None of the three consenting adults has ever publicly said anything about such things being wrong.
None of the three adults makes their money out of being upright boring moral guardians.
So WHY the F*** should anyone care who they are?
Personally I wouldn't care either way if someone said such things about me, but I do believe everyone is entitled to a degree of privacy and these three seem to want that. Good luck to them. Move on and deal with something genuinely interesting. Courts not being American isn't a bad thing, the English courts haven't tried to impose the injuction in any other jurisdiction, they have weighed English law and acted on it. That's what they are for!
Personally I'm all in favour of free speech, BUT, it isn't always that simple. I haven't read the judgement in detail (my German's not that good) but have seen a few summaries. What the court appears to have said is that makind fun of Erdogan being an egomaniac suppressor of criticism and the free press, but it isn't OK to make totally unsubstantiated allegations of extreme sexual deviancy. This is not a judgement I would make but I can see it as not totally unreasonable. As Americans you idolise free speech. That is your right but many others around the World think of Americans as totally weird and stupidly childish for parts of your law and constitution. The glory of this World is that we are all different and there is no right answer, merely millions of differently wrong ones.
Why doesn't GCHQ start? How about they provide a special secure way for the House of Commons committee to access all of their systems and inspect everything they have done. All without any need to contact GCHQ at all, just, say, a signature from a Police Chief Inspector or above. Clearly from his reasoning he will be 100% in favour of this plan and as soon as his staff have designed the 100% secure way for us to check on them we will be happy to suggest others us it too ...
He didn't say all Christians were racist, he said there are millions of people who claim to be Christian but then display characteristics incompatible with that belief. He didn't say there are no Christians who get it right, just that many who get it wrong.
I think we've got the b*gg*rs there. Lets sue the pants off them for abusing the term UK. That's been the shortened version of the name of the country FKA England for over 300 years!
Well since Apple and co claim backdoors are impossible he had to install his own! Now if everyone would just forward all their email to insecure accounts how easy it would be ...
In modern times some words have altered meanings And ancient truths are now portrayed as lies. Before you read please check the writer's leanings, A journalist's a spokesman in disguise.
"Promoting Art" now means "Protecting Luddites" "Plain language" now means twisting every word. We have to bend to aid stick-in-the-mud-ites Thus copyrights and patents are absurd.
"The rule of law" was meant to help the small guy. To curb the bullies claim that might is right. But now it's there to find an easy fall guy And lay the blame on those who cannot fight.
We voted for a load of lying fools And now we pay for letting them change rules!
I have a simple solution. If you want copyright protection you should be REQUIRED to provide access to the material to legitimate purchasers in perpetuity. At the point you wish to cease to do so you must make the source code available and it becomes fully legal to use that source code to allow other legitimate purchasers to access their purchases. The same should be true of all software, keep it available and properly patched or hand the job on to others who will. That has been the rule for all other purchases since time immemorial.
Re: Likely the State of Georgia thinks he's a terrorist...
Every person ever born on Earth is brown Some lighter brown and some are almost black I've studied every city, every town And other colours' score amounts to jack
I've never seen a white man, that's a ghost, And purely black means you've been mining coal. So all that anyone can ever boast Is that they have a slightly browner soul!
The DOJ know that Apple cannot comply with the order, what is needed is for the few judges who actually understand to start acting properly and when the DOJ ask for an impossibility to call them out, require the presence in court of the official who asked for the data, and have him repeat the request on oath. Then jail him for contempt and ask for his arrest for perjury.
After a few senior official are shuffling round the exercise yard for a while maybe they will start to act their age.
What is a trademark? I had always thought a trademark was a distinctive mark or name used to identify a product or service. To be distinctive it had to be more than purely descriptive. In the case the alleged mark appears to have strayed into the area of a mere description, in this one particular case. It would be very difficult to see how his eatery could ever run a lumberjack contest without some degree of similarity existing to the Florida based company's shows. BUT THAT IS THEIR FAULT! They chose to put together the stereotypical name for a lumberjack with lumberjack shows. Was it foreseeable that there were places using Paul Bunyon in their name? Of course it was, was it foreseeable that such places could want to run lumberjack shows? Of course it was clearly an idiot at the PTO didn't bother to think. If there were any logic in the world the case would be slung out in the first 3 minutes, so I predict it will drag on for years!
I can see no legitimate reason for thinking that a selfie in a voting booth is "expressive" in any way that taking the same selfie outside the booth 25 seconds later. On the other hand people fought very long and hard to establish the secrecy of the ballot. That secrecy is worth fighting for.
This would seem to be a very silly judgment from a man far more intent on reading the letter of a 200 year old law rather than its intent and spirit.
However long reading of these pages has convinced me that intelligence and insight are rare commodities in the US judiciary, and I'm sad to say I suspect the same applies to judges all over the World.
I hereby make my version freely available to any and everyone who wishes to use or abuse it. As with the original it is far too trivial to merit any copyright protection!
Is it not time for a simple act of congress "The egregious breach of the constitution act". Imposing the personal liability and civil penalties on any official who blatantly abuses is or her powers in contravention of the constitution.
The only way to make people this bad think is to make their misdeeds hurt their own circumstances. It wouldn't need to be imposed very often by the courts to have a rapidly chilling effect on the nutters.
Then after this proves effective it could be extended to FOIA blockers
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Who cares?
None of the three consenting adults has ever publicly said anything about such things being wrong.
None of the three adults makes their money out of being upright boring moral guardians.
So WHY the F*** should anyone care who they are?
Personally I wouldn't care either way if someone said such things about me, but I do believe everyone is entitled to a degree of privacy and these three seem to want that. Good luck to them. Move on and deal with something genuinely interesting. Courts not being American isn't a bad thing, the English courts haven't tried to impose the injuction in any other jurisdiction, they have weighed English law and acted on it. That's what they are for!
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It isn't always quite that simple ...
This is not a judgement I would make but I can see it as not totally unreasonable. As Americans you idolise free speech. That is your right but many others around the World think of Americans as totally weird and stupidly childish for parts of your law and constitution. The glory of this World is that we are all different and there is no right answer, merely millions of differently wrong ones.
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Re: Is the judiciary a joke or a JOKE?
Government of the people, by some of the people, for some other people.
Until a few senior people in the relevant departments are jailed for contempt they will continue to treat the courts with utter contempt.
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This is a good idea ...
Clearly from his reasoning he will be 100% in favour of this plan and as soon as his staff have designed the 100% secure way for us to check on them we will be happy to suggest others us it too ...
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Re: Re: Re:
He didn't say there are no Christians who get it right, just that many who get it wrong.
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UK?
On the post: University Of Kentucky Battles Kentucky Mist Moonshine Maker Over Hats And T-Shirts
UK?
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Re:
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A Sonnet of our Times
And ancient truths are now portrayed as lies.
Before you read please check the writer's leanings,
A journalist's a spokesman in disguise.
"Promoting Art" now means "Protecting Luddites"
"Plain language" now means twisting every word.
We have to bend to aid stick-in-the-mud-ites
Thus copyrights and patents are absurd.
"The rule of law" was meant to help the small guy.
To curb the bullies claim that might is right.
But now it's there to find an easy fall guy
And lay the blame on those who cannot fight.
We voted for a load of lying fools
And now we pay for letting them change rules!
On the post: Important California Privacy Bill Signed Into Law: Police Need A Warrant To Look At Your Data
Re: Re:
A warrant? You're a terrorist!
I must insist that you desist.
The children that you'll kill this way
You've let the rabble have their way.
If acts like this can be allowed
All sanity's been disavowed -
Next thing you'll say "police should be
Required to function legally."
If we can't shoot men as we will
And snoop and spy, then calmly kill,
How can we keep the peace we should -
We can't be cops while being good!
I think that's better
On the post: Important California Privacy Bill Signed Into Law: Police Need A Warrant To Look At Your Data
I must insist that you desist
The children that you'll kill this way
You've let the rabble have their way.
If acts like this can be allowed
All sanity's been disavowed
Next thing you say police should be
Required to function legally
If we can't shoot men as we will
And snoop and spy then calmly kill
How can we keep the peace we should
We can't be cops while being good!
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Idiots always do this.
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The same should be true of all software, keep it available and properly patched or hand the job on to others who will. That has been the rule for all other purchases since time immemorial.
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Re: Likely the State of Georgia thinks he's a terrorist...
Some lighter brown and some are almost black
I've studied every city, every town
And other colours' score amounts to jack
I've never seen a white man, that's a ghost,
And purely black means you've been mining coal.
So all that anyone can ever boast
Is that they have a slightly browner soul!
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After a few senior official are shuffling round the exercise yard for a while maybe they will start to act their age.
On the post: Traveling Lumberjack Show Sues Wisconsin Lumberjack Show Over Paul Bunyan Trademark
In the case the alleged mark appears to have strayed into the area of a mere description, in this one particular case. It would be very difficult to see how his eatery could ever run a lumberjack contest without some degree of similarity existing to the Florida based company's shows. BUT THAT IS THEIR FAULT! They chose to put together the stereotypical name for a lumberjack with lumberjack shows. Was it foreseeable that there were places using Paul Bunyon in their name? Of course it was, was it foreseeable that such places could want to run lumberjack shows? Of course it was clearly an idiot at the PTO didn't bother to think. If there were any logic in the world the case would be slung out in the first 3 minutes, so I predict it will drag on for years!
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On the other hand people fought very long and hard to establish the secrecy of the ballot. That secrecy is worth fighting for.
This would seem to be a very silly judgment from a man far more intent on reading the letter of a 200 year old law rather than its intent and spirit.
However long reading of these pages has convinced me that intelligence and insight are rare commodities in the US judiciary, and I'm sad to say I suspect the same applies to judges all over the World.
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Re: Re:
On the post: Happy Birthday Copyright Bombshell: New Evidence Warner Music Previously Hid Shows Song Is Public Domain
Warner Brothers are thieves,
Warner Brothers are lying bastards
Warner Brothers are thieves!
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The only way to make people this bad think is to make their misdeeds hurt their own circumstances. It wouldn't need to be imposed very often by the courts to have a rapidly chilling effect on the nutters.
Then after this proves effective it could be extended to FOIA blockers
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