My ex girlfriend used different Crickets to deal drugs. She would change them every few months. Then she got arrested for interstate checkfraud and her dad had to bail her out of everything to the tune of $16,000 or so. She also had her MSCE and CCNA...ah, the joys of her being a bipolar geek.
And marketing people know, as well as we do in all honesty, that everybody responds to advertising - in one form or another.
Yep, it's called "Brand building". Even if they will never buy your product, they at least now may find it familiar when they hear about it again. Or, in more evil terms, "mindshare".
You would think the aleins would have some type of off-site backup. Or be more distributed in the tech. There is no reason knocking out one ship should cripple the entire fleet. The only reason would be if the sheilding system required massive processing to keep it up, and the mothership just relayed commands to the landing craft emmitors and did all the processing themselves. Perhaps the landing craft just had sensors, relayed the local conditions of the area around them, then the mothership did the math and relayed info back to the emmitor grid on where to place whatever type of particles that made the shields. Nothing else makes sense.
I read an interesting idea about it: that the invasion fleet was just a military force of the aliens (like our 101st Airborne) and the real mining/slave ships where coming next. Of course, since the first wave was defeated, they would bring more troops. "Overwhelming force" doctrine and all.
We're really lucky in Tulsa. There is only two good things about Tulsa: the SOTA cable system (which was just upgraded about two years ago) and the insane amount of Quick Trips (a local convience store). There is a QT every mile or so, and most of them are brand new mini-malls almost. The cable here is dirt cheap...I have a business connection of 256K up/1.5 burst down for $79 a month, and I can do everything but spam from it according to my contract. It hasn't gone down in months now either.
You should have called their sales and told them their crappy tech support lost them a customer. I told the sales guy that after a tech was screwing around with me and got two months of free cable and $20 knocked off my bill.
When I have a problem, and I call them, I immediately overwhelm them with how far I've already gotten troubleshooting. When you say "well, my gateway is up and running, the traceroute dies at blah blah, which is your OC-3 connection to Sprint's backbone, which was IP but isn't coming up now..."
If that doesn't work, I tell them that I used to work in the network operating center of WCOM monitoring t3's and up, put me in touch with Tier II. If they balk then, I start to talk about the other providers that call me with better deals as soon as this contracts up...
Now, when there is an outage, Tier II usually calls us. And credits our bill for the down time. Of course, paying a bit extra for a business-class cable line makes a lot of difference.
Actually, I think it's in the middle of the book. Killed many people because their government said the rock would just hit and not do anything, so there was a large crowd there to watch it. The book I'm thinking of it was moon rocks, not asteroids.
Well, maybe we should find out the judge and spam them into re-thinking their judgement...
If anyone has any info (I just emailed a bunch of addresses I found looking for more specific contact info) please share. All I could find was a physical address...not even a phone or email.
I would agree completely. I think I might actually look into my case more, and perhaps even call the law firm I was assigned...even though it was many years ago, the entire incident still upsets me and affects me to this day.
Brian Rothery, a former IBM systems engineer who has been researching Jack's claims, pointed out that a significant portion of the images and URLs cited in the arrest papers are from fairly tame nudist sites, as well as adult sites that do not contain illegal materials.
He said that however the pornography arrived on Jack's computer, "the evidence wasn't handled properly, and his lawyer did not do his job."
Jack said he opted not to fight the charge because his lawyer told him he would probably receive a harsher sentence if he went to trial.
It seems he was scared into just accepting whatever was handed to him. It never went to trial, never in front of any jury. I know the feeling...I was in a similar situation. Not from pornography, but something else. I didn't bother fighting it due to lack of resources:
"The police raided my house on Sept. 17, 2002," said "Jack," who came to the United States from the former Soviet Union as a political refugee, and has requested that his name not be published. "Nobody gave me a chance to explain. I was told by judge and prosecutor that I will get years in prison if I go to trial. After negotiations through my lawyer I got 180 days in an adult correctional facility. I was imprisoned for 20 days and then released under the Electronic Home Monitoring scheme. I now have a felony sex-criminal record, and the court ordered me to register as a predatory sex offender for 10 years."
Basically, this guy was afraid of something worse happening, so he didn't fight it at all...
"They are very eager to get conviction," Jack said. "Nobody can fight those powers.
He knows that he can't fight a system stacked against him. I wonder if he had a "public defender".
In OKC a few months back Clearchannel put up some media server online, then piped a local pirate station onto it. They then contacted the FCC in Dallas, forcing them to take action. I went in to the local Clearchannel office under the guise of wanting advertisising, and they where pretty mum but admitted the incident did happen.
I ran one from here for a bit, and I'm in the process of upgrading my equipment. It ties into the local club scene as well, gathering community support. I have been trying to get permission from most of the bands I play. It's mostly EBM, IDM, etc...so I'm not even playing songs the RIAA give a shit about.
that would be called a "driving test", usually one part written and one part road-based. The real problem is with people getting older and just being able to "renew" the license w/o addition training or testing.
Print them all out on paper, put them inside of decent folders. Complain that your student loan wasn't big enough to cover a laptop, or just say you "like being retro"...
Just because it's in electronic format doesn't mean it has to stay. Print them out in the library while your at it.
We have a picture of the space shuttle exploding on the wall...our motto "Better, faster, cheaper - Pick any one" when it comes to software development.
Sounds like Chariots Of The Gods I read when I was younger. His theory was about the story in Execial being a UFO. Had an engineer go over the description and try to draw something from it. It was very interesting...influenced my personal mythos quite a bit.
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My ex girlfriend used different Crickets to deal drugs. She would change them every few months. Then she got arrested for interstate checkfraud and her dad had to bail her out of everything to the tune of $16,000 or so. She also had her MSCE and CCNA...ah, the joys of her being a bipolar geek.
True targeted TV will arrive when you turn it on and it only plays what you want.
Oh wait, that would be TiVO...nevermind. I suppose when that is some type of standard in the box top itself...
And marketing people know, as well as we do in all honesty, that everybody responds to advertising - in one form or another.
Yep, it's called "Brand building". Even if they will never buy your product, they at least now may find it familiar when they hear about it again. Or, in more evil terms, "mindshare".
You would think the aleins would have some type of off-site backup. Or be more distributed in the tech. There is no reason knocking out one ship should cripple the entire fleet. The only reason would be if the sheilding system required massive processing to keep it up, and the mothership just relayed commands to the landing craft emmitors and did all the processing themselves. Perhaps the landing craft just had sensors, relayed the local conditions of the area around them, then the mothership did the math and relayed info back to the emmitor grid on where to place whatever type of particles that made the shields. Nothing else makes sense.
I read an interesting idea about it: that the invasion fleet was just a military force of the aliens (like our 101st Airborne) and the real mining/slave ships where coming next. Of course, since the first wave was defeated, they would bring more troops. "Overwhelming force" doctrine and all.
It's called discretion...don't ask don't tell.
More computers, sex, drugs, alchohol, cigs...bartering is good if your batering with the right people.
I did at first. Now I have back-office numbers...many many of them.
We're really lucky in Tulsa. There is only two good things about Tulsa: the SOTA cable system (which was just upgraded about two years ago) and the insane amount of Quick Trips (a local convience store). There is a QT every mile or so, and most of them are brand new mini-malls almost. The cable here is dirt cheap...I have a business connection of 256K up/1.5 burst down for $79 a month, and I can do everything but spam from it according to my contract. It hasn't gone down in months now either.
You should have called their sales and told them their crappy tech support lost them a customer. I told the sales guy that after a tech was screwing around with me and got two months of free cable and $20 knocked off my bill.
When I have a problem, and I call them, I immediately overwhelm them with how far I've already gotten troubleshooting. When you say "well, my gateway is up and running, the traceroute dies at blah blah, which is your OC-3 connection to Sprint's backbone, which was IP but isn't coming up now..."
If that doesn't work, I tell them that I used to work in the network operating center of WCOM monitoring t3's and up, put me in touch with Tier II. If they balk then, I start to talk about the other providers that call me with better deals as soon as this contracts up...
Now, when there is an outage, Tier II usually calls us. And credits our bill for the down time. Of course, paying a bit extra for a business-class cable line makes a lot of difference.
You should post some of the sites...
No kidding...To Sail Beyond the Sunset was pretty sexually messed up.
Actually, I think it's in the middle of the book. Killed many people because their government said the rock would just hit and not do anything, so there was a large crowd there to watch it. The book I'm thinking of it was moon rocks, not asteroids.
Maybe we'll find the planet that the Mexican UFO's are from!
Well, maybe we should find out the judge and spam them into re-thinking their judgement...
If anyone has any info (I just emailed a bunch of addresses I found looking for more specific contact info) please share. All I could find was a physical address...not even a phone or email.
I would agree completely. I think I might actually look into my case more, and perhaps even call the law firm I was assigned...even though it was many years ago, the entire incident still upsets me and affects me to this day.
I like calling Wiccans gulible in front of other Wiccans, then saying "oh, I said blah blah blah" Then when they turn around we all laugh.
To quote from the article:
Brian Rothery, a former IBM systems engineer who has been researching Jack's claims, pointed out that a significant portion of the images and URLs cited in the arrest papers are from fairly tame nudist sites, as well as adult sites that do not contain illegal materials.
He said that however the pornography arrived on Jack's computer, "the evidence wasn't handled properly, and his lawyer did not do his job."
Jack said he opted not to fight the charge because his lawyer told him he would probably receive a harsher sentence if he went to trial.
It seems he was scared into just accepting whatever was handed to him. It never went to trial, never in front of any jury. I know the feeling...I was in a similar situation. Not from pornography, but something else. I didn't bother fighting it due to lack of resources:
"The police raided my house on Sept. 17, 2002," said "Jack," who came to the United States from the former Soviet Union as a political refugee, and has requested that his name not be published. "Nobody gave me a chance to explain. I was told by judge and prosecutor that I will get years in prison if I go to trial. After negotiations through my lawyer I got 180 days in an adult correctional facility. I was imprisoned for 20 days and then released under the Electronic Home Monitoring scheme. I now have a felony sex-criminal record, and the court ordered me to register as a predatory sex offender for 10 years."
Basically, this guy was afraid of something worse happening, so he didn't fight it at all...
"They are very eager to get conviction," Jack said. "Nobody can fight those powers.
He knows that he can't fight a system stacked against him. I wonder if he had a "public defender".
no no no...
In Soviet Russia, the bear wears YOU as a suit!
eh...maybe not.
In OKC a few months back Clearchannel put up some media server online, then piped a local pirate station onto it. They then contacted the FCC in Dallas, forcing them to take action. I went in to the local Clearchannel office under the guise of wanting advertisising, and they where pretty mum but admitted the incident did happen.
I ran one from here for a bit, and I'm in the process of upgrading my equipment. It ties into the local club scene as well, gathering community support. I have been trying to get permission from most of the bands I play. It's mostly EBM, IDM, etc...so I'm not even playing songs the RIAA give a shit about.
that would be called a "driving test", usually one part written and one part road-based. The real problem is with people getting older and just being able to "renew" the license w/o addition training or testing.
Print them all out on paper, put them inside of decent folders. Complain that your student loan wasn't big enough to cover a laptop, or just say you "like being retro"...
Just because it's in electronic format doesn't mean it has to stay. Print them out in the library while your at it.
We have a picture of the space shuttle exploding on the wall...our motto "Better, faster, cheaper - Pick any one" when it comes to software development.
I just sent this out in an email to my company. I said "this is going in our training manual." Too too accurate!
Sounds like Chariots Of The Gods I read when I was younger. His theory was about the story in Execial being a UFO. Had an engineer go over the description and try to draw something from it. It was very interesting...influenced my personal mythos quite a bit.