If you expect a different OS to work exactly like the one you're most familiar with to the point that you actually believe you need to use the keyboard instead of the mouse for anything on a Mac, you're an idiot.
Preferring one UI over the other has nothing to do with it. Assuming the different UI doesn't work because it's not identical to Windows shows that you're either unwilling or unable to learn anything new.
Someone who's able to switch between Windows, Linux, and a Mac and use them all is not an idiot, even if he or she strongly prefers one over the others.
The court, in the bit you quoted above, held that walking with your mail to the garbage can is reasonable. This does not mean that having to filter thousands of emails a day is also reasonable.
You'd probably argue that since the Court held that a reasonable person wouldn't allow the police to search their car during a routine traffic stop, that it's perfectly legal to engage in a high speed chase rather than pulling over at all. After all, you might be able to draw some ridiculously tenuous analogy between the two, so why not assert that there the same thing?
It is, in fact, neither legal nor "time-shifting" to tape broadcast programs on your Betamax machine to keep them as a collection. Time shifting refers specifically to taping a show at one time to watch it at a more convenient time. The fact that this particular use was held to not infringe copyright, and that a substantial number of Betamax owners were found to be using their machine in precisely this way, meant that it was not illegal for Sony to manufacture and sell the devices.
At no point was a right established to record without limit anything that's broadcast.
The phrase "electoral college" doesn't appear anywhere in the US Constitution, either. Therefore, the US Constitution doesn't establish the electoral college.
Also, Article I, Section 8, does not use the terms "copyright" or "patent", so obviously the Constitution doesn't grant Congress the right to create things with those names.
On the other hand, David Boies seems to be pretty good at failing miserably in big cases (US v. Microsoft, Bush v. Gore, and now SCO v. everyone), so I'm not sure he's the best person to be taking legal advice from.
If you want advice on how to get paid lots of money without showing results, though, he's your guy.
Congress cannot pass laws that override the Constitution. Laws that violate the Constitution are null and void. The court isn't making law, it's ruling on existing laws that never should have been made.
Yes, the state legislatures should change their laws so that they're no longer unconstitutional. But if they refuse to (see Alabama's constitution), the laws are just as invalid as they'd be if they were repealed.
It's a crime to provide alcohol to a minor, even if you're the minor's guardian.
This is like arguing that whether a minor is murdered in his sleep on any given night is decided by his or her guardians on a case by case basis. Sure it is, but that doesn't make it either legal or morally correct for a parent to sneak into their child's room to kill them. Your comment is a complete non sequitur.
There are thousands of perfectly readable fonts that are not included in a standard Windows install.
Granted, you might think that the ones that are installed with Windows are good enough for any purpose.
On the other hand, if we accept your argument, we can also argue that it makes no sense to not build web pages that will only display properly in browsers made by Microsoft. If Microsoft's font selection isn't open to debate, why should their belief that IE is the best browser and good enough for anyone be up to debate?
It is sad that it requires more work to become a citizen of America than just living here
No, it's sad that we don't strip citizenship from and deport the vast majority of our citizens who couldn't become citizens if they weren't born here. The requirements to become a citizen are an affirmation of the principle that democracy doesn't work when the people know nothing about their government and couldn't care less how it's run. Now if only our education system was still based on the same principle, our elections might become something more than a popularity contest.
I have a monopoly over my own writings. Are you suggesting I should be prosecuted for unfair business practices if I offer to sell the rights to everything I've ever written to you for one million dollars?
They did, however, drop "AOL" from their name and changed their stock ticker symbol from "AOL" to "TWX" when they realized that a major media corporation being bought up by an internet provider that spent more money sending CDs to every person on the planet than it will ever make selling internet services was really, really, stupid.
Anyway, this would be a lot more "useful" (and I use that term loosely)if they weren't just sending pointers to files that are on a shared server. This implies they've already got a network link between them, making a physical transport even more pointless than it would be anyway.
Sure, but so are you. You're stealing karma from everyone by posting Funny messages, which draw moderations without even giving you any karma. This greatly reduces the total positive karma available to the community as a whole. This is not just theft, it's extreme anti-social behavior.
We should all pray that some prosecutor doesn't stumble upon this thread and decide that he could probably imprison every single person in his jurisdiction for committing theft under this definition.
And you, Mr. Prosecutor who's reading this: if you don't prosecute us all, then you are stealing from the prison industry!
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How dare you keep those negatives locked in a temperature-controlled room? Movies want to be FREE!
Preferring one UI over the other has nothing to do with it. Assuming the different UI doesn't work because it's not identical to Windows shows that you're either unwilling or unable to learn anything new.
Someone who's able to switch between Windows, Linux, and a Mac and use them all is not an idiot, even if he or she strongly prefers one over the others.
You'd probably argue that since the Court held that a reasonable person wouldn't allow the police to search their car during a routine traffic stop, that it's perfectly legal to engage in a high speed chase rather than pulling over at all. After all, you might be able to draw some ridiculously tenuous analogy between the two, so why not assert that there the same thing?
I'm too stupid to figure out how to use a Mac, therefore I don't think anyone else should switch.
There already is such a federal law. It's called the 8th Amendment.
Outlaw marriage, and only outlaws will have inlaws.
At no point was a right established to record without limit anything that's broadcast.
Also, Article I, Section 8, does not use the terms "copyright" or "patent", so obviously the Constitution doesn't grant Congress the right to create things with those names.
If you want advice on how to get paid lots of money without showing results, though, he's your guy.
Yes, the state legislatures should change their laws so that they're no longer unconstitutional. But if they refuse to (see Alabama's constitution), the laws are just as invalid as they'd be if they were repealed.
This is like arguing that whether a minor is murdered in his sleep on any given night is decided by his or her guardians on a case by case basis. Sure it is, but that doesn't make it either legal or morally correct for a parent to sneak into their child's room to kill them. Your comment is a complete non sequitur.
Guess the entire industry wasn't halted by patents. Nice panicked hyperbole, though.
Granted, you might think that the ones that are installed with Windows are good enough for any purpose.
On the other hand, if we accept your argument, we can also argue that it makes no sense to not build web pages that will only display properly in browsers made by Microsoft. If Microsoft's font selection isn't open to debate, why should their belief that IE is the best browser and good enough for anyone be up to debate?
Right, because they're going to be communicating with Earth while travelling faster than light. With normal radio waves.
If you're looking for K5, you know where to find it.
You're thinking of Andrew Carnegie.
In any case, Melinda Gates probably deserves the award a lot more. Without her, Bill most likely would have continued to hoard his money.
Nothing. Per capita wealth might change, but the GDP has nothing to do with how much wealth a nation's inhabitants have.
No, it's sad that we don't strip citizenship from and deport the vast majority of our citizens who couldn't become citizens if they weren't born here. The requirements to become a citizen are an affirmation of the principle that democracy doesn't work when the people know nothing about their government and couldn't care less how it's run. Now if only our education system was still based on the same principle, our elections might become something more than a popularity contest.
If I know you cheated on your wife, it's legal for me to tell her you cheated on her. It's not legal to blackmail you.
Extortion is a crime. Period.
I have a monopoly over my own writings. Are you suggesting I should be prosecuted for unfair business practices if I offer to sell the rights to everything I've ever written to you for one million dollars?
Using statistics to lie is one thing. Making up statistics to help your point just makes you look stupid.
As long as you don't do any public performances or support artists who cover beatles songs, you're fine.
Now stop stealing from Paul and Ringo!
They did, however, drop "AOL" from their name and changed their stock ticker symbol from "AOL" to "TWX" when they realized that a major media corporation being bought up by an internet provider that spent more money sending CDs to every person on the planet than it will ever make selling internet services was really, really, stupid.
Anyway, this would be a lot more "useful" (and I use that term loosely)if they weren't just sending pointers to files that are on a shared server. This implies they've already got a network link between them, making a physical transport even more pointless than it would be anyway.
We should all pray that some prosecutor doesn't stumble upon this thread and decide that he could probably imprison every single person in his jurisdiction for committing theft under this definition.
And you, Mr. Prosecutor who's reading this: if you don't prosecute us all, then you are stealing from the prison industry!