I totally disagree. If the plaintiff is aware that the "libel" is in fact truthful, wouldn't any such suit be a S.L.A.P.P?
If you know that the suit has no merit and your reason for filing the suit is to silence the person who is speaking the truth, it would seem to be a S.L.A.P.P no matter what was said.
Malice? Can it really be malicious to tell the truth out of anger? Can we be sued for libel because we outed someone's secrets? Blackmail is illegal, but is telling the truth in order to hurt someone?
Agreed. Nuclear weapons can produce million degree plasma. No material fails to vaporize.
Aliens will still be vulnerable to weapons like nukes because they will be constrained by the limitations of physical matter. Oh, you say, aliens will make their ships out of pure energy! Well, to that I would say "that's stupid" and move on, because energy fields don't DO certain things that materials do. Materials have limits. I think there's an upper boundary to technology, called the Laws of Physics, which may be refined, clarified, but won't be broken outright.
Oh, they're not just huffing impotently, they're promising you that if you hire them, they'll fight off the evil, then, when they arrive, they snuggle up and go right along with it.
Voting FOR a bill is not analogous to passively refusing to act, it's analogous to plotting and colluding with the enemy for personal gain.
Now the question is why. Why would they criticize Bush, criticize these wiretaps, and then vote in favor of protecting the action and even expanding its practice?
So, money is freedom. Money breaks the power imbalance between those who have and those who don't. If I engage in a transaction and he can choose what goods I receive, and therefore has some power over me, by using money I deny him that power.
By agreeing to transact with some placeholder instead of just bartering, we each allow the other to purchase needed or wanted items instead of attempting to dictate to others what they will buy.
Your argument fails to compel me.
The problem with eliminating money is that I then must work for someone who has the things I need. If they pay me in chickens, I have to find a person who wants chickens but has an apartment to trade with. Then I have to find a power company who accepts chickens, OR I have to find out what they need and find someone who has THAT but doesn't have enough chickens.
Money is a placeholder for value. It is not inherently evil. There was no technological progress or social society without a monetary system that people agreed on.
Ever.
If we give up money, we become Amish, or their technological equivalent, because we'll spend the majority of our time trading what we have for other stuff we don't want, just to prepare for the trade of the stuff we DO want.
What makes it Windows 7? Did they add lens flare to the shiny buttons? Did we get a 32 bit integer to store the value of specularity for each button? More importantly, will I need a new monitor to be able to appreciate the awesome shininess? What functions DOES Windows 7 have that make my life better and easier? Why in hell should I switch from XP? With 2 GB of RAM and a dual core processor on XP it runs fast. On Vista it ran OK. OK is not worth two hundred bucks.
They promised me Longhorn, all I got was bull.
His bio smells like patchouli and he named his daughter Poesy Emmeline Fibonacci Nautilus Taylor Doctorow. If that doesn't make him a douche, nothing ever will.
No, you see, if they abandon their effort, Tartan can still pursue them for improper business practices, vexatious litigation and antitrust violations.
It's beautiful. If they pursue it, they risk damaging future cases, and if they drop it, it becomes apparent that they merely intended to put out meritless claims, hoping that others would settle. Doing that would be a clearly improper practice, and they can be placed under injunctions to prevent them from doing it to others.
It's LOSE/LOSE for Monster.
I also read the entire letter, and I have to say that if Monster wants to pursue this matter, they may well become the SCO of the crappy overpriced cables industry. I am going to grab some popcorn and keep an eye on this.
Voting for President is not a Constitutional right. It has been asserted that voting for one's Congressional representative is a right subject to some qualifications, but remember that early in our history only land owning males (and just the white ones) were permitted to vote.
It has been amended such that one may not be denied the right to vote based on race or sex, but the government and the parties do not have to have a popular vote for president. The states' legislatures could simply select a candidate and it would be perfectly legal.
I am so glad I am not a woman with really nice tits.
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Sure, but why do those cores need to be symmetrical? Wouldn't it make sense to have some cores for computationally intense work and others for tasks that require more memory bandwidth and shorter pipelines (and more of them)?
1. Decriminalize simple possession of marijuana.
2. Refocus budget away from fighter jets to education, establish state boards of education instead of municipal ones. Making school boards municipal has lead to redundant positions chewing up huge amounts of budgetary allowances, and public schools need to be more efficient at turning money into education.
3. Larger teacher salaries for teachers who perform well.
4. Establish prizes for much needed advancements in clean energy and materials science.
5. Recognize the people's rights to not be randomly placed under surveillance or monitoring while in public places or in their homes or online. The Fourth Amendment is there for a reason, and it must have teeth. Establish criminal penalties for law enforcers or municipal administrators who deliberately violate the civil liberties of those under their charge.
6. Repeal the Patriot Act as enacted, enact new legislation allowing similar powers but with even more specificity regarding the scope of such surveillance, and establishing criminal and civil penalties for law enforcement agencies who misuse what is intended as a National Security matter for petty crimes or drug interdiction.
7. Close the southern border, but enact a guest worker program such that migrant workers are not impeded and still the southern border should not pose a grave risk to national security from OTMs (Other than Mexican).
8. Establish the welfare system to only that level which encourages risk taking in business by supplying a safety net, but limit individuals to two years' uninterrupted time on the rolls, require a career plan and schooling for those who take it. Supply childcare for those in secondary school. An educated people is a prosperous one.
9. Establish presidential awards for small to medium sized businesses whose actions are a benefit to society as a whole, or whose business practices are especially beneficial to their communities.
10. Allow software patents for truly innovative methods, but overhaul the entire USPTO to remove the possibility for obvious or common methods. Recognize which tasks are mundane and should not be patented. A shopping cart is mundane, a fast MPEG4 motion algorithm is not mundane if its method is novel.
11. Push software vendors whose tools have become dominant to over 80 percent market share to make those tools cross-platform, or release pertinant information regarding those tools so that compatibility can be achieved. Direct3D would be one such candidate. It has become a standard and yet is inherently tied to only one operating system, which I see as bundling, and a violation of fair trade practices. One cannot purchase the DirectX and Direct3D tools without also purchasing the Windows operating system.
12. Suggest and support an Amendment to the Constitution recognizing the people's rights to self-protection against threats and harm, and that this right allows Americans to take such steps as they feel is necessary to ensure their safety and survival. This Amendment would also recognize that some individuals behave passive-aggressively, and that current laws do little to thwart harmful yet lawful behavior by those crafty enough to stay within the law. Establish a parallel to "self-defense" legal justification in the form of "excessive antagonism" which recognizes that for some behaviors, the only normal responses may include violence, and this should be taken into consideration in sentencing.
13. Pardon all people currently imprisoned for marijuana possession alone, institute harsher minimum sentences for rape, child abuse, and murder.
14. Codify in an Executive Order that the government respects the right of people to keep their property, and that forfeiture and seizure of real estate, vehicles or cash from individuals not charged with a crime is a criminal act of the State, and must cease. Because of the tangible value of such things, there can be no expectation or assurance that agencies and municipalities would not abuse such priveleges.
15. Establi
If order never proceeds from disorder, how will you explain the regular geometric patterns of crystals?
The entropy always increases in a closed system, however Earth is not a closed system, and is free to radiate energy into space. If the Earth was a closed system and entropy always increased, why has it not remained molten and gradually heated into a gaseous cloud around the Sun?
It's just as well, for many of us do not believe in the Z axis, and it is a matter of much debate. For those who would disagree, I would suggest that they post something which exists in the Z axis so we may all see it.
Do you mean to assert that you have no niggers, or do you insist that our society as a whole contains zero? I would be inclined to agree that such a word would hardly be a fair epithet to be hurled indiscriminately at members of our society. I would as well share your pride at owning no other human beings save yourself, for such a practice is both antiquated and horrible.
Evolution theory does not presuppose the Big bang or the Spark of Life. Those are completely different theories dealing with completely different questions.
Evolution is the theory that through natural selective pressures, creatures make small changes and that over time these small changes become cumulative and organisms become different in form and in behavior.
This has been completely supported in the late 20th century as the ability to view and compare the genetic code of the organisms on this planet. For example, you are 75% genetically identical to a pumpkin plant, and that pumpkin plant is 90 percent identical to a palm tree which has most of its genetic code in common with a donkey.
In other words, the genetic codes you use in your metabolism have been forged over time and plants and animals are not as different as we might have thought they were. We truly are minor modifications of some code used to make proteins and construct organisms. Darwin could not have known this, but his theory has been shown to be correct now that we can look where he could not. His theory was based largely on the physical qualities of the different animals and plants, and now we know that they do not just look similar, they in fact are similar to a degree we could not have anticipated.
This cannot be. There must be one truth to answer every question. In a murder investigation, the defense does not attempt to argue that both the prosecution and defense are equally correct. For every peice of evidence, there is one correct explanation of its origin.
This does not mean that either the defense or the prosecution is correct. It means that each will bring to bear that evidence which supports its presupposed conclusion. Science is a method, not an ideology. Once can embrace science and the results of his experimentation will show what is correct. On those questions where evidence is insufficient to draw a proper conclusion, some will have differing theories, but eventually, as evidence is gathered, the truth may come out.
This differs from faith. Faith is the internal certainty of one's own conclusion, evidence be damned. The theory of evolution by natural selection has a lot of evidence supporting it. It can be falsified any time that evidence can be shown to have come about through some other method, but creationism has been shown to be an unsinkable rubber ducky in the minds of its believers. No evidence of natural origin will be sufficient to sway them from the conclusions drawn thousands of years ago in the complete absence of evidence. Experimentation and inquiry did not provide the 'theory' of creation, it was simply written down in a book and all were forced to accept it. This was done with the lash, the spear, cleansing fires, imprisonment and book burning.
The so-called scholars of creation cannot simply take the dogmatic beliefs of the past, and insist that because they are no longer practicing the Inquisition, that they be granted a seat as a scholar at the table of discussion. They must first become scholars, possessed of an open mind and bring the evidence to the table.
I don't think one can be both religious and scientific. The reason is that science tells you to believe that which the evidence shows to be true, and religions give the answers up front and then tell you not to even do the experiments.
'Do not test the Lord your God' is what we're told when we seek to investigate the existence of gods.
'Faith is the belief in things not seen' is what the religious man tells us as he waves his hand in the manner of a jedi after experiments and analysis fail to show the Almighty.
Religions seek an exception to the scientific method, specifically the parts where you do any science. Experimentation is forbidden, doubt is sin, and failure to believe can result in eternal damnation.
Religion and science are not simply two ways of looking to the universe for answers to our questions. They are absolute opposites of each other. If I were a boy asking his parents a question about something I observed, such as the growth of a plant from a seed, a scientific parent would have to encourage me to experiment on seeds, dissect them, and find out when a seed becomes a tree. A religious parent would simply hand me a book and tell me that if my answer wasn't in there, it probably wasn't important, and may be heretical.
Heresy. A concept foreign to science, but present in all the world's major religions. Freedom to think as you choose, to ask questions without being burned alive at the stake, hung, tortured, stretched or beheaded is a part of science and not a part of religion.
The choice between science and religion is the same one as the choice between trial by peers or simple lynching.
The consuming public has no need for what is essentially a studio master uncompressed copy. What is suitable for public exhibition is not the same as what's suitable for buying at Wal-Mart. Those 2k exhibition copies cost thousands of dollars, don't they?
I would think that 1080p DV with MP4 compression or equivalent would be plenty for movies. For sports and other things, even true 60fps is better than nothing. Perhaps a standard with 75 fps at 720p resolutions would be better for sports broadcasts and highlights.
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I totally disagree. If the plaintiff is aware that the "libel" is in fact truthful, wouldn't any such suit be a S.L.A.P.P? If you know that the suit has no merit and your reason for filing the suit is to silence the person who is speaking the truth, it would seem to be a S.L.A.P.P no matter what was said. Malice? Can it really be malicious to tell the truth out of anger? Can we be sued for libel because we outed someone's secrets? Blackmail is illegal, but is telling the truth in order to hurt someone?
Are you kidding? Old news. I already got mine tomorrow.
Agreed. Nuclear weapons can produce million degree plasma. No material fails to vaporize. Aliens will still be vulnerable to weapons like nukes because they will be constrained by the limitations of physical matter. Oh, you say, aliens will make their ships out of pure energy! Well, to that I would say "that's stupid" and move on, because energy fields don't DO certain things that materials do. Materials have limits. I think there's an upper boundary to technology, called the Laws of Physics, which may be refined, clarified, but won't be broken outright.
If voting ever changed things, you would be forcibly prevented from doing it.
Oh, they're not just huffing impotently, they're promising you that if you hire them, they'll fight off the evil, then, when they arrive, they snuggle up and go right along with it.
Voting FOR a bill is not analogous to passively refusing to act, it's analogous to plotting and colluding with the enemy for personal gain.
Now the question is why. Why would they criticize Bush, criticize these wiretaps, and then vote in favor of protecting the action and even expanding its practice?
So, money is freedom. Money breaks the power imbalance between those who have and those who don't. If I engage in a transaction and he can choose what goods I receive, and therefore has some power over me, by using money I deny him that power. By agreeing to transact with some placeholder instead of just bartering, we each allow the other to purchase needed or wanted items instead of attempting to dictate to others what they will buy.
Your argument fails to compel me.
The problem with eliminating money is that I then must work for someone who has the things I need. If they pay me in chickens, I have to find a person who wants chickens but has an apartment to trade with. Then I have to find a power company who accepts chickens, OR I have to find out what they need and find someone who has THAT but doesn't have enough chickens. Money is a placeholder for value. It is not inherently evil. There was no technological progress or social society without a monetary system that people agreed on. Ever. If we give up money, we become Amish, or their technological equivalent, because we'll spend the majority of our time trading what we have for other stuff we don't want, just to prepare for the trade of the stuff we DO want.
So, we just need to make the porn videos, and then wait 2000 years and they'll be The Classics.
What makes it Windows 7? Did they add lens flare to the shiny buttons? Did we get a 32 bit integer to store the value of specularity for each button? More importantly, will I need a new monitor to be able to appreciate the awesome shininess?
What functions DOES Windows 7 have that make my life better and easier? Why in hell should I switch from XP? With 2 GB of RAM and a dual core processor on XP it runs fast. On Vista it ran OK. OK is not worth two hundred bucks. They promised me Longhorn, all I got was bull.
It's true that he IS that smart, if you want to hear it from another source, just ask him.
His bio smells like patchouli and he named his daughter Poesy Emmeline Fibonacci Nautilus Taylor Doctorow. If that doesn't make him a douche, nothing ever will.
No, you see, if they abandon their effort, Tartan can still pursue them for improper business practices, vexatious litigation and antitrust violations. It's beautiful. If they pursue it, they risk damaging future cases, and if they drop it, it becomes apparent that they merely intended to put out meritless claims, hoping that others would settle. Doing that would be a clearly improper practice, and they can be placed under injunctions to prevent them from doing it to others. It's LOSE/LOSE for Monster.
I also read the entire letter, and I have to say that if Monster wants to pursue this matter, they may well become the SCO of the crappy overpriced cables industry.
I am going to grab some popcorn and keep an eye on this.
Voting for President is not a Constitutional right. It has been asserted that voting for one's Congressional representative is a right subject to some qualifications, but remember that early in our history only land owning males (and just the white ones) were permitted to vote. It has been amended such that one may not be denied the right to vote based on race or sex, but the government and the parties do not have to have a popular vote for president. The states' legislatures could simply select a candidate and it would be perfectly legal.
I am so glad I am not a woman with really nice tits.
Sure, but why do those cores need to be symmetrical? Wouldn't it make sense to have some cores for computationally intense work and others for tasks that require more memory bandwidth and shorter pipelines (and more of them)?
1. Decriminalize simple possession of marijuana.
2. Refocus budget away from fighter jets to education, establish state boards of education instead of municipal ones. Making school boards municipal has lead to redundant positions chewing up huge amounts of budgetary allowances, and public schools need to be more efficient at turning money into education.
3. Larger teacher salaries for teachers who perform well.
4. Establish prizes for much needed advancements in clean energy and materials science.
5. Recognize the people's rights to not be randomly placed under surveillance or monitoring while in public places or in their homes or online. The Fourth Amendment is there for a reason, and it must have teeth. Establish criminal penalties for law enforcers or municipal administrators who deliberately violate the civil liberties of those under their charge.
6. Repeal the Patriot Act as enacted, enact new legislation allowing similar powers but with even more specificity regarding the scope of such surveillance, and establishing criminal and civil penalties for law enforcement agencies who misuse what is intended as a National Security matter for petty crimes or drug interdiction.
7. Close the southern border, but enact a guest worker program such that migrant workers are not impeded and still the southern border should not pose a grave risk to national security from OTMs (Other than Mexican).
8. Establish the welfare system to only that level which encourages risk taking in business by supplying a safety net, but limit individuals to two years' uninterrupted time on the rolls, require a career plan and schooling for those who take it. Supply childcare for those in secondary school. An educated people is a prosperous one.
9. Establish presidential awards for small to medium sized businesses whose actions are a benefit to society as a whole, or whose business practices are especially beneficial to their communities.
10. Allow software patents for truly innovative methods, but overhaul the entire USPTO to remove the possibility for obvious or common methods. Recognize which tasks are mundane and should not be patented. A shopping cart is mundane, a fast MPEG4 motion algorithm is not mundane if its method is novel.
11. Push software vendors whose tools have become dominant to over 80 percent market share to make those tools cross-platform, or release pertinant information regarding those tools so that compatibility can be achieved. Direct3D would be one such candidate. It has become a standard and yet is inherently tied to only one operating system, which I see as bundling, and a violation of fair trade practices. One cannot purchase the DirectX and Direct3D tools without also purchasing the Windows operating system.
12. Suggest and support an Amendment to the Constitution recognizing the people's rights to self-protection against threats and harm, and that this right allows Americans to take such steps as they feel is necessary to ensure their safety and survival. This Amendment would also recognize that some individuals behave passive-aggressively, and that current laws do little to thwart harmful yet lawful behavior by those crafty enough to stay within the law. Establish a parallel to "self-defense" legal justification in the form of "excessive antagonism" which recognizes that for some behaviors, the only normal responses may include violence, and this should be taken into consideration in sentencing.
13. Pardon all people currently imprisoned for marijuana possession alone, institute harsher minimum sentences for rape, child abuse, and murder.
14. Codify in an Executive Order that the government respects the right of people to keep their property, and that forfeiture and seizure of real estate, vehicles or cash from individuals not charged with a crime is a criminal act of the State, and must cease. Because of the tangible value of such things, there can be no expectation or assurance that agencies and municipalities would not abuse such priveleges.
15. Establi
If order never proceeds from disorder, how will you explain the regular geometric patterns of crystals? The entropy always increases in a closed system, however Earth is not a closed system, and is free to radiate energy into space. If the Earth was a closed system and entropy always increased, why has it not remained molten and gradually heated into a gaseous cloud around the Sun?
It's just as well, for many of us do not believe in the Z axis, and it is a matter of much debate. For those who would disagree, I would suggest that they post something which exists in the Z axis so we may all see it.
Do you mean to assert that you have no niggers, or do you insist that our society as a whole contains zero? I would be inclined to agree that such a word would hardly be a fair epithet to be hurled indiscriminately at members of our society. I would as well share your pride at owning no other human beings save yourself, for such a practice is both antiquated and horrible.
Evolution theory does not presuppose the Big bang or the Spark of Life. Those are completely different theories dealing with completely different questions. Evolution is the theory that through natural selective pressures, creatures make small changes and that over time these small changes become cumulative and organisms become different in form and in behavior. This has been completely supported in the late 20th century as the ability to view and compare the genetic code of the organisms on this planet. For example, you are 75% genetically identical to a pumpkin plant, and that pumpkin plant is 90 percent identical to a palm tree which has most of its genetic code in common with a donkey. In other words, the genetic codes you use in your metabolism have been forged over time and plants and animals are not as different as we might have thought they were. We truly are minor modifications of some code used to make proteins and construct organisms. Darwin could not have known this, but his theory has been shown to be correct now that we can look where he could not. His theory was based largely on the physical qualities of the different animals and plants, and now we know that they do not just look similar, they in fact are similar to a degree we could not have anticipated.
This cannot be. There must be one truth to answer every question. In a murder investigation, the defense does not attempt to argue that both the prosecution and defense are equally correct. For every peice of evidence, there is one correct explanation of its origin.
This does not mean that either the defense or the prosecution is correct. It means that each will bring to bear that evidence which supports its presupposed conclusion. Science is a method, not an ideology. Once can embrace science and the results of his experimentation will show what is correct. On those questions where evidence is insufficient to draw a proper conclusion, some will have differing theories, but eventually, as evidence is gathered, the truth may come out.
This differs from faith. Faith is the internal certainty of one's own conclusion, evidence be damned. The theory of evolution by natural selection has a lot of evidence supporting it. It can be falsified any time that evidence can be shown to have come about through some other method, but creationism has been shown to be an unsinkable rubber ducky in the minds of its believers. No evidence of natural origin will be sufficient to sway them from the conclusions drawn thousands of years ago in the complete absence of evidence. Experimentation and inquiry did not provide the 'theory' of creation, it was simply written down in a book and all were forced to accept it. This was done with the lash, the spear, cleansing fires, imprisonment and book burning. The so-called scholars of creation cannot simply take the dogmatic beliefs of the past, and insist that because they are no longer practicing the Inquisition, that they be granted a seat as a scholar at the table of discussion. They must first become scholars, possessed of an open mind and bring the evidence to the table.
I don't think one can be both religious and scientific. The reason is that science tells you to believe that which the evidence shows to be true, and religions give the answers up front and then tell you not to even do the experiments.
'Do not test the Lord your God' is what we're told when we seek to investigate the existence of gods.
'Faith is the belief in things not seen' is what the religious man tells us as he waves his hand in the manner of a jedi after experiments and analysis fail to show the Almighty.
Religions seek an exception to the scientific method, specifically the parts where you do any science. Experimentation is forbidden, doubt is sin, and failure to believe can result in eternal damnation.
Religion and science are not simply two ways of looking to the universe for answers to our questions. They are absolute opposites of each other. If I were a boy asking his parents a question about something I observed, such as the growth of a plant from a seed, a scientific parent would have to encourage me to experiment on seeds, dissect them, and find out when a seed becomes a tree. A religious parent would simply hand me a book and tell me that if my answer wasn't in there, it probably wasn't important, and may be heretical.
Heresy. A concept foreign to science, but present in all the world's major religions. Freedom to think as you choose, to ask questions without being burned alive at the stake, hung, tortured, stretched or beheaded is a part of science and not a part of religion.
The choice between science and religion is the same one as the choice between trial by peers or simple lynching.
The consuming public has no need for what is essentially a studio master uncompressed copy. What is suitable for public exhibition is not the same as what's suitable for buying at Wal-Mart. Those 2k exhibition copies cost thousands of dollars, don't they? I would think that 1080p DV with MP4 compression or equivalent would be plenty for movies. For sports and other things, even true 60fps is better than nothing. Perhaps a standard with 75 fps at 720p resolutions would be better for sports broadcasts and highlights.
Someday I will have a sexbot I can recharge while I use it!