Actually, I was hostile toward the first sentence: "Hm, so according to USA Law, you can slander a company (or person?) in any way you want as long as it is deemed to be satire." The slander/libel thing was just an illustration of the poster's ignorance of the laws he was commenting on.
As for the actual difference between the two, I'm not sure that there are differences in the penalties. But your post would imply that when slander is recorded and transmitted, it becomes libel, which is not true. Or am I misreading?
Please note the form of the mark. First, not a trademark, but a service mark. Second, it only applies to the use of the word "priceless" in conjunction with "Financial services, namely, providing credit card, debit card, charge card and stored value smart card services, prepaid telephone calling card services, cash disbursement, and transaction authorization and settlement services. "
There is a point to trademark - it is to keep competitors in your line of business from reaping the fruits of your advertising. Yes, people and companies try to abuse it, but the reason for its existence is still valid.
You are confusing "free speech" with noise pollution. The right of freedom of speech is a right to be able to speak your opinion or speak facts without government suppression. It concerns content, not the existence of noise coming out of your mouth.
If you were standing on my street at 3:00 AM having a "conversation" with your signifigant other at screaming level, would you expect NOT to be arrested for disturbing the peace?
And actually, freedom of speech does *not* include interfering with others. If I pass by a demonstration I might be annoyed, and that's fine: I can excercise my freedom of expression to ignore, make a gesture, or tell the protesters my opinion. But if someone lays a hand on me (battery) or blocks my path (restricting my freedom of movement/kidnapping), all bets are off.
I believe that most "protests" that are designed to interfere with others are the social equivalent of a temper tantrum: the public isn't paying attention, but some cause is so important that the protesters will MAKE everyone pay attention. Oh, protesters will grab my attention by chaining themselves across a bridge and screwing up traffic for 2 hours, but it will be negative attention, and their cause (aside from from the orgy of self congratulation at having "done something") won't benefit from it.
Patrick O'Brian wrote 20 Aubrey/Maturin books (I'm waiting for #3 from the library). Plenty of potential, there.
Of course, there were 50(?) Coan books, too...
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Although loathe to go against the grain of the back patting, I have some issues with your rant.
1. "Audiovisual works are our cultural legacy" Perhaps. The whole concept of "audiovisual works" is relatively new. This is opposed to plays and musical scores, where the important part is the written document, not the performance itself. I personally find the idea of AV as a "cultural legacy" a bit dubious. If we exclude the packrat/archivist version of cultural preservation, there is a kind of Darwinism at work: Good stuff gets preserved, bad stuff gets forgotten. When one considers the amount of total crap that gets produced, who would WANT to preserve it?
2)Media: "Eventually, "dead tree" media will die". Bullshit. I have yet to see a reasoned argument why this will happen. If you have one, serve it up. As for not being able to access some digital media in 20 years: welcome to the present. There is a ton of stuff that is effectively inaccessible due to format changes and media deterioration. Hell, CD-R's are only lasting a short while. In that light, proprietary formats are only another obstacle to the archivist.
Actually, no. Missiles would be defined as "artillery," and so not under the Second Amendment as envisioned by the writers of the Constitution.
"Arms" are carried by 1 person. "Artillery" is crew served. There was a distintion between them 200 years ago, and the Founding Fathers knew *exactly* what they were writing. So all of the arguments about the second amendment and "personal nuclear weapons" are red herrings.
Hint: any prank that intends to "teach a lesson" is bound to backfire.
I can tell you this much: if my team did this to me, and then even HINTED at how "valuable" they were, they'd be fired on the spot, project status be damned.
Actually, I wouldn't have to fire them - I'd just accept their resignations. Remember, once you "resign", you can't just take it back - it is in the employer's hands to decide.
I first saw this movie in high school when I was taking latin, taught by a nun.
I was the only one curled up in a tight little ball suffocating from my own laughter at the thought of Sister Perpetua threatening to cut my balls off if I missed a pop quiz,
This decision by the FCC is nothing but posturing. It won't stand a court challenge on the face of it. There will be a big hoo-ha, and then after the rule gets unceremoniously dumped by the courts, the FCC will be able to say "Hey, we tried, now lay off the irate phone calls and e-mails."
1: Have you looked into refurbishing the batteries? Type "Battery Desulphation" into Google, and you migh find some ways to re-use the batteries you got.
2: Hazardous waste disposal fees? Bullshit. Batteries are chock full of recyclable lead, and should NEVER be "disposed of" except to make new batteries. Look up "recycling, batteries" in your local yellow pages, and I think you may have some luck. Definitely think local on this - shipping any distance will kill you.
3: Having dismissed the whole "hazardous waste" thing above, I will now state that batteries are indeed hazardous. Or at least not something you want just sitting around. Your boss is being foolish if he thinks that by "not budgeting" for disposal, that makes the issue go away. Batteries can leak acid and give off explosive hydrogen. If something bad happens, your Boss will like paying the cost of that problem even less than your current problem.
If you are moving into a new space, you should have a construction allowance built into the lease. This will cover reconfiguring the office space and changing the electrical & mechanical systems. Why worry about mechanical systems? Because if you are going to need an electrical upgrade due to increased power consumption, you will need upgraded HVAC.
Before the lease is signed, get a design done and get bids on the work. The bids will give an honest account of the suitability of the space. You can now back out or go forward. If you go forward, negotiate the lease terms and the maximum cost of construction.
The work gets the work done by contractors, bills get paid by the landlord, you pay for it in your lease and it comes under operating expenses instead of capital expenditures - your accountant will love you (after they curse you for the up front hassle)
When typing, you get 3 kinds of feedback: visual, tactile, and audible. (If you also get olfactory then stop, turn off the computer, and take a shower.)
With a Model M or an ALPS switch type keyboard, all of the feedback is both strong and synchronized. You feel the click, hear the click, and see the results on the screen at _exactly_ the same instant. And the contact isn't made at the bottom of the stroke - it occurs just short of the end. This means that your finger has ceased applying pressure by the end of the stroke.
Contrast this with a rubber dome type keyboard. The tactile feel is mushy and non-linear, and the contact happens at the end of the stroke. Your finger is still applying force when it stops moving, but because of the rubber membrane, there is never any definite stop to the movement. So you need to rely on audible and visual feedback to know when you have successfully struck a key. The problem of audibility should be obvious - any sound the key makes is a by-product of its motion and not connected with contact being made. Visually, there is a much more tenuous link between your eyes and fingertips, so by the time your eyes tell you "OK, stop pressing now" your finger has already been pressing hard on a contact that has already been made, slowing you down and leading to RSI.
The Model M ergonomics are based on the old IBM Selectrics, and they were developed to service the needs of typists that typed more and faster than most of us will see in our lifetimes. More than a little ergonomic resarch went into their layout.
Heh. My parents still have one of those from 20 years ago.
1: No electronics to fail. 2: Older consumer microwaves used industrial microwave magnetrons - I think theirs is somethink like 1500W 3: 2 settings: Tokamak and current day Hi Power. 4: Big as a house internally and externally.
Gee, well where "I" live (the US) we don't vote for parties. We vote for individual candidates. A ballot for an election in the US might have tens of choices, and guess what? I can vote for candidates IN DIFFERENT PARTIES! Wow!
Believe it or not, there is a lot more going on on any given election day than just the Big News Story. Local elections, state level elections, school board elections, federal elections. Lots of choices which don't necessarily fit onto a little ticket that says Tory/Labor/Green.
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Actually, I was hostile toward the first sentence: "Hm, so according to USA Law, you can slander a company (or person?) in any way you want as long as it is deemed to be satire."
The slander/libel thing was just an illustration of the poster's ignorance of the laws he was commenting on.
As for the actual difference between the two, I'm not sure that there are differences in the penalties. But your post would imply that when slander is recorded and transmitted, it becomes libel, which is not true. Or am I misreading?
Ahh, excellent.
Please note the form of the mark. First, not a trademark, but a service mark. Second, it only applies to the use of the word "priceless" in conjunction with "Financial services, namely, providing credit card, debit card, charge card and stored value smart card services, prepaid telephone calling card services, cash disbursement, and transaction authorization and settlement services. "
There is a point to trademark - it is to keep competitors in your line of business from reaping the fruits of your advertising. Yes, people and companies try to abuse it, but the reason for its existence is still valid.
In order for speech to be "slander", it must be untrue. Since parodies don't purport to be truth, they are not covered.
Oh, and you are really talking about libel, which is written. Slander is verbal.
Please get your terminology straight before talking out of your ass.
You are confusing "free speech" with noise pollution. The right of freedom of speech is a right to be able to speak your opinion or speak facts without government suppression. It concerns content, not the existence of noise coming out of your mouth.
If you were standing on my street at 3:00 AM having a "conversation" with your signifigant other at screaming level, would you expect NOT to be arrested for disturbing the peace?
And actually, freedom of speech does *not* include interfering with others. If I pass by a demonstration I might be annoyed, and that's fine: I can excercise my freedom of expression to ignore, make a gesture, or tell the protesters my opinion. But if someone lays a hand on me (battery) or blocks my path (restricting my freedom of movement/kidnapping), all bets are off.
I believe that most "protests" that are designed to interfere with others are the social equivalent of a temper tantrum: the public isn't paying attention, but some cause is so important that the protesters will MAKE everyone pay attention. Oh, protesters will grab my attention by chaining themselves across a bridge and screwing up traffic for 2 hours, but it will be negative attention, and their cause (aside from from the orgy of self congratulation at having "done something") won't benefit from it.
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"Master and Commander 2 perhaps?"
Patrick O'Brian wrote 20 Aubrey/Maturin books (I'm waiting for #3 from the library). Plenty of potential, there.
Of course, there were 50(?) Coan books, too...
Although loathe to go against the grain of the back patting, I have some issues with your rant.
1. "Audiovisual works are our cultural legacy" Perhaps. The whole concept of "audiovisual works" is relatively new. This is opposed to plays and musical scores, where the important part is the written document, not the performance itself. I personally find the idea of AV as a "cultural legacy" a bit dubious. If we exclude the packrat/archivist version of cultural preservation, there is a kind of Darwinism at work: Good stuff gets preserved, bad stuff gets forgotten. When one considers the amount of total crap that gets produced, who would WANT to preserve it?
2)Media: "Eventually, "dead tree" media will die". Bullshit. I have yet to see a reasoned argument why this will happen. If you have one, serve it up. As for not being able to access some digital media in 20 years: welcome to the present. There is a ton of stuff that is effectively inaccessible due to format changes and media deterioration. Hell, CD-R's are only lasting a short while. In that light, proprietary formats are only another obstacle to the archivist.
"The original Ringworld book doesn't really end with a tense climax"
Hmmm. Using a scooter to push a building up the side of a mountain for a reason that Louis Wu won't tell.
Find the enormous hole in the top that opens out into space, and then drop the building into it.
Hold on for dear life as the ship is dragged up the mountain on a thread, and then WHOOSH, out into space.
Fer Chrissake, I don't even think Paul Veerhoven could screw that up. It has "amusement park ride tie in" written all over it.
(Still bitter about Starship Troopers)
Actually, no. Missiles would be defined as "artillery," and so not under the Second Amendment as envisioned by the writers of the Constitution.
"Arms" are carried by 1 person. "Artillery" is crew served. There was a distintion between them 200 years ago, and the Founding Fathers knew *exactly* what they were writing. So all of the arguments about the second amendment and "personal nuclear weapons" are red herrings.
Now, back to the jokes.
Yes, it is real, and I've seen them. They use these at the Long Lines stations and some other microwave towers. Middle of nowhere=no water=no flushee.
Hint: any prank that intends to "teach a lesson" is bound to backfire.
I can tell you this much: if my team did this to me, and then even HINTED at how "valuable" they were, they'd be fired on the spot, project status be damned.
Actually, I wouldn't have to fire them - I'd just accept their resignations. Remember, once you "resign", you can't just take it back - it is in the employer's hands to decide.
It took me a while to parse the tortured grammar ,but I think I get the gist of it.
Please explaing the dirrerence between the following 2 statements:
"I do not believe in God"
"I do not believe there is a God"
I first saw this movie in high school when I was taking latin, taught by a nun.
I was the only one curled up in a tight little ball suffocating from my own laughter at the thought of Sister Perpetua threatening to cut my balls off if I missed a pop quiz,
Thampson the Thaduthhes Thlayer...
I'll bite.
This decision by the FCC is nothing but posturing. It won't stand a court challenge on the face of it. There will be a big hoo-ha, and then after the rule gets unceremoniously dumped by the courts, the FCC will be able to say "Hey, we tried, now lay off the irate phone calls and e-mails."
It bypasses the methane part, producing electricity straight from the anaerobic reaction.
All the original poster referenced was "lead acid" batteries. UPS batteries are not necessarily SLA.
Nor was I implying that desulfation was THE answer, just a possible solution worthy of a couple of minutes of googling.
1: Have you looked into refurbishing the batteries? Type "Battery Desulphation" into Google, and you migh find some ways to re-use the batteries you got.
2: Hazardous waste disposal fees? Bullshit. Batteries are chock full of recyclable lead, and should NEVER be "disposed of" except to make new batteries. Look up "recycling, batteries" in your local yellow pages, and I think you may have some luck. Definitely think local on this - shipping any distance will kill you.
3: Having dismissed the whole "hazardous waste" thing above, I will now state that batteries are indeed hazardous. Or at least not something you want just sitting around. Your boss is being foolish if he thinks that by "not budgeting" for disposal, that makes the issue go away. Batteries can leak acid and give off explosive hydrogen. If something bad happens, your Boss will like paying the cost of that problem even less than your current problem.
I was thinking more along the lines of Algernon.
If you are moving into a new space, you should have a construction allowance built into the lease. This will cover reconfiguring the office space and changing the electrical & mechanical systems. Why worry about mechanical systems? Because if you are going to need an electrical upgrade due to increased power consumption, you will need upgraded HVAC.
Before the lease is signed, get a design done and get bids on the work. The bids will give an honest account of the suitability of the space. You can now back out or go forward. If you go forward, negotiate the lease terms and the maximum cost of construction.
The work gets the work done by contractors, bills get paid by the landlord, you pay for it in your lease and it comes under operating expenses instead of capital expenditures - your accountant will love you (after they curse you for the up front hassle)
When typing, you get 3 kinds of feedback: visual, tactile, and audible. (If you also get olfactory then stop, turn off the computer, and take a shower.)
With a Model M or an ALPS switch type keyboard, all of the feedback is both strong and synchronized. You feel the click, hear the click, and see the results on the screen at _exactly_ the same instant. And the contact isn't made at the bottom of the stroke - it occurs just short of the end. This means that your finger has ceased applying pressure by the end of the stroke.
Contrast this with a rubber dome type keyboard. The tactile feel is mushy and non-linear, and the contact happens at the end of the stroke. Your finger is still applying force when it stops moving, but because of the rubber membrane, there is never any definite stop to the movement. So you need to rely on audible and visual feedback to know when you have successfully struck a key. The problem of audibility should be obvious - any sound the key makes is a by-product of its motion and not connected with contact being made. Visually, there is a much more tenuous link between your eyes and fingertips, so by the time your eyes tell you "OK, stop pressing now" your finger has already been pressing hard on a contact that has already been made, slowing you down and leading to RSI.
The Model M ergonomics are based on the old IBM Selectrics, and they were developed to service the needs of typists that typed more and faster than most of us will see in our lifetimes. More than a little ergonomic resarch went into their layout.
Read the title - it has the word "psychology" in it. That should tell you all you need to know.
"microwaves with dials"
Heh. My parents still have one of those from 20 years ago.
1: No electronics to fail.
2: Older consumer microwaves used industrial microwave magnetrons - I think theirs is somethink like 1500W
3: 2 settings: Tokamak and current day Hi Power.
4: Big as a house internally and externally.
I'm starving AND a Windows user, you insensitive clod!
Gee, well where "I" live (the US) we don't vote for parties. We vote for individual candidates. A ballot for an election in the US might have tens of choices, and guess what? I can vote for candidates IN DIFFERENT PARTIES! Wow!
Believe it or not, there is a lot more going on on any given election day than just the Big News Story. Local elections, state level elections, school board elections, federal elections. Lots of choices which don't necessarily fit onto a little ticket that says Tory/Labor/Green.
It's called a federal system. Try it.