So... does this mean they can sue every publisher of a legal advice book?
Like Nolo Press, home will kit sellers, "Incorporating for Dummies," etc?
I've read that in other countries the legal language is nowhere near as obscure and cryptic, that that is unusual to the US, and designed as a deliberate obfuscation by lawyers so as to make it REQUIRE a lawyer to do anything.
I don't think anyone has anything on them. They're very clearly "movement" conservatives who place their ideology and party BEFORE the constitution, and simply lied about that fact during their confirmation hearings.
Thank you, MotherNature.com circa 1999, for the many, many, many boxes of free snacks and expensive chocolates shipped to me free I received.
The beauty of transfer of wealth - filthy-rich "angel investors" giving me shitloads of free stuff. Those were the days.
The problem with Groupon of course is that the transfer of wealth is not going from billionaires to cheap-ass fucks like me, but from small (and I mean small in the true sense) business owners to cheap-ass fucks like me. Not cool.
There's no contract, at least nothing that commits me to stay with them, so they'll tell me I can cancel if I want. Which of course they know I won't do as there's no competition.
As far as anything else goes, I'm sure they have an "arbitration" clause in their contract, which BTW the US Supreme Court has ruled they can use to override your rights... so you have no real recourse.
I just signed up with Comcast a month ago. When I called to inquire about their service, I specifically asked if they had a bandwidth cap.
They LIED. I asked repeatedly in several ways just to make sure, because I'd heard that they did have a cap. I explained that I am a heavy user, download a lot, stream video, etc. I was repeatedly assured that there was NO limit on the amount of bandwidth you could use in a month.
The sales rep was not some uninformed contractor in another country, they were a Comcast employee right here in my town where Comcast has a headquarters.
Of course, I found out right away that they DO have a bandwidth cap, 250gb per month. My account page has a meter on it.
Never believe a thing these corporate persons say. Corporate persons are lying sociopaths.
Actually the way capitalism works is before building a power plant (or anything else for that matter) it first helps get the people it wants elected elected... then it lobbies for and gets subsidies and loan guarantees... and THEN it builds the unsafe whatever that it couldn't itself afford the risk of building.
Like those "slap wrap" wristbands from the 80s. In fact, there ya go. You fold it it a few times, slap it on your wrist and it's a watch. Or something.
Nope. That was a HUGE thing in the late 80s and early 90s. There were tons of Cd "treatments" talked about and sold to make CDs sound better... from green sharpies with a special notch cut out to fit the CD, to tales of using Armor All on discs.
NOT just run of the mill cranks either. Magazines such as Stereophile and others promoted these idiotic ideas as true and screamed at anyone who dared point out that their claims of "bit flutter" were idiotic.
These same publications were behind the whole Monster Cable bullshit too, promoting special "oxygen free" copper cables even for fully digital connections.
I don't know if there are still morons out there putting green ink on CDs or if they've all moved on to global warming denial or Obama birth certificate outrage.
I remember back when I was a corporate drone, listening to the IT guys tell us what could and could not be done with our new PCS and the new networking software.
I had played with it the day before for a bit trying to find features I wanted. Simple UI features.
Others asked about some of these UI features and were told "no, you can't do that, it doesn't have that feature."
I waited until IT left the room and then showed the crowd in about 2 minutes how to use the features they had wanted and were told by IT didn't exist.
Another time an IT guy, degreed, went on vacation. I was "trained" to do his job while he was gone. After the first day on his job, I was completing his entire daily workload at about 9:30 am. Got bored, went and did MY job for the rest of the day. Kept that up for the 2 weeks.
The internal "customers" his job serviced were thrilled with my performance.
He was a professional IT guy with a degree. I was a high-school dropout who'd started as a temp.
When I left the job suddenly the Dept. Mgr. was in a panic, asking me to stay on as a consultant. This all in a fortune 500 corporation.
Next time I'll tell you about the defense contractor that I'd temped for that offered me whatever I wanted to lure me away from the 1st job.
Am I a tech wizard? Am I a computer geek? No. I'm just not a fucking idiot. I'm not saying that IT people are idiots, just that an idiot can get a degree and a degree will get an idiot hired straight out of school into an IT dept., because managers have no idea how to competently screen applicants.
As a result, IT departments are typically full of deadwood.
Actually it turns out the easiest way is simply to tell the corporation you want the information.
That's all it took here in the US and we were ostensibly a dictator-free country with laws against it. So in a country with a dictator, it's a no-brainer.
Look at Cisco/China etc.,
Expecting ethical behavior from a corporation is like a duck expecting a piggyback ride across a lake from an alligator.
Actually it makes sense that the country with drive through everything doesnt have it and the country with everything in walking distance (though that's not really true) does.
Delivery costs. Hard to make a buck delivering apples to someone at a competitive price when you have to drive 20 miles distance between there and the NEXT delivery address.
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So... does this mean they can sue every publisher of a legal advice book?
Like Nolo Press, home will kit sellers, "Incorporating for Dummies," etc?
I've read that in other countries the legal language is nowhere near as obscure and cryptic, that that is unusual to the US, and designed as a deliberate obfuscation by lawyers so as to make it REQUIRE a lawyer to do anything.
I don't think anyone has anything on them.
They're very clearly "movement" conservatives who place their ideology and party BEFORE the constitution, and simply lied about that fact during their confirmation hearings.
Thank you, MotherNature.com circa 1999, for the many, many, many boxes of free snacks and expensive chocolates shipped to me free I received.
The beauty of transfer of wealth - filthy-rich "angel investors" giving me shitloads of free stuff. Those were the days.
The problem with Groupon of course is that the transfer of wealth is not going from billionaires to cheap-ass fucks like me, but from small (and I mean small in the true sense) business owners to cheap-ass fucks like me. Not cool.
If you have a contract, I'd sue them.
"Is that really all that unreasonable of a thing to allow?"
yes.
I'm far more concerned with having the president have respect for US than us having respect for him.
How did we get to the point where using ideas - ANY ideas (apart from "how to kill" ideas), is ever considered wrongdoing?
We've managed to make illegal the very process that allowed human culture to develop in the first place.
Gosh, I thought the thing was that the president works FOR US.
We've had more than enough of putting more power and gravitas than was intended into the role of the presidency, doncha think?
The whole point was to not have kings.
There's no contract, at least nothing that commits me to stay with them, so they'll tell me I can cancel if I want. Which of course they know I won't do as there's no competition.
As far as anything else goes, I'm sure they have an "arbitration" clause in their contract, which BTW the US Supreme Court has ruled they can use to override your rights... so you have no real recourse.
America - the "take it or leave it" country.
I just signed up with Comcast a month ago.
When I called to inquire about their service, I specifically asked if they had a bandwidth cap.
They LIED. I asked repeatedly in several ways just to make sure, because I'd heard that they did have a cap. I explained that I am a heavy user, download a lot, stream video, etc. I was repeatedly assured that there was NO limit on the amount of bandwidth you could use in a month.
The sales rep was not some uninformed contractor in another country, they were a Comcast employee right here in my town where Comcast has a headquarters.
Of course, I found out right away that they DO have a bandwidth cap, 250gb per month. My account page has a meter on it.
Never believe a thing these corporate persons say. Corporate persons are lying sociopaths.
Actually the way capitalism works is before building a power plant (or anything else for that matter) it first helps get the people it wants elected elected... then it lobbies for and gets subsidies and loan guarantees... and THEN it builds the unsafe whatever that it couldn't itself afford the risk of building.
Sortof like all those companies relying on Facebook these days for their customer contact.
Stupid, stupid stupid, to put all your eggs in someone else's basket.
Why comment on slashdot articles? What's that going to achieve?
Well, see what it needs to be is on spring steel.
Like those "slap wrap" wristbands from the 80s. In fact, there ya go. You fold it it a few times, slap it on your wrist and it's a watch. Or something.
If they want a tax write-off, I'm willing to accept a gift.
"Seriously, who gave the right to decide national security policy to Assange rather than, you know, that government we elected democratically?"
He's not an american citizen. He doesn't need to ask our government's position.
Nope.
That was a HUGE thing in the late 80s and early 90s. There were tons of Cd "treatments" talked about and sold to make CDs sound better... from green sharpies with a special notch cut out to fit the CD, to tales of using Armor All on discs.
NOT just run of the mill cranks either. Magazines such as Stereophile and others promoted these idiotic ideas as true and screamed at anyone who dared point out that their claims of "bit flutter" were idiotic.
These same publications were behind the whole Monster Cable bullshit too, promoting special "oxygen free" copper cables even for fully digital connections.
I don't know if there are still morons out there putting green ink on CDs or if they've all moved on to global warming denial or Obama birth certificate outrage.
I remember back when I was a corporate drone, listening to the IT guys tell us what could and could not be done with our new PCS and the new networking software.
I had played with it the day before for a bit trying to find features I wanted. Simple UI features.
Others asked about some of these UI features and were told "no, you can't do that, it doesn't have that feature."
I waited until IT left the room and then showed the crowd in about 2 minutes how to use the features they had wanted and were told by IT didn't exist.
Another time an IT guy, degreed, went on vacation. I was "trained" to do his job while he was gone. After the first day on his job, I was completing his entire daily workload at about 9:30 am. Got bored, went and did MY job for the rest of the day. Kept that up for the 2 weeks.
The internal "customers" his job serviced were thrilled with my performance.
He was a professional IT guy with a degree. I was a high-school dropout who'd started as a temp.
When I left the job suddenly the Dept. Mgr. was in a panic, asking me to stay on as a consultant. This all in a fortune 500 corporation.
Next time I'll tell you about the defense contractor that I'd temped for that offered me whatever I wanted to lure me away from the 1st job.
Am I a tech wizard? Am I a computer geek? No.
I'm just not a fucking idiot. I'm not saying that IT people are idiots, just that an idiot can get a degree and a degree will get an idiot hired straight out of school into an IT dept., because managers have no idea how to competently screen applicants.
As a result, IT departments are typically full of deadwood.
The problem with Bose radios is they need green ink on them to improve the sound quality.
http://www.malcolmsteward.co.uk/?page_id=504
(Warning - link is NSFAS Not safe for the allergic to stupid)
Cisco built for China the system to monitor all internet users in the country. And of course imprison them when needed after they say something true.
Actually it turns out the easiest way is simply to tell the corporation you want the information.
That's all it took here in the US and we were ostensibly a dictator-free country with laws against it. So in a country with a dictator, it's a no-brainer.
Look at Cisco/China etc.,
Expecting ethical behavior from a corporation is like a duck expecting a piggyback ride across a lake from an alligator.
Actually it makes sense that the country with drive through everything doesnt have it and the country with everything in walking distance (though that's not really true) does.
Delivery costs. Hard to make a buck delivering apples to someone at a competitive price when you have to drive 20 miles distance between there and the NEXT delivery address.
At least an external intrusion is better than an internal extrusion.
USA: If Walmart was a country.
China: If China was Walmart/USA's preferred vendor.
Damn. That could actually HAPPEN!
So they aren't that different from us after all!