I used to be one of those people. Almost never took a day off, it was too costly. I figured I could either go into work for eight hours, and buy two new games; or not on both.
The burden of proof is clearly on the accuser, not defendant. He could remain silent and still win if the accuser does not make his case.
Showing that he suffered damages/loss of business is NOT sufficient to satisfy the burden of proof in a libel case. Otherwise you'd open the door for any and every business to sue over any bad review and could win by simply showing they suffered a loss.
> You're honor, they accused me of discriminating against blacks and I suffered a monetary loss! >> Do you discriminate? > Well yes, but I still suffered a loss. >> I rule in your favor.
There is a difference between posting somthing bad/negative/criminal, like underage drinking; and a company wanting to promote some random interesting fact about itself.
I think they meant to swing it as being news from people will use to base their investment decisions on.
Seems you are not allowed to make straight BS free statements about the factual use of your services by your customers. You have to make sure and layer it in corp BS to the point that only professional analysts can figure out what you're saying.
Except that's not accurate... In this case it'd be like him being the CEO of Domino's and saying he ate four of their own pizzas, or that their customers ate 4 billion in June.
Don't just make up some random hypothetical bad situation.
Which is kind of a shame considering how tired we all are of your standard corporate BS. It's refreshing to see a company actually say something straight and to the point without any wishy washy qualifiers.
Does not seem very likely... Speaking as someone working for a large host, one of our largest customers, a re-seller had some 3000 servers with us, and were paying around $2m/mth.
That would still leave them with 1000 possible servers to host the service on.
I think you would need to establish what is being sent back to Aarons.
Customers may rent them, but customers could also reformat them clean. If Aarons locked them down so only they had administrator rights and the laptop were reporting back personal information, like CC, photos, porn, etc... then they might be in some hot water.
Even if Verizon just rented them, I highly doubt they will give users administrator access to them to wipe.
Fine print would not protect them from stuff like child porn.
Little Jane the baby watching Sesame Street without a shirt on, being recorded by a camera. It's already been argued for pirated/cracks for games that a copy has been made in the system RAM, therefore Verizon just created CP.
They changed it up a while ago. They moved from the more traditional X.Y.Z versioning to basically make it all just X.
When it was announced I think justified it by having it come off as a PR deal, people thinking FF is old and outdated because it's on V4, while Chrome is on v10.
Well I highly doubt the activists knocked on the front door to ask permission and announce they would be flying a drone over their private property with the purpose of harassing them and scarring off the birds.
I think the argument is that the contractor will then organize and do the work and use the supplies in a more efficient manner. Of course what ends up happening is he cuts corners and uses substandard supplies.
No idea about his employment, but when it happened a second time I did contact their PR and legal teams they said they'd have him stop. That's when they also sent out a tech to find out da fuq is going on with the tap.
Many of the Android ones I have dealt with offer calling over WiFi, but it still counts towards your minutes, even if it's going to someone on the same network, also on WiFi.
Right here, I got ONE choice on cable/broadband provider. Local outfit that has a horrible reputation, changes their name every few years. Already let my Apt complex know when I move out, it's going to be solely because they made such an exclusivity deal with them.
When I was with Comcast their door to door salesmen started accusing/harassing me for stealing cable. Of course at the time I did not have a cable box and no way to connect the coax to anything.
Turns out, a previous tech had mislabeled the wires, and my Apt had two wires listed. Someone else was plugging in theirs but it was labeled in pencil, as mine.
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I used to be one of those people.
Almost never took a day off, it was too costly. I figured I could either go into work for eight hours, and buy two new games; or not on both.
You got it turned around.
The burden of proof is clearly on the accuser, not defendant. He could remain silent and still win if the accuser does not make his case.
Showing that he suffered damages/loss of business is NOT sufficient to satisfy the burden of proof in a libel case. Otherwise you'd open the door for any and every business to sue over any bad review and could win by simply showing they suffered a loss.
> You're honor, they accused me of discriminating against blacks and I suffered a monetary loss!
>> Do you discriminate?
> Well yes, but I still suffered a loss.
>> I rule in your favor.
There is a difference between posting somthing bad/negative/criminal, like underage drinking; and a company wanting to promote some random interesting fact about itself.
I think they meant to swing it as being news from people will use to base their investment decisions on.
Seems you are not allowed to make straight BS free statements about the factual use of your services by your customers. You have to make sure and layer it in corp BS to the point that only professional analysts can figure out what you're saying.
Except that's not accurate...
In this case it'd be like him being the CEO of Domino's and saying he ate four of their own pizzas, or that their customers ate 4 billion in June.
Don't just make up some random hypothetical bad situation.
Which is kind of a shame considering how tired we all are of your standard corporate BS.
It's refreshing to see a company actually say something straight and to the point without any wishy washy qualifiers.
And the onus is in the accuser to make his case.
He has to prove the claims about the theft and shoddy work are false.
Does not seem very likely...
Speaking as someone working for a large host, one of our largest customers, a re-seller had some 3000 servers with us, and were paying around $2m/mth.
That would still leave them with 1000 possible servers to host the service on.
I think you would need to establish what is being sent back to Aarons.
Customers may rent them, but customers could also reformat them clean. If Aarons locked them down so only they had administrator rights and the laptop were reporting back personal information, like CC, photos, porn, etc... then they might be in some hot water.
Even if Verizon just rented them, I highly doubt they will give users administrator access to them to wipe.
Fine print would not protect them from stuff like child porn.
Little Jane the baby watching Sesame Street without a shirt on, being recorded by a camera. It's already been argued for pirated/cracks for games that a copy has been made in the system RAM, therefore Verizon just created CP.
Oil over flows from the side down onto the burner underneath; catches on fire.
They changed it up a while ago.
They moved from the more traditional X.Y.Z versioning to basically make it all just X.
When it was announced I think justified it by having it come off as a PR deal, people thinking FF is old and outdated because it's on V4, while Chrome is on v10.
Well I highly doubt the activists knocked on the front door to ask permission and announce they would be flying a drone over their private property with the purpose of harassing them and scarring off the birds.
Also aren't pidgins a real nuisance in some cities that they try and exterminate them?
Or unless their have a fear that they wont get a fair trial as the government is corrupt.
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I think the argument is that the contractor will then organize and do the work and use the supplies in a more efficient manner. Of course what ends up happening is he cuts corners and uses substandard supplies.
Yea, let's look at the standards at private prisons.
Wasn't there an article recently where one stopped giving toilet paper to cut costs?
Was it the Union or Congress?
I thought it was Congress that mandated that they prepay it all for the life of an employee when hired.
No idea about his employment, but when it happened a second time I did contact their PR and legal teams they said they'd have him stop. That's when they also sent out a tech to find out da fuq is going on with the tap.
Do they?
Many of the Android ones I have dealt with offer calling over WiFi, but it still counts towards your minutes, even if it's going to someone on the same network, also on WiFi.
*Unless you use a third party app.
How are they doing that?
Do they just take a look at my BW use at one peak time and extrapolate from there?
Right here, I got ONE choice on cable/broadband provider.
Local outfit that has a horrible reputation, changes their name every few years. Already let my Apt complex know when I move out, it's going to be solely because they made such an exclusivity deal with them.
When I was with Comcast their door to door salesmen started accusing/harassing me for stealing cable.
Of course at the time I did not have a cable box and no way to connect the coax to anything.
Turns out, a previous tech had mislabeled the wires, and my Apt had two wires listed. Someone else was plugging in theirs but it was labeled in pencil, as mine.
Yea, TSA is already coming to the public transit near you:
http://houstonfreethinkers.com/all-news/79-local-news/2551-sheila-jackson-lee-partners-with-dhs-brings-tsa-to-houston-metro
*And yes, I made sure to voice my distaste at the meeting.