Well, you could buy from sources overseas, but look at what happened in NY with online gambling. They went after the online payments and cut that out by allowing people who gambled online, to not have to pay those charges.
If the feds made it so that if you buy porn online, but the credit card companies could not make you pay those charges, they would not allow you to buy porn online.
What about the children? And the poor, and sick, and the aged? How dare you not want to provide money to the government to feed poor children, cure cancer. You are not paying 90% of your income to the government, so how can you say you are not underpaying?
They have the right to block anyone they want and on almost any criteria they want. Their site, their rules.
Though they have the right to do this, does not make it a smart thing to do. They get an increase in stats which help sell the more advertising. It would be a different if there was framing involved. Or if they were just grabbing an image from the site as their own.
This is nothing new. The difference is that when a company makes threats such as this, is now it is likely to backfire. Now, some of the people that they threaten on the web are as likely to publicize the threat as to give in to the threat.
In the old days, if you advertise enough the paper would automatically tweek the review. Infoworld had done this with a compiler review. If you read the review, then looked at the score card, you would notice that they did not match.
In civil court, you get a default judgment, then you can have it enforced where they are, if they have a treaty that allows foreign judgments to be entered.
Why shouldn't we jump to a conclusion by just reading the summary description? That is the first thing that ise used in the threat for a lawsuit. That is what the idiots that we sent to Washington did when they voted the I-CAN-SPAM act. I spoke with a few aides who said that the bill was not printed when they were rushed to vote for it, so they voted on the short title. Of course, they all should be shot for that. Did they learn this from/. or did we learn that from them?
He left out one of the most important things about the trade shows: The parties. I don't mean that you get free food, which has gone down in the past 6 years. But, it gives you a chance to meet and chat with people, vendors, presenters, in a non-formal environment, where you can chat w/o the suit&tie, hordes of people asking if they need a computer to run their software package.
One thing that he forgot, is that in most shows, charge for admission, but you can always get a free pass. At the 1992 Windows-OS/2 show in Boston, I saw someone ask to buy a $35 pass, though there was hundeds of free passes laying around.
Lot of good that lawsuit did, it made one double amputee moderatly wealthy, got some sleazy contingency lawyer a shiny new boat, cost some doctors who may or may not even be at fault their license, and cause more pain and suffering to the patients of the hospital. When did getting a lot of money become justice?
Let me point out a few things.
Contingency lawyers usually are careful about the cases they take because they don't get paid if they don't win. They still may sue everyone in sight, but that is only because they believe that there is a valid case, but still want deep pockets available.
That lawsuits like this does cause them to be more cautious. When I had the surgery on my arms, the doctor had the arm marked so that they were sure it was on the correct arm.
When I was in the hospital for an infection, the doctor ignored my questioning about the need to be there w/o getting IV anti-biotic. After 2 days, and much protest an intern noticed that the order for the anti-biotic expired and was not renewed.
She sued because she was harmed and McDonalds would not cover the medical bills. The punitive damages were because McDonalds knew of the problem and blew her off along with hundreds of other complaints.
Wasn't that in the hospital for 8 days? Being out of the hospital is not the same as being back in commission. When I had the surgery on my arms, I was in the hospital for 23 hours and 4 hours (one for each arm), then I was out of commission for another 8 weeks.
Actually, it was 4 to 7 seconds for a third degree burn. WHo the hell would let the coffee stay against their skin for 7 seconds? Pull the clothing off, or at least away from your skin.
Do you dispute that the skin was disolved and that she had skin grafts to repair the damage?
The question is how many of the lawsuits are valid. In many states, before a malpractice lawsuit is filed the plaintiff must have a statement from another doctor that the lawsuit has merit. One of the popular mythes is that the McDonald's coffee lawsuit is baseless.
For years McDonalds served their coffee up to 40 degrees hotter than other fast-food restaurants. In this way, they could get more coffee per pound of beans and increase their profits by a few cents per cup.
McDonald's coffee was so hot that, if spilled, it could cause third degree burns, which would burn through skin and down to the muscle in less than three seconds.
McDonald's has had over 700 previous claims related to serious burns from their coffee to their customers, many of whom had been injured in the genital area, inner thighs, and buttocks areas. Yet, McDonald's refused to lower the temperature of their coffee.
The injured (burned) plaintiff in this case, 79 year old Stella Lieback, was not driving her car. She was seated as the passenger in her grandson's parked car, holding the coffee cup between her legs while removing the plastic lid. The cup tipped over and poured the scalding hot coffee into her lap causing third degree burns.
Lieback required eight days of hospitalization and multiple surgeries, including skin grafts as a result of being scalded by McDonald's coffee.
Mrs. Lieback only took legal action against McDonald's after they repeatedly refused to reimburse her for her medical expenses.
The jury was so outraged at the arrogance and callousness of McDonald's that they awarded punitive damages, to punish McDonald's and to deter McDonald's from such conduct in the future. They awarded $2.7 million.
The day after the verdict, McDonald's reduced the temperature of their coffee.
The trial judge thought the verdict was too high and reduced the verdict to about $400,000 at McDonald's request. (This is one fact that the insurance lawyers and McDonald's corporate lawyers never mention.)
Before claiming something is baseless, first look at all the facts.
"Obviously, the final release or even the beta releases will not consume this much of the system resources.'"
It may be the new Microsoft business model, low cost software, high cost hardware -- just like inkjet printers (low cost printers, high cost ink)
If Microsoft gets there hands into trusted computer hardware platforms, and ram, they can lock you into platforms that only Microsoft gets money from. And doesn't Microsoft make money from ram now?
Of course the early builds are debugged enabled and fat, but I have no doubt that by the time it is released, it will be much bigger. Microsoft programmers are lazy, why write efficient code when you can just add more hardware? And don't forget that no one will ever need more than 640k.
My point is that it was fraud before the I-CAN-SPAM act. The California law, the Wahington law, and many other states had laws that prohibited fraudulent headers.
Setting up such a store would be ok. Look at Mattel v. MCA records. The court ruled that Aqua had a right to satire Barbie and even make money at it. Though Mattel may be held in contempt for not chilling out as the judge ordered.
Why don't you use your brain. There is more than one definition of fraud. Now if that same girl gives you her phone number, then you buy drinks and dinner for her, that can be fraud.
There is also fraudalent advertising that does not require the element of reliance to be considered.
Now, if you claim you are JFK's son anwhen you meet a woman, then you date her, you are committing a fraud (presuming you are not JFKs son), but then may not have the requirments for a fraud action in California.
In many states, there were laws that made using false headers a violation of that state's laws. In addition many states have advertising laws which require the advertiser to be identified.
There is not much info in the articles. But, the stats on the batteries is interesting. Even though a lithium polymer battery has a higher energy density, the cycle life may be a big drawback.
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I thought that Salvage 1 already had a license to launch. Oh, SpaceShipOne.....oooppps.
If the feds made it so that if you buy porn online, but the credit card companies could not make you pay those charges, they would not allow you to buy porn online.
The censorware people are hurt by the crackdown. If you have less porn online, they have less to filter, thus fewer people needed protection.
What about the children? And the poor, and sick, and the aged? How dare you not want to provide money to the government to feed poor children, cure cancer. You are not paying 90% of your income to the government, so how can you say you are not underpaying?
Or was it ICANSPAM?
If we start pushing linux bios, would we be pushing linux as Microsloth pushes Windows?
Though they have the right to do this, does not make it a smart thing to do. They get an increase in stats which help sell the more advertising. It would be a different if there was framing involved. Or if they were just grabbing an image from the site as their own.
I was not grabbing her ass, I was giving her my telephone number and resume for a job.
In the old days, if you advertise enough the paper would automatically tweek the review. Infoworld had done this with a compiler review. If you read the review, then looked at the score card, you would notice that they did not match.
Hmmm... doesn't that sound like potential brain cancer?
In civil court, you get a default judgment, then you can have it enforced where they are, if they have a treaty that allows foreign judgments to be entered.
The problem would be collecting on the judgment. Since the site has advertising, you might want to contact the advertisers.
Talk with a good IP/Internet lawsuit. If they don't know Rio v. Rio, then try another.
Why shouldn't we jump to a conclusion by just reading the summary description? That is the first thing that ise used in the threat for a lawsuit. That is what the idiots that we sent to Washington did when they voted the I-CAN-SPAM act. I spoke with a few aides who said that the bill was not printed when they were rushed to vote for it, so they voted on the short title. Of course, they all should be shot for that. Did they learn this from /. or did we learn that from them?
One thing that he forgot, is that in most shows, charge for admission, but you can always get a free pass. At the 1992 Windows-OS/2 show in Boston, I saw someone ask to buy a $35 pass, though there was hundeds of free passes laying around.
Let me point out a few things.
She sued because she was harmed and McDonalds would not cover the medical bills. The punitive damages were because McDonalds knew of the problem and blew her off along with hundreds of other complaints.
Do you dispute that the skin was disolved and that she had skin grafts to repair the damage?
The injured (burned) plaintiff in this case, 79 year old Stella Lieback, was not driving her car. She was seated as the passenger in her grandson's parked car, holding the coffee cup between her legs while removing the plastic lid. The cup tipped over and poured the scalding hot coffee into her lap causing third degree burns.
Before claiming something is baseless, first look at all the facts.
It may be the new Microsoft business model, low cost software, high cost hardware -- just like inkjet printers (low cost printers, high cost ink)
If Microsoft gets there hands into trusted computer hardware platforms, and ram, they can lock you into platforms that only Microsoft gets money from. And doesn't Microsoft make money from ram now?
Of course the early builds are debugged enabled and fat, but I have no doubt that by the time it is released, it will be much bigger. Microsoft programmers are lazy, why write efficient code when you can just add more hardware? And don't forget that no one will ever need more than 640k.
My point is that it was fraud before the I-CAN-SPAM act. The California law, the Wahington law, and many other states had laws that prohibited fraudulent headers.
Setting up such a store would be ok. Look at Mattel v. MCA records. The court ruled that Aqua had a right to satire Barbie and even make money at it. Though Mattel may be held in contempt for not chilling out as the judge ordered.
There is also fraudalent advertising that does not require the element of reliance to be considered.
Now, if you claim you are JFK's son anwhen you meet a woman, then you date her, you are committing a fraud (presuming you are not JFKs son), but then may not have the requirments for a fraud action in California.
In many states, there were laws that made using false headers a violation of that state's laws. In addition many states have advertising laws which require the advertiser to be identified.
There is not much info in the articles. But, the stats on the batteries is interesting. Even though a lithium polymer battery has a higher energy density, the cycle life may be a big drawback.