Steal $15,000, and you get 15 years. Steal $15,000,000,000 (can you say "Enron"?), and you get 2 years plus time spent. Oh, well, American jurisprudence overcomes all obstacles, I guess.
Yeah, cause the only rights we have are the ones specifically enumerated in the constitution, right?
Nope, not at all. But such "other" rights, if claimed, have to be proven through the legal system (this thread is about legal rights). IANAL, but no U.S. court that I know of has ever ruled that a writer/blogger/pundit has the right to remain anonymous.
The right of a journalist to protect his/her sources has no bearing on the right of a source to expect/demand protection, either from the journalist or a third party. There is *no* right to remain anonymous.
You have a right to obey causality. You have a right to obey gravity. You have a right to keep your velocity under the speed of light at all times. You have a right to conserve energy/mass.
These and their like are the only "natural" rights "endowed" upon you by the universe -- in fact, they are *forced* upon you.
Any other supposed rights (freedom of speech, freedom to vote, freedom to chase girls, a.k.a. freedom to pursue happiness) are fictions created by the mind of man as he negotiates his way in the company of other humans.
Now, I certainly enjoy having these rights (especially the one about chasing girls), but I'm under no illusion that they exist in nature external to homo sap.
So? That doesn't mean they felt they had a "right" to remain anonymous, as is evidenced by the fact that those same Founding Fathers did not see it appropriate to include said "right" as an 11th Amendment in the Bill of Rights.
Microsoft has come a long way but still has some way to go before taking on Firefox and Opera.
I can't speak to Opera, by Firefox 1.5 crashes on me much more than IE6 ever did (based on experience with two different machines), and my experience with IE7 is that it is solid. And some sites using fancy forms (for example, my LinkSys/Cisco home router) don't work with FF at all.
Don't get me wrong, Firefox is still my default browser (I'm using it now), but by some meterics IE is more than a match.
You mean, Paris Hilton is for real? Nah, I don't believe it. On any real human with a head that empty, the skull would simply implode from the 1 atm pressure.
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1. obvious and intentional exaggeration.
Steal $15,000, and you get 15 years. Steal $15,000,000,000 (can you say "Enron"?), and you get 2 years plus time spent.
Oh, well, American jurisprudence overcomes all obstacles, I guess.
...since they obviously aren't going to be using it for much longer...
... in the flying car I made a $10K deposit on?
You think I read the f* article? You must be new here... :)
... using Ubuntu on his personal laptop.
I don't think Linus gives a hoot about folks "following" him. That's Stallman's obsession, IMHO. He's the one leading a crusade...
"The team to successfully complete the mission with the fastest time wins."
Now, exactly how many points per pedestrian?
... but I still won't be able to see the puck on the screen. Great.
Well, actually, there are 6 (orders of) magnitude between the US and European 'trillion'...
Chinese Jews?
Hot and Sour Matzah ball soup, anyone?
Now, I have to ask: Is the idea of "MemeCodes" a meme? If so, what is its code?
And most of the Slashdotters who ARE women HAVE BEEN with womem... 'da truth!
Nope, not at all. But such "other" rights, if claimed, have to be proven through the legal system (this thread is about legal rights). IANAL, but no U.S. court that I know of has ever ruled that a writer/blogger/pundit has the right to remain anonymous.
These and their like are the only "natural" rights "endowed" upon you by the universe -- in fact, they are *forced* upon you.
Any other supposed rights (freedom of speech, freedom to vote, freedom to chase girls, a.k.a. freedom to pursue happiness) are fictions created by the mind of man as he negotiates his way in the company of other humans.
Now, I certainly enjoy having these rights (especially the one about chasing girls), but I'm under no illusion that they exist in nature external to homo sap.
So? That doesn't mean they felt they had a "right" to remain anonymous, as is evidenced by the fact that those same Founding Fathers did not see it appropriate to include said "right" as an 11th Amendment in the Bill of Rights.
Jokes (indeed, humor in general) can be the most insightful form of human thought there is.
Ah, you must mean the iCashRegister application suite.
Microsoft has come a long way but still has some way to go before taking on Firefox and Opera.
I can't speak to Opera, by Firefox 1.5 crashes on me much more than IE6 ever did (based on experience with two different machines), and my experience with IE7 is that it is solid. And some sites using fancy forms (for example, my LinkSys/Cisco home router) don't work with FF at all.
Don't get me wrong, Firefox is still my default browser (I'm using it now), but by some meterics IE is more than a match.
That was fog permeating my entire dorm? Always wondered what that was. But, it was strangely pleasant...
Bezerkly '76
one of the truly great oxymorons...
You mean, Paris Hilton is for real? Nah, I don't believe it. On any real human with a head that empty, the skull would simply implode from the 1 atm pressure.
Seriously, we seem to have a slashdot article about what's wrong with the gaming industry posted once every month...
Well, the group in question was the Republican administration, and technically it was "group no-think" (which came very naturally to them).