If you were working for a company and happened to come up with some idea unrelated to a project, you still have to present the idea to your company before you can take the idea as your own property.
Bullshit. Simply working for a corporation doesn't mean they own you. If you come up with some new thing unrelated to your work, then it is unrelated to your job and therefore does not belong to the company.
While I agree that school officials would be happy if students had no rights at all, and act accordingly, the students can fight back...
When I was in highschool, a group of my friends wrote and distributed a flier in response to extremely anti-gay posters that had been put up anonymously. After all was said and done, the administration had suspended everyone involved, including my friends. The posters had urged violence, the flier had urged tolerance.
The justification for the suspentions was an obscure rule that said any literature distributed on school grounds had to be approved by the principal first. This was news to most people, including teachers, since the rule had *never* been enforced before. So the students did the only thing they could, the went to the ACLU for a lawyer, and the sued the school board for selective enforcement. When the suspentions were dropped out of court, the student's then sued the school board again to get the rule revoked on the grounds that is violated the first amendment. They won that case too.
After that incident, the administration was really reluctant to harrass my group of friends for anything minor like eating lunch outside the cafeteria.
I'm assuming that it was posted with Katz as the author due to the content, so that it would be filtered out by all the Katz haters. But appearently the Katz haters read these stories anyway.
It already has been released into our ecosystem. The bacterium was discovered in a salt mine that has been active for the last 50 years, so odds are a bunch have already been released. If it was harmful, we'd all be well aware of it by now.
I read about this story somewhere a couple of days ago (can't remember where) and in that version, it mentioned that the parents had planned on having more than one child before the first one got sick. So this way they got to have another kid, and saved the first one in the process. Killed two birds with on stone, so to speak.
Well, no not really. At the risk of sounding anal, a slave does in fact receive wages, even if only in the form of food. Otherwise, the slave dies. By "definition" a slave is someone who if forced to work for another, not someone who works without compensation.
I wish they had been selling that when I was building the machine that serves as my router/dvd player/mp3 jukebox. I even bought a black case and wireless keyboard from those people.
I need a 32 bit microphone for my new computer.
There's no such thing. We have...
YES THERE IS! You RS people don't know anything!
As a former RS employee (Disclaimer: I was desperate for a job) I know that the door swings both ways... People with technical skills don't generally make good sales people. I got in trouble more than once from the district manager cause I refused to push crappy computers on people who had come in to buy a resistor or an odd cable. And that I didn't ask people for their address...
Basically if we can find other reasons for prosecuting what we now call slander or the "fire!" thing, I'd be OK with it.
Basically, it's illegal because it involves hurting someone. Your rights end where mine begin and all that. I can't publically tell lies about you since that hurts you. Someone yelling "fire" in a theater (why is it always a theater?) endangers the people in the theater by causing a stampede.
Also, the point could be made that there is a difference between "speech" and mere words. To call something speech implies content. Criticizing the government is speech. "Fire" is just a word. "Fuck" is just a word. And restricting their use in certain situations isn't really restricting speech.
Well, the stipulation that the program generate haiku based on headlines and stories pretty much kills it from the start. Assuming you want actual haiku and not just some random 5-7-5 comment. Traditional haiku don't ever refer to anything man made. Nature only.
It's the only thing from the Bubblegum series I like. Crisis and Crash are what I would call "adolescent anime", basically chicks, robots, explosions and a weak plot. Also, since I saw AD Police first, I was annoyed that the cops who could take care of themselves before were suddenly getting cut down like so many blades of grass.
And what about all the Bladerunner tie-ins? Pris and the Replicants? C'mon...
Ugh, do not watch "wings of honnemaise" unless you speak fluent Japanese. I first saw this as an assignment for Japanese class in high school. The story just doesn't make the transition to english at all.
There is a big difference between owning a made up word and common English
No, there isn't. Not as far as copyright law is concerned. It's not so much that the phrase "for dummies" is copyrighted, but "XXX for dummies" as the title of a do-it-yourself type publication is. And copyright law says that unless you defend your copyright, no matter how little it will actually affect your business, it becomes invalid. If you choose to ignore one minor instance of copyright infringment and go after another instance, all the second guy has to point out to a judge is that you let the first guy get away with it. Then he wins, and you lose.
Where in the constitution does it say it is ok for the federal government to break down the door of someone who has (not yet) committed any crimes?
I hate to tell you this, but kidnapping is a crime.
The constitution (read it sometime!) also bars "cruel and unusual punishment". A good constitutional lawyer could argue that barring somebody from making a (legal) living at the most profitable occupation they are qualified to do is both cruel AND unusual.
Mitnick agreed to the terms of the plea bargain. He could have simply served the time in prison instead of agreeing to probation. I really doubt that anyone could argue thet being deprived of a job due to being in prison is "cruel" or "unusual".
Should B.J. Clinton be barred from making money on the lecture circuit, on the grounds that he has committed perjury, and he shouldn't be allowed to profit by it?
If a judge feels that the only reason he was getting paid was that he had commited purjury, then yes.
The gag order is perfectly leagl. The people posting here don't seem to understand what probation is. Mitnick is not an "ex-con". He has not finished paying off his debt to society. Probation is an extention of a prison sentence. Therefore the judge can restrict anything that is restriced in prison. Prisoners do not have the freedom to say whatever they want, so neither does Mitnick.
Anti-government posters have also mentioned the Elian raid. But what no one seems to remember that Elian isn't an american citizen. He is not protected by the constitution. You can't violate rights that someone doesn't have.
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If you were working for a company and happened to come up with some idea unrelated to a project, you still have to present the idea to your company before you can take the idea as your own property.
Bullshit. Simply working for a corporation doesn't mean they own you. If you come up with some new thing unrelated to your work, then it is unrelated to your job and therefore does not belong to the company.
-Dorsey
While I agree that school officials would be happy if students had no rights at all, and act accordingly, the students can fight back...
When I was in highschool, a group of my friends wrote and distributed a flier in response to extremely anti-gay posters that had been put up anonymously. After all was said and done, the administration had suspended everyone involved, including my friends. The posters had urged violence, the flier had urged tolerance.
The justification for the suspentions was an obscure rule that said any literature distributed on school grounds had to be approved by the principal first. This was news to most people, including teachers, since the rule had *never* been enforced before. So the students did the only thing they could, the went to the ACLU for a lawyer, and the sued the school board for selective enforcement. When the suspentions were dropped out of court, the student's then sued the school board again to get the rule revoked on the grounds that is violated the first amendment. They won that case too.
After that incident, the administration was really reluctant to harrass my group of friends for anything minor like eating lunch outside the cafeteria.
-Dorsey
I'm assuming that it was posted with Katz as the author due to the content, so that it would be filtered out by all the Katz haters. But appearently the Katz haters read these stories anyway.
-Dorsey
I could really use a laptop for if I could find one for under $30. I might even get two...
-Dorsey
It already has been released into our ecosystem. The bacterium was discovered in a salt mine that has been active for the last 50 years, so odds are a bunch have already been released. If it was harmful, we'd all be well aware of it by now.
-Dorsey
I read about this story somewhere a couple of days ago (can't remember where) and in that version, it mentioned that the parents had planned on having more than one child before the first one got sick. So this way they got to have another kid, and saved the first one in the process. Killed two birds with on stone, so to speak.
-Dorsey
I want French Attack Monkeys!
-Dorsey
Well, no not really. At the risk of sounding anal, a slave does in fact receive wages, even if only in the form of food. Otherwise, the slave dies. By "definition" a slave is someone who if forced to work for another, not someone who works without compensation.
-Dorsey
Well damn...
I wish they had been selling that when I was building the machine that serves as my router/dvd player/mp3 jukebox. I even bought a black case and wireless keyboard from those people.
-Dorsey
And the average RS shopper isn't any smarter...
I need a 32 bit microphone for my new computer.
There's no such thing. We have...
YES THERE IS! You RS people don't know anything!
As a former RS employee (Disclaimer: I was desperate for a job) I know that the door swings both ways... People with technical skills don't generally make good sales people. I got in trouble more than once from the district manager cause I refused to push crappy computers on people who had come in to buy a resistor or an odd cable. And that I didn't ask people for their address...
-Dorsey
Basically if we can find other reasons for prosecuting what we now call slander or the "fire!" thing, I'd be OK with it.
Basically, it's illegal because it involves hurting someone. Your rights end where mine begin and all that. I can't publically tell lies about you since that hurts you. Someone yelling "fire" in a theater (why is it always a theater?) endangers the people in the theater by causing a stampede.
Also, the point could be made that there is a difference between "speech" and mere words. To call something speech implies content. Criticizing the government is speech. "Fire" is just a word. "Fuck" is just a word. And restricting their use in certain situations isn't really restricting speech.
-Dorsey
-Dorsey
-Dorsey
I haven't seen anyone mention AD Police yet...
It's the only thing from the Bubblegum series I like. Crisis and Crash are what I would call "adolescent anime", basically chicks, robots, explosions and a weak plot. Also, since I saw AD Police first, I was annoyed that the cops who could take care of themselves before were suddenly getting cut down like so many blades of grass.
And what about all the Bladerunner tie-ins? Pris and the Replicants? C'mon...
-Dorsey
-Dorsey
-Dorsey
There is a big difference between owning a made up word and common English
No, there isn't. Not as far as copyright law is concerned. It's not so much that the phrase "for dummies" is copyrighted, but "XXX for dummies" as the title of a do-it-yourself type publication is. And copyright law says that unless you defend your copyright, no matter how little it will actually affect your business, it becomes invalid. If you choose to ignore one minor instance of copyright infringment and go after another instance, all the second guy has to point out to a judge is that you let the first guy get away with it. Then he wins, and you lose.
-Dorsey
Where in the constitution does it say it is ok for the federal government to break down the door of someone who has (not yet) committed any crimes?
I hate to tell you this, but kidnapping is a crime.
The constitution (read it sometime!) also bars "cruel and unusual punishment". A good constitutional lawyer could argue that barring somebody from making a (legal) living at the most profitable occupation they are qualified to do is both cruel AND unusual.
Mitnick agreed to the terms of the plea bargain. He could have simply served the time in prison instead of agreeing to probation. I really doubt that anyone could argue thet being deprived of a job due to being in prison is "cruel" or "unusual".
Should B.J. Clinton be barred from making money on the lecture circuit, on the grounds that he has committed perjury, and he shouldn't be allowed to profit by it?
If a judge feels that the only reason he was getting paid was that he had commited purjury, then yes.
-Dorsey
The gag order is perfectly leagl. The people posting here don't seem to understand what probation is. Mitnick is not an "ex-con". He has not finished paying off his debt to society. Probation is an extention of a prison sentence. Therefore the judge can restrict anything that is restriced in prison. Prisoners do not have the freedom to say whatever they want, so neither does Mitnick.
Anti-government posters have also mentioned the Elian raid. But what no one seems to remember that Elian isn't an american citizen. He is not protected by the constitution. You can't violate rights that someone doesn't have.
-Dorsey