Well, from all I've heard, the US jury really dropped the ball on following instructions in the US trial, it sounds like Japanese jurors looked at things differently.
This trial was a company to company trial on some very technical information. If the jury members were not knowledgeable in the are of Patent law and the technology in the lawsuit, then they were not a suitable jury. They were not a jury of equal peers. I don't necessarily want to see this go to trial again, but when it's reported that one person swayed the jury so quickly in about 300 different points something has to scream afoul.
I am not knowledgeable on Patent law, but I do know enough ask questions. My guess is that much of the jury was happy to have someone so knowledgeable in the jury pool, and they were all too happy to be done this this trial. To breeze through so much so quickly and to have unanimous decisions should have raised more then the eyebrows of the media, the judge should have cocked her brow in shock.
First smack him upside his head. He really needs it.
Have him talk to his bank(s) immediately, freeze his accounts. Next have him get a hold of every credit reporting agency and tell them to put a stop on all Credit checks immediately and inform them that he does not wish to have unsolicited credit card applications sent to him. This will prevent a scammer from opening a new credit card in his name in the future. Call all of his Credit card companies and have holds put on his cards. Go to SSN office immediately and change his SSN, and explain what happened. Speak with every credit card company he's ever dealt with, and tell them to change his credit card number, explaining Fraud and report to them the new SSN if they have to have it. Talk to someone for each stock trading account he holds. Talk to a credit lawyer about how to minimize further damage. Get a shredder to shred all documents with SSN or Credit card companies offering credit.
Once you've helped him through all that, smack him upside his head again for good measure. You have a very busy year ahead of you to help your father get through this crap. Good Luck
I'm sorry but we've already been sold this bill of goods by the companies themselves. They have stated on more than one occasion that they're increasing their cost to the customers to help build infrastructure. Now some (may most) is to help solidify the existing infrastructure, we've been told that it's also for the rural expansion. Those increased costs are also taxed, so in essence, we're already taxed for the rural expansion. Heck some of our regular phone bill taxes are supposed to help support the internet expansion.
Once again, the middle class customer is paying the bill for someone else just because they live in a rural area./sigh
First, drivers have been discracted since the first time a person got behind the wheel. When cars were first invented, anyone with cash to buy one could drive one, and I'm sure plenty were injured or killed.
So somewhere down the line, as automotives became more powerful regulations were added to help provide a set of expected standards (road ettiquete you could say). Eventually this changed to proof of knowledge of basic skills in driving.
Long before cellphones there was car radios and cigarettes. Millions of drivers would be driving one-handed while fiddling with the radio, using the other to flick ashes, hold the smoke stick or flipping the car lighter to light the cancer stick. People would accidentally drop their lighters, lit cigarettes, or hot ashes on themselves. Once drive-through restaurants were opened up, now people were eating with both hands and driving with their knees, sometimes fiddling with the radio and then lighting cigarettes.
Books and news papers, I've seen it first hand in DC traffic a man had his entire work desk spread out in his front seat, News paper open wide on the stearing wheel and a laptop on the dash while DRIVING on I-95 in rush hour.
Technology of Pagers and early cell phones....people would look at pagers pick up cell phones and make calls. Lets not forget all those pimped out cars and trucks that bounce or shake and the music so loud that 5 cars around the Bass box on wheels would have their windows rattle. Soon we have game boys, ipads, iphones, androids, ipads...
We bitch incessantly about distracted driving, but long long ago, a precedent was set with cars and their toys.
Now lets flip the switch to the other aspect. Traffic lights, and traffic laws. Ever notice that yellow lights are shorter in some areas than others and in some locations vary by time of day. Ever notice how landscaping to make a city look nicer blocks the view of the road from drivers. Ever notice how there are less and less officers on the road enforcing the small things. Ever notice how often the courts minorly punish people who drink and drive, but if you're sober and you're distracted by any number of things listed above you're criminalized. Ever notice how in areas where there is less public transportation made available you have a higher rate of auto accidents.
Ever notice how every new thing added to slow traffic down (speed bumps / humps, calming circles, etc) just seem to add more challenges to driving. Ever notice how speed limits are not consistent from city to city or even on the same damn street in the same city. Ever watch how the DMV treats cheaters? I have, they don't care, they don't fail them or kick them out.
Bad drivers are everywhere, and it's not because of cell phones. Young and old. Driving school is a joke when all it does is spout back to you information in a book. Fix driving school to actually train people how to drive, put them in simulators which might help them learn how to handle a situation better.
The whole system of driving is flawed from both a regulation perspective an drivers perspective. Cell phones are a distraction, but a person who talks on the cell phone is NOT more likely to be a bad driver.
Uncouth, sure, but malicious? It's a sad day when we arrest someone for saying something insensitive. I mean a really sad day. I hope the kid is let go, for what a waste of tax payer money. He didn't threaten he said something distasteful. And he didn't say it to millions, he said it to one.
But next, if you're on twitter and your in the public spotlight, either get off twitter or expect the worst in people. Don't expect that simply because you're in the spotlight that you won't be criticized or piss off your fans. Shit, professionals face this sort of crap every single day, let it go, ignore it.
Personally, my feeling is that each athlete is at the Olympics because they earn their spot (hopefully because of natural raw talent, not because of doping). The feats these athletes perform are phenomenal and the rest of us should be so dedicated to anything. Many don't get sponsorship or much financial help from the country they represent. I know that these men and women bust their asses training all the time. Their training is a 2nd full time job for them. I am personally impressed and humbled to be represented by any one of them in the Olympics, even the worst of them. Being on TV, being in the spotlight in front of billions and being scrutinized in every thing they do must be vast amounts of added pressure to perform their best. Heck I bet most/.'ers are too scared to come out of mom's basement just to see the sun. (j/k) In all seriousness, I wonder how many of those athletes are scared of big crowds or can't speak in public, but there we are with lights, cameras, and mics shoved in their faces demanding to know how they feel.
I don't need them to tell me, I can tell by how they start and finish their competitions. They are nervous and trying to focus on getting a task done and once it is done, they are relieved that it's done, and sometimes they are happy with how they performed and sometimes not so much. The entire point of the Olympics (IMHO) is to compete against people of your equal skills from all over the world, and a close finish between competitors means it was a great competition in which all athletes respect their opponents.
Hey, but what do I know, I'm still scare to stop being an introvert.
.... it really sucks and sets tension in the air that just never seems to go away.
I worked for a popular retail store during my young adult years (mid-20s) and had a colleague blatantly sexually harass me. My dress was business attire with skirts that were two inches below the knees, and was strictly adhered to, it was not how I dressed. He even went so far as to put something on a display computer that a customer who tested a print file was shocked and dismayed at what he picked up from the printer and handed to me. I was mortified and so embarrassed. I was humiliated in front of a potential customer all because this guy thought his actions were funny or cute or something like that. I promptly demanded him to "get his ass over to the machine and remove the information or I would re-format the hard-drive and have him explain it to management." That and several other incidents finally prompted me to speak up. When I noticed that one of our security officers was also a Part-time police officer, I asked him for advice. He stated that I could indeed press charges, but it would be best if I addressed the issue with Management. I did, we were both interviewed, I was reprimanded for swearing and he got a slap on the wrist. I felt like my concerns were ignored. I had proof in my hands and was basically told, tough crap kiddo.
In the end, he was not fired, and we were never scheduled on the same shift. Frankly, I was livid, and I never felt comfortable there. Ever since then I am very wary about what I say that might elicit some sort of unwanted response. I have worked with teams that are consistently made up of a 90% to 10% male to female ratio in all of my different jobs, Often I am the only female on the technical team. I have never treated any other male colleague as though he was that first guy. And I've been lucky so far that there has never been a situation to deal with like the first one I described. I am no prude, I can keep up with the rest of my male colleagues jokes and even keep them in check.
But the biggest thing to take from all this is that once there is clear and definitive sexual harassment that makes the recipient feel uncomfortable, nothing short of a termination will make the recipient feel safe. It's harsh, but so is the feeling that comes from being harassed.
I watch movies all the time via the Cable subscription channels and I rarely watch regular TV. But now I'm becoming very frustrated with all providers of movies whether it be streaming, paid channels or even NetFlix. I pay for 2 sets of premium channels a month and HD channels (limited #no.) for my entertainment, and it used to be that if I paid for the premium channels, any movies they are currently showing during a specified time frame I could watch on demand. Now, that's barely even available.
NetFlix was bothered me at first because I didn't like the idea of wasting $$ when I might not watch a movie in a month. Eventually it really took off and I really enjoyed it for the DVDs were sent to the house and there weren't late fees. It basically destroyed the Video stores. I can't find one anywhere anymore. When they offered streaming, WOW, awesome. But the ISP's have jumped all over that and the MPAA and everyone has to have their hand in the cookie jar and double dip too.
Cable providers tack on their own fees for everything and frankly cable prices are sky high for (in my opinion) not so great selections of programming content.
I hate going to the movie theater because movie prices are just too expensive in my eyes, and lets not talk concession, or about all the people who refuse to turn off their phones or leave their kids at home for R rated movies. I do still, but very very limited.
I'm frustrated that their is virtually no where I can go to peruse a video selection from outside my home and have an expansive selection to choose from. Best Buy, FYE have a large selection, to buy.
NetFlix has a varying selection. Sometimes content is available, sometimes it's not. DVDs are disappearing and Streaming is becoming the norm. And with everyone else killing it or tacking on their own fees, it's ridiculous. Augh.
I know old video stores were a pain in the butt, but at least they existed.
So What. Then you might not want to blame the movie, or the movie producers then. Go back to where it all started, go back to the comic books. And if you really want to throw blame, talk to the creator of the comic.
The simple fact it, the man, James E. Holmes, who made the decision to pull the trigger is the one to blame, period. Because James E. Holmes chose to associate with a FICTIONAL character, doesn't make the movie, the comic book or anyone else responsible.
The shooter was in early 20's, so we can't blame the parents. The shooter was more than old enough to own weapons. The shooter appears to have some training in use of such weapons.
While I'm horribly saddened for all those people who went out to enjoy a premier of an action packed movie.
For someone to kick open an exit door, clearly the individual had every motive and intent to just kill. This isn't because he saw the movie and it made him violent. He already had violent tendencies and cares little for human life.
I am not a gun owner, and have only recently looked into receiving proper gun training so I am familiar enough to truly respect the laws in place. We have laws in place, but we have this other thing called a Constitution, which is clearly designed to allow each person to enjoy their rights as a citizen of this country. The gun and canisters used were only tools that this individual used. Would we scream afoul of gun ownership if this guy had swords or throwing knives and killed people that way, and then some citizen who legally carried a concealed weapon stopped this guy with the concealed weapon? No, we'd be praising that person with the gun as a hero. Would we then start adding more law about knife ownership?
The fact is that people are unpredictable. And whenever you have that you will always have unpredictable results.
I do not mean to sound as if I don't care. I Do. But massacres have been happening for as long as humans have walked this planet. Before instant news, it would be something we'd learn later. And while it is still tragic, and I wish it never happened, it did.
Creating restrictive laws has never stopped someone whose intent is mass damage. Blaming a movie is just someone's way of trying to take the blame from the individual.
How many of us grew up to the 3 Stooges or the Little Rascals? Both of those TV shows had tons of violence in them. Kids would put poison in cakes or nails. The Stooges would ride on rockets that were fired. Of the millions who saw that stuff as kids, you don't see us going on rampages.
Lets actually blame the problem of the massacre on the person and not the crap that people will speculate caused the killer to kill.
But the sad reality for some unsuspecting young lady is that she may also be duped into having sex with anyone who is an Asshole but is not a hacker.
I've heard of many a non-hacker asshole who dupe unsuspecting young ladies. Charisma is what attracts these unsuspecting young ladies to assholes, not their hacking abilities.
I would simply ask for every email the Gov. has sent or received and then see if he's circumventing FOIA. If the only emails that come back are fluff crap or none at all then that would provide a pretty good indication of circumvention.
Grammar is important. When you are a young child and you go to school you learn grammar so you are capable of writing as an alternate form of communication. If you take grammar lightly and do not care what is written and why it should be correct, it impresses upon those around you that you hold no respect for the language you communicate to others. I've seen some wonderful examples in this stream of/. posts that point out how the context of a sentence may change when missing a comma.
Have you ever had to try to read a paragraph from a person where there is little to no capitalization, virtually no punctuation and misspelled words throughout the paragraph? I have had this unfortunate experience. It is terribly exhausting.
I have a sibling, who finished high school, who would have written my first paragraph this way. (See Below)
grammer is impotent when u r a yung child an you go too school u lern gramer so u ar capable of riting as an alternat form of comunicashun if you tak gramer litely and do no car whut is riten an y it shuld be correct it impreses upon thos around u tha u hold no respect for the languge you comunicate to others i've seens sum wunderful egzamples in this streem of/. posts that point out the contaxt of a sentance my change whn mising a comma
Age discrimination will hurt you. Your increasing wage needs will hurt you. But if you remain top of your game and up to date on new technology you'll remain employable.
I am guessing that the Wyndham was charging for "secure" access, but if they were only charging for access, then wouldn't that be a case of Buyer Beware?
It is still important for users to be wary of any network not their own personal or work network. Since you can't control the access point, don't assume the 3rd party is either.
Encrypt your info and think before you use another's internet access.
The entire purpose around user settings is to allow users to display what they want and to see what they want. So that means DON'T FUCK WITH MY SETTINGS. That means with every update don't check boxes that I didn't have checked before, don't force me to accept a change that gives me no way to say "No Thank You"
And the fact that Facebook was not prepared for the reaction it received is a bold-faced lie. If they didn't expect this reaction, it would not have be implemented so quietly. Facebook knew there would be controversy, again, thus the hush-hush.
On the other hand, Facebook is free to use, so it is in Facebook's interest to change the email address extension. If you were paying for your Facebook account do you really think there would be as many people on the site? Nope. So sadly, you're getting what your pay for, no fees, no freedom no privacy.
I grew up in a different time, a time when children of all ages had expectation of behavior and responsibility handed to them at a very early age, and since I've become an adult I've watched the population coddle children more and more. I remember my uncle literally bubble wrapping the edges of tables and furniture so his little girl would not take a bump to the head. I mean really, he bubble wrapped shit.
If children don't learn right away how to protect themselves they do become rather weak, and the miss very important lessons. Gone are the days when a child could take a BB gun and shoot cans in the back yard. Gone are the days when children knew not to touch a hot stove because they've already learned that lesson. Gone are the days when children would be given homework in public schools an were expected to do more than 5 mins of homework a day. Gone are the days when we expected children to learn a subject well enough that they could write an essay about their knowledge.
Our children are poor in math, poor in reading, poor in data retention, poor in knowing right from wrong. Our children don't know common sense, how can they when an education system has a zero tolerance foundation. What happened to having the ability to stand up for ones convictions and not being suspended or expelled for it.
We American adults only have ourselves to blame. We've coddled the world. But this stems back to our litigious society. We put warning labels on the most ridiculous thing because some child received a Darwin award for drowning in a bucket, or some lady wins 8 million dollars because McDonald's didn't put a warning label on the coffee cup "Caution contents are very hot". We sue if someone wrongs us, even if we failed to read directions, or to use some sound judgment.
I'm not saying all litigation is wrong, just the frivolous ones. I'm not saying some safeguards are needed, but "coffee is hot" is a bit too much. I'm not saying that all kids won't struggle to learn, most will, and it's those struggles (which sometimes end with injury or death) that we learn from the most.
Allow violence on TV. Allow kids to be kids. Stop bubble wrapping our next generations.
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Well, from all I've heard, the US jury really dropped the ball on following instructions in the US trial, it sounds like Japanese jurors looked at things differently.
This trial was a company to company trial on some very technical information. If the jury members were not knowledgeable in the are of Patent law and the technology in the lawsuit, then they were not a suitable jury. They were not a jury of equal peers. I don't necessarily want to see this go to trial again, but when it's reported that one person swayed the jury so quickly in about 300 different points something has to scream afoul.
I am not knowledgeable on Patent law, but I do know enough ask questions. My guess is that much of the jury was happy to have someone so knowledgeable in the jury pool, and they were all too happy to be done this this trial. To breeze through so much so quickly and to have unanimous decisions should have raised more then the eyebrows of the media, the judge should have cocked her brow in shock.
First smack him upside his head. He really needs it.
Have him talk to his bank(s) immediately, freeze his accounts.
Next have him get a hold of every credit reporting agency and tell them to put a stop on all Credit checks immediately and inform them that he does not wish to have unsolicited credit card applications sent to him. This will prevent a scammer from opening a new credit card in his name in the future.
Call all of his Credit card companies and have holds put on his cards.
Go to SSN office immediately and change his SSN, and explain what happened.
Speak with every credit card company he's ever dealt with, and tell them to change his credit card number, explaining Fraud and report to them the new
SSN if they have to have it.
Talk to someone for each stock trading account he holds.
Talk to a credit lawyer about how to minimize further damage.
Get a shredder to shred all documents with SSN or Credit card companies offering credit.
Once you've helped him through all that, smack him upside his head again for good measure.
You have a very busy year ahead of you to help your father get through this crap.
Good Luck
Just play some recording telling the children that they should wake up and use the restroom when they feel the need to go potty.
I'm sorry but we've already been sold this bill of goods by the companies themselves. They have stated on more than one occasion that they're increasing their cost to the customers to help build infrastructure. Now some (may most) is to help solidify the existing infrastructure, we've been told that it's also for the rural expansion. Those increased costs are also taxed, so in essence, we're already taxed for the rural expansion. Heck some of our regular phone bill taxes are supposed to help support the internet expansion.
Once again, the middle class customer is paying the bill for someone else just because they live in a rural area. /sigh
Corellation != Causation.
First, drivers have been discracted since the first time a person got behind the wheel. When cars were first invented, anyone with cash to buy one could drive one, and I'm sure plenty were injured or killed.
So somewhere down the line, as automotives became more powerful regulations were added to help provide a set of expected standards (road ettiquete you could say). Eventually this changed to proof of knowledge of basic skills in driving.
Long before cellphones there was car radios and cigarettes. Millions of drivers would be driving one-handed while fiddling with the radio, using the other to flick ashes, hold the smoke stick or flipping the car lighter to light the cancer stick. People would accidentally drop their lighters, lit cigarettes, or hot ashes on themselves. Once drive-through restaurants were opened up, now people were eating with both hands and driving with their knees, sometimes fiddling with the radio and then lighting cigarettes.
Books and news papers, I've seen it first hand in DC traffic a man had his entire work desk spread out in his front seat, News paper open wide on the stearing wheel and a laptop on the dash while DRIVING on I-95 in rush hour.
Technology of Pagers and early cell phones....people would look at pagers pick up cell phones and make calls.
Lets not forget all those pimped out cars and trucks that bounce or shake and the music so loud that 5 cars around the Bass box on wheels would have their windows rattle.
Soon we have game boys, ipads, iphones, androids, ipads...
We bitch incessantly about distracted driving, but long long ago, a precedent was set with cars and their toys.
Now lets flip the switch to the other aspect. Traffic lights, and traffic laws. Ever notice that yellow lights are shorter in some areas than others and in some locations vary by time of day. Ever notice how landscaping to make a city look nicer blocks the view of the road from drivers. Ever notice how there are less and less officers on the road enforcing the small things. Ever notice how often the courts minorly punish people who drink and drive, but if you're sober and you're distracted by any number of things listed above you're criminalized. Ever notice how in areas where there is less public transportation made available you have a higher rate of auto accidents.
Ever notice how every new thing added to slow traffic down (speed bumps / humps, calming circles, etc) just seem to add more challenges to driving. Ever notice how speed limits are not consistent from city to city or even on the same damn street in the same city. Ever watch how the DMV treats cheaters? I have, they don't care, they don't fail them or kick them out.
Bad drivers are everywhere, and it's not because of cell phones. Young and old.
Driving school is a joke when all it does is spout back to you information in a book. Fix driving school to actually train people how to drive, put them in simulators which might help them learn how to handle a situation better.
The whole system of driving is flawed from both a regulation perspective an drivers perspective. Cell phones are a distraction, but a person who talks on the cell phone is NOT more likely to be a bad driver.
That would be a wonderfully mean practical joke to play on someone.
We've had those plants growing in my family's garden for nearly 50 years. They are really neat.
Uncouth, sure, but malicious? It's a sad day when we arrest someone for saying something insensitive. I mean a really sad day. I hope the kid is let go, for what a waste of tax payer money. He didn't threaten he said something distasteful. And he didn't say it to millions, he said it to one.
But next, if you're on twitter and your in the public spotlight, either get off twitter or expect the worst in people. Don't expect that simply because you're in the spotlight that you won't be criticized or piss off your fans. Shit, professionals face this sort of crap every single day, let it go, ignore it.
Personally, my feeling is that each athlete is at the Olympics because they earn their spot (hopefully because of natural raw talent, not because of doping). The feats these athletes perform are phenomenal and the rest of us should be so dedicated to anything. Many don't get sponsorship or much financial help from the country they represent. I know that these men and women bust their asses training all the time. Their training is a 2nd full time job for them. I am personally impressed and humbled to be represented by any one of them in the Olympics, even the worst of them. Being on TV, being in the spotlight in front of billions and being scrutinized in every thing they do must be vast amounts of added pressure to perform their best. Heck I bet most /.'ers are too scared to come out of mom's basement just to see the sun. (j/k) In all seriousness, I wonder how many of those athletes are scared of big crowds or can't speak in public, but there we are with lights, cameras, and mics shoved in their faces demanding to know how they feel.
I don't need them to tell me, I can tell by how they start and finish their competitions. They are nervous and trying to focus on getting a task done and once it is done, they are relieved that it's done, and sometimes they are happy with how they performed and sometimes not so much. The entire point of the Olympics (IMHO) is to compete against people of your equal skills from all over the world, and a close finish between competitors means it was a great competition in which all athletes respect their opponents.
Hey, but what do I know, I'm still scare to stop being an introvert.
.... it really sucks and sets tension in the air that just never seems to go away.
I worked for a popular retail store during my young adult years (mid-20s) and had a colleague blatantly sexually harass me. My dress was business attire with skirts that were two inches below the knees, and was strictly adhered to, it was not how I dressed. He even went so far as to put something on a display computer that a customer who tested a print file was shocked and dismayed at what he picked up from the printer and handed to me. I was mortified and so embarrassed. I was humiliated in front of a potential customer all because this guy thought his actions were funny or cute or something like that. I promptly demanded him to "get his ass over to the machine and remove the information or I would re-format the hard-drive and have him explain it to management." That and several other incidents finally prompted me to speak up. When I noticed that one of our security officers was also a Part-time police officer, I asked him for advice. He stated that I could indeed press charges, but it would be best if I addressed the issue with Management. I did, we were both interviewed, I was reprimanded for swearing and he got a slap on the wrist. I felt like my concerns were ignored. I had proof in my hands and was basically told, tough crap kiddo.
In the end, he was not fired, and we were never scheduled on the same shift. Frankly, I was livid, and I never felt comfortable there. Ever since then I am very wary about what I say that might elicit some sort of unwanted response. I have worked with teams that are consistently made up of a 90% to 10% male to female ratio in all of my different jobs, Often I am the only female on the technical team. I have never treated any other male colleague as though he was that first guy. And I've been lucky so far that there has never been a situation to deal with like the first one I described. I am no prude, I can keep up with the rest of my male colleagues jokes and even keep them in check.
But the biggest thing to take from all this is that once there is clear and definitive sexual harassment that makes the recipient feel uncomfortable, nothing short of a termination will make the recipient feel safe. It's harsh, but so is the feeling that comes from being harassed.
I watch movies all the time via the Cable subscription channels and I rarely watch regular TV. But now I'm becoming very frustrated with all providers of movies whether it be streaming, paid channels or even NetFlix. I pay for 2 sets of premium channels a month and HD channels (limited #no.) for my entertainment, and it used to be that if I paid for the premium channels, any movies they are currently showing during a specified time frame I could watch on demand. Now, that's barely even available.
NetFlix was bothered me at first because I didn't like the idea of wasting $$ when I might not watch a movie in a month. Eventually it really took off and I really enjoyed it for the DVDs were sent to the house and there weren't late fees. It basically destroyed the Video stores. I can't find one anywhere anymore. When they offered streaming, WOW, awesome. But the ISP's have jumped all over that and the MPAA and everyone has to have their hand in the cookie jar and double dip too.
Cable providers tack on their own fees for everything and frankly cable prices are sky high for (in my opinion) not so great selections of programming content.
I hate going to the movie theater because movie prices are just too expensive in my eyes, and lets not talk concession, or about all the people who refuse to turn off their phones or leave their kids at home for R rated movies. I do still, but very very limited.
I'm frustrated that their is virtually no where I can go to peruse a video selection from outside my home and have an expansive selection to choose from. Best Buy, FYE have a large selection, to buy.
NetFlix has a varying selection. Sometimes content is available, sometimes it's not. DVDs are disappearing and Streaming is becoming the norm. And with everyone else killing it or tacking on their own fees, it's ridiculous. Augh.
I know old video stores were a pain in the butt, but at least they existed.
So What. Then you might not want to blame the movie, or the movie producers then. Go back to where it all started, go back to the comic books. And if you really want to throw blame, talk to the creator of the comic.
The simple fact it, the man, James E. Holmes, who made the decision to pull the trigger is the one to blame, period. Because James E. Holmes chose to associate with a FICTIONAL character, doesn't make the movie, the comic book or anyone else responsible.
The shooter was in early 20's, so we can't blame the parents.
The shooter was more than old enough to own weapons.
The shooter appears to have some training in use of such weapons.
While I'm horribly saddened for all those people who went out to enjoy a premier of an action packed movie.
For someone to kick open an exit door, clearly the individual had every motive and intent to just kill. This isn't because he saw the movie and it made him violent. He already had violent tendencies and cares little for human life.
I am not a gun owner, and have only recently looked into receiving proper gun training so I am familiar enough to truly respect the laws in place. We have laws in place, but we have this other thing called a Constitution, which is clearly designed to allow each person to enjoy their rights as a citizen of this country. The gun and canisters used were only tools that this individual used. Would we scream afoul of gun ownership if this guy had swords or throwing knives and killed people that way, and then some citizen who legally carried a concealed weapon stopped this guy with the concealed weapon? No, we'd be praising that person with the gun as a hero. Would we then start adding more law about knife ownership?
The fact is that people are unpredictable. And whenever you have that you will always have unpredictable results.
I do not mean to sound as if I don't care. I Do. But massacres have been happening for as long as humans have walked this planet. Before instant news, it would be something we'd learn later. And while it is still tragic, and I wish it never happened, it did.
Creating restrictive laws has never stopped someone whose intent is mass damage. Blaming a movie is just someone's way of trying to take the blame from the individual.
How many of us grew up to the 3 Stooges or the Little Rascals? Both of those TV shows had tons of violence in them. Kids would put poison in cakes or nails. The Stooges would ride on rockets that were fired. Of the millions who saw that stuff as kids, you don't see us going on rampages.
Lets actually blame the problem of the massacre on the person and not the crap that people will speculate caused the killer to kill.
But the sad reality for some unsuspecting young lady is that she may also be duped into having sex with anyone who is an Asshole but is not a hacker.
I've heard of many a non-hacker asshole who dupe unsuspecting young ladies. Charisma is what attracts these unsuspecting young ladies to assholes, not their hacking abilities.
I would simply ask for every email the Gov. has sent or received and then see if he's circumventing FOIA. If the only emails that come back are fluff crap or none at all then that would provide a pretty good indication of circumvention.
You should not have been modded down for this in my opinion. It's a valid response.
Grammar is important. When you are a young child and you go to school you learn grammar so you are capable of writing as an alternate form of communication. If you take grammar lightly and do not care what is written and why it should be correct, it impresses upon those around you that you hold no respect for the language you communicate to others. I've seen some wonderful examples in this stream of /. posts that point out how the context of a sentence may change when missing a comma.
Have you ever had to try to read a paragraph from a person where there is little to no capitalization, virtually no punctuation and misspelled words throughout the paragraph? I have had this unfortunate experience. It is terribly exhausting.
I have a sibling, who finished high school, who would have written my first paragraph this way. (See Below)
grammer is impotent when u r a yung child an you go too school u lern gramer so u ar capable of riting as an alternat form of comunicashun if you tak gramer litely and do no car whut is riten an y it shuld be correct it impreses upon thos around u tha u hold no respect for the languge you comunicate to others i've seens sum wunderful egzamples in this streem of /. posts that point out the contaxt of a sentance my change whn mising a comma
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/08/apple_excommunicates_charlie_miller/
Here is a link to back up your post.
Age discrimination will hurt you. Your increasing wage needs will hurt you. But if you remain top of your game and up to date on new technology you'll remain employable.
How would it connect?
I am guessing that the Wyndham was charging for "secure" access, but if they were only charging for access, then wouldn't that be a case of Buyer Beware?
It is still important for users to be wary of any network not their own personal or work network. Since you can't control the access point, don't assume the 3rd party is either.
Encrypt your info and think before you use another's internet access.
The entire purpose around user settings is to allow users to display what they want and to see what they want. So that means DON'T FUCK WITH MY SETTINGS. That means with every update don't check boxes that I didn't have checked before, don't force me to accept a change that gives me no way to say "No Thank You"
And the fact that Facebook was not prepared for the reaction it received is a bold-faced lie. If they didn't expect this reaction, it would not have be implemented so quietly. Facebook knew there would be controversy, again, thus the hush-hush.
On the other hand, Facebook is free to use, so it is in Facebook's interest to change the email address extension. If you were paying for your Facebook account do you really think there would be as many people on the site? Nope. So sadly, you're getting what your pay for, no fees, no freedom no privacy.
If you don't like the TOS, leave Facebook.
Yes a turtle that has strong jumping legs and a long sticky tongue.
I grew up in a different time, a time when children of all ages had expectation of behavior and responsibility handed to them at a very early age, and since I've become an adult I've watched the population coddle children more and more. I remember my uncle literally bubble wrapping the edges of tables and furniture so his little girl would not take a bump to the head. I mean really, he bubble wrapped shit.
If children don't learn right away how to protect themselves they do become rather weak, and the miss very important lessons. Gone are the days when a child could take a BB gun and shoot cans in the back yard. Gone are the days when children knew not to touch a hot stove because they've already learned that lesson. Gone are the days when children would be given homework in public schools an were expected to do more than 5 mins of homework a day. Gone are the days when we expected children to learn a subject well enough that they could write an essay about their knowledge.
Our children are poor in math, poor in reading, poor in data retention, poor in knowing right from wrong. Our children don't know common sense, how can they when an education system has a zero tolerance foundation. What happened to having the ability to stand up for ones convictions and not being suspended or expelled for it.
We American adults only have ourselves to blame. We've coddled the world. But this stems back to our litigious society. We put warning labels on the most ridiculous thing because some child received a Darwin award for drowning in a bucket, or some lady wins 8 million dollars because McDonald's didn't put a warning label on the coffee cup "Caution contents are very hot". We sue if someone wrongs us, even if we failed to read directions, or to use some sound judgment.
I'm not saying all litigation is wrong, just the frivolous ones. I'm not saying some safeguards are needed, but "coffee is hot" is a bit too much. I'm not saying that all kids won't struggle to learn, most will, and it's those struggles (which sometimes end with injury or death) that we learn from the most.
Allow violence on TV. Allow kids to be kids. Stop bubble wrapping our next generations.
http://www.bis.doc.gov/licensing/bis_reexport_controls.pdf
Are there any special restrictions I should know about?
You may not reexport an item subject to the EAR to a party whose export privileges
have been denied by BIS. Information on parties subject to denial orders is
provided on the BIS Web site at www.bis.doc.gov.
Guidance to the Commerce Department’s Reexport Controls
5
Please note that U.S. persons may be subject to additional restrictions under the
EAR. See section 744.6 of the EAR. U.S. persons may also be subject to restrictions
under other U.S. Government regulations, such as those issued by the Office of
Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury or other U.S.
Government departments or agencies.
Why should you comply with reexport license requirements?
The Department of Commerce has enforcement and protective measures available
to it to ensure that recipients of items subject to the EAR comply with the reexport
license requirements of the EAR. If the Department of Commerce determines that
you have not complied with these requirements and restrictions, it may institute
administrative enforcement proceedings, resulting in the possible imposition of civil
penalties and/or denial of your eligibility to receive U.S. exports (part 764 of the
EAR).
Where to apply for a reexport license?
If your reexport requires a license and is not eligible for a License Exception, you
may apply for a reexport license electronically through the Simplified Network
Application Process (SNAP). You may find the basic information on the SNAP
program on the BIS Web site at www.bis.doc.gov. If you have not submitted an
application electronically before, you must first complete a “PIN” request package.