A couple of points. There are a lot of different types of asteroids/meteors, not just the nickel/iron ones. The second is actually a question. Is that 40 terawatt (seconds, hours, months, years, centuries)?
Um, it would be posttrial penalty phase, not pretrial discovery. Secondly a judge, no matter what phase, does not have to allow a motion to be withdrawn. Thirdly, I know this because I was tangently involved in a case when a judge did just this type of thing. I will assume then that refusing to allow a motion to be withdrawn is within those "norms of behavior" because I've seen it happen.
Except the plaintiff was harmed by the defendant. Not the state gov. Not the federal gov. Why would the government deserve shit? Punitive damages are levied to teach the defendant not to cause harm in the same way again. Why the fuck should the government be paid for an individual citizens harm?
It can happen that way. It is totally in the judges control whether he allows them to withdraw their request or not. Most likely he won't force it, but he can if he feels like it. He will mostlikely want to get it settled and out of his court as quickly as possible, but if he feels that the RIAA, or their lawyers, are acting in bad faith or are trying to cover something up , he can drag them through the wringer. It's his court, not the defence or prosecutions.
What you fail to realize is that when you can not have the child covered on the parents insurance they have to pay for that medical care somehow. An aquaintance had a baby that was prescribed and given an adult dose of pain medication. I do not remember what it was, but it destroyed the babys liver. She ended up having several surgeries, including a partial lobe transplant. The mothers insurance through her employer, who was also my employer, paid the first 100,000 dollars which covered less than the first 5 months of the childs life. After that they would pay for the rest of the family, untill they reached their 1 Mil family max, but were not required to cover the child. The child had the liver transplant when she was about 9 months old. She will be on imunosuppresants the rest of her life and will likely kidney transplans sometime in her lif do to the damage that they suffered also, but they were still functioning well enough at the time. Below are the costs listed for a liver transplant.
Medical costs. (all costs are from California Pacific Medical Center)
Estimated First-Year Charge: $314,600 Estimated Annual Follow-up Charge: $21,900
That is per years plus inflation for 60-70 years.
Drug costs.
Neoral or Prograf: Total monthly cost is approximately $1,500 Cellcept: Total monthly cost is approximately $800 (required for approx. first three months only) Septra: Total monthly cost is approximately $7.50 Prednisone: Total monthly cost is approximately $5.50
There are several other expensive drugs needed if you develop Hep B due to imunosuppression therapy.
Notice that $1500 a month charge for just the one of the drugs.
Wow, That's about $40k a year "out of pocket" for medical and drugs. Boy, after all those costs I bet the people just party every night on that windfall profit.
Didn't read my comment, did you. The judge has told the RIAA that they have to supply documentation on their fees to guage whether the defendants fees are resonable. The RIAA may not wish to do that for obvious reasons. They would most likely tell the judge that they withdraw their challenge as to the rerasonableness of the defendants fees. The judge, at that time can either accept this and settle the fees, or the judge can decide that they have had enough of the RIAA and their lawyers and force them to follow through with the disclosure and adjust the fee award as they see fit. "I see that the defendant claimed 1/20th of what the RIAA thought was reasonable for their lawyers as her fees. Please don't be so stingy with your legal defence. I find that the defendants fees be reimbursed at the rate of half of what the plaintif felt was acceptable for its case." Won't happen that way most likely, but we can hope...
I was think that myself. For every genius getting out of a bad position on the market, there has to be some idiot^Winvestor willing to buy it from him. That's how it works.
It's called speculating if you go in knowing it is a losing proposition and that you are gambling on the really slim chance for a big payoff vs losing your money. You're called an idiot if you buy into it with the absolute confidence that "it can't go any way but up!" Lots more idiots than speculators out there from my experience.
Only if Linus is the one who copied it. error.h and signal.h now are not the same as they were, say 10 years ago, and there are a lot more people than Linus who have maintained and writen kernel code since Linux was first created. If someone did copy and paste some code, shame on them, but unless you are comparing the original linux header files I don't see how a copied comment in the 2.4 trees header files can be directly attributed to Linus without seeing who checked the code in.
Well, Edwards was pretty well off to begin with, but...
You want to go figure up what the costs will be to cloth, feed, and care for a severely disabled child when they will need significant medical care and support for the rest of their lives and you can't carry them on your future insurance because they have a significant preexisting medical condition? If you aren't worth several million already you are going to need the large chunk of that 4.2 mil for those things.
The RIAA knew the answer to that question. They just didn't expect to have to turn over their attorneys records, which are similarly inflated, since they expected either to win, or have the defendant capitulate and take a settlement. The judge didn't play by their rules. The thing is it is the judges court, so its pretty much his rules as long as he isn't breaking any laws. (Not quite, but close enough for laymen like me.)
I forgot the legal term, but the judge can simply refuse to drop the RIAAs persuit of this challenge, and force them to go through with it to its logical conclusion. Basically the judge can say, "you started it, but I'm gonna finish it." I have no idea if this judge is inclined to do that, but I can hope...
Well, if Illinois would have checked... It looks like Groupwise already handles Linux. No transition on their part. Boy, it does NetWare and Windows Server also. Amazing. Short of simply going tits up Novell will be supporting Groupwise 7 for a few years. Pleanty of time for Illinois to run a few science experiments.
GroupWise 7 server requirements
32-bit/x86 processor or 64-bit/x86 processor running in 32-bit mode
Any of the following server operating systems, plus the latest support pack: Novell Open Enterprise Server (NetWare or Linux version) NetWare 5.1, NetWare 6.0, or NetWare 6.5 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 10 Windows 2000 Server or Windows 2003 Server eDirectory(TM) 8.7 or later ConsoleOne® 1.3.6 or later
I believe it was you who said the "State governments don't have time for BS". I beged to differ with that opinion. They are eminently positioned for BS. The only one better positioned for BS is the federal government.
Because we elect the government officials to do those things for us. They can't take the time to consult the plebs on every thing. What you do, if you feel they are betraying your trusts, is you get a recall vote going and dump their ass on the street. If the position is an appointed one, recall the elected official who has hiring/firing authority over the position if they do nothing. If you can't get the signitures to do a recall, then the rest of the citizens don't agree.
What a load of crap. The Ilinois state government is as bloated as they come. They are much more well positioned to toss a few non standard items out there to test the extent to which they can "save the taxpayers some money" regardless of if it would or not than almost any company. Hell, they could impliment the project several times like they have so many others. remember, Illinois is the poster child for nepotism and cronyism. The Directors statement is correct though. They don't have time for experiments in the State government. It cuts into their graft and corruption schedules.
Been too many years since I read the GPL. Ok, reread it.
Section 3 is the pertinant section. Ok. So it says you either have to include the software "on a medium customarily used for software interchange" or be required to make the source available "on a medium customarily used for software interchange" at the users request if it is not included, for a nominal fee to cover costs.
Still not sure why Dell couldn't just point them to http://download.openoffice.org/2.1.0/source.html through a desktop link or web redirect, or charge $.10 for a download from their own FTP server to cover costs if the first wasn't legal for whatever reason.
Hell, just put the source on the hard drive since that is Dells "medium customarily used for software interchange" with their customers and be done with it.
Now, I am not a lawyer, but I doubt that many associated with OO.o would have a problem with those options if it meant a few tens of thousands more installs.
Oooh. vista business. That sounds like the standard consumer build. Well, sarcasm aside, maybe dell stopped putting all that crap on their consumer systems in the last 2.8 years. If so, good on them, but I'm betting you bought a Business Class machine, or whatever they are calling them today.
Sorry I couldn't reply until today. From OSHAs web site.
Extreme and Dangerous CO2 Levels:
slightly intoxicating, breathing and pulse rate increase, nausea: 30,000 ppm above plus headaches and sight impairment: 50,000 ppm unconscious, further exposure death: 100.000 ppm
3 times the level (1100 ppm), which you say would kill, is listed as possibly causing minor drowsiness according to OSHA. General drowsiness: 1000 - 2500 ppm. Humans would survive.
They only have to make their source changes available. If Dell doesn't change the source, which I would bet they wouldn't, all they have to do is point a URL/shortcut to openoffice.org to make the source available as far as I can see.
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But, it IS copyrighted. It is copyrighed as you create it. The registration only raises the limits on damages.
No, you didn't! It's obviously fair use.
And that is what the company will claim, or the school will claim copyright since the schoolwork was OBVIOUSLY a work for hire.
A couple of points. There are a lot of different types of asteroids/meteors, not just the nickel/iron ones. The second is actually a question. Is that 40 terawatt (seconds, hours, months, years, centuries)?
Um, it would be posttrial penalty phase, not pretrial discovery. Secondly a judge, no matter what phase, does not have to allow a motion to be withdrawn. Thirdly, I know this because I was tangently involved in a case when a judge did just this type of thing. I will assume then that refusing to allow a motion to be withdrawn is within those "norms of behavior" because I've seen it happen.
I didn't pose any question that I am aware of in this thread.
Except the plaintiff was harmed by the defendant. Not the state gov. Not the federal gov. Why would the government deserve shit? Punitive damages are levied to teach the defendant not to cause harm in the same way again. Why the fuck should the government be paid for an individual citizens harm?
It can happen that way. It is totally in the judges control whether he allows them to withdraw their request or not. Most likely he won't force it, but he can if he feels like it. He will mostlikely want to get it settled and out of his court as quickly as possible, but if he feels that the RIAA, or their lawyers, are acting in bad faith or are trying to cover something up , he can drag them through the wringer. It's his court, not the defence or prosecutions.
What you fail to realize is that when you can not have the child covered on the parents insurance they have to pay for that medical care somehow. An aquaintance had a baby that was prescribed and given an adult dose of pain medication. I do not remember what it was, but it destroyed the babys liver. She ended up having several surgeries, including a partial lobe transplant. The mothers insurance through her employer, who was also my employer, paid the first 100,000 dollars which covered less than the first 5 months of the childs life. After that they would pay for the rest of the family, untill they reached their 1 Mil family max, but were not required to cover the child. The child had the liver transplant when she was about 9 months old. She will be on imunosuppresants the rest of her life and will likely kidney transplans sometime in her lif do to the damage that they suffered also, but they were still functioning well enough at the time. Below are the costs listed for a liver transplant.
Medical costs. (all costs are from California Pacific Medical Center)
Estimated First-Year Charge: $314,600
Estimated Annual Follow-up Charge: $21,900
That is per years plus inflation for 60-70 years.
Drug costs.
Neoral or Prograf: Total monthly cost is approximately $1,500
Cellcept: Total monthly cost is approximately $800 (required for approx. first three months only)
Septra: Total monthly cost is approximately $7.50
Prednisone: Total monthly cost is approximately $5.50
There are several other expensive drugs needed if you develop Hep B due to imunosuppression therapy.
Notice that $1500 a month charge for just the one of the drugs.
Wow, That's about $40k a year "out of pocket" for medical and drugs. Boy, after all those costs I bet the people just party every night on that windfall profit.
Didn't read my comment, did you. The judge has told the RIAA that they have to supply documentation on their fees to guage whether the defendants fees are resonable. The RIAA may not wish to do that for obvious reasons. They would most likely tell the judge that they withdraw their challenge as to the rerasonableness of the defendants fees. The judge, at that time can either accept this and settle the fees, or the judge can decide that they have had enough of the RIAA and their lawyers and force them to follow through with the disclosure and adjust the fee award as they see fit. "I see that the defendant claimed 1/20th of what the RIAA thought was reasonable for their lawyers as her fees. Please don't be so stingy with your legal defence. I find that the defendants fees be reimbursed at the rate of half of what the plaintif felt was acceptable for its case." Won't happen that way most likely, but we can hope...
I was think that myself. For every genius getting out of a bad position on the market, there has to be some idiot^Winvestor willing to buy it from him. That's how it works.
It's called speculating if you go in knowing it is a losing proposition and that you are gambling on the really slim chance for a big payoff vs losing your money. You're called an idiot if you buy into it with the absolute confidence that "it can't go any way but up!" Lots more idiots than speculators out there from my experience.
Only if Linus is the one who copied it. error.h and signal.h now are not the same as they were, say 10 years ago, and there are a lot more people than Linus who have maintained and writen kernel code since Linux was first created. If someone did copy and paste some code, shame on them, but unless you are comparing the original linux header files I don't see how a copied comment in the 2.4 trees header files can be directly attributed to Linus without seeing who checked the code in.
Well, Edwards was pretty well off to begin with, but...
You want to go figure up what the costs will be to cloth, feed, and care for a severely disabled child when they will need significant medical care and support for the rest of their lives and you can't carry them on your future insurance because they have a significant preexisting medical condition? If you aren't worth several million already you are going to need the large chunk of that 4.2 mil for those things.
The RIAA knew the answer to that question. They just didn't expect to have to turn over their attorneys records, which are similarly inflated, since they expected either to win, or have the defendant capitulate and take a settlement. The judge didn't play by their rules. The thing is it is the judges court, so its pretty much his rules as long as he isn't breaking any laws. (Not quite, but close enough for laymen like me.)
I forgot the legal term, but the judge can simply refuse to drop the RIAAs persuit of this challenge, and force them to go through with it to its logical conclusion. Basically the judge can say, "you started it, but I'm gonna finish it." I have no idea if this judge is inclined to do that, but I can hope...
Well, who can argue with that illogic. You're right you win. I am humbled by you mental prowess. :)
Oooh, nice troll. I give it a 7.3. I particularly like the "less important states" part. Subtle, yet not.
Well, if Illinois would have checked... It looks like Groupwise already handles Linux. No transition on their part. Boy, it does NetWare and Windows Server also. Amazing. Short of simply going tits up Novell will be supporting Groupwise 7 for a few years. Pleanty of time for Illinois to run a few science experiments.
GroupWise 7 server requirements
32-bit/x86 processor or 64-bit/x86 processor running in 32-bit mode
Any of the following server operating systems, plus the latest support pack:
Novell Open Enterprise Server (NetWare or Linux version)
NetWare 5.1, NetWare 6.0, or NetWare 6.5
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 10
Windows 2000 Server or Windows 2003 Server
eDirectory(TM) 8.7 or later
ConsoleOne® 1.3.6 or later
Oh, just to let you know, they are switching. From Novell and IBM software on the server side to Windows and Exchange.
I believe it was you who said the "State governments don't have time for BS". I beged to differ with that opinion. They are eminently positioned for BS. The only one better positioned for BS is the federal government.
Because we elect the government officials to do those things for us. They can't take the time to consult the plebs on every thing. What you do, if you feel they are betraying your trusts, is you get a recall vote going and dump their ass on the street. If the position is an appointed one, recall the elected official who has hiring/firing authority over the position if they do nothing. If you can't get the signitures to do a recall, then the rest of the citizens don't agree.
What a load of crap. The Ilinois state government is as bloated as they come. They are much more well positioned to toss a few non standard items out there to test the extent to which they can "save the taxpayers some money" regardless of if it would or not than almost any company. Hell, they could impliment the project several times like they have so many others. remember, Illinois is the poster child for nepotism and cronyism. The Directors statement is correct though. They don't have time for experiments in the State government. It cuts into their graft and corruption schedules.
Been too many years since I read the GPL. Ok, reread it.
Section 3 is the pertinant section. Ok. So it says you either have to include the software "on a medium customarily used for software interchange" or be required to make the source available "on a medium customarily used for software interchange" at the users request if it is not included, for a nominal fee to cover costs.
Still not sure why Dell couldn't just point them to http://download.openoffice.org/2.1.0/source.html through a desktop link or web redirect, or charge $.10 for a download from their own FTP server to cover costs if the first wasn't legal for whatever reason.
Hell, just put the source on the hard drive since that is Dells "medium customarily used for software interchange" with their customers and be done with it.
Now, I am not a lawyer, but I doubt that many associated with OO.o would have a problem with those options if it meant a few tens of thousands more installs.
Oooh. vista business. That sounds like the standard consumer build. Well, sarcasm aside, maybe dell stopped putting all that crap on their consumer systems in the last 2.8 years. If so, good on them, but I'm betting you bought a Business Class machine, or whatever they are calling them today.
Sorry I couldn't reply until today. From OSHAs web site.
Extreme and Dangerous CO2 Levels:
slightly intoxicating, breathing and pulse rate increase, nausea: 30,000 ppm
above plus headaches and sight impairment: 50,000 ppm
unconscious, further exposure death: 100.000 ppm
3 times the level (1100 ppm), which you say would kill, is listed as possibly causing minor drowsiness according to OSHA. General drowsiness: 1000 - 2500 ppm. Humans would survive.
They only have to make their source changes available. If Dell doesn't change the source, which I would bet they wouldn't, all they have to do is point a URL/shortcut to openoffice.org to make the source available as far as I can see.