Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alighieri who wrote (176677)	10/15/2003 1:42:47 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574096

Al, re: I was trying to make you see a point through a bad analogy... After the scarecrow gets a brain, he states the Pythagorean Theorem. "the sum of the square roots of any two sides...is equal to the square root of the remaining side." Brainless remark retracted. re:Now buzz off. Click your heals three times Dorothy.

To: Alighieri who wrote (176677)	10/15/2003 3:25:47 PM
From: brian1501	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574096

Yelling fire falsely in a crowded theater is a dangerous prank and against the law not an example of free speech limitation. How is this not an example of free speech limitation? You said something. Saying that something turns out to be illegal, thus it is a limitation of free speech. Being a prank has nothing to do with it. Brian

To: Alighieri who wrote (176677)	10/15/2003 3:34:31 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574096

Yelling fire falsely in a crowded theater is a dangerous prank and against the law not an example of free speech limitation. You are, of course, incorrect. In fact, the very analogy was made originally by Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in the early 1900s, when he flat out said that a strict construction of Freedom of Speech would allow one to shout fire in a crowded theatre. Then he went on to explain how Freedom of Speech specifically does not extend to allow one to yell fire in a crowded theater. Thus, there IS a free speech limitation to prohibit such activity.