This is also the kind of signs us wags here on/. have been prophesizing (and wishing for) since this campaign of terror started. It has taken a while for the momentum to be slowed, such as we have seen with the small gains made monthly, but if the courts and the accompanying PI licensing boards go after the methodology of the RIAA, then it becomes much easier to finally stop the cases on multiple grounds. We have already seen the multiple cases summarily decided(or abandoned) in the People's favor, including with awarded attorney's fees. Now, we get to see every link in the chain as vulnerable, and a good lawyer(i.e. one on the People's side) should be able to attack every aspect of their pre-litigation discovery including their methods for discovering the IPs, the Does, the ISP's Customer, the ISP's Customer's friends and family, etc.
Thanks, NYCL, let's keep the ball rolling and see if the court system can finally stop these suits completely. Maybe the day will come when the RIAA will drop the case automatically if you refuse to pay their Settlement center.
Or you could just buy oil futures and let it go up on its own since Americans can't let go of their Suburbans, Tahoes, and Hummers, and Toyota can't make priusi fast enough.
Yeah, well the ACS is the American Chemical Society. Therefore, it's gonna focus on *American* chemical usage. So yes, I'd say this is a good use of their time.
Wow, those are some fireworks! Just make sure we can see them all across the country. I'm really enjoying your letter. It's hilarious and very compelling reading to anyone with half a brain, let's hope the judge agrees (Assuming the RIAA can find the right one to get their motion rejected by).
Ok, then how's about people start voting for leaders who will _lead_ rather than the guy they'd most like to have a beer with. I really don't want to hang out with the chief executive of my country, I'd rather he was busy doing his DAMN JOB!
I'll take Hunter S. Thompson's word on the matter, he was there, watching him, and being much more vocal on the matter of government corruption than teenage druggies give him credit for now.
It's OK, if the admin is a BOFH, he is dutybound by the code of the BOFH to not leave any witnesses or incriminating log files behind. And since this is the Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents, you've gotta assume the brotherhood of the BOFH have a man on the inside.
So, rtb61, I'd suggest you take the stairs for the next couple of months just to be on the safe side.
True, but I am under the impression that all of the current batch of lawsuits are civil actions, not criminal charges. IANAL, but I think that is one of the reasons MediaOffender is allowed to testify, considering they are not even registered as private investigators in many of the states they are bringing suit, and they sure as hell aren't LEOs, which would mean that local AGs and DAs wouldn't have a case, since they're chain of evidence would not be solid. However, a private entity doesn't need to have a solid chain of evidence to bring a civil suit.
However, these are civil actions with different rules, i.e. whatever the MAFIAA think they can get away with.
--The FNP
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I own three Isuzu Sport/Utility Vehicles. They are small, hold a lot of stuff and run well, even when they are 20+ years old. They get gas mileage comparable to a small pickup, you know the kind they don't make anymore, and hold about as much stuff(in out of the rain). Plus, when one breaks down, someone not trained as a mechanic can fix it.
The 2 Troopers are 20, and 23 years old, and still fantastic vehicles. They can tow their own weight, go through foot deep mud, and are solid as tanks, and will take whatever abuse you throw at them. The Rodeo is ten years newer, and a consumer-focused product that came out in the beginnings of the SUV craze.
You can tell the differences between the old Land Rover style "Sport/Utility Vehicles" and the Ford Explorer-esque "SUVs": size : bigger is better vs. small enough to get through the jungle. Engine size: V6/8 vs inline 4 transmission: Automatic w/ 4WD option vs manual w/ 4WD standard design: plastic bubbles with chrome vs angular no nonsense durability: minimal vs. invincibility
Also guess which one has been sitting in my back yard with the engine torn apart for the last year. That's right, it's the Rodeo.
Actually, wouldn't you be making a backup copy in case your original stops functioning. IANAL, but wouldn't this mean that the DVD that you would burn as a backup count as your legal copy of that media?
--The FNP
As the owner of a small business, let me state that sales tax is a pain even when you only have to follow the rules for one state.
In the last year or so, the rates here in NC have changed twice. Each time, we have had to change our system to reflect the changes. Even if a service like Paypal was able to do this for the small businesses, if Paypal screwed up, the business is on the hook, not Paypal.
Also, think of the accounting overhead, which is not cheap, to verify, cut the 50+ checks per month / quarter, (or other legally specified filing frequency which is possibly different for each jurisdiction)
Besides, this bill is purely sleight of hand. Everyone is already supposed to pay these taxes. If I drive out of state and buy a DVD player, bring it back to my house and use it, I am required to pay a use tax for that item. (Even though I have paid sales tax already -- I paid it to the wrong state.) Whether I order it off the Internet, or drive to Virginia, I'm still liable for the tax on that item.
However, now the Army has a list of the email addresses of people who will fall for this, and they can subject those soldiers to additional training, or perhaps more directed tests in the future. Take the results of the test, and turn them into a lesson, and make sure the lesson is learned.
1) PatentMagus's idea of just using the energy to power the vehicle requires a bunch of _HEAVY_ batteries. So your fuel mileage would negatively affected not positively.
2)and Skywire, yes, draw on a source of energy. You may like batteries or fuel as a source of energy, but I'd rather use a regenerative braking system to create my energy, then I can make a little H2 and stay on the road a little longer.
Actually the problem is that the Third World is _NOT_ Unionized. If Chinese workers or Malaysian workers were unionized, the costs of making the goods and shipping them halfway around the world, tariffs, duties, customs, shipping them to the warehouse, the trouble, the cost of translators, Quality Control, etc, etc, ad nauseam, would make it not worth the trouble to outsource your manufacturing.
It's only when you can treat your serfs as the disposable Kleenex they are that the cost savings of the manufacturing offsets the increased costs of logistics.
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This is also the kind of signs us wags here on /. have been prophesizing (and wishing for) since this campaign of terror started. It has taken a while for the momentum to be slowed, such as we have seen with the small gains made monthly, but if the courts and the accompanying PI licensing boards go after the methodology of the RIAA, then it becomes much easier to finally stop the cases on multiple grounds. We have already seen the multiple cases summarily decided(or abandoned) in the People's favor, including with awarded attorney's fees. Now, we get to see every link in the chain as vulnerable, and a good lawyer(i.e. one on the People's side) should be able to attack every aspect of their pre-litigation discovery including their methods for discovering the IPs, the Does, the ISP's Customer, the ISP's Customer's friends and family, etc.
Thanks, NYCL, let's keep the ball rolling and see if the court system can finally stop these suits completely. Maybe the day will come when the RIAA will drop the case automatically if you refuse to pay their Settlement center.
--The FNP
Or you could just buy oil futures and let it go up on its own since Americans can't let go of their Suburbans, Tahoes, and Hummers, and Toyota can't make priusi fast enough.
--The FNP
Just because Bill G. is retired, doesn't mean we won't hear lots of bitching about Steve B. here on /.
--The FNP
Yeah, well the ACS is the American Chemical Society. Therefore, it's gonna focus on *American* chemical usage. So yes, I'd say this is a good use of their time.
--The FNP
Wow, those are some fireworks! Just make sure we can see them all across the country. I'm really enjoying your letter. It's hilarious and very compelling reading to anyone with half a brain, let's hope the judge agrees (Assuming the RIAA can find the right one to get their motion rejected by).
--The FNP
Yeah, you and Chicken John. I don't think the zombie attacks helped him though.
--The FNP
Ok, then how's about people start voting for leaders who will _lead_ rather than the guy they'd most like to have a beer with. I really don't want to hang out with the chief executive of my country, I'd rather he was busy doing his DAMN JOB!
--The FNP
I'll take Hunter S. Thompson's word on the matter, he was there, watching him, and being much more vocal on the matter of government corruption than teenage druggies give him credit for now.
--The FNP
OK then: "TK's car is safer than your PC accidentally opening goatse."
There fixed that for you.
--The FNP
It's OK, if the admin is a BOFH, he is dutybound by the code of the BOFH to not leave any witnesses or incriminating log files behind. And since this is the Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents, you've gotta assume the brotherhood of the BOFH have a man on the inside.
So, rtb61, I'd suggest you take the stairs for the next couple of months just to be on the safe side.
--The FNP
Sorry, we can't do that. Most of the cake ingredients are being used in the war on the pesky terrorists!
--The FNP
True, but I am under the impression that all of the current batch of lawsuits are civil actions, not criminal charges. IANAL, but I think that is one of the reasons MediaOffender is allowed to testify, considering they are not even registered as private investigators in many of the states they are bringing suit, and they sure as hell aren't LEOs, which would mean that local AGs and DAs wouldn't have a case, since they're chain of evidence would not be solid. However, a private entity doesn't need to have a solid chain of evidence to bring a civil suit.
--The FNP
However, these are civil actions with different rules, i.e. whatever the MAFIAA think they can get away with.
--The FNP
I own three Isuzu Sport/Utility Vehicles. They are small, hold a lot of stuff and run well, even when they are 20+ years old. They get gas mileage comparable to a small pickup, you know the kind they don't make anymore, and hold about as much stuff(in out of the rain). Plus, when one breaks down, someone not trained as a mechanic can fix it.
The 2 Troopers are 20, and 23 years old, and still fantastic vehicles. They can tow their own weight, go through foot deep mud, and are solid as tanks, and will take whatever abuse you throw at them. The Rodeo is ten years newer, and a consumer-focused product that came out in the beginnings of the SUV craze.
You can tell the differences between the old Land Rover style "Sport/Utility Vehicles" and the Ford Explorer-esque "SUVs":
size : bigger is better vs. small enough to get through the jungle.
Engine size: V6/8 vs inline 4
transmission: Automatic w/ 4WD option vs manual w/ 4WD standard
design: plastic bubbles with chrome vs angular no nonsense
durability: minimal vs. invincibility
Also guess which one has been sitting in my back yard with the engine torn apart for the last year. That's right, it's the Rodeo.
--The FNP
Actually, wouldn't you be making a backup copy in case your original stops functioning. IANAL, but wouldn't this mean that the DVD that you would burn as a backup count as your legal copy of that media? --The FNP
Or stay slashdotted from the last time this was posted. See http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/10/1611216 -- The FNP
This isn't the first Slashdot story about this exact vehicle. Try http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/10/1611216 for the exact same thing from last October. Deja Vu anyone? --The FNP
I read Slashdot for the +2 Trolls. --The FNP
However, that is for low voltage, low amperage, which I don't think will be the case here. --The FNP
As the owner of a small business, let me state that sales tax is a pain even when you only have to follow the rules for one state.
In the last year or so, the rates here in NC have changed twice. Each time, we have had to change our system to reflect the changes. Even if a service like Paypal was able to do this for the small businesses, if Paypal screwed up, the business is on the hook, not Paypal.
Also, think of the accounting overhead, which is not cheap, to verify, cut the 50+ checks per month / quarter, (or other legally specified filing frequency which is possibly different for each jurisdiction)
Besides, this bill is purely sleight of hand. Everyone is already supposed to pay these taxes. If I drive out of state and buy a DVD player, bring it back to my house and use it, I am required to pay a use tax for that item. (Even though I have paid sales tax already -- I paid it to the wrong state.) Whether I order it off the Internet, or drive to Virginia, I'm still liable for the tax on that item.
--The FNP
However, now the Army has a list of the email addresses of people who will fall for this, and they can subject those soldiers to additional training, or perhaps more directed tests in the future. Take the results of the test, and turn them into a lesson, and make sure the lesson is learned.
You stupid turlingdrome!
(Unless you're making a serious screenplay)
--The FNP
Ok, two things to keep in mind.
1) PatentMagus's idea of just using the energy to power the vehicle requires a bunch of _HEAVY_ batteries. So your fuel mileage would negatively affected not positively.
2)and Skywire, yes, draw on a source of energy. You may like batteries or fuel as a source of energy, but I'd rather use a regenerative braking system to create my energy, then I can make a little H2 and stay on the road a little longer.
--The FNP
Actually the problem is that the Third World is _NOT_ Unionized. If Chinese workers or Malaysian workers were unionized, the costs of making the goods and shipping them halfway around the world, tariffs, duties, customs, shipping them to the warehouse, the trouble, the cost of translators, Quality Control, etc, etc, ad nauseam, would make it not worth the trouble to outsource your manufacturing.
It's only when you can treat your serfs as the disposable Kleenex they are that the cost savings of the manufacturing offsets the increased costs of logistics.
Anyhoo . . . not likely to happen anytime soon, but we can hope, right?
--The FNP