Judges hardly ever do something that the parties don't ask them to do. Judges also tend to be lazy, and decide things as quickly and simply as they can so that they can get back to the golf course. (To any judges reading this: Sorry, Your Honor, but satire is free speech, too. And you can make whatever jokes about me that you want. I'll even buy you a drink if it makes me laugh.)
So this is how I think, without reading any details, this case went down. The trial court dismissed the lawsuit on the grounds that truth is an absolute defense to the libel action, and did not address the constitutional issue at all because it simply did not have to in order to get rid of the case. The appellate court has reversed on the truth-is-an-absolute-defense issue alone.
Probably nobody thought to raise the constitutional issue because nobody remembered this weird 1912 statute until some associate at the law firm was working on the brief at 11 p.m. and stumbled across it. So now, back in the trial court, it's time to raise the constitutional issue.
Truly, the thing that about 93% of Slashdot is missing here is that this is not the whole story on this lawsuit. Reading this story and extrapolating that the entire lawsuit has been finally decided as of right now is roughly equivalent to reading the source code for init(8) and then making assumptions based on that about how the rest of your GNU/Linux system works. Yeah, you'll have a few things right, but not many. There's just more to the story, and virtually all of it hasn't happened yet.
This is completely, totally, 100% non-news. It's not even a bad ruling. Here is the case timeline in a nutshell:
Employee files lawsuit alleging libel based on a statement made about him
Trial court dismisses the case without considering the truth of any of the employee's allegations, because even if they are all true, there is no cause of action for libel when the alleged defaming statement was true
Court of Appeals reverses the dismissal based on a Massachusetts law that gives you a cause of action for libel even if the statement was true, if it was made with actual malice
Next step: The trial court must consider whether the employee alleged actual malice and, if not, may either dismiss the case or allow the employee to amend his complaint to include the actual malice allegation. After that, the case can proceed and the court can decide, based on evidence, whether there was actual malice.
The key point is that the trial court here has not considered any evidence yet. It made a purely legal ruling under Massachusetts law, and it was wrong because it failed to take into account the actual malice law. The media uproar is just panic, and there is no need and likely no reason for this decision to be overturned.
The second key point is that the employee has not won the case just because of this ruling. He has a long way to go ahead of him.
Voyager is an anomaly in the fiction world in that its writers can improve their resumes by adding "(fanfic only)" at the end of the line. Without looking into which episodes he wrote and then watching them, I can't be certain, but if he is responsible for writing his way out of the crack in the event horizon of a black hole then only harm will come of this.
Wikipedia puts Cairo, IL at about 37 degrees north latitude. The Earth's axis tilt is 23.6 degrees, so the farthest that this southern Illinois town gets from the plane of the Earth's orbit is 60.6 degrees and the closest is about 13.4 degrees. Pluto's inclination is less than that, so no, it won't be directly overhead any part of Illinois unless the distance between the Earth and the Sun is sufficient to change the angle by about 2 degrees. It's not.
But a legislative finding such as this is precatory language and does not change the effect of the actual operative part of the statute.
Freecreditreport.com does have the fine print "Offer applies with enrollment in Triple Advantage." Just get your free report from the companies themselves. You can get one from each of them, once a year. I normally just go straight to Equifax.
At least things have improved over 5 years ago. Apparently there were websites offering free credit reports that would take your personal information, buy your credit report from Equifax or the others, give it to you for free, and then sell your identity at a profit. I don't know any victims personally but I do know police who were involved in identity theft cases enough to speak at least somewhat credibly about such things.
That would make more sense if he wasn't the one waging the loudness war on this album. Apparently he and James quelled anyone's suggestions to do anything but compress the shit out of every track in mastering.
Lars is part of, but not all of, Metallica. I believe it's actually Metallica, Inc., or maybe a partnership. Also, there are likely intermediate parties such as the record company and so on whose rights are undermined even by one person who holds a songwriting copyright downloading the song. There are other rights in the final, released recording of a song beyond the songwriting credit.
It's the natural progression of all music acts. You start out struggling to survive, then develop and perfect your unique sound, then sell out, then really sell out and alienate any loyal fans you may have had who liked your unique sound (which you also destroy), and then you endorse companies with misleading domain names. Just be thankful the Beatles broke up when they did, or it'd be a Hard Day's FreecreditreportDotCom.
As long as parents and grandparents are giving video games as birthday or holiday presents, those games will be packaged in a box, or at the very least a download-this-game gift card a iTunes cards, except specific to one game. A seven-year-old kid can't tear wrapping paper off a download.
I don't know which answer is the right one, but I do know that we should use exclamation points as often as possible, without regard to their appropriateness!!!
Frankly, I don't know how they did their measurements but Myspace gives me "an unexpected error occurred" often enough (and I only sign in when I get an e-mail notification of a new message or the like, to begin with) that it very much is expected.
And Mythbusters has fingerprint scanners covered. As others have pointed out, use your faceprint or fingerprint for identification and a password or the like for authentication. Hell, even in Star Trek you have to say "Authorization Picard Alpha Two" in Picard's voice to blow up the ship.
How is either one sad? What's sad from my perspective is that (a) people feel that using idioms with misspelled words is acceptable and (b) people feel like a Wikipedia article that describes a commonly used commodity should not exist.
For oceanic ice caps, do we get to see (a) the ice, (2) the floor, or (iv) either one, selectable as with the satellite imagery on the regular Google Maps?
Not just that, but when someone does something like that one time, they become a more valuable employee in the future because it's a mistake that at least one person will be too paranoid to make a second time. The second time is when the firings should begin. I always keep employees who make a mistake once - hiring a replacement just makes that mistake more likely to be repeated!
The day that Chicago made the national news for having a wind chill of -40F, just a couple weeks ago, the temperature here was -44F without any wind factored in. Some places within 150 miles of me were colder still. I did an active search for anywhere colder. Barrow, AK; Alert, Nunavut; and Svalbard, Norway were all at least 35 degrees warmer.
That said, I didn't RTFA. Is Anchorage in line for a direct hit from the fallout of this volcano? They still prepare for winter better than Chicago does, because climate to the side, they are more isolated from supply lines.
Either way, I did operate on the assumption that Alaskans are, in general, prepared for winter on a level similar to us North Dakotans. I may have assumed incorrectly, and if so I apologize. I was only trying to give Alaskans the benefit of the doubt of not being "cityots." Let's pave the road to hell with my good intentions, why not.;)
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"If you want people to drive safer, take out the airbag and attach a machete pointed at their neck."
Judges hardly ever do something that the parties don't ask them to do. Judges also tend to be lazy, and decide things as quickly and simply as they can so that they can get back to the golf course. (To any judges reading this: Sorry, Your Honor, but satire is free speech, too. And you can make whatever jokes about me that you want. I'll even buy you a drink if it makes me laugh.)
So this is how I think, without reading any details, this case went down. The trial court dismissed the lawsuit on the grounds that truth is an absolute defense to the libel action, and did not address the constitutional issue at all because it simply did not have to in order to get rid of the case. The appellate court has reversed on the truth-is-an-absolute-defense issue alone.
Probably nobody thought to raise the constitutional issue because nobody remembered this weird 1912 statute until some associate at the law firm was working on the brief at 11 p.m. and stumbled across it. So now, back in the trial court, it's time to raise the constitutional issue.
Truly, the thing that about 93% of Slashdot is missing here is that this is not the whole story on this lawsuit. Reading this story and extrapolating that the entire lawsuit has been finally decided as of right now is roughly equivalent to reading the source code for init(8) and then making assumptions based on that about how the rest of your GNU/Linux system works. Yeah, you'll have a few things right, but not many. There's just more to the story, and virtually all of it hasn't happened yet.
This is completely, totally, 100% non-news. It's not even a bad ruling. Here is the case timeline in a nutshell:
The key point is that the trial court here has not considered any evidence yet. It made a purely legal ruling under Massachusetts law, and it was wrong because it failed to take into account the actual malice law. The media uproar is just panic, and there is no need and likely no reason for this decision to be overturned.
The second key point is that the employee has not won the case just because of this ruling. He has a long way to go ahead of him.
Voyager is an anomaly in the fiction world in that its writers can improve their resumes by adding "(fanfic only)" at the end of the line. Without looking into which episodes he wrote and then watching them, I can't be certain, but if he is responsible for writing his way out of the crack in the event horizon of a black hole then only harm will come of this.
Bork bork bork!
Wikipedia puts Cairo, IL at about 37 degrees north latitude. The Earth's axis tilt is 23.6 degrees, so the farthest that this southern Illinois town gets from the plane of the Earth's orbit is 60.6 degrees and the closest is about 13.4 degrees. Pluto's inclination is less than that, so no, it won't be directly overhead any part of Illinois unless the distance between the Earth and the Sun is sufficient to change the angle by about 2 degrees. It's not.
But a legislative finding such as this is precatory language and does not change the effect of the actual operative part of the statute.
I wasn't aware that w4m was ever anything else other than targeted erotic services.
I just want someone to bake erotic cakes in the nude.
Freecreditreport.com does have the fine print "Offer applies with enrollment in Triple Advantage." Just get your free report from the companies themselves. You can get one from each of them, once a year. I normally just go straight to Equifax.
At least things have improved over 5 years ago. Apparently there were websites offering free credit reports that would take your personal information, buy your credit report from Equifax or the others, give it to you for free, and then sell your identity at a profit. I don't know any victims personally but I do know police who were involved in identity theft cases enough to speak at least somewhat credibly about such things.
That would make more sense if he wasn't the one waging the loudness war on this album. Apparently he and James quelled anyone's suggestions to do anything but compress the shit out of every track in mastering.
Lars is part of, but not all of, Metallica. I believe it's actually Metallica, Inc., or maybe a partnership. Also, there are likely intermediate parties such as the record company and so on whose rights are undermined even by one person who holds a songwriting copyright downloading the song. There are other rights in the final, released recording of a song beyond the songwriting credit.
It's the natural progression of all music acts. You start out struggling to survive, then develop and perfect your unique sound, then sell out, then really sell out and alienate any loyal fans you may have had who liked your unique sound (which you also destroy), and then you endorse companies with misleading domain names. Just be thankful the Beatles broke up when they did, or it'd be a Hard Day's FreecreditreportDotCom.
As long as parents and grandparents are giving video games as birthday or holiday presents, those games will be packaged in a box, or at the very least a download-this-game gift card a iTunes cards, except specific to one game. A seven-year-old kid can't tear wrapping paper off a download.
I don't know which answer is the right one, but I do know that we should use exclamation points as often as possible, without regard to their appropriateness!!!
Frankly, I don't know how they did their measurements but Myspace gives me "an unexpected error occurred" often enough (and I only sign in when I get an e-mail notification of a new message or the like, to begin with) that it very much is expected.
And Mythbusters has fingerprint scanners covered. As others have pointed out, use your faceprint or fingerprint for identification and a password or the like for authentication. Hell, even in Star Trek you have to say "Authorization Picard Alpha Two" in Picard's voice to blow up the ship.
Anyone who's bailed using wire knows it to be futile. Just like anyone who's baled using a bucket.
How is either one sad? What's sad from my perspective is that (a) people feel that using idioms with misspelled words is acceptable and (b) people feel like a Wikipedia article that describes a commonly used commodity should not exist.
Real weapons of this kind are already generaly illegal in many areas.
Citation needed.
Do you remember that story that didn't lead you to suspect that kdawson sucks and is retarded?
Me neither.
Joe Sixpack tends to carry his Joe Sixshooter to make sure all his tech support calls are user-friendly.
http://www.namingschemes.com
For oceanic ice caps, do we get to see (a) the ice, (2) the floor, or (iv) either one, selectable as with the satellite imagery on the regular Google Maps?
Not just that, but when someone does something like that one time, they become a more valuable employee in the future because it's a mistake that at least one person will be too paranoid to make a second time. The second time is when the firings should begin. I always keep employees who make a mistake once - hiring a replacement just makes that mistake more likely to be repeated!
The day that Chicago made the national news for having a wind chill of -40F, just a couple weeks ago, the temperature here was -44F without any wind factored in. Some places within 150 miles of me were colder still. I did an active search for anywhere colder. Barrow, AK; Alert, Nunavut; and Svalbard, Norway were all at least 35 degrees warmer.
;)
That said, I didn't RTFA. Is Anchorage in line for a direct hit from the fallout of this volcano? They still prepare for winter better than Chicago does, because climate to the side, they are more isolated from supply lines.
Either way, I did operate on the assumption that Alaskans are, in general, prepared for winter on a level similar to us North Dakotans. I may have assumed incorrectly, and if so I apologize. I was only trying to give Alaskans the benefit of the doubt of not being "cityots." Let's pave the road to hell with my good intentions, why not.