The Internet missed its chance here..... can you imagine how the court would've reacted if it had received a flood of letters, all claiming to be the account holder for CallMeMoneyBags?
Critical thinking skills must be developed at an early age. And wouldn't you know it, we can point to one "mindset" in Education that destroyed any possible positive outcome in that arena. Yes, I'm talking about the 'No Child Left Behind' program. That and standardized testing, meaning that failures are not tolerated, literally killed any chance of teachers paying attention to those kids who might demonstrate an aptitude for 'thinking things through. Thus we see today an ever-growing percentage of our population consisting of adult-sized toddlers, some of them being orange in skin tone.
You apparently think that might makes right? I mean why would anyone who is for democracy write such an article?
Whoa! Stop right there, asshole!!
Apparently, you've been reading the Pledge of Allegiance a little too closely. For starters, a democracy means that the people vote publicly on some given item. In our case, it's mostly for representation in a larger venue. A republic is composed of those representatives. Do note the "re-" prefix before the word "public" - one step removed from the entire population doing the day-to-day work of overseeing the necessary details of managing a given society. It does NOT mean "give the public the finger after being elected".
So, as I see it now, a very large percentage of Republicans are doggedly giving me the impression that the Pledge is all about them, and nothing about democracy, i.e. Democrats. I'm beginning to suspect some cherry-picking going on here, and not all of it is being made palatable to those of us with an inquisitive minds.
tl;dr:
Shut the fuck up with your crap, all you're doing is heading down Koby-lane, the road where I automatically flag you no matter what you say. You've demonstrated completely and unalterably that you have no desire to make Mrs. Johnson, your 5th grade teacher, proud of you for showing initiative in doing your own homework. Blind copying of someone else's work will just get you sent to detention all that much more quickly. Asshole.
"Stolen" documents? No problems with rifling through student or personnel records? Sounds to me like someone was obtaining exactly what they were looking for, i.e. research papers. Let me remind you that even if this is a private school, which also receives a lot of government funding for research, public universities are completely beholden to the taxpayers of this country. I dare you to find, and share with us, any privately donated funds at your school that are earmarked by the donor to support some specific research project.... I'll be right here, and I've brought along a sack lunch, so take your time.
If I had to guess, I'd posit that a Gestapo-like presence was brought to bear on the credential-owner in question, who in turn felt compelled to say that his/her ID had been stolen.
But besides all of that, I have one question: you've made a generalized accusation... do you have proof that you are willing to share with us? Because if not, then I am obligated to remind you of the meme:
Pix, or it didn't happen.
EDIT: Just before hitting the Submit button, I realized that I have made the rash assumption that you are attending an American school. If I'm wrong about that, I apologize.
They're calling him 'smart', because they wish they'd thought of it first.
Think about it - you're a lawyer, and you know this won't work, but you also know that you've just gotten a nice, fat retainer. Are you really gonna tell them that this won't work? No, you'll let the judge do the dirty work of disabusing them of that notion, whereupon you can say that you gave it your best shot, and you get to keep the money.
Second rule of lawyerdom - if the client has money, then he's never wrong!
(If I have to tell you what the first rule is, you haven't been paying attention.)
If you want the research done quickly and correctly, then all you need to do is contact your local chapter of MADD. (For those of you outside of the US, that's Mothers Against Drunk Drivers.) They have a great deal of experience in keeping tabs on judges who let drunk drivers go with nothing more than a small fine and some probation. They also track habitual offenders, and they don't pull punches when it comes to identifying theses perpetrators.
I personally know only one such researcher, and she's a real pistol, as the saying goes. She doesn't show up in court, she just supplies the info to others, some of whom are prosecutors. It's amazing how the fatalities caused by drunk drivers has decreased in the last 20 years. It's still too high, but nothing comes easy in this world.
Aside from the "tortious intereference with a legal business method" that will inevitably come before the courts, there are also a raft of non-profit websites that already depend on donations, with or without ads. Making them go 'paywall' just because they share user-generated content will almost certainly spell their doom from a public point of view. Plus, I'm pretty certain that the IRS would have something to say about how, and for what purposes, they receive income of this nature. That may kill them off even more quickly.
It's highly unlikely that any of the proposed changes to 230 will be reconciled with IRS laws vis-a-vis NPO's, and thus I foresee another host of lawsuits in this realm.
(Disclosure: I am on the BoD for a small, low-profile animal shelter. Personal agenda proposals like Bakers that are so poorly thought out are of great concern to me.)
In total, YouTube's algorithms processed 729.3 million copyright actions in the first half of 2021. Virtually no humans were involved, unless a shamefully wrong take-down was publicized...
People tend to forget that where a computer can multiply the effectiveness of a human's actions, it can also indiscriminately multiply a human's mistakes. The problem with algorithms (generalized to 1st generation AI) is that they can't be "taught" the difference between morality, ethics and lawfulness. What's happening here, with algorithms, is that they are taught "business rules", and nothing else. In programmer's parlance, it's a "if/then/else" treatment of a given set of parameters. From our standpoint, we aren't getting the "else" condition, we're seeing only "if/then" and no room was made for anything else. I call that a "world of black and white, where's less than zero thought given to the real world that is full of color".
But cheer up! By the time your grandkids are dead and gone, AI v.14 should be about ready for release to the public. And it might finally get it right, who knows?
No, Karl has it correct. The intent of the sentence was to say that the government would come down hard on Dish for missing the milestones, and thus they would continue to falter, ultimately face-planting even sooner than projected. You can be sure that the Big 3 would be right there in everyone's face, jumping up and down about how Dish needs to be penalized heavily for missing those deadlines.... "because you always keep hitting us hard when we screw up, so Dish needs to be hit hard, too".
The difference will be in the percentage of available cash in the bank that backs the check written to the gov't - the Big 3 can afford almost anything in the numbers we've seen over the past 5 decades, whereas Dish will likely be FUBAR'ed into the trash heap of history. You do recall that investors abhor losers, yes?
AC, your observations about the influence of the internet are correct as far as they go, but there is one factor you didn't mention, and it's the driving force behind the retailers' lament - prices.
The retailers don't care if an online store is defrauded (unless it's an arm of their own brand), but what they're upset about is that anyone can see an item for less money at Amazon, eBay, etc. In turn, they can easily come to feel that the brick-and-mortar store is ripping them off. At that moment, they think "tit for tat", and the rest is a news story, with film at 11. And a contribution to the pile of statistics that are at the core of this thread.
I am compelled to remind everyone that there 3 kinds of falsehoods - lies, damned lies, and statistics. ;)
Besides which, the Supremes can't remove a sitting Federal judge anyway. That duty lies within the provenance of the House of Representatives to impeach, and the Senate to try the person.
That's not to say that they couldn't hound the "cracked" person off of the bench with reversal after reversal, and possibly a "hint" that makes it's way over to Congress....
Re: Re: BUT no problem w gov't taking my body to inject an exper
Where the fuck do you live where you've been locked down for 15 months? I can understand why you've lost your mind isolating yourself for that long...
I think it's sufficiently obvious that we can now assume that a long-enough lock-down period results in masturbation of the highest order, and that hairy palms have been replaced with a lifetime membership in the Poster Boy Club for proving that the Dunning-Kruger effect is alive and well.
That is, well on its way to taking down our democracy.
What you just saw as an abhorrent abuse of electrons, and a guaranteed waste of server storage space. Or possibly it was an illustration of what happens when you don't make it through grade school. Come to that, not much difference between the two, eh?
... fashion magazines ... were to blame for ... grunge music.
Fashion magazines were responsible for grunge music? And all this time I'd been thinking that it was just Seattle suffering from a severe case of upset bowels. Well, fuck me to tears. Seems like just about every day I learn that something I thought was Gospel, really wasn't true at all. Go figure.
Re: Doesn’t he realize that it’s all just a grift?
Does he seriously believe that he’s going to make any money from this? From Trump of all people? I hope he’s not an investor too.
As a farmer alongside of "his" people, he knows that he'll be sitting pretty with this move. And I do hope that he's invested heavily, as that'll be just so much money less he'll have for a defense.
Not to mention the investigations. As CEO, they’re his problem to deal with? Even for Nunes, this is an extremely strange move.
It would be for anyone who isn't addle-pated, you're correct. But obviously you are not of the medical persuasion, or you'd have noted long that this man is second only to #45 in obvious clinical-grade self-delusions.
Who's making book on how long he lasts? I've got a portrait of Ben Franklin that says he'll be gone before Easter. An extra C-note that says he'll take whining to a whole new level, trying to get back into his old seat in the House.
On the post: Court Orders Twitter Reveal Anonymous Tweeter Over Sketchy Copyright Claim, Because That Tweeter Won't Show Up In Court
The Internet missed its chance here..... can you imagine how the court would've reacted if it had received a flood of letters, all claiming to be the account holder for CallMeMoneyBags?
On the post: Top Disney Lawyer To Become Top Copyright Office Lawyer, Because Who Cares About The Public Interest?
Re: same old song
Critical thinking skills must be developed at an early age. And wouldn't you know it, we can point to one "mindset" in Education that destroyed any possible positive outcome in that arena. Yes, I'm talking about the 'No Child Left Behind' program. That and standardized testing, meaning that failures are not tolerated, literally killed any chance of teachers paying attention to those kids who might demonstrate an aptitude for 'thinking things through. Thus we see today an ever-growing percentage of our population consisting of adult-sized toddlers, some of them being orange in skin tone.
On the post: Norton 360 Now Comes With Crypto Mining Capabilities And Sketchy Removal Process
Re:
Symantec - ridding itself of those pesky subscription revenue streams, one customer at a time.
On the post: Federal Court Tells Proud Boys Defendants That Raiding The Capitol Building Isn't Covered By The First Amendment
Re: Say What?
Whoa! Stop right there, asshole!!
Apparently, you've been reading the Pledge of Allegiance a little too closely. For starters, a democracy means that the people vote publicly on some given item. In our case, it's mostly for representation in a larger venue. A republic is composed of those representatives. Do note the "re-" prefix before the word "public" - one step removed from the entire population doing the day-to-day work of overseeing the necessary details of managing a given society. It does NOT mean "give the public the finger after being elected".
So, as I see it now, a very large percentage of Republicans are doggedly giving me the impression that the Pledge is all about them, and nothing about democracy, i.e. Democrats. I'm beginning to suspect some cherry-picking going on here, and not all of it is being made palatable to those of us with an inquisitive minds.
tl;dr:
Shut the fuck up with your crap, all you're doing is heading down Koby-lane, the road where I automatically flag you no matter what you say. You've demonstrated completely and unalterably that you have no desire to make Mrs. Johnson, your 5th grade teacher, proud of you for showing initiative in doing your own homework. Blind copying of someone else's work will just get you sent to detention all that much more quickly. Asshole.
On the post: Sci-Hub's Creator Thinks Academic Publishers, Not Her Site, Are The Real Threat To Science, And Says: 'Any Law Against Knowledge Is Fundamentally Unjust'
Re:
"Stolen" documents? No problems with rifling through student or personnel records? Sounds to me like someone was obtaining exactly what they were looking for, i.e. research papers. Let me remind you that even if this is a private school, which also receives a lot of government funding for research, public universities are completely beholden to the taxpayers of this country. I dare you to find, and share with us, any privately donated funds at your school that are earmarked by the donor to support some specific research project.... I'll be right here, and I've brought along a sack lunch, so take your time.
If I had to guess, I'd posit that a Gestapo-like presence was brought to bear on the credential-owner in question, who in turn felt compelled to say that his/her ID had been stolen.
But besides all of that, I have one question: you've made a generalized accusation... do you have proof that you are willing to share with us? Because if not, then I am obligated to remind you of the meme:
EDIT: Just before hitting the Submit button, I realized that I have made the rash assumption that you are attending an American school. If I'm wrong about that, I apologize.
On the post: Federal Court Tells Proud Boys Defendants That Raiding The Capitol Building Isn't Covered By The First Amendment
Re:
They're calling him 'smart', because they wish they'd thought of it first.
Think about it - you're a lawyer, and you know this won't work, but you also know that you've just gotten a nice, fat retainer. Are you really gonna tell them that this won't work? No, you'll let the judge do the dirty work of disabusing them of that notion, whereupon you can say that you gave it your best shot, and you get to keep the money.
Second rule of lawyerdom - if the client has money, then he's never wrong!
(If I have to tell you what the first rule is, you haven't been paying attention.)
On the post: US Courts Realizing They Have A Judge Alan Albright Sized Problem In Waco
Re: Crimes of omission
If you want the research done quickly and correctly, then all you need to do is contact your local chapter of MADD. (For those of you outside of the US, that's Mothers Against Drunk Drivers.) They have a great deal of experience in keeping tabs on judges who let drunk drivers go with nothing more than a small fine and some probation. They also track habitual offenders, and they don't pull punches when it comes to identifying theses perpetrators.
I personally know only one such researcher, and she's a real pistol, as the saying goes. She doesn't show up in court, she just supplies the info to others, some of whom are prosecutors. It's amazing how the fatalities caused by drunk drivers has decreased in the last 20 years. It's still too high, but nothing comes easy in this world.
On the post: Missouri Governor Still Expects Journalists To Be Prosecuted For Showing How His Admin Leaked Teacher Social Security Numbers
Re: Re: Re: The memo you didn't get....
That particular memo laid out two rules:
No sitting politician of the Republican party shall be fined for any reason.
Please try to keep up with current affairs, they're important.
On the post: Those Who Don't Understand Section 230 Are Doomed To Repeal It
Re:
Aside from the "tortious intereference with a legal business method" that will inevitably come before the courts, there are also a raft of non-profit websites that already depend on donations, with or without ads. Making them go 'paywall' just because they share user-generated content will almost certainly spell their doom from a public point of view. Plus, I'm pretty certain that the IRS would have something to say about how, and for what purposes, they receive income of this nature. That may kill them off even more quickly.
It's highly unlikely that any of the proposed changes to 230 will be reconciled with IRS laws vis-a-vis NPO's, and thus I foresee another host of lawsuits in this realm.
(Disclosure: I am on the BoD for a small, low-profile animal shelter. Personal agenda proposals like Bakers that are so poorly thought out are of great concern to me.)
On the post: The Copyright Industry Wants Everything Filtered As It Is Uploaded; Here's Why That Will Be A Disaster
Re: Slight Correction....
That should've read:
People tend to forget that where a computer can multiply the effectiveness of a human's actions, it can also indiscriminately multiply a human's mistakes. The problem with algorithms (generalized to 1st generation AI) is that they can't be "taught" the difference between morality, ethics and lawfulness. What's happening here, with algorithms, is that they are taught "business rules", and nothing else. In programmer's parlance, it's a "if/then/else" treatment of a given set of parameters. From our standpoint, we aren't getting the "else" condition, we're seeing only "if/then" and no room was made for anything else. I call that a "world of black and white, where's less than zero thought given to the real world that is full of color".
But cheer up! By the time your grandkids are dead and gone, AI v.14 should be about ready for release to the public. And it might finally get it right, who knows?
On the post: Dish's Hyped 5G Network (And 'Fix' For T-Mobile/Sprint Merger) Is Looking Rather Skimpy
Re: Missing word?
No, Karl has it correct. The intent of the sentence was to say that the government would come down hard on Dish for missing the milestones, and thus they would continue to falter, ultimately face-planting even sooner than projected. You can be sure that the Big 3 would be right there in everyone's face, jumping up and down about how Dish needs to be penalized heavily for missing those deadlines.... "because you always keep hitting us hard when we screw up, so Dish needs to be hit hard, too".
The difference will be in the percentage of available cash in the bank that backs the check written to the gov't - the Big 3 can afford almost anything in the numbers we've seen over the past 5 decades, whereas Dish will likely be FUBAR'ed into the trash heap of history. You do recall that investors abhor losers, yes?
On the post: Retailers Are Blaming The Internet For A Retail Theft Surge That Might Not Be Happening; Media Is Helping Them Out
Re: In New York City it is real
AC, your observations about the influence of the internet are correct as far as they go, but there is one factor you didn't mention, and it's the driving force behind the retailers' lament - prices.
The retailers don't care if an online store is defrauded (unless it's an arm of their own brand), but what they're upset about is that anyone can see an item for less money at Amazon, eBay, etc. In turn, they can easily come to feel that the brick-and-mortar store is ripping them off. At that moment, they think "tit for tat", and the rest is a news story, with film at 11. And a contribution to the pile of statistics that are at the core of this thread.
I am compelled to remind everyone that there 3 kinds of falsehoods - lies, damned lies, and statistics. ;)
On the post: Confused Judge Grants Project Veritas' Prior Restraint Against The NY Times
Re: Re: Re:
Besides which, the Supremes can't remove a sitting Federal judge anyway. That duty lies within the provenance of the House of Representatives to impeach, and the Senate to try the person.
That's not to say that they couldn't hound the "cracked" person off of the bench with reversal after reversal, and possibly a "hint" that makes it's way over to Congress....
On the post: Federal Court Says Destroying Someone's House To Apprehend A Fugitive Might Be A Constitutional Violation
Re: Re: BUT no problem w gov't taking my body to inject an exper
I think it's sufficiently obvious that we can now assume that a long-enough lock-down period results in masturbation of the highest order, and that hairy palms have been replaced with a lifetime membership in the Poster Boy Club for proving that the Dunning-Kruger effect is alive and well.
That is, well on its way to taking down our democracy.
On the post: Judge Albright Names Lawyer For Patent Trolls As New Magistrate Judge For Waco
Re:
You're forgetting the kickback to the judge for having called in that so-called technical advisor, who is nothing more than a golfing buddy.
On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
Re: Re: Re: Re:
What you just saw as an abhorrent abuse of electrons, and a guaranteed waste of server storage space. Or possibly it was an illustration of what happens when you don't make it through grade school. Come to that, not much difference between the two, eh?
On the post: CNN Goes Full Moral Panic About Kids And Social Media
Re: Re: Digital Addiction
It's more like: "Censorship, but only for the facts that prove you're wrong."
And it's also too damn bad that we can't pass a law against ButtHurtism. We can't, because it's become a religion for nearly half of the country.
On the post: CNN Goes Full Moral Panic About Kids And Social Media
Re:
Fashion magazines were responsible for grunge music? And all this time I'd been thinking that it was just Seattle suffering from a severe case of upset bowels. Well, fuck me to tears. Seems like just about every day I learn that something I thought was Gospel, really wasn't true at all. Go figure.
On the post: Devin Nunes Retires From Congress To Spend More Time Banning Satirical Cows From Trump's New Social Network
Re: Doesn’t he realize that it’s all just a grift?
As a farmer alongside of "his" people, he knows that he'll be sitting pretty with this move. And I do hope that he's invested heavily, as that'll be just so much money less he'll have for a defense.
It would be for anyone who isn't addle-pated, you're correct. But obviously you are not of the medical persuasion, or you'd have noted long that this man is second only to #45 in obvious clinical-grade self-delusions.
Who's making book on how long he lasts? I've got a portrait of Ben Franklin that says he'll be gone before Easter. An extra C-note that says he'll take whining to a whole new level, trying to get back into his old seat in the House.
Popcorn futures, indeed!
On the post: Devin Nunes Retires From Congress To Spend More Time Banning Satirical Cows From Trump's New Social Network
Re:
More like he likes to keep them grabbed by the short hairs. If he's not in total control, then he's outta control. Oh, wait, I repeat myself....
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