A reader at Groklaw has already picked up that she is seeking to have the RIAA forfeit the copyrights in question as part of the settlement (search the page for '18.6-7')."
She ought to offer to sell the rights back for whatever they were suing for.
Why these religious restrictions are no longer valid:
These phrases are historical relics, left over from earlier times. The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution supersedes any applicable statutory laws and sections of state constitutions. It thus nullifies the effect of the above clauses. This was confirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court, as described below.
A U.S. Supreme Court case -- Torcaso v Watkins -- in 1961...
I can't speak for the poster, but try Los Angeles. The last time I checked, these were the stats: The median new home price is $517,000.00 (where I live it's closer to $640,000.00). The median monthly rent on a 2 bedroom apartment in Los Angeles is $1,200.00 (where I live it's closer to $1600.00). If you figure you don't want to spend more than 35% of your income on housing, that means you need about $3,428.57/month (works out to about $19.78/hour on a 40 hour week). For the home, let's pretend you have decent credit and 20% to put down (yeah, 20% of $517,000.00 is $103,400.00). With tax and insurance, your monthly mortgage payment is going to be about $3,144.83. That means you need an income of about $8,985.23/month (works out to about $51.83/hour on a 40 hour week).
If you wonder how the average Los Angeles resident can afford a new home, they can't. The median household Los Angeles income is $41,486.00 ($19.94/hour).
There are less expensive houses, of house. If you don't mind living in neighborhoods with much higher crime rates or so far from your job that an hour each way is a short distance (or both), you can get a house into the mid-$200,000's.
And if I acted the way I've seen kids act today, I would have been disciplined -up to and including being spanked. It sounds like you're one of those "parents and their damn kids" that we kid-free adults complain about. Having been out to a nice restaurant after 8pm and seeing 5-6 year olds running around completely unsupervised or having the snot-nosed brat leaning over the back of the booth staring at me during my infrequent night out with my wife AND having been in an R-rated movie where some idiot brings their crying and screaming 3 year old, I feel I have THE RIGHT to complain. If a child cannot behave in public, either the parents have failed at parenting or the child needs professional help. Either way, THE PARENT is completely responsible for failing to supervise, discipline and, in general, BE A PARENT.
When I was in high school (late 80's), my best friend turned 18 before our senior year started. He wrote his own excuses for missing classes. We once pulled out a thesaurus and wrote the most ridiculous excuse ever put to paper. I wish I still had a copy.
The office was required to accept it as he was legally an adult.
It depends on where you live and whether or not you have a family. In the midwest, $80k is a fortune. In Southern California, $80 won't get you a median priced new home (over $600k).
Why did you have to install Win98SE 3 times a month? Seriously. I don't think I ever reinstalled my Win98SE install. I ran it with few problems. It did what I wanted it to do, and when it wouldn't, it was usually a hardware hindrance, not a software one (P166 w/ 96 megs EDORAM and a 2 meg video card only does so much. I ran old hardware for quite a long time).
I ran my P166 into the ground and had installed, over time, Win95, then 95B, then 98, then 98SE. When it would no longer do what I wanted, I built my own system and continued to run 98SE until I bought XP (got a discount- fiancee was in college at the time).
One caveat: I was not using the Windows shell for the majority of the time. This may have a real effect on the usability and stability of the operating system. I used Geoshell and was able to run the above-mentioned system for 7+ weeks without a reboot.
I got BSODs daily for months. They started when I tried Win2k and then continued when I got WinXP Pro. I got them so often I considered going back to Win98 SE. Then, I changed my RAM from the cheap stuff (PNY) to the good stuff (Kingston) based on the error message I was receiving. The BSODs stopped immediately. I haven't seen a BSOD in over a year.
Depends on the call center. The one I work in required 6 weeks of classroom-style training followed by 6 weeks of closely monitored phone work. Then, once the phone-training supervisor determined you were skilled enough, you were released into the main queue without the immediate monitoring. You are still randomly monitored several times a month and the time on the phone actively taking calls must exceed a certain level. Oh, and for the last 6 months a minimum of 6 hours a week OT has been required. I do not work tech-support, but if you think I am unskilled, you are incorrect.
It's rare, I'm sure, but fingerprints can be changed. My left index finger was sliced down to the bone 15 years ago. My fingerprint from that finger is no longer the same. (The doctor who sewed it up only had one arm and couldn't sew quite as well as a standard multi-armed doctor. True story.)
I walked into Best Buy to buy a TV with an estimated $800-1000 budget. I knew what I wanted to spend. The salesperson, who wasn't as polite as she should have been, mentioned getting 6 months same-as-cash if I obtained one of their high interest rate credit cards. What the hell. I had the cash and would leave it in savings for six months and then pay the bill in full. The salesperson walked off saying "I'll see if I can get you approved for enough." I winked at my girlfriend and told her to wait. Oh, I had hair halfway down my back and wear earrings, jeans, t-shirt and a baseball cap everywhere I go. When she came back, there was a noticably different amount of respect when she told me I was approved for $4k. Treat me right. I am employed and enjoy my few toys.
Highlander II: We're Really Aliens
Highlander III: There Can Be Only One, Unless The Others Are Hidden Underground
Highlander IV: Sucking the Well Dry or The TV Series Was Too Popular to Let This Die
Highlander V: Yes, We're Making Another One (in production so the subtitle may change)
I ran Windows 98 SE and had relatively few BSODs. Then, I switched to Win 2k Pro and had 1-3 BSODs/spontaneous reboots a day. This confused me as everyone had been telling me how stable Win 2k was. I heard that Win XP was even better, so I switched to Win XP Pro and had 3-5 BSODs/spontaneous reboots a day. I did search after search and finally nailed it down to my cheap-ass PNY RAM. I switched to Kingston memory and have had 0 BSODs/spontaneous reboots in 18 months. The moral? Don't buy cheap RAM.
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Mmmmmm... Sour Cream & Onion-flavored Pringles can creator ashes...
Judges who must recuse themselves from any case involving the RIAA? Sounds good to me.
Add California to that list, too.
Left mine blank.
Agreed to the nth degree. It's on my short list of "must install" programs.
Irfanview
GeoShell
Notepad++
Firefox
Thunderbird
CDex
WinAmp
PowerArchiver
VLC
FileZilla
XChat
Open Office
Zone Alarm
AVG by Grisoft
Is that still a short list?
Attached files are stored online on a server owned by a company. Right?
You may have missed this section of that page:
Why these religious restrictions are no longer valid:
These phrases are historical relics, left over from earlier times. The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution supersedes any applicable statutory laws and sections of state constitutions. It thus nullifies the effect of the above clauses. This was confirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court, as described below.
A U.S. Supreme Court case -- Torcaso v Watkins -- in 1961...
I can't speak for the poster, but try Los Angeles. The last time I checked, these were the stats: The median new home price is $517,000.00 (where I live it's closer to $640,000.00). The median monthly rent on a 2 bedroom apartment in Los Angeles is $1,200.00 (where I live it's closer to $1600.00). If you figure you don't want to spend more than 35% of your income on housing, that means you need about $3,428.57/month (works out to about $19.78/hour on a 40 hour week). For the home, let's pretend you have decent credit and 20% to put down (yeah, 20% of $517,000.00 is $103,400.00). With tax and insurance, your monthly mortgage payment is going to be about $3,144.83. That means you need an income of about $8,985.23/month (works out to about $51.83/hour on a 40 hour week).
If you wonder how the average Los Angeles resident can afford a new home, they can't. The median household Los Angeles income is $41,486.00 ($19.94/hour).
There are less expensive houses, of house. If you don't mind living in neighborhoods with much higher crime rates or so far from your job that an hour each way is a short distance (or both), you can get a house into the mid-$200,000's.And if I acted the way I've seen kids act today, I would have been disciplined -up to and including being spanked. It sounds like you're one of those "parents and their damn kids" that we kid-free adults complain about. Having been out to a nice restaurant after 8pm and seeing 5-6 year olds running around completely unsupervised or having the snot-nosed brat leaning over the back of the booth staring at me during my infrequent night out with my wife AND having been in an R-rated movie where some idiot brings their crying and screaming 3 year old, I feel I have THE RIGHT to complain. If a child cannot behave in public, either the parents have failed at parenting or the child needs professional help. Either way, THE PARENT is completely responsible for failing to supervise, discipline and, in general, BE A PARENT.
You could try one of the shell replacement programs. I've used Geoshell for years. It allows modification of the desktop menu.
When I was in high school (late 80's), my best friend turned 18 before our senior year started. He wrote his own excuses for missing classes. We once pulled out a thesaurus and wrote the most ridiculous excuse ever put to paper. I wish I still had a copy.
The office was required to accept it as he was legally an adult.
It depends on where you live and whether or not you have a family. In the midwest, $80k is a fortune. In Southern California, $80 won't get you a median priced new home (over $600k).
You didn't know we were providing R&D money to North Korea? Where have you been?
Why did you have to install Win98SE 3 times a month? Seriously. I don't think I ever reinstalled my Win98SE install. I ran it with few problems. It did what I wanted it to do, and when it wouldn't, it was usually a hardware hindrance, not a software one (P166 w/ 96 megs EDORAM and a 2 meg video card only does so much. I ran old hardware for quite a long time).
I ran my P166 into the ground and had installed, over time, Win95, then 95B, then 98, then 98SE. When it would no longer do what I wanted, I built my own system and continued to run 98SE until I bought XP (got a discount- fiancee was in college at the time). One caveat: I was not using the Windows shell for the majority of the time. This may have a real effect on the usability and stability of the operating system. I used Geoshell and was able to run the above-mentioned system for 7+ weeks without a reboot.
C'mon, cut us some slack! I'm FINALLY gonna get broadband! I wanna download!
I got BSODs daily for months. They started when I tried Win2k and then continued when I got WinXP Pro. I got them so often I considered going back to Win98 SE. Then, I changed my RAM from the cheap stuff (PNY) to the good stuff (Kingston) based on the error message I was receiving. The BSODs stopped immediately. I haven't seen a BSOD in over a year.
Depends on the call center. The one I work in required 6 weeks of classroom-style training followed by 6 weeks of closely monitored phone work. Then, once the phone-training supervisor determined you were skilled enough, you were released into the main queue without the immediate monitoring. You are still randomly monitored several times a month and the time on the phone actively taking calls must exceed a certain level. Oh, and for the last 6 months a minimum of 6 hours a week OT has been required. I do not work tech-support, but if you think I am unskilled, you are incorrect.
It's rare, I'm sure, but fingerprints can be changed. My left index finger was sliced down to the bone 15 years ago. My fingerprint from that finger is no longer the same. (The doctor who sewed it up only had one arm and couldn't sew quite as well as a standard multi-armed doctor. True story.)
I walked into Best Buy to buy a TV with an estimated $800-1000 budget. I knew what I wanted to spend. The salesperson, who wasn't as polite as she should have been, mentioned getting 6 months same-as-cash if I obtained one of their high interest rate credit cards. What the hell. I had the cash and would leave it in savings for six months and then pay the bill in full. The salesperson walked off saying "I'll see if I can get you approved for enough." I winked at my girlfriend and told her to wait. Oh, I had hair halfway down my back and wear earrings, jeans, t-shirt and a baseball cap everywhere I go. When she came back, there was a noticably different amount of respect when she told me I was approved for $4k. Treat me right. I am employed and enjoy my few toys.
"even in a mythological Age there must be some enigmas, as there always are. Tom Bombadil is one (intentionally)" - J R R Tolkien, Letters
Apparently, it was intentional.
Tom Bombadil and Goldberry. Main source.
Last I heard, not to be included.
Wells Fargo works fine for me.
Highlander II: We're Really Aliens
Highlander III: There Can Be Only One, Unless The Others Are Hidden Underground
Highlander IV: Sucking the Well Dry or The TV Series Was Too Popular to Let This Die
Highlander V: Yes, We're Making Another One (in production so the subtitle may change)
I ran Windows 98 SE and had relatively few BSODs. Then, I switched to Win 2k Pro and had 1-3 BSODs/spontaneous reboots a day. This confused me as everyone had been telling me how stable Win 2k was. I heard that Win XP was even better, so I switched to Win XP Pro and had 3-5 BSODs/spontaneous reboots a day. I did search after search and finally nailed it down to my cheap-ass PNY RAM. I switched to Kingston memory and have had 0 BSODs/spontaneous reboots in 18 months. The moral? Don't buy cheap RAM.
You must not spend much time on message boards. The most common misuse would have to be one of these two:
your-you'rethere-they're-their
Every time I see one of those, it makes me wonder if anyone paid any attention in English class.