>Your understanding of property law is simply wrong, and has been for centuries.
Your understanding of human lifetimes is simply wrong, and has been for possibly years.
Oh, and I should point out that a leasehold interest isn't property. It is a "contractual interest". You don't own the lease, and you don't own the leased property, but you DO have an interest, which stems from a contract. A contractual interest is property in the same way that a corporation is a person.
Also, tenants don't own the property they are tenants of. Not even tenants in common nor joint tenants.
In both cases, the actual owner of the property in question has exclusive use of it forever. One possible use of the property is to lease it out...
Actual joing ownership is a little trickier, which is why here in the states, our various states have pretty much decided that they are going to own all the cars and real estate and rent you the color of title on it...
He had a passport, and I didn't see a place of origin in his story any more (or I goofed and missed it). So he may have just been a "person" with rights, instead of a "citizen" with rights. Either way, the Bill of Rights applies to all people who would fall under some sort of US jurisdiction.
Your position still rests on conjecture. There is no evidence that fossil fuels have ever had anything to do with fossils. By citing others, you are merely moving that conjecture from yourself to others. Check this story to find out what unproven assumption you are using.
This is nutty. 4a(iii) specifically requires that "your domain name has been registered and is being used in bad faith." I'm having a hard time seeing how they proved that the owner was using it in bad faith, particularly when 4b(i)-(iv) enumerate the faces of bad faith. None of which seem to apply here.
Yes, I got the point, and I don't agree with it. I buy a new pair of shoes (same kind) every 10-16 months, they cost me $16-$20 each time (sometimes there is a sale). I don't know for sure that they come from a sweatshop, but either way, the last time I heard, the people who run such shops drew the line somewhat before kidnapping and slavery. I would not presume to step on the real rights of either party there to enforce my particular view of how working conditions should be (sometimes called by the euphemism "civil rights").
>People are allowed one bathroom break in a 12 hour work week. That would be nice. I'm kinda getting sick of my 12 hour work days here in the liberated USA. I should move to the third world and start putting in 2.20 hour days in a sweatshop.
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I don't think that'll happen in the movies. They'd have to think of a good way to get Rogue to fight Ms Marvel, which won't be easy since in the movies Rogue is never a villian. Sentinels would be cool. The "Days of Future Past" issues would be particularly cool as a movie.
>Alcohol is a recreational drug with no medical use (well no common medical use anyway).
Alcohol makes an excellent organic solvent and disinfectant and has been used for centuries or millenia as a cauterizing agent. Denatured alcohol (Rubbing alcohol, basically alcohol + bad tasting stuff) is sold in drugstores for these purposes. Not to mention making useful tinctures of various herbs...
When you write a C program, you have a copyright on that program. It doesn't matter that you used the same language structures that everybody else does. Every C program has a main(), every HTML document has (or should have) and tags. Odds are good that that isn't the issue here.
The issue here is probably that the ad agency contracted company X to make a website. The contract can say about IP rights: 1) nothing (have fun!), 2) belongs to ad agency, 3) belongs to company X, or 4) some combination. Example:Our customer hires us to design a website. The customer rejects the first deliverable twice, ending the contract. We get to keep the 1/3 of the payment that we got up front and all the code. Should the customer accept the first deliverable, we get the second 1/3 payment, the customer gets ownership of the code that he accepted, and the above drama ensues for the final deliverable.
If the contract got terminated, odds are very, very good that company X owns all the rights to everything they did. You may then have a defense should it arise that company X owns everything. You can probably state that they misrepresented any materials they provided to you.
P.S. make sure you have a lawyer of your own. If you do not, you are a fallguy. Ask the lawyer if he is representing you, or the ad agency. A lawyer representing the ad agency will not point out that his client has misrepresented materials unless you somehow get him on the stand under oath.
They contend that DeCSS is necessary to achieve interoperability between computers running on the Linux system and DVDs and that this exception therefore is satisfied. This contention fails for three reasons. ... Second, even assuming that DeCSS runs under Linux, it concededly runs under Windows---a far more widely used operating system---as well. It therefore cannot reasonably be said that DeCSS was developed "for the sole purpose" of achieving interoperability between Linux and DVDs.
huh? So, since DeCSS runs on windows, it doesn't allow interoperability between DVD and Linux, even if DeCSS runs under Linux? I don't get it. Does the judge know that DeCSS is a portable, cross-platform tool, and not a Windows app?
Penrose has convincingly speculated that the human nervous system, particularly the central portion thereof, forms a single quantum computer. If he is right, we will probably need to push back our estimates on braindumps by at least a few years, possibly all the way to 'never'.
I was in flat mode, so I have no idea where this should be, context wise.
Lets start with the steam engine and then go for velcro.
Expansion of water becomes non-linear in the vicinity of the boiling point. Discovery. Device to produce mechanical or electrical power by boiling water. Invention. Patent.
Hooks and loops can be used as an adhesive. Discovery. Practical two component system of reuseable adhesive. Invention. Patent.
Any questions?
That patent law someone quoted (sorry no link, set your threshold to 2 and search for 'EXPCITE') seems kinda vague. It says inventions and discoveries, and then lists some kinds inventions. Think of Quantum Electrodynamics, which is a discovery (or a bad joke:) and not patentable. Now think of a Quantum Computer, which would be an invention, and patentable.
Also, the Patent Office doesn't grant patents (other than for software and genetics) without a working device, and a detailed plan. So that ZPF power generator that the little green men shoved up your ass when they abducted you from some rural forest with no witnesses can't be patented until you figure out exactly how it works.
Some more nerdly examples: Realization that smaller pathways in an IC will allow higher speeds and lower power consumption. Discovery. Device for etching circuits with.10 micron rules. Invention. Patent.
Knowledge that certain gene sequences can preprogram an animal with specific instincts. Discovery. New strain of mouse that can kick your ass in chess. Invention. Patent (?)
you assume that (it can be proved that) somebody used the software in a manner which would bring them under the terms of that licsense. I'm not sure that anyone actually did. I don't think that you need to use the software to grab the keys out of it. I don't think you even need to have any of it, other than the one file with the keys. All of which means that this could (but probably will not) become a huge, huge mess, involving important, groundbreaking decisions about shrinkwrap licsensing, 'fair use', IP and copyright law, etc.
Kubrick's 'Dr. Strangelove' is under 4GB. Don't get pissed at the CCA, fighting this kind of thing is their job, their only job. Rates of increase in average available bandwidth and available storage will make DVD pirating plausible in a few years. Remember back when CDs came out? Who's got room to copy a WHOLE CD? If you can watch it, you can copy it. The best they can hope for is to give you a quality trade off, but don't bet on that lasting long either.
This is the worst site I've ever seen. I almost hit the reset button on my computer because the java crap froze it for so long. I tried a few easy searches and couldn't find any notes. Oh, and the Brain Games thing is a huge animation that essentially just says 'coming soon'.
I find Jon's writings informative and insightful, but I wonder about one thing. Why is there always an implied correspondance of "geek" with "goth" in his writings? I know a few goths who are very intellegent and antisocial, in other words, stereotype geeks. The vast, vast majority are as dumb as toast. they usually aren't even non-conformist, they've just imprinted differently than "normal" people. they're "Daring to be different" just like everyone else, and they are doing it by finding the largest group of people who all 1) look similar, and 2) look nothing like the other large quasi-coherent group of people.
Now we have the question of Constitutionality thrown in here. In theory the Constitution applies to everyone, in practice don't count on it ever helping you.
Next consider what schools really are, schools are voluntary. You don't want to be in school? Stop going. Now you have just placed some legal burdens on your parents as the government requires them to ensure that you are educated until you are 16 or 18. They can 1) get in legal trouble, 2) home school you, or 3) find a helpful local person, probably at the courthose, who will cheerfully try to get a judge to send you away to juvenile detention, or whatever your state does. Note that option three isn't strictly Legal, but these days, what is?
If you are gifted and are on good terms with your parents, drop out. it's the best thing you can ever do for yourself. The only issue is that it becomes difficult to get a diploma after you do this, and we all know how important that little piece of paper is, don't we?
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>Your understanding of property law is simply wrong, and has been for centuries.
Your understanding of human lifetimes is simply wrong, and has been for possibly years.
Oh, and I should point out that a leasehold interest isn't property. It is a "contractual interest". You don't own the lease, and you don't own the leased property, but you DO have an interest, which stems from a contract. A contractual interest is property in the same way that a corporation is a person.
Also, tenants don't own the property they are tenants of. Not even tenants in common nor joint tenants.
In both cases, the actual owner of the property in question has exclusive use of it forever. One possible use of the property is to lease it out...
Actual joing ownership is a little trickier, which is why here in the states, our various states have pretty much decided that they are going to own all the cars and real estate and rent you the color of title on it...
Who hasn't been cremated by the Nazis for no reason? They're only doing their job. What else is new?
He had a passport, and I didn't see a place of origin in his story any more (or I goofed and missed it). So he may have just been a "person" with rights, instead of a "citizen" with rights. Either way, the Bill of Rights applies to all people who would fall under some sort of US jurisdiction.
Assuming you support drug prohibition, they have an obligation to have evidence that he IS peddling acid first. Or so the Supreme Court used to say...
psst... van der Waal's
Your position still rests on conjecture. There is no evidence that fossil fuels have ever had anything to do with fossils. By citing others, you are merely moving that conjecture from yourself to others.
Check this story to find out what unproven assumption you are using.
>Hrmm, is wrongly a word?
Yep. At the very latest "Stranger in a Strange Land" would've made it a shoo in.
>since Paul wrote the books.
Letters, actually. To the church(es) in Corinth.
This is nutty. 4a(iii) specifically requires that "your domain name has been registered and is being used in bad faith."
I'm having a hard time seeing how they proved that the owner was using it in bad faith, particularly when 4b(i)-(iv) enumerate the faces of bad faith. None of which seem to apply here.
Yes, I got the point, and I don't agree with it.
I buy a new pair of shoes (same kind) every 10-16 months, they cost me $16-$20 each time (sometimes there is a sale). I don't know for sure that they come from a sweatshop, but either way, the last time I heard, the people who run such shops drew the line somewhat before kidnapping and slavery.
I would not presume to step on the real rights of either party there to enforce my particular view of how working conditions should be (sometimes called by the euphemism "civil rights").
doh. 2.4, sorry. .sig? I wish I had...
See my
>People are allowed one bathroom break in a 12 hour work week.
That would be nice. I'm kinda getting sick of my 12 hour work days here in the liberated USA. I should move to the third world and start putting in 2.20 hour days in a sweatshop.
And in related news...
I don't think that'll happen in the movies. They'd have to think of a good way to get Rogue to fight Ms Marvel, which won't be easy since in the movies Rogue is never a villian.
Sentinels would be cool. The "Days of Future Past" issues would be particularly cool as a movie.
>Alcohol is a recreational drug with no medical use (well no common medical use anyway).
Alcohol makes an excellent organic solvent and disinfectant and has been used for centuries or millenia as a cauterizing agent. Denatured alcohol (Rubbing alcohol, basically alcohol + bad tasting stuff) is sold in drugstores for these purposes. Not to mention making useful tinctures of various herbs...
The issue here is probably that the ad agency contracted company X to make a website. The contract can say about IP rights: 1) nothing (have fun!), 2) belongs to ad agency, 3) belongs to company X, or 4) some combination.
Example:Our customer hires us to design a website. The customer rejects the first deliverable twice, ending the contract. We get to keep the 1/3 of the payment that we got up front and all the code. Should the customer accept the first deliverable, we get the second 1/3 payment, the customer gets ownership of the code that he accepted, and the above drama ensues for the final deliverable.
If the contract got terminated, odds are very, very good that company X owns all the rights to everything they did. You may then have a defense should it arise that company X owns everything. You can probably state that they misrepresented any materials they provided to you.
P.S. make sure you have a lawyer of your own. If you do not, you are a fallguy. Ask the lawyer if he is representing you, or the ad agency. A lawyer representing the ad agency will not point out that his client has misrepresented materials unless you somehow get him on the stand under oath.
They contend that DeCSS is necessary to achieve interoperability between computers running on the Linux system and DVDs and that this exception therefore is satisfied. This contention fails for three reasons.
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Second, even assuming that DeCSS runs under Linux, it concededly runs under Windows---a far more widely used operating system---as well. It therefore cannot reasonably be said that DeCSS was developed "for the sole purpose" of achieving interoperability between Linux and DVDs.
huh?
So, since DeCSS runs on windows, it doesn't allow interoperability between DVD and Linux, even if DeCSS runs under Linux? I don't get it.
Does the judge know that DeCSS is a portable, cross-platform tool, and not a Windows app?
Penrose has convincingly speculated that the human nervous system, particularly the central portion thereof, forms a single quantum computer.
If he is right, we will probably need to push back our estimates on braindumps by at least a few years, possibly all the way to 'never'.
I was in flat mode, so I have no idea where this should be, context wise.
:) and not patentable. Now think of a Quantum Computer, which would be an invention, and patentable.
.10 micron rules. Invention. Patent.
Lets start with the steam engine and then go for velcro.
Expansion of water becomes non-linear in the vicinity of the boiling point. Discovery.
Device to produce mechanical or electrical power by boiling water. Invention. Patent.
Hooks and loops can be used as an adhesive. Discovery.
Practical two component system of reuseable adhesive. Invention. Patent.
Any questions?
That patent law someone quoted (sorry no link, set your threshold to 2 and search for 'EXPCITE') seems kinda vague. It says inventions and discoveries, and then lists some kinds inventions. Think of Quantum Electrodynamics, which is a discovery (or a bad joke
Also, the Patent Office doesn't grant patents (other than for software and genetics) without a working device, and a detailed plan. So that ZPF power generator that the little green men shoved up your ass when they abducted you from some rural forest with no witnesses can't be patented until you figure out exactly how it works.
Some more nerdly examples:
Realization that smaller pathways in an IC will allow higher speeds and lower power consumption. Discovery.
Device for etching circuits with
Knowledge that certain gene sequences can preprogram an animal with specific instincts. Discovery.
New strain of mouse that can kick your ass in chess. Invention. Patent (?)
you assume that (it can be proved that) somebody used the software in a manner which would bring them under the terms of that licsense. I'm not sure that anyone actually did. I don't think that you need to use the software to grab the keys out of it. I don't think you even need to have any of it, other than the one file with the keys. All of which means that this could (but probably will not) become a huge, huge mess, involving important, groundbreaking decisions about shrinkwrap licsensing, 'fair use', IP and copyright law, etc.
Kubrick's 'Dr. Strangelove' is under 4GB. Don't get pissed at the CCA, fighting this kind of thing is their job, their only job. Rates of increase in average available bandwidth and available storage will make DVD pirating plausible in a few years. Remember back when CDs came out? Who's got room to copy a WHOLE CD? If you can watch it, you can copy it. The best they can hope for is to give you a quality trade off, but don't bet on that lasting long either.
I think they could make it hazardous for you to enter the State of California, or any state that will extradite you.
This is the worst site I've ever seen. I almost hit the reset button on my computer because the java crap froze it for so long. I tried a few easy searches and couldn't find any notes. Oh, and the Brain Games thing is a huge animation that essentially just says 'coming soon'.
I find Jon's writings informative and insightful, but I wonder about one thing. Why is there always an implied correspondance of "geek" with "goth" in his writings? I know a few goths who are very intellegent and antisocial, in other words, stereotype geeks. The vast, vast majority are as dumb as toast. they usually aren't even non-conformist, they've just imprinted differently than "normal" people. they're "Daring to be different" just like everyone else, and they are doing it by finding the largest group of people who all 1) look similar, and 2) look nothing like the other large quasi-coherent group of people.
P.S. check this website.
Now we have the question of Constitutionality thrown in here. In theory the Constitution applies to everyone, in practice don't count on it ever helping you.
Next consider what schools really are, schools are voluntary. You don't want to be in school? Stop going. Now you have just placed some legal burdens on your parents as the government requires them to ensure that you are educated until you are 16 or 18. They can 1) get in legal trouble, 2) home school you, or 3) find a helpful local person, probably at the courthose, who will cheerfully try to get a judge to send you away to juvenile detention, or whatever your state does. Note that option three isn't strictly Legal, but these days, what is?
If you are gifted and are on good terms with your parents, drop out. it's the best thing you can ever do for yourself. The only issue is that it becomes difficult to get a diploma after you do this, and we all know how important that little piece of paper is, don't we?