Sadly, their conclusions are usually WAY off base because the law is written to be deliberately difficult to understand without a legal education.
Conspiracy theory alert!
Most law isn't written to be deliberately obscure (unless written by somebody with an interest in its misapplication) but is written to be a precise as possible. Since language isn't precise, law becomes verbose (to cover all situations) and arcane (using phrases which do not appear in normal language or have different meanings in law) = difficult.
Often, the win goes to the side with the clever argument, rather than the side with the logic.
Actually, what you may think is an example of rhetoric winning over logic in many cases will be an example of hidden logical arguments of law of which you have no knowledge because they belong to the arcana of law, winning over what was stated by the lawyers. A trial is not about what A (counsel 1) says vs what B (counsel 2) says but what C (jury or judge) thinks about the case in light of A, B, D (previous judges), E (legal commentators) and F (others) say.
..by keeping most of the north of South America and middle American countries like Haiti poor.,
Bullshit. The US isn't rich because somebody else is poor. Wealth isn't a zero-sum game. Wealth is made by production of goods and its possible to get rich without robbing somebody. Why do you think we have 6 billion people living with food, cars, tvs and computers in 2004 compared to 100 million at 1AD with famine, mules, clay tablets and abacuses? Did the 6 billion rob somebody? [YES I KNOW THAT THERE ARE MANY STARVING PEOPLE AND NOT EVERYONE HAS A PC, ETC, I'M MAKING A GENERAL STATEMENT ABOUT THE SUM INCREASE OF WEALTH]
The countries and empires (Spanish, Mongol, etc.) that relied on looting of other's wealth collapsed because they lacked a viable internal production model, the only one that generates long-lasting wealth and poor.
Ah but will the Walmart walls survive the impact of kamikaze soccer mum SUVs? Once the walls are breached - there will be vicious fighting in the alleys which can only end in one way - roast Walmart Employee of the Month.
You are a moron(only calling you this because you used the word first. Ignorant might be better.). Type in DES and encryption in google and find out among other things: a) how DES works, b) how the EFF cracked it; and c) how to read books.
Are you being sarcastic or are you showing an expansive knowledge of sampling without a total lack of legal knowledge?
Queen sued Vanilla Ice.
Van Halen sued Tone Loc.
The Hendrix family sued WCW.
They all did so succesfully (even if they settled).
Polygram Records has a department that only looks for illegal sampling of James Brown records.
Eminem doesn't sample and any music he uses gets cleared (i.e. Aerosmith's Sing for the day). He isn't the Beastie Boys.
WTF is it hypocritical for Eminem to sue if some other rappers ripped songs? Can I come round your house and rape your sister if you're Xian (insert race/profession) because Xians rape women? He didn't so he's not hypocritical, hypocrisy is about your own actions.
How the fuck can a helicopter be open-source? Are we living in a Matrix world where 'reality', that is objects is actually code that can be open-source. Do you know what 'open-source means' or is it just a cool catch-all catch-phrase like 'globalization'?
From a legal point of view, expected usage effects warranty/guarantee and liability status.
A baby incubator has to be more reliable than a defroster. A missile computer has to be more reliable than your pc. Your car steering wheel has to be more reliable than your game controller. Its all hardware but its legally differentiated.
The level of reliability that can be expected and the level of damages that can be gained depends directly on the expected usage of a product.
If a manufacturer makes disks that are more likely to lose data (lost data=lost knowledge=lost $) than competitors AND lies about it, then they're in more trouble than a graphics card manufacturer whose cards corrupt output. A hard drive is a much more critical application.
You got disabled for not having enough clicks. Not for not paying enough. Increasing the pay per click doesn't increase how money people click. Perhaps you should try a better keyword?
[i]Don't fear. I haven't read any of the 2003 novels and I'm the guy who submitted the article. I find I read mostly short fiction these days: I was happy to see so many short stories from F&SF, the only magazine to which I currently subscribe. Between it, Black Gate [blackgate.com] (which I highly and selfishly recommend - see below), my day job, and my own writing, I only read 2-3 novels a year.[/i]
And you're not ashamed of the fact that you read only 2-3 novels a year? Hell, I read 2-3 a week and still can't get enough. Do you have any idea of how much quality reading there is out there? How many stunning new writers there are out there? Every time I pick up a quality sci-fi book (not of the David Weber variety), I finish it sad with the thought that it'll be a while before I read another one as good as it and then a week later, Amazon delivers another book that excites me with its storyline, stuns me with its broad scope, educates me with its hard science and enlightens me on human nature...
And you're a writer?
Some advice - Read books on the train, in the car, in the crapper, in bed, while waiting for your computer to load, between sex and sleep, read all the time...
The more you read, the better your own stuff will become.
You're probably right about this. My intuitive guess is that the cost of a telescope is less than that of the mission to launch or service it and that the only reason that Hubble is serviced instead of being constantly replaced is that the service missions can be combined with others, reducing the cost.
So instead of making a special save Hubble launch, a new telescope could be launched.
An object can be brought down from space in two ways. On its own or as cargo.
On its own, the telescope it would survive reentry about as well as you would. As in burnt to crisp.
As far as being cargo is concerned - the problem with Hubble is that nobody can go up to service it which means it will stop working it. If nobody can go up to, that means nobody can bring it down.
I won't even going into how bringing something down from space as cargo is about as insane as can be - its expensive and difficult enough to get into space in the first place.
A M1 tank is full of high explosive ammunition (as in BIG BOOM) and jet-grade fuel (as in BIG BOOM). Exchanging the jet fuel for hydrogen doesn't make the tank less likely to explode or require more shielding. If anything, hydrogen is less volatile than jet fuel so less shock shielding might be needed.
According to your logic a "life of the party" guy who gets treatment for alcoholism will no longer be fun or interesting, because it is the alcoholic "party guy" component of his personality that makes him interesting. Isn't it possible he is an outgoing and interesting person who happens to be an alcoholic?
This is inappropriate but sorry to say, 95% of the assholes who are "lives of the party" are boring and dull when they're not drunk, stoned, hungover (alcohol content) or getting ready to PARTY.
I hit college away from home and the smoke and I felt as if I was completely disoriented and unable to concentrate on anything - this from the high school valedictorian who had never struggled with any learning issues except for pensmanship (a clue that I have/had ADHD, as I was to discover 20 years later).
Perhaps your college ADHD was caused by beer, pot, girls and the fact that nobody cared a damn if you passed or not. You left home, discovered freedom and the joy of laziness and bang your grades went. Same happened to me at university until I realized that I was affecting my future job prospects (education -> salary -> access to girls and beer).
BTW While away from home - did you suffer from nicotine withdrawal...?
And were you passive smoking the 20 cigs a day that you would have to be to get through a full day of school before you discovered girls and stopped giving a damn.
Oh... I do have trouble finishing chores, doing tasks and my penmanship is awful but I'm big enough to admit I'm a lazy bastiche.
This works for national domains, such as co.uk, where (a) there aren't state or local trademarks, only national trademarks (or they only allow national trademarks to use the domain), but it won't work for most trademarks in an international domain such as.com regardless.
Couple of notes:
There is an international regime for trademarks (Madrid Protocol) and an European regime (Community trademarks under a regulation). You register the trademark in one country and protection is extended to any that you want (Madrid Protocol) or you register in one place and have automatic protection in all member countries (Community). If the cybersquatting registering entity happens to have a seat in or connection with a country which recognises Madrid/European trademarks then they can be sued very effectively (regardless of the actual national character of a domain which in most cases will not decide jurisdiction in conflicts between parties). Unfair competition statutes are also an effective weapon - their basic premise is fairness/ethics and since its not fair/ethical to register somebody's name if you're not that person.
Why should there be a tm domain and why should people have to register their names? If a person or company has international renown - then they morally and ethically have a right to the global.com name (yes I know that.com was intended to be US but it has become a global domain).
Oh yeah, IAAP(arasite) and we parasites get involved in domain names because not all characteristics phrases are trademarks (i.e. names of celebrities) and there are many many people out to make a fast (cybersquat) buck on the blood and toil of others.
This will all get killed in budget negotiations after the election.
As happened with the Moon shot? If this Bush makes a declaration, he will try and keep it. Otherwise he'll end up compared to his father. Jr. wants to be a JFK and Reagan in one compassionate conservative package.
As for the budget - the money will be found - since it'll all go to the aerospace/defence industry.
Try and pass any money you have made and you'll got to prison. It doesn't have to be US currency. And the joke defence isn't going to work unless you're caught in LA, you're black, have a black jury, have Johnny Cochran as your lawyer and have the detective that busts you make racist remarks.
I think the post I'm commenting on in is a very good guide to get intimately acquainted with Bubba in a Federal jail.
And many a geek without a RL will achieve eternal life when their personality (as expressed through pointed comments), experiences (as expressed through pointless anecdotes) and knowledge (as expressed through worthless advice) and thus their consciousness and LIVING MIND ITSELF, is painstakingly put back together by the same future race which will unfreeze the richer geeks from their cryogenic deathsleeps, from the myriad holographic shreds on the archived internet.
Think about it...
Everything you've ever said... it all came from you...
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So you're not a lawyer and you've heard something somewhere and you think somebody will win a case (that has not materialised...)...
Seems you're a pretty astute thinker. Give me your private email, I've got a very good offer on Spanish prisoners for you.
Poster - I know there's nothing but wannabe pretend-experts on slashdot
Reply to poster - IANAL, but have worked with enough of them to at least speculate on your question...
Slashdot in an essence.
BTW I Am Not A Brain Surgeon but my advise is to use a drill with a hardened tip in your home lobotomy on your kid...
Sadly, their conclusions are usually WAY off base because the law is written to be deliberately difficult to understand without a legal education.
Conspiracy theory alert!
Most law isn't written to be deliberately obscure (unless written by somebody with an interest in its misapplication) but is written to be a precise as possible. Since language isn't precise, law becomes verbose (to cover all situations) and arcane (using phrases which do not appear in normal language or have different meanings in law) = difficult.
Often, the win goes to the side with the clever argument, rather than the side with the logic.
Actually, what you may think is an example of rhetoric winning over logic in many cases will be an example of hidden logical arguments of law of which you have no knowledge because they belong to the arcana of law, winning over what was stated by the lawyers. A trial is not about what A (counsel 1) says vs what B (counsel 2) says but what C (jury or judge) thinks about the case in light of A, B, D (previous judges), E (legal commentators) and F (others) say.
BTW a clever argument is, IMHO, a logical one.
..by keeping most of the north of South America and middle American countries like Haiti poor.,
Bullshit. The US isn't rich because somebody else is poor. Wealth isn't a zero-sum game. Wealth is made by production of goods and its possible to get rich without robbing somebody. Why do you think we have 6 billion people living with food, cars, tvs and computers in 2004 compared to 100 million at 1AD with famine, mules, clay tablets and abacuses? Did the 6 billion rob somebody? [YES I KNOW THAT THERE ARE MANY STARVING PEOPLE AND NOT EVERYONE HAS A PC, ETC, I'M MAKING A GENERAL STATEMENT ABOUT THE SUM INCREASE OF WEALTH]
The countries and empires (Spanish, Mongol, etc.) that relied on looting of other's wealth collapsed because they lacked a viable internal production model, the only one that generates long-lasting wealth and poor.
Zzz...
These "Did anyone else read it as:" jokes are getting increasingly unfunny, especially when they rely on insane juxtpositions.
Ah but will the Walmart walls survive the impact of kamikaze soccer mum SUVs? Once the walls are breached - there will be vicious fighting in the alleys which can only end in one way - roast Walmart Employee of the Month.
You are a moron(only calling you this because you used the word first. Ignorant might be better.). Type in DES and encryption in google and find out among other things: a) how DES works, b) how the EFF cracked it; and c) how to read books.
WTF? How does this guy turn a misogynistic rant into an anti-Bush one?
Are you being sarcastic or are you showing an expansive knowledge of sampling without a total lack of legal knowledge?
Queen sued Vanilla Ice.
Van Halen sued Tone Loc.
The Hendrix family sued WCW.
They all did so succesfully (even if they settled).
Polygram Records has a department that only looks for illegal sampling of James Brown records.
Eminem doesn't sample and any music he uses gets cleared (i.e. Aerosmith's Sing for the day). He isn't the Beastie Boys.
WTF is it hypocritical for Eminem to sue if some other rappers ripped songs? Can I come round your house and rape your sister if you're Xian (insert race/profession) because Xians rape women? He didn't so he's not hypocritical, hypocrisy is about your own actions.
How the fuck can a helicopter be open-source? Are we living in a Matrix world where 'reality', that is objects is actually code that can be open-source.
Do you know what 'open-source means' or is it just a cool catch-all catch-phrase like 'globalization'?
There is a problem with stealth technology.
Its called eyeballs.
Apaches and other copters are being shot down by guys with RPGs that just look, point and press.
Stealth isn't going to save lives and money.
Tiny disposable unmanned recon craft that are cheap are going to save lives and money.
Wrong.
From a legal point of view, expected usage effects warranty/guarantee and liability status.
A baby incubator has to be more reliable than a defroster. A missile computer has to be more reliable than your pc. Your car steering wheel has to be more reliable than your game controller. Its all hardware but its legally differentiated.
The level of reliability that can be expected and the level of damages that can be gained depends directly on the expected usage of a product.
If a manufacturer makes disks that are more likely to lose data (lost data=lost knowledge=lost $) than competitors AND lies about it, then they're in more trouble than a graphics card manufacturer whose cards corrupt output. A hard drive is a much more critical application.
IAAL.
Ahem.
Cough.
Cough.
You got disabled for not having enough clicks. Not for not paying enough. Increasing the pay per click doesn't increase how money people click. Perhaps you should try a better keyword?
[i]Don't fear. I haven't read any of the 2003 novels and I'm the guy who submitted the article. I find I read mostly short fiction these days: I was happy to see so many short stories from F&SF, the only magazine to which I currently subscribe. Between it, Black Gate [blackgate.com] (which I highly and selfishly recommend - see below), my day job, and my own writing, I only read 2-3 novels a year.[/i]
And you're not ashamed of the fact that you read only 2-3 novels a year? Hell, I read 2-3 a week and still can't get enough. Do you have any idea of how much quality reading there is out there? How many stunning new writers there are out there? Every time I pick up a quality sci-fi book (not of the David Weber variety), I finish it sad with the thought that it'll be a while before I read another one as good as it and then a week later, Amazon delivers another book that excites me with its storyline, stuns me with its broad scope, educates me with its hard science and enlightens me on human nature...
And you're a writer?
Some advice - Read books on the train, in the car, in the crapper, in bed, while waiting for your computer to load, between sex and sleep, read all the time...
The more you read, the better your own stuff will become.
You're probably right about this. My intuitive guess is that the cost of a telescope is less than that of the mission to launch or service it and that the only reason that Hubble is serviced instead of being constantly replaced is that the service missions can be combined with others, reducing the cost.
So instead of making a special save Hubble launch, a new telescope could be launched.
Bring it down
HOW?
Do you know what you're talking about?
An object can be brought down from space in two ways. On its own or as cargo.
On its own, the telescope it would survive reentry about as well as you would. As in burnt to crisp.
As far as being cargo is concerned - the problem with Hubble is that nobody can go up to service it which means it will stop working it. If nobody can go up to, that means nobody can bring it down.
I won't even going into how bringing something down from space as cargo is about as insane as can be - its expensive and difficult enough to get into space in the first place.
A M1 tank is full of high explosive ammunition (as in BIG BOOM) and jet-grade fuel (as in BIG BOOM). Exchanging the jet fuel for hydrogen doesn't make the tank less likely to explode or require more shielding. If anything, hydrogen is less volatile than jet fuel so less shock shielding might be needed.
According to your logic a "life of the party" guy who gets treatment for alcoholism will no longer be fun or interesting, because it is the alcoholic "party guy" component of his personality that makes him interesting. Isn't it possible he is an outgoing and interesting person who happens to be an alcoholic?
This is inappropriate but sorry to say, 95% of the assholes who are "lives of the party" are boring and dull when they're not drunk, stoned, hungover (alcohol content) or getting ready to PARTY.
And for the rest of her life, your kid is going to have to take a drug to think for herself.
Sweet jesus, what a nightmare. A total nightmare...
I hit college away from home and the smoke and I felt as if I was completely disoriented and unable to concentrate on anything - this from the high school valedictorian who had never struggled with any learning issues except for pensmanship (a clue that I have/had ADHD, as I was to discover 20 years later).
Perhaps your college ADHD was caused by beer, pot, girls and the fact that nobody cared a damn if you passed or not. You left home, discovered freedom and the joy of laziness and bang your grades went. Same happened to me at university until I realized that I was affecting my future job prospects (education -> salary -> access to girls and beer).
BTW While away from home - did you suffer from nicotine withdrawal...?
And were you passive smoking the 20 cigs a day that you would have to be to get through a full day of school before you discovered girls and stopped giving a damn.
Oh... I do have trouble finishing chores, doing tasks and my penmanship is awful but I'm big enough to admit I'm a lazy bastiche.
This works for national domains, such as co.uk, where (a) there aren't state or local trademarks, only national trademarks (or they only allow national trademarks to use the domain), but it won't work for most trademarks in an international domain such as .com regardless.
.com name (yes I know that .com was intended to be US but it has become a global domain).
Couple of notes:
There is an international regime for trademarks (Madrid Protocol) and an European regime (Community trademarks under a regulation). You register the trademark in one country and protection is extended to any that you want (Madrid Protocol) or you register in one place and have automatic protection in all member countries (Community). If the cybersquatting registering entity happens to have a seat in or connection with a country which recognises Madrid/European trademarks then they can be sued very effectively (regardless of the actual national character of a domain which in most cases will not decide jurisdiction in conflicts between parties). Unfair competition statutes are also an effective weapon - their basic premise is fairness/ethics and since its not fair/ethical to register somebody's name if you're not that person.
Why should there be a tm domain and why should people have to register their names? If a person or company has international renown - then they morally and ethically have a right to the global
Oh yeah, IAAP(arasite) and we parasites get involved in domain names because not all characteristics phrases are trademarks (i.e. names of celebrities) and there are many many people out to make a fast (cybersquat) buck on the blood and toil of others.
This will all get killed in budget negotiations after the election.
As happened with the Moon shot? If this Bush makes a declaration, he will try and keep it. Otherwise he'll end up compared to his father. Jr. wants to be a JFK and Reagan in one compassionate conservative package.
As for the budget - the money will be found - since it'll all go to the aerospace/defence industry.
Try and pass any money you have made and you'll got to prison. It doesn't have to be US currency. And the joke defence isn't going to work unless you're caught in LA, you're black, have a black jury, have Johnny Cochran as your lawyer and have the detective that busts you make racist remarks.
I think the post I'm commenting on in is a very good guide to get intimately acquainted with Bubba in a Federal jail.
And many a geek without a RL will achieve eternal life when their personality (as expressed through pointed comments), experiences (as expressed through pointless anecdotes) and knowledge (as expressed through worthless advice) and thus their consciousness and LIVING MIND ITSELF, is painstakingly put back together by the same future race which will unfreeze the richer geeks from their cryogenic deathsleeps, from the myriad holographic shreds on the archived internet.
Think about it...
Everything you've ever said... it all came from you...