dodedo

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by dodedo 15y ago
Absolutely. I should make it clear: I am not defending Yahoo's behavior here. Just trying to keep the facts factual.
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by dodedo 15y ago
No, they didn't. Your memory of history is incorrect. Overture, a completely different company, sued Google in 2002, two years before their IPO. Yahoo purchased Overture in 2003. After this, Google settled. Google's IPO wasn't until 2004.
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by dodedo 15y ago
No, this is not accurate. Overture sued Google in 2002. Yahoo bought Overture in 2003, at which point Google settled. Google's IPO was in 2004. Yahoo did not initiate the lawsuit against Google, and it was two years prior to their IPO.
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by dodedo 15y ago
VISA merchant rules generally guarantee that the plastic price will match the cash price. It's true that the merchant raises prices to compensate, but paying cash doesn't avoid that charge -- everyone pays the CC tax regardless of payment m
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by dodedo 15y ago
With 1% cash back, no less. I try to funnel all my expenses through a card -- and pay in full each billing cycle naturally.
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by dodedo 15y ago
And a difference of opinion: I want to see the exchange as work for time, because I work much more effectively than many other people. An hourly-rate job is simply not attractive to me, because the hourly-rate will not effectively capture m
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by dodedo 15y ago
"That's a bad deal for Tesla. It could mean financial ruin if there are too many irresponsible owners." On the contrary, if there are too many irresponsible owners then Tesla is ruined if they DON'T cover it. Imagine what "too many Tesla br
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by dodedo 15y ago
This is covered by 18 USC 6002: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/6002 In short, a judge will grant a person legal immunity from prosecution. This removes the fifth amendment argument, as you cannot be prosecuted for the child por
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by dodedo 15y ago
Yes, I mentioned the gas/rust/coagulation issue in the post you replied to. I should mention that I have been through this process myself and I am well aware of the steps necessary to restore a long-sitting gas vehicle to service. If a car
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by dodedo 15y ago
You said: "Actively impeding the prosecution, in the form of refusing to decrypt a drive known to contain inculpatory evidence, is in many ways tantamount to destroying that evidence." But it isn't /actively/ impeding, it's passive. One i
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by dodedo 15y ago
No, there is no such requirement. Fair Use is judged on a four prong test, none of which involve crediting the author: the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educationa
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by dodedo 15y ago
Yes, it isn't recommended as it may cause the tires to fail. But, this is very, very rare. The manual recommends all manner of preventative measures and while they're all good ideas they're also not at all necessary. My personal experience
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by dodedo 15y ago
I've run down the battery on my car, motorcycle, mower, or other vehicles I don't often use. It is not an expensive ($40,000) fix -- often it just takes a recharge because lead-acid batteries are not as easily damaged as lithium-ion. Replac
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by dodedo 15y ago
It's irrelevant what the people here or elsewhere think -- as you say there are many dissenting opinions but very few professional legal opinions . Rather than dally with opinions, let's stick to facts: The authorities will shut down sites
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by dodedo 15y ago
I'm not too close with that side of the family, all I know is what I've gleaned during some extended visits. However, this looks like it might be a good starting point: http://www.strawbuilding.org/sbweb/content/strawbale-codes Strawbale
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by dodedo 15y ago
It seems your issue is with the concept of single family homes and urban sprawl, not this particular method of building. That's a bit of a different issue -- many people don't want to live in the middle of a city (such as myself: I'm on a r
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by dodedo 15y ago
As I said, I have people in my family who have built strawbale houses to code (California code including earthquake provisions, no less). The stylized aspect is distinct from the strawbale and inset-in-land aspect. Regarding logs, I'm curre
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by dodedo 15y ago
anthonyb is saying that logs and stray bales are available in large quantities. And he's right, there's no issue of scale here, other than labor. I have family who have built straw houses and they're cheap, straw is very plentiful, and yo
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by dodedo 15y ago
This is quite simply false. Reddit has always banned child pornography. The post we're discussing is quite clear on this point. There would be absolutely no outage if this was about banning child pornography. Your statements here seem to co
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by dodedo 15y ago
Indeed, it is quite clear this content is not illegal -- and does anyone think the authorities are not aware of these subreddits? Anderson Cooper mentioned this stuff on television, for crying out loud. Today the reddit staff censored some
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by dodedo 15y ago
You went from "Child porn is not really a hazily defined legal gray area." to "Anything that vaguely smells of child porn is no longer allowed." Do you see that "anything that vaguely smells of X" is the very definition of a grey area? For
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by dodedo 15y ago
Well, that's not what he's saying, did you read the article? His point is that these employment questionnaires are designed to filter out people who tell the truth about fairly common drug activities, which creates a bias towards hiring lia
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by dodedo 15y ago
I realize this isn't quite the point of the article, but I have a $29.99 Nokia phone I've been using for years and I'm pretty sure I can resell it for at least $20. Non-smart phones hold their value best of all.
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by dodedo 15y ago
To be fair, exposing a snake oil salesman is a morally sound undertaking.
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by dodedo 15y ago
Very insightful comparison, thank you. The push is not only coming from the IFPI, however. There is also the movie industry, which is a much larger industry. I can't find exact numbers offhand, but this article places global box-office rece
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by dodedo 15y ago
I agree, and I think it's worth pointing out that this isn't limited to Hollywood interference and corruption. Remember: the charges and extradition demands against Julian Assange are coming from the Swedish court system as well.
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by dodedo 15y ago
You seem to be saying that if I write and record a song and put it on a dropbox public folder, then issue a DMCA takedown for another user who has copied my files, dropbox should delete my files as well. That makes no sense, whatsoever.
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by dodedo 15y ago
Only for MU; not from a third party such as the federal government. The ToS is a private contract between MU and their customers. It is completely inapplicable to any issue between their customers and the federal government. That said, the
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by dodedo 15y ago
This is precisely why there is a separation between the executive and judicial branches of government. Unfortunately I do agree they're not as separate as we might wish.
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by dodedo 15y ago
The MU takedown was ostensibly justified in terms of seizing evidence. Why would Carpathia and Cogent not be subject to the same process of seizing the storage as evidence? It very much looks like the seizure process is being used as a dire

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