The 1st amendment also guarantees the right to free assembly. You can't be in favor of rights for some, and then say that it is violating their rights if you accord the same rights to everyone.
They still have nothing on the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya! Which of course is used far more often than that pedestrian form, "Libya."
As much as I'm against obscenity laws, and as telling as that utterance is to their arbitrariness, it is a bit intellectually dishonest to ignore the Miller test:
Whether the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest,
Whether the work depicts/describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by applicable state law,
Whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
The problem is that the vast majority of people (intellectuals and academic institutions included) believe in such absurdities as "good" and "bad" language, and prescriptivists are no exception. Dictionaries are often cited as definitive sources of whether or not a word is "real." I agree that prescriptive language ought to be taught, but students should also be taught that while formal language is important, it is not "better" than informal language. Unfortunately I don't foresee this happening any time soon.
While this specific speculation is rumor, it is pretty obvious from the direction that Apple has been going for years that they are going to do something like this eventually--the question is merely when.
I thought we had juries so that a person's peers decided a case? There are plenty of times when jury nullification is done for all the right reasons--like Benjamin Franklin's exoneration from treason. But it can be quite sordid too, such as when obviously guilty people were let off for murdering blacks because all-white juries thought it was justifiable.
I've heard this whole "constitutional right to jury nullification" meme before, but nobody has pointed out to me just where this is enumerated; could you please humor me?
Jury nullification isn't a legal principle--it's pragmatism in action. I certainly think that there are times when it is warranted, but it's kind of common sense that "we don't have to rule against this person if we don't want him or her punished."
RTFL. It doesn't say that listening to sounds at 75 dB can cause hearing loss, it describes a hearing loss of PTA 75 dB as basically deaf. If sounds at 75 dB caused hearing loss, we would all go deaf from the sound of our own crying as babies long before we learned to speak.
Those with a karma bonus don't have a nofollow for the link under their name, however. My website is for the most part of little interest to people, yet it has a surprisingly high pagerank for a lot of terms just because I post to/. a lot.
Anime is already mainstream in Japan, and there is already plenty of crappy anime out there, just as there is plenty of crap in any medium. I don't know how much of an influence American popularity will have on anime; the only anime I can think of made for Americans is The Big O.
The example you gave is that it chooses to attempt to render XHTML which is not well-formed. While one can argue that this is a bad thing, this is a deliberate decision, and not a lack of support. And think about how ludicrous this is in the context of this website:
We refuse to send you a well-formed webpage even though you can render it, because you would render it even if it weren't well-formed. So, instead of sending you a webpage which would work on your browser, we won't send it to you until you switch to a browser that makes other webpages stop working.
That site tells me that my browser doesn't support application/xhtml+xml and tells me to download Firefox or Opera. This is strange, because I use Safari, and it does support application/xhtml+xml. I don't think a great way to promote web standards is to have websites break on purpose when they detect browsers they don't like.
There's a difference between pushing the envelope, and purposely making it a different size so only your letters will fit, which is more like what Microsoft is doing with things like ActiveX.
That's not funny. What's hilarious about McCarthy is that he didn't know about VENONA. McCarthy was talking out of his ass and randomly targeting people who were Communist sympathizers instead of attacking Soviet spies. If anything, McCarthy helped the Soviets by eventually convincing people that the Red Scare was a witch hunt.
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It appears that you are writing an amicus curiae brief. Are you sure you don't really want to use Word Perfect?
Ave Maria, ...juvenes dum sumus?! Podjacked again!
And sometimes, you can see things that you really aren't supposed to which detract from the movie.
To be pedantic, the magnetic North pole is not at the geographic North pole, and conceivable could move toward it.
The 1st amendment also guarantees the right to free assembly. You can't be in favor of rights for some, and then say that it is violating their rights if you accord the same rights to everyone.
They still have nothing on the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya! Which of course is used far more often than that pedestrian form, "Libya."
As a Chicagoan, I like that Taipei 101 exists, because it gets rid of the whole Petronas Towers/Sear Tower thing.
The laws that make it illegal to sell pornography to minors already make it illegal to sell pornographic videogames to minors.
I hear it's so bad that there are even anti-social people who read books about things that never happened :)
The problem is that the vast majority of people (intellectuals and academic institutions included) believe in such absurdities as "good" and "bad" language, and prescriptivists are no exception. Dictionaries are often cited as definitive sources of whether or not a word is "real." I agree that prescriptive language ought to be taught, but students should also be taught that while formal language is important, it is not "better" than informal language. Unfortunately I don't foresee this happening any time soon.
While this specific speculation is rumor, it is pretty obvious from the direction that Apple has been going for years that they are going to do something like this eventually--the question is merely when.
I thought we had juries so that a person's peers decided a case? There are plenty of times when jury nullification is done for all the right reasons--like Benjamin Franklin's exoneration from treason. But it can be quite sordid too, such as when obviously guilty people were let off for murdering blacks because all-white juries thought it was justifiable.
I've heard this whole "constitutional right to jury nullification" meme before, but nobody has pointed out to me just where this is enumerated; could you please humor me?
Jury nullification isn't a legal principle--it's pragmatism in action. I certainly think that there are times when it is warranted, but it's kind of common sense that "we don't have to rule against this person if we don't want him or her punished."
The video game industry needs to start making campaign contributions to politicians at a level on par with the film and music industries.
RTFL. It doesn't say that listening to sounds at 75 dB can cause hearing loss, it describes a hearing loss of PTA 75 dB as basically deaf. If sounds at 75 dB caused hearing loss, we would all go deaf from the sound of our own crying as babies long before we learned to speak.
Maybe you shouldn't make such an impassioned argument on a tuesday :)
Those with a karma bonus don't have a nofollow for the link under their name, however. My website is for the most part of little interest to people, yet it has a surprisingly high pagerank for a lot of terms just because I post to /. a lot.
Anime is already mainstream in Japan, and there is already plenty of crappy anime out there, just as there is plenty of crap in any medium. I don't know how much of an influence American popularity will have on anime; the only anime I can think of made for Americans is The Big O.
The example you gave is that it chooses to attempt to render XHTML which is not well-formed. While one can argue that this is a bad thing, this is a deliberate decision, and not a lack of support. And think about how ludicrous this is in the context of this website:
We refuse to send you a well-formed webpage even though you can render it, because you would render it even if it weren't well-formed. So, instead of sending you a webpage which would work on your browser, we won't send it to you until you switch to a browser that makes other webpages stop working.
That site tells me that my browser doesn't support application/xhtml+xml and tells me to download Firefox or Opera. This is strange, because I use Safari, and it does support application/xhtml+xml. I don't think a great way to promote web standards is to have websites break on purpose when they detect browsers they don't like.
There's a difference between pushing the envelope, and purposely making it a different size so only your letters will fit, which is more like what Microsoft is doing with things like ActiveX.
"Affect" can be a noun too, though it's rather rarely used.
That's not funny. What's hilarious about McCarthy is that he didn't know about VENONA. McCarthy was talking out of his ass and randomly targeting people who were Communist sympathizers instead of attacking Soviet spies. If anything, McCarthy helped the Soviets by eventually convincing people that the Red Scare was a witch hunt.