In almost every case, it's going to be turned into life without parole.
And how long before Life w/o Parole is determined to be "Cruel and Unusual" for children? After all, "They have their whole lives ahead of them." And, "It's unfair, because an older murderer sentenced to life has less time to live." Don't tell me someone isn't already trying to make this case.
Will someone please show me where in the United State's Constitution the Federal Government and Supreme Court are specifically empowered to rule on state imposed death penality statutes, and differentiate defendents by age. I'd really like to read that part again.
It particularly disturbs me when in said decision, they relied on "world opinion" in this ruling. I don't have to explain to you why that's bad, do I?
P2P may be all you have some day soon for uncensored entertainment if Ted Stevens [R-Alaska] achieves his goal of applying broadcast decency standards to cable, pay, and satellite services.
Since when was it his right to decide standards on absolutely everything I see and hear?
If you don't want the bad stuff, don't pay for it.
44% of the Supreme Court thought its fine to execute children.
And 100% of those "children" thought it was just fine to execute other human beings. Some of them even felt it was okay to execute other human beings because they were children still, and therefore the state couldn't do anything really bad to them.
Those are not people I want to live beside afterwards. So just where are your priorities?
I submit that Betamax has done more for this world than VHS ever will from this case alone. Thank you Sony! And I'm sorry the format didn't achieve better acceptance.
I'm especially reminded of this ever time I do a visual scan on a VHS machine, that has never worked as smoothly and easily as Betascan[tm] did from its very first incarnation.
Patent violations are given no free pass if the holder chooses to ignore the violation up until the last hour.
You're describing a Submarine Patent, where the patent holder waits until their patent is widely adpoted so that they will be owned much more in infringement fees and royalities than would be likely if they'd enforced their patent from the beginning and possibly had people work around it. I do believe there are some limits on using this approach.
I just baked a Sarah Lee cherry pie last night that promised a discount coupon inside the box for the next purchase. Although I'd only bought the frozen pie a month ago, once I got inside I discovered that the coupon had expired on 12/31/2003 -- over 13 months ago!
You can imagine how I feel about the pie now. So where's my class action suit?
still e-mail a macro virus by merely changing a.DOC file's extension to.RTF. (Microsoft should prevent Word from running macros in files with.RTF extensions, but it doesn't.)
The workaround is to open all received e-mail on Windows machines using the included WordPad program. It reads both.DOC and.RTF files, but can't run macros.
Do Internet retailers need to keep records? Records specific enough to identify particular consumers? If they must keep them, can they keep in a Data Haven beyond a state's subpoena reach?
While I don't smoke and hate being around those who do, what can be done to smokers can be done to the rest of us on everything else too. I'd be more willing to patronise retailers who promise that the records of the sale are destroyed as soon as the order is received. This isn't the first time that an on-line retailer has been forced into revealing records that have then been used even by private companies to extort legal purchasers.
Now how long before some 89-year-old grandmother who never smoked in her life is sued because her grandkids used her name to buy a pack?
from easily available components (like BladeCenter and TotalStorage servers, 970FX PowerPC processors
Sounds to me like building the biggest supercomputer today is nothing more than throwing more money at it than your compeition. No real technical skill needed beyond beyond that of wiring up your new home entertainment center a few hundred times over.
Slashdot Mirror
And his luggage will arrive next week -- at the latest!
Sorry, Steve!
And how long before Life w/o Parole is determined to be "Cruel and Unusual" for children? After all, "They have their whole lives ahead of them." And, "It's unfair, because an older murderer sentenced to life has less time to live." Don't tell me someone isn't already trying to make this case.
Will someone please show me where in the United State's Constitution the Federal Government and Supreme Court are specifically empowered to rule on state imposed death penality statutes, and differentiate defendents by age. I'd really like to read that part again.
It particularly disturbs me when in said decision, they relied on "world opinion" in this ruling. I don't have to explain to you why that's bad, do I?
Since when was it his right to decide standards on absolutely everything I see and hear?
If you don't want the bad stuff, don't pay for it.
And 100% of those "children" thought it was just fine to execute other human beings. Some of them even felt it was okay to execute other human beings because they were children still, and therefore the state couldn't do anything really bad to them.
Those are not people I want to live beside afterwards. So just where are your priorities?
I submit that Betamax has done more for this world than VHS ever will from this case alone. Thank you Sony! And I'm sorry the format didn't achieve better acceptance.
I'm especially reminded of this ever time I do a visual scan on a VHS machine, that has never worked as smoothly and easily as Betascan[tm] did from its very first incarnation.
RIP Betamax. Gone, but never forgotten!
It's old news today.
You're describing a Submarine Patent, where the patent holder waits until their patent is widely adpoted so that they will be owned much more in infringement fees and royalities than would be likely if they'd enforced their patent from the beginning and possibly had people work around it. I do believe there are some limits on using this approach.
Get it now,
Don't be late.
All is great,
'Til the next Apple update!
Can their lawyers be far behind?
YMMV, but I find many of Apple's recent actions the very antithesis of the 1984 commercial that launched the Macintosh.
You can imagine how I feel about the pie now. So where's my class action suit?
It sounds faster when given in kph (Thousand P's per Hour).
Is so!
Is not!
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You're sued!
The workaround is to open all received e-mail on Windows machines using the included WordPad program. It reads both .DOC and .RTF files, but can't run macros.
Now they do their best to bring it about.
A more interesting question/answer would be:
Q: Do you keep records on my sales that you will turn over to my home state under any circumstances?
I'd like to see the answer to that one.
Or how about...
Q: How may I order anonymously from your site since my employer will fire me if they find out that I use tobacco?
More than a California 'Flake'.
And that has recently been taken successfully to court in at least one state because it was favoring in-state wineries over out-of-state competition.
While I don't smoke and hate being around those who do, what can be done to smokers can be done to the rest of us on everything else too. I'd be more willing to patronise retailers who promise that the records of the sale are destroyed as soon as the order is received. This isn't the first time that an on-line retailer has been forced into revealing records that have then been used even by private companies to extort legal purchasers.
Now how long before some 89-year-old grandmother who never smoked in her life is sued because her grandkids used her name to buy a pack?
Yeah but, will it ever replace Slashdot?
This this mean there will be >= 938 of them February 17, 2006 for absolutely sure?
And how long now before kids are cracking it in an afternoon using interconnected PS3s?
Sounds to me like building the biggest supercomputer today is nothing more than throwing more money at it than your compeition. No real technical skill needed beyond beyond that of wiring up your new home entertainment center a few hundred times over.