If a company demands the traditional Two Weeks Notice, then they should be required to honor it in return. While they can give you payment in lieu of that time, they shouldn't be asking for anything they aren't willing to equally commit to in return.
successfully moved articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney to the House Judiciary committee.
He wasn't successful at all. Heck, the Republicans were voting in favor of the debate. It is more accurate to say: the articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney have been buried in the House Judiciary committee, and will not be seen again.
Sue the bastards for stealing back what they're already sold you. Do it as a Class. I expect they'll cave very quickly if they encounter some consumer push-back.
Put a link on your page for any viewers who were looking for simpledog.com and arrived at your domain by accident, and don't use any content or logos from his site.
Trademark The Simple Dog if you'd like. Blogging is enough of a product that you should be able to get one in the same way newspaper names are trademarked.
I'd look to see how many other instances of Simple Dog or The Simple Dog are currently in use. He may have tried this trick many times and never had any success.
I don't believe he can easily sue. At least not as easily as he can write you some nasty e-mails. If he wants to go to the WIPO over this, let him. Tell any court that he might file in that they should kick the case and let it be decided where disputes of this type are sorted out, and you're not trying to profit from any of his Good Will. I would guess, however, that his page is doing well for him or he wouldn't be bothering with this at all. Interestingly, your page might drive some additional traffic to his site when people mistype your domain name.
It might be interesting to know just how long he's had this domain. And if possible, if anyone has ever owned your domain name prior to your own registration.
Repeating what so many others have said, a lawyer is better than Slashdot for legal advice.
What I find interesting is how did he find out about your site in the first place? My guess is that he regularly checks his Page Rank and placement on Google, and stumbled over your site having a high(er) ranking, since you actually have content on your page.
I wonder if asimpledog.com is still available? Or maybe dersimpledog.com.
Hey, Wal-Mart is always looking for the lowest price on items - even to the point of telling manufacturer's to make a cheaper, lower quality, unit. So they found it. Where can they go from here? A picture of a Wii in a box? (Worked on eBay for another gaming console.)
And if we don't plunder the Moon, what happens? It sits up there in pristine condition for what -- forever?
Just look at all the beautiful He3. Isn't it beautiful? Aren't you glad your daddy stopped them from plundering the Moon of all of it so that we can almost enjoy this unspoiled view of it through the completely polluted atmosphere of Earth because we never got that clean energy source from up there?
Yeah, right! There are some real clowns in the world, and the guy against this qualifies as two of them when weighted in the average of clown foolishness.
Unfortunately, everyone can't afford their day in court - especially against a well-funded adversary willing to spend money wantonly that they know they will never recover from the Defendants. From what I see, in my opinion the RIAA is practicing Barratry, and that should fall under RICO somehow.
The worst problem here is that nobody that the RIAA is suing is making a penny off of the act of filesharing. In a just society, the RIAA should only be able to collect Actual Damages plus legal fees. The question of the Constitutionality of these exorbitant Statutory Awards - particularly in light of the sending a message context, seeks to punish one person for the acts of 6 million. That's not just!
I, for one, am not convinced that the RIAA members have ever lost even a single sale to filesharing. I do know for certain that their mantra of: each download = a lost sale is complete and utter garbage, and that they should be sanctioned severely every time they bring up the lie in court!
the courts are very reluctant to limit access to the courts under any circumstances.
Try to get those arbitration only clauses in your terms and service, or license agreement, overturned. It was a BFD when the most liberal courts in the nation did finally overturn one such clase as "unconscionable" in California a few months ago.
If all the "evidence" is revealed at this stage (I didn't see KaZaA screen names in the papers listed, although they should be available in the (possibly faked) screen shots), it should be possible to determine if the RIAA has any case at all this early in the proceedings. Perhaps they can just be kicked out now due to lack of evidence, saving everyone else a whole lot of money, and the RIAA a whole lot of publicity.
This is the first time that I've seen where someone, most surprisingly an actual non-party, is attempting to require the RIAA to prove their case at this point, where they probably cannot prove it at all!
One thing impressive about this. Who really wants to find out that the opposition to your case is coming in on the State Attorney General's letterhead?
EMI offered their music for sale even after their contract ended entirely.
You simply don't understand. Only We can own music. You can create it, and we'll pay you a pittance, but We actually own it. We own the whole Concept of music.
We used to own you as well, but some troublemakers and something about a fracas in 1860 changed too much of that. Oh, for the good old days.
I'm afraid to open the small chemical bottles to see if they're still good.
Yes, chemicles decay. It's just like food. Leave them around too long and they go rotten. They probably decay to atoms, which if left untouched decay to protrons, neutrons, and electrons. Leave those alone and they'll decay to quarks. Yeah, you've got to stay away from those old chemicles.
Dynamite decays too. Becomes to unstable that you look at it wrong and it can go off with a big bang! Avoid chemistry sets with dynamite in bottles.
They burn if ignited.
They can cause physical injury if someone is stabbed with one, or has a hub thrown at them from close range.
They can be assembled into a gun that might look too realistic if viewed under poor conditions.
Got to get rid of this stuff now. Leave the kids ignorant of any toys that might actually teach them critical thinking by doing.
This whole article is a troll. It's an ad for an Apple product that likely requires Apple hardware. It's a waste for 95% of the world who doesn't use Apple, and isn't likely to adopt one just to replace PowerPoint -- which is hardly a killer app.
At the same time that Google started dying on Comcast, so has my Usenet service. It will download a few hundred to a few thousand headers, AND THEN JUST STOP. My newsreader eventually times out and I have to try to get the next batch.
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If a company demands the traditional Two Weeks Notice, then they should be required to honor it in return. While they can give you payment in lieu of that time, they shouldn't be asking for anything they aren't willing to equally commit to in return.
Of course you don't. That's because you're a Blue Parrot.
Without anonymity the small voice with be Bitch SLAPPed into silence!
It's not the privacy part, Stupid! I already put my picture out there. I want to be PAID when you make money off of my image. It's as simple as that!
Did you reboot after the rename, and ensure that the rename still held? DRM seeks to protect itself.
Don't you just love how Microsoft is in bed with DRM, and in the end it always comes back to bite!
He wasn't successful at all. Heck, the Republicans were voting in favor of the debate. It is more accurate to say: the articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney have been buried in the House Judiciary committee, and will not be seen again.
Sue the bastards for stealing back what they're already sold you. Do it as a Class. I expect they'll cave very quickly if they encounter some consumer push-back.
He should have read the ToS before he broke open the shrink-wrap on his office.
Trademark The Simple Dog if you'd like. Blogging is enough of a product that you should be able to get one in the same way newspaper names are trademarked.
I'd look to see how many other instances of Simple Dog or The Simple Dog are currently in use. He may have tried this trick many times and never had any success.
I don't believe he can easily sue. At least not as easily as he can write you some nasty e-mails. If he wants to go to the WIPO over this, let him. Tell any court that he might file in that they should kick the case and let it be decided where disputes of this type are sorted out, and you're not trying to profit from any of his Good Will. I would guess, however, that his page is doing well for him or he wouldn't be bothering with this at all. Interestingly, your page might drive some additional traffic to his site when people mistype your domain name.
It might be interesting to know just how long he's had this domain. And if possible, if anyone has ever owned your domain name prior to your own registration.
Repeating what so many others have said, a lawyer is better than Slashdot for legal advice.
What I find interesting is how did he find out about your site in the first place? My guess is that he regularly checks his Page Rank and placement on Google, and stumbled over your site having a high(er) ranking, since you actually have content on your page.
I wonder if asimpledog.com is still available? Or maybe dersimpledog.com.
Hey, Wal-Mart is always looking for the lowest price on items - even to the point of telling manufacturer's to make a cheaper, lower quality, unit. So they found it. Where can they go from here? A picture of a Wii in a box? (Worked on eBay for another gaming console.)
Just look at all the beautiful He3. Isn't it beautiful? Aren't you glad your daddy stopped them from plundering the Moon of all of it so that we can almost enjoy this unspoiled view of it through the completely polluted atmosphere of Earth because we never got that clean energy source from up there?
Yeah, right! There are some real clowns in the world, and the guy against this qualifies as two of them when weighted in the average of clown foolishness.
Unfortunately, everyone can't afford their day in court - especially against a well-funded adversary willing to spend money wantonly that they know they will never recover from the Defendants. From what I see, in my opinion the RIAA is practicing Barratry, and that should fall under RICO somehow.
The worst problem here is that nobody that the RIAA is suing is making a penny off of the act of filesharing. In a just society, the RIAA should only be able to collect Actual Damages plus legal fees. The question of the Constitutionality of these exorbitant Statutory Awards - particularly in light of the sending a message context, seeks to punish one person for the acts of 6 million. That's not just!
I, for one, am not convinced that the RIAA members have ever lost even a single sale to filesharing. I do know for certain that their mantra of: each download = a lost sale is complete and utter garbage, and that they should be sanctioned severely every time they bring up the lie in court!
Try to get those arbitration only clauses in your terms and service, or license agreement, overturned. It was a BFD when the most liberal courts in the nation did finally overturn one such clase as "unconscionable" in California a few months ago.
This is the first time that I've seen where someone, most surprisingly an actual non-party, is attempting to require the RIAA to prove their case at this point, where they probably cannot prove it at all!
One thing impressive about this. Who really wants to find out that the opposition to your case is coming in on the State Attorney General's letterhead?
You simply don't understand. Only We can own music. You can create it, and we'll pay you a pittance, but We actually own it. We own the whole Concept of music.
We used to own you as well, but some troublemakers and something about a fracas in 1860 changed too much of that. Oh, for the good old days.
Congratulations, you've just explained The Bible Code.
And lying about it is the worst part!
I'm surprised that the RIAA hasn't yet found a way to sue all their file sharers in that backwater dump!
Yes, chemicles decay. It's just like food. Leave them around too long and they go rotten. They probably decay to atoms, which if left untouched decay to protrons, neutrons, and electrons. Leave those alone and they'll decay to quarks. Yeah, you've got to stay away from those old chemicles.
Dynamite decays too. Becomes to unstable that you look at it wrong and it can go off with a big bang! Avoid chemistry sets with dynamite in bottles.
They burn if ignited.
They can cause physical injury if someone is stabbed with one, or has a hub thrown at them from close range.
They can be assembled into a gun that might look too realistic if viewed under poor conditions.
Got to get rid of this stuff now. Leave the kids ignorant of any toys that might actually teach them critical thinking by doing.
This whole article is a troll. It's an ad for an Apple product that likely requires Apple hardware. It's a waste for 95% of the world who doesn't use Apple, and isn't likely to adopt one just to replace PowerPoint -- which is hardly a killer app.
You'll have to mark that one as a Sometimes operation.
There should be Fear and Trembling at Sony right about now. True, or not, this isn't the news they're going to enjoy reading today.
Comcast is fucking up all over right now.