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My God, it's nothing but football and crime shows!

Do you think maybe the two are related

No offense, but the term ignorant comes to mind when I read your comment. Just so you know, there are plenty of references to my "Completely Untrue Statement". Seriously, if you want to whine about your tax dollars, find out how much of them go to subsidize big oil and then wonder why people think and say negative things about the Loner Star State.

This technique was demonstrated in "Badge of Deceit" - The Randy Comeaux Case, a "Forensic Files" episode on CourtTV.

That's the same Hollwood Accounting that calculated zero net profit from Forrest Gump out of a $660,000,000 worldwide gross in 1994. A good way to cheat the author, producer and screenwriter since they accepted a smaller upfront fee in exchange for royalties from net profits.

Katie Sierra is anti-American scum who should be given the death penalty. What she did was worse than David Westerfield, and "freedom of speech" is not freedom to dissent and try to overthrow our Godly government with treasonous t-shirts and an anti-American Anarchy club!

She deserves some West Virginia justice!!!

They already ripped someone off this way in the past!

A disappointed TV viewer had sued Pepsico for failure to provide the Harrier jet he thought he had won in the soft drink company's "Pepsi Stuff" ad campaign. The TV commercials in the campaign featured various apparel and leisure items that could be obtained in exchange for Pepsi Points. The close of one commercial showed a teenager arriving at school in a Harrier Jet with a Pepsi logo on it and offered the jet for 7,000,000 Pepsi Points. Leonard accumulated 15 actual Pepsi Points and submitted them with a check for $700,008.50 to purchase the balance of Pepsi Points he needed for the Harrier Jet. But, he did not receive the jet. He's now suing Pepsi for fraud, deceptive advertising and breach of contract. Pepsi says the lawsuit is frivolous.

Stuff like the following story happens even in cases where the authorities don't have much to gain (other than perhaps a closed investigation). Think of what happens when you start to piss off somebody with real juice.

What terrorist act would the additional DMV information be likely to stop?

While I don't promote violence of any kind, I believe I'm far more likely to suffer at the hands of my own government than at the hands of terrorists. Rather than hope unpleasant stuff won't happen, or hope that someone else will act so I don't have to, I'm finally willing to do something about it.

Perhaps that starts by simply saying what I believe.

"What?! You don't support them communists^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H terrorists, do you?"

- I love my country, but not always my country's government



http://www.courttv.com/news/2002/0411/innocent_ap. html

BALTIMORE (AP) -- Henry Roberts was arrested, charged and convicted of murdering his nephew in 1991. Like many defendants, he professed his innocence each step of the way.

This time, though, the defendant was right.

Police reopened the case two years ago after two witnesses told them that Robert Tomczewski, 29, had admitted to shooting Henry Harrison, 21. Roberts, they said, was innocent.

Tomczewski, who has been in and out of prison since 1992, was arrested for the crime in May 2000, a day before he was to be released from prison for an unrelated crime.

Tomczewski admitted to the killing in a plea deal on Monday.

Once they believed they had the right man, prosecutors went to try and release Roberts. They were too late: The 66-year-old had died behind bars in 1996.

"I think that everybody was acting on the information that they had before them, doing the job to the best of their ability," Patricia Jessamy, Baltimore's state's attorney, said Wednesday.

Roberts, a retired steel worker, had no criminal record and was critically wounded when Harrison, 21, was murdered in front of him in his East Baltimore home on May 11, 1991.

- article continues at courttv.com -

Just on NT:
this link gives some of the details on it from '96 when Netscape was making the big bucks with their web server software.

Garrison v. Warner Bros.

The world of motion pictures is "a never-never land of illusion," according to this class action complaint brought against the major studios, referring not to the movie magic that has made Hollywood famous but to the bookkeeping techniques that may be unique to Hollywood studios.

The suit was filed by the heirs of Jim Garrison, the late New Orleans District Attorney, who wrote "On the Trail of the Assassins," the book that inspired Oliver Stone's film, "JFK."

According to the Garrison estate, the film has earned over $150 million for Warner Bros., the studio that distributed the film, but has still not shown a "net profit" in which the Garrison estate is entitled to share.

This complaint goes into the history of Hollywood's allegedly "creative" bookkeeping practices, from the days of the nickelodeon through the "Golden Age" and the modern era where major stars have the clout to share in the gross revenue of a film, avoiding the studio's allegedly problematic definition of "net profit."

The parent company of Warner Bros., Time Warner Inc., is a part owner of Court TV.

They say they do, but I can't tell. The city is so small, and the borders are porous - lots of guns come in. I know two people who probably shouldn't have guns in the first place: one is afraid of getting robbed in DC so he always brings his gun when he has to go there (Bernhard Goetz syndrome, I think). He's never been caught, nor robbed for that matter, in DC.

The other is a shady tow-truck operator, stealing, I mean towing, cars from night clubs -- he gets shot at sometimes, so he shoots back. Once the police noticed - I think they confiscated his gun, and I don't know what happened after that... he wasn't immediately thrown in jail, and luckily I didn't see any more of him before his court hearing.

So, basically, no, people can bring them in pretty freely. I read a funny story about a guy who wanted to register his shotgun (legal if you register it, but then again, there's no place to hunt in DC) - the police were kindof flabbergasted and didn't know what to do!

The point is not that Bush is letting Microsoft off the hook

I figured this would happen; called it several months ago. But just like in the case of a certain football player some time ago, the damage has been done, and despite the lack of a serious criminal punishment, in both cases everybody knows what happened. In the one case, a certain induhvidual will never have a girlfriend with brains again, and in the other... well, we'll have to wait and see, but it should be an interesting ride.

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Sooner or later, in light of all this, you're going to need a Linux guru

The person to whom you were replying was correct. Miranda Rights are named after Ernesto Miranda, who was convicted on the basis of a confession. In 1966, the Supreme Court ruled on his case (and two others which were similar) that the confessions had been coerced and were therefore a violation of the defendant's 5th amendment rights. It is worth noting that Miranda was given another trial (where the confession was not admitted) and he was convicted of armed robbery, kidnapping, and rape and served 11 years.

Your comment about his death is correct, also. It is certainly ironic that the suspect in the murder of the person for whom Miranda rights are named invoked those rights, and, in light of the lack of evidence, was freed.

Who can tell whether customization is successful anyway? MS systems are already fragile enough that it will be hard to tell whether there are problems due to OEM customization.

If that is true, which I can't find any reference to on the net, then my apologies. I'd appreciate a reference to this murder.

Done and done.

Yes, I have to agree with that, Jackson was out of line talking to the press and if anything will hurt his case more I don't know of it.

You can see the videos of Gates' deposition here. Apparently a number of them caused uproar in the court room.

Hmmm. Apparently, he served half of a six-year sentence.

Seems rather low, but it's a state (Indiana) law, so sentencing guidelines will vary dramatically.

Here in PA, the first link I found on Google for ("Pennsylvania criminal code") states that rape is considered a first-degree felony, which can result in a 20-year sentence for a first offense, plus 10 years if any drugs (as in the Mickey Finn variety, not narcotics) were involved.

Sounds cool, doesn't it? But now companies could start being able to restrict what you hook up to your computer. Sony does like HP right now? Now Trinitrons won't work on your Pavilion PC.

As I understand it, this would be a violation of the Clayton Act, similar to some of the arguments against Microsoft. However, if Sony developed their own proprietary interlink system (see connector conspiracy), and made it difficult for other people to develop to that spec (as Intel did with Slot 1), they could effectively accomplish the same task, although the ground is murky there.

IANAL, so this is all supposition based on similar fiascoes I've seen in the past, at best vaguely remembered.

cellophane

escalator

thermos

nylon

harmonica

linoleum

trampoline

yo-yo

zipper

Here's a link and here's another.

So the question is did the Olympics become common usage or has the modern olympic commite reinstated the mark's value through their promotion, and thus should get exclusive use of the mark. Aparently the people who assign trademarks felt they had a valid mark (but its equally possible they were wrong).

However, trademarks are only protected for use in trade and aren't ment to stop free expression. Thus you should be able to set up a non-profit site like www.theolympicssuck.org and they shouldn't be able to stop you. OTOH the intent and the implementation of the law often aren't the same.

Always be aware of the basic rule of the road, you may be in the right but do you really want to try to prove it by stepping into a crosswalk in front of the speeding truck?

If you deliberately destroying evidence in a federal civil case, you may have committed the federal crime of obstruction of justice. (Here's an indictment brought by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York on just those grounds.) Talk to your lawyer about how to protect your interests before you go around destroying anything.

Pepsi refused to award the jet. The guy sued and the judge sided with Pepsi. Nothing was awarded, no Harrier jet, no cash value of a Harrier jet.

Read up here: http://www.courttv.com/people /1999/0806/pepsi_ap.html

Interesting bit about Natural Born Killers:

A woman in Amite, Louisiana, was suing Oliver Stone along with just about everybody else involved in the production and distribution of the film -- she'd been shot during a crime spree that was supposedly inspired by the movie. The shooters were said to have watched Natural Born Killers repeatedly before setting out on their adventure. Or whatever you'd call it.

Both of the criminals -were- over 18 at the time of the crime. This case isn't even a "kids are impressionable, let's protect them" one -- according to the plaintiffs, we're all impressionable, and the defendants should have known the movie "would cause and inspire people such as the defendants to commit crimes."

Let's just lock it all up, why don't we?

Oh, forget it. I'm not really sure what I was trying to say here. It is an interesting case, though. People have tried this sort of thing before, and it generally doesn't work, but who knows what a jury in a smallish southern town will say about it?