I haven't read it cover to cover, but I've read more than enough of it over the years to know that aside from some common sense stuff and good old folksy wisdom, much of which predates the Bible anyway, most of the rest of it is just very boring or very crazy. That these things have been reinterpreted (read: spun) so much over the years that people get less of the crazy in sermons is probably a good thing. I'm not entirely convinced of that though, as it also allows them to have misunderstandings about their religion. Then again, religion is rather meaningless in the overall scheme of things, as it is only actions that matter. Most Christians haven't read the Bible cover to cover anyway. If they could make any sense of it, they'd probably be rather shocked by some of what they find.

There are about as many interpretations of the scripture as there are believers. People generally believe what they want. Of course these days it seems that these fringe groups are growing larger and embracing the crazy wholeheartedly. Look at Perry or Bachmann and the crazy stuff that they believe. Look at who was leading Perry's prayer event. These guys are truly nuts, and they're running for the most powerful position in the world.

I can't even parse that. I even looked up an explanation of it, and it still made no sense.

So the question becomes, "Can those industries be scaled up to the necessary size to handle large-scale production, and can it be done at a competitive price?" Seems to me that without some other variable changing, it won't happen. Something will have to either make it cost more to do overseas, or make it cheaper here, or both.

Wait, do we really want people who can't be bothered to take the time to vote being able to do so while they wait for some YouTube video to load? If people are so lazy they can't go out and vote, they're likely also too lazy to inform themselves in even the most basic ways about the issues. Seems like it's probably good that they don't vote.

If there's a way for you to verify your vote from a computer, there's a way for your boss, spouse, etc, to verify your vote simply by demanding that you do so in their presence. That's bad.

Apparently you didn't get past number one in the article's list. I thought the article was pretty clear about who's security it was talking about. Namely the security of the app, and by extension, the security of the person or organization that writes their app using HTML5. I have no idea why you would think otherwise based on the topic of the article.

Now who's being hopelessly dense? You just take whatever a company says as fact? They're supposed to cease their compaints because the company says a few of their executives' inboxes are full? Really? It's ridiculous to think that a company of that size couldn't handle that volume of email. Any free email server out there could do so easily. Let them bring the evidence to court then. If I were in the union's place, I would continue to fight there because the company seems utterly incompetent.

I think I've already said that their intent was expressed pretty clearly, and that was to convey the outrage of their members. That this may clog their phone line is a side-effect as far as I can tell, but they were operating within the law. They had every reason to believe they were doing so with email as well. If anything, email is usually MUCH easier to handle in volume than phone calls.

So no evidence at all really, and we don't know where the articles got the estimate of "thousands" from, but that's all there is.

Noise abatement is fine within reason. No loud music or equipment after 9pm and such. That's not really relevant here. They didn't cause physical damage. They apparently caused their email inboxes to fill up. That's the extent of the "damage". This is also apparently only based on the say-so of the company, as I've seen no actual evidence presented by them. If they had ridiculously small quotas set, and completely incompetent administration of their server, then I suppose it's possible. Of course it was the company's email server that was accepting all that email too. They could have quite easily told it not to. This doesn't seem to be any different than sending them so much snail mail that they have trouble receiving and finding the mail they actually want to read.

Versus the extortion campaign that companies use to prevent organization? We see that all the time too.

Didn't see anything of the sort in the law. Got a citation for that? If that was true, I could tell any bill collector, political campaign, etc to never call me again and they'd have to respect it. I don't believe that's remotely true.

Seems like they were retaliating by exercising free speech. I've seen no evidence that they explicitly stated that they wanted to crash the company's servers. I've seen that they said they wanted to fight back, which is certainly a function of free speech. Their members sent many emails expressing their outrage and grievances with the company. The company claims that this harmed them. I didn't see any actual evidence of that either, but that's what they said. I'm still less likely to believe that from a company of that size than to believe that those few execs just didn't like getting a bunch of emails attacking their decision to fire the employee.

The robocalls were part of a pattern of legal behavior you mean? I don't see how they can support the idea that they were doing something illegal if they were complying with the robocall laws.

You keep throwing that 600K number out, but I've heard no evidence of how many members were actually involved, and no numbers for how many emails were sent, beyond the vague "thousands". So while you keep trying to imply that all 600K members were just clicking away as fast as possible, I haven't seen anything to support that.

Actually, yes. You should be responsible for dealing with your issue in that case. It's not reasonable to limit everyone else's rights because of some issue specific to you. I hate to think what the world would be like if we all had to cater to every idiosyncratic issue that someone has. Now, would I stop yelling just to be polite? Sure. But I'd be a whole lot less inclined to comply with your wishes if you had just done something to insult or injure me, which is more the case in this situation.

Using the language of physical assault is really not relevant here. There are many cases where people's constitutional rights trump the inconveniences or harm to others. Some of these are codified in law, and others are simply precedent set by the courts.

I wasn't the one that started drawing lines between the union and the company at issue. Drawing those lines seems to be a Republican thing. I have plenty of issues with the behavior of unions, but I also recognize that their very existence is due to the abuses of corporations. It's very much a balancing act. Unfortunately one that often results in the very same kinds of brinksmanship we see in the federal government now.

No, but it's hardly what you would expect from a company of this size, and it's quite understandable to be skeptical about their claim that this was a major hardship for them. Not having even a minimally competent email setup? In 2011? Really? I'd be more likely to believe that they just didn't want to hear the complaints.

No, that's certainly not reasonable. But then it's also not reasonable to believe that a company like this doesn't have email servers that can handle such a paltry load. There are plenty of free mail servers that can do it without any problem. Had they told me that a load of mere thousands of emails were causing them such severe problems, I wouldn't have believed it. We apparently still only have their word for it. Seems more likely that they just wanted them to shut up about it.

Where did they state their intent to crash the servers? The court cited something that could be interpreted in a number of ways. That, combined with other bizarre interpretations is why I think this is a bad ruling. The robocalls are a separate issue covered under a separate law, and therefore shouldn't be used as evidence of intent either. Then there's the notion that the simple, unsubstantiated notification that something is inconveniencing them is enough to override free speech rights. I really hope that's not the case. I would like to see what kind of horribly misconfigured mail server they were using that could be overloaded by such a paltry number of emails.

Yeah, that's the thing. They make it damn near impossible to prove most of the time. In this case, even though no intent to crash servers was apparently stated, the CoA chose to interpret some language to mean that, and to interpret the use of robocalling as further evidence of intent, even though that makes no sense. If they were guilty of violating the robocalling law, why aren't they being charged with that? If they aren't guilty of violating the robocalling law, then how does it show intent? The court seems to have manufactured the intent in this case, which is usually the one thing missing in most corporate cases. This ruling is just all-around bad.

Again, this goes to proving intent. I still don't see that being done. They were obviously trying to convey the outrage of their members at the company. The company may not have liked it, and it may have been some sort of burden for them to receive so many complaints, but the volume of mail we're talking about here isn't remotely close to being able to take down an email system unless it was set up horribly wrong. That's on the company. Just because they say it's overloading their system, doesn't mean that it actually is. If it actually was overloading the system, it's due to negligence on the company's part in not setting up their email server properly. This isn't some mom and pop operation we're talking about. Free speech should win out over inconvenience and negligence.

The intent was to convey the outrage of the union members and have their voices be heard by the management. Business-related emails sent to business email addresses. I've seen no real evidence of any other intent than that. Their free speech should trump the inconvenience to the company, especially for something as trivial to prevent as this. RICO charges for this would be complete bullshit. Hell, CEOs have to practically be caught red-handed eating live babies before they go to jail. Why should we have a double-standard here?