Now matter how good a teacher is, no student is going to ask them to repeatsomething four times. The student will just nod and feign understanding, and the teacher will move on.
If the student is able to 'feign' understanding, the teacher isn't very good at all. A good teacher will be able to tell from the questions the kid asks how much he actually understands.
You can be both morally against abortion and still believe to support the existing law to keep it legal.
Not coherently. Abortion is either killing babies or it isn't. If it is, and you support its legality, you're a monster. If it isn't there's no reason to be opposed to it whatsoever.
There is, it's called getting a god damned warrant. It already works! There is zero need for any new legislation or law enforcement capability whatsoever.
Extra terrorism charges are bullshit too. A bomb is a bomb is a bomb. We have a prohibition against double jeopardy for a reason, it needs to be updated to include this bullshit piling on of manufactured charges.
We're talking about proportions here. The court has traditionally held that over 10x actual damages is unconstitutional. The Tenenbaum verdict is more like 10,000x actual damages.
Are you sure you want to go down this road, considering equating them would eliminate liability of big companies for damages, like Exxon for the Valdez, or BP for the Gulf spill?
I would LOVE to see BP pay out 10 times the actual damages they caused to the gulf. Hell, I'd like to see BP pay out 1 times actual damages.
Read up thread a bit, we're talking about protection against malware. In the case that you're sticking your USB key into machines you don't control (which is largely the use case for USB keys), you need to have your data protected against malware.
And yes, with floppies a user could tape the disc, or modify the disc drive. But a virus could not do either. That's the important point.
Sorry, Obama had his chance. If he wanted to be a populist, he should have started in 2008. Voting for Obama because of this issue is no better than falling for the good cop in the old good/bad cop routine.
Which is an idiotic procedure. We know this guy is factually guilty. A new trial will find him guilty. Since damages are prescribed by statute, he'll get the exact same unconstitutional verdict as before.
The remitteur process accomplishes exactly nothing in this situation. All the justices are doing here is looking for an excuse not to enforce the constitution.
The fine is obviously excessive. That's the constitutional issue. As a matter of good policy, copyright should be abolished. But that's not a constitutional issue.
What is exactly is there to listen to when the Constitution makes it clear Congress has the power to enforce copyright?
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
That's what there is to listen to. Unless you're arguing that the Copyright Clause supercedes the Bill of Rights. In that case, why should the 5th and 6th amendments apply either? Are you sure you want to go down this road?
That the court doesn't even see that there's a constitutional issue here underscores just how out of touch this court is. Probably better not to get a decision, as it would almost certainly be in favor of the RIAA and extremely punative rewards.
One of the highest ranked petitions on the site called on the President to advocate for the regulation of Cannabis in a manner similar to alcohol. The administrations response did not mention alcohol once. Further, it was written by the drug czar, who is legally required to oppose any measures that would legalize Cannabis.
Don't think for a moment that anyone is listening to your petition. This is a marketing tool for the president to co-opt your issue. If he can respond to a few unimportant petitions, he gets to claim that he listens to "the people", while ignoring anything that's really important.
For example, after the debacle I described above, someone created a petition for the president to take these petitions seriously. It got the requisite peitions and got a response. They gave some examples of how the petitions influenced policy. Among them were banning puppy mills, digitizing federal records, and a "conversation" on online piracy. Not exactly heavy hitting issues here.
"The People" have absolutely no say on anything that matters in this country. Fuck these petitions, and fuck this president.
This is why I like camping. Nothing like being stuck outside, hopefully far away from any sort of electrical devices, alone with nothing but your mind and dappled sunlight through the trees to keep you company. I'm never more productive than the week after I spent a weekend sleeping under the stars.
Stuck at home, my hobbies use a lot of the same parts of the brain my work does. But I enjoy them more, so I work harder at them. That often leaves me wearier on Monday than I was on Friday.
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Now matter how good a teacher is, no student is going to ask them to repeatsomething four times. The student will just nod and feign understanding, and the teacher will move on.
If the student is able to 'feign' understanding, the teacher isn't very good at all. A good teacher will be able to tell from the questions the kid asks how much he actually understands.
You can be both morally against abortion and still believe to support the existing law to keep it legal.
Not coherently. Abortion is either killing babies or it isn't. If it is, and you support its legality, you're a monster. If it isn't there's no reason to be opposed to it whatsoever.
It's not just another drive failing--it's unrecoverable read errors (UREs).
A URE is a type of drive failure.
Otherwise known as the "What Amendment process?" theory of constitutional law.
There is, it's called getting a god damned warrant. It already works! There is zero need for any new legislation or law enforcement capability whatsoever.
So, install Debian.
And Kaspersky stands to earn a lot from security theatre should electronic voting be widely adopted.
So how long can we use surface water at this rate before we run out?
You give them too much credit. Dirty cops aren't just dirty cops, they're criminals.
The recording of activities in public is barely worth mentioning next to the atrocity that is the War on Drug Users.
Extra terrorism charges are bullshit too. A bomb is a bomb is a bomb. We have a prohibition against double jeopardy for a reason, it needs to be updated to include this bullshit piling on of manufactured charges.
We're talking about proportions here. The court has traditionally held that over 10x actual damages is unconstitutional. The Tenenbaum verdict is more like 10,000x actual damages.
Are you sure you want to go down this road, considering equating them would eliminate liability of big companies for damages, like Exxon for the Valdez, or BP for the Gulf spill?
I would LOVE to see BP pay out 10 times the actual damages they caused to the gulf. Hell, I'd like to see BP pay out 1 times actual damages.
Read up thread a bit, we're talking about protection against malware. In the case that you're sticking your USB key into machines you don't control (which is largely the use case for USB keys), you need to have your data protected against malware.
And yes, with floppies a user could tape the disc, or modify the disc drive. But a virus could not do either. That's the important point.
Sorry, Obama had his chance. If he wanted to be a populist, he should have started in 2008. Voting for Obama because of this issue is no better than falling for the good cop in the old good/bad cop routine.
Which is an idiotic procedure. We know this guy is factually guilty. A new trial will find him guilty. Since damages are prescribed by statute, he'll get the exact same unconstitutional verdict as before.
The remitteur process accomplishes exactly nothing in this situation. All the justices are doing here is looking for an excuse not to enforce the constitution.
Those are websites, not apps.
The fine is obviously excessive. That's the constitutional issue. As a matter of good policy, copyright should be abolished. But that's not a constitutional issue.
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
That's what there is to listen to. Unless you're arguing that the Copyright Clause supercedes the Bill of Rights. In that case, why should the 5th and 6th amendments apply either? Are you sure you want to go down this road?
You want to change things, get more active in your democratic system
Fuck you. The system is rigged to prevent any change by average people and you know it. Money buys you access, access buys you laws. Period.
You want to change things? Hit the streets.
Yes, it's very hard to communicate rationally with the extremely irrational.
That the court doesn't even see that there's a constitutional issue here underscores just how out of touch this court is. Probably better not to get a decision, as it would almost certainly be in favor of the RIAA and extremely punative rewards.
One of the highest ranked petitions on the site called on the President to advocate for the regulation of Cannabis in a manner similar to alcohol. The administrations response did not mention alcohol once. Further, it was written by the drug czar, who is legally required to oppose any measures that would legalize Cannabis.
Don't think for a moment that anyone is listening to your petition. This is a marketing tool for the president to co-opt your issue. If he can respond to a few unimportant petitions, he gets to claim that he listens to "the people", while ignoring anything that's really important.
For example, after the debacle I described above, someone created a petition for the president to take these petitions seriously. It got the requisite peitions and got a response. They gave some examples of how the petitions influenced policy. Among them were banning puppy mills, digitizing federal records, and a "conversation" on online piracy. Not exactly heavy hitting issues here.
"The People" have absolutely no say on anything that matters in this country. Fuck these petitions, and fuck this president.
No you don't. That switch just sets a flag that the OS can choose to ignore.
This is why I like camping. Nothing like being stuck outside, hopefully far away from any sort of electrical devices, alone with nothing but your mind and dappled sunlight through the trees to keep you company. I'm never more productive than the week after I spent a weekend sleeping under the stars.
Stuck at home, my hobbies use a lot of the same parts of the brain my work does. But I enjoy them more, so I work harder at them. That often leaves me wearier on Monday than I was on Friday.