No, calling a public figure a pigfucker isn't libel.
It's a generic pejorative term indicating derision, rather than a statement of fact.
It's the same as calling someone a motherfucker. The label doesn't actually indicate a statement of fact that the target has engaged in intercourse with his mother.
Nor does calling someone as asshole indicate a statement that they are actually a walking talking sphincter disguised as a human.
These are all simply forceful statements of opinion of the "I don't like him" variety.
The executive branch *does* have the power to break the law.
So do I.
So do you.
I think what you meant is that they are not exempt from observing it.
Sometimes the executive branch argues that a specific law allows an exemption for their actions.
That argument is either supported or not, before the fact or after.
Reasonable people can disagree about whether or not emergent circumstances justify an exemption.
In the face of an actual terrorist threat - say, a confirmed dirty bomb in a populated area - it would be perfectly reasonable to most people to take extreme actions to prevent catastrophe.
In such a case, I can readily see where laws against torture and mayhem would be determined by a jury to be not applicable in those specific circumstances.
It's risky to rely on jury nullification though, and that's way those in power try to bolster their case through legal gymnastics so they don't have to roll those dice.
I met a guy in a dark alley behind a strip club to buy a couple of non-lobotomized Linksys routers, since no one carried the good ones locally and I needed them immediately.
Or if you were, that you really didn't read the article.
Olin said interns make about 80 percent of a starting full-time employee. That comes to about $4,600 to $6,000 a month, based on pay of entry-level software engineers. They also receive a housing stipend and relocation costs for the summer.
or the summary.
paid $4,600-$6,000 a month, a housing stipend, and relocation costs for the summer,
If you did read either one, rather than just pulling junk numbers out of your ass, please tell me you weren't a math major.
I don't dismiss what you are saying, but I do suspect that you are over estimating the infrastructure capabilities in that region.
You can import all the tech theory you want, someone still has to carry out manufacturing processes to execute that tech.
I submit that inability to formulate certain materials would make that execution unlikely within the requisite time frame to avoid the temptation of one party to nuke a neighbor.
And what I am suggesting is to artificially enable the warhead, while retarding the development of delivery systems.
It's important to do this soon, lest the gap between the technologies close to where it can't be easily manipulated, and the opportunity for regional cleansing and re purposing be lost.
I'd like to see shorter copyright periods as well.
In order to enrich society, works need to fall into the public domain, just like all the other great works of fiction (Paradise Lost, Romeo and Juliet, Pilgrims Progress, Tom Sawyer, David Copperfield) have fallen into public domain. That's how you enrich a culture.
Wut?
You're saying these works did nothing to enrich humanity prior to falling in public domain?
Gosh. I guess I'd best stop wasting time reading copyrighted works and spend more time on the real literature that is public domain.
Perhaps we should take action to ensure that the regional players are able to advance their wmd programs at a pace outstripping their ability to use them effectively.
Producing a warhead is a relatively trivial matter whose only barriers are raw material and refining limitations.
If refined weapons grade fissile materials are able to flow more freely throughout the region, the barrier to producing warheads drops to the point that any good machine shop could build a warhead.
The beauty is that ability to put the warhead on target at any significant distance remains impossible - the infrastructure just isn't there.
By acting covertly to decrease stability a bit, we could easily create a situation where some hothead with nukes will lob one at the only target he can reach.
They'll nuke the whole region into a parking lot in a matter of hours.
Then - we can start work on making the area useful.
Does anyone do sodium in anything other than Fast Breeders anymore?
My exposure to actual practice is about 30 years out of date, but I don't think much has changed.
Liquid metals like sodium are used on Fast Breeders largely due to the moderation effect which water in the primary loop would cause.
They do have their own issues.
They are more expensive to build and operate because the primary loop is highly radioactive. Also corrosive. A primary/secondary leak becomes both more likely, and much more dangerous.
For that reason, water is used on almost all reactors other than fast breeders on both primary and secondary loops.
For those few FBR's, the liquid metal is in the primary loop, because obviously you aren't going to drive turbines with liquid metal, and driving turbines is what the secondary loop is all about.
Negative and punitive systems distort society. Some of those systems are somewhat successful and therefore tolerable. Copyright however isn't a success story, as it must be propped up at great expense to function in a marginal manner
Or just retarded?
I could read past the first paragraph.
Copyright worked well for generations, and continues to serve a purpose.
Are there flaws in it's application?
Sure - it could use some work in a lot of areas.
Saying it's an utter failure simply exposes you as ill informed and naive.
The whole idea of millions of people being criminals because they use internet is ridiculous.
Of course it is - which is why that has never been the case.
Copyright should be changed to make sure that there are no provisions making "default" uses like copying and distributing bits found from the internet illegal.
I don't know what you mean by "default" and neither do you.
Firing up a p2p client to look for music which you know full well is copy righted work is a deliberate act - not something that happens automatically.
Question to ask is this: if you find some work from internet, what steps do you need to do to receive valid permission to use and share that work on internet?
You already know the answer to this:
Contacting _all_ copyright owners of the work...
Yup - you know.
...is clearly not suitable solution, because finding them all might be impossible, and even if you find them, every one of them is unlikely to agree on your request.
So, what you are saying is that respecting the rights of others is too hard, and if the answer is No, you'd prefer to just ignore that.
There needs to be a solution where individual end users can be confident that what they're doing with the internet is legal.
So, what you want to do is make all infringing legal - neat - wish I'd thought of that.
Even web use (reading news sites) or publishing material that you created yourself is extreamly risky, because current laws make some use, copying and distribution acts illegal by default.
Really? Care to share an example of anyone EVER getting into trouble publishing something they created themself?
Everything you do on internet relies on copying bits from one computer to another, and the default being that this is illegal is not very good.
And not very true either. In fact, it's utter horse shit like the rest of your post.
A lot of people have made compelling arguments against copyright in it's current form.
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I think you meant Pythonesque.
I used to use that as a ring tone.
Now I use the "Carls Jr. - Fuck you - I'm eating" for a rt.
It was somewhat amusing when my phone started going off during a meeting the other day.
And that correlates absolutely with my own half century of observations.
I have yet to see a group of people having power where the overwhelming majority don't abuse it.
It's why I assume that any cop is abusive and crooked until proven otherwise.
I can't see how anyone can operate otherwise.
I guess its just comforting self delusion to think of them as public servants.
If the provider uses rot13, they can consider that good enough
Get off my road, you crazy vegans!
At least 75% of the pedestrians don't look *either* way.
The mouth breathers are of the belief that 8 oz of striping paint will stop 3 tons of Detroit steel.
absolutely nothing
He saw the letters DRM in someone's post and his brain crashed
No, calling a public figure a pigfucker isn't libel.
It's a generic pejorative term indicating derision, rather than a statement of fact.
It's the same as calling someone a motherfucker.
The label doesn't actually indicate a statement of fact that the target has engaged in intercourse with his mother.
Nor does calling someone as asshole indicate a statement that they are actually a walking talking sphincter disguised as a human.
These are all simply forceful statements of opinion of the "I don't like him" variety.
As such, they are protected speech.
It's not DRM.
It has nothing to do with DRM.
It was used previously in FreeToPlay games like 2moons to prevent cheating via game hacks.
It failed utterly in that regard and was dropped.
If Aion was relying on it as an anti hack measure - and "may introduce it later" - the game is already doomed.
It would take criminal charges, which requires that 12 jurors agree on a guilty verdict.
Given that it's a nonviolent offense, and that revoked immunity rankles a lot of people just as much as the violations, it's a non starter.
Even with a guilty verdict in a criminal trial, Obama would likely simply issue an order of clemency.
The executive branch *does* have the power to break the law.
So do I.
So do you.
I think what you meant is that they are not exempt from observing it.
Sometimes the executive branch argues that a specific law allows an exemption for their actions.
That argument is either supported or not, before the fact or after.
Reasonable people can disagree about whether or not emergent circumstances justify an exemption.
In the face of an actual terrorist threat - say, a confirmed dirty bomb in a populated area - it would be perfectly reasonable to most people to take extreme actions to prevent catastrophe.
In such a case, I can readily see where laws against torture and mayhem would be determined by a jury to be not applicable in those specific circumstances.
It's risky to rely on jury nullification though, and that's way those in power try to bolster their case through legal gymnastics so they don't have to roll those dice.
Possibly.
I met a guy in a dark alley behind a strip club to buy a couple of non-lobotomized Linksys routers, since no one carried the good ones locally and I needed them immediately.
Or if you were, that you really didn't read the article.
Olin said interns make about 80 percent of a starting full-time employee. That comes to about $4,600 to $6,000 a month, based on pay of entry-level software engineers. They also receive a housing stipend and relocation costs for the summer.
or the summary.
paid $4,600-$6,000 a month, a housing stipend, and relocation costs for the summer,
If you did read either one, rather than just pulling junk numbers out of your ass, please tell me you weren't a math major.
The Microsoft Way has never wavered.
You have to be able to throw yourself into the job completely and without reservation, even if that means self-destructive self-denial.
You also have to have talent.
Few people fit both prerequisites.
Those that do are heavily recruited by MS.
Whether you view MS as brilliant innovators, or as cutthroat criminals, they beat the competition every time, so their model does work.
I don't dismiss what you are saying, but I do suspect that you are over estimating the infrastructure capabilities in that region.
You can import all the tech theory you want, someone still has to carry out manufacturing processes to execute that tech.
I submit that inability to formulate certain materials would make that execution unlikely within the requisite time frame to avoid the temptation of one party to nuke a neighbor.
And what I am suggesting is to artificially enable the warhead, while retarding the development of delivery systems.
It's important to do this soon, lest the gap between the technologies close to where it can't be easily manipulated, and the opportunity for regional cleansing and re purposing be lost.
The Idiocracy is the natural order of things.
It's natural for species to become extinct over time, and gradually becoming too stupid seems to be our exit strategy.
Well, culturing species X the first time takes research.
The next time is just following a recipe.
There's this thing call the internet.
You should read about it.
Aluminum is refined from bauxite and takes a huge amount of energy to produce initially.
It is extremely rare to find it in free form.
I'd like to see shorter copyright periods as well.
In order to enrich society, works need to fall into the public domain, just like all the other great works of fiction (Paradise Lost, Romeo and Juliet, Pilgrims Progress, Tom Sawyer, David Copperfield) have fallen into public domain. That's how you enrich a culture.
Wut?
You're saying these works did nothing to enrich humanity prior to falling in public domain?
Gosh. I guess I'd best stop wasting time reading copyrighted works and spend more time on the real literature that is public domain.
Perhaps we should take action to ensure that the regional players are able to advance their wmd programs at a pace outstripping their ability to use them effectively.
Producing a warhead is a relatively trivial matter whose only barriers are raw material and refining limitations.
If refined weapons grade fissile materials are able to flow more freely throughout the region, the barrier to producing warheads drops to the point that any good machine shop could build a warhead.
The beauty is that ability to put the warhead on target at any significant distance remains impossible - the infrastructure just isn't there.
By acting covertly to decrease stability a bit, we could easily create a situation where some hothead with nukes will lob one at the only target he can reach.
They'll nuke the whole region into a parking lot in a matter of hours.
Then - we can start work on making the area useful.
Does anyone do sodium in anything other than Fast Breeders anymore?
My exposure to actual practice is about 30 years out of date, but I don't think much has changed.
Liquid metals like sodium are used on Fast Breeders largely due to the moderation effect which water in the primary loop would cause.
They do have their own issues.
They are more expensive to build and operate because the primary loop is highly radioactive.
Also corrosive.
A primary/secondary leak becomes both more likely, and much more dangerous.
For that reason, water is used on almost all reactors other than fast breeders on both primary and secondary loops.
For those few FBR's, the liquid metal is in the primary loop, because obviously you aren't going to drive turbines with liquid metal, and driving turbines is what the secondary loop is all about.
Negative and punitive systems distort society. Some of those systems are somewhat successful and therefore tolerable. Copyright however isn't a success story, as it must be propped up at great expense to function in a marginal manner
Or just retarded?
I could read past the first paragraph.
Copyright worked well for generations, and continues to serve a purpose.
Are there flaws in it's application?
Sure - it could use some work in a lot of areas.
Saying it's an utter failure simply exposes you as ill informed and naive.
The whole idea of millions of people being criminals because they use internet is ridiculous.
Of course it is - which is why that has never been the case.
Copyright should be changed to make sure that there are no provisions making "default" uses like copying and distributing bits found from the internet illegal.
I don't know what you mean by "default" and neither do you.
Firing up a p2p client to look for music which you know full well is copy righted work is a deliberate act - not something that happens automatically.
Question to ask is this: if you find some work from internet, what steps do you need to do to receive valid permission to use and share that work on internet?
You already know the answer to this:
Contacting _all_ copyright owners of the work...
Yup - you know.
...is clearly not suitable solution, because finding them all might be impossible, and even if you find them, every one of them is unlikely to agree on your request.
So, what you are saying is that respecting the rights of others is too hard, and if the answer is No, you'd prefer to just ignore that.
There needs to be a solution where individual end users can be confident that what they're doing with the internet is legal.
So, what you want to do is make all infringing legal - neat - wish I'd thought of that.
Even web use (reading news sites) or publishing material that you created yourself is extreamly risky, because current laws make some use, copying and distribution acts illegal by default.
Really? Care to share an example of anyone EVER getting into trouble publishing something they created themself?
Everything you do on internet relies on copying bits from one computer to another, and the default being that this is illegal is not very good.
And not very true either. In fact, it's utter horse shit like the rest of your post.
A lot of people have made compelling arguments against copyright in it's current form.
You are not one of them.
I've made final purchase decisions based on the number of flashing lights.
Mind you, it was a toss up at that point, but the cool lights have been the tipping point a couple of times.
I can't get away with flashy gamer cases with neon tubes at work, but I can use switches with maximum bling effect.
Note: Netgear consumer AP's with the disco lights are an exception - I won't allow them on site ever again. Too many people giggled at those.
It does require that IT people think differently.
I don't really care what other people think.
I am the center of my universe - aren't you?