A defendant winning on a technicality is bad enough, but a defendant LOSING on a technicality is a violation of due process and the Constitution. If evidence that would exonerate a defendant is excluded, and thus the defendant loses - the judge is likely to be violating the Constitution (and thus his/her oath)
Anti-US sentiment is keeping him in charge, the people there hate the US (except for those who flee there to come to the US - but they don't affect Cuban politics after their gone), which is only 90 miles away, and believe attacking him would be supporting the US, and hence they don't.
That being said, without Castro, it will probably unravel fairly quickly, it is unlikely that his replacement will be as popular, and as able to hold things together, even with anti-US sentiment on his side.
You can't file an injuction, you need to sue and have a judge impose one. Most of the time they are temporary (and the content providers can't get anything going within the time frame covered by most temporary injuctions) - the permanent ones are only if you lose, and then the damages would likely wipe you out anyway.
That being said, the decision made in the Nevada District Court in Las Vegas regarding the Google cache sets a hopeful precedent.
Of course, then again, maybe if we stopped abusing digital media formats, the recording industry wouldn't feel compelled to use proprietary formats and DRM, nor would they have the need to trample our Fair Use rights either.
The RIAA believes making a copy of a CD for your car is abuse. (*)
Plus the content industries want to get rid of fair use, period. They want to get rid of a free, global market and the first sale doctrine too. They also want to get rid of any technology that will allow people to do anything they don't want the people to be able to do - this includes the general purpose PC unless it is encumbered with mandatory DRM. Hence region encoding, DRM, CSS, DMCA, CBDTPA/SSSCA, Palladium, NGSCB, EUCD, etc.
(*) CD's very often get scratched in the car. Careless handling is a big part, and the CD players in cars seem to scratch CDs themselves. Not using the original makes sense. But the RIAA considers it illegal.
No they wouldn't get sued, as long as they added to the "Terms of Service" something which gives them a non-exclusive, perpetual, transferrable license - which is fairly standard for many web sites to do.
OK, they might get sued, but they'd win easy.
Unless they forgot to add the above clause to the TOS, but that would just be plain stupid (if they were planning to use content in a way the author might not want).
It's this training us to be docile Russians fearful of our own KGB that is destroying this country, far far far more effectively than the terrorists. the terrorists can only kill 3000 Americans at a time.
Only 3000?! What if one day YOU are a victim? Then even if it was only 1, only you, it wouldn't be a small deal for you.
Nuclear (including dirty bombs), Chemical, and Biological weapons can kill millions.
This crap takes the freedom of 300 million Americans at a single blow.
Give us a break. It was a local Homeland secuity Department, no one was arrested, the officers were actually reassigned off those duties (!), they are providing new training explaining the First Amendment, the sotry is well covered, and the politicians are embarrased and are sort of apologizing (saying it was "unfortunate" and "regrettable").
Contrast this to real oppressive regimes where people disappear, are executed, the media is censored and comments like yours would get you imprisoned, sent to a gulag, tortured and/or killed.
ASCAP charges under $300/yr for a blanket license and they do help authors.
They aren't the bad guys!
Same with BMI (which is NOT BMG!) and SESAC. Their prices may be different, but are likely in the same ball park.
Many songwriters only earn $5k/yr or less on their music.
If the RIAA played the game like ASCAP/BMI/SESAC I could easily live with that, as would most people (I hope).
If you run a business, and have music playing, a blanket license is fair, non-discriminatory, and not a huge burden.
And ASCAP/BMI/SESAC won't shake you down for having music playing when you invite your friends to your house, like the RIAA likely would if it could.
Unless of course you have hundreds of "friends" come to your house and you're charging them for beers and stuff, but ASCAP/BMI/SESAC will be the least of your worries then.:)
Perhaps it is the content of the conversations and/or the huge cell bills which are actually causing the headaches?
Cell phones likely cause more cancer and other disease from the stress they can cause than from any radio waves (which is likely none). Not to mention car accidents caused by people driving and talking at the same time. Just today, someone was USING 2 LANES while on a phone!
It's Google (how appropriate) Translate then I changed the "Sie" to "du" and reconjugated the verb (I remember that much from High School German - don't use the Sie form for insults, use "du") and even converted to kilos.:)
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Microsoft can and should appeal then.
A defendant winning on a technicality is bad enough, but a defendant LOSING on a technicality is a violation of due process and the Constitution. If evidence that would exonerate a defendant is excluded, and thus the defendant loses - the judge is likely to be violating the Constitution (and thus his/her oath)
The ignoble day has come that over 7,000,000 patents were issued.
(there aren't anywhere near that many novel, non-obvious, useful inventions)
Granted on Valentine's Day 2/14/2006, fitting for a country in love with monopolies of ideas (the current intellectual property regime).
This 'war on terror' has no specific start date
September 11, 2001
Ironically the US is why he's staying in power.
Anti-US sentiment is keeping him in charge, the people there hate the US (except for those who flee there to come to the US - but they don't affect Cuban politics after their gone), which is only 90 miles away, and believe attacking him would be supporting the US, and hence they don't.
That being said, without Castro, it will probably unravel fairly quickly, it is unlikely that his replacement will be as popular, and as able to hold things together, even with anti-US sentiment on his side.
I want a lawyer whose real nice if you're on her/his side (and respectful of the judge, of course), and really mean if you're on the other side. :)
You can't file an injuction, you need to sue and have a judge impose one. Most of the time they are temporary (and the content providers can't get anything going within the time frame covered by most temporary injuctions) - the permanent ones are only if you lose, and then the damages would likely wipe you out anyway.
That being said, the decision made in the Nevada District Court in Las Vegas regarding the Google cache sets a hopeful precedent.
Is there 40 GB of quality music in the world?
Of course, then again, maybe if we stopped abusing digital media formats, the recording industry wouldn't feel compelled to use proprietary formats and DRM, nor would they have the need to trample our Fair Use rights either.
The RIAA believes making a copy of a CD for your car is abuse. (*)
Plus the content industries want to get rid of fair use, period. They want to get rid of a free, global market and the first sale doctrine too. They also want to get rid of any technology that will allow people to do anything they don't want the people to be able to do - this includes the general purpose PC unless it is encumbered with mandatory DRM. Hence region encoding, DRM, CSS, DMCA, CBDTPA/SSSCA, Palladium, NGSCB, EUCD, etc.
(*) CD's very often get scratched in the car. Careless handling is a big part, and the CD players in cars seem to scratch CDs themselves. Not using the original makes sense. But the RIAA considers it illegal.
From Google calculator:
((Mach 1) / (20 000 hz)) / 2 = 0.334931102 inches
(at worst, one could be halfway between any possible position that the sound will appear to be from distancewise - which is mach 1 / 20000 hz).
1/3 of an inch distance error isn't enough to matter, even for classical music.
Instruments aren't placed anywhere near that precisely.
And that is worst case.
Perhaps it was miscompiled instead.
A bad gcc, or use of bad options (e.g. -ffast-math) could very well make an Ogg encoder produce garbage.
By (ineffectively) censoring it, way more people are interested and have viewed in that would otherwise have happened.
Perhaps that was intended.
That has happened in the past, one case that comes to mind is certain copyrighted documents from a religious organization a few years back.
No they wouldn't get sued, as long as they added to the "Terms of Service" something which gives them a non-exclusive, perpetual, transferrable license - which is fairly standard for many web sites to do.
OK, they might get sued, but they'd win easy.
Unless they forgot to add the above clause to the TOS, but that would just be plain stupid (if they were planning to use content in a way the author might not want).
If the two guys are fired then I agree. If not, then it probably means they have at least the implicit approbation of their superiors.
Next time you make a mistake at work should we fire you?
It's this training us to be docile Russians fearful of our own KGB that is destroying this country, far far far more effectively than the terrorists. the terrorists can only kill 3000 Americans at a time.
Only 3000?! What if one day YOU are a victim? Then even if it was only 1, only you, it wouldn't be a small deal for you.
Nuclear (including dirty bombs), Chemical, and Biological weapons can kill millions.
This crap takes the freedom of 300 million Americans at a single blow.
Give us a break. It was a local Homeland secuity Department, no one was arrested, the officers were actually reassigned off those duties (!), they are providing new training explaining the First Amendment, the sotry is well covered, and the politicians are embarrased and are sort of apologizing (saying it was "unfortunate" and "regrettable").
Contrast this to real oppressive regimes where people disappear, are executed, the media is censored and comments like yours would get you imprisoned, sent to a gulag, tortured and/or killed.
This wasn't the Federal Department of Homeland Security, it was a local one.
Cold Fusion is real:
http://www.physorg.com/news3938.html
http://www.macromedia.com/go/gnavtray_cfmx_home
What computers cannot teach however, is the NOISE and physical presence of a firefight.
Just the fans alone on a typical overclocked gamer's computer are loud emough to be a good substitute.
Infinite pain, no. Differing degrees of suffering exist:
Luke 12:47-48, Matthew 11:24, Mark 12:40, 2 Peter 2:20-21
See http://www.bible.ca/su-hell.htm
Cold Fusion is real:
http://www.neoseeker.com/news/story/5364/
UCLA got it to work, and then RPI confirmed it.
And all along people were saying it is a crazy idea
It can run either Windows or Linux.
So who needs OS X?
ASCAP charges under $300/yr for a blanket license and they do help authors.
:)
They aren't the bad guys!
Same with BMI (which is NOT BMG!) and SESAC. Their prices may be different, but are likely in the same ball park.
Many songwriters only earn $5k/yr or less on their music.
If the RIAA played the game like ASCAP/BMI/SESAC I could easily live with that, as would most people (I hope).
If you run a business, and have music playing, a blanket license is fair, non-discriminatory, and not a huge burden.
And ASCAP/BMI/SESAC won't shake you down for having music playing when you invite your friends to your house, like the RIAA likely would if it could.
Unless of course you have hundreds of "friends" come to your house and you're charging them for beers and stuff, but ASCAP/BMI/SESAC will be the least of your worries then.
what about the "push to talk" Nextel phones?
Perhaps it is the content of the conversations and/or the huge cell bills which are actually causing the headaches?
Cell phones likely cause more cancer and other disease from the stress they can cause than from any radio waves (which is likely none). Not to mention car accidents caused by people driving and talking at the same time. Just today, someone was USING 2 LANES while on a phone!
It's better than Babelfish.
:)
It's Google (how appropriate) Translate then I changed the "Sie" to "du" and reconjugated the verb (I remember that much from High School German - don't use the Sie form for insults, use "du") and even converted to kilos.
It's not just politics and controversial issus that are affected.
Do a search for "dextromethorphan", the first result is not about medical information. but rather "recreational" use.