Of course, it would be completely coincidental that Microsoft would offer training, software and certification to help get your Internet driver's license, right?
You say that as if you need no facts to back it up. Looking around, the best estimates I could find were 3 to 5 percent of the cost of a plane are litigation and litigation-prevention costs. There's also a fairly significant amount for insurance, some of which goes to paying for litigation, but all totaled it still seems to be less than either of the two largest costs, parts and labor.
The fact that the idea you propose is like using a nuclear bomb to swat a fly. Most electric companies have literally billions of dollars of investments in the cities they service. They're not going to abandon that over a 3 or 4 cent a kilowatt hour difference that they could only use on a very small minority (those who generate their own power) of customers.
Not really. The standard electric meter runs forward when you're buying electricity, backwards when you're selling electricity. With a standard meter, the company can only tell your net energy use. If you use 100 kilowatts, and put back 95 kilowatts, all they see is 5 kilowatts. There's no record of when each kilowatt was used, or anything like that.
This assumes a standard mechanical electric meter, which is what is in something like 95% of residential homes. Digital meters can keep track of when you use, and meter at different rates, but for the most part they're only used by larger commercial power users.
Further, several states forbid the electric company to buy from consumers at a lower rate than they sell to consumers.
Not long after being disbarred, Ol' Jack spammed the entire membership of the Florida Bar (all Florida lawyers) asking for personal stories about how other members have been "unfairly" targeted by the Florida Bar. I presume he wanted to start some sort of class action suit, but I haven't heard anything further about it.
Reading carefully, they'll obey any robot.txt rule for "*", googlebot, or (yahoo) slurp. They apparently didn't feel it necessary to have their own robots.txt identifier so you can block just them.
Sure it only returns minimum wage by US standards, but in a country like Nigeria where the per capita income around $2,000 yearly, minimum wage looks pretty good.
You don't really understand how the legal system works, do you?
Most judges who even suspect you're working both sides of the aisle will toss you and your case out of court. You'll probably be fined for wasting the court's time. Not to mention that a lawyer who does as you suggest, and throws a case for the purpose of setting precedent will probably never be able to practice law in that jurisdiction ever again.
It was long distance phone service. However, courts play sort of fast and loose with the "no other choices" portion of the unconscionable test. Often it is enough to have the other contracts have similar provisions. In this case the provision that was objectionable to the court was the mandatory. arbitration clause. From what I know many, perhaps even most long distance contract have language requiring arbitration. Apparently that language is now ineffective in Washington.
You can sign away certain rights, including the right to sue. There is (apparently) nothing unconstitutional about this contract. There is no constitutional guarantee to sue someone.
What the judge said was that it was unconscionable, meaning that the contract has clauses that are so burdensome that no person would agree to them if they had a choice. Unconscionable clauses are typically rendered unenforceable by courts. The case was decided on Washington state law. The constitution, the U.S., Washington's, or otherwise doesn't enter into it.
Oh, and since this was decided by a state court, this ruling has no legal effect on anyone outside of Washington.
No, they most certainly are not. Certain derivative works are protected under fair use, but they must fall into one of a few narrow categories such as parody or commentary (they vary from country to country). There is no blanket derivative work fair use protection.
Trial courts don't set precedent. Courts only set precedent for courts of a lower level. Trial court is the lowest level, therefore trial courts don't set precedent.
There are a few minor variations to this general rule, but they don't really apply here.
It's not that only 2 in 500 believe in IP. Only 2 in 500 care enough to raise their hand in public. More probably don't want to look bad in front of their peers, or didn't want to risk being held up as an example by the strongly biased speaker.
Interrupt the beginning of the speech. Ask him if he stole his car. When he says no, ignore him and launch into a 5 minute prepared speech about how stealing cars is wrong, and the effects of stolen cars on everyone. Tell him how bad he is for stealing his car, and how he'll be punished when he gets caught. Most importantly, do not let him interrupt you or skip any portion of your speech. When you're finished, ask him how he appreciates being treated to a lecture about being a thief during time that is supposed to be his.
Can we please reserve the term "crisis" for events where lives are at stake, and not when some astrophysicists are going to need to re-compute some scientific models?
Unless they get more precise knowledge of the orbit, intervention right now could be worse than doing nothing. You might, for example, accidentally turn what would have been a near miss into a direct hit. The most useful course of action right now would probably be to deposit some sort of radio beacon on the asteroid in order to increase the accuracy of the orbital measurements.
The way I see it, once you release media free of charge to the general public its content becomes public domain.
Then, perhaps its good that the rest of the world doesn't see it the way you do.
Because if the world were to be the way you see it, the entire web content industry would immediately go pay-per-view or subscription only to avoid all their work becoming public domain. Yes, what you propose would literally destroy the useful and open environment of the Internet.
Servers, bandwidth, and writers don't pay for themselves. If these sites can be copied wholesale and put up elsewhere without the original author having a say in the matter, you've just destroyed any monetary incentive to create. Much as many people like to think otherwise, money is important, and a strong incentive to create.
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trash talk the filibuster now?
Except it wasn't a filibuster, or even close. It was killed in committee.
Of course, it would be completely coincidental that Microsoft would offer training, software and certification to help get your Internet driver's license, right?
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Noticed 14 months ago. Fixed 5 months ago. Released today.
You say that as if you need no facts to back it up. Looking around, the best estimates I could find were 3 to 5 percent of the cost of a plane are litigation and litigation-prevention costs. There's also a fairly significant amount for insurance, some of which goes to paying for litigation, but all totaled it still seems to be less than either of the two largest costs, parts and labor.
So, please stop pulling numbers out of your ass.
The fact that the idea you propose is like using a nuclear bomb to swat a fly. Most electric companies have literally billions of dollars of investments in the cities they service. They're not going to abandon that over a 3 or 4 cent a kilowatt hour difference that they could only use on a very small minority (those who generate their own power) of customers.
Not really. The standard electric meter runs forward when you're buying electricity, backwards when you're selling electricity. With a standard meter, the company can only tell your net energy use. If you use 100 kilowatts, and put back 95 kilowatts, all they see is 5 kilowatts. There's no record of when each kilowatt was used, or anything like that.
This assumes a standard mechanical electric meter, which is what is in something like 95% of residential homes. Digital meters can keep track of when you use, and meter at different rates, but for the most part they're only used by larger commercial power users.
Further, several states forbid the electric company to buy from consumers at a lower rate than they sell to consumers.
Not long after being disbarred, Ol' Jack spammed the entire membership of the Florida Bar (all Florida lawyers) asking for personal stories about how other members have been "unfairly" targeted by the Florida Bar. I presume he wanted to start some sort of class action suit, but I haven't heard anything further about it.
Reading carefully, they'll obey any robot.txt rule for "*", googlebot, or (yahoo) slurp. They apparently didn't feel it necessary to have their own robots.txt identifier so you can block just them.
Not only that, but they are probably responsible for stealing your third argument!
Sure it only returns minimum wage by US standards, but in a country like Nigeria where the per capita income around $2,000 yearly, minimum wage looks pretty good.
You don't really understand how the legal system works, do you?
Most judges who even suspect you're working both sides of the aisle will toss you and your case out of court. You'll probably be fined for wasting the court's time. Not to mention that a lawyer who does as you suggest, and throws a case for the purpose of setting precedent will probably never be able to practice law in that jurisdiction ever again.
I'm looking forward to being able to toss a couple armfuls of firewood in the trunk of my car and running errands.
Only one problem, all the major wrestling shows are on cable.
It was long distance phone service. However, courts play sort of fast and loose with the "no other choices" portion of the unconscionable test. Often it is enough to have the other contracts have similar provisions. In this case the provision that was objectionable to the court was the mandatory. arbitration clause. From what I know many, perhaps even most long distance contract have language requiring arbitration. Apparently that language is now ineffective in Washington.
No. No. No. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.
You can sign away certain rights, including the right to sue. There is (apparently) nothing unconstitutional about this contract. There is no constitutional guarantee to sue someone.
What the judge said was that it was unconscionable, meaning that the contract has clauses that are so burdensome that no person would agree to them if they had a choice. Unconscionable clauses are typically rendered unenforceable by courts. The case was decided on Washington state law. The constitution, the U.S., Washington's, or otherwise doesn't enter into it.
Oh, and since this was decided by a state court, this ruling has no legal effect on anyone outside of Washington.
Derivative works are protected under fair use.
No, they most certainly are not. Certain derivative works are protected under fair use, but they must fall into one of a few narrow categories such as parody or commentary (they vary from country to country). There is no blanket derivative work fair use protection.
So, if the Roku set-top box runs Linux as shown here then why don't they support Linux with their regular desktop instant viewing service?
Trial courts don't set precedent. Courts only set precedent for courts of a lower level. Trial court is the lowest level, therefore trial courts don't set precedent.
There are a few minor variations to this general rule, but they don't really apply here.
It's not that only 2 in 500 believe in IP. Only 2 in 500 care enough to raise their hand in public. More probably don't want to look bad in front of their peers, or didn't want to risk being held up as an example by the strongly biased speaker.
Interrupt the beginning of the speech. Ask him if he stole his car. When he says no, ignore him and launch into a 5 minute prepared speech about how stealing cars is wrong, and the effects of stolen cars on everyone. Tell him how bad he is for stealing his car, and how he'll be punished when he gets caught. Most importantly, do not let him interrupt you or skip any portion of your speech. When you're finished, ask him how he appreciates being treated to a lecture about being a thief during time that is supposed to be his.
So, by "personally resolves customer complaint", you mean he personally told his executive assistant to resolve the complaint?
Can we please reserve the term "crisis" for events where lives are at stake, and not when some astrophysicists are going to need to re-compute some scientific models?
Unless they get more precise knowledge of the orbit, intervention right now could be worse than doing nothing. You might, for example, accidentally turn what would have been a near miss into a direct hit. The most useful course of action right now would probably be to deposit some sort of radio beacon on the asteroid in order to increase the accuracy of the orbital measurements.
The way I see it, once you release media free of charge to the general public its content becomes public domain.
Then, perhaps its good that the rest of the world doesn't see it the way you do.
Because if the world were to be the way you see it, the entire web content industry would immediately go pay-per-view or subscription only to avoid all their work becoming public domain. Yes, what you propose would literally destroy the useful and open environment of the Internet.
Servers, bandwidth, and writers don't pay for themselves. If these sites can be copied wholesale and put up elsewhere without the original author having a say in the matter, you've just destroyed any monetary incentive to create. Much as many people like to think otherwise, money is important, and a strong incentive to create.
"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
Excuse me if I don't put too much stock in Gates' predictions.