Just try to post something that's a bit more advanced than "WoW roxxorz" and some joe sixpack will mod you down as off topic because he doesn't know any better.
Now wishing I had mod points so I could mod you "Offtopic" and self-fulfill your prophecy.;-)
Don't you believe it. People get robbed by the threat of litigation every day.
Exactly! Here's an example, which you can (and should) ask your attorney about if you intend to follow what my friend has done.
This friend had a ton of debt. They couldn't make payments, so fell into collections. They made arrangements with the collectors, to pay $65 through $200 a month (to the various collectors, the lower balances getting the lower payments).
Well, two years go by and the $65 collector is nearing the end. They call my friend and start badgering them, saying they're going to sue if they don't pay in full now. Well, my friend asked attorneys and was told that, if the collector sued, they'd be able to countersue for a lot of money because the collector was stating that they were about to unilaterally violate the verbal contract between friend and collector.
On the attorney's advice, friend started sending $65 a month via registered (return receipt) letter, and now has one more month to finish paying the collector. Meanwhile six months have gone by and collector has not initiated a lawsuit against friend.
Friend really, really wants the collector's client list, to warn them about collector's illegal business practices. But friend said recently that it's suffucient to write to the BBB and Chamber of Commerce (and also the owner of the collection company, who may not know about their employees' transgressions).
Where in the definition of theft did you find the word 'deprived'?
From your GPP post:
with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it
My work here is done. (BTW, I agree with you: copying something does not deprive the original owner of any copies that are in the original owner's possession. Once we have matter copiers, things are going to get very interesting for car companies, McDonald's, etc...)
Why attack bittorrent for supposedly encouraging piracy when it has decidedly legitimate user as well, and there are many, many technologies out there being developed that are solely for the purposes of piracy, spam & exploitation.
Well, I don't have much of a social life, but it doesn't really matter to me anyway. Once I earn enough I'm going to the stars, and I'll be alone: any resources I spent on social skills would have been wasted.
Not that I'm not fun at parties, just that I'm not at all concerned about getting laid. Which, conversely, makes me more fun at parties!
As long as you complete the cycle it's not a problem.
What makes you believe that?
The real problem is the doctors who are prescribing antibiotics for viral infections.
Soemthing like 90% (I just made that up) of the antibiotics are not absorbed by the body, and are excreted into our sewer systems. That is what causes the development of new strains, not people taking half the dose.
Shoot the marketing asshole who came up with the idea of giving anti-biotics to farm animals for weight gain.
I find it interesting that people are so quick to murder others when their ideologies don't match. I suppose it's not surprising that we have Bush for a president, although knowing that we're tribal cleansers doesn't really make me any happier, or more sleepy at night.
Well, what I meant to say was that the sales aspect was something of a scam -- I never really made any money.
However, the product that they have to sell (legal insurance) was well worth the money I spent on it. I would have been better off not trying to sell it though.
Probably the greatest hope for scientific journalism is if a law is passed banning the writing of academic papers when under the influence of hallucinogens.
I've written 100% of my academic papers under the influence of hallucinogens, you insensitive clod!
(Well, 100% of zero is still zero, and I've never taken hallucinogens...)
Or why the Dell reps attempt to bribe our IT department with cash and free laptops if they'll continue to purchase only Dell equipment.
Our (ex-) IT guy used to brag about his free airfare miles.
If I ran a company, and my employees were benefiting personally (even if it's just "an extra work machine from the vendor that I (the IT guy) can use!"), I would fire their asses. Then sue them. Then fucking kill them. No wait, I don't work for Microsoft.
I agree with both you and your other responder. I want to give my experience in the most recent MLM I've participated in, which I almost didn't since I had done one or two before and learned my lesson.
This one is called Pre-Paid Legal. It's basically "legal insurance", in that you pay $27 a month and get complete access to attorneys. Not everything is free, but if it's not covered you get a 25% discount on the hourly rate which means generally after less than the first hour (per month of course) you're saving money (attorneys fees average around $200, depending on your location).
I am a very happy member, and am not really interested in selling any more since I'm working again. I will say that the service has more than paid for itself tenfold since I began using it (in benefits, that is, not in income!).
What I did want to add, though, was the nature of the payments. It cost $149 for me to become an Associate (costs may be different now; that was a few years ago), in addition to $10 for the paperwork, and $27 a month for the service (you can sell it without being a member, but why would you? -- it's a tough sale, "I want you to purchase this thing I don't believe in for myself."), but then there was a "Fast Start" seminar which gave me back $100 (incentive to train is always good), and then every sale that I made brought me $75 within a few days -- even though the new member wouldn't have contributed $75 total into their account until their third month!
Obviously, if people cancelled then the associate's account was debited; I don't recall the time frame, I think it was 6 months or a year that the member had to remain a member.
I don't recall what the benefits were to growing your organization (i.e., how much you get paid when a direct downline gets his $75), but I do know that there were a few millionaires at the meetings I attended, who spend the bulk of their time training their downline. These are also the types of people who sign major corporations' HR departments to provide Pre-Paid Legal services to their employees (much greater return, for slightly more work than an individual sale). They were also pulling in big bucks from their organizations' efforts (which is one reason they spent so much time on training -- the idea being "we all succeed together", even if some animals are more equal than others).
All the above is to show that there are mutually beneficial organizations which successfully use a tiered sales methodology. Of course, I didn't do so well financially, but then I write code, not sales pitches. (And I would have done much worse financially if I had used pay-by-the-hour attorneys to help me with my issues.)
(PS Love the Firefly quote but I think you're missing two commas. At least, that's how it sounds, and the "notably" seems like it should be set apart, anyway.)
You should try SkyCoaster. There's one in Orlando near Universal Studios.
(What's really sad about the previous sentence is that I actually had to google "orlando 'islands of adventure'" to get the name of the studio that owned that park! Guess it's been a while since I've been there.)
It's basically 4 x the free-fall of skydiving, for 1/4 x the money. And it's indoors so you won't go splat (not that it happens a lot, but it happens more jumping out of a plane than it does in a vertical wind tunnel).
Slashdot Mirror
A proper haiku
Also mentions the weather
or the seasons, dude.
Now wishing I had mod points so I could mod you "Offtopic" and self-fulfill your prophecy. ;-)
However, see my sig. :-(
Only if you've had collagen injections.
No, but it does point out the short-sightedness of these doomsayers.
The real beginning to the end started when Cain fucked Eve.
When you realize that you're killing Jews?
Exactly! Here's an example, which you can (and should) ask your attorney about if you intend to follow what my friend has done.
This friend had a ton of debt. They couldn't make payments, so fell into collections. They made arrangements with the collectors, to pay $65 through $200 a month (to the various collectors, the lower balances getting the lower payments).
Well, two years go by and the $65 collector is nearing the end. They call my friend and start badgering them, saying they're going to sue if they don't pay in full now. Well, my friend asked attorneys and was told that, if the collector sued, they'd be able to countersue for a lot of money because the collector was stating that they were about to unilaterally violate the verbal contract between friend and collector.
On the attorney's advice, friend started sending $65 a month via registered (return receipt) letter, and now has one more month to finish paying the collector. Meanwhile six months have gone by and collector has not initiated a lawsuit against friend.
Friend really, really wants the collector's client list, to warn them about collector's illegal business practices. But friend said recently that it's suffucient to write to the BBB and Chamber of Commerce (and also the owner of the collection company, who may not know about their employees' transgressions).
1) makes sense, but for 2), Slashdot serves (basically) only text.
In fact, that sounds like a good job for software. Someone should retrofit existing planes with an electronic-device-safe control panel!
Then the law should be changed to do something about it. Otherwise the bogus lawsuits will just continue...
I like your "cel phone" concept. Is that what you use to talk to expensive single frames of moving images of Mickey?
From your GPP post:
My work here is done. (BTW, I agree with you: copying something does not deprive the original owner of any copies that are in the original owner's possession. Once we have matter copiers, things are going to get very interesting for car companies, McDonald's, etc...)
Yeah, technologies like Verizon's GetItNow(r)...
Not that I'm not fun at parties, just that I'm not at all concerned about getting laid. Which, conversely, makes me more fun at parties!
Roofs ... OUTLAWED!!!
"Why not just raise the minimum number of pieces of flair?"
"YOU DON'T GET IT, DO YOU??? It's about CREATIVITY!"
In general, bugs found and resolved in-house cost 10% as much as bugs found by customers. (I'm agreeing with you.)
While they do look similar to the GP's girlfriend, I assure you that the taste is completely different.
What makes you believe that?
The real problem is the doctors who are prescribing antibiotics for viral infections.
Soemthing like 90% (I just made that up) of the antibiotics are not absorbed by the body, and are excreted into our sewer systems. That is what causes the development of new strains, not people taking half the dose.
I find it interesting that people are so quick to murder others when their ideologies don't match. I suppose it's not surprising that we have Bush for a president, although knowing that we're tribal cleansers doesn't really make me any happier, or more sleepy at night.
However, the product that they have to sell (legal insurance) was well worth the money I spent on it. I would have been better off not trying to sell it though.
Why? The other day someone mentioned here, wrt GTA, that "gamers will be voters in 10 years or so."
I'm not sure the fuckers can brainwash everyone; at least, not without hardware assistance.
I've written 100% of my academic papers under the influence of hallucinogens, you insensitive clod!
(Well, 100% of zero is still zero, and I've never taken hallucinogens...)
Our (ex-) IT guy used to brag about his free airfare miles.
If I ran a company, and my employees were benefiting personally (even if it's just "an extra work machine from the vendor that I (the IT guy) can use!"), I would fire their asses. Then sue them. Then fucking kill them. No wait, I don't work for Microsoft.
This one is called Pre-Paid Legal. It's basically "legal insurance", in that you pay $27 a month and get complete access to attorneys. Not everything is free, but if it's not covered you get a 25% discount on the hourly rate which means generally after less than the first hour (per month of course) you're saving money (attorneys fees average around $200, depending on your location).
I am a very happy member, and am not really interested in selling any more since I'm working again. I will say that the service has more than paid for itself tenfold since I began using it (in benefits, that is, not in income!).
What I did want to add, though, was the nature of the payments. It cost $149 for me to become an Associate (costs may be different now; that was a few years ago), in addition to $10 for the paperwork, and $27 a month for the service (you can sell it without being a member, but why would you? -- it's a tough sale, "I want you to purchase this thing I don't believe in for myself."), but then there was a "Fast Start" seminar which gave me back $100 (incentive to train is always good), and then every sale that I made brought me $75 within a few days -- even though the new member wouldn't have contributed $75 total into their account until their third month!
Obviously, if people cancelled then the associate's account was debited; I don't recall the time frame, I think it was 6 months or a year that the member had to remain a member.
I don't recall what the benefits were to growing your organization (i.e., how much you get paid when a direct downline gets his $75), but I do know that there were a few millionaires at the meetings I attended, who spend the bulk of their time training their downline. These are also the types of people who sign major corporations' HR departments to provide Pre-Paid Legal services to their employees (much greater return, for slightly more work than an individual sale). They were also pulling in big bucks from their organizations' efforts (which is one reason they spent so much time on training -- the idea being "we all succeed together", even if some animals are more equal than others).
All the above is to show that there are mutually beneficial organizations which successfully use a tiered sales methodology. Of course, I didn't do so well financially, but then I write code, not sales pitches. (And I would have done much worse financially if I had used pay-by-the-hour attorneys to help me with my issues.)
(PS Love the Firefly quote but I think you're missing two commas. At least, that's how it sounds, and the "notably" seems like it should be set apart, anyway.)
(PPS I'm shorting SCO on the open tomorrow.)
(What's really sad about the previous sentence is that I actually had to google "orlando 'islands of adventure'" to get the name of the studio that owned that park! Guess it's been a while since I've been there.)
It's basically 4 x the free-fall of skydiving, for 1/4 x the money. And it's indoors so you won't go splat (not that it happens a lot, but it happens more jumping out of a plane than it does in a vertical wind tunnel).
"How do you figure?"
"All the chicks around him were merry!"