Laws are set up by lawyers, for lawyers. Non-lawyers have no hope of redress through the courts without lawyers.
Then why is there any entire legislative framework (small claims) which expressly forbids involving lawyers for offence or defence? Sounds like lawyers legislating themselves out of a job?
Nah, those are just poor people. "Small Claims" means there's no money in it. Why would any lawyer want to bother with that waste of time and energy? Also note that small claims judgments aren't binding, meaning you need to hire a lawyer...
Now, "pro bono", on the other hand (and there's that dead language usage again)...
Go take a look at the open source world someday...
That's funny. I've been using it almost exclusively since '93.:-) Because it works, it's stable, and it's robust. The same goes for the "mere users" I've installed it for. They love it. If you can surf the web in Windows or on a Mac, you can do it on free software too, and you won't have to worry about whether your antivirus software's up to date. If you're a complete computing doofus (like my Mom), you might need someone like me to set it up for you, but outside of that, it does just work.
... citing John Grisham's writing as definitive documentation of the complexity of the legal profession...
Where did I do that? I cited his work as an example of how lawyers, ideally, ought to act.
Instead, the legal profession is still using Latin, FFS! Who gets to decide who can practice law? Lawyers. Who gets to decide who's an incompetent lawyer? Lawyers. Who gets to bill their clients if they even think of them while sitting on the can? Lawyers. Who comes up with BS like Righthaven? Lawyers. And on, and on, and on,...
You need a Java developer. And an Oracle DBA. And a Linux admin. And a Windows server admin. And someone to babysit your NetApp. And a network admin. And a.NET person. And on, and on, and on.
And then they still tell you that you need consultants because upgrading a critical part of infrastructure is very complicated.
The difference is, one's tech, and is still being invented. That's complex. Machine code --> Assembly --> FORTRAN --> BASIC --> C -->...
The other's an ancient arcane profession wrapped in centuries of jargon, when it should be in English understandable by anyone.
"Ignorance of the law is no excuse." I just learned recently that it's now illegal to use a pellet rifle within city limits. It wasn't that way when I was a kid. Why is it now?
It's not encouraged to have a lawyer with you in small claims court. Why is it mandatory to have them in other courts?
I have the same complaint wrt doctors, dentists, mathematicians, and accountants. Why have YOU made your profession so arcane and complex that the man on the street needs your services? Every good geek I know is fighting complexity in everything they do, preferring simplicity.
You're still fighting the guild wars of the fifteenth century. You gain by being indispensable in an arcane, complex monopoly market, and we're forced to use you to protect ourselves from what you've wrought.
I hate entrenched, self-perpetuating monopolies, of which the legal profession is one. Read some John Grisham.
And would someone please tell me what "a neckbeard" is?!?
... probably cheaper and less risky than dynamite.
Dynamite's pretty safe. Blasting caps can be dangerous. However, most of the blowback wrt using dynamite in this application is it annoys the neighbours, is environmentally unfriendly, and bad guys love to steal the stuff.
As for TFA, it depends. Shear waves (the twisty kind) travel quite a ways, but don't tell you much. Pressure waves don't travel very far but do tell you a lot, dependent upon the range of frequencies transmitted by the wave, and the medium through which they're transmitted. An 8 Hz p-wave will travel farther than a 500 Hz p-wave, but you won't learn much of any interest at 8 Hz.
Unfortunately, TFA says nothing about the frequency range produced by these air guns. I doubt it's anywhere near the range produced by dynamite.
BTW, it's geophysicists who do this stuff, not geologists. The latter are the guys with rock hammers and sample bags.
... I'd rather have someone who won't cause problems than someone who will find solutions.
That sounds just like the douche bag admins who're so powerless/ineffectual/ignorant that they let half of Fortune 500 companies and gov't agencies continue to run malware long after they'd been warned about it.
They were throwing the T-word around like it was a known fact, all while terrorizing his wife and co-workers.
Not the first time unfortunately
Wow. Yet another reason not to be on twitter and facebook. If the LEOs ever hear about/., we're going to be in trouble. I see far more seditious and revolutionary talk around here every day. Counseling twitter followers on how to dismantle fences gets you jail time, and a divorce?!? People were talking about assassinating politicians here the other day in the PIPA/SOPA discussion.
What damages to his reputation can he really claim since nobody heard about it until he decided to sue the authorities?
Re-read TFA. The only ones that matter to him are those who might employ him in finance, and he needs some sort of Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval to get a job in his line of work, or that's what I got out of it.
It would be only prudent to want to interview this individual, talk to his colleagues, and maybe investigate his background. I think a simple friendly invitation to a short non-confrontational interview was warranted, but an arrest presuming guilty intention was not, absent the development of further evidence, and certainly accusing the wife's husband of terrorism was not. I would say that the remedy he is seeking makes sense.
I agree, especially in that he's having to sue to get his good name back! It should have gone like:
"Beg your pardon, sir. We made a mistake. Here's your good conduct paper, and if this ever comes up again in the future, just refer that party to us and we'll be happy to clear it up for you. Sorry for the inconvenience."
Why does he have to sue for that now that the truth of the matter is clear for all to see?
Because he's Moroccan, and that's an Arab nation, and he's used the word "exploser" in the past. This is just asinine.
No they don't, not about artists like you who are bound and determined not to learn, who're insisting on making your living under the umbrella of the obsolete major studio distribution networks, and don't give a flying !#$ for what your fans might want.
I advocate boycotting works from artists like you, because of the way your corporate teat insists it be done. That corporate teat is buying legislation to criminalize individual freedom. I'll not be a party to that, and neither should you.
Go read some articles at techdirt.com, go learn how louisck made a killing in days doing it the right way. Fans love artists who've learned to do it the right way, the 21st Century way. They justifiably despise what RIAA and MPAA are doing, which is why I advocate boycotting works from you!
On the other hand, if you insist on sticking your fingers in your ears and shouting "lalalalalala pirates!" incessantly and refusing to listen to your fanbase, the world will be better off without "artists" like you gumming up the works. Good riddance!
What the hell does it take to get through to you people?!? "lalalalalala pirates!"
The government cannot "listen" to your calls without a warrant. They have systems in place to parse conversations into keywords and notify someone when the listening algorithm determines that someone has said something "suspicious"...
Incredible semantic gymnastics at work here.
Agreed. He's obviously never heard of the requests on sticky notes sent to AT&T. Not even an NSL. How soon we forget.
There are not many opportunities to by proud of my countrymen...
If you think that, you need to read more history. I hope my Canuck compatriots can display even half the backbone Poles have, over and over again, when ACTA/SOPA/PIPA/TPP arrive here.
It wouldn't be the first time. Remember Yalta? Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin all conspired to forget the Poles helped the Allies a lot, and died a lot for their trouble. Katyn Woods massacre was a propaganda coup used by both the Nazis and Soviets in turn.
If you believe that, you need reading comprehension lessons. Those bastards never should have been bailed out BY THE TAXPAYER and ought to be out of business and in jail.
CFO at the annual general meeting: "... and one of our rogue traders managed to lose half a billion dollars in fraudulent trades, so the value of your shares will drop comensurably." Outrage ensues!
They already can do those things and they don't.
They're already gov't regulated. See where that's going?
There's a lot in life that I'd like to see continue sans nanny state gov't, but we don't need impotent, horrifically expensive monsters like the Fed, SEC, DHS, FCC,... to do them. I believe that'd all be done better by ourselves, not by gov't. With the advent of the net, it'd also be a lot easier for us to keep tabs on it all to keep them honest.
This is not to say I'm in favour of how it was done in "Robber Baron" and sweatshop days prior to unions. They had bad gov't influence going on then too, mostly in favour of corporate interests (just like today).
Under the most libertarian policies, Credit Suisse would never have told the investors anything.
Unburdened by onerous regulation and worried about their reputation, wanting to retain their customers, CS would save money and face by lying to the public.
No, that would be fraud. Yes, libertarians do care about that sort of thing, vehemently. CS signed a legal agreement with its investors and should be sued blind for their fiduciary irresponsibility, their board of directors should be sued for negligence and incompetence, and the whole operation should be audited wholesale if it ever hopes to see another penny of investor cash.
Regulation is the only recourse. It is not perfect and people do corrupt the system, but it is the only option we have.
... now. More's the pity. Investor protection left to the whims of political sluts willing to be bought by the highest bidder. Yeah, that might work.
It would never even be discovered under the most libertarian business policies.
Under the most libertarian policies, Credit Suisse would be the last place its investors would want to be now. They'd be deserting in droves, going somewhere their interests were actually cared about, not just CS's maximize profits & minimize loss.
Unburdened by onerous regulation and worried about their reputation, wanting to retain their customers, CS might consider it in its interests to spend some cash to actually know what's going on inside.
Regulation doesn't fix this stuff. It's been shown politicians can't keep their fingers off it and love to tweak the system for personal gain. And they did, and we ended up with the toxic assets disaster for their efforts.
Pirated game: always works. Non-pirated game: customers suffer through shit like this.
Ah, thanks. I'm not a gamer, but I was wondering why some clever geek hasn't just fired up snort to see what their server's saying to the game, then built a 'bot that interacted in the same way with it locally.
It's just easier to dl the cracked version than to go to the trouble of building a workaround for the non-pirated version. I guess it should have been obvious. Carry on.
"The Obama Administration has done FAR more to turn America towards police state"
I get so tired of the same yapping by people like you...
Learn to read, fool. What he said was, "I'm not totally surprised when you have liberal mouthpieces like Thomas Friedman saying we would be better off if we could be more like China..."
So now, not even the ACs can be bothered to read (or is it comprehend?) ACs. Huh.
**Potential** Indicators of Terrorist Activities Related to Internet Cafe
All they say that is that if someone goes long out of his way to hide something, then what he/she is trying *might* be related to terrorism.
Simple as that.
Really? Occum's Razor says otherwise.
What do you say about a multi-billion dollar security agency that comes up with such ludicrous means in which to justify, or perhaps increase, their budget? After all, if all people in the US reported all the people doing such innocuous things as using crypto or sheilding their computer screens or using more than one phone, they're going to need a !@#$load more agents to vet all those potential terrorists, yes?
When you go to the store to buy something, people have an opportunity to notice your activities.
Use cash?
If you use Google, its absurd to demand they forget what you tell them to of the encounter.
You do realize there are other search engines out there, some of which at least purport to respect privacy? I prefer ixquick.com.
The government should have certain limits...
It appears that boat's already sailed. Gmail uses https, doesn't it? That's crypto, so every gmail user is a potential terrorist! When your gov't is telling its people that normal, everyday practices used by millions of average, law abiding citizens are suspicious activities denoting terrorist activities, the gov't is out of control in its quest for control/power over the populace. No, perfect anonymity never existed, but now, any anonymity is seen as suspicious behaviour to be reported to the Stasi, er, authorities.
That being said, this flyer is hilarious.
I think you misspelled atrocious, infuriating, insulting, insane, or something.
"people like me will soon be dead so you needn't worry further about people like me"
The great pain in my ass made me proud the first time he told a cop that he did NOT have permission to search the car he was driving.
Isn't that (at least in Florida) when they charge him with obstruction/a broken taillight, then haul the car back to the shop to be searched for drugs? This was happening last century as I recall. I think he was lucky to get away with that these days.
From what I've heard lately, it's not safe to be a US Citizen. Hell, ask the DHS. They'll tell you, though they may not admit who it is that's causing you to be unsafe.:-(
It's pretty amazing in retrospect how quickly that changed, and the way people are now trained to reveal everything on Facebook and Twitter is creating a society that doesn't understand the value and the power of their personal information.
Someone in the halls of power has finally got around to reading both 1984 and Brave New World. "Don't forget to take your Soma, citizen, and remember we'll be doing drug testing later to assure you did. It's for your safety, for the children, and to stop terrorists."
Don't worry, DHS, people like me will soon be dead so you needn't worry further about people like me. "Land of the free, home of the brave", my ass.
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Laws are set up by lawyers, for lawyers. Non-lawyers have no hope of redress through the courts without lawyers.
Then why is there any entire legislative framework (small claims) which expressly forbids involving lawyers for offence or defence? Sounds like lawyers legislating themselves out of a job?
Nah, those are just poor people. "Small Claims" means there's no money in it. Why would any lawyer want to bother with that waste of time and energy? Also note that small claims judgments aren't binding, meaning you need to hire a lawyer ...
Now, "pro bono", on the other hand (and there's that dead language usage again) ...
Go take a look at the open source world someday ...
That's funny. I've been using it almost exclusively since '93. :-) Because it works, it's stable, and it's robust. The same goes for the "mere users" I've installed it for. They love it. If you can surf the web in Windows or on a Mac, you can do it on free software too, and you won't have to worry about whether your antivirus software's up to date. If you're a complete computing doofus (like my Mom), you might need someone like me to set it up for you, but outside of that, it does just work.
... citing John Grisham's writing as definitive documentation of the complexity of the legal profession ...
Where did I do that? I cited his work as an example of how lawyers, ideally, ought to act.
Instead, the legal profession is still using Latin, FFS! Who gets to decide who can practice law? Lawyers. Who gets to decide who's an incompetent lawyer? Lawyers. Who gets to bill their clients if they even think of them while sitting on the can? Lawyers. Who comes up with BS like Righthaven? Lawyers. And on, and on, and on, ...
You need a Java developer. And an Oracle DBA. And a Linux admin. And a Windows server admin. And someone to babysit your NetApp. And a network admin. And a .NET person. And on, and on, and on.
And then they still tell you that you need consultants because upgrading a critical part of infrastructure is very complicated.
The difference is, one's tech, and is still being invented. That's complex. Machine code --> Assembly --> FORTRAN --> BASIC --> C --> ...
The other's an ancient arcane profession wrapped in centuries of jargon, when it should be in English understandable by anyone.
"Ignorance of the law is no excuse." I just learned recently that it's now illegal to use a pellet rifle within city limits. It wasn't that way when I was a kid. Why is it now?
It's not encouraged to have a lawyer with you in small claims court. Why is it mandatory to have them in other courts?
I have the same complaint wrt doctors, dentists, mathematicians, and accountants. Why have YOU made your profession so arcane and complex that the man on the street needs your services? Every good geek I know is fighting complexity in everything they do, preferring simplicity.
You're still fighting the guild wars of the fifteenth century. You gain by being indispensable in an arcane, complex monopoly market, and we're forced to use you to protect ourselves from what you've wrought.
I hate entrenched, self-perpetuating monopolies, of which the legal profession is one. Read some John Grisham.
And would someone please tell me what "a neckbeard" is?!?
... probably cheaper and less risky than dynamite.
Dynamite's pretty safe. Blasting caps can be dangerous. However, most of the blowback wrt using dynamite in this application is it annoys the neighbours, is environmentally unfriendly, and bad guys love to steal the stuff.
As for TFA, it depends. Shear waves (the twisty kind) travel quite a ways, but don't tell you much. Pressure waves don't travel very far but do tell you a lot, dependent upon the range of frequencies transmitted by the wave, and the medium through which they're transmitted. An 8 Hz p-wave will travel farther than a 500 Hz p-wave, but you won't learn much of any interest at 8 Hz.
Unfortunately, TFA says nothing about the frequency range produced by these air guns. I doubt it's anywhere near the range produced by dynamite.
BTW, it's geophysicists who do this stuff, not geologists. The latter are the guys with rock hammers and sample bags.
... I'd rather have someone who won't cause problems than someone who will find solutions.
That sounds just like the douche bag admins who're so powerless/ineffectual/ignorant that they let half of Fortune 500 companies and gov't agencies continue to run malware long after they'd been warned about it.
Now I understand. The Ostrich defense.
They were throwing the T-word around like it was a known fact, all while terrorizing his wife and co-workers.
Not the first time unfortunately
Wow. Yet another reason not to be on twitter and facebook. If the LEOs ever hear about /., we're going to be in trouble. I see far more seditious and revolutionary talk around here every day. Counseling twitter followers on how to dismantle fences gets you jail time, and a divorce?!? People were talking about assassinating politicians here the other day in the PIPA/SOPA discussion.
What damages to his reputation can he really claim since nobody heard about it until he decided to sue the authorities?
Re-read TFA. The only ones that matter to him are those who might employ him in finance, and he needs some sort of Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval to get a job in his line of work, or that's what I got out of it.
It would be only prudent to want to interview this individual, talk to his colleagues, and maybe investigate his background. I think a simple friendly invitation to a short non-confrontational interview was warranted, but an arrest presuming guilty intention was not, absent the development of further evidence, and certainly accusing the wife's husband of terrorism was not. I would say that the remedy he is seeking makes sense.
I agree, especially in that he's having to sue to get his good name back! It should have gone like:
"Beg your pardon, sir. We made a mistake. Here's your good conduct paper, and if this ever comes up again in the future, just refer that party to us and we'll be happy to clear it up for you. Sorry for the inconvenience."
Why does he have to sue for that now that the truth of the matter is clear for all to see?
Because he's Moroccan, and that's an Arab nation, and he's used the word "exploser" in the past. This is just asinine.
But nobody cares about the artists anyway ...
No they don't, not about artists like you who are bound and determined not to learn, who're insisting on making your living under the umbrella of the obsolete major studio distribution networks, and don't give a flying !#$ for what your fans might want.
I advocate boycotting works from artists like you, because of the way your corporate teat insists it be done. That corporate teat is buying legislation to criminalize individual freedom. I'll not be a party to that, and neither should you.
Go read some articles at techdirt.com, go learn how louisck made a killing in days doing it the right way. Fans love artists who've learned to do it the right way, the 21st Century way. They justifiably despise what RIAA and MPAA are doing, which is why I advocate boycotting works from you!
On the other hand, if you insist on sticking your fingers in your ears and shouting "lalalalalala pirates!" incessantly and refusing to listen to your fanbase, the world will be better off without "artists" like you gumming up the works. Good riddance!
What the hell does it take to get through to you people?!? "lalalalalala pirates!"
The quote is actually by Mao Zedong.
I rest my case. :-)
The government cannot "listen" to your calls without a warrant. They have systems in place to parse conversations into keywords and notify someone when the listening algorithm determines that someone has said something "suspicious" ...
Incredible semantic gymnastics at work here.
Agreed. He's obviously never heard of the requests on sticky notes sent to AT&T. Not even an NSL. How soon we forget.
There are not many opportunities to by proud of my countrymen ...
If you think that, you need to read more history. I hope my Canuck compatriots can display even half the backbone Poles have, over and over again, when ACTA/SOPA/PIPA/TPP arrive here.
They forgot about Poland!
It wouldn't be the first time. Remember Yalta? Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin all conspired to forget the Poles helped the Allies a lot, and died a lot for their trouble. Katyn Woods massacre was a propaganda coup used by both the Nazis and Soviets in turn.
Nice a troll for Goldman Sachs.
If you believe that, you need reading comprehension lessons. Those bastards never should have been bailed out BY THE TAXPAYER and ought to be out of business and in jail.
If they never told them, how would they sue?
CFO at the annual general meeting: "... and one of our rogue traders managed to lose half a billion dollars in fraudulent trades, so the value of your shares will drop comensurably." Outrage ensues!
They already can do those things and they don't.
They're already gov't regulated. See where that's going?
There's a lot in life that I'd like to see continue sans nanny state gov't, but we don't need impotent, horrifically expensive monsters like the Fed, SEC, DHS, FCC, ... to do them. I believe that'd all be done better by ourselves, not by gov't. With the advent of the net, it'd also be a lot easier for us to keep tabs on it all to keep them honest.
This is not to say I'm in favour of how it was done in "Robber Baron" and sweatshop days prior to unions. They had bad gov't influence going on then too, mostly in favour of corporate interests (just like today).
An old Chinese saying: "We should support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports."
That's a pretty dumb saying. Contrariness for the sake of contrariness? I doubt Sun Tsu would come up with stuff as dumb as that.
On topic: *AAs! Move to France. They've had guilty until proven innocent for centuries. You'll fit right in.
Under the most libertarian policies, Credit Suisse would never have told the investors anything.
Unburdened by onerous regulation and worried about their reputation, wanting to retain their customers, CS would save money and face by lying to the public.
No, that would be fraud. Yes, libertarians do care about that sort of thing, vehemently. CS signed a legal agreement with its investors and should be sued blind for their fiduciary irresponsibility, their board of directors should be sued for negligence and incompetence, and the whole operation should be audited wholesale if it ever hopes to see another penny of investor cash.
Regulation is the only recourse. It is not perfect and people do corrupt the system, but it is the only option we have.
... now. More's the pity. Investor protection left to the whims of political sluts willing to be bought by the highest bidder. Yeah, that might work.
It would never even be discovered under the most libertarian business policies.
Under the most libertarian policies, Credit Suisse would be the last place its investors would want to be now. They'd be deserting in droves, going somewhere their interests were actually cared about, not just CS's maximize profits & minimize loss.
Unburdened by onerous regulation and worried about their reputation, wanting to retain their customers, CS might consider it in its interests to spend some cash to actually know what's going on inside.
Regulation doesn't fix this stuff. It's been shown politicians can't keep their fingers off it and love to tweak the system for personal gain. And they did, and we ended up with the toxic assets disaster for their efforts.
Pirated game: always works.
Non-pirated game: customers suffer through shit like this.
Ah, thanks. I'm not a gamer, but I was wondering why some clever geek hasn't just fired up snort to see what their server's saying to the game, then built a 'bot that interacted in the same way with it locally.
It's just easier to dl the cracked version than to go to the trouble of building a workaround for the non-pirated version. I guess it should have been obvious. Carry on.
Use cash?
Some think this is behind the push to include RFID tags in money ; once you can identify each note, you can trace it's path through the economy.
Bother. Time to introduce noise into the system:
"Hey buddy, got any twenties?"
"Sure."
"Great. I'll trade you three of mine for three of yours."
"The Obama Administration has done FAR more to turn America towards police state"
I get so tired of the same yapping by people like you ...
Learn to read, fool. What he said was, "I'm not totally surprised when you have liberal mouthpieces like Thomas Friedman saying we would be better off if we could be more like China ..."
So now, not even the ACs can be bothered to read (or is it comprehend?) ACs. Huh.
**Potential** Indicators of Terrorist Activities Related to Internet Cafe
All they say that is that if someone goes long out of his way to hide something, then what he/she is trying *might* be related to terrorism.
Simple as that.
Really? Occum's Razor says otherwise.
What do you say about a multi-billion dollar security agency that comes up with such ludicrous means in which to justify, or perhaps increase, their budget? After all, if all people in the US reported all the people doing such innocuous things as using crypto or sheilding their computer screens or using more than one phone, they're going to need a !@#$load more agents to vet all those potential terrorists, yes?
When you go to the store to buy something, people have an opportunity to notice your activities.
Use cash?
If you use Google, its absurd to demand they forget what you tell them to of the encounter.
You do realize there are other search engines out there, some of which at least purport to respect privacy? I prefer ixquick.com.
The government should have certain limits ...
It appears that boat's already sailed. Gmail uses https, doesn't it? That's crypto, so every gmail user is a potential terrorist! When your gov't is telling its people that normal, everyday practices used by millions of average, law abiding citizens are suspicious activities denoting terrorist activities, the gov't is out of control in its quest for control/power over the populace. No, perfect anonymity never existed, but now, any anonymity is seen as suspicious behaviour to be reported to the Stasi, er, authorities.
That being said, this flyer is hilarious.
I think you misspelled atrocious, infuriating, insulting, insane, or something.
"people like me will soon be dead so you needn't worry further about people like me"
The great pain in my ass made me proud the first time he told a cop that he did NOT have permission to search the car he was driving.
Isn't that (at least in Florida) when they charge him with obstruction/a broken taillight, then haul the car back to the shop to be searched for drugs? This was happening last century as I recall. I think he was lucky to get away with that these days.
From what I've heard lately, it's not safe to be a US Citizen. Hell, ask the DHS. They'll tell you, though they may not admit who it is that's causing you to be unsafe. :-(
It's pretty amazing in retrospect how quickly that changed, and the way people are now trained to reveal everything on Facebook and Twitter is creating a society that doesn't understand the value and the power of their personal information.
Someone in the halls of power has finally got around to reading both 1984 and Brave New World. "Don't forget to take your Soma, citizen, and remember we'll be doing drug testing later to assure you did. It's for your safety, for the children, and to stop terrorists."
Don't worry, DHS, people like me will soon be dead so you needn't worry further about people like me. "Land of the free, home of the brave", my ass.