It's not about consumer habits. It's just that all the people who designed "bigger and better" SUVs for the auto industry got fired during the recession, so now they've started new careers making gadgets.
You're misinterpreting the word "original". Original Jurisdiction means the course goes straight to them, rather than being referred on appeal from lower courts. SCOTUS' original jurisdiction is absolute, but their appellate jurisdiction can theoretically be revoked by an Act of Congress.
Addendum - after reading up on Jurisdiction Stripping, I admit I'm wrong. However, it takes a full act of Congress to declare something unreviewable, and good luck ever getting that past the current partisan gridlock.
Sure, but who's going to stop them? Not the Executive branch and the Supreme Court has no original jurisdiction in the matter so if it wanted to Congress can stop the courts from even hearing the cases.
Congress cannot stop a court from hearing a case (they can make a case moot by changing the provisions of a law that's being challenged, but that's a different issue). NSLs have been challenged before in the Doe v. Gonzalez and Doe v. Ashcroft cases, and have been found to violate the First and Fourth Amendments. Though the laws have been tweaked each time to get around the rulings, it shouldn't take many more before they get seriously struck down, possibly by the Supreme Court. And yes, the Supreme Court has jurisdiction. They are the highest authority in the nation (hence "Supreme"). They always have jurisdiction.
Yeah yeah, keep drinking that Kool-Aid. Everyone knows that report was authored by Cory Doctor-the-Data and Richard Stall-Mankind, and rubber-stamped by their Congressional stoolies, in an attempt to discredit the proud name of the content creators at AOL. Won't you people ever learn to read between the lines with this stuff?
There's no scientific proof of a negative long-term impact of Ego on the environment. In fact, studies have shown just the opposite; large blooms of rationalist algae were created shortly after Ego leaks which ate most of it. The remainder was broken down by natural processes into harmless conspiracy theories and propaganda. AC power is an untapped and vastly renewable energy source, which is readily sustainable by simply planting flamebait after the fundamentalism has been extracted.
You can't be serious, but I guess history does repeat itself. Do you not remember what happened the last time someone let large swaths of Ego-fed rationalist algae mix with flamebait and propaganda? GRAMMAR NAZIS!!
God, you corporate shills just won't give it a rest. Don't you understand you're destroying the forum you're trying to power? Years ago, you kept clamoring that "Peak Strawman" was a myth! Now you're all hyped on AC power, which every reputable study has shown to be highly toxic. Tell me, while you're focusing so hard on your Sarcasm levels, what monitors do you have to prevent Ego leaks? None! The signs of Ego blowouts are everywhere around your refineries, and yet you do nothing. You disgust me.
Of course, miss! I have the perfect pill for your situation. It helps your body run more efficiently, burning off all the energy you'll take in and more! Now, you may experience some side effects, such as hyperactivity, nervous twitching, loss of teeth, desire to steal copper tubing, and being murdered. I assure you, these are all normal parts of the weight-loss process.
Great that they finally kill a bot-net, I hope this is an example how "easy" it can be to do it. Now it would be even better if they'd somehow warned the infected PCs, or maybe take them down. Most people will not even realize their PC is infected, and don't have a clue how to do something about it.
Look, maybe for you botnets are "easy". Some of us just don't have that natural charm. Getting one to go down takes money, effort, and patience. Dinner, Broadway, drinks, those things aren't cheap!
"It's lack of pussy that fucks countries up. Lack of pussy is the root fucking cause of all global instability. If more hajjis were getting quality pussy, there'd be no reason for us to come over here and fuck them up like this. 'cause a nut-busted hajji is a happy hajji."
- Ray Person, Generation Kill
Funnily enough, NZ people don't have to look at the warships (or at least they didn't 10 years ago; this might have changed). NZ at some point declared themselves a "nuclear-free" zone, meaning not only no warheads but no vessels running on nuclear power are welcome there. And since that means the US Navy has to skirt waaaay around NZ to get to their Australian naval bases, it's actually been a major source of diplomatic tension between the two countries. But it also shows that the Kiwis have no qualms about giving America the middle finger, so don't expect them to cooperate with this copyright stuff all too quickly.
because there's no way any government would allow sending its citizens to certain death, and with a supply chain and thus length of time they can survive that depends on viewer ratings and one media company not going belly up.
Would a government allow sending a citizen into a similarly hazardous environment, on a transport with a 50% failure rate, with zero possibility of rescue, his length of life entirely dependent on the soldering ability of whatever schmuck connected the control and life-support systems? Oh wait, they did that.
The US sent up Glenn, Carpenter, Schirra, and Cooper on Atlas rockets, which tended to blow up on launch literally half the time. And I won't even mention the risks Soviet cosmonauts went through. When it comes to space exploration, pretty much everything is risk of certain death. Pretending a government will step in and stop an exploration because of something like that? Not going to happen.
(human effort is a weasel phrase to corrupt the point; effort does not equate to value)
Thanks so much. I haven't gotten a laugh like that since someone told me that Mormons attacked the US on 9/11 Tell me, how does it feel to live in a world where you never pay the labor cost associated with something?
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It's not about consumer habits. It's just that all the people who designed "bigger and better" SUVs for the auto industry got fired during the recession, so now they've started new careers making gadgets.
You're misinterpreting the word "original". Original Jurisdiction means the course goes straight to them, rather than being referred on appeal from lower courts. SCOTUS' original jurisdiction is absolute, but their appellate jurisdiction can theoretically be revoked by an Act of Congress.
They're destroying the sanctity of traditional chemical bonding!
"Though shalt not lie with an atom magnetically as one would lie with an atom electrostatically. It is an abomination."
- Pauliticus 18:22
Addendum - after reading up on Jurisdiction Stripping, I admit I'm wrong. However, it takes a full act of Congress to declare something unreviewable, and good luck ever getting that past the current partisan gridlock.
Sure, but who's going to stop them? Not the Executive branch and the Supreme Court has no original jurisdiction in the matter so if it wanted to Congress can stop the courts from even hearing the cases.
Congress cannot stop a court from hearing a case (they can make a case moot by changing the provisions of a law that's being challenged, but that's a different issue). NSLs have been challenged before in the Doe v. Gonzalez and Doe v. Ashcroft cases, and have been found to violate the First and Fourth Amendments. Though the laws have been tweaked each time to get around the rulings, it shouldn't take many more before they get seriously struck down, possibly by the Supreme Court. And yes, the Supreme Court has jurisdiction. They are the highest authority in the nation (hence "Supreme"). They always have jurisdiction.
Wouldn't this instead show that all liberals are cold-blooded?
naturally occurring
Yeah yeah, keep drinking that Kool-Aid. Everyone knows that report was authored by Cory Doctor-the-Data and Richard Stall-Mankind, and rubber-stamped by their Congressional stoolies, in an attempt to discredit the proud name of the content creators at AOL. Won't you people ever learn to read between the lines with this stuff?
There's no scientific proof of a negative long-term impact of Ego on the environment. In fact, studies have shown just the opposite; large blooms of rationalist algae were created shortly after Ego leaks which ate most of it. The remainder was broken down by natural processes into harmless conspiracy theories and propaganda. AC power is an untapped and vastly renewable energy source, which is readily sustainable by simply planting flamebait after the fundamentalism has been extracted.
You can't be serious, but I guess history does repeat itself. Do you not remember what happened the last time someone let large swaths of Ego-fed rationalist algae mix with flamebait and propaganda? GRAMMAR NAZIS!!
God, you corporate shills just won't give it a rest. Don't you understand you're destroying the forum you're trying to power? Years ago, you kept clamoring that "Peak Strawman" was a myth! Now you're all hyped on AC power, which every reputable study has shown to be highly toxic. Tell me, while you're focusing so hard on your Sarcasm levels, what monitors do you have to prevent Ego leaks? None! The signs of Ego blowouts are everywhere around your refineries, and yet you do nothing. You disgust me.
In other news, the International Criminal Court has a warrant out for your arrest. Something about war crimes against the nation of straw men.
Of course, miss! I have the perfect pill for your situation. It helps your body run more efficiently, burning off all the energy you'll take in and more! Now, you may experience some side effects, such as hyperactivity, nervous twitching, loss of teeth, desire to steal copper tubing, and being murdered. I assure you, these are all normal parts of the weight-loss process.
Great that they finally kill a bot-net, I hope this is an example how "easy" it can be to do it. Now it would be even better if they'd somehow warned the infected PCs, or maybe take them down. Most people will not even realize their PC is infected, and don't have a clue how to do something about it.
Look, maybe for you botnets are "easy". Some of us just don't have that natural charm. Getting one to go down takes money, effort, and patience. Dinner, Broadway, drinks, those things aren't cheap!
AmericaSpace
That's not the WORST name for an organization I've ever heard. But really? You're THAT unimaginative?
That's nothing compared to the experience I had with MyCleanPC.
One AC posting 8 times, pretending to be multiple people, and having a conversation with himself? When did /. become 4chan?
I noticed that too. I also got a kick out of something called "skunkworks" kicking out something called "Sputnik".
*sigh* You know, if you want to kill a joke with an "actually..." you should at least make sure you're right before you post.
He has ridden a worm, and changed the passwords of life! The Bene Gnusserit prophecy was true! He is the Mahdi!!
MAHDI! MAHDI! MAHDI!!
"It's lack of pussy that fucks countries up. Lack of pussy is the root fucking cause of all global instability. If more hajjis were getting quality pussy, there'd be no reason for us to come over here and fuck them up like this. 'cause a nut-busted hajji is a happy hajji." - Ray Person, Generation Kill
Now what I am really looking forward to is when these computers can output directly to my retina :)
...and input directly from my mind.
What? That tech's existed since the '60s!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSD
it was not even in 3-D
GOOD!
Funnily enough, NZ people don't have to look at the warships (or at least they didn't 10 years ago; this might have changed). NZ at some point declared themselves a "nuclear-free" zone, meaning not only no warheads but no vessels running on nuclear power are welcome there. And since that means the US Navy has to skirt waaaay around NZ to get to their Australian naval bases, it's actually been a major source of diplomatic tension between the two countries. But it also shows that the Kiwis have no qualms about giving America the middle finger, so don't expect them to cooperate with this copyright stuff all too quickly.
Sounds like the datacenter heard about this "cloud" thing and decided to give it a try.
because there's no way any government would allow sending its citizens to certain death, and with a supply chain and thus length of time they can survive that depends on viewer ratings and one media company not going belly up.
Would a government allow sending a citizen into a similarly hazardous environment, on a transport with a 50% failure rate, with zero possibility of rescue, his length of life entirely dependent on the soldering ability of whatever schmuck connected the control and life-support systems? Oh wait, they did that.
The US sent up Glenn, Carpenter, Schirra, and Cooper on Atlas rockets, which tended to blow up on launch literally half the time. And I won't even mention the risks Soviet cosmonauts went through. When it comes to space exploration, pretty much everything is risk of certain death. Pretending a government will step in and stop an exploration because of something like that? Not going to happen.
(human effort is a weasel phrase to corrupt the point; effort does not equate to value)
Thanks so much. I haven't gotten a laugh like that since someone told me that Mormons attacked the US on 9/11 Tell me, how does it feel to live in a world where you never pay the labor cost associated with something?