After too many complaints about being 10 minutes late after the previous day having been a "long" one, combined with two consecutive Fridays becoming 24-hour shifts, I finally had enough and just quit.
Funny how the employer who complained about $20 per hour now has no problem with $75 per hour. And I actually have a little liesure time.
Let's face it, in the real world experience and achievement will get you hired way faster than any degree (outside of regulated/licensed professions). I personally know people with BS degrees in IT who can't even figure out setting up a simple Windows domain, can explain subnetting, or program even a very simple Access database.
Degrees and certs only really count if you can back them up with actually having done something. They don't impress me at all by themselves.
Pure and simple, Nesson has totally screwed over his client in a big way here. I've said it before and I'll say it again - the role of a trial attorney is to defend the client, not to try to make some wild social statement.
Unless he's just using the case to advance an agenda and will pay the judgement out of his own pocket, that is. In which case, fine, Tannembaum is just a proxy for Nesson to have standing to argue in court.
But if he chunks this case and leaves the defendant holding the bag, he's lower than even the lowest bottom-sucker.
My question is what measures the authorities will resort to to get the fines paid. Is it possible that they will just keep imprisoning these guys over and over until they cough up the cash?
Pittsburgh is very much a "sprawling suburbs" area. The entire county (Allegheny) has a population of 1.2 million, of which under 300,000 live in the Pittsburgh city limits.
Actually, the Pittsburgh Metro region extends to pretty much cover the surrounding counties as well.
The area has weathered the recession very well, having not been affected much by the housing boom and not having finance as its main industry.
There most certainly will be attacks, as there are just too many asshats for there not to be.
The first line of defense is the same as anything else: someone calls the authorities when they see one shaping up. Then an investigation can do a "sting" and take them down, as was recently the case in New York.
The second line of defense is to stop attacks in progress if at all possible. That means armed responders and/or civillians nearby.
Cameras may be slightly helpful, but most likely the response will still be too slow and uncoordinated to be effectual, especially in a crowd.
The last line of defense is actually the most important: realize that we can occasionally be hit, and show some resilience. Do tell the story on the news, but don't go wall-to-wall with it for days or weeks. Have some nuts and keep living as normally as possible.
Terrorism is a form of psychological warfare from an individual or enemy who is too weak to directly attack.
On the Pirate Bay issue, I agree with him. They were running an organized conspiracy specifically to violate copyright law, even as written in Sweden. The smug attitude before, during, and after the trial destroys any bit of sympathy I ever had for these people. "Even if I had the money, I would burn it first" doesn't make one a sympathetic character. Screw them.
I don't like the *AA side at all, but that doesn't mean that the pirates are heroes to me. The best-case scenerio is that they share a cell block.
As for Canada, not so much. That's just him being a good *AA-owned property.
I have to reserve judgement until I know the details of Google's patent deal. It is possible that it includes downstream use.
All patent licenses are not the same. Some are a per-unit royalty, others are a lump-sum purchase of the use of the invention. It's even possible that Google did negotiate "downstream redistribution" of the library if they paid enough cash.
I've given up on Buydomains because they price unregistered "premium" domains (ie: anything readable) sky-high. A name that I wanted was $200 through them, but $15 via another registrar.
Some frequency bands DO regulate the permissible modulation as a term of the license. In the "TV Bands" broadcasters are required to use the patented ATSC system, which includes patented MPEG.
The issue isn't mandating technical standards at all. What IS an issue is mandating the use of something that requires a private-party royalty payment.
Perhaps a better model would be something similar to bidding on a public contract. A patent adopted as a public standard under such a system would revert to the public domain in exchange for a payment, which could be collected from licensees as part of the license fee, but must remain free for use in recievers.
What if I did license some spectrum, ensured that my emissions were always at least attenuated -80 dB outside of my bandwidth, and ran a non-dictated service?
It should never matter HOW the licensed spectrum is modulated so long as other licensees aren't affected.
Forgo the "college experience" entirely, do a military stint in a technical specialty, and avoid having to pay out a boatload of cash for a degree that has a minimial ROI anyhow.
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Actually, they should vote "no" on ANY bill that is 1500 pages long to begin with.
Hell, the entire US Code should be less than that length to begin with. We don't need an entire library of statutes - just good laws.
After too many complaints about being 10 minutes late after the previous day having been a "long" one, combined with two consecutive Fridays becoming 24-hour shifts, I finally had enough and just quit.
Funny how the employer who complained about $20 per hour now has no problem with $75 per hour. And I actually have a little liesure time.
Incorporate.
Let's face it, in the real world experience and achievement will get you hired way faster than any degree (outside of regulated/licensed professions). I personally know people with BS degrees in IT who can't even figure out setting up a simple Windows domain, can explain subnetting, or program even a very simple Access database.
Degrees and certs only really count if you can back them up with actually having done something. They don't impress me at all by themselves.
Pure and simple, Nesson has totally screwed over his client in a big way here. I've said it before and I'll say it again - the role of a trial attorney is to defend the client, not to try to make some wild social statement.
Unless he's just using the case to advance an agenda and will pay the judgement out of his own pocket, that is. In which case, fine, Tannembaum is just a proxy for Nesson to have standing to argue in court.
But if he chunks this case and leaves the defendant holding the bag, he's lower than even the lowest bottom-sucker.
My question is what measures the authorities will resort to to get the fines paid. Is it possible that they will just keep imprisoning these guys over and over until they cough up the cash?
It is very important to always drink more beers before posting here. Otherwise, there is no chance of a +5 Insightful mod.
Pittsburgh is very much a "sprawling suburbs" area. The entire county (Allegheny) has a population of 1.2 million, of which under 300,000 live in the Pittsburgh city limits.
Actually, the Pittsburgh Metro region extends to pretty much cover the surrounding counties as well.
The area has weathered the recession very well, having not been affected much by the housing boom and not having finance as its main industry.
There most certainly will be attacks, as there are just too many asshats for there not to be.
The first line of defense is the same as anything else: someone calls the authorities when they see one shaping up. Then an investigation can do a "sting" and take them down, as was recently the case in New York.
The second line of defense is to stop attacks in progress if at all possible. That means armed responders and/or civillians nearby.
Cameras may be slightly helpful, but most likely the response will still be too slow and uncoordinated to be effectual, especially in a crowd.
The last line of defense is actually the most important: realize that we can occasionally be hit, and show some resilience. Do tell the story on the news, but don't go wall-to-wall with it for days or weeks. Have some nuts and keep living as normally as possible.
Terrorism is a form of psychological warfare from an individual or enemy who is too weak to directly attack.
The Constitution explicitly spells out when Presidential terms begin and end, and that can't be changed without an actual amendment.
Even the attempt would probably cause a civil war and/or military coup.
Make sure that there's a provision that any official who violates the new Constitution in any way is guilty of treason, and shall be executed.
Article 1, Section 8:
"The Congress shall have power... To establish post offices and post roads;"
Roads are totally Constitutional, especially if any mail is carried over them. Other uses can be considered to be incidental.
On the Pirate Bay issue, I agree with him. They were running an organized conspiracy specifically to violate copyright law, even as written in Sweden. The smug attitude before, during, and after the trial destroys any bit of sympathy I ever had for these people. "Even if I had the money, I would burn it first" doesn't make one a sympathetic character. Screw them.
I don't like the *AA side at all, but that doesn't mean that the pirates are heroes to me. The best-case scenerio is that they share a cell block.
As for Canada, not so much. That's just him being a good *AA-owned property.
Real men use an old TI-99/4A machine with a casette recorder, and files sent via RS-232 connections.
If you want a mainframe, maybe calling IBM and ordering one is a better way to go?
Good and bad.
It's good that they crushed a lot of bugs, but I'm used to fast and incremental crushing of bugs on Fedora.
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But that's because I live in Pittsburgh, where it's overcast with clouds constantly. We have weeks where we can't even see the Sun.
I have to reserve judgement until I know the details of Google's patent deal. It is possible that it includes downstream use.
All patent licenses are not the same. Some are a per-unit royalty, others are a lump-sum purchase of the use of the invention. It's even possible that Google did negotiate "downstream redistribution" of the library if they paid enough cash.
I've given up on Buydomains because they price unregistered "premium" domains (ie: anything readable) sky-high. A name that I wanted was $200 through them, but $15 via another registrar.
Some frequency bands DO regulate the permissible modulation as a term of the license. In the "TV Bands" broadcasters are required to use the patented ATSC system, which includes patented MPEG.
The issue isn't mandating technical standards at all. What IS an issue is mandating the use of something that requires a private-party royalty payment.
Perhaps a better model would be something similar to bidding on a public contract. A patent adopted as a public standard under such a system would revert to the public domain in exchange for a payment, which could be collected from licensees as part of the license fee, but must remain free for use in recievers.
What if I did license some spectrum, ensured that my emissions were always at least attenuated -80 dB outside of my bandwidth, and ran a non-dictated service?
It should never matter HOW the licensed spectrum is modulated so long as other licensees aren't affected.
Forgo the "college experience" entirely, do a military stint in a technical specialty, and avoid having to pay out a boatload of cash for a degree that has a minimial ROI anyhow.
Smoking crack is a job to those who need to stay wired 24-7.
The old saying of "when the going gets tough, the tough get going" applies perfectly to the parent post.
Congratulations for pulling yourself out of a bad situation!
They are just the right size to make excellent 200-yard rifle targets.
Or you could build an array out of them or something productive.
Shooting at them with a .308 would be more fun though.