It's time for someone to tell them "no, the Supreme Court does not have the final say, the Constitution is the final say".
Of course the catch here is that it is ultimately the Supreme Court that decides exactly what the Constitution says or what the meaning is of what the Constitution says.
" It's not for big business use dumbass. It allows the GOVERNMENT to take private property."
It allows government to take private property and turn around and sell it to big business. It could already take private property for government type stuff like highways and such.
I recently had to give up my StarTac 7868W for a 265 because of the GPS-911 thing. I keep setting it for a loud ring and the standard ringtone and it keeps getting re-set (I have no idea how) to soft and one of those arpeggio things so it's 50/50 whether I realise that someone's calling me before they hang up.
I really miss my StarTac. It's been like changing to a newer computer and version of Windows. Takes longer to boot up, has more stuff for which I have no use, all my old shortcuts are gone, and I have to wade through more menu levels to get to what I want. Progress sucks.
" For instance, you can call anything you make a BMW, unless it's a car."
They started out making aircraft engines and branched out into motorcycle and automobile engines after the first World War so "...anything...unless it's a car..." is probably overly broad.
Xerox is only a semi made-up word, in that the process of making copies by that particular method is called "xerography" (I think that's Latin for "dry writing").
Back in the late '60s Cities Service Oil Company had a computer crank out a bunch of semi-random letter combinations and from that list they selected what would become their new name--Citgo. Now that's a made up name.
Not so loud, or Katz might hear and come back to jump on the presecuted female game geek bandwagon and who knows how long we'll have to put up with him this time.
"ie, Their car is a ferraris is immediately understandable if grammatically incorrect."
Is there a spare ferraris wheel in the trunk of that car?
But seriously folks, the English language wasn't planned, it's a gigantic kludge, with stuff from most of the other languages added on according to no particular plan. There are reasons for the rules but there's nothing to keep the rules from contradicting each other. You just have to deal with it on a case by case basis, gently and politely correcting others and always being open to being corrected yourself.
"Weren't Vietnam and Korea wars against the "Godless Communists"? If you consider that for many westerners (North Americans...OK, US citizens) their true religion is Capitalism, then those wars *are* religious wars."
And the religious wars, The Crusades, were really all about capitalism, or at least the pursuit of financial gain.
"Scripture contains the words that the Holy Spirit intended to communicate, free from error in the original manuscripts."
So God made sure that there weren't any mistakes in the original texts but the copies and the translations are all crapshoots? A logic I am insufficiently enlightened and advanced to comprehend.
Last thought: The term "Christian Scientist" (both caps) has unfortunately been co-opted by a cult started by Mary Baker Eddy in the 19th century (Google for it if interested). So I avoid using it and encourage others to do so also.
Perhaps some consider Christianity a science and others consider it an art.
"Bipartisan," I love that term. It basically means that tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum decided to conspire together on some new scheme so you have no way of opposing it.
Or as someone around here said a while back, the Republicans are the party of Evil and the Democrats are the party of Stupidity and when they co-operate it's to do something Evil and Stupid.
" Yes, one of the reasons given for removing this site is that the same content is available commercialy..."
Perhaps what's really going on is that those who want to make money off of providing said content are pressuring the government to kill off their competition.
Everything I've seen so far (which, at this point is only the article linked on the story and an article on The Register) doesn't say anything about punishing copyright infringement, it just says Sweden is making downloading of copyright material illegal, so I guess no iPod for them.
(it's only infringement if you don't have the copyright holder's permission)
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Of course the catch here is that it is ultimately the Supreme Court that decides exactly what the Constitution says or what the meaning is of what the Constitution says.
The court acted to protect property rights. The rights of big business to manipulate local government into handing over your property to big business.
It allows government to take private property and turn around and sell it to big business. It could already take private property for government type stuff like highways and such.
Thus proving that his command is pretty much the epitome of futile.
I really miss my StarTac. It's been like changing to a newer computer and version of Windows. Takes longer to boot up, has more stuff for which I have no use, all my old shortcuts are gone, and I have to wade through more menu levels to get to what I want. Progress sucks.
And I was sure that Pepto-Bismol had prior art on that.
Of course it did. The World Wildlife Fund won, didn't they?
They started out making aircraft engines and branched out into motorcycle and automobile engines after the first World War so "...anything...unless it's a car..." is probably overly broad.
Back in the late '60s Cities Service Oil Company had a computer crank out a bunch of semi-random letter combinations and from that list they selected what would become their new name--Citgo. Now that's a made up name.
Hope you won't consider it too unfriendly of me to point out that "catty" isn't spelled with double "D"s.
At least I didn't go for the cheap pun.
Not so loud, or Katz might hear and come back to jump on the presecuted female game geek bandwagon and who knows how long we'll have to put up with him this time.
Re: Monster Cable, see my earlier post about the misspelling of "audiophool". :-)
Belkin or Belden?
You have misspelled "audiophool".
We made the mistake of trying to save money by going with an inexpensive architect and are stuck waiting on the plans. :-)
Probably the same reason we say "ain't" instead of "amn't". In other words, I don't know, either. :-)
Is there a spare ferraris wheel in the trunk of that car?
But seriously folks, the English language wasn't planned, it's a gigantic kludge, with stuff from most of the other languages added on according to no particular plan. There are reasons for the rules but there's nothing to keep the rules from contradicting each other. You just have to deal with it on a case by case basis, gently and politely correcting others and always being open to being corrected yourself.
And the religious wars, The Crusades, were really all about capitalism, or at least the pursuit of financial gain.
So God made sure that there weren't any mistakes in the original texts but the copies and the translations are all crapshoots? A logic I am insufficiently enlightened and advanced to comprehend.
Last thought: The term "Christian Scientist" (both caps) has unfortunately been co-opted by a cult started by Mary Baker Eddy in the 19th century (Google for it if interested). So I avoid using it and encourage others to do so also.
Perhaps some consider Christianity a science and others consider it an art.
Or as someone around here said a while back, the Republicans are the party of Evil and the Democrats are the party of Stupidity and when they co-operate it's to do something Evil and Stupid.
Perhaps what's really going on is that those who want to make money off of providing said content are pressuring the government to kill off their competition.
You still would have needed to use an uppercase B. It's a Slashdot thing.
How do you know he wasn't referring to the Matt Munro version?
(it's a long story)
Everything I've seen so far (which, at this point is only the article linked on the story and an article on The Register) doesn't say anything about punishing copyright infringement, it just says Sweden is making downloading of copyright material illegal, so I guess no iPod for them.
(it's only infringement if you don't have the copyright holder's permission)
Experience in abuse of open proxy servers
Complete lack of ethics
youo'd probably be up to +5, Funny (with at least one Insightful in there somewhere) by now.