Even though I haven't lived there since 1986. My mother, who has nothing else better to do, calls the number on the letter, and tells (brags) that her son is working on another continent. She has repeatedly requested that my name be removed from the list, which doesn't seem to work.
I'm the eJuror administrator at a Federal courthouse.
Jury wheels are based on voter registration rolls (or, in very few states, city/town residency records) for the state the court is in. If you're still getting service requests, it's because you haven't updated your voter registration to reflect your new address (or, in the aforementioned very few states, your local clerk is still submitting your name as a resident).
The jury wheel is reloaded every 1-4 years, depending on the district. If your name is still being submitted by the state or town, you're going to stay in the list. The people at the Federal courthouse don't have the authority to remove you from the list, and calling them will have no effect.
I was typing "Steelcase Leap Chair" into the reply box when I looked up and saw davelee's post.
So, yeah. What he said. I spend many of my waking hours in this chair, and it's all kinds of awesome.
I bought mine used, it was only a few hundred dollars. Before I got it, I was replacing Staple's "top of the line" chair every year, as the armrests disintegrated, the back fell off, and the mechanics stopped working.
> The photographer didn't give up his right to make copies at all.
You missed the part of my message where I stated that I have all the negatives. Understandable, considering that this statement comprised only 25% of the sentences in the messages. I can see where you'd miss it.
The photographer was permitted to keep copies of the 15 or 20 photographs he selected. Our licensing agreement allows him to use those images for a short list of narrowly-defined purposes, and no other. Making reprints is not on the list.
Elvis didn't write That's All Right. It was written by Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup.
The article is talking about the copyright to Elvis's recording of the tune. The tune itself is presumably already in the public domain in Great Britain.
> Many photographers will let you make whatever copies you want, but no photographer is going to > give up his right to make copies.
The photographer I hired for my wedding in 1999 did. I have a contract assigning all copyright to me, and I have all of the negatives (including the bloopers, flubs, and other fuckups). The photographer has a licensing agreement with me to use the images for his own advertising purposes.
> My father-in-law drives a Jetta with a horrible radio, and was told by an independent shop that a > certain key is required (?) to remove the radio from the dash, and that he'd have to go to the > dealer for that.
The tool for this is widely available, and it doesn't cost that much. If the stereo shop your father went to doesn't have one, he should find a different stereo shop.
> It seems that at least one of the websites that host(ed) the video has a racist leaning.
The video first appeared on Consumption Junction. You can read editor Paul's writeup about the incident here. CJ isn't even remotely "work-safe", so exercise discretion if you work somewhere that cares about these things.
I've been watching CJ for years now. They're a lot of things - offensive, distasteful, sick - but they're not really "racist".
> A better analogy would be if you were bottling a soda based on Coke's secret formula which you obtained illegally.
No, that one's wrong too. Coke's formula is a trade secret. That's a different animal from trademark, or patent, or copyright.
Not that the distinction matters. This is a breach of contract case with potential outcomes involving intellectual property. It's not an intellectual property case.
About Us We're I-bought-cheesy-puffs-on-the-interweb.com, a startup Fortune 23,500,000 company with a fantastic new idea! We're going to sell home-delivered cheese puffs over the interweb!
Project Requirements We'd need the sun, the moon, and the stars, as well as your first born child and a hand job. All source code must be provided, and you must assign all copyrights to us. We need this project completed within the next three hours. Contractor will be required to provide lifetime support for code base, even if we let the neighbor kid muck about in the source code (Janice says that he's a web developer, so he must be qualified. Besides, he's in the 10th grade now, we're sure he knows what he's doing).
Contractor Requirements
5-7 years of experience in developing large-scale database-driven interweb applications in whatever language we arbitrarily choose because the kid that mows the CEO's lawn says it's kewl.
7-10 years of hands on experience administering FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris, and Windows systems. Developer will be required to provide support for desktop users as part of his or her job.
7-10 years of hands-on experience administering relational databases.
PhD in Computer Science
MCP/MCSE/OCM/OCP/ABACAB certifications. All of them.
Special consideration will be given to applicants who can lend us a web server until we get started.
Compensation We offer a generous compensation package that includes free soda (Wednesdays only) and all the pretzels you can eat! Yay!
We'll also give you a title! Yes, you'll be the Supervisory Director of Internet Architectural Engineering (Junior)! That's the kind if title that you can almost pay a mortgage with! Almost.
Unfortunately, we can't offer compensation in the form of pay or benefits right now. When the interweb cheese puffs delivery service takes off, though, we'll pay you really, really well. Promise!
> However, I believe you are missing a very important point: In most of these types of cases, > the problem is the little guy has so much more to lose than the megacorp. If I get sued by a > big company, even if I'm 100% in the right, at some point if they are able to raise the stakes > enough, I will settle rather than proceed if there's even a slim chance I could lose.
I disagree.
First of all, your assets are small potatoes to Global Super Megacorporation. They're a multimillion (maybe billion) dollar company. There are only so many resources that they're going to throw at getting, what, a few hundred thousand dollars - which they'll probably never be able to collect anyway - out of you.
There's a reason that they try to intimidate you: because it costs them money if you don't buckle. If you stand up to them, they'll go bully an easier target.
> Said another way, it isn't enough to know that the vast majority of time the person who's right > prevails--because if it comes down to losing everything one has or even going to jail,
Only the government can put you in jail. Global Super Megacorporation does not have that authority.
It looks like we'll just have to disagree on this. I can see where you're coming from, but I could never allow myself to be bullied.
Nah, you're wrong, and the poster to whom you're replying has it right. Establishments pay a licensing fee to ASCAP/BMI/SESAC in order to host performances of the works in their catalogs. No further payment is necessary.
> If you cannot afford a good enough lawyer to make a convincing argument that the EULA should > not be valid, you will lose an enormous amount of money. In the event that you do hire a good > enough lawyer, you will only lose a large amount of money.
This is an unfortunately common misconception.
I have been sued twice in my life by people with far more money than I have. In one case, I defended myself - against their real "went to law school" attorneys - and won. In the second case, I hired an attorney, won, and they were forced to pay all my legal expenses.
Both times, the other parties tried to pull the "we're going to play the 500lb gorilla, and sue you into oblivion" routine. I think that they were expecting me to run screaming or something. I didn't. They lost.
Bring it on, lawyer-boy.
The common trait of both of these lawsuits? I was right. And, despite the cynicism that a lot of people seem to have about the American legal system, the person who's right will prevail in a vast majority of cases.
If someone threatens to sue you, and you're right, let them. Go in, make your case, and you'll probably prevail. A judge will know that you aren't an attorney, and generally cut you a fair amount of slack.
Speaking of "advertised", though, this article really lacks any level of critical thought, and the author's "test" isn't much of a challenge. Is ACR buying ad space on/. now?
The skills he has to improve in order to stay employed are those that cannot be shipped offshore, like becoming a plumber or an electrician.
AKA "Skilled labor", and it's what all the cool kids are doing right now.
I know a guy that runs a refrigeration service company. He can't find mechanics, despite his generous compensation and benefits packages.
I know another guy who runs an auto body shop. Same story.
Another, auto repair (mechanical), same story.
I was in the bank a few weeks ago, and the guy behind me in line was the owner of a refrigeration company (different guy that the one mentioned above). We got to talking, and I mentioned that I had worked for a refrigeration company over the summers during high school and college. Despite the fact that I had no formal training, no license to handle the gasses, and that more than a decade had passed since I held that job, he offered to hire me on the spot.
"I can't find mechanics."
"I'm not a mechanic. I know how the systems work, and I know how to use the tools, but I'm really not qualified for that kind of job. Look, I have soft, babylike programmer fingers."
"I don't care. I'll hire you as a helper, you can learn as you go. When you're ready to take the certification tests, I'll pay for them."
I politey declined but, wow, this guy sounded more desperate than any former "web developer" I've heard whining on/.
If you're a youngin', go to you local Navy recruiter and tell him or her that you want to learn to weld. That's a ticket to a lifetime of job security if there ever was one. Even if you don't want to stay in when your enlistment is up, there is always a demand for certified welders.
If you're going to spend money on educating yourself, learn to fix cars. Learn to fix heating and air conditioning systems. Plumbing. Electrical work. Any skilled trade will get you a job - not an air-conditioned desk job pushing a mouse around, maybe - but a good job with a fair amount of security.
> There was a lady on the show who called herself "The Recipe Detective."
Was?
For information and 20 free recipes, send a SASE to:
Gloria Pitzer Box 237 Marysville, MI., 48040
Ms. Pitzer publishes a number of cookbooks, all of which you can order directly. Information here. She also publishes a quarterly newsletter for $16 per year, send it to the same address.
Ms. Pitzer is on WNZK 690AM out of Detroit every Tuesday from 10:30am to 11:00am. You can listen to the program that she appears on over the internet here.
(Which one of you fucktards moderated this up as "insightful"?)
Read the article. Christ, read the freaking four-sentence blurb. Pay careful attention to the words "for trademark infringement". A trademark is not copyright, and trademark is not a patent. As long as you play by the trademark rules, a trademark is forever. It does not expire, it does not lapse, it does not go into the public domain.
I haven't used a mouse regularly since 1995, when I had a contract with a company that used Kensington trackballs exclusively. Once I got the hang of it, I was sold.
Since then, I've used the Logitech trackballs. I'm using a Trackman Wheel right now, but any of their models are well worth considering.
>I doubt that the judge...has a clue about what he is unleashing.
Sit back down. He's not unleashing anything. It's a summary judgement for dismissal in a lower federal court. It doesn't establish precedent, and it can't be cited in future cases.
> There's this cool thing called a hydrogen bomb. Perhaps you've heard of it? It was first tested > in 1952, and it worked pretty well.
Initiating a reaction and then jumping out of the way is not the same thing as "harnessing".
> Get real. It's been done. Just because it's recent or you don't believe it doesn't mean it > didn't happen. Get your head out of the sand.
My belief is of no consequence. It has not been peer-reviewed. In the scientific world, that's what matters.
> We also create antibiotics in these big factories and sell them by the millions.
"Create" and "manufacture" are not synonyms.
>And the one wrong one is correctable just by knocking a couple of zeros off his exaggerated >figure.
The galaxy one? No, you can knock all the zeros off that you'd like, we still haven't "peered deep into the hearts" of any galaxies. We've taken distant snapshots of them, we have not explored them in any manner even remotely close to "peering deep into their hearts".
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Even though I haven't lived there since 1986. My mother, who has nothing else better to do, calls the number on the letter, and tells (brags) that her son is working on another continent. She has repeatedly requested that my name be removed from the list, which doesn't seem to work.
I'm the eJuror administrator at a Federal courthouse.
Jury wheels are based on voter registration rolls (or, in very few states, city/town residency records) for the state the court is in. If you're still getting service requests, it's because you haven't updated your voter registration to reflect your new address (or, in the aforementioned very few states, your local clerk is still submitting your name as a resident).
The jury wheel is reloaded every 1-4 years, depending on the district. If your name is still being submitted by the state or town, you're going to stay in the list. The people at the Federal courthouse don't have the authority to remove you from the list, and calling them will have no effect.
Median IS an average
I think I see why your salary isn't increasing.
There is no video of Federal court proceedings, it's prohibited.
I was typing "Steelcase Leap Chair" into the reply box when I looked up and saw davelee's post.
So, yeah. What he said. I spend many of my waking hours in this chair, and it's all kinds of awesome.
I bought mine used, it was only a few hundred dollars. Before I got it, I was replacing Staple's "top of the line" chair every year, as the armrests disintegrated, the back fell off, and the mechanics stopped working.
As the AC already stated, you're a stupid fucker. We're talking about GB copyright law.
Read the article, think, then talk.
> The photographer didn't give up his right to make copies at all.
You missed the part of my message where I stated that I have all the negatives. Understandable, considering that this statement comprised only 25% of the sentences in the messages. I can see where you'd miss it.
The photographer was permitted to keep copies of the 15 or 20 photographs he selected. Our licensing agreement allows him to use those images for a short list of narrowly-defined purposes, and no other. Making reprints is not on the list.
Other than that, he has nothing.
> When he wrote the song
Elvis didn't write That's All Right. It was written by Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup.
The article is talking about the copyright to Elvis's recording of the tune. The tune itself is presumably already in the public domain in Great Britain.
> Many photographers will let you make whatever copies you want, but no photographer is going to
> give up his right to make copies.
The photographer I hired for my wedding in 1999 did. I have a contract assigning all copyright to me, and I have all of the negatives (including the bloopers, flubs, and other fuckups). The photographer has a licensing agreement with me to use the images for his own advertising purposes.
Money talks.
> My father-in-law drives a Jetta with a horrible radio, and was told by an independent shop that a
> certain key is required (?) to remove the radio from the dash, and that he'd have to go to the
> dealer for that.
The tool for this is widely available, and it doesn't cost that much. If the stereo shop your father went to doesn't have one, he should find a different stereo shop.
Here.
Silly subscribers, with their artifically-low id numbers.
> It seems that at least one of the websites that host(ed) the video has a racist leaning.
The video first appeared on Consumption Junction. You can read editor Paul's writeup about the incident here. CJ isn't even remotely "work-safe", so exercise discretion if you work somewhere that cares about these things.
I've been watching CJ for years now. They're a lot of things - offensive, distasteful, sick - but they're not really "racist".
> A better analogy would be if you were bottling a soda based on Coke's secret formula which you obtained illegally.
No, that one's wrong too. Coke's formula is a trade secret. That's a different animal from trademark, or patent, or copyright.
Not that the distinction matters. This is a breach of contract case with potential outcomes involving intellectual property. It's not an intellectual property case.
> The smart people with low ID numbers left long ago because they got sick of the trolls.
Nah, we're still here. We just don't say much.
> Whatever. It makes no difference.
In your opinion.
> All people in authoritative positions
mmm, generalizations.
Wait, I have one for you: Generalizations are always valid. Yupyupyup.
> like to dazzle people with their use of extra-syllable jargon.
You're "dazzled" by that phrase? I'll try to be extra cautious if I need to jingle my keys or point my laser pointer at the floor.
We're I-bought-cheesy-puffs-on-the-interweb.com, a startup Fortune 23,500,000 company with a fantastic new idea! We're going to sell home-delivered cheese puffs over the interweb!
Project Requirements
We'd need the sun, the moon, and the stars, as well as your first born child and a hand job. All source code must be provided, and you must assign all copyrights to us. We need this project completed within the next three hours. Contractor will be required to provide lifetime support for code base, even if we let the neighbor kid muck about in the source code (Janice says that he's a web developer, so he must be qualified. Besides, he's in the 10th grade now, we're sure he knows what he's doing).
Contractor Requirements
Compensation
We offer a generous compensation package that includes free soda (Wednesdays only) and all the pretzels you can eat! Yay!
We'll also give you a title! Yes, you'll be the Supervisory Director of Internet Architectural Engineering (Junior)! That's the kind if title that you can almost pay a mortgage with! Almost.
Unfortunately, we can't offer compensation in the form of pay or benefits right now. When the interweb cheese puffs delivery service takes off, though, we'll pay you really, really well. Promise!
> However, I believe you are missing a very important point: In most of these types of cases,
> the problem is the little guy has so much more to lose than the megacorp. If I get sued by a
> big company, even if I'm 100% in the right, at some point if they are able to raise the stakes
> enough, I will settle rather than proceed if there's even a slim chance I could lose.
I disagree.
First of all, your assets are small potatoes to Global Super Megacorporation. They're a multimillion (maybe billion) dollar company. There are only so many resources that they're going to throw at getting, what, a few hundred thousand dollars - which they'll probably never be able to collect anyway - out of you.
There's a reason that they try to intimidate you: because it costs them money if you don't buckle. If you stand up to them, they'll go bully an easier target.
> Said another way, it isn't enough to know that the vast majority of time the person who's right
> prevails--because if it comes down to losing everything one has or even going to jail,
Only the government can put you in jail. Global Super Megacorporation does not have that authority.
It looks like we'll just have to disagree on this. I can see where you're coming from, but I could never allow myself to be bullied.
Nah, you're wrong, and the poster to whom you're replying has it right. Establishments pay a licensing fee to ASCAP/BMI/SESAC in order to host performances of the works in their catalogs. No further payment is necessary.
> If you cannot afford a good enough lawyer to make a convincing argument that the EULA should
> not be valid, you will lose an enormous amount of money. In the event that you do hire a good
> enough lawyer, you will only lose a large amount of money.
This is an unfortunately common misconception.
I have been sued twice in my life by people with far more money than I have. In one case, I defended myself - against their real "went to law school" attorneys - and won. In the second case, I hired an attorney, won, and they were forced to pay all my legal expenses.
Both times, the other parties tried to pull the "we're going to play the 500lb gorilla, and sue you into oblivion" routine. I think that they were expecting me to run screaming or something. I didn't. They lost.
Bring it on, lawyer-boy.
The common trait of both of these lawsuits? I was right. And, despite the cynicism that a lot of people seem to have about the American legal system, the person who's right will prevail in a vast majority of cases.
If someone threatens to sue you, and you're right, let them. Go in, make your case, and you'll probably prevail. A judge will know that you aren't an attorney, and generally cut you a fair amount of slack.
Good stuff, they've always worked as advertised.
/. now?
Speaking of "advertised", though, this article really lacks any level of critical thought, and the author's "test" isn't much of a challenge. Is ACR buying ad space on
The skills he has to improve in order to stay employed are those that cannot be shipped offshore, like becoming a plumber or an electrician.
/.
AKA "Skilled labor", and it's what all the cool kids are doing right now.
I know a guy that runs a refrigeration service company. He can't find mechanics, despite his generous compensation and benefits packages.
I know another guy who runs an auto body shop. Same story.
Another, auto repair (mechanical), same story.
I was in the bank a few weeks ago, and the guy behind me in line was the owner of a refrigeration company (different guy that the one mentioned above). We got to talking, and I mentioned that I had worked for a refrigeration company over the summers during high school and college. Despite the fact that I had no formal training, no license to handle the gasses, and that more than a decade had passed since I held that job, he offered to hire me on the spot.
"I can't find mechanics."
"I'm not a mechanic. I know how the systems work, and I know how to use the tools, but I'm really not qualified for that kind of job. Look, I have soft, babylike programmer fingers."
"I don't care. I'll hire you as a helper, you can learn as you go. When you're ready to take the certification tests, I'll pay for them."
I politey declined but, wow, this guy sounded more desperate than any former "web developer" I've heard whining on
If you're a youngin', go to you local Navy recruiter and tell him or her that you want to learn to weld. That's a ticket to a lifetime of job security if there ever was one. Even if you don't want to stay in when your enlistment is up, there is always a demand for certified welders.
If you're going to spend money on educating yourself, learn to fix cars. Learn to fix heating and air conditioning systems. Plumbing. Electrical work. Any skilled trade will get you a job - not an air-conditioned desk job pushing a mouse around, maybe - but a good job with a fair amount of security.
Just my $0.02. Sorry, I didn't mean to rant.
> There was a lady on the show who called herself "The Recipe Detective."
Was?
For information and 20 free recipes, send a SASE to:
Gloria Pitzer
Box 237
Marysville, MI., 48040
Ms. Pitzer publishes a number of cookbooks, all of which you can order directly. Information here. She also publishes a quarterly newsletter for $16 per year, send it to the same address.
Ms. Pitzer is on WNZK 690AM out of Detroit every Tuesday from 10:30am to 11:00am. You can listen to the program that she appears on over the internet here.
(Which one of you fucktards moderated this up as "insightful"?)
Read the article. Christ, read the freaking four-sentence blurb. Pay careful attention to the words "for trademark infringement". A trademark is not copyright, and trademark is not a patent. As long as you play by the trademark rules, a trademark is forever. It does not expire, it does not lapse, it does not go into the public domain.
Seconded.
I haven't used a mouse regularly since 1995, when I had a contract with a company that used Kensington trackballs exclusively. Once I got the hang of it, I was sold.
Since then, I've used the Logitech trackballs. I'm using a Trackman Wheel right now, but any of their models are well worth considering.
>I doubt that the judge...has a clue about what he is unleashing.
Sit back down. He's not unleashing anything. It's a summary judgement for dismissal in a lower federal court. It doesn't establish precedent, and it can't be cited in future cases.
No Big Deal.
> There's this cool thing called a hydrogen bomb. Perhaps you've heard of it? It was first tested
> in 1952, and it worked pretty well.
Initiating a reaction and then jumping out of the way is not the same thing as "harnessing".
> Get real. It's been done. Just because it's recent or you don't believe it doesn't mean it
> didn't happen. Get your head out of the sand.
My belief is of no consequence. It has not been peer-reviewed. In the scientific world, that's what matters.
> We also create antibiotics in these big factories and sell them by the millions.
"Create" and "manufacture" are not synonyms.
>And the one wrong one is correctable just by knocking a couple of zeros off his exaggerated
>figure.
The galaxy one? No, you can knock all the zeros off that you'd like, we still haven't "peered deep into the hearts" of any galaxies. We've taken distant snapshots of them, we have not explored them in any manner even remotely close to "peering deep into their hearts".