I didn't immediately make the connection. I mean, sure, there was a link to a translated page from Google, but that just means that it could have Florence, South Carolina, and it was translated out of redneckian.
Yeah, it looks like there's going to be some "previously thought to be ridiculous amounts of damage" thrown around at 1st level. Magic missile as an at-will, doing 2d4+5? Yikes.
Wonder what the fireball spell is going to look like....
I could have sworn THAC0 was in 1st edition... not that it makes it any less of a bad rule.
And Psionics would not be overpowered if they would have it be in the new edition from the onset. But, of course, they won't, so when they do add it into 4e six months to a year after 4e launches, it will, once again, be all fucked up. (1st ed. Psionics sucked balls. 2nd ed. Psionics were a weird mix of completely overpowered or completely underpowered, 3rd ed. and 3.5 Psionics were just freaking bizarre AND overpowered.)
It wouldn't matter if he ran a site that only had pictures of midgets in medieval costumes dancing the macarena. If someone took his copyrighted work and used it without permission, they are liable for it. The company that did this compounded their error by fraudulently creating documents claiming to own the photograph in question.
It doesn't matter if it's "little guy" vs. "big company", or "big company" vs. "other big company". They fucked up, and were found liable in a court of law.
Now, you can argue that copyright is bad, or that the expiration limits are too long, or that it is being misused in many cases.
But there's no conceivable way you can argue that it was misused or misapplied in this case.
Unless, of course, you're some sort of next-generation cyber-dumbass created in a government funded laboratory in order to confound and infuriate people on public forums.
Really? The biggest problem I have with CSI is that they let the forensic geeks interview/interrogate suspects. I mean, come on, that's what the actual cops are for. (I didn't think forensic geeks were allowed to carry guns during working hours either, but I was disabused of that notion when I had jury duty back in 2002.)
Hey, it all depends. If it was a close race before the info got leaked, that may have changed a few voters minds. It may not have been the sole reason, sure... but it could influence some voters.
But you never know what voters will do. One of the city councilmen in the city I live in was shown to have been delinquent in paying property taxes and business taxes (as in "oops, last year's taxes weren't paid, and this year's are late"), and he still got re-elected.
Yes, but think about it. Some of those clients may be the kind of people who don't like it when light is shined on their criminal activities. Those clients may not want to take the chance that something in the leaked documents could lead to a rectal exam courtesy of the IRS or other appropriate tax agency.
Depends on if the government lets them raise the rates to make up for "losses due to piracy", doesn't it? Well, isn't that the argument used by the MAFIAA?
You've sort of got that backwards. Many of the House Republicans want to pass the same bill that was passed in the Senate, which would grant the telecoms immunity. Whereas some of the Democrats are saying that they shouldn't just be lapdogs of the President (and others are saying that they want the telecom immunity to be stripped out).
For the record, Barack Obama voted to strip the immunity of the telecoms, Hillary Clinton abstained, and John McCain voted for telecom immunity.
I would have said Nixon, but I think Nixon actually had (slightly) higher approval ratings at the end there......
Just checked... Truman actually had a lower approval rating (during the Korean War) then Bush, but Bush's low (24%) is only 2% higher then Truman's low (22%), and Bush has most of a year to go.
But Truman didn't fuck as many things up as Bush has, so I'd have to say that Bush is the worst.
that the House doesn't end up bending over AGAIN for that sockpuppet masquerading as a President.
The telecoms do not need immunity, and any existing wiretaps can continue for up to a year. But of course, President sockpuppet prefers not to mention that....
If her tax info was on there, then yes it is covered by the DC consumer identity protection law. Now, is it partially her fault for leaving her stuff on there? Yes. Should she have removed the hard drive before getting the repairs done? Yes.
Did Best Buy still give her the runaround for weeks on this? YES. Have they taken the steps that they are required to by law now that they know her personal info was on there? Why, it appears not.
I have worked in retail for the last seven and a half years. If I even pulled half the shit that these people at Best Buy did, I'd be looking for another job.
And even she admits that the $54 million is too much. But it damn sure has their attention now, doesn't it?
Except even if they are not liable for her data being stolen, they are responsible for notifying her of the fact that it was stolen. Nothing trumps that. The damn instant they were sure that the laptop was missing, their #1 priority in regards to that customer was letting her know the truth - her laptop was stolen.
Instead, what did they do? They lied about it. Again and again and again.
No, no... it's more of a "When you start behaving like rational people, we can have a rational discussion. But when you're proclaiming the suicide bombers are martyrs to the faith, and demanding that we follow all of your rules but you don't have to follow ours, well, cousin, we have nothing to talk about."
And yes, I know that not all Muslims are the "let's blow up the infidel and anyone else who disagrees with us" types. Hell, one of the guys I work with is a Muslim, and he's about the most laid back guy I know. (Check that, second most laid back. The most laid back guy I know is one of my other co-workers who is from the Dominican Republic.)
Yeah, well, non-Muslims aren't one large "Oh, let's piss off the Muslims" entity. But they sure seem ready to tar us all with the same brush, so what the hell...
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And lest ye forget, you only need a certain number of delegates to seal the nomination. McCain got there last night.
And Ron Paul has something like a whopping 17 delegates.
That depends on the state, actually. Texas had open primaries. Pennsylvania does not.
South Carolina took the easy way out and had open primaries, but on different days for Democrats and Republicans.
I would just start slapping people in that government agency.
"I must be alive! Dead people can't slap you upside your head!"
I didn't immediately make the connection. I mean, sure, there was a link to a translated page from Google, but that just means that it could have Florence, South Carolina, and it was translated out of redneckian.
That was a joke, in case anyone missed it.
Yeah, it looks like there's going to be some "previously thought to be ridiculous amounts of damage" thrown around at 1st level. Magic missile as an at-will, doing 2d4+5? Yikes.
Wonder what the fireball spell is going to look like....
I could have sworn THAC0 was in 1st edition... not that it makes it any less of a bad rule.
And Psionics would not be overpowered if they would have it be in the new edition from the onset. But, of course, they won't, so when they do add it into 4e six months to a year after 4e launches, it will, once again, be all fucked up. (1st ed. Psionics sucked balls. 2nd ed. Psionics were a weird mix of completely overpowered or completely underpowered, 3rd ed. and 3.5 Psionics were just freaking bizarre AND overpowered.)
It doesn't matter so much if you're right or wrong, but which side the judge (and/or jury) believes.
It wouldn't matter if he ran a site that only had pictures of midgets in medieval costumes dancing the macarena. If someone took his copyrighted work and used it without permission, they are liable for it. The company that did this compounded their error by fraudulently creating documents claiming to own the photograph in question.
It doesn't matter if it's "little guy" vs. "big company", or "big company" vs. "other big company". They fucked up, and were found liable in a court of law.
Now, you can argue that copyright is bad, or that the expiration limits are too long, or that it is being misused in many cases.
But there's no conceivable way you can argue that it was misused or misapplied in this case.
Unless, of course, you're some sort of next-generation cyber-dumbass created in a government funded laboratory in order to confound and infuriate people on public forums.
Really? The biggest problem I have with CSI is that they let the forensic geeks interview/interrogate suspects. I mean, come on, that's what the actual cops are for. (I didn't think forensic geeks were allowed to carry guns during working hours either, but I was disabused of that notion when I had jury duty back in 2002.)
Hey, it all depends. If it was a close race before the info got leaked, that may have changed a few voters minds. It may not have been the sole reason, sure... but it could influence some voters.
But you never know what voters will do. One of the city councilmen in the city I live in was shown to have been delinquent in paying property taxes and business taxes (as in "oops, last year's taxes weren't paid, and this year's are late"), and he still got re-elected.
Yes, but think about it. Some of those clients may be the kind of people who don't like it when light is shined on their criminal activities. Those clients may not want to take the chance that something in the leaked documents could lead to a rectal exam courtesy of the IRS or other appropriate tax agency.
Depends on if the government lets them raise the rates to make up for "losses due to piracy", doesn't it? Well, isn't that the argument used by the MAFIAA?
You've sort of got that backwards. Many of the House Republicans want to pass the same bill that was passed in the Senate, which would grant the telecoms immunity. Whereas some of the Democrats are saying that they shouldn't just be lapdogs of the President (and others are saying that they want the telecom immunity to be stripped out).
For the record, Barack Obama voted to strip the immunity of the telecoms, Hillary Clinton abstained, and John McCain voted for telecom immunity.
I would have said Nixon, but I think Nixon actually had (slightly) higher approval ratings at the end there. .....
Just checked... Truman actually had a lower approval rating (during the Korean War) then Bush, but Bush's low (24%) is only 2% higher then Truman's low (22%), and Bush has most of a year to go.
But Truman didn't fuck as many things up as Bush has, so I'd have to say that Bush is the worst.
You listened to Keith Olbermann last night, didn't you? :)
Well, he could always order them waterboarded. I mean, he's already determined that isn't torture.
that the House doesn't end up bending over AGAIN for that sockpuppet masquerading as a President.
The telecoms do not need immunity, and any existing wiretaps can continue for up to a year. But of course, President sockpuppet prefers not to mention that....
Google has a lot less crap in the way of finding the search field.
If her tax info was on there, then yes it is covered by the DC consumer identity protection law. Now, is it partially her fault for leaving her stuff on there? Yes. Should she have removed the hard drive before getting the repairs done? Yes.
Did Best Buy still give her the runaround for weeks on this? YES.
Have they taken the steps that they are required to by law now that they know her personal info was on there? Why, it appears not.
I have worked in retail for the last seven and a half years. If I even pulled half the shit that these people at Best Buy did, I'd be looking for another job.
And even she admits that the $54 million is too much. But it damn sure has their attention now, doesn't it?
Except even if they are not liable for her data being stolen, they are responsible for notifying her of the fact that it was stolen. Nothing trumps that. The damn instant they were sure that the laptop was missing, their #1 priority in regards to that customer was letting her know the truth - her laptop was stolen.
Instead, what did they do? They lied about it. Again and again and again.
That is completely unacceptable.
Because it's a slow news day? Because the magic faeries said to post it?
Why does anything get posted? Because the editors think it's worthy of getting posted, that's why.
The last 'T' stands for Trilogy.
I don't think you realize how many packages FedEx ships daily.
No, no... it's more of a "When you start behaving like rational people, we can have a rational discussion. But when you're proclaiming the suicide bombers are martyrs to the faith, and demanding that we follow all of your rules but you don't have to follow ours, well, cousin, we have nothing to talk about."
And yes, I know that not all Muslims are the "let's blow up the infidel and anyone else who disagrees with us" types. Hell, one of the guys I work with is a Muslim, and he's about the most laid back guy I know. (Check that, second most laid back. The most laid back guy I know is one of my other co-workers who is from the Dominican Republic.)
Yeah, well, non-Muslims aren't one large "Oh, let's piss off the Muslims" entity. But they sure seem ready to tar us all with the same brush, so what the hell...