That's not for the Supreme Court to decide. Their job is to decide whether a law is constitutional.
It is up to the legislature to decide how to balance freedom and national security by passing laws. Now, should the law be challenged on the basis of its constitutionality, then that's a different matter. If the environmentalists are challenging Bush's executive order privilege and how far Bush can go in the capacity of Command in Chief, that's yet a separate matter. But this doesn't seem to be the case. I don't hear any mention of any part of the constitution (perhaps because TFA is from the BBC?), so I'm wondering why this even made it up there.
The article is light on details, so I'm not sure if a law is being challenged here. But the part of my brain covered by a tinfoil hat is suspecting that Bush pulled some strings to get the SCotUS to even hear this case.
I don't think the Navy as a government organization or the president have anything relevant to say in the matter. It is what the marine biologists and the science they do says. If their science says that such operations definitely harm marine mammals, then the Navy should be required to take certain precautions before doing their exercises. If there is no conclusive evidence, or if the evidence is circumstantial at best, then there's no reason to stop the Navy from doing their thing until such evidence is found.
Now, if the evidence was indeed that strong, maybe PETA or some other animal rights group can and should bring suit against the Navy for harming the animals. If indeed the evidence is that strong, then this ruling is meaningless (the Supreme court didn't comment on the environmentalist's stance, which leaves the door wide open for more lawsuits). But until that time that the evidence really becomes that strong, I'm not sure national security should be jeopardized for the sake of a hunch or even an educated guess.
This attempt at extending their trademark was exactly a result of their patent running out some time ago.
And Lego isn't going to move to China, of all places. They are very protective of their molds. If they move any manufacturing to China, we can expect Chinese knockoffs of a similar quality within months.
According to one interview I read somewhere, the most expensive Lego parts to manufacture are the mini-figs. I believe they cost something like a little over $1 US to manufacture.
Lego uses very precise molds. It is the key to the Lego bricks' distinctiveness, and why they fit well. Old molds are destroyed by burying them in the concrete foundation of buildings. They also have several different kinds of plastic to create different specialized bricks and pieces. People can replicate the design of the bricks and sell them cheaper, but I don't think they can replicate the manufacturing process and not be forced to raise prices.
I have yet to read TFA (go figure), but I'm guessing this has something to do with Lego trying to maintain IP protection on their brick design by claiming that their trademarked logo is on the stud, and therefore the idea of a stud is trademarked as well.
There's a very heavy "them vs. us" theme in what you're saying.
There's no "rest of the world." Besides the US, there's the EU, Russia, China, Japan, Australia, India, the African Union, etc. Every country has its own agenda, and does its own thing for its own good. If what's good for a country can be had from doing good for other countries (regional stability), then that's what the country's agenda is going to be.
To say it as you do makes it look like, the US vs. rest of the world, where if the "rest of the world" does something, the US has to respond. What's good for the US is good for the US, what's good for another country is good for another countries, etc. To oversimplify by making it us vs. them does international politics a great injustice, and is telling of how your own education on the relevant matters.
Ideally then, if you hijack a botnet so that on a certain day of the month (or of the year, like the Michelangelo virus), it corrupts certain system files and displays a message on bootup like "Your computer is infected with a botnet. Please reinstall Windows and apply all relevent security patches," you'd inconvenience a lot of people very quickly and force them to clean out/patch their systems.
It's not as drastic as reformatting so it will retain data, and it won't secretly hit anybody's wallet so no users are going to go to the ISP to complain, but it will take offline all of the bots in the botnet on a certain day.
Nip it in the bud. Tell him (or her) the line begins behind you. If the guy standing there is pretending not to hear you, you put your hand on his chest and tell him one more time that the line is behind you. Then you shove him backwards with all your might. If you're good, you can get him to the back of the line in one push. If he fights back, you usually can count on your fellow liners to help you out.
If you're a guy and the person cutting the line is a hot girl, you're probably not going to win. Take advantage of the situation instead.
Kids do community service as a part of going to high school, as community service is required for anyone trying to get into a good college. In my opinion, it is a learning experience and should be labeled as a class. To be more specific, it should be a new category of electives, where the school partners with certain non-profit organizations and such, and student gets to choose what type of service can be done for that elective credit.
The kids who do currently participate typically do it as an extra-curricular. I don't see why this mentality needs to change. Some high schools offer going to a local community college to take college classes. This could be the same.
Do I think it should be mandatory for schools that receive federal funding to offer such a program? Yes. I also think there should be federal guidance, not necessarily mandate, on what kind of community service program to offer. And do I think kids should get to choose what to do and when they do it? Yes as well.
It would be great to have such a discussion forum, but it would be a nightmare to run and maintain. If you think trolling on/. is bad, just imagine how bad it'll get on a site funded and endorsed by the federal government. And any attempt at moderation would certainly result in cries of censorship.
This is not forcing any ideological views on any person. This is about government being open through open source and open formats. And a transparent, open government is necessary for a democracy that is of the people, by the people, and for the people.
You can use Microsoft Office all you want. The government shouldn't be using Microsoft Office if the documents it saves to cannot be read properly by other software.
Obama is half black (African-Kenyan) and half white (European-Irish/English). His father was a Muslim and later atheist, his mother agnostic Christian and maybe atheist.
Sorry, but the Arabs can't take any credit for him.
If the US hiccups, the rest of the world feels it. If the US farts, the rest of the world faints. That's how important the US is.
See the current economic crisis? Stocks have fallen by about 40% in the US. They've fallen by about 60% in most other places. Entire countries have gone bankrupt. That's how powerful the influence of the US is.
So they should be apprehensive, and they should feel relief if the candidate they want wins. But outsiders don't have any say in the process, just as it also should be.
A blank slate is better than one already carved up by Washington. A blank slate means that maybe, just maybe, we the little people will be able to contribute a little something to his policies, instead of only the special interests and other politicians. That is hope.
You're right that the talk of racism in the US is rather hypocritical. It is fine if a black person says that white people are always putting black people down, but it's racist if a white person says black people are violent. Both are racist statements but somehow, only one gets any attention. But at the same time, I don't think that's GP's point.
I think GP is saying that that Obama has been elected President of the United States will motivate people who identify with him based on skin color, people who otherwise may not have been motivated if Barak Obama hadn't been elected president. And I think GP is saying that feeling good about this fact is not racism.
It is good to help the poor and needy, regardless of their skin color. I think it just so happens that most of the poor and needy are minorities.
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That's not for the Supreme Court to decide. Their job is to decide whether a law is constitutional.
It is up to the legislature to decide how to balance freedom and national security by passing laws. Now, should the law be challenged on the basis of its constitutionality, then that's a different matter. If the environmentalists are challenging Bush's executive order privilege and how far Bush can go in the capacity of Command in Chief, that's yet a separate matter. But this doesn't seem to be the case. I don't hear any mention of any part of the constitution (perhaps because TFA is from the BBC?), so I'm wondering why this even made it up there.
The article is light on details, so I'm not sure if a law is being challenged here. But the part of my brain covered by a tinfoil hat is suspecting that Bush pulled some strings to get the SCotUS to even hear this case.
I don't think the Navy as a government organization or the president have anything relevant to say in the matter. It is what the marine biologists and the science they do says. If their science says that such operations definitely harm marine mammals, then the Navy should be required to take certain precautions before doing their exercises. If there is no conclusive evidence, or if the evidence is circumstantial at best, then there's no reason to stop the Navy from doing their thing until such evidence is found.
Now, if the evidence was indeed that strong, maybe PETA or some other animal rights group can and should bring suit against the Navy for harming the animals. If indeed the evidence is that strong, then this ruling is meaningless (the Supreme court didn't comment on the environmentalist's stance, which leaves the door wide open for more lawsuits). But until that time that the evidence really becomes that strong, I'm not sure national security should be jeopardized for the sake of a hunch or even an educated guess.
There were several 3rd party AI patches for TA as well that would improve the AI. Not by much, but it would at least improve the AI.
I thought they called her toot.
This attempt at extending their trademark was exactly a result of their patent running out some time ago.
And Lego isn't going to move to China, of all places. They are very protective of their molds. If they move any manufacturing to China, we can expect Chinese knockoffs of a similar quality within months.
According to one interview I read somewhere, the most expensive Lego parts to manufacture are the mini-figs. I believe they cost something like a little over $1 US to manufacture.
Lego uses very precise molds. It is the key to the Lego bricks' distinctiveness, and why they fit well. Old molds are destroyed by burying them in the concrete foundation of buildings. They also have several different kinds of plastic to create different specialized bricks and pieces. People can replicate the design of the bricks and sell them cheaper, but I don't think they can replicate the manufacturing process and not be forced to raise prices.
I have yet to read TFA (go figure), but I'm guessing this has something to do with Lego trying to maintain IP protection on their brick design by claiming that their trademarked logo is on the stud, and therefore the idea of a stud is trademarked as well.
What's really amusing is that you got modded interesting while GP got modded funny.
What can anyone do about it?
Pirate the game. It might not be legal, but is there a more practical course of action?
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There's a redundancy in there somewhere. I can't quite put my finger on it.
There's a very heavy "them vs. us" theme in what you're saying.
There's no "rest of the world." Besides the US, there's the EU, Russia, China, Japan, Australia, India, the African Union, etc. Every country has its own agenda, and does its own thing for its own good. If what's good for a country can be had from doing good for other countries (regional stability), then that's what the country's agenda is going to be.
To say it as you do makes it look like, the US vs. rest of the world, where if the "rest of the world" does something, the US has to respond. What's good for the US is good for the US, what's good for another country is good for another countries, etc. To oversimplify by making it us vs. them does international politics a great injustice, and is telling of how your own education on the relevant matters.
Ideally then, if you hijack a botnet so that on a certain day of the month (or of the year, like the Michelangelo virus), it corrupts certain system files and displays a message on bootup like "Your computer is infected with a botnet. Please reinstall Windows and apply all relevent security patches," you'd inconvenience a lot of people very quickly and force them to clean out/patch their systems.
It's not as drastic as reformatting so it will retain data, and it won't secretly hit anybody's wallet so no users are going to go to the ISP to complain, but it will take offline all of the bots in the botnet on a certain day.
Nip it in the bud. Tell him (or her) the line begins behind you. If the guy standing there is pretending not to hear you, you put your hand on his chest and tell him one more time that the line is behind you. Then you shove him backwards with all your might. If you're good, you can get him to the back of the line in one push. If he fights back, you usually can count on your fellow liners to help you out.
If you're a guy and the person cutting the line is a hot girl, you're probably not going to win. Take advantage of the situation instead.
It just makes your dickery portfolio thicker
I think we all know girth is important when being a dick.
Kids do community service as a part of going to high school, as community service is required for anyone trying to get into a good college. In my opinion, it is a learning experience and should be labeled as a class. To be more specific, it should be a new category of electives, where the school partners with certain non-profit organizations and such, and student gets to choose what type of service can be done for that elective credit.
The kids who do currently participate typically do it as an extra-curricular. I don't see why this mentality needs to change. Some high schools offer going to a local community college to take college classes. This could be the same.
Do I think it should be mandatory for schools that receive federal funding to offer such a program? Yes. I also think there should be federal guidance, not necessarily mandate, on what kind of community service program to offer. And do I think kids should get to choose what to do and when they do it? Yes as well.
It would be great to have such a discussion forum, but it would be a nightmare to run and maintain. If you think trolling on /. is bad, just imagine how bad it'll get on a site funded and endorsed by the federal government. And any attempt at moderation would certainly result in cries of censorship.
Unfortunately, his tubes may soon be too clogged for him to manage the internets.
Greed - Gates
Gluttony - Ballmer
Pride - Jobs
Wrath - RMS
This is not forcing any ideological views on any person. This is about government being open through open source and open formats. And a transparent, open government is necessary for a democracy that is of the people, by the people, and for the people.
You can use Microsoft Office all you want. The government shouldn't be using Microsoft Office if the documents it saves to cannot be read properly by other software.
Obama is half black (African-Kenyan) and half white (European-Irish/English). His father was a Muslim and later atheist, his mother agnostic Christian and maybe atheist.
Sorry, but the Arabs can't take any credit for him.
Don't bother trying to come back until you find some brains.
What are you, the zombie king or something?
If what you say is indeed a part of the curse, it would be better translated as "May you live in meaningful times."
If the US hiccups, the rest of the world feels it. If the US farts, the rest of the world faints. That's how important the US is.
See the current economic crisis? Stocks have fallen by about 40% in the US. They've fallen by about 60% in most other places. Entire countries have gone bankrupt. That's how powerful the influence of the US is.
So they should be apprehensive, and they should feel relief if the candidate they want wins. But outsiders don't have any say in the process, just as it also should be.
A blank slate is better than one already carved up by Washington. A blank slate means that maybe, just maybe, we the little people will be able to contribute a little something to his policies, instead of only the special interests and other politicians. That is hope.
I wonder if Obama would've won so handily if at all if Palin hadn't been McCain's VP pick. At the very least, it would've been a much tighter race.
You're right that the talk of racism in the US is rather hypocritical. It is fine if a black person says that white people are always putting black people down, but it's racist if a white person says black people are violent. Both are racist statements but somehow, only one gets any attention. But at the same time, I don't think that's GP's point.
I think GP is saying that that Obama has been elected President of the United States will motivate people who identify with him based on skin color, people who otherwise may not have been motivated if Barak Obama hadn't been elected president. And I think GP is saying that feeling good about this fact is not racism.
It is good to help the poor and needy, regardless of their skin color. I think it just so happens that most of the poor and needy are minorities.