The way I always understood it is the CEO is essentially being paid off. Being in that position you'd know lots of sensitive information about a place. Giving them fat cash even when they sucked ensures their best interests are still kept in mind.
Holy balls, Batman. I hope you're being sarcastic. Our legal system (in the US at least) was set up with the mind set that it is better for ten guilty people to go free than to have one innocent be punished for something they didn't do.
Though, depending on which state you are in you may be required to at least provide your name. According to the linked wikipedia page Oklahoma doesn't even have a 'stop and identify' law let alone a 'papers please' law.
I'm kind of the opposite. I prefer foreigners to all the worthless Americans I'm surrounded by in the States. The foreigners always strive to achieve whereas USAians think they deserve everything without working for it.
My cousin and a few other friends were in the beta as well. While my cousin experienced no real issues my other two friends would actually have their computers restart randomly while playing Aion.
Seriously, it was only a few years ago that the US had the best networks around and was on the cutting edge with cell phones. But we are seriously lagging now.
Um...we've never been on the cutting edge with cell technology.
Any such controversy or claim shall be arbitrated on an individual basis, and shall not be consolidated in any arbitration with any claim or controversy of any other party.
"In Comb v. PayPal, Inc., 218 F. Supp. 2d 1165 (N.D. Cal. 2002), two subscribers and one nonsubscriber to PayPal's electronic disbursement service sued PayPal..."
The arbitration clause prohibited any consolidation of consumer claims. The court found this unconscionable because in practice most claims would involve consumers seeking a small amount of money and the costs of recovering those funds would be so high it would create the "potential for millions of customers to be overcharged small amounts without an effective method of redress."...
I agree. Years ago PayPal had this in their terms of service. In addition they had a stipulation that you could only sue them in their home state, which I now I forget.
At the time people were having bogus charges taken out of their accounts, we'll say $100, and because you couldn't form a class action it wasn't worth the money to sue them independently.
Some people did get together and sue them over not being able to form a class action and it was ruled that their TOS weren't fair or some such.
I could go dig through my old Cyberlaw book if anyone is interested but I can't remember the specifics off the top of my head.
This could go a long way towards treating other drugs like alcohol for driving purposes. One of the major roadblocks in legalization was no field test for driving while impaired.
They do have tests for testing whether or not you're impaired. I've heard people mention this before in that "but if you're stoned you can still pass the field sobriety tests". If you pass the sobriety tests then you aren't really impaired, are you?
IMO the first two were great. It's when he got the brilliant idea of directing AND writing the screenplay for the third movie that it sucked the hard one.
While I enjoy the Evil Dead movies I'll never understand what made him think he was qualified to write the screenplay for Spiderman. He totally ruined it.
They're obviously doing this so that their employees provide a better experience to the customers (as in come off as happier/friendlier).
It is silly though as well as overboard. And from my experience the Japanese are polite/respectful enough that a smile (forced one at that) really isn't needed.
I'll tell you who does need this though: US Customs agents. Seriously. Only instead of measuring the 'smile' factor it should measure power-trip probability and general douchebaggery. Then they can wear the results around all day so we civs will know which agent booths to avoid.
And of course money from the feds. Which is why they can pressure states into passing laws they wouldn't otherwise pass. Don't want to pass a law lowering the legal drinking age? No money!
I don't disagree with the second amendment per se, but implying that it holds the government in check has always seemed silly to me.
I agree. It made a lot more sense when guns were really all there was. Course there were cannons and such, but still. Primarily guns.
Now days I don't think we'd do a whole lot trying to go up against the US Armed Forces. Heck, you can't even get an automatic weapon (legally) without a ton of paperwork and being put on a watch list because of it.
We should be allowed a hell of a lot more fire power in keeping with the second amendment.
How refreshing. It's because of people like you that our rights are continually being eroded. "What's that? There be terrorists!? Perform whatever security theater is necessary to make me feel safe!"
Also, I don't see how your private property comment relates to anything. The only reason this whole security theater exists is because the feds force the airlines into it.
Are you daft? The point is they had no business pulling him aside to begin with just because he had a stack of cash on him.
I'm so sick of mentalities such as yours. "He's just being an asshole!" No, he's exercising his god damn rights. Again, the whole point is TSA has been stomping all over people's rights searching them and detaining them and we can't let them do that.
It's bad enough when real law enforcement think they can get away with anything they like. But these guys are just fake cops...god damn.
But at the same time I can't imagine anyone's mom or grandmother installing windows either. Most systems come preloaded so a lot of people who do use windows don't actually know anything about installing it.
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Fucking [insert your label here] people, go generalize more.
I'll never understand why so many people here blame so many ills on the free market when we currently do not even have a free market.
The way I always understood it is the CEO is essentially being paid off. Being in that position you'd know lots of sensitive information about a place. Giving them fat cash even when they sucked ensures their best interests are still kept in mind.
Out of curiosity (honestly), what is wrong with pbs? The NOVA stuff is too similar to the other channels for you? Too dumbed down?
Holy balls, Batman. I hope you're being sarcastic. Our legal system (in the US at least) was set up with the mind set that it is better for ten guilty people to go free than to have one innocent be punished for something they didn't do.
Note that I don't really like the CfC idea, but it's ridiculous to say it failed because it worked too well.
It didn't fail because it worked too well. It failed because it was a waste of fucking money!. $24,000 per car? Really?
That is most certainly false.
Though, depending on which state you are in you may be required to at least provide your name. According to the linked wikipedia page Oklahoma doesn't even have a 'stop and identify' law let alone a 'papers please' law.
Not sure why this is marked as troll.
I get the biggest kick out of the pro-medicare, anti-national health care people.
I'm kind of the opposite. I prefer foreigners to all the worthless Americans I'm surrounded by in the States. The foreigners always strive to achieve whereas USAians think they deserve everything without working for it.
So many of their films have dancing/singing animals because they love reusing shit.
My cousin and a few other friends were in the beta as well. While my cousin experienced no real issues my other two friends would actually have their computers restart randomly while playing Aion.
Seriously, it was only a few years ago that the US had the best networks around and was on the cutting edge with cell phones. But we are seriously lagging now.
Um...we've never been on the cutting edge with cell technology.
An excerpt from the TOS:
Any such controversy or claim shall be arbitrated on an individual basis, and shall not be consolidated in any arbitration with any claim or controversy of any other party.
"In Comb v. PayPal, Inc., 218 F. Supp. 2d 1165 (N.D. Cal. 2002), two subscribers and one nonsubscriber to PayPal's electronic disbursement service sued PayPal..."
The arbitration clause prohibited any consolidation of consumer claims. The court found this unconscionable because in practice most claims would involve consumers seeking a small amount of money and the costs of recovering those funds would be so high it would create the "potential for millions of customers to be overcharged small amounts without an effective method of redress."...
At the time people were having bogus charges taken out of their accounts, we'll say $100, and because you couldn't form a class action it wasn't worth the money to sue them independently.
Some people did get together and sue them over not being able to form a class action and it was ruled that their TOS weren't fair or some such.
I could go dig through my old Cyberlaw book if anyone is interested but I can't remember the specifics off the top of my head.
This could go a long way towards treating other drugs like alcohol for driving purposes. One of the major roadblocks in legalization was no field test for driving while impaired.
They do have tests for testing whether or not you're impaired. I've heard people mention this before in that "but if you're stoned you can still pass the field sobriety tests". If you pass the sobriety tests then you aren't really impaired, are you?
I agree. After their last stunt I really don't see why anyone should listen to them.
Good job, Greenpeace. Get everyone's attention by defacing a public monument.
IMO the first two were great. It's when he got the brilliant idea of directing AND writing the screenplay for the third movie that it sucked the hard one.
While I enjoy the Evil Dead movies I'll never understand what made him think he was qualified to write the screenplay for Spiderman. He totally ruined it.
"We will not sell the movie rights, not to you...especially not to you."
Ha.
They're obviously doing this so that their employees provide a better experience to the customers (as in come off as happier/friendlier).
It is silly though as well as overboard. And from my experience the Japanese are polite/respectful enough that a smile (forced one at that) really isn't needed.
I'll tell you who does need this though: US Customs agents. Seriously. Only instead of measuring the 'smile' factor it should measure power-trip probability and general douchebaggery. Then they can wear the results around all day so we civs will know which agent booths to avoid.
And of course money from the feds. Which is why they can pressure states into passing laws they wouldn't otherwise pass. Don't want to pass a law lowering the legal drinking age? No money!
I don't disagree with the second amendment per se, but implying that it holds the government in check has always seemed silly to me.
I agree. It made a lot more sense when guns were really all there was. Course there were cannons and such, but still. Primarily guns.
Now days I don't think we'd do a whole lot trying to go up against the US Armed Forces. Heck, you can't even get an automatic weapon (legally) without a ton of paperwork and being put on a watch list because of it.
We should be allowed a hell of a lot more fire power in keeping with the second amendment.
How refreshing. It's because of people like you that our rights are continually being eroded. "What's that? There be terrorists!? Perform whatever security theater is necessary to make me feel safe!"
Also, I don't see how your private property comment relates to anything. The only reason this whole security theater exists is because the feds force the airlines into it.
Are you daft? The point is they had no business pulling him aside to begin with just because he had a stack of cash on him.
I'm so sick of mentalities such as yours. "He's just being an asshole!" No, he's exercising his god damn rights. Again, the whole point is TSA has been stomping all over people's rights searching them and detaining them and we can't let them do that.
It's bad enough when real law enforcement think they can get away with anything they like. But these guys are just fake cops...god damn.
That quote is only half true according to this guy.
But at the same time I can't imagine anyone's mom or grandmother installing windows either. Most systems come preloaded so a lot of people who do use windows don't actually know anything about installing it.