"...is that they happen again and again. It's cheaper for MS to just pay small companies "small" settlements of $20-50 million."
Except that Microsoft's legal history follows them (note the way they referenced a prior Microsoft legal battle to show that Microsoft really hadn't lost their e-mail), which will only make it easier and easier to successfully get concessions from Microsoft.
And this doesn't even consider the bad reputation they're making for themselves among the federal judges presiding over these cases. With tactics like this, while the settlements may be small, what happens when fines from being found in contempt of court start to rack up?
"(This point is arguable. There were 37 volums of Ranma 1/2 IIRC.)"
Funny you mention a work by Takahashi. One of the big draws for me to my all-time favorite manga, Maison Ikkoku (a series that most definately ends), is that the characters are real people! Outside of the Sunday paper, when was the last time you saw a US comic character that isn't a mutant ninja-vampire?
"Or is China just too large of a trading partner,"
The main problem isn't PNTR, it's Beijing pegging the yuan to the US dollar. It's kind of hard to undercut somebody's prices when their price is "50% of whatever he's charging."
"My best friend is Iranian and he tells me that people are sick of the current regime and love america."
I suspect either you or he meant "Americans" (people) and not necessarily "America" (government). It can probably be easily cleared up by asking what your friend thinks about US sanctions against Iran.
Me, I'm just waiting for the US (government) to get blamed for the recent car bombing in Najaf.
Yeah, I can see how you can confuse a multi-billion dollar corporation with a disturbing amount of mindshare, a die-hard fan-base that can make some practicioners of Scientology look sane in comparison, and a nasty track record of using/abusing copyright law (and those who write it) with, say, BSD.
"I forget who said this...
"Walt Disney has contributed more happiness to the world than all the religions combined.""
Whoever it was obviously didn't take into account Buena Vista's membership in the MPAA.
"It cannot be "outranked" by property and trade secrets rights."
The hell it can't. My ownership of my front yard trumps your "right" to set up a soapbox on it.
Or are you saying that the first amendment give advertisers the right to set up a billboard on your property without your permission? Or that my "right" to reproduce virus code trumps your right to control what goes on with your computer?
"No state or federal law can "outrank" the Constitution of the United States."
It's called "common law." It's why the federal constitution says you can be secure in your papers and posessions without having to explicitly spell out what "papers" and "posessions" means.
At any rate, the argument was misapplied: A purchased DVD is no longer the property of the publisher.
I'm sorry, but the eery silence of the vacuum inherently adds tension to scenes that might not otherwise be there.
There was a neat scene in one of the Robotech novels that talked about how the only way the pilots "heard" exploding craft were the screams of the dying coming over the radio. Put that in a movie, and suddenly you've gone from "Rambo" to "Saving Private Ryan."
" THE COOLEST SOUND EFFECTS. Everyone loved 'em."
Yep. Easily the best part of the movie. Had me laughing for hours afterwards. Sure, it's not quite on the same scale as, say, the Wing Commander movie, but it was the humorous high spot in anotherwise dreary movie.
If I want to see the kinds of "space" scenes that are in Star Wars, I can go to the History Channel and watch a documentary on Midway (which are somehow less predictable than this new batch of Star Wars movies). So far, when it comes to video portrayals of space battles, there's B5 and then there's everybody else.
I think putting the ESA in the same category as NASA and Rosaviakosmos is grasping at straws. The ESA is an effort by multiple G8 economies to attempt to do what the US and the Soviet Union were able to do with just one. That, and there's that whole manned spaceflight thing.
If you're looking for peers for the ESAs efforts, you shouldn't be looking at countries with manned space programs. You should instead be looking at Japan and India. And even then, with the UK, France, Germany and Italy all on the same boat, funding the same projects, you'd think they wouldn't be in danger of being passed by China.
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" ...is that they happen again and again. It's cheaper for MS to just pay small companies "small" settlements of $20-50 million."
Except that Microsoft's legal history follows them (note the way they referenced a prior Microsoft legal battle to show that Microsoft really hadn't lost their e-mail), which will only make it easier and easier to successfully get concessions from Microsoft.
And this doesn't even consider the bad reputation they're making for themselves among the federal judges presiding over these cases. With tactics like this, while the settlements may be small, what happens when fines from being found in contempt of court start to rack up?
"(This point is arguable. There were 37 volums of Ranma 1/2 IIRC.)"
Funny you mention a work by Takahashi. One of the big draws for me to my all-time favorite manga, Maison Ikkoku (a series that most definately ends), is that the characters are real people! Outside of the Sunday paper, when was the last time you saw a US comic character that isn't a mutant ninja-vampire?
" Why does our government work for the freedom of others, while chipping away at ours daily?"
Did you vote last year? Do you vote as consistently as, say, Iranian-Americans worried about their family back in Iran?
"Or is China just too large of a trading partner,"
The main problem isn't PNTR, it's Beijing pegging the yuan to the US dollar. It's kind of hard to undercut somebody's prices when their price is "50% of whatever he's charging."
"My best friend is Iranian and he tells me that people are sick of the current regime and love america."
I suspect either you or he meant "Americans" (people) and not necessarily "America" (government). It can probably be easily cleared up by asking what your friend thinks about US sanctions against Iran.
Me, I'm just waiting for the US (government) to get blamed for the recent car bombing in Najaf.
Assuming you are who you claim to be (which I doubt)...
"This is completely wrong. All I did was examine the Blaster worm and make a few changes."
Oh no! Somebody's being held accountable for their own actions or lack thereof! The humanity!
Don't worry, son. I'm sure your lawyer will just trot out the ol' "EverQuest made me do it!" defense. No jury in the world would convict after that.
Stupid marketing trick, pissing off the world in general with it... Are you sure you don't mean Acclaim instead of Activision?
"Is there a pun with Siemens and exploding?"
"Siemen" sounds like "semen." I think you can figure out the rest on your own.
"Hydrogen burns nearly invisibly,"
Pure hydrogen burns invisibly. You can get it to burn whatever color you want if there's something else mixed in there. Think fireworks.
"Last year I was at Disney and they had this talking trach can that I assume was radio controlled."
Jack Valenti?
"Every time I think that Disney is dying,"
Yeah, I can see how you can confuse a multi-billion dollar corporation with a disturbing amount of mindshare, a die-hard fan-base that can make some practicioners of Scientology look sane in comparison, and a nasty track record of using/abusing copyright law (and those who write it) with, say, BSD.
"I forget who said this...
"Walt Disney has contributed more happiness to the world than all the religions combined.""
Whoever it was obviously didn't take into account Buena Vista's membership in the MPAA.
"Women are far less troubled by naked boobies, after all they see them pretty much everyday."
Really? What's their secret?
Diamonds BAAAAD!
"It cannot be "outranked" by property and trade secrets rights."
The hell it can't. My ownership of my front yard trumps your "right" to set up a soapbox on it.
Or are you saying that the first amendment give advertisers the right to set up a billboard on your property without your permission? Or that my "right" to reproduce virus code trumps your right to control what goes on with your computer?
"No state or federal law can "outrank" the Constitution of the United States."
It's called "common law." It's why the federal constitution says you can be secure in your papers and posessions without having to explicitly spell out what "papers" and "posessions" means.
At any rate, the argument was misapplied: A purchased DVD is no longer the property of the publisher.
EarthLink's new challenge-response system continues to kick ass. :)
But what's Disney going to do? Move to South Carolina?
"This explanation makes about as much sense as any other."
Better explaination: mediclorians!
"but movies would be boring if everyone did it."
Movies lately are boring anyway.
I'm sorry, but the eery silence of the vacuum inherently adds tension to scenes that might not otherwise be there.
There was a neat scene in one of the Robotech novels that talked about how the only way the pilots "heard" exploding craft were the screams of the dying coming over the radio. Put that in a movie, and suddenly you've gone from "Rambo" to "Saving Private Ryan."
" THE COOLEST SOUND EFFECTS. Everyone loved 'em."
Yep. Easily the best part of the movie. Had me laughing for hours afterwards. Sure, it's not quite on the same scale as, say, the Wing Commander movie, but it was the humorous high spot in anotherwise dreary movie.
If I want to see the kinds of "space" scenes that are in Star Wars, I can go to the History Channel and watch a documentary on Midway (which are somehow less predictable than this new batch of Star Wars movies). So far, when it comes to video portrayals of space battles, there's B5 and then there's everybody else.
But what about Mary Jane being able to hold on to Spider-Man while swinging along with a ~100m moment arm? Or is she a mutant too?
Hell, the folks on Takeshi's Castle have a hard enough time with a tenth of that length and nowhere near as much tangential velocity.
"Linux accounts for 61% of the defacements in the last 24 hours"
Does Linux hold a 61% share of webservers overall? If not, is it more or less than 61%? By how much?
What happens if I block outbound NTP requests?
"robot climbing the stairs and walking backwards."
If only the folks at OCP had paid more attention to this while developing the ED-209...
"Damn multi-LED faced monsters."
By your command.
I think putting the ESA in the same category as NASA and Rosaviakosmos is grasping at straws. The ESA is an effort by multiple G8 economies to attempt to do what the US and the Soviet Union were able to do with just one. That, and there's that whole manned spaceflight thing.
If you're looking for peers for the ESAs efforts, you shouldn't be looking at countries with manned space programs. You should instead be looking at Japan and India. And even then, with the UK, France, Germany and Italy all on the same boat, funding the same projects, you'd think they wouldn't be in danger of being passed by China.
"USA are founding the NASA less and less."
Someone set up us the rocket!