No, he was never convicted. He plead out before it could go to trial.
You might note that he surrendered his Arkansas law license, and was booted from the Supreme Court Bar.
Why we are talking about Bill Clinton is that, for all the heat being directed at Libby's getting off with a conviction, probation, and a fine, Clinton didn't even get that much of a hit for the same offense. Those who are offended by Libby getting off cheap should (realistically) be even more offended that Clinton got off cheaper. If they aren't, then why are they raising the "justice" flag?
Obviously you don't know the Sequoia Unified district. Once upon a time, I lived in their district - we moved out so I could get into a decent school. They haven't improved in the 26 years since... my wife and I just moved out-district 2 years ago, and with the exception of _one_ school, the rest of the district still sucks.
Which is quite amazing, given that they draw from a ton of very bright, motivated, and successful families. Portola Valley, Woodside, Atherton, Menlo Park, Redwood City... that's where they get their students. Many of the best and brightest won't have anythingg to do with the Sequoia district, though, because of their ongoing problems. Bad enough that it forced the south county folks to set up a charter HS (which, note, is mentioned in the article cited).
We were early, EARLY adopters of DSL. 416K Northpoint SDSL. Guaranteed bandwidth, too.
When we priced it against the 128K ISDN feed we were using, the installation costs amortized out in the first 3 months. It was _cheaper_, too.
And yes, there were downs. _Eight days_, one time (kinda bad when your voicemail message is being played back from one VP to another to get the point across - we were, well, livid).
Ummm, having been on the receiving end of depositions and subpeonas, generally there's a bit of give-and-take to scheduling depositions. FIRST you make sure you've got the appropriate person, and their legal representative, THEN you schedule and subpeona.
You don't ambush, unless it's absolutely necessary. And even then, 24 hours notice is, shall we say, a might bit unreasonable.
At least, that's the argument we were going to take to the judge, and that was a putatively one WEEK subpeona (with accompanying HUGE data dump of paper - our estimate ran to 3 cases of paper just to print the requested docs).
From the information available, the RIAA basically didn't bother with any of the niceties you usually find in a trial. Which, pretty much, means that an abuse of process motion will be a slam-dunk.
The 24 hour notice thing is called abuse of process. It goes beyond the fishing expedition aspects, and gets into "now we're going to use this to screw up your life."
Having dealt with Mr. Hanson in the past few years, he has my earnest hope that he gets better advice this time 'round, and LISTENS to it. No small part of this tragedy comes from Keith's own choices.
$258/month in utilities? In CA? Easily done these days, unfortunately. Heating in a cold snap? Yep. Electricity to run AC when it gets up to 105F? Yep.
Seriously, I speak from experience on this. We put a 4KW system on my mom's place about 5 years ago (during the CA blackouts) (it's there because that's where the office is, and where the servers live). Her immediate bills dropped from an average of $400/month to an average of $150/month, and have stayed there for the last 5 years. This, in a 1950s-built house, with partial insulation, AC, and gas heat.
Oh, just to be clear, the whole system should amortize out by 2011. Mebbe sooner, given current energy prices.
I don't believe everything the RIAA lawyer said. In point of fact, since you seem to have ignored it, I pretty clearly called out the unproven RIAA assertion that I commented on.
That being said, one would reasonably presume that they won't _make up_ the information in their filing, completely and utterly. There has to be a few kernals of truth in there, for leavening if nothing else.
And, like I said, I've been on the receiving end of similar fishing expeditions. So I have some small prior experience base to comment from.
Who, Jacques? Lots more than that. He's basically got his own private (historical) armored brigade, aka museum collection. Inc. 2 Scuds (an -A and a -B). Almost all demilitarized, but a surprising amount restored to _very_ good condition.
The Gonzales memo you've linked lays out the legal basis for what is, and isn't torture, and what is, and isn't permissable conduct.
It doesn't "condone" torture, and it certainly doesn't condone "crimes against humanity".
Would you like to try again, with something that actually demonstrates what you're trying to prove, or are you going to pony up another non-sequitor like this one?
Even accepting their argument that the 2nd amendment applies only to militias, federal law is pretty black-letter on the matter: the unorganized militia is clearly defined in federal law, and includes pretty much the entire populace.
That being said, the 2nd amendment is the _only_ place in the Bill of Rights where "the people" are defined as a collective body, rather than individuals. And even then, only in the 9th Circuit's realm.
Read the letter. They called the guy's place of work (a law firm) to confirm delivery of a subpeona, and to confirm that it would get to it's intended subject. That's a legitimate reason to call, right there.
And the fact that the guy's the firm's IT guy, and worked on his mom's computer (apparently rebuilding the OS, and the RIAA asserts also swapping the HD) in the timeframe when they're interested in renders him a subject of interest. Having been on the receiving end of this kind of thing, it's not harassment, only following the breadcrumbs.
Including the spammer who was trying to forge email from my domain a few years ago. Registered his domain with a non-existent yahoomail account, amongst other false data. Backed off when I lit up the yahoo account and seized control of his domain.
Get your facts straight, please. The NK's have developed plutonium weapons. Thus, plutonium enrichment. Thus, a violation of the agreement (the point of which was to cease nuclear weaponeering in return for energy subsidies).
"All the mayhem we're seeing" is because of failure by the NKs to live up to their side of the agreement. Can't have your cake and eat it too.
"Done right", hell. This stuff's been on-the-shelf for a number of companies for most of a decade. Anyone besides us old farts remember interactive TV? Most of that was eventually designed to stream over an IP-based network.
Oracle used to do this (had 3 divisions, sold the whole mess to nCube and someone else in IIRC 2000), MS had an ITV division, that got sucked under their streaming server group, SGI did... there were a bunch.
I'm just impressed that these guys are finally getting off the pot and implementing this. Kinda had my doubts it'd ever be allowed out of the back room.
That's the model that commercial renderfarms have been using for years. Guess what - it only works up to a certain point. After that, it's more affordable to just own and operate the resource yourself.
The exact breakeven point depends on the rate charged, and utilitization. But it's definitely there. IBM's ignoring a lot of operational history and available market research, if they really think this is going to fly.
I'm trying to figure out which government agency you work for, 'cause that seems to be the only place in the world that so religiously pursues that particular bit of laughable garbage. Some of the best programmers I know of don't have CS degrees. And a lot of the hack programmers that I _do_ know are proud CS graduates.
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No, he was never convicted. He plead out before it could go to trial.
You might note that he surrendered his Arkansas law license, and was booted from the Supreme Court Bar.
Why we are talking about Bill Clinton is that, for all the heat being directed at Libby's getting off with a conviction, probation, and a fine, Clinton didn't even get that much of a hit for the same offense. Those who are offended by Libby getting off cheap should (realistically) be even more offended that Clinton got off cheaper. If they aren't, then why are they raising the "justice" flag?
Well, it's more of a punishment than Bill Clinton got for the same thing - perjury.
Obviously you don't know the Sequoia Unified district. Once upon a time, I lived in their district - we moved out so I could get into a decent school. They haven't improved in the 26 years since... my wife and I just moved out-district 2 years ago, and with the exception of _one_ school, the rest of the district still sucks.
Which is quite amazing, given that they draw from a ton of very bright, motivated, and successful families. Portola Valley, Woodside, Atherton, Menlo Park, Redwood City... that's where they get their students. Many of the best and brightest won't have anythingg to do with the Sequoia district, though, because of their ongoing problems. Bad enough that it forced the south county folks to set up a charter HS (which, note, is mentioned in the article cited).
Put together a list of the recruiters, and their #s.
Have whoever administers your PBX set up a black hole for them.
And don't allow unidentified calls.
We were early, EARLY adopters of DSL. 416K Northpoint SDSL. Guaranteed bandwidth, too.
When we priced it against the 128K ISDN feed we were using, the installation costs amortized out in the first 3 months. It was _cheaper_, too.
And yes, there were downs. _Eight days_, one time (kinda bad when your voicemail message is being played back from one VP to another to get the point across - we were, well, livid).
Ummm, having been on the receiving end of depositions and subpeonas, generally there's a bit of give-and-take to scheduling depositions. FIRST you make sure you've got the appropriate person, and their legal representative, THEN you schedule and subpeona.
You don't ambush, unless it's absolutely necessary. And even then, 24 hours notice is, shall we say, a might bit unreasonable.
At least, that's the argument we were going to take to the judge, and that was a putatively one WEEK subpeona (with accompanying HUGE data dump of paper - our estimate ran to 3 cases of paper just to print the requested docs).
From the information available, the RIAA basically didn't bother with any of the niceties you usually find in a trial. Which, pretty much, means that an abuse of process motion will be a slam-dunk.
The 24 hour notice thing is called abuse of process. It goes beyond the fishing expedition aspects, and gets into "now we're going to use this to screw up your life."
BTDT.
"They would like the legislation to exempt anyone who owns a copyright, patent, trademark, or trade secret from restrictions against pretexting. "
Like those goodies are hard to come by? Hell, I own a patent, and a couple TMs, and some trade secrets, too.
Not before my morning coffee.
Having dealt with Mr. Hanson in the past few years, he has my earnest hope that he gets better advice this time 'round, and LISTENS to it. No small part of this tragedy comes from Keith's own choices.
$258/month in utilities? In CA? Easily done these days, unfortunately. Heating in a cold snap? Yep. Electricity to run AC when it gets up to 105F? Yep.
Seriously, I speak from experience on this. We put a 4KW system on my mom's place about 5 years ago (during the CA blackouts) (it's there because that's where the office is, and where the servers live). Her immediate bills dropped from an average of $400/month to an average of $150/month, and have stayed there for the last 5 years. This, in a 1950s-built house, with partial insulation, AC, and gas heat.
Oh, just to be clear, the whole system should amortize out by 2011. Mebbe sooner, given current energy prices.
Wikipedias do not have "accuracy" as a misssion. They do have "unbiased". You might note that there is a conflict there.
Personally, I'd rather have accuracy.
I don't believe everything the RIAA lawyer said. In point of fact, since you seem to have ignored it, I pretty clearly called out the unproven RIAA assertion that I commented on.
That being said, one would reasonably presume that they won't _make up_ the information in their filing, completely and utterly. There has to be a few kernals of truth in there, for leavening if nothing else.
And, like I said, I've been on the receiving end of similar fishing expeditions. So I have some small prior experience base to comment from.
Who, Jacques? Lots more than that. He's basically got his own private (historical) armored brigade, aka museum collection. Inc. 2 Scuds (an -A and a -B). Almost all demilitarized, but a surprising amount restored to _very_ good condition.
The Gonzales memo you've linked lays out the legal basis for what is, and isn't torture, and what is, and isn't permissable conduct.
It doesn't "condone" torture, and it certainly doesn't condone "crimes against humanity".
Would you like to try again, with something that actually demonstrates what you're trying to prove, or are you going to pony up another non-sequitor like this one?
My mistake. Nonetheless, I personally find it a specious argument that "the people" in 1 and 3-10 are individuals, yet are a collective body in 2.
Even accepting their argument that the 2nd amendment applies only to militias, federal law is pretty black-letter on the matter: the unorganized militia is clearly defined in federal law, and includes pretty much the entire populace.
That being said, the 2nd amendment is the _only_ place in the Bill of Rights where "the people" are defined as a collective body, rather than individuals. And even then, only in the 9th Circuit's realm.
Read the letter. They called the guy's place of work (a law firm) to confirm delivery of a subpeona, and to confirm that it would get to it's intended subject. That's a legitimate reason to call, right there.
And the fact that the guy's the firm's IT guy, and worked on his mom's computer (apparently rebuilding the OS, and the RIAA asserts also swapping the HD) in the timeframe when they're interested in renders him a subject of interest. Having been on the receiving end of this kind of thing, it's not harassment, only following the breadcrumbs.
One big problem with that argument. The people making the claim didn't invent it. No prior assertion of ownership was made.
Frankly, their own culture can be used as a prior art argument against the claim.
And yes, a boycott's the best solution. The original claim isn't about that, though. It's about trying to make a fast buck via lawfare.
Including the spammer who was trying to forge email from my domain a few years ago. Registered his domain with a non-existent yahoomail account, amongst other false data. Backed off when I lit up the yahoo account and seized control of his domain.
Get your facts straight, please. The NK's have developed plutonium weapons. Thus, plutonium enrichment. Thus, a violation of the agreement (the point of which was to cease nuclear weaponeering in return for energy subsidies).
"All the mayhem we're seeing" is because of failure by the NKs to live up to their side of the agreement. Can't have your cake and eat it too.
"Done right", hell. This stuff's been on-the-shelf for a number of companies for most of a decade. Anyone besides us old farts remember interactive TV? Most of that was eventually designed to stream over an IP-based network.
Oracle used to do this (had 3 divisions, sold the whole mess to nCube and someone else in IIRC 2000), MS had an ITV division, that got sucked under their streaming server group, SGI did... there were a bunch.
I'm just impressed that these guys are finally getting off the pot and implementing this. Kinda had my doubts it'd ever be allowed out of the back room.
That's the model that commercial renderfarms have been using for years. Guess what - it only works up to a certain point. After that, it's more affordable to just own and operate the resource yourself.
The exact breakeven point depends on the rate charged, and utilitization. But it's definitely there. IBM's ignoring a lot of operational history and available market research, if they really think this is going to fly.
I'm trying to figure out which government agency you work for, 'cause that seems to be the only place in the world that so religiously pursues that particular bit of laughable garbage. Some of the best programmers I know of don't have CS degrees. And a lot of the hack programmers that I _do_ know are proud CS graduates.
So I'm just cruisin' the NYT bestseller lists, to see how accurate this is.
Hardback fiction:
#2 - Star Wars 2
#25 - Diplomatic Immunity (Lois Bujold)
2 Star Wars books on the paperback fiction list, too.
Maybe, just maybe, individual SF titles are still a relatively niche market. Naaah. That'd actually mesh with the facts.