..."recent Supreme Court decisions... [have equated]...money with free speech, including one in the 1970s that sanctioned the use of soft money in political campaigns."
Compare the expressive possibilities of code in all its dialects, permutations and presentations - now contrast that with handing someone a dollar.
It's completely illogical that the latter would be covered by the 1st and the former not.
Has this been considered?
This is so frustrating! I mean, my god, they're LANGUAGES!!!!
Mr Garbus and Mr Gross,
I, like most programmers, am gravely concerned with the First Amendment implications of the recent ruling against Mr. Goldstein. How can we best help your cause on appeal? Donations? Letters? What can we do?
Whatever. The movie is quite relevant to the topic at hand... but then, your spelling skills HAVE greatly contributed to the discussion. For that I thank you.
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According to this CNN article:
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..."recent Supreme Court decisions... [have equated] ...money with free speech, including one in the 1970s that sanctioned the use of soft money in political campaigns."
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/08/18/inte
Compare the expressive possibilities of code in all its dialects, permutations and presentations - now contrast that with handing someone a dollar.
It's completely illogical that the latter would be covered by the 1st and the former not.
Has this been considered?
This is so frustrating! I mean, my god, they're LANGUAGES!!!!
Mr Garbus and Mr Gross, I, like most programmers, am gravely concerned with the First Amendment implications of the recent ruling against Mr. Goldstein. How can we best help your cause on appeal? Donations? Letters? What can we do?
Whatever. The movie is quite relevant to the topic at hand... but then, your spelling skills HAVE greatly contributed to the discussion. For that I thank you.
Scary.
If gravity spans dimensions do black holes dump their loads into our inter-dimensional neighbor's yards?