I really wish people, and especially journalists, would not conflate terror and terrorist. They do not mean the same thing.
Terror (n) 1- intense, sharp, overmastering fear 2- an instance or cause of intense fear or anxiety; quality of causing terror
Terrorist (n) 1- a person, usually a member of a group, who uses or advocates terrorism. 2- a person who terrorizes or frightens others.
Someone might have a terror attack because of a terrorist's bomb, but the terrorist placed the bomb, not the terror. Unless Christie is suggesting that Paul address Congress about psychiatric bills for the sufferers, the headline is probably wrong.
They'll have a harder time of that because the 21st Amendment's section 2 and related case law basically gives states complete control over alcohol sales and distribution (but not of production- excise taxes, pure food laws, and all that).
The word missing in the discussion here is jitter. If you need 3mbps to deliver SD video (which is horribly compressed at that rate), that's all you need provided the packets always arrive before they're needed. With a faster line rate, the system can burst a series of packets and then go idle (so the client buffers a bunch of data), but that only helps for the size of the client buffer. Increasing the buffer only makes the system less sensitive to delivery jitter.
“Jordache” trademark for blue jeans was not infringed by manufacturer that identified its blue jeans for larger women with smiling pig and word “Lardashe” on seat of pants; striking dissimilarities in designs used in marks greatly outweighed any similarities, manufacturer intended to parody but that intent was not to confuse the public, and survey given by trademark owner did not demonstrate actual confusion.
I'd like to see the "Moron in a hurry" defense used in more summary judgement motions. Heck, should be used in more "You're kidding, right?" letters to clue-impaired complaints.
Exactly, It's pretty simple- if the government can find the porn, they also know what isn't porn (1 not equal 0). By that, it's a trivial problem to copy off the non-porn and set that back.
OTOH if they don't know what's the porn, then we have a prosecution problem.
The original "Riot Act" dates from 1715 (George I), and was read during/at the St. George's Fields Massacre (1768), the Gordon Riots (1780), and Peterloo Massacre (1819). Completely repealed IIRC in 1973.
About using cash- it's legal tender for -debts-, but you only own money to the store if they've already given you the merchandise. No merch. changes hands, no debt exists. (If the restaurant lets you eat before paying, there's a debt; if they want payment up front, there isn't.)
BTW, long time back, I'd give the RadioShack clerks the address "1600 South Beach St, Fort Worth, TX", which was Tandy's corporate headquarters. Only 1 in 10 clerks recognized it, an they just chuckled.
MS may have a rough road on this. It'll be very hard to argue that a seemingly-random collection of letters and numbers has any creative content (copyright), circumvents DRM (it's a KEY, it opens locked content), is a trademark, or deserves trade-secret protection.
If Roca made legal threats to former customers then waited 3 years to bring them up again, the doctrine of laches ought to apply and kill any possible actions.
Just like we have Godwin's law (As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1), we need to name the effect for how fast a variant of "Think of the children!!" will appear when discussing civil liberties and related topics.
We also need to say that Yes, we thought of the children, and they're irrelevant to the discussion.
"I'm calling to cancel my service." "Why?" "Because after (insert date) I won't be paying any bills I get from comcast." "oh, is there anything we can do?" "yes, stop sending bills. I'll leave the modem on the doorstep."
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and comes very close to, but does not activate, Godwin's Law.
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Terror(ist)?
Terror (n)
1- intense, sharp, overmastering fear
2- an instance or cause of intense fear or anxiety; quality of causing terror
Terrorist (n)
1- a person, usually a member of a group, who uses or advocates terrorism.
2- a person who terrorizes or frightens others.
Someone might have a terror attack because of a terrorist's bomb, but the terrorist placed the bomb, not the terror. Unless Christie is suggesting that Paul address Congress about psychiatric bills for the sufferers, the headline is probably wrong.
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He lost the argument early on:
Just like the lack of right not to be offended, AFAICT there is no Constitutional right to one's reputation in any form.
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Re: complete BS
OTOH if they don't know what's the porn, then we have a prosecution problem.
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BTW, long time back, I'd give the RadioShack clerks the address "1600 South Beach St, Fort Worth, TX", which was Tandy's corporate headquarters. Only 1 in 10 clerks recognized it, an they just chuckled.
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Children???
We also need to say that Yes, we thought of the children, and they're irrelevant to the discussion.
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"Why?"
"Because after (insert date) I won't be paying any bills I get from comcast."
"oh, is there anything we can do?"
"yes, stop sending bills. I'll leave the modem on the doorstep."
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The estate actually lost those copyrights some time ago, but it didn't understand or acknowledge that. This case simply confirms the loss.
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