I am currently suing a former employer. The statute of limitations on the action is 1 year. Some email is critical evidence to the case. The SOL should be a minimum of 1 year to conform with the SOL on any possible complaint that might rely on the email as evidence.
Frankly, I think the guy is an idiot. Some lawyers have this wild hair up their collective butts where they get to be judges and all of sudden that start "making policy from on high".
A bunch of egotistical bullshit in my opinion. Email doesn't need a SOL. The case it's related to has its own SOL. If you have a case you have evidence. If the case can be brought to complaint within the statutory time frame then all evidence should be valid for that frame.
Is not capitalism. It's tha apathy of Joe and Sue Citizen. Corporations are considered persons as we are, albeit through legal construction and specific charter. And just as you or I could lobby to create a law protecting a commercial interest, seen as a natural right for a corporation, so can a non-living entity prosecute to protect the rights taht allow it to exist. Let's face it, with the ability to earn a profit a corporation will die. But the philosophy of capitalism is not the problem. The problem is that instead of learning how to prosecute our rights and staying abreast of when they are impinged upon, we allow people to point fingers. Take of your own backyard and I'm quite sure all other things will fall into place. Flaws or Perfections are revealed when the truth is followed.
So why does Mattel think they have rights to your method of using the name Barbara. They should be challenged in terms of what specific way "thebarbies.com" impinges on their corporate ownership of a toy named "Barbie". If you can show that your use of Barbie and their use of Barbie are different you may be able to dismantle some foundational arguments and get them off your back. You don't have to be a lawyer to point this out.
If the interface is mouse intensive, then offer COMPLETE access via mouse. This is one area that Apple has won over MS or Linux. The AVERAGE Apple user does not have to rack their brain to figure out the proper buttons to push. The intuitive nature of the interface makes it easy to deduce where to go for the correct answer.
In Windoze the interface sometimes switches erratically between mouse and keyboard input, making it a trial to input a table full of info. And bear in mind that non-3l337 computer users are merely data-entry cogs.
In KDE I am annoyed by the inconsistency of different apps. Either make it all mouse or all keyboard or all both.
The constitutional right to Due Process is fundamental to the Legal "Business".
You have the right to deny any claim made against you; confront any witnesses and cross-examine them, and the right to present evidency contrary, as well as demanding that the evidence against you be presented. Also you have the right to be heard by an impartial and fair official (typically a judge)
If Due Process is dead our legal system is complete and utter bullshit.
American Education is an oxymoron. More like American Indoctrination. In my opinion that lack of valid instruction in critical thinking is the problem with our freedoms being encroached.
Children today are taught WHAT to think. Not HOW to think. This makes a program like WAVE quite workable.
I see one possible means if disabling this brainwashing is to legally encumber "educational" institutions when they fail to produce students capable of using the tools of critical thinking.
Had it not been for my majoring in Math on the way to becoming an accountant I might not have the prescence of mind to put together a reasonable argument about anything. (Incidentally I became a mathematician instead of an accountant)
Furthermore, in dealing with the insidiousness of government/corporate fascism eroding individual rights, it well behooves each and every one of us to begin understanding the laws that govern us and begin using the legal system to slap the government back in place. [I think it's a great fallacy to assume that only attorneys can deal with the law. That's like saying only the blackjack dealer can tell you if you have blackjack. Or perhaps they decide what the rules are. Then how do you ever stay ahead?]
The law itself (and Supreme Court decisions) says that the law is to be written such that a person of average intelligence can understand it. Any law or statute that is vague or misleading is void. Period. The trouble is that with over 500K laws, what one person or group of people could ever find the laws that are elgible for being voided. Is this a case for Open Source Legal Research? One does not need to be a lawyer to research the law. Look at paralegals.
So what's my point? My point is that demonstrations and pleas for intelligence are good for getting attention but the real guts of a number of our problems as citizens in a nation where the law is supposed to be the ruler is appealing to the law. Approaching Pinkerton was a wonderful 'good faith' effort and I think it fits in with an aggressive legal approach.
For those of you who cringe and see a toiletful of money going down the drain when lawyer and law is mentioned, consider that the bulk of the work is simply researching what statutes and laws apply.
What's to say that a couple of hours of research over 7 days doesn't pay off? Especially if it's approached and organized within an open source paradigm.
Bitch and moan for a little, but at some point we should work together to REALLY put an end to this kind of fascism. WE ARE THE GOVERNMENT. We should stop being lazy and do our part in preserving the higher ideals of the American Republic.
If you ain't part of the solution, then you're part of the problem.
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There have been signs of these portents in Australia for months.
First, gun control. Now privacy.
The horror began a long time ago.
It'll happen here when I'm no longer able to use my index finger to send rounds down range...
Godel/Tarski's observation may be true but it does not negate the fact that math IS about truth. If the facts in a theorem are based on truth then the foundation has been set.
Your first paragraph seems like the mental meanderings of self-absorption in the arguments of deconstructionism. I say, so what? what's your point. Is math now invalid?
Studying creationism is a concept completely distorted by the agenda of it's zealots. A TRUE scientist will be self-aware enough to release pre-dispositions in studies that are juxtaposed to their own.
The fact remains Kansas City's agenda is not study but CONTROL.
Your argument still begs the question and offers no insight into the real problem: Who's right?
My answer: The Constitution and the Bill of Rights
"Linux right now doesn't scale horribly well to huge enterprise servers. But it still manages to replace them fairly effectively, by allowing scalability on the level of the machine instead of components."
What do you mean by "scale horribly well" and what's the difference between scaling componentwise or machine-wise. Scalable means scalable. - period
Can you be a little more technical? This sentence was hugely vague.
(I don't agree with rating this comment as insightful)
I concur KAA. Katz is in another world with his presumptions.
He ignores the influence of banking and well-financed power mongers in the scheme of social problems.
Does anyone realize that Hitler and Lenin recieved funding from bankers to initiate their campaigns?
The murder of the Romanov family was financed. Germany's recovery and rise to power after WWI was financed. Computations won't tell you this, only a good review of history will.
The AMA, BAR Association and other trade guilds with strangleholds on entire populations have more to do with people than computation.
People seem to forget that computers don't solve problems. People do.
I agree that the/. effect will probably seem like ballot box stuffing, however, I think the average, intelligent joe probably still doesn't have a clear picture of Linux. I think it's a good idea to encourage software engineering companies to include Linux in their development track. Linux needs more products. A "killer app" needs to be found in every arena possible.
While the Linux community discusses killer apps the kernel and driver hackers can still work on improving Linux.
Perhaps convincing companies to port their products to Linux will get the attention of even more capable people.
It's answer to the unrelenting chokehold that 1 company has on how we interface with our computers
I agree. Screw Microsoft and Mindcraft. We have work to do. Linux has become a household name at this point because the folks developing Linux have focussed on developing Linux. Not fighting Microsoft.
Screw them. The Linux community doesn't need to "bless" the Mindcraft survey. Linux programmers and developers need to do what they have been doing and stay focussed on that: making Linux better.
For a good read check out http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue41/searls.html
It's amazing how outsider's in the business world do nothing but focus on "pitfalls".
They must be running scared. Gonna' lose a lot of market share when the average person figures out Linux just may be their best solution.
BAR Association - Classical Monopoly Engineers - Ditto Trade Unions - Nice idea.... Ditto
Trade Associations are nice idea in a trustworthy society, but considering the number of bald-faced liars that exist per square mile in "civilized" countries, I'd say it's a great way to start manipulating other people.
No 1 person or group of people has the right to tell me the value of my work. My valuable creative skills are the judge of my work. My work tells you the level of my skill.
If anything the fundamental, basic identifiers of good programming and design should be taught to people so they at least know how to look for signs that the work was done well.
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You're being sarcastic....right?
Catching people who harm other people is not the purpose of LAW ENFORCEMENT.
Communities should do the job of protecting each other from the predators in the community. Which means:
1. You can't stick your head in the sand when you hear your neighbor beating the wife and kids (or husband and kids where the case may be)
2. If the harm being done is caused by a friend or realtive and you don't find some way to call it out, then you're part of the problem.
3. Having been compliant with 1 or 2. Law Enforcement mops up the resulting mess when there is clear evidence that Lawa have been broken.
(a) Make sure you have evidence of legal malfeasance
(b) Make sure that you are a credible witness.
(c) Watch your ass.
4. The LAW ENFORCEMENT community are not public bodyguards. Learn to cover your ass and your neighbor's. Otherwise, welcome to Brazil! c. 1984.
Or was it an adjudicated decision?
I am currently suing a former employer. The statute of limitations on the action is 1 year. Some email is critical evidence to the case. The SOL should be a minimum of 1 year to conform with the SOL on any possible complaint that might rely on the email as evidence.
Frankly, I think the guy is an idiot. Some lawyers have this wild hair up their collective butts where they get to be judges and all of sudden that start "making policy from on high".
A bunch of egotistical bullshit in my opinion. Email doesn't need a SOL. The case it's related to has its own SOL. If you have a case you have evidence. If the case can be brought to complaint within the statutory time frame then all evidence should be valid for that frame.
Friggin' lawyers....
That was cool man.
Is not capitalism. It's tha apathy of Joe and Sue Citizen. Corporations are considered persons as we are, albeit through legal construction and specific charter. And just as you or I could lobby to create a law protecting a commercial interest, seen as a natural right for a corporation, so can a non-living entity prosecute to protect the rights taht allow it to exist. Let's face it, with the ability to earn a profit a corporation will die. But the philosophy of capitalism is not the problem. The problem is that instead of learning how to prosecute our rights and staying abreast of when they are impinged upon, we allow people to point fingers. Take of your own backyard and I'm quite sure all other things will fall into place. Flaws or Perfections are revealed when the truth is followed.
Learn my cryptospeak!
So why does Mattel think they have rights to your method of using the name Barbara. They should be challenged in terms of what specific way "thebarbies.com" impinges on their corporate ownership of a toy named "Barbie". If you can show that your use of Barbie and their use of Barbie are different you may be able to dismantle some foundational arguments and get them off your back.
You don't have to be a lawyer to point this out.
Consistency of use.
If the interface is mouse intensive, then offer
COMPLETE access via mouse. This is one area that
Apple has won over MS or Linux. The AVERAGE Apple
user does not have to rack their brain to figure
out the proper buttons to push. The intuitive nature of the interface makes it easy to deduce where to go for the correct answer.
In Windoze the interface sometimes switches erratically between mouse and keyboard input, making it a trial to input a table full of info. And bear in mind that non-3l337 computer users are merely data-entry cogs.
In KDE I am annoyed by the inconsistency of different apps. Either make it all mouse or all keyboard or all both.
Consistency is the key.
The constitutional right to Due Process is fundamental to the Legal "Business".
You have the right to deny any claim made against
you; confront any witnesses and cross-examine them, and the right to present evidency contrary, as well as demanding that the evidence against you be presented. Also you have the right to be heard by an impartial and fair official (typically a judge)
If Due Process is dead our legal system is complete and utter bullshit.
in the US. I don't know what is.
American Education is an oxymoron. More like American Indoctrination. In my opinion that lack of valid instruction in critical thinking is the problem with our freedoms being encroached.
Children today are taught WHAT to think. Not HOW to think. This makes a program like WAVE quite workable.
I see one possible means if disabling this brainwashing is to legally encumber "educational" institutions when they fail to produce students capable of using the tools of critical thinking.
Had it not been for my majoring in Math on the way to becoming an accountant I might not have the prescence of mind to put together a reasonable argument about anything. (Incidentally I became a mathematician instead of an accountant)
Furthermore, in dealing with the insidiousness of government/corporate fascism eroding individual rights, it well behooves each and every one of us to begin understanding the laws that govern us and begin using the legal system to slap the government back in place. [I think it's a great fallacy to assume that only attorneys can deal with the law. That's like saying only the blackjack dealer can tell you if you have blackjack. Or perhaps they decide what the rules are. Then how do you ever stay ahead?]
The law itself (and Supreme Court decisions) says that the law is to be written such that a person of average intelligence can understand it. Any law or statute that is vague or misleading is void. Period. The trouble is that with over 500K laws, what one person or group of people could ever find the laws that are elgible for being voided. Is this a case for Open Source Legal Research? One does not need to be a lawyer to research the law. Look at paralegals.
So what's my point? My point is that demonstrations and pleas for intelligence are good for getting attention but the real guts of a number of our problems as citizens in a nation where the law is supposed to be the ruler is appealing to the law. Approaching Pinkerton was a
wonderful 'good faith' effort and I think it fits in with an aggressive legal approach.
For those of you who cringe and see a toiletful of money going down the drain when lawyer and law is mentioned, consider that the bulk of the work is simply researching what statutes and laws apply.
What's to say that a couple of hours of research over 7 days doesn't pay off? Especially if it's
approached and organized within an open source paradigm.
Bitch and moan for a little, but at some point we should work together to REALLY put an end to this kind of fascism. WE ARE THE GOVERNMENT. We should stop being lazy and do our part in preserving the higher ideals of the American Republic.
If you ain't part of the solution, then you're part of the problem.
There have been signs of these portents in Australia for months.
First, gun control.
Now privacy.
The horror began a long time ago.
It'll happen here when I'm no longer able to use
my index finger to send rounds down range...
Godel/Tarski's observation may be true but it does not negate the fact that math IS about truth. If the facts in a theorem are based on truth then the foundation has been set.
Your first paragraph seems like the mental meanderings of self-absorption in the arguments of deconstructionism. I say, so what? what's your point. Is math now invalid?
Studying creationism is a concept completely distorted by the agenda of it's zealots. A TRUE scientist will be self-aware enough to release pre-dispositions in studies that are juxtaposed to their own.
The fact remains Kansas City's agenda is not study but CONTROL.
Your argument still begs the question and offers no insight into the real problem: Who's right?
My answer: The Constitution and the Bill of Rights
Please explain this sentence:
"Linux right now doesn't scale horribly well to huge enterprise servers. But it still manages to replace them fairly effectively, by allowing scalability on the level of the machine instead of components."
What do you mean by "scale horribly well" and what's the difference between scaling componentwise or machine-wise. Scalable means scalable. - period
Can you be a little more technical? This sentence was hugely vague.
(I don't agree with rating this comment as insightful)
Your career is yours. You build it, you cultivate it. When you go somewhere, your career goes with you.
Your JOB is not yours. It belongs to the company you work for. At best it's on lease.
Don't get attached to a job. DO get attached to building a career.
I concur KAA. Katz is in another world with his presumptions.
He ignores the influence of banking and well-financed power mongers in the scheme of social problems.
Does anyone realize that Hitler and Lenin recieved funding from bankers to initiate their campaigns?
The murder of the Romanov family was financed.
Germany's recovery and rise to power after WWI was financed. Computations won't tell you this, only a good review of history will.
The AMA, BAR Association and other trade guilds with strangleholds on entire populations have more to do with people than computation.
People seem to forget that computers don't solve problems. People do.
I agree that the /. effect will probably seem like ballot box stuffing, however, I think the average, intelligent joe probably still doesn't have a clear picture of Linux. I think it's a good idea to encourage software engineering companies to include Linux in their development track. Linux needs more products. A "killer app" needs to be found in every arena possible.
While the Linux community discusses killer apps the kernel and driver hackers can still work on improving Linux.
Perhaps convincing companies to port their products to Linux will get the attention of even more capable people.
It's answer to the unrelenting chokehold that 1 company has on how we interface with our computers
I agree. Screw Microsoft and Mindcraft.
We have work to do. Linux has become a household
name at this point because the folks developing
Linux have focussed on developing Linux. Not
fighting Microsoft.
Screw them. The Linux community doesn't need to "bless" the Mindcraft survey. Linux programmers
and developers need to do what they have been doing and stay focussed on that: making Linux
better.
For a good read check out http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue41/searls.html
It's amazing how outsider's in the business world do nothing but focus on "pitfalls".
They must be running scared. Gonna' lose a lot of market share when the average person figures out Linux just may be their best solution.
BAR Association - Classical Monopoly
Engineers - Ditto
Trade Unions - Nice idea.... Ditto
Trade Associations are nice idea in a trustworthy society, but considering the number of bald-faced liars that exist per square mile in "civilized" countries, I'd say it's a great way to start manipulating other people.
No 1 person or group of people has the right to tell me the value of my work. My valuable creative skills are the judge of my work. My work tells you the level of my skill.
If anything the fundamental, basic identifiers of good programming and design should be taught to people so they at least know how to look for signs that the work was done well.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is the most overturned appeals court in the US. (According
to a radio personality I listen to).
If there is an appeal in progress, who knows how
this will stand?
It's pretty ignorant if you ask me.
What now? Can people own the English Language?