I seriously pity anyone who considers IT to be a `career path'.
For those who jumped on the bandwagon back during the DOT.COM it might be a Career path. For me it is a love of computers and how they work that started with a brand new TRS-80 in 1976 and has grown to enjoying and having fun with computers and getting paid to play with them all day. Career Path... maybe but damn I get to play all day and get paid for it. Just like a Football or other sports star.
C'mon, it takes a lot of money to look good and to develop the style to know when you look good. People in tech support don't get paid enough money to look good
I do not know where you work or what your standards are but I consider 50K+ a year not bad pay.
So would this also mean that any software with a EULA is also not supposed to be used by those under 18 or is it that the EULA could not be enforced against someone under 18? If this is true would make for a very interesting situation in software.
If this is so, isn't the law of the US that Children under 18 are not legally bound or able to enter into a contract with anyone without permission of the parent? If this is so and a EULA is a Contract then technically doesnt that mean that anyone under the age of 18 in the US is not bound by the EULA?
Just curious.
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As another note in regards to your "not in Texas" comment. Here is one of the Miranda Rights that the Supreme Court said you have.
If you decide to answer questions now without an attorney present you will still have the right to stop answering at any time until you talk to an attorney.
So even if the law says by signing for your license you agree to waive your miranda rights you can still STOP and refuse to answer questions and ask for an attorney.
That is Federal Law which supersedes in most cases over State Law.
>>So you want people to take personal responsibility and then not be charged with drinking and driving if they are found to have done so? You, sir, seem to be unwilling to take personal responsibility for your own actions
I never said that someone who is drinking and driving should NOT be charged. I said I got off because I used the law. How about the murderers and rapist and other criminial who are let go on tecnicalities. It was not like I killed anyone. I also learned my lesson and have not driven drunk for about 15 years. There is no way in hell I will put myself and others at risk like that again.
As for Texas.. Other than your propensity to kill people of less than normal intelligence you are still subject to the laws of the land. If a law or policy violates someones rights it will get thrown out. If what you say is true then if I was in Texas and was pulled over and charged with DUI I would then be denied the right of having an attorney in court during my case. I am quite sure that is not the truth of the matter.
Also it is still NOT a trick. It is MY rights under the laws of the United States. Do you understand that? They are not selective in who is allowed to have those rights. Every last citizen of the US is equally allowed to use or ignore those rights. If the citizens and the government don't like the laws and rights they can change them and until the Sixth Amendment is revoked I have the right to have an attorney present when I am questioned by the police or other criminal investigators. I for one will fight tooth and nail to make sure the Bill of Rights never gets revoked in anyway I can.
What you also fail to understand is that I said several times Drinking and Driving is not good. I do not condone it. I made a mistake and got lucky enough to get away with it. Unlike many other people who get away with something I realized what I had to do to avoid making the same mistake. I cared enough to stop myself from doing it again. Also what good are the Drinking and Driving laws when you read about some jerk who has many DUI convictions yet still seems to be able to drink and drive. A big one in Massachusetts a few years back was a man who had 21 DUIs. His license was revoked permanently yet he still could drink and he still got access to a car to drive. What good is a law that doesnt stop someone like that.
I am sorry... MY rights are not a loophole. They are my rights whether I am guilty or not. Also that was the last time I drank and drove. Almost 15 years ago now.
Whats the legal limit now?.08. Last I knew you take some of the over the counter cough medicine at the wrong time and you will blow a.08.
The real problem is not drinking and driving. I am not saying drinking and driving is a good idea or right to do but...
I drive down the interstate. I am doing between 70 and 80. Flowing with the passenger traffic. A truck that is doing 65 is behind a truck doing 64. The truck doing 65 decides they want to go around the guy in front of them. They switch lanes in front of me causing me to jam my brakes. Why for 1 mile an hour more? When no one is behind me for a long distance. Why the hell do they do that?
All those jerks out there that drive with a cell phone planted to their ear as well. Not paying attention and cutting off their field of vision. Last I heard a report from the Highway and Safety Cell phones were found to be a higher cause of accidents than drinking.
Inconsiderate drivers that have nothing to do but run red lights. Sit there at a light it goes green and you watch upto 4 or 5 people continue to go through the intersection.
My point is this. Barring the fact that drinking and driving is a bad idea. When you have people doing this on the roads someone who does something stupid like drinking and driving even if it is not their fault will get the blame. That cell phone user who just slammed into your because they were not looking in the other lane to see if a car was there. The Trucker who makes you slam your breaks and since you are under the influence your reactions are off. The jerks who run red lights. The driver had the right of way, it was green and they were under the speed limit and get slammed by someone who cannot wait 45-75 seconds to go through the next light. Yeah drinking and driving is a very poor choice and illegal... BUT more people just drive plain stupid and that is not illegal. Being sleepy behind the wheel is against the law in a lot of states. How many people are actually pulled over for it.
It is the complete lack of being careful and watching out for other drivers that is the real problem not the drinking. I know people who are stone cold sober but because of their health problems they are a danger on the road to themselves and others. No one takes away their licenses. Give me a damn law like Minnesota. I can report you as unfit to drive no matter what age you are or something like that.
I do not drink and drive for many reasons but I also object to laws that are over the edge and too harsh.
Lets have people educated and made to take personal responsibility for their actions. Like that jerk in the car with the cell phone that is NOT in the accident but because of their careless driving two other people were. That person is the one who caused the accident not the ones who were involved directly.
A lawyer once told me this...
You have the right to have an attorney present during questioning.
When they ask you to blow into the breathalizer they are questioning your sobriety. By law you have a right to have an attorney present during questioning. I know I repeated.
One night I was stupid and on my way home in Daytona Beach drunk. I got pulled over. The police officer asked for my ID and such. Then asked me to take a breathalizer and drunk tests. I told him as calmly as I could based on my drinking that I would take the test which questioned my sobriety when my lawyer was present. The Police Officer was shocked but after a couple minutes arrested me. I spent a day an a half in jail before my lawyer showed up and then they administered the breathalizer. I was sober at the time and because they did not have enough evidence to prosecute I was never convicted or even went to trial. They dropped the case.
Though I agree the code should be checked and the hardware checked to make sure it works properly and is not suceptible to ouside influences.
Makes me wonder on this account.
In most states if not all of the US it is illegal for a person under the age of 18 to enter into a contract without parental permission.
Doesnt that mean if a 17 year old goes and buys say Diablo2 that they are not bound by the EULA?
Since it is a contract and they are under age the contract is invalid.
Just an idea
Considering the code is a DIKU dirivative and they refuse to credit this claiming they didn't use DIKU which has been proven time and again. They do not follow the license. Also they do not mention that payments to the owners HELP you signifigantly in the game. They claim that "Donations" are not to help in game but everyone who coughs up money has a better position in the MUD.
Boycott Methievia
They havent caught up to me yet. I agree with Thomas Jefferson when he said that the country needs a good revolution every 10 years or so.
Shake up the political system.
To bad he was right about teaching our kids as well. Seems out schools are declining and so is the ability of our people to make informed descisions during election time.
I don't agree with you about the test drive issue. There is a big difference between owning and renting. If I go out to test drive a car I am going to beat the hell out of it to see what it can do. Then buy the version I want not the test car. People who live together un-married treat things different. You can always walk out of an un-married relationship with very little loss but once you have that piece of paper that legally binds you to the other person things change.
Those nice sexual favors she gave you to get married will be gone because unless there is a pre-nuptial she has you by the short and curlies.
What I want to know is this. If I BUY the patterns and make the clothes or whatever from them and then sell the clothes is that Piracy? After all I did make a copy of the original. Hell I can see it now DMCA against all those grandmothers who make clothes from patterns and sell the clothes.
I think that is the name. I thought there was a law or maybe something in the constitution about no tariffs or similar charges on goods that traveled across state lines. Wouldnt taxing an item that comes from another state be illegal under this? IIRC
What's the point, I was getting 350 KB/s anyways. I'm sure bittorrent was much much slower
Hrmmm I am downloading direct from FORD and getting 450. Gotta love Corporate America and gigabit backbones for the company.
A parent cannot look over their child's shoulder during every waking hour.
When I was a lad of 15 I would take out my dates to movie theatres near whoevers home was closest and unoccupied. We would go in. Pay for the tickets and leave about 5-10 minutes later and go to the empty house. We would then do things that our parents would have been absolutely mortified over. Such as sex. Now at age 36 I know that my kids may do this. Even if you think they are doing the right things like movies they may not be and as stated cannot be watched all the time.
A parent has to educate a child and give them the facts and the negative issues involved and then hope for the best when the child is not in their sphere of control. The government should not be required to take away the personal responsibility of a parent to raise their child.
Protected under the 1st Amendment? I thought that as long as parody was proven that there is no legal recourse to a company unless the parody directly and quantitatively harms the company. Sort of like the Hustler Parody of Billy Graham if I remember right.
From what I can see this law was drafted for Radio transmission and maybe phone transmission. Applying it to the Internet and to computers in general is a misrepresentation of what the law is for. If anything the law needs to be refined or removed and replaced.
I understand and unfortunately dislike the heavy handed tatics. Though considering all the spam I get about Free Cable I would like them to but those people.
If I understand what the article said wouldnt Zone Alarm also be considered Illegal since it blocks access and knowledge of your computer on the Internet?
Obscure British humor take on aliens. Scenes from an Alien Zombie eating the brains out of a dead guy with a spoon.
End scene with everyone eating and vomoting and eating the vomit and eating some more and vomiting.
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I seriously pity anyone who considers IT to be a `career path'.
For those who jumped on the bandwagon back during the DOT.COM it might be a Career path. For me it is a love of computers and how they work that started with a brand new TRS-80 in 1976 and has grown to enjoying and having fun with computers and getting paid to play with them all day. Career Path... maybe but damn I get to play all day and get paid for it. Just like a Football or other sports star.
C'mon, it takes a lot of money to look good and to develop the style to know when you look good. People in tech support don't get paid enough money to look good
I do not know where you work or what your standards are but I consider 50K+ a year not bad pay.
So would this also mean that any software with a EULA is also not supposed to be used by those under 18 or is it that the EULA could not be enforced against someone under 18? If this is true would make for a very interesting situation in software.
If this is so, isn't the law of the US that Children under 18 are not legally bound or able to enter into a contract with anyone without permission of the parent? If this is so and a EULA is a Contract then technically doesnt that mean that anyone under the age of 18 in the US is not bound by the EULA?
Just curious.
Don't Forget the New England Patriots..
Schaefer Stadium -> Sullivan Stadium -> Foxboro Stadium -> Gillete Stadium.
Oopps Fifth Amendment not Sixth.
As another note in regards to your "not in Texas" comment. Here is one of the Miranda Rights that the Supreme Court said you have.
If you decide to answer questions now without an attorney present you will still have the right to stop answering at any time until you talk to an attorney.
So even if the law says by signing for your license you agree to waive your miranda rights you can still STOP and refuse to answer questions and ask for an attorney.
That is Federal Law which supersedes in most cases over State Law.
>>So you want people to take personal responsibility and then not be charged with drinking and driving if they are found to have done so? You, sir, seem to be unwilling to take personal responsibility for your own actions
I never said that someone who is drinking and driving should NOT be charged. I said I got off because I used the law. How about the murderers and rapist and other criminial who are let go on tecnicalities. It was not like I killed anyone. I also learned my lesson and have not driven drunk for about 15 years. There is no way in hell I will put myself and others at risk like that again.
As for Texas.. Other than your propensity to kill people of less than normal intelligence you are still subject to the laws of the land. If a law or policy violates someones rights it will get thrown out. If what you say is true then if I was in Texas and was pulled over and charged with DUI I would then be denied the right of having an attorney in court during my case. I am quite sure that is not the truth of the matter.
Also it is still NOT a trick. It is MY rights under the laws of the United States. Do you understand that? They are not selective in who is allowed to have those rights. Every last citizen of the US is equally allowed to use or ignore those rights. If the citizens and the government don't like the laws and rights they can change them and until the Sixth Amendment is revoked I have the right to have an attorney present when I am questioned by the police or other criminal investigators. I for one will fight tooth and nail to make sure the Bill of Rights never gets revoked in anyway I can.
What you also fail to understand is that I said several times Drinking and Driving is not good. I do not condone it. I made a mistake and got lucky enough to get away with it. Unlike many other people who get away with something I realized what I had to do to avoid making the same mistake. I cared enough to stop myself from doing it again. Also what good are the Drinking and Driving laws when you read about some jerk who has many DUI convictions yet still seems to be able to drink and drive. A big one in Massachusetts a few years back was a man who had 21 DUIs. His license was revoked permanently yet he still could drink and he still got access to a car to drive. What good is a law that doesnt stop someone like that.
I am sorry... MY rights are not a loophole. They are my rights whether I am guilty or not. Also that was the last time I drank and drove. Almost 15 years ago now.
.08. Last I knew you take some of the over the counter cough medicine at the wrong time and you will blow a .08.
Whats the legal limit now?
The real problem is not drinking and driving. I am not saying drinking and driving is a good idea or right to do but...
I drive down the interstate. I am doing between 70 and 80. Flowing with the passenger traffic. A truck that is doing 65 is behind a truck doing 64. The truck doing 65 decides they want to go around the guy in front of them. They switch lanes in front of me causing me to jam my brakes. Why for 1 mile an hour more? When no one is behind me for a long distance. Why the hell do they do that?
All those jerks out there that drive with a cell phone planted to their ear as well. Not paying attention and cutting off their field of vision. Last I heard a report from the Highway and Safety Cell phones were found to be a higher cause of accidents than drinking.
Inconsiderate drivers that have nothing to do but run red lights. Sit there at a light it goes green and you watch upto 4 or 5 people continue to go through the intersection.
My point is this. Barring the fact that drinking and driving is a bad idea. When you have people doing this on the roads someone who does something stupid like drinking and driving even if it is not their fault will get the blame. That cell phone user who just slammed into your because they were not looking in the other lane to see if a car was there. The Trucker who makes you slam your breaks and since you are under the influence your reactions are off. The jerks who run red lights. The driver had the right of way, it was green and they were under the speed limit and get slammed by someone who cannot wait 45-75 seconds to go through the next light. Yeah drinking and driving is a very poor choice and illegal... BUT more people just drive plain stupid and that is not illegal. Being sleepy behind the wheel is against the law in a lot of states. How many people are actually pulled over for it.
It is the complete lack of being careful and watching out for other drivers that is the real problem not the drinking. I know people who are stone cold sober but because of their health problems they are a danger on the road to themselves and others. No one takes away their licenses. Give me a damn law like Minnesota. I can report you as unfit to drive no matter what age you are or something like that.
I do not drink and drive for many reasons but I also object to laws that are over the edge and too harsh.
Lets have people educated and made to take personal responsibility for their actions. Like that jerk in the car with the cell phone that is NOT in the accident but because of their careless driving two other people were. That person is the one who caused the accident not the ones who were involved directly.
A lawyer once told me this... You have the right to have an attorney present during questioning.
When they ask you to blow into the breathalizer they are questioning your sobriety. By law you have a right to have an attorney present during questioning. I know I repeated.
One night I was stupid and on my way home in Daytona Beach drunk. I got pulled over. The police officer asked for my ID and such. Then asked me to take a breathalizer and drunk tests. I told him as calmly as I could based on my drinking that I would take the test which questioned my sobriety when my lawyer was present. The Police Officer was shocked but after a couple minutes arrested me. I spent a day an a half in jail before my lawyer showed up and then they administered the breathalizer. I was sober at the time and because they did not have enough evidence to prosecute I was never convicted or even went to trial. They dropped the case. Though I agree the code should be checked and the hardware checked to make sure it works properly and is not suceptible to ouside influences.
Makes me wonder on this account. In most states if not all of the US it is illegal for a person under the age of 18 to enter into a contract without parental permission. Doesnt that mean if a 17 year old goes and buys say Diablo2 that they are not bound by the EULA? Since it is a contract and they are under age the contract is invalid. Just an idea
I'll take a share of any items that they patent as a result of SETI. Residuals ought to help pay for new computers down the line for me.
Considering the code is a DIKU dirivative and they refuse to credit this claiming they didn't use DIKU which has been proven time and again. They do not follow the license. Also they do not mention that payments to the owners HELP you signifigantly in the game. They claim that "Donations" are not to help in game but everyone who coughs up money has a better position in the MUD. Boycott Methievia
They havent caught up to me yet. I agree with Thomas Jefferson when he said that the country needs a good revolution every 10 years or so.
Shake up the political system.
To bad he was right about teaching our kids as well. Seems out schools are declining and so is the ability of our people to make informed descisions during election time.
I don't agree with you about the test drive issue. There is a big difference between owning and renting. If I go out to test drive a car I am going to beat the hell out of it to see what it can do. Then buy the version I want not the test car. People who live together un-married treat things different. You can always walk out of an un-married relationship with very little loss but once you have that piece of paper that legally binds you to the other person things change.
Those nice sexual favors she gave you to get married will be gone because unless there is a pre-nuptial she has you by the short and curlies.
What I want to know is this. If I BUY the patterns and make the clothes or whatever from them and then sell the clothes is that Piracy? After all I did make a copy of the original. Hell I can see it now DMCA against all those grandmothers who make clothes from patterns and sell the clothes.
I think that is the name. I thought there was a law or maybe something in the constitution about no tariffs or similar charges on goods that traveled across state lines. Wouldnt taxing an item that comes from another state be illegal under this? IIRC
What's the point, I was getting 350 KB/s anyways. I'm sure bittorrent was much much slower Hrmmm I am downloading direct from FORD and getting 450. Gotta love Corporate America and gigabit backbones for the company.
A parent cannot look over their child's shoulder during every waking hour.
When I was a lad of 15 I would take out my dates to movie theatres near whoevers home was closest and unoccupied. We would go in. Pay for the tickets and leave about 5-10 minutes later and go to the empty house. We would then do things that our parents would have been absolutely mortified over. Such as sex. Now at age 36 I know that my kids may do this. Even if you think they are doing the right things like movies they may not be and as stated cannot be watched all the time.
A parent has to educate a child and give them the facts and the negative issues involved and then hope for the best when the child is not in their sphere of control. The government should not be required to take away the personal responsibility of a parent to raise their child.
Protected under the 1st Amendment? I thought that as long as parody was proven that there is no legal recourse to a company unless the parody directly and quantitatively harms the company. Sort of like the Hustler Parody of Billy Graham if I remember right.
From what I can see this law was drafted for Radio transmission and maybe phone transmission. Applying it to the Internet and to computers in general is a misrepresentation of what the law is for. If anything the law needs to be refined or removed and replaced.
I understand and unfortunately dislike the heavy handed tatics. Though considering all the spam I get about Free Cable I would like them to but those people.
If I understand what the article said wouldnt Zone Alarm also be considered Illegal since it blocks access and knowledge of your computer on the Internet?
Anyone out here ever heard of "BAD TASTE"
Obscure British humor take on aliens. Scenes from an Alien Zombie eating the brains out of a dead guy with a spoon.
End scene with everyone eating and vomoting and eating the vomit and eating some more and vomiting.
Well I liked it. I like road kill too.
Egg "It will not come out again" Jack "What, What will not come out again" Egg - No answer keeps going.
Gotta Love seeing a Blow Up beach ball as a creature. Also an ode to Dr. Stranglove at the end when they guy surfs into the atmosphere.
Dark Star can it show my age to know this one?