The band ultimately won the lawsuit, with other prominent musicians following their lead and taking action against the service as well. “The thing that blew our minds about Napster was we couldn't wrap our heads around, 'Why did nobody from Napster call and go, 'Are you okay with us do...
“Reasonable questions remain about whether the District Attorney and her hand-selected lead SADA [Special Assistant District Attorney] testified truthfully about the timing of their relationship,” McAfee conceded, but continues, “Ultimately, dismissal of the indictment is not the appropriate remedy to...
Long story short, the idea that Pepe Le Pew is the driving force behind rape is ahistorical, unscientific, and completely ludicrous when judged dispassionately by the laws of common sense. It’s probably more legit to say it was a short skirt (but don’t say that either). Men rape wome...
based solely on the stated view. But as soon as that view starts getting explored, either through stated belief about the view, or through voluntarily taken action, I don’t think it is then unreasonable to start deciding that I know where this is going to end up. ...
I make the distinction between “matters of taste” and “matters of morality” and the easy example is always “mayo vs. mustard”. Some people like mayo on their sandwiches. Some people like mustard on their sandwiches. That’s okay. ...
I’ve argued extensively thatnormativity is strictly a matter of subjective preference, not objective truth. If the normative is strictly descriptive (i.e. how the world should be is just a special category of how the world is), then the absolute prohibition onad hominemandtu quoquearguments ...
Yup you get Singapore, Kuwait and Dubai etc. Drop all sanctions with Myanmar and North Korea and you would soon see “communism with North Korean characteristics” i.e. libertarian trade, economic and domestic civil policies. Kim Jong Ill is a monster because we enforce his monopoly control ov...
*** The obvious appeal of the presumption of innocence is that it puts the burden of proof upon the other party. That the state has to prove its claims against individuals is far better than scenarios in which individuals are presumed guilty; the nation’s history is, after all, littered...
There are a lot of people that still adhere to the compact theory (even if they don’t address the Civil War), and one day I was reading some debate where the opponents of the compact theory were just steamrolling people, not because their arguments were necessarily better but because peop...
SCOTUS did not issue an opinion on whether a baker may legally refuse to bake a cake for a gay wedding; rather, it focused on what it saw as the Commission's non-neutral, "hostile" handling of Phillips' case.