There have not been numerous appeals. Libby wanted to run through his appeals before being sent to jail. The judge said he would have to sit in jail while during the appeals process.
This is only a commutation of the prison sentence, not a pardon. (Yes, the/. post got it right, but several commenters keep treating it as a pardon) He will still be marked as a felon and still have millions of dollars in fees.
Pardons and clemency have been controversial since they were first proposed. Many remembered how European royalty abused the power of the pardon and didn't want to risk it in the USA. Basically, it's impossible to have them without controversy. Yeah, you can talk about all the pardons and commutations that no one ever hears about and claim it's because they aren't controversial, but you better believe they're controversial to those involved.
The question is, would that in and of itself fall afoul of various laws in Europe? Or, if they paid you, would they be able to get around it since you are an "employee"?
They tested music ripped from CD and encoded by iTunes. That makes this test irrelevant to the music to the iTunes store, since that music comes from the original masters (higher quality than the CD) and is encoded using customised settings (per-album or per-song), while iTunes uses some fairly general settings.
So then, it seems that there would be an even more noticeable difference between 128Kb/s and 256Kb/s. Which means if using this lower quality 128Kb/s track, the research showed that the difference in quality isn't worth an extra 30 cents, then doesn't it still hold true that a higher quality 128Kb/s track purchased from iTunes would be even closer in quality to the 256Kb/s track, and still not worth the extra 30 cents?
If ripping a CD to iTunes at 128Kb/s creates a lower quality track than purchasing a 128Kb/s track from the iTunes Store, then I think ripping from a CD to iTunes actually adds more weight to the argument that the 256Kb/s tracks are not worth an extra 30 cents.
Last year at my old job, our health insurance was through Humana. They had the same operating system restriction. It cause a HUGE pain for the art department, where everyone uses a Mac at work, and most use a Mac at home. I discovered that, although it failed using Safari and IE on the Mac, it let me through when using Firefox. But that only worked after getting an account. We still had to use IE on Windows to create our accounts. The most annoying part is that there didn't seem to be any website features that were incompatible with Safari or Firefox, just that when you sent the account information it told their server what program and operating system you were using, and if they didn't approve, it wouldn't let it go through. Ironically, of course, the reason given was for security reasons.
Actually, I've heard tell they do have a sort of quota. It's based on quantity, not quality. So, they don't really care if it's going to get contested later, so long that it's out of their hands.
Very low average age of natural death? Actually, the only places with longer life expectancies are Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Australia and Japan. Most of the rest of the world has a lower life expectancy.
Check out this map.
You're right. It is 18, not 30, but I don't think it's the fault of the Slashdot editors this time. The article they link to explicitly says 30. The article that article links to explicitly says 30. From that article, you have to go to the bill summary and THEN to the actual bill text. Someone's hyping the story, but it's not the Slashdot editors this time.
From personal experience, an ING savings account is definitely the way to go. As a student, you don't want to get your money locked up in stocks. Sure, you can make money short term, but it's always risky unless you can afford to leave it there for at least 10 years. ING is a great way to make your money do some work and still have immediate access to it. Right now, we're getting nearly the same interest rate (it could actually be higher, I can't remember) as my husband's student loans. ING has actually made it more worthwhile to NOT pay off the loan yet.
At around 4% interest, you can't really go wrong. And as interest rates go up, so will the rate on your savings account. I believe their interest rate has gotten up above 6% in the past. Plus they have nifty things like interest sales. Put money in during that time, and you get an even higher interest rate for a few months.
Indeed I do. I don't watch a lot of TV, mostly The Simpson's and the morning news. Living near a large city, I can get around 25 channels for free (minus the original cost of the antenna). Or I can pay $50 for a bunch more crappy channels. With how much TV I watch, it's much better going the free way.
I think there won't be a problem with a lack of free television if we can get to the point where we only pay for services we want.
Mailing a copy to yourself and not opening is definitely more evidence. However, more evidence won't do you any good if a judge won't even consider your claim to begin with.
And, if you do have a certificate from the U.S. Copyright office, why do you need more support of your claim to "prior art". You've got a government document that was created for the exact purpose of proving prior art.
I have been told this before, as well. However, I recently learned that it isn't any better than just creating a work of art (which is automatically copyrighted the moment it is completed. Paying money to the government (to get an actual certificate) is the only way a judge will bother considering an infringement lawsuit. Even if you can easily prove your art was created first, a judge just won't care without paperwork from the U.S. Copyright Office.
For THE premier blog on the conservative side, go to "The Corner" (lost sheep linked to it above). This is the weblog that even the president's men read. Besides, what could be better than politics interspersed with poetry and dirty jokes?:-p
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I second the motion of big yellow smileys!
The question is, would that in and of itself fall afoul of various laws in Europe? Or, if they paid you, would they be able to get around it since you are an "employee"?
That is true, but my point still holds about ripping a 128Kb/s from a CD using iTunes vs. purchasing a 128Kb/s track from the iTunes Store.
So then, it seems that there would be an even more noticeable difference between 128Kb/s and 256Kb/s. Which means if using this lower quality 128Kb/s track, the research showed that the difference in quality isn't worth an extra 30 cents, then doesn't it still hold true that a higher quality 128Kb/s track purchased from iTunes would be even closer in quality to the 256Kb/s track, and still not worth the extra 30 cents?
If ripping a CD to iTunes at 128Kb/s creates a lower quality track than purchasing a 128Kb/s track from the iTunes Store, then I think ripping from a CD to iTunes actually adds more weight to the argument that the 256Kb/s tracks are not worth an extra 30 cents.
Last year at my old job, our health insurance was through Humana. They had the same operating system restriction. It cause a HUGE pain for the art department, where everyone uses a Mac at work, and most use a Mac at home. I discovered that, although it failed using Safari and IE on the Mac, it let me through when using Firefox. But that only worked after getting an account. We still had to use IE on Windows to create our accounts. The most annoying part is that there didn't seem to be any website features that were incompatible with Safari or Firefox, just that when you sent the account information it told their server what program and operating system you were using, and if they didn't approve, it wouldn't let it go through. Ironically, of course, the reason given was for security reasons.
Actually, I've heard tell they do have a sort of quota. It's based on quantity, not quality. So, they don't really care if it's going to get contested later, so long that it's out of their hands.
Very low average age of natural death? Actually, the only places with longer life expectancies are Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Australia and Japan. Most of the rest of the world has a lower life expectancy. Check out this map.
You're right. It is 18, not 30, but I don't think it's the fault of the Slashdot editors this time. The article they link to explicitly says 30. The article that article links to explicitly says 30. From that article, you have to go to the bill summary and THEN to the actual bill text. Someone's hyping the story, but it's not the Slashdot editors this time.
From personal experience, an ING savings account is definitely the way to go. As a student, you don't want to get your money locked up in stocks. Sure, you can make money short term, but it's always risky unless you can afford to leave it there for at least 10 years. ING is a great way to make your money do some work and still have immediate access to it. Right now, we're getting nearly the same interest rate (it could actually be higher, I can't remember) as my husband's student loans. ING has actually made it more worthwhile to NOT pay off the loan yet.
At around 4% interest, you can't really go wrong. And as interest rates go up, so will the rate on your savings account. I believe their interest rate has gotten up above 6% in the past. Plus they have nifty things like interest sales. Put money in during that time, and you get an even higher interest rate for a few months.
Indeed I do. I don't watch a lot of TV, mostly The Simpson's and the morning news. Living near a large city, I can get around 25 channels for free (minus the original cost of the antenna). Or I can pay $50 for a bunch more crappy channels. With how much TV I watch, it's much better going the free way. I think there won't be a problem with a lack of free television if we can get to the point where we only pay for services we want.
Mailing a copy to yourself and not opening is definitely more evidence. However, more evidence won't do you any good if a judge won't even consider your claim to begin with. And, if you do have a certificate from the U.S. Copyright office, why do you need more support of your claim to "prior art". You've got a government document that was created for the exact purpose of proving prior art.
I have been told this before, as well. However, I recently learned that it isn't any better than just creating a work of art (which is automatically copyrighted the moment it is completed. Paying money to the government (to get an actual certificate) is the only way a judge will bother considering an infringement lawsuit. Even if you can easily prove your art was created first, a judge just won't care without paperwork from the U.S. Copyright Office.
My mom didn't receive a rebate from Best Buy when she should have. She called them, and she ended up getting a rebate for twice the amount.
I myself have had no problems with receiving back rebate checks from Best Buy.
For THE premier blog on the conservative side, go to "The Corner" (lost sheep linked to it above). This is the weblog that even the president's men read. Besides, what could be better than politics interspersed with poetry and dirty jokes? :-p