f.In the case of unsolicited bulk e-mail, this section shall apply when the unsolicited e-mailed documents are delivered to a Tennessee resident via an electronic mail service provider's service or equipment located in this state. For these purposes "electronic mail service provider" means any business or organization qualified to do
business in this state that provides individuals, corporations, or other entities the ability to send or receive electronic mail through equipment located in this state and that is an intermediary in sending or receiving electronic mail.
Does this modify what you quoted, i.e., if an ISP has equipment in TN that delivers the e-mail to you does that bring the spammer into violation?
Just found that website and was baout to post when I found your post.
I wonder how the courts in Knoxville are about this? BTW, from my layman, very breaf reading, of the TN statutes it looks irrelivant as to where the spammer is located. The relevant location seems to be where the recipient is.
Since I live (domicile) in Knoxville, TN but work mostly in Northern VA, I looked up the VA law. Appears to be a max of $25,000/day in VA.
Will definately be researching this more to see just what to do to sue the same spammer from 2 different States!
My bank in Tennessee had signs all over the place saying that they would not accept the State "ID Card" for some reason. Not sure if that is still in effect, but I *think* the issue is that the State is not as careful about checking/requiring records for issuing the ID card as they are about issuing a DL.
The GOOD thing about a TN DL is that there is no "big brother magnetic strip" on the Driver's Licenses, nor a barcode! Just your DL # and no SSAN if you want it omitted.
TN only recently began requiring SSAN as a condition of licensing. They always asked for it, but if you did not "remember" your SSAN or did not have one, they would not deny licensing you on that basis.
I just renewed mine a few months ago, tried to do it through their web interface, but they made me call in and give my SSAN, then verified it (someplace) before renewing my license.
T. Boone Pickens is a contradictory example, kinda, from the oil industry. He is not an Engineer, he is a Geologist that became a captain of industry.
This happens all of the time, when and only when a person with technical skill also has an instinct for business.
In the computing world, Bill Gates is a better example than Ross Perot since Perot was mostly a salesman for IBM before becoming a captain of industry, rather than being a programmer. Thus the Perots of the world support your conclusion, but they are not the only cases.
Yea, I know that mentioning some of these names gives me an automatic karma hit, but they are good examples for this point.
Well, no we are not talking about a kid, we are talking about an adult.
When I was 23 I was both a business owner and an Air Defense Platoon Leader in the Army National Guard. Shortly thereafter I became an Aviator. Prior to that I was an Armor Officer, was actually an acting Tank Platoon Leader at the age of 19 (while I was an R.O.T.C. Cadet AND in a NAtional Guard unit). At 17 I was a Tank Crewman AND a highschool student.
Whenever folks try to say someone in their 20s is "just young" or "a kid" it really rubs me the wrong way, like this case and in the "Talinban John" case. Yes, I jokingly speak of people in their 20s as "kids" but I do expect them to take responsibility as adults.
BTW, I am 40 now. Yes I know more, but I was expected to act like an adult when I was in my teens and I expect the current crop of teens to do the same.
Any idea what a 10m sealevel rise would do to the world econom? C'mon bunky, you can work it out...
It will cause economies based near shorelines to move inland, along with a general inland migration and create new economic activity in areas that had little or none before. It may end some economies, but the increase in fresh water available should offset that.
The increased surface area of liquid sea water will cause greater evaporation and rainfall, this increasing the economies of currently arid land.
If it is accompanied by a general increase in atmospheric and ground tempratures, it will widen the corn and grain belt into the northern latitudes and reduce the amount of energy required in those areas.
Does not sound too bad to me. Unless you are anticipating a 10m wall of water to swamp the shores of the globe in a 12 - 24 hr period. That would suck, but highly unlikely. In reality, as shoreline erodes humans and other creatures tend to move inland before their homes fall into the sea.
Here is the CLOSEST quote to identifying a firm that is contemplating cutoff of access:
"As a result, companies are considering dramatically curtailing, or even abolishing completely the freedoms, on which employees have grown increasingly reliant over the past few years. "
Companies? What "companies"? The only firms named in the article are firewall and security companies that are spewing the fear used in this marketing spewing article.
No real management is going to take this seriously.
Ummm, this appears to be a regurgitation of a segment from Triumph of the Nerds. With the Microsoft guys saying that productivity should be based on getting a problem solved vs. the IBM guys saying that productivity should be based on LOC or KLOC (thousands of lines of code) or MLOC (millions) etc.
Being a "Data Miner" myself, I can certainly agree with the problem-solving-as-productivity approach, rather than the "how many inner joins can I throw at this to make it look like I am busy" approach.
Actually, the LOC as productivity is so foreign to MY thought process that I can not comprehend why anybody in management or in direct labor would bother to think about it.
fobbmanThanks, Michael. Now AOL/Time Warner can continue on with their complete ownership of the fastest home-based broadband Internet service available.
Perhaps his reply should sound like this...
Michael: "You are very welcome Mr. fobbman! Did you read the article at the top of the page at all? AOL-Time Warner will continue to provide competitive access becuase it was a condition of their merger, ordered by the government, just as it says above. Thus subjecting AOL to continued regulation just like a telco!"
Michael: "Oh! By the way, my name is Michael POWELL *not* Parker."
Warner is the ONLY company mentioned in this post that CONTINUES to be regulated.
So, I am missing how your pointing to them in your subject line has anything to do with your first statement:
Thereby proving, yet again, that our government's regulatory and judicial agencies are, in their current form, unable to resist influence by sufficiently large, wealthy, and "powerful" companies which they are supposed to police.
Perhaps if you can revise your statement and use a company that has actually been able to buy influence (sorry, don't try Enron, all of their influence was with a prior administration, the current beurocrats ignored them and ignored the beurocrats they replaced last year) your post might read a little better.
So one of the conditions of the AOL-Time Warner Merger was that they shared their lines with other ISPs and now this ruling says they do not have to? Something seems very fishy to me
This ruling is that cable providers do not need to share lines UNLESS they have been specifically told to do so, like AOL-Time Warner was told as a requirement of their merger.
So, in this case, the "big mean corp" is the one forced to share.
From the portion of the article fully visible above: Unlike telephone companies, cable companies are required only to share their lines when specifically told to by the government. As a condition of the AOL Time Warner merger, that company was forced to offer its consumers a choice of Internet service providers on its high-speed lines.
Even better, IMHO, is the 'conference call' product they alluded to in the article. I think they're referring to the Soundbubble, which will create a 'bubble' within which you can *only* hear the sound source you want (e.g. the phone call). If you're outside the bubble, you won't be able to hear the phone conversation.
I hope they do not intend on getting a patent for "the cone of silence" as pioneered on the American TV show "Get Smart!"
The DVD players are "licensed" already. That did not stop this?
The DVDs are already encrypted (if they wish to be protected) and that didn't stop this?
There are already laws "preventing" "illegal" copying and that didn't stop this?
What the hell is up with Jackie V? His only solutions are to make things more complicated and more expensive!
Here is a clue: prosecute movie pirates instead of magazines owners and DeCSS programmers!!! Get the cops to arrest people selling pirated movies RIGHT IN FRONT OF MPAA HEADQUARTERS for starters!
Ingenious!
Yes, I do expect a royalty if the above idea is actually ever used.
Protection from the government, in my post, is protection from government power and authority.
Your statement is a very good example of the abuse of government power, authority and resources but you mix in "the people" as if every neighbor has a badge, gun and a jail cell waiting for you. The Constitution makes a distinction between the two: people and States have rights, the central government has power and authority. I am making the same distinction.
I did not say that your neighbors are not allowed to disagree with you, dislike you or even hate you for your beliefs and if they do it is not censorship either.
The strange dichotomy is that the more censors try to curb information, the bigger and richer "The File Room" grows. Sadly, the site makes clear that the United States -- the creator of the modern idea of free speech -- has become one of the world's most ubiquitous censors.
This criticism does not sound very well founded.
1. If the USA was actually a big censor state it would not allow the posts to get to "The File Room" in the first place, no matter where the posts originated. The Soviets, Chinese, Cubans, Germans and North Koreans (insert others here) were all very well skilled at this type of prevention. It is well documented that it is possible to some extent and it is obvious when it is happening.
2. In the USA one is protected from GOVERNMENT censorship ONLY, not the censorship by one's next door neighbor nor the censorship by the contributors to the local art gallery.
As some AC has pointed out, the post I was responding to said the US healthcare system is "crappy" and he wants to dole *that* healthcare out to people that can not afford insurance/stc. right now.
My point is that the healthcare is just fine, but *you* do not agree with the current method of paying for healthcare in the USA by the people that actually recieve said healthcare.
If it were a "healthcare system" problem we would be dealing with more quackery, more of what the Canadian posters have been saying about being ignored in their hospitals, more Doctors not giving proper care at any cost due to incompetance/bad training/etc.
So, back to what I began with, you are stating a welfare "problem" and calling it a healthcare problem.
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f.In the case of unsolicited bulk e-mail, this section shall apply when the unsolicited e-mailed documents are delivered to a Tennessee resident via an electronic mail service provider's service or equipment located in this state. For these purposes "electronic mail service provider" means any business or organization qualified to do business in this state that provides individuals, corporations, or other entities the ability to send or receive electronic mail through equipment located in this state and that is an intermediary in sending or receiving electronic mail.
Does this modify what you quoted, i.e., if an ISP has equipment in TN that delivers the e-mail to you does that bring the spammer into violation?
Just found that website and was baout to post when I found your post.
I wonder how the courts in Knoxville are about this? BTW, from my layman, very breaf reading, of the TN statutes it looks irrelivant as to where the spammer is located. The relevant location seems to be where the recipient is.
Since I live (domicile) in Knoxville, TN but work mostly in Northern VA, I looked up the VA law. Appears to be a max of $25,000/day in VA.
Will definately be researching this more to see just what to do to sue the same spammer from 2 different States!
Anyone remember the name of that psychologist that put dogs in a room with an electrified floor?
Pavlov. That was one of several experiments involving behaviour modification.
So, does this mean that in the future, demolition companies could just HERF a building down instead of going inside and setting explosives?
My bank in Tennessee had signs all over the place saying that they would not accept the State "ID Card" for some reason. Not sure if that is still in effect, but I *think* the issue is that the State is not as careful about checking/requiring records for issuing the ID card as they are about issuing a DL.
The GOOD thing about a TN DL is that there is no "big brother magnetic strip" on the Driver's Licenses, nor a barcode! Just your DL # and no SSAN if you want it omitted.
TN only recently began requiring SSAN as a condition of licensing. They always asked for it, but if you did not "remember" your SSAN or did not have one, they would not deny licensing you on that basis.
I just renewed mine a few months ago, tried to do it through their web interface, but they made me call in and give my SSAN, then verified it (someplace) before renewing my license.
T. Boone Pickens is a contradictory example, kinda, from the oil industry. He is not an Engineer, he is a Geologist that became a captain of industry.
This happens all of the time, when and only when a person with technical skill also has an instinct for business.
In the computing world, Bill Gates is a better example than Ross Perot since Perot was mostly a salesman for IBM before becoming a captain of industry, rather than being a programmer. Thus the Perots of the world support your conclusion, but they are not the only cases.
Yea, I know that mentioning some of these names gives me an automatic karma hit, but they are good examples for this point.
Nooo, the first stage of the Saturn V used Kerosene and LOX too. Despite the higher power offered by liquid hydrogen, Koelle's studies indicated that little would be gained by using it in the first stage also, where it would have needed disproportionately large tanks. (Liquid hydrogen is only one twelfth as dense as kerosene, so a much larger tank volume would have been required.)
This is a kid we're talking about here, no?
Well, no we are not talking about a kid, we are talking about an adult.
When I was 23 I was both a business owner and an Air Defense Platoon Leader in the Army National Guard. Shortly thereafter I became an Aviator. Prior to that I was an Armor Officer, was actually an acting Tank Platoon Leader at the age of 19 (while I was an R.O.T.C. Cadet AND in a NAtional Guard unit). At 17 I was a Tank Crewman AND a highschool student.
Whenever folks try to say someone in their 20s is "just young" or "a kid" it really rubs me the wrong way, like this case and in the "Talinban John" case. Yes, I jokingly speak of people in their 20s as "kids" but I do expect them to take responsibility as adults.
BTW, I am 40 now. Yes I know more, but I was expected to act like an adult when I was in my teens and I expect the current crop of teens to do the same.
Any idea what a 10m sealevel rise would do to the world econom? C'mon bunky, you can work it out...
It will cause economies based near shorelines to move inland, along with a general inland migration and create new economic activity in areas that had little or none before. It may end some economies, but the increase in fresh water available should offset that.
The increased surface area of liquid sea water will cause greater evaporation and rainfall, this increasing the economies of currently arid land.
If it is accompanied by a general increase in atmospheric and ground tempratures, it will widen the corn and grain belt into the northern latitudes and reduce the amount of energy required in those areas.
Does not sound too bad to me. Unless you are anticipating a 10m wall of water to swamp the shores of the globe in a 12 - 24 hr period. That would suck, but highly unlikely. In reality, as shoreline erodes humans and other creatures tend to move inland before their homes fall into the sea.
Here is the CLOSEST quote to identifying a firm that is contemplating cutoff of access:
"As a result, companies are considering dramatically curtailing, or even abolishing completely the freedoms, on which employees have grown increasingly reliant over the past few years. "
Companies? What "companies"? The only firms named in the article are firewall and security companies that are spewing the fear used in this marketing spewing article.
No real management is going to take this seriously.
Ummm, this appears to be a regurgitation of a segment from Triumph of the Nerds . With the Microsoft guys saying that productivity should be based on getting a problem solved vs. the IBM guys saying that productivity should be based on LOC or KLOC (thousands of lines of code) or MLOC (millions) etc.
Being a "Data Miner" myself, I can certainly agree with the problem-solving-as-productivity approach, rather than the "how many inner joins can I throw at this to make it look like I am busy" approach.
Actually, the LOC as productivity is so foreign to MY thought process that I can not comprehend why anybody in management or in direct labor would bother to think about it.
Based on this review, I am definatly taking my so to see Showtime as soon as he gets to Northern VA for his spring break.
I was undecided before, but we like real guy movies and if Jon hates it we will LOVE it!
Thanks Jon!
Panasonic had a wireless touchscreen tablet, the Cruise pad, we were experimenting with in Army motorpools in 1994.
fobbman Thanks, Michael. Now AOL/Time Warner can continue on with their complete ownership of the fastest home-based broadband Internet service available.
Perhaps his reply should sound like this...
Michael: "You are very welcome Mr. fobbman! Did you read the article at the top of the page at all? AOL-Time Warner will continue to provide competitive access becuase it was a condition of their merger, ordered by the government, just as it says above. Thus subjecting AOL to continued regulation just like a telco!"
Michael: "Oh! By the way, my name is Michael POWELL *not* Parker."
Warner is the ONLY company mentioned in this post that CONTINUES to be regulated.
So, I am missing how your pointing to them in your subject line has anything to do with your first statement:
Thereby proving, yet again, that our government's regulatory and judicial agencies are, in their current form, unable to resist influence by sufficiently large, wealthy, and "powerful" companies which they are supposed to police.
Perhaps if you can revise your statement and use a company that has actually been able to buy influence (sorry, don't try Enron, all of their influence was with a prior administration, the current beurocrats ignored them and ignored the beurocrats they replaced last year) your post might read a little better.
So one of the conditions of the AOL-Time Warner Merger was that they shared their lines with other ISPs and now this ruling says they do not have to? Something seems very fishy to me
This ruling is that cable providers do not need to share lines UNLESS they have been specifically told to do so, like AOL-Time Warner was told as a requirement of their merger.
So, in this case, the "big mean corp" is the one forced to share.
From the portion of the article fully visible above:
Unlike telephone companies, cable companies are required only to share their lines when specifically told to by the government. As a condition of the AOL Time Warner merger, that company was forced to offer its consumers a choice of Internet service providers on its high-speed lines.
It means that effective today, all technology development and website
activities around Blender will be frozen.
Will that be bananna or strawberry?
Even better, IMHO, is the 'conference call' product they alluded to in the article. I think they're referring to the Soundbubble, which will create a 'bubble' within which you can *only* hear the sound source you want (e.g. the phone call). If you're outside the bubble, you won't be able to hear the phone conversation.
I hope they do not intend on getting a patent for "the cone of silence" as pioneered on the American TV show "Get Smart!"
What's next? Attaching these things to GSM shoes?
Actuallt, the Republicans ARE leading the charge in the House against this bill. House Cool to Copy Protection.
This story is from 4 March 2002. Not complaining that my submission was rejected then, I probably detracted from the facts too much when I submitted.
Anyway, the information is there, cheers!
This is a creepy run around the 1st Ammendment, and you should be aware.
The First Amendment is a restriction on government, not on you, your neighbor or a business.
This was a civil judgement not a criminal conviction, the First Amendment does not apply AT ALL.
Are Bob Goldweight and Gilbert Godfried going to be the voices for the english release ;-)
Wait!
The DVD players are "licensed" already. That did not stop this?
The DVDs are already encrypted (if they wish to be protected) and that didn't stop this?
There are already laws "preventing" "illegal" copying and that didn't stop this?
What the hell is up with Jackie V? His only solutions are to make things more complicated and more expensive!
Here is a clue: prosecute movie pirates instead of magazines owners and DeCSS programmers!!! Get the cops to arrest people selling pirated movies RIGHT IN FRONT OF MPAA HEADQUARTERS for starters!
Ingenious!
Yes, I do expect a royalty if the above idea is actually ever used.
Protection from the government, in my post, is protection from government power and authority.
Your statement is a very good example of the abuse of government power, authority and resources but you mix in "the people" as if every neighbor has a badge, gun and a jail cell waiting for you. The Constitution makes a distinction between the two: people and States have rights, the central government has power and authority. I am making the same distinction.
I did not say that your neighbors are not allowed to disagree with you, dislike you or even hate you for your beliefs and if they do it is not censorship either.
The strange dichotomy is that the more censors try to curb information, the bigger and richer "The File Room" grows. Sadly, the site makes clear that the United States -- the creator of the modern idea of free speech -- has become one of the world's most ubiquitous censors.
This criticism does not sound very well founded.
1. If the USA was actually a big censor state it would not allow the posts to get to "The File Room" in the first place, no matter where the posts originated. The Soviets, Chinese, Cubans, Germans and North Koreans (insert others here) were all very well skilled at this type of prevention. It is well documented that it is possible to some extent and it is obvious when it is happening.
2. In the USA one is protected from GOVERNMENT censorship ONLY, not the censorship by one's next door neighbor nor the censorship by the contributors to the local art gallery.
As some AC has pointed out, the post I was responding to said the US healthcare system is "crappy" and he wants to dole *that* healthcare out to people that can not afford insurance/stc. right now.
My point is that the healthcare is just fine, but *you* do not agree with the current method of paying for healthcare in the USA by the people that actually recieve said healthcare.
If it were a "healthcare system" problem we would be dealing with more quackery, more of what the Canadian posters have been saying about being ignored in their hospitals, more Doctors not giving proper care at any cost due to incompetance/bad training/etc.
So, back to what I began with, you are stating a welfare "problem" and calling it a healthcare problem.