But I bought a Kodak Zi-6, which I'm still using. External memory and runs on two AA batteries. Flip was all self contained and not all that interesting, considering the limitations.
My cousin, a lawyer, who practices in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, told me that I will never need to worry about someone suing me. Why?
My Cousin: "No lawyer will try to sue someone without any money. Now, your employer . . . ? "
I guess that Zuckerberg has too much money in his pockets.
Smells more like Mark Zuckerberg is alleged to have promised to share all the gold he can dig up if Paul Ceglia will spot him enough money for a shovel. Turns out the shovel unearths a rather massive amount of gold. Juries have no trouble at all in giving away someone's fortune if the feel they tried to cheat someone out of their share.
I'm just curious what all of this could do to the stock value. If this sort of suit damages Facebook then its value could plummet. It's only so much servers and software, not like another company wouldn't step up to fill the void in the same way Facebook took over for MySpace at the top of the heap.
1. Ceglia has e-mails that can be proven to be genuine. 2. Ceglia has e-mails that can neither be proven to be genuine nor to be forged. 3. Ceglia has e-mails that can be proved to be forged.
According to an article on www.businessinsider.com, "Paul and Iasia Ceglia are charged with 12 counts each of fourth-degree grand larceny and one count each of first-degree scheme to defraud" in what looks like a not very clever scam to get $200,000. That would destroy his credibility and therefore any chance to collect in case (2). And if the emails are forged, then I'd expect them to be provably forged, since Ceglia doesn't seem to be exactly a criminal mastermind.
I'd mod you +1 informative if I hadn't already posted here. Now the plot thickens. Black and white now appears shades of grey. Exciting!
This is what sickens me. These people have more money than anyone could ever possibly spend, yet STILL manage to be greedy, cheap bastards.
I mean holy shit, if I had $50 billion dollars, I could make sure that not a single one of my close friends would ever have to work again, and I would hardly notice.
We think alike. But we're rational. We're also not billionaires (or potential billionaires.)
Money changes people. Anyone who doubts it should read up the sad tales of lottery jackpot winners - the first to win a $40m jackpot in Pennsylvania (IIRC) was broke in a couple years, more so, he was called by his bank as they inquired as to when he would make good on the last few checks he had written as he was seriously overdrawn (but being a man of means and an account which once hosted several figures to the left of the decimal point, they were keeping him covered.) He was, of course, ruined and all his family and friends he showered with gifts were reluctant to return the cars and houses.
Bill Gates may have been a decent enough fellow at one time, but even he wanted to RUIN Java as he saw it as a threat to his empire. Really. The man was already worth more than a billion and he wanted more, more, moar.
I think the same intoxicant caught up with Mark Zuckerberg. At one time he probably would have been thrilled to have enough to by a modest house and a sports car. Now it's snowballing and he wants to keep in snowballing for himself. Looks rather like it's beginning to melt.
Well, depending on when this happened University mail systems may have been involved. One or both parties or someone that was forwarded or copied on the messages may have be using a commercial e-mail provider. There are a lot of scenarios where there could be independent 3rd party copies of these messages.
Even if no copies come to light immediately Zuckerberg's lawyers are going to be very, very careful about claiming they are false if there is ANY chance they are real. Nothing would go worse for them than claiming the messages as forgeries and then having someone come forward with third party proof.
Lawyers tread carefully? I don't think they will. They will assail Mr Ceglia's character, the veracity of his claim, that his email copies are the only ones which exist, etc. I don't see them holding anything back. Burden of proof is on Mr. Ceglia. If he can get his email provider to back him up then he's got a stronger case.
been that way forever in some states. this is nothing new for some people.
My understanding is the barrier was 'too high' for online retailers to handle sales taxes for all the states they ship to. Well, the interweb has changed and if there were such a requirement, by law, then some companies would find a way to provide this service, even down to locality (i.e. city sales tax, too) for determination of taxes, collection and delivery to the various states. Pretending it would be 'Too hard to do this" is now a rather lame excuse.
I didn't realize there was Federal Sales Tax. They have the constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce, but the Constitution prohibits its tax:
Art I, Sec 9. "No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another; nor shall Vessels bound to, or from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay Duties in another."
I don't think that clause says what you think it says. 'Preference' being the key word, this means the feds, if they created a tax it would be even from state to state, not taxing one more than others.
A Democrat in favor of increased taxes - is there a person on the planet who's actually surprised by this?
I'm still getting over a Republican party which actually wants to cut spending.
It has been pointed out that a small percent, like 1% or 1.5% would generate a lot of revenue - at some point they have to find a way to offset the fat tax cut the GOP fought hard for for the rich. Cutting spending is one thing, but cutting revenue before you cut spending is cutting your wrists.
I don't know what it is with MS design but they just love mixing GUI metaphors on screens. Trees, icons, buttons, text.
The worst part is that this is supposed to be a marketplace.
Lose the cruft, just show me the apps in boxes, I click on them to buy them. Give me some filtering at the top or bottom and that's it! Done! I want to spend as little time fucking around in some virtual space to get programs I want.
Hell, just make the app store look like ThePirateBay: Oh look, the name of the thing I want *click* *buy*
Microsoft continues a long tradition of not "getting it"
I don't want pretty, I don't want cute, I want FUNCTIONAL! I want EASE OF USE! I want TO SPEND AS LITTLE TIME AS POSSIBLE LOOKING FOR THINGS AND GET ON WITH MY LIFE!
But nooooooo they think I'm there for the Microsoft Experience *cue mirrorball and dance music*
The problem with spicy foods is that you apparently gain tolerance to the effects.
You do. I used to eat habaneros all the time - raw (yes, just eating them whole, seeds and all), stir fried with chicken, etc. but now I rarely eat chilis, so the little red peppers you get in vietnamese or thai dishes are very hot to me, and so is even the lowly jalapeno. I had a tolerance for it before and was quite addicted to hot peppers but after years of eating chili peppers infrequently I have near zero tolerance for them.
I hadn't eaten hot food for a while and visited the Pho King for lunch. Those little red chilies were HOT! Now after months of eating curry all the time I pop them into my mouth like candy.
I make habanero garlick dill pickles and habanero sweet and sour pickled carrots. They are always in big demand. I've been tempted to go into business.. maybe when I retire.
Happened to a friend - didn't wash well after eating a bunch of (very) hot wings, then went to recycle that pitcher of beer. Couldn't sit still the rest of the evening.
I've burned my face a few times. Takes practice to remember that capsaicin will soak into skin while cutting up habaneros with bare hands.
Don't rub eyes. Don't pick nose. Done stick finger in ear. If you have shaved your face that morning, don't rub fingers across face.
It goes away after a while, but can feel much worse than a severe sunburn.
They were experimenting to see if it causes mutations.
Pretty much all capsicums (peppers) are cultivars or mutations of the original plants from Central America. What is interesting is to seek out the original plants.
It releases quite pleasurable natural drugs in your brain.
Endorphins
It's a legal drug, for now.
Want to try something fun? Half a bunch of hot peppers - habaneros, scotch bonnets or hotter and place on one of those fan driven dehydrators inside your house. Hours of fun as your eyes, sinuses and lungs encounter airborne capsaicin. It's almost like swimming in caffeine.
Now I see this after I planted my garden with ghost chilis!
As a rule, chilies grow hottest where they get the most sun and the weather is hot. High humidity keeps the air warm overnight, which helps in the production of Capsaicin. For northern hemisphere there's still plenty of time to plant these before their best months of production (July-August).
You have to wear protective gear, yet in TFA photo, they aren't?
Skin of the pepper isn't the hot part. When you halve a pepper look for the white fleshy bit around where the seeds are located. That's the hottest part of the pepper. If you are looking for the most intense experience, trim that bit from your peppers and toss the rest.
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I've never heard of Ceglia before, but all of a sudden the newspapers seem to be filled with rumors about him being a rapist. Hmmm...
I here Donald Trump will be attempting to prove he wasn't born in this country.
a consolation for us non-billionaires
Should Zuckerberg lose big here it is comforting to know the Winklevoss twins will be there to give him two shoulders to cry on.
But I bought a Kodak Zi-6, which I'm still using. External memory and runs on two AA batteries. Flip was all self contained and not all that interesting, considering the limitations.
My cousin, a lawyer, who practices in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, told me that I will never need to worry about someone suing me. Why?
My Cousin: "No lawyer will try to sue someone without any money. Now, your employer . . . ? "
I guess that Zuckerberg has too much money in his pockets.
Smells more like Mark Zuckerberg is alleged to have promised to share all the gold he can dig up if Paul Ceglia will spot him enough money for a shovel. Turns out the shovel unearths a rather massive amount of gold. Juries have no trouble at all in giving away someone's fortune if the feel they tried to cheat someone out of their share.
I'm just curious what all of this could do to the stock value. If this sort of suit damages Facebook then its value could plummet. It's only so much servers and software, not like another company wouldn't step up to fill the void in the same way Facebook took over for MySpace at the top of the heap.
1. Ceglia has e-mails that can be proven to be genuine. 2. Ceglia has e-mails that can neither be proven to be genuine nor to be forged. 3. Ceglia has e-mails that can be proved to be forged.
According to an article on www.businessinsider.com, "Paul and Iasia Ceglia are charged with 12 counts each of fourth-degree grand larceny and one count each of first-degree scheme to defraud" in what looks like a not very clever scam to get $200,000. That would destroy his credibility and therefore any chance to collect in case (2). And if the emails are forged, then I'd expect them to be provably forged, since Ceglia doesn't seem to be exactly a criminal mastermind.
I'd mod you +1 informative if I hadn't already posted here. Now the plot thickens. Black and white now appears shades of grey. Exciting!
This is what sickens me. These people have more money than anyone could ever possibly spend, yet STILL manage to be greedy, cheap bastards.
I mean holy shit, if I had $50 billion dollars, I could make sure that not a single one of my close friends would ever have to work again, and I would hardly notice.
We think alike. But we're rational. We're also not billionaires (or potential billionaires.)
Money changes people. Anyone who doubts it should read up the sad tales of lottery jackpot winners - the first to win a $40m jackpot in Pennsylvania (IIRC) was broke in a couple years, more so, he was called by his bank as they inquired as to when he would make good on the last few checks he had written as he was seriously overdrawn (but being a man of means and an account which once hosted several figures to the left of the decimal point, they were keeping him covered.) He was, of course, ruined and all his family and friends he showered with gifts were reluctant to return the cars and houses.
Bill Gates may have been a decent enough fellow at one time, but even he wanted to RUIN Java as he saw it as a threat to his empire. Really. The man was already worth more than a billion and he wanted more, more, moar.
I think the same intoxicant caught up with Mark Zuckerberg. At one time he probably would have been thrilled to have enough to by a modest house and a sports car. Now it's snowballing and he wants to keep in snowballing for himself. Looks rather like it's beginning to melt.
Well, depending on when this happened University mail systems may have been involved. One or both parties or someone that was forwarded or copied on the messages may have be using a commercial e-mail provider. There are a lot of scenarios where there could be independent 3rd party copies of these messages.
Even if no copies come to light immediately Zuckerberg's lawyers are going to be very, very careful about claiming they are false if there is ANY chance they are real. Nothing would go worse for them than claiming the messages as forgeries and then having someone come forward with third party proof.
Lawyers tread carefully? I don't think they will. They will assail Mr Ceglia's character, the veracity of his claim, that his email copies are the only ones which exist, etc. I don't see them holding anything back. Burden of proof is on Mr. Ceglia. If he can get his email provider to back him up then he's got a stronger case.
To put any of his swindles into writing.
Still, we know how to fake an email header, right? What's going to prove these are genuine?
been that way forever in some states. this is nothing new for some people.
My understanding is the barrier was 'too high' for online retailers to handle sales taxes for all the states they ship to. Well, the interweb has changed and if there were such a requirement, by law, then some companies would find a way to provide this service, even down to locality (i.e. city sales tax, too) for determination of taxes, collection and delivery to the various states. Pretending it would be 'Too hard to do this" is now a rather lame excuse.
I didn't realize there was Federal Sales Tax. They have the constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce, but the Constitution prohibits its tax:
Art I, Sec 9. "No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another; nor shall Vessels bound to, or from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay Duties in another."
I don't think that clause says what you think it says. 'Preference' being the key word, this means the feds, if they created a tax it would be even from state to state, not taxing one more than others.
A Democrat in favor of increased taxes - is there a person on the planet who's actually surprised by this?
I'm still getting over a Republican party which actually wants to cut spending.
It has been pointed out that a small percent, like 1% or 1.5% would generate a lot of revenue - at some point they have to find a way to offset the fat tax cut the GOP fought hard for for the rich. Cutting spending is one thing, but cutting revenue before you cut spending is cutting your wrists.
Can I get a Huzzah for the Bork Bork Bork version of Opera for MSN?
Windows8MyComputer
At some point they'll get to where apps run about as fast as on a quintuplecore Win 7 Phone as they did on 33MHz 486 desktop with Win 3.1
http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/11/windows-app-store/
(With all that investment in Microsoft Research, why does Microsoft copy others, particularly Apple, so much???)
You think people who copy the Apple App store will work for free?
It would be more useful in a simple list format, scrap the graphics
Household Apps
Office Apps
...
I don't know what it is with MS design but they just love mixing GUI metaphors on screens. Trees, icons, buttons, text.
The worst part is that this is supposed to be a marketplace.
Lose the cruft, just show me the apps in boxes, I click on them to buy them. Give me some filtering at the top or bottom and that's it! Done! I want to spend as little time fucking around in some virtual space to get programs I want.
Hell, just make the app store look like ThePirateBay: Oh look, the name of the thing I want *click* *buy*
Microsoft continues a long tradition of not "getting it"
I don't want pretty, I don't want cute, I want FUNCTIONAL! I want EASE OF USE! I want TO SPEND AS LITTLE TIME AS POSSIBLE LOOKING FOR THINGS AND GET ON WITH MY LIFE!
But nooooooo they think I'm there for the Microsoft Experience *cue mirrorball and dance music*
ooh, ooh .. boogie wonderland
You do. I used to eat habaneros all the time - raw (yes, just eating them whole, seeds and all), stir fried with chicken, etc. but now I rarely eat chilis, so the little red peppers you get in vietnamese or thai dishes are very hot to me, and so is even the lowly jalapeno. I had a tolerance for it before and was quite addicted to hot peppers but after years of eating chili peppers infrequently I have near zero tolerance for them.
I hadn't eaten hot food for a while and visited the Pho King for lunch. Those little red chilies were HOT! Now after months of eating curry all the time I pop them into my mouth like candy.
The extra charge for 3D is the real headache. I'm now seeing far less movies.
Preposterous claims and counter claims all in my name! It's all over for me, now! My credibility is ruins!
Curse you Epsilon Data Thiefs! >:(
I make habanero garlick dill pickles and habanero sweet and sour pickled carrots. They are always in big demand. I've been tempted to go into business.. maybe when I retire.
Happened to a friend - didn't wash well after eating a bunch of (very) hot wings, then went to recycle that pitcher of beer. Couldn't sit still the rest of the evening.
I've burned my face a few times. Takes practice to remember that capsaicin will soak into skin while cutting up habaneros with bare hands.
Don't rub eyes. Don't pick nose. Done stick finger in ear. If you have shaved your face that morning, don't rub fingers across face.
It goes away after a while, but can feel much worse than a severe sunburn.
They were experimenting to see if it causes mutations.
Pretty much all capsicums (peppers) are cultivars or mutations of the original plants from Central America. What is interesting is to seek out the original plants.
I don't get it - what's the point?
It releases quite pleasurable natural drugs in your brain.
Endorphins
It's a legal drug, for now.
Want to try something fun? Half a bunch of hot peppers - habaneros, scotch bonnets or hotter and place on one of those fan driven dehydrators inside your house. Hours of fun as your eyes, sinuses and lungs encounter airborne capsaicin. It's almost like swimming in caffeine.
Took hours to air out the house...
Now I see this after I planted my garden with ghost chilis!
As a rule, chilies grow hottest where they get the most sun and the weather is hot. High humidity keeps the air warm overnight, which helps in the production of Capsaicin. For northern hemisphere there's still plenty of time to plant these before their best months of production (July-August).
You have to wear protective gear, yet in TFA photo, they aren't?
Skin of the pepper isn't the hot part. When you halve a pepper look for the white fleshy bit around where the seeds are located. That's the hottest part of the pepper. If you are looking for the most intense experience, trim that bit from your peppers and toss the rest.