Comment Re:Correct, but silly (Score 1) 172
So neither person has a claim.
And this Price guy's reputation is in the toilet. Things have a way of working out.
So neither person has a claim.
And this Price guy's reputation is in the toilet. Things have a way of working out.
That's not the way fair use works. If I write a review that includes quotes from your novel, I have created a new work that makes fair use of your material. You are NOT now a joint owner of my review. If you choose to reproduce my review, even if it contains your content, you are infringing. (Unless of course you can make a fair use argument yourself).
That's not even close to what happened in this case.
TFS mentioned that adding the comment was unlikely to be the basis of transformation. It is transformative because of the radical context change which creates a commentary on the medium in the same way Marcel Duchamp transformed a porcelain urinal into art by placing it in a gallery and titling it "Fountain."
Andy Warhol using an image of a Campbell's Soup can in his art did not mean Campbell's had to change their can or stop selling soup.
I don't believe there's any case against Mahoney using the image she made. I'd like to see it go to court.
How is this insightful? The Patriot Act is less than 36 hours away from expiring, and all signs point toward the extension being filibustered into defeat.
It's insightful because only some provisions of the Patriot Act will expire, and the FISA court will continue to do whatever they want.
Laws as sweeping as the Patriot Act don't just go away.
As for the other activities, well, this is how spying gets done. That is how you spy on people in this day and age. With all of the justified criticism of the NSA, it would still be bad if they couldn't spy at all. They do, in fact, have a function to fulfill, and it is a function that needs fulfilling.
Why don't you unpack that statement a little bit? What is the domestic function of the NSA?
If you said anything besides, "It doesn't have a domestic function" then you are wrong. The US government is not supposed to be spying on US citizens. If there's some foreign government or organization that's communicating with an American citizen or permanent resident in order to commit a crime, just get a goddamned warrant.
I think a Dixieland Jazz parade would be suitable.
I'm prepared to play in the second line at the Patriot Act jazz funeral.
they don't even have bars in panama city. its cuz of the laws.
https://www.google.com/webhp?s...
Ever been to a Panama City Bar?
Oh yeah. When I was in college, I had a cousin who was stationed at Tyndall AFB and visited him. Must have been February 1981 or '82.
An "Underwater Sonic Screwdriver" sounds like a drink you'd order at a Panama City bar.
No sir, I did not ridicule anyone. I pointed out that the parent seemed to put business people in a class apart and above, deserving of extra help and protections to compensate them for the risks they take and the work they do.
To say such a thing in our current climate is turning a blind eye to recent history. Who got bailed out in 2008? Not the homeowners. Who was so arrogant they said they didn't need policing? Wall Street. At the same time, who is denying there is a Climate Change problem and constantly accusing scientists of needing more policing? Big Oil for one. Businesses already get a lot of help. There is a problem with big businesses obtaining unfair advantage over small businesses. But I have not heard any complaining about that. Perhaps Big Media isn't reporting that, just like they don't report all kinds of other things. But it could also be that businesses close ranks and lobby as one on many issues, particularly when it comes to beating down pay and shrinking the middle class. If anything, we engage in too much corporate welfare. We have a lot of corruption, nepotism, greed, and crony capitalism. The Great Recession exposed only some of it.
I have an application for this where I'm using 365 to 395 nm older style to attract bugs efficiently.
Come on, give us a few details. Are you collecting the bugs for research or are you using the lights as bait for your backyard zapper? Or are you collecting bugs to feed to your pet iguanas?
That's too tantalizing a statement for you not to tell us a little more.
All he did was facilitate transactions among consenting adults.
Illegal transactions. And he got a cut from every deal made.
So arrest and prosecute the federal agent for attempted murder. He's the one who should be in jail. Not Ulbricht.
You don't think facilitating the transaction for a hitman for a percentage of the price should be a crime?
Remember, Ulbricht got a cut of the money for every single drug transaction on Silk Road. It's as if he bought a downtown building and rented it out to drug dealers (and hit men) and got a cut for every single transaction.
I know there's a belief that the Internet is a magical place where laws should not apply, because it's digital!, but that's just not how it works.
So? You think running a successful business takes some kind of extra special skill set? Higher levels of skill, talent, and perseverance than earning a PhD, and/or making a discovery, advancing science? More than it take to create and play a hit song or write a best selling book? But it seems more and more that the most important things successful businesspeople have are connections, and the skills and willingness to finesse the legal system to bribe the powerful and cheat the most vulnerable.
Lots of things are tough. Doing the right thing is one of the them.
Weirdly there's no evidence of that claim, and the government decided not to try and prosecute for that.
Two different things. The government also decided not to charge Al Capone for murder.
"The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception a neccessity." - Oscar Wilde
