Pretty much, yes. I had several friends from college who went to work for government contractors on projects that required security clearance. The way they explained it, if I figure out on my own what they're working on, that's legal even if it is classified. What would be illegal is if they told me or gave me direct access to classified information about what they were working on.
(Also, in a lot of cases, what they were building wasn't classified, but who they were building it for was.)
Gotti was not sent away for tax evasion. He was convicted for the murder of Paul Castellano, among other things. You're probably thinking of someone else.
The problem is, with free email services, there's no real proof that any given account belongs to a certain person. There are some interesting social engineering implications here...I'm envisioning calling up the Gmail people and claiming to be attempting to retrieve the account of someone who recently died ("I have the death certificate and everything!") when said account really belongs to someone else...
A concession is not legally binding. If a candidate conceeds, and it is later discovered that that candidate won the election, he or she would still take office in January.
So that when Windows wants to secretly download an update or send your data back to Microsoft, and you prevent them from doing so at the router level, they'll be able to detect it?
AT&T most likely has a basis for a lawsuit, but that basis has nothing to do with the Apple-exclusivity contract, since people who hack the phone aren't parties to that contract. The lawsuit would more likely be based on violation of license terms prohibiting the defeat of whatever protection mechanisms are keeping the iPhone locked. And I have no idea whether this would hold up in Europe, where this hack is actually useful.
Some of the best publicity Take Two has gotten for its games has come from Jack Thompson. I only noticed Bully when JT sued to stop it from being released; I ended up buying a copy and finding that it was a pretty good game. They should let JT continue to rant and give their legal department some of Marketing's budget.
Spoken like someone who has never worked in tech support. Most of the time, the customer did do something to screw up the software, and most customers show no qualms about lying to you to try to make it your fault.
(I stopped working in tech support when I realized I hated most of my customers. And the software I supported was high-end enough and buggy enough that the problem should have been our fault fare more often than it was.)
In order for your numbers to demonstrate your point, you'd have to assume that everyone made the same amount of money, which completely invalidates your point unless you live in a socialist society. The problem is, you can't infer anything from the percentage of total taxes paid by a NUMBER of people. You could make your point by saying that X% of all federal taxes are paid by those making Y% of the total income. However, I suspect that X would be far too low for the likings of you, or Rush Limbaugh, or anyone else I've heard cite numbers in that fashion.
I'm part of that crowd. I would never have noticed Bully if JT hadn't made a fuss about it. Instead, I bought it, and it ended up being a pretty good game.
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Back in the early days of 3D, everyone predicted the end of 2D side-scrollers. Who knew the best game for the PS1 would be a 2D side-scroller? And it's being released in HD on the XBOX 360.
Last-generation systems have a number of advantages over new systems. They already have a well-established library of games, and most of those games have been around for so long that there are all sorts of "Top 25" lists that let you sort the good from the mediocre. The bugs have been worked out. And everything is MUCH cheaper.
The last non-portable console I owned before last week was the SNES. I thought about buying an XBox 360 this year. But then I realized I could buy a PS2 and a GameCube, with component cables and several games for each, for the same price as just the 360 system would have cost. So after sleeping in on Black Friday, I walked over to GameStop, and walked out with enough games to keep me occupied until the Wii becomes an attractive option.
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Um, no. The whole point of the binding arbitration clauses is that the arbitrator rules in favor of the business 100% of the time.
That would actually be very amusing, given the number of well-paid lawyers that probably go to Shelter Rock Jewish Center...
Because people who abuse their spouses and children generally abuse the courts as well...
Nope, me too...
Pretty much, yes. I had several friends from college who went to work for government contractors on projects that required security clearance. The way they explained it, if I figure out on my own what they're working on, that's legal even if it is classified. What would be illegal is if they told me or gave me direct access to classified information about what they were working on.
(Also, in a lot of cases, what they were building wasn't classified, but who they were building it for was.)
Gotti was not sent away for tax evasion. He was convicted for the murder of Paul Castellano, among other things. You're probably thinking of someone else.
And the 40D...
The problem is, with free email services, there's no real proof that any given account belongs to a certain person. There are some interesting social engineering implications here...I'm envisioning calling up the Gmail people and claiming to be attempting to retrieve the account of someone who recently died ("I have the death certificate and everything!") when said account really belongs to someone else...
Jeff Merkey got banned from Wikipedia for making legal threats. I'm not terribly surprised to hear he's making accusations like this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Jeffrey_Vernon_Merkey&oldid=148079940
A concession is not legally binding. If a candidate conceeds, and it is later discovered that that candidate won the election, he or she would still take office in January.
So that when Windows wants to secretly download an update or send your data back to Microsoft, and you prevent them from doing so at the router level, they'll be able to detect it?
...until Sony sues itself for contributing to piracy.
AT&T most likely has a basis for a lawsuit, but that basis has nothing to do with the Apple-exclusivity contract, since people who hack the phone aren't parties to that contract. The lawsuit would more likely be based on violation of license terms prohibiting the defeat of whatever protection mechanisms are keeping the iPhone locked. And I have no idea whether this would hold up in Europe, where this hack is actually useful.
Have you ever actually driven a car in Manhattan? I'd hardly call it a luxury.
Any fact-based news IS left-leaning. It's well-known that reality has a liberal bias.
It was both. I don't think they mentioned The Godfather's refusal to use the phone in the movie though.
Some of the best publicity Take Two has gotten for its games has come from Jack Thompson. I only noticed Bully when JT sued to stop it from being released; I ended up buying a copy and finding that it was a pretty good game. They should let JT continue to rant and give their legal department some of Marketing's budget.
Spoken like someone who has never worked in tech support. Most of the time, the customer did do something to screw up the software, and most customers show no qualms about lying to you to try to make it your fault.
(I stopped working in tech support when I realized I hated most of my customers. And the software I supported was high-end enough and buggy enough that the problem should have been our fault fare more often than it was.)
In order for your numbers to demonstrate your point, you'd have to assume that everyone made the same amount of money, which completely invalidates your point unless you live in a socialist society. The problem is, you can't infer anything from the percentage of total taxes paid by a NUMBER of people. You could make your point by saying that X% of all federal taxes are paid by those making Y% of the total income. However, I suspect that X would be far too low for the likings of you, or Rush Limbaugh, or anyone else I've heard cite numbers in that fashion.
I'm part of that crowd. I would never have noticed Bully if JT hadn't made a fuss about it. Instead, I bought it, and it ended up being a pretty good game.
They didn't plead guilty; they plead no contest. It's much different. Good thing the submitters and editors RTFA.
What, exactly, does this have to do with my rights online?
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Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Back in the early days of 3D, everyone predicted the end of 2D side-scrollers. Who knew the best game for the PS1 would be a 2D side-scroller? And it's being released in HD on the XBOX 360.
Last-generation systems have a number of advantages over new systems. They already have a well-established library of games, and most of those games have been around for so long that there are all sorts of "Top 25" lists that let you sort the good from the mediocre. The bugs have been worked out. And everything is MUCH cheaper.
The last non-portable console I owned before last week was the SNES. I thought about buying an XBox 360 this year. But then I realized I could buy a PS2 and a GameCube, with component cables and several games for each, for the same price as just the 360 system would have cost. So after sleeping in on Black Friday, I walked over to GameStop, and walked out with enough games to keep me occupied until the Wii becomes an attractive option.