That's my definition of "legislating from the bench".
I'm not sure your definition is at all helpful, as it appears your definition of "legislating from the bench" is "the court making decisions I personally do not agree with." I happen to agree with you that the decisions you cite were particularly egregious (Dredd in particular), but you are going to need a more impartial definition of your phrase if it is to be applied evenly. As an example, a Gore voter would likely see Bush v. Gore as "legislating from the bench" (the Constitution says States determine how electors are picked, not SCOTUS) whereas a Bush voter might not. Similarly with Roe, Kelo, etc.
I was under the distinct impression that formulations were not patentable, only methods of manufacture...
I am pretty sure that Teflon was patented, and almost all drugs are patented no matter how they are manufactured, so a chemical compound is in fact patentable.
Come to think of it, they'll have an easier time with those because the directors are dead and can't object to their masterpieces being whored out to line the studios' pockets.
Wait, I thought copyright protection was evil and that an artist really should have no control over his work once he releases it? Or are mash-ups and re-cuttings only fair when they are posted to YouTube instead of released on DVD?
However, since the presumed object is to depart with quantities of your stuff, it can be a good plan to use deadbolts (which means a key is required to exit the house via the doors). Let's see your burgular exit the kitchen window with your 40" flatscreen TV under his arm...
Just remember to leave the key in the deadbolt when you lock it a night. Nothing like waking up to the smoke detector and being unable to find the door key that will get you out of the burning building. In fact, do such locks still meet the fire code? All deadbolts I've seen of recent manufacture do not require a key on the house side of the lock.
If one of those babies fails in the way it did in that video, the only way you are going to end up in Guantanamo is if you happen to be flying over it when the incident occurs, I think.
Geothermal is probably mostly nuclear, as most of the heat in the Earth's interior does come from the decay of radioactive isotopes that are even deeper, but some does come from tidal "friction" in the Earth/Moon system as well. I'm not at all certain that there's a significant input from that motion however.
This was introduced in the last six years. If the Bush Administration had simply gone to FISA courts for warrants, as the previous administrations had, this ruling probably would have gone the other way. As someone else has mentioned, getting a warrant isn't hard and can even be done retroactively under FISA. The Bush Administration is claiming by yelling "Boogah! Boogah! Terrah!" they can magically invent new laws on their own.
Meanwhile, Bin Laden is a free man, even with the illegal wiretapping.
An example of this, the article on Evolution. If I were to express doubt on the existance of a missing link I would get shouted down.
Of course, you would also get shouted down if you claimed the Earth was flat and the sun went around it. As I think Carl Sagan once said, "they laughed at Einstein, but they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." Soemtimes an idea is so foolish that a shout down is the only logical recourse. Wisdom comes from being open enough to take the Einsteins seriously and to laugh at the Bozos.
Make yourself some featherboards to hold the work to the table. Most kickback occurs when the board doesn't stay flat on the table as I recall. It's even worse on router tables and all of the other fun toys that Norm Abram gets to play with, which is why you see a lot of featherboards used in his show.
And completely traceable most of the time as well. My Dad was a high school teacher as a second career and received more than his share of prank and threatening phone calls. The pranks he ignored, but the threats and obscene calls got tracked and about 95% resolved. That included the kid who called threatening to firebomb the house or somesuch from a public phone. Mall security cameras for the win, Bob. The police evidently take that sort of thing pretty seriously.
Doing it first is meaningless, as pretty much the entire history of technology shows. Doing it sustainably is much more difficult and is why many "first" companies are not successful in the long run. There is quite a bit of money in being second, or even third. Just ask Messrs. Gates and Balmer.
To have raised expectations can be a form of a promise. Definitions of promise on the Web:
make a promise or commitment
promise to undertake or give; "I promise you my best effort"
a verbal commitment by one person to another agreeing to do (or not to do) something in the future
predict: make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome of an election"
grounds for feeling hopeful about the future; "there is little or no promise that he will recover"
give grounds for expectations; "The new results were promising"; "The results promised fame and glory"
Note that to show promise is not to guarantee anything. Methinks your vocabulary is somewhat limited if you believe a word can have only a single meaning devoid of context.
Macs were dogged by monochrome displays until the Amiga came along and started kicking its ass.
Yes, and what an ass kicking it was. Kind of like the ass-kicking the French handed the Germans in 1940. It takes more than pretty colors to deliver an "ass-kicking" I'm afraid, and the leadership of Commodore had more in common with Petain than DeGaulle.
Remember that wireless networking is two way, so you are also broadcasting onto my property when you associate and I can choose to mess with the signal. Therefore re-directing every one of your requests to blurry pictures of the Care Bears or deleting random characters from the stream is fully within my rights.
In all fairness, it isn't that simple at the grocery store, as the fresh produce is rarely bar-coded which means working the menus to find your lettuce, cucumbers, and tomatoes. If I see anyone who's eating healthy in the self-checkout line, I head for the cashiers as well. If all I see is frozen pizza and soda (i.e. 90% of the time), I figure I can help them find the bar codes.
Civ IV was unplayably slow on hardware that exceeded its system requirements the day it shipped. That is the kind of crap I am talking about, not one badly designed level. Let us not forget bug-ridden games like Temple of Elemental Evil, Daggerfall, and the release edition of Black and White.
You need an internet connection for any PC game. How else will you download the patches so that it will actually be playable? The PC gaming industries record on quality assurance is abyssmal.
merely require all suspicious persons to wear red shirts. No one in their right mind will ever get near a transporter wearing one of those unless they are of Scots descent. At which point they will disassemble the darn thing and put it back together in better working order than it started out.
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I'm not sure your definition is at all helpful, as it appears your definition of "legislating from the bench" is "the court making decisions I personally do not agree with." I happen to agree with you that the decisions you cite were particularly egregious (Dredd in particular), but you are going to need a more impartial definition of your phrase if it is to be applied evenly. As an example, a Gore voter would likely see Bush v. Gore as "legislating from the bench" (the Constitution says States determine how electors are picked, not SCOTUS) whereas a Bush voter might not. Similarly with Roe, Kelo, etc.
Wait, I thought copyright protection was evil and that an artist really should have no control over his work once he releases it? Or are mash-ups and re-cuttings only fair when they are posted to YouTube instead of released on DVD?
I'd say troll for sure. A very noobish one at that.
Just remember to leave the key in the deadbolt when you lock it a night. Nothing like waking up to the smoke detector and being unable to find the door key that will get you out of the burning building. In fact, do such locks still meet the fire code? All deadbolts I've seen of recent manufacture do not require a key on the house side of the lock.
If one of those babies fails in the way it did in that video, the only way you are going to end up in Guantanamo is if you happen to be flying over it when the incident occurs, I think.
Ah yes, say something rude and claim you are "just kidding." Lamest. Defense. Ever.
And they say Americans are rude and intolerant...
Geothermal is probably mostly nuclear, as most of the heat in the Earth's interior does come from the decay of radioactive isotopes that are even deeper, but some does come from tidal "friction" in the Earth/Moon system as well. I'm not at all certain that there's a significant input from that motion however.
Meanwhile, Bin Laden is a free man, even with the illegal wiretapping.
Make yourself some featherboards to hold the work to the table. Most kickback occurs when the board doesn't stay flat on the table as I recall. It's even worse on router tables and all of the other fun toys that Norm Abram gets to play with, which is why you see a lot of featherboards used in his show.
And completely traceable most of the time as well. My Dad was a high school teacher as a second career and received more than his share of prank and threatening phone calls. The pranks he ignored, but the threats and obscene calls got tracked and about 95% resolved. That included the kid who called threatening to firebomb the house or somesuch from a public phone. Mall security cameras for the win, Bob. The police evidently take that sort of thing pretty seriously.
Doing it first is meaningless, as pretty much the entire history of technology shows. Doing it sustainably is much more difficult and is why many "first" companies are not successful in the long run. There is quite a bit of money in being second, or even third. Just ask Messrs. Gates and Balmer.
- make a promise or commitment
- promise to undertake or give; "I promise you my best effort"
- a verbal commitment by one person to another agreeing to do (or not to do) something in the future
- predict: make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome of an election"
- grounds for feeling hopeful about the future; "there is little or no promise that he will recover"
- give grounds for expectations; "The new results were promising"; "The results promised fame and glory"
Note that to show promise is not to guarantee anything. Methinks your vocabulary is somewhat limited if you believe a word can have only a single meaning devoid of context.No money in that. I think the good doctor has an addiction to getting paying patients into her clinic and grants from the NIH.
Yes, and what an ass kicking it was. Kind of like the ass-kicking the French handed the Germans in 1940. It takes more than pretty colors to deliver an "ass-kicking" I'm afraid, and the leadership of Commodore had more in common with Petain than DeGaulle.
Splitter!
Remember that wireless networking is two way, so you are also broadcasting onto my property when you associate and I can choose to mess with the signal. Therefore re-directing every one of your requests to blurry pictures of the Care Bears or deleting random characters from the stream is fully within my rights.
In all fairness, it isn't that simple at the grocery store, as the fresh produce is rarely bar-coded which means working the menus to find your lettuce, cucumbers, and tomatoes. If I see anyone who's eating healthy in the self-checkout line, I head for the cashiers as well. If all I see is frozen pizza and soda (i.e. 90% of the time), I figure I can help them find the bar codes.
Civ IV was unplayably slow on hardware that exceeded its system requirements the day it shipped. That is the kind of crap I am talking about, not one badly designed level. Let us not forget bug-ridden games like Temple of Elemental Evil, Daggerfall, and the release edition of Black and White.
You need an internet connection for any PC game. How else will you download the patches so that it will actually be playable? The PC gaming industries record on quality assurance is abyssmal.
merely require all suspicious persons to wear red shirts. No one in their right mind will ever get near a transporter wearing one of those unless they are of Scots descent. At which point they will disassemble the darn thing and put it back together in better working order than it started out.
And in the current religious and political climate, Childhood's End is a total non-starter as well.
Isn't irony what I have to do when I forget to take the wash out of the dryer and hang it up?