If you ignored the Faux narrative and actually read the letters the lawyer sent, they demanded an apology, and if they didn't get it, they were not dismissing any other possible legal avenues, including suing them. Oddly enough, the lawyers letters were very readable with no discernible obfuscated legalese or linguistic backflips. It's almost like he knew he had to send it to idiots in the first place.
When you went to school, did kids even have cell phones? And since when does 'need' have anything to do with the standard kids 'want' for all kinds of things, including fashionable clothes, and cool devices, especially when dealing with the social structures of student life in school?
So the power bags that the bomb accusation was directed against isn't tech? And people that commonly carry such things, you know, like us techies, don't ever have to worry about such false accusations and over reactions by authority? Gee, it's good to know that what happened to that kid has never happened, even if you aren't as innocent looking as a 12 year old school kid.
By the way,/. never said it's only tech, it's just heavily biased for that. You might want to check out their motto/logo (or whatever you call it) again.
Hmmmm.... I thought about mentioning Antarctica, but I hate to say it, some pretty crazy things have happened down there. It really sucks being trapped in those small buildings for months at a time, especially when the internet & radio can't get through. (Even when it can, I hear the bandwidth is lousy, and don't even mention the lag.)
The Texans don't care if he's Muslim, or what, he has brown skin, and so is going to be discriminated against. Worse yet, his name is obviously not Latino/Hispanic or European, so he's screwed before anyone even talks to him.
No, not Americans or American Culture, just a segment of it, otherwise you wouldn't see so many of us Americans pissed off over this kind of bigotry, incompetence, and sheer stupidity!
An amped up stupid cop thinking he's going to get a promotion for catching this brown skinned terrorist isn't going to use logic or reason and is absolutely incapable of comprehending sarcasm.
Oh hey, here's a unique idea, STICK THE TOPIC OF THE THREAD AND GET OFF THE GUN NUTTERY ! I don't care which side you are on, and I got sucked into the conversation as well, but as we all seem to have forgotten this ain't got shit to do with guns. It's about false bomb accusations, false arrest of a minor - 12 year old, and massive stupidity as well as bigotry in Texas.
Yeah, they tend to do their violence and murder via other means. Anyone remember the nut during the Olympics a few years ago that stabbed numerous tourists? Of course, those countries also have different cultures than ours, so they are far more open to other means than the Americans who thinks guns solve everything.
Teenagers with access to some basic household tools have been building guns since at least the 40s. It's neither a secret, nor a difficult thing. If a criminal wants a gun, they will obtain one, even if they have to make it. Of course, to outlaw all guns, you'd have to overturn the 2nd amendment, and I really don't see that happening anytime this century.
He's a brown kid with some kind of technology and a non European sounding name in TEXAS ! His religion has nothing to do with it, but he'd be discriminated against for that as well.
I'm not getting into the whole subletting thing, as I know it's a hairy mess in some places, but I don't think a weekend stay or other short time really qualifies for what I'd call a sublet. On the other hand, violating your lease, is definitely a problem, even if you feel it's unfair.
Now as to the landlords/property owners wanting a cut, that's pretty bogus and greedy. Though I would find having the renter pay obtain an appropriate insurance before hand to cover things if the AirBnB 'visitor' messed something up totally reasonable.
Actually their whole "...a licensed driver behind the wheel at all times, alert and ready to take over on a moments notice..." thing is a form of suicide. Of course, this means the 'driver' can override the computer at any time with no notice, even if he has to hit a button to do so.
First problem, there's no real danger, but the human freaks out, does takes over and does something stupid/wrong and causes an accident. Second problem, there is an actual emergency, and the human doesn't have time to react to it and try to take over before it occurs. Third problem, again a real emergency, the human takes over, and does something stupid and panicy, causing a minor fender bender to become a 12 car pileup and runs over a group of nuns and their orphan wards out for a walk. Fourth problem, no emergency real or imagined, until the human accidentally creates one by turning off the computer or hitting active controls.
Yeah, to have the ability for humans to turn off autodrive in normal conditions is one thing, but to expect them to handle an emergency or override the far more accurate and calm computer whenever they want to, is just plain ludicrous and guaranteed to cause a lot of extra pain, suffering, and death. (And I haven't even touched on the whole insurance thing where they blame you for everything. If you touched the controls, it's your fault for screwing up the computers perfect driving, and if you didn't, it's your fault for not intervening in the actions of a malfunctioning machine like the law says you should.)
And if you are using a known speed tester and haven't obfuscated the address, some of the providers will give a priority to the speed test so it looks like you are getting better speeds than you actually do.
I tested that with my provider many times over years. (Probably a couple of times a month, it wasn't a schedule, just when I thought about it.) Known major speed tester, 38 Obfuscated known major speed tester, 18 Relatively unknown speed tester, 18.5 Obfuscated relatively unknown speed tester, 18.5
There has been minor variance in the results, but no more than about 8% appx. I'm not in New York, and I haven't tested i in 2 years (I figured the 6 years I did test was more than enough), but I doubt it's any different over there since nation wide corporations tend to have the same policies and standard hardware & scripts everywhere.
And if anyone hasn't figured it out, if they know you're testing them, they play nice, the rest of the time, you their bitch.
It was probably some unpaid intern that they treated like crap in the first place which is why it was leaked, but they know (s)he doesn't have any money, so they looked for another target.
The ones who pirate the most, are also the ones to watch it 4 or 5 times in the theater if it's a good movie. Many of the rest of us get the word from them as to weather it's any good or not in the first week or so. If a movie only has the first two weeks of good numbers, it's because that's how long it took for word that it was total fecal matter to spread despite a ton of hype. And speaking of the hype, I had no idea they'd even made an Expendables 3, so they couldn't even use that to boost their initial ticket numbers.
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If you ignored the Faux narrative and actually read the letters the lawyer sent, they demanded an apology, and if they didn't get it, they were not dismissing any other possible legal avenues, including suing them.
Oddly enough, the lawyers letters were very readable with no discernible obfuscated legalese or linguistic backflips. It's almost like he knew he had to send it to idiots in the first place.
When you went to school, did kids even have cell phones?
And since when does 'need' have anything to do with the standard kids 'want' for all kinds of things, including fashionable clothes, and cool devices, especially when dealing with the social structures of student life in school?
So the power bags that the bomb accusation was directed against isn't tech? And people that commonly carry such things, you know, like us techies, don't ever have to worry about such false accusations and over reactions by authority?
/. never said it's only tech, it's just heavily biased for that. You might want to check out their motto/logo (or whatever you call it) again.
Gee, it's good to know that what happened to that kid has never happened, even if you aren't as innocent looking as a 12 year old school kid.
By the way,
Can't be that deserted, you have internet. Now just order a life raft from Amazon and quit whining! :P
Hmmmm.... I thought about mentioning Antarctica, but I hate to say it, some pretty crazy things have happened down there. It really sucks being trapped in those small buildings for months at a time, especially when the internet & radio can't get through. (Even when it can, I hear the bandwidth is lousy, and don't even mention the lag.)
With the republicans leading the charge, they have already trampled them, and then looped around a couple times to trample them some more.
The Texans don't care if he's Muslim, or what, he has brown skin, and so is going to be discriminated against. Worse yet, his name is obviously not Latino/Hispanic or European, so he's screwed before anyone even talks to him.
No, not Americans or American Culture, just a segment of it, otherwise you wouldn't see so many of us Americans pissed off over this kind of bigotry, incompetence, and sheer stupidity!
An amped up stupid cop thinking he's going to get a promotion for catching this brown skinned terrorist isn't going to use logic or reason and is absolutely incapable of comprehending sarcasm.
It's not "home-made", it's commercial, you can buy them from Amazon, when they get more in because it seems they are VERY popular.
I'm sure this would have happened in the vicinity of Austin as well. I've lived there, and there's massive discrimination vs anyone with brown skin.
Oh hey, here's a unique idea, STICK THE TOPIC OF THE THREAD AND GET OFF THE GUN NUTTERY !
I don't care which side you are on, and I got sucked into the conversation as well, but as we all seem to have forgotten this ain't got shit to do with guns.
It's about false bomb accusations, false arrest of a minor - 12 year old, and massive stupidity as well as bigotry in Texas.
Yeah, they tend to do their violence and murder via other means.
Anyone remember the nut during the Olympics a few years ago that stabbed numerous tourists?
Of course, those countries also have different cultures than ours, so they are far more open to other means than the Americans who thinks guns solve everything.
Teenagers with access to some basic household tools have been building guns since at least the 40s.
It's neither a secret, nor a difficult thing.
If a criminal wants a gun, they will obtain one, even if they have to make it.
Of course, to outlaw all guns, you'd have to overturn the 2nd amendment, and I really don't see that happening anytime this century.
He's a brown kid with some kind of technology and a non European sounding name in TEXAS !
His religion has nothing to do with it, but he'd be discriminated against for that as well.
It's Texas. A state where the bigotry is so thick they think it's patriotic.
Actually, I'm pretty sure it does constitute a falsified bomb threat/scare. (ianal)
I'm not getting into the whole subletting thing, as I know it's a hairy mess in some places, but I don't think a weekend stay or other short time really qualifies for what I'd call a sublet.
On the other hand, violating your lease, is definitely a problem, even if you feel it's unfair.
Now as to the landlords/property owners wanting a cut, that's pretty bogus and greedy.
Though I would find having the renter pay obtain an appropriate insurance before hand to cover things if the AirBnB 'visitor' messed something up totally reasonable.
Actually their whole "...a licensed driver behind the wheel at all times, alert and ready to take over on a moments notice..." thing is a form of suicide.
Of course, this means the 'driver' can override the computer at any time with no notice, even if he has to hit a button to do so.
First problem, there's no real danger, but the human freaks out, does takes over and does something stupid/wrong and causes an accident.
Second problem, there is an actual emergency, and the human doesn't have time to react to it and try to take over before it occurs.
Third problem, again a real emergency, the human takes over, and does something stupid and panicy, causing a minor fender bender to become a 12 car pileup and runs over a group of nuns and their orphan wards out for a walk.
Fourth problem, no emergency real or imagined, until the human accidentally creates one by turning off the computer or hitting active controls.
Yeah, to have the ability for humans to turn off autodrive in normal conditions is one thing, but to expect them to handle an emergency or override the far more accurate and calm computer whenever they want to, is just plain ludicrous and guaranteed to cause a lot of extra pain, suffering, and death.
(And I haven't even touched on the whole insurance thing where they blame you for everything. If you touched the controls, it's your fault for screwing up the computers perfect driving, and if you didn't, it's your fault for not intervening in the actions of a malfunctioning machine like the law says you should.)
And if you are using a known speed tester and haven't obfuscated the address, some of the providers will give a priority to the speed test so it looks like you are getting better speeds than you actually do.
I tested that with my provider many times over years. (Probably a couple of times a month, it wasn't a schedule, just when I thought about it.)
Known major speed tester, 38
Obfuscated known major speed tester, 18
Relatively unknown speed tester, 18.5
Obfuscated relatively unknown speed tester, 18.5
There has been minor variance in the results, but no more than about 8% appx.
I'm not in New York, and I haven't tested i in 2 years (I figured the 6 years I did test was more than enough), but I doubt it's any different over there since nation wide corporations tend to have the same policies and standard hardware & scripts everywhere.
And if anyone hasn't figured it out, if they know you're testing them, they play nice, the rest of the time, you their bitch.
Mwahahahaha! ... ... :)
(gasping for air) funny dude, very funny
But they weren't even commonly called 'drones' until recently.
It was probably some unpaid intern that they treated like crap in the first place which is why it was leaked, but they know (s)he doesn't have any money, so they looked for another target.
The ones who pirate the most, are also the ones to watch it 4 or 5 times in the theater if it's a good movie. Many of the rest of us get the word from them as to weather it's any good or not in the first week or so. If a movie only has the first two weeks of good numbers, it's because that's how long it took for word that it was total fecal matter to spread despite a ton of hype. And speaking of the hype, I had no idea they'd even made an Expendables 3, so they couldn't even use that to boost their initial ticket numbers.
Yeah, Avatar the last airbender numbers.