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The state of Georgia claims an open records activist broke copyright law — and maybe even committed a terrorist act — by posting the full, annotated versions of the state’s legal code online.
State officials claim in a lawsuit filed last week that Carl Malamud had engaged in an 18-year “crusade to control the accessibility of U.S. government documents” by scanning and reposting the annotated version of the Georgia legal code, which courts often rely on to make decisions on the law, on his website Public.Resource.org.
The state also “points directly to the annotated version as the official laws of the state,” reported Techdirt.
The basic legal code is readily available for free online and in print, but the state claims in its suit that information in the annotated legal code is copyrighted.
The annotated legal code is currently available for $378 through legal publisher Lexis Nexis or through a complicated series of steps through the Georgia General Assembly website.
Malamud argues that public laws should not be subject to any form of copyright protection — and he says the courts have generally upheld that view.
america is a dump
State officials claim in a lawsuit filed last week that Carl Malamud had engaged in an 18-year “crusade to control the accessibility of U.S. government documents” by scanning and reposting the annotated version of the Georgia legal code, which courts often rely on to make decisions on the law, on his website Public.Resource.org.
The state also “points directly to the annotated version as the official laws of the state,” reported Techdirt.
The basic legal code is readily available for free online and in print, but the state claims in its suit that information in the annotated legal code is copyrighted.
The annotated legal code is currently available for $378 through legal publisher Lexis Nexis or through a complicated series of steps through the Georgia General Assembly website.
Malamud argues that public laws should not be subject to any form of copyright protection — and he says the courts have generally upheld that view.
america is a dump
http://redalertpolitics.com/thirty-under-thirty/
lmaoooo look @ these fuckin conservanerds. and here's two of the teen honorees (cj pearson age 12 and caiden cowger age 17) having a tiff https://twitter.com/CaidenCowger/status/618896161127043072
lmaoooo look @ these fuckin conservanerds. and here's two of the teen honorees (cj pearson age 12 and caiden cowger age 17) having a tiff https://twitter.com/CaidenCowger/status/618896161127043072
its great that cats are soft. what a beautiful world we live in
tbh idk why companies think customers want to be pestered by employees constantly in some stores
its obvious nobody likes it, this is one of the reasons why capitalism needs to be destroyed
its obvious nobody likes it, this is one of the reasons why capitalism needs to be destroyed
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“I left home when I was younger, thinking there was more out there for me. I wanted to live in the outside world so badly, it all just looked so vibrant. I wasn’t gone for more than a week when I realized it wasn’t as wonderful as I’d imagined it to be. As they say, all that dangles is not string.”
- Oyster, Williamsburg
extracts from 'Buying and Selling the Souls of Our Children: A Closer Look at Pokemon.'
(Anonymous) 2015-07-29 01:13 am (UTC)(link)http://imgur.com/a/MqOai
lmfao
lmfao
lol i just found a .txt file of old rp intros, most written before 2009
im dying
im dying
why do i have a gif of chris chan twerking on my computer
just 2 more replies then im done
but im so fucking lazy
but im so fucking lazy
i crave chipotle burrito bowls all the time these days but i cant afford to keep eating out
do u think i should buy ingredients to try and make them at home (or just any kind of burrito bowl) or would it be nasty. im not a good cook and idk how hard it would be.
do u think i should buy ingredients to try and make them at home (or just any kind of burrito bowl) or would it be nasty. im not a good cook and idk how hard it would be.
i cut all my toenails except for my right big toe toenail
and when i went to clip the nail the clippers broke in my hand
toenail 2 strong and now i have this awkwardly long toenail
and when i went to clip the nail the clippers broke in my hand
toenail 2 strong and now i have this awkwardly long toenail
time jump is a lazy way for a writer to get out of the mess they wrote themselves into
Normally I try and let ignorant shit pass me by on tumblr, but I am not here for this at all. All you have to do is Look At Their Mission Statement but I’ll lay it out here too.
1) Medieval POC is run by a white person: Wrong. She’s addressed it multiple times on her blog that she is a person of color, but also that she is not black. This isn’t a secret.
2) “Eurocentric commentary” = “ The focus of this blog is to showcase works of art from European history that feature People of Color. All too often, these works go unseen in museums, Art History classes, online galleries, and other venues because of retroactive whitewashing of Medieval Europe, Scandinavia, and Asia. …
My purpose in creating this blog is to address common misconceptions that People of Color did not exist in Europe before the Enlightenment, and to emphasize the cognitive dissonance in the way this is reflected in media produced today.” http://medievalpoc.tumblr.com/missionstatement
I don’t really know what else there is to say about this, except that to say that while of course it is important to learn about art history & non-colonial/whitewashed history in places other than Europe, that is not and never has been the purpose of the blog, and given the amount of racists that she engages with on a regular basis who think a multicultural London is a 21st century invention, it is a niche that needs filling and academic support.
3) Most of her posts are literally just pieces of art that feature people of color.
“Although the focus is toward art dating from the fall of the Roman Empire until about 1650, it will also include Baroque and/or Early Modern pieces, as well as works from places other than Europe, Scandinavia and Asia.Ancient Greek, Egyptian and Celtic works featuring People of Color are also fair game”
As for the research explanations: she links to all of her sources and actively encourages people to seek their own explanations and not take the blog at its word. She admits publicly when she is wrong, a lot like the way academia is supposed to work, because it is a conversation.
4) It seems pretty stupid to compare being a salaried employee as an adjunct professor to being an academic blogger providing resources for free on the internet and relying on donations.
But if you want to:
Here’s the link to medievalpoc’s patreon: https://www.patreon.com/medievalpoc?ty=h#/_=_
She’s making, as of 7/27/15: $1044/mo, or $12,528 a year.
The average adjunct professor makes, NPR reports in 2013, $20-$25,000 annually, and payscale.com states an average of $31,000 annually.
Even if medievalpoc makes it to $2,000 a month, she’s not making any more than the average adjunct professor; and adjunct professors are paid shit.
5) Seriously quit talking shit about medievalpoc, which is doing wonders to undermine the “historical accuracy in fantasy novels” and “the only black people in Europe were slaves until Recent History,” unless you can cite your fucking sources.
1) Medieval POC is run by a white person: Wrong. She’s addressed it multiple times on her blog that she is a person of color, but also that she is not black. This isn’t a secret.
2) “Eurocentric commentary” = “ The focus of this blog is to showcase works of art from European history that feature People of Color. All too often, these works go unseen in museums, Art History classes, online galleries, and other venues because of retroactive whitewashing of Medieval Europe, Scandinavia, and Asia. …
My purpose in creating this blog is to address common misconceptions that People of Color did not exist in Europe before the Enlightenment, and to emphasize the cognitive dissonance in the way this is reflected in media produced today.” http://medievalpoc.tumblr.com/missionstatement
I don’t really know what else there is to say about this, except that to say that while of course it is important to learn about art history & non-colonial/whitewashed history in places other than Europe, that is not and never has been the purpose of the blog, and given the amount of racists that she engages with on a regular basis who think a multicultural London is a 21st century invention, it is a niche that needs filling and academic support.
3) Most of her posts are literally just pieces of art that feature people of color.
“Although the focus is toward art dating from the fall of the Roman Empire until about 1650, it will also include Baroque and/or Early Modern pieces, as well as works from places other than Europe, Scandinavia and Asia.Ancient Greek, Egyptian and Celtic works featuring People of Color are also fair game”
As for the research explanations: she links to all of her sources and actively encourages people to seek their own explanations and not take the blog at its word. She admits publicly when she is wrong, a lot like the way academia is supposed to work, because it is a conversation.
4) It seems pretty stupid to compare being a salaried employee as an adjunct professor to being an academic blogger providing resources for free on the internet and relying on donations.
But if you want to:
Here’s the link to medievalpoc’s patreon: https://www.patreon.com/medievalpoc?ty=h#/_=_
She’s making, as of 7/27/15: $1044/mo, or $12,528 a year.
The average adjunct professor makes, NPR reports in 2013, $20-$25,000 annually, and payscale.com states an average of $31,000 annually.
Even if medievalpoc makes it to $2,000 a month, she’s not making any more than the average adjunct professor; and adjunct professors are paid shit.
5) Seriously quit talking shit about medievalpoc, which is doing wonders to undermine the “historical accuracy in fantasy novels” and “the only black people in Europe were slaves until Recent History,” unless you can cite your fucking sources.
the dude who illegally hunted a lion in zimbabwe's yelp page
http://www.yelp.com/biz/river-bluff-dental-bloomington
http://www.yelp.com/biz/river-bluff-dental-bloomington
would ignorant opinions be a deal breaker in a friendship for u?
i've been getting to know this person and i rly like her and we have a lot in common but she has this mentality that women who dress provocatively are ~asking to be catcalled and that women should dress conservatively "for their own protection". it doesnt come up often, only a handful of times, but also its bc i actively avoid topics where it might i think. obv i dont agree with it at all and ive said as much but we end up just kind of awkwardly moving on to the next thing so its not like im setting out to change her mind or anything. i dont think i could.
its dumb but its also such a common dumb that idk if its rly that big of a deal to overlook? or is that fake af to pretend its nbd.
i've been getting to know this person and i rly like her and we have a lot in common but she has this mentality that women who dress provocatively are ~asking to be catcalled and that women should dress conservatively "for their own protection". it doesnt come up often, only a handful of times, but also its bc i actively avoid topics where it might i think. obv i dont agree with it at all and ive said as much but we end up just kind of awkwardly moving on to the next thing so its not like im setting out to change her mind or anything. i dont think i could.
its dumb but its also such a common dumb that idk if its rly that big of a deal to overlook? or is that fake af to pretend its nbd.
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