Libel laws are perfectly constitutional. There is no conflict with the First Amendment. By the First, there can be no law restricting your freedom of speech. And Libel laws do NOT restrict you from saying anything you want. BUT the Libel laws do allow for someone to sue for damages caused by *what* you are free to say.
Get the difference? It is subtle, but it is there.
I was actually a tiny bit hopeful as I read the summary of this article - the text of Mr. Trump's letter to NK:
". In a letter to Kim, the president said; "I was very much looking forward to being there with you. Sadly, based on the tremendous anger an open hostility displayed in your most recent statement, I feel it is inappropriate, at this time to have this long-planned meeting. Therefore, please let this letter to serve to represent that the Singapore summit, for the good of both parties, but to the detriment of the world, will not take place."
I was thinking wow - has Mr. Trump actually grown up a little? Deigned to start acting presidential? Sigh. No. Was not to be:
"He added, "You talk about your nuclear capabilities, but ours are so massive and powerful that I pray to God they will never have to be used."
And then he end on a dick move. Way to go Sir. You do us proud! .
I should have known better than to get my hopes up.
That's actually hilarious - that you would claim that the digital assistant (or whatever we're calling this kind of thing in general) would NOT be a party to the conversation!
Without it there would BE no conversation. So, what, the human on the other end of the phone is legally just talking to themselves? On the phone?
Anyway, wiretapping laws notwithstanding, every phone call ever made IS being recorded - by the minds of each of the participants. The only difference with this is that the DigAss's 'memory' could be played back in a courtroom. Whether or not it would count as evidence is interesting though - the courts could rule that the DigAss's 'memory' is too available for tampering. In which case we're back to the same case as having two humans talking - there would need to be a separate recording made mechanically, that would be subject to federal and state wiretapping statutes.
Sorry - have to chime in here. In my experience to date, braking is usually the best way to handle it when things go really wrong on the road. But not always - if the brake pedal is the only thing you ever use, you are in trouble.
Sometimes acceleration is the only way to avoid serious harm. I can tell you that from personal experience - after dropping off a date around midnight or so, I was cruising through a traffic light at a 4 way intersection. Maybe around 30 mph, just cruising along - the light was green for at least 10-15 seconds before I got to it (which means it was solid red in the other direction for at least that long).
Out of nowhere I have headlights in my face - just a few feet to my left. Hitting the brakes would have sent me to the hospital (or the morgue) from getting T-boned through my drivers side door. I slammed on the gas pedal, my car (thank god) leaped ahead down the road, and a car, taking a left turn, ignoring their red traffic light entirely, turned into my lane not a foot past my rear bumper. They took off down the first side street while I was still prying my hands from the wheel.
To top it off, this was an old car, and had been giving me trouble, getting bogged down, stalling or nearly stalling at times, would not respond to the gas pedal at times. Just balky in general. I'm glad it responded when I needed it to. Next day I went shopping for a new car - I was not going to tempt fate again with an iffy vehicle.
Braking is not always the right answer. Accelerating isn't either - you need to be open to all options, all the time.
" In 1900 a million dollars was quite the mound of cash..."
Actually, not so much - yes it was a LOT of money back then, but the US also printed $5,000 bills. So a million could be a neat little stack of 200 bills. Today, however, it's a mound.
"Is it just me, or does DDOSing Slashdot seem like the internet equivalent of kicking a puppy?"
This is Slashdot - you NEED to use a car analogy. Ahem...
DDOSing Slashdot is like pouring sugar in the gas tank of the old land yacht the little old lady down the street uses to drive back and forth to church every Sunday.
Ma Bell. Back in the day before the telecom breakup there was Bell. It was heavily regulated - it could not profit more than X. So instead of lowering prices or rebating customers or any such nonsense, they instead plowed all that extra cash into research. Case in point - Bell Labs. Which developed a whole lot of very innovative things (e.g. the C programming language and Unix) - all as a direct result of regulations.
Not really a problem. For subway cards that track you and toll paying gadgets like EasyPass there is a simple enough workaround. Build up a big enough pool of acquaintances and swap 'em every now and again. No longer tied to you and looks mighty confusing to anyone tracking them.
Used to do the same thing with my supermarket 'loyalty' card. Someone in line forgets theirs I'd say "Just use mine". Throw more grit in the wheels of corporate data-basing.
Actually - if colleges had the leeway, I think it could be that easy.
College bans all alcohol everywhere on campus - caught with as much as a nip bottle anywhere, automatic expulsion. Everywhere, that is, except the bars the college establishes on campus, for students.
Students can go there and drink, but the place is staffed (and serves food too - that is a must). So no binge drinking - gone. No getting too drunk - you're cut off. Students learn responsible behavior, cause it is reinforced. Past a certain point car keys must be surrendered if they have 'em. Etc. Everything a well-run bar does.
I was actually OK with the opening music - grew on me. What I could not STAND was taking something new and unique and hammering it (badly) into the same format as TOS.
No! Let's not explore how we could have explored space with technology just a little more advanced than what we have - where's the fun in that?? Let's give 'em Phasers and Transporter technology too, as well as a first generation warp drive. Remember the 'testing the missles' sequence during the maiden voyage? C'mon.
Let's make 'em technologically equivalent with everyone around them too - yeah, that will make for better stores! [Hint - it really doesn't]
I'm ticked off that they basically removed 300 years (!) of development between Enterprise and TOS. Really? Every spacefaring race has their collective thumbs up their asses for 3 centuries?
That was when I stopped watching. Heard about the 'temporal cold war' second hand - and was even more disgusted.
"If you rent an apartment or condo, there may be a subletting prohibition. In that case it would be illegal for you to sublet as the man in the example has listed."
Um.... No. AFAIK it would not be *illegal* - it would be a breach of your contract with the landlord. Illegal means criminal, contract breach is civil and between the two parties only.
First off, thank you for serving in the police - I like the answer you give for why you joined. It is sad you felt the need to post AC, but on this thread I can certainly understand it.
Second, serious question - like someone posed higher up in the thread, you, I, and two of your fellow police officers are alone in a room. One of the other two just pulls his weapon and shoots me in the head. The question, and I'd like an honest answer: Do you cover for him?
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Lighten up Francis!
Libel laws are perfectly constitutional. There is no conflict with the First Amendment. By the First, there can be no law restricting your freedom of speech. And Libel laws do NOT restrict you from saying anything you want. BUT the Libel laws do allow for someone to sue for damages caused by *what* you are free to say.
Get the difference? It is subtle, but it is there.
No shit?
I was actually a tiny bit hopeful as I read the summary of this article - the text of Mr. Trump's letter to NK:
". In a letter to Kim, the president said; "I was very much looking forward to being there with you. Sadly, based on the tremendous anger an open hostility displayed in your most recent statement, I feel it is inappropriate, at this time to have this long-planned meeting. Therefore, please let this letter to serve to represent that the Singapore summit, for the good of both parties, but to the detriment of the world, will not take place."
I was thinking wow - has Mr. Trump actually grown up a little? Deigned to start acting presidential? Sigh. No. Was not to be:
"He added, "You talk about your nuclear capabilities, but ours are so massive and powerful that I pray to God they will never have to be used."
And then he end on a dick move. Way to go Sir. You do us proud! .
I should have known better than to get my hopes up.
I think you all are just cruisin' for a bruisin'.
Difficult times indeed! Even us purveyors of shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this time.
That's actually hilarious - that you would claim that the digital assistant (or whatever we're calling this kind of thing in general) would NOT be a party to the conversation!
Without it there would BE no conversation. So, what, the human on the other end of the phone is legally just talking to themselves? On the phone?
Anyway, wiretapping laws notwithstanding, every phone call ever made IS being recorded - by the minds of each of the participants. The only difference with this is that the DigAss's 'memory' could be played back in a courtroom. Whether or not it would count as evidence is interesting though - the courts could rule that the DigAss's 'memory' is too available for tampering. In which case we're back to the same case as having two humans talking - there would need to be a separate recording made mechanically, that would be subject to federal and state wiretapping statutes.
Sorry - have to chime in here. In my experience to date, braking is usually the best way to handle it when things go really wrong on the road. But not always - if the brake pedal is the only thing you ever use, you are in trouble.
Sometimes acceleration is the only way to avoid serious harm. I can tell you that from personal experience - after dropping off a date around midnight or so, I was cruising through a traffic light at a 4 way intersection. Maybe around 30 mph, just cruising along - the light was green for at least 10-15 seconds before I got to it (which means it was solid red in the other direction for at least that long).
Out of nowhere I have headlights in my face - just a few feet to my left. Hitting the brakes would have sent me to the hospital (or the morgue) from getting T-boned through my drivers side door. I slammed on the gas pedal, my car (thank god) leaped ahead down the road, and a car, taking a left turn, ignoring their red traffic light entirely, turned into my lane not a foot past my rear bumper. They took off down the first side street while I was still prying my hands from the wheel.
To top it off, this was an old car, and had been giving me trouble, getting bogged down, stalling or nearly stalling at times, would not respond to the gas pedal at times. Just balky in general. I'm glad it responded when I needed it to. Next day I went shopping for a new car - I was not going to tempt fate again with an iffy vehicle.
Braking is not always the right answer. Accelerating isn't either - you need to be open to all options, all the time.
Profit!
Never let your morals stand in the way of doing what is right.
" In 1900 a million dollars was quite the mound of cash..."
Actually, not so much - yes it was a LOT of money back then, but the US also printed $5,000 bills. So a million could be a neat little stack of 200 bills. Today, however, it's a mound.
See? Even the Pharaohs feline overlords bought into the mummify scam. The furry fools!
I think I just threw up a little in my mouth...
Nice one!
I laughed so hard I dropped my punch card deck. [No, Millenials won't get that either]
"Is it just me, or does DDOSing Slashdot seem like the internet equivalent of kicking a puppy?"
This is Slashdot - you NEED to use a car analogy. Ahem...
DDOSing Slashdot is like pouring sugar in the gas tank of the old land yacht the little old lady down the street uses to drive back and forth to church every Sunday.
Ma Bell. Back in the day before the telecom breakup there was Bell. It was heavily regulated - it could not profit more than X. So instead of lowering prices or rebating customers or any such nonsense, they instead plowed all that extra cash into research.
Case in point - Bell Labs. Which developed a whole lot of very innovative things (e.g. the C programming language and Unix) - all as a direct result of regulations.
Not really a problem. For subway cards that track you and toll paying gadgets like EasyPass there is a simple enough workaround. Build up a big enough pool of acquaintances and swap 'em every now and again. No longer tied to you and looks mighty confusing to anyone tracking them.
Used to do the same thing with my supermarket 'loyalty' card. Someone in line forgets theirs I'd say "Just use mine". Throw more grit in the wheels of corporate data-basing.
And then armed them.
Glad I was not drinking milk when I read this. You sir, win the internet!
The courts seem to differ with you - see the trial of the Boston Marathon bomber
Actually - if colleges had the leeway, I think it could be that easy.
College bans all alcohol everywhere on campus - caught with as much as a nip bottle anywhere, automatic expulsion. Everywhere, that is, except the bars the college establishes on campus, for students.
Students can go there and drink, but the place is staffed (and serves food too - that is a must). So no binge drinking - gone. No getting too drunk - you're cut off. Students learn responsible behavior, cause it is reinforced. Past a certain point car keys must be surrendered if they have 'em. Etc. Everything a well-run bar does.
OK - I've put it out there. Discuss!
So..... they're PIRATES! Oh cool!
[Other than that, makes no sense whatsoever]
I was actually OK with the opening music - grew on me. What I could not STAND was taking something new and unique and hammering it (badly) into the same format as TOS.
No! Let's not explore how we could have explored space with technology just a little more advanced than what we have - where's the fun in that?? Let's give 'em Phasers and Transporter technology too, as well as a first generation warp drive. Remember the 'testing the missles' sequence during the maiden voyage? C'mon.
Let's make 'em technologically equivalent with everyone around them too - yeah, that will make for better stores! [Hint - it really doesn't]
I'm ticked off that they basically removed 300 years (!) of development between Enterprise and TOS. Really? Every spacefaring race has their collective thumbs up their asses for 3 centuries?
That was when I stopped watching. Heard about the 'temporal cold war' second hand - and was even more disgusted.
Could have been great. Sad really.
"If you rent an apartment or condo, there may be a subletting prohibition. In that case it would be illegal for you to sublet as the man in the example has listed."
Um.... No. AFAIK it would not be *illegal* - it would be a breach of your contract with the landlord. Illegal means criminal, contract breach is civil and between the two parties only.
First off, thank you for serving in the police - I like the answer you give for why you joined. It is sad you felt the need to post AC, but on this thread I can certainly understand it.
Second, serious question - like someone posed higher up in the thread, you, I, and two of your fellow police officers are alone in a room. One of the other two just pulls his weapon and shoots me in the head. The question, and I'd like an honest answer: Do you cover for him?