And why has it taken car stereo manufacturers so long to put input jacks on the damn things anyhow?
Check to see if your headunit will control a cd changer. Go look for something called an 'auxilliary input adapter'. It mimicks a cd changer and gives you a direct connection into your stereo. I use one on my toyota for my portable XM radio receiver. Works like a champ. When my wife's with me we simply unplug the XM and plug in her iPod. Crystal clear and waaaay better than the tape adapter. Be aware though that if you power your iPod off of the cigar lighter you will usually get a ground-loop induced alternator noise (due to the cigar lighter and your radio having two different grounding points on the chasis). You can use a cheapo noise filter (~$15) to get rid of that noise.
The input adapter will give you RCA inputs.
You can start by looking here. The unit I use is made by a company called BlitzSafe. Google around.
If they believed that they would hold funerals when a woman miscarries. They don't. Many folks have funerals for miscarried late term babies. My aunt did.
If they believed that they would be working on ways to baptize the fetus in utero to protect it against going to hell if it's stillborn. They don't. Most fundamentalists are protestants. Protestants (most) do not believe that children go to Hell until the reach the 'age of accountability'. This is the age when a child is old enough to understand the difference between right and wrong and they have the ability to accept/reject Jesus Christ. Most fundamentalist protestants do not baptise babies. Don't pretend to understand things you clearly have no knowledge of.
If they believed that they would celebrate conceptiondays rather than birthdays. They don't. This argument is absurd.
Certainly, my right to punch ends at my nose. But, how does getting an abortion physically harm you? How does it "punch you in the nose" so to speak?
To pro-lifers, abortion isn't about how it effects them -- they honestly believe that a child in a womb is a child non-the-less, and that this child has a right to live. They believe that having an abortion is taking a child's life.
Is it your business if one man kills another? Why are there laws against it? This is simply the view of the pro-life crowd. It's not that complicated.
...you must be in your early 20's, right? I can tell because that's the age when everything thinks they know it all. Not bashing you...I was there too.
You'll figure out eventually that your parents are far more intelligent than you ever thought possible.
Why is my personal financial information being shared without my expressed, written permission?
Why are financial records not given the same protections as medical records?
I have no real problem with credit reporting agencies. These companies are in general very careful with data. I know that when I interviewed with Equifax I was very, VERY impressed by their security. Several steps to get in...everyone checked on the way out. No laptops/PDA's allowed inside, etc -- and I was just interviewing!
The companies that I have problems with are those like Choicepoint (which, BTW has it's HQ right across the street from my office here in Alpharetta, GA). Choicepoint collects data on individuals including SSN's, DOB, account balances, etc. They are not privy to the protections of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (they aren't a credit agency). They mine the data and sell it to the highest bidder, and as we're aware they'll sell it to just about anyone with cash.
And you can't tell me it's compelling interests either that make it permissible. I think there would be a lot to gain by data mining the nation's medical records. It would make medical research much easier as it would allow us to find relationships and trends in various ailments, etc. I'm not saying that it should be allowed, only that there's a double standard involved here that I think should be eliminated. My financial records are no one's business except mine and any creditor looking to give me a loan.
Speaking of which...why do I have to sign a form allowing a lender to check my credit report...while Choicepoint can sell essentially the same information without my permission?
Yes, some people over this age don't really comprehend the issue, but the line had to be drawn somewhere.
Exactly..the line was drawn somewhere and most people admit it is arbitrary, yet people like my friend who was 20 and had sex with a 17-year old is a Registered Sex Offender (TM) for committing misdemeanor statutory rape. Nevermind the fact that he's now been married to the girl for 4 years and they now have a little one year old daughter.
The girl objected to his prosecution that was sought by her mother. She refused to testify against him at trial and spent a week in jail and paid court fines for contempt. She turned 18 just a few months after the trial and once she did she left her mother to live with the family of her then boyfriend and has been with him ever since.
Our church has a TaeKwan Do ministry (don't ask) and my friend was an instructor. He was always there with a room full of parents and other instructors and students. One of the parents found out he was a 'sex offender' and reported him to the police, saying that it didn't 'look right' that he was instructing martial arts (some of the students were teen). Due to Georgia's get-tough-on-sex crimes laws he was arrested with only the complain. In Georgia, sex offenders suspected of violating sex crimed laws are not granted bail. They are held until a finding of fact hearing be the court (IANAL but this is what his attorney called it). In his case the court date was a month away and he had a one week old baby at home. The attorney petitioned the judge for a special hearing due to his circumstances (the baby) and the judge released him on a signature bond. This was very unusual as most judges won't do that. At the final hearing the judge ruled that he did not violate any statues (remember: he's a sex offender, not on parole!) and that the claims were without merit. The judge also admonished the legislature for creating vague rules that are impossible to implement and are open to any number of interpretations.
The puritanical nature of our laws is absolutely ridiculous and is in my opinion catering to the right-wing fundamentalists in the republican party. I am a conservative Christian and former republican, by the way. I left the party when I decided the republicans could no longer perform simple addition and subtraction (read: balance a budget) and when they handed defeat to terrorists by encouraging the public to actually be afraid of them (the terrorists' stated purpose).
We're going about this whole Net neutrality thing all wrong. I mean...all us techie, geeky types *know* why net neutrality is an important thing. We need to address this issue in a way the public can understand.
Net neutrality will help us stalk Registered Sex Offenders (TM) and will help catch child predators on myspace.com. It will also help relieve gas prices and slow down illegal immigration.
We have to present the story in a context of issues that actually have significance.
I mean...come on guys...have you no political savvy?
No, the UK just plans to track every single car's movement using a series of cameras that read license plates, and they video every square inch of public space. It's not any better, just different.
F15s are NOT surveillance aircraft. Domestically, a Cessna 172 could perform the functions of these drones. How many people does it take to operate a 172 for surveillance? Three. One pilot, one spotter/equipment operator and and one mechanic.
The comment on Israel is informative but the idea of 'commercial airspace' is so off the mark it doesn't even make sense.
I'm a pilot and I can tell you that there is no such thing as commercial airspace. When I take off and fly I can go pretty much anywhere I want. Sure, there are different types of airspace that require ATC clearance to enter, but there is not such beast as commercial airspace.
Unless these Drones can 'see and avoid' just like other VFR aircraft they should not be permitted access to the NAS (national airspace system). The operators of UAVs should also be a qualified pilot and the UAVs should undergo some sort of certification program just as piloted aircraft. If the aircraft use the same airspace system, they should play by the same rules.
"don't stop the rich and powerful from getting richer and more powerful"
Is there anything wrong with this philosphy? Or is it just your jealousy?
Face it...a poor person never gave you a job. A union never gave you a job. Your options are:
a) You become self-employed b) Get a job from the government c) Get hired by some rich guy
Just something to think about. I work in a small company for a rich guy. He has a million-dollar house in the islands and a half-million dollar condo here in Atlanta (which is very high dollar real estate here). I don't mind working for him. He's almost never home and rarely sees his family. I rarely travel work work. My wife works for the government and my benefits are WAAAY better than hers. I'll take the rich guy over the government any day.
I'm a commercial-rated pilot (although I'm not an ATP-rated airline guy). I can tell you that the airlines do NOT use GPS for their precision approaches. They will always use the tried and true ILS system. GPS is used for non-precision approaches (which have much higher minimums) but in general the ILS is the primary system in poor weather. Smaller airports are soon to start using WAAS certified precision approaches, but these are generally for airports lacking an ILS (smaller airports). Even the class D airport I fly out of with a single runway has an ILS.
That being said, the ILS system is completely analog VHF so it seems that it would be fairly easy for an EMI-generating electronic device to interfere with it.
Re: autopilots. In my airplane I have an autopilot coupled to a GPS. The altitude hold of the autopilot uses a pressure-transducer to maintain altitude but the steering is completely by GPS. I usually cruise at 168kts and my autopilot holds me within.01 miles of course centerline, verified by a second GPS. GPS is very accurate for driving an autopilot for cruise flight. I believe the regs do currently prohibit using the autopilot to shoot approaches down to mininums, though. Most expensive ships (airliners) have an autopilot that will track the GS/LOC of the ILS down to the runway so for them it is a mute point.
I was simply saying that if you want to feed children, it's not the job of the freaking schools. That's the job of public welfare/food subsidy programs such as WIC and the food stamps. No one is advocating that children starve...only that government schools recognize that their role isn't as a welfare agency, but as an educational one. How's that for ignorant disgusting piece of human filth, dipshit?
And had there been breakfast/lunch/health programs when you were in school, could you presume that many more of your family members would have made it through high school and college?
Poor people are not poor because they don't eat breakfast. Poor people are poor because a) they don't know that they can change their lifestyle or b) they're too lazy to do so. I know is a terribly unpopular theory, but I believe that anyone who works hard enough to escape the grip of poverty can and will succeed. Now, not everyone can be rich...but people can make a decent living for themselves if they set out to do so. One cannot be blamed for being born to poor family, but some degree of blame *must* be placed on couple that consciously creates a family without the financial means to provide descent living conditions for their dependents.
My family never had any trouble eating. We were always quite healthy due to our active lifestyle. We ate quite well -- deer, whatever we could hunt. My grandfather also kept a few heifers and bulls so we always had fresh milk, cheese and meat. Of course, my entire extended family depended on my grandfather so it only went so far.
I'm guessing that since you have a computer, you can afford to feed yourself and that you're talking about things you haven't had to experience first hand.
You presume too much, young Skywalker.
You think that because I have a computer, an Internet connection and a cushy job that I've always had these things. You can read some of my past posts on Slashdot and you'll see where I've told my story many times. I was born poor, in a house in Appalachia with no running water and a dirt floor. I understand poverty more than most. I worked for everything I have today. I was only the 2nd person in my family to graduate high school and I was the first to graduate college, so please do not lecture me about not understanding the plight of poor people in America. Perhaps it is YOU who presumes to know so much about poor people...when in all actuality your bleeding heart is causing your mouth to spew forth holier-than-though cliches on subjects you've only read about in text books.
I agree completely. Public schools have turned from teaching the basics (and it shows given literacy rates, etc). It all started with schools providing affordable 'nutritious' lunches. Now many school systems have expanded the lunch program, claiming that students are entitled to breakfast as well. There's also the daily milk snack programs. Then we have the whole scoliosis thing. Seriously...why do schools test for scoliosis? Sure, it's a horrible, cripling disease but why is it the function of the schools to test for it? Why not test for other diseases such as diabetes?
Now many schools systems are pushing for similar obeisity screening programs. What the hell does that have to do with a proper education?
Short and simple -- an overbearing government that feels it knows how to raise kids better than parents is using government schools to achieve it's agends with kids.
Ted Turner is an ass and given the most recent financial accountability issues with the UN I wouldn't trust them with my charitable contributions, but you have to give Ted credit here. When he made the 1 billion dollar commitment to the UN it was a full 1/3 of his net wealth.
The letter is on the attorney's letterhead and I don't have a scanner handy so I'll copy the text of the letter to e-mail and post it to my journal on slashdot.
The simplest solution is to allow your kids (or someone else's) to install your software. Under US law minors cannot enter into a legally binding contract.
On the issue of 'contracts', I had an issue a while back with a mobile phone service provider. After reviewing my statement I realized that I had (listed as a 'feature', BTW!) an 'Advantage Agreement'. I called to ask what this was about and they said it was a contract. I had originally went with this company (Sprint PCS) specifically because they did not require service contracts. I was in my 5th year of using their service...so needless to say I was a little confused.
I figured out what had happened was that about 6 months prior I had purchased a new phone (at full retail price, BTW) and activated the service on-line. Apparantly the fine print on the web site said that I was agreeing to a 'contract'. I asked the lady on the phone for proof of the contract. She said she could provide me nothing.
This is in my opinion the worst part of clickware agreements. There is no proof of the agreement to be offered. Any one entity (generally large corporations) can force individuals to pay for crap just because they can.
As I was arguing with the Sprint people, I asked the lady what proof they had that I agree to the contract...her answer was "it's here on my computer". My response to her was, "well, here on my computer it says that I don't have a contract".
I told her I wanted to cancel my service and would not pay their $175 cancellation fee. She said that the fee would be turned over to collections. My response was that if it was turned over to collections Sprint PCS would be named in a lawsuit. Sure enough, about 2 months after cancelling my service and getting multiple bills in the mail I received a letter from a collections agency. I promptly sent it to my lawyer who kindly sent them a nice letter requiring proof of the contract. I got a letter from the collections agency about a week later stating that they were no longer seeking the $175. The lawyer cost me $200 (he's a friend) but it was well worth it to thumb my nose at a multi-million dollar corporation that in my opinion engages in an elaborate extortion scheme.
This comment is completely retarded. She wasn't arrested for protesting. She was arresting for sitting and blocking a public walkway. How the Hell did that get modded insightful?
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And why has it taken car stereo manufacturers so long to put input jacks on the damn things anyhow?
Check to see if your headunit will control a cd changer. Go look for something called an 'auxilliary input adapter'. It mimicks a cd changer and gives you a direct connection into your stereo. I use one on my toyota for my portable XM radio receiver. Works like a champ. When my wife's with me we simply unplug the XM and plug in her iPod. Crystal clear and waaaay better than the tape adapter. Be aware though that if you power your iPod off of the cigar lighter you will usually get a ground-loop induced alternator noise (due to the cigar lighter and your radio having two different grounding points on the chasis). You can use a cheapo noise filter (~$15) to get rid of that noise.
The input adapter will give you RCA inputs.
You can start by looking here. The unit I use is made by a company called BlitzSafe. Google around.
If they believed that they would hold funerals when a woman miscarries. They don't.
Many folks have funerals for miscarried late term babies. My aunt did.
If they believed that they would be working on ways to baptize the fetus in utero to protect it against going to hell if it's stillborn. They don't.
Most fundamentalists are protestants. Protestants (most) do not believe that children go to Hell until the reach the 'age of accountability'. This is the age when a child is old enough to understand the difference between right and wrong and they have the ability to accept/reject Jesus Christ. Most fundamentalist protestants do not baptise babies. Don't pretend to understand things you clearly have no knowledge of.
If they believed that they would celebrate conceptiondays rather than birthdays. They don't.
This argument is absurd.
Certainly, my right to punch ends at my nose. But, how does getting an abortion physically harm you? How does it "punch you in the nose" so to speak?
To pro-lifers, abortion isn't about how it effects them -- they honestly believe that a child in a womb is a child non-the-less, and that this child has a right to live. They believe that having an abortion is taking a child's life.
Is it your business if one man kills another? Why are there laws against it? This is simply the view of the pro-life crowd. It's not that complicated.
...you must be in your early 20's, right? I can tell because that's the age when everything thinks they know it all. Not bashing you...I was there too.
You'll figure out eventually that your parents are far more intelligent than you ever thought possible.
Why is my personal financial information being shared without my expressed, written permission?
Why are financial records not given the same protections as medical records?
I have no real problem with credit reporting agencies. These companies are in general very careful with data. I know that when I interviewed with Equifax I was very, VERY impressed by their security. Several steps to get in...everyone checked on the way out. No laptops/PDA's allowed inside, etc -- and I was just interviewing!
The companies that I have problems with are those like Choicepoint (which, BTW has it's HQ right across the street from my office here in Alpharetta, GA). Choicepoint collects data on individuals including SSN's, DOB, account balances, etc. They are not privy to the protections of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (they aren't a credit agency). They mine the data and sell it to the highest bidder, and as we're aware they'll sell it to just about anyone with cash.
And you can't tell me it's compelling interests either that make it permissible. I think there would be a lot to gain by data mining the nation's medical records. It would make medical research much easier as it would allow us to find relationships and trends in various ailments, etc. I'm not saying that it should be allowed, only that there's a double standard involved here that I think should be eliminated. My financial records are no one's business except mine and any creditor looking to give me a loan.
Speaking of which...why do I have to sign a form allowing a lender to check my credit report...while Choicepoint can sell essentially the same information without my permission?
My point is that he commited a misdemeanor and is treated like a....no...worse than a bank robber. I guess I didn't make that clear.
Yes, some people over this age don't really comprehend the issue, but the line had to be drawn somewhere.
Exactly..the line was drawn somewhere and most people admit it is arbitrary, yet people like my friend who was 20 and had sex with a 17-year old is a Registered Sex Offender (TM) for committing misdemeanor statutory rape. Nevermind the fact that he's now been married to the girl for 4 years and they now have a little one year old daughter.
The girl objected to his prosecution that was sought by her mother. She refused to testify against him at trial and spent a week in jail and paid court fines for contempt. She turned 18 just a few months after the trial and once she did she left her mother to live with the family of her then boyfriend and has been with him ever since.
Our church has a TaeKwan Do ministry (don't ask) and my friend was an instructor. He was always there with a room full of parents and other instructors and students. One of the parents found out he was a 'sex offender' and reported him to the police, saying that it didn't 'look right' that he was instructing martial arts (some of the students were teen). Due to Georgia's get-tough-on-sex crimes laws he was arrested with only the complain. In Georgia, sex offenders suspected of violating sex crimed laws are not granted bail. They are held until a finding of fact hearing be the court (IANAL but this is what his attorney called it). In his case the court date was a month away and he had a one week old baby at home. The attorney petitioned the judge for a special hearing due to his circumstances (the baby) and the judge released him on a signature bond. This was very unusual as most judges won't do that. At the final hearing the judge ruled that he did not violate any statues (remember: he's a sex offender, not on parole!) and that the claims were without merit. The judge also admonished the legislature for creating vague rules that are impossible to implement and are open to any number of interpretations.
The puritanical nature of our laws is absolutely ridiculous and is in my opinion catering to the right-wing fundamentalists in the republican party. I am a conservative Christian and former republican, by the way. I left the party when I decided the republicans could no longer perform simple addition and subtraction (read: balance a budget) and when they handed defeat to terrorists by encouraging the public to actually be afraid of them (the terrorists' stated purpose).
We're going about this whole Net neutrality thing all wrong. I mean...all us techie, geeky types *know* why net neutrality is an important thing. We need to address this issue in a way the public can understand.
Net neutrality will help us stalk Registered Sex Offenders (TM) and will help catch child predators on myspace.com. It will also help relieve gas prices and slow down illegal immigration.
We have to present the story in a context of issues that actually have significance.
I mean...come on guys...have you no political savvy?
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No, the UK just plans to track every single car's movement using a series of cameras that read license plates, and they video every square inch of public space. It's not any better, just different.
F15s are NOT surveillance aircraft. Domestically, a Cessna 172 could perform the functions of these drones. How many people does it take to operate a 172 for surveillance? Three. One pilot, one spotter/equipment operator and and one mechanic.
Very insightful without the usual slashdot bravado and swagger. Thanks!
And this is supposed to be CHEAPER to operate than a traditional manned aircraft? Whatever.
The comment on Israel is informative but the idea of 'commercial airspace' is so off the mark it doesn't even make sense.
I'm a pilot and I can tell you that there is no such thing as commercial airspace. When I take off and fly I can go pretty much anywhere I want. Sure, there are different types of airspace that require ATC clearance to enter, but there is not such beast as commercial airspace.
Unless these Drones can 'see and avoid' just like other VFR aircraft they should not be permitted access to the NAS (national airspace system). The operators of UAVs should also be a qualified pilot and the UAVs should undergo some sort of certification program just as piloted aircraft. If the aircraft use the same airspace system, they should play by the same rules.
"don't stop the rich and powerful from
getting richer and more powerful"
Is there anything wrong with this philosphy? Or is it just your jealousy?
Face it...a poor person never gave you a job. A union never gave you a job. Your options are:
a) You become self-employed
b) Get a job from the government
c) Get hired by some rich guy
Just something to think about. I work in a small company for a rich guy. He has a million-dollar house in the islands and a half-million dollar condo here in Atlanta (which is very high dollar real estate here). I don't mind working for him. He's almost never home and rarely sees his family. I rarely travel work work. My wife works for the government and my benefits are WAAAY better than hers. I'll take the rich guy over the government any day.
I'm a commercial-rated pilot (although I'm not an ATP-rated airline guy). I can tell you that the airlines do NOT use GPS for their precision approaches. They will always use the tried and true ILS system. GPS is used for non-precision approaches (which have much higher minimums) but in general the ILS is the primary system in poor weather. Smaller airports are soon to start using WAAS certified precision approaches, but these are generally for airports lacking an ILS (smaller airports). Even the class D airport I fly out of with a single runway has an ILS.
.01 miles of course centerline, verified by a second GPS. GPS is very accurate for driving an autopilot for cruise flight. I believe the regs do currently prohibit using the autopilot to shoot approaches down to mininums, though. Most expensive ships (airliners) have an autopilot that will track the GS/LOC of the ILS down to the runway so for them it is a mute point.
That being said, the ILS system is completely analog VHF so it seems that it would be fairly easy for an EMI-generating electronic device to interfere with it.
Re: autopilots. In my airplane I have an autopilot coupled to a GPS. The altitude hold of the autopilot uses a pressure-transducer to maintain altitude but the steering is completely by GPS. I usually cruise at 168kts and my autopilot holds me within
Hey, ignorant fuck.
I was simply saying that if you want to feed children, it's not the job of the freaking schools. That's the job of public welfare/food subsidy programs such as WIC and the food stamps. No one is advocating that children starve...only that government schools recognize that their role isn't as a welfare agency, but as an educational one. How's that for ignorant disgusting piece of human filth, dipshit?
And had there been breakfast/lunch/health programs when you were in school, could you presume that many more of your family members would have made it through high school and college?
Poor people are not poor because they don't eat breakfast. Poor people are poor because a) they don't know that they can change their lifestyle or b) they're too lazy to do so. I know is a terribly unpopular theory, but I believe that anyone who works hard enough to escape the grip of poverty can and will succeed. Now, not everyone can be rich...but people can make a decent living for themselves if they set out to do so. One cannot be blamed for being born to poor family, but some degree of blame *must* be placed on couple that consciously creates a family without the financial means to provide descent living conditions for their dependents.
My family never had any trouble eating. We were always quite healthy due to our active lifestyle. We ate quite well -- deer, whatever we could hunt. My grandfather also kept a few heifers and bulls so we always had fresh milk, cheese and meat. Of course, my entire extended family depended on my grandfather so it only went so far.
I'm guessing that since you have a computer, you can afford to feed yourself and that you're talking about things you haven't had to experience first hand.
You presume too much, young Skywalker.
You think that because I have a computer, an Internet connection and a cushy job that I've always had these things. You can read some of my past posts on Slashdot and you'll see where I've told my story many times. I was born poor, in a house in Appalachia with no running water and a dirt floor. I understand poverty more than most. I worked for everything I have today. I was only the 2nd person in my family to graduate high school and I was the first to graduate college, so please do not lecture me about not understanding the plight of poor people in America. Perhaps it is YOU who presumes to know so much about poor people...when in all actuality your bleeding heart is causing your mouth to spew forth holier-than-though cliches on subjects you've only read about in text books.
And where is the USSR now? Dude...seems like you could have come up with a better example. Try again.
I agree completely. Public schools have turned from teaching the basics (and it shows given literacy rates, etc). It all started with schools providing affordable 'nutritious' lunches. Now many school systems have expanded the lunch program, claiming that students are entitled to breakfast as well. There's also the daily milk snack programs. Then we have the whole scoliosis thing. Seriously...why do schools test for scoliosis? Sure, it's a horrible, cripling disease but why is it the function of the schools to test for it? Why not test for other diseases such as diabetes?
Now many schools systems are pushing for similar obeisity screening programs. What the hell does that have to do with a proper education?
Short and simple -- an overbearing government that feels it knows how to raise kids better than parents is using government schools to achieve it's agends with kids.
Ted Turner is an ass and given the most recent financial accountability issues with the UN I wouldn't trust them with my charitable contributions, but you have to give Ted credit here. When he made the 1 billion dollar commitment to the UN it was a full 1/3 of his net wealth.
The letter is on the attorney's letterhead and I don't have a scanner handy so I'll copy the text of the letter to e-mail and post it to my journal on slashdot.
Nahh...
The simplest solution is to allow your kids (or someone else's) to install your software. Under US law minors cannot enter into a legally binding contract.
On the issue of 'contracts', I had an issue a while back with a mobile phone service provider. After reviewing my statement I realized that I had (listed as a 'feature', BTW!) an 'Advantage Agreement'. I called to ask what this was about and they said it was a contract. I had originally went with this company (Sprint PCS) specifically because they did not require service contracts. I was in my 5th year of using their service...so needless to say I was a little confused.
I figured out what had happened was that about 6 months prior I had purchased a new phone (at full retail price, BTW) and activated the service on-line. Apparantly the fine print on the web site said that I was agreeing to a 'contract'. I asked the lady on the phone for proof of the contract. She said she could provide me nothing.
This is in my opinion the worst part of clickware agreements. There is no proof of the agreement to be offered. Any one entity (generally large corporations) can force individuals to pay for crap just because they can.
As I was arguing with the Sprint people, I asked the lady what proof they had that I agree to the contract...her answer was "it's here on my computer". My response to her was, "well, here on my computer it says that I don't have a contract".
I told her I wanted to cancel my service and would not pay their $175 cancellation fee. She said that the fee would be turned over to collections. My response was that if it was turned over to collections Sprint PCS would be named in a lawsuit. Sure enough, about 2 months after cancelling my service and getting multiple bills in the mail I received a letter from a collections agency. I promptly sent it to my lawyer who kindly sent them a nice letter requiring proof of the contract. I got a letter from the collections agency about a week later stating that they were no longer seeking the $175. The lawyer cost me $200 (he's a friend) but it was well worth it to thumb my nose at a multi-million dollar corporation that in my opinion engages in an elaborate extortion scheme.
Don't you guys also have your provential sales tax that gets taxed by the Feds?
This comment is completely retarded. She wasn't arrested for protesting. She was arresting for sitting and blocking a public walkway. How the Hell did that get modded insightful?