Most arguments made against Theo seem to be based on the fact that the dual-licence allowed this to happen.
Most arguments made against Theo seem to be based on the fact that people don't like him. The slashdot community is remarkably cliqueish, and when a polarizing figure says something people here automatically judge it based on their personal biases. Linus can do no wrong, RMS can do nothing right, etc.
Jesus, he was abnormal. Why didn't anyone notice this obvious deviation from normality in time to stop his brutal rampage?
Multiple people noticed. They intervened, he was investigated by the police and committed for mental examination. The people at his school, faculty, staff, and students, knew he was likely to do something violent. They took every legal step they could.
I know it terrifies people, but in the end there weren't any reasonable steps left to stop this guy. This kind of thing has happened before, and will happen again.
Here's what you do next time a salesdroid won't stop pushing the extended warranty on an expensive item. Say this: "Oh, so you're telling me this product will probably break before I'm done with it? NEVER MIND THEN."
Most of these places don't do commissions, so it doesn't really effect them one way or another.
While it didn't have the whole game, there's a level in it - The Cradle - that's absolutely, completely spooky. Running around a burned-out building that used to be both an insane asylum AND an orphanage...
The Cradle level makes every other "scary" game I've played look like a walk through a daisy-filled park at noon.
You see, I've never been able to understand this, particularly in this type of civil case (the penal side of the law is another subject). Do judges scowl upon defendants but smile radiantly at lawyers?
What judges scowl at are people who don't take the process seriously, and judges are generally very forgiving of mistakes made by pro se litigants. But three paragraphs? Even representing themselves they could have done a lot better than that. It makes it look like they're not taking the issue seriously. It doesn't matter to the IRS whether your accountant prepared your return or you did, they just want it to be done correctly.
If I get sued by a corporation, I do not have time to look through legal codes and jurisprudence tomes that state evidence and arguments in my favor. I also wouldn't know where to start looking. But does that mean that the evidence and arguments don't exist?
And it's the judge's job to try and come up with arguments in your favor? To hunt down the evidence that exists?
Theft requires two things.
1) The thief must take something.
2) The victim must be deprived of the item the thief took.
Not necessarily. Slashdotters have tended to latch onto one definition of theft, and present it as if it's a universal legal description; but what constitutes "theft" will vary depending on where you go. Some places don't even have a crime called "theft"--they use "larceny" instead.
In my state, for example, one of the elements of theft is to "[d]eprive the other person of a right to the property or a benefit from the property." I think you can make the argument that distributing an mp3 that you're not supposed to is depriving the copyright holder of a benefit of the property.
There are no "teams" here, people. We are all in this boat together. The more of you that put a letter after your name, the more this country falls apart.
You don't understand. Factionalism is built into human society. Hell, it's built into human biology; the urge to associate in groups is written into our DNA. Do you really think that's going to change?
It seems like hitting on some lottery numbers and then playing those same numbers every day for the rest of your life in the misguided belief that they have some special odds of hitting again.
Well now they have the advantage of basing it on an incredibly bad 1960's cartoon. How can this possibly go wrong?
I can name others, but I do agree with the grandparent post.... many of these same newspapers who are showing so much "sensitivity" on this particular issue show no remorse when attacking Christian values. And they are very strong with their "Bush bashing" and criticism of Republicans.
Oh please, all the "liberal" papers have spent the past 5 years giving the Bush administration a free ride. Now, after even the most brain-dead right winger has realized they're bunch of immoral, incompetent zealots, the Post has started actually posting things that aren't complimentary and the right wing nutjobs start weeping and whining about how it's "liberal".
Most people are quite willing to pay a fixed amount off-meter rather than watch that meter tick off while the cab sits in traffic.
I think it comes down to how strict the local taxi and livery commission is. I've heard that they're pretty hardcore in NYC, so few cabbies would be willing to gamble their medallion on violating the rules.
Unless they're hacking their fare machines, that doesn't really happen. Plus most of them rent their cabs for set fees a day, so whatever they get over that rental fee they keep. They're not going to get anything from "off-the-book trips", since they're still paying the same rental fee, and anything over that they're keeping for themselves anyway.
Do uptime. Unless your team has serious problems, those numbers should always look good. If you do any sort of work in response to in-house or outside tech support requests, you can measure how long it takes to resolve issues.
A value judgment like "this guy is a crackpot", or "the food at restaurant X is bad" is not libelous. Read the wikipedia article [wikipedia.org] for a more in depth description.
But "crackpot" has a fairly specific meaning, and calling someone one could conceivably be defamation per se; if you called a scientist a "crackpot" you'd definitely be making very serious allegations about their reliability and professional credentials.
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By definition, we all still need food.
If you're going to make wild assertions like that, please back them up with some evidence.
Oh and remember, if in doubt, boil it until it's an even gray color.
...and serve with cabbage.
Do we have our new excuse set up for when they stop selling these systems due to lack of demand? Have the scapegoat committee look in to something.
Most arguments made against Theo seem to be based on the fact that the dual-licence allowed this to happen.
Most arguments made against Theo seem to be based on the fact that people don't like him. The slashdot community is remarkably cliqueish, and when a polarizing figure says something people here automatically judge it based on their personal biases. Linus can do no wrong, RMS can do nothing right, etc.
Jesus, he was abnormal. Why didn't anyone notice this obvious deviation from normality in time to stop his brutal rampage?
Multiple people noticed. They intervened, he was investigated by the police and committed for mental examination. The people at his school, faculty, staff, and students, knew he was likely to do something violent. They took every legal step they could.
I know it terrifies people, but in the end there weren't any reasonable steps left to stop this guy. This kind of thing has happened before, and will happen again.
Here's what you do next time a salesdroid won't stop pushing the extended warranty on an expensive item. Say this: "Oh, so you're telling me this product will probably break before I'm done with it? NEVER MIND THEN."
Most of these places don't do commissions, so it doesn't really effect them one way or another.
No it isn't. You can reply to your own posts all you like. Where do people get this weird notion that it's bad form?
I agree with you, nothing wrong with that.
That still wouldn't be as scary as the Cradle!
People that don't know anything about a certain subject are making rules and precedents about it.
Slashdot's always been like that, though...
While it didn't have the whole game, there's a level in it - The Cradle - that's absolutely, completely spooky. Running around a burned-out building that used to be both an insane asylum AND an orphanage...
The Cradle level makes every other "scary" game I've played look like a walk through a daisy-filled park at noon.
You see, I've never been able to understand this, particularly in this type of civil case (the penal side of the law is another subject). Do judges scowl upon defendants but smile radiantly at lawyers?
What judges scowl at are people who don't take the process seriously, and judges are generally very forgiving of mistakes made by pro se litigants. But three paragraphs? Even representing themselves they could have done a lot better than that. It makes it look like they're not taking the issue seriously. It doesn't matter to the IRS whether your accountant prepared your return or you did, they just want it to be done correctly.
If I get sued by a corporation, I do not have time to look through legal codes and jurisprudence tomes that state evidence and arguments in my favor. I also wouldn't know where to start looking. But does that mean that the evidence and arguments don't exist?
And it's the judge's job to try and come up with arguments in your favor? To hunt down the evidence that exists?
British Telecom in the UK found a good solution to this problem
The Brits don't really have the same kind of "rural", though, so I think its a lot easier for the UK to do that then it would be here.
Theft requires two things.
1) The thief must take something.
2) The victim must be deprived of the item the thief took.
Not necessarily. Slashdotters have tended to latch onto one definition of theft, and present it as if it's a universal legal description; but what constitutes "theft" will vary depending on where you go. Some places don't even have a crime called "theft"--they use "larceny" instead.
In my state, for example, one of the elements of theft is to "[d]eprive the other person of a right to the property or a benefit from the property." I think you can make the argument that distributing an mp3 that you're not supposed to is depriving the copyright holder of a benefit of the property.
Their three-paragraph response was miniscule in comparison to those filed by file-sharing defendants with professional representation.
Ok, there's their mistake, they didn't hire a lawyer. Three paragraphs? That's just crazy.
Hopefully they'll hire one before the time to appeal expires.
There are no "teams" here, people. We are all in this boat together. The more of you that put a letter after your name, the more this country falls apart.
You don't understand. Factionalism is built into human society. Hell, it's built into human biology; the urge to associate in groups is written into our DNA. Do you really think that's going to change?
It seems like hitting on some lottery numbers and then playing those same numbers every day for the rest of your life in the misguided belief that they have some special odds of hitting again.
Well now they have the advantage of basing it on an incredibly bad 1960's cartoon. How can this possibly go wrong?
don't remember the Democrats OR the republicans bitching when Clinton fired all the Republican district att's
Actually, I do remember the Republicans complaining when Clinton did it.
It was normal, and is expected by both parties.
Midterm, targetted firings are unprecedented, though.
I can name others, but I do agree with the grandparent post.... many of these same newspapers who are showing so much "sensitivity" on this particular issue show no remorse when attacking Christian values. And they are very strong with their "Bush bashing" and criticism of Republicans.
Oh please, all the "liberal" papers have spent the past 5 years giving the Bush administration a free ride. Now, after even the most brain-dead right winger has realized they're bunch of immoral, incompetent zealots, the Post has started actually posting things that aren't complimentary and the right wing nutjobs start weeping and whining about how it's "liberal".
Most people are quite willing to pay a fixed amount off-meter rather than watch that meter tick off while the cab sits in traffic.
I think it comes down to how strict the local taxi and livery commission is. I've heard that they're pretty hardcore in NYC, so few cabbies would be willing to gamble their medallion on violating the rules.
Unless they're hacking their fare machines, that doesn't really happen. Plus most of them rent their cabs for set fees a day, so whatever they get over that rental fee they keep. They're not going to get anything from "off-the-book trips", since they're still paying the same rental fee, and anything over that they're keeping for themselves anyway.
Do uptime. Unless your team has serious problems, those numbers should always look good. If you do any sort of work in response to in-house or outside tech support requests, you can measure how long it takes to resolve issues.
The fact that they have 5 major improvements every 14 days is kinda impressive.
WINE is racing towards completion; I mean, look how far they've come in a mere 14 years. Slow down, guys!
You are not under US jurisdiction while in cuba :-)
Tell that to the guys stuck in Guantanamo Bay...
A value judgment like "this guy is a crackpot", or "the food at restaurant X is bad" is not libelous. Read the wikipedia article [wikipedia.org] for a more in depth description.
But "crackpot" has a fairly specific meaning, and calling someone one could conceivably be defamation per se; if you called a scientist a "crackpot" you'd definitely be making very serious allegations about their reliability and professional credentials.