Consider the impoverished parent whose kids are hungry and who steals food to feed them. This is an example of a "necessity" defense, or a mitigating circumstance, to the crime of larceny. I had a real-life client, a single mother, who found a blank personal check on the street and who forged it in order to buy a pizza for her hungry kids. For this she was charged with identity theft, and her kids were taken away by the county social workers to a foster home -- where one was kidnapped and raped. It would be easy for you or I to join the authorities in criticizing the mother's ethics, or her parental fitness, but you or I do not share her adverse circumstances or her vantage point. (For a hilarious riff on this issue, be sure and see the current movie Idiocracy).
The job-application liar is not even stealing anything but may be only attempting to survive by defeating an unreasonable personnel security control. "Background checks," as conducted in the private sector, often lack due process protections in that they 1) sometimes consider factors that ought to be legally irrelevant, such as arrests that did not result in convictions, or convictions that are remote in time; and 2) usually do not provide the applicant with the opportunity to challenge or explain adverse information.
I don't think I'm "advocating civil disobedience" by advising people that it is not necessarily unethical to do, within reason, what is necessary for one's survival.
I suppose it is civil fraud (AFAIK it's not a crime). If (and only if) the employer were to incur damages as a result of your lie, it could theoretically sue your poor unemployed ass. I suppose IAAL and I am not supposed to advise people to break the law. I am supposed to abide by the code of lawyer ethics and tell them they have to tell the truth and stay unemployed. What are people supposed to do, starve their whole life because they stole a salami from Ralph's back when they were 18?
I would introduce him or her to my Boston Terrier, who is an excellent judge of character. When I hire a workperson at my home, if the dog growls, no hire.
I disagree. I would lie like hell unless it is for a government or military job. You have nothing to lose. The worst that will happen is you will get fired. The best that will happen is they won't do a "background check" (whatever that means) or that they will screw it up. They could find out after you have been there several months or years, and by that time who knows, they might like your work. IAAL.
You know you've parked next to a wireless energy node if your Pringles can gets real hot, or if you discover you now have a can of Barbecue Flavor Pringles....
Why hire a lawyer? All a lawyer is going to do is tell you to keep your mouth shut. This can be valuable advice for those who can't figure this out by themselves. But for you it is a waste of money. You could also write in anonymously; forget about the profit angle. You know, do a good turn daily.
My SO also has a normal body temp of 97.1. It's called "Low Temperature Syndrome." When she goes to a health care facility and tries to tell them this, the doctors and nurses just smile and nod like she's nuts. Maybe getting a MedicAlert tag made up would convince them.
His last blog entry reads, "The FBI is here. Off to chat." Ladies and gentlemen, having a "chat" with visiting LEOs is a real bad idea, and if you never learned that, you aren't the best person to be testing the limits of free speech or of any other legal issue.
Will somebody please rise to the occasion and develop an open-source P2P poker application so that people who wanted to play poker could arrange a game amongst themselves, and assure one another of the game's integrity, all the while abiding by the law, without involving some poker hosting site. The two problems would be, insuring the randomness and fair dealing of the cards, and how payments would be made. The first problem could be solved by rotating the dealing -- Texas hold'em already theoretically rotates the "dealer button" and some mechanism to certify or check up on the integrity of the deal -- maybe a second player would query the designated dealer's dealing.dll with a public key and/or supply the RNG seed. The second problem could be solved by having players paypal each other money, or communicate with a (offshore?) banking site at the conclusion of the game to settle up, maybe with an ebay-like feedback system to track welshers. Who needs the big poker sites and their rake-offs anyway.
rkcallaghan writes, "The Washington Post is reporting that the House passed a measure that makes it illegal for banks in the US to handle online gambling transactions." There's still no such move in the Senate, but it's a step towards banning online gambling nonetheless.
Googling the topic or checking thomas.loc.gov would have quickly told you that the House ban passed months ago and today's passage by the Senate makes it likely that the measure will become law.
Banks and their associated consumer issues are supposed to be regulated by an independent federal agency, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. No state legislature or attorney general may regulate nationally chartered banks. Unfortunately, OCC is a total lapdog of the banking industry. Whether it's excessive overdraft fees, or $3 to use an ATM, or fobbing phishing liability onto the backs of consumers, only OCC has the power to do anything about it. And OCC chooses to do nothing, over and over again. You can write a complaint letter to OCC, and it will go into a black hole in Texas.
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Whassamatta you? You don' drink coffee??!?
Consider the impoverished parent whose kids are hungry and who steals food to feed them. This is an example of a "necessity" defense, or a mitigating circumstance, to the crime of larceny. I had a real-life client, a single mother, who found a blank personal check on the street and who forged it in order to buy a pizza for her hungry kids. For this she was charged with identity theft, and her kids were taken away by the county social workers to a foster home -- where one was kidnapped and raped. It would be easy for you or I to join the authorities in criticizing the mother's ethics, or her parental fitness, but you or I do not share her adverse circumstances or her vantage point. (For a hilarious riff on this issue, be sure and see the current movie Idiocracy).
The job-application liar is not even stealing anything but may be only attempting to survive by defeating an unreasonable personnel security control. "Background checks," as conducted in the private sector, often lack due process protections in that they 1) sometimes consider factors that ought to be legally irrelevant, such as arrests that did not result in convictions, or convictions that are remote in time; and 2) usually do not provide the applicant with the opportunity to challenge or explain adverse information.
I don't think I'm "advocating civil disobedience" by advising people that it is not necessarily unethical to do, within reason, what is necessary for one's survival.
I suppose it is civil fraud (AFAIK it's not a crime). If (and only if) the employer were to incur damages as a result of your lie, it could theoretically sue your poor unemployed ass. I suppose IAAL and I am not supposed to advise people to break the law. I am supposed to abide by the code of lawyer ethics and tell them they have to tell the truth and stay unemployed. What are people supposed to do, starve their whole life because they stole a salami from Ralph's back when they were 18?
I would introduce him or her to my Boston Terrier, who is an excellent judge of character. When I hire a workperson at my home, if the dog growls, no hire.
I disagree. I would lie like hell unless it is for a government or military job. You have nothing to lose. The worst that will happen is you will get fired. The best that will happen is they won't do a "background check" (whatever that means) or that they will screw it up. They could find out after you have been there several months or years, and by that time who knows, they might like your work. IAAL.
Blind people also need cash to pay for their discounted hunting licenses.
You know you've parked next to a wireless energy node if your Pringles can gets real hot, or if you discover you now have a can of Barbecue Flavor Pringles....
Why hire a lawyer? All a lawyer is going to do is tell you to keep your mouth shut. This can be valuable advice for those who can't figure this out by themselves. But for you it is a waste of money. You could also write in anonymously; forget about the profit angle. You know, do a good turn daily.
My SO also has a normal body temp of 97.1. It's called "Low Temperature Syndrome." When she goes to a health care facility and tries to tell them this, the doctors and nurses just smile and nod like she's nuts. Maybe getting a MedicAlert tag made up would convince them.
Are binary systems allowed to use the starpool lane?
His last blog entry reads, "The FBI is here. Off to chat." Ladies and gentlemen, having a "chat" with visiting LEOs is a real bad idea, and if you never learned that, you aren't the best person to be testing the limits of free speech or of any other legal issue.
The prosecutors would never file a criminal case, because it would be quickly thrown out on First Amendment grounds? Wouldn't it?
They'll put 'em in a big pile next to the Phone Booth Graveyard.
You wanna hug? Just don the vest that's under your airline seat and yank on both blue handles.
Amen brother. A CISSP, you can take it to the bank.
Will somebody please rise to the occasion and develop an open-source P2P poker application so that people who wanted to play poker could arrange a game amongst themselves, and assure one another of the game's integrity, all the while abiding by the law, without involving some poker hosting site. The two problems would be, insuring the randomness and fair dealing of the cards, and how payments would be made. The first problem could be solved by rotating the dealing -- Texas hold'em already theoretically rotates the "dealer button" and some mechanism to certify or check up on the integrity of the deal -- maybe a second player would query the designated dealer's dealing .dll with a public key and/or supply the RNG seed. The second problem could be solved by having players paypal each other money, or communicate with a (offshore?) banking site at the conclusion of the game to settle up, maybe with an ebay-like feedback system to track welshers. Who needs the big poker sites and their rake-offs anyway.
rkcallaghan writes, "The Washington Post is reporting that the House passed a measure that makes it illegal for banks in the US to handle online gambling transactions." There's still no such move in the Senate, but it's a step towards banning online gambling nonetheless.
Googling the topic or checking thomas.loc.gov would have quickly told you that the House ban passed months ago and today's passage by the Senate makes it likely that the measure will become law.
Banks and their associated consumer issues are supposed to be regulated by an independent federal agency, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. No state legislature or attorney general may regulate nationally chartered banks. Unfortunately, OCC is a total lapdog of the banking industry. Whether it's excessive overdraft fees, or $3 to use an ATM, or fobbing phishing liability onto the backs of consumers, only OCC has the power to do anything about it. And OCC chooses to do nothing, over and over again. You can write a complaint letter to OCC, and it will go into a black hole in Texas.
Control Panel, Mouse, check box "Tap Off While Typing"
They're no fools. You ever need warranty service on your C++ compiler, you better have saved all those boxes.
echo I'mright!NoI'mright!You'reanasshole!So'syourmother !! >distilled-wiki.txt
CP/M 86 was about the same price. But nobody wanted to type >pip >b:file=a:file (or whatever it was) instead of >copy a:file b: ?
Another benefit of hybrid drives is, you can use the carpool lane even if you're by yourself.
...implant the insulin-producing gene into Cannabis sativa L., there would be a product. Can I have some ice cream?
...I was arrested trying to exit a Wal-Mart and found I had both false imprisonment and malpractice lawsuits!