Doesn't the field become richer when the wider spectrum of legal thought is explored and encouraged?
Yes, but Inga went farther than that. Inga demonstrated sympathy with those whom her employer intended to prosecute. That isn't what she's paid for. I would have let her go, too.
(That is, if I supported DRM and all that. For the record, I wouldn't be caught dead working in a place like that.)
Would this show just turn into an hour-long browbeat, like so much other gender-politics crap on the boob tube ("Commander in Chief", "Book of Daniel")? Only, in this case, the intended audience would be a lot narrower, so it'll tank before instead of after its first episode.
1. Where did I say the proposal was Murtha's? I know it wasn't his proposal. It was a push-back against him, and after all the ruckus he'd raised, no Democrat (except maybe Kerry) was willing to stand in the way.
2. I read the proposal. It was to bring Iraq withdrawal to official debate. It was designed to call Murtha out and get him to either put up, or shut up. He decided to shut up.
3. Nobody lied to me. I read the text, I saw the vote tally. I suggest you refrain from pretending to know what I've seen and heard.
it gives good press to the Democratic Party and bad press to Diebold.
Just because Diebold has been stupid about all this (they have) doesn't automatically make the Democrats the good guys. It could be nothing more than an attempt at a public smear. Even John Murtha didn't vote for official debate when he was yelling about bringing the troops home. He just wanted to make a public spectacle and get some face time on camera, nothing more.
"Checks and balances" are not between the political parties. They're between the branches of government. (That's Legislative, Executive, and Judicial, Ms. Feinstein.)
Nobody is exempt from the laws of physics. Even the morons in California, driving their BMW's, are subject to Newton's laws of inertia. No amount of ABS will save the situation, when the a$$hole's front bumper is a mere 15 feet from my rear bumper.
A one-million-candlepower spotlight shining out my rear window, on the other hand, would tend to make people very smart very quickly.
Any hardware-driven project will always be ready for updates, especially for end-user-serviceable products like printers. New models appear, firmware updates are made available from the manufacturers, and the programs that make it all work together need to be maintained.
The project could be very mature, beyond everyone's expectations. However, like those who meet Dracula, people may find that it sucks their life-blood away, and the best way to make it stop is to put a stake through its heart.
If he used OpenOffice.org for text composition, with the character replacement table enabled, then "fi", "fl", "ffi", and "ffl" were replaced with their ligature equivalents. Whatever editor(s) he used for the copy-paste into Slashdot, weren't Unicode-enabled.
His boss is setting him up for a fall. He can walk away, or not. If he chooses to stay (for reasons known only to him), then he can risk paying the price now, for doing the right thing, or pay a bigger price later, for keeping his mouth shut.
Seriously, would you want to be known as a toady for this guy's boss?
If he does, then go over his head. Expose him for the duplicitous moron he is. And if you get fired for having some ethics (and for trying to look out for the company's interests), well, it's their loss, and your gain.
You can use the leviathan forces of attention and enthusiasm that are swirling around Web 2.0 these days as a powerful enabler to make something important and exciting happen in your organization.
In other words, "Pleeeeease Mommy! All the other kids are going to the party! Why can't I?"
I curtail my Free Speech because my employer pays me to benefit the company.
Has the student's Free Speech been curtailed by some monetary obligation? If that is the case, what if the student paid the full tuition out of his own pocket? Would his Free Speech still be curtailed?
Or would the school curtail their own Free Speech, just to get that much cash from a student?
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Doesn't the field become richer when the wider spectrum of legal thought is explored and encouraged?
Yes, but Inga went farther than that. Inga demonstrated sympathy with those whom her employer intended to prosecute. That isn't what she's paid for. I would have let her go, too.
(That is, if I supported DRM and all that. For the record, I wouldn't be caught dead working in a place like that.)
Would this show just turn into an hour-long browbeat, like so much other gender-politics crap on the boob tube ("Commander in Chief", "Book of Daniel")? Only, in this case, the intended audience would be a lot narrower, so it'll tank before instead of after its first episode.
The current Slashdot footer quote seems very appropriate:
You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a "realist," he is preparing to do something he is secretly ashamed of doing. -- Sydney Harris
Three points:
1. Where did I say the proposal was Murtha's? I know it wasn't his proposal. It was a push-back against him, and after all the ruckus he'd raised, no Democrat (except maybe Kerry) was willing to stand in the way.
2. I read the proposal. It was to bring Iraq withdrawal to official debate. It was designed to call Murtha out and get him to either put up, or shut up. He decided to shut up.
3. Nobody lied to me. I read the text, I saw the vote tally. I suggest you refrain from pretending to know what I've seen and heard.
it gives good press to the Democratic Party and bad press to Diebold.
Just because Diebold has been stupid about all this (they have) doesn't automatically make the Democrats the good guys. It could be nothing more than an attempt at a public smear. Even John Murtha didn't vote for official debate when he was yelling about bringing the troops home. He just wanted to make a public spectacle and get some face time on camera, nothing more.
from the who-needs-checks-and-balances dept.
That's every bit as factless as Diane Feinstein claiming that there are 2 branches of government.
"Checks and balances" are not between the political parties. They're between the branches of government. (That's Legislative, Executive, and Judicial, Ms. Feinstein.)
Quarantined for our protection. Or do you really think we have evolved enough to be impervious to anything "out there"?
What steps has NASA taken to isolate the collected sample before analysis?
Judging by the response time from IBM's web server, it looks like they have yet to put their advice into practice.
Not the idea. It definitely works.
It's pathetic that you would even think of it.
It's more pathetic that I understand what you're saying.
The PPL is full of PP. They can go to L.
Well, maybe not, but the pun was too good to pass up.
Nobody is exempt from the laws of physics. Even the morons in California, driving their BMW's, are subject to Newton's laws of inertia. No amount of ABS will save the situation, when the a$$hole's front bumper is a mere 15 feet from my rear bumper.
A one-million-candlepower spotlight shining out my rear window, on the other hand, would tend to make people very smart very quickly.
Ever seen "The Matrix"? What goes around, comes around.
Any hardware-driven project will always be ready for updates, especially for end-user-serviceable products like printers. New models appear, firmware updates are made available from the manufacturers, and the programs that make it all work together need to be maintained.
The project could be very mature, beyond everyone's expectations. However, like those who meet Dracula, people may find that it sucks their life-blood away, and the best way to make it stop is to put a stake through its heart.
If he used OpenOffice.org for text composition, with the character replacement table enabled, then "fi", "fl", "ffi", and "ffl" were replaced with their ligature equivalents. Whatever editor(s) he used for the copy-paste into Slashdot, weren't Unicode-enabled.
Just a guess, but based on experience.
You must be from Canton.
I'm sorry.
Last year, an article on the WEWS Channel 5 website had this gem of a quote:
"School officials are not sure they [know] what has caused so many pregnancies..."
Someone needs to get these people a clue-bat.
my TiVo is about ready to commit seppuku.
How would it do that? Download and install Windows XP on itself?
lackluster ratings and broken scheduling on broadcast network Fox.
How much did the latter cause the former?
His boss is setting him up for a fall. He can walk away, or not. If he chooses to stay (for reasons known only to him), then he can risk paying the price now, for doing the right thing, or pay a bigger price later, for keeping his mouth shut.
Seriously, would you want to be known as a toady for this guy's boss?
If he does, then go over his head. Expose him for the duplicitous moron he is. And if you get fired for having some ethics (and for trying to look out for the company's interests), well, it's their loss, and your gain.
Disney & Mickey Dee's, rotting the mind and the body together.
You can use the leviathan forces of attention and enthusiasm that are swirling around Web 2.0 these days as a powerful enabler to make something important and exciting happen in your organization.
In other words, "Pleeeeease Mommy! All the other kids are going to the party! Why can't I?"
Hopefully this will be friendly, but people have to respect intellectual property.
First, it's already unfriendly. From all appearances, it's downright thievery.
Second, your demand for my respect only serves to justify my disrespect.
I curtail my Free Speech because my employer pays me to benefit the company.
Has the student's Free Speech been curtailed by some monetary obligation? If that is the case, what if the student paid the full tuition out of his own pocket? Would his Free Speech still be curtailed?
Or would the school curtail their own Free Speech, just to get that much cash from a student?