Why is slashdot so interesting in this one political story, instead of all the more important ones going on? Technology Bites Politicians Again seems apropos for a nerdnews site.
Seems slashdot likes to get political only when it involves those evil, nasty Republicans. It's hardly Slashdot's fault that Those Evil Nasty Republicans have been the only party with enough power to do much of anything for the past six years.
Do you think the Democrats will fare better on Slashdot when (if) they recover power?
Have you been submitting stories about IT biting Democrats in the ass, and getting your stories rejected?
Despite the best attempts of the US media, the US Attorney firings is a non-story. The US Attorneys serve at the "will of the President". The minor problem being that in their attempt to avoid yet another scandal, this has gone from scandal to obstruction of justice.
(Actually, it might be worse than that. Iglesias was fired because he wouldn't obey a senator's demand to prosecute innocent people for political gain. Of course, the Rove House didn't want to admit that, so they fired him for missing too much work - a violation of Federal law, since he missed the work due to being on active duty with the US Navy.)
It is not playing in the US media because no law was broken when those attorneys were fired. Even if what you say is true, that's not the explanation. The media *has* been covering the firing story.
I stick to html, since everyone can read it (mostly). Alas, it's already too late for that. I still find sites that won't render correctly on browsers other than the one the developer used.
He warned that the rush to make webpages more dynamic often meant users were badly served. Sites peppered with personalization tools were in danger of resembling the 'glossy but useless' sites at the height of the dotcom boom. That was precisely my thought when I saw, side-by-side, the proposed look for a new W2 site vs. our current bland but functional site.
Actually, I thought our current one *looked* better too.
Moglen contends that software is a mathematical algorithm and, as such, not patentable. (The Supreme Court has never expressly ruled on the question.) If MS has the cajones to file any patent suits, maybe Moglen or his successor can raise that issue. Can they have it both ways: software is copyrightable *and* patentable?
FYI, this project was originally started in 1987, but didn't get serious funding for over a decade. The final basic dimensions were selected in 2001, and detailed design and development of the many new technologies it will employ has been ongoing since then. Now it's finally begun construction. It was actually supposed to launch in 2011, but 2 years ago NASA decided to delay that two years to they could defray the costs out a little more. Thanks. Sounds like this wasn't much of an "unveiling".
What's the purpose? Why spend money on sending men to the moon when people are starving on this planet? Do you know what that money could buy for some poor people?! Better yet, it could pay off 0.5% of George's Big Iraqi Adventure.
I'm not entirely sure why the France bashing continues. Some of it may be heartfelt politics, but a lot of it is just jest resulting from their easy stereotype as a nation of mood-swingers.
When Sarkozy is done with France do you think he could come over here for a few years? I like his ideas on immigrants, it would be nice if our "President" had the balls! A hard line on immigrants won't happen in the USA. The Democrats wouldn't think it's nice, and the Republicans are split between the social conservatives who want it and the monied folk who don't think it's in their best interest.
The election year attempt to push immigration reform through the Republican Congress was one of several factors leading to that party's recent implosion.
Howard Bashman's How Appealing blog has more details on the reversal, including a paraphrase from one of the appellate judges that "all blame rests with the U.S. Supreme Court for allowing the 'outlandish' result that a claim such as this can be pursued under RICO." The blog calls it a "concurring opinion", but it sounds like a dissenting opinion.
Since Bashman is talking about that subset of those 15 judges that originally dismissed the case, maybe it's a concurring opinion from the original hearing, rather than from the current reversal?
This is why you don't put a giant 10-word prepositional phrase between a subject and verb, especially if that phrase ends with something that could plausibly by a subject. Unless you're writing in German...
it sounds like she did what scientists do routinely, so I can't understand why they're suddenly picking on her. Is fair use usually applied to figures? It's commonplace to see a figure labeled "used by permission", though you never see it on quoted text.
I'm not asking how things ought to be, nor how existing law ought to be interpreted. Rather, what is established praxis? For some reason hearing a complaint over a reproduced figure surprises me less than a complaint over a similarly-sized quote would.
Flaming liberals are clearly trying to destroy our country, and this is just another glaring example of that. Can you give some examples of liberals, flaming or otherwise, who are trying to destroy our country? And explain why you think this is an example, glaring or otherwise, of that?
look at the hell it put us through with Clinton. Only because our media spent so much time focused on an illicit blowjob rather than reporting what the public really needed to know about the state of the world.
hey, maybe then we would have avoided Iraq, or at least quite the disaster it has become - if the asshats in charge had been other than the same idiots who ran Vietnam into the ground Maybe we would have had a Democratic president who was merely mediocre rather than stupid and enthralled to evil advisors, if the media hadn't given a blowjob more attention than it has given all the crimes of the Bush administration together.
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Think of all the exercise you'll get while mowing lawns to raise the $1299 to buy it!
Do you think the Democrats will fare better on Slashdot when (if) they recover power?
Have you been submitting stories about IT biting Democrats in the ass, and getting your stories rejected?
(Actually, it might be worse than that. Iglesias was fired because he wouldn't obey a senator's demand to prosecute innocent people for political gain. Of course, the Rove House didn't want to admit that, so they fired him for missing too much work - a violation of Federal law, since he missed the work due to being on active duty with the US Navy.)
...he's given up on proving it himself.
Actually, I thought our current one *looked* better too.
Can they actually do this in six years?
Don't forget the "George Needs a New Yacht Special".
I'm already in line to miss them.
...having to compete.
And so much easier to send a C&D than to actually compete.
The election year attempt to push immigration reform through the Republican Congress was one of several factors leading to that party's recent implosion.
Thank all the gods, the Frentch elected a radical instead of a radical.
Since Bashman is talking about that subset of those 15 judges that originally dismissed the case, maybe it's a concurring opinion from the original hearing, rather than from the current reversal?
Now, about those examples I asked for...?
I'm not asking how things ought to be, nor how existing law ought to be interpreted. Rather, what is established praxis? For some reason hearing a complaint over a reproduced figure surprises me less than a complaint over a similarly-sized quote would.