Once they are using the service they will know pretty quickly the accuracy of the claims that were made by the provider to get them to sign the contract.
And then the answer is sue? Hmm... I suppose it would be pretty interesting to see a company sue AT&T or a Bell because they chose a location to set up shop for the bandwidth, and demand as damages the cost of relocating the company (breaking contracts, etc), lost business, reprinting letterhead and cards, and so on.
if there are no other choices of provider in your area, guess (once again) who you have to thank.
Who, the government? Pfft. I blame the fact that we're so spread out that it would take billions of dollars to rewire everything, and an incomplete network would be worthless without the rest of the country (at the absolute minimum) meaning that a new company could not simply decide to compete in one market and branch out at a later time, their shiny new UselessNet would wither on the vine.
Capitalism is not a magic tool that solves problems, all it does is move money around.
They have, it's called the Presidential Records Act.
This ruling just says that the general public is not allowed to use the FOIA in order to find out whether the administration is complying with the law or not.
The company representative explicitly said "no external inputs except water". Are you suggesting that he isn't being truthful???
Of course he's being truthful! When the membrane clogs up and stops working, you throw the whole thing away and buy a new magic box that creates electricity from just water, duh!
Rights aren't created or granted, they are inherent in all humans.
Ding ding ding!
The power to move about is fundamentally inherent in being alive. "To Go" is a fundamental right on par with "To Speak" and "To Think", and in a free society, must not be infringed without process and proof.
I don't know how it works in the UK, but I'm going to say that's bullshit. You think my apartment owner is going to say "oh hey, the guy is in jail, he doesn't need to pay me?" Maybe the utilities there go the extra mile and the electric guy comes out and turns off all the lights?
I'm certain the guy still had to pay those living costs.
For every case the Supreme Court hears, how many do they allow to stand?
During its 2004-05 term, the Supreme Court reversed 84 percent of the cases it chose to hear from appeals of 9th Circuit decisions... But the high court reversed 100 percent of the decisions it heard from the 1st, 2nd, and 10th Circuit Courts of Appeals
If 16 of 19 cases that were taken were overturned in 04/05, how many cases did the Supreme Court decline to hear, allowing the 9th Circuit decision to stand? I can't find statistics on the numbers of appeals where the Supreme Court essentially "agreed" with the Circuit court, but I did find this neat doohickey that lets me generate reports on case information for each Circuit, and it tells me that for 2005, the number of "on the merits" decisions (as opposed to decisions about procedural error, etc) was: 1st) 986 2nd) 2121 3rd) 2329 4th) 2590 5th) 3608 6th) 2903 7th) 1480 8th) 2078 9th) 6197 10th) 1524 11th) 3579 DCth;) 518
If every one of those 6197 decisions was appealed and the Supreme Court only disagreed 16 times, that's a pretty damn good percentage in my opinion.
Finally, California has money out the wazoo. That money is required in order to appeal cases in the first place, and doubly so to appeal to the Supreme Court. Coupled with the fact that the government is more or less required to let the people try to appeal (something about a right to petition for redress of grievances), you can see those dollars at work in this Circuit.
So do most of the rest of us, which is what annoys the hell out of me whenever someone must assume that i give rimjobs and reacharounds to Democrats whenever I point out the failings of a Republican. Or vice versa.
And then there's the crowd who thinks all of slashdot must be the same way, because apparently they were busy suckling on their mommy's teat while slashdot discussed ECHELON, the DMCA, and all the other things we saw as the Democrats abusing the power of government back when the Democrats were actually in charge and busy fucking things up.
When there's nothing to live for if you lose, then the only choice left is to desperately try to win at any cost.
Funny, I thought that was the point of things like the Geneva convention, to make it possible for the losing side to say "shit, we lost", take their lickings, and call an end to the war, disband their army, and have people more or less go back to whatever jobs they've got left back home.
Looks like for 2007 Mexico was second place, but Saudi Arabia has really pulled out all the stops for 08, they might actually be serious when they tell Bush they ain't got no more.
as you continually expose yourself to such material, it subsequently takes more and more to turn you on
Does it? I mean, it would certainly explain the people who go through mistresses like a chainsmoker does cigarettes, but let's face it: the vast majority of men masturbate, the vast majority of those never make it to the point where they have to use Japanese porn to get it up.
If stuff you see and hear doesn't effect your actions
Oh come on, that's bullshit and you kn... oh hang on, I have a sudden compulsion to go and buy a box of tampons because thats what the commercial is telling me to do. Not that I have a use for them or anything, I'll just put them in the big stack of tampons in the corner...ow it.
Slashdot Mirror
Allow people just to kill each other in the street?
If the good guys outnumber the bad guys, then things will eventually settle down (unless the good guys have terrible aim).
Otherwise, we're fucked no matter what.
Once they are using the service they will know pretty quickly the accuracy of the claims that were made by the provider to get them to sign the contract.
And then the answer is sue? Hmm... I suppose it would be pretty interesting to see a company sue AT&T or a Bell because they chose a location to set up shop for the bandwidth, and demand as damages the cost of relocating the company (breaking contracts, etc), lost business, reprinting letterhead and cards, and so on.
if there are no other choices of provider in your area, guess (once again) who you have to thank.
Who, the government? Pfft. I blame the fact that we're so spread out that it would take billions of dollars to rewire everything, and an incomplete network would be worthless without the rest of the country (at the absolute minimum) meaning that a new company could not simply decide to compete in one market and branch out at a later time, their shiny new UselessNet would wither on the vine.
Capitalism is not a magic tool that solves problems, all it does is move money around.
And as always if the provider misinforms the customer, they can be taken to court.
In your planet, how does the customer find out that he's been misinformed when there is no other source of information but the provider itself?
mandatory email journaling voted in
They have, it's called the Presidential Records Act.
This ruling just says that the general public is not allowed to use the FOIA in order to find out whether the administration is complying with the law or not.
The company representative explicitly said "no external inputs except water". Are you suggesting that he isn't being truthful???
Of course he's being truthful! When the membrane clogs up and stops working, you throw the whole thing away and buy a new magic box that creates electricity from just water, duh!
People that were never in the United States or granted Citizen status in the United States.
You're still behind the times. See also the arrest of Sklyarov and those British guys who used to run an internet casino.
Rights aren't created or granted, they are inherent in all humans.
Ding ding ding!
The power to move about is fundamentally inherent in being alive. "To Go" is a fundamental right on par with "To Speak" and "To Think", and in a free society, must not be infringed without process and proof.
Constitutional rights
Name the part of the US Constitution that creates rights that have been recognized for hundreds of years prior to the authorship of the Constitution.
The nation will live
Thanks Scalia, for a moment there I thought we were going to lose her entirely!
would have had to pay the living costs
I don't know how it works in the UK, but I'm going to say that's bullshit. You think my apartment owner is going to say "oh hey, the guy is in jail, he doesn't need to pay me?" Maybe the utilities there go the extra mile and the electric guy comes out and turns off all the lights?
I'm certain the guy still had to pay those living costs.
Damn, you're right. Wiki says only lux, hertz, and siemens are the same in singular and plural. Ah well.
For every case the Supreme Court hears, how many do they allow to stand?-- http://mediamatters.org/items/200511090012
If 16 of 19 cases that were taken were overturned in 04/05, how many cases did the Supreme Court decline to hear, allowing the 9th Circuit decision to stand? I can't find statistics on the numbers of appeals where the Supreme Court essentially "agreed" with the Circuit court, but I did find this neat doohickey that lets me generate reports on case information for each Circuit, and it tells me that for 2005, the number of "on the merits" decisions (as opposed to decisions about procedural error, etc) was:
1st) 986
2nd) 2121
3rd) 2329
4th) 2590
5th) 3608
6th) 2903
7th) 1480
8th) 2078
9th) 6197
10th) 1524
11th) 3579
DCth
If every one of those 6197 decisions was appealed and the Supreme Court only disagreed 16 times, that's a pretty damn good percentage in my opinion.
Finally, California has money out the wazoo. That money is required in order to appeal cases in the first place, and doubly so to appeal to the Supreme Court. Coupled with the fact that the government is more or less required to let the people try to appeal (something about a right to petition for redress of grievances), you can see those dollars at work in this Circuit.
I fully acknowledge that they BOTH suck
So do most of the rest of us, which is what annoys the hell out of me whenever someone must assume that i give rimjobs and reacharounds to Democrats whenever I point out the failings of a Republican. Or vice versa.
And then there's the crowd who thinks all of slashdot must be the same way, because apparently they were busy suckling on their mommy's teat while slashdot discussed ECHELON, the DMCA, and all the other things we saw as the Democrats abusing the power of government back when the Democrats were actually in charge and busy fucking things up.
When there's nothing to live for if you lose, then the only choice left is to desperately try to win at any cost.
Funny, I thought that was the point of things like the Geneva convention, to make it possible for the losing side to say "shit, we lost", take their lickings, and call an end to the war, disband their army, and have people more or less go back to whatever jobs they've got left back home.
http://www.justfuckinggoogleit.com/search.pl?query=us+oil+import+top+countries
Looks like for 2007 Mexico was second place, but Saudi Arabia has really pulled out all the stops for 08, they might actually be serious when they tell Bush they ain't got no more.
If I'm a plumber, and don't work weekends, you don't have the right to force me to work weekends because that's what you would prefer.
Then you have absolutely no grounds to whine if I get someone else to come over and fix my toilet because you refuse to take my money on a weekend.
Wait, wait, so you're saying if we merged this PIM thing with social networking, we just might actually get someone laid?!
Is that really a rule?
IIRC, the rule is that units named after people (eg Pascal) are not pluralized.
Well shit, I better revoke my shareholder proxy in time to show up at the next election and demand that they stop this tomfoolery at once!
as you continually expose yourself to such material, it subsequently takes more and more to turn you on
Does it? I mean, it would certainly explain the people who go through mistresses like a chainsmoker does cigarettes, but let's face it: the vast majority of men masturbate, the vast majority of those never make it to the point where they have to use Japanese porn to get it up.
If stuff you see and hear doesn't effect your actions
Oh come on, that's bullshit and you kn... oh hang on, I have a sudden compulsion to go and buy a box of tampons because thats what the commercial is telling me to do. Not that I have a use for them or anything, I'll just put them in the big stack of tampons in the corner...ow it.
A LAMP application hooked up to a cage of weasels?
Given the subject of the story, maybe we can call it GASLAMP? (GAS=Google AJAX Something...)
I wonder if police still use Polaroid photos for crime scene evidence, I don't think there are photo printers that can fake one of those... yet.