While, as an anarcho-capitalist, I've come to the expect the state to completely and utterly ignore their own laws when they become inconvenient, I believe the void for vagueness doctrine applies here :
It is a basic principle of due process that an enactment is void for vagueness if its prohibitions are not clearly defined. Vague laws offend several important values. First, because we assume that man is free to steer between lawful and unlawful conduct, we insist that laws give the person of ordinary intelligence a reasonable opportunity to know what is prohibited, so that he may act accordingly - Grayned v. City of Rockford, 408 US 104 - Supreme Court 1972
Not paying "taxes" is prohibited. The average person is not capable of understanding the tax code of their state and the feds, much less that of fifty states. Under the state's own law, the entire tax code should be stricken as being void for vagueness.
I refuse to recognize anything that the Supreme Clown Court says. They stopped following the Constitution a long time ago and only rule based on their own political interests.
I will resell what I want to resell. Any attempt to commit a violent act against me for doing such will result in me defending myself with a proportional amount of force.
If the ad companies ignore Internet Explorer's DNT, then Microsoft should respond by adding an adblocker that blocks them.
This is actually a good business strategy for them :
1.It benefits consumers because they get an integrated adblocker and it establishes customer goodwill and a reason to upgrade IE. 2.It would seriously hurt Google. Microsoft's revenue from online advertising is peanuts; their profit is in their software. By contrast, Google's only real source of income is online advertising.
On my Windows machines I use SeaMonkey. It is written by developers who are actually competent and know what they are doing.
On my Linux machines, I use a custom build of Firefox. It is currently Version 14 and it will stay Version 14 as I have decided to just backport the security and rendering changes without all of the UI nonsense that the idiotic fashion designers running Mozilla seem to want to do. I also patched in KDE integration from the SuSE build for good measure.
The problem with Mozilla is that they've put a bunch of "user-experience designers" in charge of Firefox rather than programmers who actually know what they are doing. "User-experience designers" are just glorified fashion designers who keep changing around the interface to go with whatever happens to be en vogue at the time. I may dislike Chrome (the final straw for me was an arrogant reply, GNOME style, from a developer in reference to a feature request for movable toolbars) but at least they are consistent and Chrome updates don't break everything.
Well, just take what Firefox is doing and do the opposite.
It seems counterproductive to continue dumbing down the interface. The majority of Firefox's user base are geeks. Those that aren't are mostly using Firefox because their geek friend/relative/spouse/girlfriend/boyfriend installed in on their computer. Alienating your primary user base is NOT a good idea.
Oh yes, your addon is one of the first things I install. Though you might want to update the versioning so that it states it is compatible with the latest SeaMonkey.
I am not a fan of the data manager either; unfortunately I don't see Firefox retaining the classic cookie manager for long, given the obsession with putting everything in a tab. But that is really the only area of SeaMonkey where I take issue with that does not come from upstream.
The main reason I like SeaMonkey is that the developers are unapologetic about targeting it towards power users and state so right up front (https://wiki.mozilla.org/SeaMonkey:Reasons). They also give you options; even with the new "data manager", the old cookie/passwords interfaces still remain.
SeaMonkey also is faster, less bloated, and uses less memory, which is ironic considering the entire reason that Firefox was created is because the Mozilla Application Suite (which SeaMonkey is the continuation of) was considered to be slow and bloated.
IMHO, I think the best thing to do for Thunderbird would be to combine efforts with SeaMonkey. A standalone client could still be made but the combined resources could benefit both projects.
Mozilla jumped the shark when they replaced started taking design decisions away from programmers and putting them in the hands of "user experience designers" who are nothing more than glorified fashion designers. Mozilla's "user experience team" has 25(!) people on it (http://blog.mozilla.org/ux/who-we-are/). How many people does it take to design an interface for a browser? Every new release of Firefox copies more things from Chrome and dumbs down the interface in the process.
I like having a status bar. I do not want the add-ons manager, the preferences manager, or the download manager in a tab because I am using a windowing operating system with a high resolution display. I do not like being forced to wade though about:config because putting some semblance of actual configurability in the options screen is not in vogue. I do not want to have to install 20 add-ons just to get some semblance of a usable browser.
I ditched Firefox for Seamonkey. It is the continuation of the original Mozilla suite, based on the up-to-date Firefox code but without most of the stupidity (unfortunately, they don't have enough developers on the project to undo ALL of the stupidity that comes from upstream). It is also compatible with most Firefox addons (either directly or through porting which is mostly a simple find/replace affair).
So, basically, some defense contractor bribed a few key state officials and got them to convince everyone that taxpayer money should be used to outfit the police cars with (very expensive and profitable) radiation scanners.
Investment implies risk. The potential rewards for investment are high (in this case, getting games more in line with your personal preference rather than dealing with the mass market junk of the big corporations) but so are the risks. This is nothing unique to Kickstarter.
Sorry but I still don't see a problem. Microsoft and Apple are simply getting a taste of their own medicine. It's just desserts as far as I'm concerned.
The primary reason for creating SOPA and PIPA is to get around the pesky inconvenience of having to deal with all those other countries and their own sets of laws. Because the US controls.com,.net, and.org as well as having both IANA and ICANN, big media could simply use the courts they have bought here in the US without having to deal with that annoying inconvenience of other sovereign nations and their own sets of laws.
The US government has long been a tool designed to serve the needs of large corporations. This does nothing to change that.
We the people lost our country when the US government, along with Britian, decided to invade Iran and depose the lawfully elected leader of that country (Mohammad Mosaddegh) so that BP could come in and pillage their oil fields.
That still doesn't give corporations the constitutional authority to conduct their own raids. If they wish to file a civil action against the EULA violation, that is one thing. And then they can get a court order to seize the computers for their own discovery process. The enforcement of the court order, however, should be carried about by law enforcement officials, not by a private security force. After the law enforcement officials seize the computers pursuant to the court order, they can then turn them over for discovery.
Cooperating on the sidelines is one thing but it is improper to have Microsoft employees actively participating in the execution of a warrant. The proper thing to do would be to have the federal agents seize the computers and then hand them over to Microsoft. The last thing this country needs is for corporations to be given police powers.
And you wonder why the country has no money when they waste it on stuff like this. This is why people hate the US. It is the height of hubris to think that we have the right to go and tell other people what values they have to have. It is the height of hubris to think that the entire world should share in those values and that they should have to share in those. And people wonder why the US keeps getting attacked.
I'm not surprised they don't know the law.
I looked up New Hampshire laws. It's only felony wiretapping if neither party has given consent. In the case of only one party giving consent, it is a misdemeanor.
--snip---
It is a felony to intercept or disclose the contents of any telecommunication or oral communication without the consent of all parties. N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. 570-A:2-I. It is punishable by imprisonment of one to seven years. N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann 625:9. However, it is only a misdemeanor if a party to a communication, or anyone who has the consent of only one of the parties, intercepts a telecommunication or oral communication. N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann 570-A:2-I. Misdemeanors are punishable by imprisonment up to one year. N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann 625:9.
--snip---
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While, as an anarcho-capitalist, I've come to the expect the state to completely and utterly ignore their own laws when they become inconvenient, I believe the void for vagueness doctrine applies here :
It is a basic principle of due process that an enactment is void for vagueness if its prohibitions are not clearly defined. Vague laws offend several important values. First, because we assume that man is free to steer between lawful and unlawful conduct, we insist that laws give the person of ordinary intelligence a reasonable opportunity to know what is prohibited, so that he may act accordingly - Grayned v. City of Rockford, 408 US 104 - Supreme Court 1972
Not paying "taxes" is prohibited. The average person is not capable of understanding the tax code of their state and the feds, much less that of fifty states. Under the state's own law, the entire tax code should be stricken as being void for vagueness.
I refuse to recognize anything that the Supreme Clown Court says. They stopped following the Constitution a long time ago and only rule based on their own political interests.
I will resell what I want to resell. Any attempt to commit a violent act against me for doing such will result in me defending myself with a proportional amount of force.
If the ad companies ignore Internet Explorer's DNT, then Microsoft should respond by adding an adblocker that blocks them.
This is actually a good business strategy for them :
1.It benefits consumers because they get an integrated adblocker and it establishes customer goodwill and a reason to upgrade IE.
2.It would seriously hurt Google. Microsoft's revenue from online advertising is peanuts; their profit is in their software. By contrast, Google's only real source of income is online advertising.
On my Windows machines I use SeaMonkey. It is written by developers who are actually competent and know what they are doing.
On my Linux machines, I use a custom build of Firefox. It is currently Version 14 and it will stay Version 14 as I have decided to just backport the security and rendering changes without all of the UI nonsense that the idiotic fashion designers running Mozilla seem to want to do. I also patched in KDE integration from the SuSE build for good measure.
The problem with Mozilla is that they've put a bunch of "user-experience designers" in charge of Firefox rather than programmers who actually know what they are doing. "User-experience designers" are just glorified fashion designers who keep changing around the interface to go with whatever happens to be en vogue at the time. I may dislike Chrome (the final straw for me was an arrogant reply, GNOME style, from a developer in reference to a feature request for movable toolbars) but at least they are consistent and Chrome updates don't break everything.
Well, just take what Firefox is doing and do the opposite.
It seems counterproductive to continue dumbing down the interface. The majority of Firefox's user base are geeks. Those that aren't are mostly using Firefox because their geek friend/relative/spouse/girlfriend/boyfriend installed in on their computer. Alienating your primary user base is NOT a good idea.
I think that all of Mozilla's user "experience" designers should be forced to read this : http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/index.php
It is old but still *very* relevant.
Oh yes, your addon is one of the first things I install. Though you might want to update the versioning so that it states it is compatible with the latest SeaMonkey.
SeaMonkey has a very different interface from Firefox 4+ : http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/6435/seamonkey2g.png.
I am not a fan of the data manager either; unfortunately I don't see Firefox retaining the classic cookie manager for long, given the obsession with putting everything in a tab. But that is really the only area of SeaMonkey where I take issue with that does not come from upstream.
The main reason I like SeaMonkey is that the developers are unapologetic about targeting it towards power users and state so right up front (https://wiki.mozilla.org/SeaMonkey:Reasons). They also give you options; even with the new "data manager", the old cookie/passwords interfaces still remain.
SeaMonkey also is faster, less bloated, and uses less memory, which is ironic considering the entire reason that Firefox was created is because the Mozilla Application Suite (which SeaMonkey is the continuation of) was considered to be slow and bloated.
IMHO, I think the best thing to do for Thunderbird would be to combine efforts with SeaMonkey. A standalone client could still be made but the combined resources could benefit both projects.
Mozilla jumped the shark when they replaced started taking design decisions away from programmers and putting them in the hands of "user experience designers" who are nothing more than glorified fashion designers. Mozilla's "user experience team" has 25(!) people on it (http://blog.mozilla.org/ux/who-we-are/). How many people does it take to design an interface for a browser? Every new release of Firefox copies more things from Chrome and dumbs down the interface in the process.
I like having a status bar. I do not want the add-ons manager, the preferences manager, or the download manager in a tab because I am using a windowing operating system with a high resolution display. I do not like being forced to wade though about:config because putting some semblance of actual configurability in the options screen is not in vogue. I do not want to have to install 20 add-ons just to get some semblance of a usable browser.
I ditched Firefox for Seamonkey. It is the continuation of the original Mozilla suite, based on the up-to-date Firefox code but without most of the stupidity (unfortunately, they don't have enough developers on the project to undo ALL of the stupidity that comes from upstream). It is also compatible with most Firefox addons (either directly or through porting which is mostly a simple find/replace affair).
The US is like the modern day Roman Empire. Eventually, the rest of the world will get tired of being bullied by the US and stand up.
So, basically, some defense contractor bribed a few key state officials and got them to convince everyone that taxpayer money should be used to outfit the police cars with (very expensive and profitable) radiation scanners.
Investment implies risk. The potential rewards for investment are high (in this case, getting games more in line with your personal preference rather than dealing with the mass market junk of the big corporations) but so are the risks. This is nothing unique to Kickstarter.
Sorry but I still don't see a problem. Microsoft and Apple are simply getting a taste of their own medicine. It's just desserts as far as I'm concerned.
Microsoft charges Android phone makers $5-$15 PER PHONE for only a handful of patents.
This is coming from a company that makes a business out of extorting Android phone makers for money.
HP didn't get the memo.
HP has no reason to disparage a competitor for potential market gains, no reason at all. Nope.
The primary reason for creating SOPA and PIPA is to get around the pesky inconvenience of having to deal with all those other countries and their own sets of laws. Because the US controls .com, .net, and .org as well as having both IANA and ICANN, big media could simply use the courts they have bought here in the US without having to deal with that annoying inconvenience of other sovereign nations and their own sets of laws.
The difference is, with this, all someone has to do is patent the gene and then they can charge whatever they want.
At least with spaceships and computers, you actually have to create something.
The cure may work on the masses but I assure you, the masses won't be able to afford it.
The US government has long been a tool designed to serve the needs of large corporations. This does nothing to change that.
We the people lost our country when the US government, along with Britian, decided to invade Iran and depose the lawfully elected leader of that country (Mohammad Mosaddegh) so that BP could come in and pillage their oil fields.
That still doesn't give corporations the constitutional authority to conduct their own raids. If they wish to file a civil action against the EULA violation, that is one thing. And then they can get a court order to seize the computers for their own discovery process. The enforcement of the court order, however, should be carried about by law enforcement officials, not by a private security force. After the law enforcement officials seize the computers pursuant to the court order, they can then turn them over for discovery.
Cooperating on the sidelines is one thing but it is improper to have Microsoft employees actively participating in the execution of a warrant. The proper thing to do would be to have the federal agents seize the computers and then hand them over to Microsoft. The last thing this country needs is for corporations to be given police powers.
And you wonder why the country has no money when they waste it on stuff like this. This is why people hate the US. It is the height of hubris to think that we have the right to go and tell other people what values they have to have. It is the height of hubris to think that the entire world should share in those values and that they should have to share in those. And people wonder why the US keeps getting attacked.
Since when do private corporations get to conduct raids and other police actions?
I'm not surprised they don't know the law. I looked up New Hampshire laws. It's only felony wiretapping if neither party has given consent. In the case of only one party giving consent, it is a misdemeanor. --snip--- It is a felony to intercept or disclose the contents of any telecommunication or oral communication without the consent of all parties. N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. 570-A:2-I. It is punishable by imprisonment of one to seven years. N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann 625:9. However, it is only a misdemeanor if a party to a communication, or anyone who has the consent of only one of the parties, intercepts a telecommunication or oral communication. N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann 570-A:2-I. Misdemeanors are punishable by imprisonment up to one year. N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann 625:9. --snip---