I wouldn't say he could/should be extradited, but if he chose to go to Iran, yeah, they probably could and would arrest him. Hell, they arrested and imprisoned a photographer for taking pictures of the outside of an Iranian prison.
It's real simple. Set up the credit card verification to not accept certain types of cards, like say, ones from the U.S. If he had done that, and a U.S. citizen had circumvented that by getting a UK credit card, or whatever, then he wouldn't be at fault (well, normally, but you never can tell with the way the feds are running things these days) because he at least put in a good faith effort. A guy I know does online sales of a software program he wrote, and he had to take the time to look into whether it would be legal to sell the software in the countries he offered it in.
Now, if he can do that, and he's working a full-time job besides, and taking care of his kid, then you'd think that someone who runs a large online casino could put in the same level of effort to make sure that he's not violating any laws.
That's Souter, and what you're referring to is the attempts to seize some of his property in Weare, New Hampshire and make a hotel called the Lost Liberty Inn.
However, it's pretty much dead in the water. Back in March, the ballot on the proposal was easily defeated, and a few of the major local supporters who were running for the Board of Selectmen for Weare... well, they lost.
Yeah, but back in February of this year, they had sold over a billion songs through the iTunes music store. Which, even if they only get a nickel per song is $50 million dollars.
Add to that the sales of iPods, various iPod accessories, and probably just a few Mac sales...
Her name was Lola, she was a showgirl With yellow feathers in her hair and a dress cut down to there She would merengue and do the cha-cha And while she tried to be a star, Tony always tended bar Across a crowded floor, they worked from 8 till 4 They were young and they had each other Who could ask for more?
At the Copa (CO!), Copacabana (Copacabana) The hottest spot north of Havana (here) At the Copa (CO!), Copacabana Music and passion were always the fashion At the Copa....they fell in love
(Copa Copacabana)
His name was Rico, he wore a diamond He was escorted to his chair, he saw Lola dancin' there And when she finished, he called her over But Rico went a bit too far, Tony sailed across the bar And then the punches flew and chairs were smashed in two There was blood and a single gun shot But just who shot who?
At the Copa (CO!), Copacabana (Copacabana) The hottest spot north of Havana (here) At the Copa (CO!), Copacabana Music and passion were always the fashion At the Copa....she lost her love
(Copa. . Copacabana) (Copa Copacabana) (Copacabana, ahh ahh ahh ahh) (Ahh ahh ahh ahh Copa Copacabana) (Talking Havana have a banana) (Music and passion...always the fash--shun)
Her name is Lola, she was a showgirl But that was 30 years ago, when they used to have a show Now it's a disco, but not for Lola Still in the dress she used to wear, faded feathers in her hair She sits there so refined, and drinks herself half-blind She lost her youth and she lost her Tony Now she's lost her mind!
At the Copa (CO!), Copacabana (Copacabana) The hottest spot north of Havana (here) At the Copa (CO!), Copacabana Music and passion were always the fashion At the Copa....don't fall in love
There are these things called Battlegrounds. Currently, there are three of them: Arathi Basin, Warsong Gulch, and Alterac Valley. Each battleground has different objectives that need to be accomplished in order to win.
Now, before the 1.12 patch, the way Battlegrounds worked was as follows. If you entered a battleground, you were only working with people from your own faction from that server, and you were only facing people from the opposite faction from that server. If you were on the Argent Dawn server, for example, your side was other characters from Argent Dawn, and the other side was entirely comprised of characters from Argent Dawn.
Now, Blizzard has implemented something called cross-server Battlegrounds. What this means is that there are a number of battlegroups. Each battlegroup is comprised of a number of different servers, and each server (like Argent Dawn, or Ticondrius) only appears in one battlegroup.
Now, if you enter a battleground, your side can be characters from your faction on your server and/or any of the other servers in your battlegroup. The other side is similarly comprised, but it's not a 1-1 thing. Just because (for example), your side has two characters from Argent Dawn does not mean the other side has to have two characters from Argent Dawn.
Now what this means is that the wait times for battlegrounds can and has been reduced significantly. It used to be that you could wait for over an hour or more to get into a battleground because of the way they're set up. (Character limits and the queues.) Now, it can just be a couple of minutes.
Please. He's been effectively voted out now. Here's how the Connecticut election is going to break down.
Most everyone who votes Republican is going to vote for the Republican candidate, because they'll view him as a better choice then the guy who beat Lieberman in the primary (because he's a Democrat) and a better choice then Lieberman (because they'll view a Republican in office is still better then a moderate Democrat).
Pretty much everyone who voted for Ned Lamont (the guy who beat Lieberman) will still vote for Lamont. Some of the people who voted for Lieberman will vote for Lamont because they'll view Lamont as the more likely of the two to win, and a Democrat in office is better then a Republican, from their point of view.
Lieberman does not stand a whelk's chance in a supernova.
I'm sorry, but the peaches part of this can't possibly be realistic.
I live in South Carolina, where the state fruit is the peach. Georgia, right next door, is known as the peach state. You can't go 15 miles on rural roads in either state without seeing people selling fruit by the side of the road, and nearly all of the time, it includes peaches. Furthermore, the amount of cyanide in peach pits is minute. You'd probably have to eat a couple dozen pits before you stood even a slim chance of suffering from cyanide poisoning. And if you're going to go through that much trouble to kill yourself, there are easier ways...
Yes, you can tax money that is gained through illegal activities. How do you think they got Capone? He was living this lavish lifestyle, but had no legal source of income that could account for all of it. I mean, everyone knew he was a mobster and raking in piles of cash through bootlegging and other activities, but they couldn't prove that part in a court of law. They could, however, prove that his legal sources of income were not able to account for the houses, cars, etc. that he did have, so they got him on income tax violations, as he "obviously" had a source of income that he wasn't declaring.
But if he had declared it, they would have used that as evidence against him, or tried to at least...
However, FISA holds that without a court order, the U.S. government can only monitor foreign communications, not our own. For the NSA to monitor U.S. phone calls, even if it's only to see who is calling who, it requires an applied warrant to the FISC, and unless there have been 250+ million warrants applied for, well, something is wrong. Very wrong.
that after the similar Michigan law was drop-kicked by a Federal judge that the Okies wouldn't even try. I guess there's always that sound-bite they have to go for...
If this were the first time he had gone after the Florida Bar, yeah, maybe... he tried to have them declared unconstitutional back in 1992. 14 years later, he's still a litigious nutball.
Was the $20,000 settlement for having to undergo psychiatric testing? Because he asked a Florida judge to declare the Florida Bar Association unconstitutional in 1992, and that was resolved with a $20,000 settlement to him. But was the psychiatric evaluation part of that case or a different one?
Regardless of the fact that he passed the evaluation, the man is batshit crazy.
Okay, the RIAA has claimed, many a time, that many thousands of mp3s (or whatever) have been downloaded in the last six months, or last year, costing them record sales in the amount of X. (Where X seems to change on a daily basis.)
How do they figure out how many record sales they "lost"? I mean, let's say someone downloads five tracks from one CD, as has been known to happen. Does whatever tallying method they (the RIAA) use record that as one "lost" sale, five "lost" sales, or somewhere in between? And if it does record it as five "lost" sales, what does that say about the statistics they bandy about?
I mean, I might like the latest SOAD album, but I'm not going to buy it once for every track I like on it...
Exactly! But it cuts both ways. The government can't tell Google to adjust the pagerank of this lawsuit-happy company. If they want a better position, they can pay to advertise, but just because Google lists them lower is hardly cause for a lawsuit.
Besides, if 70% of their income dried up because of a change in pagerank, then it means most of their income was not from regular customers, who obviously found a better product/service/whatever in the companies listed higher then them. This is basically analagous to an advertising company being sued by one of their client accounts because another client account was getting more customers. But if you're not paying Google for anything, you get what you get. There's no contract with Google if you haven't paid them, thus no expectation of a consistent placement.
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I wouldn't say he could/should be extradited, but if he chose to go to Iran, yeah, they probably could and would arrest him. Hell, they arrested and imprisoned a photographer for taking pictures of the outside of an Iranian prison.
It's real simple. Set up the credit card verification to not accept certain types of cards, like say, ones from the U.S. If he had done that, and a U.S. citizen had circumvented that by getting a UK credit card, or whatever, then he wouldn't be at fault (well, normally, but you never can tell with the way the feds are running things these days) because he at least put in a good faith effort. A guy I know does online sales of a software program he wrote, and he had to take the time to look into whether it would be legal to sell the software in the countries he offered it in.
Now, if he can do that, and he's working a full-time job besides, and taking care of his kid, then you'd think that someone who runs a large online casino could put in the same level of effort to make sure that he's not violating any laws.
That's Souter, and what you're referring to is the attempts to seize some of his property in Weare, New Hampshire and make a hotel called the Lost Liberty Inn.
However, it's pretty much dead in the water. Back in March, the ballot on the proposal was easily defeated, and a few of the major local supporters who were running for the Board of Selectmen for Weare... well, they lost.
It did get some nice press, though.
Yeah, but back in February of this year, they had sold over a billion songs through the iTunes music store. Which, even if they only get a nickel per song is $50 million dollars.
Add to that the sales of iPods, various iPod accessories, and probably just a few Mac sales...
Her name was Lola, she was a showgirl
With yellow feathers in her hair and a dress cut down to there
She would merengue and do the cha-cha
And while she tried to be a star, Tony always tended bar
Across a crowded floor, they worked from 8 till 4
They were young and they had each other
Who could ask for more?
At the Copa (CO!), Copacabana (Copacabana)
The hottest spot north of Havana (here)
At the Copa (CO!), Copacabana
Music and passion were always the fashion
At the Copa....they fell in love
(Copa Copacabana)
His name was Rico, he wore a diamond
He was escorted to his chair, he saw Lola dancin' there
And when she finished, he called her over
But Rico went a bit too far, Tony sailed across the bar
And then the punches flew and chairs were smashed in two
There was blood and a single gun shot
But just who shot who?
At the Copa (CO!), Copacabana (Copacabana)
The hottest spot north of Havana (here)
At the Copa (CO!), Copacabana
Music and passion were always the fashion
At the Copa....she lost her love
(Copa. . Copacabana)
(Copa Copacabana) (Copacabana, ahh ahh ahh ahh)
(Ahh ahh ahh ahh Copa Copacabana)
(Talking Havana have a banana)
(Music and passion...always the fash--shun)
Her name is Lola, she was a showgirl
But that was 30 years ago, when they used to have a show
Now it's a disco, but not for Lola
Still in the dress she used to wear, faded feathers in her hair
She sits there so refined, and drinks herself half-blind
She lost her youth and she lost her Tony
Now she's lost her mind!
At the Copa (CO!), Copacabana (Copacabana)
The hottest spot north of Havana (here)
At the Copa (CO!), Copacabana
Music and passion were always the fashion
At the Copa....don't fall in love
(Copa) don't fall in love
Copacabana
Copacabana
Um, no. Details?
Okay, here goes.
There are these things called Battlegrounds. Currently, there are three of them: Arathi Basin, Warsong Gulch, and Alterac Valley. Each battleground has different objectives that need to be accomplished in order to win.
Now, before the 1.12 patch, the way Battlegrounds worked was as follows. If you entered a battleground, you were only working with people from your own faction from that server, and you were only facing people from the opposite faction from that server. If you were on the Argent Dawn server, for example, your side was other characters from Argent Dawn, and the other side was entirely comprised of characters from Argent Dawn.
Now, Blizzard has implemented something called cross-server Battlegrounds. What this means is that there are a number of battlegroups. Each battlegroup is comprised of a number of different servers, and each server (like Argent Dawn, or Ticondrius) only appears in one battlegroup.
Now, if you enter a battleground, your side can be characters from your faction on your server and/or any of the other servers in your battlegroup. The other side is similarly comprised, but it's not a 1-1 thing. Just because (for example), your side has two characters from Argent Dawn does not mean the other side has to have two characters from Argent Dawn.
Now what this means is that the wait times for battlegrounds can and has been reduced significantly. It used to be that you could wait for over an hour or more to get into a battleground because of the way they're set up. (Character limits and the queues.) Now, it can just be a couple of minutes.
Now brush that Cheeto dust off your shirt and pants, and move out of your parents' basement!
What? No cheese? I thought it was made of cheese. I was lied to!
Please. He's been effectively voted out now. Here's how the Connecticut election is going to break down.
Most everyone who votes Republican is going to vote for the Republican candidate, because they'll view him as a better choice then the guy who beat Lieberman in the primary (because he's a Democrat) and a better choice then Lieberman (because they'll view a Republican in office is still better then a moderate Democrat).
Pretty much everyone who voted for Ned Lamont (the guy who beat Lieberman) will still vote for Lamont. Some of the people who voted for Lieberman will vote for Lamont because they'll view Lamont as the more likely of the two to win, and a Democrat in office is better then a Republican, from their point of view.
Lieberman does not stand a whelk's chance in a supernova.
Depends on where in California he would be. A 7 foot tall man, in a gorilla suit, juggling live chickens would not stand out in parts of Berkeley.
I'm sorry, but the peaches part of this can't possibly be realistic.
I live in South Carolina, where the state fruit is the peach. Georgia, right next door, is known as the peach state. You can't go 15 miles on rural roads in either state without seeing people selling fruit by the side of the road, and nearly all of the time, it includes peaches. Furthermore, the amount of cyanide in peach pits is minute. You'd probably have to eat a couple dozen pits before you stood even a slim chance of suffering from cyanide poisoning. And if you're going to go through that much trouble to kill yourself, there are easier ways...
Yes, you can tax money that is gained through illegal activities. How do you think they got Capone? He was living this lavish lifestyle, but had no legal source of income that could account for all of it. I mean, everyone knew he was a mobster and raking in piles of cash through bootlegging and other activities, but they couldn't prove that part in a court of law. They could, however, prove that his legal sources of income were not able to account for the houses, cars, etc. that he did have, so they got him on income tax violations, as he "obviously" had a source of income that he wasn't declaring.
But if he had declared it, they would have used that as evidence against him, or tried to at least...
Well, um, you've got cooties!
A month? Give it two weeks, and you'll be able to download them for free.
Kierthos
Sadly, it seems I'm the first one to get the joke.
However, FISA holds that without a court order, the U.S. government can only monitor foreign communications, not our own. For the NSA to monitor U.S. phone calls, even if it's only to see who is calling who, it requires an applied warrant to the FISC, and unless there have been 250+ million warrants applied for, well, something is wrong. Very wrong.
Ahem.... GU Comics beat you to the funny.
Kierthos
that after the similar Michigan law was drop-kicked by a Federal judge that the Okies wouldn't even try. I guess there's always that sound-bite they have to go for...
You know... "We're doing this for the children!"
What a load of bollocks.
Kierthos
If this were the first time he had gone after the Florida Bar, yeah, maybe... he tried to have them declared unconstitutional back in 1992. 14 years later, he's still a litigious nutball.
Kierthos
Was the $20,000 settlement for having to undergo psychiatric testing? Because he asked a Florida judge to declare the Florida Bar Association unconstitutional in 1992, and that was resolved with a $20,000 settlement to him. But was the psychiatric evaluation part of that case or a different one?
Regardless of the fact that he passed the evaluation, the man is batshit crazy.
Kierthos
I could live with the dupes, because I don't check Slashdot as often as I used to.
The April Fool's setup however... I have a new entry for retarded. Thankfully, it's only for another several hours.
Kierthos
Yeah, and all he would have to do is pick Robert Novak for his VP choice, and the Daily Show jokes would just write themselves.
Kierthos
Here's another point I've wondered....
Okay, the RIAA has claimed, many a time, that many thousands of mp3s (or whatever) have been downloaded in the last six months, or last year, costing them record sales in the amount of X. (Where X seems to change on a daily basis.)
How do they figure out how many record sales they "lost"? I mean, let's say someone downloads five tracks from one CD, as has been known to happen. Does whatever tallying method they (the RIAA) use record that as one "lost" sale, five "lost" sales, or somewhere in between? And if it does record it as five "lost" sales, what does that say about the statistics they bandy about?
I mean, I might like the latest SOAD album, but I'm not going to buy it once for every track I like on it...
Kierthos
No, it's Supervolt, fool!
Kierthos
Exactly! But it cuts both ways. The government can't tell Google to adjust the pagerank of this lawsuit-happy company. If they want a better position, they can pay to advertise, but just because Google lists them lower is hardly cause for a lawsuit.
Besides, if 70% of their income dried up because of a change in pagerank, then it means most of their income was not from regular customers, who obviously found a better product/service/whatever in the companies listed higher then them. This is basically analagous to an advertising company being sued by one of their client accounts because another client account was getting more customers. But if you're not paying Google for anything, you get what you get. There's no contract with Google if you haven't paid them, thus no expectation of a consistent placement.
Kierthos