Who said American right wingers hate AIDS? They love AIDS. It's another thing to blame teh gays for and use as evidence that God wants them and all the promiscuous heathens to die.
Then it was management's fault for hiring incompetent programmers. Hiring departments are frequently incapable of vetting the skills of candidates for highly technical positions, so it falls on the managers to do so. The managers rarely become managers due to their ability to do the job of their subordinates well. It's the Dilbert Principle.
Yeah. Steve Jobs invented them. They're going to revolutionize how you organize files on your device. Nobody has ever done this before.
Give Steve your money so he can complete that cyborg body he's working on so he can rule Appletopia's authoritarian walled garden forever!
Miss Scarlet: "I hardly think it will enhance your reputation at the U.N. Professor Plum, if it's revealed that you have been implicated not only in adultery with one of your patients, but in her death and the deaths of five other people."
Professor Plum: "You don't know what kind of people they have at the U.N., I might go up in their estimation."
I'f you're really upset then why not write a letter to your congressman and/or donate to the EFF?
Because the lunch meeting my congressman has with the lobbyist is more important to him than my letter and the donations that large companies make to political campaigns are greater than the amount I can donate to the EFF.
Any better ideas?
If your courts are not going to act in a fair way according to the law, then you have far bigger problems...
We have bigger problems. That's exactly what I am asserting here. Even if they act according to the law, the laws are not always themselves fair, so that's not even a good starting point.
they are presumably far more qualified to interpret US law than I am as a non-lawyer from outside the US, perhaps you should take the matter up with them?
That's a big presumption. You're also presuming that they act ethically, reasonably, and neutrally in their interpretations of the law. That certainly isn't always the case. Even if individuals are just doing their jobs properly, the system itself is built on laws written by lobbyists. The appropriate people to "take it up with" don't listen to anything but money.
Money equals free speech in America and having more money than others means that you have more free speech than others.
the government flipped a few bits that also did not harm anyone's personal property, put anyone in jail, or otherwise cause any actual, demonstrable harm to anyone.
This is a part of a series of extralegal actions by government agents with corporate representatives "advising" on the operations. Previous actions in this series have involved arrests and confiscations of property and violations of due process and, worst of all, the systemization of such actions with little opposition from the other branches of the government that supposedly serve to balance power and restrict abuses.
...and will authorise the relevant authorities to do something about it where the law permits.
Feel free to quote the laws to which you're referring in which DHS is permitted to seize domains and also feel free to explain how the ICE are "the relevant authorities."
It's odd how the freeloaders are always quick to claim that IP is not real property, infringing copyright is not theft, they wouldn't have bought it anyway, etc., yet just because the authorities changed a few records in a DNS database after seeking a court order and acting with full judicial oversight, the sky is falling and it's some profound invasion of their fundamental human rights or something.
There's no cognitive dissonance in what you described. IP is not real property and copyright infringement is not theft. The DHS/ICE overstepping their authority and jurisdiction does not suddenly make IP real property or make copyright infringement theft. And while your characterization of the people with whom you disagree is a straw-man, they are perfectly justified in feeling outraged that the fundamental basis of the rule of law is being undermined for the sake of big companies with obsolete business models.
go to an anderoid tablet for that. This is a consumer product that wants to mantain a consumer image.
But this article is about tablets being used in business environments. You just negated the entire point of the article if you're claiming Android tablets are for business and iPads are for pleasure.
30 months for DDOS attacks is unreasonable in comparison to less than 2 years with good behavior for shooting a handcuffed man in the back and killing him.
I may disagree with the veracity of your attribution, but I will defend to mild inconvenience your right to repeat a famous misquotation.
Voltaire didn't actually say that.
"The most oft-cited Voltaire quotation is apocryphal. He is incorrectly credited with writing, “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” These were not his words, but rather those of Evelyn Beatrice Hall, written under the pseudonym S. G. Tallentyre in her 1906 biographical book The Friends of Voltaire."
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Who said American right wingers hate AIDS? They love AIDS. It's another thing to blame teh gays for and use as evidence that God wants them and all the promiscuous heathens to die.
Hey, it's better than more troll-bait Google FUD from Florian Müller!
Having a cult following of dedicated customers: priceless. For everything else, there's patent trolling.
Eet's naht ah toomah!
Thank you for pointing out what's wrong with the patent system again.
Then it was management's fault for hiring incompetent programmers. Hiring departments are frequently incapable of vetting the skills of candidates for highly technical positions, so it falls on the managers to do so. The managers rarely become managers due to their ability to do the job of their subordinates well. It's the Dilbert Principle.
Yeah. Steve Jobs invented them. They're going to revolutionize how you organize files on your device. Nobody has ever done this before. Give Steve your money so he can complete that cyborg body he's working on so he can rule Appletopia's authoritarian walled garden forever!
Miss Scarlet: "I hardly think it will enhance your reputation at the U.N. Professor Plum, if it's revealed that you have been implicated not only in adultery with one of your patients, but in her death and the deaths of five other people."
Professor Plum: "You don't know what kind of people they have at the U.N., I might go up in their estimation."
My Foreign Extra says that it was brewed in Ireland.
They should lose their trademark altogether. That's the point. It's already too generic.
"Applicant smelled like bad tuna whose descendants applicant didn't believe could potentially one day belong to a different species."
Analogy fail. Guinness is actually from Ireland. Papa Johns pizza isn't from Italy.
I'll bite. Banning from single player games is okay. Where's the player's refund though?
The comparison was made in 1994, 18 years ago.
Um... Math Fail.
If you're required to misrepresent reality in order to not run afoul of a law, the law needs to change, not reality.
if x-raying some guy to check him for explosives guarantees me a safe flight, i say ZAP AWAY!
Well that's the problem, isn't it? X-raying some guy to check him for explosives doesn't guarantee you a safe flight.
If you want to guarantee a safe flight, don't let anyone on the plane. If you want to guarantee a safe world, kill off all the humans.
"I say we take off, and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
How about to fact-check the bullshit that the lawyers are spewing...?
I'f you're really upset then why not write a letter to your congressman and/or donate to the EFF?
Because the lunch meeting my congressman has with the lobbyist is more important to him than my letter and the donations that large companies make to political campaigns are greater than the amount I can donate to the EFF. Any better ideas?
"It's not my fault that Buttle's heart condition didn't appear on Tuttle's file!"
If your courts are not going to act in a fair way according to the law, then you have far bigger problems...
We have bigger problems. That's exactly what I am asserting here. Even if they act according to the law, the laws are not always themselves fair, so that's not even a good starting point.
they are presumably far more qualified to interpret US law than I am as a non-lawyer from outside the US, perhaps you should take the matter up with them?
That's a big presumption. You're also presuming that they act ethically, reasonably, and neutrally in their interpretations of the law. That certainly isn't always the case. Even if individuals are just doing their jobs properly, the system itself is built on laws written by lobbyists. The appropriate people to "take it up with" don't listen to anything but money. Money equals free speech in America and having more money than others means that you have more free speech than others.
the government flipped a few bits that also did not harm anyone's personal property, put anyone in jail, or otherwise cause any actual, demonstrable harm to anyone.
This is a part of a series of extralegal actions by government agents with corporate representatives "advising" on the operations. Previous actions in this series have involved arrests and confiscations of property and violations of due process and, worst of all, the systemization of such actions with little opposition from the other branches of the government that supposedly serve to balance power and restrict abuses.
...and will authorise the relevant authorities to do something about it where the law permits.
Feel free to quote the laws to which you're referring in which DHS is permitted to seize domains and also feel free to explain how the ICE are "the relevant authorities."
It's odd how the freeloaders are always quick to claim that IP is not real property, infringing copyright is not theft, they wouldn't have bought it anyway, etc., yet just because the authorities changed a few records in a DNS database after seeking a court order and acting with full judicial oversight, the sky is falling and it's some profound invasion of their fundamental human rights or something.
There's no cognitive dissonance in what you described. IP is not real property and copyright infringement is not theft. The DHS/ICE overstepping their authority and jurisdiction does not suddenly make IP real property or make copyright infringement theft. And while your characterization of the people with whom you disagree is a straw-man, they are perfectly justified in feeling outraged that the fundamental basis of the rule of law is being undermined for the sake of big companies with obsolete business models.
go to an anderoid tablet for that. This is a consumer product that wants to mantain a consumer image.
But this article is about tablets being used in business environments. You just negated the entire point of the article if you're claiming Android tablets are for business and iPads are for pleasure.
BTW, does your iPad not have spellcheck either?
30 months for DDOS attacks is unreasonable in comparison to less than 2 years with good behavior for shooting a handcuffed man in the back and killing him.
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/11/05/bart-cop-mehserle-ge.html
I may disagree with the veracity of your attribution, but I will defend to mild inconvenience your right to repeat a famous misquotation.
Voltaire didn't actually say that.
"The most oft-cited Voltaire quotation is apocryphal. He is incorrectly credited with writing, “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” These were not his words, but rather those of Evelyn Beatrice Hall, written under the pseudonym S. G. Tallentyre in her 1906 biographical book The Friends of Voltaire."
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltaire#cite_ref-18