Washington DC vs. Heller and McDonald vs. City of Chicago were gun control cases, it pretty much goes without saying that a conservative court will rule for looser gun controls.
In McDonald, the court ruled as narrowly as possible. If they were going to apply selective incorporation to a 2nd Amendment case, the logical conclusion would have been to overturn Slaughter-House and thereafter allow the entire Bill of Rights to apply against the States. But, no. That might have given too much leeway to the unwashed masses, and we can't that, eh?
Per Jeffrey Toobin, “in every major case since he became the nation’s seventeenth Chief Justice, Roberts has sided with the prosecution over the defendant, the state over the condemned, the executive branch over the legislative, and the corporate defendant over the individual plaintiff.” That’s conservative jurisprudence in a nutshell.
As has become abundantly clear, "activist judges" are only a problem when their rulings don't fit the conservative POV.
The parent is spot on. Even if dead wrong, I seriously doubt the PRC would engage in much/any outsourcing of space launches. The Chinese (and US/Russian/EU) governments consider space launch capability a strategic military and economic asset, degraded or lost at the peril of the nation, regardless of short term economic concerns.
That's where you're drawing the line in the sand? In my browser, the title doesn't get smellchecked. So, you telling me you can't guess at the word I meant to smell when it's a letter off? Your use of idiom suggests you're not an ESL writer.
If - say - Charlie Sheen joins the cast of a Broadway show, and agrees to sit for an interview, he'd be an idiot not to expect questions regarding issues proceeding the show.
A large part of RIM's value-add is their security. That security was compromised in certain parts of the world. If the RIM CEO has new h/w to show off, and agrees to sit for an interview, he would be an idiot not to expect questions regarding that compromise. He had the option to address it directly, to talk around it, or to try to b.s. through it. Whether he was "ambushed" or not, cutting off an interview with the MSM isn't a good display of the value a US$1m executive is expected to provide.
Clinical addiction is a process by which a positive feedback loop develops after psychoactive substances are introduced into the brain. The substances temporarily modify dopamine and serotonin levels, the brain adjusts, and after a few rinse and repeats, the user is totally focused on imbibing added substance just to feel 'normal'.
The initial choice to imbibe is voluntary, much like the choice to step into a Russian airliner. But, without the experience of watching close friends and acquaintances suffer the consequences, it's not always evident in advance how hard it is to get off when the pilot starts mating with a stew in the cockpit just before the engines start falling off.
For the sake of argument, lets assume the following as facts in evidence: - Mark Zuckerberg dicked with a few ConnectU accounts. - David Kernell dicked with Sarah Palin's Yahoo! email account. - Kernell definitely and Zuckerberg probably left crumbs leading back to an IP address that could be reasonably linked to them.
The law isn't an AI algorithm, it is human beings prioritizing their activities within a set of practices and procedures. Most of the ConnectU users were university students and staff, and Mr. Zuckerberg evidently didn't publish his exploits (eg. screwed nobodies). Sarah Palin was the Republican candidate for Vice President of the United States, and Mr. Kernell not only hacked into her email account, he talked about it, and made the account p/w available, leading to the dissemination of much of the account's contents (eg. screwed a somebody, and dicked with a core process in the US political system).
Hence, nobody - not even the victims - bothered to do much investigation regarding Mark's acts, while a good number of law enforcement officials made it their life's work to focus on David's.
By way of example, a number of individuals were convicted of murders they committed in California in June, 1968. A good many have eventually been released on parole, but not Sirhan Sirhan.
I'm a bit surprised that the parent was modded off topic. The fact is that when they were first passing out brains IP blocks 'way back when, most of Asia weren't players in the internet game. I recall a briefing from the beginning of the century stating that most of India was running behind a massive NAT gateway.... and thus suggesting that most Asian nations would be moving to ipv6 earlier than the OECD out of necessity.
So, yeah, APNIC is likely very motivated to go ipv6. But, don't discount the allure of the cheap fix.
I suspect Mr. Ceglia is SOL. The key is in the examination of any written contract(s) between Mssrs. Ceglia and Zuckerberg. Per uslawbooks.com and forgery: "Proving it involves reviewing the totality of the law regarding the facts in evidence. This includes the signatures, a competent analysis of the signatures and an understanding of the law as it applies to the case." I'm sure there will be a lot of money spent on this.
Regarding the emails and IMs, unless Ceglia can dredge up the original electronic record archives from both his and Zuckerberg's contemporary mail servers, Ceglia's "emails" aren't worth squat. Looking back at Iran-Contra, what landed Reagan Administration officials in hot water was that the IBM Profs system email archives weren't purged, and provided a trail of authentication and non-repudiation for investigators. I have reason to doubt Mr. Ceglia is going to get a similar degree of audit-ability.
Your points re US Federal procurement are good, and apply to state and local government and large business procurement and project management.
To some extend, this is because it's always easier to add processes than remove any... but, why add any in the first place? Prevention of fraud and malfeasance. You can have a fast, low overhead system, or you can have processes to try to prevent internal and external rip-offs. Finding a sweet spot is a bear, and the target is always moving.
Example, red tape: the Federal Government buys a few squadrons of F-35s. In exchange for added cost and development time, the DoD gets a warm fuzzy that the product will meet spec, have care and feeding covered, and be pretty sure a key component isn't from a factory owned by the People's LIberation Army. They put up with red tape to get the results they desired.
Example, fraud: reacting to the unintended consequences of idiotic Administration policies, the US Army and Marines quickly develop the tactic to buy off the Iraqi Sunni insurgency. The DoD ships billions of dollars in cash into the theatre of war, and it works. Also, later audits can't account for a few hundred million. They put up with fraud and theft to get the results they desired.
I hear the truth in what you're saying. All I'm saying is, using an inexact metaphor, yah catch more flies with honey. People don't like dickheads. Looking through more of Mr. Hogg's blog, as I'm sure the court did, they may have noted that he was pretty explicit about trying to literally run Mr. Moore out of town, and "geez, what if he doesn't like me?"
I believe Mr. Hogg's problem with his jury is that he writes about his beefs like an asshole. Mr. Moore was (is) a frequent subject of Mr. Hogg's writing.
If Mr. Hogg had been employed by and was writing in one of the area's alternative news sheets, he'd have been personally protected, and his publisher would be taking the heat. Worst case, he'd have been fired. But, by acting as a "sole proprietor" so to speak, it would have behooved him to present the facts in a more neutral tone. This is nothing new, but much as technology has made it easier for the likes of Mr. Hogg or you or me to get our word out there, it has made it easier for someone else to take offense to the point they consider it actionable.
As Jesse Eisenberg's character was told in Social Network, it wasn't the insult so much as that it was put on the internet.
At the speed the revolution is moving for the moment, particularly from the east, I think internal comms is more important than external internet access. And, from the film foreign correspondents have broadcast, it looks like the cell network is still up. So, prolly good to go for now.
For the sake of argument, a 200km link is theoretically possible, based on the 125mi linkrecord established during the 2005 Defcon Wi-fi shootout. They were using 10 and 12' satt dishes, and barely managed simple ssh console connections using unamplified wi-fi. With the heights quoted, I'm going to make a wild-ass guess that there isn't going to be sufficient fresnel clearance to prevent significant reflective signal fade over the Med between Cyrenica and Crete. But, with a few watts amplification, who knows?
As Adam Smith himself wrote, ideal markets are a dynamic between the drive of selfish acts moderated by ethical behavior.
The advice seeker is - within this model - a saint. Mr. Cohen is misguided, demonstrating the truth that a little bit of knowledge (of market economics) is a dangerous things.
If I was charitable, I'd suggest that the city fathers of Anniston, AL are merely uninformed of the rights of individuals employed by Federal, state, or local government. The right of redress with regard to elected government overrides PITA public employees bellyaching.
If I were uncharitable, I'd suggest the city fathers of Anniston, AL are radical "tenthers" who think that the Constitution only (and significantly) restricts the power of the Federal Government, rather than the states or locales. If true, I hazard the opinion that they're mistaking the US Constitution (and subsequent case law) with the Articles of Confederation (superseded by said Constitution as of March 4, 1789).
Brother, you were doing so well, but you just had to push the globalism button in the last paragraph. Therefore: you get picked because "you're" cheap enough to make up for a generally mediocre level of post-secondary education, are often times proficient in your colonial overlord's language, and if residing in a host country, easy to exploit and send home.
Exactly. I typically stick with the keyboard: either page up/down, or cursor up/down. I sometimes use the mouse to adjust the scrollbar, but seldom move within the window until I'm ready to click a link.
Re: "Giving up" on the Chinese market... it's like dealing with Walmart: you can either say "no" now and work at adding more value to the product to survive; or, you can sign on the dotted line and watch them suck your margins in-house.
Granted, offsets are a major part of international aerospace. But, offsets to - say - Finland and offsets to China are two all together different birds.
I contend that for any of G-S' target US customers, moving the sale outside of the US is meaningless. The sale was aimed at high net-worth individuals, and just about any of these people (or their portfolio manager) will be able to participate via their off-shore accounts. The action in the usual off-shore banking establishments, or even through US citizens' above board overseas accounts, will probably prove heavy.
This action is strictly to put off the day of reckoning with the SEC.
This is even more bone-headed a move than Boeing farming out airframe subassemblies. This is one of the few areas where we have a competitive advantage, and they're going to give it away so that they can sell a few more engines. I don't care if the rationale is that Rolls Royce, SNECMA, P&W, or if it's the price for lower labor costs at a PRC plantsite, or whoever will do it if "we" don't.
When a technology firm is selling off their IP, it's obvious that they are out of the business of developing new IP, and are just milking the efforts of their predacessors. What a sad sight.
If you're trying to teach OS concepts, I found "Operating System Design: The Xinu Approach" (Comer) a good text. Otherwise, have the kids install a LAMP stack.
/* This pseudo code is GPL, blah, blah, blah... */ if (WinMTR source tree *ever* licensed GPL) {
if (current source tree include portions of the previous code) {
print "the current code is a derivative work, and is also GPL";
if (current source tree was purchased from original maintainer) {
print "does not matter";
}
if (current source tree was strictly written in-house) {
print "does not matter";
}
} elseif (current version is a complete rewrite of WinMTR) {
print "license the current code however you wish";
} }
Any elite school is to some degree in the business of exchanging additional money for prestige. The Ivy League especially. If you plan to enter elite level law and/or finance, it's pretty much a given that you need to exit school with an Ivy dip (esp. if no family connections).
If you don't aspire to the commanding heights of Wall Street, the Loop, D.C. or academia, the added value is slim.
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I didn't really wrap my mind around how time adds up over eternity until reading The Five Ages of The Universe . Forever, indeed.
Washington DC vs. Heller and McDonald vs. City of Chicago were gun control cases, it pretty much goes without saying that a conservative court will rule for looser gun controls.
In McDonald, the court ruled as narrowly as possible. If they were going to apply selective incorporation to a 2nd Amendment case, the logical conclusion would have been to overturn Slaughter-House and thereafter allow the entire Bill of Rights to apply against the States. But, no. That might have given too much leeway to the unwashed masses, and we can't that, eh?
Per Jeffrey Toobin, “in every major case since he became the nation’s seventeenth Chief Justice, Roberts has sided with the prosecution over the defendant, the state over the condemned, the executive branch over the legislative, and the corporate defendant over the individual plaintiff.” That’s conservative jurisprudence in a nutshell.
As has become abundantly clear, "activist judges" are only a problem when their rulings don't fit the conservative POV.
The parent is spot on. Even if dead wrong, I seriously doubt the PRC would engage in much/any outsourcing of space launches. The Chinese (and US/Russian/EU) governments consider space launch capability a strategic military and economic asset, degraded or lost at the peril of the nation, regardless of short term economic concerns.
That's where you're drawing the line in the sand? In my browser, the title doesn't get smellchecked. So, you telling me you can't guess at the word I meant to smell when it's a letter off? Your use of idiom suggests you're not an ESL writer.
If - say - Charlie Sheen joins the cast of a Broadway show, and agrees to sit for an interview, he'd be an idiot not to expect questions regarding issues proceeding the show.
A large part of RIM's value-add is their security. That security was compromised in certain parts of the world. If the RIM CEO has new h/w to show off, and agrees to sit for an interview, he would be an idiot not to expect questions regarding that compromise. He had the option to address it directly, to talk around it, or to try to b.s. through it. Whether he was "ambushed" or not, cutting off an interview with the MSM isn't a good display of the value a US$1m executive is expected to provide.
Clinical addiction is a process by which a positive feedback loop develops after psychoactive substances are introduced into the brain. The substances temporarily modify dopamine and serotonin levels, the brain adjusts, and after a few rinse and repeats, the user is totally focused on imbibing added substance just to feel 'normal'.
The initial choice to imbibe is voluntary, much like the choice to step into a Russian airliner. But, without the experience of watching close friends and acquaintances suffer the consequences, it's not always evident in advance how hard it is to get off when the pilot starts mating with a stew in the cockpit just before the engines start falling off.
For the sake of argument, lets assume the following as facts in evidence:
- Mark Zuckerberg dicked with a few ConnectU accounts.
- David Kernell dicked with Sarah Palin's Yahoo! email account.
- Kernell definitely and Zuckerberg probably left crumbs leading back to an IP address that could be reasonably linked to them.
The law isn't an AI algorithm, it is human beings prioritizing their activities within a set of practices and procedures. Most of the ConnectU users were university students and staff, and Mr. Zuckerberg evidently didn't publish his exploits (eg. screwed nobodies). Sarah Palin was the Republican candidate for Vice President of the United States, and Mr. Kernell not only hacked into her email account, he talked about it, and made the account p/w available, leading to the dissemination of much of the account's contents (eg. screwed a somebody, and dicked with a core process in the US political system).
Hence, nobody - not even the victims - bothered to do much investigation regarding Mark's acts, while a good number of law enforcement officials made it their life's work to focus on David's.
By way of example, a number of individuals were convicted of murders they committed in California in June, 1968. A good many have eventually been released on parole, but not Sirhan Sirhan.
I'm a bit surprised that the parent was modded off topic. The fact is that when they were first passing out brains IP blocks 'way back when, most of Asia weren't players in the internet game. I recall a briefing from the beginning of the century stating that most of India was running behind a massive NAT gateway.... and thus suggesting that most Asian nations would be moving to ipv6 earlier than the OECD out of necessity.
So, yeah, APNIC is likely very motivated to go ipv6. But, don't discount the allure of the cheap fix.
I suspect Mr. Ceglia is SOL. The key is in the examination of any written contract(s) between Mssrs. Ceglia and Zuckerberg. Per uslawbooks.com and forgery: "Proving it involves reviewing the totality of the law regarding the facts in evidence. This includes the signatures, a competent analysis of the signatures and an understanding of the law as it applies to the case." I'm sure there will be a lot of money spent on this.
Regarding the emails and IMs, unless Ceglia can dredge up the original electronic record archives from both his and Zuckerberg's contemporary mail servers, Ceglia's "emails" aren't worth squat. Looking back at Iran-Contra, what landed Reagan Administration officials in hot water was that the IBM Profs system email archives weren't purged, and provided a trail of authentication and non-repudiation for investigators. I have reason to doubt Mr. Ceglia is going to get a similar degree of audit-ability.
Your points re US Federal procurement are good, and apply to state and local government and large business procurement and project management.
To some extend, this is because it's always easier to add processes than remove any... but, why add any in the first place? Prevention of fraud and malfeasance. You can have a fast, low overhead system, or you can have processes to try to prevent internal and external rip-offs. Finding a sweet spot is a bear, and the target is always moving.
Example, red tape: the Federal Government buys a few squadrons of F-35s. In exchange for added cost and development time, the DoD gets a warm fuzzy that the product will meet spec, have care and feeding covered, and be pretty sure a key component isn't from a factory owned by the People's LIberation Army. They put up with red tape to get the results they desired.
Example, fraud: reacting to the unintended consequences of idiotic Administration policies, the US Army and Marines quickly develop the tactic to buy off the Iraqi Sunni insurgency. The DoD ships billions of dollars in cash into the theatre of war, and it works. Also, later audits can't account for a few hundred million. They put up with fraud and theft to get the results they desired.
I hear the truth in what you're saying. All I'm saying is, using an inexact metaphor, yah catch more flies with honey. People don't like dickheads. Looking through more of Mr. Hogg's blog, as I'm sure the court did, they may have noted that he was pretty explicit about trying to literally run Mr. Moore out of town, and "geez, what if he doesn't like me?"
I believe Mr. Hogg's problem with his jury is that he writes about his beefs like an asshole. Mr. Moore was (is) a frequent subject of Mr. Hogg's writing.
If Mr. Hogg had been employed by and was writing in one of the area's alternative news sheets, he'd have been personally protected, and his publisher would be taking the heat. Worst case, he'd have been fired. But, by acting as a "sole proprietor" so to speak, it would have behooved him to present the facts in a more neutral tone. This is nothing new, but much as technology has made it easier for the likes of Mr. Hogg or you or me to get our word out there, it has made it easier for someone else to take offense to the point they consider it actionable.
As Jesse Eisenberg's character was told in Social Network, it wasn't the insult so much as that it was put on the internet.
At the speed the revolution is moving for the moment, particularly from the east, I think internal comms is more important than external internet access. And, from the film foreign correspondents have broadcast, it looks like the cell network is still up. So, prolly good to go for now.
For the sake of argument, a 200km link is theoretically possible, based on the 125mi link record established during the 2005 Defcon Wi-fi shootout. They were using 10 and 12' satt dishes, and barely managed simple ssh console connections using unamplified wi-fi. With the heights quoted, I'm going to make a wild-ass guess that there isn't going to be sufficient fresnel clearance to prevent significant reflective signal fade over the Med between Cyrenica and Crete. But, with a few watts amplification, who knows?
As Adam Smith himself wrote, ideal markets are a dynamic between the drive of selfish acts moderated by ethical behavior.
The advice seeker is - within this model - a saint. Mr. Cohen is misguided, demonstrating the truth that a little bit of knowledge (of market economics) is a dangerous things.
If I was charitable, I'd suggest that the city fathers of Anniston, AL are merely uninformed of the rights of individuals employed by Federal, state, or local government. The right of redress with regard to elected government overrides PITA public employees bellyaching.
If I were uncharitable, I'd suggest the city fathers of Anniston, AL are radical "tenthers" who think that the Constitution only (and significantly) restricts the power of the Federal Government, rather than the states or locales. If true, I hazard the opinion that they're mistaking the US Constitution (and subsequent case law) with the Articles of Confederation (superseded by said Constitution as of March 4, 1789).
Brother, you were doing so well, but you just had to push the globalism button in the last paragraph. Therefore: you get picked because "you're" cheap enough to make up for a generally mediocre level of post-secondary education, are often times proficient in your colonial overlord's language, and if residing in a host country, easy to exploit and send home.
Exactly. I typically stick with the keyboard: either page up/down, or cursor up/down. I sometimes use the mouse to adjust the scrollbar, but seldom move within the window until I'm ready to click a link.
Re: "Giving up" on the Chinese market... it's like dealing with Walmart: you can either say "no" now and work at adding more value to the product to survive; or, you can sign on the dotted line and watch them suck your margins in-house.
Granted, offsets are a major part of international aerospace. But, offsets to - say - Finland and offsets to China are two all together different birds.
I contend that for any of G-S' target US customers, moving the sale outside of the US is meaningless. The sale was aimed at high net-worth individuals, and just about any of these people (or their portfolio manager) will be able to participate via their off-shore accounts. The action in the usual off-shore banking establishments, or even through US citizens' above board overseas accounts, will probably prove heavy.
This action is strictly to put off the day of reckoning with the SEC.
This is even more bone-headed a move than Boeing farming out airframe subassemblies. This is one of the few areas where we have a competitive advantage, and they're going to give it away so that they can sell a few more engines. I don't care if the rationale is that Rolls Royce, SNECMA, P&W, or if it's the price for lower labor costs at a PRC plantsite, or whoever will do it if "we" don't.
When a technology firm is selling off their IP, it's obvious that they are out of the business of developing new IP, and are just milking the efforts of their predacessors. What a sad sight.
If you're trying to teach OS concepts, I found "Operating System Design: The Xinu Approach" (Comer) a good text. Otherwise, have the kids install a LAMP stack.
Ah, good point. Then what we're left with is the right of others to fork the last GPL-ed version of WinMTR.
/* This pseudo code is GPL, blah, blah, blah... */
if (WinMTR source tree *ever* licensed GPL) {
if (current source tree include portions of the previous code) {
print "the current code is a derivative work, and is also GPL";
if (current source tree was purchased from original maintainer) {
print "does not matter";
}
if (current source tree was strictly written in-house) {
print "does not matter";
}
} elseif (current version is a complete rewrite of WinMTR) {
print "license the current code however you wish";
}
}
Any elite school is to some degree in the business of exchanging additional money for prestige. The Ivy League especially. If you plan to enter elite level law and/or finance, it's pretty much a given that you need to exit school with an Ivy dip (esp. if no family connections).
If you don't aspire to the commanding heights of Wall Street, the Loop, D.C. or academia, the added value is slim.