I wonder if indemnifying them will have any more effect than putting their hands over their ears and shouting "I can't hear you!" Just because their by-laws state they can't be sued doesn't mean they won't be. And I hope they are....
What's the legality of in-store CD players for sampling music you're about to purchase? When Tower Records has a bunch of "Listening stations" throughout the store do they have to pay for a license to let people listen to CDs on them?
And when you see the flash there is no information about what platform it runs on... just "Download here" and then you click it and it takes you to a page to choose your location and then a direct link.... to an exe file. I had to start downloading the damn thing before I could figure out whether or not it would run on my machine!
Actually, they top the charts right now, unfortunately. Of course they suck now, and a lotta fans have turned against them, but their target audience now is basically the in-stync crowd, who could care less about integrity, and are happy to believe that art is what Lars Ulrich says it is.
If they have independent confirmation from your ISP's logs, that's all the "smoking gun" they need. If it's just the RIAA's logs, of course, but there's no doubt they will take steps to independently verify that you were sharing files.
If that had happened then they could have named it whatever RMS wanted. Instead Linus cobbled together Linux, GPL'd the source, and pretty much stole the show as far as naming the operating system.
This is a Good Thing. I mean, the best name RMS could come up with is "Hurd"? And When all is said and done he'll want us to say "GNU/Hurd"?
According to the US Supreme Court interpretation of the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 9th amendments, there are constitutional rights to privacy. The Court found I think in Griswold v Connecticut that the right to privacy was constitutionally protected, and cited approvingly a definition of privacy from an 1890 law review article that called it "the right most valued by civilized man."
If you followed it, you'll notice that Ed Rosenthal received a whopping one-day sentence, of time served. Even the Federal courts have started realizing that they can't sustain a war against their own member states.
Unfortunately all they seem to have learned from the Rosenthal case is to beware of media coverage. Which is, as it stands, a good thing, but don't think federal judges aren't going to help the feds dismantle prop 215. The one day sentence was a huge turnaround for the judge and only occurred after most of the jurors came forward and said they had changed their decisions. The rule permitting gag orders such as the one employed in the Rosenthal case has not been challenged, which means that not only aren't you permitted a medical necessity defense under prop 215, you are not allowed to mention the proposition at all or anything related to it (i.e. your lawyer can't say, "my client was growing pot under the order of the city of Oakland as an appointed deputy put in charge of enforcing proposition 215." So Rosenthal was portrayed as a common drug dealer rather than an officer of the city.) Until judges stop invoking that rule, it's likely that the federal government's open attack on California law will continue to succeed.
This is considerably different from many other republican systems where the highest court can often test laws for constitutionality based on a single complaint of a citizen or a branch/agency of the government.
Such as? I'm genuinely curious, not doubting you; I think it would be interesting to examine the merits of such a system. There would seem to be a lot more pressure on the legislature to not pass laws they know are unconstitutional, pressure that I wish existed in the US. It would save us all a lot of time and resources.
This is different. There is no way Bush is sending troops to destroy the LA City Council, for example. And Patriot has provisions that require state and local cooperation. The feds can't bust down every door or make every arrest or interrogation. And uncooperative state and local cops will be worse than the feds doing it alone. I think this will weaken the Patriot act but I don't see this causing a similar crisis as 1832; I imagine the feds will be content to enforce the act weakly and the states and cities will not stand in the way of federal actions under the act that seem reasonable.
In short, it's a good idea, it's a kind of check and balance that a system like democracy is known for. When legislation is passed at a time of extreme fear and anger, cooler heads prevail later on and do something to cripple the legislation. I don't know how much effect these kinds of actions will have but I do find them encouraging.
we have it holding the telephone to the wall, the chandelier in the meeting room from crashing down (well, just on the side near the door -- the other side is strong enough), and reinforcing the customer's chair, which is right below the chandelier.
So if you don't like the customer, you snip the strap, and then blammo! No more annoying customer.
I'm comforted knowing people at the DHS have a sense of humor.
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POS means "Piece of Shit," right?
I wonder if indemnifying them will have any more effect than putting their hands over their ears and shouting "I can't hear you!" Just because their by-laws state they can't be sued doesn't mean they won't be. And I hope they are....
Everyone is using SCO UNIX!
What's the legality of in-store CD players for sampling music you're about to purchase? When Tower Records has a bunch of "Listening stations" throughout the store do they have to pay for a license to let people listen to CDs on them?
Sorry man that won't work; you snort coke; you have to eat acid. Or at least let it sit on your tongue a while.
Yeah, don't share information with others. It goes against the spirit of bittorrent and p2p.
And when you see the flash there is no information about what platform it runs on... just "Download here" and then you click it and it takes you to a page to choose your location and then a direct link.... to an exe file. I had to start downloading the damn thing before I could figure out whether or not it would run on my machine!
Actually, they top the charts right now, unfortunately. Of course they suck now, and a lotta fans have turned against them, but their target audience now is basically the in-stync crowd, who could care less about integrity, and are happy to believe that art is what Lars Ulrich says it is.
If they have independent confirmation from your ISP's logs, that's all the "smoking gun" they need. If it's just the RIAA's logs, of course, but there's no doubt they will take steps to independently verify that you were sharing files.
This is a Good Thing. I mean, the best name RMS could come up with is "Hurd"? And When all is said and done he'll want us to say "GNU/Hurd"?
10.2.7 is only available to slashdot subscribers.
You can switch the second processor off permanently by simply taking a hammer to it.
What else is there to download? If I want anything else I can go to the library.
According to the US Supreme Court interpretation of the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 9th amendments, there are constitutional rights to privacy. The Court found I think in Griswold v Connecticut that the right to privacy was constitutionally protected, and cited approvingly a definition of privacy from an 1890 law review article that called it "the right most valued by civilized man."
Unfortunately all they seem to have learned from the Rosenthal case is to beware of media coverage. Which is, as it stands, a good thing, but don't think federal judges aren't going to help the feds dismantle prop 215. The one day sentence was a huge turnaround for the judge and only occurred after most of the jurors came forward and said they had changed their decisions. The rule permitting gag orders such as the one employed in the Rosenthal case has not been challenged, which means that not only aren't you permitted a medical necessity defense under prop 215, you are not allowed to mention the proposition at all or anything related to it (i.e. your lawyer can't say, "my client was growing pot under the order of the city of Oakland as an appointed deputy put in charge of enforcing proposition 215." So Rosenthal was portrayed as a common drug dealer rather than an officer of the city.) Until judges stop invoking that rule, it's likely that the federal government's open attack on California law will continue to succeed.
Such as? I'm genuinely curious, not doubting you; I think it would be interesting to examine the merits of such a system. There would seem to be a lot more pressure on the legislature to not pass laws they know are unconstitutional, pressure that I wish existed in the US. It would save us all a lot of time and resources.
This is different. There is no way Bush is sending troops to destroy the LA City Council, for example. And Patriot has provisions that require state and local cooperation. The feds can't bust down every door or make every arrest or interrogation. And uncooperative state and local cops will be worse than the feds doing it alone. I think this will weaken the Patriot act but I don't see this causing a similar crisis as 1832; I imagine the feds will be content to enforce the act weakly and the states and cities will not stand in the way of federal actions under the act that seem reasonable.
In short, it's a good idea, it's a kind of check and balance that a system like democracy is known for. When legislation is passed at a time of extreme fear and anger, cooler heads prevail later on and do something to cripple the legislation. I don't know how much effect these kinds of actions will have but I do find them encouraging.
So if you don't like the customer, you snip the strap, and then blammo! No more annoying customer.
I'm comforted knowing people at the DHS have a sense of humor.
Yes, and I, for one, welcome our new machinic overlords!
Monsanto?
You misspelled "oil."
awesome. I am running it on vmac now with no problems except mouse speed. Thanks!
That's correct. The total fee for the strip is 25 cents, payable in one million easy micropayments of .00000025 USD each.
Install vigor.
right here.
Enjoy.