As much as I would love to see the circus of a libel case, can they still be brought to court if they 'printed a retraction', acknowledged their mistake and apologized? Granted so far it just seems they pulled the incorrect article and put up the correct one, but the Internet never forgets.
I have to wonder if she has a case for rights violations under the Americans with Disabilities Act. She claimed she had a medical issue requiring the TSA to treat her differently than the average Jane Q Public, and then when she tried to prove such they denied her the ability to do so.
Being a Federal Law wouldn't it go to Federal Court as opposed to something local?
I have no doubt that if it did somehow make it into law that the courts would slap it down so hard the late night comedians will be making jokes about it for years.
If by some chance it DOES in fact make it through and is not challenged and declared unconstitutional, I will then push to have the 2nd and 19th Amendments declared a Privilege that can be denied.
Unfortunately because she made the deal with the prosecution before it went to court and before a Judge.. they can write it up however they want. They don't need to prove the 200k and as mentioned on the release they don't say how much they took from her.
Many years ago while I was still in college I went to a Con that was being held in the Dallas Fort Worth Airport convention center and it was connected to the airport via a skybridge. A bunch of us got hungry and decided to go visit the food court in the airport so we had to pass through security. The guards at the x-ray scanner/metal detector had no problems with my bringing a lock blade fighting knife, but pitched a fit about the plastic disposable camera.
This was way back in the late 90s so there was little in the way of modern security theater.
An unlocked box of documents is in plain sight thus they can search it. A smart phone that has a passcode lock has information that is not in plain sight. If they have to get a warrent to crack a safe or locked box then they have to get a warrent to pass the locking code on your smartphone.
Well the difference is.. you actually named Mike Masnick. Someone very specific. The original comment doesn't name anyone, even if it is strongly implied. For all we know the original comment might have been miss posted and they were talking about.. corrupted hard drives.. or corrupted penicillin specimens.
Or in the case of someone criticizing something their government did, knowing that if anyone from said government finds out who they are they will likely face prison or worse, true courage.
So.. is the Apple logo Green.. Red.. or Silver or that really horrid multicolored banding from ancient times? They seem to like to change its color an awful lot. Also does that Chinese food company logo really have a quarter chunk taken out of it or is that a picture error? I really don't see how, if the quarter chunk that is missing is intentional, Apple can say the logos are similar as to be mistaken..
In the case of the cops and the civilian recording the conversation wouldn't they BOTH have the copyright to it? Same goes for the reporter who whips out his smartphone recorder. Seems to me that Bloomberg (as the party doing the presentation of finical data) could claim copyright because they also recorded it.
I'm not sure having a judgment that is being appealed to the next higher court should be published in this Register publication. If that appeal gets denied and the case dies then by all means, try and make that happen, but while action is still pending on it I believe it would be detrimental to the justice system to publish it in such a manner.
So they take down his stuff and as per their policy post the notice to CE.org. The guy gets all upset that his notice is on CE.org and raises a big stink about it. So to keep that from happening (and since it sounds like the guy doesn't want his notice on CE.org) they decided to hold off on processing the take down till he tells Google, "yes I understand that it will get posted to CE,org but take it down anyway" or "No, since I think it is more important that I not show up on CE.org do not process the take down."
Why does everyone blame the President when ultimately Congress holds the purse strings, which is the ultimate determiner if an plan or project is going to work?
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Being a Federal Law wouldn't it go to Federal Court as opposed to something local?
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If by some chance it DOES in fact make it through and is not challenged and declared unconstitutional, I will then push to have the 2nd and 19th Amendments declared a Privilege that can be denied.
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Blast from the Past
This was way back in the late 90s so there was little in the way of modern security theater.
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Look at it this way. CE.org is providing a free archival service of what has changed. The Internet never forgets.
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