The worst was Aragorn; he was supposed to be much older than Viggo Mortensen, I think the supplemental stuff Tolkien wrote put him at about 80 or so. Though of course his race of men aged pretty slow. But he definitely should have been older and more weather-beaten.
As long as we dont give them unnecessary AI and for some reason equip robots designed to clean houses with tactical thermonuclear devices, we wont have to worry about any robotic revolutions.
You haven't seen my apartment. Those tactical thermonuclear devices may be necessary.
Oh yeah? Why the hell do we have counties that hear tons of cases on asbesto et al?
Because the plaintiffs' lawyers found a legal justification for doing so. Do you honestly think that the corporations they sue don't do the same exact thing?
As for your argument, it is crap (honestly). How can one expect that someone who works as a researcher in a certain field for 20 years will write all of his works in a manner suitable for the "Product liability for dummies" series?
I'm not sure exactly who you're talking about here, I think you lost control of your sentences. If you can name specific things about tort liability that you disagree, then bring them up.
Say this to your friend Nader who has all of his ideas inherited from a base class of "All corporations are evil and exist only to screw people in every possible way".
My friend Nader? Why do you assume I know him, or even agree with him?
If you're the kind of person who would retire after the first couple million and spend the rest of your life knee-deep in booze and cheap women, you won't ever have that kind of money
I find that offensive. If I had that much money I wouldn't be consorting with cheap women, I'd be consorting with EXPENSIVE women.
I don't know why. If I had that much money I wouldn't care what happened to my company, I'd be too busy plumbing the depths of debauchery that such money can bring.
Venue shopping isn't allowed; you have to have a good (legal) reason for getting a case moved.
And Reason and the Manhattan Institute are incredibly biased sources. I wouldn't trust them on this issue. They have a tendency to start with a conclusion then twist an argument into supporting it, instead of starting neutral and arriving at a conclusion in a more intellectually honest way.
The last time I looked, we were supposed to be a country of INDIVIDUAL liberty. We are NOT a country of individual liberty anymore, we're a country where huge powerful organiztaions beat up on little people for their own reasons. When the constitution was created it was because a huge organization was beating up little people, but then it was a government. Now it's concentrations of people and momeny called corporations... it's the same thing. Going back to that state of being is a decline, IMHO.
Oh, I agree, which is why I'm thankful for strong tort laws. At the moment it's one of the few things keeping large corporations from steamrolling over individuals.
What I like is not relevant... the problem is that tort law has become a sword instead of a shield. And the US laws that create this problem are NOT 900 years old.
Tort law in this country evolved from the English common law, and law textbooks will cite cases that old in showing the evolution of, for example, writs of trespass.
I think this has gone a little bit too far. HardOCP posted an article that was quite misleading. I don't think they they maliciously *lied*, but definitely misled it's readers.
How was it misleading? They got their facts from the Infinium CEO's own documents. Is there anything false in their article?
I bet that HardOCP could have let the "lawsuit" slide and an out of court settlement would have happened, if anything. Now there WILL be a messy legal battle.
A wha? An out of court settlement? What would that entail, Infinium isn't asking for damages, they're asking for injunctive relief? What exactly do you expect HardOCP to do?
I propose a reason for the decline of relevance of US: the amount of money used going for lawsuits (defending against bad claims and making those bad claims)vs. the amount of money that goes to new developing new ideas
a) what decline, and b) what operation are you trying to perform with the two variables?
Time to expire ALL of tort law and begin again...
So we should throw out 900 years of legal development because you don't like some of the people who file lawsuits?
Well it was filed in federal court, but that wouldn't stop them from adding a state count if Texas had it. They can also hit the lawyers with FRCP Rule 11 sanctions, as it seems they're gonna have to fabricate a cause of action as there certainly doesn't seem to be one here.
Well, the point is something can go wrong and you wouldn't know. Maybe you DID have a problem with the electronic voting machine, and someone hacked it after you left, and changed your vote?
But yeah, what SCO is doing is similar to a person selling a car for which he doesn't have a clear title.
Not too uncommon. Especially in regards to land property, where owners can sell "quitclaim deeds", which basically say "I'm selling you any interest I have in this land". EV1 could have bought something similar.
Whatever MS' faults, and they have a lot of them, they so far haven't forced people to upgrade third-party software. Or at least I've never experienced it.
Actually it was most of the MASH crew advertising them. It was a pretty slick ad campaign for the time, too, the magazine layouts, the television commercials, everything was just beautifully done.
Ultimately, free trade works out well; I think one of the issues is that white collar jobs are just beginning to feel the pinch, and are acting like manufacturers did in the 1970s and 1980s.
Yeah, tell "free trade works out well" to people in those areas that still haven't recovered from the loss of manufacturing jobs in the 70s. There are a lot of people who have missed the past few boom economies.
What an idiotic strawman argument. "Liberals" think we're reached a point in civilization where nobody needs to be impoverished. Why the HELL should "liberals" support impoverishing one group at the expense of another? Maybe you should think before you post next time.
I loved Thief 2, creepy as HELL. I think the combination worked. But I still have nightmares of those little running golden automatons...and the ghosts in the library. Sweet screaming monkey that was scary.
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Wonder how people can still defend Windows with that "it does what I want" or "it gets the job done" excuse.
I have an anti-virus program, two firewalls, and I don't open strange email attachments. So yes, Windows does what I want and gets the job done.
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The worst was Aragorn; he was supposed to be much older than Viggo Mortensen, I think the supplemental stuff Tolkien wrote put him at about 80 or so. Though of course his race of men aged pretty slow. But he definitely should have been older and more weather-beaten.
mmmmmmm, frogurt...
I thinkt hat being surrounded by machines is even more depressing than being all alone
And you call yourself a geek?!
As long as we dont give them unnecessary AI and for some reason equip robots designed to clean houses with tactical thermonuclear devices, we wont have to worry about any robotic revolutions.
You haven't seen my apartment. Those tactical thermonuclear devices may be necessary.
Alright, that made me laugh at loud. Slashdot almost never does that to me.
Oh yeah? Why the hell do we have counties that hear tons of cases on asbesto et al?
Because the plaintiffs' lawyers found a legal justification for doing so. Do you honestly think that the corporations they sue don't do the same exact thing?
As for your argument, it is crap (honestly). How can one expect that someone who works as a researcher in a certain field for 20 years will write all of his works in a manner suitable for the "Product liability for dummies" series?
I'm not sure exactly who you're talking about here, I think you lost control of your sentences. If you can name specific things about tort liability that you disagree, then bring them up.
Say this to your friend Nader who has all of his ideas inherited from a base class of "All corporations are evil and exist only to screw people in every possible way".
My friend Nader? Why do you assume I know him, or even agree with him?
If you're the kind of person who would retire after the first couple million and spend the rest of your life knee-deep in booze and cheap women, you won't ever have that kind of money
I find that offensive. If I had that much money I wouldn't be consorting with cheap women, I'd be consorting with EXPENSIVE women.
I don't know why. If I had that much money I wouldn't care what happened to my company, I'd be too busy plumbing the depths of debauchery that such money can bring.
Venue shopping isn't allowed; you have to have a good (legal) reason for getting a case moved.
And Reason and the Manhattan Institute are incredibly biased sources. I wouldn't trust them on this issue. They have a tendency to start with a conclusion then twist an argument into supporting it, instead of starting neutral and arriving at a conclusion in a more intellectually honest way.
Looks like it was written by an engineer.
Yep, if this SCO thing doesn't work out he can always become a slashdot editor.
The last time I looked, we were supposed to be a country of INDIVIDUAL liberty. We are NOT a country of individual liberty anymore, we're a country where huge powerful organiztaions beat up on little people for their own reasons. When the constitution was created it was because a huge organization was beating up little people, but then it was a government. Now it's concentrations of people and momeny called corporations... it's the same thing. Going back to that state of being is a decline, IMHO.
Oh, I agree, which is why I'm thankful for strong tort laws. At the moment it's one of the few things keeping large corporations from steamrolling over individuals.
What I like is not relevant... the problem is that tort law has become a sword instead of a shield. And the US laws that create this problem are NOT 900 years old.
Tort law in this country evolved from the English common law, and law textbooks will cite cases that old in showing the evolution of, for example, writs of trespass.
I think this has gone a little bit too far. HardOCP posted an article that was quite misleading. I don't think they they maliciously *lied*, but definitely misled it's readers.
How was it misleading? They got their facts from the Infinium CEO's own documents. Is there anything false in their article?
I bet that HardOCP could have let the "lawsuit" slide and an out of court settlement would have happened, if anything. Now there WILL be a messy legal battle.
A wha? An out of court settlement? What would that entail, Infinium isn't asking for damages, they're asking for injunctive relief? What exactly do you expect HardOCP to do?
I propose a reason for the decline of relevance of US: the amount of money used going for lawsuits (defending against bad claims and making those bad claims)vs. the amount of money that goes to new developing new ideas
a) what decline, and b) what operation are you trying to perform with the two variables?
Time to expire ALL of tort law and begin again...
So we should throw out 900 years of legal development because you don't like some of the people who file lawsuits?
Well it was filed in federal court, but that wouldn't stop them from adding a state count if Texas had it. They can also hit the lawyers with FRCP Rule 11 sanctions, as it seems they're gonna have to fabricate a cause of action as there certainly doesn't seem to be one here.
find a job you like enough to do for the rest of your life, that pays well and doesn't have too long hours.
Yeah, but that commute to Magical Pixie Land is too long, so I've got to find a job here in Reality.
Ahoy hoy?
Well, the point is something can go wrong and you wouldn't know. Maybe you DID have a problem with the electronic voting machine, and someone hacked it after you left, and changed your vote?
But yeah, what SCO is doing is similar to a person selling a car for which he doesn't have a clear title.
Not too uncommon. Especially in regards to land property, where owners can sell "quitclaim deeds", which basically say "I'm selling you any interest I have in this land". EV1 could have bought something similar.
Whatever MS' faults, and they have a lot of them, they so far haven't forced people to upgrade third-party software. Or at least I've never experienced it.
Actually it was most of the MASH crew advertising them. It was a pretty slick ad campaign for the time, too, the magazine layouts, the television commercials, everything was just beautifully done.
Ultimately, free trade works out well; I think one of the issues is that white collar jobs are just beginning to feel the pinch, and are acting like manufacturers did in the 1970s and 1980s. Yeah, tell "free trade works out well" to people in those areas that still haven't recovered from the loss of manufacturing jobs in the 70s. There are a lot of people who have missed the past few boom economies.
Insightful? Give me a break.
What an idiotic strawman argument. "Liberals" think we're reached a point in civilization where nobody needs to be impoverished. Why the HELL should "liberals" support impoverishing one group at the expense of another? Maybe you should think before you post next time.
I loved Thief 2, creepy as HELL. I think the combination worked. But I still have nightmares of those little running golden automatons...and the ghosts in the library. Sweet screaming monkey that was scary.
Wonder how people can still defend Windows with that "it does what I want" or "it gets the job done" excuse.
I have an anti-virus program, two firewalls, and I don't open strange email attachments. So yes, Windows does what I want and gets the job done.