Don't mess around with antitrust laws, just invalidate the patents in question and let them try to make a living on the technology they've got legitimate claims to.
That doesn't "set an example" to discourage other companies from thinking they can do the same thing.
If you don't punish such companies severely enough so they really feel it (make them worse off than if they hadn't violated the law), then other companies will happily make a "business decision" to violate similar laws, since the potential risk would be minor compared to the potential gains.
I've read other research which seems to suggest that many peoples' allergic reactions are due to an immature immune system (possibly due to an "overly-sterile" environment while growing up which doesn't challenge the immune system enough to make it mature). Perhaps the thymus is "going into hibernation" in many allergy sufferers before it has fully matured the proper T-cells? If so, would it be possible to "fix up" our malfunctioning immune system by temporarily reactiving the function of our thymus?
He came to hate them too. And went too far as a result. MS turned that to their advantage, just as they did Jackson's missteps. Neither Jackson's or Sporkin's humiliations will be lost on this judge. She will be as careful as she can possibly be.
IANAL, but one of my relatives is a high-level litigator. While briefly reminiscing about some other cases she was working on, she mentioned that often, when a good judge has become _really_ pissed at one of the litigants (and is absolutely positive that their legal case is shiite), he or she will deliberately go out of their way to give them every single advantage possible (i.e., rope), so that when the judge finally hands down a ruling against them, there will be absolutely nothing that they can use as a basis for an appeal.
With any luck, that's what's going on in this case.
You've never been spanked by my dad. He's a national-level handball player, and though he was careful to never cause me any injuries, getting the very-rare "capital punishment" from him felt like I was getting slapped with a telephone pole.
(Ack - THAT just brought up a mental image I didn't want)
The government tends to also seek punishments which will provide a deterrent effect on other potential violators, even if the resultant actions seem like complete overkill for the particular defendant. The higher profile the case, the more effective the deterrent effect.
Yeah, but the original poster was complaining that judge's eyes would glaze over when they tried to read the GPL. I was simply pointing out that, compared to what they're used to reading, the GPL is easily parseable.
I will tell you what happens when a court case sees something like the GPL. The judge glazes their eyes over this rather bizarre complex maze of legaleze. It weakens the "I gave it away" argument; the other side can now say "You call a piece of legaleze that long 'giving it away'?"
Compared to the bizarre & obtuse legal language from various legislatures which most judges have to deal with, the GPL is a model of clarity and straightforward language. I sincerely doubt that most judges will have trouble understanding it, much less have their "eyes glaze over", although it is certainly their perogative to quibble about potential ambiguities.
1) wield your sabre with only one hand, because strong strokes aren't necessary;
Well, this isn't exactly true - the one thing that the lightsabre isn't going to cut through is your _opponent's_ lightsabre, so your stroke has to be at least strong enough to counter your opponent's stroke (or be able to deflect it in a safe direction).
Do you guys have any recommendations for a low end credit card purchase system requiring low or zero startup fee, but rather charging a per-transaction fee?
Costco provides credit-card processing services on a per-transaction fee basis, but I don't know how cost-effective they are relative to other credit-card processing merchants.
One of the comments I remember from that anime was the one where she was wondering whether a new modchip would work in her Navi, and her mentor talked about how Navi's were able to be compatible with almost any kind of mod.
I think _that_ would be even more of a miracle than a global, seamless, ever-present network...
I'll vouch for that account of Tandem machines & OS - I had to work as a systems programmer on one with 8 CPUs for about 4-5 years. It didn't help that the company had been abusing this machine WAY past its rated specs for years.
Inevitably, something would happen which would cause one of the CPUs would crash - the increased load on the REST of the cpus would cause them all them crash like dominos unless we temporarily killed a lot of "not-so-high-priority" processes. (We rotated the 24 hour on-call pager for this scenario like a hot potato...)
I wonder, if you just let ordinary white light fall on the molecule, does it keep on bouncing wildly as it gets hit by different photons of the frequencies of light that it is sensitive to?
I don't think I agree with this reasoning; even a large amount like $40 billion is still a drop in the bucket compared to the overall cash flowing through the US economy (much less the world economy).
Its just a personal pet peve of mine that teachers, the folks who are RESPONSABLE for us being smart enough to do this work.
I'll second this rant. My mother is a learning-disabled elementary school teacher, I'm an engineer. I figure she works at LEAST twice as hard as I do, but receives half the compensation, and the general contempt of the idiot demagogues who label all teachers as hopeless incompetents (as a justification to reduce their compensation).
If it wouldn't hurt the kids so much, I'd dearly love to see some of those idiots (including the idiots who actually listen to what the main idiots say) try & deal with the 30-40 kid classes which my mother & her peers deal with. I'd make videos & sell them as comedy sketches.
I personally feel that if good teachers were being paid their worth to society, they'd be getting 6 figure salaries. We might have to forgoe a few nuclear submarines/stealth bombers, or perhaps close a few of those corporate subsidy/loopholes. Fat chance that'll happen anytime soon, though.
Actually, at least in some cases, there have been reports that the BSA "agents" handle non-Windows OSes by reformatting & installing so that they can install their own software.
Not just schools, it's a form of retaliation against the.gov by microsoft, in response to the recent trials.
Heh...kind of a dangerous move to make against a government, especially one which might be thinking about a budget deficit. No EULA is going to slow down a law which says that EULAs doesn't apply to government agencies...
Now that passengers are aware that at least some hijackers want to kill everyone on the plane (and lie about wanting to do that), many passengers are a LOT more willing to risk danger or death to themselves to stop someone, and I don't think using a hostage will work if the passengers think the individual intends to destroy the whole plane anyway.
And no, unless they're some kind of fighting god, I don't think even a really strong person is going to last too long against 5 or 6 enraged & panicked passengers (of at least typical weight), especially in the cramped confines of a plane (where there's not much room to maneuver).
There's already been a few stories in the press about passengers dogpiling on dangerous individuals.
However, taxing IP *as an asset* is tricky because of the difficulty of assessing it. What is the fair value of the copyright of Microsoft Windows 2000, for instance? One can assign a cost of a *license*, but that's not the same thing. That particular copyright hasn't been up for grabs for a while, so establishing a fair market value would be incredibly difficult.
Dunno, seems pretty simple to me; the property is worth whatever amount you can use it to generate, either by selling it or by using it in a way which generates profit (like selling licenses to it or providing services based on it). Since that's rather open-ended (you might be able to sell licenses for it for an indefinite, long period), the tax would probably be applied to the activities which generate the profit, as they occur (e.g., a sales tax on the licenses, services, etc).
This would work out fine for the Open Source stuff, except for those companies trying to make a living on services. (It might still work out for them if their income & property taxes are reduced enough.)
Dunno about the US constitutionality of trying to tax "intellectual" property though.
Think about it: "Survival of the fittest" That means survival of those that able to survive.
Actually, I revise this for my own personal reference as: "Destruction of the unfit", since the "Survival of the fittest" implies that ONLY the fittest will survive. Your general point, however, is still perfectly valid:-)
What would an American do if ordered to march into an enemy homeland and surely die? Well, some would go, sure, but most of us would just change the TV channel, radio station, or subscribe to a different magazine.
I think you're underestimating the response of the American public. I'd agree that under normal circumstances, it's pretty self-occupied and doesn't like external disturbances. Once it has been aroused & its attention focused on a particular national task, the American culture has a (sometimes disturbing) potential and the natural resources to do _anything_ to get the job done, and they're willing to sacrifice a _lot_ (both their own sacrifice & causing sacrifice of others) to reach the goal.
I don't think there is a country on the planet that could seriously consider attacking the US "directly" and expect to survive. Repelling a land-invasion on US soil would only be the first step in US response; once the enemy forces were "removed", it would be the single-minded focus of the entire country to eliminate that the possibility that the enemy could ever do it again.
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That doesn't "set an example" to discourage other companies from thinking they can do the same thing.
If you don't punish such companies severely enough so they really feel it (make them worse off than if they hadn't violated the law), then other companies will happily make a "business decision" to violate similar laws, since the potential risk would be minor compared to the potential gains.
He was talking about Japan. Driving isn't so ubiquitous over there, esp. among young->college-aged.
I've read other research which seems to suggest that many peoples' allergic reactions are due to an immature immune system (possibly due to an "overly-sterile" environment while growing up which doesn't challenge the immune system enough to make it mature). Perhaps the thymus is "going into hibernation" in many allergy sufferers before it has fully matured the proper T-cells? If so, would it be possible to "fix up" our malfunctioning immune system by temporarily reactiving the function of our thymus?
Perhaps somebody has discovered some kind of buffer overruns in some popular library functions used to process the JPEG data.
IANAL, but one of my relatives is a high-level litigator. While briefly reminiscing about some other cases she was working on, she mentioned that often, when a good judge has become _really_ pissed at one of the litigants (and is absolutely positive that their legal case is shiite), he or she will deliberately go out of their way to give them every single advantage possible (i.e., rope), so that when the judge finally hands down a ruling against them, there will be absolutely nothing that they can use as a basis for an appeal.
With any luck, that's what's going on in this case.
You've never been spanked by my dad. He's a national-level handball player, and though he was careful to never cause me any injuries, getting the very-rare "capital punishment" from him felt like I was getting slapped with a telephone pole.
(Ack - THAT just brought up a mental image I didn't want)
The government tends to also seek punishments which will provide a deterrent effect on other potential violators, even if the resultant actions seem like complete overkill for the particular defendant. The higher profile the case, the more effective the deterrent effect.
Yeah, but the original poster was complaining that judge's eyes would glaze over when they tried to read the GPL. I was simply pointing out that, compared to what they're used to reading, the GPL is easily parseable.
Compared to the bizarre & obtuse legal language from various legislatures which most judges have to deal with, the GPL is a model of clarity and straightforward language. I sincerely doubt that most judges will have trouble understanding it, much less have their "eyes glaze over", although it is certainly their perogative to quibble about potential ambiguities.
Well, this isn't exactly true - the one thing that the lightsabre isn't going to cut through is your _opponent's_ lightsabre, so your stroke has to be at least strong enough to counter your opponent's stroke (or be able to deflect it in a safe direction).
Costco provides credit-card processing services on a per-transaction fee basis, but I don't know how cost-effective they are relative to other credit-card processing merchants.
Heh - I wonder if they have plans in the "dirty tricks" department for sabotaging an enemy's toilet paper supply with finely ground glass? (ouch)
Actually, if law enforcement is on the ball, they'd use your search engine to identify the people disseminating kiddie porn & arrest THEM :-)
KaZaA _can_ do this, but I never see it doing it very often (and when it does, I usually only see one connection active).
DownloadAccelerator, on the other hand, when it has a selection of mirror sites, seems to be quite good at keeping all of the connections busy.
One of the comments I remember from that anime was the one where she was wondering whether a new modchip would work in her Navi, and her mentor talked about how Navi's were able to be compatible with almost any kind of mod.
I think _that_ would be even more of a miracle than a global, seamless, ever-present network...
I'll vouch for that account of Tandem machines & OS - I had to work as a systems programmer on one with 8 CPUs for about 4-5 years. It didn't help that the company had been abusing this machine WAY past its rated specs for years.
Inevitably, something would happen which would cause one of the CPUs would crash - the increased load on the REST of the cpus would cause them all them crash like dominos unless we temporarily killed a lot of "not-so-high-priority" processes. (We rotated the 24 hour on-call pager for this scenario like a hot potato...)
I wonder, if you just let ordinary white light fall on the molecule, does it keep on bouncing wildly as it gets hit by different photons of the frequencies of light that it is sensitive to?
I don't think I agree with this reasoning; even a large amount like $40 billion is still a drop in the bucket compared to the overall cash flowing through the US economy (much less the world economy).
I'll second this rant. My mother is a learning-disabled elementary school teacher, I'm an engineer. I figure she works at LEAST twice as hard as I do, but receives half the compensation, and the general contempt of the idiot demagogues who label all teachers as hopeless incompetents (as a justification to reduce their compensation).
If it wouldn't hurt the kids so much, I'd dearly love to see some of those idiots (including the idiots who actually listen to what the main idiots say) try & deal with the 30-40 kid classes which my mother & her peers deal with. I'd make videos & sell them as comedy sketches.
I personally feel that if good teachers were being paid their worth to society, they'd be getting 6 figure salaries. We might have to forgoe a few nuclear submarines/stealth bombers, or perhaps close a few of those corporate subsidy/loopholes. Fat chance that'll happen anytime soon, though.
Actually, at least in some cases, there have been reports that the BSA "agents" handle non-Windows OSes by reformatting & installing so that they can install their own software.
Heh...kind of a dangerous move to make against a government, especially one which might be thinking about a budget deficit. No EULA is going to slow down a law which says that EULAs doesn't apply to government agencies...
I don't think that would work any more.
Now that passengers are aware that at least some hijackers want to kill everyone on the plane (and lie about wanting to do that), many passengers are a LOT more willing to risk danger or death to themselves to stop someone, and I don't think using a hostage will work if the passengers think the individual intends to destroy the whole plane anyway.
And no, unless they're some kind of fighting god, I don't think even a really strong person is going to last too long against 5 or 6 enraged & panicked passengers (of at least typical weight), especially in the cramped confines of a plane (where there's not much room to maneuver).
There's already been a few stories in the press about passengers dogpiling on dangerous individuals.
Dunno, seems pretty simple to me; the property is worth whatever amount you can use it to generate, either by selling it or by using it in a way which generates profit (like selling licenses to it or providing services based on it). Since that's rather open-ended (you might be able to sell licenses for it for an indefinite, long period), the tax would probably be applied to the activities which generate the profit, as they occur (e.g., a sales tax on the licenses, services, etc).
This would work out fine for the Open Source stuff, except for those companies trying to make a living on services. (It might still work out for them if their income & property taxes are reduced enough.)
Dunno about the US constitutionality of trying to tax "intellectual" property though.
Actually, I revise this for my own personal reference as: "Destruction of the unfit", since the "Survival of the fittest" implies that ONLY the fittest will survive. Your general point, however, is still perfectly valid :-)
I think you're underestimating the response of the American public. I'd agree that under normal circumstances, it's pretty self-occupied and doesn't like external disturbances. Once it has been aroused & its attention focused on a particular national task, the American culture has a (sometimes disturbing) potential and the natural resources to do _anything_ to get the job done, and they're willing to sacrifice a _lot_ (both their own sacrifice & causing sacrifice of others) to reach the goal.
I don't think there is a country on the planet that could seriously consider attacking the US "directly" and expect to survive. Repelling a land-invasion on US soil would only be the first step in US response; once the enemy forces were "removed", it would be the single-minded focus of the entire country to eliminate that the possibility that the enemy could ever do it again.