Though the litigiousness of the Tolkien Estate (via the ancient and gnarled iron grip of J.R.R's son Christopher) usually gives me indigestion, my organs seem unaffected by this case. LOTR-related merchandise is often tacky to a ridiculous level, but it seems WB has gone over the deep end here.
You should check your math-
Ohio is worth 18, Virginia 13, and Florida 29. That totals to 60. Obama is (estimated) to have 332 electoral votes, and Romney has 206.
Swapping out 60 votes still leaves them at 272 to 266.
Correct! Any path to the presidency for Romney would have assumed Fla. (which he may still get, but unlikely and moot now), Va., Ohio, and one small battleground - Iowa and NH were generally considered the most likely (or, least unlikely) candidates.
Well uh, it wouldn't be called "war" today, it would be called crushing an uprising. Enough power is consolidated in the federal government that any state seceding is not militarily practical in any way.
The last time it happened was so messy because the states that seceded, while certainly at a military disadvantage, had enough parity with the rest of the union that they couldn't be overrun easily. This is far from the case now.
They are phasing out the position. Evidently they aren't cutting current greeting staff but I do not believe they are hiring any new greeters.
Here's a random article explaining.
So, here in AL we have to, yet again, try to repeal some lingering Jim Crow content from our ridiculously long constitution. A similar measure failed in 2004, since people here seem to feel that guaranteeing children an education is significantly worse than making sure they are segregated by race.
This behavior is primarily to protect against ID theft. They work under the assumption that if someone performs account actions in a country foreign from their home address, it's reasonably likely they are not actually there and someone has stolen their account information.
How the fuck is asking me to send someone I don't know at all a scanned copy of a picture ID *help* protect my ID? You really have it backwards.
Picture ID is generally used as a cursory method of proving your identity. If you let someone take care of your money but aren't comfortable with them having your picture ID, then you will need to find someone besides paypal, as they aren't in the business of money laundering.
Though I do agree that it would be better if they called you to check on a suspicious transaction. Banks do this, and usually don't require as many hoops to jump through as paypal does, oddly enough.
This behavior is primarily to protect against ID theft. They work under the assumption that if someone performs account actions in a country foreign from their home address, it's reasonably likely they are not actually there and someone has stolen their account information.
Actual banks perform similar activities to prevent ID theft, which is currently rampant. Several times I have had my debit card (through a bank) frozen due to sudden account activity in another US state, not even overseas. Usually this is just a source of frustration, but one time I was very glad that it happened, since the account activity really was fraudulent.
The linked article seems to be a retooling of this article from Reuters. It seems that DHS is considering setting up this program, it's not actually in place yet.
Basically, as it stands now, a website could put in T&Cs that gives them the right to kill you and your pets for non-payment of services. Or more realistically, terms for $1,000,000 per day penalty for late payment on an account worth $10,000 in it's total life.
Where I live, one cannot lose legal rights by a contract (such as losing the right to go to court) and a contract which contains illegal things is automatically void. I am surprised that in the US a contract/ToS/EULA can take away such rights.
In the US, this varies by state. Some states have pretty strong specifics as to what can be agreed upon in contracts. US contract law is pretty complex.
courts have consistently said that while the police can go through your garbage IF the can is at the curb, they cannot walk on to your property to get to it.
we-eellll I'm not familiar with all case law on the subject, but generally a garbage can at your house is part of your curtilage which is protected from search. If you put the garbage can in some open field that you happen to own, that is not part of your home/curtilage, and isn't locked up, then it would likely be fair game, according to previous rulings.
I am not sure if I'm okay with it, but this was evidently all hashed out in the 20th century.
The only difference between this case and Oliver vs. United States is that they had cameras. Oliver v. US was decided based upon Hester v. United States which established the Open Fields Doctrine. Trespass is evidently not considered a violation unless it occurs within curtilage.
I assume if the area were physically secured (such that it required breaking into), the open fields doctrine would not apply, as we would get into more serious areas of law such as criminal burglary.
What if my house is a large patch of land with a fence? What if I build a long hallway, with a roof over it that surrounds my entire property, but I build a courtyard that is over 40 acres? Is that courtyard part of my house?
Likely yes, though it would possibly depend on what you were using this area for.
The public education system never ceases to amaze me with its products, such as those who can read "Whether 'No Trespassing' signs are present or not, your private property is public for the law, with or without a warrant." as meaning "Whether 'No Trespassing' signs are present or not, an open field is public for the law, with or without a warrant."
What a piece of work is public education.
I am not a product of the "public education system", but I will explain for you. The passage that you quote is from the summary that seems to have been written by one Penurious Penguin, and is not in the article, or the actual court ruling. The main point of the case seems to have been decided in 1984.
The incident in EverQuest could have easily been solved by high level paladins casting just one single spell over and over again until it stopped spreading. That actually the normal procedure at the end of the event the viral comes from, everyone gets in tight and paladins repeated cast that spell to make sure everybody gets cured before moving on.
Part of why corrupted blood was so terrible (read: hilarious) was that it could not be dispelled. The only way to remove the debuff was to die or wait it out.
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Though the litigiousness of the Tolkien Estate (via the ancient and gnarled iron grip of J.R.R's son Christopher) usually gives me indigestion, my organs seem unaffected by this case. LOTR-related merchandise is often tacky to a ridiculous level, but it seems WB has gone over the deep end here.
So while you may believe this type of opinion market is flawed, the current reigning champion disagrees.
Correctly predicting one election gives you such a nice title these days!
Well, it's not that he just predicted one election successfully, he essentially predicted fifty, since evidently every single one of his state-level predictions was accurate
Not sure where this site gets their data, but according to them Jill Stein won 427,047 total votes, which is 0.35% of the popular vote.
Basically, statistically 0 votes, which is what I would have guessed.
Haha yes, that wording is probably more appropriate.
You should check your math- Ohio is worth 18, Virginia 13, and Florida 29. That totals to 60. Obama is (estimated) to have 332 electoral votes, and Romney has 206. Swapping out 60 votes still leaves them at 272 to 266.
Correct! Any path to the presidency for Romney would have assumed Fla. (which he may still get, but unlikely and moot now), Va., Ohio, and one small battleground - Iowa and NH were generally considered the most likely (or, least unlikely) candidates.
Well uh, it wouldn't be called "war" today, it would be called crushing an uprising. Enough power is consolidated in the federal government that any state seceding is not militarily practical in any way.
The last time it happened was so messy because the states that seceded, while certainly at a military disadvantage, had enough parity with the rest of the union that they couldn't be overrun easily. This is far from the case now.
They are phasing out the position. Evidently they aren't cutting current greeting staff but I do not believe they are hiring any new greeters. Here's a random article explaining.
So, here in AL we have to, yet again, try to repeal some lingering Jim Crow content from our ridiculously long constitution. A similar measure failed in 2004, since people here seem to feel that guaranteeing children an education is significantly worse than making sure they are segregated by race.
This behavior is primarily to protect against ID theft. They work under the assumption that if someone performs account actions in a country foreign from their home address, it's reasonably likely they are not actually there and someone has stolen their account information.
How the fuck is asking me to send someone I don't know at all a scanned copy of a picture ID *help* protect my ID? You really have it backwards.
Picture ID is generally used as a cursory method of proving your identity. If you let someone take care of your money but aren't comfortable with them having your picture ID, then you will need to find someone besides paypal, as they aren't in the business of money laundering.
Though I do agree that it would be better if they called you to check on a suspicious transaction. Banks do this, and usually don't require as many hoops to jump through as paypal does, oddly enough.
This behavior is primarily to protect against ID theft. They work under the assumption that if someone performs account actions in a country foreign from their home address, it's reasonably likely they are not actually there and someone has stolen their account information.
Actual banks perform similar activities to prevent ID theft, which is currently rampant. Several times I have had my debit card (through a bank) frozen due to sudden account activity in another US state, not even overseas. Usually this is just a source of frustration, but one time I was very glad that it happened, since the account activity really was fraudulent.
The linked article seems to be a retooling of this article from Reuters. It seems that DHS is considering setting up this program, it's not actually in place yet.
Basically, as it stands now, a website could put in T&Cs that gives them the right to kill you and your pets for non-payment of services. Or more realistically, terms for $1,000,000 per day penalty for late payment on an account worth $10,000 in it's total life.
No, they can't really do that.
Where I live, one cannot lose legal rights by a contract (such as losing the right to go to court) and a contract which contains illegal things is automatically void. I am surprised that in the US a contract/ToS/EULA can take away such rights.
In the US, this varies by state. Some states have pretty strong specifics as to what can be agreed upon in contracts. US contract law is pretty complex.
We do have the doctrine of unconscionability, used in cases of inequal bargaining power. Ref. this commonly studied case.
courts have consistently said that while the police can go through your garbage IF the can is at the curb, they cannot walk on to your property to get to it.
we-eellll I'm not familiar with all case law on the subject, but generally a garbage can at your house is part of your curtilage which is protected from search. If you put the garbage can in some open field that you happen to own, that is not part of your home/curtilage, and isn't locked up, then it would likely be fair game, according to previous rulings.
I am not sure if I'm okay with it, but this was evidently all hashed out in the 20th century.
The only difference between this case and Oliver vs. United States is that they had cameras. Oliver v. US was decided based upon Hester v. United States which established the Open Fields Doctrine. Trespass is evidently not considered a violation unless it occurs within curtilage.
I assume if the area were physically secured (such that it required breaking into), the open fields doctrine would not apply, as we would get into more serious areas of law such as criminal burglary.
I would be all in favor of an ammentment to change that to "persons, houses, papers, effects, and all personal property".
It would have to say "real property" and/or "real estate", which are different under law from "personal property" (which can assumed to be covered by "effects").
What if my house is a large patch of land with a fence? What if I build a long hallway, with a roof over it that surrounds my entire property, but I build a courtyard that is over 40 acres? Is that courtyard part of my house?
Likely yes, though it would possibly depend on what you were using this area for.
The public education system never ceases to amaze me with its products, such as those who can read "Whether 'No Trespassing' signs are present or not, your private property is public for the law, with or without a warrant." as meaning "Whether 'No Trespassing' signs are present or not, an open field is public for the law, with or without a warrant."
What a piece of work is public education.
I am not a product of the "public education system", but I will explain for you. The passage that you quote is from the summary that seems to have been written by one Penurious Penguin, and is not in the article, or the actual court ruling. The main point of the case seems to have been decided in 1984.
But the weed fields or whatever? No.
FTFY :)
The incident in EverQuest could have easily been solved by high level paladins casting just one single spell over and over again until it stopped spreading. That actually the normal procedure at the end of the event the viral comes from, everyone gets in tight and paladins repeated cast that spell to make sure everybody gets cured before moving on.
Part of why corrupted blood was so terrible (read: hilarious) was that it could not be dispelled. The only way to remove the debuff was to die or wait it out.
It will likely be a reboot, with new actors, a-la the recent Star Trek.
Here is a taste of what you seek
Pirates of the Caribbean, IN SPACE.
I always thought whomever inherited the rights to the franchise would make more movies after The Betrayer%^&%Creator died.
Glad we won't have to wait that long, after all.
Seconded, I literally glanced at the calendar after reading this summary.