Reminds me of a cartoon that was in Playboy many years ago. A florist delivery guy, whose truck bears the slogan "Say it with Flowers," is delivering a humungous wreath with a banner that says "GO TO HELL."
Ahh, the yocks we got outta that one. We won't see days like those anymore...
I'm just reaching here, IANAL and all. But as far as I can tell from a quick search nobody has attacked SPAM on the basis of Disturbing the Peace. Every community enforces rules about annoying other people. In most cases I think it's pretty vague, based on the level of annoyance and on how abnormal the offending behavior is deemed. Running a gas powered lawn mower on Saturday afternoon is normal, but running it continuously for 12 hours a day 7 days a week might be considered disturbing the peace. Sending email is normal, but maybe sending a million emails an hour is disturbing the peace.
I remember this same type of study being reported when I was a kid (in the 1960s) only the culprit was Television. No doubt there was one for Radio as well, and possibly Telephones. Yawn. My whole family uses the Internet extensively, and although we go camping almost every summer and to Hawaii about every 2 years for stretches of 3 weeks at a time nobody has ever shown any deprivation symptoms. It all depends on your personality I guess. Or maybe it depends on whether some geeky psychologist is asking you a bunch of questions and making you feel important? Time to pop open an ice-cold can of Heisenberg.
That was probably the cigarette-smoking refueling station attendant in Armageddon. After that whole asteroid incident was hushed up they promoted him to a desk job.
My point is simply that being a great trial lawyer should imply a great knowledge of law and precedents, not a great ability to manipulate people to do what you want. We get enough of that every day in the commercial world.
Physically separating lawyers from the jury wouldn't stop them asking the same questions and saying the same things they do now. It wouldn't stop juries from relying on compassion or sympathy or their personal impressions of the plaintiffs, defendants and witnesses. What it would do is take the lawyer's tone of voice, facial expressions, fist shaking, mock laughter, etc, etc, out of the picture. These antics have nothing to do with the merits of the case or character of the people involved, yet they can take on the same weight and sometimes more. That's what I think is wrong with the system.
Now that Brad has shown us how relatively easy it is, or at least decidedly do-able, I predict a gradual spread of free phones at BurningMan in even more incongruous situations.
How about a mockup of a typical fifties American living room with a couch, a couple of easy chairs, a black and white TV playing Leave It To Beaver, and a coffee table with a fifties style black rotary dial phone that really works. All the electronics including power would be in the phone and the table, invisible. Now that would be cool.
A Step Away From Lawyer Theatrics?
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I've long believed that an important step toward greater justice and less waste of time would be to forbid attorneys from appearing before the jury. Questions to witnesses should be submitted in a way that the jury neither sees nor hears the attorney. It's important for the jury to know the questions and to see and hear how the witness reacts and responds, and how the accused reacts. But there's no need to let the lawyer do their song and dance, putting spin on questions and role-playing how they want the jury to react to the answers.
Really good lawyers know how to size up jurors, decide which of them to "work on" and play to them individually, knowing that a purely psychological reaction by one person can deadlock the result. Technology like this being installed in courtrooms would make it physically possible to move the lawyer offstage. But I doubt very much that the Johnny Cochrans of the world will let go of their bread and butter merely for the sake of justice.
Publishing copyrighted material is not purely and simply illegal. The original text that accompanies the photos might qualify the whole site as a parody of the photos, making their use completely legal. Leaving the flash card in a public place where anybody could get at it might nullify a claim of privacy violation. Courts have already ruled that your garbage is public property, and a lost flash card can't be distinguished from a discarded one.
It would be nice if the "pure and simple" point of view worked more often in our complex world, but it seldom does.
Did Timothy actually read the article before greenlighting this?
post: interesting (perhaps hopeful) business predictions about Britney Spears' career.
article: Britney Spears as a pop artist is over.
That's interesting? That's even a prediction?
This article is a mixture of record company jargon -- "step deals... EA will clear 60 masters... buyout basis..." -- and outright bullshit -- "There is new music coming, real diversity of music, and it will be a rebirth of the record industry."
I'm afraid this problem will always be with us. The Intellectual Property can of worms is open. People who are trying to make progress and get things done will continually be harrassed by whining crybabies who insist that since you blew up the football in their yard, it's their air and you can't play with it, stamp, stamp, clench fists, I'll tell my mommy on you.
I guess it's like ants at a picnic or rain after you wash the car. Just part of the environment we live in.
Yes their house is on the big map, but not in the alphabetical list of features. Other people's homes are listed (Troy McClure, Trent Steele...) but not the Simpsons. Strange feature to leave out.
The zero-g test plane didn't get the nickname "Vomit Comet" for nothing. Almost EVERYBODY gets sick their first time, even the hard-core right-stuff guys.
Notable Exception: Crista McAuliffe, the teacher killed in the Columbia shuttle explosion, was the only member of her zero-g training group who didn't barf.
I'm an independent car manufacturer. The cars I build are licensed to be driven only by the purchaser. Sort of like the airline industry selling non-transferable, non-refundable tickets. Recently I have been losing money to transporation pirates who loan their cars to friends. They keep defeating whatever user-identifying technology I build into the cars. Based on one new car purchase per unauthorized transport, I estimate that I lose $400 billion annually to these pirates.
I've already bribed Orrin Hatch to make it illegal to drive somebody else's car. I even got Congress to spend billions of taxpayer dollars to install anti-piracy, I mean anti-terrorism cameras on every freeway overpass, to photograph people driving other people's cars, in case they're terrorists. Transportation pirates soon discovered they could simply wear a paper mask of the car owner's face. Some driver-id protestors even wear opaque, featureless masks when they drive their own cars. I've tried randomly suing people, but the shock value wore off pretty quickly and I barely recovered my legal costs. But at least I proved that I'm right.
Accepting that my business model doesn't work in today's world and going into another line of business is not an option. I don't want to face reality, I want to change the world to be the way I want it to be, regardless of the side effects. I also want everybody to be on my side and admit that I'm right. What should I do?
Slashdot Mirror
... or even enemies
Reminds me of a cartoon that was in Playboy many years ago. A florist delivery guy, whose truck bears the slogan "Say it with Flowers," is delivering a humungous wreath with a banner that says "GO TO HELL."
Ahh, the yocks we got outta that one. We won't see days like those anymore...
Looks fine to me (0.9.2, XP). Also on my Linux box (forget what version).
What is the Supreme Court going to say about this? Because you know that's where this case is gonna go. Last paragraph:
The U.S. Attorney's Office... [said it] would "evaluate what steps ought to be taken going forward."
So don't go firing your machine guns in the air and yelling "Allah is Great" just yet.
Laskenta alkaa.
Valpa muisti.
Varattu muisti!
I'm just reaching here, IANAL and all. But as far as I can tell from a quick search nobody has attacked SPAM on the basis of Disturbing the Peace. Every community enforces rules about annoying other people. In most cases I think it's pretty vague, based on the level of annoyance and on how abnormal the offending behavior is deemed. Running a gas powered lawn mower on Saturday afternoon is normal, but running it continuously for 12 hours a day 7 days a week might be considered disturbing the peace. Sending email is normal, but maybe sending a million emails an hour is disturbing the peace.
Any attorneys care to comment?
Fortunately, we have much better chimps on our side than the Russians or the Chinese do.
I remember this same type of study being reported when I was a kid (in the 1960s) only the culprit was Television. No doubt there was one for Radio as well, and possibly Telephones. Yawn. My whole family uses the Internet extensively, and although we go camping almost every summer and to Hawaii about every 2 years for stretches of 3 weeks at a time nobody has ever shown any deprivation symptoms. It all depends on your personality I guess. Or maybe it depends on whether some geeky psychologist is asking you a bunch of questions and making you feel important? Time to pop open an ice-cold can of Heisenberg.
... or run a nifty photorealistic aquarium screensaver!
wearing one around your neck identifies you as one of the techno-congniscenti ... either that or it pegs you for a hopeless dork. Take your pick.
My PC is a Level 4, but with Special Abilities bonus it compiles as a Level 6 and gets a +3 saving throw vs Viruses.
That was probably the cigarette-smoking refueling station attendant in Armageddon. After that whole asteroid incident was hushed up they promoted him to a desk job.
My point is simply that being a great trial lawyer should imply a great knowledge of law and precedents, not a great ability to manipulate people to do what you want. We get enough of that every day in the commercial world.
Physically separating lawyers from the jury wouldn't stop them asking the same questions and saying the same things they do now. It wouldn't stop juries from relying on compassion or sympathy or their personal impressions of the plaintiffs, defendants and witnesses. What it would do is take the lawyer's tone of voice, facial expressions, fist shaking, mock laughter, etc, etc, out of the picture. These antics have nothing to do with the merits of the case or character of the people involved, yet they can take on the same weight and sometimes more. That's what I think is wrong with the system.
Now that Brad has shown us how relatively easy it is, or at least decidedly do-able, I predict a gradual spread of free phones at BurningMan in even more incongruous situations.
How about a mockup of a typical fifties American living room with a couch, a couple of easy chairs, a black and white TV playing Leave It To Beaver, and a coffee table with a fifties style black rotary dial phone that really works. All the electronics including power would be in the phone and the table, invisible. Now that would be cool.
I've long believed that an important step toward greater justice and less waste of time would be to forbid attorneys from appearing before the jury. Questions to witnesses should be submitted in a way that the jury neither sees nor hears the attorney. It's important for the jury to know the questions and to see and hear how the witness reacts and responds, and how the accused reacts. But there's no need to let the lawyer do their song and dance, putting spin on questions and role-playing how they want the jury to react to the answers.
Really good lawyers know how to size up jurors, decide which of them to "work on" and play to them individually, knowing that a purely psychological reaction by one person can deadlock the result. Technology like this being installed in courtrooms would make it physically possible to move the lawyer offstage. But I doubt very much that the Johnny Cochrans of the world will let go of their bread and butter merely for the sake of justice.
Uhh, don't you mean the gaming industry?
naked pictures + slashdot = horked server
Publishing copyrighted material is not purely and simply illegal. The original text that accompanies the photos might qualify the whole site as a parody of the photos, making their use completely legal. Leaving the flash card in a public place where anybody could get at it might nullify a claim of privacy violation. Courts have already ruled that your garbage is public property, and a lost flash card can't be distinguished from a discarded one.
It would be nice if the "pure and simple" point of view worked more often in our complex world, but it seldom does.
Did Timothy actually read the article before greenlighting this?
post: interesting (perhaps hopeful) business predictions about Britney Spears' career.
article: Britney Spears as a pop artist is over.
That's interesting? That's even a prediction?
This article is a mixture of record company jargon -- "step deals... EA will clear 60 masters... buyout basis..." -- and outright bullshit -- "There is new music coming, real diversity of music, and it will be a rebirth of the record industry."
What a waste of space and time.
I'm afraid this problem will always be with us. The Intellectual Property can of worms is open. People who are trying to make progress and get things done will continually be harrassed by whining crybabies who insist that since you blew up the football in their yard, it's their air and you can't play with it, stamp, stamp, clench fists, I'll tell my mommy on you.
I guess it's like ants at a picnic or rain after you wash the car. Just part of the environment we live in.
Sigh.
Dude.
You just got married, and you are spending your time setting up a LAN??? When I was just married I had much better things to do. And I'm a geek.
In every presidential election covered by television, the candidate with the most campaign money has become President.
Yes their house is on the big map, but not in the alphabetical list of features. Other people's homes are listed (Troy McClure, Trent Steele...) but not the Simpsons. Strange feature to leave out.
It is my first one. I hope you to like it.
The zero-g test plane didn't get the nickname "Vomit Comet" for nothing. Almost EVERYBODY gets sick their first time, even the hard-core right-stuff guys.
Notable Exception: Crista McAuliffe, the teacher killed in the Columbia shuttle explosion, was the only member of her zero-g training group who didn't barf.
Dear Slashdot,
I'm an independent car manufacturer. The cars I build are licensed to be driven only by the purchaser. Sort of like the airline industry selling non-transferable, non-refundable tickets. Recently I have been losing money to transporation pirates who loan their cars to friends. They keep defeating whatever user-identifying technology I build into the cars. Based on one new car purchase per unauthorized transport, I estimate that I lose $400 billion annually to these pirates.
I've already bribed Orrin Hatch to make it illegal to drive somebody else's car. I even got Congress to spend billions of taxpayer dollars to install anti-piracy, I mean anti-terrorism cameras on every freeway overpass, to photograph people driving other people's cars, in case they're terrorists. Transportation pirates soon discovered they could simply wear a paper mask of the car owner's face. Some driver-id protestors even wear opaque, featureless masks when they drive their own cars. I've tried randomly suing people, but the shock value wore off pretty quickly and I barely recovered my legal costs. But at least I proved that I'm right.
Accepting that my business model doesn't work in today's world and going into another line of business is not an option. I don't want to face reality, I want to change the world to be the way I want it to be, regardless of the side effects. I also want everybody to be on my side and admit that I'm right. What should I do?