On numerous occasions when being hauled into court by the FTC he has settled and "promised" to not do this type of shit again.
Several times the massive fine that the FTC wanted was suspended, provided he obided by the settlement agreement.
I would really expect that the justice department would have used these failures to get an even longer sentence.
He still owes myspace millions after he got sued by them and lost
So while you are technically correct in that this is the first time he is facing criminal charges, he could have and should have been brought up on criminal charges for violating the settlement agreements.
If the senate fails to crush this bill Obama may well veto it. The privacy issue is one item but assigning that kind of expense to ISPs does not seem reasonable.
You are under the assumption that Obama actually cares?
From the same guy who promised "Change you can believe in".
So that change you can believe in thing, how's that working out for ya?
Israel's El Al airline has the best safety record in the world, despite Israel, itself, being THE TARGET of MOST terrorists' absolute hatred. Obviously, the TSA needs to REALLY sit down with the people who run that airline's security, and LEARN SOMETHING!
El Al has only been hijacked one time. After that incident it was rumored that the security on all flights was to shoot first and ask questions later.
In other words they will kill your sorry fucking ass and then tell you to stop.
not 'insightful', please mod parent DOWN. (and anytime someone says 'argmument over' it means THEY ran out of things to debate about.)
the basic principle of the US is that people have all rights and the gov defines the things we CANNOT do. if its not on the 'cannot' list, then its allowed, by default.
I'll see your Franklin and raise you a Jefferson!
"A government afraid of it's citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of their government is tyranny."
Which one we have is an exercise left to the reader.
Why is it that if you or I were to do this we would be charged criminally with either sexual assault or child molestation.
Yet, it is perfectly OK for a TSA employee to sexually assault an adult or molest a child and be able to fall back on "I was just doing my job".
That shit did not work for the nazi's when they used the "I was just following orders" so why do we let them do this shit now?
As Ben Franklin said "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
We have given up liberties for security and look at where we are at now.
We are NOT any safer than before 9/11 and IMHO we do not deserve to be.
In California there is a field on your TAX form that clearly states "USE TAX".
The use of this field is covered in the instructions, including the rate your are supposed to pay.
It is up to you, the consumer and tax payer, to total up how much you spent and then calculate the tax.
The biggest problem with this is that you also wind up shorting the local city/county as they also have a sales tax.
Where I live there are four possible sales tax rates, it depends on where you are purchasing the goods.
The only problem with your analogy is Amazon does not have a presence in CA. No one is going to get laid off so there is NO income tax loss.
Why should Amazon have to collect taxes for what amounts to them as an out of state purchase?
All this will do is make every online buyer in calif pay an extra ~%8 for their purchases.
8% really? What part of the state are you in?
The area where I live has three different sales tax rates. 9, 9.25 and 9.5.
8% is just the sates cut. Then you have the county, the city and the transit district.
When I got to see a breakdown of the tax rate I shit.
I mean what the fuck the transit district gets.25%
The city and county I can understand, but the transit district.
I thought they were supposed to be self sustaining.
Obviously I was incorrect, they are subsidized by everyone who lives in the area regardless
if you use them or not.
You bet good ole moonbeam is gong to sign this.
"I just hope Jerry Brown is smart enough not to sign this."
Do you really expect Jerry "Moon Beam" Brown not to sign this?
The guy is desperate to raise revenue anyway he can.
He knows that any tax increase he presents to the voters will go down in flames.
I still can not believe that he got elected 30 + years after he was Governor twice.
As far as term limits are concerned, they have been around for over 20 years.
They kind of work. The scumbags serve two terms in the assembly and then two terms in the senate.
Then they go back to the local (city/county) government and get elected there.
They then continue to run for office until they have their fully vested pension to collect.
I have seen a number of these guys along the central coast do this. It makes me sick.
My tax dollars hard at work supporting these scum bags that I would not have voted for
if they were the ONLY one running.
PoliTICKS= sucking the blood out of the voters anyway they can.
Except that if the offending party is hosted, then the server is not the property of the offender. This would be allowing the troll to take the property of a third party. It is highly doubtful the judge would ever allow it.
Besides where is the DMCA notification and why hasn't the judge smacked them down over this?
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On numerous occasions when being hauled into court by the FTC he has settled and "promised" to not do this type of shit again.
Several times the massive fine that the FTC wanted was suspended, provided he obided by the settlement agreement.
I would really expect that the justice department would have used these failures to get an even longer sentence.
He still owes myspace millions after he got sued by them and lost
So while you are technically correct in that this is the first time he is facing criminal charges, he could have and should have been brought up on criminal charges for violating the settlement agreements.
...and I thought the US government was clueless.
There is no thinking involved. The US government is clueless.
I think most of them couldn't get a clue even if they hit every branch in the clue tree on the way down.
Funny, I seem to recall calling Nancy Pelosi the f***ing devil...
You mean she 's not.
"Step one to a better USA - abolish the party system entirely. Your only affiliation should be to individual constituents."
Actually that is step two.
Step one is getting rid of 546 lawyers in DC
If the senate fails to crush this bill Obama may well veto it. The privacy issue is one item but assigning that kind of expense to ISPs does not seem reasonable.
You are under the assumption that Obama actually cares?
From the same guy who promised "Change you can believe in".
So that change you can believe in thing, how's that working out for ya?
So what? Honest, intelligent politicians never accomplish anything.
So what? politicians never accomplish anything.
There fixed that for ya.
Israel's El Al airline has the best safety record in the world, despite Israel, itself, being THE TARGET of MOST terrorists' absolute hatred. Obviously, the TSA needs to REALLY sit down with the people who run that airline's security, and LEARN SOMETHING!
El Al has only been hijacked one time. After that incident it was rumored that the security on all flights was to shoot first and ask questions later.
In other words they will kill your sorry fucking ass and then tell you to stop.
not 'insightful', please mod parent DOWN. (and anytime someone says 'argmument over' it means THEY ran out of things to debate about.)
the basic principle of the US is that people have all rights and the gov defines the things we CANNOT do. if its not on the 'cannot' list, then its allowed, by default.
you fail civics (if you are american).
I would have but I already posted to this one.
I'll see your Franklin and raise you a Jefferson! "A government afraid of it's citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of their government is tyranny." Which one we have is an exercise left to the reader.
Why is it that if you or I were to do this we would be charged criminally with either sexual assault or child molestation. Yet, it is perfectly OK for a TSA employee to sexually assault an adult or molest a child and be able to fall back on "I was just doing my job". That shit did not work for the nazi's when they used the "I was just following orders" so why do we let them do this shit now? As Ben Franklin said "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." We have given up liberties for security and look at where we are at now. We are NOT any safer than before 9/11 and IMHO we do not deserve to be.
In California there is a field on your TAX form that clearly states "USE TAX". The use of this field is covered in the instructions, including the rate your are supposed to pay. It is up to you, the consumer and tax payer, to total up how much you spent and then calculate the tax. The biggest problem with this is that you also wind up shorting the local city/county as they also have a sales tax. Where I live there are four possible sales tax rates, it depends on where you are purchasing the goods.
this is /.
WTF would anyone RTFA.
The lowest bidder.
The only problem with your analogy is Amazon does not have a presence in CA. No one is going to get laid off so there is NO income tax loss. Why should Amazon have to collect taxes for what amounts to them as an out of state purchase?
All this will do is make every online buyer in calif pay an extra ~%8 for their purchases.
8% really? What part of the state are you in? The area where I live has three different sales tax rates. 9, 9.25 and 9.5. 8% is just the sates cut. Then you have the county, the city and the transit district. When I got to see a breakdown of the tax rate I shit. I mean what the fuck the transit district gets .25%
The city and county I can understand, but the transit district.
I thought they were supposed to be self sustaining.
Obviously I was incorrect, they are subsidized by everyone who lives in the area regardless
if you use them or not.
You bet good ole moonbeam is gong to sign this.
"I just hope Jerry Brown is smart enough not to sign this." Do you really expect Jerry "Moon Beam" Brown not to sign this? The guy is desperate to raise revenue anyway he can. He knows that any tax increase he presents to the voters will go down in flames. I still can not believe that he got elected 30 + years after he was Governor twice. As far as term limits are concerned, they have been around for over 20 years. They kind of work. The scumbags serve two terms in the assembly and then two terms in the senate. Then they go back to the local (city/county) government and get elected there. They then continue to run for office until they have their fully vested pension to collect. I have seen a number of these guys along the central coast do this. It makes me sick. My tax dollars hard at work supporting these scum bags that I would not have voted for if they were the ONLY one running. PoliTICKS= sucking the blood out of the voters anyway they can.
Except that if the offending party is hosted, then the server is not the property of the offender. This would be allowing the troll to take the property of a third party. It is highly doubtful the judge would ever allow it. Besides where is the DMCA notification and why hasn't the judge smacked them down over this?