Some "anonymous cowards" make valid contributions, but others are annoying trolls. Would it be possible to assign them sequential numbers in each thread (eg "ac-1", "ac-2", etc, to make it easy for others to reference their comments? Even better would be for them to keep the same number is for subsequent comments in the same thread, but that may be more trouble than it is worth.
I favor freedom of political, academic, and artistic speech, but what real loss is imposed by an "invasion of privacy" ban on posting sexual videos of adults without their consent?
A search that solves a murder is ipso facto a reasonable search. (But if the warrant paperwork is defective, the judge, jurors, and appeals judges should be alerted and vigilant to the possibility of a frame-up.)
IANAL, but the legal term of art is "Giglio impaired": in Giglio vs United States (1972), the USSC ruled that prosecutors are required to disclose to the defence important exculpatory information, eg that a key LE prosecution witness has credibility issues. Will the names of these perjuring officers be linked to this judicial finding and put out on the Internet where defenders can find them?
The French political class probably hopes Google reacts this way, to leave a national monopoly for a French replacement. Congress should offer Google whatever support is needed to uphold the First Amendment rights of Americans in America.
David-- I sympathize with your line of argument, but are you sure other businesses and government entities predate the dairy cooperative founded in 1921 (Wikipedia)? It looks like the cooperative chose the "o" spelling because they knew "of" would put it in the public domain.
The towns in Wisconsin and Florida were named around 1950, by which time the cooperative's brand had saturated the country. Perhaps, however, the cooperative waived some rights by failing to sue the Wisconsin (and Florida) towns, at least for businesses operating near those towns.
Fleecing of Gringos for same activity as national oil company
Chevron was sued for the same activities that the national oil company continues to this day. Let the Ecuador government shut down their oil industry, and undertake to pay their share of damages to the plaintiffs. If they start to do this without deceit (i.e. clawing back the payments with taxes, reductions in other services, hidden kickbacks, etc,), then Chevron can start contributing on a proportionate basis.
Ecuador's government would reply that they cannot afford it, but that is the whole point: sovereign Ecuadorian governments made a rational decision to accept some environmental costs to get badly needed revenue they could not get any other way.
Appalling. If this benighted ruling had been in place 500 years ago, we would never have been able to recruit 100 monkeys to type out the complete works of Shakespeare. Or something like that...
US pension funds and other Chevron stockholders should not be fleeced by Ecuador for the same conduct that Ecuador's national oil company continues to this day. Let Ecuador shut down their oil industry and start paying their own reparations free and clear to the indigenous plaintiffs, and then I might be open to arguments that Chevron make a proportional contribution.
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To webhost-- number the "anonymous cowards"?
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Re: The Layfield and Barrett Effect?
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"Giglio-impaired" LE personnel
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Jeff Spicoli wants to know...
Does weed taste better with Panama papers?
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Re: Nuclear option
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I sympathize with your line of argument, but are you sure other businesses and government entities predate the dairy cooperative founded in 1921 (Wikipedia)? It looks like the cooperative chose the "o" spelling because they knew "of" would put it in the public domain.
The towns in Wisconsin and Florida were named around 1950, by which time the cooperative's brand had saturated the country. Perhaps, however, the cooperative waived some rights by failing to sue the Wisconsin (and Florida) towns, at least for businesses operating near those towns.
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Re: no changing of laws required....
The USA is already an outlier on bad patent and copyright law. The point of TPP in the USA is to make reform more difficult.
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Fleecing of Gringos for same activity as national oil company
Ecuador's government would reply that they cannot afford it, but that is the whole point: sovereign Ecuadorian governments made a rational decision to accept some environmental costs to get badly needed revenue they could not get any other way.
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Re: Absolutely horrible ruling
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