In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
In the Defense world, it's done because someone with a large amount of debt or crappy credit score is a potential security risk. Good luck getting a security clearance with credit problems.
I sympathize with you, understress. My wife and I went through 18 months of hell, with tons of red herrings, including a dismissal -- "Oh, you're just suffering from empty nest. It's psychosomatic." -- before she was diagnosed with ALS.
The problem with rare diseases is the old saying, "When you hear hoofbeats, look for horses, not zebras."
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Translation: "Even though we didn't explicitly mention Right 'X', you've still got it."
Also the Tenth:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Translation: "If it ain't in here, the Feds can't do it."
When I was at WUSTL in '80-'82, the "no nukes" crowd was going around saying that "any amount of radiation is dangerous", so some friends and I actually went around campus posting "Stamp Out The Sun" signs to point out how stupid that was.
40 years or so ago, I was soldering a radio kit, when my kid sister came up next to me. She startled me, and my hand jerked. A blob of solder went into her eye.
Luckily, she was fine, but I've been gun-shy around soldering irons ever since.
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I'm still trying to figure out how a contract of adhesion can waive the Seventh Amendment to the US Constitution.
We shot a rocket in the air
We fear it fell to earth somewhere
Though we were aiming for the moon
Red China claims we hit Kowloon
Exactly. Assume the 250MB cap. At the 24Mbps quoted in TFS, that's 2 minutes.
"Just do this one little thing for me, and you got $5000. Nobody will know, and it won't hurt anyone."
In the Defense world, it's done because someone with a large amount of debt or crappy credit score is a potential security risk. Good luck getting a security clearance with credit problems.
That's already a violation of Facebook's TOS.
I believe that the Apollo 8 S-IVB was blown up by SHADO because it was harboring UFOs.
If I only got my news from Slashdot every day, I'd probably have an alarmist worldview too
Because the patent world has gone batshit-crazy. Patenting a "rounded rectangle" for a phone???? REALLY?????
Do you really think extending copyright term (retroactively!) is going to affect whether or not somebody decides to write a novel or a song?
Of course it is. How else would we encourage John Lennon or Elvis Presley to do new work?
Q: How can you tell when a politician is lying?
A: His lips move.
So what *DOES* the future of the Turkish textile industry look like?
I'm sure there are plenty of launchers than can lift 70mT and 130mt.
70mT = 140 pounds.
130mT = 260 pounds.
No way in hell a project that big gets approved without a rationale.
And no way in hell the administrator of such a project would ask Slashdot what to do with it.
I sympathize with you, understress. My wife and I went through 18 months of hell, with tons of red herrings, including a dismissal -- "Oh, you're just suffering from empty nest. It's psychosomatic." -- before she was diagnosed with ALS.
The problem with rare diseases is the old saying, "When you hear hoofbeats, look for horses, not zebras."
Remember -- P2P killed Elvis!!!
What competition?
They're granted monopolies by the municipalities.
Righthaven LLC warned today it may have to file for bankruptcy because of a series of setbacks in its litigation campaign.
Let me correct that for TFA authors.
Righthaven LLC warned today it may have to file for bankruptcy because of a series of setbacks in its extortion campaign
I heard she later became a Grim Reaper.
The Ninth Amendment.
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Translation: "Even though we didn't explicitly mention Right 'X', you've still got it."
Also the Tenth:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Translation: "If it ain't in here, the Feds can't do it."
Self-reply.
Forgot the ob-disclaimer:
When I was at WUSTL in '80-'82, the "no nukes" crowd was going around saying that "any amount of radiation is dangerous", so some friends and I actually went around campus posting "Stamp Out The Sun" signs to point out how stupid that was.
Yeah, Brakes have a signal. A signal you can't see when the braking car is being tailgated by the H2 in front of you.
http://xkcd.com/538/
No, It's the Sun, I'm telling you!!!!
We need to Stamp Out The Sun, because ANY amount of radiation is dangerous!!!
Well played, Mauer!
Don't laugh, it actually happens.
40 years or so ago, I was soldering a radio kit, when my kid sister came up next to me. She startled me, and my hand jerked. A blob of solder went into her eye.
Luckily, she was fine, but I've been gun-shy around soldering irons ever since.