They did not legally purchase this right from Congress. They only purchased a license to use this right. Congress may revoke or revise this license at its discretion, perhaps with the upgrade to Congress v. 2004.
Is there a HOWTO somewhere on this sugar in the coffee thing? Will it work with my system? I tried it once but I got stuck because my espresso machine only has one mouse button.
Heh, slashdot has ruined me. No matter what it is, an OS, a rock band, or a cancer patient, whenever I hear something is dying, I immediately think, You don't have to be Kreskin to predict its future. Let's look at the numbers. Red ink flows like a river of blood.... I hope I don't ever say this out loud.
their marketing team found a way to get the page slashdotted so they can say to the boss, look how many hits our "switch" page is getting. the campaign is working!
For Fuck's sake, I know it's in vogue to bash Marxism, which is fine, but don't spout off about what Marx said or didn't say when it's patently obvious you haven't read a word of his work. He never said widening the imbalance between rich and poor was good, and in fact he wrote in Capital that capitalism was revolutionary in that it allowed for the development of the very concept of human equality. And while your absolutely correct that his belief that the industrialized countries would experience benign socialist revolutions was flat wrong, his analysis of the commodity system under capitalism still reads as quite salient.
As for your argument that capitalism embraces inequality, you're right about its effects, but you're dead wrong about its theoretical base. For Marx the very notion of human equality arises because capitalism taught us to see people as possessors of commodities (rather than as "free," "slave," "serf," or whatever). While capitalism inevitably creates inequality, it does make possible the idea of equality. So Marx did think some good came from capitalism, in spite of what many (including many Marxists) believe.
Mac OS X 10.1.5 (yeah I did buy jaguar but I fsckd up the CD and have to wait for a new one), I can tell you Moz is MUCH slower than IE. It's so slow it was unusable; I have reluctantly switched back to IE until I install 10.2 and experiment with that. But just for rendering basic but large pages from the hard drive, Mozilla was slower by a factor of 10 or more. If anyone has recommendations for an os x based browser that is fast and is a good IE replacement let me know; I tried Chimera which has very few features and is still slower than IE.
No, what would be really weird is if you installed Phoenix under SuSE 8.1 on an Indian Linux PDA, then installed SETI@home and started getting messages from Quaoar.
Judicial activism is the term used to define judges acting as lawmakers. In 1803, the U.S. Supreme Court defined its role as accurately defining what the law is.
In 1803 they also articulated the doctrine of judicial review which holds that a statute ruled offensive to the Constitution cannot become law. This is not judicial activism; the judge is not "dictating copyright policy in direct opposition to laws passed by Congress." Rather, the judge is raising significant Constitutional questions about the law as passed by Congress. This is well within the role of the judiciary, and the claim of judicial activism here is either a mistake or a red herring.
The only way that I can think of that a Judge could rule quickly in a case where the laws are convoluted and unclear is to rule that the law is ambiguous. This would essentially throw the case out of court.
Not at all - to rule that the law is vague and unclear usually means the Court overturns the law. Laws can be Constitutionally "void for vagueness" esp. when First Amendment values are at stake. In the case of the DMCA, such a decision would be welcome, but seems unlikely.
He's not suing for people slandering him as a slimy rat bastard; he's suing for people slandering petswarehouse.com. So, for example, if I were to say that petswarehouse.com is a stupid company with lousy service I could get sued. I guess his claim is that the slander lost him some money so if I say his company doesn't deserve a fucking dime he might sue me. He also sued people for defending the other side in his lawsuit, so saying that his lawsuit is groundless and his claims are insipid might earn me a lawsuit. Or perhaps if I said "I HATE FUCKING PETS" that might be enough. What do you say, Mr. Novak? Won't you sue me please? I'll defend myself too, how's that?
Why does this anonymous post remind me of the *BSD is dying troll? Maybe it's all the random boldface and the only tangentially relevant whines, but I really think this would be a much stronger post with a gratuitous reference to Kreskin, or even better, some ominous predictions of imminent demise on the order of "Red ink flows like a river of blood"....
You're deluded if you think Apple is somehow going to be the only company whose platform does not incorporate DRM.
But what if MS is the only company whose platform mandates DRM. Fact is though there will always be third party tools that let you avoid DRM, even under Windows, at least until it becomes illegal.
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They did not legally purchase this right from Congress. They only purchased a license to use this right. Congress may revoke or revise this license at its discretion, perhaps with the upgrade to Congress v. 2004.
Is there a HOWTO somewhere on this sugar in the coffee thing? Will it work with my system? I tried it once but I got stuck because my espresso machine only has one mouse button.
Heh, slashdot has ruined me. No matter what it is, an OS, a rock band, or a cancer patient, whenever I hear something is dying, I immediately think, You don't have to be Kreskin to predict its future. Let's look at the numbers. Red ink flows like a river of blood.... I hope I don't ever say this out loud.
their marketing team found a way to get the page slashdotted so they can say to the boss, look how many hits our "switch" page is getting. the campaign is working!
I suppose, if you're that easily fooled.
For Fuck's sake, I know it's in vogue to bash Marxism, which is fine, but don't spout off about what Marx said or didn't say when it's patently obvious you haven't read a word of his work. He never said widening the imbalance between rich and poor was good, and in fact he wrote in Capital that capitalism was revolutionary in that it allowed for the development of the very concept of human equality. And while your absolutely correct that his belief that the industrialized countries would experience benign socialist revolutions was flat wrong, his analysis of the commodity system under capitalism still reads as quite salient.
As for your argument that capitalism embraces inequality, you're right about its effects, but you're dead wrong about its theoretical base. For Marx the very notion of human equality arises because capitalism taught us to see people as possessors of commodities (rather than as "free," "slave," "serf," or whatever). While capitalism inevitably creates inequality, it does make possible the idea of equality. So Marx did think some good came from capitalism, in spite of what many (including many Marxists) believe.
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Mac OS X 10.1.5 (yeah I did buy jaguar but I fsckd up the CD and have to wait for a new one), I can tell you Moz is MUCH slower than IE. It's so slow it was unusable; I have reluctantly switched back to IE until I install 10.2 and experiment with that. But just for rendering basic but large pages from the hard drive, Mozilla was slower by a factor of 10 or more. If anyone has recommendations for an os x based browser that is fast and is a good IE replacement let me know; I tried Chimera which has very few features and is still slower than IE.
No, what would be really weird is if you installed Phoenix under SuSE 8.1 on an Indian Linux PDA, then installed SETI@home and started getting messages from Quaoar.
my sexual partner better be free of scales!
In 1803 they also articulated the doctrine of judicial review which holds that a statute ruled offensive to the Constitution cannot become law. This is not judicial activism; the judge is not "dictating copyright policy in direct opposition to laws passed by Congress." Rather, the judge is raising significant Constitutional questions about the law as passed by Congress. This is well within the role of the judiciary, and the claim of judicial activism here is either a mistake or a red herring.
Not at all - to rule that the law is vague and unclear usually means the Court overturns the law. Laws can be Constitutionally "void for vagueness" esp. when First Amendment values are at stake. In the case of the DMCA, such a decision would be welcome, but seems unlikely.
Yeah - it means "megaherz" as opposed to "inches of penis length" as it means here in slashdot-land.
He's not suing for people slandering him as a slimy rat bastard; he's suing for people slandering petswarehouse.com. So, for example, if I were to say that petswarehouse.com is a stupid company with lousy service I could get sued. I guess his claim is that the slander lost him some money so if I say his company doesn't deserve a fucking dime he might sue me. He also sued people for defending the other side in his lawsuit, so saying that his lawsuit is groundless and his claims are insipid might earn me a lawsuit. Or perhaps if I said "I HATE FUCKING PETS" that might be enough. What do you say, Mr. Novak? Won't you sue me please? I'll defend myself too, how's that?
What kind of music did Ronnie James Dio perform in the 50s?
Yeah, mad props to the editors of a major American newspaper for actually knowing the language.
Yeah. We saw how that Evolution thing fared when it went up against Creationism.
Why? Is there oil on Pluto?
....I got hit with a twenty-two pound block of ice from the sky.
Why does this anonymous post remind me of the *BSD is dying troll? Maybe it's all the random boldface and the only tangentially relevant whines, but I really think this would be a much stronger post with a gratuitous reference to Kreskin, or even better, some ominous predictions of imminent demise on the order of "Red ink flows like a river of blood"....
Heh, you must mean linux users. Remember, Mac users aren't allowed to tweak their UIs anymore.
yes; you can install X Windows on OS X, and put whatever WM you like on it instead of the delicious huggable Aqua.
Yeah and then you can boot OS X 10.2 in a window under Mac-on-linux.
to whine about how many buttons the mouse has.
Shoot the lawyer twice.
You're deluded if you think Apple is somehow going to be the only company whose platform does not incorporate DRM.
But what if MS is the only company whose platform mandates DRM. Fact is though there will always be third party tools that let you avoid DRM, even under Windows, at least until it becomes illegal.