You don't stop obnoxious car drivers by blockading the interstate.
You're off base. I'll explain why later.
Back to my example of bad and dangerous drivers... yes, there's a "collective right" to "control" bad behavior, but you wouldn't blockade the interstates in the interest of "control".
I don't own the interstate. If I own a restaurant or a movie theater I have a legitimate claim to block RF from entering or exiting my property.
Just take it outside! Answer: In an emergency one may not be thinking that clearly about just why their cell phone isn't working, losing precious time.
By that rationale, one may not be thinking clearly enough to remember "911". Unless you are in a situation where you are the only person present to witness an emergency or accident, someone else will be there to go get help. If you are alone, no one would bother jamming your cell phone.
Every time you see some asshole blabbing away on his phone in a movie theater or library (yes, once I saw an asshole talking loudly on his cell phone in the library) thank them for annoying enough people to make the use of cell jammers more widespread. If someone dies because no one could dial 911 on their cell phone, those thoughtless assholes who can't take their fucking phones away from their heads are every bit as much to blame as the person who set up the jammer.
Red Hat makes money selling services to big companies who can't afford to be wrong. They sell CYA insurance to suits.
It's more than that. I'm personally through with Red Hat, the whole RHEL/Fedora split turned me off I'm a Mandriva guy but my employer is all about the Red Hat. Red Hat also provides easy to track updates for all of the packages that they include with their product. Big players like oracle tune their product releases to Red Hat. If you want support for the Oracle database that you're paying for, it had better be on Windows or Red Hat. For quite a while now, I've been thinking about giving Gentoo a try, and eventually I might, but Red Hat is the big dog of the Enterprise because they were the first to blow up big and other mission critical apps are designed to work on Red Hat.
The only real solution would be to assign tickets to names, like they do for airplane tickets.
That wouldn't work. In some markets, where nearly every game is sold out it would be just fine but in smaller markets it would not and thus those owners would never allow it. A lot of businesses purchase tickets in bulk so that executives can take potential clients for "business meetings" at games. If you don't know who in advance the client will be, the ticket couldn't be purchased.
More importantly, I can threaten to void purchases. The threat of voiding purchases via your credit card, in my experience, is more useful than actually voiding purchases.
You are absolutely correct. In my experience, businesses would rather lose a little money than all of it.
This is actually a case *for* unique ids like RFID to be implemented everywhere. At least that way you would be able to track down the asshole that stole from Best Buy and the guy in question.
Yeah, that's it. We're all supposed to give up our privacy to protect Best Buy's profits.
I believe there is "insufficient local talent" because most of the applicants that I see look good on paper, but lack at least one critical skill for the job (programming and engineering positions).
If they have a CS or Engineering degree, it's a safe assumption that they can be trained. Invest in your employees, it'll pay off.
All of the tickets go to the first, or the first few in the line who buy them all up in a matter of a few minutes.
So, why can't they limit the number of tickets one can purchase at one time?
This case isn't about someone getting into line first and buying a bunch of tickets, they want to stop season ticket holders from selling off the tickets that they can't use.
They team doesn't care about whether or not fans can buy tickets. The team cares about making money and having control.
I guess life just got a tiny bit fairer.
You'd guess wrong. Someone else getting to tell you what you can do with your own property is certainly less fair than the alternative.
Because obviously, you're much more passionate about than I am.
I'm more passionate about people turning non-issues into "problems". Don't pretend that this is about exploitation of the poor. It's about a bunch of lazy crybabies and greedy team owners.
There isn't a rule against selling tickets to Asians, there is a law against large markups on ticket re-sales and a contract with ticket holders to re-sell tickets with approved brokers.
Is StubHub located in the state? If not, then state law doesn't apply.
They're a business devoted to ticket resale, they should know and follow the rules. It would be harder for the Patriots to get StubHub to turn over the names of people who have simply violated a private contract. It's obviously easy for the Patriots to get StubHub to turn over the names of people who are accomplices to a crime.
The Patriots don't enforce the law. If the state AG wanted the records, that would be one thing, but the Patriots aren't prosecuting anyone for breaking the law.
I'll likely never be able to attend major sporting events because scalpers quickly scoop up all of the tickets and price them out of range of the normal fan.
What's stopping you from going to the place that the scalpers go and getting a ticket for yourself?
The rich and privileged get to go to any game at a whim. (and get the best seats) Others have to sell their car to see their favorite team.
Life isn't fair. Rich guys get to fuck supermodels and princesses. Do you think Diana Spencer would have been with Dodi Al-Fayed if he had been Dodi the Egyptian taylor? I don't. Rich people pay LOWER interest rates on loans. Yes, the people most able to afford it actually pay LESS interest than those least able to. Rich people pay a lower percentage of their income to Social Security.
If you're looking for a cause, how about that?
Who gives a fuck if some beerbelly doesn't make enough money driving a forklift to pay $2k for football tickets?
under state law tickets can be resold just at a very low profit though "the team rules" forbid any resale.
Is StubHub located in MA? I don't know. If it's not, why would any state law apply?
that is anti-competitive though hording tickets and selling them at 10x what they are worth isn't any better. don't feel sorry for either side, neither is correct- both are screwing people over.
"anti-competitive" means something other than what you think it means. StubHub fosters competition. Everyone who has a ticket that they don't want has the ability to compete. If I think I can sell more of my tickets by pricing them 20% lower than yours, that's competition.
Every sports related season ticket by any team in any sport always has rules attached.
What if one of the rules was "You may not sell, give or in any other way transfer possession of this ticket to someone of Asian descent." Would that be enforceable? Would they be able to have a judge issue an order to determine who is giving away tickets to Chinese businessmen?
And if one of those rules is season ticket holders can't resell their tickets, then the franchise has every right to find out who is reselling and cut them off.
What right do they have to compell a private entity to turn over private records? They have the right to cut off people who they discover to be breaking the terms of their sale, but they have no right to compell others to help them do so.
The issue is the fact that they are selling the tickets above the face value.
Why in the fuck else would people create a marketplace for the buying and selling of tickets if not to make profit on it?
I'm all for people being enterprising and making a little money - say 10% or at most 20% above face value. But anything over that is taking advantage of the fans, and preying on their obsessive love of the sports they love.
The same can be said for coin or comic book dealers. Does it matter that Action Comics #1 originally cost $0.10? If some dork is willing to pay $250,000 for it now, there's nothing wrong with selling it at that price.
What teams make in endorsements, broadcast rights and merchandising is so substantial that they're already taking advantage of the fans by charging $50.00 or whatever per ticket.
It's pure economics, when there is great demand for a product that is in limited supply, prices will rise. There were jackasses who paid $2,500 for Playstation 3 consoles because that was the only way they could get them. Should Sony have been able to sue to prevent people from reselling things that they legitimately bought? Why is that any worse than selling tickets at higher prices? What would be wrong with having an auction? If two people want the same ticket and are willing to bid against each other to buy them, why should the owner of the ticket be kept from allowing them to do so?
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You apparently don't know what random means.
I was responding to this statement by an AC
He was talking about warrantless wiretapping, that's what I was responding to.
Bush's death and torture camps are what you're looking for.
Clearly the US should never ignore the Geneva Conventions, but that's outside the scope of the post that I was responding to.
LK
As wrong as the Bush administation's snooping is, it's still not as bad as locking people up for their political beliefs.
LK
Sure, the Chinese government, by and large, isn't killing people using Western technologies
Not necessarily. OK, so gunpowder is a Chinese invention but smokeless powder and automatic pistol are certainly Western technologies.
LK
If Einstein murdered his wife, he would be a murderer, not a genius.
... "he'd be Orenthal the bus-driving murderer."
No, he'd be a murdering genius.
Just like Robert Blake is now a murdering washed up actor.
In the words of Chris Rock "If OJ Simpson had been a bus driver"
LK
You don't stop obnoxious car drivers by blockading the interstate.
You're off base. I'll explain why later.
Back to my example of bad and dangerous drivers... yes, there's a "collective right" to "control" bad behavior, but you wouldn't blockade the interstates in the interest of "control".
I don't own the interstate. If I own a restaurant or a movie theater I have a legitimate claim to block RF from entering or exiting my property.
Just take it outside! Answer: In an emergency one may not be thinking that clearly about just why their cell phone isn't working, losing precious time.
By that rationale, one may not be thinking clearly enough to remember "911". Unless you are in a situation where you are the only person present to witness an emergency or accident, someone else will be there to go get help. If you are alone, no one would bother jamming your cell phone.
Every time you see some asshole blabbing away on his phone in a movie theater or library (yes, once I saw an asshole talking loudly on his cell phone in the library) thank them for annoying enough people to make the use of cell jammers more widespread. If someone dies because no one could dial 911 on their cell phone, those thoughtless assholes who can't take their fucking phones away from their heads are every bit as much to blame as the person who set up the jammer.
LK
Red Hat makes money selling services to big companies who can't afford to be wrong. They sell CYA insurance to suits.
It's more than that. I'm personally through with Red Hat, the whole RHEL/Fedora split turned me off I'm a Mandriva guy but my employer is all about the Red Hat. Red Hat also provides easy to track updates for all of the packages that they include with their product. Big players like oracle tune their product releases to Red Hat. If you want support for the Oracle database that you're paying for, it had better be on Windows or Red Hat. For quite a while now, I've been thinking about giving Gentoo a try, and eventually I might, but Red Hat is the big dog of the Enterprise because they were the first to blow up big and other mission critical apps are designed to work on Red Hat.
LK
Umm, but doesn't this project require vast amounts of electricity?
LK
The only real solution would be to assign tickets to names, like they do for airplane tickets.
That wouldn't work. In some markets, where nearly every game is sold out it would be just fine but in smaller markets it would not and thus those owners would never allow it. A lot of businesses purchase tickets in bulk so that executives can take potential clients for "business meetings" at games. If you don't know who in advance the client will be, the ticket couldn't be purchased.
LK
More importantly, I can threaten to void purchases. The threat of voiding purchases via your credit card, in my experience, is more useful than actually voiding purchases.
You are absolutely correct. In my experience, businesses would rather lose a little money than all of it.
LK
This is actually a case *for* unique ids like RFID to be implemented everywhere. At least that way you would be able to track down the asshole that stole from Best Buy and the guy in question.
Yeah, that's it. We're all supposed to give up our privacy to protect Best Buy's profits.
WTF is wrong with you?
If I was sitting idle and complaining about having nothing to do, then perhaps you'd have a point.
These people are asking what drivers need work, if they have nothing else to do there is no reason not to.
Besides, I don't want to learn anything about sucking cock, I don't think you would want the competition.
LK
These are KERNEL driver developers. A completely different skillset.
It's a valid question. If these developers are sitting idle, why not brush up on userspace skills and get to work doing something?
LK
I believe there is "insufficient local talent" because most of the applicants that I see look good on paper, but lack at least one critical skill for the job (programming and engineering positions).
If they have a CS or Engineering degree, it's a safe assumption that they can be trained. Invest in your employees, it'll pay off.
LK
All of the tickets go to the first, or the first few in the line who buy them all up in a matter of a few minutes.
So, why can't they limit the number of tickets one can purchase at one time?
This case isn't about someone getting into line first and buying a bunch of tickets, they want to stop season ticket holders from selling off the tickets that they can't use.
LK
If that money instead is given to a scalper who ADDS NO FUCKING VALUE then they lose out, and the fans lose out.
If a scalper allowed you to get a ticket that you otherwise would not have, then they have added value.
Also: A ticket is not property, it's a license, or a right of entry.
A ticket most certainly is property, it's a tangible object. It may confer right of entry, but it is still property.
LK
Do you really need that explained to you?
I have never purchased tickets for a sporting event, so yes.
LK
Not all of us have the software and machines these guys do.
This software is available to purchase right?
LK
Apparently the team does. (doh)
They team doesn't care about whether or not fans can buy tickets. The team cares about making money and having control.
I guess life just got a tiny bit fairer.
You'd guess wrong. Someone else getting to tell you what you can do with your own property is certainly less fair than the alternative.
Because obviously, you're much more passionate about than I am.
I'm more passionate about people turning non-issues into "problems". Don't pretend that this is about exploitation of the poor. It's about a bunch of lazy crybabies and greedy team owners.
LK
Talk about strawmen...
There isn't a rule against selling tickets to Asians, there is a law against large markups on ticket re-sales and a contract with ticket holders to re-sell tickets with approved brokers.
Is StubHub located in the state? If not, then state law doesn't apply.
They're a business devoted to ticket resale, they should know and follow the rules. It would be harder for the Patriots to get StubHub to turn over the names of people who have simply violated a private contract. It's obviously easy for the Patriots to get StubHub to turn over the names of people who are accomplices to a crime.
The Patriots don't enforce the law. If the state AG wanted the records, that would be one thing, but the Patriots aren't prosecuting anyone for breaking the law.
LK
Think of it like those scumbag house flippers who buy a house then immediately put back up for sale at a higher price.
Did the house flipper use some unethical means of purchasing the house before another buyer could get to it?
LK
I'll likely never be able to attend major sporting events because scalpers quickly scoop up all of the tickets and price them out of range of the normal fan.
What's stopping you from going to the place that the scalpers go and getting a ticket for yourself?
LK
The rich and privileged get to go to any game at a whim. (and get the best seats)
Others have to sell their car to see their favorite team.
Life isn't fair. Rich guys get to fuck supermodels and princesses. Do you think Diana Spencer would have been with Dodi Al-Fayed if he had been Dodi the Egyptian taylor? I don't. Rich people pay LOWER interest rates on loans. Yes, the people most able to afford it actually pay LESS interest than those least able to. Rich people pay a lower percentage of their income to Social Security.
If you're looking for a cause, how about that?
Who gives a fuck if some beerbelly doesn't make enough money driving a forklift to pay $2k for football tickets?
LK
under state law tickets can be resold just at a very low profit though "the team rules" forbid any resale.
Is StubHub located in MA? I don't know. If it's not, why would any state law apply?
that is anti-competitive though hording tickets and selling them at 10x what they are worth isn't any better. don't feel sorry for either side, neither is correct- both are screwing people over.
"anti-competitive" means something other than what you think it means. StubHub fosters competition. Everyone who has a ticket that they don't want has the ability to compete. If I think I can sell more of my tickets by pricing them 20% lower than yours, that's competition.
LK
Every sports related season ticket by any team in any sport always has rules attached.
What if one of the rules was "You may not sell, give or in any other way transfer possession of this ticket to someone of Asian descent." Would that be enforceable? Would they be able to have a judge issue an order to determine who is giving away tickets to Chinese businessmen?
And if one of those rules is season ticket holders can't resell their tickets, then the franchise has every right to find out who is reselling and cut them off.
What right do they have to compell a private entity to turn over private records? They have the right to cut off people who they discover to be breaking the terms of their sale, but they have no right to compell others to help them do so.
LK
The issue is the fact that they are selling the tickets above the face value.
Why in the fuck else would people create a marketplace for the buying and selling of tickets if not to make profit on it?
I'm all for people being enterprising and making a little money - say 10% or at most 20% above face value. But anything over that is taking advantage of the fans, and preying on their obsessive love of the sports they love.
The same can be said for coin or comic book dealers. Does it matter that Action Comics #1 originally cost $0.10? If some dork is willing to pay $250,000 for it now, there's nothing wrong with selling it at that price.
What teams make in endorsements, broadcast rights and merchandising is so substantial that they're already taking advantage of the fans by charging $50.00 or whatever per ticket.
It's pure economics, when there is great demand for a product that is in limited supply, prices will rise. There were jackasses who paid $2,500 for Playstation 3 consoles because that was the only way they could get them. Should Sony have been able to sue to prevent people from reselling things that they legitimately bought? Why is that any worse than selling tickets at higher prices? What would be wrong with having an auction? If two people want the same ticket and are willing to bid against each other to buy them, why should the owner of the ticket be kept from allowing them to do so?
LK