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by fatdog789 18y ago
cough Actually, distribution and COPY (i.e., reproduction) rights are at the heart of copyright law. She has every right to control distribution of her works. Do not confuse the copyrightability of ideas with the copyrightability of an ex
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by fatdog789 18y ago
Check the case again: this case is only mandatory precedent for ADMIRALTY cases. While strongly persuasive precedent, b/c it is SCOTUS, it has not been followed in the state courts.
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by fatdog789 18y ago
As I posted elsewhere, that's just wrong. FORUM SELECTION CLAUSES ARE NOT BINDING ABSENT A SIGNED WRITTEN CONTRACT. EVEN WITH A CONTRACT, ALMOST NO COURT IN THE US WILL HONOR A FORUM SELECTION CLAUSE BETWEEN A CONSUMER AND A CORPORATION. Th
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by fatdog789 18y ago
That's so wrong that it hurts. There is no legal obligation to file in the Defendant's court. US law allows a lawsuit to be filed in (1) the plaintiff's home court, (2) the defendant's home court, or (3) the home court of the jurisdiction
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by fatdog789 18y ago
That's so wrong that it hurts. There is no legal obligation to file in the Defendant's court. US law allows a lawsuit to be filed in (1) the plaintiff's home court, (2) the defendant's home court, or (3) the home court of the jurisdiction
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by fatdog789 18y ago
1) Even lawyers and doctors don't make enough money to retire by 40. 2) Lawyers and doctors frequently work 80-100 hours a week. The amount of productive output is not 2x as much as the 40 hour week; due to fatigue and stress, the productiv
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by fatdog789 18y ago
Depending on the distro, it may be as easy as "yum mono" or "apt-get mono".
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by fatdog789 18y ago
On a business device, usually paid for by the company? Many companies don't allow their Crackberries to be used for personal crap; iFart and other novelty apps definitely fall into that category.
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by fatdog789 18y ago
Having met graduates of these "esteemed" graduate schools, I think that their degrees are exactly worth the tuition they paid. Which is to say, that I would trust the average community college graduate more than some from Ecoles. America ma
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by fatdog789 18y ago
Expense. What if the invention is very expensive to make but the inventor is a high school dropout living above his parent's garage? This one requirement now completely invalidates his rights to the invention he created; this means less inc
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by fatdog789 18y ago
The problem isn't the USPTO, it's the patent applicants themselves who do not disclose the prior art in their own applications. The USPTO is supposed to conduct its own prior art search, but the volume of applications, coupled with funding
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by fatdog789 18y ago
B/C it didn't actually happen that way. The "Dark Ages" is a myth perpetuated in elementary school to children. The "Dark Ages" referred to the 100-200 year period immediately after the fall of Rome, during which Western Europe was thrown i
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by fatdog789 18y ago
For a long while, it was installed on OEM computers like Dell and HP, so users didn't need to install it. It still is installed by default on most consumer-line Dell models.
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by fatdog789 18y ago
The Olympics.Streaming, high-quality, LIVE video feed. The low bandwidth quality SL content easily beat the high-bandwidth quality of Flash streams on sites like Hulu and Amazon VOD. And that was just the beta.