Being a good samaratin like that often fails because of the risk you'll mess up and get slammed with a lawsuit. Simply by participating in the affair you become jointly and severally liable if anything goes wrong.
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And the minute they tried to actually get started, a big ugly bully sues the crap out of them and brings things to a screeching halt, tying them up in court long enough to beat them to the punch.
The lawsuit was nothing more than one racer lobbing a bucket of oil in front of the leader's tires. If the judge gets wind of what the telco was doing while the city was tied up in court I hope he slaps them HARD.
You'd think that in a legal dispute like this the telco would have been facing an injunction not to be messing with the fiber itself.
Companies have at least a percieved abundance of people to hire from, so they don't think they can bother treating you with respect.
The minute companies start losing supply, they'll smarten up.
Unfortuantely, employment is just like any other business transaction: All about who has the most bargaining power.
Except for having friends in high places, there is NO SUBSTITUTE for having balls enough to negotiate.
Doubly so if you're in a tanking economy slugging it out with a bazillion other people desperate for work, fighting over jobs being provided by companies who are already pinching pennies as it is.
I think the problem all around is just a plain imbalance of power.
First, the corporation was king, until they went too far and got the general public symathetic with unionizing.
Now unions are enjoying power, and some are going a bit too far in their karmic backlash. One could say that karma is enjoying usurious interest rates. If unions keep it up too much the public will get fed up with them just as badly.
I'd say be damned with fancy regs and just let the market sort it out. Treat overbearing unions the same way you do monopolistic corporations. Let monopsonies be treated the same as monopolies.
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Sure, and then the big robot we leave behind to be in charge of the cleanup operation gets crossed with a nuke and goes berserk.
Seriously speaking, I'd rather we stay put and take care of mother earth.
It's not just that.
Being a good samaratin like that often fails because of the risk you'll mess up and get slammed with a lawsuit. Simply by participating in the affair you become jointly and severally liable if anything goes wrong.
With Ask Slashdot, you get a bit deeper than you can on a mere google search.
Plus, you get peer reviewed statements vetted by each other's karma, something you can't get on google.
Strange, I thought cellphones gave you hearing aids.
How many of those judgements has he actually paid?
Methinks that since the judgements are just at a civil level he isn't exactly in a position to be FORCED to pay up.
As for bankruptcy, his conduct was willful and malicious...which means any *sane* judge should refuse to discharge such debts.
I wish I knew which version of SimCity you were referencing here...
Relying on review sites to save your behind means you have to reap the fruits of someone else who made that first daring step.
Which means that at least one person has to get burned before everyone else gets wise.
Spoliation of evidence.
Courts don't look favorably upon cases of the "dog eating your homework"
At least restrict the character set to UTF-8
If there's a warrant for his arrest why don't they nab him and extradite him?
Surely the US Marshals can't be THAT clueless...
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And there you have the reasons why jocks rule the pack in high school.
Their muscles let them get away with everything else.
Kind of a chicken and egg problem though isn't it?
Jocks often just happen to have enough muscle to back up their position. Having well toned backup in the form of teammates doesn't hurt either.
Just like the IRS, a jock is generally someone in the category of "don't fuck around with", or you'll get your ass kicked.
Just like in the world of nation v. nation, and in a pack of wolf v. wolf, might makes right in the eyes of the beholders.
I would if they left the post-it where a would-be thief could read it, be informed the car was unlocked, and then rob me for real.
They'd even be potentially aiding and abetting in this case.
I would appreciate the post-it PROVIDED it was left somewhere only I could see it...after I get back in the car.
Leaving a public message on their printer is like sticking a "kick me" note on someone's back.
I still prefer accusing them 3 times of copyright infringement, it's a lot easier that way...
Which is why I'd consider a local municipal network to be much like a road system or a phone system.
A natural monopoly that the city should own the wires on, but let all the providers slug it out for themselves to see who gets what customers.
You have to install the plugin under windows too...
Done properly I think this is actually a good thing to do.
Taxing gasoline to pay for public transportation is like taxing cigarettes to pay for lung doctors.
Revenue raising isn't the only reason we have taxes.
And the minute they tried to actually get started, a big ugly bully sues the crap out of them and brings things to a screeching halt, tying them up in court long enough to beat them to the punch.
The lawsuit was nothing more than one racer lobbing a bucket of oil in front of the leader's tires. If the judge gets wind of what the telco was doing while the city was tied up in court I hope he slaps them HARD.
You'd think that in a legal dispute like this the telco would have been facing an injunction not to be messing with the fiber itself.
If only there was a way to verify a vote without compromising the anonymity of the voter.
My guess is that IT itself is a bubble.
Companies have at least a percieved abundance of people to hire from, so they don't think they can bother treating you with respect.
The minute companies start losing supply, they'll smarten up.
Unfortuantely, employment is just like any other business transaction: All about who has the most bargaining power.
Except for having friends in high places, there is NO SUBSTITUTE for having balls enough to negotiate.
Doubly so if you're in a tanking economy slugging it out with a bazillion other people desperate for work, fighting over jobs being provided by companies who are already pinching pennies as it is.
Get back to us when your chicks have finally hatched. I wish you the best of luck though.
Keep your guard high, and your hopes even higher.
I think the problem all around is just a plain imbalance of power.
First, the corporation was king, until they went too far and got the general public symathetic with unionizing.
Now unions are enjoying power, and some are going a bit too far in their karmic backlash. One could say that karma is enjoying usurious interest rates. If unions keep it up too much the public will get fed up with them just as badly.
I'd say be damned with fancy regs and just let the market sort it out. Treat overbearing unions the same way you do monopolistic corporations. Let monopsonies be treated the same as monopolies.
Washington would probably have already done this if MS hadn't grabbed them by the balls.
What I'd like to know is how we in capitalistic america ever let corporations get stronger than governments.