You are right about the preponderance of the evidence, however, I believe you mis stated the second part. To the best of my knowledge, all jurors must agree on the liabilaty of the defendant. what?
Actually it depends. In Federal court, verdicts must be unanimous. In state courts, majority verdicts are permissible.
I would be seriously pissed off if my house burned down or someone died because you're stopping needlessly at GREEN lights. Forget the dumbshit lawyers for a minute and use your own good brain.
Sorry dude, it's just not an option to forget the dumbshit lawyers. Entire municipalities have gone bankrupt on a single accident claim involving an emergency vehicle, even where the EV was operating entirely within the law. Juries always feel sympathy for the poor guy who got hit by a government vehicle, and will always give them huge amounts of money.
The ambulance company my wife works for has some very strong rules about running in emergency mode, including that they may not do it *at all* on the freeways. On entering a freeway, they are required to shut down lights and sirens, and run the speed limit. They don't do this because they're assholes, they do it because they've gotten burned too many times, and know that if they get burned too many more, they could lose the company to the dumbshit lawyers.
The plaintiff has to provide proof, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the defendant is in the wrong.
Oops, you got it wrong again.
In civil cases, you must prove only that the "preponderance of the evidence" points to wrongdoing. In a civil jury trial, you only need a majority of the jurors to decide in your favor, not 100%.
First these "black boxes" are nothing more than a small amount of flash memory that is written to when the airbag system is activated. if your car has airbags, then YOU HAVE THE RECORDER. [Add ominous evil soundtrack here]
now, they record nothing unless the airbags are deployed. when they do they record vital data that the airbag system manufacturers need to continue to make airbag systems safer and save more lives, it's just that lawyers got wind of this and decided to start having the data used in court.
Don't be too sure about that. My new vehicle has a driver display that shows all kinds of information, including average speed, average mpg, etc in conjunction with the tripodometer. Depending on your vehicle, it may be recording a lot more than you suspect.
Forget it, it would get as much spam as any other address, given the same level of exposure/filtering.
I've seen tons of spam coming to abuse@ addresses.
I also saw a spam advertising the "entire contents of the.org whois data" get sent to the general address of the company who actually maintains that data. (And sure, weren't THEY interested!)
In summary, your expectations are in clear conflict with rule #3 "spammers are stupid".
The problem with the TI units is that they're just downright fragile, and tend to let you down when you need them most.
I've got a 20-year old HP-11C that I still use heavily, also an HP 48G that's served well for a few years. These things have been dropped, spilled on, carried in back pockets, etc with not a single problem. These things are built like tanks.
In the same period of time, my wife, who treats her stuff really well, has gone through over a half-dozen TI calculators. They just don't last. And, even when they do work, they go through batteries at a rate four times or greater than my HPs. Heck, my 11C has only had it's batteries replaced four or five times in 20 years. Having the display on the TI go so dim you can barely see it, because the batteries are getting low, is extremely annoying.
My phone company just sent me a thick book yesterday filled with pages and pages of valid residential phone numbers (and even addresses!). They're in league with the telemarketers! Revolt, revolt!
Actually, they are. The phone companies make a lot of money selling their customer lists. I have a second phone line, not published in the phone books. Funny how it gets just as many telemarketing calls, with people asking for me by name...
I'm a professional spammer. Well, that's a harsh term. I run bulk-email servers. I trust my clients that their entire list has double opted-in when they say so. Most are quite legitimate mailing lists; some are probably not.
If you're using the term "double opted-in", you're definitely a professional spammer, and I doubt any of your lists are "legitimate".
I don't fake "from" addresses
Suuuurrrreee you don't...
I hope you'll understand, and won't take offense when I say that I hope you contract a painful, incurable disease. Metastatic bone cancer would be appropriate.
Gee, that's nice, but in the meantime, it aids spammers, since I can no longer tell if the sender's address is from a valid domain. With Verisign's corruption of the root servers, *all*.com and.net domains will now come back as being valid.
You're telling me that if you get a "server not found" page, you're too stupid to figure out you misspelled something?
This is an absolute abuse of Verisign's position. They are contracted to *maintain* the database, not warp it to their own *commercial* purposes. If this was actually a valid service, they would have had no trouble with proposing it to the Internet standards bodies before implementing it. Instead, they're defying those organizations. Worse yet, they've actually put me in the position of agreeing with ICANN.
I find the Linux comments always funny when it comes to Linux vs. Sun, it seems all people do here is run Websites, does anybody here actually handle a couple of TB worth of Databases?
Actually, yes, with multi-master replication. Currently, they're running on Oracle/Solaris. However, that was done purely for marketing reasons "We use Oracle!". We're currently in the process of converting to PostgreSQL on *BSD.
Our admins hate Solaris. It's a friggin pain in the butt, with no better performance/reliability than BSD. The only thing Oracle and Sun do for us, is take away the responsibility of having to figure out what to do with hundreds of thousands of dollars every year.
Ah yes, Videotron. They have the dubious distinction of being one of the first entries in my smtp blacklist, due to their *extremely* spammer-friendly policies. I put them on the list several years ago. A couple of months ago, a client asked me to allow their traffic through. That lasted a week before they went back on the list. My client and I decided that it just wasn't worth it.
The "no solicitors" sign on my property means that I'm really afraid I'm going to do time for assault the next time one of them attempts to waste my time.
'course there's a fair chance that a jury of my peers would never convict me for making a salesman eat his briefcase...
Agreed, but even there, you have to take a close look. I've seen a number of truck out there with some very nice off-road equipment that have obviously never left the pavement.
Even so, what I was referring to, however, is not trucks used for recreation, but trucks used in daily life.
I myself own a Suburban, but a casual glance will tell you it's not about status. It's ten years old, no luxury options, a couple of dents here and there, lots of scratches, and no rear seats. I use it for transporting retired racing greyhounds. (Not too many other vehicles out there that can handle 5-8 greyhounds comfortably, plus supplies.)
I pay several thousand dollars a year to have a small handful of computers colocated so I can run email/web, etc efficiently. *I* paid for the computers, *I* pay for the bandwidth, and *I* pay for the storage. My users in turn, pay me for access to those systems.
Essentially, I own and operate the equivalent of a local post office. Who the hell has the right to tell me I've got to pay the government (or anyone else) to send email?
The Internet is not a public service to be taxed. It is almost entirely privately owned, with a standing "gentlemans agreement" between the owners that each will allow traffic to and from each others' property.
So unless you've got some bright idea for distributing that tax money to the folks like me who actually own and operate the equipment, you can take your email tax idea and put it someplace moist and dark.
Ah, the slight trueness. It is true that some SUV drivers actually need a superior vehicle.
It's easy enough to tell most of the time. If the vehicle is more than 8 years old and/or looks like it gets used *hard*, it's probably owned by someone who needs it. Not much status in having an old, beat up vehicle. I figure this accounts for less than 10% of the SUVs I see on the road.
Um, you've never seen a crate from a cluster bomb, have you?
Hint, they're bloody huge. Each crate holds one fully-assembled cluster bomb, cradled in straps to prevent damage in transit. It's about the size of a refrigerator.
Be fun to case-mod an old mainframe with though....
The government can't force the phone company to let them eavesdrop without a warrant, but if they just asked, how often would they be allowed?
Actually, the phone companies tend to be very sensitive about this stuff. There are certain exigent conditions under law where warrants are not required (active hostage situations, etc.) however, tryiong to actually get access under those conditions can be difficult, the phone company really WANTS that paper, as it absolves them of liability.
The latter two can blow through without significant injury due to the design of the round transferring less energy to the target.
Not likely. Take a wound ballistics course sometime, and you'll get a whole new viewpoint on why these weapons are so effective. High-velocity rounds do very little "primary" damage. (Damage caused directly by the projectile.) However, they do an amazing amount of secondary damage caused by the shock/pressure waves the projectile makes as it travels through the tissue. A hit in the leg has been known to cause dissection of the arterial walls all the way up to the heart. In short, the more dense the tissue, the worse the damage is. Ironically, the safest place to take a hit with a high-velocity weapon is through the chest, so long as it does not hit spine or major circulatory systems. Because of the air in the chest, the pressure wave dissipates rather than transmitting. The worst place is the head/brain, since you've got very dense tissue completely contained in an inflexible enclosure. Think - exploding melon.
Is this counting *active* accounts? Frankly, I don't know a single person who uses ICQ. Heck, I didn't even know it was still running. Most of the folks I know use AIM, and a couple use Yahoo.
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No, not a brilliant plan...
A cunning plan!
Darl, you wouldn't recognize a cunning plan if it painted itself purple, danced on a harpsycord and sang: 'Cunning plans are here again'.
You are right about the preponderance of the evidence, however, I believe you mis stated the second part. To the best of my knowledge, all jurors must agree on the liabilaty of the defendant.
what?
Actually it depends. In Federal court, verdicts must be unanimous. In state courts, majority verdicts are permissible.
I would be seriously pissed off if my house burned down or someone died because you're stopping needlessly at GREEN lights. Forget the dumbshit lawyers for a minute and use your own good brain.
Sorry dude, it's just not an option to forget the dumbshit lawyers. Entire municipalities have gone bankrupt on a single accident claim involving an emergency vehicle, even where the EV was operating entirely within the law. Juries always feel sympathy for the poor guy who got hit by a government vehicle, and will always give them huge amounts of money.
The ambulance company my wife works for has some very strong rules about running in emergency mode, including that they may not do it *at all* on the freeways. On entering a freeway, they are required to shut down lights and sirens, and run the speed limit. They don't do this because they're assholes, they do it because they've gotten burned too many times, and know that if they get burned too many more, they could lose the company to the dumbshit lawyers.
The plaintiff has to provide proof, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the defendant is in the wrong.
Oops, you got it wrong again.
In civil cases, you must prove only that the "preponderance of the evidence" points to wrongdoing. In a civil jury trial, you only need a majority of the jurors to decide in your favor, not 100%.
And for extra points, what first poster can say exactly what PET stands for?
Personal Electronic Transactor.
This was the second computer I ever got my hands on, the first being a TRS-80 model I. After that was the Super-PET. Ah, the days...
First these "black boxes" are nothing more than a small amount of flash memory that is written to when the airbag system is activated. if your car has airbags, then YOU HAVE THE RECORDER. [Add ominous evil soundtrack here]
now, they record nothing unless the airbags are deployed. when they do they record vital data that the airbag system manufacturers need to continue to make airbag systems safer and save more lives, it's just that lawyers got wind of this and decided to start having the data used in court.
Don't be too sure about that. My new vehicle has a driver display that shows all kinds of information, including average speed, average mpg, etc in conjunction with the tripodometer. Depending on your vehicle, it may be recording a lot more than you suspect.
Forget it, it would get as much spam as any other address, given the same level of exposure/filtering.
.org whois data" get sent to the general address of the company who actually maintains that data. (And sure, weren't THEY interested!)
I've seen tons of spam coming to abuse@ addresses.
I also saw a spam advertising the "entire contents of the
In summary, your expectations are in clear conflict with rule #3 "spammers are stupid".
Um, just because it's public record doesn't mean it's online.
You have heard of paper, haven't you?
The problem with the TI units is that they're just downright fragile, and tend to let you down when you need them most.
I've got a 20-year old HP-11C that I still use heavily, also an HP 48G that's served well for a few years. These things have been dropped, spilled on, carried in back pockets, etc with not a single problem. These things are built like tanks.
In the same period of time, my wife, who treats her stuff really well, has gone through over a half-dozen TI calculators. They just don't last. And, even when they do work, they go through batteries at a rate four times or greater than my HPs. Heck, my 11C has only had it's batteries replaced four or five times in 20 years. Having the display on the TI go so dim you can barely see it, because the batteries are getting low, is extremely annoying.
My phone company just sent me a thick book yesterday filled with pages and pages of valid residential phone numbers (and even addresses!). They're in league with the telemarketers! Revolt, revolt!
Actually, they are. The phone companies make a lot of money selling their customer lists. I have a second phone line, not published in the phone books. Funny how it gets just as many telemarketing calls, with people asking for me by name...
I'm a professional spammer. Well, that's a harsh term. I run bulk-email servers. I trust my clients that their entire list has double opted-in when they say so. Most are quite legitimate mailing lists; some are probably not.
If you're using the term "double opted-in", you're definitely a professional spammer, and I doubt any of your lists are "legitimate".
I don't fake "from" addresses
Suuuurrrreee you don't...
I hope you'll understand, and won't take offense when I say that I hope you contract a painful, incurable disease. Metastatic bone cancer would be appropriate.
Gee, that's nice, but in the meantime, it aids spammers, since I can no longer tell if the sender's address is from a valid domain. With Verisign's corruption of the root servers, *all* .com and .net domains will now come back as being valid.
You're telling me that if you get a "server not found" page, you're too stupid to figure out you misspelled something?
This is an absolute abuse of Verisign's position. They are contracted to *maintain* the database, not warp it to their own *commercial* purposes. If this was actually a valid service, they would have had no trouble with proposing it to the Internet standards bodies before implementing it. Instead, they're defying those organizations. Worse yet, they've actually put me in the position of agreeing with ICANN.
I find the Linux comments always funny when it comes to Linux vs. Sun, it seems all people do here is run Websites, does anybody here actually handle a couple of TB worth of Databases?
Actually, yes, with multi-master replication. Currently, they're running on Oracle/Solaris. However, that was done purely for marketing reasons "We use Oracle!". We're currently in the process of converting to PostgreSQL on *BSD.
Our admins hate Solaris. It's a friggin pain in the butt, with no better performance/reliability than BSD. The only thing Oracle and Sun do for us, is take away the responsibility of having to figure out what to do with hundreds of thousands of dollars every year.
Think nothing is impossible? Try slamming a revolving door.
Ah, heck, that's easy.
Just wait for someone to get *partway* in or out of it. The sound is even more satisfying if it's someone you don't like.
Who said anything about them being an open relay?
I'm talking about their customers.
Ah yes, Videotron. They have the dubious distinction of being one of the first entries in my smtp blacklist, due to their *extremely* spammer-friendly policies. I put them on the list several years ago. A couple of months ago, a client asked me to allow their traffic through. That lasted a week before they went back on the list. My client and I decided that it just wasn't worth it.
But, yes, it's a nice intranet.
Not a good idea here.
The "no solicitors" sign on my property means that I'm really afraid I'm going to do time for assault the next time one of them attempts to waste my time.
'course there's a fair chance that a jury of my peers would never convict me for making a salesman eat his briefcase...
Agreed, but even there, you have to take a close look. I've seen a number of truck out there with some very nice off-road equipment that have obviously never left the pavement.
Even so, what I was referring to, however, is not trucks used for recreation, but trucks used in daily life.
I myself own a Suburban, but a casual glance will tell you it's not about status. It's ten years old, no luxury options, a couple of dents here and there, lots of scratches, and no rear seats. I use it for transporting retired racing greyhounds. (Not too many other vehicles out there that can handle 5-8 greyhounds comfortably, plus supplies.)
and truly I dont think its a stupid idea
I do, it's an incredibly stupid idea.
I pay several thousand dollars a year to have a small handful of computers colocated so I can run email/web, etc efficiently. *I* paid for the computers, *I* pay for the bandwidth, and *I* pay for the storage. My users in turn, pay me for access to those systems.
Essentially, I own and operate the equivalent of a local post office. Who the hell has the right to tell me I've got to pay the government (or anyone else) to send email?
The Internet is not a public service to be taxed. It is almost entirely privately owned, with a standing "gentlemans agreement" between the owners that each will allow traffic to and from each others' property.
So unless you've got some bright idea for distributing that tax money to the folks like me who actually own and operate the equipment, you can take your email tax idea and put it someplace moist and dark.
It's easy enough to tell most of the time. If the vehicle is more than 8 years old and/or looks like it gets used *hard*, it's probably owned by someone who needs it. Not much status in having an old, beat up vehicle. I figure this accounts for less than 10% of the SUVs I see on the road.
Clues that the vehicle is purely status:
Clues that the vehicle has a purpose
Um, you've never seen a crate from a cluster bomb, have you?
Hint, they're bloody huge. Each crate holds one fully-assembled cluster bomb, cradled in straps to prevent damage in transit. It's about the size of a refrigerator.
Be fun to case-mod an old mainframe with though....
You *really* should put a bulkhead grommet in the hole where the power cord comes through.
The government can't force the phone company to let them eavesdrop without a warrant, but if they just asked, how often would they be allowed?
Actually, the phone companies tend to be very sensitive about this stuff. There are certain exigent conditions under law where warrants are not required (active hostage situations, etc.) however, tryiong to actually get access under those conditions can be difficult, the phone company really WANTS that paper, as it absolves them of liability.
The latter two can blow through without significant injury due to the design of the round transferring less energy to the target.
Not likely. Take a wound ballistics course sometime, and you'll get a whole new viewpoint on why these weapons are so effective. High-velocity rounds do very little "primary" damage. (Damage caused directly by the projectile.) However, they do an amazing amount of secondary damage caused by the shock/pressure waves the projectile makes as it travels through the tissue. A hit in the leg has been known to cause dissection of the arterial walls all the way up to the heart. In short, the more dense the tissue, the worse the damage is. Ironically, the safest place to take a hit with a high-velocity weapon is through the chest, so long as it does not hit spine or major circulatory systems. Because of the air in the chest, the pressure wave dissipates rather than transmitting. The worst place is the head/brain, since you've got very dense tissue completely contained in an inflexible enclosure. Think - exploding melon.
Is this counting *active* accounts? Frankly, I don't know a single person who uses ICQ. Heck, I didn't even know it was still running. Most of the folks I know use AIM, and a couple use Yahoo.