These publishers have to realize that if they are going to get paid for Google to link search results to their sites, then it should be ok for Google to charge them for including their sites on its search results. IE, you pay Google for including you, or you are left out. Yeah, and Google should charge double of what these idiots are asking...
Just get elected mayor or city council chairperson for a small town on a major highway and install a couple of speed cameras... Just dot your i's and cross your t's so you don't get busted like these bozos!
First, we take all the politicians out and shoot them. That will take care of most of the lawyers. Then we take the rest of the lawyers out and shoot them. OMG! Peace at last!
Adidas has very deep pockets. Instead of continuing to pay lawyers for this, just make the church an offer they can't refuse. It will save everyone a lot of pain and suffering.
One could think that the FEC would have better things to do, like cleaning up the GOP's racist voter-id laws and voter intimidation policies, than to kick humorists in the nuts! Next to go? None Of The Above!
I used to drive through Texas to visit family in Mexico (Veracruz and Oaxaca) as from Chicago where I live it is a lot shorter a drive than through New Mexico. No more. I won't be driving through Texas on my way back from Mexico at least. So, they will losing a fair amount of my $$ for gas, food, lodging I would spend there on my trip. I hope others feel the same way - Texas has become a Sharia state in just too many ways.
Security is hard. Good security is really hard. Just ask Bruce Schneier. It costs money, and takes a lot of time and development resources to get it right. Car companies, and others, are pressured to get these products to market quickly, so security is given short shrift, to the detriment to their customers. At the least, they could provide an OFF switch to disable all remote internet or other wireless access other than the hardware key that the driver has to have on their person in order to get into or lock the vehicle. I think I will keep my '99 Camry until it falls apart. 250,000 miles and it still runs like a Swiss watch, burns no oil, and gets 25 city and 30+ mpg on the highway.
Time to file a multi-million dollar counter suit against the company. I'm sure some of the better legal minds here can come up with some grounds for that.
So, if to the author the publisher is classifying each "license" as a book sale, does that mean that purchasers now "own" the book? Does the First Sale Doctrine hold here? Oh boy, some lawyers are going to have a field day with this one!
This is like telling me what I can and cannot have in my cupboards and fridge. "Sorry, but you have to keep that moldy old cheese and those out-of-date preserves!"...
Anyone who uses Windows systems to implement/control real-time or safety-critical systems should be sued for reckless endangerment! There are much more robust software systems for such uses, such as Linux RT, QNX, etc.
If Oracle succeeds in this effort to lock up the Java API's, then Java is dead, and they lose. Google is smart enough and has deep resources enough to do something else that will eliminate Java code from all cell phones everywhere.
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Killing a cop drone?
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Two way street
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Want to make a million$?
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Re: Just shoot them!
On the post: Backpage Kills Adult Ads On The Same Day Supreme Court Backed Its Legal Protections, Due To Grandstanding Senators
Just shoot them!
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Smart work!
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Makes one wonder
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Just pay them!
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Only a year suspension?
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Compensation
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Stupid is as stupid does
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Our tax dollars not at work
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Screw Texas
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It's all cost and time to market
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Not OK by me!
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Counter sue
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Sale vs License
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Rules be darned
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Stupid is as stupid does
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Java is dead
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