"You don't think a phone logs when batteries are inserted and removed?"
I know for a fact that phones do not log when batteries are inserted and removed, unless the phone was designed by Chris Angel, in which case all bets are off of course.
Just to confirm, since you appear knowledgeable, are the cop/spy/FBI shows accurate in that the only way the phone doesn't "track" you is when the battery is pulled? Simply being off is not all the way off?
What does it do when the batt is in but the power is off?
It also means that you need to password electronic devices, which for now, need a search warrant.
A previous article about police being very interested in smart phones (the one about them downloading the phones at traffic stops) mentioned that the tools of the trade, and the tools doing the trade, don't care if your smart phone is password protected or not.
For the record, chiropractors are fraudsters, voodoo witch doctors in suits who take in the gullible.
Now wait a minute, I know what you're getting at but I have one question: If someone throws out their back or hip or shoulder or something and goes to a chiro, and the guy who is trained in bones and muscles and stuff can put it back in place so the person is NOT in excruciating pain any more, how is THAT fraud?
Chiropractic CAN and DOES get more credit than it is due, there are quacks and scams for sure, but chiros in general can and do help people in certain circumstances. It isn't all crap.
I have seen it both ways, it isn't fair to the legit ones to say they are all frauds and quacks.
and this is exactly why I use an answering machine to screen my calls along with Caller ID. If I don't know the number, I let the machine answer it. If they don't leave a message, then it's not important to them.
They seem to prey on businesses, where they have to answer the phone, don't look to close at utility bills like the phone, and are present during the day.
This is totally "buyer be ware" but the interesting thing is TFA apparently says they've NEVER SEEN a legit 3rd party charge. Why does this continue if it is 100% abused? Just in case some day someone has a legit 3rd party charge? Can anyone point out a legit 3rd party charge?
Oh, another thing - if you call the number of the 3rd party charger, and talk with authority, and demand a full refund of all the charges, many times they will give you the refund - even send you a check.
Why? Because a) they make so much freakin money they don't care b) hardly anyone calls c) they don't want to get "in trouble" by not providing "good customer service" because they are trying real hard to stay JUST on the legal side of the line. JUST.
I heard of a company that had been paying for "web hosting service" $39.99 a month, every month, for YEARS. Thousands of dollars flushed down the toilet. They had no website, of course. IIRC they did get a partial refund once it was found out and the call made.
I have had some experience with this, and what happens is there will be a phone call made to the customer, may times a business, (the mark, as it were) and they will ask something like "do you not want your phone number listing to not be not removed from the universal listing service?" or some such bogus question, the person says something either yes or no.
The theiving company then makes a record that the mark company has agreed to have the service, since they actually made contact with them, then they do whatever procedure is needed to add the 3rd party charges to the bill.
There is no law that says 3rd party charges are illegal as long as the "customer" actually "agrees" to the charge. Sometimes there are even recordings of the conversation. A fast talking call center employee usually gets a low paid phone answerer at the company, and they don't know about the scams, don't know to say no to anything. Sometimes even saying "no" really means "yes, start charging me" because of how they word the question.
Many times the people paying the bill aren't the owner, and they only look at the final amount.
It is possible to remove the charges by calling the 3rd party company and saying the person who they talked to didn't have authority to make the agreement, and sometimes you can even get a refund of much of the money back to the start of the charges being on the bill.
The key thing to realize is that it IS legal, it is 99.99999% bogus, everyone knows it (except most of the customers, apparently) and they let it continue. I heard that a while back there was a large amount of fines laid out on these 3rd party companies, sort of a gesture by the powers that be. Yet it continues.
There is a significant driving distance where you are break even with flying once you figure in all the time wasting parts of air travel. But east coast to west coast is simply just not feasible with driving. Takes too long. For me anyway. I do applaud you for sticking by your guns. OH wait, that's a red flag word. Never mind.
I knew of someone who had a fear of flying and the employer would let her use trains and plan the trips accordingly, as she sometimes did have to travel. It worked, barely, as I recall, sucking up a few whole extra days.
For a fear of flying, I think a strong prescription of Jack Daniels might be in order. For avoidance of security theater.... I guess a good gas card is about all you can do.... Or train, but aren't they planning to put security theater on trains and busses soon?
I'm pretty sure that the PADDs were more prop than solidly-defined devices - meaning, they did whatever the script required of a handheld informational device for that scene. Which, from a futuristic standpoint, is probably what a "real" PADD would be - as much or as little as you need it to be. For data. As opposed to the tri-corder, which was apparently for sensing.
Similarly, I remember seeing somewhere that the script for the engineering persons had sections that read something like "insert mildly plausible sounding techno-babble here" when they had to save the day.
What I have always wondered is how they supposedly entered text with those GUIs... Probably like any other tablet, poke a certain area and QWERTY pops up. I recall Jake writing his books using a stylus... Probably some sort of graffiti style input similar to palm?
ST-TOS is credited for prophesying the floppy disk and Bluetooth headset. ST-TNG will probably be credited for prophesying the iPad, huh?
I'm mid 30s. I have a very nice and fancy looking Titanium analog watch. The crystal was, apparently, notoriously fragile and it got a "scratch" after a bump and then after a 2nd bump a few weeks later it cracked clean in half. I retired it.
Annoyed by the fragile nature of the "fancy" watch I dug out my ORIGINAL and PRE-INDIUM Timex Iron-Man watch, (complete with replacement wrist band) put in a fresh battery, and wear that when I need a watch. Now THAT is retro. Takes a lickin and keeps on tickin.
I use dropbox quite a lot, and have built up the free account to over 6 gb. I use it as "safe" storage for all my important smallish files.
All this hoo-ha is unsettling, so I looked for alternatives. Sugarsync starts you off with 5 GB free and also has referrals. They are slightly different than DB but you can use it the same way.
I'm not affiliated with them, but they seem worth a look... You can sign up here:
I had a customer with a full-blown antivirus suite installed. It had a real looking website, a very elegant sounding name (can't remember it now) and apparently cost quite a lot. Way more professional than "XP Antivirus 2011". The guy's "friend" installed it for him, said it was "the best" (had fake review sites). It also apparently installed a hacked version of deep-freeze. In that regard, it WAS effective at stopping viruses, because after a reboot, nothing was persistent.
Of course, the antivirus was a complete fake, just a very well done fake. It didn't do any real harm either like locking you out of stuff, which is what made it tough to identify as a fake. Instead of being like the scareware shakedown fake a/v, asking for money, this was just a rip-off.
No, it wasn't norton or Mcafee. I like to bash those guys as much as anyone else, but this was a total fake, not just crapware. My clue was finding lots of results for "how to remove" "rip-off" "fake" and so on.
The changes the rogue a/v do don't require admin rights in the users profile.That's why you will see only the user profile infected. It DOES require admin rights to change the HKLM, so on admin accounts they will typically change that as well.
The lions share of rogue A/V are really just registry mods and a simple GUI sham program. But, I have been seeing some rogue A/V coming with rootkit as well, which would obviously happen more on XP or admin accounts.
Here is an example: I have seen first-hand a limited user account on a corporate windows domain (XP) get a fake A/V. This user couldn't even change the freakin CLOCK, yet she got a fake A/V. It was doing porn pop-ups as well.
Some rogue A/V will apply XP-Pro type Group Policy changes to the registry even on OS like XP Home. I just saw a fake A/V modify the registry so that every time a.exe was run, it would execute the fake A/V, with the original target as the command line variable. That way, the original program would allow some things to run, other things no. Also, it was a brilliant way to ensure persistence!
Well overclockers take a "cheap" low end processor (especially back in the C2D days, take a "Pentium Dual Core" and crank it up, get 99% of the performance of a C2D EE chip many times the cost. Why not figure out how to take a "cheap" 5400 RPM drive and figure out how to crank it up.
Chip makers are known to sandbag their chips especially after a design is mature. They detune chips and sell them as low performance pieces to fill the market, and the performance is there for the taking with no real risk to the chip.
The question in my mind is whether such a thing can be done with Hard drives?
As a mechanical engineer I would wager "no" because with electronics the "parts" are more yield based qualitative results. With a hard drive there are real physical mechanical components that may simply not be present. But.... If the firmware is tweakable, and the motors are adjustable, why not crank up a 5400 RPM drive to 10k rpm, tweak the firmware, and see what kind of throughput it can do? Will it burn out? Yep. But it might pass the test put forth in TFA and also might work after. For a while!
This is perfect for the overclocking crowd. To be able to say they got the performance of a high end server drive using a $40 crap drive from newegg - and they're POSTING ON THE FORUM RIGHT NOW USING THE DRIVE! Such pissing match victories would be huge indeed.
So, upping the RPM obviously, but there must be various actuator settings in firmware that could be tweaked - safeguards, gain settings? What are the possibilities? I've never seen this done or even talked about, most people are "afraid" of hard drives, amazed they even work at all.
But you can't just get to xp mode and be an idiot, I doubt it is the cause of this. Also the XP mode VM that comes with win7 Pro and Ult is SP3.
There are some scenarios where it could be possible to go unpatched for that long and then suddenly get infected:
Bubba picks up "one o' dem dare computer thingies" from a garage sale. "ain't nebber been on der inter-tubes, momma!" "Plug 'er in, bubba! The tubes man was here and said it's all hooked up!"
The computer HAS been on the internet for 7 years and has gone unpatched completely, but Peggy Sue only gets emails from Grandma Jane and only plays solitaire and hearts on Yahoo. After 7 years grandma dies and she goes looking for casket polish (or some other innocent term) - bam, infection.
Jimmy learned all about "fixin computers" from uncle roy, the smelly old timer with food and tobacco spit in his beard and tinfoil stuck in his hat so the black helicopters won't read his thoughts. When Jimmy crashed ma and pa's computer by trying to look up goat sex, (but he was just curious so it's ok,) he popped in the 8 year old CD from the bottom of the drawer and "fixed it right up in a jiffy!"
Here's one I've seen many times: Johnny Ray lives in the country over by the holler, but the DSL just made it out that way. Johnny Ray had been using dialup (except when it rains since the line noise is bad then) but he switches to DSL. "Yeee HAAA! Look at all them titties pop right up!" Since he had dialup for the last 8 years he never did "any o' dem dare winders updates cuz it would take too long," but now with DSL he has a whole new world to explore. BAM, infection city.
There is an unlikely scenario, but it might just be possible for someone to blindly traipse around the internet unpatched and never catch anything serious, but that person is either exhibiting some sort of fantastic idiot savant abilities or are truly so lucky they must also tend to find winning lottery tickets in gumball machines.
...to stop employing people who are so clueless when it comes to IT. Personal computers have been commonplace for more than twenty years now, it's time people started learning how to use them correctly.
I'm still coming across businessmen of a certain vintage (typically 50+) for whom it's a matter of pride that they "don't know anything about computers". FFS, it's 2011. Get a grip or retire.
No, for most people they have not developed any more technical competence for the computer than they have for the toaster. Once you could buy a computer from Wal-Mart at the same time as getting a loaf of bread and a gallon of milk, while having your oil changed, computers have become commodities. Why would you expect people to develop such deep understanding of using and securing their toasters?
Who is to blame? Start with Apple, then Dell. Gateway. The early "computer in a box, use color coded wires and a pictograph to hook it up" people made it stupid easy to own a computer. Once the stupid is in, hard to get stupid out.
It's not a bad thing over all, but from a security aspect it is.
There was a guy who created a very very well done "phonebook" website which indexed all episodes and specials of the wildly popular BBC show Top Gear for streaming.
He was pretty successful at staying under the radar but he eventually put on ads to "support bandwidth costs." He was soon given a very stern letter from "TEH BEEBS" and, just as promptly, posted the letter on the site and shut down.
I wonder if kino would have lasted longer w/o having done the ads?
The letter from the BBC mentioned how the guy "even had the audacity to show ads" so I wonder if that is, really, the line that one should not cross when doing an index site?
The problem we are seeing here, I'm fairly certain, is that the congresscritters are being forced to consider these bills in order to retroactively earn their "paychecks" or subsequent "paychecks" will not be forthcoming.
To put it in acceptable/. terms, recall the Simpsons episode where Lisa takes a trip to WDC and is horrified to learn that "gasp" there are corrupt politicians, bought and paid for by various corporate entities.
Because projectionists, although they are presenting themselves now as a guild of skilled artisans, are really just one step above convenience-store clerks in their value as skilled labor. And theater owners haven't given a crap hardly ever.
That's true, the theater itself is really just an elaborate snack bar that happens to show movies. First run theaters make jack on ticket sales, it's all about the snacks.
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I know for a fact that phones do not log when batteries are inserted and removed, unless the phone was designed by Chris Angel, in which case all bets are off of course.
Just to confirm, since you appear knowledgeable, are the cop/spy/FBI shows accurate in that the only way the phone doesn't "track" you is when the battery is pulled? Simply being off is not all the way off?
What does it do when the batt is in but the power is off?
It also means that you need to password electronic devices, which for now, need a search warrant.
A previous article about police being very interested in smart phones (the one about them downloading the phones at traffic stops) mentioned that the tools of the trade, and the tools doing the trade, don't care if your smart phone is password protected or not.
For the record, chiropractors are fraudsters, voodoo witch doctors in suits who take in the gullible.
Now wait a minute, I know what you're getting at but I have one question: If someone throws out their back or hip or shoulder or something and goes to a chiro, and the guy who is trained in bones and muscles and stuff can put it back in place so the person is NOT in excruciating pain any more, how is THAT fraud?
Chiropractic CAN and DOES get more credit than it is due, there are quacks and scams for sure, but chiros in general can and do help people in certain circumstances. It isn't all crap.
I have seen it both ways, it isn't fair to the legit ones to say they are all frauds and quacks.
and this is exactly why I use an answering machine to screen my calls along with Caller ID. If I don't know the number, I let the machine answer it. If they don't leave a message, then it's not important to them.
They seem to prey on businesses, where they have to answer the phone, don't look to close at utility bills like the phone, and are present during the day.
This is totally "buyer be ware" but the interesting thing is TFA apparently says they've NEVER SEEN a legit 3rd party charge. Why does this continue if it is 100% abused? Just in case some day someone has a legit 3rd party charge? Can anyone point out a legit 3rd party charge?
Oh, another thing - if you call the number of the 3rd party charger, and talk with authority, and demand a full refund of all the charges, many times they will give you the refund - even send you a check.
Why? Because a) they make so much freakin money they don't care b) hardly anyone calls c) they don't want to get "in trouble" by not providing "good customer service" because they are trying real hard to stay JUST on the legal side of the line. JUST.
I heard of a company that had been paying for "web hosting service" $39.99 a month, every month, for YEARS. Thousands of dollars flushed down the toilet. They had no website, of course. IIRC they did get a partial refund once it was found out and the call made.
I have had some experience with this, and what happens is there will be a phone call made to the customer, may times a business, (the mark, as it were) and they will ask something like "do you not want your phone number listing to not be not removed from the universal listing service?" or some such bogus question, the person says something either yes or no.
The theiving company then makes a record that the mark company has agreed to have the service, since they actually made contact with them, then they do whatever procedure is needed to add the 3rd party charges to the bill.
There is no law that says 3rd party charges are illegal as long as the "customer" actually "agrees" to the charge. Sometimes there are even recordings of the conversation. A fast talking call center employee usually gets a low paid phone answerer at the company, and they don't know about the scams, don't know to say no to anything. Sometimes even saying "no" really means "yes, start charging me" because of how they word the question.
Many times the people paying the bill aren't the owner, and they only look at the final amount.
It is possible to remove the charges by calling the 3rd party company and saying the person who they talked to didn't have authority to make the agreement, and sometimes you can even get a refund of much of the money back to the start of the charges being on the bill.
The key thing to realize is that it IS legal, it is 99.99999% bogus, everyone knows it (except most of the customers, apparently) and they let it continue. I heard that a while back there was a large amount of fines laid out on these 3rd party companies, sort of a gesture by the powers that be. Yet it continues.
This would be hilarious if it wasn't so true. Christians do a really good job of killing their own. So to speak.
There is a significant driving distance where you are break even with flying once you figure in all the time wasting parts of air travel. But east coast to west coast is simply just not feasible with driving. Takes too long. For me anyway. I do applaud you for sticking by your guns. OH wait, that's a red flag word. Never mind.
I knew of someone who had a fear of flying and the employer would let her use trains and plan the trips accordingly, as she sometimes did have to travel. It worked, barely, as I recall, sucking up a few whole extra days.
For a fear of flying, I think a strong prescription of Jack Daniels might be in order. For avoidance of security theater.... I guess a good gas card is about all you can do.... Or train, but aren't they planning to put security theater on trains and busses soon?
Start looking for info on this from sources past the main stream press, and you'll see that a lot of the stimulus went to foreign banks. http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=stimulus+went+to+foreign+banks
Think "recycle bin"...
ewwwww.....
I'm pretty sure that the PADDs were more prop than solidly-defined devices - meaning, they did whatever the script required of a handheld informational device for that scene. Which, from a futuristic standpoint, is probably what a "real" PADD would be - as much or as little as you need it to be. For data. As opposed to the tri-corder, which was apparently for sensing.
Similarly, I remember seeing somewhere that the script for the engineering persons had sections that read something like "insert mildly plausible sounding techno-babble here" when they had to save the day.
What I have always wondered is how they supposedly entered text with those GUIs... Probably like any other tablet, poke a certain area and QWERTY pops up. I recall Jake writing his books using a stylus... Probably some sort of graffiti style input similar to palm?
ST-TOS is credited for prophesying the floppy disk and Bluetooth headset. ST-TNG will probably be credited for prophesying the iPad, huh?
I'm mid 30s. I have a very nice and fancy looking Titanium analog watch. The crystal was, apparently, notoriously fragile and it got a "scratch" after a bump and then after a 2nd bump a few weeks later it cracked clean in half. I retired it.
Annoyed by the fragile nature of the "fancy" watch I dug out my ORIGINAL and PRE-INDIUM Timex Iron-Man watch, (complete with replacement wrist band) put in a fresh battery, and wear that when I need a watch. Now THAT is retro. Takes a lickin and keeps on tickin.
I use dropbox quite a lot, and have built up the free account to over 6 gb. I use it as "safe" storage for all my important smallish files.
All this hoo-ha is unsettling, so I looked for alternatives. Sugarsync starts you off with 5 GB free and also has referrals. They are slightly different than DB but you can use it the same way. I'm not affiliated with them, but they seem worth a look... You can sign up here:
https://www.sugarsync.com/referral?rf=edddx6ednsb88
Yeah, that's a referral link, lol. Seriously, if DB is making you nervous I think sugar sync might be the next best thing, if not better.
I had a customer with a full-blown antivirus suite installed. It had a real looking website, a very elegant sounding name (can't remember it now) and apparently cost quite a lot. Way more professional than "XP Antivirus 2011". The guy's "friend" installed it for him, said it was "the best" (had fake review sites). It also apparently installed a hacked version of deep-freeze. In that regard, it WAS effective at stopping viruses, because after a reboot, nothing was persistent.
Of course, the antivirus was a complete fake, just a very well done fake. It didn't do any real harm either like locking you out of stuff, which is what made it tough to identify as a fake. Instead of being like the scareware shakedown fake a/v, asking for money, this was just a rip-off.
No, it wasn't norton or Mcafee. I like to bash those guys as much as anyone else, but this was a total fake, not just crapware. My clue was finding lots of results for "how to remove" "rip-off" "fake" and so on.
The changes the rogue a/v do don't require admin rights in the users profile.That's why you will see only the user profile infected. It DOES require admin rights to change the HKLM, so on admin accounts they will typically change that as well.
.exe was run, it would execute the fake A/V, with the original target as the command line variable. That way, the original program would allow some things to run, other things no. Also, it was a brilliant way to ensure persistence!
The lions share of rogue A/V are really just registry mods and a simple GUI sham program. But, I have been seeing some rogue A/V coming with rootkit as well, which would obviously happen more on XP or admin accounts.
Here is an example: I have seen first-hand a limited user account on a corporate windows domain (XP) get a fake A/V. This user couldn't even change the freakin CLOCK, yet she got a fake A/V. It was doing porn pop-ups as well.
Some rogue A/V will apply XP-Pro type Group Policy changes to the registry even on OS like XP Home. I just saw a fake A/V modify the registry so that every time a
Well overclockers take a "cheap" low end processor (especially back in the C2D days, take a "Pentium Dual Core" and crank it up, get 99% of the performance of a C2D EE chip many times the cost. Why not figure out how to take a "cheap" 5400 RPM drive and figure out how to crank it up.
Chip makers are known to sandbag their chips especially after a design is mature. They detune chips and sell them as low performance pieces to fill the market, and the performance is there for the taking with no real risk to the chip.
The question in my mind is whether such a thing can be done with Hard drives?
As a mechanical engineer I would wager "no" because with electronics the "parts" are more yield based qualitative results. With a hard drive there are real physical mechanical components that may simply not be present. But.... If the firmware is tweakable, and the motors are adjustable, why not crank up a 5400 RPM drive to 10k rpm, tweak the firmware, and see what kind of throughput it can do? Will it burn out? Yep. But it might pass the test put forth in TFA and also might work after. For a while!
This is perfect for the overclocking crowd. To be able to say they got the performance of a high end server drive using a $40 crap drive from newegg - and they're POSTING ON THE FORUM RIGHT NOW USING THE DRIVE! Such pissing match victories would be huge indeed.
So, upping the RPM obviously, but there must be various actuator settings in firmware that could be tweaked - safeguards, gain settings? What are the possibilities? I've never seen this done or even talked about, most people are "afraid" of hard drives, amazed they even work at all.
I see what you did there...
yes. also, he's an extortionist or a rapist-murderer.
It's a "hacker" so what is he raping with, his e-peen?
But you can't just get to xp mode and be an idiot, I doubt it is the cause of this. Also the XP mode VM that comes with win7 Pro and Ult is SP3.
There are some scenarios where it could be possible to go unpatched for that long and then suddenly get infected:
Bubba picks up "one o' dem dare computer thingies" from a garage sale. "ain't nebber been on der inter-tubes, momma!" "Plug 'er in, bubba! The tubes man was here and said it's all hooked up!"
The computer HAS been on the internet for 7 years and has gone unpatched completely, but Peggy Sue only gets emails from Grandma Jane and only plays solitaire and hearts on Yahoo. After 7 years grandma dies and she goes looking for casket polish (or some other innocent term) - bam, infection.
Jimmy learned all about "fixin computers" from uncle roy, the smelly old timer with food and tobacco spit in his beard and tinfoil stuck in his hat so the black helicopters won't read his thoughts. When Jimmy crashed ma and pa's computer by trying to look up goat sex, (but he was just curious so it's ok,) he popped in the 8 year old CD from the bottom of the drawer and "fixed it right up in a jiffy!"
Here's one I've seen many times: Johnny Ray lives in the country over by the holler, but the DSL just made it out that way. Johnny Ray had been using dialup (except when it rains since the line noise is bad then) but he switches to DSL. "Yeee HAAA! Look at all them titties pop right up!" Since he had dialup for the last 8 years he never did "any o' dem dare winders updates cuz it would take too long," but now with DSL he has a whole new world to explore. BAM, infection city.
There is an unlikely scenario, but it might just be possible for someone to blindly traipse around the internet unpatched and never catch anything serious, but that person is either exhibiting some sort of fantastic idiot savant abilities or are truly so lucky they must also tend to find winning lottery tickets in gumball machines.
...to stop employing people who are so clueless when it comes to IT. Personal computers have been commonplace for more than twenty years now, it's time people started learning how to use them correctly.
I'm still coming across businessmen of a certain vintage (typically 50+) for whom it's a matter of pride that they "don't know anything about computers". FFS, it's 2011. Get a grip or retire.
No, for most people they have not developed any more technical competence for the computer than they have for the toaster. Once you could buy a computer from Wal-Mart at the same time as getting a loaf of bread and a gallon of milk, while having your oil changed, computers have become commodities. Why would you expect people to develop such deep understanding of using and securing their toasters?
Who is to blame? Start with Apple, then Dell. Gateway. The early "computer in a box, use color coded wires and a pictograph to hook it up" people made it stupid easy to own a computer. Once the stupid is in, hard to get stupid out.
It's not a bad thing over all, but from a security aspect it is.
There was a guy who created a very very well done "phonebook" website which indexed all episodes and specials of the wildly popular BBC show Top Gear for streaming.
He was pretty successful at staying under the radar but he eventually put on ads to "support bandwidth costs." He was soon given a very stern letter from "TEH BEEBS" and, just as promptly, posted the letter on the site and shut down.
I wonder if kino would have lasted longer w/o having done the ads?
The letter from the BBC mentioned how the guy "even had the audacity to show ads" so I wonder if that is, really, the line that one should not cross when doing an index site?
So then by that logic Michigan should be in great shape... Or at least the prison contractors should be...
The problem we are seeing here, I'm fairly certain, is that the congresscritters are being forced to consider these bills in order to retroactively earn their "paychecks" or subsequent "paychecks" will not be forthcoming.
/. terms, recall the Simpsons episode where Lisa takes a trip to WDC and is horrified to learn that "gasp" there are corrupt politicians, bought and paid for by various corporate entities.
To put it in acceptable
Because projectionists, although they are presenting themselves now as a guild of skilled artisans, are really just one step above convenience-store clerks in their value as skilled labor. And theater owners haven't given a crap hardly ever.
That's true, the theater itself is really just an elaborate snack bar that happens to show movies. First run theaters make jack on ticket sales, it's all about the snacks.