For those of you who didn't RTFA, Gabriel has been appointed to the Colorado Court of Appeals, a position of not inconsiderable power. As such he will be one of 19 judges who have statewide jurisdiction to hear appeals from various trial courts, and can only be overturned by the state Supreme Court, or a Federal court should there be an issue that would give U.S. jurisdiction. Brochure "Colorado Courts at a Glance"
State appeals courts and Supreme courts, incidentally, are high enough in profile to gain the attention of a President who may want to fill a U.S. District Court vacancy. That's where things would get really scary.
I dunno what the previous poster is saying, but I am saying that anyone who thinks Vista is decent is having a much better time of it than I am. I bought a new HP computer a month or two ago, Vista preinstalled, and I have to force a reboot to unlock the crashed system an average of every other day. Forced in the brute way of turning the damn machine off because nothing at all responds.
I had similar experience with Vista on my previous machine, on which I had installed the Vista "upgrade". In both instances, pretty fast, responsive machines, when they worked at all, ran like Windows 95 did on MS suggested minimums, IOW like a 286-12 with molasses in the hard drive. I'm assessing what, if any, Windows programs I can't live without so I can dump Windows completely.
It's just impossible to believe that there are honest reasons to defend Vista, at least not until oh Service Pack 3 or so. It does look pretty when crashed and frozen, I'll give it that.
RACKETEERING ACTIVITY - (A) any act or threat involving murder, kidnaping, gambling, arson, robbery, bribery, extortion, dealing in obscene matter, or dealing in narcotic or other dangerous drugs, which is chargeable under State law and punishable by imprisonment for more than one year
Most of that is traditional old gangster stuff, true. However, extortion comes in various flavors, including use of judicial process to harass or harm someone in order to coerce someone to an action they would not otherwise perform. So it seems quite appropriate to use RICO with corporate criminal activity when that activity has as its purpose some wrongful gain.
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For those of you who didn't RTFA, Gabriel has been appointed to the Colorado Court of Appeals, a position of not inconsiderable power. As such he will be one of 19 judges who have statewide jurisdiction to hear appeals from various trial courts, and can only be overturned by the state Supreme Court, or a Federal court should there be an issue that would give U.S. jurisdiction. Brochure "Colorado Courts at a Glance"
State appeals courts and Supreme courts, incidentally, are high enough in profile to gain the attention of a President who may want to fill a U.S. District Court vacancy. That's where things would get really scary.
Ut-oh. The "Minority Report" retinal scanners are next.
Hmm..... my webcam looks like it has been moved a little....
I dunno what the previous poster is saying, but I am saying that anyone who thinks Vista is decent is having a much better time of it than I am. I bought a new HP computer a month or two ago, Vista preinstalled, and I have to force a reboot to unlock the crashed system an average of every other day. Forced in the brute way of turning the damn machine off because nothing at all responds. I had similar experience with Vista on my previous machine, on which I had installed the Vista "upgrade". In both instances, pretty fast, responsive machines, when they worked at all, ran like Windows 95 did on MS suggested minimums, IOW like a 286-12 with molasses in the hard drive. I'm assessing what, if any, Windows programs I can't live without so I can dump Windows completely.
It's just impossible to believe that there are honest reasons to defend Vista, at least not until oh Service Pack 3 or so. It does look pretty when crashed and frozen, I'll give it that.
RACKETEERING ACTIVITY - (A) any act or threat involving murder, kidnaping, gambling, arson, robbery, bribery, extortion, dealing in obscene matter, or dealing in narcotic or other dangerous drugs, which is chargeable under State law and punishable by imprisonment for more than one year
Most of that is traditional old gangster stuff, true. However, extortion comes in various flavors, including use of judicial process to harass or harm someone in order to coerce someone to an action they would not otherwise perform. So it seems quite appropriate to use RICO with corporate criminal activity when that activity has as its purpose some wrongful gain.