They have the authority to fire you. You do not have the authority to stonewall them from their own system.
That's the way the world works, dog eat dog where it's survival of the fittest. And this is true socially as well, where pissing off someone with power will get you killed.
And the sooner you realize that the better off you will be. If you don't like it, start your own company and see how long you last against your fellow backstabbers before you either fold or turn to the dark side yourself.
Specifically, the part where you'll get your ass fired for insubordination if you don't do what the fuck you're told by your superiors in the food chain. Your boss has more of a right to be an idiot than you do. It's one of the privileges of having authority.
However, there is an exception.
The only time you CAN refuse to give your boss the password is if an even BIGGER boss tells you not to, someone who is also your boss's boss.
In fact, companies will often reserve "root spill" power to the monster cheeses that often are in direct contact with the board of directors or another super high level position, who then gives orders to the BOFH that the PHBs are forbidden to have the password.
The private sector is just like the military with following orders. The only difference is that if you disobey orders in the military, you get court martialed and go to prison instead of merely losing your job.
Unless you can prove extortion, RICO won't even be in town, let alone knocking at the door. And since patent infringement is a *civil* matter, good luck with that.
Thing is that patents are such a mess that it's hard to establish that the lawsuits are frivolous.
I bet the first thing that will happen with pay-as-you-go is that you'll get your ISP's traffic for free. Especially if it happens to also be your cable provider.
Not to mention legal departments armed to the teeth that stand poised to litigate you into oblivion if you so much as shave a sliver off of their market share.
Considering what was involved I'm surprised the house didn't get forfeited outright due to connection with a felonious criminal enterprise.
Also, the county isn't liable because the county didn't put the explosives in the house to begin with. That responsibility falls upon the tenant who unlawfully used it for explosives production.
After everything is said and done criminal wise, the tenant would be negligent for foreseeably provoking the county into destroying the house. Not that the landlord would ever collect, but that constitutes waste, and the owners can sue the tenants for causing the county to nuke it.
In other words, the passage of a law that proves to be unconstitutional is an ultra vires act by the legislation that passed it, and is thus null and void from its inception.
Using a bullshit charge on a real criminal only makes bad precedent for it to be abused. Which is probably exactly what the powers that be are preparing to do.
If they're not able to make the real charges stick then they have no business holding him anyway. If they can, then they need to. If they simply won't, that points to them having dirty tricks up their sleeves.
I think a reason that they *don't* offer tours is because they know damn well people wouldn't be inclined to eat meat if they knew about how it was made.
They're too greedy to let it happen, and too vicious to let folks like you get away with even suggesting it.
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They have the authority to fire you. You do not have the authority to stonewall them from their own system.
That's the way the world works, dog eat dog where it's survival of the fittest. And this is true socially as well, where pissing off someone with power will get you killed.
And the sooner you realize that the better off you will be. If you don't like it, start your own company and see how long you last against your fellow backstabbers before you either fold or turn to the dark side yourself.
It's called the chain of command.
Specifically, the part where you'll get your ass fired for insubordination if you don't do what the fuck you're told by your superiors in the food chain. Your boss has more of a right to be an idiot than you do. It's one of the privileges of having authority.
However, there is an exception.
The only time you CAN refuse to give your boss the password is if an even BIGGER boss tells you not to, someone who is also your boss's boss.
In fact, companies will often reserve "root spill" power to the monster cheeses that often are in direct contact with the board of directors or another super high level position, who then gives orders to the BOFH that the PHBs are forbidden to have the password.
The private sector is just like the military with following orders. The only difference is that if you disobey orders in the military, you get court martialed and go to prison instead of merely losing your job.
What worries me is that simply downloading an open soruce piece of software can get you jail terms.
This is like DeCSS all over again.
You're kidding right?
The lawyer guild is going to be making a *fourtune* processing these cases.
RICO only applies to *criminal* acts.
Unless you can prove extortion, RICO won't even be in town, let alone knocking at the door. And since patent infringement is a *civil* matter, good luck with that.
Thing is that patents are such a mess that it's hard to establish that the lawsuits are frivolous.
It only works if the government and it's politicians aren't for sale.
Simple.
Legally DDoS someone in 25 different countries and have all the court dates the same?
As long as combo companies that also offer internet services don't give their own traffic a discount.
*cough*netneutrality*cough*
We need net neutrality now more than ever.
I bet the first thing that will happen with pay-as-you-go is that you'll get your ISP's traffic for free. Especially if it happens to also be your cable provider.
At Will Employment.
Which just boils down to a special case of the Golden Rule.
Dictatorships would be perfectly fine if they were benevolent.
The big problem is that people are not trustworthy, and given power they will always abuse it.
Therefore, at least with mortal man, there is no such thing as a benevolent dictatorship.
We have enough trouble with checked and balanced politicians as it is. Put a dictator on the throne and we would be toast in a hurry.
Come to think of it I think that's why the United States were founded back in 1700's
I'd swear that was an unconstitutional interference with federal matters.
Pirates shouldn't be given the benefit of the doubt period.
If you want to boycott a company over pricing and artificial scarcity and whatnot, then man up and go without.
Those who straddle the fence by ripping it off only prove that they are cheapskates.
Not to mention legal departments armed to the teeth that stand poised to litigate you into oblivion if you so much as shave a sliver off of their market share.
It's the electoral college that elects the president anyway.
Considering what was involved I'm surprised the house didn't get forfeited outright due to connection with a felonious criminal enterprise.
Also, the county isn't liable because the county didn't put the explosives in the house to begin with. That responsibility falls upon the tenant who unlawfully used it for explosives production.
After everything is said and done criminal wise, the tenant would be negligent for foreseeably provoking the county into destroying the house. Not that the landlord would ever collect, but that constitutes waste, and the owners can sue the tenants for causing the county to nuke it.
It's called eminent domain.
If the government doesn't regulate the market, a monopoly will dominate it.
In theory, the FTC would come down on them hard for price fixing.
In practice, a few regulators would be paid off to look the other way.
If you're rich enough to buy a politician, then you still have power.
They were his to resell.
They should have had him nailed for racketeering for dealing in stolen property.
The DMCA charge is bullshit.
In other words, the passage of a law that proves to be unconstitutional is an ultra vires act by the legislation that passed it, and is thus null and void from its inception.
Using a bullshit charge on a real criminal only makes bad precedent for it to be abused. Which is probably exactly what the powers that be are preparing to do.
If they're not able to make the real charges stick then they have no business holding him anyway. If they can, then they need to. If they simply won't, that points to them having dirty tricks up their sleeves.
Manually butchering your own food is a mile apart from a mass production facility that does many of them and has incentive to cut corners.
I think a reason that they *don't* offer tours is because they know damn well people wouldn't be inclined to eat meat if they knew about how it was made.
They're too greedy to let it happen, and too vicious to let folks like you get away with even suggesting it.