I hear that keyboard clickin'
Rattlin' 'round the bend
And I ain't heard a dome switch
Since I don't know when
Yeah, I'm stuck in dome switch prison
And time keeps draggin' on
But the model M keeps clickin'
Until the end of time
When I was just a baby
My mama told me, "Son,
Always use an IBM
That mod' M can stop a gun"
But I smacked a man with a keyboard in Reno
Just to watch him die
Surely, you mean anywhere in North America with both GSM and WiFi connectivity available. Even just the GSM part limits you to a very small portion of North America, where crummy CDMA networks dominate the land.
Cut him some slack. He also said that "Apple is quite literally ripping off those who aren't able to upgrade hardware themselves" (emphasis mine) when this is almost certainly not the literal meaning of ripping off.
I don't, because I multi-attach screens all the time. What I have is "alias scr='screen -xRR main'" in my bash rc setup, running it only when $WINDOW is not defined (which is a quick way to know whether you're in a screen session already). I also have "alias emacs='screen -c ~/.screenrc-emacs -xRR emacs'" with the relevant screenrc file set to start up a single window with an Emacs session in it.
Anyhow, I agree that -D is a good option to know about and to make a conscious decision whether you want to use it or not.
Yes, there is a term for words that have two meanings. They are called homonyms or homographs, although the verb form that I propose for the process of turning a word into a homonym is "to stairwayize" it.
Many motorcyclists have the advice to always assume that you are invisible to other drivers. I make a slightly different assumption when I'm on my bike. I assume that every other driver is aware of my presence but actively trying to kill me. It's a lot easier to remain vigilant when you are being hunted rather than simply ignored.
I'm glad you survived that asshole and, while I can't advise anything unlawful, if I were in charge of your insurance company I would gladly indemnify you for any claims that result from what you did, lower your rates to thank you for making the roads safer for other motorcyclists, and keep the other driver's insurance company embroiled in legal battles long enough to drive up his/her (you used "their" consistently) rates.
One time, near Sturgis, SD, the week before the big rally, I was on my bike on a road with two lanes in each direction and no median strip, just a turn lane. I was behind about three or four Harley owners (I won't call them "riders" as a matter of principle) in the left lane. They were passing a minivan in the right lane, slowly and safely. The minivan suddenly, without using its signal (please, people, use your signal even when you think nobody is around to see it - chances are that you just aren't aware of the people who need to see it most), moved into the left lane. Two of the bikers were past it but one was next to it and, being less experienced, barely managed to wobble his way around and in front of the van.
I decided to at least let the minivan driver know that the world was upset with him, so I sped up into the right lane (after checking that it was clear, of course, and with correct use of my directional signal), pulled up alongside the van, and looked inside the passenger window to see two men, aged in their mid-50's. I knocked on the window while maintaining my position next to the van until they were both looking at me, flipped them off until they both comprehended, and then sped up to get the hell away from their vehicle of mass destruction.
Everyone, pay attention: Motorcyclists are highly vulnerable to the mistakes that you are too self-centered to care about making. Even a helmet and full leather body coverage can't save a life against being run into oncoming traffic, a guard rail, or the bottom side of your tires. They will be polite and courteous to you as long as you do the same for them. This includes crotch rocketeers, BMW road warriors, Goldwing tourists, and Harley biker dudes. There are exceptions, like the morons you see popping wheelies with their unhelmeted girlfriends on back or wearing flip flops, shorts, and nothing else as they cruise along the road (hint: your body doesn't care if your skin is one inch left of center or one hundred feet), but by and large a little bit of awareness on your part will make the world a better place.
I carry a gun in my vehicle at all times. In the event that someone crashes into me due to texting, applying makeup, or generally being an asshole who thinks that being the 90,001st car in line instead of the 90,003rd will get him to his destination substantially earlier, I will shoot him and claim self-defense, on the grounds that he was attempting to murder me with his vehicle.
The problem is that there is a much lower rate of "I give up, you retards won't listen to a word of common sense!" people leaving the group, having joined it for the sole purpose of telling the legitimate members "You retards are going to kill babies!" The same phenomenon occurs with the groups in support of boycotting gasoline for a day or boycotting one retailer of gasoline in order to force gas prices down.
Text messaging is particularly dangerous because your eyes, attention, and hand are focused on it. My favorites are the idiots who claim "I can text without looking at the phone so it's safe." First off, even if you can, you don't. Second, you have entire conversations through text messages while you are driving, and I am fairly confident that you are looking at your phone to read the incoming side of those conversations.
Don't text and drive. Don't accept text messages from people who are driving. Tell your friends that you will not be friends with them if they continue driving intexticated. Steal and destroy their phones or car keys. Do whatever it takes to keep these truly idiotic losers, who probably suck at driving even when entirely focused on it, off of the roads.
North Dakota did not invade South Dakota! We were invited! Everyone had cake! We didn't even know that that particular covered wagon had a nuke in it! We swear!
GW has been under oath from the moment he took office. He swore an oath to uphold the constitution. He's failed at that. It's well past time to impeach.
You forgot something. Every member of the House takes the same oath to uphold the Constitution, and they are the people who have to vote to impeach the President. Guess who doesn't want to make failure to uphold the Constitution an impeachable offense.
I don't get it. Am I supposed to think of the parents, or is this just another ploy to get me to think of the children (who are thinking about their parents)?
I also forgot, it seems, how to finish a thought. I was saying that I don't remember much from before the exam, including how often I posted on Slashdot, but I'm sure it happened with some regularity. So don't be afraid to say hi if you see my name and disagree (or agree, if that should happen) with what I say around these parts. It's good for your health and I'm not the prick that my personality and writing style make me seem to be.;)
Likewise! And I'm glad you are not working all summer. You had me very deeply concerned for your sanity for a minute, there. My bar plans were as follows: study all summer, watching Jeopardy while I cooked and ate supper each night and watching one weekend show. The TV may make you stupider, but the mind-relaxing effect is very helpful to absorbing the bar. I made a point of studying in a few venues to keep things fresh. Home, coffee shop, undergraduate library, even once at McDonald's. We went on roller coasters one afternoon. Etc. The key, as you are clearly already aware and implementing, is to find the routine that maximizes your ability to process everything.
I also didn't do anything until I got my bar results. I accepted employment to start the day I became licensed to practice law, and just relaxed for the interim. I'm a healthier, happier person now, for it.
Side note, and then I shan't bug you much more (but don't be afraid to debate with me in the future; I don't remember much from my antebellum days, as I like to call them and as you'll find out this fall... hint: write your middle name, birthdate, and how to tie shoes on an index card and keep it near the first place you'll go after the exam): Make plans to have at least a day or two of very solid, very effective relaxation after the exam. I went to a rock concert. Just do something that you haven't been able to do all summer and which takes no brain power but makes you happy. You're going to need a serious dosage of endorphins to get you back to life after you get back on your feet after crossing the finish line of the marathon.
I didn't mean to chastise or anything. It's just a matter of being careful with something very simple. No, you won't get caught. No, it wouldn't hurt you if you did. But the cost-benefit even with near-zero cost still weighs in favor of caution. Also, instead of trading in your IANAL card for an IAAL one, I recommend IANYL as being far more useful. You'll find that, after you're all barred up, you very frequently want to do things like post on Slashdot or write Wikipedia articles on things as interesting as the Fertile Octogenarian (which I rewrote once during a UCC Article 2 lecture that wasn't keeping me awake on its own), and what you want is a succinct but effective disclaimer. IANYL is your friend.
New York didn't sound like a lot of fun to my friends who took that one. But still better than California, of course. Other things to keep you sane: Other Youtube videos from the Virginia Law Libel Show, especially the Negotiator and Old Ball Coach (although the latter is funnier for law students than law school grads; but "a firm that shall remain nameless... and Conley" sticks with me forever); Lolcats, and don't get into the law school kind - just learn to speak in Lolcatese as a general rule; dirty mnemonics (or "pneumonics," if you will). For instance, we came up with a great one for something, which I now can't remember but suspect was the list of things a court must consider in dividing property in a divorce, that started with "Father Charles Doesn't Eat" and became very offensive by the end.
Punch your firm in the face for me, for letting you work while you should be studying. You should be studying and watching one hour a week of Family Guy instead of 20+ hours a week of work.
As to the actual thing we're talking about, and to keep my comment remotely on-topic, statutory damages are available because of copyright law, and apply to violating a copyright. Damages for violating a contract, including a license agreement that is a contract, are separate and on top of that, as my admittedly-limited understanding of copyright licensing law goes. And no, it's not just about what you can argue with a straight face, but that's the starting point. You always want to know what a court and, if relevant, a jury will do, but I do think that courts will, generally, end up treating documents like the GPL as if they were subject to contract law interpretation and contract remedies, to the extent that relief is not afforded by copyright law.
Remember, this isn't about some third party suing for copyright damages. It's about actual damages that he can show (as I initially posited when I suggested the idea in my once-ever +5 Interesting comment, above). I am not copyright-damaged when Corporation A infringes Programmer B's copyright. I may, however, be damaged when Corporation A violates Programmer B's license agreement which, if it's the GPL, has me as an intended beneficiary.
Now, again, good luck getting any of this to turn into enough dollars to convince Corporation A to knock it off. But it's a possibility, and there are always outlier cases where someone has been seriously damaged and ought to recover something that's not de minimis. And if that happens, this is one of the arguments that a competent attorney would be remiss not to make for his client.
If you ever see it happen, though, let me know. I rarely hold my breath waiting for some thought experiment of mine to become reality. Except for that rock star one... I'm still pretty sure that I'll have to reduce my case load to go on tour any day now. (My tour bus will be a flying car, equipped with Duke Nukem Forever.)
You seem to have trouble distinguishing between racially insensitive and racist. There is a difference, although one too subtle for most political correctness shills to grasp. And that's the point I was making here.
Then you're not a lawyer. Don't say you are until you are licensed somewhere. You're relatively safe, because your disclaimer was right next to your claim, but still... that's not something to be even remotely careless about. Of the bar applications I've filled out (I'm licensed a couple of places; didn't fail and I would encourage you not to worry about it and to just do your best and be calm, because the bar exam is designed mainly to stress you into failure and allow past only those who can handle the stress with grace... but I digress), most ask whether your behavior has ever been "called into question" with respect to unauthorized practice of law. That's fairly broad, and it's better to be VERY safe than even a little sorry.
Your reply is very correct. There is more to a copyright license than simple contract law, but think like a lawyer for a minute: Can you, with a straight face, make an argument that someone who accepts the terms of the GPL, even without privity with the copyright holder if that's possible since that's the person who has to actually grant you the license, creates a form of agreement that has intended third-party beneficiaries under the relevant contract-law doctrine? I can and, as you know from your studies, being able to make an argument with a straight face is all that really matters.
Good luck on the bar. Where are you taking it? If you are taking Bar/Bri (or not, but you'll appreciate this more if you are), my advice is not to take yourself any more seriously than this: Virginia Law Libel Show - Bar/Bri.
I actually started talking about getting tickets for the Britney Spears/Paris Hilton tour before it was too late, but unfortunately my luck only applies when I mean it.
Last year, in early March around my birthday, I was listening to a lot of Boston music for some reason. On March 6, I said to a friend, "I need to see these great classic rock bands before they all start dying on me." and found the tentative Boston winter 2007-2008 tour schedule. On March 7, Brad Delp took his own life. I also passed up on seeing Carlin about 6 years ago when he came through. I was a college student and saved my money for... for what, really?
Granted, it's nothing compared to Hendrix or Janis Joplin. Talk about a narrow window of opportunity that you missed. I hope you've learned your lesson. I, of course, should have learned mine earlier - my boyhood musical heroes were Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens. How I could make it to my 20s and not figure that out, I don't know.
The thing about Carlin is that his humor had a lot of shock value, but it was all incidental to the humor and philosophy. The seven words bit would still have been funny if they'd all been words out of Green Eggs and Ham. "Rape can be funny" is shocking, but it is both funny and insightful first. The shock value is an unavoidable side effect of dealing with issues head-on. Most comedians now use shock value sheerly for shock value. "So, there I was, fucking this nun" is funny only because it is shocking.
Carlin was a genius. As to someone coming along to tell the system to go fuck itself, Carlos Mencia is the closest that I've spotted. Like Carlin, he deals with the things that you're not supposed to deal with. He calls a spade a spade, even if it's not politically correct to do so. The difference is that he has a lower standard to reach than Carlin because Carlin was just a white guy making a point. Try to be a white male and tell the world what Mencia is telling it - you'll be burned at the stake.
I don't know how Carlin ever got away with it. R.I.P., Rufus.
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NAS is like life or death. Get a SAN instead.
You're right - not the same ring at all!
Surely, you mean anywhere in North America with both GSM and WiFi connectivity available. Even just the GSM part limits you to a very small portion of North America, where crummy CDMA networks dominate the land.
Cut him some slack. He also said that "Apple is quite literally ripping off those who aren't able to upgrade hardware themselves" (emphasis mine) when this is almost certainly not the literal meaning of ripping off.
Everything you said makes logical sense, except for "supply and demand" at the end. You just got done saying that the demand is low!
I don't, because I multi-attach screens all the time. What I have is "alias scr='screen -xRR main'" in my bash rc setup, running it only when $WINDOW is not defined (which is a quick way to know whether you're in a screen session already). I also have "alias emacs='screen -c ~/.screenrc-emacs -xRR emacs'" with the relevant screenrc file set to start up a single window with an Emacs session in it.
Anyhow, I agree that -D is a good option to know about and to make a conscious decision whether you want to use it or not.
Yes, there is a term for words that have two meanings. They are called homonyms or homographs, although the verb form that I propose for the process of turning a word into a homonym is "to stairwayize" it.
Have you ever thought that the throttle was put on the right-hand grip just to keep you from holding a pistol while you ride? :)
Many motorcyclists have the advice to always assume that you are invisible to other drivers. I make a slightly different assumption when I'm on my bike. I assume that every other driver is aware of my presence but actively trying to kill me. It's a lot easier to remain vigilant when you are being hunted rather than simply ignored.
I'm glad you survived that asshole and, while I can't advise anything unlawful, if I were in charge of your insurance company I would gladly indemnify you for any claims that result from what you did, lower your rates to thank you for making the roads safer for other motorcyclists, and keep the other driver's insurance company embroiled in legal battles long enough to drive up his/her (you used "their" consistently) rates.
One time, near Sturgis, SD, the week before the big rally, I was on my bike on a road with two lanes in each direction and no median strip, just a turn lane. I was behind about three or four Harley owners (I won't call them "riders" as a matter of principle) in the left lane. They were passing a minivan in the right lane, slowly and safely. The minivan suddenly, without using its signal (please, people, use your signal even when you think nobody is around to see it - chances are that you just aren't aware of the people who need to see it most), moved into the left lane. Two of the bikers were past it but one was next to it and, being less experienced, barely managed to wobble his way around and in front of the van.
I decided to at least let the minivan driver know that the world was upset with him, so I sped up into the right lane (after checking that it was clear, of course, and with correct use of my directional signal), pulled up alongside the van, and looked inside the passenger window to see two men, aged in their mid-50's. I knocked on the window while maintaining my position next to the van until they were both looking at me, flipped them off until they both comprehended, and then sped up to get the hell away from their vehicle of mass destruction.
Everyone, pay attention: Motorcyclists are highly vulnerable to the mistakes that you are too self-centered to care about making. Even a helmet and full leather body coverage can't save a life against being run into oncoming traffic, a guard rail, or the bottom side of your tires. They will be polite and courteous to you as long as you do the same for them. This includes crotch rocketeers, BMW road warriors, Goldwing tourists, and Harley biker dudes. There are exceptions, like the morons you see popping wheelies with their unhelmeted girlfriends on back or wearing flip flops, shorts, and nothing else as they cruise along the road (hint: your body doesn't care if your skin is one inch left of center or one hundred feet), but by and large a little bit of awareness on your part will make the world a better place.
I carry a gun in my vehicle at all times. In the event that someone crashes into me due to texting, applying makeup, or generally being an asshole who thinks that being the 90,001st car in line instead of the 90,003rd will get him to his destination substantially earlier, I will shoot him and claim self-defense, on the grounds that he was attempting to murder me with his vehicle.
The problem is that there is a much lower rate of "I give up, you retards won't listen to a word of common sense!" people leaving the group, having joined it for the sole purpose of telling the legitimate members "You retards are going to kill babies!" The same phenomenon occurs with the groups in support of boycotting gasoline for a day or boycotting one retailer of gasoline in order to force gas prices down.
You're right. Let's just hope that she is somehow, miraculously I might say, more responsible in her reproductive habits than in driving.
Text messaging is particularly dangerous because your eyes, attention, and hand are focused on it. My favorites are the idiots who claim "I can text without looking at the phone so it's safe." First off, even if you can, you don't. Second, you have entire conversations through text messages while you are driving, and I am fairly confident that you are looking at your phone to read the incoming side of those conversations.
Don't text and drive. Don't accept text messages from people who are driving. Tell your friends that you will not be friends with them if they continue driving intexticated. Steal and destroy their phones or car keys. Do whatever it takes to keep these truly idiotic losers, who probably suck at driving even when entirely focused on it, off of the roads.
North Dakota did not invade South Dakota! We were invited! Everyone had cake! We didn't even know that that particular covered wagon had a nuke in it! We swear!
GW has been under oath from the moment he took office. He swore an oath to uphold the constitution. He's failed at that. It's well past time to impeach.
You forgot something. Every member of the House takes the same oath to uphold the Constitution, and they are the people who have to vote to impeach the President. Guess who doesn't want to make failure to uphold the Constitution an impeachable offense.I don't get it. Am I supposed to think of the parents, or is this just another ploy to get me to think of the children (who are thinking about their parents)?
I also forgot, it seems, how to finish a thought. I was saying that I don't remember much from before the exam, including how often I posted on Slashdot, but I'm sure it happened with some regularity. So don't be afraid to say hi if you see my name and disagree (or agree, if that should happen) with what I say around these parts. It's good for your health and I'm not the prick that my personality and writing style make me seem to be. ;)
Likewise! And I'm glad you are not working all summer. You had me very deeply concerned for your sanity for a minute, there. My bar plans were as follows: study all summer, watching Jeopardy while I cooked and ate supper each night and watching one weekend show. The TV may make you stupider, but the mind-relaxing effect is very helpful to absorbing the bar. I made a point of studying in a few venues to keep things fresh. Home, coffee shop, undergraduate library, even once at McDonald's. We went on roller coasters one afternoon. Etc. The key, as you are clearly already aware and implementing, is to find the routine that maximizes your ability to process everything.
... hint: write your middle name, birthdate, and how to tie shoes on an index card and keep it near the first place you'll go after the exam): Make plans to have at least a day or two of very solid, very effective relaxation after the exam. I went to a rock concert. Just do something that you haven't been able to do all summer and which takes no brain power but makes you happy. You're going to need a serious dosage of endorphins to get you back to life after you get back on your feet after crossing the finish line of the marathon.
I also didn't do anything until I got my bar results. I accepted employment to start the day I became licensed to practice law, and just relaxed for the interim. I'm a healthier, happier person now, for it.
Side note, and then I shan't bug you much more (but don't be afraid to debate with me in the future; I don't remember much from my antebellum days, as I like to call them and as you'll find out this fall
I didn't mean to chastise or anything. It's just a matter of being careful with something very simple. No, you won't get caught. No, it wouldn't hurt you if you did. But the cost-benefit even with near-zero cost still weighs in favor of caution. Also, instead of trading in your IANAL card for an IAAL one, I recommend IANYL as being far more useful. You'll find that, after you're all barred up, you very frequently want to do things like post on Slashdot or write Wikipedia articles on things as interesting as the Fertile Octogenarian (which I rewrote once during a UCC Article 2 lecture that wasn't keeping me awake on its own), and what you want is a succinct but effective disclaimer. IANYL is your friend.
... I'm still pretty sure that I'll have to reduce my case load to go on tour any day now. (My tour bus will be a flying car, equipped with Duke Nukem Forever.)
New York didn't sound like a lot of fun to my friends who took that one. But still better than California, of course. Other things to keep you sane: Other Youtube videos from the Virginia Law Libel Show, especially the Negotiator and Old Ball Coach (although the latter is funnier for law students than law school grads; but "a firm that shall remain nameless... and Conley" sticks with me forever); Lolcats, and don't get into the law school kind - just learn to speak in Lolcatese as a general rule; dirty mnemonics (or "pneumonics," if you will). For instance, we came up with a great one for something, which I now can't remember but suspect was the list of things a court must consider in dividing property in a divorce, that started with "Father Charles Doesn't Eat" and became very offensive by the end.
Punch your firm in the face for me, for letting you work while you should be studying. You should be studying and watching one hour a week of Family Guy instead of 20+ hours a week of work.
As to the actual thing we're talking about, and to keep my comment remotely on-topic, statutory damages are available because of copyright law, and apply to violating a copyright. Damages for violating a contract, including a license agreement that is a contract, are separate and on top of that, as my admittedly-limited understanding of copyright licensing law goes. And no, it's not just about what you can argue with a straight face, but that's the starting point. You always want to know what a court and, if relevant, a jury will do, but I do think that courts will, generally, end up treating documents like the GPL as if they were subject to contract law interpretation and contract remedies, to the extent that relief is not afforded by copyright law.
Remember, this isn't about some third party suing for copyright damages. It's about actual damages that he can show (as I initially posited when I suggested the idea in my once-ever +5 Interesting comment, above). I am not copyright-damaged when Corporation A infringes Programmer B's copyright. I may, however, be damaged when Corporation A violates Programmer B's license agreement which, if it's the GPL, has me as an intended beneficiary.
Now, again, good luck getting any of this to turn into enough dollars to convince Corporation A to knock it off. But it's a possibility, and there are always outlier cases where someone has been seriously damaged and ought to recover something that's not de minimis. And if that happens, this is one of the arguments that a competent attorney would be remiss not to make for his client.
If you ever see it happen, though, let me know. I rarely hold my breath waiting for some thought experiment of mine to become reality. Except for that rock star one
You seem to have trouble distinguishing between racially insensitive and racist. There is a difference, although one too subtle for most political correctness shills to grasp. And that's the point I was making here.
Then you're not a lawyer. Don't say you are until you are licensed somewhere. You're relatively safe, because your disclaimer was right next to your claim, but still ... that's not something to be even remotely careless about. Of the bar applications I've filled out (I'm licensed a couple of places; didn't fail and I would encourage you not to worry about it and to just do your best and be calm, because the bar exam is designed mainly to stress you into failure and allow past only those who can handle the stress with grace ... but I digress), most ask whether your behavior has ever been "called into question" with respect to unauthorized practice of law. That's fairly broad, and it's better to be VERY safe than even a little sorry.
Your reply is very correct. There is more to a copyright license than simple contract law, but think like a lawyer for a minute: Can you, with a straight face, make an argument that someone who accepts the terms of the GPL, even without privity with the copyright holder if that's possible since that's the person who has to actually grant you the license, creates a form of agreement that has intended third-party beneficiaries under the relevant contract-law doctrine? I can and, as you know from your studies, being able to make an argument with a straight face is all that really matters.
Good luck on the bar. Where are you taking it? If you are taking Bar/Bri (or not, but you'll appreciate this more if you are), my advice is not to take yourself any more seriously than this: Virginia Law Libel Show - Bar/Bri.
I actually started talking about getting tickets for the Britney Spears/Paris Hilton tour before it was too late, but unfortunately my luck only applies when I mean it.
Facebook really went downhill when they started accepting members who had trouble with its/it's. (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)
Last year, in early March around my birthday, I was listening to a lot of Boston music for some reason. On March 6, I said to a friend, "I need to see these great classic rock bands before they all start dying on me." and found the tentative Boston winter 2007-2008 tour schedule. On March 7, Brad Delp took his own life. I also passed up on seeing Carlin about 6 years ago when he came through. I was a college student and saved my money for ... for what, really?
Granted, it's nothing compared to Hendrix or Janis Joplin. Talk about a narrow window of opportunity that you missed. I hope you've learned your lesson. I, of course, should have learned mine earlier - my boyhood musical heroes were Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens. How I could make it to my 20s and not figure that out, I don't know.
The thing about Carlin is that his humor had a lot of shock value, but it was all incidental to the humor and philosophy. The seven words bit would still have been funny if they'd all been words out of Green Eggs and Ham. "Rape can be funny" is shocking, but it is both funny and insightful first. The shock value is an unavoidable side effect of dealing with issues head-on. Most comedians now use shock value sheerly for shock value. "So, there I was, fucking this nun" is funny only because it is shocking.
Carlin was a genius. As to someone coming along to tell the system to go fuck itself, Carlos Mencia is the closest that I've spotted. Like Carlin, he deals with the things that you're not supposed to deal with. He calls a spade a spade, even if it's not politically correct to do so. The difference is that he has a lower standard to reach than Carlin because Carlin was just a white guy making a point. Try to be a white male and tell the world what Mencia is telling it - you'll be burned at the stake.
I don't know how Carlin ever got away with it. R.I.P., Rufus.