I've also consistently noticed that defense lawyers very often come off as slimeballs trying to get an obvious bad guy off the hook I tend to notice that more than the searches and rough interrogations, sometimes they do make a point of chasing down a warrant, and I guess the warrant stuff is sometimes implied.
That's the problem with TOR though... even if there are people who really need it [like these Iranian dissidents], there are nuisances that I don't want to bother helping (like the people who want to shield their BitTorrenting), and people that I'm actively against helping (like the pedo's and white supremacists mentioned in a nephew post) Not mention, can you get legally burned for helping the wrong people? {I'm not talking about trumped-up charges for helping 'undesirables' per se...]
As other posters have discussed, and as I recognize, if you could tell who was using it, that would defeat the purpose
Indeed, as a Zeppelin fan myself, I've sometimes wondered why they didn't soldier on with a replacement member as some other bands have. (AC/DC and Bon Scott/Brian Johnson was the first thing that came to mind; there are many other examples...even so, I'd say the sample size of "known" bands is too small to make any conclusive statements about which band role was associated with which effect. And of course, I'm not goign cast aspersions on such deeply personal decisions.
Yeah, _In Through the Out Door_ production was a mess, likely symptomatic of developing problems (in short: Plant and Jones in the studio, Page and Bonham out partying, their parts added in later)
In addition to the drug problems, the personal tragedies in Plant's life (car crash in 1975, death of Karac Plant in 1977) were certainly part of the breakdown forces.
Halfassed propaganda campaigns can only go so far The RIAA "well" is "beyond poisoned".
How to "win hearts and minds" as an artist? Behave properly. It's that simple. I suppose the RIAA interferes with 'their' artists' behavior in this manner
I don't want to name names because I don't want to get involved in a 'shameless plug' situation, but:
Step 1. Cousin tells me about a certain music artist that she figured I'd like. Step 2. I check out a couple of the guy's music videos on YouTube, this stuff seems good enough to bother pirating. So I BitTorrent one of his albums Step 3. Listen to whole album a few times, like it. Step 4. Buy his new album [FWIW, the album does 'pass' at RIAARadar] Step 5. (He) Profit!(s)
This artist has demonstrated that he's cool with this mode of behavior - tone album (the one I downloaded) has a song discussing the "new music industry business model" [is funny], and he goes right out and puts MP3 versions of some of his back catalogue up on the website.
Nowadays, those programs only seem to pick on things called "tracking cookies" (?). Anyway, I'd like to manage cookies properly, there are some that I want to keep, so blanket "delete them all" I don't want. And there enough that I want to keep that I don't want to be buggered being prompted on every one, not to mention all those times when I *would* be wanting to click the 'no' button. (This seems reminiscent of the UAC problem just a bit)
Don't lube condoms with Vaseline...good to know on the off-chance that I'll *need* to know, heh heh
Even if the example was accidental, I saw Libertarian/San Francisco as a nice subtle reference to their attitude towards the Federal Reserve (the other places I named are the cities with the other 11 Federal Reserve Banks)
Okay, maybe my words were a little strong. I never really got infected with any seriously-damaging malware - I'm talking about the minor stuff that was only really bothersome in the aggregate. Even fairly healthy people (analogy: those with reasonable computer security habits) occasionally get minor colds or something (analogy: low-grade malware)
I don't *get* regular infections, and I didn't have serious problems before, just saying that there's enough of a decrease post-AdBlock for it to be noticeable.
And no, I'm not one of the morons who actually *clicks* on those ads.
Oh yes, AdAware and Spybot are free but not Free. (Not) sorry if that pisses you off, Stallmanist.
I suppose "look" or "check" may be better words. I go into a bank branch, ask all of the present tellers if they have any of the things, and then trade an appropriate amount of other denominations for them. I check several banks in the area, and check them often.
To the tellers, the relatively small volumes of $2 bills and half-dollars are probably a nuisance, so they probably like having someone take them off their hands. (Thus, I can easily trade for $2s/halves/etc even at many places where I don't have an account)
Yeah, you're right, I fear the US, or at least the US powers-that-be, would be hypocritical if that kind of shitstorm was happening here. However, I'd say that that kind if political hypocrisy is an "everyone does it" game (don't make it right) However, the concept in your example seems to fall in the "likely couldn't understand it completely 'on paper' category
Any particular reason for selecting San Francisco as the US city in your example? If Libertarian politics have anything to do with your example, Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Richmond, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Kansas City and/or Dallas would also be appropriate.:P
You do have important words of caution on the Iranian developments, I'd say
As a collector, I often canvas banks looking for unusual currency items like $2 bills, half dollars, et cetera. It's hard enough to find those [many of which aren't worth much above face value], let alone $20 gold coins that are worth hundreds...
Somebody might get lucky [from a thief, desperate owner or ignorant owner depositing them], I'm not even sure how the banks would handle such things
Since I installed AdBlock Plus (for purposes of lowing annoyance level), I've noticed as a very pleasant side effect that my malware infection level has dropped tremendously. Barely need to run AdAware & SpyBot & co any more, and when I do [even when their definitions are fully updated], there's barely anything for them to find
I can't comment on the quality of Cici's food, but I must say that $1 goes overboard. PayPal would ding me for 47 cents on a $5.99 payment [$0.30 plus (2.9% * payment_size)], and a large business probably gets better rates. [Paypal almost certainly has the leverage to be paying much less than 2.9%, that's where their profit comes from.:)]
So while I approve of (in principle) extending the credit card charge to customers *, Cici's is definitely ripping people off with the amount of the charge.
* Hiding costs like CC transaction fees seems like a bad idea, especially if they can easily be avoided. Maybe if the customer had to pay the fees, they'd consider using another payment method. If the merchant can't or doesn't pass the fees along, it becomes a Not My Problem(TM)-type situation. The credit card companies obviously don't like that possibility, so I suspect that's why they stress "can't pass the fees along" in their merchant contracts. (There are antitrust issues here, and with the credit card merchant fees in general)
Although I don't have a citation handy, I suspect that in some areas, it's written into the relevant law that the fees can't be passed along - although shielding the public from shenanigans like Cici's is a good idea, the credit card company lobbyists want such laws for the reasons mentioned earlier.
On small sales, the flat-rate portion of the fee is a big deal. On low-margin sales, the percentage charge is important, so no wonder the end-merchants want to do something about it
Selling online, credit card/PayPal are a different issues, because it avoids the aggravation, cost and time-delay of mailed in payments. As such, for physical stores, it's a different story.
I keep on hearing from various sources (anecdotally) that Verizon has the best signal coverage, at least in my area. That probably has something to do with it.
And some people may want to try and move their phones because they can.:)
Fortunately, my university's IT policies aren't so asshat-ish. Yes, they offer that McAfee download, but I think the rules technically say that you have to have some AV installed, not necessarily *that* one. (I do use it because they hand it out free, and I'm not paranoid about that stuff anyway because of my largely intelligent browsing practices) Linux machines - no problem Considering the linux fans that must exist aroudn here, and all the Mac-heads [I do seem to see more Apple laptops], it's no surprise that that "alternate OSes" are okay.
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In short it is called the "CSI Effect"
I've also consistently noticed that defense lawyers very often come off as slimeballs trying to get an obvious bad guy off the hook
I tend to notice that more than the searches and rough interrogations, sometimes they do make a point of chasing down a warrant, and I guess the warrant stuff is sometimes implied.
That's the problem with TOR though ... even if there are people who really need it [like these Iranian dissidents], there are nuisances that I don't want to bother helping (like the people who want to shield their BitTorrenting), and people that I'm actively against helping (like the pedo's and white supremacists mentioned in a nephew post)
Not mention, can you get legally burned for helping the wrong people? {I'm not talking about trumped-up charges for helping 'undesirables' per se...]
As other posters have discussed, and as I recognize, if you could tell who was using it, that would defeat the purpose
Maybe I'm being paranoid, but still...
Indeed, as a Zeppelin fan myself, I've sometimes wondered why they didn't soldier on with a replacement member as some other bands have. (AC/DC and Bon Scott/Brian Johnson was the first thing that came to mind; there are many other examples...even so, I'd say the sample size of "known" bands is too small to make any conclusive statements about which band role was associated with which effect. And of course, I'm not goign cast aspersions on such deeply personal decisions.
Yeah, _In Through the Out Door_ production was a mess, likely symptomatic of developing problems (in short: Plant and Jones in the studio, Page and Bonham out partying, their parts added in later)
In addition to the drug problems, the personal tragedies in Plant's life (car crash in 1975, death of Karac Plant in 1977) were certainly part of the breakdown forces.
Halfassed propaganda campaigns can only go so far
The RIAA "well" is "beyond poisoned".
How to "win hearts and minds" as an artist? Behave properly. It's that simple. I suppose the RIAA interferes with 'their' artists' behavior in this manner
I don't want to name names because I don't want to get involved in a 'shameless plug' situation, but:
Step 1. Cousin tells me about a certain music artist that she figured I'd like.
Step 2. I check out a couple of the guy's music videos on YouTube, this stuff seems good enough to bother pirating. So I BitTorrent one of his albums
Step 3. Listen to whole album a few times, like it.
Step 4. Buy his new album [FWIW, the album does 'pass' at RIAARadar]
Step 5. (He) Profit!(s)
This artist has demonstrated that he's cool with this mode of behavior - tone album (the one I downloaded) has a song discussing the "new music industry business model" [is funny], and he goes right out and puts MP3 versions of some of his back catalogue up on the website.
Note: Not referring to Weird Al here. :P
Does that mean...not reviewed by the Guardian's crowdsources, or not reviewed/redacted?
Nowadays, those programs only seem to pick on things called "tracking cookies" (?).
Anyway, I'd like to manage cookies properly, there are some that I want to keep, so blanket "delete them all" I don't want.
And there enough that I want to keep that I don't want to be buggered being prompted on every one, not to mention all those times when I *would* be wanting to click the 'no' button. (This seems reminiscent of the UAC problem just a bit)
Don't lube condoms with Vaseline...good to know on the off-chance that I'll *need* to know, heh heh
You're welcome.
Fairly easy to check the "my comments page"; occasionally turns up useful things such as this.
Even if the example was accidental, I saw Libertarian/San Francisco as a nice subtle reference to their attitude towards the Federal Reserve (the other places I named are the cities with the other 11 Federal Reserve Banks)
Gawd, I'm a nerd...:P
Okay, maybe my words were a little strong.
I never really got infected with any seriously-damaging malware - I'm talking about the minor stuff that was only really bothersome in the aggregate.
Even fairly healthy people (analogy: those with reasonable computer security habits) occasionally get minor colds or something (analogy: low-grade malware)
I don't *get* regular infections, and I didn't have serious problems before, just saying that there's enough of a decrease post-AdBlock for it to be noticeable.
And no, I'm not one of the morons who actually *clicks* on those ads.
Oh yes, AdAware and Spybot are free but not Free. (Not) sorry if that pisses you off, Stallmanist.
I suppose "look" or "check" may be better words.
I go into a bank branch, ask all of the present tellers if they have any of the things, and then trade an appropriate amount of other denominations for them.
I check several banks in the area, and check them often.
To the tellers, the relatively small volumes of $2 bills and half-dollars are probably a nuisance, so they probably like having someone take them off their hands. (Thus, I can easily trade for $2s/halves/etc even at many places where I don't have an account)
No mod points for me today, so:
Yeah, you're right, I fear the US, or at least the US powers-that-be, would be hypocritical if that kind of shitstorm was happening here. However, I'd say that that kind if political hypocrisy is an "everyone does it" game (don't make it right)
However, the concept in your example seems to fall in the "likely couldn't understand it completely 'on paper' category
Any particular reason for selecting San Francisco as the US city in your example? If Libertarian politics have anything to do with your example, Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Richmond, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Kansas City and/or Dallas would also be appropriate. :P
You do have important words of caution on the Iranian developments, I'd say
As a collector, I often canvas banks looking for unusual currency items like $2 bills, half dollars, et cetera. It's hard enough to find those [many of which aren't worth much above face value], let alone $20 gold coins that are worth hundreds...
Somebody might get lucky [from a thief, desperate owner or ignorant owner depositing them], I'm not even sure how the banks would handle such things
Big Oil would probably be quite glad to be Big Solar or Big Wind if the money keeps on flowing...
We talk about the RIAA not adjusting for the fact that their business model is dying, well, Big Oil *is* adjusting, kinda
Since I installed AdBlock Plus (for purposes of lowing annoyance level), I've noticed as a very pleasant side effect that my malware infection level has dropped tremendously.
Barely need to run AdAware & SpyBot & co any more, and when I do [even when their definitions are fully updated], there's barely anything for them to find
That reminds me of fellow Stonecutters pointing out the "91*2*" emergency number to Homer shortly after he was initiated.
Sure, it is kind of a dick move on the NFL's part, but try going to visit the one guy you know who *does* get the station
Those aren't bodies, those are really heavy empty barrels. Mr. Guido will be over shortly, to re-educate your kneecaps.
I think he's referring to questionably-large line-item billing in some hospitals.
It may or may not be illegal, but I suspect it goes against the contracts with the credit card companies in some form.
I can't comment on the quality of Cici's food, but I must say that $1 goes overboard. PayPal would ding me for 47 cents on a $5.99 payment [$0.30 plus (2.9% * payment_size)], and a large business probably gets better rates. [Paypal almost certainly has the leverage to be paying much less than 2.9%, that's where their profit comes from. :)]
So while I approve of (in principle) extending the credit card charge to customers *, Cici's is definitely ripping people off with the amount of the charge.
*
Hiding costs like CC transaction fees seems like a bad idea, especially if they can easily be avoided.
Maybe if the customer had to pay the fees, they'd consider using another payment method. If the merchant can't or doesn't pass the fees along, it becomes a Not My Problem(TM)-type situation. The credit card companies obviously don't like that possibility, so I suspect that's why they stress "can't pass the fees along" in their merchant contracts. (There are antitrust issues here, and with the credit card merchant fees in general)
Although I don't have a citation handy, I suspect that in some areas, it's written into the relevant law that the fees can't be passed along - although shielding the public from shenanigans like Cici's is a good idea, the credit card company lobbyists want such laws for the reasons mentioned earlier.
On small sales, the flat-rate portion of the fee is a big deal. On low-margin sales, the percentage charge is important, so no wonder the end-merchants want to do something about it
Selling online, credit card/PayPal are a different issues, because it avoids the aggravation, cost and time-delay of mailed in payments. As such, for physical stores, it's a different story.
I keep on hearing from various sources (anecdotally) that Verizon has the best signal coverage, at least in my area. That probably has something to do with it.
And some people may want to try and move their phones because they can. :)
Fortunately, my university's IT policies aren't so asshat-ish. Yes, they offer that McAfee download, but I think the rules technically say that you have to have some AV installed, not necessarily *that* one. (I do use it because they hand it out free, and I'm not paranoid about that stuff anyway because of my largely intelligent browsing practices)
Linux machines - no problem
Considering the linux fans that must exist aroudn here, and all the Mac-heads [I do seem to see more Apple laptops], it's no surprise that that "alternate OSes" are okay.
For the unaware:
11. You must have pictures to prove your statement.
I suppose it makes sense here...:)
I have enough trouble with the 400 and 500-level courses!
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