The ticket is legit. If it's not, they went through way too much effort for the $50 scam to be worth it. I've also found nothing online showing that other people are catching scams with los angeles parking authority.
However, I did find an article that cited that they admit to 100-150 mistakes made every day. This appears to be the case, since the car that she supposedly double-parked, 20 miles away from where she was working at the time, is not one that she owns, drives, or has possibly ever seen. So she has 21 days to send them a letter telling them where to stuff their ticket.
As I said, RIAA litigation technique is spreading.
Can I ask why you would want to restrict the ability of two consenting adults to enter into a contract together? It seems rather ridiculous.
You should be able to enter into a contract to share benefits with whomever you wish, X- or Y-chromosomes, I'm not sure I understand the difference.
It's called "Civil Unions" and in CA they have the same rights as marriages. The point is that "Marriage" would be not be used to describe these Unions in the same way as "heterosexual" would not be used to describe a homosexual person -- it's simply counter to the definition. It's not based on hatred or hope for inequality -- simply concern for a word that would quickly lose 100% of its meaning if we start tampering with the definition. Or do you go around calling homosexuals "straight" because it's bigotry to only call heterosexuals straight?
And if you don't understand the fundamental difference -- biologically, socially, or purposefully, it's because the word "marriage" doesn't simply mean "two consenting adults to enter into a contract together... to share benefits" -- but it's starting to.
She hasn't paid it yet. I'm going over to check it out tonight and perhaps make a phone call or two. I'm more apt to tell an authority figure about their mother's history with men than to fall victim to a scam.
In its context, the judge knew the son was working, but not that he had just graduated. That had yet to be discussed. In its context, sarcasm would be a very uncomfortable fit. The sentence, by itself, sounds sarcastic... but not in the rant the judge is going on at the man to get him to respond coherently to what was being asked of him.
Perhaps if she had a goofy tone of voice for the entire rant, that would change the tone of it, but as all we can go with is a transcript, you have to actually take it within its context -- a frustrated judge trying to get answers out of a man who won't give them. Maybe if the clerk had marked it with (goofy voice) blah blah blah(/goofy voice) then it could be construed as "obviously sarcastic."
Please rewrite the summary praising the judge for committing, to paper, sound social and legal commentary
Perhaps you should read the court proceedings, as they are linked, before you tell someone the summary is bad. There was no letter or written commentary. She was expressing her frustration of why the case has been going on for 5 years and it's only gone from chaotic to frustrating because no one is getting legal representation and they don't know how to file motions, properly, by themselves. Instead they're flailing their hands, accusing family members, turtling in, or they just stop showing up (which the RIAA are picking off one by one as they do).
Why should someone accused of copyright infringement have it any easier (cheaper), than someone accused of running a red light, or breaking a contract, or committing a felony (tort, civil, and criminal examples mixed here deliberately)?
The other day, my girlfriend got a ticket in the mail saying "You were double parked, pay us $50. Your car wasn't there to give you the ticket, so we're sending it in the mail"
So you're right. This gross violation of rationality doesn't stop at copyright violations. It's spreading, and it needs to stop.
THE COURT: They're not asking you for this, this is your son needs to pay $4,600 to the record companies, who are in desperate need of this money, unless your son can show that he has no way of paying it.
Yes, those record execs desperately need that money more than someone who just graduated from a tech institute! There were $600 in claimed damages! I know enough about law and punitive damages to know it's not set up to support billion-dollar corporations! It's to punish those who violated the law. Suing for punitive damages should not, legally, be considered a source of income.
What do you have against people being able to publicly confront their accusers and be confronted in turn?
Not everyone has the courage to stand by what they say. That doesn't mean they don't have a right to say it, and it doesn't mean what they want to say is unimportant. Sure, anonymity brings out the worst of the population, but if we allow it to continue, perhaps we will also see it coax out the best.
This can also be turned around to say: If something is incorrectly stated, why do you need to confront the person when you can confront the falsehood instead? Isn't it more important to discern what's right rather than who's right?
No more revolving doors. No more contributions from special interests. Once a politician enters public service, he should never again need to consider private sector life and would therefore have less tempting him now and in the future.
That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Those men shouldn't receive a penny for their services in political office. You tell someone they will be eating the same way their poorest widow eats, and sleeping in the same filth their poorest tramp makes his nest in -- for 4 years if they get elected -- you will get respectable leaders and public servants. You won't get these not-kings and not-princes like Stevens, Biden, Clinton, Bush, Kennedy, and the other career politicians, rather you'll end up with people who actually care about their citizens; People with upholding the constitution in the forefront of their mind, rather than those who see it as a receipt for their monthly check. You want to supply politicians with all they'll need so they won't look for more. Unfortunately, a greedy man only needs one thing: More.
You mix power, money, lack of accountability, and a golden parachute and wonder why filth and the human equivalent of disease makes its way to the top? You wonder how the United States has managed to pick two blatantly-corrupt criminals as its best candidates for presidency out of somewhere around 150 million qualified people? Because there is a lot of money and power to be made, so the strongest shyster will get it.
Everyone's known this guy was corrupt when he gave his silver-tongued speech about the blogotubes years ago. Today, we finally see that sometimes, someone will do something about it -- and succeed. Now, if only we could get some 5-year prison sentences rolled out for all those who didn't vote an explicit "Nay" on the FISA bill Before my little girl loses faith in democracy...
Well, if I remember correctly from winters in elementary school:
Space's temperature, according to my 1st grade teacher, is "Really cold"...
If I remember correctly from winters in elementary school:
"Super Cold" is about 2 times colder than "Really Cold"
"F*cking cold" is about 10 times colder than "Really Cold"
"FREEZING" is about 5 times colder than "Cold"
So 100 times colder than intergalactice space would be "Super F*cking FREEZING!" (said while shivering for effect)
If you want a truck, don't buy a prius and then complain that it's not a truck.
If you want to start an Electronic Entertainment Conference, go right on ahead. As long as it's an Electronic Entertainment Expo, however, you should expect it to be more like a business fair and less like a corporate meeting.
You're dealing in an industry that thrives on impulse buys, heightened reflexes, and short attention spans. The big names in the fields are rarely MBAs, statesmen, or Nobel physicists; rather dropouts, social outcasts, and huge nerds. An expo isn't always about doing business, it's just as much or more about generating business -- half networking and half marketing. In the case of the target demographic, which also happens to make up a large part of the industry, the expo is set up to get them to buy or save up to buy what's next (and convince investors that's just what will happen). If you only want the networking, there are better, cheaper forums for that -- like conferences.
Yes, this is the simplified version, I'm not going to take the time to discuss every bump in the warped glass -- so don't bother pointing out the one, single exception where you know the only guy that didn't go to E3 to either gawk or be gawked at.
No alien civilization is expending the mammoth amount of resources needed to traverse the vast distances of interstellar space just to stick a probe up your ass. Deal with it.
I think you underestimate the driving power of finding inlets of pornography.
Burning all that coal is going to black out our atmosphere and leave the world in shambles for our children and animals. When you decide to finally join the 21st century, you'll learn that CLEAN computphiles use hydraulic analytical engines powered by slaves on rowers! I can really tell the difference, because every month when the mortality report comes, I know it must be good, because I'm going through butt-loads of slaves.
As opposed to, say: "Paladin", "Warrior", "Rogue", "Mage", "Warlock", "Shaman", "Priest", "Hunter" and "Druid"? Class names like those tend to scream out "Creative Thinktank!"
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The ticket is legit. If it's not, they went through way too much effort for the $50 scam to be worth it. I've also found nothing online showing that other people are catching scams with los angeles parking authority.
However, I did find an article that cited that they admit to 100-150 mistakes made every day. This appears to be the case, since the car that she supposedly double-parked, 20 miles away from where she was working at the time, is not one that she owns, drives, or has possibly ever seen. So she has 21 days to send them a letter telling them where to stuff their ticket.
As I said, RIAA litigation technique is spreading.
So let me get this straight - your girlfriend is so large she got a ticket for being double-parked?
It's like having a threesome every night!
Can I ask why you would want to restrict the ability of two consenting adults to enter into a contract together? It seems rather ridiculous.
You should be able to enter into a contract to share benefits with whomever you wish, X- or Y-chromosomes, I'm not sure I understand the difference.
It's called "Civil Unions" and in CA they have the same rights as marriages. The point is that "Marriage" would be not be used to describe these Unions in the same way as "heterosexual" would not be used to describe a homosexual person -- it's simply counter to the definition. It's not based on hatred or hope for inequality -- simply concern for a word that would quickly lose 100% of its meaning if we start tampering with the definition. Or do you go around calling homosexuals "straight" because it's bigotry to only call heterosexuals straight?
... to share benefits" -- but it's starting to.
And if you don't understand the fundamental difference -- biologically, socially, or purposefully, it's because the word "marriage" doesn't simply mean "two consenting adults to enter into a contract together
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We can just store everything in the cloud! Problem solved!
She hasn't paid it yet. I'm going over to check it out tonight and perhaps make a phone call or two. I'm more apt to tell an authority figure about their mother's history with men than to fall victim to a scam.
In its context, the judge knew the son was working, but not that he had just graduated. That had yet to be discussed. In its context, sarcasm would be a very uncomfortable fit. The sentence, by itself, sounds sarcastic... but not in the rant the judge is going on at the man to get him to respond coherently to what was being asked of him.
Perhaps if she had a goofy tone of voice for the entire rant, that would change the tone of it, but as all we can go with is a transcript, you have to actually take it within its context -- a frustrated judge trying to get answers out of a man who won't give them. Maybe if the clerk had marked it with (goofy voice) blah blah blah(/goofy voice) then it could be construed as "obviously sarcastic."
Please rewrite the summary praising the judge for committing, to paper, sound social and legal commentary
Perhaps you should read the court proceedings, as they are linked, before you tell someone the summary is bad. There was no letter or written commentary. She was expressing her frustration of why the case has been going on for 5 years and it's only gone from chaotic to frustrating because no one is getting legal representation and they don't know how to file motions, properly, by themselves. Instead they're flailing their hands, accusing family members, turtling in, or they just stop showing up (which the RIAA are picking off one by one as they do).
Why should someone accused of copyright infringement have it any easier (cheaper), than someone accused of running a red light, or breaking a contract, or committing a felony (tort, civil, and criminal examples mixed here deliberately)?
The other day, my girlfriend got a ticket in the mail saying "You were double parked, pay us $50. Your car wasn't there to give you the ticket, so we're sending it in the mail"
So you're right. This gross violation of rationality doesn't stop at copyright violations. It's spreading, and it needs to stop.
THE COURT: They're not asking you for this, this is your son needs to pay $4,600 to the record companies, who are in desperate need of this money, unless your son can show that he has no way of paying it.
Yes, those record execs desperately need that money more than someone who just graduated from a tech institute! There were $600 in claimed damages! I know enough about law and punitive damages to know it's not set up to support billion-dollar corporations! It's to punish those who violated the law. Suing for punitive damages should not, legally, be considered a source of income.
Apparently justice is blind AND stupid in Boston.
What do you have against people being able to publicly confront their accusers and be confronted in turn?
Not everyone has the courage to stand by what they say. That doesn't mean they don't have a right to say it, and it doesn't mean what they want to say is unimportant. Sure, anonymity brings out the worst of the population, but if we allow it to continue, perhaps we will also see it coax out the best.
This can also be turned around to say: If something is incorrectly stated, why do you need to confront the person when you can confront the falsehood instead? Isn't it more important to discern what's right rather than who's right?
He has not earned the right to be called Cliff or Clifford. He has to own up to hundreds of stupid comments yet.
Considering the enormous number of women he's slept with, he has earned the right to be called "Cliff" or "Clifford"
No more revolving doors. No more contributions from special interests. Once a politician enters public service, he should never again need to consider private sector life and would therefore have less tempting him now and in the future.
That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Those men shouldn't receive a penny for their services in political office. You tell someone they will be eating the same way their poorest widow eats, and sleeping in the same filth their poorest tramp makes his nest in -- for 4 years if they get elected -- you will get respectable leaders and public servants. You won't get these not-kings and not-princes like Stevens, Biden, Clinton, Bush, Kennedy, and the other career politicians, rather you'll end up with people who actually care about their citizens; People with upholding the constitution in the forefront of their mind, rather than those who see it as a receipt for their monthly check. You want to supply politicians with all they'll need so they won't look for more. Unfortunately, a greedy man only needs one thing: More.
You mix power, money, lack of accountability, and a golden parachute and wonder why filth and the human equivalent of disease makes its way to the top? You wonder how the United States has managed to pick two blatantly-corrupt criminals as its best candidates for presidency out of somewhere around 150 million qualified people? Because there is a lot of money and power to be made, so the strongest shyster will get it.
Everyone's known this guy was corrupt when he gave his silver-tongued speech about the blogotubes years ago. Today, we finally see that sometimes, someone will do something about it -- and succeed. Now, if only we could get some 5-year prison sentences rolled out for all those who didn't vote an explicit "Nay" on the FISA bill Before my little girl loses faith in democracy...
Sure, their waste product is hydrogen, but they still need 'food', in this case, certain sugars.
Now, if the waste product they were looking for was methane and the food was sugars, we could harness children as an energy source!
4.73 Kelvin
Pffft barely jacket weather.
Tell me when it's below 3.8 Kelvin. THEN I might be impressed.
100 times colder than intergalactic space
Does space even have a temperature?
Well, if I remember correctly from winters in elementary school:
Space's temperature, according to my 1st grade teacher, is "Really cold"...
If I remember correctly from winters in elementary school:
"Super Cold" is about 2 times colder than "Really Cold"
"F*cking cold" is about 10 times colder than "Really Cold"
"FREEZING" is about 5 times colder than "Cold"
So 100 times colder than intergalactice space would be "Super F*cking FREEZING!" (said while shivering for effect)
was discovered using a device cooled to a temperature about 100 times colder than intergalactic space
My ex-girlfriend?
Well, technically, if the rights are owned by the publisher and not by him, it is piracy.
I'm so disgusted with Seagate I'm even willing to consider ... Maxtor
No! Don't!
Unless you WANT to hit F4 to finish booting up your computer every time you turn it on.
If you want a truck, don't buy a prius and then complain that it's not a truck.
If you want to start an Electronic Entertainment Conference, go right on ahead. As long as it's an Electronic Entertainment Expo, however, you should expect it to be more like a business fair and less like a corporate meeting.
You're dealing in an industry that thrives on impulse buys, heightened reflexes, and short attention spans. The big names in the fields are rarely MBAs, statesmen, or Nobel physicists; rather dropouts, social outcasts, and huge nerds. An expo isn't always about doing business, it's just as much or more about generating business -- half networking and half marketing. In the case of the target demographic, which also happens to make up a large part of the industry, the expo is set up to get them to buy or save up to buy what's next (and convince investors that's just what will happen). If you only want the networking, there are better, cheaper forums for that -- like conferences.
Yes, this is the simplified version, I'm not going to take the time to discuss every bump in the warped glass -- so don't bother pointing out the one, single exception where you know the only guy that didn't go to E3 to either gawk or be gawked at.
No alien civilization is expending the mammoth amount of resources needed to traverse the vast distances of interstellar space just to stick a probe up your ass. Deal with it.
I think you underestimate the driving power of finding inlets of pornography.
Burning all that coal is going to black out our atmosphere and leave the world in shambles for our children and animals. When you decide to finally join the 21st century, you'll learn that CLEAN computphiles use hydraulic analytical engines powered by slaves on rowers! I can really tell the difference, because every month when the mortality report comes, I know it must be good, because I'm going through butt-loads of slaves.
If I see a Knight of the Blazing Sun, is that a tank, a melee DPS class, a paladin, or what? Does it heal? Does it cast spells?
SadReality = replace(Parent Post,"Knight of the Blazing Sun","World of Warcraft Paladin")
The names lack all forms of inspiration
As opposed to, say: "Paladin", "Warrior", "Rogue", "Mage", "Warlock", "Shaman", "Priest", "Hunter" and "Druid"? Class names like those tend to scream out "Creative Thinktank!"
Unless you're standing next to the hole and get stuck to it. In which case you'd seal it nicely, saving the air and getting a nasty bruise.
Outside of the geek world, those are called "Hickeys"