ok, but many (but not all) courts have upheld anonymous speech as being part of the free speech the constitution protects. talley v california 1960 is the landmark. mcintyre v ohio (1995) is the best known. Doe v Cahill, Dendrite,and 2theMart are cases that apply this to discovery. I have not yet read the Illinois case to see if it gets the balance right. Generally, courts are saying the plaintiff has to show they have a case before they can get at the data, because otherwise people bring bogus cases just to mine the data to silence their enemies. - arbitrary aardvark
Reason can oppose the subpoena. Court cases sell magazines. The lawyer to hire is Paul Alan Levy of Public Citizen. He's the expert on anonymity and subpoenas. I'm a lawyer who does anonymous speech cases, but Levy's focus is n the discovery process in litigation, and what are the right standards; how much does the party seeking the subpoena have to prove in order to accommodate first amendment interests? The relevant cases include Dendrite, 2theMart, and Doe v Cahill.
Doe v. Cahill, 884 A.2d 451 (Del. 2005), is a significant case in the realm of anonymous internet speech and the First Amendment. While similar issues had been tackled involving criticism of a publicly traded company,[1] the case marks the first time a U.S. State Supreme Court addressed the issue of anonymous internet speech and defamation "in the context of a case involving political criticism of a public figure."[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...
I agree with your first two sentences. Mod parent up.
However, the right to a secret ballot is already in the Colorado constitution. (It's also in some federal legislation called HAVA.)
This is a federal judge, properly finding that plaintiffs haven't asserted any controlling authority showing there is a federal question in the case, so it's filed in the wrong court.
I have not read the complaint in this case. If I'd been writing the complaint, I would have used equal protection, tied into the state right to a secret ballot. Under Bush v Gore, if they do it one way in Denver, they should do it that way in Boulder too. But I don't think there was an equal protection claim raised.
(I'm a former election lawyer, and I'm a former Boulder County officeholder, and I'm aware of this case, but I haven't read any of the documents, so I'm speculating.)
2000 F to first make glass from sand, but only 300 c to remelt the glass. and a mix of sand and cullet (recycled glass) goews at some in between temperature. that's why it pays to recycle glass; it's not like there's any shortage of sand.
Let me tell you the story Of a man named Charlie On a tragic and fateful day He put ten cents in his pocket, Kissed his wife and family Went to ride on the MTA
Charlie handed in his dime At the Kendall Square Station And he changed for Jamaica Plain When he got there the conductor told him, "One more nickel." Charlie could not get off that train.
Chorus:
Did he ever return,
No he never returned
And his fate is still unlearn'd
He may ride forever
'neath the streets of Boston
He's the man who never returned.
Now all night long Charlie rides through the tunnels
the station Saying, "What will become of me? Crying How can I afford to see My sister in Chelsea Or my cousin in Roxbury?"
"A space probe that takes 9 years to go from earth to Pluto would take over 100,000 years to get to even our closest neighbor, a mere 4.2 light years away."
Your major point that stars are really really far away is an important one. Stross or Scalzi blogged about that a while back.
However, I'm going to nitpick your sentence quoted above,and suggest that your conclusion may be wrong as well.
Talking about a space probe that takes 9 years to go to pluto is like talking about how long a snail would take to go to hawaii. In snail terms, it's too far. But I've been to hawaii and back. Also, I think you used a linear projection. But spacecraft don't usually travel linearly. Assuming some sort of fuel or propulsive mechanism, (a problematic assumption, i know) they keep accelerating to turn-around point. Speed of spacecraft increases by exponential factors, sort of a moore's law of spaceships. Within 100 years, some kind of fusion drive or other advanced technology should be doable. Make yourself into a software simulation, on a piece of hardware that can withstand 20 g's and weighs a gram, and has a fusion drive first stage to get it started,and you shave a lot of time off the trip. How to slow down at the other end I don't have a solution for yet.
thanks. i wasn't sure if endor and endore were the same person. endore wrote the screenplay for that peter lorre movie where he gets transplanted hands from a murderer. also wrote other horror-type screenplays.
there's a wonderful story in some sf anthology i read back in the dim ages. a scientist does an operation on some alligators to restore the 4chambered heart, and the alligators then grow wings, become dragons, and conquer the world.
1.4 billion project, to produce enough electricity for 140,000 homes, if i'm doing the math right, works out to about $10,000 per home. that seems like a reasonable payback. if google has a 12% share, that's around 17,000 homes. how many employees does google have? more than 20,000. so, if they throw in a bit of conservation, google is buying solar power for its workforce's homes, at about $10,000 each. Seems like they break even on the investment while getting decent pr out of it. If it costs $1.4 billion to build, does that make it an easy target for terrorists (from, say, redmond) to hit with a dirty bomb?
Re-read the post. It's not about out of print fiction, it's about "out of work fiction." "14erCleaner writes "US Circuit Judge Denny Chin has rejected a $125 million settlement between Google Books and the author's guild that would have allowed Google to publish all out-of-work fiction online. Chin has previously ruled more favorably on this case.'" As you know, slashdot is infallible,and Timothy wouldn't have made such a glaring error. Not that I've RTFA, but it must be about out of work fiction.
for some reason when i read this the phrase "metal munching moon mice" popped into my head. apparently it's from a rocky and bullwinkle episode i must have seen a very long time ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal-Munching_Mice
Insightfully wrong. At least according to the US Supreme court, the right to free speech includes the right to anonymous free speech. Talley v California, McIntyre v Ohio, Watchtower v Stratton. Some lower courts refuse to follow these rulings. Also according to the court, libel isn't part of free speech, although they interact, see NYT v Sullivan. Here, a lower court issued a ruling allowing some discovery, without saying why.You can read the court's order at my blog, http://vark.blogspot.com./
The affected parties, including the Indystar, can appeal. Indiana hasn't ruled on this question yet, but many states follow the Dendrite standard, saying that plaintiffs have to show they have a case before discovery is allowed. If the star doesn't appeal, this action by a single judge doesn't establish precedent. It might also be possible for the affected posters to countersue with a free speech or due process claim.
Fungi fun guy paul stamets has invented and sells a cardboard box then when planted first grows a crop of mushrooms, then old growth forest trees. http://www.lifeboxcompany.com/
freakonomics is reporting that watson won on day 3. February 18, 2011, 9:30 am It’s Official: The Computer’s Smarter By FREAKONOMICS
The IBM supercomputer named Watson has beaten two Jeopardy! champions in a three-night marathon. The computer was awarded a $1 million prize, but the BBC reports that “the victory for Watson and IBM was about more than money. It was about ushering in a new era in computing where machines will increasingly be able to learn and understand what humans are really asking them for. Jeopardy is seen as a significant challenge for Watson because of the show’s rapid-fire format and clues that rely on subtle meanings, puns, and riddles; something humans excel at and computers do not.” With his final answer, Ken Jennings, one of the human competitors and the winner of 74 consecutive Jeopardy! shows (a record), wrote, “I for one welcome our new computer overlords.”
have there been any sudden changes in lottery procedures in the past month or so? have any of you guys gotten up off the couch and tested this at your local lotto shop? my guess is somewhere there's a state lottery still vulnerable to this approach. didn't neal stephenson write a story about gaming the lottery?
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ok, but many (but not all) courts have upheld anonymous speech as being part of the free speech the constitution protects. talley v california 1960 is the landmark. mcintyre v ohio (1995) is the best known. Doe v Cahill, Dendrite,and 2theMart are cases that apply this to discovery. I have not yet read the Illinois case to see if it gets the balance right. Generally, courts are saying the plaintiff has to show they have a case before they can get at the data, because otherwise people bring bogus cases just to mine the data to silence their enemies.
- arbitrary aardvark
Reason can oppose the subpoena. Court cases sell magazines. The lawyer to hire is Paul Alan Levy of Public Citizen. He's the expert on anonymity and subpoenas. I'm a lawyer who does anonymous speech cases, but Levy's focus is n the discovery process in litigation, and what are the right standards; how much does the party seeking the subpoena have to prove in order to accommodate first amendment interests? The relevant cases include Dendrite, 2theMart, and Doe v Cahill.
Doe v. Cahill, 884 A.2d 451 (Del. 2005), is a significant case in the realm of anonymous internet speech and the First Amendment. While similar issues had been tackled involving criticism of a publicly traded company,[1] the case marks the first time a U.S. State Supreme Court addressed the issue of anonymous internet speech and defamation "in the context of a case involving political criticism of a public figure."[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...
if only there were some organism in nature that was a natural foe of invading ant armies.
I agree with your first two sentences. Mod parent up.
However, the right to a secret ballot is already in the Colorado constitution. (It's also in some federal legislation called HAVA.)
This is a federal judge, properly finding that plaintiffs haven't asserted any controlling authority showing there is a federal question in the case, so it's filed in the wrong court.
I have not read the complaint in this case. If I'd been writing the complaint, I would have used equal protection, tied into the state right to a secret ballot. Under Bush v Gore, if they do it one way in Denver, they should do it that way in Boulder too. But I don't think there was an equal protection claim raised.
(I'm a former election lawyer, and I'm a former Boulder County officeholder, and I'm aware of this case, but I haven't read any of the documents, so I'm speculating.)
:They took our Jobs!
2000 F to first make glass from sand, but only 300 c to remelt the glass. and a mix of sand and cullet (recycled glass) goews at some in between temperature.
that's why it pays to recycle glass; it's not like there's any shortage of sand.
Let me tell you the story
Of a man named Charlie
On a tragic and fateful day
He put ten cents in his pocket,
Kissed his wife and family
Went to ride on the MTA
Charlie handed in his dime
At the Kendall Square Station
And he changed for Jamaica Plain
When he got there the conductor told him,
"One more nickel."
Charlie could not get off that train.
Chorus:
Did he ever return,
No he never returned
And his fate is still unlearn'd
He may ride forever
'neath the streets of Boston
He's the man who never returned.
Now all night long
Charlie rides through the tunnels
the station
Saying, "What will become of me?
Crying
How can I afford to see
My sister in Chelsea
Or my cousin in Roxbury?"
"A space probe that takes 9 years to go from earth to Pluto would take over 100,000 years to get to even our closest neighbor, a mere 4.2 light years away."
Your major point that stars are really really far away is an important one. Stross or Scalzi blogged about that a while back.
However, I'm going to nitpick your sentence quoted above,and suggest that your conclusion may be wrong as well.
Talking about a space probe that takes 9 years to go to pluto is like talking about how long a snail would take to go to hawaii. In snail terms, it's too far. But I've been to hawaii and back. Also, I think you used a linear projection. But spacecraft don't usually travel linearly. Assuming some sort of fuel or propulsive mechanism, (a problematic assumption, i know) they keep accelerating to turn-around point. Speed of spacecraft increases by exponential factors, sort of a moore's law of spaceships. Within 100 years, some kind of fusion drive or other advanced technology should be doable. Make yourself into a software simulation, on a piece of hardware that can withstand 20 g's and weighs a gram, and has a fusion drive first stage to get it started,and you shave a lot of time off the trip. How to slow down at the other end I don't have a solution for yet.
the best touch screen based system i've seen, designed for ease of use by non-computer users, was the PLATO-IV system.
in 1982.
thanks. i wasn't sure if endor and endore were the same person. endore wrote the screenplay for that peter lorre movie where he gets transplanted hands from a murderer. also wrote other horror-type screenplays.
found it, with help from redditt
http://www.scribbleandshutter.com/2007/writing/daybeaver/daydragon01.htm
there's a wonderful story in some sf anthology i read back in the dim ages. a scientist does an operation on some alligators to restore the 4chambered heart, and the alligators then grow wings, become dragons, and conquer the world.
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Real-Food/1970-09-01/Dandelion-Wine.aspx
yours is a good plan tho.
there is some editing. the posted text is different from the stories as submitted. sometimes better sometimes worse.
why's it always got to be about race with you guys? can't we just get along?
1.4 billion project, to produce enough electricity for 140,000 homes, if i'm doing the math right, works out to about $10,000 per home. that seems like a reasonable payback. if google has a 12% share, that's around 17,000 homes. how many employees does google have? more than 20,000.
so, if they throw in a bit of conservation, google is buying solar power for its workforce's homes, at about $10,000 each. Seems like they break even on the investment while getting decent pr out of it. If it costs $1.4 billion to build, does that make it an easy target for terrorists (from, say, redmond) to hit with a dirty bomb?
Re-read the post. It's not about out of print fiction, it's about "out of work fiction."
"14erCleaner writes "US Circuit Judge Denny Chin has rejected a $125 million settlement between Google Books and the author's guild that would have allowed Google to publish all out-of-work fiction online. Chin has previously ruled more favorably on this case.'"
As you know, slashdot is infallible,and Timothy wouldn't have made such a glaring error. Not that I've RTFA, but it must be about out of work fiction.
mod parent up; AC is correct that the headline was wrong. maybe we're just used to that here.
for some reason when i read this the phrase "metal munching moon mice" popped into my head. apparently it's from a rocky and bullwinkle episode i must have seen a very long time ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal-Munching_Mice
Insightfully wrong.
At least according to the US Supreme court, the right to free speech includes the right to anonymous free speech. Talley v California, McIntyre v Ohio, Watchtower v Stratton. Some lower courts refuse to follow these rulings.
Also according to the court, libel isn't part of free speech, although they interact, see NYT v Sullivan.
Here, a lower court issued a ruling allowing some discovery, without saying why.You can read the court's order at my blog, http://vark.blogspot.com./
The affected parties, including the Indystar, can appeal. Indiana hasn't ruled on this question yet, but many states follow the Dendrite standard, saying that plaintiffs have to show they have a case before discovery is allowed. If the star doesn't appeal, this action by a single judge doesn't establish precedent.
It might also be possible for the affected posters to countersue with a free speech or due process claim.
I'm guessing he's already spent or hidden the money. What are the consequences to him if he doesn't pay the fine?
Fungi fun guy paul stamets has invented and sells a cardboard box then when planted first grows a crop of mushrooms, then old growth forest trees.
http://www.lifeboxcompany.com/
freakonomics is reporting that watson won on day 3.
February 18, 2011, 9:30 am
It’s Official: The Computer’s Smarter
By FREAKONOMICS
The IBM supercomputer named Watson has beaten two Jeopardy! champions in a three-night marathon. The computer was awarded a $1 million prize, but the BBC reports that “the victory for Watson and IBM was about more than money. It was about ushering in a new era in computing where machines will increasingly be able to learn and understand what humans are really asking them for. Jeopardy is seen as a significant challenge for Watson because of the show’s rapid-fire format and clues that rely on subtle meanings, puns, and riddles; something humans excel at and computers do not.” With his final answer, Ken Jennings, one of the human competitors and the winner of 74 consecutive Jeopardy! shows (a record), wrote, “I for one welcome our new computer overlords.”
have there been any sudden changes in lottery procedures in the past month or so? have any of you guys gotten up off the couch and tested this at your local lotto shop? my guess is somewhere there's a state lottery still vulnerable to this approach.
didn't neal stephenson write a story about gaming the lottery?
the headline is wrong too.
it says "pirate terms" when it actually means "pirate" terms. quote mark is in thew wrong spot, changing the meaning.