No, they can arrest you for any reason whatsoever. They can't charge you with a crime without a reason, but that doesn't stop them from arresting you. If the police arrest you and the prosecutor declines to file charges, they must release you, but you don't get your 24 hours or your fingerprint records back.
2) Have fun. You're an entering freshman. You have no idea how little free time you're going to have come fall.
You'll have more free time than you think. A full time student takes 12 credit hours per semester. That's only 12 hours a week, probably 2 hours MWF, and 3 hours Tu&Th. And most of those are going to be bullshit prereqs that don't require any actual work.
I had more free time in undergrad than in any other time of my life. High school demands your presence for 8 hours a day, and they check your homework so you have to spend some of your free time doing that. After college you're employed 8 hours a day, and you have to manage your household in your free time. In college as long as you can pass the exams, no one actually cares if you show up to class or do homework. And you don't even have to worry about cooking or cleaning, because you have a meal plan, and who cleans a dorm room anyway?
Indeed. There's plenty of time to polish up your resume during college. Spend your last free summer buying cigarettes for slutty high school girls. Remember, if she smokes, she pokes.
Tetris is more than just a "set of polygons that can be constructed out of 4 congruent squares,"
It's a falling block game, where the blocks are composed of 4 squares. If I make a falling block game where the blocks are composed of 5 squares, or of 4 triangles, I'd be OK under copyright law.
But if I use blocks made out of 4 squares, suddenly I'm in violation of copyright law? How does that not amount to a copyright claim over simple geometric shapes?
it's quite clear at first glance that Mino is just simply Tetris.
It is, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. The party in the wrong here is the one who claims copyright over the set of polygons that can be constructed out of 4 congruent squares. Them, and the court that agreed with them.
What's next, a copyright claim on the 5 platonic solids?
You can't cry "naked body scanning" and at the same time say that is not acting as a deterrent, right?
It's only a deterrent to anyone who values their privacy traveling freely within their country.
What is the logic, someone can see my naked body in high def and count my pubes, but I can try to bring a prohibited item through anyway?
Yes, exactly. The chances of you making it through are good. And if you don't make it through, you can just try again another day.
Well, duuuuuuuuh, that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to stop you.
If "trying to stop" someone involves subjecting a large portion of the populace to unneeded radiation, and/or sexually assaulting them, and your success rate is zero, then yes absolutely we shouldn't try and stop them at all.
thanks to this guy they'll probably make you walk through the metal detector in the video TOO, just so some asshole doesn't get too confident.
Ah, so blame the smart guy for the idiot's idiotic overreaction at being exposed as an idiot.
Did you think about your post at all? Shame on you.
If you didn't watch Trek as a kid, you are probably not going to get that into it.
Thank god you're wrong. My GF had never seen Trek before we got together. We sat down one night and started watching season 1 of TOS. Over the next year we watched every single episode of Trek, up until about halfway through Voyager where it just got unbearably bad.
That was 5 years ago or so. We're going to have to do it again in a couple years, simply because there's nothing good on TV. Nostalgia or not, TOS is simply more fun to watch than anything on modern TV, with the single exception of Doctor Who. Everything else seems to be written by idiots, for idiots.
I understand that you would WANT it to be illegal for someone to watch your 5 yr old daughter swimming, but what about the freedom of someone else watching them? Do you draw the line with video cameras? The risk, because private property is everywhere, is that video cameras would then be illegal.
It's already illegal to mount a video camera where it would peer over a privacy fence. Why should a drone mounted video camera be treated any differently?
On the contrary, they show that you don't need embryonic stem cells to produce medical advances.
No one ever argued that you need embryonic stem cells to produce medical advances. What people argue is that we don't really know the properties of embryonic stem cells, and there may be medical advances we can make with those that we cannot make adult stem cells. That a medical advance has been made with adult stem cells says nothing about what we could do with embryonic stem cells.
The set of medical advances we can make with adult stem cells may be identical to the medical advances we can make with embryonic stem cells. On the other hand, they may just overlap. The only way we can know that we are not leaving major medical advances undiscovered is to do research on embryonic stem cells.
Besides, all those embryonic stem cells are just going to the incinerator. It takes one sick, evil piece of shit to prefer incineration to the advancement science.
Wow, and usually it's me being accused of having presumed his guilt
I don't particularly care whether he's guilty or not. It's not really relevant to whether Assange should fear extradition to the US, so I'm happy to grant it for the sake of argument. But only for the sake of argument, I don't really presume either way.
The US is simply not that interested in him, because the US doesn't have a case
Why would the US need a case against him? We no longer have habeas corpus. They don't need to convict him of anything to legally detain him indefinately.
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what would SCOTUS say if someone would invoke their right to defend themselves and 2nd amendment against illegal arrest?".
It would never get to SCOTUS. The police would shoot you dead on the spot.
You forgot #5. The courts don't really care about #1-4, and will reject any challenges to fingerprint evidence.
No, they can arrest you for any reason whatsoever. They can't charge you with a crime without a reason, but that doesn't stop them from arresting you. If the police arrest you and the prosecutor declines to file charges, they must release you, but you don't get your 24 hours or your fingerprint records back.
2) Have fun. You're an entering freshman. You have no idea how little free time you're going to have come fall.
You'll have more free time than you think. A full time student takes 12 credit hours per semester. That's only 12 hours a week, probably 2 hours MWF, and 3 hours Tu&Th. And most of those are going to be bullshit prereqs that don't require any actual work.
I had more free time in undergrad than in any other time of my life. High school demands your presence for 8 hours a day, and they check your homework so you have to spend some of your free time doing that. After college you're employed 8 hours a day, and you have to manage your household in your free time. In college as long as you can pass the exams, no one actually cares if you show up to class or do homework. And you don't even have to worry about cooking or cleaning, because you have a meal plan, and who cleans a dorm room anyway?
Are we talking about about stratum 1 servers here?
Indeed. There's plenty of time to polish up your resume during college. Spend your last free summer buying cigarettes for slutty high school girls. Remember, if she smokes, she pokes.
Now how long until Harris is sued?
Tetris is more than just a "set of polygons that can be constructed out of 4 congruent squares,"
It's a falling block game, where the blocks are composed of 4 squares. If I make a falling block game where the blocks are composed of 5 squares, or of 4 triangles, I'd be OK under copyright law.
But if I use blocks made out of 4 squares, suddenly I'm in violation of copyright law? How does that not amount to a copyright claim over simple geometric shapes?
I had never heard the acronym BMF at all. That was just the first thing Google returned.
If all 10-year-old video-games where freely available,
All 10 year old video games are freely available.
it's quite clear at first glance that Mino is just simply Tetris.
It is, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. The party in the wrong here is the one who claims copyright over the set of polygons that can be constructed out of 4 congruent squares. Them, and the court that agreed with them.
What's next, a copyright claim on the 5 platonic solids?
There does not need to be more games involving blocks that fall and need to be arranged into lines so they disappear.
There does not need to be a monopoly on such games either.
You can't cry "naked body scanning" and at the same time say that is not acting as a deterrent, right?
It's only a deterrent to anyone who values their privacy traveling freely within their country.
What is the logic, someone can see my naked body in high def and count my pubes, but I can try to bring a prohibited item through anyway?
Yes, exactly. The chances of you making it through are good. And if you don't make it through, you can just try again another day.
Well, duuuuuuuuh, that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to stop you.
If "trying to stop" someone involves subjecting a large portion of the populace to unneeded radiation, and/or sexually assaulting them, and your success rate is zero, then yes absolutely we shouldn't try and stop them at all.
thanks to this guy they'll probably make you walk through the metal detector in the video TOO, just so some asshole doesn't get too confident.
Ah, so blame the smart guy for the idiot's idiotic overreaction at being exposed as an idiot.
Did you think about your post at all? Shame on you.
I did nothing unusual and said nothing but "yes, no and thank you"
Try, "yes, no, and fuck you". No reason to be polite to your assailants.
Definitely a BMF.
A what?
If you didn't watch Trek as a kid, you are probably not going to get that into it.
Thank god you're wrong. My GF had never seen Trek before we got together. We sat down one night and started watching season 1 of TOS. Over the next year we watched every single episode of Trek, up until about halfway through Voyager where it just got unbearably bad.
That was 5 years ago or so. We're going to have to do it again in a couple years, simply because there's nothing good on TV. Nostalgia or not, TOS is simply more fun to watch than anything on modern TV, with the single exception of Doctor Who. Everything else seems to be written by idiots, for idiots.
The problem was that if a discovery was made with them, there would be an incentive to create embryo "farms" to produce more.
So, prohibit the non-incidental production of embryonic stem cells. Banning the research is nothing more than deliberate ignorance.
It's similar to how most people have no problem performing an autopsy, but will get somewhat annoyed if you start creating dead bodies to do so
Which is why we have laws prohibiting people from doing anatomy on cadavers. Oh wait, we don't.
I understand that you would WANT it to be illegal for someone to watch your 5 yr old daughter swimming, but what about the freedom of someone else watching them? Do you draw the line with video cameras? The risk, because private property is everywhere, is that video cameras would then be illegal.
It's already illegal to mount a video camera where it would peer over a privacy fence. Why should a drone mounted video camera be treated any differently?
Yeah, it's a scifi/fantasy book. Nothing wrong with invoking magic to save the day.
Need I say more?
On the contrary, they show that you don't need embryonic stem cells to produce medical advances.
No one ever argued that you need embryonic stem cells to produce medical advances. What people argue is that we don't really know the properties of embryonic stem cells, and there may be medical advances we can make with those that we cannot make adult stem cells. That a medical advance has been made with adult stem cells says nothing about what we could do with embryonic stem cells.
The set of medical advances we can make with adult stem cells may be identical to the medical advances we can make with embryonic stem cells. On the other hand, they may just overlap. The only way we can know that we are not leaving major medical advances undiscovered is to do research on embryonic stem cells.
Besides, all those embryonic stem cells are just going to the incinerator. It takes one sick, evil piece of shit to prefer incineration to the advancement science.
The legal system - hell, ANY big system - doesn't like sudden, drastic change.
Declaring math patentable is a sudden drastic change. The legal system likes sudden drastic change just fine when the change benefits the powerful.
Perhaps with a side of fava beans?
Wow, and usually it's me being accused of having presumed his guilt
I don't particularly care whether he's guilty or not. It's not really relevant to whether Assange should fear extradition to the US, so I'm happy to grant it for the sake of argument. But only for the sake of argument, I don't really presume either way.
The US is simply not that interested in him, because the US doesn't have a case
Why would the US need a case against him? We no longer have habeas corpus. They don't need to convict him of anything to legally detain him indefinately.
But as I said, we'll see how this plays out.
Sure, Linus made Linux and uses it to push his agenda (i.e. that of FOSS)
No, Linus uses FOSS to push Linux, not the other way around.