Once it was deemed to interfere with commercial activity it got trumped.
Somewhere along the line it became illegal to say "I hired this company and they gave shitty service".
No it didn't, at least not if the statement is factual. Given how Yelp is the 8 defendants may well be competitors who were just trying to knock the competition down a couple of notches.
I see crap like that all the time on smaller businesses around here with which I am familiar. There'll be 5-star ratings that look like they were written by an employee and then 1-star ratings that look like they were written by someone who's never been there.
That's in the Constitution as well, but the revisionist gun nuts prefer to explain that away as not really meaning what it obviously says.
No they didn't. They called the militia well-regulated. They didn't specify that it had to be. It doesn't matter, anyway, as the prepositional phrase doesn't alter the meat of the amendment: "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed".
The 2nd Amendment is an individual right, both as initially expressed by the people who wrote it as well as in the recent SCOTUS Heller decision.
That's an opinion, not a fact. Indeed SCOTUS only voted narrowly to interpret it that way (1 vote). The ACLU's position is based on a perfectly reasonable reading of the text and is perfectly legitimate.
It's not legitimate given that the guys who wrote it in the first place made clear that this was an individual right. Since they specifically said that the militia is all men of military age it's clear that they meant everybody.
Sorry, I know it sucks for you but this is the Constitution that you're stuck with. The better you learn to deal with reality the easier it'll be.
If you prefer the ACLU's interpretation of the 2nd Amendment then donating to the NRA is actually attacking your constitutional rights. Specifically, the right to live in a society where guns are controlled by the "well regulated militia" collective right clause, rather than one where gun ownership is an individual right.
The problem is, of course, that that particular "interpretation" isn't grounded in reality. The 2nd Amendment is an individual right, both as initially expressed by the people who wrote it as well as in the recent SCOTUS Heller decision. The ACLU is simply pushing a standard liberal anti-gun line which should make you question their reading skills if nothing else.
Want to know who to blame for this crap? The corporations who pushed to be able to spoof their caller ID -- so they could call us from foreign call centers.
Dude, you are clueless on multiple levels. First, "spoofing" caller ID is normal - the ability to tell the phone company (this is a *high* level overview) what your number is when making outbound calls when using a non-POTS line. Due to the way the phone network works this can't easily be changed. And companies have done this for decades, it's not something new. Big multi-line companies typically want outbound calls to come from a single switchboard number.
Second, Rachel from card services works domestically:
Since that'll go away, I'm going to paste it here:
Fronters and Closers Come be a Part of the Best L.I. Sales Team!!! (Downtown Orlando) compensation: Top pay in the industry
We are in the business of helping consumers with interest rate reduction. We are completely computerized (no typing required), Fully Licensed, We will pay for your, State of Florida Telemarketing Salesperson License.
Job position: Fronter/Qualifier Your job responsibility as a Fronter (Qualifier) will be, gather the client's contact information, see if the client qualifies for our services, and then transfer to a closing manager to complete the sale.
Closers job responsibity and requirements: Must have 2 years of interest rate reduction sales experience an order to qualify for this position. Your responsibility will be to explain thoroughly to the client the services we offer, explain the process in which these services will be provided, and to transfer them to a verification officer to complete their enrollment.
If you are an experienced closer who has been in the industry for at least 2 years and you are ready to come and work with a company that is 100% legit and provide a great workplace for you to grow and make a great paycheck to take home every single week for all of your hard, then this is the call you need to make to receive an immediate interview!
This is a fantastic job opportunity! Top pay in the industry! Non-stop leads all day! Work hours are Monday through Thursday, from 10:00 a.m - 5:30 p.m., Friday hours: 10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. (No Weekends)!
Paychecks Every Friday with Company Lunch provided!
Great work atmosphere, nice work stations and work space, beautiful building! Please call by phone for an interview!
Note to self: ask wife and child if they've ever gotten one.
Hmm, but seems that I remember my mother telling me once that she got one....
I'll tell you why I get them: I'm on the Do Not Call list. Yes, these people are brazen enough that they apparently get the list and use it as a calling list. Our government is too stupid to track them down and shut them down. But, don't worry, we're taking care of Dennis Hastert for making withdrawals from his own bank account.
"We were told our jobs were continuing and we should consider it as if nothing had happened until further notice."
Pro-tip: act as if something did happen and get another job quickly. In their eyes the problem is that they were exposed, not that they did this in the first place. They will almost certainly still do it.
I am not talking about just cabled, I am talking about in general, apple products are vastly overpriced for what they do, and the quality that they give.
I buy mostly Apple products. I'll let you in on a secret: I do it because the stuff tends to just work without any bullshit. Honestly, 20 years ago I lived for the challenge of making stuff work. Now, I have bigger fish to fry and hobbies that are more fun.
So, yeah, I pay extra when I buy stuff from Apple. Extra money, that is. Well, "extra money up front". It saves me money in the long run as my time is my most valuable asset (even when monetized) so it's worth it.
Yeah, my band director in high school was pretty much a dick sometimes and had a reputation for being difficult to deal with.
We also won all but one of the 10 or so contests that we entered in my first year in marching band, getting 2nd place in the one where we didn't get 1st place. That included winning the state championship in our class.
These two facts are not unrelated.
Part of the reason that Linux exists and is so successful is Linus' personality and work ethic. I don't think he's out to make new friends in the programming world, but he is very successful at what he's actually doing.
Al Gore. Yes, Al Gore who now owns multiple mansions. His mansion in Nashville was found to have 10x the energy usage of my house while being roughly 3x the size. In other words, he burns more than 3x as much energy per square foot than I do.
He has a private jet.
He's not living as if climate change were an emergency, why should anybody believe him?
The economists love to say that trade is great for everyone.
No. This is crony capitalism. Free trade is great for everyone, with government's role being to make sure it stays "free". Nobody outside of the two major political parties will tell you that crony capitalism is good for anybody except the cronies.
It sounds like he got caught lying about a crime he didn't commit, which is one of the more ridiculous aspects of the US judicial system.
If he didn't commit a crime there was no reason to lie about it. He had the option to say nothing under the 5th amendment. He certainly cannot reasonable argue that he didn't know it was a crime to lie to the FBI about his activities especially since he helped write some of the laws pertaining to prosecution of those very same activities.
To be fair, few people currently in the federal government have heard of the Constitution, much less have familiarity with the various parts of it.
"We imagine law enforcement operating like we see on TV: someone commits a crime, everyone knows what the crime is, law enforcement reacts by charging them with that crime. But that's not how federal prosecution always works. Particularly with high-profile targets, federal prosecution is often an exercise in searching for a theory to prosecute someone that the feds would like to prosecute. There is an element of creativity: what federal statute can we find to prosecute this person?"
Someone wanted to go after Hastert, they found a way.
Now lots of folks internationally are skeptical of this. Surely if you wave enough money under their nose, they will bite, right? That's certainly the theory the rest of FIFA seems to operate under. So far US Soccer has held though. I hope they continue to do so.
There's the other issue that US Soccer doesn't have enough money to wave, anyway.
For these sawfish, asexual reproduction is most likely a desperation strategy used when the population has gotten so small that it is difficult or impossible to find mates. It is extremely unlikely that it will somehow improve the population's genetic fitness; more likely, it will lead to further decreases in genetic diversity and a corresponding loss of overall fitness.
I would point out furthermore that inbreeding and asexual reproduction have nothing to do with each other. It's unrelated. The problem with inbreeding is that you can get two copies of a single chromosome quite easily, and rare genetic diseases that appear only when the same gene is present on both chromosomes in a pair suddenly start popping up more often.
That's not an issue with asexual reproduction. It might at some point become an issue if the genetic diversity of the group becomes lesser, but that would be down the road somewhere.
To be fair, in the vast majority of cases, this is exactly what happens... cop engages brain, realizes that the situation either either something dumb, mistaken, or impossible to prosecute (and is otherwise not a crime), says as much to the complainant, and moves on. Or, in the case of what may be a crime but turns out to not be, same-same, with maybe a stern talking-to of the 'offender' that maybe he should not be so dumb in the future, or at least don't make the activity appear so damned suspicious....and then there's the small minority of police officers who are either overeager newbies, had a really bad day, decides he doesn't like the guy, didn't get laid the night before, a closet sociopath, or suchlike.
About the same sample size as humanity at large, really, but with one subtle-yet-important distinction: force.
Having studied the problems with law enforcement for years I can say confidently that in most departments what you've said is true. The real problem is that when that one guy really screws up the reflexive response from everybody in his department (and the DA's office) is to circle the wagons and protect the idiot cop. I've talked about it here before but look up the case of David Bisard in Indianapolis as a fine example where there are no gray areas. He got drunk on duty and ran over a motorcyclist who was stopped at a stop light, killing the cyclist and gravely injuring two others. The FOP paid for his defense and 19 cops who showed up acted as if they couldn't tell that a guy who would later test at.20% BAC (you read that correctly) had been drinking.
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Once it was deemed to interfere with commercial activity it got trumped.
Somewhere along the line it became illegal to say "I hired this company and they gave shitty service".
No it didn't, at least not if the statement is factual. Given how Yelp is the 8 defendants may well be competitors who were just trying to knock the competition down a couple of notches.
I see crap like that all the time on smaller businesses around here with which I am familiar. There'll be 5-star ratings that look like they were written by an employee and then 1-star ratings that look like they were written by someone who's never been there.
They also said it must be well-regulated.
That's in the Constitution as well, but the revisionist gun nuts prefer to explain that away as not really meaning what it obviously says.
No they didn't. They called the militia well-regulated. They didn't specify that it had to be. It doesn't matter, anyway, as the prepositional phrase doesn't alter the meat of the amendment: "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed".
The 2nd Amendment is an individual right, both as initially expressed by the people who wrote it as well as in the recent SCOTUS Heller decision.
That's an opinion, not a fact. Indeed SCOTUS only voted narrowly to interpret it that way (1 vote). The ACLU's position is based on a perfectly reasonable reading of the text and is perfectly legitimate.
It's not legitimate given that the guys who wrote it in the first place made clear that this was an individual right. Since they specifically said that the militia is all men of military age it's clear that they meant everybody.
Sorry, I know it sucks for you but this is the Constitution that you're stuck with. The better you learn to deal with reality the easier it'll be.
If you prefer the ACLU's interpretation of the 2nd Amendment then donating to the NRA is actually attacking your constitutional rights. Specifically, the right to live in a society where guns are controlled by the "well regulated militia" collective right clause, rather than one where gun ownership is an individual right.
The problem is, of course, that that particular "interpretation" isn't grounded in reality. The 2nd Amendment is an individual right, both as initially expressed by the people who wrote it as well as in the recent SCOTUS Heller decision. The ACLU is simply pushing a standard liberal anti-gun line which should make you question their reading skills if nothing else.
As someone who was alive at the time, trust me - it had nothing to do with polls. The winner was "not Carter" - beyond that nothing mattered.
I suppose that simply being honest and ethical so that you don't have to fear FOIA requests is just too difficult?
Want to know who to blame for this crap? The corporations who pushed to be able to spoof their caller ID -- so they could call us from foreign call centers.
Dude, you are clueless on multiple levels. First, "spoofing" caller ID is normal - the ability to tell the phone company (this is a *high* level overview) what your number is when making outbound calls when using a non-POTS line. Due to the way the phone network works this can't easily be changed. And companies have done this for decades, it's not something new. Big multi-line companies typically want outbound calls to come from a single switchboard number.
Second, Rachel from card services works domestically:
http://orlando.craigslist.org/...
Since that'll go away, I'm going to paste it here:
Fronters and Closers Come be a Part of the Best L.I. Sales Team!!! (Downtown Orlando)
compensation: Top pay in the industry
We are in the business of helping consumers with interest rate reduction.
We are completely computerized (no typing required), Fully Licensed,
We will pay for your, State of Florida Telemarketing Salesperson License.
Job position: Fronter/Qualifier
Your job responsibility as a Fronter (Qualifier) will be, gather the client's contact information, see if the client qualifies for our services, and then transfer to a closing manager to complete the sale.
Closers job responsibity and requirements:
Must have 2 years of interest rate reduction sales experience an order to qualify for this position.
Your responsibility will be to explain thoroughly to the client the services we offer,
explain the process in which these services will be provided, and to transfer them to a verification officer to complete their enrollment.
If you are an experienced closer who has been in the industry for at least 2 years and you are ready to come and work with a company that is 100% legit and provide a great workplace for you to grow and make a great paycheck to take home every single week for all of your hard,
then this is the call you need to make to receive an immediate interview!
This is a fantastic job opportunity! Top pay in the industry! Non-stop leads all day!
Work hours are Monday through Thursday, from 10:00 a.m - 5:30 p.m.,
Friday hours: 10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. (No Weekends)!
Paychecks Every Friday with Company Lunch provided!
Great work atmosphere, nice work stations and work space, beautiful building!
Please call by phone for an interview!
...and I've never gotten one.
Note to self: ask wife and child if they've ever gotten one.
Hmm, but seems that I remember my mother telling me once that she got one....
I'll tell you why I get them: I'm on the Do Not Call list. Yes, these people are brazen enough that they apparently get the list and use it as a calling list. Our government is too stupid to track them down and shut them down. But, don't worry, we're taking care of Dennis Hastert for making withdrawals from his own bank account.
"We were told our jobs were continuing and we should consider it as if nothing had happened until further notice."
Pro-tip: act as if something did happen and get another job quickly. In their eyes the problem is that they were exposed, not that they did this in the first place. They will almost certainly still do it.
I am not talking about just cabled, I am talking about in general, apple products are vastly overpriced for what they do, and the quality that they give.
I buy mostly Apple products. I'll let you in on a secret: I do it because the stuff tends to just work without any bullshit. Honestly, 20 years ago I lived for the challenge of making stuff work. Now, I have bigger fish to fry and hobbies that are more fun.
So, yeah, I pay extra when I buy stuff from Apple. Extra money, that is. Well, "extra money up front". It saves me money in the long run as my time is my most valuable asset (even when monetized) so it's worth it.
This reads like a Marvel comic with only supervillains in it.
My favorite kind!
It is a joke that there isn't an HBO series about him already :P
I've seen pictures of Linus, and I've seen HBO ... Not sure I'd enjoy the intersection of Linus Torvalds and Gratuitous Boobs.
It wouldn't be Linus - it would be someone like Brad Pitt or Mark Wahlberg. Of course, the actor would wear glasses to take on a "nerd" persona.
Yeah, my band director in high school was pretty much a dick sometimes and had a reputation for being difficult to deal with.
We also won all but one of the 10 or so contests that we entered in my first year in marching band, getting 2nd place in the one where we didn't get 1st place. That included winning the state championship in our class.
These two facts are not unrelated.
Part of the reason that Linux exists and is so successful is Linus' personality and work ethic. I don't think he's out to make new friends in the programming world, but he is very successful at what he's actually doing.
Al Gore. Yes, Al Gore who now owns multiple mansions. His mansion in Nashville was found to have 10x the energy usage of my house while being roughly 3x the size. In other words, he burns more than 3x as much energy per square foot than I do.
He has a private jet.
He's not living as if climate change were an emergency, why should anybody believe him?
<input type="date"> still doesn't work. Basic html5 stuff.
Come. On.
The economists love to say that trade is great for everyone.
No. This is crony capitalism. Free trade is great for everyone, with government's role being to make sure it stays "free". Nobody outside of the two major political parties will tell you that crony capitalism is good for anybody except the cronies.
Sigh. Crony Capitalism is the antithesis of Free Markets. Always.
It sounds like he got caught lying about a crime he didn't commit, which is one of the more ridiculous aspects of the US judicial system.
If he didn't commit a crime there was no reason to lie about it. He had the option to say nothing under the 5th amendment. He certainly cannot reasonable argue that he didn't know it was a crime to lie to the FBI about his activities especially since he helped write some of the laws pertaining to prosecution of those very same activities.
To be fair, few people currently in the federal government have heard of the Constitution, much less have familiarity with the various parts of it.
See here:
http://popehat.com/2015/05/29/...
(Note the writer is a former federal prosecutor)
From the article:
"We imagine law enforcement operating like we see on TV: someone commits a crime, everyone knows what the crime is, law enforcement reacts by charging them with that crime. But that's not how federal prosecution always works. Particularly with high-profile targets, federal prosecution is often an exercise in searching for a theory to prosecute someone that the feds would like to prosecute. There is an element of creativity: what federal statute can we find to prosecute this person?"
Someone wanted to go after Hastert, they found a way.
Now lots of folks internationally are skeptical of this. Surely if you wave enough money under their nose, they will bite, right? That's certainly the theory the rest of FIFA seems to operate under. So far US Soccer has held though. I hope they continue to do so.
There's the other issue that US Soccer doesn't have enough money to wave, anyway.
For these sawfish, asexual reproduction is most likely a desperation strategy used when the population has gotten so small that it is difficult or impossible to find mates. It is extremely unlikely that it will somehow improve the population's genetic fitness; more likely, it will lead to further decreases in genetic diversity and a corresponding loss of overall fitness.
I would point out furthermore that inbreeding and asexual reproduction have nothing to do with each other. It's unrelated. The problem with inbreeding is that you can get two copies of a single chromosome quite easily, and rare genetic diseases that appear only when the same gene is present on both chromosomes in a pair suddenly start popping up more often.
That's not an issue with asexual reproduction. It might at some point become an issue if the genetic diversity of the group becomes lesser, but that would be down the road somewhere.
To be fair, in the vast majority of cases, this is exactly what happens... cop engages brain, realizes that the situation either either something dumb, mistaken, or impossible to prosecute (and is otherwise not a crime), says as much to the complainant, and moves on. Or, in the case of what may be a crime but turns out to not be, same-same, with maybe a stern talking-to of the 'offender' that maybe he should not be so dumb in the future, or at least don't make the activity appear so damned suspicious. ...and then there's the small minority of police officers who are either overeager newbies, had a really bad day, decides he doesn't like the guy, didn't get laid the night before, a closet sociopath, or suchlike.
About the same sample size as humanity at large, really, but with one subtle-yet-important distinction: force.
Having studied the problems with law enforcement for years I can say confidently that in most departments what you've said is true. The real problem is that when that one guy really screws up the reflexive response from everybody in his department (and the DA's office) is to circle the wagons and protect the idiot cop. I've talked about it here before but look up the case of David Bisard in Indianapolis as a fine example where there are no gray areas. He got drunk on duty and ran over a motorcyclist who was stopped at a stop light, killing the cyclist and gravely injuring two others. The FOP paid for his defense and 19 cops who showed up acted as if they couldn't tell that a guy who would later test at .20% BAC (you read that correctly) had been drinking.
That's the real problem.
Why does the left think the answer to every problem is "more of other people's money"?
Why does the right want stuff, but not want to pay for it?
I'm not on "the right", but I've yet to see this out of any conservatives that I know. Perhaps you can provide an example?