He's full of crap. Much like the Bush Administration he doesn't let the truth stand in the way of a good argument. Here's a link to the Al Jazeera English language page. Try it from a home browser and see if it is blocked. His employer might be blocking it, but the US Government isn't.
He can't have been tasered for Criminal Trespass, as the tasering occurred prior to the arrest. There are rules for these sorts of things, and the cops broke most of them, thus making them as much the criminal as the asshole (and there's no denying the kid's an ass. That's not illegal yet. cf. any politician).
Cops aren't supposed to have such low self esteem that they react like this. When he went limp, the appropriate thing to do was arrest him and cuff him and carry him out. Any other behaviour is the proverbial "Bad Cop! No Donut!" situation.
Commercial real estate leases are quite often month to month, and the landlord can kick you out or raise your rent with only a month's notice.
Shenanigans. Most office leases are in the seven to ten year timeframe. Retail is a whole 'nother ballgame, but office leases are rarely month-to-month. You want cost certainty and the landlord wants time to depreciate the buildout allowance he gave you. If you want a short-term office lease, you often have to look to the sublease market, as primary landlords aren't at all interested in month to month tennants.
I can only hope that every Bush voter has a friend or loved one maimed, murdered, or mutilated by the violence Bush stirred up in the Middle East with this unneeded war.
Well you had me agreeing with you right up until the point you wrote this bullshit. You're a pretty sorry excuse for a human being if you really believe that. Did you ever think that those innocents you are wishing harm upon might not have agreed with the idea of the war either? Or do you just consider them "collateral damage" making you no better than the man you condemn?
My point was that anyone suing IBM will get this treatment. It isn't just the poorly thought out suits that get stomped on by IBM's army of lawyers: all of them do. The US Government failed to truly get them for anti-trust back in the day, if you recall.
In other words, just because the muscle we are seeing is being used for a good cause this time doesn't mean that we should be complacent about how it might be used in the future. Just because your beliefs about software licensing happen to coincide with IBM's in this instance does not mean that that harmony will endure.
Which merely goes to highlight your lack of perspective. Much like a left winger accusing anyone slightly to their right of being Hitler, and a right winger calling anyone to the left Stalin. And you wonder why no one pays much attention to calls for patent reform. Being hysterical rarely convinces anyone of your sanity, or the sanity of any change you would propose.
Who won the Tet Offensive? The US Army definitively destroyed the Viet Cong in that battle, to the point that the NVA had to infiltrate troops into the South to maintain the pace of guerilla operations, yet it is not generally accepted as a US victory (including by me).
I'm sure the goddesses of strife and lawlessness were widely worshipped by ancient Greek and Roman hooligans, rioters, lynch-mobs and criminals in general.
We'd have to trace both the Bush and Kennedy family trees back that far to be sure though.
I agree, but a pernicious strain of revisionism has crept into American History since the Civil Rights era that tries to declare that slavery was not the root cause of the Civil War. The union was broken because the Southern aristocracy feared that slavery was coming to an end in the United States and did not want to be deprived of their property rights. The state's right that was being defended was the right to hold other human beings as posssesions and the economic system that was being defended was one based wholly on the labor of slaves.
Lincoln was actually for a form of compensated emancipation and a "repatriation" of former slaves to Africa early in the war. Military realities plus the refusal of slaveholders who remained in the Union to agree to compensation scuttled the first part, and I believe it was Douglas himself who convinced Lincoln that freedmen and women were Americans and therefore should not be deported to Liberia upon attaining their freedom.
Two words: "weirding modules." The concept of a viable ranged weapon destroys one of the key concepts of the society described in the book. He could have left out characters, deleted scenes, and otherwise compressed the works and still stayed true to the spirit of the original. He chose to go for a cheesy visual instead, because the kiddies expect rayguns in their SciFi. Pathetic.
Keep in mind the whole slavery thing wasn't an issue in the American Civil War until the Emancipation Proclamation
It is time that this revisionist lie die. From Alexander Stephens' (the Confederate VP) commentary on the new Confederate Constitution given in 1861, well before the Emancipation Proclamation:
But not to be tedious in enumerating the numerous changes for the better, allow me to allude to one other --though last, not least. The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution--African slavery as it exists amongst us--the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson in his forecast, had anticipated this, as the "rock upon which the old Union would split." He was right. What was conjecture with him, is now a realized fact. But whether he fully comprehended the great truth upon which that rock stood and stands, may be doubted. The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old constitution, were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with, but the general opinion of the men of that day was that, somehow or other in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away. This idea, though not incorporated in the constitution, was the prevailing idea at that time. The constitution, it is true, secured every essential guarantee to the institution while it should last, and hence no argument can be justly urged against the constitutional guarantees thus secured, because of the common sentiment of the day. Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. It was a sandy foundation, and the government built upon it fell when the "storm came and the wind blew."
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He's full of crap. Much like the Bush Administration he doesn't let the truth stand in the way of a good argument. Here's a link to the Al Jazeera English language page. Try it from a home browser and see if it is blocked. His employer might be blocking it, but the US Government isn't.
Cops aren't supposed to have such low self esteem that they react like this. When he went limp, the appropriate thing to do was arrest him and cuff him and carry him out. Any other behaviour is the proverbial "Bad Cop! No Donut!" situation.
Well you had me agreeing with you right up until the point you wrote this bullshit. You're a pretty sorry excuse for a human being if you really believe that. Did you ever think that those innocents you are wishing harm upon might not have agreed with the idea of the war either? Or do you just consider them "collateral damage" making you no better than the man you condemn?
In other words, just because the muscle we are seeing is being used for a good cause this time doesn't mean that we should be complacent about how it might be used in the future. Just because your beliefs about software licensing happen to coincide with IBM's in this instance does not mean that that harmony will endure.
Or even well founded ones. Knowing that you are facing a nuclear power in a litigation situation makes you less likely to sue, period.
Which merely goes to highlight your lack of perspective. Much like a left winger accusing anyone slightly to their right of being Hitler, and a right winger calling anyone to the left Stalin. And you wonder why no one pays much attention to calls for patent reform. Being hysterical rarely convinces anyone of your sanity, or the sanity of any change you would propose.
Thurgood Marshall is on the list, if you'd read it.
McNamara's Folly is still flying somewhere? I had no idea. That plane tried to be all things to all people with rather predictable results.
I know this is Slashdot, but you might just try clicking those links and reading a bit before commenting.
Who won the Tet Offensive? The US Army definitively destroyed the Viet Cong in that battle, to the point that the NVA had to infiltrate troops into the South to maintain the pace of guerilla operations, yet it is not generally accepted as a US victory (including by me).
Just be glad that you missed the 40 day and night core dump. Boostrapping a planet takes forever and they hadn't invented overtime yet.
Just remember to input the coordinates in English units, not metric.
Says the person who settled for Physics because he couldn't handle pure Mathematics.
We'd have to trace both the Bush and Kennedy family trees back that far to be sure though.
Lincoln was actually for a form of compensated emancipation and a "repatriation" of former slaves to Africa early in the war. Military realities plus the refusal of slaveholders who remained in the Union to agree to compensation scuttled the first part, and I believe it was Douglas himself who convinced Lincoln that freedmen and women were Americans and therefore should not be deported to Liberia upon attaining their freedom.
And reverse the order of the letters in the message twice for good measure.
Don't worry, when you grow up, you'll understand.
Two words: "weirding modules." The concept of a viable ranged weapon destroys one of the key concepts of the society described in the book. He could have left out characters, deleted scenes, and otherwise compressed the works and still stayed true to the spirit of the original. He chose to go for a cheesy visual instead, because the kiddies expect rayguns in their SciFi. Pathetic.
It is time that this revisionist lie die. From Alexander Stephens' (the Confederate VP) commentary on the new Confederate Constitution given in 1861, well before the Emancipation Proclamation:
Gods no. That would be a lame as Lynch's ruination of Dune.
Yep. That one's still in QA.
Meta-Translation: you are deluded into thinking that you are.