"Apparently 1 gram of the new drug provides as much pain blocking as 3 grams of morphine."
Yeah...
As someone who spent a night last week in a relatively large hospital, hearing the complaints of other patients in the emergency room and later the complaints of my roommate, I think I can safely say that, unless this stuff is also three time as addictive as morphine, it won't catch on. Within hours of the first hospital dispensing this stuff to patients, at least one will start to complain that they've "built up a tolerance" to the new drug and that they need their precious, precious opiate for their phantom ailments.
Pain killers have already come a long way since morphine; there are other reasons why it hasn't gone away.
Thanks for clarifying, in your original post it seemed that you were saying that a federal court could hear a matter of state law at whim. However, I'm left with one bit of nit-picking from the example you used:
"You'll end up in a county court, most likely, which is a court created by your state, but you can make an argument based on the federal constitution."
That seems to be covered by the Supremacy Clause and/or the way (I assume) all state constitutions copy the Supremacy Clause verbatim.
"A state court can not only deal with federal law, but it can also interpret the law of other states in making its decisions in a case that demands it."
Even Wii news will consist of nothing but "ZOMG, it looks like it's selling/not selling!" for the next several weeks. The only indicators we will have of whether or not either the PS3 or the Wii are atually selling will come at the end of the current reporting period, weeks after the launches.
This is all hype, there is nothing we're seeing that will be able to tell us whether we're looking at the next SNES or the next Dreamcast, for any of these new consoles. Nothing but marketing masturbation, and I really can't see the point in looking at video game news until 2007 when this is all that's going to be seen.
"Federal courts are perfectly able to decide matters of state law, and in fact do so all the time."
"Remember that the federal government lacks inherent powers and instead is given powers from the states and the people."
So... um... how do federal courts get to touch on state law "all the time?" Unless we're talking about things like "controversies between citizens of different states," I'm not seeing how that happens.
The shortages in Sony's production of the PS3 were destined to give the console mad headlines this week, much as during the PS2 launch. But none of this answers any of the important questions for the console's future; yes, supply cannot meet demand right now, but what is the actual overall demand? It's going to take at least until December 1, if not January 1, to figure out whether people will still be buying it once production starts to ramp up.
I'm beginning to wonder if it's even worth coming to games.slashdot.org between now and 2007.
"Let's be clear. The CEA's primary concern is not consumers, but technology companies -- often large, multinational corporations which, like us, strive to make a profit... "
But, unlike you, the CEA does not seek this profit through monopoly control over the products they sell (OK, with the possible expception of Sony...). A CD player is a CD player is a CD player, no matter who manfucatures it, but a new Death Cab for Cutie CD can only come from Atlantic. Because the electronics manufacturers don't have nearly the same amount of federal legal power to fall back on to protect their profits, they are far more inclined to (day I say it) cater to the whims of the customer (insert previous Sony caveat here).
While there is always the danger of manufacuring cartels getting together to limit consumer choice in the realm of hardware (DVD-CSS), these cartels don't have the same kind of legal protections that copyright holders do, and are always susceptible to competitors making cheaper yet more functional devices (Wal-Mart won't try to sell bootleg movies, but will be more than happy to sell you a region-free DVD player).
"Am I the only one on Slashdot who thinks PS3 will eventually be a huge hit?"
After seeing Zonk drink the Kool-Aid yesterday, I think that, with the arrival of the PS3 and (in a few hours) the Wii, the time for discussing and forecasting is over. The constant debate over who's going to win isn't all that interesting any more now that the polling places are open and the ballots are being cast.
Bring the subject up again in a year, but before then there's just going to be too much noise to get a decent signal out of.
OK, normally I'm only a low-ranking brownshirt in the Grammar Nazi heierarchy, but I had to re-read this passage two or three times before I figured out what was meant. For the sake of saving others from the same headache, I give to you the Amazing Comma:
and said some women, who don't play, unfairly equate games with crime and violence.
I mean, really; I was trying to figure out why women who cheat at games don't make the same associations...
"But vote tallying is a different matter, mostly due to the statistical methods used."
Then do you have information on the nature of these "statistical methods?"
"That is, the constitution is not concerned with your vote so much as it is concerned with accurate race results. Which means that as long as the aggregate results are accurate, your specific vote actually doesn't "matter"!"
Then do you know the federal cases where this standard came from?
"Did this error change the outcome of a race? That is the first consideration, because if it didn't then the severity of the error is vastly reduced."
No, the only possible way the severity of the error might be considered "changed" would be if there were more or fewer such miscounted votes. To wit:
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
It doesn't matter whether or not a particular vote would have changed the outcome of the election, all votes must be treated with equal importance.
I mean, I'm only bringing up like 7 decades worth of federal judicial precendence here...
"You think they only WANT to have this many units for the Japan and US launch, and push the Europe launch back so far?"
Regularly-scheduled earnings reports means it is to Sony's advantage in the stock markets to end the year on a high note ("We sold out of PS3s!") even if that high note is inevitibly followed by a very low note ("We don't have enough PS3s to sell!"). They've got time to figure out how to cope with the problems later so long as they're able to publish the "good news" as quickly as possible, before the end of the reporting period.
Image is everything here.
"When Nintendo is launching a highly-awaited product at the same time?"
If I remember correctly, the Yamauchi family still owns controlling interest, so as a company they are far less interested in being able to throw out "good" news come 2007 January 01 so long as the Yamauchi clan is happy.
Yeah, um... maybe you should have told that to the kids who stole pizza from me and broke my jaw last Thursday. And, no, I didn't lay a finger on any of them, but things might have gone better for me if I were able to.
There are savage people out there. Not all violent acts are savage. e. g. the proper way for police to subdue a resistant suspect is often violent but should never be savage. Simply forsaking all violence without qualifiers denies yourself the proper tool for some jobs, especially when dealing with savages.
"The nature of language is that you must maintain it in order to prevent it from devolving."
Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote And bathed every veyne in swich licour, Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
You'd best get busy, especially since you've picked like the worst language to try to defend as such; between the lingual exchanges that came about from the British Empire and immigration into the US, you've got your work cut out for you to get us all back to Middle English. And then you can start working on that pesky Norman influence to get us back to Old English, e. g.
Hwæt! We Gardena in geardagum, eodcyninga, rym gefrunon, hu ða æelingas ellen fremedon.
Best of luck to ya!
(There is no "right" or "wrong" about lingual evolution. If it works, it sticks. If it doesn't, it fails. Learn to cope with that before you burst a vessel, because you'd be hard-pressed to get us alll back to the language of Shakespeare.)
"This is good news indeed, although Clay Shot was much harder (and thus, the place where I spent more time) than shooting ducks. Except for those brown ones. Stupid brown ducks."
A control pad connected to the first socket can control the ducks. Little-known fact mentioned in the game's instruction manual.
"Following the pivotal U.S. Midterm elections, things look hopeful for a free and open Internet, but the likelihood of progress in terms of copyright and privacy legislation is still uncertain."
No, all we've done is replace the darlings of the telecommuncations businesses with the darlings of the media businesses; the party of Stevens with the party of Feinstein.
Which party's president signed the DMCA into law again?
Slashdot Mirror
"Apparently 1 gram of the new drug provides as much pain blocking as 3 grams of morphine."
Yeah...
As someone who spent a night last week in a relatively large hospital, hearing the complaints of other patients in the emergency room and later the complaints of my roommate, I think I can safely say that, unless this stuff is also three time as addictive as morphine, it won't catch on. Within hours of the first hospital dispensing this stuff to patients, at least one will start to complain that they've "built up a tolerance" to the new drug and that they need their precious, precious opiate for their phantom ailments.
Pain killers have already come a long way since morphine; there are other reasons why it hasn't gone away.
Seriously... what kind of freakin' moron do you have to be to misspell "QWERTY?" Unless he's using a non-English keyboard, this is just... sad...
Thanks for clarifying, in your original post it seemed that you were saying that a federal court could hear a matter of state law at whim. However, I'm left with one bit of nit-picking from the example you used:
"You'll end up in a county court, most likely, which is a court created by your state, but you can make an argument based on the federal constitution."
That seems to be covered by the Supremacy Clause and/or the way (I assume) all state constitutions copy the Supremacy Clause verbatim.
"A state court can not only deal with federal law, but it can also interpret the law of other states in making its decisions in a case that demands it."
Full Faith and Credit?
Even Wii news will consist of nothing but "ZOMG, it looks like it's selling/not selling!" for the next several weeks. The only indicators we will have of whether or not either the PS3 or the Wii are atually selling will come at the end of the current reporting period, weeks after the launches.
This is all hype, there is nothing we're seeing that will be able to tell us whether we're looking at the next SNES or the next Dreamcast, for any of these new consoles. Nothing but marketing masturbation, and I really can't see the point in looking at video game news until 2007 when this is all that's going to be seen.
"Federal courts are perfectly able to decide matters of state law, and in fact do so all the time."
"Remember that the federal government lacks inherent powers and instead is given powers from the states and the people."
So... um... how do federal courts get to touch on state law "all the time?" Unless we're talking about things like "controversies between citizens of different states," I'm not seeing how that happens.
"The other side came back with an argument that copyright law didn't apply, simply because they software was 'being given away for free.'""
Have you ever seen milk come out of a judge's nose?
The shortages in Sony's production of the PS3 were destined to give the console mad headlines this week, much as during the PS2 launch. But none of this answers any of the important questions for the console's future; yes, supply cannot meet demand right now, but what is the actual overall demand? It's going to take at least until December 1, if not January 1, to figure out whether people will still be buying it once production starts to ramp up.
I'm beginning to wonder if it's even worth coming to games.slashdot.org between now and 2007.
"Let's be clear. The CEA's primary concern is not consumers, but technology companies -- often large, multinational corporations which, like us, strive to make a profit... "
But, unlike you, the CEA does not seek this profit through monopoly control over the products they sell (OK, with the possible expception of Sony...). A CD player is a CD player is a CD player, no matter who manfucatures it, but a new Death Cab for Cutie CD can only come from Atlantic. Because the electronics manufacturers don't have nearly the same amount of federal legal power to fall back on to protect their profits, they are far more inclined to (day I say it) cater to the whims of the customer (insert previous Sony caveat here).
While there is always the danger of manufacuring cartels getting together to limit consumer choice in the realm of hardware (DVD-CSS), these cartels don't have the same kind of legal protections that copyright holders do, and are always susceptible to competitors making cheaper yet more functional devices (Wal-Mart won't try to sell bootleg movies, but will be more than happy to sell you a region-free DVD player).
"Slashdotters, trollers, and pollsters one and all, what say you? Disingenuous or dissembling?"
Well... you can't say the parent post is offtopic. I mean, this was all but asked for.
"Now just think if those notes had been released onto the internet. According to slashdot we would have had a masterpiece much sooner."
No, we'd have five or six as the literary code forked and forked again, not to mention the competing book licenses they'd be released under.
"Am I the only one on Slashdot who thinks PS3 will eventually be a huge hit?"
After seeing Zonk drink the Kool-Aid yesterday, I think that, with the arrival of the PS3 and (in a few hours) the Wii, the time for discussing and forecasting is over. The constant debate over who's going to win isn't all that interesting any more now that the polling places are open and the ballots are being cast.
Bring the subject up again in a year, but before then there's just going to be too much noise to get a decent signal out of.
I mean, really; I was trying to figure out why women who cheat at games don't make the same associations...
"But vote tallying is a different matter, mostly due to the statistical methods used."
Then do you have information on the nature of these "statistical methods?"
"That is, the constitution is not concerned with your vote so much as it is concerned with accurate race results. Which means that as long as the aggregate results are accurate, your specific vote actually doesn't "matter"!"
Then do you know the federal cases where this standard came from?
No, the only possible way the severity of the error might be considered "changed" would be if there were more or fewer such miscounted votes. To wit:
It doesn't matter whether or not a particular vote would have changed the outcome of the election, all votes must be treated with equal importance.
I mean, I'm only bringing up like 7 decades worth of federal judicial precendence here...
"You think they only WANT to have this many units for the Japan and US launch, and push the Europe launch back so far?"
Regularly-scheduled earnings reports means it is to Sony's advantage in the stock markets to end the year on a high note ("We sold out of PS3s!") even if that high note is inevitibly followed by a very low note ("We don't have enough PS3s to sell!"). They've got time to figure out how to cope with the problems later so long as they're able to publish the "good news" as quickly as possible, before the end of the reporting period.
Image is everything here.
"When Nintendo is launching a highly-awaited product at the same time?"
If I remember correctly, the Yamauchi family still owns controlling interest, so as a company they are far less interested in being able to throw out "good" news come 2007 January 01 so long as the Yamauchi clan is happy.
"violence only begets more violence"
Yeah, um... maybe you should have told that to the kids who stole pizza from me and broke my jaw last Thursday. And, no, I didn't lay a finger on any of them, but things might have gone better for me if I were able to.
There are savage people out there. Not all violent acts are savage. e. g. the proper way for police to subdue a resistant suspect is often violent but should never be savage. Simply forsaking all violence without qualifiers denies yourself the proper tool for some jobs, especially when dealing with savages.
Oh, I did. It's just I didn't feel clean again no matter how much I scrubbed afterwards.
"Unless it has a game where you can make little school girls dance to your music!"
So. Fucking. Japanese.
Dear Lord, does somebody havea rusty spoon I can borrow? I need to gouge out my own eyeballs after seeing that saccharine hell.
And I actually thought I was an otaku...
You'd best get busy, especially since you've picked like the worst language to try to defend as such; between the lingual exchanges that came about from the British Empire and immigration into the US, you've got your work cut out for you to get us all back to Middle English. And then you can start working on that pesky Norman influence to get us back to Old English, e. g.
Best of luck to ya!
(There is no "right" or "wrong" about lingual evolution. If it works, it sticks. If it doesn't, it fails. Learn to cope with that before you burst a vessel, because you'd be hard-pressed to get us alll back to the language of Shakespeare.)
"There is a short circuit possible. Impeach Bush and Cheney without approving a new VP selection"
Conviction requires 2/3 of the Senate, which won't happen short of Nixon-esque public outrcy.
"result is an unelected President Pelosi."
So selection by House members from single-member districts is "unelected" while selection by at-large presidential electors isn't?
No.
Congress != Attorney General
Try again after 2009 January 20.
"This is good news indeed, although Clay Shot was much harder (and thus, the place where I spent more time) than shooting ducks. Except for those brown ones. Stupid brown ducks."
A control pad connected to the first socket can control the ducks. Little-known fact mentioned in the game's instruction manual.
"Following the pivotal U.S. Midterm elections, things look hopeful for a free and open Internet, but the likelihood of progress in terms of copyright and privacy legislation is still uncertain."
No, all we've done is replace the darlings of the telecommuncations businesses with the darlings of the media businesses; the party of Stevens with the party of Feinstein.
Which party's president signed the DMCA into law again?
Bacon? Prosciutto? Fatty mammals taste like othe fatty mammals! Film at eleven!
I mean, there are reasons why we use pig organs in transplants.
Even Bush-bashing has to make at least a little sense, people!
I mean, I know parent is trying to make a Katrina connection, but this is strained at best.