached ridiculous levels.
How much should the CEO of a Fortune 500 company make? It's a difficult job. Not everyone can do it.
I think a fair salary for the CEO of a successful corporation should be several million. Let's be nice and generous, and say $10 million a year, with incentive bonuses. I think that adequately compensates someone who's working 80 hours a week.
But $20 million a year? $30 million a year? Do you really think anyone is worth that? Especially in companies who refuse to pay overtime, or fire people to reduce payroll?
This incredible disparity in salaries is new, a result of spineless directors and grasping executives. It's not necessary; the jobs are hard but not impossible, and for every CEO who makes $30 million a year, I guarantee you there are plenty of equally qualified people who would be content with a third of that.
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If you do not know who Ron Paul is, do yourself and others a favor and look him up. But if you really do not think honesty is important, go ahead and vote for any of the others.
What if I know all about Ron Paul's positions and disagree with a lot of them? What if I don't think we should disband all federal agencies and withdraw from both the UN and NATO? What if I don't think the federal income tax should be abolished?
Because Linux is highly reliable and a great platform for running server software, Linux machines are desired by phishers
So when phishers target windows servers, it's because windows has horrible security, but when they target linux servers, it's because linux is just awesome?
I've always believed, naively perhaps, that juries usually got it right. How freaking brain-dead do these people have to be? $220K for 24 songs? That's $9250 per song! That's substantially more than what the RIAA was claiming they lost on each instance (unless I mis-remembered?).
It's statutory. The jury was told what the law mandates regarding damages, and they followed the law. And I can guarantee a good percentage of the people here complaining about the jury and/or justice system have also complained about "activist judges" who don't follow laws they don't like.
This jury of 12 idiots decided to ruin someone's life for 24 songs. Great going, guys.
Her life isn't "ruined". She'll have a large judgment against her. She might get her wages garnished but that's pretty much it.
Just because a dental problem is not causing you pain yet, doesn't mean it isn't there. would you rather your dentist just ignored the smaller holes and waited until they became huge holes?
Do a google news search for "'dentist' AND 'unnecessary procedures'". There are plenty of honest dentists, but there are a fair number of dishonest ones. It's harder for the guy on the street to distinguish between the two, especially as compared to physicians.
There is only conjecture and hypothesis that is substantiated by biased studies.
CFCs break down into certain chemicals when they reach the stratosphere (for example, bromine and chlorine). These chemicals break down ozone molecules. Where exactly is the "bias"?
The even think that man has the power to change the climate or environment of the whole planet is a sign of arrogance beyond belief.
OK, it's wrong because it's "arrogant". I don't think I've ever seen that reasoning in any science textbook. News flash, biological organisms effect the global climate. Why do you think we have all this nice oxygen to breathe?
I don't know how it will happen, but any money says that this will somehow descend into a flame-war about global warming. Not connected, people.
Actually the CFCs which are the main culprit for the ozone hole are also extremely powerful greenhouse gases.
I discovered Slashdot in 1999 I believe it was.
I think it was around 1997 or 1998 for me. The annoying thing is I'm convinced I made a user ID that first year, but I could never remember it so I had to make this one. Now I don't get that instant geek low-UID cred.
I don't mean to troll, but with the audience she's tending to, isn't this a bit like preaching to the choir?
Like slashdot would ever preach to the choir.
Preserving the equal opportunity of every human being,
Except for communists I gather.
As a practicing dentist I can positively say that health care is NOT recession proof.
Dentistry might not be, but MDs might be a little luckier about that. People tend to put off going to the dentist unless it's drastically needed. Especially since dentists have a habit of finding things wrong where you didn't think there was any problem.
Most Americans can't afford that much education because they are caught up with materialism
Why on earth do you think so many foreign students come here for graduate studies? You think even a modest number are doing it out personal interest?
Let's be honest here, it's a lot more likely for any individual American student to be in engineering because he or she is interested in it, in comparison to foreign students. There are of course exceptions (I'm sure plenty of them are reading this right now), but for the vast majority of Indian students studying here, for example, that whole IIT undergrad-American grad path is about money, prestige, and upward mobility, not personal interest in the subject.
Still, AT&T has no shortage of highly-paid lawyers. They ought to have developed less-inflammatory wording.
I'm guessing this whole idea came from some ego-driven MBA who insisted it go in. I wouldn't be surprised if any less-inflammatory wording was vetoed by the MBA.
The government's role should be limited to foreign policy (diplomacy and military) and upholding the law.
I disagree. Fortunately for me, most voters are on my side.
One of the (many) differences between Vista and Linux is that if you want to, you can march up to any of the core Linux kernel architects and tell them they have some fundamental long-standing unix interface totally wrong.
You can do that to the Vista kernel architect, too. In either case they're not going to do anything about it.
So? Why should people in rural areas have their power subsidized by people who live in cities?
I don't mind subsidizing the rural folks. What irritates me is then having them turn around and whine about how all those evil poor people in the cities are getting government handouts, and bragging about how self-sufficient they themselves are.
You ask a bunch of geeks if they've kissed a co-worker...and no surprise, over half of them have! Of course, 57% of us are also blackbelts and monster-truck drivers in our spare time. The girls we supposedly kissed? Yeah, they're totally hot. But they live in Idaho, so you wouldn't know them.
You're all a bunch of liars who should be ashamed of yourselves. I, on the other hand, learned a little something called integrity and truthfulness back when I was going through astonaut training.
Confidence is sexy, according to my wife and most of her girlfriends. Be nervous, introspective, self-conscious, and "girls don't like nerds" becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Yet "cockiness" is a turnoff. How do women distinguish? If he's not attractive it's cockiness, if he is its confidence.
My opinion: Morgan did it better but he's gone and I don't there's anybody alive today that would have that kind of character.
So you think we should go back to a system of rolling the dice and hoping that for any economic crisis there's at least one person principled and rich enought to singlehandedly fix what's wrong?
Just be grateful he's spending long hours, night after night protecting us from the gays. Maybe he should move to Iran I hear they don't have gay people there.
Just for the record, it was just brilliant for a homophobe like him to decide to live in Miami, not like you're going to run into any gay people here...
of course the likelihood is that refusing to allow juries to be made aware of this right is precisely because of the fact it limits the power of the state to enforce unjust laws.
It also limits the power of juries to commit gross injustice out of racist ideology. Look at how much jury nullification there was in the 1950's in murder trials in the South where the victims were black (or white civil right workers)
Why should Farmer Joe now have to pay an Internet tax if he should, why should it be more than City Jakes taxes.
Seems fair, since City Jake is heavily subsidizing Farmer Joe through his taxes.
Seriously though, why would ANYONE consider it smart to get out of jury duty when the decisions of the juries impacts case law like no other.
Ehh...not really. Juries decide questions of fact. Questions of law are decided by judges. A jury's decision rarely has any sort of precedential effect at all.
But what then shall we do? Unless we want to deny the seriousness of this problem?
Sue? I know the kneejerk reaction on slashdot is lawsuits are always bad, but if the bullying reaches a severe enough status, and the school unreasonably refuses to try and fix it, there are a bunch of federal and state claims open to the bullied kids and their parents.
I suspect that that doesn't apply to contract law. Otherwise, things like minimum wage and any number of other labor laws would take years to reach full effect after they are modified or created, and that doesn't seem to be the case (AFAIK).
I probably shouldn't have made that assertion about something I don't really know that much about; I was going by employment statutes I'm familiar with that have provisions saying stuff like "This statute applies to covenants entered into after date x". However, those statutes didn't pertain to wages. Employment law is not my area of expertise.
For your records, though, the Constitutional provision does apply to civil contracts (I'm not sure how it could apply to criminal law). It's one of the few Constitutional provisions that restricts the state rather than the federal government, so I don't think it conflicts with Federal minimum wage and hours laws. A little bit of research reveals that the restriction on the states has been severely watered down over the 20th century, so this California law might actually be upheld by the courts.
Something many of the folks don't like to admit on /. is that most of the executives at successful companies put in as many if not more hours than the average worker.
But I didn't imply otherwise. My point isn't that executives don't deserve to be well-compensated, or that they don't put in the hours their subordinates do, but rather that the level of compensation has reached ridiculous levels.
How much should the CEO of a Fortune 500 company make? It's a difficult job. Not everyone can do it.
I think a fair salary for the CEO of a successful corporation should be several million. Let's be nice and generous, and say $10 million a year, with incentive bonuses. I think that adequately compensates someone who's working 80 hours a week.
But $20 million a year? $30 million a year? Do you really think anyone is worth that? Especially in companies who refuse to pay overtime, or fire people to reduce payroll?
This incredible disparity in salaries is new, a result of spineless directors and grasping executives. It's not necessary; the jobs are hard but not impossible, and for every CEO who makes $30 million a year, I guarantee you there are plenty of equally qualified people who would be content with a third of that.