Next will be the other party's attorneys with a court order ransacking your house, garage, car and anything/place else belonging to you looking for your diary/journal in hopes to prove you're not being honest.
Oh, and is there such a thing as IRL anymore? I'm starting to think not.
Another sad story of countless of employees losing their jobs when their home blockbuster store shuts down. That's only going to mean more trouble for everyone. The loss of the movie business is bad in itself but now we're putting thousands and thousands of more people onto the streets looking for work. Not good. Not good at all.
I was just thinking how, with this new ruling, there might be a new market in affordable GPS device tracking equipment that would allow the average joe to purchase then walk around their vehicles to find any transmitting GPS devices. They could then remove it and destroy it. This then raises another question. If the police bug you and you are able to find the bug and then destroy it, can they then prosecute you for destruction of property, as well as obstruction of justice and possibly a few other laws? If you just remove the device could (well, 'would' is the proper word usage here I think) they prosecute you for something like obstruction?
I think the best thing to do would be to remove the device then mount it on the first police car you came across.
Back in the mid 80s when I was in grade school, my 6th grade teacher told the class one day "There's two important things I've learned in life. Don't ever say what you don't want heard and don't ever write what you don't want read.". Those words echo throughout my mind quite often whenever I consider doing one of those two things. I would suggest the same for anyone else as well.
My favorite teacher (6th Grade male teacher, a rare thing) died over twelve years ago so I don't know what his opinion would be today considering all of our technology and encryption capabilities but I would imagine it would remain unchanged.
I would so love to see Larry thrown into federal prison for fraud against the fed. OH wow that would make my day. Pay back for being an asshole to so many people over the years and thinking he's above everything and everyone else. That's the kind of guy I love to hate.
Beautiful artwork laced manuals. Fun maps (sometimes even made of cloth). The occasional action figure. Other entertaining inserts. The disks themselves which are nice to look at. It's all these reasons which would prevent me from ever buying online digital downloads only. It just makes no sense to me to do so even if I'm saving five or so bucks and, honestly, I don't think I've seen such an advantage for any title. So, I will always be a hard copy game buyer and hope such things never go away.
I also agree that 4 or 5 beers is about as far as I can go. However, the beers I'm referring to are Heinekens and not Coors Lights. I think there's a bit of a difference there.
... that beavis and butthead aren't reading through this topic otherwise they'd laugh themselves to death just from all the buzzwords alone, not to mention the jokes that go with them.
In 1985 my sixth grade teacher stood in front of the class and said "There's two very important things I've learned in life and which I'm going to share with all of you today. 1) Don't ever say what you don't want heard and 2) Don't ever write what you don't want read."
Those words echo in my head now more than ever. He was a very wise man, that elementary school teacher.
I'm not overly super knowledgeable about politics but I thought it was right-wing conservatives (a-hem.. G.W. Bush, Renquist, Nixon, to name a very, very, very small few) that practiced taking away all of our liberties (as many as they possibly could). Isn't a libertarian named so for granting and defending liberty and freedoms instead of aggressively trying to take them away from all of us?
I also have to concur. I used to think much more innocently of people and the world we live in. However, since I became an adult and joined the real world (workforce) and have been in such world for 20 plus years now, I am now leaning more towards the 'lawful evil' belief, sadly enough. I think that to do so is smarter in that it makes you much more careful what you say and whom you say it to. I've been burned too many times already for trusting people whom I thought were good, honest, morally decent people. Even more sad is the fact that most of whom I've been burned by or seen burn others are those who work in law enforcement or other positions of authority and/or power. They tend to be the worst and most abundant of the 'lawful evil' world around us. It truly is a horrible state of affairs that things have become that way... but they have!
I hate to think that I can trust a criminal more so than I can a badge but that is how our world (yes, here in the US, home of the free (my ass)) has turned out to be.
Maybe they had other reasons, but needed an excuse to lay her off?
That was similar to the thought I had. I'm thinking someone higher up didn't like her (a new manager perhaps) or she pissed off someone in upper management so they looked for a reason, any reason, to get rid of her. That's typically the "behind the scenes" true story that takes place that you never hear about.
99.999% of Law Enforcement, whether they be the secret service, fbi, or local officer Joe Asshole, do not have your best interest at heart. They have only their own interests at heart.
The sooner the American public at larges realizes this fact, the sooner we can enact laws that punish law enforcement officers for making the 'mistakes' that they do. At present, it would seem that nearly all officers who harm innocent people 'in the line of duty' are rarely questioned on their actions and even less so reprimanded in any way. It has become a horrible situation for the American way of life and the system needs fixed with new laws that punish the police (individual officers responsible for crimes committed like killing young girls indiscriminately instead of punishing innocent citizens.
The three Grade 11 students — who asked to be identified only as Weeman, The Fern and Goggles — told CBC News they made more than $200 in the first week of school by bulk-buying candy and chocolate bars, then selling them at a profit.
LOL.. I did the same thing in Jr High back in the late 80s. I started selling atomic fireballs then other snack goods then a friend of mine who's parents owned a restaurant (and therefore had access to a distributor who would sell in bulk to my friend at a much lower rate) started selling the same goods at lower prices. Within a few weeks, my friend was suspended for running his little business out of his locker and I immediately closed up my shop to prevent the same thing from happening to me.
I originally started the little enterprishttp://idle.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/05/10/1321227#e because the student store was closed (for reasons I can't recall) so there was no longer anyone selling junk food on campus. Thus, the brilliant idea.
So, what the high school students were doing is nothing new in the adolescent world. I'm sure it had been done even long before I got around to doing it twenty years ago.
I was thinking that he may have grounds for a lawsuit for harassment and hostile work environment, regardless of he personal attack in a parking lot. He should sue his employer (the us gov, I know, but he should try anyway) and the individuals (once again, immune to prosecution, right, but perhaps there could be a loophole somewhere since the harassment wasn't part of their official duties).
Yet another reason I feel the need to get the hell out of IT and find something new. I've already seen the sharp pointed edge of IT politics pointed at my throat and it wasn't fun. I feel that someday I won't be so lucky. There's only so many times you can hope to cover your own ass. Someday, I may miss a spot and that one spot will be the missing dragon's scale.
I was using ICQ back in 1998, and it had the option of displaying each chat character as it was typed
Yes, I too was thinking of the ICQ real time (character by character) chat from the late 90s. I just installed the latest ICQ after not using it for probably a decade but I don't know if it still has that function (I don't know anyone on ICQ anymore; was just taking a look at how it has progressed over the last decade but hard to do when you can't use it with anyone). I actually would prefer to chat that way just for the reasons you mentioned.
Actually, an ICQ number was a bragging right even a half decade ago if the number was substantially low. When I started with ICQ, my UIN was (and still is although used once a year or so) 195XXX (where xxx is a number I don't care to advertise, of course, since it's spammed enough). When the internet really started to explode with new users in 98, UINs went from six digits to eight digits in a very short time and I remember people bragging to their friends online how their number was one of the first in the millions. About six years ago I remember telling someone online what my UIN was and they offered to buy it from me. I thought the whole thing had really gone too far then. But, by then I had already moved on to other things and the spamming of ICQ was starting to pick up. A few years later when I logged back in for the first time in a very long time, I had so many spam messages that I found the service to be nearly useless.
I still have all the old, original ICQ sounds for nostalgic reasons. What's funny is that in a local gas station in the small town where I live, the cash register they have makes the ICQ sound "uh oh" whenever they do a transaction. I just grin as I think I'm probably the only one that realizes this when I'm in there buying something.
Exactly. I don't ever recall reading such rules or guidelines about remaining in the vehicle during a traffic stop until instructed to do so either. It obviously must be something we've picked up in the media. Of course, now a days, it seems that you also must hold your breath and try not to blink until the traffic stop is over and the officer has driven away. Only then can you remoisturize your dry eyes and breath a sigh of relief that the officer didn't beat you to near death and plant weapons and drugs on you to justify the brutality.
I have to admit that after reading just the first page of the juror's handbook, I come to find myself realizing that those facts have always been a reality for me; juries are there to make sure people are not convicted of crimes for which they are not guilty or otherwise be punished by laws that may be too severe for the nature of the crime committed. Mr. Childs was convicted for a crime in which the law wasn't specifically meant to be used for. In such a case, the jury should have found him not guilty instead of saying "yes mr. judge, we'll do whatever you instruct us to do" which would seem to the case after the what the childs case juror said. This is another sad day in judicial history.
I'm new to this AJI. What is so bad about it? I have to agree and wonder about what 'The Deacon' said in that the jury is the last line of defense. When the juror said that the jury is told exactly how they are allowed or not allowed to apply the letter of the law, that make me wonder why we have a jury at all. If a jury isn't allowed to make informed decisions over every aspect of the evidence (including moral turpitude and actual intent) an not just the exact letter of the law, then our justice system is in serious trouble and it begins to explain why so many innocent people are rotting away in prisons today.
That's an interesting concept and, to be honest, I hope something like that happens soon so it brings real attention down on the stupid laws that are. If something like that happened, it would become a huge media frenzy (one would hope anyway, for her sake). Sadly, it will probably take a case just like you described in order to protect other innocent people from being fried due to a law that is poorly written out by those (politicians) who don't understand technology.
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Next will be the other party's attorneys with a court order ransacking your house, garage, car and anything/place else belonging to you looking for your diary/journal in hopes to prove you're not being honest.
Oh, and is there such a thing as IRL anymore? I'm starting to think not.
Another sad story of countless of employees losing their jobs when their home blockbuster store shuts down. That's only going to mean more trouble for everyone. The loss of the movie business is bad in itself but now we're putting thousands and thousands of more people onto the streets looking for work. Not good. Not good at all.
I was just thinking how, with this new ruling, there might be a new market in affordable GPS device tracking equipment that would allow the average joe to purchase then walk around their vehicles to find any transmitting GPS devices. They could then remove it and destroy it. This then raises another question. If the police bug you and you are able to find the bug and then destroy it, can they then prosecute you for destruction of property, as well as obstruction of justice and possibly a few other laws? If you just remove the device could (well, 'would' is the proper word usage here I think) they prosecute you for something like obstruction?
I think the best thing to do would be to remove the device then mount it on the first police car you came across.
Back in the mid 80s when I was in grade school, my 6th grade teacher told the class one day "There's two important things I've learned in life. Don't ever say what you don't want heard and don't ever write what you don't want read.". Those words echo throughout my mind quite often whenever I consider doing one of those two things. I would suggest the same for anyone else as well. My favorite teacher (6th Grade male teacher, a rare thing) died over twelve years ago so I don't know what his opinion would be today considering all of our technology and encryption capabilities but I would imagine it would remain unchanged.
I would so love to see Larry thrown into federal prison for fraud against the fed. OH wow that would make my day. Pay back for being an asshole to so many people over the years and thinking he's above everything and everyone else. That's the kind of guy I love to hate.
Beautiful artwork laced manuals. Fun maps (sometimes even made of cloth). The occasional action figure. Other entertaining inserts. The disks themselves which are nice to look at. It's all these reasons which would prevent me from ever buying online digital downloads only. It just makes no sense to me to do so even if I'm saving five or so bucks and, honestly, I don't think I've seen such an advantage for any title. So, I will always be a hard copy game buyer and hope such things never go away.
I also agree that 4 or 5 beers is about as far as I can go. However, the beers I'm referring to are Heinekens and not Coors Lights. I think there's a bit of a difference there.
"Greetings Starfighter" came to mind initially.
... that beavis and butthead aren't reading through this topic otherwise they'd laugh themselves to death just from all the buzzwords alone, not to mention the jokes that go with them.
In 1985 my sixth grade teacher stood in front of the class and said "There's two very important things I've learned in life and which I'm going to share with all of you today. 1) Don't ever say what you don't want heard and 2) Don't ever write what you don't want read."
Those words echo in my head now more than ever. He was a very wise man, that elementary school teacher.
I'm not overly super knowledgeable about politics but I thought it was right-wing conservatives (a-hem .. G.W. Bush, Renquist, Nixon, to name a very, very, very small few) that practiced taking away all of our liberties (as many as they possibly could). Isn't a libertarian named so for granting and defending liberty and freedoms instead of aggressively trying to take them away from all of us?
Care to elaborate? That's exactly what I think.
I also have to concur. I used to think much more innocently of people and the world we live in. However, since I became an adult and joined the real world (workforce) and have been in such world for 20 plus years now, I am now leaning more towards the 'lawful evil' belief, sadly enough. I think that to do so is smarter in that it makes you much more careful what you say and whom you say it to. I've been burned too many times already for trusting people whom I thought were good, honest, morally decent people. Even more sad is the fact that most of whom I've been burned by or seen burn others are those who work in law enforcement or other positions of authority and/or power. They tend to be the worst and most abundant of the 'lawful evil' world around us. It truly is a horrible state of affairs that things have become that way ... but they have!
I hate to think that I can trust a criminal more so than I can a badge but that is how our world (yes, here in the US, home of the free (my ass)) has turned out to be.
Maybe they had other reasons, but needed an excuse to lay her off?
That was similar to the thought I had. I'm thinking someone higher up didn't like her (a new manager perhaps) or she pissed off someone in upper management so they looked for a reason, any reason, to get rid of her. That's typically the "behind the scenes" true story that takes place that you never hear about.
99.999% of Law Enforcement, whether they be the secret service, fbi, or local officer Joe Asshole, do not have your best interest at heart. They have only their own interests at heart.
The sooner the American public at larges realizes this fact, the sooner we can enact laws that punish law enforcement officers for making the 'mistakes' that they do. At present, it would seem that nearly all officers who harm innocent people 'in the line of duty' are rarely questioned on their actions and even less so reprimanded in any way. It has become a horrible situation for the American way of life and the system needs fixed with new laws that punish the police (individual officers responsible for crimes committed like killing young girls indiscriminately instead of punishing innocent citizens.
The three Grade 11 students — who asked to be identified only as Weeman, The Fern and Goggles — told CBC News they made more than $200 in the first week of school by bulk-buying candy and chocolate bars, then selling them at a profit.
LOL .. I did the same thing in Jr High back in the late 80s. I started selling atomic fireballs then other snack goods then a friend of mine who's parents owned a restaurant (and therefore had access to a distributor who would sell in bulk to my friend at a much lower rate) started selling the same goods at lower prices. Within a few weeks, my friend was suspended for running his little business out of his locker and I immediately closed up my shop to prevent the same thing from happening to me.
I originally started the little enterprishttp://idle.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/05/10/1321227#e because the student store was closed (for reasons I can't recall) so there was no longer anyone selling junk food on campus. Thus, the brilliant idea.
So, what the high school students were doing is nothing new in the adolescent world. I'm sure it had been done even long before I got around to doing it twenty years ago.
Are you a dentist?
I was thinking that he may have grounds for a lawsuit for harassment and hostile work environment, regardless of he personal attack in a parking lot. He should sue his employer (the us gov, I know, but he should try anyway) and the individuals (once again, immune to prosecution, right, but perhaps there could be a loophole somewhere since the harassment wasn't part of their official duties).
Yet another reason I feel the need to get the hell out of IT and find something new. I've already seen the sharp pointed edge of IT politics pointed at my throat and it wasn't fun. I feel that someday I won't be so lucky. There's only so many times you can hope to cover your own ass. Someday, I may miss a spot and that one spot will be the missing dragon's scale.
I was using ICQ back in 1998, and it had the option of displaying each chat character as it was typed
Yes, I too was thinking of the ICQ real time (character by character) chat from the late 90s. I just installed the latest ICQ after not using it for probably a decade but I don't know if it still has that function (I don't know anyone on ICQ anymore; was just taking a look at how it has progressed over the last decade but hard to do when you can't use it with anyone). I actually would prefer to chat that way just for the reasons you mentioned.
Actually, an ICQ number was a bragging right even a half decade ago if the number was substantially low. When I started with ICQ, my UIN was (and still is although used once a year or so) 195XXX (where xxx is a number I don't care to advertise, of course, since it's spammed enough). When the internet really started to explode with new users in 98, UINs went from six digits to eight digits in a very short time and I remember people bragging to their friends online how their number was one of the first in the millions. About six years ago I remember telling someone online what my UIN was and they offered to buy it from me. I thought the whole thing had really gone too far then. But, by then I had already moved on to other things and the spamming of ICQ was starting to pick up. A few years later when I logged back in for the first time in a very long time, I had so many spam messages that I found the service to be nearly useless.
I still have all the old, original ICQ sounds for nostalgic reasons. What's funny is that in a local gas station in the small town where I live, the cash register they have makes the ICQ sound "uh oh" whenever they do a transaction. I just grin as I think I'm probably the only one that realizes this when I'm in there buying something.
Exactly. I don't ever recall reading such rules or guidelines about remaining in the vehicle during a traffic stop until instructed to do so either. It obviously must be something we've picked up in the media. Of course, now a days, it seems that you also must hold your breath and try not to blink until the traffic stop is over and the officer has driven away. Only then can you remoisturize your dry eyes and breath a sigh of relief that the officer didn't beat you to near death and plant weapons and drugs on you to justify the brutality.
I have to admit that after reading just the first page of the juror's handbook, I come to find myself realizing that those facts have always been a reality for me; juries are there to make sure people are not convicted of crimes for which they are not guilty or otherwise be punished by laws that may be too severe for the nature of the crime committed. Mr. Childs was convicted for a crime in which the law wasn't specifically meant to be used for. In such a case, the jury should have found him not guilty instead of saying "yes mr. judge, we'll do whatever you instruct us to do" which would seem to the case after the what the childs case juror said. This is another sad day in judicial history.
I'm new to this AJI. What is so bad about it? I have to agree and wonder about what 'The Deacon' said in that the jury is the last line of defense. When the juror said that the jury is told exactly how they are allowed or not allowed to apply the letter of the law, that make me wonder why we have a jury at all. If a jury isn't allowed to make informed decisions over every aspect of the evidence (including moral turpitude and actual intent) an not just the exact letter of the law, then our justice system is in serious trouble and it begins to explain why so many innocent people are rotting away in prisons today.
That's an interesting concept and, to be honest, I hope something like that happens soon so it brings real attention down on the stupid laws that are. If something like that happened, it would become a huge media frenzy (one would hope anyway, for her sake). Sadly, it will probably take a case just like you described in order to protect other innocent people from being fried due to a law that is poorly written out by those (politicians) who don't understand technology.
That's crazy -- who wants a system administrator who isn't paranoid?
Apparently the city of SF does.