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...court to decide), and it hasn’t been tested in court yet because the expense of litigation tends to drive people towards settlement. What technologies will now never see the light of day because their developers aren’t willing to take on the potential risk?Lest we think this is only a problem for us laypeople, it should be noted that the record labels might also feel uneasy about Grokster: the inducement standard is sufficiently vague to allow those with genuinely malicious intent easy loopholes. i2hub and Grokster may have shut down, but Morpheus and LimeWire...
...inertia, complacency and inadequacy of Japan's armed forces. Rather than offering the usual congratulations for support in Iraq and the Indian Ocean, Lawless called Japan's military initiatives over the years "quite modest." Japan's defense planning, Lawless said, was "episodic rather than systemic ... reactive rather than proactive." Lest there be any doubt about the message, Lawless spelled it out: "Japan must start doing things for itself that it has historically expected the U.S. to do on its behalf. We have to bring the substance of the alliance up to the level it should have achieved a long time...
...dangerous. But as the Balkans reminded everyone, the global city has no police force. Bosnia has been a tragedy of peacemaking turned against itself: the U.N.'s lightly armed blue helmets became virtual hostages to the Serbs and an excuse for Europeans and Americans not to use real force lest the peacekeepers be hurt. The collapse of international law and civil behavior, and the failure of the U.S. or Europe to do anything effective to stop the killing, helped subvert the idea that the world had made much progress toward the higher brain. The feckless sighing and the elaborate international...
...lest one naively think, “I can be different. I do not fit this Harvard mold,” I would have to correct you. Think of how you got here. You did well in school, because that was what one was supposed to do. You played a musical instrument, because your parents inculcated that ability as a symbol of excellence. You ran for leadership positions because your teachers encouraged you to do so. (Of course there are some genuinely brilliant kids who have developed their talents without such constant prodding, but they fall...
...nosing in wherever it can make things substantially more convenient—the subtle implications of the changes often going unnoticed until they’ve been observed carefully for quite some time. And further, those implications may in many regards be overwhelmingly positive. But lest we cave in some sense to the demands of the ever-growing Facebook group which proposes the California Relocation of Harvard University, we ought to recognize that despite how irritating alarm clocks might seem, and despite how unappealing the blustery walk to Maxwell Dworkin might be, there really is something to the buildings...