Let's say you and a group of your friends are ordering a pizza. You ask everyone what they want before ordering the pizza. Your friend Bob doesn't say anything, but proceeds to complain vigorously when the pizza arrives that it doesn't have anchovies, his favorite topping.
Now I think it would be reasonable for him to complain if he'd asked for part of the pizza to have anchovies on it when you asked, but he's basically expected you to read his mind to determine what topping he wanted. That's not reasonable.
In my book, you have a right to complain if you vote, no matter whether you voted for the Republican candidate, the Democrat candidate, Kang, Kodos, or anyone else. "Speak now, or forever hold your peace" doesn't just apply to weddings.
Assuming, of course, that the weapons being tested work as intended and don't have any side effects. I'd be especially worried about the microwave weapon -- what happens to the targets that have pacemakers? I remember seeing warnings in restaurants about microwaves being used, and I believe that's why the warnings are present.
No, you don't use D4s as missile weapons. You scatter those on the ground as caltrops, to try to slow down anyone that's pursuing you. D20s generally are the largest and heaviest dice in a set, so you use those as ammunition, unless you have something larger (a D30 or D100). If you're looking for points, though, if you can throw them straight D8s or D10s are best. You throw them with a corner (for a D8) or the point where 5 sides meet (for a D10) pointed at your target.
Restricting where someone can live isn't nearly as big a deal as locking them away. If the hearing has the proper safeguards (accused gets notice, rebuttal) then it's probably ok.
Okay, I'll file the paperwork to put every member of Congress, even those who don't live in and have never been to Ohio, in this registry. They'll get notified, so if they can rebut the accusation all they have to do is go to Ohio and offer a rebuttal before the court. While we're at it, why not include Bill Gates, the head of the RIAA, the head of the MPAA, and every Slashdot poster with an ID lower than 100,000?
Who cares if it inconveniences all those people? It's not like the court system isn't used to this sort of stuff... after all, the RIAA/MPAA uses this sort of "throw accusations at the wall and see what sticks" procedure all the time.
Or if she disabled her firewall and antivirus software and pulled an all-nighter surfing for porn and warez -- "I didn't delete my hard drive, it was a virus that I must have picked up somewhere."
If the ACLU or whoever they're representing is talking about illegal stuff with people overseas, then the government should probably be listening, right?
What if a lawyer in the employ of the ACLU is speaking to a client? What if a doctor calls up their patient to inform them of the results of some medical tests the doctor performed on the patient? What if someone calls their priest to confess something they've done?
If the government is listening in, and the conversation with the lawyer or the priest allows them to find some evidence that they would not have otherwise found, should that evidence be allowed? Should Medicare be allowed to use information the government overheard during the conversation to determine a person's coverage?
Yup. Light takes about 8 minutes to reach Earth from the Sun, and Voyager 1 is now out 100 times the distance between the Earth and the Sun, so it's an 800 minute one-way trip, or 1600 minutes round trip.
IANAL, but I believe he's going to seek an injunction against them to try to prevent them from releasing the game at all. I hope they call his bluff and go to court, where they can rip him apart (assuming they have a good legal staff) asking him to demonstrate his evidence of a causal relationship between video games and violence and prove that relationship. What we need is for Thompson to lose in court, so that when he speaks out in the future we can bring this loss up as precedent.
Make it interesting. Put a copyright notice prohibiting the RIAA, MPAA, and their agents from reading these documents at the beginning of the document. Make the documents themselves critiques of the song whose title is the title of the document. If the RIAA sues you, you reveal the contents of the documents. Either the RIAA sued you without even opening the documents, which would be extremely bad publicity for them; or they read the documents and violated your copyright and you can countersue.
A restraining order doesn't hurt them. Instead, contact your local TV station and ask them to investigate political telemarkers spoofing their caller ID. Some channels love investigating and airing this sort of stuff, especially if they support the opposing party. For instance, the CBS affiliate out of Hartford, Connecticut has an investigative team that deals with this sort of stuff -- stuff that's not important enough to normally make the news, but stuff that's interesting.
No, they will first sue International Paper, Bic, Dixon Ticonderoga, or Crayola. After all, paper, pens, pencils, and crayons can all be used to make copies of pages of song lyrics or a scene of a movie.
And why stop there? Since blood can technically be used as a writing medium, the RIAA and MPAA will soon take the drastic step of suing every person on Earth with blood flowing in their veins.
Of course it doesn't. The Stargate program doesn't exist; neither does Stargate Command. You're probably thinking of that short-lived sci-fi series, Wormhole X-Treme!.
Thank you thank you thank you. Why is it we collectively burst into flames when someone whispers wiretapping, but then spend countless hours and billions of dollars to send the government EXPLICIT information on EVERY dollar we earned, how we earned it, and often as not... how we SPENT it?!!
Section 8, clause 1 of the Constitution gives the government the right to collect taxes. It makes sense that in order to do so, they require some information about how much money you made and how much money your company made. Even if they didn't collect information from you directly, they would collect data from your employer in pursuit of their official duties.
So, by that logic, let's consider the following. Linux IS a competitor for MS in the OS market. The home Market as well as server. Linux is provided for free (most distros), and people can pay for tech support if needed. Given the knowledge of the user base, Linux stands to make a lot of money giving Tech Support (hopefully not in the form of "RTFM YOU N00B!"). Even if computers are not coming with Linux pre-installed, it's a free download.
So what's stopping people from doing it? Is Microsoft standing over every User's shoulder saying "I'll kill you if you download that."?
Nothing's stopping people from doing it. However, think of the newbie users who go to the store to purchase their first computer. They have a choice between Microsoft Windows, which most or all their friends use and which they've seen in TV commercials, or Mac OS X, for which they've seen on a few commercials and a few of their friends may be using, or Linux, which either a few of their computer expert friends use and have mentioned to them or which they've never heard of. Unless they've brought someone with them who has a decided preference for one of those OSes, which one do you think New B. User will purchase?
In addition, users have gotten used to plug-and-play -- if a piece of hardware doesn't work when you plug it it, even if it's not supposed to, users think something's wrong -- the hardware isn't working or there's a bug in the OS. Windows does this best (they have the marker share to encourage hardware manufacturers to test and make sure their hardware works with Windows), I think Mac OS X is second, and Linux is last.
Hmm... maybe "Everyman's Guide To Defending Yourself Against **AA Lawsuits" is something the EFF should put on their project list?
That would probably get them into legal trouble if someone used that guide and lost... given our litigious society, I can see someone suing the EFF for that. Maybe "Top Ten Pitfalls to avoid in *AA Lawsuits" would be better... "When the judge says that he wants to see form such-and-such by this date, make sure you do this and don't do that."
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Let's say you and a group of your friends are ordering a pizza. You ask everyone what they want before ordering the pizza. Your friend Bob doesn't say anything, but proceeds to complain vigorously when the pizza arrives that it doesn't have anchovies, his favorite topping. Now I think it would be reasonable for him to complain if he'd asked for part of the pizza to have anchovies on it when you asked, but he's basically expected you to read his mind to determine what topping he wanted. That's not reasonable. In my book, you have a right to complain if you vote, no matter whether you voted for the Republican candidate, the Democrat candidate, Kang, Kodos, or anyone else. "Speak now, or forever hold your peace" doesn't just apply to weddings.
This sounds familiar ... almost like some TV show has done an episode with that premise before.
Assuming, of course, that the weapons being tested work as intended and don't have any side effects. I'd be especially worried about the microwave weapon -- what happens to the targets that have pacemakers? I remember seeing warnings in restaurants about microwaves being used, and I believe that's why the warnings are present.
No, you don't use D4s as missile weapons. You scatter those on the ground as caltrops, to try to slow down anyone that's pursuing you. D20s generally are the largest and heaviest dice in a set, so you use those as ammunition, unless you have something larger (a D30 or D100). If you're looking for points, though, if you can throw them straight D8s or D10s are best. You throw them with a corner (for a D8) or the point where 5 sides meet (for a D10) pointed at your target.
I do not think the word "head" means what you think it means.
Why bring in users to show the "bean counters" that the UI is important? Challenge the bean counters themselves to use the UI.
Klingon doesn't have a general word for "battle", they have words for:
I'm guessing I know what you're pissed about in Vector Prime, and if so it wasn't Salvatore's decision (note URL contains spoilers).
Restricting where someone can live isn't nearly as big a deal as locking them away. If the hearing has the proper safeguards (accused gets notice, rebuttal) then it's probably ok.
... after all, the RIAA/MPAA uses this sort of "throw accusations at the wall and see what sticks" procedure all the time.
Okay, I'll file the paperwork to put every member of Congress, even those who don't live in and have never been to Ohio, in this registry. They'll get notified, so if they can rebut the accusation all they have to do is go to Ohio and offer a rebuttal before the court. While we're at it, why not include Bill Gates, the head of the RIAA, the head of the MPAA, and every Slashdot poster with an ID lower than 100,000?
Who cares if it inconveniences all those people? It's not like the court system isn't used to this sort of stuff
Funny you should mention Shakespeare and coding ...
No, Eureka is in the Pacific northwest, while Tennessee is in the southeast part of the US.
Or if she disabled her firewall and antivirus software and pulled an all-nighter surfing for porn and warez -- "I didn't delete my hard drive, it was a virus that I must have picked up somewhere."
If the ACLU or whoever they're representing is talking about illegal stuff with people overseas, then the government should probably be listening, right?
What if a lawyer in the employ of the ACLU is speaking to a client? What if a doctor calls up their patient to inform them of the results of some medical tests the doctor performed on the patient? What if someone calls their priest to confess something they've done?
If the government is listening in, and the conversation with the lawyer or the priest allows them to find some evidence that they would not have otherwise found, should that evidence be allowed? Should Medicare be allowed to use information the government overheard during the conversation to determine a person's coverage?
Well, sometimes they intend to cause an impact.
Yup. Light takes about 8 minutes to reach Earth from the Sun, and Voyager 1 is now out 100 times the distance between the Earth and the Sun, so it's an 800 minute one-way trip, or 1600 minutes round trip.
IANAL, but I believe he's going to seek an injunction against them to try to prevent them from releasing the game at all. I hope they call his bluff and go to court, where they can rip him apart (assuming they have a good legal staff) asking him to demonstrate his evidence of a causal relationship between video games and violence and prove that relationship. What we need is for Thompson to lose in court, so that when he speaks out in the future we can bring this loss up as precedent.
Make it interesting. Put a copyright notice prohibiting the RIAA, MPAA, and their agents from reading these documents at the beginning of the document. Make the documents themselves critiques of the song whose title is the title of the document. If the RIAA sues you, you reveal the contents of the documents. Either the RIAA sued you without even opening the documents, which would be extremely bad publicity for them; or they read the documents and violated your copyright and you can countersue.
A restraining order doesn't hurt them. Instead, contact your local TV station and ask them to investigate political telemarkers spoofing their caller ID. Some channels love investigating and airing this sort of stuff, especially if they support the opposing party. For instance, the CBS affiliate out of Hartford, Connecticut has an investigative team that deals with this sort of stuff -- stuff that's not important enough to normally make the news, but stuff that's interesting.
No, they will first sue International Paper, Bic, Dixon Ticonderoga, or Crayola. After all, paper, pens, pencils, and crayons can all be used to make copies of pages of song lyrics or a scene of a movie.
And why stop there? Since blood can technically be used as a writing medium, the RIAA and MPAA will soon take the drastic step of suing every person on Earth with blood flowing in their veins.
A series set in the Mirror Universe might be interesting ...
Of course it doesn't. The Stargate program doesn't exist; neither does Stargate Command. You're probably thinking of that short-lived sci-fi series, Wormhole X-Treme!.
Thank you thank you thank you. Why is it we collectively burst into flames when someone whispers wiretapping, but then spend countless hours and billions of dollars to send the government EXPLICIT information on EVERY dollar we earned, how we earned it, and often as not... how we SPENT it?!!
Section 8, clause 1 of the Constitution gives the government the right to collect taxes. It makes sense that in order to do so, they require some information about how much money you made and how much money your company made. Even if they didn't collect information from you directly, they would collect data from your employer in pursuit of their official duties.
I was wondering where the intergalactic Chili Cook-Off was going to be held this year.
So, by that logic, let's consider the following. Linux IS a competitor for MS in the OS market. The home Market as well as server. Linux is provided for free (most distros), and people can pay for tech support if needed. Given the knowledge of the user base, Linux stands to make a lot of money giving Tech Support (hopefully not in the form of "RTFM YOU N00B!"). Even if computers are not coming with Linux pre-installed, it's a free download. So what's stopping people from doing it? Is Microsoft standing over every User's shoulder saying "I'll kill you if you download that."?
Nothing's stopping people from doing it. However, think of the newbie users who go to the store to purchase their first computer. They have a choice between Microsoft Windows, which most or all their friends use and which they've seen in TV commercials, or Mac OS X, for which they've seen on a few commercials and a few of their friends may be using, or Linux, which either a few of their computer expert friends use and have mentioned to them or which they've never heard of. Unless they've brought someone with them who has a decided preference for one of those OSes, which one do you think New B. User will purchase?
In addition, users have gotten used to plug-and-play -- if a piece of hardware doesn't work when you plug it it, even if it's not supposed to, users think something's wrong -- the hardware isn't working or there's a bug in the OS. Windows does this best (they have the marker share to encourage hardware manufacturers to test and make sure their hardware works with Windows), I think Mac OS X is second, and Linux is last.
Hmm ... maybe "Everyman's Guide To Defending Yourself Against **AA Lawsuits" is something the EFF should put on their project list?
... given our litigious society, I can see someone suing the EFF for that. Maybe "Top Ten Pitfalls to avoid in *AA Lawsuits" would be better ... "When the judge says that he wants to see form such-and-such by this date, make sure you do this and don't do that."
That would probably get them into legal trouble if someone used that guide and lost