How do we keep ourselves safe in a time when anyone with a pen can forge our handwritten signatures? The answer is, all signatures are insecure and legally contestable, and the process is a real bitch if you've ever been through it.
This is one of those areas of the law where all we need is a standard to agree upon, and it doesn't matter too much what exactly that standard is. It's no more oppressive than having governments regulate what gauge the railroads use.
Go ahead and question their ethics, but you can't say they're not exhibiting intelligence in doing their job well (by milking the system for all its worth).
Actually, your theoretical example would be an unconstitutional 'corruption of blood', but never let that get in the way of good sarcasm. And remember, it's not the lawyers who are stupid but the legislators who pass the laws (DMCA, etc.) declaring all this legal.
Sounds like a rip off of John Christopher's The White Mountains from tweny years earlier. If it isn't, then Clarke failed to exercise good sense in choosing an original name for the apparatus.
Oh wait, Governments have for millennia tried countless times to suppress information and prohibit the advancement of knowledge, all for naught and causing much suffering in the process. The lesson to be learned is that we're much better off preparing for what will happen when such knowledge is inevitably acquired.
Never mind controling the tv. Lampreys are being used right now as we speak in the very same survey groups that are bringing you MTV's summer and fall lineups. It turns out they have similar brain capacities as the normal viewership but are cheaper to house and feed and only rarely eat their handlers.
By my reckoning (which coincides remarkably well with Robert Barnhart's;), it was first recorded in 1392 in its latin sense as a venomous substance. It recorded in its modern sense as an infectious agent until 1728, although use often precedes records by a century or two. Still, I'd peg it as 17th century, not 16th century.
Judge Jackson, 63 years old, is a bear of a man, with a shock of white hair, a deep tan and an old black pipe he often stoked during the interview. Reclining in a leather swivel chair in his book-lined chambers in U.S. District Court here...
Judge Jackson is a bear and is into leather? Sounds like the perfect judge to knock Gates and Balmer up and give them what-for. I must say, though, "Penfield" isn't such a great name for a leather daddy....
Energy in a wave is directly proportional to frequency. One would expect higher energy waves (and therefore higher frequency waves) to pierce objects better. Perhaps you're thinking of diffraction, in which case low-frequency high-wavelength waves are better at going around corners/obstacles/etc. (but not through). Now someone, please correct me.
Your response misses both the spirit (as an aside) and the substance of my post. Do you always criticize everyone who takes the time to articulate why he agrees with you? You make me sad.
Honestly, think before you insult people.
And while you're at it, check the "no score +1 bonus" button when posting such followups, as I have done. It's a privilege, not a trophy.
Again this is because A&F makes it extremely convenient to say "I like A&F" while there is no easy way to say "I don't give a poop about A&F" or "I abhor A&F".
Sure there is: file a lawsuit or two. It's the American way.
[T]he idea that you have to watch a... Pfizer (antibiotics, in this case) commercial before a show designed for preschoolers is appalling.
Hey, at least it's antibiotics and not Viagra that Pfizer's advertizing to preschoolers. I suppose it won't be long, though; it's not so easy to get it up before puberty, either. Just think of the market growth potential!
And if it weren't for the Spanish Inquisition, then certain Monty Python sketches wouldn't be as funny either. You may be in jest, but some people seriously think this way.
You know: sort've democratic, but not entirely, since Linus and Alan get a disproportionate amount of influence without ever having been elected in an open election. Synonymous with "democratish".;-)
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Only if the probability of averting the disaster multiplied by the cost is favorable. If that probability is zero (as I would argue), then no.
How do we keep ourselves safe in a time when anyone with a pen can forge our handwritten signatures? The answer is, all signatures are insecure and legally contestable, and the process is a real bitch if you've ever been through it.
This is one of those areas of the law where all we need is a standard to agree upon, and it doesn't matter too much what exactly that standard is. It's no more oppressive than having governments regulate what gauge the railroads use.
What, since Microsoft won't move to Canada, Congress is?
Go ahead and question their ethics, but you can't say they're not exhibiting intelligence in doing their job well (by milking the system for all its worth).
Actually, your theoretical example would be an unconstitutional 'corruption of blood', but never let that get in the way of good sarcasm. And remember, it's not the lawyers who are stupid but the legislators who pass the laws (DMCA, etc.) declaring all this legal.
Maybe he can do something about how my Corsair which keeps getting shot down by Charon-boosted Goliaths and cloaked wraiths.
In a thread about copyright infringement, you go ahead and commit one of your own. I salute you, sir!
Whichever moderators moderated him (correctly) as 'funny' will likely get slammed in meta-moderation.
Sounds like a rip off of John Christopher's The White Mountains from tweny years earlier. If it isn't, then Clarke failed to exercise good sense in choosing an original name for the apparatus.
Oh wait, Governments have for millennia tried countless times to suppress information and prohibit the advancement of knowledge, all for naught and causing much suffering in the process. The lesson to be learned is that we're much better off preparing for what will happen when such knowledge is inevitably acquired.
Never mind controling the tv. Lampreys are being used right now as we speak in the very same survey groups that are bringing you MTV's summer and fall lineups. It turns out they have similar brain capacities as the normal viewership but are cheaper to house and feed and only rarely eat their handlers.
Maybe the ultimate purpose of these experiments is really to create sentient lampreys capable of adopting religion?... ;)
Have you seen the teeth on those buggers? Ouch!
By my reckoning (which coincides remarkably well with Robert Barnhart's ;), it was first recorded in 1392 in its latin sense as a venomous substance. It recorded in its modern sense as an infectious agent until 1728, although use often precedes records by a century or two. Still, I'd peg it as 17th century, not 16th century.
More like humpty dumpty, except this time it'll be Microsoft that falls off the wall and breaks into pieces that can't be put back together again.
Judge Jackson is a bear and is into leather? Sounds like the perfect judge to knock Gates and Balmer up and give them what-for. I must say, though, "Penfield" isn't such a great name for a leather daddy....
j/k
Wrong Holmes, of course. It's rather sad that the only culture people remember these days is porn. Vive l'Internet!
Energy in a wave is directly proportional to frequency. One would expect higher energy waves (and therefore higher frequency waves) to pierce objects better. Perhaps you're thinking of diffraction, in which case low-frequency high-wavelength waves are better at going around corners/obstacles/etc. (but not through). Now someone, please correct me.
Your response misses both the spirit (as an aside) and the substance of my post. Do you always criticize everyone who takes the time to articulate why he agrees with you? You make me sad.
Honestly, think before you insult people.
And while you're at it, check the "no score +1 bonus" button when posting such followups, as I have done. It's a privilege, not a trophy.
Sure there is: file a lawsuit or two. It's the American way.
[T]he idea that you have to watch a... Pfizer (antibiotics, in this case) commercial before a show designed for preschoolers is appalling.
Hey, at least it's antibiotics and not Viagra that Pfizer's advertizing to preschoolers. I suppose it won't be long, though; it's not so easy to get it up before puberty, either. Just think of the market growth potential!
And if it weren't for the Spanish Inquisition, then certain Monty Python sketches wouldn't be as funny either. You may be in jest, but some people seriously think this way.
You know: sort've democratic, but not entirely, since Linus and Alan get a disproportionate amount of influence without ever having been elected in an open election. Synonymous with "democratish". ;-)
Simple. Don't log in as root, and the viruses can't touch the system files. What do you mean Windows doesn't work that way?... :-)