The solution is obvious. We need to do background checks on anyone purchasing a pressure cooker and need to limit the size of pressure cookers to 10 quarts or less.
Jurassic Park was supposed to be a cautionary tale, not an example to emulate. Some appropriate quotes:
“Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.”
“Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always.”
“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.”
I can't think of a worse possible tribute to the memory of open web supporter and RSS pioneer Aaron Swartz than this. Nice one Google, why don't you take a shit on his grave while you're at it.
Cases are always named as "plaintiff v defendant". Apple is suing Samsung but Samsung is also counter-suing Apple. Samsung was not being petty in complaining about not getting "top billing", they were complaining (and rightly so) that both the suit and counter-suit be identified.
In Canada, low income individuals get a partial federal sales tax rebate each year when they file their taxes, however we have both income and consumption (sales) tax.
The big problem with consumption tax is not that it isn't progressive, but that it encourages the creation of an underground economy where people offer goods and services without collecting (or submitting) the consumption tax. It happens all the time in Canada where the federal sales tax is only 5%. Any system that had to replace both personal income and corporate taxes would be more like 25% to 30% which is a huge incentive for people to cheat the system.
Jon Stewart had an interesting interview with Marco Rubio on the Daily Show last week. Basically Rubio has a more balanced view of immigration than most of his fellow Republicans because he is the son of immigrants, just as Dick Cheney has a more balanced view of same-sex marriage because his daughter is gay. Unfortunately, those kinds of social connections which allow people on one side of a debate to see the other side more objectively are rare and I don't see how you could create them if they don't already exist.
Hopefully the $250,000 includes not just the broadcast rights but also the home video rights. Otherwise the DVDs will end up with generic music substituted.
Actually, if the school provides the brushes and paints and "studio space" for the little artists, couldn't an argument be made that this is a work-for-hire in which case the school legitimately holds the copyright anyway? Or does money have to be exchanged for a work-for-hire situation to exist?
Google should request that all of Minister Sibal's ideas be prescreened by his staff to remove any that are impossible, impractical. cost-prohibitive or just plain stupid.
I suspect the reason patent terms haven't been extended while copyright terms have is simply that they have a shorter useful lifespan. A painting or novel or song from 100 years ago is still valuable today in it's original form. A patent from 17 years ago (that's 1994, think MS-DOS and VCRs) is useless in it's original form (though it might become the basis for some new technology to build upon once the patent expires).
Exactly. This would be like a music publisher saying to Apple, "You can sell our CDs in your Apple stores but you can't sell them on iTunes." B&N knows it's brick & mortar stores are just a stop gap measure until everything is electronic. Frankly, I don't blame B&N for reacting like this and I think DC will eventually regret giving Amazon so much power over them by doing an exclusive deal.
Listen John Connor, just because a Terminator saved your life once, doesn't mean they deserve "Terminator Rights", they're only machines. Or did I misread something?
I'm pretty sure such a letter would come by registered mail or be delivered by a process server like a subpoena so there would be a verifiable record of the time it was delivered.
Dion (or rather her husband/manager) is extremely thin-skinned. They once cancelled a major concert because of a slightly negative comment by a local music columnist.
Law firms that do pro bono lawsuits should ALWAYS have to pay the legal fees of the defendants if they lose. That would reduce the number of frivolous lawsuits pretty damn quick, and hopefully reduce the number of innocent people/businesses who settle out of court because they can't afford to defend themselves.
Think of the children!
Cautionary Tale
“Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.”
“Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always.”
“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.”
Worst Tribute Ever
Good Luck
Correctly Identifying the case, not "top billing"
Re: How?
The big problem with consumption tax is not that it isn't progressive, but that it encourages the creation of an underground economy where people offer goods and services without collecting (or submitting) the consumption tax. It happens all the time in Canada where the federal sales tax is only 5%. Any system that had to replace both personal income and corporate taxes would be more like 25% to 30% which is a huge incentive for people to cheat the system.
"Social Distance" is difficult to duplicate
DRM?
Does $250,000 include DVD rights?
Work for Hire?
Hypocrite's words come back to bite him
Google should request...
Why patent terms haven't been extended
Re:
What about Apple?
Judgement Day
Registered Mail?
Backup?
Thin-skinned ideed
Legal Reform
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