"English-speaking Canada"? What does that mean? If your province makes French the official language, you're suddenly disqualified for this game, even if you speak English?
Might they be concerned about Quebec's French language laws?
(I once read about a guy who noticed his fridge was causing distortion in his system, so he bought a pair of $10,000 generators to isolate it from the rest of the house's power. that's insane)
Too right it is. After all, mere generators won't protect him from those goddamn Martian Rays.
Spammer stories will be just one of many standard plots of the "Netter" movies of the 2050s.
Westerns include stories about range wars, brave lawmen versus nasty outlaws, brave outlaws versus corrupt lawmen, "Indian Wars," settler-romances, and more.
I guess Net pictures will have stories about domain wars, brave Feds versus nasty hackers, brave hackers versus corrupt Feds, spam wars, online romances, and more...
You're right, the government shouldn't be supporting arts -- which is why I appreciate things like the MacArthur grants, since I understand that they are funded by a private foundation, not taxes.
OK, so we pull all resources away from art and put it all into medical, environmental and agricultural research until every human being lives a full 150 years.
Why would anyone want to stay alive in such a world?
Might as well build a race of emotionless robots and the kill off all the human beings.
"At no time did BulletProof have access to either the source code or object code of the OpenRes program, and, hence, Navitaire's code was not copied," BulletProof says in its complaint.
So, the article states that BulletProof claims it had no access to the OpenRes code. Going to trial means they'll have to support this assertion in court.
No. This is not a "Patent for the wheel." It is a patent for a specific design of a bicycle wheel.
I'm not making any comment as to the novelty of the invention or the reasonableness and validity of the patent, but calling this a "Patent for the wheel" is pretty misleading.
This seems pretty defensive of you. Calling this the true America spirit doesn't have to mean that it's not also the true Australian spirit and the true German spirit and the true Moroccan spirit and the true British spirit and the true Peruvian spirit and the true spirit of any nation you can name. I tend to think it's the true human spirit, in this instance being expressed by Americans. Which, in this instance, makes it the true American spirit. This is a worthwhile thing to point out, when so many people in the world seem to think that every American is a violent, gun-crazy, power-and-oil-hungry ogre.
Not exactly. Los Angeles County considered charging property tax on certain satillites, as "movable property," because the satellites were owned by companies located in LA County.
Besides, as someone else pointed out, geostationary satellites must orbit "over" the equator.
Did the prohibition ammendment get 3/4 of the peoples vote?
Actually an amendment requires ratification by 3/4 of the States, not 3/4 of individual voters, but yes -- the Eighteenth Amendment (Prohibition) was ratified by more than 3/4 of the States.
Patent law is based on morals? I don't buy that for a second.
Let's say Ogg in the next cave over figures out that if he attaches a wooden handle to his hand-axe, to makes a better tool. Are you saying it's IMMORAL for his neighbor Thunk to put a handle on his own axe, without getting Ogg's permission? Sorry, but that's hogwash.
Patent law is based on a two-way economic agreement, codified into an overarching legal framework: If you create something new, tell the rest of us how you did it. In exchange, we'll let you control who can use it, for a limited time.
The only moral principle I can see as a foundation for patent law is that one should stand by one's agreements -- and even that's pretty shaky, considering that the "agreement" in question is based not a person's word, but on collective enforcement.
Yeah, I hated that ad. I kept wondering: If this is such a great mobile digital communication device, why couldn't his assistant just SEND HIM THE TEXT OF THE SPEECH so he could read it himself?
The WAP idea sounds neat, but I doubt I'd use it much. Right now I have several novels -- including ULYSSES -- on the SD card in my Zaurus.
By the way, the Zaurus SL-5500 is a *great* device for reading books. Confortable, portable, expandable, with a bright, clear screen a little wider than a newspaper column.
Pretty decent guy, actually, just had an odd way of relieving his boredom at work (and his "stalking" never left work or got "creepy", just a way to pass time while there... Kinda like "reality" daytime soaps... "Ah, Mr. Smith, meeting up with the little honey-on-the-side tomorrow, eh? Hmm, maybe not, looks like her husband knows something you'd rather he didn't. Oooh, I'd love to see the look on her face when your wife gets that email!").
Man. You and I have very, very different threshholds for "creepy." And different definitions of "decent."
No, we should call a person who does arithmetic a "computer." And a person who types is a "typewriter," as distinct from the "typewriting machine" he or she uses. After all, these are the older uses of these terms, and you seem dead set against letting "mundanes" change the language on us.
Pleadings aren't made under oath, so nothing contained in them can be perjury. If you deliberately state facts you know to be false, however, you could run into civil liability for abuse of process.
Pleadings are signed by attorneys pursuant to Rule 11 under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and similar rules in all state courts I'm familiar with. Rule 11 can leave an attorney open to some pretty nasty sanctions if he submits a pleading that includes misrepresentations of fact.
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Might they be concerned about Quebec's French language laws?
Considering some of the links I used to be tricked into clicking from Slashdot, I pray we can never transmit liquid over phone lines.
Too right it is. After all, mere generators won't protect him from those goddamn Martian Rays.
Spammer stories will be just one of many standard plots of the "Netter" movies of the 2050s.
Westerns include stories about range wars, brave lawmen versus nasty outlaws, brave outlaws versus corrupt lawmen, "Indian Wars," settler-romances, and more.
I guess Net pictures will have stories about domain wars, brave Feds versus nasty hackers, brave hackers versus corrupt Feds, spam wars, online romances, and more...
You're right, the government shouldn't be supporting arts -- which is why I appreciate things like the MacArthur grants, since I understand that they are funded by a private foundation, not taxes.
OK, so we pull all resources away from art and put it all into medical, environmental and agricultural research until every human being lives a full 150 years.
Why would anyone want to stay alive in such a world?
Might as well build a race of emotionless robots and the kill off all the human beings.
Copyright violation is not illigial. It is a civil violation and up to the copyright holder to challenge that use in court.
Not correct. U.S. copyright law also has provisions for criminal prosecution for copyright infringement.
No, please, don't watch Armageddon. Watch Deep Impact . Same basic premise, much better movie.
"At no time did BulletProof have access to either the source code or object code of the OpenRes program, and, hence, Navitaire's code was not copied," BulletProof says in its complaint.
So, the article states that BulletProof claims it had no access to the OpenRes code. Going to trial means they'll have to support this assertion in court.
I'm not making any comment as to the novelty of the invention or the reasonableness and validity of the patent, but calling this a "Patent for the wheel" is pretty misleading.
This seems pretty defensive of you. Calling this the true America spirit doesn't have to mean that it's not also the true Australian spirit and the true German spirit and the true Moroccan spirit and the true British spirit and the true Peruvian spirit and the true spirit of any nation you can name. I tend to think it's the true human spirit, in this instance being expressed by Americans. Which, in this instance, makes it the true American spirit. This is a worthwhile thing to point out, when so many people in the world seem to think that every American is a violent, gun-crazy, power-and-oil-hungry ogre.
Not to mention QDOS...
Somehow I accidentally moderated this as a troll, and I did not mean to. So I'm posting this to remove that errant mod point.
(Sorry, BFKrew!)
That would never work. They'd have to reverse the polarity of the tetrion particle stream.
Didn't the guy in Cryptonomicon do this when he knew he was under Tempest-type surveillance?
Geeze. Are we really to be consdered such little children that the bossman has to ensure we're sitting in adequate chairs in our own homes?
Not exactly. Los Angeles County considered charging property tax on certain satillites, as "movable property," because the satellites were owned by companies located in LA County.
Besides, as someone else pointed out, geostationary satellites must orbit "over" the equator.
Actually an amendment requires ratification by 3/4 of the States, not 3/4 of individual voters, but yes -- the Eighteenth Amendment (Prohibition) was ratified by more than 3/4 of the States.
That's right. Mob-Logging.
/var/log/syslog and /var/log/messages gets written to every other machine on the 'net.
Everyone's
Or maybe he wants huge masses of people to gather spontaneously to chop down trees?
Patent law is based on morals? I don't buy that for a second.
Let's say Ogg in the next cave over figures out that if he attaches a wooden handle to his hand-axe, to makes a better tool. Are you saying it's IMMORAL for his neighbor Thunk to put a handle on his own axe, without getting Ogg's permission? Sorry, but that's hogwash.
Patent law is based on a two-way economic agreement, codified into an overarching legal framework: If you create something new, tell the rest of us how you did it. In exchange, we'll let you control who can use it, for a limited time.
The only moral principle I can see as a foundation for patent law is that one should stand by one's agreements -- and even that's pretty shaky, considering that the "agreement" in question is based not a person's word, but on collective enforcement.
Yeah, I hated that ad. I kept wondering: If this is such a great mobile digital communication device, why couldn't his assistant just SEND HIM THE TEXT OF THE SPEECH so he could read it himself?
The WAP idea sounds neat, but I doubt I'd use it much. Right now I have several novels -- including ULYSSES -- on the SD card in my Zaurus.
By the way, the Zaurus SL-5500 is a *great* device for reading books. Confortable, portable, expandable, with a bright, clear screen a little wider than a newspaper column.
Man. You and I have very, very different threshholds for "creepy." And different definitions of "decent."
No, we should call a person who does arithmetic a "computer." And a person who types is a "typewriter," as distinct from the "typewriting machine" he or she uses. After all, these are the older uses of these terms, and you seem dead set against letting "mundanes" change the language on us.
Pleadings are signed by attorneys pursuant to Rule 11 under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and similar rules in all state courts I'm familiar with. Rule 11 can leave an attorney open to some pretty nasty sanctions if he submits a pleading that includes misrepresentations of fact.