The law seems to cover being an aggregator for the purpose of assisting copyright violation.
Shutting that down is not a first-Amendment violation, even if it also hosts a free-speech forum. If it was shut down for hosting a free-speech forum, that would be a first-Amendment violation.
What defendant should have done is said that being a link aggregator is a free-speech issue. That is the fight he should be having, and how to defend himself against what the law appears to say. Then he'd be doing some good. But what he did was try to be tricky about it, and found out the courts know how to tell tricky from valid, and how to sever one action from another, and how not to care what non-criminal assets and rights you lose in addition to your criminal assets and activities. The courts' attitude is, if you wanted to remain broadly free, you shouldn't have broken the law however narrowly.
This is the due process. The court has enjoined the defendant from engaging in his criminal activity while it adjudicates his guilt. You don't get to keep punching the cop after he arrests you for punching him.
Except that this isn't a 1st-Amendment case, and the 1st-Amendment argument wasn't enough to stop the case it is from proceeding.
You cant claim that taking away your megaphone and putting you in jail violates your 1st-Amendment rights, but you can't expect it to set you free when you were using your speech to distract from the jewelry-store robbery your accomplices were committing.
Can I color you ignorant of the fact that the government is three branches, and the Judiciary sides with only itself and has no skin in the game?
The judge may have made a political decision, but those things go against the government as much as for it. In this case, though, the judge was not blindly finding for the government, he was blindly following the law.
This perp did a crime, and he's trying to get out of it by saying that putting him in jail means the public can't see his subversive tattoos, so the 1st Amendment should set him free.
A smudge is the typical result of any finger moving while on the surface. It would be very hard to discern that from a print from a smooth finger, or an oily latex glove.
Yes, actually, I most enjoy writing articles about arcana. But good luck getting any of it to stick, when the source you're citing was something you read 20 years ago.
Still looks like the same sequence, played over and over. I don't see artifacts from the previous year in the next year, even though I can see artifacts from prior flows on the bottom of the slope.
I also don't have a good feeling about how the flows are organized. They look more like slides of loose material on a steep slope. They may have been held in place by frozen water (or CO2, maybe), but they don't seem to erode into distinct channels. And the alluvial fan is weird. The ends of each flow-line spread to a spatula even though they're still on a slope, and they split. That's slide behavior, not stream behavior.
But, it's another planet. So we should probably taste it to make sure.
No mine in America ever went out of business because of the ecology. They may have blamed that, to avoid a malfeasance suit from their shareholders, but it certainly wasn't true.
That used to be exactly the reverse. One of our greatest strengths was our lack of reliance on others for natural resources, and our ability to sell them.
Of course, that was back before a few corporations owned them all...
What the website has is a single sequence. I don't see any cyclic activity. It's also oddly widespread, almost stringy, as though the flow is considerable and the scale of the picture is much bigger than it appears (not unlikely, and given they added no scale information it's almost useless as science).
I don't know about the timing, but the idea is sound.
The idea being, if there was anywhere else worth investing the money, nobody would create a hyperexpensive cash sink like that.
I think the failure of humanity in this regard is that we allow it to happen, instead of immediately confiscating the cash and giving it to people who can use it to create demand that, for everyone else, would be worth investing to supply.
Yes. A total lack of concern for the welfare of the people of the world, whom they're reaming on energy prices and threatening to enslave with their idiot religion.
Um, the car is a super capacitor...that you discharge in the morning and after work.
And you are charging it at the lowest-cost hours: in the middle of the night.
The problem seems to be, so is everyone else. Which is not just going to raise the night-time price, but will melt the grid. If these guys are right and nobody sane is listening.
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The law seems to cover being an aggregator for the purpose of assisting copyright violation.
Shutting that down is not a first-Amendment violation, even if it also hosts a free-speech forum. If it was shut down for hosting a free-speech forum, that would be a first-Amendment violation.
What defendant should have done is said that being a link aggregator is a free-speech issue. That is the fight he should be having, and how to defend himself against what the law appears to say. Then he'd be doing some good. But what he did was try to be tricky about it, and found out the courts know how to tell tricky from valid, and how to sever one action from another, and how not to care what non-criminal assets and rights you lose in addition to your criminal assets and activities. The courts' attitude is, if you wanted to remain broadly free, you shouldn't have broken the law however narrowly.
This is the due process. The court has enjoined the defendant from engaging in his criminal activity while it adjudicates his guilt. You don't get to keep punching the cop after he arrests you for punching him.
Except that this isn't a 1st-Amendment case, and the 1st-Amendment argument wasn't enough to stop the case it is from proceeding.
You cant claim that taking away your megaphone and putting you in jail violates your 1st-Amendment rights, but you can't expect it to set you free when you were using your speech to distract from the jewelry-store robbery your accomplices were committing.
Can I color you ignorant of the fact that the government is three branches, and the Judiciary sides with only itself and has no skin in the game?
The judge may have made a political decision, but those things go against the government as much as for it. In this case, though, the judge was not blindly finding for the government, he was blindly following the law.
This perp did a crime, and he's trying to get out of it by saying that putting him in jail means the public can't see his subversive tattoos, so the 1st Amendment should set him free.
Fuck him. Oh, okay, the judge did just that.
A smudge is the typical result of any finger moving while on the surface. It would be very hard to discern that from a print from a smooth finger, or an oily latex glove.
But you vote on who they are. Therefore you accept their rule, even if you disagree with them.
When was the last time Wikipedia held an election?
Yes, actually, I most enjoy writing articles about arcana. But good luck getting any of it to stick, when the source you're citing was something you read 20 years ago.
It peaked at 75% accuracy. It seems to have dropped, from what I can see. And all the [citation needed] and footnote tags just make it unreadable.
You didn't create an environment in which smart people were treated well. You created a cliquish clusterfuck. Eat me.
You, 6 digits id dare to tell a 5 digit id about google? :-p
On the off-chance you hadn't been anywhere but /. in the past 40 years.
Still looks like the same sequence, played over and over. I don't see artifacts from the previous year in the next year, even though I can see artifacts from prior flows on the bottom of the slope.
I also don't have a good feeling about how the flows are organized. They look more like slides of loose material on a steep slope. They may have been held in place by frozen water (or CO2, maybe), but they don't seem to erode into distinct channels. And the alluvial fan is weird. The ends of each flow-line spread to a spatula even though they're still on a slope, and they split. That's slide behavior, not stream behavior.
But, it's another planet. So we should probably taste it to make sure.
That's why their model is no good.
It's less amenable to robber-barons, but their surreal attitude towards pricing makes it less amenable to everyone.
America needs less laissez-faire, but not that much less.
The dumb ones were moving to Texas, and raising the IQ in both states.
Haha.
No.
No mine in America ever went out of business because of the ecology. They may have blamed that, to avoid a malfeasance suit from their shareholders, but it certainly wasn't true.
That used to be exactly the reverse. One of our greatest strengths was our lack of reliance on others for natural resources, and our ability to sell them.
Of course, that was back before a few corporations owned them all...
What the website has is a single sequence. I don't see any cyclic activity. It's also oddly widespread, almost stringy, as though the flow is considerable and the scale of the picture is much bigger than it appears (not unlikely, and given they added no scale information it's almost useless as science).
Please. Marspiration.
I don't know about the timing, but the idea is sound.
The idea being, if there was anywhere else worth investing the money, nobody would create a hyperexpensive cash sink like that.
I think the failure of humanity in this regard is that we allow it to happen, instead of immediately confiscating the cash and giving it to people who can use it to create demand that, for everyone else, would be worth investing to supply.
Or maybe it does, until they open it.
Yes. A total lack of concern for the welfare of the people of the world, whom they're reaming on energy prices and threatening to enslave with their idiot religion.
I want a Galileo, and a Newton, and an Einstein, and a Schrodinger (but no stupid cat!), and a Hawking.
If only there were a way to search the world for information about such things...
http://www.google.com/search?q=home+power+monitor
or a way to buy them without leaving the phone booth...
http://www.google.com/search?q=home+power+monitor#q=home+power+monitor&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbm=shop&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wf&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=a8a8adfcb0ffdd17&biw=1449&bih=830
I have an idea: when you buy an electric car, buy a 5-kW gas generator to go with it...
Don't laugh. Someone is probably doing it right now.
Um, the car is a super capacitor...that you discharge in the morning and after work.
And you are charging it at the lowest-cost hours: in the middle of the night.
The problem seems to be, so is everyone else. Which is not just going to raise the night-time price, but will melt the grid. If these guys are right and nobody sane is listening.
Anyone buying an EV right now is already on the US side of that equation more than anyone driving a Hummer.
So the solution is to implement the grid-controlled demand loading now, while your socially conscious early adopters are driving the technology.