It's not a "gratuitous lawsuit" when it's at the "send a letter" stage. Anyone can sue anyone, and anyone can threaten to sue anyone. Threatening to file a lawsuit is specifically exempt from the charge of extortion.
That's why I said you can ignore most threats. They truly are paper tigers. Remember, if they want to go through with their threat, instead of a $50 letter, they have to cough up a 4-figure retainer (which will quickly disappear). You don't get "your day in court" for under $10k unless you do the work yourself - in which case, you just keep filing motions and hearings and drain the idiots who wrongfully tried to slap you down (you WERE in the right, right? Otherwise, comply with the C+D. Pick your fights.)
... and they'll also have to worry about everyone and their dog saying GTFO in the meantime if someone stands up to them and makes a big enough noise about it. Once one person says "screw off" loud enough and long enough, others start following suit, and instead of looking at spending $50 for a C+D, they're looking at having to finance multiple lawsuits in multiple jurisdictions - possibly even multiple countries, where they have to hire locals because their usual people aren't licensed there.
As I said initially, most are bluffs. They might be willing to spend $50 here and there, but when they're looking at $15k a shot and the likely damage awards are minimal, they usually look for other low-hanging fruit instead. If you're in the right, say so and tell them that you welcome service of their lawsuit. Send them the courthouse address where they have to file it, since almost all the time they won't even have that information, since they're rarely local yokels.
If they do file suit, learn how to draft your own motions and how to serve them via fax. Start running their meters through the roof with hearings. They'll get the message.
So there are differences in the Genome. What has really changed since then?
well duh! What do you think differences in the genome do? It only took 14,000 years for dogs and wolves to diverge as much as they have.
My beliefs? I'm a hard-line atheist. Richard Dawkins is a wishy-washy agnostic in comparison. Both the logical and mathematical proofs that show that god cannot exist in a universe where we exist settle the issue. God is incompatible with humans. And, since I'm in this universe, there is no god in this one. The one a few branes over... It's all superstitious nonsense. However, I allow that other people may need to believe in and draw comfort from a wrong belief, same as they did when they believed that the world was the center of the universe.
And no, your god is no longer that widely accepted. Most Western societies have moved on, and are now "post-christian." Even the US is trending that way; atheism will easily be the #1 religion by mid-century even in the US. Get used to it.
Well, up here (Kanuckistan) we have gun-control laws, etc., and yet you won't be charged if you shoot a robber in the back who is retreating. The reasoning is simple - just because the guy is leaving doesn't mean that he won't come back for revenge since you scared him off, so you're justified in shooting him in the back - he is the one who created the original situation by attempted forcible robbery.
The actual case was a store owner who had been robbed multiple times, got an illegal handgun, and shot the next robber in the back while the robber was fleeing the store after seeing the store owner now had a gun.
Prosecutors refused to charge the guy with murder, manslaughter, or even criminal negligence because they knew of a jury convicting was between zero and none.
Moral of the story - don't stat sh*t you can't finish.
Indeed, and the only way to challenge their claim is that you need lawyers. Good, expensive lawyers able to counter the army of lawyers the IOC undoubtedly has on retainer. Also, you need time...5-10 years for the courts to come to a final, uncontestable decision.
False. All you need to do is say "So sue me or FOAD." Then they have to:
weigh if the Streisand effect is worth it
weigh if the costs involved are worth it
see if they have to sue in your jurisdiction
weigh if the chance of winning is worth it (balance of the probabilities, etc)
weigh if the eventual monetary damages, if any, are worth it
Most lawyers letters are bluffs.
Most people fold.
It costs nothing to call their bluff and see if they take the next step, which is... a demand letter giving you x number of days or else they'll sue.
... and again, you can fold or call their bluff...
Are you trying to claim that blasting someone in the face with a shotgun is somehow illegal in the USofA?
Dick Cheney would like a word with you:-)
Personally, I wouldn't shoot them... I'd let them shake hands with Mr. 240 volts when they try to open the garage door. Or some paint stripper. Turn it into a gel with vaseline, mix in some phosphorus, and CAREFULLY, using one of those turkey injectors, refill some paint-balls (if you don't know how to handle phosphorus, don't do this!). That'll leave a perma-mark.
You can also follow the site owner on twitter: http://twitter.com/Mikepruett
>Mikepruett
>Mike Pruett | Rochester, MN
>@WheresKiger Just eat at a new fast food place called Nupa Express on 11thAve NW and Civic Center Drive it was GREAT 11:12 PM Sep 15th, 2009
... and rob HIS house when he's not home:
>Domain name: PLEASESUEME.COM
>Pruett, Mike mlt@mltgroup.com
>4012 5th Place NW, Rochester, MN 55901
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This isn't the only way that google encourages the growth of cruft on the web. Almost 90% of the bogus registrations on the forums I run are made from gmail spam accounts. Not surprising, given that you can buy compromised gmail accounts for less than a penny a piece - or if you want to buy in bulk, you can get even better discounts - like 25,000 gmail accounts for $100.00.
They don't clamp down on it because it helps them train their spam filters, but the rest of us suffer the consequences.
Yes, I know, the problem will go away in 10 years, when all computers are powerful enough to run AI software capable of recognizing and squelching EVERY ad, including product placements in real-time video feeds... and with it google's revenue model...
We replaced it with a province-wide college scheme that works like this:
You either take a 2-year pre-university series (and university is shaved from 4 years to 3), or you take a 3-year technical program, such as nursing, etc., that leads directly to the job market.
The idea was that 30% of students would be in the pre-uni stream and 70% would be in the jobs stream. It worked out the exact opposite - 70% take pre-uni.
Since college is both free and optional, only those who want to be there go, so it cuts down on wasting taxpayer funds. It also means you have a more homogeneous student population, so you can deal with them as adults and expect them to behave as adults.
Besides, Utah would only use grade 12 to push more "creation science" anyways.
The Vendor shall identify in writing the person who will be responsible for overall security of the application development, management, and update process throughout the Contract period. The person identified shall be a single senior technical security specialist, to be known as the project Security Lead. The Security Lead shall certify in writing the security of each deliverable.
You now become personally liable for any problems. No lawyer would have their client sign this. Which means we can ignore everything else they recommend, because it's tainted by the stupidity of this "requirement."
There are less painful ways to earn your Darwin than by the death of 1,000 legal cuts.
Please DO check out the fossil record. 100 million years is a long time, once life reaches a certain stage, to spread and diversify. Just look at the changes in the human genome in the last million. Or in domestic dogs in the last 10,000.
And while you're at it, show ONE piece of scientific evidence that the world was designed.
Religion has been the number 1 drawback of humans. Superstitious beliefs that have pandered to the basest instincts of the ignorant, giving people a license to hate.
And the worst offenders by far in the last 1,000 years have been the Christians. Justifying everything from owning slaves to hating gays, lesbians and transsexuals "because Gawd sez so." Sorry, but "because Gawd sez so" isn't acceptable any more.
Why "obviously"? Win3.1 + chameleon netsock worked fine for connecting to the net on any 386 with 2 megs of ram, (though it worked better with 4 or 8 megs).
It would be more useful if they also removed the bogus limits on running servers out of your home. The original concept for the Internet was that everyone could/would have some public/shared content on their computers. Why should trojans and worms have all the fun?
They probably want to pick the most qualified worker rather than the most politically correct one. If they end up with an entire workforce full of white employees, perhaps an investigation should be done as to why there are no other qualified candidates in the area.
So why will releasing the numbers affect that policy?
Through observation of the universe, scientists have seen design in the way things work
[citation needed]
Your assertion that they have a religious belief is not science (because it is a belief that is beyond what natural evidence provides, hence "super-natural", hence a religious "faith" belief, as opposed to testable assertion).
Seriously, what were you guys thinking? The Great Pumpkin only comes once a year.
Everyone made fun of XP and the Fisher-Price theme... but Ubuntu is worse. It looks like it was thrown together by a bunch of Hallowe'enies.
"Oh, but it's earth colors, like autumn!" Sure, pick the time of year when everything DIES! That sends a great subliminal "use-me-be-happy" message.
Fall colors - remind people that Old Man Winter is right around the corner, it's only going to get worse for the rest of the year, slush and ice and heating bills and salt stains on your boots and coat and clothes and the dogs dragging dirt in from the freshly sanded sidewalks all over the comforter and ice storms and dead cats frozen in snowbanks flying through the air as the municipal snowblower sucks them up and... you get the picture.
You want companies to take you seriously, you don't have your reps wear a bow tie so they don't look like Bozo the Clown, and you don't make your prime product offering look like the artwork from a pumpkin pie box.
If you have to do a pie-themed color scheme, order a pizza pie and use that for inspiration. Everyone likes pizza. Or do apple pie - American Pie! Even the Band Campers can relate to that! Or cherry pie. There are so many nerds in basements who dream of cherry...
It's not just ugly - it's fugly-ugly. Even in Soviet Russia.
It is ugly on the screen. It's so ugly it's obscene.
It is ugly every day. It is ugly like old whey.
It is ugly on a boat. It is ugly with a goat.
It is ugly like brown turd. It is ugly as a nerd.
It is ugly, don't you see? It is ugly like green pee.
It is ugly, all the way. It is ugly, Matt Assay!
I will not use it on a boat. I will not use it with a goat.
I will not use it at the fair. I will not use it in my hair.
I will leave it with the nerds. They like it colored like brown turds.
I will leave it, Matt Assay, It makes my eyeballs bleed all day.
In summary, you only get one chance to make a good first impression, and that color scheme works great - for your competitors.
The demonstration works because microwave ovens produce standing waves -- waves that move "up" and "down" in place, instead of rolling forward like waves in the ocean.
Ocean waves don't "move forward".
The oven is designed to be just the right size to cause the microwaves to reflect off the walls so that the peaks and valleys line up perfectly, creating "hot spots" (actually, lines of heat).
Disproved by direct observation. Go into any store and you'll see microwaves in various sizes. The perfect microwave doesn't have "hot spots".
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That's why I said you can ignore most threats. They truly are paper tigers. Remember, if they want to go through with their threat, instead of a $50 letter, they have to cough up a 4-figure retainer (which will quickly disappear). You don't get "your day in court" for under $10k unless you do the work yourself - in which case, you just keep filing motions and hearings and drain the idiots who wrongfully tried to slap you down (you WERE in the right, right? Otherwise, comply with the C+D. Pick your fights.)
As I said initially, most are bluffs. They might be willing to spend $50 here and there, but when they're looking at $15k a shot and the likely damage awards are minimal, they usually look for other low-hanging fruit instead. If you're in the right, say so and tell them that you welcome service of their lawsuit. Send them the courthouse address where they have to file it, since almost all the time they won't even have that information, since they're rarely local yokels.
If they do file suit, learn how to draft your own motions and how to serve them via fax. Start running their meters through the roof with hearings. They'll get the message.
well duh! What do you think differences in the genome do? It only took 14,000 years for dogs and wolves to diverge as much as they have.
My beliefs? I'm a hard-line atheist. Richard Dawkins is a wishy-washy agnostic in comparison. Both the logical and mathematical proofs that show that god cannot exist in a universe where we exist settle the issue. God is incompatible with humans. And, since I'm in this universe, there is no god in this one. The one a few branes over ... It's all superstitious nonsense. However, I allow that other people may need to believe in and draw comfort from a wrong belief, same as they did when they believed that the world was the center of the universe.
And no, your god is no longer that widely accepted. Most Western societies have moved on, and are now "post-christian." Even the US is trending that way; atheism will easily be the #1 religion by mid-century even in the US. Get used to it.
The actual case was a store owner who had been robbed multiple times, got an illegal handgun, and shot the next robber in the back while the robber was fleeing the store after seeing the store owner now had a gun.
Prosecutors refused to charge the guy with murder, manslaughter, or even criminal negligence because they knew of a jury convicting was between zero and none.
Moral of the story - don't stat sh*t you can't finish.
False. All you need to do is say "So sue me or FOAD." Then they have to:
Most lawyers letters are bluffs.
Most people fold.
It costs nothing to call their bluff and see if they take the next step, which is ... a demand letter giving you x number of days or else they'll sue.
Are you trying to claim that blasting someone in the face with a shotgun is somehow illegal in the USofA?
Dick Cheney would like a word with you :-)
Personally, I wouldn't shoot them ... I'd let them shake hands with Mr. 240 volts when they try to open the garage door. Or some paint stripper. Turn it into a gel with vaseline, mix in some phosphorus, and CAREFULLY, using one of those turkey injectors, refill some paint-balls (if you don't know how to handle phosphorus, don't do this!). That'll leave a perma-mark.
>Mikepruett
>Mike Pruett | Rochester, MN
>@WheresKiger Just eat at a new fast food place called Nupa Express on 11thAve NW and Civic Center Drive it was GREAT 11:12 PM Sep 15th, 2009
>Domain name: PLEASESUEME.COM
>Pruett, Mike mlt@mltgroup.com
>4012 5th Place NW, Rochester, MN 55901
Give him a call to tell him you appreciate being able to track him: 507-281-3490
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Need his address?
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Profit? NRA endorsements, talk-show circuit, book deals ...
Google hosts more "squat pages" and "doorway pages" and "spam pages" than any other company in the world - literally millions of them.
So-called "domainers" use them because google makes it so easy - register the domain, park it at google, and make money.
Don't believe it? Do a search for "google park domain adsense"
Here's the first result from scroogle:
This isn't the only way that google encourages the growth of cruft on the web. Almost 90% of the bogus registrations on the forums I run are made from gmail spam accounts. Not surprising, given that you can buy compromised gmail accounts for less than a penny a piece - or if you want to buy in bulk, you can get even better discounts - like 25,000 gmail accounts for $100.00.
They don't clamp down on it because it helps them train their spam filters, but the rest of us suffer the consequences.
Yes, I know, the problem will go away in 10 years, when all computers are powerful enough to run AI software capable of recognizing and squelching EVERY ad, including product placements in real-time video feeds ... and with it google's revenue model ...
You either take a 2-year pre-university series (and university is shaved from 4 years to 3), or you take a 3-year technical program, such as nursing, etc., that leads directly to the job market.
The idea was that 30% of students would be in the pre-uni stream and 70% would be in the jobs stream. It worked out the exact opposite - 70% take pre-uni.
Since college is both free and optional, only those who want to be there go, so it cuts down on wasting taxpayer funds. It also means you have a more homogeneous student population, so you can deal with them as adults and expect them to behave as adults.
Besides, Utah would only use grade 12 to push more "creation science" anyways.
You now become personally liable for any problems. No lawyer would have their client sign this. Which means we can ignore everything else they recommend, because it's tainted by the stupidity of this "requirement."
There are less painful ways to earn your Darwin than by the death of 1,000 legal cuts.
Please DO check out the fossil record. 100 million years is a long time, once life reaches a certain stage, to spread and diversify. Just look at the changes in the human genome in the last million. Or in domestic dogs in the last 10,000.
And while you're at it, show ONE piece of scientific evidence that the world was designed.
Religion has been the number 1 drawback of humans. Superstitious beliefs that have pandered to the basest instincts of the ignorant, giving people a license to hate.
And the worst offenders by far in the last 1,000 years have been the Christians. Justifying everything from owning slaves to hating gays, lesbians and transsexuals "because Gawd sez so." Sorry, but "because Gawd sez so" isn't acceptable any more.
I have as much of a right to verify their background. After all, you don't want to deal with convicts.
Why "obviously"? Win3.1 + chameleon netsock worked fine for connecting to the net on any 386 with 2 megs of ram, (though it worked better with 4 or 8 megs).
It would be more useful if they also removed the bogus limits on running servers out of your home. The original concept for the Internet was that everyone could/would have some public/shared content on their computers. Why should trojans and worms have all the fun?
This is slashdot. Thee is NO way anyone looking in here would think the "computer geeks" are uniquely rational, or that they breed ...
So why will releasing the numbers affect that policy?
Additionally, they weren't throwing snowballs - they were heaving shovels full of snow at cars during a snowstorm.
There were numerous complaints over 2 days.
People have enough distractions when they're driving.
[citation needed]
Your assertion that they have a religious belief is not science (because it is a belief that is beyond what natural evidence provides, hence "super-natural", hence a religious "faith" belief, as opposed to testable assertion).
Show ANY test that can prove it. ANY. ONE. TEST.
Stupid fundies.
Seriously, what were you guys thinking? The Great Pumpkin only comes once a year.
Everyone made fun of XP and the Fisher-Price theme ... but Ubuntu is worse. It looks like it was thrown together by a bunch of Hallowe'enies.
"Oh, but it's earth colors, like autumn!" Sure, pick the time of year when everything DIES! That sends a great subliminal "use-me-be-happy" message.
Fall colors - remind people that Old Man Winter is right around the corner, it's only going to get worse for the rest of the year, slush and ice and heating bills and salt stains on your boots and coat and clothes and the dogs dragging dirt in from the freshly sanded sidewalks all over the comforter and ice storms and dead cats frozen in snowbanks flying through the air as the municipal snowblower sucks them up and ... you get the picture.
You want companies to take you seriously, you don't have your reps wear a bow tie so they don't look like Bozo the Clown, and you don't make your prime product offering look like the artwork from a pumpkin pie box.
If you have to do a pie-themed color scheme, order a pizza pie and use that for inspiration. Everyone likes pizza. Or do apple pie - American Pie! Even the Band Campers can relate to that! Or cherry pie. There are so many nerds in basements who dream of cherry ...
It's not just ugly - it's fugly-ugly. Even in Soviet Russia.
It is ugly on the screen. It's so ugly it's obscene.
It is ugly every day. It is ugly like old whey.
It is ugly on a boat. It is ugly with a goat.
It is ugly like brown turd. It is ugly as a nerd.
It is ugly, don't you see? It is ugly like green pee.
It is ugly, all the way. It is ugly, Matt Assay!
I will not use it on a boat. I will not use it with a goat.
I will not use it at the fair. I will not use it in my hair.
I will leave it with the nerds. They like it colored like brown turds.
I will leave it, Matt Assay, It makes my eyeballs bleed all day.
In summary, you only get one chance to make a good first impression, and that color scheme works great - for your competitors.
They're no longer "ocean waves" at that point. In the mid-atlantic or mid-pacific the water stays in place.
See: Modern myths.
There are only two places in the entire planet where there's a chance of finding "Leftover chocolate."
Aslo, the article is wrong:
Ocean waves don't "move forward".
Disproved by direct observation. Go into any store and you'll see microwaves in various sizes. The perfect microwave doesn't have "hot spots".
No they don't. There is zero evidence that "things were set into specific roles." Any such evidence would be major news.
"Believe" == no proof, just a belief.
In other words, even by your own statement, scientists have zero proof that the universe was designed.