Charge someone that you know is guilty of one thing with a ridiculous array of charges that you know he is not guilty of, on the chance that he'll take your plea "deal" and avoid the possibility of being convicted (wrongly) on the BS charges.
Sounds rather like patent trolling.
What part of "terms of service" don't you understand? Or perhaps you fail to understand that "unlimited" is not a magic word that makes all the other rules that the customer agreed to suddenly non-binding. Magic words like that are for the exclusive use of the vendor, at their whim.
We're talking North Florida, here. Not as many retirees, more rednecks. Most of whom actually probably only would buy a pressure cooker for bomb-making purposes.
Hey! Them pressure cookers is great for makin' a really tender 'gator stew, you insensitive clod.
You've never shot at sporting clays "rabbit" or "battue" targets, have you? OK, the battue doesn't exacly zig-zag, but worse, it will practically disappear at some point through it's flight.
yes it does. The second amendment (since thats what the thread is labeled) is to protect us from tyrants
TFTFY. The 2nd Amendment speaks of maintaining "the security of a free state". Equating our government with threats to that "free state" is stupid, indicating a fundamental failure to grasp most other points in The Constitution and The Bill of Rights. This is not to say that would-be tyrants and other threats to liberty have not gained access to various "levers of power" from time to time, but to call the government itself a threat to the "free state" is to ignore all the other, perfectly effective, means we have of protecting ourselves from tyrants.
But why? It's not like it's some celebrity using the judicial system as a bully. And there's not really any amusing or interesting content to the video. Is it just cause we don't like judicial orders here?
True, but there's no denying that that video will be viewed a few more times than it would have been before the poor lad went to court to bitch about it. What he should have done is fire back on Facebook, Twitter, and various other social media. You know where all the people who care about useless shit like this will see it and know he's innocent.
Even if these events are related, it could also be that global warming is caused by the shift of the poles, not the other way around.
Climate changes. Has done that for millions of years. Poles have moved all over the map as well. The core of the earth rotates at a different speed than the crust. Also for millions of years. No-one has a full understanding of the entire complex interactions. Studies like these will be cause for government bodies to invent new taxes and levies to "stop the poles from moving".
Let's face it people, there is nothing we can do, accept it and deal with it.
Fox News much?
Every single statement you have made above is, at least in part, false. You have no evidence whatsoever to support your wild assertion that "pole shift might be causing global warming", while completely ignore the growing body of evidence that the opposite is true. In other words, no, just making shit up and stating it as some kind of conjecture worthy of consideration does not make it true.
Yes, the climate has changed for millions of years, but if the observable data that correlates with a warming climate are to be believed, then the planet has never seen a change happening as rapidly as it is currently undergoing.
Government's won't "invent" new taxes to stop the poles from moving. They didn't "invent" new taxes to prevent climate change. Carbon credits != tax.
Let's face it people, some people just blindly accept what they hear on Fox News because it's what they want to hear and there's nothing we can do about it. We can, however, call them on it it when they turn around and parrot such bullshit.
Actually, it matters a great deal. Cable television is the very definition of a natural monopoly, or as Mill called it, a "practical monopoly".
To suggest that it is otherwise simply because one "could" live without it is to ignore the plainest of facts about that "market". The forces affecting price and availability in that market are heavily constrained. To suggest that such a market is free is patently absurd, but then adherence to absurd notion is something of the hallmark of Rand fan bois on/.
This is the first time that I've seen someone talk about President Obama and Executive Orders in a way that makes sense. It is my understanding that Executive Orders have to do with the internal operations of the government, not as a mechanism of usurping congress when it comes to laws that have an effect on the American public.
That's odd. You and your GOP pals were remarkably silent when that dodge, and other shenanigans like "signing statements" (the equivalent of royal decree), were commonplace during the last administration. Mind you, in no case do I consider these actions acceptable, but I find it more than a little annoying that none of the GOP apologists had a single fucking thing to say about it until a Democrat took office.
Me neither. I'm hardly a libertarian, except in the sense that everyone is*, but this seems to me to be government overreach.
Cable TV is not a vital public service, in any shape or form. It's not important infrastructure you must have access to or else be significantly disadvantaged. Nobody is any the worse for not having it. In fact, it's actually just awful.
Given that, let the market take care of it.
I will assume you mean the mythical "free market". There is no such thing, of course, and this is especially true where market choice is limited by natural monopolies, as is the case in cable and satellite television service. So your solution fails. It's less than ideal, but only regulation will see to it that the consumers are not getting the short end of the stick, as they are now.
Partly, bad timing: his party's brand was tarnished by George W. Bush. Partly, bad choice of running mate.
Blame the party leadership, not McCain himself.
You forgot about the GOP's ever-increasingly out of step positions on "social issues". It was for that reason that they had their ass handed to them in the last election.
and see that our money is spent on things that are in our best interests.
Yeah, by not giving the government your profit. Notice how the word profit has become dirty and evil in our present day? Profit is just livelyhood, the ability to make choices. By taking YOUR profit they take your choice!!!
So you'd have us believe that there is no valid role for government, and thereby, the collection and expenditure of tax dollars, then? What a truly naive view of the world.
Our data networking and VOIP service were spotless while QWest was running the show. After the move to CenturyLink customer service (which, to be fair, was never great) because a joke. I do not exaggerate, it took weeks to have simple issues resolved. Stability and reliability of their network has, clearly, also suffered, but it's the useless customer service that has us moving all of our traffic to a new carrier soon. Today's mess is just an underscore.
Traditional retailers want business? Change their service, train staff better, have more registers open, kick out the rabble who just hang out in stores and never buy stuff.
I guess you missed the point of TFA. It's about state and local government wanting their tax revenues lost to Internet sales, not business wanting to recover the revenue lost to Internet sales. Sales tax is a stupid idea, for many reasons beyond the mess that is trying to enforce it's collection in this age. How about we leave the local merchants to figure out, or not, why they've lost so much business, and instead, task our representatives with finding realistic ways to replace the revenue once gathered in sales tax?
if you dont spend your money you got people claiming you are not paying your fair share. there is no winning anymore. your money is not yours, its the governments,
Uh..., no. The government operates at our will, so the money is still "ours". Yes, one might make the case that it's more like "at the corporations' will" but we could, if we gave a shit, undo that damage and see that our money is spent on things that are in our best interests.
No, that's not democracy. Democracy is mob rule. Democracy is, if 51% of the people wanted religious education, persecution of other religions, and modern crusades into the Middle East, the other 49% are stuck doing exactly those same things. That is democracy.
Democracy still tyranny--tyranny of the majority over the minority.
What we had was a republic.
TFTFY
What we have now is more accurately called a plutocracy.
Most of Florida is not "The South." Anyone here who lives in an urban or suburban area is more likely a transplant from New York than a "Southerner."
Beg to differ. To be sure, the more urban centers that collect all the transplanted New Yorkers are markedly different than the rest of the state, just like Austin is way different from pretty much all of the rest of Texas. Still, that doesn't make "the rest of the state" any less retarded when it comes to how folks look on minorities, nor does this mean that there aren't racist dickheads in Miami, or Austin, or Denver, or Seattle. It's just that it's palpably more widespread here in Dixie.
Spoken, no doubt, by an anonymous coward from Dixie who just can't come to grips with the extent that racism still pervades The South. No, the idiots are the officials who are making this chickenshit case and ruining a young woman's life.
I don't see this as being a criminal act, but given the way that it was carried out, I think the casino has every right to demand 9/10 of his winnings back.
Under the law, the have no such right. Players are not responsible for malfunctioning gaming machines. Indeed, the casino can not even force you away from such a machine if it is accepting wagers and paying according to the published schedule. Walk away from it though, even if only for a moment, and it's game over, literally. This actually happened to a friend of mine years ago, during a visit to Reno. He'd stumbled onto a slot that was "stuck on win". They wanted very badly to have him get up so that they could take the machine out of service, and after a short while enticed him to do so, much to his later (and more sober) regret.
Competition is on the rise and we are getting close to the end of the good ol' days of Bitcoin; the time when a desktop computer or two have any real mining capabilities.
This level of taxation goes FAR BEYOND what it takes to run a nation.
[citation needed]
First of all, there is precious little agreement on how much it actually takes to "run a nation", but in the case of the U.S., it is plain to even the most dim-witted that we are not collecting enough to cover that expense. Unless/until we can agree to spend less, more revenue is required. To suggest that it is excessive is to deny reality.
Google Fiber is working and doing what it is mean to do, get the US out of the Internet stone age by forcing other companies to get real about Internet service. Bandwidth is insanely cheap anywhere except residential or small business because they artificially limit their own capacity. Google has years of experience managing fiber (they bought a/lot/ of the dark fiber back after.com crash) and knows there isn't any legitimate reason to keep things as they are.
Cable companies have been pushing back at Google (youtube etc) claiming that they use too much of their available bandwidth and trying to justify charging Google extortion money for extra bandwidth. Google has a choice, they can pay the extortion money to companies that refuse to honor network neutrality or they can spend the money on rolling out their own fiber. Google is demonstrating to the cable companies that their position is not insurmountable and that if they have to they will simply go around them.
Astutely observed, sir, but I would add that all of that makes a compelling case for a public utility model, wherein one (quasi-governmental) entity owns the pipe (fiber, whatever) and sells access to it on an even playing field. Having competing companies all stringing their own fiber is madness. Having them all competing to offer service over one piece of existing fiber is much better. No?
"If it ain't broke, don't replace it unless you can't fix it when it does break. Then you should work on replacing it as soon as possible. Even if replacing it would lead to a 3 fold increase in employee productivity."
It's not your math skill that's lacking so much as it's your English. FTFS... "...developed a robot whose purpose in life is to help a person build an IKEA table..."
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Charge someone that you know is guilty of one thing with a ridiculous array of charges that you know he is not guilty of, on the chance that he'll take your plea "deal" and avoid the possibility of being convicted (wrongly) on the BS charges.
Sounds rather like patent trolling.
Excessive much? Yes.
what part of 'unlimited' don't you understand ?
What part of "terms of service" don't you understand? Or perhaps you fail to understand that "unlimited" is not a magic word that makes all the other rules that the customer agreed to suddenly non-binding. Magic words like that are for the exclusive use of the vendor, at their whim.
We're talking North Florida, here. Not as many retirees, more rednecks. Most of whom actually probably only would buy a pressure cooker for bomb-making purposes.
Hey! Them pressure cookers is great for makin' a really tender 'gator stew, you insensitive clod.
Clay pigeons don't exactly zig-zag.
You've never shot at sporting clays "rabbit" or "battue" targets, have you? OK, the battue doesn't exacly zig-zag, but worse, it will practically disappear at some point through it's flight.
yes it does. The second amendment (since thats what the thread is labeled) is to protect us from tyrants
TFTFY. The 2nd Amendment speaks of maintaining "the security of a free state". Equating our government with threats to that "free state" is stupid, indicating a fundamental failure to grasp most other points in The Constitution and The Bill of Rights. This is not to say that would-be tyrants and other threats to liberty have not gained access to various "levers of power" from time to time, but to call the government itself a threat to the "free state" is to ignore all the other, perfectly effective, means we have of protecting ourselves from tyrants.
But why? It's not like it's some celebrity using the judicial system as a bully. And there's not really any amusing or interesting content to the video. Is it just cause we don't like judicial orders here?
True, but there's no denying that that video will be viewed a few more times than it would have been before the poor lad went to court to bitch about it. What he should have done is fire back on Facebook, Twitter, and various other social media. You know where all the people who care about useless shit like this will see it and know he's innocent.
Even if these events are related, it could also be that global warming is caused by the shift of the poles, not the other way around.
Climate changes. Has done that for millions of years. Poles have moved all over the map as well. The core of the earth rotates at a different speed than the crust. Also for millions of years. No-one has a full understanding of the entire complex interactions. Studies like these will be cause for government bodies to invent new taxes and levies to "stop the poles from moving".
Let's face it people, there is nothing we can do, accept it and deal with it.
Fox News much?
Every single statement you have made above is, at least in part, false.
You have no evidence whatsoever to support your wild assertion that "pole shift might be causing global warming", while completely ignore the growing body of evidence that the opposite is true. In other words, no, just making shit up and stating it as some kind of conjecture worthy of consideration does not make it true.
Yes, the climate has changed for millions of years, but if the observable data that correlates with a warming climate are to be believed, then the planet has never seen a change happening as rapidly as it is currently undergoing.
Government's won't "invent" new taxes to stop the poles from moving. They didn't "invent" new taxes to prevent climate change. Carbon credits != tax.
Let's face it people, some people just blindly accept what they hear on Fox News because it's what they want to hear and there's nothing we can do about it. We can, however, call them on it it when they turn around and parrot such bullshit.
1. Not a monopoly, not that it matters.
Actually, it matters a great deal. Cable television is the very definition of a natural monopoly, or as Mill called it, a "practical monopoly". /.
To suggest that it is otherwise simply because one "could" live without it is to ignore the plainest of facts about that "market". The forces affecting price and availability in that market are heavily constrained. To suggest that such a market is free is patently absurd, but then adherence to absurd notion is something of the hallmark of Rand fan bois on
This is the first time that I've seen someone talk about President Obama and Executive Orders in a way that makes sense. It is my understanding that Executive Orders have to do with the internal operations of the government, not as a mechanism of usurping congress when it comes to laws that have an effect on the American public.
That's odd. You and your GOP pals were remarkably silent when that dodge, and other shenanigans like "signing statements" (the equivalent of royal decree), were commonplace during the last administration. Mind you, in no case do I consider these actions acceptable, but I find it more than a little annoying that none of the GOP apologists had a single fucking thing to say about it until a Democrat took office.
Me neither. I'm hardly a libertarian, except in the sense that everyone is*, but this seems to me to be government overreach.
Cable TV is not a vital public service, in any shape or form. It's not important infrastructure you must have access to or else be significantly disadvantaged. Nobody is any the worse for not having it. In fact, it's actually just awful.
Given that, let the market take care of it.
I will assume you mean the mythical "free market". There is no such thing, of course, and this is especially true where market choice is limited by natural monopolies, as is the case in cable and satellite television service. So your solution fails. It's less than ideal, but only regulation will see to it that the consumers are not getting the short end of the stick, as they are now.
Partly, bad timing: his party's brand was tarnished by George W. Bush. Partly, bad choice of running mate.
Blame the party leadership, not McCain himself.
You forgot about the GOP's ever-increasingly out of step positions on "social issues". It was for that reason that they had their ass handed to them in the last election.
and see that our money is spent on things that are in our best interests.
Yeah, by not giving the government your profit. Notice how the word profit has become dirty and evil in our present day? Profit is just livelyhood, the ability to make choices. By taking YOUR profit they take your choice!!!
So you'd have us believe that there is no valid role for government, and thereby, the collection and expenditure of tax dollars, then? What a truly naive view of the world.
Our data networking and VOIP service were spotless while QWest was running the show. After the move to CenturyLink customer service (which, to be fair, was never great) because a joke. I do not exaggerate, it took weeks to have simple issues resolved. Stability and reliability of their network has, clearly, also suffered, but it's the useless customer service that has us moving all of our traffic to a new carrier soon. Today's mess is just an underscore.
Traditional retailers want business? Change their service, train staff better, have more registers open, kick out the rabble who just hang out in stores and never buy stuff.
I guess you missed the point of TFA. It's about state and local government wanting their tax revenues lost to Internet sales, not business wanting to recover the revenue lost to Internet sales. Sales tax is a stupid idea, for many reasons beyond the mess that is trying to enforce it's collection in this age. How about we leave the local merchants to figure out, or not, why they've lost so much business, and instead, task our representatives with finding realistic ways to replace the revenue once gathered in sales tax?
if you dont spend your money you got people claiming you are not paying your fair share. there is no winning anymore. your money is not yours, its the governments,
Uh..., no. The government operates at our will, so the money is still "ours". Yes, one might make the case that it's more like "at the corporations' will" but we could, if we gave a shit, undo that damage and see that our money is spent on things that are in our best interests.
It doesn't do a thing to stop pirates anyway, so what's the point of it?
Whatever do you mean? Windows 8 has been Microsoft's most effective anti-piracy scheme ever. Not that they meant it to be, but still...
No, that's not democracy. Democracy is mob rule. Democracy is, if 51% of the people wanted religious education, persecution of other religions, and modern crusades into the Middle East, the other 49% are stuck doing exactly those same things. That is democracy.
Democracy still tyranny--tyranny of the majority over the minority.
What we had was a republic.
TFTFY
What we have now is more accurately called a plutocracy.
Most of Florida is not "The South." Anyone here who lives in an urban or suburban area is more likely a transplant from New York than a "Southerner."
Beg to differ. To be sure, the more urban centers that collect all the transplanted New Yorkers are markedly different than the rest of the state, just like Austin is way different from pretty much all of the rest of Texas. Still, that doesn't make "the rest of the state" any less retarded when it comes to how folks look on minorities, nor does this mean that there aren't racist dickheads in Miami, or Austin, or Denver, or Seattle. It's just that it's palpably more widespread here in Dixie.
You're an idiot.
Spoken, no doubt, by an anonymous coward from Dixie who just can't come to grips with the extent that racism still pervades The South. No, the idiots are the officials who are making this chickenshit case and ruining a young woman's life.
I don't see this as being a criminal act, but given the way that it was carried out, I think the casino has every right to demand 9/10 of his winnings back.
Under the law, the have no such right. Players are not responsible for malfunctioning gaming machines. Indeed, the casino can not even force you away from such a machine if it is accepting wagers and paying according to the published schedule. Walk away from it though, even if only for a moment, and it's game over, literally. This actually happened to a friend of mine years ago, during a visit to Reno. He'd stumbled onto a slot that was "stuck on win". They wanted very badly to have him get up so that they could take the machine out of service, and after a short while enticed him to do so, much to his later (and more sober) regret.
Competition is on the rise and we are getting close to the end of the good ol' days of Bitcoin; the time when a desktop computer or two have any real mining capabilities.
So it really is a pyramid scheme, of sorts.
This level of taxation goes FAR BEYOND what it takes to run a nation.
[citation needed]
First of all, there is precious little agreement on how much it actually takes to "run a nation", but in the case of the U.S., it is plain to even the most dim-witted that we are not collecting enough to cover that expense. Unless/until we can agree to spend less, more revenue is required. To suggest that it is excessive is to deny reality.
Google Fiber is working and doing what it is mean to do, get the US out of the Internet stone age by forcing other companies to get real about Internet service. Bandwidth is insanely cheap anywhere except residential or small business because they artificially limit their own capacity. Google has years of experience managing fiber (they bought a /lot/ of the dark fiber back after .com crash) and knows there isn't any legitimate reason to keep things as they are.
Cable companies have been pushing back at Google (youtube etc) claiming that they use too much of their available bandwidth and trying to justify charging Google extortion money for extra bandwidth. Google has a choice, they can pay the extortion money to companies that refuse to honor network neutrality or they can spend the money on rolling out their own fiber. Google is demonstrating to the cable companies that their position is not insurmountable and that if they have to they will simply go around them.
Astutely observed, sir, but I would add that all of that makes a compelling case for a public utility model, wherein one (quasi-governmental) entity owns the pipe (fiber, whatever) and sells access to it on an even playing field. Having competing companies all stringing their own fiber is madness. Having them all competing to offer service over one piece of existing fiber is much better. No?
"If it ain't broke, don't replace it unless you can't fix it when it does break. Then you should work on replacing it as soon as possible. Even if replacing it would lead to a 3 fold increase in employee productivity."
TFTFY
It's not your math skill that's lacking so much as it's your English. FTFS... "...developed a robot whose purpose in life is to help a person build an IKEA table..."