I did. I'm not exactly the brightest bulb from the factory. If I can get a job, pretty much anyone can. That said, I applied for 47 jobs within a 3 month period. Most people I graduated haven't even reached double digits in jobs they've applied for. Unsurprisingly, most of the people I graduated with also aren't employed.
Its actually standard. Book publishers want to give you a product early with the understanding you don't break the street date so that EVERYONE can start selling the product on the official release date.
Adding additional qualifiers is only the next logical step.
Uh... slander and defamation laws aren't restrictions on freedom of speech
This is why I said "you will find out first hand just how much your damage your version of freedom of speech entails." The bolded part was to highlight the fact his version of freedom of speech isn't recognised the legal version within America.
This is why I specified "innocent" people. In America truth is an absolute defence against libel or slander. If you can prove your claim, you have nothing to fear.
In Australia truth is only half the defence. The other half is that you have to prove the public had a valid reason to know, which of course they would in the case of a paedophile or rapist.
Arthur C. Clarke wrote an intriguing book where the entire world had enacted a law that required everyone be vegetarian. As someone who wish he could be a vegetarian but isn't because he can't stand most vegetables and loves meat too much, I found it rather interesting.
You're right. If I walk into a bar and say to someone "Could you please kill my wife? We have $100,000 in the safe with the combination for the safe being 4 7 2 6?" Clearly the person has done nothing wrong after all, its not like that information killed his wife. It was the man with the gun who killed the wife. Hell, the widowed husband could then sue the man with the gun for wrongful death and recoup some of the money he lost during the murder.
How is that "freed speech zone" thing working out that was around in the time of Bill Clinton's reign and then famously used by George W. Bush? Has the saviour Obama stopped them yet? Or has he continued to use it as a useful tool to further his political career?
How does that work? Before you stand at the edge of the street to give forth an expression of thought must you scream "My name is Bob Smith, I live at 24 Garden Terrace and I was born on the 17th of February, 1976 at 12:05pm"?
I hope your never falsely accused of a terrible crime. Although if you are, and the allegation is made public, you will find out first hand just how much your damage your version of freedom of speech entails.
Screaming "Rapist" or "Paedophile" at innocent people isn't something that should be protected in my opinion. But then I'm Australian where freedom of speech isn't explicitly guaranteed. So I'm sure you'll dismiss my opinion as that of an ignorant savage. But hey, go team America!
Does Brazil have such a law? If you're going to do business in these countries and establish local subsidiaries, you have to accept their rules. If you don't like it, pull out and encourage the international community to put pressure on totalitarian states to change their ways. Of course, whether or not giving carriers immunity is an important issue is up for debate.
Well if you listen to the words of a certain Sheikh having a house that isn't protected by a large fence with barbed wire is tantamount to leaving food out on the street. Just as a cat will come and eat that food, so will a vandal come and deface your property. If the judge doesn't want to be held liable for what people do to his property, he should protect it better.
I encourage you to find my address. You may find my name. You might even find my city. But unless you grab my IP address and submit a request to the appropriate authorities, you'll never find out who I am.
So I am essentially anonymous. Knowing my name and city aren't unique enough to actually identify me.
Not that anyone actually cares who I am. But maybe they would if I said I was molested by a 54 year old priest whose initials are J.R.
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P.S. Slashdot's lawyers might want to get ready for an incoming lawsuit.
I once asked my dad, a former martial arts teacher "How do I dodge a bullet". His reply? "Don't get into the situation in the first place".
That was nice and helpful of him. I'm sure you'll remember that next time you go to a corner store and someone with a gun walks in demanding the store's money. After all, "don't get into the situation in the first place" in this instance means don't shop at stores which don't have extensive security.
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Which is exactly why I don't pay for cable. I'd rather pay for the season on DVD if I absolutely HAD to watch it.
If no-one values his work enough to pay for it, perhaps his work isn't that important after all.
I'd argue they are still DRM'd. The DRM is just more of a physical kind then a software kind.
I did. I'm not exactly the brightest bulb from the factory. If I can get a job, pretty much anyone can. That said, I applied for 47 jobs within a 3 month period. Most people I graduated haven't even reached double digits in jobs they've applied for. Unsurprisingly, most of the people I graduated with also aren't employed.
That's stupid. If a user doesn't like Adobe's implementation of Flash, he can choose not to Flash. At the moment the user has less choice, not more.
Especially when it's springtime.
Can you imagine Shindler's List to the soundtrack of this song?
Its actually standard. Book publishers want to give you a product early with the understanding you don't break the street date so that EVERYONE can start selling the product on the official release date.
Adding additional qualifiers is only the next logical step.
Nope.
Uh... slander and defamation laws aren't restrictions on freedom of speech
This is why I said "you will find out first hand just how much your damage your version of freedom of speech entails." The bolded part was to highlight the fact his version of freedom of speech isn't recognised the legal version within America.
This is why I specified "innocent" people. In America truth is an absolute defence against libel or slander. If you can prove your claim, you have nothing to fear.
In Australia truth is only half the defence. The other half is that you have to prove the public had a valid reason to know, which of course they would in the case of a paedophile or rapist.
But cows aren't pigs. Perhaps they emit it when they do all that talking?
Arthur C. Clarke wrote an intriguing book where the entire world had enacted a law that required everyone be vegetarian. As someone who wish he could be a vegetarian but isn't because he can't stand most vegetables and loves meat too much, I found it rather interesting.
But it looks so awesome when Jack Bauer and Batman do it. How can something that cool be wrong?
You're right. If I walk into a bar and say to someone "Could you please kill my wife? We have $100,000 in the safe with the combination for the safe being 4 7 2 6?" Clearly the person has done nothing wrong after all, its not like that information killed his wife. It was the man with the gun who killed the wife. Hell, the widowed husband could then sue the man with the gun for wrongful death and recoup some of the money he lost during the murder.
How is that "freed speech zone" thing working out that was around in the time of Bill Clinton's reign and then famously used by George W. Bush? Has the saviour Obama stopped them yet? Or has he continued to use it as a useful tool to further his political career?
How does that work? Before you stand at the edge of the street to give forth an expression of thought must you scream "My name is Bob Smith, I live at 24 Garden Terrace and I was born on the 17th of February, 1976 at 12:05pm"?
I hope your never falsely accused of a terrible crime. Although if you are, and the allegation is made public, you will find out first hand just how much your damage your version of freedom of speech entails.
Screaming "Rapist" or "Paedophile" at innocent people isn't something that should be protected in my opinion. But then I'm Australian where freedom of speech isn't explicitly guaranteed. So I'm sure you'll dismiss my opinion as that of an ignorant savage. But hey, go team America!
Does Brazil have such a law? If you're going to do business in these countries and establish local subsidiaries, you have to accept their rules. If you don't like it, pull out and encourage the international community to put pressure on totalitarian states to change their ways. Of course, whether or not giving carriers immunity is an important issue is up for debate.
Well if you listen to the words of a certain Sheikh having a house that isn't protected by a large fence with barbed wire is tantamount to leaving food out on the street. Just as a cat will come and eat that food, so will a vandal come and deface your property. If the judge doesn't want to be held liable for what people do to his property, he should protect it better.
Why not sue his parents first? They're more directly responsible for making the builder.
I encourage you to find my address. You may find my name. You might even find my city. But unless you grab my IP address and submit a request to the appropriate authorities, you'll never find out who I am.
So I am essentially anonymous. Knowing my name and city aren't unique enough to actually identify me.
Not that anyone actually cares who I am. But maybe they would if I said I was molested by a 54 year old priest whose initials are J.R.
aussie_a
P.S. Slashdot's lawyers might want to get ready for an incoming lawsuit.
I didn't offer an opinion on whether or not the ban was an overreaction, I instead offered an opinion on the value of your post.
My post may be just as poor quality blather, but at the very least its blather about a different topic.
I admit I based my comment entirely on Canada. My bad.
I once asked my dad, a former martial arts teacher "How do I dodge a bullet". His reply? "Don't get into the situation in the first place".
That was nice and helpful of him. I'm sure you'll remember that next time you go to a corner store and someone with a gun walks in demanding the store's money. After all, "don't get into the situation in the first place" in this instance means don't shop at stores which don't have extensive security.
Thanks to the time it takes to fly somewhere and timezones it happens all the time ;)