The Goauld in SG1 would never have made a rookie mistake. They had Deathgliders. DEATHGliders. You'd think the Empire would have picked up on the DIE Fighter idea, once some business consultants had told them their core business was intimidation.
Nintendo also has copyright registrations associated with the NES. Copyright is not immortal, but it is cheaper to register and can last more than a lifetime, literally. The length of copyright protection for works created after 1978 is 95 years after publication or 120 years after creation. This means the copyright registrations for the NES system are valid until about 2090. Copyright also has some substantial legal "teeth." Under certain circumstances, it is possible for executives of corporations to have personal liability for copyright infringement. Statutory damages can be as much as $150,000 per instance of infringement plus attorneys fees for egregious cases. Actual damages can be even higher. Prison time is also possible for criminal copyright infringement. All that power for a thirty dollar registration.
Nintendo has actually tested the power of one of its copyrights on the NES in the case, Atari Games Corp. v. Nintendo of America1. This case was in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in 1992. The case involved Nintendo suing Atari for copyright and patent infringement of its "10NES" cartridge authentication system. This system is used by the NES to discern the difference between licensed and unlicensed cartridges. The Federal Circuit upheld a judgment in favor of Nintendo based on the copyright analysis alone. This copyright is still valid and will be for about eighty more years. This is also true for other Nintendo copyright registrations associated with the NES.
Nitrates? Aren't those bad in their own right? I'm thinking along the lines of fertilizer run-off and the affect it has on algae in oceans. Could this solution create worse problems?
Well they make plants grow and that cuts down on the CO2.
Slashdot is used to ignoring trolls. Publishers hire PR people to harass others, it is annoying but not a good reason to quit. If you quit, all that's left to influence the public will be the crazies.
Twitter waited. The lights above him blinked and sparked out of the air. There were crazies on the internets. He didn't see them, but had expected them now for years. His warnings to Linus Torvalds were not listenend to and now it was too late. Far too late for now, anyway. Twitter was a space cadet for fourteen years. When he was young he watched the flamewars on alt.fan.stallman and he said to dad "I want to be on the internets daddy." Dad said "No! You will BE TROLL" There was a time when he believed him. Then as he got oldered he stopped. But now in his parents basement he knew there were trolls. "This is Torvalds" the radio crackered. "You must fight the trolls!" So Twitter gotted his Iceweazel and posted "M$M$M$". "HE GOING TO DISCREDIT US" said the paid shills. "I will shoot at him" said Ballmer and he fired the cost of ownership surveys. Twitter flaemed at him and tried to blew him up. But then the downmods fell and they were hidden and not able to kill. "No! I must kill the trolls" he shouted The radio said "No, Twitter. You are the trolls" And then Twitter was a troll.
Eternal September always reminds me of the Nazi phrase "Septemberling" - someone who joined the party only after it became the second largest party in the September 1930 elections.
Oh fuck off. The girl that killed herself was 13. Teenage girls are flaky at the best of times, the idea that they should be able to survive being jilted by a malicious adult is absurd.
Which is probably why it's illegal for adults to jilt teenagers.
If a 40 year old man chatted up a 13 year old girl pretending to be a teenage boy, he'd get arrested for that. Seems like the same law would get Lori Drew.
On top of this there are the crazies, whom it is impossible to reason with, who do not have a life of their own and so insist on ruining the lives of others, and preferably as many as possible. I asked myself last week after having to deal with the craziest of the crazies yet, "why subject yourself to this?" I could come up with no reason why I should: My grandfather chose to be a psychiatrist, but I chose a different professional path, one that doesn't obligate me to put up with such nonsense.
Much as I agree that there will probably be a change in course, rights, once take away, are very slow to return. I can foresee that a new president keen to lose his 'inexperienced' image would be reluctant to take that strong a stand against the powers that be at Langley, etc.
Plus he wouldn't want to go the way of JFK if you know what I mean.
Consider The King kills some peasant for treason. Does it make sense for the relatives of said peasant to be able to take the King to court?
Clearly not, because the King, like Judge Dredd, is the law. If he were in court he could rule summarily in favour of himself and kill the judge for treason. Legally this would be absurd - you can't have the soverign arriving in court with Ring of Power like Sauron and massacring little people. It would be undignified and would make the whole system look silly. So the system gives the sovereign immunity.
Pretty funny the US still has this. In the UK it was so if the King cut your head off for looking at him funny your relatives couldn't take him to court.
I.e. it was a hack in the judicial system that made the King formally above the law.
I'm not suggesting that unions be banned, just that people should have a choice whether they join one and which one they join protected by legislation.
My Mum got screwed over by the unions. There was a dispute about National Insurance contributions during her maternity leave. The end result was that the union backed down on this issue in order to get its way on others which left her with almost no pension. There were loads of other dodgy things going on too - like equal opportunities policies being used to hire more Bangladeshis until they were 100% of the workforce at the college. At which point there was no more talk of equal opportunities.
Plus the unions virtually destroyed the Labour Party by block voting (i.e. the leader of the union cast one vote representing all of his members without needing them to vote!) for unelectable left wingers. And the unions pretty much killed off the car industry in the UK as far as I can see - in the end it was easier to shut the companies down than to get them to agree for people to work in a way that was profitable. Plus the way the Teamsters in the US behave is so close to the mafia it's essentially indistinguishable. Incidentally from Wikipedia
The Teamsters had represented some farm workers in California employed by Bud Antle, a Salinas-area lettuce grower, in the 1960s. They had steered clear, however, of any open competition with the United Farm Workers during the UFW's long grape boycott in the 1960s. That changed, however, in 1973, when the grape growers, after having been under contract with the UFW for three years, signed secret agreements with the Teamsters.
That led to warfare in the fields, as thousands of UFW members struck these employers, while other farmworkers crossed the picket lines. The strike and attendant violence led to the deaths of three UFW members, the passage of the Agricultural Labor Relations Act in California in 1975, and lengthy anti-trust litigation that ultimately led the Teamsters to abandon their claim to represent most of these agricultural workers
I.e. it was government legislation that stopped the unions fighting over turf!
So the idea that unions can force every single person at some company to join them in return for working there basically horrifies me.
Slashdot Mirror
The Goauld in SG1 would never have made a rookie mistake. They had Deathgliders. DEATHGliders. You'd think the Empire would have picked up on the DIE Fighter idea, once some business consultants had told them their core business was intimidation.
I just scrolled past it. I thought it was the flash advert for slimming products. Or babies.
Gamasutra reckon that it's still not legal to sell NES clones in the US
http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20051111/boyd_01.shtml
Nintendo also has copyright registrations associated with the NES. Copyright is not immortal, but it is cheaper to register and can last more than a lifetime, literally. The length of copyright protection for works created after 1978 is 95 years after publication or 120 years after creation. This means the copyright registrations for the NES system are valid until about 2090. Copyright also has some substantial legal "teeth." Under certain circumstances, it is possible for executives of corporations to have personal liability for copyright infringement. Statutory damages can be as much as $150,000 per instance of infringement plus attorneys fees for egregious cases. Actual damages can be even higher. Prison time is also possible for criminal copyright infringement. All that power for a thirty dollar registration.
Nintendo has actually tested the power of one of its copyrights on the NES in the case, Atari Games Corp. v. Nintendo of America1. This case was in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in 1992. The case involved Nintendo suing Atari for copyright and patent infringement of its "10NES" cartridge authentication system. This system is used by the NES to discern the difference between licensed and unlicensed cartridges. The Federal Circuit upheld a judgment in favor of Nintendo based on the copyright analysis alone. This copyright is still valid and will be for about eighty more years. This is also true for other Nintendo copyright registrations associated with the NES.
You're one of those people who nitpicks Chuck Norris jokes aren't you.
It shows what you can do if you don't depend on boat anchor like X Windows for graphics.
If people had listened to Hitler everyone would be speaking German and our consumer electronics would cost less.
He got away with shooting a lawyer in the face. Woosh yourself.
Nitrates? Aren't those bad in their own right? I'm thinking along the lines of fertilizer run-off and the affect it has on algae in oceans. Could this solution create worse problems?
Well they make plants grow and that cuts down on the CO2.
If the president hijacks Air Force One and plows it into the White House, then I'm not gonna vote for him in the next election. Just sayin'.
Well the President maybe, but Cheney would probably get away with it.
Slashdot is used to ignoring trolls. Publishers hire PR people to harass others, it is annoying but not a good reason to quit. If you quit, all that's left to influence the public will be the crazies.
Twitter waited. The lights above him blinked and sparked out of the air. There were crazies on the internets. He didn't see them, but had expected them now for years. His warnings to Linus Torvalds were not listenend to and now it was too late. Far too late for now, anyway.
Twitter was a space cadet for fourteen years. When he was young he watched the flamewars on alt.fan.stallman and he said to dad "I want to be on the internets daddy."
Dad said "No! You will BE TROLL"
There was a time when he believed him. Then as he got oldered he stopped. But now in his parents basement he knew there were trolls.
"This is Torvalds" the radio crackered. "You must fight the trolls!"
So Twitter gotted his Iceweazel and posted "M$M$M$".
"HE GOING TO DISCREDIT US" said the paid shills.
"I will shoot at him" said Ballmer and he fired the cost of ownership surveys. Twitter flaemed at him and tried to blew him up. But then the downmods fell and they were hidden and not able to kill.
"No! I must kill the trolls" he shouted
The radio said "No, Twitter. You are the trolls"
And then Twitter was a troll.
Eternal September always reminds me of the Nazi phrase "Septemberling" - someone who joined the party only after it became the second largest party in the September 1930 elections.
The tighter your grip becomes, the more Nets will slip through your fingers!
Fear will keep the outlying nets in line. Fear of an army of cloned DHS personnel. Darth Cheney will see to that the iPatriot act is enacted on time.
62 75 74 20 75 72 32 20 3a 29
Debug to the rescue! Copy the text and right click on the cmd prompt to paste after typing e 100.
C:\Death Ray Project>debug :)......
-e 100
153E:0100 00.62 00.75 00.74 00.20 00.75 00.72 00.32 00.20
153E:0108 00.3a 00.29
-d 100
153E:0100 62 75 74 20 75 72 32 20-3A 29 00 00 00 00 00 00 but ur2
Oh fuck off. The girl that killed herself was 13. Teenage girls are flaky at the best of times, the idea that they should be able to survive being jilted by a malicious adult is absurd.
Which is probably why it's illegal for adults to jilt teenagers.
She claimed to be a teenage boy too.
If a 40 year old man chatted up a 13 year old girl pretending to be a teenage boy, he'd get arrested for that. Seems like the same law would get Lori Drew.
He also said
On top of this there are the crazies, whom it is impossible to reason with, who do not have a life of their own and so insist on ruining the lives of others, and preferably as many as possible. I asked myself last week after having to deal with the craziest of the crazies yet, "why subject yourself to this?" I could come up with no reason why I should: My grandfather chose to be a psychiatrist, but I chose a different professional path, one that doesn't obligate me to put up with such nonsense.
Funny how slashdot misses that part out.
Walmart make those from GROUND UP PUPPIES.
Much as I agree that there will probably be a change in course, rights, once take away, are very slow to return. I can foresee that a new president keen to lose his 'inexperienced' image would be reluctant to take that strong a stand against the powers that be at Langley, etc.
Plus he wouldn't want to go the way of JFK if you know what I mean.
Yeah, yeah... Minor details. Other than the two details you mentioned, it was Lucent. I'm sticking to my guns on this one!
You need to be careful of details round here otherwise the pendants will eat you alive.
Let's look at the reason for Sovereign Immunity.
Consider The King kills some peasant for treason. Does it make sense for the relatives of said peasant to be able to take the King to court?
Clearly not, because the King, like Judge Dredd, is the law. If he were in court he could rule summarily in favour of himself and kill the judge for treason. Legally this would be absurd - you can't have the soverign arriving in court with Ring of Power like Sauron and massacring little people. It would be undignified and would make the whole system look silly. So the system gives the sovereign immunity.
Pretty funny the US still has this. In the UK it was so if the King cut your head off for looking at him funny your relatives couldn't take him to court.
I.e. it was a hack in the judicial system that made the King formally above the law.
No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.
Margaret Thatcher
Thats what they said about IE6
I think comparisons to IE6 count as Godwinning the thread.
I'm not suggesting that unions be banned, just that people should have a choice whether they join one and which one they join protected by legislation.
My Mum got screwed over by the unions. There was a dispute about National Insurance contributions during her maternity leave. The end result was that the union backed down on this issue in order to get its way on others which left her with almost no pension. There were loads of other dodgy things going on too - like equal opportunities policies being used to hire more Bangladeshis until they were 100% of the workforce at the college. At which point there was no more talk of equal opportunities.
Plus the unions virtually destroyed the Labour Party by block voting (i.e. the leader of the union cast one vote representing all of his members without needing them to vote!) for unelectable left wingers. And the unions pretty much killed off the car industry in the UK as far as I can see - in the end it was easier to shut the companies down than to get them to agree for people to work in a way that was profitable. Plus the way the Teamsters in the US behave is so close to the mafia it's essentially indistinguishable. Incidentally from Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teamsters#Battles_with_the_Farm_Workers
The Teamsters had represented some farm workers in California employed by Bud Antle, a Salinas-area lettuce grower, in the 1960s. They had steered clear, however, of any open competition with the United Farm Workers during the UFW's long grape boycott in the 1960s. That changed, however, in 1973, when the grape growers, after having been under contract with the UFW for three years, signed secret agreements with the Teamsters.
That led to warfare in the fields, as thousands of UFW members struck these employers, while other farmworkers crossed the picket lines. The strike and attendant violence led to the deaths of three UFW members, the passage of the Agricultural Labor Relations Act in California in 1975, and lengthy anti-trust litigation that ultimately led the Teamsters to abandon their claim to represent most of these agricultural workers
I.e. it was government legislation that stopped the unions fighting over turf!
So the idea that unions can force every single person at some company to join them in return for working there basically horrifies me.