Are Contemporary Community Standards No Longer Contemporary

This note concurs with the decision reached by the Third Circuit. The federal obscenity law, which incorporated the contemporary community standards test is unconstitutional as applied to expression on the internet because it has chilling effect on the exercise of freedom of speech as guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Because freedom of speech would be restrained by any incorporation of community standards in federal regulation of the internet, the legislature should refrain from adopting a standard that would apply in all internet situations. Rather, with respect to obscenity, the internet should be left to self-regulation. In reaching this conclusion, Part II provides a brief historical timeline in the development of obscenity law. Part IV of this comment examines the nature of the ever-changing medium of the internet and governmental actions directed at regulating speech expressed through this medium. After that, Part V of the article looks into the soundness of the contemporary community standards aspect of the current obscenity test as it applied to the internet, and also examines alternatives to the test. Finally, the comment concludes that the Miller v. California test for obscenity is not workable as applied to the internet and for lack of another constitutionally protective test, this medium should be left free from federal regulation

Are Contemporary Community Standards No Longer Contemporary

This note concurs with the decision reached by the Third Circuit. The federal obscenity law, which incorporated the contemporary community standards test is unconstitutional as applied to expression on the internet because it has chilling effect on the exercise of freedom of speech as guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Because freedom of speech would be restrained by any incorporation of community standards in federal regulation of the internet, the legislature should refrain from adopting a standard that would apply in all internet situations. Rather, with respect to obscenity, the internet should be left to self-regulation. In reaching this conclusion, Part II provides a brief historical timeline in the development of obscenity law. Part IV of this comment examines the nature of the ever-changing medium of the internet and governmental actions directed at regulating speech expressed through this medium. After that, Part V of the article looks into the soundness of the contemporary community standards aspect of the current obscenity test as it applied to the internet, and also examines alternatives to the test. Finally, the comment concludes that the Miller v. California test for obscenity is not workable as applied to the internet and for lack of another constitutionally protective test, this medium should be left free from federal regulation

Long-Time Asymptotics for the Camassa-Holm Equation

We apply the method of nonlinear steepest descent to compute the long-time asymptotics of the Camassa-Holm equation for decaying initial data, completing previous results by A. Boutet de Monvel and D. Shepelsky.Comment: 30 page

On the theory of structuring magnetic suspensions

The results of the three-dimensional computer and analytical simulation are presented for the kinetics of chain-shaped aggregate growth in suspensions of magnetizable non-Brownian particles. The results of the computer experiment show that, when the volume fraction of particles is no larger than 2-3%, chain-shaped aggregates are formed in the suspensions under the action of a field. The dependence of average number <n> of particles in a chain on time t is adequately described by the power law <n> = Ct k . The experiment indicates that, in contract to the common power approximations, in which exponent k is considered to be a universal constant parameter, it depends on the concentration of particles and their interactions with walls bounding a suspension. At concentrations noticeably exceeding 2-3%, dense bulk aggregates are formed in suspensions. The kinetics of their growth depends on the sizes of a suspension-containing vessel. © 2013 Pleiades Publishing, Ltd

Temperature deformations of the mirror of a radio telescope antenna

The stress informed state of the mirror of an antenna, with a diameter of 3 m, for a radio interferometer used in space, and located in a temperature field is examined. The mirror represents a parabolic shell, consisting of 19 identical parts. The problem is based on representations of the thermoelasticity of thin shells