You handily ignored the hearing about the guy being called a "loser" which supports the point. The quote about the woman with Hepatitis C serves to broaden the point. So I'll agree, it's not about the "right not to be offended," it's apparently about "the right not to feel bad." She must've been shorted on her allotment of Soma, poor girl.
Umm... No. The poster was not exaggerating. One of the cases heard by the commission's tribunal was over a male hair salon student being called a "loser" by girls in the class.
...a male hair salon student complained that he was called a "loser" by the girls in the class. The commission actually had a hearing about this. Another case was a kitchen manager with Hepatitis-C, who complained that it was against her rights to be fired. The commission actually agreed with her, and forced the restaurant to pay her $4,900.
The rest of the universe is not for us. It is waiting, empty of life, for the main questions to be answered: Can humans rule themselves? Will humans voluntarily serve God without an immediate quid pro quo? Perhaps if we grow up enough, we'll get some neighbors.
As much as I hate to say it, the major ISP's NEED some regulation or oversight in how they provide service.
No. The major ISPs need to have their government-granted monopolies disallowed. In most cases, Comcast or some other company manages to influence local legislation in such a way that they are the only ones in the area permitted to lay wire (or fiber). _That_ is what needs to stop. The pressures of real competition would make these providers work to keep customers, as opposed to deliberately abusing them.
#6 only occurs if you have the Windows Underpants Collector for Workgroups 1.5 application installed. Unfortunately, this was written for Windows 3.11. Attempts to run it on fatter (err... newer) versions of Windows result in an Uncovered A(sterisk) Error (UAE).
Ubuntu gives you the Gnome for free, however. (One of those "give a man a pair, teach a man to collect" things.)
And who are all these people complaining about sax an violins on television? I think there should be more sax and violins on television. What? Oh! Never mind!
... and we'll call them "engines" and program them just like a mainframe. It may be new to the desktop or commodity rack, but it's not new. The only difference will be the programming languages, and even there, there's an awful lot of familiar territory.
Your "walking into a gym" metaphor doesn't really cut it at all. A real analogy might be, Alice puts up a notice on a public bulletin board. Alice really only intends for Bob to read the message, but she posts it in public in plain English.
Eve comes along, and posts another note on the bulletin board that points out where on the board Alice's message is. (Over to the left three feet an up ten inches...) Alice proceeds to throw a fit about Eve's message.
If you put an unencrypted document on the internet, you display it in public. If you serve a stream to anyone who hits a URL, you have made that stream public. If you must have a property analogy, it is as though the gym owner decided to put all their gym equipment in a public park with a notice that says "Use this."
I've always preferred the 'rubber pants' metaphor myself. When put on a skinny guy, if there's not enough bulk on him to account for the bulges, it must be dark matter.
When is a collection of things (say atoms, bricks and mortar, etc.) a thing and when is it just lots of things?
As the venerable sage, Grover, taught us all so long ago... "Near!" *bounce* *bounce* *bounce* *bounce* "Far!" *bounce* *bounce* *bounce* *bounce* "Near!" *bounce* *bounce* *bounce* *bounce*...
And rather than fix it by raising interest rates, the Fed is doing the opposite, attempting to stave off a recession that's going to happen anyway. The sad thing is, they're only making things dramatically worse, because they're setting the U.S. economy on the road to hyperinflation. What good will it do trying to encourage consumption when the foreign goods they want us to consume keep getting more expensive?
Apparently someone informed Ballmer that Stallman has ninja training (or is at the very least, able to defeat them... maybe he's a pirate?), so Ballmer decided to learn jujitsu...
Sorry to pick nits (I'm not new here), but the Bill of Rights is less relevant than the fact that the rights in that document have been amended into the U.S. Constitution. So if the judge's judgment gets nailed (getting hammered sounds like they buy him a few drinks...) for anything, it'll be for violation of those constitutional amendments.
What, you want the U.S. Supreme Court to be forced into taking cases that don't meet legal criteria for bringing a lawsuit? That doesn't make sense. Any court in the U.S. has that power, by the way, not just the Supreme Court.
Would you prefer, then, that the U.S. Supreme Court hear the case and start issues subpoenas for classified information on behalf of the ACLU? That makes even less sense, as then the SC would be exercising far too much power.
If there is any digging to be done, the ACLU is not the one to do it, nor is the Supreme Court. That power is granted to the U.S. Congress by the Constitution. Congress must investigate, hold hearings, and can even produce a report detailing "injured" parties. It is at this point that those injured parties could sue, or join a class action suit brought by the ACLU.
By refusing to hear the case, the U.S. Supreme Court is correctly interpreting the law and the Constitution with regard to what powers it holds. In other words, the refusal was just right.
Hmmm... I don't know how religious you are, but you may find Revelation 11:18 interesting.
The nations raged,
...but your wrath has come,
...and the time for judging the dead,
for rewarding your servants, the prophets
...and saints and all who fear your name,
...both small and great,
and for destroying those who destroy the earth.' (Emphasis mine).
Very different kind of benevolent dictatorship...
Ron Paul has no shot at the nomination, he doesn't have anywhere near the number of delegates of Romney (92) or McCain (97) (Paul has 6). It is not a problem of press coverage; Romney (92 delegates) and McCain (97 are just that much more popular. Huckabee (29) has no shot either, but he seems to be hoping to score a VP nod.
What would you replace the U.S. Constitution with? Eco-dictatorship? No thank you. The moment you concentrate any such power, those who have it will not let go. Every unilateral decision will be cast as "for the good of the environment" because those in power decided it was so. You can't read that book (or web site); it has ideas that might lead you to pollute...
The U.S. Constitution has within it a change management system. The federalism it calls for allows for a tension between local and national needs. Why would you throw all of that away for some global dictatorship that will "tell those evil polluters what to do?" No good can come from establishing a ruling elite, in spite of whatever intent one starts with. Use federalism, use representative government; persuade the people to act. Build technologies that help by subsidizing science. Do these things, but do not export law-giving authority to some non-democratic entity.
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You handily ignored the hearing about the guy being called a "loser" which supports the point. The quote about the woman with Hepatitis C serves to broaden the point. So I'll agree, it's not about the "right not to be offended," it's apparently about "the right not to feel bad." She must've been shorted on her allotment of Soma, poor girl.
Umm... No. The poster was not exaggerating. One of the cases heard by the commission's tribunal was over a male hair salon student being called a "loser" by girls in the class.
(from Ezra Levant's opening statement before the tribunal.I don't think the GP poster colored the reporting overmuch.
RIAA Lawyer: "They say you have a monstah here. They say your record profits are cursed."
RIAA: "There have been many brave lawyers who have come, but in the morning, nothing was left but grease on the floor... and on the walls."
RIAA Lawyer: "I am Beowulf! I will sue your monstah."
Uhhh... x 100.
The rest of the universe is not for us. It is waiting, empty of life, for the main questions to be answered: Can humans rule themselves? Will humans voluntarily serve God without an immediate quid pro quo? Perhaps if we grow up enough, we'll get some neighbors.
No. The major ISPs need to have their government-granted monopolies disallowed. In most cases, Comcast or some other company manages to influence local legislation in such a way that they are the only ones in the area permitted to lay wire (or fiber). _That_ is what needs to stop. The pressures of real competition would make these providers work to keep customers, as opposed to deliberately abusing them.
The WTO's solution--which worked--was to airdrop cats...
As God is my witness, I thought cats could fly.
#6 only occurs if you have the Windows Underpants Collector for Workgroups 1.5 application installed. Unfortunately, this was written for Windows 3.11. Attempts to run it on fatter (err... newer) versions of Windows result in an Uncovered A(sterisk) Error (UAE).
Ubuntu gives you the Gnome for free, however. (One of those "give a man a pair, teach a man to collect" things.)
And who are all these people complaining about sax an violins on television? I think there should be more sax and violins on television. What? Oh! Never mind!
Perhaps MS employees should take up flying. You just fall and miss the ground.
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit. Now it hurts to laugh. I refer to this feeling as "Vistacular".
"Get your daily phosphorous with Soylent Green!"
Right, and when the speech involved is comprised of lies, we have laws for libel and slander to protect the reputations of those lied about.
... and we'll call them "engines" and program them just like a mainframe. It may be new to the desktop or commodity rack, but it's not new. The only difference will be the programming languages, and even there, there's an awful lot of familiar territory.
Your "walking into a gym" metaphor doesn't really cut it at all. A real analogy might be, Alice puts up a notice on a public bulletin board. Alice really only intends for Bob to read the message, but she posts it in public in plain English.
Eve comes along, and posts another note on the bulletin board that points out where on the board Alice's message is. (Over to the left three feet an up ten inches...) Alice proceeds to throw a fit about Eve's message.
If you put an unencrypted document on the internet, you display it in public. If you serve a stream to anyone who hits a URL, you have made that stream public. If you must have a property analogy, it is as though the gym owner decided to put all their gym equipment in a public park with a notice that says "Use this."
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I've always preferred the 'rubber pants' metaphor myself. When put on a skinny guy, if there's not enough bulk on him to account for the bulges, it must be dark matter.
As the venerable sage, Grover, taught us all so long ago... "Near!" *bounce* *bounce* *bounce* *bounce* "Far!" *bounce* *bounce* *bounce* *bounce* "Near!" *bounce* *bounce* *bounce* *bounce* ...
It all depends on one's perspective.
And rather than fix it by raising interest rates, the Fed is doing the opposite, attempting to stave off a recession that's going to happen anyway. The sad thing is, they're only making things dramatically worse, because they're setting the U.S. economy on the road to hyperinflation. What good will it do trying to encourage consumption when the foreign goods they want us to consume keep getting more expensive?
Apparently someone informed Ballmer that Stallman has ninja training (or is at the very least, able to defeat them... maybe he's a pirate?), so Ballmer decided to learn jujitsu...
Sorry to pick nits (I'm not new here), but the Bill of Rights is less relevant than the fact that the rights in that document have been amended into the U.S. Constitution. So if the judge's judgment gets nailed (getting hammered sounds like they buy him a few drinks...) for anything, it'll be for violation of those constitutional amendments.
What, you want the U.S. Supreme Court to be forced into taking cases that don't meet legal criteria for bringing a lawsuit? That doesn't make sense. Any court in the U.S. has that power, by the way, not just the Supreme Court.
Would you prefer, then, that the U.S. Supreme Court hear the case and start issues subpoenas for classified information on behalf of the ACLU? That makes even less sense, as then the SC would be exercising far too much power.
If there is any digging to be done, the ACLU is not the one to do it, nor is the Supreme Court. That power is granted to the U.S. Congress by the Constitution. Congress must investigate, hold hearings, and can even produce a report detailing "injured" parties. It is at this point that those injured parties could sue, or join a class action suit brought by the ACLU.
By refusing to hear the case, the U.S. Supreme Court is correctly interpreting the law and the Constitution with regard to what powers it holds. In other words, the refusal was just right.
Hmmm... I don't know how religious you are, but you may find Revelation 11:18 interesting.
The nations raged,...but your wrath has come,
...and the time for judging the dead,
for rewarding your servants, the prophets
...and saints and all who fear your name,
...both small and great,
and for destroying those who destroy the earth
Very different kind of benevolent dictatorship...
Ron Paul has no shot at the nomination, he doesn't have anywhere near the number of delegates of Romney (92) or McCain (97) (Paul has 6). It is not a problem of press coverage; Romney (92 delegates) and McCain (97 are just that much more popular. Huckabee (29) has no shot either, but he seems to be hoping to score a VP nod.
What would you replace the U.S. Constitution with? Eco-dictatorship? No thank you. The moment you concentrate any such power, those who have it will not let go. Every unilateral decision will be cast as "for the good of the environment" because those in power decided it was so. You can't read that book (or web site); it has ideas that might lead you to pollute...
The U.S. Constitution has within it a change management system. The federalism it calls for allows for a tension between local and national needs. Why would you throw all of that away for some global dictatorship that will "tell those evil polluters what to do?" No good can come from establishing a ruling elite, in spite of whatever intent one starts with. Use federalism, use representative government; persuade the people to act. Build technologies that help by subsidizing science. Do these things, but do not export law-giving authority to some non-democratic entity.
OK, so I'm trying to read the press announcement and my eyes keep glazing over. What I get is this:
I really just want to know if they include the flying chairs screen saver. Although granted, Vista's DRM will kick in and turn the screen blank...