>Do you believe rehabilitation is impossible or do you want revenge?

I don't believe that someone who commits mass murder can be rehabilitated, no. It isn't about revenge; it's about public safety.

Someone once pointed out that hoping a rapist gets raped in prison isn't a victory for his victim(s), because it somehow gives him what he had coming to him, but it's actually a victory for rape and violence. I wish I could remember who said that, because they are right. The score doesn't go Rapist: 1 World: 1. It goes Rape: 2.

What this man did is unspeakable, and he absolutely deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison. If he needs to be kept away from other prisoners as a safety issue, there are ways to do that without keeping him in solitary confinement, which has been shown conclusively to be profoundly cruel and harmful.

Putting him in solitary confinement, as a punitive measure, is not a victory for the good people in the world. It's a victory for inhumane treatment of human beings. This ruling is, in my opinion, very good and very strong for human rights, *precisely* because it was brought by such a despicable and horrible person. It affirms that all of us have basic human rights, even the absolute worst of us on this planet.

This is precisely why I lost all interest in Oculus the instant I heard that it had been acquired by Facebook.

An eagle eating a pair of great tits ?

Small pocket coin-purse is really useful.

They're like £2 or so in any market, or even on Amazon or eBay - http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B008K09YAY/

Also, you don't need to carry your wallet, with lots of notes in; you can pay a bus fare and buy a sandwich or a beer or two with that pocket-full of coins.

US coins come from the US Mint, bills from the Federal Reserve.

In a normal transition, banks get lots of $1 bills, return them to the government and get $1 coins in exchange.

But, because of the turf war between two arms of government, the Fed keeps printing new $1 bills and exchanging them for old ones, rather than taking in the $1 bills and replacing them with coins.

Equilaterally curved (Reuleux) heptagons work fine. The UK 50p and 20p use that shape, and they roll.

They have constant diameter, but not constant radius.

This is why Spain is breaking up - because (comparatively) rich Catalans are objecting to paying taxes for the south and west.

Italy has had this same problem for years; relatively rich Lombards, Piedmontese and even Tuscans object to funding the Mezzogiorno and the Sicilian Mafia. The Lega Nord is a political party based on that principle.

Britain is different - Scotland has almost exactly the average income for the UK, and that's the bit that's closest to leaving.

Buy a third-party PS3 clone that doesn't require the signing keys.

True. I'm not a lawyer, but I work for them.

But, of course, it is quid pro quo - they're paying you, that's what makes them an employer.

The legal term is "consideration". As long as they give you something - anything - of value, then the contract is valid (in this respect).

If you're volunteering, then it's different - if you volunteer for a charity or your church, then they really don't have a claim on anything you create while you're there.

That would be a breach of the Berne agreement by the US (specifically, that copyright cannot be dependent on registration, and that would include transfer of copyright).

Why should a non-US citizen, employed by a non-US company have to file paperwork in the US?

Turn it around - that would mean that every single person who worked on Windows would have to file paperwork in every country in the world before Microsoft could release it in that country. That's mad.

The alternative is to abolish work-for-hire (which I would support) and that the most an employer could contract for would be a transferable non-exclusive licence for the duration of the copyright as it stood at the time of the fixation of the work. That would also kill off corporates' vested interest in copyright extension.

Personally, I would prohibit all transfers of copyright; the author or their estate would be the only holder; everyone else would be a licensee. This would also mean that their estate could not be completely wound up until 50/70 years after death.

Not really.

Number of people is also number of potential customers. That's why there are more jobs in the USA than in Luxembourg - there are 311 million people in the USA and only half a million in Luxembourg. Curiously enough, adding the extra 310.5 million people resulted in there being a lot more jobs.

Corporations have power, partly because so many people lack the self-confidence to negotiate terms of an employment contract, and even fewer will pay a lawyer to actually review the contract and negotiate. This is why C?Os get much better terms (not just a higher salary) - they do negotiate contracts and get a lawyer or an agent to make sure it's done properly.

But mostly because employment is so much more efficient these days. We can produce everything everyone needs and many of the things people want with much less than 100% of people in work. If you're at a significant risk of unemployment, then you don't have a strong negotiating position. The only way to fix that is to make unemployment nicer. The less bad unemployment is, the harder it is for employers to screw people over.

On the other hand, Edison then employed other people to work for him on inventions and filed patents in his own name on their inventions because otherwise he (who had paid them to invent) had no claim on their inventions.

I'd want an "in the ordinary course of their duties" clause (ie, "if, in the ordinary course of their duties, the employee makes a patentable invention, then the patent rights to said invention vest in the employer as a work for hire").

IOW, your job should specifically involve you in doing original work - like a programmer (though I oppose software patents), or a design engineer, or a pharma chemist or chemical engineer. Then your invention belongs to your employer - because they were paying you to invent things as your job (or part of your job).

More likely: "the people in our office on a holiday weekend hadn't a clue how to do their jobs and didn't know how to reinstate a channel. By the time they got hold of somebody on the phone who was both competent and sober, the event had finished."

When will October 1993 finally arrive?

Posted on September 6943, 1993