The other favored method these days seems to be sending out non-sensical Cease and Desist Letters claiming all sorts of things, including copyright infringement, and CRIMINAL charges because someone has a domain that you want.
Caton Commercial engages in this, and seems to find this practice acceptable.
I have no doubt where my bitterness comes from twords the industry. And I do know that in the end the majority of the responsibility of what decisions are made in the purchase or sale of a house is, and should be, my own.
I also know that I might take a larger amount of time to make a decision, because I do insist on knowing many of the things you did mention, down to almost a compulsive level. Most people arent like that however, and it is all too easy for that to be taken advantage of. In the end, the only reasons that those types of things need to be looked for, is because the wool can be pulled over peoples eyes more often than not.
Im sure you know your fair share of 'agents' who do nothing more than what I liked to call 'play office'. If you carry on your interactions with people the same way you have in this thread, then you truly deserve the label of 'professional.
All in all, those are almost well put together points.
However, I never said anything about 'hating' realtors, just that the refusal to change in the entire industry has made them just about useless for most of the needs of the younger generation.
The industry almost FORCES agents to be so cut-throat that its next to impossible to get an honest answer out of any of them. You yourself dont even seem to notice the information you are withholding from your clients, for the simple fact that it doesnt benefit you in any way. Arent you supposed to be doing whats best for the BUYER???
That is exactly the attitude that is holding real estate back, and the exact reason why I will never deal with one unless I am legally ordered to.
I appreciate the views that others have of the real estate industry that are similar to what I saw while working as the IT grunt for a small real estate company. And yes, I heard the exact phrase 'the internet is just a fad' and IT was just a waste of money. The babysitting eventually got old for me, and I came to realize that I had to leave, because the people in charge just dont 'get it'. Not in a bad way, just in a 'my grandparents still listen to music on AM radio' kinda way.
There is no other industry I have seen that is so absurdly protectionist in its business practices. And the result of that type of worldview has led some real estate companies to be literal fossilized relics of their time.
This settlement gives me great pleasure to finally see, as the roadblocks setup by MLS are some of the most frustrating I have ever encountered, from the buyers point of view.
Having seen the industry from the inside, I would never have any part of buying or selling a home through a real estate agent. If I see a house thats for sale that I want, I am patient enough to let the rediculous 'listing agreement' expire, and then buy it right from the seller directly. It is amazing how eager people will become to sell to you when they realize that waiting a few months can net them a 7% larger profit.
And what ever happened to that small real estate company, you may ask? Well Caton Commercial spends some of its time showing up to court cases brought against them by various old employees and business partners, and sending out threatening Cease and Desist letters to other old employees.
Its amazing how common this practice is these days.
For some reason, when I posted the publicly available court cases for my county, a local real estate company hired a lawyer to send me a letter demanding that I remove this as it was 'possibly libelous'.
There were also claims of copryright, and trademark violations in the letter. Along with threatening me to have the information tunred over for possible CRIMINAL charges. Keep in mind these sites did not sell any product, or service of any kind.
Oh, it also demanded that I turn over my legally owned domains to the lawyers client, free of charge.
The company who did this was Caton Commercial, and yes that is a link to the current pending cases against them at my county courthouse. And also, the Cease and Desist Letter can also be read online.
What a pathetic way to run a business, or conduct yourself with respect to others differing views.
Is netflix now responsible for Comcast's business practices?
I didnt know Netflix had a minority stake owned by Comcast.
If such a scenario is something you are worried about, and you are STILL using comcast, then it is up to YOU to find the time to find yourself at your local municipalities monthly public hearings about their cable provider status.
However, if the most a comcast subscriber is going to do is just complain about it, yet still pay the monthly bill, well then I guess they have you right where they need you.
How about... because you dont want to give a single dollar more to Comcast for their abysmal handling of their own internet traffic, and traffic shaping of selective protocols?
Anything that drives comcast out of business and destroys their line of thinking that they are 'so big that nobody will challenge us' is a positive for the rest of the internet community.
In all honesty, selling them was never an option to me. The domains were never bought with the intention of 'holding them for ransom'. And I dont want to give the appearance that I will accept any form of compensation for owning the domains. They were purchased for my personal use, and that was all they were used for.
The last thing I want to do is fall into the same trap of making myself look foolish in the same way the C&D letter that was sent to me makes those parties look foolish.
Either they will stop wasting their time on $9 domains, or they will send me more annoying letters. I dont respond to threats, it only makes one look foolish:)
Seriously, anyone can send you any letter they want. There is no requirement for it to be based on truth.
I received one of these demand letters a few months back. In it, a commercial company was demanding that I turn over domain names that I owned legally, to them because of claims of trademark infringement. Nevermind that the domains didnt point to a website that actually sold any commercial product or service of any kind to base a claim of trademark upon. The company that sent the letter was Caton Commercial
After talking with a handful of lawyers to see what my rights were, it basically boiled down to all of them telling me what I told you in the first sentence.
"All you have there is an angry letter from people who sent it to you because they themselves know that a court of law would not uphold their claims, and are hoping for you to make a decision in their benefit because you are scared."
Me personally, I just ignored the letter and plan to let the domains expire since they are worthless to me in the first place. If this company is so interested in the domains, they can buy them with their own money. I sure dont plan to give them away for free as the letter demanded.
Almost looks like the site is denying visits when the referer is slashdot.org. With the below method, I was able to read the full article with no problems.
To get in, simply copy the link in the story into a new browser window and hit enter to come into the site with no referers.
I also agree with the google filter that knows that its not 'google-bombing' when the hyperlinked word is actually contained in the website that is being linked to.
While it is unfortunate that such things as SSN's are being made public, the hard reality is that anything contained in a court record is public information.
Open access to government is a two way street, and is meant to prevent corruption and give the public a clear view what their government is doing.
On a side note, my county also publishes court records on the internet that are public information. However, it is limited to the court schedule, case#, charge, and attorney schedule.
The fact that this schedule is public information is still not a concept some people are aware of. Ive heard stories from court employees of upset people coming in and demanding that their DUI case be taken down from being publicly viewable. Unfortunately for these people, the law says otherwise.
I even have personal experience in some of the reactions people have to this publicly available information after I posted a link to the county courthouse on one of my websites. A Company called Caton Commercial even went to far as to have their attorney draft a cease and desist letter threatening me with legal action, and demanding that I remove this linked information, and turn over my legal domains to them to stop this 'knowingly libelous' action. Although, Im not sure that they thought through how they were going to present to a judge their case that the courts own website schedule was the source of this so-called libelous information. Like every other company before that has failed to grasp the concept of the internet, all the attention this brought to the linked information was a lovely demonstration of the 'Streisand Effect'. Once again, adding more weight to the phrase 'more dollars than sense'.
I also had a nice 'cease and desist' letter sent to me. Other than trying to suggest that I would be brought up on unspecified criminal charges(yes, criminal), the letter also mentioned copyright and trademark violations that I was being accused of violating. Actually, in one sentence of the letter it accused me of making possibly libelous statements, and in almost the very next sentence, it accused me of knowingly making libelous statements. Granted, by this point I already knew the letter was just thrown together with the amount of thought it takes to blink an eye, as the location this letter was addressed to was not mine, but someone else in my town with the same last name. I would guess that after the post office sent it back to them, they finally found the correct information, even though it was in the WHOIS records for the domains the entire time.
I had a nice response letter written out, and had it reviewed by more than one other attorney. And more than one time was advised that the less I said to them, the better. In the end I figured that sending this letter would be showing my hand, and since I knew what I was doing was in no way illegal, or libelous, I made the decision to not send the letter.
By the way, the company who sent this letter, and then demanded I transfer my rights to the domain to them, was Caton Commercial, a real estate company. Being that the content of the sites in question contained linked information that was directly shown on the county courthouse website, I thought it would be better to not tip my hand. In my state, we have what are known as Anti-SLAPP laws, which provide for the awarding of court fees to the defendant in any case which attempts to supress the publishing of public government information.
In the end, I thought it would just be easier to publish the letter online. It amazes me how people could try such underhanded tactics in this day and age, knowing full well how easy it is for the recipient to publish it online for all to see.
I imagine the attorney who wrote this knows all of this, and was just trying to make his clients happy and stop bothering him, since it has now been over 60 days since the original letter was written and sent(to the wrong address) and I have not heard any more from them in regard to this .
I was the recipient of a nice cease and desist letter that involved publicly available content that was posted on some about to expire domains.
Caton Commercial was the company involved. The claim in the letter was that by publishing this already public, government information, that I was making knowingly slanderous statements. (Or possibly slanderous, depending on which sentence you read in the ill-formed letter). The cease and desist letter can be read here
I want a site that lets me coordinate with others to piss these types off, say, by getting together and driving in formation at exactly the speed limit, blocking the bastards.
Why dont you just focus on your own driving for a change and worry about driving to your destination? That would be a pretty shallow way to live, thinking that somehow YOU have the say in how other people can drive just because you want to. In the state I live in, doing what you just suggested has a name. Its called BREAKING THE LAW. You see, driving at the speed limit in the left lane of a multilane highway is breaking the law. Its called the 'passing lane' and you could get pulled over and given a ticket if you thought it was amusing to be a smart ass by 'blocking' somebody in.
I eagerly await to hear your rationalization of how YOUR way of breaking the law is somehow more rightous that those speeders, and light runners who are breaking the law, albeit a different one.
I find myself in a somewhat similar situation. I was supposed to do some work for a company who later ended up folding because of 'bad management', and I was left holding the bag on the domain I purchased at their instruction, that they never paid me for.(they didnt want to buy it, I dont know?).
Other than getting all the requests for 'why havent you paid us yet', the end result is that almost 2 years later these people are COMING AFTER ME WITH A CEASE AND DESIST LETTER and demanding that I turn over this domain and others to them for free because it 'infringes on their copyright'. Although, I honestly can say Im not suprised that Caton Commercial, the real estate company who is operating as the umbrella company for all these shell companies who eventually go under, doesnt know its ass from a whole in the ground.
Knowing full well that this sort of behavior is borderline as far as being professional, I posted the full contents of the Cease and Desist Letter sent by a Mr John Argoudelis online so anyone thinking of working with this company may come across this sort of behavior and maybe think twice. Lawyers and Real Estate agents.... whew... what a combo of integrity!
The company is also involved in numerous court cases relating to other aspects of their business practices. Ive posted a short description of the Will County court cases that caton commercial is involved in at my blackjack and hookers site.
sorry about the repost, for some reason it didnt take under my login name and was posted as AC.Every business-person makes their own decision regarding how immoral/illegal they're willing to act in order to make a profit.
Unfortunately, Im dealing with one of these 'business people' now. I was supposed to do some work for a company who later ended up folding because of 'bad management', and I was left holding the bag on the domain I purchased at their instruction(they didnt want to buy it, I dont know?)
The end result, is that almost 2 years later these people are COMING AFTER ME WITH A CEASE AND DESIST LETTER and demanding that I turn over this domain and others to them for free because it 'infringes on their copyright'
Knowing full well that this sort of behavior is borderline as far as being professional, I posted the full contents of the Cease and Desist Letter" online so anyone thinking of working with this company may come across this sort of behavior and maybe think twice.
The company is also involved in numerous court cases relating to other aspects of their business practices. Ive posted a short description of these events at my blackjack and hookers site. In fact, forget the blackjack!
If your children want to watch stupid crap, it doesnt really matter which medium its done over does it?
If they want to talk to someone with a different culture than them, how does one do that on TV? The TV is a one-way medium, the internet is a TOOL of communication. If you choose to bring up your children so they are looking for crap on youtube, than that really is a choice in how to use the tool. Apparently a choice they learned from the adults around them in their everyday life.
Granted, most kids watch crap because thats all their parents expose them to. Its why commercial pay TV was so successful in the first place, so Im not really concerned that you dont understand the point of the discussion. It seems that you were only exposed to crap, and think thats all there is to offer to your kids. And thats fine, Somebody has to clean the toilets.
Amazing how many people share that same assumption. You may want to spend some time and take a hard look at the lifestyle you are providing to your children.
Maybe you missed what I said in stating the importance of the INTERNET over the importance of TV in providing the same services. Perhaps you should be more concerned that the rest of the kids in your childs age group are comfortably using the internet as a replacement for TV, while your children are starting blankly at a screen.
Im sorry to hear about the parenting your children received, but that was your choice.
Im glad to hear you would love to rid yourself of it too. Im sorry you cant right now, and I hope you one day find yourself with someone who deserves to be with you, by respecting the way you want to live life. More importantly, how you DO NOT want to live life.
I took the plunge and got rid of 'pay-tv' once and for all right before this strike, and its amazing how little I actually miss it. And amazing how I was spending over $70/month for just regular ad-laced channels. Yes, paying to watch advertisements is not how I want to spend my money anymore. That INCLUDES the 'ads' that get thrown right into the shows, soap opera style(thats how they got their name after all).
The internet is now my primary tool of information sourcing and entertainment. The TV industry missed the boat, the same way the music industry did. The only thing that made it take as long as it did was the bandwidth difference between audio and video.
Perhaps the 'smell' wasnt that of space at all. The description of the 'smell' was one of being metallic, and noticing it while around the airlock.
Could this smell instead be from the materials that are coming in and out of spacecrew cabin. In space there will be more intense radiation and temperature extremes, which will affect the materials in question. Being bombarded by the radiation of outer space, that is normally blocked by the minimum shielding of the crew cabin, might just be enough to 'vaporize' certain chemicals on the suit. Upon coming back into the crew cabin, these newly formed chemical compounds with then be able to disperse in the air where they can be picked up as a 'smell'.
If I pull a rotting corpse out of the river, does it logically follow that the river smells like a rotting corpse?
I always knew the lyrics to "A Pirate Looks at 40" would come in handy someday.
Yes I am a pirate, two hundred years too late
The cannons don't thunder, there's nothin' to plunder
I'm an over-forty victim of fate
Arriving too late, arriving too late
I've done a bit of smugglin', I've run my share of grass
I made enough money to buy Miami, but I pissed it away so fast
Never meant to last, never meant to last
And I have been drunk now for over two weeks
I passed out and I rallied and I sprung a few leaks
But I got stop wishin', got to go fishin'
Down to rock bottom again
Just a few friends, just a few friends
I go for younger women, lived with several awhile
Though I ran 'em away, they'd come back one day
Still could manage to smile
Just takes a while, just takes a while
Mother, mother ocean, after all the years I've found
My occupational hazard being my occupation's just not around
I feel like I've drowned, gonna head uptown
"I think you don't need to believe in God to admire Jesus work at that time. If he was in our time..."
How about if he was in any time... would you care to find me a historical reference from the years around 10BC-50AD that documents his existance? Other than 'the bible'.
Nice to see that you have thrown off the shackles of superstitio... uh religion. Next step is to question everything you think you believe, and find out if its basd on facts and true, or if its just something somebody told you, who told them, who told them, etc...
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The other favored method these days seems to be sending out non-sensical Cease and Desist Letters claiming all sorts of things, including copyright infringement, and CRIMINAL charges because someone has a domain that you want.
Caton Commercial engages in this, and seems to find this practice acceptable.
Sir, I commend you for that post.
I have no doubt where my bitterness comes from twords the industry. And I do know that in the end the majority of the responsibility of what decisions are made in the purchase or sale of a house is, and should be, my own.
I also know that I might take a larger amount of time to make a decision, because I do insist on knowing many of the things you did mention, down to almost a compulsive level. Most people arent like that however, and it is all too easy for that to be taken advantage of. In the end, the only reasons that those types of things need to be looked for, is because the wool can be pulled over peoples eyes more often than not.
Im sure you know your fair share of 'agents' who do nothing more than what I liked to call 'play office'. If you carry on your interactions with people the same way you have in this thread, then you truly deserve the label of 'professional.
All in all, those are almost well put together points.
However, I never said anything about 'hating' realtors, just that the refusal to change in the entire industry has made them just about useless for most of the needs of the younger generation.
The industry almost FORCES agents to be so cut-throat that its next to impossible to get an honest answer out of any of them. You yourself dont even seem to notice the information you are withholding from your clients, for the simple fact that it doesnt benefit you in any way. Arent you supposed to be doing whats best for the BUYER???
That is exactly the attitude that is holding real estate back, and the exact reason why I will never deal with one unless I am legally ordered to.
I appreciate the views that others have of the real estate industry that are similar to what I saw while working as the IT grunt for a small real estate company. And yes, I heard the exact phrase 'the internet is just a fad' and IT was just a waste of money. The babysitting eventually got old for me, and I came to realize that I had to leave, because the people in charge just dont 'get it'. Not in a bad way, just in a 'my grandparents still listen to music on AM radio' kinda way.
There is no other industry I have seen that is so absurdly protectionist in its business practices. And the result of that type of worldview has led some real estate companies to be literal fossilized relics of their time.
This settlement gives me great pleasure to finally see, as the roadblocks setup by MLS are some of the most frustrating I have ever encountered, from the buyers point of view.
Having seen the industry from the inside, I would never have any part of buying or selling a home through a real estate agent. If I see a house thats for sale that I want, I am patient enough to let the rediculous 'listing agreement' expire, and then buy it right from the seller directly. It is amazing how eager people will become to sell to you when they realize that waiting a few months can net them a 7% larger profit.
And what ever happened to that small real estate company, you may ask? Well Caton Commercial spends some of its time showing up to court cases brought against them by various old employees and business partners, and sending out threatening Cease and Desist letters to other old employees.
Its amazing how common this practice is these days.
For some reason, when I posted the publicly available court cases for my county, a local real estate company hired a lawyer to send me a letter demanding that I remove this as it was 'possibly libelous'.
There were also claims of copryright, and trademark violations in the letter. Along with threatening me to have the information tunred over for possible CRIMINAL charges. Keep in mind these sites did not sell any product, or service of any kind.
Oh, it also demanded that I turn over my legally owned domains to the lawyers client, free of charge.
The company who did this was Caton Commercial, and yes that is a link to the current pending cases against them at my county courthouse. And also, the Cease and Desist Letter can also be read online.
What a pathetic way to run a business, or conduct yourself with respect to others differing views.
Is netflix now responsible for Comcast's business practices?
I didnt know Netflix had a minority stake owned by Comcast.
If such a scenario is something you are worried about, and you are STILL using comcast, then it is up to YOU to find the time to find yourself at your local municipalities monthly public hearings about their cable provider status.
However, if the most a comcast subscriber is going to do is just complain about it, yet still pay the monthly bill, well then I guess they have you right where they need you.
How about... because you dont want to give a single dollar more to Comcast for their abysmal handling of their own internet traffic, and traffic shaping of selective protocols?
Anything that drives comcast out of business and destroys their line of thinking that they are 'so big that nobody will challenge us' is a positive for the rest of the internet community.
Screw You Comcast!
In all honesty, selling them was never an option to me. The domains were never bought with the intention of 'holding them for ransom'. And I dont want to give the appearance that I will accept any form of compensation for owning the domains. They were purchased for my personal use, and that was all they were used for.
The last thing I want to do is fall into the same trap of making myself look foolish in the same way the C&D letter that was sent to me makes those parties look foolish.
Either they will stop wasting their time on $9 domains, or they will send me more annoying letters. I dont respond to threats, it only makes one look foolish :)
Seriously, anyone can send you any letter they want. There is no requirement for it to be based on truth.
I received one of these demand letters a few months back. In it, a commercial company was demanding that I turn over domain names that I owned legally, to them because of claims of trademark infringement. Nevermind that the domains didnt point to a website that actually sold any commercial product or service of any kind to base a claim of trademark upon. The company that sent the letter was Caton Commercial
After talking with a handful of lawyers to see what my rights were, it basically boiled down to all of them telling me what I told you in the first sentence.
"All you have there is an angry letter from people who sent it to you because they themselves know that a court of law would not uphold their claims, and are hoping for you to make a decision in their benefit because you are scared."
Me personally, I just ignored the letter and plan to let the domains expire since they are worthless to me in the first place. If this company is so interested in the domains, they can buy them with their own money. I sure dont plan to give them away for free as the letter demanded.
Almost looks like the site is denying visits when the referer is slashdot.org. With the below method, I was able to read the full article with no problems.
To get in, simply copy the link in the story into a new browser window and hit enter to come into the site with no referers.
Hope this helps
I agree with you.
I also agree with the google filter that knows that its not 'google-bombing' when the hyperlinked word is actually contained in the website that is being linked to.
While it is unfortunate that such things as SSN's are being made public, the hard reality is that anything contained in a court record is public information.
Open access to government is a two way street, and is meant to prevent corruption and give the public a clear view what their government is doing.
On a side note, my county also publishes court records on the internet that are public information. However, it is limited to the court schedule, case#, charge, and attorney schedule.
The fact that this schedule is public information is still not a concept some people are aware of. Ive heard stories from court employees of upset people coming in and demanding that their DUI case be taken down from being publicly viewable. Unfortunately for these people, the law says otherwise.
I even have personal experience in some of the reactions people have to this publicly available information after I posted a link to the county courthouse on one of my websites. A Company called Caton Commercial even went to far as to have their attorney draft a cease and desist letter threatening me with legal action, and demanding that I remove this linked information, and turn over my legal domains to them to stop this 'knowingly libelous' action. Although, Im not sure that they thought through how they were going to present to a judge their case that the courts own website schedule was the source of this so-called libelous information. Like every other company before that has failed to grasp the concept of the internet, all the attention this brought to the linked information was a lovely demonstration of the 'Streisand Effect'. Once again, adding more weight to the phrase 'more dollars than sense'.
I also had a nice 'cease and desist' letter sent to me. Other than trying to suggest that I would be brought up on unspecified criminal charges(yes, criminal), the letter also mentioned copyright and trademark violations that I was being accused of violating. Actually, in one sentence of the letter it accused me of making possibly libelous statements, and in almost the very next sentence, it accused me of knowingly making libelous statements. Granted, by this point I already knew the letter was just thrown together with the amount of thought it takes to blink an eye, as the location this letter was addressed to was not mine, but someone else in my town with the same last name. I would guess that after the post office sent it back to them, they finally found the correct information, even though it was in the WHOIS records for the domains the entire time.
I had a nice response letter written out, and had it reviewed by more than one other attorney. And more than one time was advised that the less I said to them, the better. In the end I figured that sending this letter would be showing my hand, and since I knew what I was doing was in no way illegal, or libelous, I made the decision to not send the letter.
By the way, the company who sent this letter, and then demanded I transfer my rights to the domain to them, was Caton Commercial, a real estate company. Being that the content of the sites in question contained linked information that was directly shown on the county courthouse website, I thought it would be better to not tip my hand. In my state, we have what are known as Anti-SLAPP laws, which provide for the awarding of court fees to the defendant in any case which attempts to supress the publishing of public government information.
In the end, I thought it would just be easier to publish the letter online. It amazes me how people could try such underhanded tactics in this day and age, knowing full well how easy it is for the recipient to publish it online for all to see.
I imagine the attorney who wrote this knows all of this, and was just trying to make his clients happy and stop bothering him, since it has now been over 60 days since the original letter was written and sent(to the wrong address) and I have not heard any more from them in regard to this .
I was the recipient of a nice cease and desist letter that involved publicly available content that was posted on some about to expire domains.
Caton Commercial was the company involved. The claim in the letter was that by publishing this already public, government information, that I was making knowingly slanderous statements. (Or possibly slanderous, depending on which sentence you read in the ill-formed letter). The cease and desist letter can be read here
Why dont you just focus on your own driving for a change and worry about driving to your destination? That would be a pretty shallow way to live, thinking that somehow YOU have the say in how other people can drive just because you want to. In the state I live in, doing what you just suggested has a name. Its called BREAKING THE LAW. You see, driving at the speed limit in the left lane of a multilane highway is breaking the law. Its called the 'passing lane' and you could get pulled over and given a ticket if you thought it was amusing to be a smart ass by 'blocking' somebody in.
I eagerly await to hear your rationalization of how YOUR way of breaking the law is somehow more rightous that those speeders, and light runners who are breaking the law, albeit a different one.
I find myself in a somewhat similar situation. I was supposed to do some work for a company who later ended up folding because of 'bad management', and I was left holding the bag on the domain I purchased at their instruction, that they never paid me for.(they didnt want to buy it, I dont know?).
Other than getting all the requests for 'why havent you paid us yet', the end result is that almost 2 years later these people are COMING AFTER ME WITH A CEASE AND DESIST LETTER and demanding that I turn over this domain and others to them for free because it 'infringes on their copyright'. Although, I honestly can say Im not suprised that Caton Commercial, the real estate company who is operating as the umbrella company for all these shell companies who eventually go under, doesnt know its ass from a whole in the ground.
Knowing full well that this sort of behavior is borderline as far as being professional, I posted the full contents of the Cease and Desist Letter sent by a Mr John Argoudelis online so anyone thinking of working with this company may come across this sort of behavior and maybe think twice. Lawyers and Real Estate agents.... whew... what a combo of integrity!
The company is also involved in numerous court cases relating to other aspects of their business practices. Ive posted a short description of the Will County court cases that caton commercial is involved in at my blackjack and hookers site.
In fact, forget the blackjack!
Unfortunately, Im dealing with one of these 'business people' now. I was supposed to do some work for a company who later ended up folding because of 'bad management', and I was left holding the bag on the domain I purchased at their instruction(they didnt want to buy it, I dont know?)
The end result, is that almost 2 years later these people are COMING AFTER ME WITH A CEASE AND DESIST LETTER and demanding that I turn over this domain and others to them for free because it 'infringes on their copyright'
Knowing full well that this sort of behavior is borderline as far as being professional, I posted the full contents of the Cease and Desist Letter" online so anyone thinking of working with this company may come across this sort of behavior and maybe think twice.
The company is also involved in numerous court cases relating to other aspects of their business practices. Ive posted a short description of these events at my blackjack and hookers site. In fact, forget the blackjack!
If your children want to watch stupid crap, it doesnt really matter which medium its done over does it?
If they want to talk to someone with a different culture than them, how does one do that on TV? The TV is a one-way medium, the internet is a TOOL of communication. If you choose to bring up your children so they are looking for crap on youtube, than that really is a choice in how to use the tool. Apparently a choice they learned from the adults around them in their everyday life.
Granted, most kids watch crap because thats all their parents expose them to. Its why commercial pay TV was so successful in the first place, so Im not really concerned that you dont understand the point of the discussion. It seems that you were only exposed to crap, and think thats all there is to offer to your kids. And thats fine, Somebody has to clean the toilets.
Amazing how many people share that same assumption. You may want to spend some time and take a hard look at the lifestyle you are providing to your children.
Maybe you missed what I said in stating the importance of the INTERNET over the importance of TV in providing the same services. Perhaps you should be more concerned that the rest of the kids in your childs age group are comfortably using the internet as a replacement for TV, while your children are starting blankly at a screen.
Im sorry to hear about the parenting your children received, but that was your choice.
No, Im not single.
Im glad to hear you would love to rid yourself of it too. Im sorry you cant right now, and I hope you one day find yourself with someone who deserves to be with you, by respecting the way you want to live life. More importantly, how you DO NOT want to live life.
Im sorry, but its too late.
I took the plunge and got rid of 'pay-tv' once and for all right before this strike, and its amazing how little I actually miss it. And amazing how I was spending over $70/month for just regular ad-laced channels. Yes, paying to watch advertisements is not how I want to spend my money anymore. That INCLUDES the 'ads' that get thrown right into the shows, soap opera style(thats how they got their name after all).
The internet is now my primary tool of information sourcing and entertainment. The TV industry missed the boat, the same way the music industry did. The only thing that made it take as long as it did was the bandwidth difference between audio and video.
The TV is dead, long live TV!
Perhaps the 'smell' wasnt that of space at all. The description of the 'smell' was one of being metallic, and noticing it while around the airlock.
Could this smell instead be from the materials that are coming in and out of spacecrew cabin. In space there will be more intense radiation and temperature extremes, which will affect the materials in question. Being bombarded by the radiation of outer space, that is normally blocked by the minimum shielding of the crew cabin, might just be enough to 'vaporize' certain chemicals on the suit. Upon coming back into the crew cabin, these newly formed chemical compounds with then be able to disperse in the air where they can be picked up as a 'smell'.
If I pull a rotting corpse out of the river, does it logically follow that the river smells like a rotting corpse?
the winning technology must meet a number of criteria including TSA approval and it must reduce inconvenience
Isnt that the problem? That those two conditions are mutually exclusive? If you have one, you automatically do not have the other.
I always knew the lyrics to "A Pirate Looks at 40" would come in handy someday.
Yes I am a pirate, two hundred years too late The cannons don't thunder, there's nothin' to plunder I'm an over-forty victim of fate Arriving too late, arriving too late
I've done a bit of smugglin', I've run my share of grass I made enough money to buy Miami, but I pissed it away so fast Never meant to last, never meant to last
And I have been drunk now for over two weeks I passed out and I rallied and I sprung a few leaks But I got stop wishin', got to go fishin' Down to rock bottom again Just a few friends, just a few friends
I go for younger women, lived with several awhile Though I ran 'em away, they'd come back one day Still could manage to smile Just takes a while, just takes a while
Mother, mother ocean, after all the years I've found My occupational hazard being my occupation's just not around I feel like I've drowned, gonna head uptown
"I think you don't need to believe in God to admire Jesus work at that time. If he was in our time..."
How about if he was in any time... would you care to find me a historical reference from the years around 10BC-50AD that documents his existance? Other than 'the bible'.
Nice to see that you have thrown off the shackles of superstitio... uh religion. Next step is to question everything you think you believe, and find out if its basd on facts and true, or if its just something somebody told you, who told them, who told them, etc...