30% of the settlement, or an equal share, which ever is less.
That's right up there with "Heads, I win. Tails, you lose."
No, no, no. He means an equal share to say 'the same as each individual client', meaning about three dollars, or whatever each AOLer got. Which would be ridiculous, but would also serve as a deterrant to such mass groupings for a lawsuit... Probably a bad thing, as the hundreds of smaller ones would tie up the courts even further.
Raisethefist was an idiot anarchist website advocating the violent overthrowing of the US Gov't. Therefore, defending this punk is foolish. However, he wasn't raided because of the website. Freedom of expression rights remain intact.
He was raided because he hacked into a number of US government webpages, replacing their front pages with a pointer to his own website. The government agents were heavily armed due to his presented stance on raisethefist. Hell, if it takes assault rifles to retrieve little Elian, it obviously takes a LOT of assault rifles to raid a soi-disant violent anarchist.
Really, now. Are probable 18 year old script kiddies really worth our time?
The reason is standardization. If you want to be able to rapidly read the word "eject," it has to look the same everywhere. You'll never learn to recognize it if it's only on your VCR. So the "eject" on your VCR would have to be the same as on your CD player, your disk drive, etc. And it would have to be the same in contexts completely unrelated to devices, such as a description of someone being "ejected" from their post.
So the tape-out-of-VCR picture becomes not only useless but counterproductive. The word is better served by something arbitrary, abstract and easy to write, such as the letters "e-j-e-c-t" or the modern Chinese ideogram representing the concept.
How about a little upwards-pointing triangle with a horizontal line beneath it? I can't quite put my finger on the reason why, but to me, that just screams eject. Especially when it's on the same button as the little square.
Now, I saw you say that you were a separatist, which therefore makes you an official kook, but I think it's worth responding to a couple of these claims.
Okay, that's disturbing...but at least we don't give our taxes to an agency [nsa.gov] that routinely eavesdrop on its citizens AND those of other countries (Echelon, anyone?). Don't you think they have secret databases of their own, mmh?
I can't be bothered to pay Stats Canada a few bucks to get the exact figure, but a CP article here puts CSIS's budget at roughly 200m per year. The link up above put the CSE's at 106m.
There's an article here that provides a couple alleged examples of illegal domestic operations by CSIS... Back in late September, there were a great number of newspaper articles from various sources discussing what CSIS does and doesn't do, among them were mentions of things such as statements by former foreign minister Lloyd Axworthy declaring that CSIS "does not undertake any kind of overseas operation," yet after musings about the creation of a new, foreign operations agency by the present government in the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks in the USA, someone at CSIS, possibly the director, revealed that CSIS has, in the part, operated in foreign countries and maintained the ability to do so. It's so good to see the Liberal's foreign minister either deliberately lying about or actually ignorant of such goings-on.
Here is a page that gives brief summaries of several books about Canada's spy agencies, including one that gives details on a particular CSE operation in England.
Don't forget that any mail (ie, post), telephone conversation, or internet traffic that crosses an international border into or out of Canada is considered fair game, and can legally be intercepted. Again, there are many second hand reports that illegal domestic surveilance has also taken place for many years.
Next, The National Post is one of Canada's most conservative newspapers. It is owned by Conrad Black
Incorrect. The National Post (I don't read it, myself) is now owned by CanWest (the Aspers), who are well-known Liberal supporters. If you've been following the news in the past week, you'll see many reports that they are *far* more restrictive of what gets printed in their papers than Conrad Black ever was. Black allowed dissent, apparently with *very* few topics (unknown to me) off limits. The Aspers are more than a little looser with the word 'taboo'. The Globe&Mail's search function never works for me, but I believe they ran something by a former National Post columnist titled 'Why I Quit the Post' on Monday or so.
Since we're paying the music pirate tax, shouldn't we be able to pirate music now?
Yes, we can. Legally. (From the "IANAL, but I understand legalese" file)
(Specifically, we can legally copy CDs (even when they don't belong to us) for our own, non-commercial usage. We cannot (legally) copy them and give the copy to our friends. Having the friend come over and use our equipment to make a copy ought to be fine, though. Who enforces this crap when done on a small scale, anyway?)
Can you give me a court case reference on this one? Someone I knew once had a cable guy in her house investigating some reception trouble who cut the heads off of several lines that ran to a central splitter because "she wasn't paying for them".
No, but it is what the preponderance of the evidence suggests.
a) Upon seeing problems, we've heavily cut back on all sorts of emissions under the belief that it will fix the problem.
b) Results of a) (above) will take sixty more years to manifest.
c) Problem is disappearing long before results of a) are known.
Therefore, perhaps a) was a faulty assumption that costs businesses billions annually, and the ozone hole is really just a cyclical thing?
That said, lower emissions are good, if only for two reasons - one, so that whilst canoeing the Indian Arm of the Fraser River, I don't know that Vancouver is (that way) due to the brown sky. Two, because they *do* seem to be responsible for all sorts of human respiratory problems. You know, if environmentalists weren't all a bunch of crackpots who use pseudoscience to justify whatever their jihad of the day is, I'd probably identify myself as one.
PS - The ICE at the NORTH POLE is MELTING!!! Oh NO!!!... Oh wait, that happens all the time?
In other words, the economically disadvantaged should be denied a higher education
(Emphasis mine) "Economically disadvantaged"? What the fuck is that?! When you mean to say "the poor", just frickin' say "the poor".
I agree with your argument, that everyone deserves to receive a free education and would carry that onwards to tuition-free colleges and universities, but I do believe that your phrasing reveals a very distinct problem associated with public educational systems as we know them. Would you not agree, upon giving it a little reflection?
On an income of $35,000 in BC, you're going to be paying a bit less than $6,000 in income tax. Sales taxes are included in the other prices I listed.
The government shouldn't be involved in health care, that's what part of the problem is. The chief reason both systems are shoddy is that they're held hostage by the labour unions that are involved in them.
That's what I like to say about politicians. (Same principle for teachers, but we need to damn many teachers for it to work.)
Some people say, "Pay the politicians more, we'll get higher quality people!" when the truth is that by doing so, you get a great number of people in it for the perks. Pay them nothing, and you only have the altruists and those who have power fetishes. It's quite simple to weed out the latter.
Plutocracy? The rich are generally conservative, not wanting to lose what they have any more than the rest of the population.
You talked to one of the union hacks, evidently. Anyone who has $50/mo left on a salary ranging between $35,000 and $68,000 is, financially, an utter imbecile. Even at the lower end of that, what the hell are his bills? That's around $2,500 per month after taxes. Maybe $1,000 for a mortgage, $250 for utilities (including phone/cable), up to $600 for car payments, leaving another $650 per month for food, auto fuel, and entertainment. That's on a single income! Most families these days have two.
That money is for only ten months of work per year, with lots of holiday time during those ten months, included. (Christmas, Easter, Spring Break, every other statutory holiday) I speak as someone who is related to several teachers, and friends with a few more. They want more money, sure - everyone does. However, to claim that they don't get enough to live on is pure bullshit.
I'll be quite happy to elaborate on this issue, since the teachers' union's demands on salary are so outrageous. (a "34%" raise which is really 38.6%.)
As a general rule when using irony and/or satire, explicitly pointing out that it exists ruins the effect. It just ain't worth doing if you don't outrage your less alert readers.
Imagine _A Modest Proposal_ with an brief introduction that states 'This is satire (w/ definition) you idiots!'
All that I know about cable slowdown is that at 6pm PDT last night, I was downloading a 40MB file at in excess of 700 kB/s (according to Netscape). I pay $40.00 Canadian each month for this.
DSL is the same price, with a optimal maximum download speed of 768 kb/s. If I lose 3/4 of my cable performance, I'm still downloading way the hell faster than I would be on DSL. Additionally, with Shaw, the upload speed isn't capped (or rather, if it is, it's capped at a high enough level not to inconvenience any who aren't trying to be an Akamai peer.
I do think that I'll be forgetting DSL, when my downloads with cable peak out at double the speed of a dedicated T1. Obviously the bandwidth restrictions aren't at my ISP's end.
No offense but I think you are in total denial. The odds of this company being a diamond in the rough are astronomical. But then again, a great many people play the lottery. Maybe schools should make statistics a basic requirement in highschool.
(Referring to taking stock options as compensation for a paycut.)
This might not have helped all those.com workers who dropped out of high school in order to strike it rich in "web content" companies...
We're playing with ion weapons today, so that's downright conservative.
Are we? I'd be interested in any links you have on the topic. (I'll check google after posting, but am not too optimistic.)
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Any smart lawyer would know a lot better than to provide unsolicited opinions on legal matters in a public forum. (Yes, it is possible to trace Anonymous Cowards through their IPs, etc). Now go back to your cave, troll.
In what twisted universe is "This is almost certainly illegal, idiots." (to paraphrase) construed as legal advice?
I emailed the DOJ, President, VP, My US Senators and Oklahoma Senators about this case asking them to look into it.
The chances that a single one of them will ever see your email are somewhere between zero and nil. You would have infinitely more impact if you arranged a meeting with your own representative, and went about informing him face to face.
There's a difference between a recount, and a great big argument as to what *precisely* defines a "vote". In all Canadian elections, the defining question is "Is the voter's intent clear?" If there's a checkmark, an x, a little squiggle, or anything else in one box, it is clear. If two boxes are marked, it's tossed. End confusion. (I'm not sure how "candidate's name is circled" is treated.)
I do believe in a slippery slope, and I fear that if this first step is allowed, and stem cells are found to be true saviors for millions of degenerative diseases, there will be people willing to open embryo banks (like current day plasma donation centers) -- donate an egg or sperm, get $50!
Damn! The next thing they'll be doing is asking people to donate blood!
Except that the sources for stem cell research exist already, and we may as well try to get some potentially earthshaking research out of them rather than simply throwing them out.
I doubt there's any room at all for change in attitudes without endorsing what is tanatamount to child abuse.
Save questioning what, exactly, makes paedophilia tantamount to child abuse? Any scars left on the child are solely a product of the society's reaction to such an affair, disregarding rape. A newborn child is a blank slate by default, everything is imprinted.
(Admittedly, I have no kids. I also do not lust after children or possess any religious beliefs. I consider myself rather objective on the entire issue.)
Also, I note the use of the word "morals" in your post. Morals are irrelevant. They are naught but societal imprinting.
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That's right up there with "Heads, I win. Tails, you lose."
No, no, no. He means an equal share to say 'the same as each individual client', meaning about three dollars, or whatever each AOLer got. Which would be ridiculous, but would also serve as a deterrant to such mass groupings for a lawsuit... Probably a bad thing, as the hundreds of smaller ones would tie up the courts even further.
I just checked, and of course it is...
Raisethefist was an idiot anarchist website advocating the violent overthrowing of the US Gov't. Therefore, defending this punk is foolish. However, he wasn't raided because of the website. Freedom of expression rights remain intact.
He was raided because he hacked into a number of US government webpages, replacing their front pages with a pointer to his own website. The government agents were heavily armed due to his presented stance on raisethefist. Hell, if it takes assault rifles to retrieve little Elian, it obviously takes a LOT of assault rifles to raid a soi-disant violent anarchist.
Really, now. Are probable 18 year old script kiddies really worth our time?
The reason is standardization. If you want to be able to rapidly read the word "eject," it has to look the same everywhere. You'll never learn to recognize it if it's only on your VCR. So the "eject" on your VCR would have to be the same as on your CD player, your disk drive, etc. And it would have to be the same in contexts completely unrelated to devices, such as a description of someone being "ejected" from their post.
So the tape-out-of-VCR picture becomes not only useless but counterproductive. The word is better served by something arbitrary, abstract and easy to write, such as the letters "e-j-e-c-t" or the modern Chinese ideogram representing the concept.
How about a little upwards-pointing triangle with a horizontal line beneath it? I can't quite put my finger on the reason why, but to me, that just screams eject. Especially when it's on the same button as the little square.
Now, I saw you say that you were a separatist, which therefore makes you an official kook, but I think it's worth responding to a couple of these claims.
Okay, that's disturbing...but at least we don't give our taxes to an agency [nsa.gov] that routinely eavesdrop on its citizens AND those of other countries (Echelon, anyone?). Don't you think they have secret databases of their own, mmh?
The sad fact of the matter is that we do.
See:
I can't be bothered to pay Stats Canada a few bucks to get the exact figure, but a CP article here puts CSIS's budget at roughly 200m per year. The link up above put the CSE's at 106m.
There's an article here that provides a couple alleged examples of illegal domestic operations by CSIS... Back in late September, there were a great number of newspaper articles from various sources discussing what CSIS does and doesn't do, among them were mentions of things such as statements by former foreign minister Lloyd Axworthy declaring that CSIS "does not undertake any kind of overseas operation," yet after musings about the creation of a new, foreign operations agency by the present government in the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks in the USA, someone at CSIS, possibly the director, revealed that CSIS has, in the part, operated in foreign countries and maintained the ability to do so. It's so good to see the Liberal's foreign minister either deliberately lying about or actually ignorant of such goings-on.
Here is a page that gives brief summaries of several books about Canada's spy agencies, including one that gives details on a particular CSE operation in England.
Don't forget that any mail (ie, post), telephone conversation, or internet traffic that crosses an international border into or out of Canada is considered fair game, and can legally be intercepted. Again, there are many second hand reports that illegal domestic surveilance has also taken place for many years.
Next,
The National Post is one of Canada's most conservative newspapers. It is owned by Conrad Black
Incorrect. The National Post (I don't read it, myself) is now owned by CanWest (the Aspers), who are well-known Liberal supporters. If you've been following the news in the past week, you'll see many reports that they are *far* more restrictive of what gets printed in their papers than Conrad Black ever was. Black allowed dissent, apparently with *very* few topics (unknown to me) off limits. The Aspers are more than a little looser with the word 'taboo'. The Globe&Mail's search function never works for me, but I believe they ran something by a former National Post columnist titled 'Why I Quit the Post' on Monday or so.
Since we're paying the music pirate tax, shouldn't we be able to pirate music now?
Yes, we can. Legally. (From the "IANAL, but I understand legalese" file)
(Specifically, we can legally copy CDs (even when they don't belong to us) for our own, non-commercial usage. We cannot (legally) copy them and give the copy to our friends. Having the friend come over and use our equipment to make a copy ought to be fine, though. Who enforces this crap when done on a small scale, anyway?)
Can you give me a court case reference on this one? Someone I knew once had a cable guy in her house investigating some reception trouble who cut the heads off of several lines that ran to a central splitter because "she wasn't paying for them".
No, but it is what the preponderance of the evidence suggests.
... Oh wait, that happens all the time?
a) Upon seeing problems, we've heavily cut back on all sorts of emissions under the belief that it will fix the problem.
b) Results of a) (above) will take sixty more years to manifest.
c) Problem is disappearing long before results of a) are known.
Therefore, perhaps a) was a faulty assumption that costs businesses billions annually, and the ozone hole is really just a cyclical thing?
That said, lower emissions are good, if only for two reasons - one, so that whilst canoeing the Indian Arm of the Fraser River, I don't know that Vancouver is (that way) due to the brown sky. Two, because they *do* seem to be responsible for all sorts of human respiratory problems. You know, if environmentalists weren't all a bunch of crackpots who use pseudoscience to justify whatever their jihad of the day is, I'd probably identify myself as one.
PS - The ICE at the NORTH POLE is MELTING!!! Oh NO!!!
In other words, the economically disadvantaged should be denied a higher education
(Emphasis mine) "Economically disadvantaged"? What the fuck is that?! When you mean to say "the poor", just frickin' say "the poor".
I agree with your argument, that everyone deserves to receive a free education and would carry that onwards to tuition-free colleges and universities, but I do believe that your phrasing reveals a very distinct problem associated with public educational systems as we know them. Would you not agree, upon giving it a little reflection?
I'm Canadian.
On an income of $35,000 in BC, you're going to be paying a bit less than $6,000 in income tax. Sales taxes are included in the other prices I listed.
The government shouldn't be involved in health care, that's what part of the problem is. The chief reason both systems are shoddy is that they're held hostage by the labour unions that are involved in them.
That's what I like to say about politicians. (Same principle for teachers, but we need to damn many teachers for it to work.)
Some people say, "Pay the politicians more, we'll get higher quality people!" when the truth is that by doing so, you get a great number of people in it for the perks. Pay them nothing, and you only have the altruists and those who have power fetishes. It's quite simple to weed out the latter.
Plutocracy? The rich are generally conservative, not wanting to lose what they have any more than the rest of the population.
You talked to one of the union hacks, evidently. Anyone who has $50/mo left on a salary ranging between $35,000 and $68,000 is, financially, an utter imbecile. Even at the lower end of that, what the hell are his bills? That's around $2,500 per month after taxes. Maybe $1,000 for a mortgage, $250 for utilities (including phone/cable), up to $600 for car payments, leaving another $650 per month for food, auto fuel, and entertainment. That's on a single income! Most families these days have two.
That money is for only ten months of work per year, with lots of holiday time during those ten months, included. (Christmas, Easter, Spring Break, every other statutory holiday) I speak as someone who is related to several teachers, and friends with a few more. They want more money, sure - everyone does. However, to claim that they don't get enough to live on is pure bullshit.
I'll be quite happy to elaborate on this issue, since the teachers' union's demands on salary are so outrageous. (a "34%" raise which is really 38.6%.)
As a general rule when using irony and/or satire, explicitly pointing out that it exists ruins the effect. It just ain't worth doing if you don't outrage your less alert readers.
Imagine _A Modest Proposal_ with an brief introduction that states 'This is satire (w/ definition) you idiots!'
All that I know about cable slowdown is that at 6pm PDT last night, I was downloading a 40MB file at in excess of 700 kB/s (according to Netscape). I pay $40.00 Canadian each month for this.
DSL is the same price, with a optimal maximum download speed of 768 kb/s. If I lose 3/4 of my cable performance, I'm still downloading way the hell faster than I would be on DSL. Additionally, with Shaw, the upload speed isn't capped (or rather, if it is, it's capped at a high enough level not to inconvenience any who aren't trying to be an Akamai peer.
I do think that I'll be forgetting DSL, when my downloads with cable peak out at double the speed of a dedicated T1. Obviously the bandwidth restrictions aren't at my ISP's end.
To hell with you!
I was playing BRE less than half an hour ago. SRE never did quite feel right, though.
No offense but I think you are in total denial. The odds of this company being a diamond in the rough are astronomical. But then again, a great many people play the lottery. Maybe schools should make statistics a basic requirement in highschool.
(Referring to taking stock options as compensation for a paycut.)
This might not have helped all those .com workers who dropped out of high school in order to strike it rich in "web content" companies...
We're playing with ion weapons today, so that's downright conservative.
Are we? I'd be interested in any links you have on the topic. (I'll check google after posting, but am not too optimistic.)
In what twisted universe is "This is almost certainly illegal, idiots." (to paraphrase) construed as legal advice?
The chances that a single one of them will ever see your email are somewhere between zero and nil. You would have infinitely more impact if you arranged a meeting with your own representative, and went about informing him face to face.
There's a difference between a recount, and a great big argument as to what *precisely* defines a "vote". In all Canadian elections, the defining question is "Is the voter's intent clear?" If there's a checkmark, an x, a little squiggle, or anything else in one box, it is clear. If two boxes are marked, it's tossed. End confusion. (I'm not sure how "candidate's name is circled" is treated.)
Damn! The next thing they'll be doing is asking people to donate blood!
Except that the sources for stem cell research exist already, and we may as well try to get some potentially earthshaking research out of them rather than simply throwing them out.
Only in BC, I think.... Isn't this the BC Day long weekend?
All I know is that I have a bunch of days off in a row.
Save questioning what, exactly, makes paedophilia tantamount to child abuse? Any scars left on the child are solely a product of the society's reaction to such an affair, disregarding rape. A newborn child is a blank slate by default, everything is imprinted.
(Admittedly, I have no kids. I also do not lust after children or possess any religious beliefs. I consider myself rather objective on the entire issue.)
Also, I note the use of the word "morals" in your post. Morals are irrelevant. They are naught but societal imprinting.
Reverse splits exist, yes, but they are essentially *never* done. Why raise the stock price on paper so that investors can knock it back down again?
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