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True or false: it is permissible to download these and take them home with you." , etc etc.

Is it not better to confine rights to that which it is right or at least permissible to do? But to say this is to misunderstand the nature of rights.

If the charger should fail, is it then permissible that the batteries catch fire? If not then they are fundamentally unsafe.

Is this a permissible reason to upvote something?

Anything which is permissible for a piloted bomber to destroy is surely okay for a drone to destroy as well, yes? Why the focus on drones per se?

From a legal standpoint, the changed name is now a legally permissible "lie." This does not result in mistrust by a court because the legal system was involved in the change.

Sometimes long-term freedom does require constraint on permissible action. Sometimes it doesn't.

What you need to chart this is some measure of how much college students actually are earning over time, not a measure of the lowest wage it's legally permissible to pay them.

He argues not for what is right but for what is permissible given the existing body of law. Where the existing body of law is wrong, his writings have no sympathy for the damage inflicted on its victims nor any sense that resisting such wrongs is noble.

Why is corporate espionage and sabotage by our guys something that is permissible? We push for free trade agreements to neuter foreign businesses' competitivity, and then we still put them under surveillance; how is this okay?

If I make an argument that stealing is wrong and then turn around and steal something, that doesn't mean that stealing is morally permissible. Likewise, the fact that Mozilla neglects to criticize Apple doesn't mean their criticism of Microsoft is incorrect.

I also don't feel the 'open source sandbox' will be permissible by most developers of CDMs. My opinion is that mozilla will waste countless cycles implementing EME that won't be acceptable to the content mafia. Adobe is not the only player in this space.

Thomasmonopoly himself says in his write-up that "I too found the image bordering on the limits of what is legally permissible and hoped to highlight the fact that it is allowed to exist within a grey area of legality." Google has a zero tolerance policy for child pornography.

I hope that, regardless of where they stand on the piracy issue, HN users can be a little more articulate about why piracy is or is not permissible and stop referring to it inaccurately.

Because the law permits him to do so, he is effectively pre-screening what can come before a jury in the case and he has declared that he will put a tight limit on what is permissible. This means that Oracle will not be able to take its crap-shoot before the jury in hopes of gaining in terrorem settlement leverage over Google through the possibility that a crazy jury might be inclined to try to slam Google with a monstrously large damage award.

Locking is generally seen as fundamentally anti-competitive and permissible only under strict restrictions, in order to maintain the economic viability of handset subsidies. It's entirely reasonable that if your phone is discounted as part of a contract, you should be obliged to complete the contracted term or pay an early termination fee in order to keep the handset.

Red Hat was as hostile as legally permissible to anyone trying to circumvent this, like CentOS. Mozilla simply claimed that the Firefox trademark cannot be applied to any codebase that Mozilla, the trademark owner, hadn't officially sanctioned. They began to actively prosecute those cases because some people were modifying the Firefox source to contain malicious code and calling it "Firefox", misappropriating Mozilla's trademark.

Okay, you do realize that: - the point of the post was not to prove that there is sexism in technology, but rather to show how sexism can drive away women - that the existence of sexism in tech is one of the assumptions of the article, which is pretty reasonable given: - sexism exists everywhere and there's no reason to think tech would be excluded - the small number of women in tech - the numerous other women who work in tech who have /said/ they've experienced sexism - that she worked with these people for however long, and there's obviously numerous other encounters she's had with them that aren't relayed here because that wasn't the point of the article - that just because men have a problem as well as women doesn't mean women cannot have that problem worse - that there is definitely a range of social responses that are culturally permissible for men and not women, and that tech workers are not some sort of hyper-enlightened bermenschen who have utterly cast off the shackles of their culture and now see everything with perfect clarity I'm not saying that we can know for sure that there was sexism involved here, but to call thinking that, "entirely fallacious and baseless" is complete and utter bullshit. edit: gosh darn markdown