The intent matters just as much as the plain language. Scalia himself has defended that intent matters more than plain language multiple times including pulling out 300 year old dictionaries. The affirming verdict itself quotes Scalia from the last ruling where he completely contradicts what he claims in this dissent. He's an inconsistent little troll, he rules whatever he wants, not what the constitution requires.

Baloney. I do not believe such paper work exists. It would completely halt all diplomacy if an ambassador had to sign a fucking contract every single time they talked to another ambassador. What do you think the paperwork would do anyway? You think they could sue the other country for breaking it? What you are suggesting is beyond silly.

There is no paperwork, it's an excuse and a really poor one. And this is leaving aside that Ecuador is an extremely small nation with an extremely small embassy staff.

Paperwork? What fucking paperwork? Are the Ecuadorans Volgons?

Jesus christ, it's pretty simple. Your ambassador asks their ambassador for permission. Do you honestly think Ecuador has a form for "Interview a someone hiding in our embassy"? You people will believe anything. "they didn't fill out the right paperwork" as if that's a real excuse.

He fucked a child, barely a teenager. I could forgive it if she's been 16, but not a 13 year old. The victim in this case just wants everyone to leave her alone about it. But Polanski should be in jail. The plea agreement was a get out of jail card for a connected, well respected film maker. The plea was not justice. Drugging and raping a 13 year old will get anyone else sent to jail for 20 years and put on the sex offender list for the rest of their life. He should be in jail.

That would only be true if you wear your pants around your nipples. Either that your have such a small penis that you can't get it out without your pants around your ankles.

They have no legal right to defend it's use when that use is as it has been done by Ars. This is textbook fair use.

I personally would have replied with a big FU, and then proceeded to Streisand them into submission.

I bet google spends millions every single year just combating the SEO and other crap that goes on with Search. They can't direct term search or the results would immediately be polluted beyond use by SEO. Google has had to adapt to these changes.

By centralizing all the passwords they are a prime target for infiltration. The hackers knew that by taking this one business they would potentially gain access to millions of websites. In a normal attack they have no idea if they will get good data, with LastPass they couldn't miss. That then makes them one of the most high profile targets on the internet and they'd need NSA level security to keep people out. I little internet company with world class security? I don't think so, even Google got hacked with a spear fishing attack.

I agree with the other posters, you'd have to be nuts to use LastPass for anything that was tied to financial transactions. And just even the secondary effects could be tremendous now that they have login information (depending on the number of websites the last pass information could give them all kinds of information out accounts and names/emails used making the hacking significantly easier).

Not likely, the 1960's guy was completely in the closet. He did his dick sucking private and when he put his wife's clothes on he made sure she wasn't around.

I know you didn't read the fucking post you were replying to but the OP pointed out that people have actually increased in height 2 inches, not one as claimed in the summary.

Warranteed Life of 25 years. Panels have no known life span, manufacturers warantee that voltage levels will remain above a certain percent of their rated value within a 25 year period. Recent panels have been tested with a drop of less than 0.5watts per year resulting in panels that are still outputting 90+% of their rated wattage at the 25 year life.

The solar panels that Carter put on the whitehouse that Bush took down were still generating power when they were taken down, about 40 years later.

You seem to forget that the $1Billion dollar settlement wasn't 10% of what it Intel's shenanigans cost AMD.

You also seem to forget that the agreement was made public and is available on the internet. Not only that but it's quoted elsewhere in this very post including linked to the source.

The agreement was made public, or at least a copy of it. It's linked to an quoted at other places in this post and it is exactly as I've said. AMD is purchased and AMD looses it's copyright license to x86 while Intel will only lose their copyright license to x64 if they are acquired.

The government won't do anything about a contractual dispute between Intel and AMD. Nothing at all. Intel has sufficient evidence in their possession to make the case to any jury that they are facing broad competition from the ARM ecosystem and would spank the Government if they were stupid enough to bring an anti-trust action against Intel. This isn't Europe, the government can't do squat without taking Intel to court.

X64 is an extension of the x86 instruction set which is copyrighted by Intel. In other words it's a derivative that Intel has control over through their copyright on the x86 instruction set. The value of x64 is entirely dependent on the x86 copyright that Intel holds so it's worthless to anyone else without a license for x86 from Intel. I have no doubt that the contract that allows AMD to use the x86 instruction set copyright includes clauses that will protect Intel and their use of the derivative x64 in the event AMD breaches the agreement by being acquired.

I like AMD but the fact is they can't be purchased because if they are their primary product is lost. You people are living in a fantasy world if you think they could be. The contract that allows AMD to use the x86 copyright is explicit that those rights are lost when the company is acquired. Hell the only other real consumer x86 license is held by VIA which had acquired Centuar and Intel sued them claiming they breached the no purchase agreement. The only reason they weren't terminated is that VIA held a couple key patents that Intel needed so they gave them a 10 year contract extension. But now that Intel is focused on power use VIA's entire market segment has been lost and they haven't developed a new processor since 2011.

There is a chance Intel will loan AMD money to keep them limping along so they avoid anti-trust review but I doubt it highly these days. Intel has a legitimate argument these days that ARM and other processors now provide adequate competition even though Intel still mostly controls the PC segment they are non-existent in the portable tablet/phone category which ships far more CPU's. In fact ARM has begun to harm Intel's margins which is a key sign of competition. The wintel monopoly was crushed by Linux.

If AMD runs out of money and can't get an influx of cash they will likely see much of their business lost and simply go out of business.

Intel's legal agreement with AMD when the original license expired was that AMD could continue using x86 and certain systems (excluded all chipset work and any newly developed tech) but was under the condition that if AMD is ever sold the x86 license goes bye bye. This is a contractual agreement and only the US could stop it and they won't. AMD can't be sold with the x86 license in-tact. Intel would be ecstatic about such a turn of events because they could kill the AMD x86 competition without an iota of government intervention.

The OP you replied to is exactly right, AMD can't be bought. Any speculation that AMD could be purchased by anyone is just garbage. AMD will either survive or it will die, no one outside can buy them without the loss of their primary product (which would make them worthless to buy).