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by scottdw2 15y ago
I don't think you understand. The point is to either eliminate the power, or make it extremely diffuse. That way, there is nothing to purchase.
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by scottdw2 15y ago
"Reducing the size of government" means to reduce the power of government, not the proportion of representation.
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by scottdw2 15y ago
I don't think that public funding of elections or free advertising (see the bottom of the page) are the solutions to government corruption. That would just force bribers to be more covert. It's analogous to the fact that SOPA wouldn't stop
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by scottdw2 15y ago
The laptop does not "contain" what they are looking for. It contains gibberish. If they had her on tape saying "the evidence is in my house" and then they searched her house and didn't find anything, could they force her to tell them where
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by scottdw2 15y ago
It's not a "reduction to the absurd". It brings up the point that there is no "essential law enforcement" interest that overrides the right to avoid self incrimination. No matter how badly someone wants to convict you, you have a right to n
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by scottdw2 15y ago
A compressed file has a bit pattern that clearly identifies it as compressed. It has statistical structure. Either way, a court couldn't compel her to uncompress a file either, as it would still constitute testimony.
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by scottdw2 15y ago
They savy criminal argument doesn't pass constitutional muster. You could say "allowing criminals to not testify against themselves could frustrate law enforcement because a savy criminal could just commit everything to memory." The 5th amm
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by scottdw2 15y ago
You can be compelled to produce a physical key to a safe. However what if the contents of the safe are paper with text written in an invented language, known only to you? Can you be compelled to translate them for the court? What if they ju
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by scottdw2 15y ago
Kick starter can't be used to start a corporation. That doesn't mean it couldn't be used to fund R&D. 20000 people can pay me $100 to make a movie, in exchange for a percentage of its sales. That's called a contract. I can hire a produ
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by scottdw2 15y ago
Here is the recipe for killing Hollywood: 1. The Hollywood Business Model The Hollywood business model is based on 2 things: 1. Control of distribution 2. Financing of production The Internet has solved #1. Any content can be distribu
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by scottdw2 15y ago
Don't English and Welsh law allow for private prosecution of crimes in cases where the CPS declines to prosecute? Wouldn't that provide an avenue of relief to the copy right holders without removing a UK citizen from the jurisdiction of UK
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by scottdw2 15y ago
Vendor lockout is not the worst part. I'd worry much more about the executive branch. http://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/detail/139791 http://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/detail/4957
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by scottdw2 15y ago
I wrote it on my iPhone @ 2 am....There are many typos. In any case, once someone posts a comment I can't edit a post, so by posting a reply about a typeo, you only ensure that it will never be fixed....
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by scottdw2 15y ago
Generally speaking, unilateral provisions in contracts render the contract unenforceable by the party they benefit. The fundamental principal behind common law contracts is the "bargain principal". There must be some "consideration" paid by
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by scottdw2 15y ago
This is shit. I heard something similar from Joel Spolsky not that long ago. It's like a George Wallace speech. The old guard, giving speeches targeted at the "do nothing class", urging them to help suppress a revolution.
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Co-founder visualization(scrappycofounder.com)
1 points by scottdw2 15y ago|0 comments
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by scottdw2 15y ago
All assessment of music ability is subjective. However, you can make it double blind. The students don't know they are being evaluated, and the evaluators don't know who is playing when they make their evaluations. That would measure "subje
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by scottdw2 15y ago
I like the hypothesis the article presents: focusing on working intently hard, followed by relaxation and you will perform better. It's something I would want to beleive. But, I find his analysis a little suspect. It appears to confuse core
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by scottdw2 15y ago
I like the last sentence... It has a very lispy feel to it. > And there are awkward or unnecessary words and sentences, most of which I catch in successive passes near the end. It's interesting how often the last sentence of a par
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by scottdw2 15y ago
I use PC too...They don't do so well with some things, like bank drafts, particularly in USD. You have go through a CIBC branch, both banks charge a free (even though PC is run by CIBC), and you have to deal with 2 bureaucracies. I admit, c
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by scottdw2 15y ago
I'm a US citizen living in Canada. In my experience, your sentiment is common amongst Canadians. The thinking usually goes "Our banks might not be convienient, but at least they won't fail like the ones in the US". My understanding of the m
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by scottdw2 15y ago
A fixed and certain obligation to pay money or some other valuable thing or things, either in the present or in the future. http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/_/dict.aspx?wo...
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by scottdw2 15y ago
That's because the hot dog stand can refuse business to anyone....
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by scottdw2 15y ago
Merchants can refuse your business for any reason they want....
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by scottdw2 15y ago
A debt is any financial obligation. Any partially executed contract (you receive a good you agreed to pay for), creates a financial obligation, and hence a debt. So, article I should make the law invalid.
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by scottdw2 15y ago
If you write a non fiction book that says "world war I was the cause of world war II" you are entitled to copyright protection for your expression. However, you don't earn a monopoly on the notion that WWI cause WWII even if you were the fi
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by scottdw2 15y ago
I'm not sure I follow that reasoning. In Feist even copying made-up entries designed to detect copying was deemed to not be an infringement. The statement that "this area is assigned to this timezone" is not a creative decision. It's an as
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by scottdw2 15y ago
IANAL, but.... In the US, per the copyright act, data can't be copyrighted. Some compilations can be copyrighted, but the Supreme Court has said that the compilation can't just be a collection of data. It needs to posses even a small modic
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by scottdw2 15y ago
That's the problem. The GIS market is too broad. The ESRI products ate inaccessible to most people. They cost too much, and are too difficult to use. Precisely because they are targeting professional cartographers. Raster algebra isn't some
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Looking for cofounder
5 points by scottdw2 15y ago|5 comments

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