But it doesn't really matter, does it? These were the extremely wealthy who were conned.
As far as the general public is concerned, it's not a big deal when the wealthy steal from the wealthy.
Excuse me, but...
I lost my job over this when my employer tanked because of Madoff's scam, and I never had a dime invested with him. This has affected all kinds of people!
Knowing my rights should allow be to beat the crap out of this guy until he gives up all of the hidden assets, and all of the people who helped him along the way.
In the Myst games, once you'd traveled to an important destination the slow way, you could use Zip Mode to teleport there again easily. You never had to, but you always could. That's the solution I'd like best.
Where was Amazon when New York passed a similar law? I guess cutting off the entirety of NYC from Amazon.com would prove to be too costly,
Maybe now that they've found their manhood again they will cut off NY once the legal challenges play out. I'd like to see it happen long enough to stop this from spreading any further. States are copycats about this kind of crap.
the early shutoff seems to be a move in hopes of swaying opinion on the proposed legislation.
No, that's not correct. The early shutoff is to show that Amazon is truly serious about this and not just blowing smoke. There is now no doubt that Amazon isn't bluffing. NC will get no tax money from them.
Go for it Amazon! Put the finger in the dike now before we all get flooded out by greedy state governments whose legal justifications aren't even substantial enough to call flimsy. This is like Wal*Mart closing stores that go union because the problems of dealing with the issue overall far outweighs the losses from leaving a given market. I wish that the automobile makers had stood up to the State of California when they went completely nuts on the emissions regulations and instead of saddling us with thousands in additional new car costs, had simply said: "No new cars for you." Who do you think would have blinked first? The automakers? The state? Or the voters?
Yes I'm sorry that people are getting hurt along the way with this, but go out there and get your state back in order once more and this won't be happening.
Disclaimer 1: I sell on Amazon and I'm still all for this.
Disclaimer 2: I lived in California and breathed that air every day.
To claim that this caused no bias is a disgrace on the Swedish judicial system. It's hogwash. The Litmus Test here is: If there was no bias involved then this should have been declared in the first minute of trial and allowed for any objections at that time. To hide it through the entire trial and as best they could afterwards until the defendants were able to dig it up shrieks of the fix being in and the trial being nothing but show. I'm left to wonder how the prosecution actually managed to keep straight faces throughout all of this since they surely had to have known.
You can't face the whole project, fine. Break it down to pieces so small that you can face up to one of them. Find something that takes a minute to do. Surely you can force yourself to spend a minute with it. Take a brief break and then do something else that takes a minute or two. Do two of those before taking another break. Put enough of these small pieces together until you've reached a milestone of say 10% of the project. If not 10%, how about 5%. Suddenly this thing is underway, which it wasn't before. If you can do 10%, then you can push through to the next 10%. Suddenly this task isn't so completely overwhelming. Continue all of the above in small steps that you know you can accomplish with the energy and motivation you have and suddenly it will be completed.
It's not just that the ads pop up every 2 hours, but when they pop up in the middle of an important presentation to your most critical customers that this really bites.
He seems to believe that shoulder surfing and screen snapshot capture simply doesn't exist. I'm left to ask if the complainer is trying to solve his problem at the expense of everyone else.
My digital Olympus uses rechargeable AA cells - which was one of my requirements when selecting a camera: No Funny Batteries. NiMH 2500mAh cells run about $10 per 4, and my responsible 2-hour charger handles them all. And in a pinch I can use disposable cells with it. Why anyone would would want anything else is foolish, despite how thin it might make the camera.
Verizon has what appears to be a great femtocell - except that they want $250 for it!! And the only reason I want one is because, contrary to their ads, they Can't hear me now when calling from my supposedly covered home.
Before you start meeting physical women, visualize in your mind what an ideal sort of person you would enjoy being with. Be realistic. Visualize what an ideal date might be, an ideal weekend together. Commit to the fact that you really want to do these things. Until you know what you actually want in another person you're likely to push away the very people you should be trying to draw in closer.
Buy it once, use the pirated copy thereafter. After all you're purchasing a "license" and a "service" not a product, so all that matters is the license.
Jamie Thomas just got fined $1.9M for having files on her computer that were never proven to be shared with anyone unauthorized (MediaSentry is a fully authorized download) and owned all the CD's of the songs in question. So just what did she purchase?
This morning I've been watching clips "smuggled out" via posting onto YouTube.
It's axiomatic that if you know about YouTube and can post to YouTube that you can also view YouTube. And if you're viewing YouTube then you seeing a rest of the world that is a whole lot more fun than the hell hole you're stuck in at the moment. Of course the young college students fueling the protests would like their lives to be a bit more free than what they've been forced to live under -- especially the women!
So just how is that Sharia Law working out for you?
Say what you want about the decadent west, but nobody is about to show up at my door and beat me senseless for posting this.
So get the hell off your high horse already and live in the real world.
In the real world it's my damn phone, I paid for it (and not just a license to use it), and I ought to be able to run anything on it that I wish that doesn't bring down AT&T's network in the process.
Sega is exempt from that clause, because some of its games on the iPhone are emulators running original ROM code.
So Apple is exposed yet again as a bunch of hypocrites who set one set of rules for everyone, until they decide to change them to favor a particular friend. And this is news why...?
Maybe someday users will tire of Apple being their un-appointed nanny, but that day is not today.
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Excuse me, but...
I lost my job over this when my employer tanked because of Madoff's scam, and I never had a dime invested with him. This has affected all kinds of people!
Knowing my rights should allow be to beat the crap out of this guy until he gives up all of the hidden assets, and all of the people who helped him along the way.
In the Myst games, once you'd traveled to an important destination the slow way, you could use Zip Mode to teleport there again easily. You never had to, but you always could. That's the solution I'd like best.
Maybe now that they've found their manhood again they will cut off NY once the legal challenges play out. I'd like to see it happen long enough to stop this from spreading any further. States are copycats about this kind of crap.
No, that's not correct. The early shutoff is to show that Amazon is truly serious about this and not just blowing smoke. There is now no doubt that Amazon isn't bluffing. NC will get no tax money from them.
Go for it Amazon! Put the finger in the dike now before we all get flooded out by greedy state governments whose legal justifications aren't even substantial enough to call flimsy. This is like Wal*Mart closing stores that go union because the problems of dealing with the issue overall far outweighs the losses from leaving a given market. I wish that the automobile makers had stood up to the State of California when they went completely nuts on the emissions regulations and instead of saddling us with thousands in additional new car costs, had simply said: "No new cars for you." Who do you think would have blinked first? The automakers? The state? Or the voters?
Yes I'm sorry that people are getting hurt along the way with this, but go out there and get your state back in order once more and this won't be happening.
Disclaimer 1: I sell on Amazon and I'm still all for this.
Disclaimer 2: I lived in California and breathed that air every day.
To claim that this caused no bias is a disgrace on the Swedish judicial system. It's hogwash. The Litmus Test here is: If there was no bias involved then this should have been declared in the first minute of trial and allowed for any objections at that time. To hide it through the entire trial and as best they could afterwards until the defendants were able to dig it up shrieks of the fix being in and the trial being nothing but show. I'm left to wonder how the prosecution actually managed to keep straight faces throughout all of this since they surely had to have known.
You can't face the whole project, fine. Break it down to pieces so small that you can face up to one of them. Find something that takes a minute to do. Surely you can force yourself to spend a minute with it. Take a brief break and then do something else that takes a minute or two. Do two of those before taking another break. Put enough of these small pieces together until you've reached a milestone of say 10% of the project. If not 10%, how about 5%. Suddenly this thing is underway, which it wasn't before. If you can do 10%, then you can push through to the next 10%. Suddenly this task isn't so completely overwhelming. Continue all of the above in small steps that you know you can accomplish with the energy and motivation you have and suddenly it will be completed.
It's not just that the ads pop up every 2 hours, but when they pop up in the middle of an important presentation to your most critical customers that this really bites.
He seems to believe that shoulder surfing and screen snapshot capture simply doesn't exist. I'm left to ask if the complainer is trying to solve his problem at the expense of everyone else.
I call B.S. on this. Consider the following very common scenario:
Man driving car sitting in front left seat.
Wife on his right giving directions into his right ear.
Does he still get lost?
PROFIT!
My digital Olympus uses rechargeable AA cells - which was one of my requirements when selecting a camera: No Funny Batteries. NiMH 2500mAh cells run about $10 per 4, and my responsible 2-hour charger handles them all. And in a pinch I can use disposable cells with it. Why anyone would would want anything else is foolish, despite how thin it might make the camera.
And what cut of this savings have your given your programmers who have made it all possible?
Verizon has what appears to be a great femtocell - except that they want $250 for it!! And the only reason I want one is because, contrary to their ads, they Can't hear me now when calling from my supposedly covered home.
To utilize one source is Plagiarism.
To utilize two is Research.
I just plagiarized from Tom Lehr.
If Cap-and-Trade is passed, Lloyd should expect it to by paid off in 3 years tops - and the rest of us are royally screwed.
I seem to have stumbled into the Slashdot Classified Ads section. And I didn't even know that Slashdot had a Classified Ads section.
But given that its GPL code I will mute my criticism that this post is put up by the author, and not a more neutral review site.
Sure didn't take this guy long to lose his new phone.
In fact, it's a very suspiciously short amount of time to have lost it in *snif* *snif*.
Before you start meeting physical women, visualize in your mind what an ideal sort of person you would enjoy being with. Be realistic. Visualize what an ideal date might be, an ideal weekend together. Commit to the fact that you really want to do these things. Until you know what you actually want in another person you're likely to push away the very people you should be trying to draw in closer.
Jamie Thomas just got fined $1.9M for having files on her computer that were never proven to be shared with anyone unauthorized (MediaSentry is a fully authorized download) and owned all the CD's of the songs in question. So just what did she purchase?
We will care as long as we're too stupid to develop all of our own energy sources and remain frighteningly dependent on the rest of the world.
DRILL HERE - DRILL NOW!
This morning I've been watching clips "smuggled out" via posting onto YouTube.
It's axiomatic that if you know about YouTube and can post to YouTube that you can also view YouTube. And if you're viewing YouTube then you seeing a rest of the world that is a whole lot more fun than the hell hole you're stuck in at the moment. Of course the young college students fueling the protests would like their lives to be a bit more free than what they've been forced to live under -- especially the women!
So just how is that Sharia Law working out for you?
Say what you want about the decadent west, but nobody is about to show up at my door and beat me senseless for posting this.
In the real world it's my damn phone, I paid for it (and not just a license to use it), and I ought to be able to run anything on it that I wish that doesn't bring down AT&T's network in the process.
Now what world were you living in again?
So Apple is exposed yet again as a bunch of hypocrites who set one set of rules for everyone, until they decide to change them to favor a particular friend. And this is news why...?
Maybe someday users will tire of Apple being their un-appointed nanny, but that day is not today.
Well it's out in the wild now. Can New York County Lawyer's blog broadcasting this to the world be far behind?
Too bad this didn't get out a week earlier to help Jamie Thomas.