Somebody claimed my link didn't provide the information. (All you had to do was click on "engine problems".)
Well here's literally dozens of links about the engines dying prematurely, and Toyota refusing the replace them (even though they were under warranty), thus becoming part of a class-action lawsuit, and being forced to reimburse customers for the ~$6000 they spent putting a new engine in a 1 or 2 year old car. http://www.bing.com/search?q=toyota+engine+sludging
The fire in the theater argument was used by the Supreme Court to justify arresting anti-World War 1 protestors. In other words suppression of the 1st amendment. One of the dissenting justices said the comparison was invalid:
- An anti-war protestor is the equivalent of a man standing OUTSIDE a theater and warning people not to go, because there's a fire and they could be killed. i.e. It is a form of protected speech, and the man should not be jailed.
But of course neither the President nor the Congress nor the Supreme Court wanted to hear that. They just wanted the anti-war protesters to be shutup, and damn the first amendment. (Kinda like our previous ten years.)
>>>Obama is going to declare himself dictator over the United States and rule for the next forty years.
You should hear the crap coming out of left-wing talk radio. It's just as bad. Example: Thom Hartmann. I can't believe the ridiculous things he says about republicans. He would have us believe the Repubs are the American version of Nazis (before the killing started).
As for FOX, I don't know what it's like this year, but in the years 2008, 09, 10 the other channels, during their 6 or 6:30 news programs, showed a 70% favorable bias for Obama/democrats but only 38% favorable for McCain/republicans. FOX was the only 6 o'clock program that was semi-balanced (38% for Obama/Dems, 36% for McCain/Reps). So the other channels you seem to love so much are the ones showing real bias in their reporting.
Where FOX falls down is to allow all those conservative commentators like Hannity, Beck, and O'Reilly. They really should try to find more balance (maybe include the previously-mentioned Thom Hartmann). I've given-up on all of these defense corporation-controlled channels, and just watch France24 or RT (mostly rt).
In the sentence "That's how long it should be - one generation." what part of the word SHOULD did you not understand? (Clearly I was stating my opinion that copyrights should be no longer than 20 years.)
During WW2 the Congress had declared a war, so different laws apply (such as keeping secrets crucial to the war). But we are currently in a peacetime state. There's no reason to keep secrets from the people..... a democracy can no more function w/o full disclosure, than a stock market can function if the corporations don't publish financial statements.
Carrying a gun doesn't make you a nutcase. Given how many get killed, raped, or assaulted, it is only logical to carry a gun or stunner.
As for your claim that he's whining "hw has no real work to do" please provide a link. Otherwise I have to reject your claim as having no basis.
I also have to reject your claim that he deserves death threats -- for what reason? Obeying the law??? I don't benerally listen to people who advocate law-breaking with falsified Visas. That makes you a criminal.
"Classified" material that never should have been classified, but instead was trying to cover-up military blunders. Example: The whereabouts of the journalists who were killed. The military said "We don't know" to the poor family members, but they knew all along it was a friendly fire incident.
Other examples: Covering-up the shootings of kids and torture of POWs. I'm glad Manning and other wikileaks persons are not "just following orders" while military/war crimes are being committed. We the People deserve to know what is actually happening.
Speaking of "whistleblowing" there's a law making the rounds through Congress that would make it illegal. If you are a government or corporate employee, you can only blow your whistle to internal "mediators". And if you get fired, you're not allowed to tell anyone why you were fired.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised given Congresses' other recent actions (mandatory inurance purchase, the Protect IP Act, U.S.A. P.A.T.R.I.O.T. A.C.T., NDAA passage).
Don't censor free speech. The adult citizens should be intelligent enough to realize the rumors are just lies, and develop skepticism about the things they read.
The Java language took time and effort to develop, so the original author may be granted (by the government) a monopoly over his creation for 20 years. Then it falls into public domain.
Where did the 20 years come from? That's how long it should be - one generation.
Actually Canada is less free than the U.S. in many respects. I'm too lazy to dig-up the details, so I'll just pull it out of my memory, from when I read the articles 2 years ago.
There was an author wrote a book that he considered inoffensive but a Muslim priest filed a charge anyway. No big deal; it's protected as free speech right? Nope. He found himself drug into the Canadian court for charges of hate speech. They did eventually let him go, but not until he had wasted half-a-decade and nearly $100,000 fighting the charges. LINK - http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/item_6dD0aACtm0IHKpZ76wqqaM
Also PEI? You won't find much use for your college degree there. That's a farming state... I mean province. They have about as much electronic industry as Maine.
I use the "allow second-level domains" (or whatever it's called) on NoScript. For example: news.slashdot.org. That eliminates a lot of headaches but still blocks dangerous sites filled with viral-scripting.
I also use the free AVG which includes a Firefox plugin to filter-out anything it considers bad.
Well maybe not "years" but since Opera 10 came out. The Javascript operates normally, but if you turn-on the Turbo mode, Opera does not load any flash content but just displays a placeholder until you click it.
That's a nice way to avoid loading a lot of ads, or embedded youtube videos (thus speeding-up browsing). Opera also has a convenient "images off/on" toggle at the bottom, which I use on slow connections like Dialup or cellphone.
To the person below: FOX, NBC, etc are trying to protect the local stations and cable channels by discouraging Hulu-watching. They want you to watch the show live and thereby support the traditional TV channel.
To the person above: I don't watch FOX anymore but I used to watch Fringe, House, Dollhouse, and Terminator on FOX. The 8 day delay to release these shows to Hulu was an annoyance.
And the ~30 day delay for Syfy is an annoyance too, but at least it's free. I don't have to pay for cable.
Well well. Looks like Toyota has fanboys just like the Applebots or Googlefans. I do not comprehend people who put their love in a company..... you can't change facts. Toyota was SUED in a class-action lawsuit by several states and the U.S. government for selling engines that DIED prematurely. I apologize if that hurts your love for an inanimate object, but the fact is: Toyota built bad engines & then screwed the customers by voiding the warranties. If Microsoft did something like that you would be all over them for making shit products that died after only 1-2 years.
I know the cable channels charge ~75 cents each (more for Disney/ESPN; less for news channels like CNN) but the local stations have always been just 1-2 pennies each.
Not always. Some networks hold their shows for 8 days (FOX) or even as long as a month (NBC's Syfy). It's pretty annoying for those of us who use Hulu like a VCR to see shows we missed.
If your read the end of the article, what Aereo is doing may be legal.
QUOTE: "The idea is to rely, in part, on a 2008 federal appeals court ruling known as Cablevision. That ruling, which the Supreme Court declined to review, said Cablevision Systemsâ(TM) cloud-based DVR service was legal only because each user who ordered Cablevision to make a copy of last Thursdayâ(TM)s Seinfeld got their own individual copy in their own folder in the companyâ(TM)s data center.
"Hollywood claimed Cablevisionâ(TM)s service directly infringed its exclusive rights to both reproduce and to publicly perform their copyrighted works. In a highly complex and nuanced ruling, the court said individual consumers, not Cablevision, were copying and acquiring the material at their own discretion, which amounted to fair use.
"That leaves some hope for Aereo. And the companyâ(TM)s got another thing going for it â" a deep-pocketed investor who appears willing to fund an expensive and lengthy court fight. Barry Diller, the chairman of internet company IAC/InterActiveCorp, has invested $20.5 million of the companyâ(TM)s money in Aereo. Ironically, Diller founded Fox Broadcasting in 1986, which is one of the plaintiffâ(TM)s suing Aereo."
Over the years the FCC has granted to local stations the right to charge for their product. Cable companies pay about 1 cent per station (per household)* for the rights to rebroadcast local stations over their wires. This "Aereo" service may have to abide by the same rules.
* *Yet another reason I use a CM4228 antenna; I get the locals free without charge.
As they've grown to the world's largest car company, their quality has plummeted: The worst was when they had engines that failed after just ~25,000 miles and Toyota refused to replace them. They blamed the customers instead and voided the warranty (how convenient). Right now I would no more buy a Toyota than I would buy a GM car or Yugo.
>>>Not when their idiotic "opinions" actually lead to the deaths of innocent people
You have provided zero proof that unvaccinated children made other people die. Your argument is as fallacious as saying, "If you don't support abortion, then you are helping kill innocent women."
>>>it wasn't obvious that Romney would beat Santorum
Yeah it was. Santorum was not on the ballot in 3 states, and had already lost the first ~10 states (except Iowa). It was statistically impossible for him to get enough delegates to win.
>>>Don't forget that Santorum was governor of Pennsylvania, too.
No he was a Senator. And Pennsylvania fired him, once they discovered how corrupt he was. (Ditto Senator Specter.)
>>>. The US has managed to catch up in insanity much, much faster.
Not true. Today the U.S. enjoys MORE freedom of (and from) religion than ever before. Most states (until ~1850) had an official religion which their citizens were required to support through taxation.
Today we have no such tyranny... so we are now MORE free than were the 1st and 2nd generation of the Founding Fathers.
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Somebody claimed my link didn't provide the information. (All you had to do was click on "engine problems".)
Well here's literally dozens of links about the engines dying prematurely, and Toyota refusing the replace them (even though they were under warranty), thus becoming part of a class-action lawsuit, and being forced to reimburse customers for the ~$6000 they spent putting a new engine in a 1 or 2 year old car. http://www.bing.com/search?q=toyota+engine+sludging
The fire in the theater argument was used by the Supreme Court to justify arresting anti-World War 1 protestors. In other words suppression of the 1st amendment. One of the dissenting justices said the comparison was invalid:
- An anti-war protestor is the equivalent of a man standing OUTSIDE a theater and warning people not to go, because there's a fire and they could be killed. i.e. It is a form of protected speech, and the man should not be jailed.
But of course neither the President nor the Congress nor the Supreme Court wanted to hear that. They just wanted the anti-war protesters to be shutup, and damn the first amendment. (Kinda like our previous ten years.)
>>>Obama is going to declare himself dictator over the United States and rule for the next forty years.
You should hear the crap coming out of left-wing talk radio. It's just as bad. Example: Thom Hartmann. I can't believe the ridiculous things he says about republicans. He would have us believe the Repubs are the American version of Nazis (before the killing started).
As for FOX, I don't know what it's like this year, but in the years 2008, 09, 10 the other channels, during their 6 or 6:30 news programs, showed a 70% favorable bias for Obama/democrats but only 38% favorable for McCain/republicans. FOX was the only 6 o'clock program that was semi-balanced (38% for Obama/Dems, 36% for McCain/Reps). So the other channels you seem to love so much are the ones showing real bias in their reporting.
Where FOX falls down is to allow all those conservative commentators like Hannity, Beck, and O'Reilly. They really should try to find more balance (maybe include the previously-mentioned Thom Hartmann). I've given-up on all of these defense corporation-controlled channels, and just watch France24 or RT (mostly rt).
In the sentence "That's how long it should be - one generation." what part of the word SHOULD did you not understand? (Clearly I was stating my opinion that copyrights should be no longer than 20 years.)
During WW2 the Congress had declared a war, so different laws apply (such as keeping secrets crucial to the war). But we are currently in a peacetime state. There's no reason to keep secrets from the people..... a democracy can no more function w/o full disclosure, than a stock market can function if the corporations don't publish financial statements.
Carrying a gun doesn't make you a nutcase. Given how many get killed, raped, or assaulted, it is only logical to carry a gun or stunner.
As for your claim that he's whining "hw has no real work to do" please provide a link. Otherwise I have to reject your claim as having no basis.
I also have to reject your claim that he deserves death threats -- for what reason? Obeying the law??? I don't benerally listen to people who advocate law-breaking with falsified Visas. That makes you a criminal.
>>>Given the amount that I've personally spent on legal immigration, this pisses me off a little bit.
Most legal immigrants feel exactly the same. Oftentimes the legal immigrants are the strongest supporters of blocking the illegals from coming in.
"Classified" material that never should have been classified, but instead was trying to cover-up military blunders. Example: The whereabouts of the journalists who were killed. The military said "We don't know" to the poor family members, but they knew all along it was a friendly fire incident.
Other examples: Covering-up the shootings of kids and torture of POWs. I'm glad Manning and other wikileaks persons are not "just following orders" while military/war crimes are being committed. We the People deserve to know what is actually happening.
Speaking of "whistleblowing" there's a law making the rounds through Congress that would make it illegal. If you are a government or corporate employee, you can only blow your whistle to internal "mediators". And if you get fired, you're not allowed to tell anyone why you were fired.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised given Congresses' other recent actions (mandatory inurance purchase, the Protect IP Act, U.S.A. P.A.T.R.I.O.T. A.C.T., NDAA passage).
Don't censor free speech. The adult citizens should be intelligent enough to realize the rumors are just lies, and develop skepticism about the things they read.
They are blocking free speech by users. Surely there must be some "twinge" in their brains that says, "This is wrong to take down people's posts."
I find it a bit disturbing that EU and US leaders are saying China is a good model to follow.
The Java language took time and effort to develop, so the original author may be granted (by the government) a monopoly over his creation for 20 years. Then it falls into public domain.
Where did the 20 years come from?
That's how long it should be - one generation.
Actually Canada is less free than the U.S. in many respects. I'm too lazy to dig-up the details, so I'll just pull it out of my memory, from when I read the articles 2 years ago.
There was an author wrote a book that he considered inoffensive but a Muslim priest filed a charge anyway. No big deal; it's protected as free speech right? Nope. He found himself drug into the Canadian court for charges of hate speech. They did eventually let him go, but not until he had wasted half-a-decade and nearly $100,000 fighting the charges. LINK - http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/item_6dD0aACtm0IHKpZ76wqqaM
Also PEI? You won't find much use for your college degree there. That's a farming state... I mean province. They have about as much electronic industry as Maine.
I use the "allow second-level domains" (or whatever it's called) on NoScript. For example: news.slashdot.org. That eliminates a lot of headaches but still blocks dangerous sites filled with viral-scripting.
I also use the free AVG which includes a Firefox plugin to filter-out anything it considers bad.
Well maybe not "years" but since Opera 10 came out. The Javascript operates normally, but if you turn-on the Turbo mode, Opera does not load any flash content but just displays a placeholder until you click it.
That's a nice way to avoid loading a lot of ads, or embedded youtube videos (thus speeding-up browsing). Opera also has a convenient "images off/on" toggle at the bottom, which I use on slow connections like Dialup or cellphone.
To the person below: FOX, NBC, etc are trying to protect the local stations and cable channels by discouraging Hulu-watching. They want you to watch the show live and thereby support the traditional TV channel.
To the person above: I don't watch FOX anymore but I used to watch Fringe, House, Dollhouse, and Terminator on FOX. The 8 day delay to release these shows to Hulu was an annoyance.
And the ~30 day delay for Syfy is an annoyance too,
but at least it's free. I don't have to pay for cable.
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Well well. Looks like Toyota has fanboys just like the Applebots or Googlefans. I do not comprehend people who put their love in a company..... you can't change facts. Toyota was SUED in a class-action lawsuit by several states and the U.S. government for selling engines that DIED prematurely. I apologize if that hurts your love for an inanimate object, but the fact is: Toyota built bad engines & then screwed the customers by voiding the warranties. If Microsoft did something like that you would be all over them for making shit products that died after only 1-2 years.
So how much is it?
I know the cable channels charge ~75 cents each (more for Disney/ESPN; less for news channels like CNN) but the local stations have always been just 1-2 pennies each.
Not always. Some networks hold their shows for 8 days (FOX) or even as long as a month (NBC's Syfy). It's pretty annoying for those of us who use Hulu like a VCR to see shows we missed.
If your read the end of the article, what Aereo is doing may be legal.
QUOTE: "The idea is to rely, in part, on a 2008 federal appeals court ruling known as Cablevision. That ruling, which the Supreme Court declined to review, said Cablevision Systemsâ(TM) cloud-based DVR service was legal only because each user who ordered Cablevision to make a copy of last Thursdayâ(TM)s Seinfeld got their own individual copy in their own folder in the companyâ(TM)s data center.
"Hollywood claimed Cablevisionâ(TM)s service directly infringed its exclusive rights to both reproduce and to publicly perform their copyrighted works. In a highly complex and nuanced ruling, the court said individual consumers, not Cablevision, were copying and acquiring the material at their own discretion, which amounted to fair use.
"That leaves some hope for Aereo. And the companyâ(TM)s got another thing going for it â" a deep-pocketed investor who appears willing to fund an expensive and lengthy court fight. Barry Diller, the chairman of internet company IAC/InterActiveCorp, has invested $20.5 million of the companyâ(TM)s money in Aereo. Ironically, Diller founded Fox Broadcasting in 1986, which is one of the plaintiffâ(TM)s suing Aereo."
Over the years the FCC has granted to local stations the right to charge for their product. Cable companies pay about 1 cent per station (per household)* for the rights to rebroadcast local stations over their wires. This "Aereo" service may have to abide by the same rules.
*
*Yet another reason I use a CM4228 antenna; I get the locals free without charge.
As they've grown to the world's largest car company, their quality has plummeted: The worst was when they had engines that failed after just ~25,000 miles and Toyota refused to replace them. They blamed the customers instead and voided the warranty (how convenient). Right now I would no more buy a Toyota than I would buy a GM car or Yugo.
LINK - http://www.consumeraffairs.com/automotive/toyota.htm
>>>Not when their idiotic "opinions" actually lead to the deaths of innocent people
You have provided zero proof that unvaccinated children made other people die. Your argument is as fallacious as saying, "If you don't support abortion, then you are helping kill innocent women."
>>>it wasn't obvious that Romney would beat Santorum
Yeah it was. Santorum was not on the ballot in 3 states, and had already lost the first ~10 states (except Iowa). It was statistically impossible for him to get enough delegates to win.
>>>Don't forget that Santorum was governor of Pennsylvania, too.
No he was a Senator.
And Pennsylvania fired him, once they discovered how corrupt he was. (Ditto Senator Specter.)
>>>. The US has managed to catch up in insanity much, much faster.
Not true. Today the U.S. enjoys MORE freedom of (and from) religion than ever before. Most states (until ~1850) had an official religion which their citizens were required to support through taxation.
Today we have no such tyranny... so we are now MORE free than were the 1st and 2nd generation of the Founding Fathers.