The First Amendment protects us from prosecution by the government. It doesn't protect us from civil matters with private companies. This Pérez guy should know that.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Congress makes laws. Corporations do not. A contract limiting one's freedom of speech is entirely unenforceable, presuming our government is functioning properly.
If you sign an NDA, a "I won't post a bad review" clause, or whatever else, and then proceed to blab, you cannot be convicted of a crime. There is no crime and according to the First Amendment there can be NEVER be a crime based on speech. I am perfectly aware that our government is fucked up and we throw people in jail for speech.
You CAN be sued for any ACTUAL damages DIRECTLY related to your speech, IF it was defamatory / libelous.
You CAN be found to be in breach of contract, and subject to fines, termination of accounts, or whatever else you agreed to. Though you CANNOT be held to such terms if you didn't actually have a reasonable expectation to know about them. A contract is a legal meeting of the minds, and courts can and will throw out contracts when it's clear that they are presented in a dishonest, confusing, vague, or otherwise bullshit manner, or where it is clear there was no realistic expectation of all parties actually seeing, reading, understanding, and agreeing (see all the click-wrap horse shit, a site's terms of service, etc.).
Furthermore, Perez isn't stating that contracts between a private entity and an individual which have clauses restricting speech are unconstitutional - he's stating that such clauses need to be clear and upfront, and that sneaking them in is bullshit, as I've already explained. The bill reiterates that it's bullshit, and provides fines for assholes trying to write contracts in such a way.
This bill would declare a contract or proposed contract for the sale or lease of consumer goods or services unlawful if it contains a provision requiring the consumer to waive his or her right to make any statement regarding the consumer's experience with the business, unless the waiver was knowing, voluntary, and intelligent, as specified.
Hmm, what part of the male anatomy does a rocket resemble? 'nuff said
The nothing? Go look at your penis. Then go look at a rocket. If they look alike to you, please see a urologist / plastic surgeon. You may as well claim all spheres look like breasts.
No it's not just opening Office / Office XML formats. It's the same shit when opening Star/Open/Libre Office documents across versions. They also have a tendency to get utterly fucked up whenever someone tries to redact anything.
But hey, mod me troll for putting my real-world experience out there. If I could use another product and not pay for Office I absolutely would. But the other options just don't fucking work as we need them to.
Exactly what kind of mental acrobatics does it take to state that the Federal Communications Commission has no authority over a public communications system that was developed by DARPA & paid for via federal tax breaks & subsidies?
Cruz isn't fit to be a city sanitation worker.
The same kind of gymnastics it took for you to read that quote and think it meant removing FCC authority as a whole, and not just the specific bullshit mentioned in same fucking sentence.
About 50% of the spreadsheets and documents I handle are utterly fucked by Star/Open/Libre Office, and different sets of files get fucked in different ways on different versions of Star/Open/Libre Office. The PDF conversion engine and Office import engine being the main offenders. Fonts get fucked and characters are substituted with reckless abandon all the time. In one version we get clocks instead of bullets, in another we get the shitty box with 4 numbers in it. If anyone dares to drop an image onto a document it's not going to be in the same spot when rendered in Star/Open/Libre Office. This makes using an image for a signature impossible. And of course there's the issues with nested lists - the spacing and indentation gets fucked out the ASS whenever Star/Open/Libre Office looks at things. On the spreadsheet side, the bottom line is that complex formulas and formatting just doesn't fucking work, and when you save a good document on Tuesday it'll be fucked after you add a few rows on next Wednesday.
Like I fucking said - they work fine for BASIC shit. They are absolute TRASH for anything moderately complex. It's nice that your home use is so simple, though. Good for you.
The tag you bought is smooth glass and it WILL move around in your body and cause problems. Then there's the danger of it being damaged. I seriously recommend that you do NOT go ahead with your plan.
LibreOffice's Base fulfils the same role as Access. just as good, not as expensive.
Star/Open/Libre Office are shit for anything more than the bare basics. If that works for you, great. But it's not going to work for anyone trying to do anything moderately complex, and to recommend it as a solution for a use case you know nothing about and will not end up testing or supporting is just wrong.
SQL Server Express is free and comes with limitations, but it should easily handle what they need. It's SQL so it's widely supported. And if they do end up outgrowing the free version they can parlay with an MS reseller for a discounted paid version that does what they need. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us...
You can't advertise "We're going to take you into space" and then put "we're not actually going to take you into space" into the tiny print. Anyway, I wouldn't pay that kind of money for anything less than a couple of orbits, which makes altitude nitpicking moot.
We're giving you 1 TB of storage*!
*We're actually giving you 1,000,000 MB of storage, but when the next advertising asshole gets hired he's going to abuse the definition all the way to 1,000,000,000,000 B.
Thats exactly what this would have been, you can easily disable the directory tiles or the entire new tab page
That's what the UX people said when Win8 previews came out with a registry key that could disable Metro.
That's what the UX people said when they took "tabs on bottom/top" with regards to the about:config preference that is no longer respected within Australis.
That's what the UX people said when they came up with/. Beta (just biding their time...)
That's what the UX people said when they destroyed Gmail.
That's what the UX people are saying when they talk about removing the URL from the Omnibar in Chrome.
When a UX person says they'll give you the option to disable their UX "innovation" with a preference setting, they're lying. They intend to remove that preference setting as quickly as possible.
When a UX person says anything, throw them out the nearest window.
I said "He bought / stole the account". According to your own story, I was correct. It is not a "patent falsehood" as you claimed. The truth is your account UID is NOT an indicator of how long you've been on Slashdot, or an indicator of any experience, knowledge, etc. in anything tech-related. It IS an indicator that you prefer to masquerade and misrepresent yourself. Your recent posting history is absolute proof that you enjoy spouting bullshit.
The entire point of Snapchat was proven to be an advertising lie. That's different than, say, bullet 12 on three pages of advertising claims turns out to be an exaggeration. How could the FTC ignore this one?
Well for one it's completely outside their jurisdiction. Snapchat is a free service - there is no trade going on between Snapchat and its users.
Is their insurance going to pay-out though? I would be shocked if my policy allows me to drive around people all day for money, and if I injure someone, good luck getting any money from me. OK, well, you can garnish my wages for 15% (max allowed in the state), have fun with your extra few hundred a month I guess.
You'd be dealing with garnished wages, seized property, a revoked license, prison time if convicted of something like vehicular manslaughter, etc. The one who gets to "have fun" is you. There is no loophole here.
Except that the driver has almost certainly voided their "residential grade" insurance policy by driving passengers commercially; meaning that they are essentially operating a vehicle uninsured. The state should step in to put a stop to this practice.
What are you "excepting" that from? The driver is liable. The driver can get sued and lose everything. The state can prosecute and throw the driver in jail. Uber has nothing to do with this and creates no loopholes.
So it ok for for a driver working for app to kill a child and hurt others with the victims left holding the bag for there medical cost due to all kinds of fine print that lets the drivers insurance and the app one using loop holes to get out of it. When with others drives doing a limo and taxi are fully covered with no loopholes allow ed to be I'm place
What fucking loopholes? An Uber driver is on the hook the same as any other driver. If you drive into a ditch and kill your passengers, expect to be sued, Uber or not.
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The First Amendment protects us from prosecution by the government. It doesn't protect us from civil matters with private companies. This Pérez guy should know that.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Congress makes laws. Corporations do not.
A contract limiting one's freedom of speech is entirely unenforceable, presuming our government is functioning properly.
If you sign an NDA, a "I won't post a bad review" clause, or whatever else, and then proceed to blab, you cannot be convicted of a crime. There is no crime and according to the First Amendment there can be NEVER be a crime based on speech. I am perfectly aware that our government is fucked up and we throw people in jail for speech.
You CAN be sued for any ACTUAL damages DIRECTLY related to your speech, IF it was defamatory / libelous.
You CAN be found to be in breach of contract, and subject to fines, termination of accounts, or whatever else you agreed to. Though you CANNOT be held to such terms if you didn't actually have a reasonable expectation to know about them. A contract is a legal meeting of the minds, and courts can and will throw out contracts when it's clear that they are presented in a dishonest, confusing, vague, or otherwise bullshit manner, or where it is clear there was no realistic expectation of all parties actually seeing, reading, understanding, and agreeing (see all the click-wrap horse shit, a site's terms of service, etc.).
Furthermore, Perez isn't stating that contracts between a private entity and an individual which have clauses restricting speech are unconstitutional - he's stating that such clauses need to be clear and upfront, and that sneaking them in is bullshit, as I've already explained. The bill reiterates that it's bullshit, and provides fines for assholes trying to write contracts in such a way.
Read the fucking bill:
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/...
This bill would declare a contract or proposed contract for the sale or lease of consumer goods or services unlawful if it contains a provision requiring the consumer to waive his or her right to make any statement regarding the consumer's experience with the business, unless the waiver was knowing, voluntary, and intelligent, as specified.
Hmm, what part of the male anatomy does a rocket resemble? 'nuff said
The nothing? Go look at your penis. Then go look at a rocket. If they look alike to you, please see a urologist / plastic surgeon.
You may as well claim all spheres look like breasts.
No it's not just opening Office / Office XML formats. It's the same shit when opening Star/Open/Libre Office documents across versions.
They also have a tendency to get utterly fucked up whenever someone tries to redact anything.
But hey, mod me troll for putting my real-world experience out there. If I could use another product and not pay for Office I absolutely would. But the other options just don't fucking work as we need them to.
im flat out fucking my server.
take that, cloud geeks.
I used to fuck my servers but they don't come with the necessary 8" external drive bays anymore.
Just say NO to the fucking cloud.
From where you sit, the only thing you are seeing is your colon, Shill.
I know you're not implying he has his head up his own ass, because that would preclude sitting.
Exactly what kind of mental acrobatics does it take to state that the Federal Communications Commission has no authority over a public communications system that was developed by DARPA & paid for via federal tax breaks & subsidies?
Cruz isn't fit to be a city sanitation worker.
The same kind of gymnastics it took for you to read that quote and think it meant removing FCC authority as a whole, and not just the specific bullshit mentioned in same fucking sentence.
About 50% of the spreadsheets and documents I handle are utterly fucked by Star/Open/Libre Office, and different sets of files get fucked in different ways on different versions of Star/Open/Libre Office. The PDF conversion engine and Office import engine being the main offenders. Fonts get fucked and characters are substituted with reckless abandon all the time. In one version we get clocks instead of bullets, in another we get the shitty box with 4 numbers in it. If anyone dares to drop an image onto a document it's not going to be in the same spot when rendered in Star/Open/Libre Office. This makes using an image for a signature impossible. And of course there's the issues with nested lists - the spacing and indentation gets fucked out the ASS whenever Star/Open/Libre Office looks at things. On the spreadsheet side, the bottom line is that complex formulas and formatting just doesn't fucking work, and when you save a good document on Tuesday it'll be fucked after you add a few rows on next Wednesday.
Like I fucking said - they work fine for BASIC shit. They are absolute TRASH for anything moderately complex. It's nice that your home use is so simple, though. Good for you.
Mod article down BULLSHIT.
The tag you bought is smooth glass and it WILL move around in your body and cause problems.
Then there's the danger of it being damaged.
I seriously recommend that you do NOT go ahead with your plan.
You meant SQL Server Express.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us...
And you may as well say why - it's free and it's SQL so it'll be widely supported in case they need help after you've left.
LibreOffice's Base fulfils the same role as Access. just as good, not as expensive.
Star/Open/Libre Office are shit for anything more than the bare basics.
If that works for you, great. But it's not going to work for anyone trying to do anything moderately complex, and to recommend it as a solution for a use case you know nothing about and will not end up testing or supporting is just wrong.
SQL Server Express is free and comes with limitations, but it should easily handle what they need. It's SQL so it's widely supported. And if they do end up outgrowing the free version they can parlay with an MS reseller for a discounted paid version that does what they need.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us...
In other words, the way dedicated and capable public school teachers have been handling it in the United States for 275 years. Good plan.
sPh
We haven't HAD dedicated OR capable public school teachers in about 275 years.
The 180s never cease.
All that so called "waste" is fuel for a SNACR reactor design that would eliminate the waste entirely.
Snacks! Snacks! Snacks! Snacks!
New episode of Adventure Time tonight, kids!!
"96 kilograms or 6 percent of the U-233 produced is not accounted for."
Yeah, real hard to acquire.....
It sure is when it keeps disappearing like that!
You can't advertise "We're going to take you into space" and then put "we're not actually going to take you into space" into the tiny print. Anyway, I wouldn't pay that kind of money for anything less than a couple of orbits, which makes altitude nitpicking moot.
We're giving you 1 TB of storage*!
*We're actually giving you 1,000,000 MB of storage, but when the next advertising asshole gets hired he's going to abuse the definition all the way to 1,000,000,000,000 B.
Then there is "Conan - Man of War" where someone has replaced all music in Conan the Barbarian with Manowar tracks.
Who the fuck would replace Basil Poledouris's masterpiece with trash?
That's what the UX people said when Win8 previews came out with a registry key that could disable Metro.
That's what the UX people said when they took "tabs on bottom/top" with regards to the about:config preference that is no longer respected within Australis.
That's what the UX people said when they came up with /. Beta (just biding their time...)
That's what the UX people said when they destroyed Gmail.
That's what the UX people are saying when they talk about removing the URL from the Omnibar in Chrome.
When a UX person says they'll give you the option to disable their UX "innovation" with a preference setting, they're lying. They intend to remove that preference setting as quickly as possible.
When a UX person says anything, throw them out the nearest window.
I said "He bought / stole the account". According to your own story, I was correct. It is not a "patent falsehood" as you claimed. The truth is your account UID is NOT an indicator of how long you've been on Slashdot, or an indicator of any experience, knowledge, etc. in anything tech-related.
It IS an indicator that you prefer to masquerade and misrepresent yourself. Your recent posting history is absolute proof that you enjoy spouting bullshit.
He bought / stole the account, and he's been spouting a lot of bullshit lately.
For example: http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
The entire point of Snapchat was proven to be an advertising lie. That's different than, say, bullet 12 on three pages of advertising claims turns out to be an exaggeration. How could the FTC ignore this one?
Well for one it's completely outside their jurisdiction. Snapchat is a free service - there is no trade going on between Snapchat and its users.
Is their insurance going to pay-out though? I would be shocked if my policy allows me to drive around people all day for money, and if I injure someone, good luck getting any money from me. OK, well, you can garnish my wages for 15% (max allowed in the state), have fun with your extra few hundred a month I guess.
You'd be dealing with garnished wages, seized property, a revoked license, prison time if convicted of something like vehicular manslaughter, etc.
The one who gets to "have fun" is you.
There is no loophole here.
Except that the driver has almost certainly voided their "residential grade" insurance policy by driving passengers commercially; meaning that they are essentially operating a vehicle uninsured. The state should step in to put a stop to this practice.
What are you "excepting" that from?
The driver is liable. The driver can get sued and lose everything. The state can prosecute and throw the driver in jail.
Uber has nothing to do with this and creates no loopholes.
So it ok for for a driver working for app to kill a child and hurt others with the victims left holding the bag for there medical cost due to all kinds of fine print that lets the drivers insurance and the app one using loop holes to get out of it. When with others drives doing a limo and taxi are fully covered with no loopholes allow ed to be I'm place
What fucking loopholes? An Uber driver is on the hook the same as any other driver. If you drive into a ditch and kill your passengers, expect to be sued, Uber or not.