No, because there generally isn't a bottleneck in federal courthouses. It's not exactly an airport, bud.
The best way, as demonstrated by the Oklahoma bombing, is to drive a vehicle in front of the building and leave it there. Much less riskier than actually walking into the building.
...in Oklahoma, where you must leave your cell with the elderly security guards and are required to have a government-issued photo ID to enter the court house. I once asked what the point of that was, while in downtown OKC to visit my mom (who's a court clerk) and he mumbled something about the Murrah Building. Which was, if you recall, blown up by a bomb placed in a vehicle outside.
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Why not preempt all the hassle by letting them know that they can borrow and reprint as long as they credit the source and link back?
That was the opposite of her point. I've done quite a bit of business design, and I always hesitate before using resources I didn't create from scratch, even if they were free and available for commercial use.
Why? Because they can always change their minds later, and even if a judge looks at my screengrabs of their 'IT'S FREE' posts, I still a) don't have an actual license in hand and b) we'd still have to hire an attorney and go to court. In other words, there's still too much liability for us, not for the original creator.
So I spend time recreating what others have already done and wasting my client's money.
You go where the audience is. I can stand in an empty field waving my arms hoping for attention, or I can stand in the middle of a busy train station and get on a soap box.
Regardless of where you're standing, you're still an idiot.
There is no schism there. Free speech, your legal right to shout your opinion from the courthouse steps, has nothing to do with Techdirt's right to limit who can post here, on private server space. You can believe in both equally without any contradiction.
The real question is if Twitter will shut down such a useful account. If they do, the usefulness of Twitter itself will become a question. (Or even more of a question, for the Titter-haters.)
How many people have actually read the official obituary, versus the people who read the free articles and posts about her death on the Internet in general? And how many people just read about it via a friend's status message on Facebook and never read any further at all? Do we need to create a micro-payment system for these enterprising Facebook 'reporters' as well? :P
Has anyone been charged with a crime for him to have allegedly aided and abetted?
Nope, nor do they need to. That's not how it works. All they have to prove is that SOMEBODY committed a crime and he helped them do it.
Legally, you can't prove that someone committed a crime without charging and trying them. So... I think the logic behind this type of charge is a little skewed.
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The best way, as demonstrated by the Oklahoma bombing, is to drive a vehicle in front of the building and leave it there. Much less riskier than actually walking into the building.
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This is already the case...
Which is still absolutely possible today.
/securitytheatre
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That was the opposite of her point. I've done quite a bit of business design, and I always hesitate before using resources I didn't create from scratch, even if they were free and available for commercial use.
Why? Because they can always change their minds later, and even if a judge looks at my screengrabs of their 'IT'S FREE' posts, I still a) don't have an actual license in hand and b) we'd still have to hire an attorney and go to court. In other words, there's still too much liability for us, not for the original creator.
So I spend time recreating what others have already done and wasting my client's money.
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Regardless of where you're standing, you're still an idiot.
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And thank God for that.
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A slippery slope to where, exactly?
Destinations aren't bad simply because they're at the bottom of a hill, you know.
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Nope, nor do they need to. That's not how it works. All they have to prove is that SOMEBODY committed a crime and he helped them do it.
Legally, you can't prove that someone committed a crime without charging and trying them. So... I think the logic behind this type of charge is a little skewed.
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And an awesome one.
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What, exactly, is his agenda?
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