As Jaborandy points out, the texting was only prelude to an "altercation". This is what prompted the shooting, and undoubtedly we will hear some version of self-defense claim from the shooter's attorney eventually. The news outlets' packaging of this story as practically an execution for the offense of texting is misleading to say the least. For those of us who don't have the time to delve into the details of these stories, the risk is we come away from the headlines with a false impression of what happened. This is not in any way to judge the merits of the case or exonerate the shooter (it would be extremely hard to imagine him feeling his life was in danger from a 43-year old suburban parent there with his wife), but just to say be careful what conclusions you jump to.
Just to stir up the pot a little, I'll say this: it's another example of Florida's asinine gun permit clause which mandates that concealed weapons stay concealed as opposed to "open carry". Several of these high-profile shootings probably would have been avoided if the eventual victim knew beforehand that their opponent was armed.
Though it's a bit late in the discussion, for future reference anyone wanting to research this further can visit their local law library (in the U.S. most municipalities have one, or the nearest law school) and look for these two treatises:
_Gilson on Trademarks_ by A. Lalonde, K. Green, and J. Gilson, published by LexisNexis ~ Matthew Bender;
and
_Callmann on Unfair Competition, Trademarks and Monopolies_ [4th Edition] by L. Altman, published by Thomson ~ West.
And no, this material is not readily available without actually visiting a law library because the publishers make scads of money selling them to rich lawyers.
Geniuses seem often to suffer from an autistic sort of blinkered egocentrism. Try filming him surreptitiously in typical (anti-)social situations and then play the results back to him later. I can think of nothing so jarring as being forced to view yourself in true third-person perspective "as others see you" and it might result in the poor kid gaining some insight. Either that or he'll kill himself.
Without reading the whole tree to see if somebody already suggested this, the simplest thing I can think of is to rip the DVDs as.bin images (like with CDRWin, for example) and mount the images on a virtual device using Daemon Tools or the like. Good luck.
While it's not illegal, collating price information by hand will get you booted from a store. It being private property, they don't have to have a reason to ask you to leave, and if you refuse it's trespassing (in the U.S. anyway). I remember one of the TV newsmagazines detailed a case where a guy was entering price comparison info into a PDA at one of the big chains (Circuit City?) and they kicked him out. He sued and lost. Since they can't trespass you on the Net, I guess Big Corporate will resort to whatever cockamamie methods are at their disposal.
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As Jaborandy points out, the texting was only prelude to an "altercation". This is what prompted the shooting, and undoubtedly we will hear some version of self-defense claim from the shooter's attorney eventually. The news outlets' packaging of this story as practically an execution for the offense of texting is misleading to say the least. For those of us who don't have the time to delve into the details of these stories, the risk is we come away from the headlines with a false impression of what happened. This is not in any way to judge the merits of the case or exonerate the shooter (it would be extremely hard to imagine him feeling his life was in danger from a 43-year old suburban parent there with his wife), but just to say be careful what conclusions you jump to.
Just to stir up the pot a little, I'll say this: it's another example of Florida's asinine gun permit clause which mandates that concealed weapons stay concealed as opposed to "open carry". Several of these high-profile shootings probably would have been avoided if the eventual victim knew beforehand that their opponent was armed.
Though it's a bit late in the discussion, for future reference anyone wanting to research this further can visit their local law library (in the U.S. most municipalities have one, or the nearest law school) and look for these two treatises:
_Gilson on Trademarks_ by A. Lalonde, K. Green, and J. Gilson, published by LexisNexis ~ Matthew Bender;
and
_Callmann on Unfair Competition, Trademarks and Monopolies_ [4th Edition] by L. Altman, published by Thomson ~ West.
And no, this material is not readily available without actually visiting a law library because the publishers make scads of money selling them to rich lawyers.
Cheers.
--rat_axe the law librarian.
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Geniuses seem often to suffer from an autistic sort of blinkered egocentrism. Try filming him surreptitiously in typical (anti-)social situations and then play the results back to him later. I can think of nothing so jarring as being forced to view yourself in true third-person perspective "as others see you" and it might result in the poor kid gaining some insight. Either that or he'll kill himself.
Without reading the whole tree to see if somebody already suggested this, the simplest thing I can think of is to rip the DVDs as .bin images (like with CDRWin, for example) and mount the images on a virtual device using Daemon Tools or the like. Good luck.
While it's not illegal, collating price information by hand will get you booted from a store. It being private property, they don't have to have a reason to ask you to leave, and if you refuse it's trespassing (in the U.S. anyway). I remember one of the TV newsmagazines detailed a case where a guy was entering price comparison info into a PDA at one of the big chains (Circuit City?) and they kicked him out. He sued and lost. Since they can't trespass you on the Net, I guess Big Corporate will resort to whatever cockamamie methods are at their disposal.