George Bush became president because his dad was also president
Surely you don't believe that was the only factor.
I don't even think the people who voted for him would rank his superior intellect (heh) as being one of the reasons why they chose him.
All of this stuff strikes me as an ad hominem attack. W's academic record is better than several other well known politicians, including John Kerry, another Yale graduate who ran for the Presidency.
Personally I dislike Bush's policies tremendously. But the fact that you don't agree with someone doesn't mean that they are intellectually deficient.
And you hae outdone Bush's lifetime achievements in what ways?
Yale is such a failure; after all, only four of the last six presidents are Yale graduates. Oh, and 16 Nobel Prize winners, 16 Supreme Court Justices and 38 Senators.
Ivy league school admission processes are extremetly competitive. The average student admitted to Yale is in the top 1% of his academic cohort. Yale is one of only six colleges in the US that are totally needs-blind. The others are Harvard, Middlebury, MIT, Williams and Princeton. Needs-blind means that admission is decided on merit, not ability to pay.
The panel decides the case on the base of the criteria, which are cumulative, contained in the UDRP Policy, which also contains practical examples of how a party may prove its compliance with these criteria: i) whether the domain name is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark or service mark in which the complainant has rights; ii) whether the respondent has any rights or legitimate interests in the domain name (for example, the legitimate offering of goods and services under the same name); iii) whether the domain name was registered and is being used in bad faith.
Looks to me like Pirate Bay loses on all three counts.
So, if you're trying to imply that The Pirate Bay hacked into their site and took it over that's just wrong.
I am not trying to imply any such thing. People can 'take over' something by many different mechanisms. Purchase, gift, inheritance, invasion, whatever. All it means is they now have ownership. You are trying to read something into my message that is not there.
Personally I think it is a very childish and immature action. It is not going to forward their cause and it will result in some adverse publicity.
For the same $65 I get 30 MBps / 5 mbps (actually the cable modem downstream is completely uncapped so sometimes I get as much as 35 Mbps) which is probably more useful than 20/20 PLUS the TOS allows servers and ports 80 and 25 are not blocked.
20/20 plus a TOS that doesn't permit servers is a marketing trick. It doesn't actually offer anything useful to most customers beyond 20/5.
While it may have initial humorous value, taking over and using IFPI like this is a pretty low-life kind of thing to do. Pirate Bay should grow up and behave in a classier manner.
Plus they are going to lose the WIPO dispute anyway, so why bother.
There are many crops that you don't want to use the seed from. Simple hybridization often produces crops that do not seed, and in any case the GMOs are unlikely to breed true. In addition the point of these crops is that the performance of these crops is far superior to the open pollinated varieties.
Personally I think the issue of seed re-use is much overstated. Basic hybrid varieties are cheap to buy and are usually much higher quality than anything a farmer could save from his own land.
There is a statutory bar against a patent for anything being commercially practiced more than a year prior to filing a patent. So IBM can in fact be prohibited from getting a patent if they have been doing this for more than a year.
I would expect patents to be extended indefinitely in much the same way as copyright.
The maximum term of a US patent has always fluctuated between 14 and 21 years since 1790. Right now it is 17 years from the issuance of the patent, or 20 years from the filing date with an exception allowing an extension if there is a lengthy FDA approval process involved. Over the past 217 years the term has not changed significantly. It would be very surprising if it were to change much in the future.
As for copyright law:
1790: 14+14 1831: 28+14 1908: Life of author + 50 (Berne Convention) US did not sign until 1988 1909: 28+28 1978: US life+50, 75 years for 'works for hire', establishes 'fair use' 1992: Copyright renewal automatic 1996: Database protection, WIPO treaty 1998: Bono Act
In most of the world the term of copyright law has not changed since 1908. It has only really changed in the US in 1978, bringing it up to the level of the rest of the world. The Bono act adds 20 years, which on average is a 20% increase. Whether that will 'stick' long-term is anyone's guess.
This is obviously a jab at the concept of business process patents. It is a common practive today, and thus has a great deal of prior art to invalidate it.
I recently converted to Ubuntu Feisty because a SuSE update left my laptop wireless unusable. My main complaint with SuSE has always been the package management system. In the past it was teh sux0r, but maybe now it is only moderately crappy. I also found the desktop much less responsive. Also there always seemed to be more prepackaged stuff for Ubuntu than SuSE. And ACPI on Ubuntu was way way better than SuSE.
In SuSE's favor multimedia worked better than in Feisty - I hope Gutsy improves on that situation.
If you are selling enterprise products for a million dollars a pop that are based on J2EE technologies there are a lot of companies out there that don't want to hear that they are getting something based on FOSS.
This is the space Oracle plays in. By buying BEA they get a bunch more of this kind of customer.
Bankruptcy doesn't take your retirement savings or home unless you have used the home to secure a loan that you are in default on, and even then you can often work out a way to keep the home. You are also often allowed to keep a cheap car and tools that you need for your job. The idea is that the bankruptcy process should not leave you as a ward of the state, rather it is a way of keeping creditors off your back so you can repay at least some of the money.
But there wasn't a shred of evidence that she distributed anything.
This is a civil case where standards of proof are much more liberal than in a criminal case. The evidence is that the songs were posted and available for download. The jury felt that this was sufficient evidence of distribution. I would have too.
But there are very few game companies that I take seriously. Blizzard is one. Another is the Pre-Microsoft Bungie. While I didn't buy everything they made, everything they made was given a great deal of consideration. When MS bought Bungie it was a dark dark day for me.
Now that they are parting ways I will certainly watch what the do closely. If they can come up with PC games of the quality and innovation of Myth and Marathon I will certainly welcome them back into my home.
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George Bush became president because his dad was also president
Surely you don't believe that was the only factor.
I don't even think the people who voted for him would rank his superior intellect (heh) as being one of the reasons why they chose him.
All of this stuff strikes me as an ad hominem attack. W's academic record is better than several other well known politicians, including John Kerry, another Yale graduate who ran for the Presidency.
Personally I dislike Bush's policies tremendously. But the fact that you don't agree with someone doesn't mean that they are intellectually deficient.
George Bush went to Yale. Enough said.
And you hae outdone Bush's lifetime achievements in what ways?
Yale is such a failure; after all, only four of the last six presidents are Yale graduates. Oh, and 16 Nobel Prize winners, 16 Supreme Court Justices and 38 Senators.
Ivy league school admission processes are extremetly competitive. The average student admitted to Yale is in the top 1% of his academic cohort. Yale is one of only six colleges in the US that are totally needs-blind. The others are Harvard, Middlebury, MIT, Williams and Princeton. Needs-blind means that admission is decided on merit, not ability to pay.
Here are the WIPO guidelines:
What factors guide the panelists' decisions?
The panel decides the case on the base of the criteria, which are cumulative, contained in the UDRP Policy, which also contains practical examples of how a party may prove its compliance with these criteria:
i) whether the domain name is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark or service mark in which the complainant has rights;
ii) whether the respondent has any rights or legitimate interests in the domain name (for example, the legitimate offering of goods and services under the same name);
iii) whether the domain name was registered and is being used in bad faith.
Looks to me like Pirate Bay loses on all three counts.
So, if you're trying to imply that The Pirate Bay hacked into their site and took it over that's just wrong.
I am not trying to imply any such thing. People can 'take over' something by many different mechanisms. Purchase, gift, inheritance, invasion, whatever. All it means is they now have ownership. You are trying to read something into my message that is not there.
Personally I think it is a very childish and immature action. It is not going to forward their cause and it will result in some adverse publicity.
For the same $65 I get 30 MBps / 5 mbps (actually the cable modem downstream is completely uncapped so sometimes I get as much as 35 Mbps) which is probably more useful than 20/20 PLUS the TOS allows servers and ports 80 and 25 are not blocked.
20/20 plus a TOS that doesn't permit servers is a marketing trick. It doesn't actually offer anything useful to most customers beyond 20/5.
Is that acutally available to residential customers?
While it may have initial humorous value, taking over and using IFPI like this is a pretty low-life kind of thing to do. Pirate Bay should grow up and behave in a classier manner.
Plus they are going to lose the WIPO dispute anyway, so why bother.
There are many crops that you don't want to use the seed from. Simple hybridization often produces crops that do not seed, and in any case the GMOs are unlikely to breed true. In addition the point of these crops is that the performance of these crops is far superior to the open pollinated varieties.
Personally I think the issue of seed re-use is much overstated. Basic hybrid varieties are cheap to buy and are usually much higher quality than anything a farmer could save from his own land.
There is a statutory bar against a patent for anything being commercially practiced more than a year prior to filing a patent. So IBM can in fact be prohibited from getting a patent if they have been doing this for more than a year.
I would expect patents to be extended indefinitely in much the same way as copyright.
The maximum term of a US patent has always fluctuated between 14 and 21 years since 1790. Right now it is 17 years from the issuance of the patent, or 20 years from the filing date with an exception allowing an extension if there is a lengthy FDA approval process involved. Over the past 217 years the term has not changed significantly. It would be very surprising if it were to change much in the future.
As for copyright law:
1790: 14+14
1831: 28+14
1908: Life of author + 50 (Berne Convention) US did not sign until 1988
1909: 28+28
1978: US life+50, 75 years for 'works for hire', establishes 'fair use'
1992: Copyright renewal automatic
1996: Database protection, WIPO treaty
1998: Bono Act
In most of the world the term of copyright law has not changed since 1908. It has only really changed in the US in 1978, bringing it up to the level of the rest of the world. The Bono act adds 20 years, which on average is a 20% increase. Whether that will 'stick' long-term is anyone's guess.
I thought that the idea of GMO's that can't reproduce was a safety device. Why would that be a bad thing?
This is obviously a jab at the concept of business process patents. It is a common practive today, and thus has a great deal of prior art to invalidate it.
Last time I checked 20178 was less than 57001
So the content is part of the HTML source for the site. How are you supposed to read the notice without reading at least part of the HTML source?
I recently converted to Ubuntu Feisty because a SuSE update left my laptop wireless unusable. My main complaint with SuSE has always been the package management system. In the past it was teh sux0r, but maybe now it is only moderately crappy. I also found the desktop much less responsive. Also there always seemed to be more prepackaged stuff for Ubuntu than SuSE. And ACPI on Ubuntu was way way better than SuSE.
In SuSE's favor multimedia worked better than in Feisty - I hope Gutsy improves on that situation.
Now I know my grad school advisor must be at least 164,000 years old, because he sure isn't a modern human.
Yes.
If you are selling enterprise products for a million dollars a pop that are based on J2EE technologies there are a lot of companies out there that don't want to hear that they are getting something based on FOSS.
This is the space Oracle plays in. By buying BEA they get a bunch more of this kind of customer.
To them you can bet it is worth 6.7 billion.
Bankruptcy doesn't take your retirement savings or home unless you have used the home to secure a loan that you are in default on, and even then you can often work out a way to keep the home. You are also often allowed to keep a cheap car and tools that you need for your job. The idea is that the bankruptcy process should not leave you as a ward of the state, rather it is a way of keeping creditors off your back so you can repay at least some of the money.
But there wasn't a shred of evidence that she distributed anything.
This is a civil case where standards of proof are much more liberal than in a criminal case. The evidence is that the songs were posted and available for download. The jury felt that this was sufficient evidence of distribution. I would have too.
If I am on a jury you are going to have a hard time getting my backing on the idea that copyright law is unjust.
That is for a criminal trial. This is a civil trial, which is decided on the preponderance of the evidence.
She had several hundred CDs ripped and online.
There are plenty of plastics stronger than steel. Heck during the 50's scientists encapsulated the space robot Gort in a block of such plastic.
But there are very few game companies that I take seriously. Blizzard is one. Another is the Pre-Microsoft Bungie. While I didn't buy everything they made, everything they made was given a great deal of consideration. When MS bought Bungie it was a dark dark day for me.
Now that they are parting ways I will certainly watch what the do closely. If they can come up with PC games of the quality and innovation of Myth and Marathon I will certainly welcome them back into my home.