It looks like the Hilbel case only determined that it is legal to have a law requiring a suspect to identify himself when being detained. The suspect can still refuse to give the officer his license, provided that he does give his name. From the Wikipedia page on Stop and Identify Statues, Justice Kennedy had this to say about the case:
As we understand it, the statute does not require a suspect to give the officer a driver's license or any other document. Provided that the suspect either states his name or communicates it to the officer by other means--a choice, we assume, that the suspect may make--the statute is satisfied and no violation occurs.
Ohio has a "Stop and Identify" statute, so if Righi refused to give his name, he would be in the wrong. IANAL, but as far as I can tell, he is still justified in refusing to produce his driver's license.
What I would like to know is, why is the World Organization for Human Rights singling out Yahoo? Lots of companies own factories overseas that don't comply with labor laws in the US. And I would say that is worse in some sense, since these companies are intentionally exploiting the people of the host country and differences in labor laws to manufacture a product more cheaply, and increase the bottom line.
Yahoo complies with Chinese law because it has to as a condition of doing business, but other companies choose where to put manufacturing plants because the laws are more favorable than in the US.
It reminds me of the time that some friends and I discovered that a labmate had left himself logged in as root on a virtual console at his Linux workstation. Here's what we did:
Created a directory with the name " " (single space)
Added that directory to his path
Wrote a Perl script that would spit out a random quote from zippy 1/3 of the time, and then execute the program pointed to by argv[0]
Populated the special hidden directory with symlinks to the perl script, each given the name of a common command like ls, ps, and so on.
So whenever he ran a common command from his shell, he would first get a random quote from fortune appearing, followed by normal command output. He figured it out pretty quickly, but I like to think that there were a few moments where he entertained the idea of his workstation gaining sentience.
I don't think that this is Russia "flexing its muscles," since Allofmp3 is a private company. Their lawyers just said, "you know, you can actually start doing business again," and they did.
Even though Russia has lately been making efforts to re-assert their relevance, this is small change compared to other things like claiming rights to land at the north pole or missile silos in Eastern Europe.
Often an officer will try to get the driver to admit to speeding and then play nice cop by offering to write a ticket for only going x over the limit, etc.
The past couple times I've been stopped for speeding it has been at times when there is very little traffic. The officer asked me if I knew how fast I was going and I answered truthfully. This happened once on the highway where I was stopped going 75 in a 65mph zone by a state cop, and once on a local road going 50 in a 35mph zone. On both occasions, I was just given a warning.
It makes sense not to admit to any wrongdoing, but I think if I had played dumb or lied about my speed in these cases, I would have been more likely to get a ticket. What's the best answer to the question, "do you know how fast you were going?"
Anyways, I think that the analogy of internet bandwidth to speeding is a tenuous one, since drivers at least get an official posted limit, and they don't lose their license after one ticket.
That's roughly how I remember the original Speed Racer too. I remember when it was originally on, and then a few years ago I think MTV started playing the old Speed Racer episodes, because they are kind of kitschy. Did the series have any kind of plot at all? If I was going to take an animated series and make it into a live-action movie that showcases some fancy new camera technique, "Speed Racer" wouldn't be my first choice.
I really don't understand all the skepticism I'm seeing in these comments. At this point, we don't know very much about the specifics of their new technique, except some very few comments from Susan Sarandon, who seems kind of flaky in the interview transcript. Computers are powerful enough now that we can do some mighty impressive things in post-processing. For instance, the movie Waking Life in which each frame was post-processed to give it a hand-drawn look (among other effects).
Of course, it could still be a total bomb, but these kinds of techniques should be encouraged because they expand the medium of film.
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It looks like the Hilbel case only determined that it is legal to have a law requiring a suspect to identify himself when being detained. The suspect can still refuse to give the officer his license, provided that he does give his name. From the Wikipedia page on Stop and Identify Statues, Justice Kennedy had this to say about the case:
Ohio has a "Stop and Identify" statute, so if Righi refused to give his name, he would be in the wrong. IANAL, but as far as I can tell, he is still justified in refusing to produce his driver's license.
What I would like to know is, why is the World Organization for Human Rights singling out Yahoo? Lots of companies own factories overseas that don't comply with labor laws in the US. And I would say that is worse in some sense, since these companies are intentionally exploiting the people of the host country and differences in labor laws to manufacture a product more cheaply, and increase the bottom line.
Yahoo complies with Chinese law because it has to as a condition of doing business, but other companies choose where to put manufacturing plants because the laws are more favorable than in the US.
So whenever he ran a common command from his shell, he would first get a random quote from fortune appearing, followed by normal command output. He figured it out pretty quickly, but I like to think that there were a few moments where he entertained the idea of his workstation gaining sentience.
I don't think that this is Russia "flexing its muscles," since Allofmp3 is a private company. Their lawyers just said, "you know, you can actually start doing business again," and they did.
Even though Russia has lately been making efforts to re-assert their relevance, this is small change compared to other things like claiming rights to land at the north pole or missile silos in Eastern Europe.
The past couple times I've been stopped for speeding it has been at times when there is very little traffic. The officer asked me if I knew how fast I was going and I answered truthfully. This happened once on the highway where I was stopped going 75 in a 65mph zone by a state cop, and once on a local road going 50 in a 35mph zone. On both occasions, I was just given a warning.
It makes sense not to admit to any wrongdoing, but I think if I had played dumb or lied about my speed in these cases, I would have been more likely to get a ticket. What's the best answer to the question, "do you know how fast you were going?"
Anyways, I think that the analogy of internet bandwidth to speeding is a tenuous one, since drivers at least get an official posted limit, and they don't lose their license after one ticket.
That's roughly how I remember the original Speed Racer too. I remember when it was originally on, and then a few years ago I think MTV started playing the old Speed Racer episodes, because they are kind of kitschy. Did the series have any kind of plot at all? If I was going to take an animated series and make it into a live-action movie that showcases some fancy new camera technique, "Speed Racer" wouldn't be my first choice.
I really don't understand all the skepticism I'm seeing in these comments. At this point, we don't know very much about the specifics of their new technique, except some very few comments from Susan Sarandon, who seems kind of flaky in the interview transcript. Computers are powerful enough now that we can do some mighty impressive things in post-processing. For instance, the movie Waking Life in which each frame was post-processed to give it a hand-drawn look (among other effects).
Of course, it could still be a total bomb, but these kinds of techniques should be encouraged because they expand the medium of film.