As has been noted elsewhere, jurors are free to say whatever they like after a trial is over. The only issue here is whether or not he made those comments during the trial or after it.
If made before a decision was reached, then the defense may have a case, otherwise they don't.
This is really just a case of the defense grasping at straws. Once the judge sees exactly when the posts were made this should be over.
Sounds suspiciously like "separate but equal" to me. Accepting "domestic partnerships" for now may be the best the US can manage, but all it really does is push the issue of "marriage" off for another ten or twenty years as changing societal attitudes inevitably get to the point where some of those ratios change.
Let me just cut and paste from my response to the last time this came up:
Having grown up in the South, I heard this all my life. The problem is that when you look at the actual politics of the day, the only "state's right" that the North was trying to restrict was the right to determine whether or not the citizens of the state could own slaves. Other issues of taxation and economics all led back to the taxation and economics of that "peculiar institution" of slavery. This is something that most "real historians" that I've read have acknowledged. It's the amateurs that get to "state's rights" and stop there without digging into just what rights the secessionists were talking about.
Politicians in the South emphasized the "state's rights" angle for two reasons:
1) To help convince the non-slave holding majority that war was justified.
2) To try to convince foreign powers that the war was not about slavery.
even without this article, Yelp sucks from the perspective of a business owner. The root of the problem is that there is no way for a business to respond to misleading reviews. Businesses are barred from reviewing themselves, which makes sense, but there's no other way to post a comment other than in the form of a review!
As a result, there's no way to respond to information that is simply wrong. For example, if a reviewer says that a retail store doesn't carry 'brand X' when in fact the store carries the complete line, there's nothing the store owner can do to correct the misinformation, short of setting up a shill account and posting a new review.
No, we don't, but if you order a computer from a company like Dell you have no choice but to get a keyboard and mouse with it. Go online and try to buy a pre-built consumer computer without a mouse and keyboard: Dell won't let you do it. Buy it as a business computer and you at least have the option, but it's a $0 option, so you don't save any money by not getting the mouse and keyboard.
More than one place I've worked at had a closet full of mice and keyboards that had never been used. They came with newly ordered computers, but the users already had keyboards and mice that they were happy with.
I think that's more an issue of demographics. We're stuck with the music that the baby boomers grew up listening to at least until enough of them die off that they're no longer the largest age demographic.
When I was in QA, testing edge cases like leap years would be some of the first things to get added to the test plan for something like this. Even if the code responsible for handling it was from a third party.
Of course, the time dedicated to testing edge cases involving third party code would be the first thing cut by the project manager as deadlines approached.
I tend to think that's the more likely scenario here rather than the QA guys missing such an obvious test case.
The right to refuse service is not an all encompassing right. It has, in fact, been limited quite a bit over the years by both legislation and court decisions.
The sign above the cash register doesn't trump the law, and it sounds like the law in this case requires an establishment to not discriminate against a breastfeeding woman and her child just because the woman is breastfeeding.
Which brings up the question of whether if you were smiling or wearing glasses in a previously taken picture, and the software is incapable of dealing with that, will it now flag you as a possible identity thief when you go in to get your new license sans glasses and/or smile?
I'm a pretty laid back guy, but if I ever meet the guy who invented the clamshell package I'm going to punch him in the face.
My congratulations to Amazon for this effort, and I hope they can get more of their suppliers on board. I've made purchasing decisions based on the packaging before, and this will make me check Amazon more often when I make purchases in the future.
The "pre-order" deal at Target isn't actually a pre-order. You pay $1 and you get a box with a coupon for $5 off the game along with all the benefits of pre-ordering, including beta access. So if you don't like it then you're only out a buck. If you do like it then you can get it for $4 off.
It's no wonder governments so often get the worst pick of employees. Why would people with choices stay when they could at any time used as political pawns like this?
Yeah, because people have never been laid off as the result of corporate politics...
I've been an insurance adjuster. I'll trust the guy with the four year medical degree over the guy with a few hours training and access to a medical database.
Having grown up in the South, I heard this all my life. The problem is that when you look at the actual politics of the day, the only "state's right" that the North was trying to restrict was the right to determine whether or not the citizens of the state could own slaves. Other issues of taxation and economics all led back to the taxation and economics of that "peculiar institution" of slavery. This is something that most "real historians" that I've read have acknowledged. It's the amateurs that get to "state's rights" and stop there without digging into just what rights the secessionists were talking about.
Politicians in the South emphasized the "state's rights" angle for two reasons:
1) To help convince the non-slave holding majority that war was justified.
2) To try to convince foreign powers that the war was not about slavery.
It's currently just over 4.5 out of 5. When you use the actual proportion of users it doesn't look quite as clear cut as you'd like it to be.
So, if the average gaming group has 5 people (a number that's actually less than their recommended number of 6), then 1 out of every 2 groups is going to have a player that doesn't use windows (and that's not even counting windows users that don't meet the minimum CPU specs, which at 2.6 GHz is higher than most non-FPS games I've seen lately).
If gamers make the decision to participate as a group, and that seems highly likely, then they just cut half their potential market.
Actually that's a link to someone quoting a post not by Scott, but by Linae Foster, the other WotC rep posting on ENWorld about this issue, and it doesn't contradict the highlighted statement.
In fact, both reps have gone out of their way to neither confirm nor deny that statement, although Scott has indicated that he will provide more clarification today.
Both reps are being very cagey in their answers, and I suspect that the actual text of the GPL is not yet in its final form. This whole issue may end up being a trial balloon, whether or not it was intended to be so in the beginning.
Why? GenCon has had ten months to uphold their part of a deal which included donating proceeds to charity. If they haven't done so by now, then I'd say that legal action was the appropriate course for Lucasfilm to take.
Just because I might like going to GenCon doesn't change that.
A video game industry PAC is good for us now, and overdue for the industry. It means that they will have more clout in fighting censorship efforts. In the future it could be a different story.
After all, I remember rooting for the recording industry and their PACs back when Tipper Gore was leading the effort to censor music, but later those same organizations lobbied to get the DMCA passed.
Not everything that is good for the game industry is good for the gamer.
...and if all those stores carry are books that Amazon doesn't, then they aren't in competition with Amazon, are they?
A lot of the books I buy are obscure and hard to find, and Amazon has a better selection of in print books than any single bookstore I've ever found. I have yet to find an in print book I was looking for that wasn't on Amazon, but was available from a local bookseller. For those books I usually have to order direct from the publisher or a specialist distributor.
Out of print books are another issue, but that's not part of Amazon's core business, and bookstores that specialize in those aren't really in competition with Amazon.
No joke, $100,000 is no longer the break point between middle class and wealthy, at least not in the areas of the US where living expenses are higher. While my personal income hasn't reached that level, I know people with a household income that has exceeded that level, and I would not consider them to be upper class.
I've seen the "find a pay phone" comment a few times now in this thread. Have you actually tried finding a pay phone lately? They're nearly extinct in many locations because cell phones have made them unprofitable.
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As has been noted elsewhere, jurors are free to say whatever they like after a trial is over. The only issue here is whether or not he made those comments during the trial or after it.
If made before a decision was reached, then the defense may have a case, otherwise they don't.
This is really just a case of the defense grasping at straws. Once the judge sees exactly when the posts were made this should be over.
Sounds suspiciously like "separate but equal" to me. Accepting "domestic partnerships" for now may be the best the US can manage, but all it really does is push the issue of "marriage" off for another ten or twenty years as changing societal attitudes inevitably get to the point where some of those ratios change.
Having grown up in the South, I heard this all my life. The problem is that when you look at the actual politics of the day, the only "state's right" that the North was trying to restrict was the right to determine whether or not the citizens of the state could own slaves. Other issues of taxation and economics all led back to the taxation and economics of that "peculiar institution" of slavery. This is something that most "real historians" that I've read have acknowledged. It's the amateurs that get to "state's rights" and stop there without digging into just what rights the secessionists were talking about.
Politicians in the South emphasized the "state's rights" angle for two reasons:
1) To help convince the non-slave holding majority that war was justified.
2) To try to convince foreign powers that the war was not about slavery.
even without this article, Yelp sucks from the perspective of a business owner. The root of the problem is that there is no way for a business to respond to misleading reviews. Businesses are barred from reviewing themselves, which makes sense, but there's no other way to post a comment other than in the form of a review!
As a result, there's no way to respond to information that is simply wrong. For example, if a reviewer says that a retail store doesn't carry 'brand X' when in fact the store carries the complete line, there's nothing the store owner can do to correct the misinformation, short of setting up a shill account and posting a new review.
No, we don't, but if you order a computer from a company like Dell you have no choice but to get a keyboard and mouse with it. Go online and try to buy a pre-built consumer computer without a mouse and keyboard: Dell won't let you do it. Buy it as a business computer and you at least have the option, but it's a $0 option, so you don't save any money by not getting the mouse and keyboard.
More than one place I've worked at had a closet full of mice and keyboards that had never been used. They came with newly ordered computers, but the users already had keyboards and mice that they were happy with.
I think that's more an issue of demographics. We're stuck with the music that the baby boomers grew up listening to at least until enough of them die off that they're no longer the largest age demographic.
When I was in QA, testing edge cases like leap years would be some of the first things to get added to the test plan for something like this. Even if the code responsible for handling it was from a third party.
Of course, the time dedicated to testing edge cases involving third party code would be the first thing cut by the project manager as deadlines approached.
I tend to think that's the more likely scenario here rather than the QA guys missing such an obvious test case.
Except that there are such laws in at least forty states in the US specifically allowing women to breastfeed in both public and private places.
The right to refuse service is not an all encompassing right. It has, in fact, been limited quite a bit over the years by both legislation and court decisions.
The sign above the cash register doesn't trump the law, and it sounds like the law in this case requires an establishment to not discriminate against a breastfeeding woman and her child just because the woman is breastfeeding.
Which brings up the question of whether if you were smiling or wearing glasses in a previously taken picture, and the software is incapable of dealing with that, will it now flag you as a possible identity thief when you go in to get your new license sans glasses and/or smile?
Well, I bought one for my wife and I did get laid shortly thereafter...
I'm a pretty laid back guy, but if I ever meet the guy who invented the clamshell package I'm going to punch him in the face.
My congratulations to Amazon for this effort, and I hope they can get more of their suppliers on board. I've made purchasing decisions based on the packaging before, and this will make me check Amazon more often when I make purchases in the future.
They didn't roll it out to everyone at once. My account got the new look a couple of weeks ago, but my wife's didn't change until just the other day.
The "pre-order" deal at Target isn't actually a pre-order. You pay $1 and you get a box with a coupon for $5 off the game along with all the benefits of pre-ordering, including beta access. So if you don't like it then you're only out a buck. If you do like it then you can get it for $4 off.
It's no wonder governments so often get the worst pick of employees. Why would people with choices stay when they could at any time used as political pawns like this?
Yeah, because people have never been laid off as the result of corporate politics...
I've been an insurance adjuster. I'll trust the guy with the four year medical degree over the guy with a few hours training and access to a medical database.
Given the record of Berkeley residents in imposing their views on the rest of the US, I don't think you have that much to worry about in this case.
Having grown up in the South, I heard this all my life. The problem is that when you look at the actual politics of the day, the only "state's right" that the North was trying to restrict was the right to determine whether or not the citizens of the state could own slaves. Other issues of taxation and economics all led back to the taxation and economics of that "peculiar institution" of slavery. This is something that most "real historians" that I've read have acknowledged. It's the amateurs that get to "state's rights" and stop there without digging into just what rights the secessionists were talking about.
Politicians in the South emphasized the "state's rights" angle for two reasons:
1) To help convince the non-slave holding majority that war was justified.
2) To try to convince foreign powers that the war was not about slavery.
If gamers make the decision to participate as a group, and that seems highly likely, then they just cut half their potential market.
Actually that's a link to someone quoting a post not by Scott, but by Linae Foster, the other WotC rep posting on ENWorld about this issue, and it doesn't contradict the highlighted statement.
In fact, both reps have gone out of their way to neither confirm nor deny that statement, although Scott has indicated that he will provide more clarification today.
Both reps are being very cagey in their answers, and I suspect that the actual text of the GPL is not yet in its final form. This whole issue may end up being a trial balloon, whether or not it was intended to be so in the beginning.
Why? GenCon has had ten months to uphold their part of a deal which included donating proceeds to charity. If they haven't done so by now, then I'd say that legal action was the appropriate course for Lucasfilm to take.
Just because I might like going to GenCon doesn't change that.
A video game industry PAC is good for us now, and overdue for the industry. It means that they will have more clout in fighting censorship efforts. In the future it could be a different story.
After all, I remember rooting for the recording industry and their PACs back when Tipper Gore was leading the effort to censor music, but later those same organizations lobbied to get the DMCA passed.
Not everything that is good for the game industry is good for the gamer.
...and if all those stores carry are books that Amazon doesn't, then they aren't in competition with Amazon, are they?
A lot of the books I buy are obscure and hard to find, and Amazon has a better selection of in print books than any single bookstore I've ever found. I have yet to find an in print book I was looking for that wasn't on Amazon, but was available from a local bookseller. For those books I usually have to order direct from the publisher or a specialist distributor.
Out of print books are another issue, but that's not part of Amazon's core business, and bookstores that specialize in those aren't really in competition with Amazon.
No joke, $100,000 is no longer the break point between middle class and wealthy, at least not in the areas of the US where living expenses are higher. While my personal income hasn't reached that level, I know people with a household income that has exceeded that level, and I would not consider them to be upper class.
I've seen the "find a pay phone" comment a few times now in this thread. Have you actually tried finding a pay phone lately? They're nearly extinct in many locations because cell phones have made them unprofitable.