if anything was to be uncovered it would most likely be making the company liable, so you would be incurring hideous costs in order to be able to prosecute a company that no longer exists. hmmmm I think I prefer our courts were doing something other than using our money trying to punish a corpse. Let it go, they are dead and buried.
Actually, there's good reason to suspect the kinds of collusion and deliberate deception that could result in personal liability, including possibly criminal liability, for some of the players.
I also got screwed by that too. BoA also had trouble with some of the back-end processes. My first direct depost paycheck from my new job bounced. Paychex charges a good bit for rerunning payroll so I'm stuck until Friday Feb 15 until I get paid.
It is your company's legal responsibility to pay you right fucking now! They should ask Paychex to rerun the deposit at no fee or reduced fee, and if their rep can't/won't do that, they should pay to have it rerun then take up the matter of being compensated for that expense with BoA. You, as well, should make sure that BoA sends a nice letter on your behalf to any account you paid late, explaining that it was their fault.
How about this position: complete legalization of all drugs. Not just "medical MJ", not just "decriminalization", but full scale, "buy organic pot brownies at Whole Foods" legalization.
Check back in about 3 years and see how Colorado is doing;-)
No special sin taxes, just ordinary sales tax like any other item up for sale.
Well, OK, we are going to tax it specially, and it will, like liquor, only be available in special stores.
Agreed. I don't know where that comes from, but it's total bullshit, plain wrong, and should never come from somebody writing an article about programming.
Well, as another reply to my post pointed out, his bio is online, and shows that he got his start in the mid-90's in large corporations.
Except that McDonald's does exactly what the article is talking about. Your Quarter Pounder is a quater of a pound before they cook it. You are not getting a quarter pound of meat on the bun. Some of the mass is lost during cooking. Now granted, I think this case is much more extreme than the case of a hamburger.
Yes. If you were to make a 1/4 hamburger, how much meat would you put in it?
Just from reading this review. My god, this review was written by an alleged author? If I were to print it and mark up the grammar errors, the page would be covered in red ink...
Where of course by "breaking in" you mean "opening an unlocked door" and by "company" you mean "a university with an open campus and extremely liberal access policies". I wonder if there are job openings in Carmen Ortiz's office?
He did trespass, and he deserved to be punished for it. A $100 fine, or maybe a small amount of community service in lieu.
He did commit some copyright violation, and although the amount of stuff downloaded was massive, he didn't do anything with it, and so the damages to JSTOR were non-existant. So for that one, maybe $1,00 fine, 100 or 200 hours of community service, and a suspended sentence.
On one hand supporters want to say that he isn't a criminal because he wasn't convicted. The same group wants to say he was punished unfairly though he received no sentence. Contradiction.
Not at all. Being subjected to grossly exaggerated charges that only relate to your actual actions in the demented mind of a lunatic prosecutor, spending a fortune on lawyers, and living under the threat of bankruptcy AT BEST and at worst conviction with a monstrously disproportionate sentence--is most certainly punishment. You have to be a fucking sociopath to claim otherwise.
1a. You can be (i)charged, (ii)prosecuted and a (iii)jury determines your guilt. This situation was at the first stage (i). No foul.
So the next time you get a parking ticket, if you're charged with murder, you'd be OK with that because you'd get the chance to defend yourself in court?
A gross exaggeration of course, but your statement "no foul" about the gross prosecutorial overreach in this case makes me feel sick. How can anyone possibly say that in good conscience???
I'm curious about the copyright field. Aren't the letters supposed to be public domain? Since Wallaced died in 1913, which is well past the 50-75 years after death clause of most countries' copyright regimes, shouldn't the copyright on the letters have lapsed already?
I know you can copyright a translation. Can you copyright a transcription? At least in the U.S. that seems unlikely to stand up in court because of the missing creative element, but it may well be that in other countries you can copyright such...
Imagine a mortgage amortization program projecting payments out into the future for a 30-year mortgage.
In 1988, the data processing division of NCR which provided loan processing services to small banks had still not fixed the Y2K bugs in their software. In order to make 30-year mortgages, their customers had to calculate the amortization table for a 30 year loan to figure out what the balance would be at the end of December 1999, then actually put the loan into the system as an XX year YY month loan coming due at the end of 1999 with a balloon payment of that amount. All in the hope that some time in the next 12 years NCR would fix the problem, even though the prior 18 years had not been long enough. (Well, not really. At that point all their customers were actively working on bringing their processing in-house, since the AS/400, along with a couple of upstart software companies, was making that far more practical than it had ever been.)
So... now every time I hear one human being describe another as "tasty" or "quite the dish" I'm going to remember your unfortunate remarks. Thanks a lot for that mental image!
I'm glad that at least one person had the reading skills to catch the implication!
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So stealthy, that I bet no other country will ever be able to detect one in flight ;-)
if anything was to be uncovered it would most likely be making the company liable, so you would be incurring hideous costs in order to be able to prosecute a company that no longer exists. hmmmm I think I prefer our courts were doing something other than using our money trying to punish a corpse. Let it go, they are dead and buried.
Actually, there's good reason to suspect the kinds of collusion and deliberate deception that could result in personal liability, including possibly criminal liability, for some of the players.
Barratry has fallen into almost total disuse; there's a long tradition of courts being unwilling to enforce it.
It's time to change that, disbar a few lawyers and others will start to actually evaluate claims before filing them ;-)
I also got screwed by that too. BoA also had trouble with some of the back-end processes. My first direct depost paycheck from my new job bounced. Paychex charges a good bit for rerunning payroll so I'm stuck until Friday Feb 15 until I get paid.
It is your company's legal responsibility to pay you right fucking now! They should ask Paychex to rerun the deposit at no fee or reduced fee, and if their rep can't/won't do that, they should pay to have it rerun then take up the matter of being compensated for that expense with BoA. You, as well, should make sure that BoA sends a nice letter on your behalf to any account you paid late, explaining that it was their fault.
How about this position: complete legalization of all drugs. Not just "medical MJ", not just "decriminalization", but full scale, "buy organic pot brownies at Whole Foods" legalization.
Check back in about 3 years and see how Colorado is doing ;-)
No special sin taxes, just ordinary sales tax like any other item up for sale.
Well, OK, we are going to tax it specially, and it will, like liquor, only be available in special stores.
It wasn't $250,000 in tax money; it was $250,000 in money from the private trade association representing the labels.
Agreed.
I don't know where that comes from, but it's total bullshit, plain wrong, and should never come from somebody writing an article about programming.
Well, as another reply to my post pointed out, his bio is online, and shows that he got his start in the mid-90's in large corporations.
Take a look at his biography [veracode.com]. His experience starts mid-90s in large corporations. Maybe he thinks computing started then?
You, sir (or madam), have solved the mystery. Unfortunately, I can offer neither riches nor fame for this :-(
Hell, I can't even mod you up!
"writing software" – free form, creative, inspirational – from "software engineering," its older, more thoughtful and reliable cousin.'
Bullshit. The free-form, creative, inspirational kind is decades older than "software engineering".
There went 2013's profit!
Please take your false sense of entitlement and go bond with your own network. You're unwelcome on any non sociopath's net.
Uhhmmm, I'm pretty sure the sociopaths don't want this guy freeloading off them either...
After all, removing information damaging to the prime minister improves "internet security", not damages it ;-)
I'm sure the polymer causes autism. I just know it.
Except that McDonald's does exactly what the article is talking about. Your Quarter Pounder is a quater of a pound before they cook it. You are not getting a quarter pound of meat on the bun. Some of the mass is lost during cooking. Now granted, I think this case is much more extreme than the case of a hamburger.
Yes. If you were to make a 1/4 hamburger, how much meat would you put in it?
Just from reading this review. My god, this review was written by an alleged author? If I were to print it and mark up the grammar errors, the page would be covered in red ink...
This too, completely legal, campus police are just security guards with no special right to be told the truth.
This varies from college to college. At MIT the Campus Police are real police, with real police powers, just with jurisdiction limited to the campus.
Don't get your life ruined. Fair deal.
Where of course by "breaking in" you mean "opening an unlocked door" and by "company" you mean "a university with an open campus and extremely liberal access policies". I wonder if there are job openings in Carmen Ortiz's office?
He did trespass, and he deserved to be punished for it. A $100 fine, or maybe a small amount of community service in lieu.
He did commit some copyright violation, and although the amount of stuff downloaded was massive, he didn't do anything with it, and so the damages to JSTOR were non-existant. So for that one, maybe $1,00 fine, 100 or 200 hours of community service, and a suspended sentence.
On one hand supporters want to say that he isn't a criminal because he wasn't convicted. The same group wants to say he was punished unfairly though he received no sentence. Contradiction.
Not at all. Being subjected to grossly exaggerated charges that only relate to your actual actions in the demented mind of a lunatic prosecutor, spending a fortune on lawyers, and living under the threat of bankruptcy AT BEST and at worst conviction with a monstrously disproportionate sentence--is most certainly punishment. You have to be a fucking sociopath to claim otherwise.
1a. You can be (i)charged, (ii)prosecuted and a (iii)jury determines your guilt. This situation was at the first stage (i). No foul.
So the next time you get a parking ticket, if you're charged with murder, you'd be OK with that because you'd get the chance to defend yourself in court?
A gross exaggeration of course, but your statement "no foul" about the gross prosecutorial overreach in this case makes me feel sick. How can anyone possibly say that in good conscience???
I'm curious about the copyright field. Aren't the letters supposed to be public domain? Since Wallaced died in 1913, which is well past the 50-75 years after death clause of most countries' copyright regimes, shouldn't the copyright on the letters have lapsed already?
I know you can copyright a translation. Can you copyright a transcription? At least in the U.S. that seems unlikely to stand up in court because of the missing creative element, but it may well be that in other countries you can copyright such...
Imagine a mortgage amortization program projecting payments out into the future for a 30-year mortgage.
In 1988, the data processing division of NCR which provided loan processing services to small banks had still not fixed the Y2K bugs in their software. In order to make 30-year mortgages, their customers had to calculate the amortization table for a 30 year loan to figure out what the balance would be at the end of December 1999, then actually put the loan into the system as an XX year YY month loan coming due at the end of 1999 with a balloon payment of that amount. All in the hope that some time in the next 12 years NCR would fix the problem, even though the prior 18 years had not been long enough. (Well, not really. At that point all their customers were actively working on bringing their processing in-house, since the AS/400, along with a couple of upstart software companies, was making that far more practical than it had ever been.)
Yes, I am old ;-)
When the companies decide to not collect data on French citizens, the French government will bitch them out for drying up a revenue stream.
Yep. That would no doubt be the cue for lots of articles about the "tax evasion" the companies were engaging in...
So... now every time I hear one human being describe another as "tasty" or "quite the dish" I'm going to remember your unfortunate remarks. Thanks a lot for that mental image!
I'm glad that at least one person had the reading skills to catch the implication!
However, there's also solid evidence that we ate them. So we fucked them and ate them, ...
And that distresses you?!? Go read about the Aztecs. We humans excel in debauchery as a species.
Huh? How do infer distress from my post? Actually, I find it funny!
Generally speaking, a beef patty that's 100% beef has to be stuck together with fat. In other words it's unhealthy AND pretty tasteless.
Of course. Because, you know, a beef patty that has no fat is the apex of tastiness. Oh, wait...