The law in virginia states that telemarketers info and number must appear on Caller ID. Of course 95% of the calls I get from them still say "out of area". Naturally when I tell them this and ask for their information so I can report the violation they just hang up.
the problem with relying on the courts is that they are so unpredictable. not only that, they are slow. if this does get passed, it could be winding its way through the courts for years, all the while on the books and enforcable.
is the bottom line. you think etoys would have capitulated if the only price they had to pay was a few petitions? they took a look at their stock price and did not like what they saw. whether their stock performance and the lawsuit were related we'll never know, but I suspect they thought there was a link.
you are wrong. I don't know how you define fix, but the first mission undertaken was to install corrective optics because the thing couldn't see crap. I call that a mission to "fix" hubble. If something won't work until you replace a broken part, it needs to be fixed. As we all know Hubble was not working at all before it got new gyros. When your fuel pump fails and your car doesn't start do you call the mechanic and say "I need my car fixed", or do you say "I need my car upgraded".
Who did the quality control for this thing? We have had 3 missions to fix the hubble since it went up. It costs roughly 1 billion every time the shuttle goes up. This is in addition to the innitial 1 billion or so. It has captured some stunning images, but between warped mirrors, bad solar panels, and failing gyros you would think this was put together by packard bell.
Tell me DeBeers doesn't do the same thing. Basically telling you that you can only show true love by spending 2 months salary on a diamond. Who the hell came up with that? Second, here in America, corporations like to have what is know as "good will" associated with their name. I know this must be a foreign concept in South Africa where a few wealthy elite get rich exploiting peasent labor, so how the community views a business doesn't matter. In america, the people who own and run the company often live in the same communities as the people who work for the company. So, you see, they actually want to see the community do well. We don't let our workers live in "shanty towns" that nobody cares about. Americans help other americans, and civic duty is still an honorable thing here.
In London, every single road in and out of the city is under surveillance by closed circuit TV cameras. It is largely believed that an automated image recognition system is used to check every licence plate on every car entering or leaving the city. Plates that are matched to a watch list get flagged and that vehicle is tracked by CCTV as it moves through the city.
Put simply, in the US it is illegal to rebroadcast someone elses signal, it's that simple. You can rationalize it all you want, but the law is very clear on this point.
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I am moving to Baltimore in a few months. Anyone care to comment on Verizon service there? Particularly on 95 north of the tunnel.
The law in virginia states that telemarketers info and number must appear on Caller ID. Of course 95% of the calls I get from them still say "out of area". Naturally when I tell them this and ask for their information so I can report the violation they just hang up.
the problem with relying on the courts is that they are so unpredictable. not only that, they are slow. if this does get passed, it could be winding its way through the courts for years, all the while on the books and enforcable.
is the bottom line. you think etoys would have capitulated if the only price they had to pay was a few petitions? they took a look at their stock price and did not like what they saw. whether their stock performance and the lawsuit were related we'll never know, but I suspect they thought there was a link.
it wasn't the running man, it was that other arnold movie where he goes to mars to save the mutants, damn what was the name of that.
Sure, right now we can only simulate the sensation of motion, but how long before we might be able to simulate other senses?
you are wrong. I don't know how you define fix, but the first mission undertaken was to install corrective optics because the thing couldn't see crap. I call that a mission to "fix" hubble. If something won't work until you replace a broken part, it needs to be fixed. As we all know Hubble was not working at all before it got new gyros. When your fuel pump fails and your car doesn't start do you call the mechanic and say "I need my car fixed", or do you say "I need my car upgraded".
Who did the quality control for this thing? We have had 3 missions to fix the hubble since it went up. It costs roughly 1 billion every time the shuttle goes up. This is in addition to the innitial 1 billion or so. It has captured some stunning images, but between warped mirrors, bad solar panels, and failing gyros you would think this was put together by packard bell.
Tell me DeBeers doesn't do the same thing. Basically telling you that you can only show true love by spending 2 months salary on a diamond. Who the hell came up with that? Second, here in America, corporations like to have what is know as "good will" associated with their name. I know this must be a foreign concept in South Africa where a few wealthy elite get rich exploiting peasent labor, so how the community views a business doesn't matter. In america, the people who own and run the company often live in the same communities as the people who work for the company. So, you see, they actually want to see the community do well. We don't let our workers live in "shanty towns" that nobody cares about. Americans help other americans, and civic duty is still an honorable thing here.
In London, every single road in and out of the city is under surveillance by closed circuit TV cameras. It is largely believed that an automated image recognition system is used to check every licence plate on every car entering or leaving the city. Plates that are matched to a watch list get flagged and that vehicle is tracked by CCTV as it moves through the city.
Put simply, in the US it is illegal to rebroadcast someone elses signal, it's that simple. You can rationalize it all you want, but the law is very clear on this point.