"The interesting legal argument here is, that by pointing out that the case is (among other flaws) on a level of jurisdiction that surely can't be right, you voluntarily subject yourself to whatever that legal systems likes to come up with next."
No, you voluntarily subject yourself to the rules, procedures, and precedent of the level of jurisdiction you argued to be in. Spamhaus (via their lawyer) could have argued that the local court didn't have jurisdiction based on what everyone here is bitching about - UK based, no US assets, etc. One can do this solely for the purpose of arguing jurisdiction. BUT THEY DID NOT! The argued instead that ANOTHER court properly had jurisdiction, to which they made themselves subject, via hundreds of years of precedent including ENGLISH common law.
Spamhaus could have corrected the first error - the mistaken request for a jurisdiction change instead of dismissal based on lack of jurisdiction. But instead they have apparently hired lawyers not to fix the problem but to sue the first lawyers. So listening to how they can't afford lawyers seems a little thin.
You forgot #3: Go to District court, explain the situation to the judge about the bad solicitors, get the case remanded back to state court, THEN ignore it - all while having the first solicitors pay for it via their malpractice insurance.
If what you propose actually happened, then Take 2 committed fraud on the court. JT would then be able to take the game after it is released and do a demonstration for the judge with his own player, demonstrating all the stuff the original demonstrator avoided. At which point judge smacks Take 2 *hard*.
More likely JT goes back to court with a lot of hand waving and mumbling about fraud, etc. Repeat 15 minutes...
Cluster Bomb Units (CBU's) have an outgoing mail slot? What will the Army think of next?
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"three lying and stealing ex-fiancees"
I offer question in the spirit of inquiry and kinship: Have you considered that you may be following in your father's footsteps re. women? At least in terms of being attracted to those who will take advantage of you?
Having gone through marriage and individual counseling, I've been amazed at how our parents affect our relationships, via who we are attracted to and how we conduct ourselves in a relationship. If you have gone to counseling, good for you. If not, I reccommend it from personal experience.
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The proper response her is to ask when she is moving out. If the answer isn't "within the next 5 minutes", tell her she only HAS 5 minutes. No, she doesn't get to pack, or make arrangements, or any of that crap. Get the checkbook, cancel the credit cards, and show her the door. Immediately change the locks, and arrange for a time for her to come get her stuff, supervised. Close all joint accounts, maintaining scrupulous records of funds, etc.
If someone is going to bail on a relationship with that little notice, they deserve the same consideration. This worked quite well for a friend of mine - he told her not to let the door hit her on the ass on her way out, charged head with the divorce, and is happy. She is miserable, because it turns out it was all a ploy on her part.
Aside from the fact that, in civil cases, "reasonable doubt" doesn't apply, there is the fact that teenagers, by and large, can't keep secrets. My guess was that the identities of the miscreants was known throughout the school within days of the page being put up, probably because the culprits braged about it - after all, what's the point of a really good public prank if no one knows you did it?
Then word got to the adults, someone got pulled into an office for an informal interrogation, and all the names were divulged.
Then the administration confronted the students, who fessed up - after all, what could the school do to them?
Ok, I've ignored the oter ones, but this I need to respond to.
The mere fact that you are using the term "brazing" indicates that you don't know what you are talking about. Copper plumbing for domestic hot water in residential is soldered, NOT brazed. Brazing is a related process, with higher temperatures and different filler metals.
The fact thay you can't do a proper soldered joint doesn't mean it's hard, it means you are incompetent at soldering - oh, sorry: "brazing". And your right - any idiot can do a PEX joint; that just proves that you are at least as talented as an idiot.
As for DIYers, you missed the GP post. It asked why, when plumbers use PEX for tract housing, they use copper for their own house. I gave answers as to why professionals may make that choice, not DIYers.
There are copper plumbing installations that have lasted over 50 years - so far, the record on the plastics isn't so rosy.
And copper is easier to repair - one can disassemble and remake joints by desoldering and resoldering. Plasic uses fusion welds, which cannot be un-fused - only cut out and couplings installed, which can triple the amount of joints.
And copper is more resistant to damage by Harry Homeowner. While one can pierce copper with an errant nail, it's pretty hard. But hit a piece of standard issue PEX with a nail, and it's over.
Or a bunch of federal workers really are surfing a lot of porn at work. Is that so shocking? Is it so completely unbelieveable that there are people in the world that will take advantage of resources for their own use, especially when they are in a sinecure job?
...and you are both carrying tape recorders, which you may or may not be aware of, may or may not know how to operate, and may or may not stay under your control for the indefinite future.
The point is that, whether you *expect* privacy in an IM conversation is irrelevant - unless you take certain active precautions, the data IS being recorded and CAN be accessed by others (not necessarily the govt.)
If someone violates your expectation of privacy they may be rude, immoral, illegal, or evil. That doesn't mean you are not a fool for allowing the data to exist to begin with. If I walk through the worst part of DC at night and get mugged, the muggers are criminals - but I am still stupid. I'd rather be careful and safe than self righteous (sp?) and vulnerable.
In XP, the processor load for the old and new interfaces is the same (I think). If you allow your Vista users the same freedom to use the shiny interface, you are going to be getting a lot of hardware complaints - slow, etc. - because Aero requres so much more than vanilla. Are you then going to retroactively tell them they can't use the shiny interface?
I'd predict that, despite the logical course, money will be allocated to accellerated equipment replacement, if only to shut the office drones up. Which is exactly what MS and the hdwr. makers are counting on.
If you don't want to have kids, fine - that's your choice. "Moving to something bigger is impossible since we don't have the finances" is a cop out. Just have 1-2 kids, then, instead of "a bunch". Kids don't need square footage, they need food, clothing, a roof over their heads, and parental love and attention. You have the fod, clothing, and shelter for yourselves; perhaps you may have to sacrifice some of that to give to kids. Thats called being a parent - doing without for your kids.
As for "So, yes, "muslimification" will continue, but only because they don't seem to care in what conditions their kids grow up": sit back, say that out loud, and listen to what a racist you are.
You "want" kids, but you don't want to sacrifice to have them. The brown people can do it, only because of their inferiority.
And before you ask - I have 2 kids, 1 income, and live in a small condo.
Not necessarily. Companies can ignore focus groups just like any other data.
One case is the last version of the Chevy Caprice. It was a new curvy design, and they brought in some focus groups. Response was favorable, but for 1 detail - the rear wheelwells were not rounded but "skirted", in a throwback to an earlier design aesthetic. The focus groups pretty consistently said that detail made the car look heavy in the rear, giving it a "fat ass". The chief designer ignored this data, insisting that his design would be considered stylish and that "focus groups don't know anything."
The Caprice was introduced to universal dislike of it's proportions, and sales were slow. After a few years, GM revised the rear quarter panels to a rounded arch, making the rear of the car visually thinner and less heavy, but by then the damage was done. The car only lasted a couple more years and was dropped, along with all of the GM rear drive line. (they have since brought back some rear drive models)
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DAMN IT! Dammit, dammit,dammit,dammit,dammit!
I HATE whn someone steals my jokes.
Do you perhaps live within 70 miles of me? Can I borrow a pickaxe handle?
"Yes, children are killed by guns every day in the United States."
How many children are beaten to death by their parents every day? If those kids had guns, they'd still be alive today!
(Expecting a visit by a pickaxe-handle-wielding Web-raging gun control activist any minute now. Good thing I carry a gun.)
"my /. user name is IxnayOnTheIxnay, and I just can't be bothered to dig up my old password"
Let me help you out there.
Username:IxnayOnTheIxnay
Password:*********
There - Problem solved.
"The interesting legal argument here is, that by pointing out that the case is (among other flaws) on a level of jurisdiction that surely can't be right, you voluntarily subject yourself to whatever that legal systems likes to come up with next."
No, you voluntarily subject yourself to the rules, procedures, and precedent of the level of jurisdiction you argued to be in. Spamhaus (via their lawyer) could have argued that the local court didn't have jurisdiction based on what everyone here is bitching about - UK based, no US assets, etc. One can do this solely for the purpose of arguing jurisdiction. BUT THEY DID NOT! The argued instead that ANOTHER court properly had jurisdiction, to which they made themselves subject, via hundreds of years of precedent including ENGLISH common law.
Spamhaus could have corrected the first error - the mistaken request for a jurisdiction change instead of dismissal based on lack of jurisdiction. But instead they have apparently hired lawyers not to fix the problem but to sue the first lawyers. So listening to how they can't afford lawyers seems a little thin.
You forgot #3: Go to District court, explain the situation to the judge about the bad solicitors, get the case remanded back to state court, THEN ignore it - all while having the first solicitors pay for it via their malpractice insurance.
Right idea, wrong application. Dowries are paid for daughters, not wives. So it would go:
"1. Go to Sudan 2. Have sex with other ppl's daughters3. Pay for them 4. Lots of wives!"
Unfortunately, selling ones daughters off for money is far too prevalent in some parts of the world.
If what you propose actually happened, then Take 2 committed fraud on the court. JT would then be able to take the game after it is released and do a demonstration for the judge with his own player, demonstrating all the stuff the original demonstrator avoided. At which point judge smacks Take 2 *hard*.
More likely JT goes back to court with a lot of hand waving and mumbling about fraud, etc. Repeat 15 minutes...
"three heads -- all ugly --and have just arrived from the Gamma Quadrant"
Now, if you have 3 tits -- all big -- and are from Mars, you're set.
Cluster Bomb Units (CBU's) have an outgoing mail slot? What will the Army think of next?
"three lying and stealing ex-fiancees"
I offer question in the spirit of inquiry and kinship: Have you considered that you may be following in your father's footsteps re. women? At least in terms of being attracted to those who will take advantage of you?
Having gone through marriage and individual counseling, I've been amazed at how our parents affect our relationships, via who we are attracted to and how we conduct ourselves in a relationship. If you have gone to counseling, good for you. If not, I reccommend it from personal experience.
The proper response her is to ask when she is moving out. If the answer isn't "within the next 5 minutes", tell her she only HAS 5 minutes. No, she doesn't get to pack, or make arrangements, or any of that crap. Get the checkbook, cancel the credit cards, and show her the door. Immediately change the locks, and arrange for a time for her to come get her stuff, supervised. Close all joint accounts, maintaining scrupulous records of funds, etc.
If someone is going to bail on a relationship with that little notice, they deserve the same consideration. This worked quite well for a friend of mine - he told her not to let the door hit her on the ass on her way out, charged head with the divorce, and is happy. She is miserable, because it turns out it was all a ploy on her part.
Aside from the fact that, in civil cases, "reasonable doubt" doesn't apply, there is the fact that teenagers, by and large, can't keep secrets. My guess was that the identities of the miscreants was known throughout the school within days of the page being put up, probably because the culprits braged about it - after all, what's the point of a really good public prank if no one knows you did it?
Then word got to the adults, someone got pulled into an office for an informal interrogation, and all the names were divulged.
Then the administration confronted the students, who fessed up - after all, what could the school do to them?
I guess now the know the consequences of libel.
Ok, I've ignored the oter ones, but this I need to respond to.
The mere fact that you are using the term "brazing" indicates that you don't know what you are talking about. Copper plumbing for domestic hot water in residential is soldered, NOT brazed. Brazing is a related process, with higher temperatures and different filler metals.
The fact thay you can't do a proper soldered joint doesn't mean it's hard, it means you are incompetent at soldering - oh, sorry: "brazing". And your right - any idiot can do a PEX joint; that just proves that you are at least as talented as an idiot.
As for DIYers, you missed the GP post. It asked why, when plumbers use PEX for tract housing, they use copper for their own house. I gave answers as to why professionals may make that choice, not DIYers.
Did you even read the submission? The editor DID reproduce it even before it was posted.
There are copper plumbing installations that have lasted over 50 years - so far, the record on the plastics isn't so rosy.
And copper is easier to repair - one can disassemble and remake joints by desoldering and resoldering. Plasic uses fusion welds, which cannot be un-fused - only cut out and couplings installed, which can triple the amount of joints.
And copper is more resistant to damage by Harry Homeowner. While one can pierce copper with an errant nail, it's pretty hard. But hit a piece of standard issue PEX with a nail, and it's over.
I'm picturing Daffy Duck in "Duck Amok".
Bless you - I haven't laughed that hard at a /. post in years.
Especially when I pictured you yelling it at the monitor screen (admit it - we know you did)
And the other rovers can jack it and strip it for parts to keep themselves going.
Or a bunch of federal workers really are surfing a lot of porn at work. Is that so shocking? Is it so completely unbelieveable that there are people in the world that will take advantage of resources for their own use, especially when they are in a sinecure job?
...and you are both carrying tape recorders, which you may or may not be aware of, may or may not know how to operate, and may or may not stay under your control for the indefinite future.
The point is that, whether you *expect* privacy in an IM conversation is irrelevant - unless you take certain active precautions, the data IS being recorded and CAN be accessed by others (not necessarily the govt.)
If someone violates your expectation of privacy they may be rude, immoral, illegal, or evil. That doesn't mean you are not a fool for allowing the data to exist to begin with. If I walk through the worst part of DC at night and get mugged, the muggers are criminals - but I am still stupid. I'd rather be careful and safe than self righteous (sp?) and vulnerable.
Buuuut...
In XP, the processor load for the old and new interfaces is the same (I think). If you allow your Vista users the same freedom to use the shiny interface, you are going to be getting a lot of hardware complaints - slow, etc. - because Aero requres so much more than vanilla. Are you then going to retroactively tell them they can't use the shiny interface?
I'd predict that, despite the logical course, money will be allocated to accellerated equipment replacement, if only to shut the office drones up. Which is exactly what MS and the hdwr. makers are counting on.
Bullshit.
If you don't want to have kids, fine - that's your choice. "Moving to something bigger is impossible since we don't have the finances" is a cop out. Just have 1-2 kids, then, instead of "a bunch". Kids don't need square footage, they need food, clothing, a roof over their heads, and parental love and attention. You have the fod, clothing, and shelter for yourselves; perhaps you may have to sacrifice some of that to give to kids. Thats called being a parent - doing without for your kids.
As for "So, yes, "muslimification" will continue, but only because they don't seem to care in what conditions their kids grow up": sit back, say that out loud, and listen to what a racist you are.
You "want" kids, but you don't want to sacrifice to have them. The brown people can do it, only because of their inferiority.
And before you ask - I have 2 kids, 1 income, and live in a small condo.
And yet they still look like idiots. Go figure.
Can you send a memo to al of the dumbass OSS names out there? they don't seem to have gotten the message.
Not necessarily. Companies can ignore focus groups just like any other data.
One case is the last version of the Chevy Caprice. It was a new curvy design, and they brought in some focus groups. Response was favorable, but for 1 detail - the rear wheelwells were not rounded but "skirted", in a throwback to an earlier design aesthetic. The focus groups pretty consistently said that detail made the car look heavy in the rear, giving it a "fat ass". The chief designer ignored this data, insisting that his design would be considered stylish and that "focus groups don't know anything."
The Caprice was introduced to universal dislike of it's proportions, and sales were slow. After a few years, GM revised the rear quarter panels to a rounded arch, making the rear of the car visually thinner and less heavy, but by then the damage was done. The car only lasted a couple more years and was dropped, along with all of the GM rear drive line. (they have since brought back some rear drive models)