You hit the nail on the head. The writing/scripting in the newer Star Wars movies wasn't that great. Actually, it was mainly just the dialogue that was poorly-written. I think the stories were there for the most part though, we just had poor dialogue to listen to.
The backstory -- Palpatine manipulating everyone and everyone, both as Senator and as Sith, so that no matter what happened, he won -- was great. But the main story, which, in II and III, should have been an equally great story about the corruption of Anakin Skywalker, was horrendous. Not just the dialog either; Anakin's fall was just not believable.
It's not just a problem for public opinion. Here in the UK, buisness leaders say there are not enough young people studying science at school.
That's because you don't get to be a "business leader" by studying science. Instead, you get to be an interchangeable cog in the machine run by "business leaders". Unless you stay in academia, in which case you get to join a medieval hierarchy where the higher up you go, the less science you do... but at least you can go up.
If he doesn't obey? Fire him? Not likely. You don't kill the goose who lays the golden eggs without a better reason than that. It being Japan, he'll probably not even consider disobeying, though.
There's four steps 1) takedown notice 2) counter-notice 3) notice of intent to sue (counter-counter-notice) 4) lawsuit
The time between 3 and 4 can be arbitrarily long, and the material remains taken-down in the interim. It's basically an automatic temporary restraining order.
If they did not go after each and every unlicensed use, it wouldn't take long at all for the logo to become unprotected.
This is not so. The Olympic logo is protected by statute and by treaty; it cannot become generic.
However, at least in the US, it is given the same protection as a trademark. Which means that DMCA claims against it are spurious, and that uses which would not infringe trademark (which would include political commentary about the organization represented) are not prohibited.
His crime was being different by working with (not so small amounts) of known carciogenic substances in a residental area.
You mean like my can of Brakleen? (contains xylene among other fun chemicals)?
How about my heptane and 1,2,2 trichloro 1,1,2-trifluoroethane (a.k.a TTE)? No, not gasoline -- film cleaner. Not that the gasoline is any safer.
My 6% sodium hypochlorite solution (too easy, laundry bleach -- do I need to say what happens if it gets mixed with my 20% hydrochloric acid solution (toilet bowl cleaner) and/or household ammonia)?
Those sound dangerous, and in fact they are, but there's something even more dangerous that even the MA people wouldn't bat an eye over, because it doesn't have a scary name. Linseed oil. Unlike all those other things, some of which are flammable, linseed oil can spontaneously combust. Particularly when it is absorbed into a rag or paper towel... which it often is, in the ordinary course of working with it or cleaning it up. So is oil painting at home be banned by Massachusetts authorites? Working on one's car? Cleaning one's negatives? Doing the laundry and cleaning the house? If not, what's the problem with doing chemistry?
Zoning & Health were called in - as is appropriate
Nope. Zoning and Health should need to go to the court for a warrant at that point; the emergency is past. Zoning and health should not be permitted to not only search but seize the chemicals and dispose of them without so much as a hearing.
The far left (ie: socialists) are actually about increasing freedom and democracy--although the only way to achieve that is to reduce the freedoms of the capitalists (who use their wealth and "ownership" of the means of production to control society in their narrow, short-sighted and selfish interests).
I believe this was the second tenet of Orwell's Party ("Freedom is slavery"). The US reiterated a similar statement later on with "We had to destroy the village in order to save it".
If you "consent to search", you've just thrown your Fourth Amedment rights down the toilet for now and forevermore. No more warrant required to search your place; you'ce already consented.
It's a city on an island, with densely clustered buildings, a ban on vehicles, and a network of organic farms. Sounds like a prison/labor camp to me. The buildings are densely clustered to make them easier to guard, it's on an island to control access, and the farm is the labor camp part -- no tractors, so it must be worked by hand, or at best animals.
If I develop a method sufficient to allow me unilateral control of the entire US nuclear missile arsenal (or the Transit Authority's bank accounts), I would surely hope that some federal judge would slap a prior restraint on me to keep me from blabbing it to the world.
Not a chance. In the latter case, the Transit Authority won't be able to afford a lawyer. In the former case, the judge can be easily convinced that the security of his hometown against nuclear missiles depends on ruling in your favor.
Oops, never mind, that was the patent application from the previous article. THIS patent application is "gee, we can put a fuel cell in a camera and run plumbing from it to other fuel cells in peripherals".
They didn't apply for a patent using a fuel cell in a DSLR. What they applied for a patent on was a method of powering a device from a bunch of fuel cells in sequence, so that a large current draw is spread among the cells and each cell has time to recover to full voltage even under load.
In which case, he will need to either compensate the patent holders for using the protected inventions he is building on, sell the rights to his idea to a larger group that can take advantage of it, or wait until the existing protections expire.
They aren't willing to sell to him, they'll buy his rights only for peanuts because they know he can't exploit them, and by the time the existing protections expire either he'll be bankrupt, or the state of the art will have advanced so much that the existing players will have NEW patents that the new guy won't be able to use. Instead, the existing players will wait for the new guy's patent to run out and then exploit it without him making a dime.
Unfortunately the purpose for the download of copyrighted material does not make it anymore legal, no matter how one rationalizes it, it's just simply not your right.
At which point we get into the question of "why should I accept that my rights are defined by who can pay the most money to the legislature"?
What if the newcomer develops a new method of transportation? Hovercraft, jetpack, skycar, Segway?
Then he's sued out of business because chances are, his novel method of transportation infringes on at least one of the big boys' patents. Sure, his propulsion method is new... but what about that suspension? OK, he's got a new suspension... but the fuel delivery system is covered. Or the windscreen.
Of course you can duplicate a Medeco key in metal; Medeco keys are made of metal in the first place. Key control means you can't get the proper blanks from any legitimate source, but it's still a fairly simple hunk of metal.
Medeco locks were never considered "uncrackable". Medeco has claimed they're unpickable, but I think only the Biaxial remains unpicked. But picking is an attack that doesn't require knowledge of the key.
If you have a picture of a key, you can generally duplicate it well enough to work in metal (easier if you have a blank, but not necessary). It's not the shrinky-dink that matters. Cutting a key by sight based on a key sitting on the seat of an car is apparently a useful skill for locksmiths.
Sure. You could learn COBOL well enough to make this change to their system. So could I. But is there any chance you'd do it for minimum wage? Didn't think so...
Nope, mail fraud only applies to schemes for obtaining money or property. Just lying to someone in the mail, without trying to get money or property from them, is not mail fraud.
What you said is approximately what's happened to figure skating since their last round of scandal-precipitated scoring changes.
The apparent intent of which was not to prevent future cheating, but to prevent any future cheating from being detected. I wonder if this one is more of the same.
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The backstory -- Palpatine manipulating everyone and everyone, both as Senator and as Sith, so that no matter what happened, he won -- was great. But the main story, which, in II and III, should have been an equally great story about the corruption of Anakin Skywalker, was horrendous. Not just the dialog either; Anakin's fall was just not believable.
That's because you don't get to be a "business leader" by studying science. Instead, you get to be an interchangeable cog in the machine run by "business leaders". Unless you stay in academia, in which case you get to join a medieval hierarchy where the higher up you go, the less science you do... but at least you can go up.
If he doesn't obey? Fire him? Not likely. You don't kill the goose who lays the golden eggs without a better reason than that. It being Japan, he'll probably not even consider disobeying, though.
There's four steps
1) takedown notice
2) counter-notice
3) notice of intent to sue (counter-counter-notice)
4) lawsuit
The time between 3 and 4 can be arbitrarily long, and the material remains taken-down in the interim. It's basically an automatic temporary restraining order.
This is not so. The Olympic logo is protected by statute and by treaty; it cannot become generic.
However, at least in the US, it is given the same protection as a trademark. Which means that DMCA claims against it are spurious, and that uses which would not infringe trademark (which would include political commentary about the organization represented) are not prohibited.
Fire. Is there ANYTHING it can't do?
You mean like my can of Brakleen? (contains xylene among other fun chemicals)?
How about my heptane and 1,2,2 trichloro 1,1,2-trifluoroethane (a.k.a TTE)? No, not gasoline -- film cleaner. Not that the gasoline is any safer.
My 6% sodium hypochlorite solution (too easy, laundry bleach -- do I need to say what happens if it gets mixed with my 20% hydrochloric acid solution (toilet bowl cleaner) and/or household ammonia)?
Those sound dangerous, and in fact they are, but there's something even more dangerous that even the MA people wouldn't bat an eye over, because it doesn't have a scary name. Linseed oil. Unlike all those other things, some of which are flammable, linseed oil can spontaneously combust. Particularly when it is absorbed into a rag or paper towel... which it often is, in the ordinary course of working with it or cleaning it up. So is oil painting at home be banned by Massachusetts authorites? Working on one's car? Cleaning one's negatives? Doing the laundry and cleaning the house? If not, what's the problem with doing chemistry?
Nope. Zoning and Health should need to go to the court for a warrant at that point; the emergency is past. Zoning and health should not be permitted to not only search but seize the chemicals and dispose of them without so much as a hearing.
I believe this was the second tenet of Orwell's Party ("Freedom is slavery"). The US reiterated a similar statement later on with "We had to destroy the village in order to save it".
If you "consent to search", you've just thrown your Fourth Amedment rights down the toilet for now and forevermore. No more warrant required to search your place; you'ce already consented.
It's a city on an island, with densely clustered buildings, a ban on vehicles, and a network of organic farms. Sounds like a prison/labor camp to me. The buildings are densely clustered to make them easier to guard, it's on an island to control access, and the farm is the labor camp part -- no tractors, so it must be worked by hand, or at best animals.
Uh, no. Plenty of vegetarians in India, not so many vegans. And in China, vegetarianism is (according to your own site) rare.
Not a chance. In the latter case, the Transit Authority won't be able to afford a lawyer. In the former case, the judge can be easily convinced that the security of his hometown against nuclear missiles depends on ruling in your favor.
Oops, never mind, that was the patent application from the previous article. THIS patent application is "gee, we can put a fuel cell in a camera and run plumbing from it to other fuel cells in peripherals".
They didn't apply for a patent using a fuel cell in a DSLR. What they applied for a patent on was a method of powering a device from a bunch of fuel cells in sequence, so that a large current draw is spread among the cells and each cell has time to recover to full voltage even under load.
They aren't willing to sell to him, they'll buy his rights only for peanuts because they know he can't exploit them, and by the time the existing protections expire either he'll be bankrupt, or the state of the art will have advanced so much that the existing players will have NEW patents that the new guy won't be able to use. Instead, the existing players will wait for the new guy's patent to run out and then exploit it without him making a dime.
At which point we get into the question of "why should I accept that my rights are defined by who can pay the most money to the legislature"?
The only conspicuous lack of cheering was for Iran.
Then he's sued out of business because chances are, his novel method of transportation infringes on at least one of the big boys' patents. Sure, his propulsion method is new... but what about that suspension? OK, he's got a new suspension... but the fuel delivery system is covered. Or the windscreen.
Of course you can duplicate a Medeco key in metal; Medeco keys are made of metal in the first place. Key control means you can't get the proper blanks from any legitimate source, but it's still a fairly simple hunk of metal.
Medeco locks were never considered "uncrackable". Medeco has claimed they're unpickable, but I think only the Biaxial remains unpicked. But picking is an attack that doesn't require knowledge of the key.
If you have a picture of a key, you can generally duplicate it well enough to work in metal (easier if you have a blank, but not necessary). It's not the shrinky-dink that matters. Cutting a key by sight based on a key sitting on the seat of an car is apparently a useful skill for locksmiths.
They were all for Bush, imagine that!
Sure. You could learn COBOL well enough to make this change to their system. So could I. But is there any chance you'd do it for minimum wage? Didn't think so...
Nope, mail fraud only applies to schemes for obtaining money or property. Just lying to someone in the mail, without trying to get money or property from them, is not mail fraud.
The apparent intent of which was not to prevent future cheating, but to prevent any future cheating from being detected. I wonder if this one is more of the same.