Much as I despise many of the companies that donate money to politician's campaign funds, there's really nothing to see here. Any corporation over a certain size is likely to give money to both the incumbent and the top challenger in each senate race, and the politicians are going to take the money and only give it back if there's a particularly large public outcry over some particular donor (like if the donor is a felon looking for a pardon, or something along those lines.)
If you think I'm defending peeping toms or stalkers, you are very much mistaken. If you just said that to try to be funny, then fuck you.
I happen to know something about the subject because a couple of years ago, a former friend of mine went off the deep end and became obsessed with my girlfriend. We went to court and got a restraining order to keep him away from her, her home, my home, her car, and her office.
First of all, stalking laws are quite a recent development, and have only been around for about two decades or so. As for Peeping Tom statutes, in most jurisdictions you're allowed to look if you're not on the property you're looking into.
it doesn't matter because it is split between millions of people.
So, is insurance fraud OK with you, too? I mean, the money is stolen from all the policy holders, so if someone steals a million bucks then each person affected only pays a buck, right?
The idea that a crime is diminished because it affects millions of people is asinine.
The people who actually make things base their self-esteem on what they accomplish, not on how insanely they hate someone else.
And that's why Microsoft's shareholders really need to kick Ballmer to the curb.
-jcr
I'll believe it when I hear it from the auditors.
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There's a big difference between goods sold to the end-user, and channel-stuffing. I can believe that Microsoft got distributors and dealers to take a million units, but I have no reason to believe they've done any more than that.
Microsoft, which provides the software for AT&T u-verse
Oh man, thanks for the tip. Some guy was going door-to-door in my neighborhood to sell this, and it sounded good at first. Now that I know it's from you guys, I'll pass.
The market's hand is quite visible in this case, and the results speak for themselves. Did a government agency step in and punish Nortel for this? No, it was many privately owned web sites (eg, slashdot) that did so.
Not only that, I'd never heard of Fonality before this. Now I'll know their name and check out what they have to offer the next time I need to shop for a phone system.
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Much as I despise many of the companies that donate money to politician's campaign funds, there's really nothing to see here. Any corporation over a certain size is likely to give money to both the incumbent and the top challenger in each senate race, and the politicians are going to take the money and only give it back if there's a particularly large public outcry over some particular donor (like if the donor is a felon looking for a pardon, or something along those lines.)
-jcr
If you think I'm defending peeping toms or stalkers, you are very much mistaken. If you just said that to try to be funny, then fuck you.
I happen to know something about the subject because a couple of years ago, a former friend of mine went off the deep end and became obsessed with my girlfriend. We went to court and got a restraining order to keep him away from her, her home, my home, her car, and her office.
-jcr
No, that's just looking at the heat output of the building. You can't see people inside through the walls with IR.
-jcr
Teraherz? Since when does Infrared light let you look into buildings?
-jcr
First of all, stalking laws are quite a recent development, and have only been around for about two decades or so. As for Peeping Tom statutes, in most jurisdictions you're allowed to look if you're not on the property you're looking into.
-jcr
Prison is like crime college featuring taxpayer-paid tuition, room and board.
This is why I would advocate him being held in solitary confinement.
-jcr
it doesn't matter because it is split between millions of people.
So, is insurance fraud OK with you, too? I mean, the money is stolen from all the policy holders, so if someone steals a million bucks then each person affected only pays a buck, right?
The idea that a crime is diminished because it affects millions of people is asinine.
-jcr
Criminals or spammers? Because your post appears to make no distinction
Spammers are criminals. There's no distinction to make.
-jcr
The people who actually make things base their self-esteem on what they accomplish, not on how insanely they hate someone else.
And that's why Microsoft's shareholders really need to kick Ballmer to the curb.
-jcr
There's a big difference between goods sold to the end-user, and channel-stuffing. I can believe that Microsoft got distributors and dealers to take a million units, but I have no reason to believe they've done any more than that.
-jcr
What the fsck is "retrofurist"?
Someone who's furious in a retrograde manner?
-jcr
Microsoft, which provides the software for AT&T u-verse
Oh man, thanks for the tip. Some guy was going door-to-door in my neighborhood to sell this, and it sounded good at first. Now that I know it's from you guys, I'll pass.
-jcr
5% of a market of hundreds of billions of dollars is meaningful, whether you think so or not.
-jcr
This time, for sure!
Sorry, that claim has been bullshit for decades.
-jcr
If you can't master a simple task like making a charcoal fire, you don't deserve a steak.
-jcr
Exactly: evolution is a theory, like gravity.
-jcr
The catholic church is NOT mainstream Christian thought.
They outnumber you; that makes them the mainstream by definition.
-jcr
Read the bible before trying to dispute it, you might learn something.
Or you might just be wasting your time with a moribund mythology.
-jcr
Drink enough of it, and you'll see dinosaurs. Big, pink dinosaurs.
-jcr
Let's say you buy a plot of land for $1M and sell it for $2M two years later. Where does that money come from?
From someone who parts with it willingly. What's it to you?
-jcr
It only blocks the other prospective buyers if the seller wants it to.
-jcr
I envy someone who can get so singularly focused on one topic.
You envy insanity?
-jcr
The market's hand is quite visible in this case, and the results speak for themselves. Did a government agency step in and punish Nortel for this? No, it was many privately owned web sites (eg, slashdot) that did so.
-jcr
Not only that, I'd never heard of Fonality before this. Now I'll know their name and check out what they have to offer the next time I need to shop for a phone system.
Good move, nortel! That's the way to show 'em!
-jcr
Yes, when parents don't feed their children because they need drug money, its a victimless crime, no one other than the parent is hurt!
That crime is child neglect, not drug possession. Try again.
-jcr