What makes me curious is why the JUDGE signed off on it in the first place. It obviously had an adverse effect on a third party's legal rights and you'd think the judge presiding over the settlement would know that.
They just target the president that does the appointing, but the power can still be traced from the judges, through the president, and back out his corporate backers.
The problem is that the herd of apathetic voters with no real concern is going where the sheperds tell them to, even though it means dragging those of us who actually DO care along for the ride.
We can't outvote the herds that are happy to be brainwashed by the elite's corporate owned media.
Thing is, if it blows up in your face later because you get caught, you're screwed anyway, and probably harder than if you'd wrote your job off to begin with.
What you have to realize is that you're already screwed the minute the boss gives you the ultimatum of breaking the law or getting fired.
If you refuse, you get fired. If you comply, the company gets caught, you get blamed, your boss mysteriously escapes accountability, you get fired anyway, and now you're stuck with a rap sheet.
So you're screwed no matter what you do.
What you do is get fired, find a new job, and point out during your interview that you were canned because you refused an illegal order and had to protect your rap sheet.
The legal system is a bigger bitch than your boss could ever be anyway. Pick the lesser of two evils.
Settlement agreements usually forbid appeals even if the facts change, and at any rate the statute of limitations for recovery of improperly paid fees is probably expired anyway.
The problem with wholesalers bypassing retailers is that unless the wholesaler can get a direct market connection with the end consumers it is vulnerable to pressure from retailers that want to protect their own profit margins.
I've heard cases where wholesalers that try to bypass retailers get boycotted out of the retail market.
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We call that having a vigilant driver/conductor booting passengers off that break the rules.
Bury it in a subduction zone and let the mantle swallow it?
Terrorism is whatever the PTB (tm) say it is.
Great idea.
Where's the part where you stop shithead fakers from making up bull just to get someone they don't like beat up?
Many times the people making decisions are not the ones directly affected by them.
You probably would have pressed the button yourself after shooting me.
What makes me curious is why the JUDGE signed off on it in the first place. It obviously had an adverse effect on a third party's legal rights and you'd think the judge presiding over the settlement would know that.
Freedom of religion is in the federal. constitution.
DMV regulations are a state level mandate.
I think the DMV gets preempted here if there's a conflict.
They are.
They just target the president that does the appointing, but the power can still be traced from the judges, through the president, and back out his corporate backers.
They can, but they won't.
Don't forget that the congress critters are slaves of the corporate elite.
Because the DOJ answers to the same president who appointed RIAA lawyers to the DOJ?
The gatekeepers never let any good people into power.
it's that way on purpose.
That catch 22 is deliberate on the part of the government.
Nice of you to reveal that it's your own superiors pushing the discrimination on you.
Now maybe we can understand that the bias comes from higher up in the chain of command?
The problem is that the herd of apathetic voters with no real concern is going where the sheperds tell them to, even though it means dragging those of us who actually DO care along for the ride.
We can't outvote the herds that are happy to be brainwashed by the elite's corporate owned media.
Or, require source code audits by government inspectors before allowing the software to be certified.
I think the FAA and FCC require this.
Not enough voters care that aren't letting themselves be brainwashed by the media.
The media controls the apathetic voters who don't care, and the ones that do care are far outnumbered.
And guess who owns the media?
Thing is, if it blows up in your face later because you get caught, you're screwed anyway, and probably harder than if you'd wrote your job off to begin with.
What you have to realize is that you're already screwed the minute the boss gives you the ultimatum of breaking the law or getting fired.
If you refuse, you get fired.
If you comply, the company gets caught, you get blamed, your boss mysteriously escapes accountability, you get fired anyway, and now you're stuck with a rap sheet.
So you're screwed no matter what you do.
What you do is get fired, find a new job, and point out during your interview that you were canned because you refused an illegal order and had to protect your rap sheet.
The legal system is a bigger bitch than your boss could ever be anyway. Pick the lesser of two evils.
Unless they refuse, or fire you just for asking.
Who cares? SCOTUS already proved it was ok to do retroactive clawbacks.
Settlement agreements usually forbid appeals even if the facts change, and at any rate the statute of limitations for recovery of improperly paid fees is probably expired anyway.
It's not a monopoly, but a cartel is pretty close.
The problem with wholesalers bypassing retailers is that unless the wholesaler can get a direct market connection with the end consumers it is vulnerable to pressure from retailers that want to protect their own profit margins.
I've heard cases where wholesalers that try to bypass retailers get boycotted out of the retail market.
Kudos to AVG for being honest enough to admit it in advance and gives its potentially paranoid customers a chance to opt out.
I wish more companies did this. It's a little slimy, but it's a lot LESS slimy when they don't try to hide it.
No, I'm not being sarcastic.