Like any other situation in life where someone else holds your future in their hands, the key to it all is playing by their rules. Sure, you feel like a dweeb sucking up to some Judge for fifteen miniutes, but when those fifteen are up, you can go back to acting like an asshole, or a saint, or even (god forbid) somewhere in between. I'm sure this kid had his girfriend/friends/whoever out in the gallery, and he was just trying to act the badass so as to impress her/him/them. Didn't quite work out.
One other thing that comes to mind . . . This is a kid we're talking about here, no? His Father sounds like he's doing his best to get this kid convicted.
Never go to court without a lawyer.
Keep your mouth shut except to say yessir or nosir. And play the game. It beats getting it in the rear for three or four years from some guy named Bubba.
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I don't know about "continually downgrading", but I had the tech out here yesterday (my DSL modem refused to sync for 3 days). After testing my line but prior to fixing it, the tech told me it was not possible to have a DSL line at this location. When I informed him that I had been up for over a year, I was informed that because my line resistance was.5 ohms over limit, my line would be throttled back to ~300kbps incoming, 128 outgoing and was also told that "Because I am on the edge of the DSLAM's coverage, any further service calls will result in my DSL service being dropped." This on a line that's gone down 3 times in a 15 months, this being the only one that required a visit to the house. (Oh BTW, the problem - the original installer didn't tighten the connections in the box outside, causing them to lose continuity over time). The service I'm paying for advertises 700mbps; should I be compensated for my lost bandwidth?
I now beleive what I should have done was check on the problem myself - using the tech, I did get my service back on, but I got screwed bigtime in the process.
BTW, this is the "new" swbell.
Perhaps the greatest asset the internet brings, not just to so called Third World countries, but to us all, is a common forum in which we may, from great distances and over great financial and class chasms, simply talk amongst ourselves. How long does anyone think the Cold War would have lasted had the average Soviet citizen had the opportunity to speak with the average American? We would have found out, contrary to all the propaganda, that were just alike. The internet gives us a global neighborhood forum which no President or King or Dictator can rule; the ideas here run the gamut from idiotic to genus and everything between, but they are *ours*.
"Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday July 03, @05:30PM from the but-can-I-store-potions-in-it dept. fleener writes: "The BBC reports and SiliconValley.com comments on the Rosetta Disk, a 2" nickel nano-analog, optical storage disk that records text and images at densities up to 350,000 pages per disk, designed to last 10,000 years. It will be unveiled at the 10,000 year Library Conference, in a discussion of how to store our history and culture for the future, given that current digital storage formats degrade quickly and are platform dependent. The prototype contains the first three chapters of Genesis, in 1,000 languages."
-- The relevance of the first three chapters of Genesis to the lucky anthropologists who dig them up in 10,000 years or so will seem as ridiculous and dated as Incan human sacrifices seem to us today... Why not put something that people (If there are any of them around to dig it up) could use to re-construct the past as a lifestyle, something in the form of Samuel Pepys diaries, perhaps, or maybe the lessons we (haven't) learned about pollution, over-fishing, limited resources, and human weaknesses; the possibilities are staggering. What a poor choice, when one stops to consider that the "us against them" - "other-side-sucks" state of mentality (mostly caused by religion, by the way!) got us into most of this mess to begin with! I would think even Ren and Stimpy would be more relevant.
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Like any other situation in life where someone else holds your future in their hands, the key to it all is playing by their rules. Sure, you feel like a dweeb sucking up to some Judge for fifteen miniutes, but when those fifteen are up, you can go back to acting like an asshole, or a saint, or even (god forbid) somewhere in between. I'm sure this kid had his girfriend/friends/whoever out in the gallery, and he was just trying to act the badass so as to impress her/him/them. Didn't quite work out. One other thing that comes to mind . . . This is a kid we're talking about here, no? His Father sounds like he's doing his best to get this kid convicted. Never go to court without a lawyer. Keep your mouth shut except to say yessir or nosir. And play the game. It beats getting it in the rear for three or four years from some guy named Bubba. .
I don't know about "continually downgrading", but I had the tech out here yesterday (my DSL modem refused to sync for 3 days). After testing my line but prior to fixing it, the tech told me it was not possible to have a DSL line at this location. When I informed him that I had been up for over a year, I was informed that because my line resistance was .5 ohms over limit, my line would be throttled back to ~300kbps incoming, 128 outgoing and was also told that "Because I am on the edge of the DSLAM's coverage, any further service calls will result in my DSL service being dropped." This on a line that's gone down 3 times in a 15 months, this being the only one that required a visit to the house. (Oh BTW, the problem - the original installer didn't tighten the connections in the box outside, causing them to lose continuity over time). The service I'm paying for advertises 700mbps; should I be compensated for my lost bandwidth?
I now beleive what I should have done was check on the problem myself - using the tech, I did get my service back on, but I got screwed bigtime in the process.
BTW, this is the "new" swbell.
Perhaps the greatest asset the internet brings, not just to so called Third World countries, but to us all, is a common forum in which we may, from great distances and over great financial and class chasms, simply talk amongst ourselves. How long does anyone think the Cold War would have lasted had the average Soviet citizen had the opportunity to speak with the average American? We would have found out, contrary to all the propaganda, that were just alike.
The internet gives us a global neighborhood forum which no President or King or Dictator can rule; the ideas here run the gamut from idiotic to genus and everything between, but they are *ours*.
-- The relevance of the first three chapters of Genesis to the lucky anthropologists who dig them up in 10,000 years or so will seem as ridiculous and dated as Incan human sacrifices seem to us today... Why not put something that people (If there are any of them around to dig it up) could use to re-construct the past as a lifestyle, something in the form of Samuel Pepys diaries, perhaps, or maybe the lessons we (haven't) learned about pollution, over-fishing, limited resources, and human weaknesses; the possibilities are staggering. What a poor choice, when one stops to consider that the "us against them" - "other-side-sucks" state of mentality (mostly caused by religion, by the way!) got us into most of this mess to begin with! I would think even Ren and Stimpy would be more relevant.