I'd have no problem with that (including the Congressman heading the MPAA). But I don't think we've reached that point yet. This order:
Soap box
Jury box
Ballot box
Ammo box (last resort)
Soap box - we've been trying this for a long time
Jury box - can't, no one will pass laws limiting their corrupt coworkers because they do not want to limit their future corrupt behavior
Ballot box - wow, we've tried, again and again, but the obvious corruption doesn't stop
Ammo box - well.... hate to say it, but here we are, this is all that is left.....
I know. I'd even be okay with buying episodes of shows as they air, not to coincide with some poorly done DVD release (hello, HBO) if they exist at all. In lieu of sane options, piracy is all that's left.
The cabal of advertisers, cable companies, and television networks are all so worried about losing viewers that they've decided to strap their sinking ships together. Because that's a grand idea. It worked very well for the music industry.
it's.... it's almost like.... they don't *want* our money, like they see the new technology and say... no, we refuse to be compatible with your phone and laptop and tablet and etc, will you please just give us money and we won't give you what you want? How does that make any sense at all?
Me: Excuse me waiter! I'll have a steak
Waiter: very good sir, steaming pile of crap coming up!
Me: Um, no, I said I would like a steak
Waiter: that's fine sir, but all we serve is steaming piles of crap. No one wants it, but that's what we give them and you'll pay us for it!
Me: Uh..... I think I'll go somewhere else.... there's a nice new torrent restaurant across the street that gives me what I want and costs a lot less
Waiter: No! That's.... not right! You can't do that! We'll.... we'll.... we will sue you!
Me: Really? Everyone? You're going to sue everyone that doesn't buy steaming piles of crap from you? Good luck with that!
Wake up. Almost all corporations do this. HP does this. IBM does this. Dell does this. It's not called 'hating America,' it's called 'loopholes.' If you were beholden to shareholders and you were in charge of a corporation, you would do it too, I bet. And if not...you would never be in charge of a corporation for long.
Completely agree. Apple is actually far better than most: many companies pick up and move all their people to a cheaper part of the US or worse, move all operations overseas, bringing only the best and brightest and outsourcing the rest.
California is still making billions in taxes off Apple, with 13,000 employees at Apple Campus and all the property taxes and money the employees spend generates sales taxes. Just be glad Apple is in California at all because how many phone manufactures still keep 13,000 employees in the US? Apple sells phones, computers, tablets, and a online store, they could be in the middle of China employing 13,000 people if they wanted and we would still buy iPhones.
Apple is probably the worse possible company to choose as an example of a "tax dodge". Why don't you go after Samsung, HTC, or any of the other phone manufactures that make billions in sales in the US market but have all of their operations based overseas.
In my opinion, the US needs to be broken up into the individual states, and the federal government disbanded (so the state becomes the country, and what's currently the country disappears completely.) Perhaps two or three states might band together to form a larger country, but the US as a whole is too big; it encourages cronyism and corruption.
we tried that, caused the civil war, and since the federal govt won it now has overwhelming power and the states don't mean much anymore. It's caused some huge problems, like California legalized pot dispensaries but the fed government keeps coming in and arresting the operators who are running legal businesses: "Federal prosecutors are cracking down on some pot dispensaries in California, warning the stores that they must shut down in 45 days or face criminal charges and confiscation of their property even if they are operating legally under the state's 15-year-old medical marijuana law."
Mark me troll and flamebait all you want, but every time the TSA pat downs a little blonde girl the terrorist win again.
There are as many terrorists among Muslim Americans as there are serial killers among Caucasian Americans. I have yet to hear anyone call for screening white people, just in case they have a girl's dismembered corpse in their trunk. Nevermind Timothy McVeigh, Eric Robert Rudolph, or Ted Kaczynski.
Citation please? According to Wikipedia, the only terrorist group to employ this tactic is Hamas, even though Israeli security does screen women -- which rather invalidates the theory.
Look like a terrorist? Get a pat down. Look like a four yr old blonde blue eyed girl hugging grandma? No pat down
Mark me troll and flamebait all you want, but every time the TSA pat downs a little blonde girl the terrorist win again. They're using our morality against racism against us.
Which is fine, but let's apply this same standard to all the people pushing faith healing, homeopathy, psychic cures, ec all for giving medical advice without a license.
Further, couldn't this same standard be held against people giving construction advice (This Old House, etc.) in the state, as they are not licensed contractors?
Etc infinity for everything in the state that requires licensure.
I'm honestly not sure how I feel about this.
I'm sick of everything having to go through the government, as if the government is really all that competent or capable. OTOH, I'd like very much to know that the doctor I'm seeing actually has a license.
Faith healing is religious, so that's a slippery slope. Homeopathy, psychic cures, etc.... ya, they should be careful if they're charging and claiming they're curing something or giving medical advice.
Construction advice is not medical advice. That's the real sticking point. Anyone can swing a hammer and get licensed to do construction with no formal education, but medical takes years of schooling, schools that pay taxes, loans that students pay back with interest to the govt, and this guy just by-passed all that.
Requiring licenses is a VERY good thing because it's the govt saying "yes this person went to a real school and got a real degree and really knows what they're talking about". Doesn't mean they're perfect, it's just a verification that they are what they say they are. Just like a drivers license, it's proof you took the test and passed.
Maybe they should require computer repair licenses and construction worker license? Otherwise it is possible for someone to say "Sure, I went to XYZ Onlinedegree.com University, I know what I'm talking about" and there's no way to verify they know anything or even that the school is 100% legit or what they learned, not every CS101 is the same. Nurses, Doctors, Lawyers all require a state license and have to pass relatively difficult state tests before they can receive that license.
So if I help someone fix their computer over the phone, or via video chat, and then charge 1-2 hours for my time, I've commited a crime of practicing engineering without a license?!?!?
No, because you aren't required to be licensed to fix computers. If you put a sticker on the side of your car saying "Chauffer Services" and drove people around town without first passing a driving test, you'd probably be breaking the law.
"The board also directed Cooksey to remove a link offering one-on-one support, a personal-training type of service he offered for a small fee. "
He was selling his services. Yes, he was practicing without a license. That's not blogging, that's not free speech. I can't offer one-on-one personal legal advice for a small fee because... wait for it.... i'm not an attorney.
“But if customers are paying $97 or $149 or $197 a month to have someone listen, that sounds a lot like life coaching, which doesn't require a license.”
Then start a life coaching website and charge for that. Just like I can't start a legal blog and charge $197 a month "to listen" and then claim "it's life coaching!"
I'm all for free speech, but this guy with clearly trying to practice without a license and when he got busted he cried "free speech! I have a disclaimer!" Come on, this guy gives free speech a bad name.
Advice is free. Charging for advice, now you're running a business and you should have a license.
So the question remains: who is John Larson and why does anyone care if he signs a NDA or not?
I've hired people that signed NDAs. I've signed NDAs. If you're not doing something you're not suppose to, what's the problem with signing? If you refuse to sign, that's huge red flags, and they can hire another programmer. Yes, surprise, you're not the only person that knows (INSERT PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE). And you're probably not the Michelangelo or da Vinci of programming.
What software did he create that makes his opinion on signing software NDAs matter? Since he doesn't sign NDAs he should be able to tell us;)
Rogue waves: Demonstrating yet again that reality is a fascinatingly weird place.
And we don't understand our planet as much as we think. We are always focused on exploring strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly... um, you get the idea, but look, there's new things happening on our own planet. How can we understand new planets when we don't understand the one we are on? Not saying never explore space, just saying maybe we should focus on what we have.
The story is ridiculous. What network would the phone run on in 1991? 0.1G? There was no wifi, no Bluetooth, no 3G or even 2G. In 1991 the cellphones were giant bag phones that could only display a phone number. No text messaging, no email, no Internet.
Microsoft had been making touchscreen phones for 5 years before the iPhone came out. Started as PDAs running Windows CE, then windows mobile 5.
Microsoft had a good run but they just didn't keep up but dont feel bad, Palm was huge in 2005 and now they are gone and Blackberry is almost gone. This shows you anyone can run the cellphone game, you just have to have a good OS and apps people want.
You really think that would have worked? I think that's naive and impractical. First of all, it would encourage others to follow Napster. "We can engage in copyright infringement now because the RIAA will just buy us out later.". Second, as copyright owners they were well within their rights to sue Napsters into oblivion just like IBM will decimate SCO. Third, Napster's entire architecture supported file sharing not file buying. No music store today uses this structure for a reason.
First, no it wouldn't. Napster was highly successful, yet how many others were doing what Napster was doing? Almost no one at that time, and the lawsuit didn't stop anyone because Limewire came out in May 2000,Only a few months after Napster's Dec 1999 lawsuit. Napster had a captive audience, if millions of people logged in one day and it asked for $1 for a song they would have paid. One could argue that Limewire existed only because Napster no longer existed, leaving millions of customers searching for another source of digital music.
Second, just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
Third, there was no option to buy. Everything was free on Napster. But clearly from iTunes's success customers do want to pay for media, they just don't want to pay very much.
The patent was filed in March 19, 2009, WOW itself is prior ART...so is COD....
I DONT WANT TO LIVE ON THIS PLANET ANYMORE
I saw that....
Assignee: Worlds.com, Inc. (Brookline, MA)
Appl. No.: 12/406,968 Filed: March 19, 2009 .....
What? They filed in 2009?..... maybe I don't understand how patents work, doesn't it go by first to file? Everything is prior art then.
Yes, it was stupidity. They went to Napster and said "So... you have millions of our customers downloading copyright stuff for free?!? We're suing!"
They should have said: "So... you have millions of our customers downloading copyright stuff for free?!? Here's a million dollars, we're buying Napster from you, and we're going to start charging these people, $1 per song. We also have a mp3 player we're selling too. Either take the million and sell or we'll sue you."
then what difference does it make where you get it from? Maybe someone can make it clear for me exactly what their lawsuit is saying here.
Good luck with that studios. Worked great for the music companies.... oh wait, no it didn't, they're owned by Apple now because Apple sells most of their music and the music companies could not survive without Apple.
So sue away... until another Apple ends up owning you because you flatly refused to give customers what we're begging for and willing to pay for, an easy way to watch every TV ever created on every media device we own.
If it wasn't for the stupidity of the music companies trying to sue napster and everyone there would have been no iPod, iTunes, iPhone or Android, because had the music companies made their own store and sold music then Apple would have never made billions off iTunes
Diabetes sufferer Ms Vickers, 59, lost her sight seven years ago and turned to the world of her imagination for solace.
With a love of English poetry ditties were scribbed to entertain her mother over the years but it is only now she is embarking on her first novel.
However, she doesn’t type or use a computer but has a system of elastic bands that guide her to keep lines.
It appears she lost her eyesight later in life and (I'm assuming) had never learned to type before, she might find it easier to write with a pen/paper.
Still seems odd. Typing existed long before PCs. My mother is around her age and learned in high school on a typewriter.... hell I learned on a typewriter! It was just another class in public school that nearly everyone took. Maybe it's a US thing to learn to type?
And she lost her eyesight later in life? I've tried closing my eyes and writing a sentence, it's almost impossible to read, and the characters tend to get larger as I go.
Also you would think losing her eyesight would encourage her to learn to type since you're not suppose to be looking at the keys while you type anyway and, being blind, she can't exactly leave the house as easily as most, so being able to go online and communicate with the world would probably help her a lot.
Glad the police could help, but with everything we have now days it just seems strange this would be a problem in a first world country in 2012.
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I'd have no problem with that (including the Congressman heading the MPAA). But I don't think we've reached that point yet. This order: Soap box Jury box Ballot box Ammo box (last resort)
Soap box - we've been trying this for a long time
Jury box - can't, no one will pass laws limiting their corrupt coworkers because they do not want to limit their future corrupt behavior
Ballot box - wow, we've tried, again and again, but the obvious corruption doesn't stop
Ammo box - well.... hate to say it, but here we are, this is all that is left.....
"prevent riots" or prevent assembly, which is a constitutional right?
I know. I'd even be okay with buying episodes of shows as they air, not to coincide with some poorly done DVD release (hello, HBO) if they exist at all. In lieu of sane options, piracy is all that's left.
The cabal of advertisers, cable companies, and television networks are all so worried about losing viewers that they've decided to strap their sinking ships together. Because that's a grand idea. It worked very well for the music industry.
it's.... it's almost like.... they don't *want* our money, like they see the new technology and say... no, we refuse to be compatible with your phone and laptop and tablet and etc, will you please just give us money and we won't give you what you want? How does that make any sense at all?
Me: Excuse me waiter! I'll have a steak
Waiter: very good sir, steaming pile of crap coming up!
Me: Um, no, I said I would like a steak
Waiter: that's fine sir, but all we serve is steaming piles of crap. No one wants it, but that's what we give them and you'll pay us for it!
Me: Uh..... I think I'll go somewhere else.... there's a nice new torrent restaurant across the street that gives me what I want and costs a lot less
Waiter: No! That's.... not right! You can't do that! We'll.... we'll.... we will sue you!
Me: Really? Everyone? You're going to sue everyone that doesn't buy steaming piles of crap from you? Good luck with that!
Wake up. Almost all corporations do this. HP does this. IBM does this. Dell does this. It's not called 'hating America,' it's called 'loopholes.' If you were beholden to shareholders and you were in charge of a corporation, you would do it too, I bet. And if not...you would never be in charge of a corporation for long.
Completely agree. Apple is actually far better than most: many companies pick up and move all their people to a cheaper part of the US or worse, move all operations overseas, bringing only the best and brightest and outsourcing the rest.
California is still making billions in taxes off Apple, with 13,000 employees at Apple Campus and all the property taxes and money the employees spend generates sales taxes. Just be glad Apple is in California at all because how many phone manufactures still keep 13,000 employees in the US? Apple sells phones, computers, tablets, and a online store, they could be in the middle of China employing 13,000 people if they wanted and we would still buy iPhones.
Apple is probably the worse possible company to choose as an example of a "tax dodge". Why don't you go after Samsung, HTC, or any of the other phone manufactures that make billions in sales in the US market but have all of their operations based overseas.
In my opinion, the US needs to be broken up into the individual states, and the federal government disbanded (so the state becomes the country, and what's currently the country disappears completely.) Perhaps two or three states might band together to form a larger country, but the US as a whole is too big; it encourages cronyism and corruption.
we tried that, caused the civil war, and since the federal govt won it now has overwhelming power and the states don't mean much anymore. It's caused some huge problems, like California legalized pot dispensaries but the fed government keeps coming in and arresting the operators who are running legal businesses:
"Federal prosecutors are cracking down on some pot dispensaries in California, warning the stores that they must shut down in 45 days or face criminal charges and confiscation of their property even if they are operating legally under the state's 15-year-old medical marijuana law."
but don't worry, we'll do what we always do: sue until we get what we want
Mark me troll and flamebait all you want, but every time the TSA pat downs a little blonde girl the terrorist win again.
There are as many terrorists among Muslim Americans as there are serial killers among Caucasian Americans. I have yet to hear anyone call for screening white people, just in case they have a girl's dismembered corpse in their trunk. Nevermind Timothy McVeigh, Eric Robert Rudolph, or Ted Kaczynski.
Because unless we put the TSA in everyone's house it is impossible to stop someone from mailing a bomb or driving their van full of explosive fertilizer to a govt building.
Besides all of the caucasian american serial killers combined don't equal the 3,000 killed in 9/11 using a few airplanes so the screenings need to be done at airports
Citation please? According to Wikipedia, the only terrorist group to employ this tactic is Hamas, even though Israeli security does screen women -- which rather invalidates the theory.
Israeli security uses racism which sounds like a better system than what we're using.
Look like a terrorist? Get a pat down. Look like a four yr old blonde blue eyed girl hugging grandma? No pat down
Mark me troll and flamebait all you want, but every time the TSA pat downs a little blonde girl the terrorist win again. They're using our morality against racism against us.
Which is fine, but let's apply this same standard to all the people pushing faith healing, homeopathy, psychic cures, ec all for giving medical advice without a license.
Further, couldn't this same standard be held against people giving construction advice (This Old House, etc.) in the state, as they are not licensed contractors?
Etc infinity for everything in the state that requires licensure.
I'm honestly not sure how I feel about this. I'm sick of everything having to go through the government, as if the government is really all that competent or capable. OTOH, I'd like very much to know that the doctor I'm seeing actually has a license.
Faith healing is religious, so that's a slippery slope. Homeopathy, psychic cures, etc.... ya, they should be careful if they're charging and claiming they're curing something or giving medical advice.
Construction advice is not medical advice. That's the real sticking point. Anyone can swing a hammer and get licensed to do construction with no formal education, but medical takes years of schooling, schools that pay taxes, loans that students pay back with interest to the govt, and this guy just by-passed all that.
Requiring licenses is a VERY good thing because it's the govt saying "yes this person went to a real school and got a real degree and really knows what they're talking about". Doesn't mean they're perfect, it's just a verification that they are what they say they are. Just like a drivers license, it's proof you took the test and passed.
Maybe they should require computer repair licenses and construction worker license? Otherwise it is possible for someone to say "Sure, I went to XYZ Onlinedegree.com University, I know what I'm talking about" and there's no way to verify they know anything or even that the school is 100% legit or what they learned, not every CS101 is the same. Nurses, Doctors, Lawyers all require a state license and have to pass relatively difficult state tests before they can receive that license.
So if I help someone fix their computer over the phone, or via video chat, and then charge 1-2 hours for my time, I've commited a crime of practicing engineering without a license?!?!?
No, because you aren't required to be licensed to fix computers. If you put a sticker on the side of your car saying "Chauffer Services" and drove people around town without first passing a driving test, you'd probably be breaking the law.
finally a car analogy!
Its called a business license, and you're almost certainly in violation unless you have one.
Also depending on where you made the phone call, you might or might not be in violation of property zoning laws.
And is that not completely ridiculous, and the point of the GPP by analogy to this situation?
Should we go after all the teenagers mowing their neighbors' laws for $5 next? (zomg child labor too in that case!)
if it's 50 neighbors a week, yes
also that's not quite the same. He's giving medical advice.
Its called a business license, and you're almost certainly in violation unless you have one.
Also depending on where you made the phone call, you might or might not be in violation of property zoning laws.
And is that not completely ridiculous, and the point of the GPP by analogy to this situation?
Should we go after all the teenagers mowing their neighbors' laws for $5 next? (zomg child labor too in that case!)
if it's 50 neighbors a week, yes
"The board also directed Cooksey to remove a link offering one-on-one support, a personal-training type of service he offered for a small fee. "
He was selling his services. Yes, he was practicing without a license. That's not blogging, that's not free speech. I can't offer one-on-one personal legal advice for a small fee because... wait for it.... i'm not an attorney.
“But if customers are paying $97 or $149 or $197 a month to have someone listen, that sounds a lot like life coaching, which doesn't require a license.”
Then start a life coaching website and charge for that. Just like I can't start a legal blog and charge $197 a month "to listen" and then claim "it's life coaching!"
I'm all for free speech, but this guy with clearly trying to practice without a license and when he got busted he cried "free speech! I have a disclaimer!" Come on, this guy gives free speech a bad name.
Advice is free. Charging for advice, now you're running a business and you should have a license.
FTFA:
"After the meeting he handed out a couple of business cards pointing people to his website.
Three days later, he got a call from the director of the nutrition board."
once you go into the real world and hand out business cards you are operating a business, it's no longer free speech. Title is misleading.
Yep, this well-known successful freelance programmer is clearly the naive one.
Am I the only one that doesn't know who John Larson is? John Larson is a congressman according to google. John Larson programmer comes up with... surprise, his personal blog.
;)
So the question remains: who is John Larson and why does anyone care if he signs a NDA or not?
I've hired people that signed NDAs. I've signed NDAs. If you're not doing something you're not suppose to, what's the problem with signing? If you refuse to sign, that's huge red flags, and they can hire another programmer. Yes, surprise, you're not the only person that knows (INSERT PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE). And you're probably not the Michelangelo or da Vinci of programming.
What software did he create that makes his opinion on signing software NDAs matter? Since he doesn't sign NDAs he should be able to tell us
it's also only 4w
Rogue waves: Demonstrating yet again that reality is a fascinatingly weird place.
And we don't understand our planet as much as we think. We are always focused on exploring strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly... um, you get the idea, but look, there's new things happening on our own planet. How can we understand new planets when we don't understand the one we are on? Not saying never explore space, just saying maybe we should focus on what we have.
Outlaw them and put out a bounty (or a Bounty?)
Better yet, patent them.
And sue in east texas
Florida had problems long before Republicans were in office. Based on your userid you should know this better than anyone
Idea was before its time. See the Apple Newton.
The story is ridiculous. What network would the phone run on in 1991? 0.1G? There was no wifi, no Bluetooth, no 3G or even 2G. In 1991 the cellphones were giant bag phones that could only display a phone number. No text messaging, no email, no Internet.
Microsoft had been making touchscreen phones for 5 years before the iPhone came out. Started as PDAs running Windows CE, then windows mobile 5.
Microsoft had a good run but they just didn't keep up but dont feel bad, Palm was huge in 2005 and now they are gone and Blackberry is almost gone. This shows you anyone can run the cellphone game, you just have to have a good OS and apps people want.
You really think that would have worked? I think that's naive and impractical. First of all, it would encourage others to follow Napster. "We can engage in copyright infringement now because the RIAA will just buy us out later.". Second, as copyright owners they were well within their rights to sue Napsters into oblivion just like IBM will decimate SCO. Third, Napster's entire architecture supported file sharing not file buying. No music store today uses this structure for a reason.
First, no it wouldn't. Napster was highly successful, yet how many others were doing what Napster was doing? Almost no one at that time, and the lawsuit didn't stop anyone because Limewire came out in May 2000, Only a few months after Napster's Dec 1999 lawsuit. Napster had a captive audience, if millions of people logged in one day and it asked for $1 for a song they would have paid. One could argue that Limewire existed only because Napster no longer existed, leaving millions of customers searching for another source of digital music.
Second, just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
Third, there was no option to buy. Everything was free on Napster. But clearly from iTunes's success customers do want to pay for media, they just don't want to pay very much.
The patent was filed in March 19, 2009, WOW itself is prior ART...so is COD.... I DONT WANT TO LIVE ON THIS PLANET ANYMORE
I saw that....
..... ..... maybe I don't understand how patents work, doesn't it go by first to file? Everything is prior art then.
Assignee: Worlds.com, Inc. (Brookline, MA)
Appl. No.: 12/406,968
Filed: March 19, 2009
What? They filed in 2009?
Ok nevermind, I read the patent and they're legit, from back in 1994
I think Blizzard is going to owe them some money.
I wouldn't say their stupidity was suing napster.
Yes, it was stupidity. They went to Napster and said "So... you have millions of our customers downloading copyright stuff for free?!? We're suing!"
They should have said: "So... you have millions of our customers downloading copyright stuff for free?!? Here's a million dollars, we're buying Napster from you, and we're going to start charging these people, $1 per song. We also have a mp3 player we're selling too. Either take the million and sell or we'll sue you."
then what difference does it make where you get it from? Maybe someone can make it clear for me exactly what their lawsuit is saying here.
Good luck with that studios. Worked great for the music companies.... oh wait, no it didn't, they're owned by Apple now because Apple sells most of their music and the music companies could not survive without Apple.
So sue away... until another Apple ends up owning you because you flatly refused to give customers what we're begging for and willing to pay for, an easy way to watch every TV ever created on every media device we own.
If it wasn't for the stupidity of the music companies trying to sue napster and everyone there would have been no iPod, iTunes, iPhone or Android, because had the music companies made their own store and sold music then Apple would have never made billions off iTunes
Diabetes sufferer Ms Vickers, 59, lost her sight seven years ago and turned to the world of her imagination for solace. With a love of English poetry ditties were scribbed to entertain her mother over the years but it is only now she is embarking on her first novel. However, she doesn’t type or use a computer but has a system of elastic bands that guide her to keep lines.
It appears she lost her eyesight later in life and (I'm assuming) had never learned to type before, she might find it easier to write with a pen/paper.
Still seems odd. Typing existed long before PCs. My mother is around her age and learned in high school on a typewriter.... hell I learned on a typewriter! It was just another class in public school that nearly everyone took. Maybe it's a US thing to learn to type?
And she lost her eyesight later in life? I've tried closing my eyes and writing a sentence, it's almost impossible to read, and the characters tend to get larger as I go.
Also you would think losing her eyesight would encourage her to learn to type since you're not suppose to be looking at the keys while you type anyway and, being blind, she can't exactly leave the house as easily as most, so being able to go online and communicate with the world would probably help her a lot.
Glad the police could help, but with everything we have now days it just seems strange this would be a problem in a first world country in 2012.
...subject says it all.
And this is in the UK, dumbass, not the US.
Oh good! So people in the UK don't drink booze, want cool new squad cars and they don't go to Hawaii?