"because I am a gwon up and that is not how grown ups live"
Isn't being a grown up about the freedom of choice and knowing the difference of the choice. Otherwise yours is just another stereotype that we can do without.
"Why aren't Christians condemning these so called "Christians" who make films that do this? Where are patriotic Christians?"
Can't you tell, they're in charge. We have a whole House(congress) full of them. Now we just need an accidental nuclear strike, preferably from orbit, as an example of how these people, and their views, should be treated. The nuclear strike is overkill but it's also to get their families so these psychos can't breed thereby lessening their influence in the larger gene pool. Making example can be fun can't it?/sarchasm
"We might not know certain things about that material. It might contain signals to trained sleeper cells and for that reason alone it should be removed."
"What if" is not a good enough reason. Save your hyperbole for somewhere else. By your definition the first amendment is meaningless as everything can have a hidden agenda to other points of view. It's an all or nothing principle, shades of grey doesn't work well and tends to create all kinds of weaknesses and infighting often leading to the worst extreme. Kind of like the way we are heading.
"What to you think a "terrorist message" is? It's not a message on any topic by terrorists. It's a message which is terrorist in nature, or in direct furtherance of terrorist activities. Not just lampooning some lunatic belief."
What is hell does that mean? You just used terrorist to define terrorists. It's the weak minded mob that should face charges because they chose listen and follow not just the jackass manipulating them which could still be conspiracy and intent. Inciting terrorist activities is just as free as any form of speech since the slope leads to locking a guy up for saying "I'm the joker" who legally owns his guns but not taking any actions.
PS. I don't do citations anymore. You're on the internet, look it up yourself.
"That is all subjective. Calling the President a name isn't a threat, but it could be perceived as a threat depending on the context and culture."
Both this statement and parent statement about threats are irrelevant until acted upon. The law isn't supposed to have any role until an illegal action otherwise we start talking about censorship and thought police.
Are you fucking serious?!! By that definition you could be jailed for thinking inappropriately to the point of it showing. Anger is an emotional response not necessarily followed by physical violence which can have legal consequences. Anger is in itself not legally actionable.
"Free speech is the freedom to say what you want without government censorship, not the freedom to copy other people's works and not pay for them. They are two different things.
And when is the government saying you can't copy something not government censorship? Patents and copyright are direct violations of free speech as you have defined it as the government is censoring information, the content and reasons are irrelevant.
"The law stated that the new organism responsible of applying the 3-strike law (the HADOPI) should have written and published such specifications, but the HADOPI didn't (and they probably never will), and still pursued their prosecution mission."
Then the entire case and the law should have been argued and thrown out on those grounds. If that doesn't work the next set of riots should be after the rights holders, government officials who passed this crap, and the judges who didn't toss it out when it slammed into their courts.
"By that logic the entire Watergate scandal should never have been prosecuted - after all, it was just a simple office burglary."
You left out that simple office burglary was ordered by the president of the United States. Until Obama is directly linked to the copying of Romney's tax records they're not the same.
PS. This whole thing reads more like a way to manipulate the bitcoin market than anything. If they do have Romney's records they will most likely release them anyway.
PPS. No matter what else is going on it is definitely setup to be a popcorn moment.
"Mac is certified, official Unix. (from your opengroup link)"
Mainly because apple shelled out the money(lots) to certify it which is mostly about bragging rights. As it's an open specification, anyone can write their OS to match. Most *nix OSes follow the specification but most of them aren't swimming in money so they're not going to waste what little they have on what's little more than advertising as opposed to getting real work done coding.
"Samsung's case is not in ruins. There are so many errors that it is an appeal's dream.
To begin:
1. Prior art have been abundant, from Samsung and LG 2. The jury ignored the prior art as it was too tedious... 3. The jury tried to punish Samsung"
4. The case was held in Apples backyard, in an area funded by apple taxes, where apple is a major employer, in apple-fanboy central, in an area plastered with apple marketing for three decades, and in a state on the rocks dependent on apple's continued popularity.
With that much conflict of interest how could you expect the verdict to be anything else? Fact is the case should have been tried in the central or eastern US and if either one tries to build a data center/whatever within 500 miles they loose the case with a 50 billion dollar fine plus court costs. All it proved was a local popularity contest, congrats the home team beat the foreigners this round.
In all the/. posts I've seen over the last year very little has been said about this little tid-bit.
PS. Here's a question, if a jury is supposed to be filled peers of the accused, why aren't juries in corporate only cases filled with other corporations, that way they could lynch each other. Oh, and oversight that has terminal results(loss of charter, breakup, death of executives involved) for the participants for any malfeasance by the jury or either side run by an independent group custom setup on every trial.
"they just want to make sure he's not going to do anything stupid."
Except the law isn't supposed to be applied until after physical action has happened. Preventive detention is basically a civil rights issue and proof that the 1st amendment/bill of rights is in the toilet. He hasn't harmed anyone and having a big mouth isn't illegal otherwise most politicians, executives, talking heads, etc. would have been put to death by now.
How long till it becomes "we noticed you disagreed with policy so we're locking you up so you don't do anything stupid. Oh and don't worry about those wires running to your temples from the HV power supply. It's just for your safety." is normal.
Unfortunately much of the quoted has already happened. -- Rendition program under Bush -- arrests for photographing police in operation -- free speech zones -- preventive detention -- etc. -- etc. -- etc.
"It's the same damn thing, except Jews have the good sense to treat anything unlabeled as non-kosher, but anti-GM nuts don't."
Anti-GM don't have anyway to know that's relevant and useful in the store where they shop. What little information there is is non-obvious for economic reasons in favor of big business.
" a rectangular product shape with all four corners uniformly rounded;
the front surface of the product dominated by a screen surface with black borders;
as to the iPhone and iPod touch products, substantial black borders above and below the screen having roughly equal width and narrower black borders on either side of the screen having roughly equal width;
as to the iPad product, substantial black borders on all sides being roughly equal in width;
a metallic surround framing the perimeter of the top surface;
a display of a grid of colorful square icons with uniformly rounded corners; and
a bottom row of square icons (the âoeSpringboardâ) set off from the other icons and that do not change as the other pages of the user interface are viewed."
My god!! You've just described CDE on a monitor. Ahhhhhh!!!!!
"Incidents like Chernobyl happened due to cheap building and cheaper maintenance; the Fukushima "incident" happened due to a giant tsunami and record seismic activity."
NO!! Both happened because of mis-management, Chernobyl's management ignored design requirements and safety limitations and Fukushima's management were corrupt and cheap.
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"because I am a gwon up and that is not how grown ups live"
Isn't being a grown up about the freedom of choice and knowing the difference of the choice. Otherwise yours is just another stereotype that we can do without.
"Why aren't Christians condemning these so called "Christians" who make films that do this? Where are patriotic Christians?"
Can't you tell, they're in charge. We have a whole House(congress) full of them. Now we just need an accidental nuclear strike, preferably from orbit, as an example of how these people, and their views, should be treated. The nuclear strike is overkill but it's also to get their families so these psychos can't breed thereby lessening their influence in the larger gene pool. Making example can be fun can't it? /sarchasm
"After all, we have to appreciate the fact that the white nationalists likely perceive the pro-immigration message as a threat."
The US has those kind too, they're called tea party republicans/republicans (Hell, I can't tell the difference anymore).
"We might not know certain things about that material. It might contain signals to trained sleeper cells and for that reason alone it should be removed."
"What if" is not a good enough reason. Save your hyperbole for somewhere else. By your definition the first amendment is meaningless as everything can have a hidden agenda to other points of view. It's an all or nothing principle, shades of grey doesn't work well and tends to create all kinds of weaknesses and infighting often leading to the worst extreme. Kind of like the way we are heading.
"What to you think a "terrorist message" is? It's not a message on any topic by terrorists. It's a message which is terrorist in nature, or in direct furtherance of terrorist activities. Not just lampooning some lunatic belief."
What is hell does that mean? You just used terrorist to define terrorists. It's the weak minded mob that should face charges because they chose listen and follow not just the jackass manipulating them which could still be conspiracy and intent. Inciting terrorist activities is just as free as any form of speech since the slope leads to locking a guy up for saying "I'm the joker" who legally owns his guns but not taking any actions.
PS. I don't do citations anymore. You're on the internet, look it up yourself.
"That is all subjective. Calling the President a name isn't a threat, but it could be perceived as a threat depending on the context and culture."
Both this statement and parent statement about threats are irrelevant until acted upon. The law isn't supposed to have any role until an illegal action otherwise we start talking about censorship and thought police.
"Even getting angry is an action"
Are you fucking serious?!! By that definition you could be jailed for thinking inappropriately to the point of it showing. Anger is an emotional response not necessarily followed by physical violence which can have legal consequences. Anger is in itself not legally actionable.
"What'd the poor goat ever do to you?"
The nanny stopped putting out.
"What'd the poor goat ever do to you?"
The "goat" started getting headaches.
"Free speech is the freedom to say what you want without government censorship, not the freedom to copy other people's works and not pay for them. They are two different things.
And when is the government saying you can't copy something not government censorship? Patents and copyright are direct violations of free speech as you have defined it as the government is censoring information, the content and reasons are irrelevant.
"The law stated that the new organism responsible of applying the 3-strike law (the HADOPI) should have written and published such specifications, but the HADOPI didn't (and they probably never will), and still pursued their prosecution mission."
Then the entire case and the law should have been argued and thrown out on those grounds. If that doesn't work the next set of riots should be after the rights holders, government officials who passed this crap, and the judges who didn't toss it out when it slammed into their courts.
"I suspect he pays more in taxes than you, based on $$ amount alone."
So you don't know. More BS for /.
"By that logic the entire Watergate scandal should never have been prosecuted - after all, it was just a simple office burglary."
You left out that simple office burglary was ordered by the president of the United States. Until Obama is directly linked to the copying of Romney's tax records they're not the same.
PS. This whole thing reads more like a way to manipulate the bitcoin market than anything. If they do have Romney's records they will most likely release them anyway.
PPS. No matter what else is going on it is definitely setup to be a popcorn moment.
"Mac is certified, official Unix. (from your opengroup link)"
Mainly because apple shelled out the money(lots) to certify it which is mostly about bragging rights. As it's an open specification, anyone can write their OS to match. Most *nix OSes follow the specification but most of them aren't swimming in money so they're not going to waste what little they have on what's little more than advertising as opposed to getting real work done coding.
I guess no one actually does home finances or writes a letter to their relatives anymore.
All of which can be done on an iPad.
Or on a sheet of paper using a pencil.
"Samsung's case is not in ruins. There are so many errors that it is an appeal's dream.
To begin:
1. Prior art have been abundant, from Samsung and LG
2. The jury ignored the prior art as it was too tedious...
3. The jury tried to punish Samsung"
4. The case was held in Apples backyard, in an area funded by apple taxes, where apple is a major employer, in apple-fanboy central, in an area plastered with apple marketing for three decades, and in a state on the rocks dependent on apple's continued popularity.
With that much conflict of interest how could you expect the verdict to be anything else? Fact is the case should have been tried in the central or eastern US and if either one tries to build a data center/whatever within 500 miles they loose the case with a 50 billion dollar fine plus court costs. All it proved was a local popularity contest, congrats the home team beat the foreigners this round.
In all the /. posts I've seen over the last year very little has been said about this little tid-bit.
PS. Here's a question, if a jury is supposed to be filled peers of the accused, why aren't juries in corporate only cases filled with other corporations, that way they could lynch each other. Oh, and oversight that has terminal results(loss of charter, breakup, death of executives involved) for the participants for any malfeasance by the jury or either side run by an independent group custom setup on every trial.
"House Un-American Activities Committee meeting."
That's so 1950's. Now they just send SMS's.
"they just want to make sure he's not going to do anything stupid."
Except the law isn't supposed to be applied until after physical action has happened. Preventive detention is basically a civil rights issue and proof that the 1st amendment/bill of rights is in the toilet. He hasn't harmed anyone and having a big mouth isn't illegal otherwise most politicians, executives, talking heads, etc. would have been put to death by now.
How long till it becomes "we noticed you disagreed with policy so we're locking you up so you don't do anything stupid. Oh and don't worry about those wires running to your temples from the HV power supply. It's just for your safety." is normal.
Unfortunately much of the quoted has already happened.
-- Rendition program under Bush
-- arrests for photographing police in operation
-- free speech zones
-- preventive detention
-- etc.
-- etc.
-- etc.
"It's the same damn thing, except Jews have the good sense to treat anything unlabeled as non-kosher, but anti-GM nuts don't."
Anti-GM don't have anyway to know that's relevant and useful in the store where they shop. What little information there is is non-obvious for economic reasons in favor of big business.
"Etoille will remain BSD"
If it every works on BSD as I haven't had it work on FreeBSD yet.
"'Year of the Linux Asstop' doesn't have quite the same ring to it, though."
At least linux is watching your back whereas ios keeps tripping everyone up.
"All 3 of them?"
Ya! RMS, his beard, and his toenails.
"Right but the Ericsson was not a huge success it didn't change the direction of phones."
Irrelevant!! The Ericsson is just proof Apple wasn't first with anything for the iphone and its support structure.
" a rectangular product shape with all four corners uniformly rounded;
the front surface of the product dominated by a screen surface with black borders;
as to the iPhone and iPod touch products, substantial black borders above and
below the screen having roughly equal width and narrower black borders on either side of the
screen having roughly equal width;
as to the iPad product, substantial black borders on all sides being roughly equal in
width;
a metallic surround framing the perimeter of the top surface;
a display of a grid of colorful square icons with uniformly rounded corners; and
a bottom row of square icons (the âoeSpringboardâ) set off from the other icons and
that do not change as the other pages of the user interface are viewed."
My god!! You've just described CDE on a monitor. Ahhhhhh!!!!!
"Incidents like Chernobyl happened due to cheap building and cheaper maintenance; the Fukushima "incident" happened due to a giant tsunami and record seismic activity."
NO!! Both happened because of mis-management, Chernobyl's management ignored design requirements and safety limitations and Fukushima's management were corrupt and cheap.