Wouldn't a better anaology be suing a Gnome or KDE for making an environment where it was possible for an end-user to choose options to make a Windows-like desktop? We are talking about people customizing something, not being sold a pre-made Wolverine costume or something like that.
So who is violating the copyright? You are the one that designed your character. The claim is that I can make a cigar smoking, yellow spandex wearing hero that has claws and regeneration capabilites. So who is violating the copyright? Do you have to get approval from Marvel before you create your new character? Let their lawyers verify I'm not to close to all of their IP? Or do you need to make all the costumes the same, so nobody is in violation?
I've probably logged a few hundred hours on COH and I hardly ever see comic book rip-offs. Simply because most of the people I see have much more creativity than that and it's a chance to express yourself.
I think it's foolish to think one side is being more bitter than the other. Chaney and other republicans have attacked Kerry relentlessly. I don't think either side is all the polite, or tried to be polite and was forced to go nasty.
I doubt if Bush wins 2008 will be a happy happy election. They will use the same aggressive strategies they always use.
This still counts as civil disobediance. You entered legally, heckeled the speaker, were arrested, got news coverage and that should be the end of it. Typiically non-violent civil disbediance is dealt with a summons, which is usually dismissed since the charges are minor and no economic or physical damage occured.
Punishing someone harshly for civil disobediance would be pretty bad for the state of our country. Since we'd be in effect locking up dissedents who refused to play along with the political machine that is American politics.
Aren't trademark disputes usually handled in civil cases? Is the Magic Cube banned in the US where customs is supposed to be seizing it at the ports? It seems odd to send agents to seize or force a removal of goods from a shop unless there is a health and saftey issue.
If someone bought one should they be expecting to have Customs come to their house to remove the offending toy?
It just seems an odd manner to enforce trademarks, since it doesn't really sound like a trademark dispute (making a similar toy doesn't violate trademark as far as I know, that would be patent law, wouldn't it?)
You have to keep in mind that there are people in prison that have yet to stand trial, are serving time for misdemenors and the like. Since they are still allowed to vote this is why they are given access to ballots.
The election officals in this case should pretty easily be able to determine why a person is in jail to begin with.
Gee great idea. So anyone who gets the $1000 tax credit for kids would be on the dole too, wouldn't they? Since that is aid for raising your children if effect. Most of us get some kind of support from the government, usually it's a fraction of the taxes we pay, but it's still being doled out to us. The whole idea is elitism.
Personally I have kidney failure, which makes me eligable for dialysis treatment through medicare. Since my option was die or get federal assistance I decided to get the treatment.
Actually this could have gotten far more interesting if the legislature got involved. Remember that they would have to select a panel of electors and get it voted through. I don't know how easy that would be for the republicans to force it through both houses. It could have led to a comprimise panel that split the votes of florida, leading to a tied electoral college.
Than I think it goes to the US House votes for the president and vice president. We would have ended up with a Bush/Gore presedancy probably... now that would be exciting.
So if I'm afraid I'm going to be murdered we should just round up everyone on the steet and search them? Even if there is no reason to suspect any of them is plotting a crime?
We are supposed to be free of unreasonable search, which means the police have to have some reasonable evidance that I am acting suspiciously. SCOUS has found that you can't search everyone in the area without probably cause on numerous occasions.
There is probably some lockout while in the rocket to avoid such an error I'd imagine. The mechanism might be engaged from mission control, and not always on, consuming battery life.
Maybe the people who feel the need to have the internet filtered for them automatically should gravitate to ISP's that perform the filtering for them? I find it had to believe that there is nobody in the market that provides that service. I'd be suprised if there wasn't a christian owned ISP that made sure they were very family friendly.
It's called being a smart consumer. Having the government get involved in censorship rarely has the limited scope people really want. All too often government officals take things to far once given the power.
I believe the ??AA themselves are the ones doing the prosecuting, and thus, paying for the litigation. I suppose public dollars may be going towards the defendants' legal bills, but public defenders are relatively cheap, and these are people who, after all, broke the law.
Corporations and thier Industry groups don't have the power to bring criminal charges (at least not yet). Any criminal charges would come from the Justice Department I imagine. And there are probably laws against a third party financing someone's prosecution.
I'm going to guess that actual prosecutions or even arrests for having lockpicks are rare. It would probably be in conjunction with another crime (like loitering in front of a place you were planning on breaking into).
The Onion ran an article titled: 48-Hour Internet Outage Plunges Nation Into Productivity...
It would be hard to think a internet outage could cause more monetary damage than a hurricane or an earthquake.
But it's not really an innovation. Jazzing up how something works doesn't make it patentable. Can I take someone's prior art and just re-package it and say I invented the idea of putting a bow on it?
They are still going to be at least 6 months behind AMD. It's rough going from Market-leader to catch-up... guess it takes a lot to break down and admit you went down the wrong path and wasted large sums of cash.
It's nice how the plan shields all the corporate entities (and governments for that matter) from liability. Like there hasn't been enough abuse done by corprate America even with the treat of lawsuits from consumer groups. Look at HMO's shield law and how that's used by greedy corporations to keep profits up.
If they identify you system incorrectly and fine you, you should be able to take them to small claims court and get more than your money back. Maybe I'm the only one that's had to argue with a call center operator in India about why my deactivated phone could not possibly have made a call and I shouldn't be held responsible for $9.48... and spent 2 hours arguing about it.
Not to mention that someone has already been hurt once by the virus writter, now the government is coming to pile on and make sure the person is sorry about letting themselves be victimized.
Also, how are you going to fix your system if the ISP knocks you off the net? Somebody from the ISP going to go to everyone's computer to verify it's patch load they way some Corp. IT staff have to?
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Wouldn't a better anaology be suing a Gnome or KDE for making an environment where it was possible for an end-user to choose options to make a Windows-like desktop? We are talking about people customizing something, not being sold a pre-made Wolverine costume or something like that.
So who is violating the copyright? You are the one that designed your character. The claim is that I can make a cigar smoking, yellow spandex wearing hero that has claws and regeneration capabilites. So who is violating the copyright? Do you have to get approval from Marvel before you create your new character? Let their lawyers verify I'm not to close to all of their IP? Or do you need to make all the costumes the same, so nobody is in violation?
I've probably logged a few hundred hours on COH and I hardly ever see comic book rip-offs. Simply because most of the people I see have much more creativity than that and it's a chance to express yourself.
I think it's foolish to think one side is being more bitter than the other. Chaney and other republicans have attacked Kerry relentlessly. I don't think either side is all the polite, or tried to be polite and was forced to go nasty. I doubt if Bush wins 2008 will be a happy happy election. They will use the same aggressive strategies they always use.
This still counts as civil disobediance. You entered legally, heckeled the speaker, were arrested, got news coverage and that should be the end of it. Typiically non-violent civil disbediance is dealt with a summons, which is usually dismissed since the charges are minor and no economic or physical damage occured.
Punishing someone harshly for civil disobediance would be pretty bad for the state of our country. Since we'd be in effect locking up dissedents who refused to play along with the political machine that is American politics.
Aren't trademark disputes usually handled in civil cases? Is the Magic Cube banned in the US where customs is supposed to be seizing it at the ports? It seems odd to send agents to seize or force a removal of goods from a shop unless there is a health and saftey issue. If someone bought one should they be expecting to have Customs come to their house to remove the offending toy? It just seems an odd manner to enforce trademarks, since it doesn't really sound like a trademark dispute (making a similar toy doesn't violate trademark as far as I know, that would be patent law, wouldn't it?)
You have to keep in mind that there are people in prison that have yet to stand trial, are serving time for misdemenors and the like. Since they are still allowed to vote this is why they are given access to ballots. The election officals in this case should pretty easily be able to determine why a person is in jail to begin with.
Personally I have kidney failure, which makes me eligable for dialysis treatment through medicare. Since my option was die or get federal assistance I decided to get the treatment.
Than I think it goes to the US House votes for the president and vice president. We would have ended up with a Bush/Gore presedancy probably... now that would be exciting.
We are supposed to be free of unreasonable search, which means the police have to have some reasonable evidance that I am acting suspiciously. SCOUS has found that you can't search everyone in the area without probably cause on numerous occasions.
There is probably some lockout while in the rocket to avoid such an error I'd imagine. The mechanism might be engaged from mission control, and not always on, consuming battery life.
It's called being a smart consumer. Having the government get involved in censorship rarely has the limited scope people really want. All too often government officals take things to far once given the power.
I believe the ??AA themselves are the ones doing the prosecuting, and thus, paying for the litigation. I suppose public dollars may be going towards the defendants' legal bills, but public defenders are relatively cheap, and these are people who, after all, broke the law. Corporations and thier Industry groups don't have the power to bring criminal charges (at least not yet). Any criminal charges would come from the Justice Department I imagine. And there are probably laws against a third party financing someone's prosecution.
I'm going to guess that actual prosecutions or even arrests for having lockpicks are rare. It would probably be in conjunction with another crime (like loitering in front of a place you were planning on breaking into).
The Onion ran an article titled: 48-Hour Internet Outage Plunges Nation Into Productivity... It would be hard to think a internet outage could cause more monetary damage than a hurricane or an earthquake.
But it's not really an innovation. Jazzing up how something works doesn't make it patentable. Can I take someone's prior art and just re-package it and say I invented the idea of putting a bow on it?
They are still going to be at least 6 months behind AMD. It's rough going from Market-leader to catch-up... guess it takes a lot to break down and admit you went down the wrong path and wasted large sums of cash.
It's nice how the plan shields all the corporate entities (and governments for that matter) from liability. Like there hasn't been enough abuse done by corprate America even with the treat of lawsuits from consumer groups. Look at HMO's shield law and how that's used by greedy corporations to keep profits up. If they identify you system incorrectly and fine you, you should be able to take them to small claims court and get more than your money back. Maybe I'm the only one that's had to argue with a call center operator in India about why my deactivated phone could not possibly have made a call and I shouldn't be held responsible for $9.48... and spent 2 hours arguing about it. Not to mention that someone has already been hurt once by the virus writter, now the government is coming to pile on and make sure the person is sorry about letting themselves be victimized. Also, how are you going to fix your system if the ISP knocks you off the net? Somebody from the ISP going to go to everyone's computer to verify it's patch load they way some Corp. IT staff have to?