Nope, RFTA. It's not complaining about how the Android archetecture has proprietary parts, so you can't really change the system. It's not. TFA is complaining about how lots of apps in the Android App Store aren't GPL'd. That's all, he wants Google to require them to be GPL. This has nothing at all to do with the Android architecture.
I've been running Opera on my Kubuntu box since day one (back in '06).
Yes yes, quite right! Boycott Linux, it's a threat to Free Software! What Linux needs is some form of DRM system that so that only Free Software (tm) signed by the FSF is able to run on it! That means you can't compile your own code, but that's a small price to pay for freedom! This brave new plan will require the GPL 4.0 which allows for invariant sections, so people can't fork around the DRM, though.
Yeah, in fact, since we're just pulling numbers out of our asses, a quick Wiki check says that PHP pre-compilers give a performance boost of up to 10x, therefore neatly canceling out this d-bags assumed 10x ratio. Yay for fictional numbers.
I'd point out that, in spite of what Frothing At The Mouth guy wants, video game clips are allowed if they're about your own game. That link you posted, is about some other peoples' games. That's not allowed, even with permission. If you don't like the rule, that's fine, but the rule is, even with permission, you cannot post videos about games that you're not on the dev team for. I'll repeat that, as they word it: "'I have permission' does not mean that you created it!" Additionally, and this is made quite clear several times in their site, and again in the forums, videos about videogames that you were part of making, have to be development videos only, and cannot be trailers. That is, you can talk about the engine in World of Goo, you can talk about your design decisions, talk about why you chose the music you chose. You can't just show it playing and then link to your site so people can go buy it. That's a trailer. In other words, as the other guy said, IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, THERE'S YOUTUBE OVER THERE. And, just to repeat one last time, you also can't use stuff that's copyrighted by somebody other than yourself, even if it's legal due to fair use, even if they write you a letter granting you permission. They don't care if it's legal, they don't WANT IT. Do you get it yet? That video, as you say, was posted by somebody unaffiliated with 2dboy. That makes it a clearcut 100% total and utter violation of the ToS, period, the end. Yes, that makes their lipsync equally obvious and utter violations of their ToS, since you are not allowed having any music in your video unless you yourself own the copyright to it. But your argument was that they shouldn't have pulled the videos, not that they're hypocrites;)
Exceptions: independent production companies, authors, musicians, non profits, churches, artists, and actors may show or promote the work they have created.
Musicians can use the site to advertise their CD. Movie makers can post their trailers. Artists can post samples of their work. Authors can talk about their new books. BUT FUCK INDY GAME DEVELOPERS, THEY AND THEY ALONE DON'T COUNT.
Oh, you'd heavily disagree with it? Because you're an expert somehow? Or because you saw Swordfish? The surface area of a sphere is 4 * pi * r^2. If you blow shrapnel out around you, it will be at ten millionth its starting density by the time its traveled 1000 feet. If you're aiming at a ship whose largest two dimensions are both 100 feet, its maximum cross section would be 10,000 square feet. From an explosion 1000 feet away, the blast sphere has a surface area of 12 million square feet. So only one shard in 1000 will hit the ship. One is all you need? The total kinetic energy of impacts on the ship would, at most, sum to one thousandth of the bombs blast. Pretty inefficient, and missing by only 1000 feet is pretty close on an interplanetary scale. Sure, in ultra close range encounters, where you can manage to land those missiles pretty close to the target, you might actually be able to inflict some real. But at such close range, evasive maneuvers would be observed near instantly, so your lightspeed and near-lightspeed weapons would have near 100% accuracy.
Anyways, if you still think shrapnel is more dangerous than the shockwave, watch Mythbusters when they're testing surviving an explosion, like a grenade, and compare how many of their plywood targets are "dead" by virtue of the shock sticker on their chest, vs. how many have visible shrapnel hits. Unless you're quite near a grenade when it goes off, there usually isn't any shrapnel damage. But the shockwave is potentially lethal from a lot farther away than that. More so under water, where the shrapnel danger radius is tiny, but the shockwave kill zone is hundreds of feet out. (Related to that, due to diffraction, it's somewhat challenging to shoot a fish in a barrel without practicing at it first, except that any shot that even hits the water will kill the fish from the shockwave).
Wrong hinge. If you open the tumbler, the drawer itself will move, and be stopped by the padlocks through the eyes. If one padlock is off, the other padlock is now a hinge, and you can possibly wedge the drawer open a crack...though not really, since it really can't move very much sideways. So the AC did read the article, obviously, since he's talking about the tumbler, but failed his own SECOND requirement, a basic understanding of physics. Maybe you could bend the drawer in the tracks a bit, but that's beside the point. If one launch officer walked in, he'd be detained or shot immediately for being alone in a "no lone zone". If he found a buddy to get him in there, he'd be shot by the armed guards the second he started trying to force the lock! It's not designed to stop James Bond, who not only has bolt cutters and the combination, but also can shoot hundreds of guards with a silenced PP7 without raising the alarm (or reloading);)
Are you kidding? It's not like we're limited to the big 3 (Rogers, Telus, Bell), we have all sorts of other providers! There's KOODO, their ads lead me to believe they don't do all that nasty hidden fee stuff. Oh, rebranded TELUS to seem less evil? Oh, well, there's always FIDO, they make the same claims about being not as evil as Rogers in all their ads! Oh...they're owned by Rogers, to rebrand and seem less evil, too? Well, there's always Solo Mobile. Oh...same deal with Bell? Virgin Mobile? Oh, Bell again? Why do they need TWO sham fronts? My favorite customer gouging one was the guy who ran up the $60,000 monthly bill, because they sold him an "Unlimited* Data** Plan!" that didn't cover any data usage other than the phones built in browser, so all that smartphone shit that also used data was billed at dollars on the kilobyte. The best part of that was the way Telus or whoever it was was unrepentant "It's not our fault he did not fully read the contract, but out of sheer generosity we will reduce the bill to a mere 6 grand!" A close runner up is KOODO/Telus's promise of "No activation fee", while there is a cancellation fee that is due in advanced when you sign up! Sort of like Blockbusters "No late fee *cough*but-there's-a-restocking-fee-if-you-return-it-late*cough*"
All good points, but they're suing people for doing the straight forward flag in config.ini stuff, too. Adobe Photoshop doesn't have an overlay that Adobe sends you, you just enter a fucking key. Windows activates over the network, but there's no overlay program, you enter a key, it handshakes with the servers and makes sure that key isn't in use/marked as pirated, and then it sets a flag somewhere marking it as registered. I bet most of the plantiffs WISH they had a system that works like the one described, it would make it harder to pirate them. As it is, snooze, all those companies with their "bulletproof" online registration are trivially hacked. Adobe gives you a car, but they put an ignition system that doesn't work, unless you use the key they gave you, or if you slice it open and just short the wires.
They're just relying on the fact that the Marshall, TX judge always ALWAYS finds in favor of the plaintiff. That or they're trying to argue that technically a registration CD Key is technically a "code" and therefore an "overlay program" that the main program doesn't function without.
Look, the East Texas District always finds in favor of the patent holder, always, without exception. This case is unusual in that they're actually suing over something even 1% related to the patents. File the suit, pay the judge, $100 billion verdict in your favor.
Or you could read TFA and see that he did call the midwife, but the baby was coming fast, so he had to step in since she still hadn't arrived? Naw, too much work.
Look at those numbers. 25% happen within 6 weeks, and 31% happen within the first 8.5 weeks. Consider what happens if you have a miscarriage during week 4 or so LMP. Your first period, you miss or it's light (spot bleeding). By the time your second period should arrive, or thereabouts, you have it (miscarriage means that lining is shed just the same). A light/missed period and then a normal one roughly on time isn't that unusual, especially if you're not on the pill, so, I'd say that without a home test, 20% or so could easily be ignored, with the woman not even knowing she was pregnant. Missing 2 in a row is pretty rare, but with spot bleeding masking the first one, even a miscarriage around 8 weeks LMP, while initially considered a pregnancy, could be dismissed as an irregularity. So, given all that, I wouldn't be surprised if increased prevalence of cheap and effective pregnancy tests could easily double the reported number of miscarriages. Nothing at all about the study indicates the rate is higher in the USA than elsewhere. In fact, the point of the study was that the rate is much higher than is reported.
The bigger question is, what exactly was he arrested for? Because they reqested the password of him via teleconference, as you said, but his side of the conference was inside a police interrogation room. He was already under arrest for something before they ever asked for the password. He made a fatal mistake that's cost him EVERYTHING, and that was following company policy. Always do whatever your boss says, especially if your boss had you arrested and all your possessions seized before he asked! The guy is an idiot.
Using your door analogy where he is the custodian, imagine that company policy listed who he's authorized to give his key ring to, and the person demanding he turn them over AFTER arresting him on trumped up, later dropped, charges of corporate espionage, wasn't on the list? He'd be breaking the law to hand it over to her, said as much, and said he has to turn them over to somebody on his list of authorized recipients.
You have it almost right. The new manager had him arrested FIRST after he confronted her over conducting "secret audits" IE searching peoples desks and filing cabinets, and swapping out their desktop's HDs.
He couldn't do that, because he was already in jail before they ever asked. Somebody claiming to be his boss in the background told him to do it, but that's speaker phone, how can he be sure. Remember, the person who called and asked was the same person he thought was fired, and then caught skulking about with pilfered hardware after hours.
Actually, they had him arrested first, fired second, and somebody who wasn't his boss, and as far as he knew, was an ex-employee, asked for the password over speakerphone THIRD. All this because he caught this ex-employee (who apparently was secretly promoted to the secret police to conduct "secret audits" at midnight on Fridays by snooping through desks and stealing hardware), and told his boss about it.
Except he did have a lot to worry about, if you read about it. What happened is he caught a former coworker who got promoted to a different department, without his knowledge. He thought she was fired because she just vanished, and he never saw her again. He catches her searching through peoples desks, and removing hard drives from their computers. She claims he was taking illegal pictures of her and disrupting her "secret audit", which is why she had him arrested and held on a $5 million bond. (The "illegal pictures" he took never surfaced). That's right, he was arrested before being fired, and before refusing to give up the password. The "refused to give up the password" was when she called him in jail and demanded it. Still a woman who, as far as he knows, was fired, not promoted, demands the password over speakerphone in a police station. He says no way. His boss pipes in over the speaker phone and says "Just do whatever she says, or else", and he says no, it's against corporate policy to discuss that sort of thing over speakerphone where anybody can pipe in, but if the boss or the mayor calls in person without speakerphone, he will. They hung up and told the police to process him.
He never owned these passwords, the hardware, the systems, or the infrastructure he worked on. When the owners asked for the password, he should have noted his concerns, and given them up.
As far as he knows, an ex-employee was breaking in and snooping though peoples files and desks. And I guess she must be blackmailing his boss, for the boss to be says "do what she says or else". If Childs doesn't own the network, how do you reason this middle management fuck owns it?!!? The OWNERS didn't ask shit. At any rate, for him to have given the password like that violated company policy, which he told them, he told them they had to get it in person, and they REFUSED. He told them he'd tell the Mayor, he told the police, who refused to tell him what he was being held on, that he would tell the Mayor, who as the people's representative, is the owner of the network. At this point, people ran with the fact that he was a corporate spy of some sort, because his CITY OWNED CELL HAD A CAMERA IN IT JUST LIKE ALL CELLS, and also he used a firing range, highly illegal, only outlaws use firearms, remember! He also was looking at storage space, a clear crime. When all he really did was refuse to give a password to a co-worked who was "fired" but actually secretly promoted to conduct "secret audits" by searching desks and desktop HDs at midnight on a Friday night. And, to repeat, he was arrested and charged before he even was asked for the password. AND he was asked for the password in a way that was against corporate policy, and also possibly a felony.
Using the same reasoning as the law in TFA: Ads are loud as fuck. Thus, any time it fails to skip an ad, it wasn't an obnoxiously loud ad to begin with, so your eardrums are likely intact. While you might say "What about loud bits of shows like explosions!?" no, they've got nothing on ads. I'd watch BSG, loud explosions, etc. Then it goes to ads. "MY LITTLE PONY" is screamed at a volume that absolutely dwarfs the loudest things in the show itself. It's been getting worse lately. Compression can't really make ads any louder than it already has, so the networks are actually turning the shows down more and more so you crank your TV and will get absolutely BLASTED by ads. I don't know why, its making it more and more desirable to skip them.
Ummm, I think not? An ion engine provides tiny amounts of thrust. A VASIMR, the most efficient ionised propellent engine built so far, as a thrust of 0.5 netwons. The next gen one operates at 5x the power levels, so legs be generous and say that it gets 20 newtons of thrust somehow. They predict it will weigh about 1 tonne when finished. So lets assume that the ship, and the 1MW nuclear reactor to power it, weigh nothing. 20 newtons / 1 tonne = 0.02 m/s^2. To reach.1 c, still a crawl considering the previous poster wanted time dilation to make the decades long trip seem like nothing, you'd need to be thrusting for 50 years solid. (Well, and then consider that mass increase from relativity means it'll actually take longer than that, from Earth's perspective).
Unfortunately, putting a ship, even on that's all engines, at near relativistic speeds is currently beyond us. Yes, ion engines have a huge specific impulse, meaning that the fuel requirement equations will converge much more quickly. But their thrust-to-mass ratio is tiny.
OK, I take it back. I think a nuclear explosion driven ship might be able to do it. But that's no ion drive!
That's how it already works though. Judges can award attorneys fees, though they tend to reserve this for awarding large corporations their legal fees, not individuals. For example, a Fox reporter was fired because his boss told him "I like that bit about bovine growth hormones, but we're sponsored by Monsanto, so change your conclusion to say that it's perfectly harmless", and he refused to lie on TV. A judge held that not only does Fox have a right to fire for refusing to outright lie on TV, but he found the lawsuit so DISGUSTING of an assault on free speech that he awarded Fox 2 million to cover their legal fees.
Yeah, if you're ever on Air Canada (God have mercy on you), and you use their complementary headphones (that they now charge you for), you'll notice that even at 100% volume, you can barely hear the movie over the engine noise. However, I brought my non-noise canceling, $40 Koss headphones, and I had to turn it down to 10% (the min)! Mind you, those airline headphones are amazingly poor. I tried using them in an MP3 player on the ground, no background noise, couldn't hear anything at any volume...
Actually, you're thinking battery of an Agent, which is unwanted contact of any form, including brushing their hand away when they're punching you. Assault is anything that makes them think you might batter them, such as shaking your fist or raising your voice.
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Nope, RFTA. It's not complaining about how the Android archetecture has proprietary parts, so you can't really change the system. It's not. TFA is complaining about how lots of apps in the Android App Store aren't GPL'd. That's all, he wants Google to require them to be GPL. This has nothing at all to do with the Android architecture.
Yes yes, quite right! Boycott Linux, it's a threat to Free Software! What Linux needs is some form of DRM system that so that only Free Software (tm) signed by the FSF is able to run on it! That means you can't compile your own code, but that's a small price to pay for freedom! This brave new plan will require the GPL 4.0 which allows for invariant sections, so people can't fork around the DRM, though.
Yeah, if the trends keep up, soon over 200% of people will be using Firefox, and IE will be well into the negatives.
Yeah, in fact, since we're just pulling numbers out of our asses, a quick Wiki check says that PHP pre-compilers give a performance boost of up to 10x, therefore neatly canceling out this d-bags assumed 10x ratio. Yay for fictional numbers.
I'd point out that, in spite of what Frothing At The Mouth guy wants, video game clips are allowed if they're about your own game. That link you posted, is about some other peoples' games. That's not allowed, even with permission. If you don't like the rule, that's fine, but the rule is, even with permission, you cannot post videos about games that you're not on the dev team for. I'll repeat that, as they word it: "'I have permission' does not mean that you created it!" Additionally, and this is made quite clear several times in their site, and again in the forums, videos about videogames that you were part of making, have to be development videos only, and cannot be trailers. That is, you can talk about the engine in World of Goo, you can talk about your design decisions, talk about why you chose the music you chose. You can't just show it playing and then link to your site so people can go buy it. That's a trailer. In other words, as the other guy said, IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, THERE'S YOUTUBE OVER THERE. And, just to repeat one last time, you also can't use stuff that's copyrighted by somebody other than yourself, even if it's legal due to fair use, even if they write you a letter granting you permission. They don't care if it's legal, they don't WANT IT. Do you get it yet? That video, as you say, was posted by somebody unaffiliated with 2dboy. That makes it a clearcut 100% total and utter violation of the ToS, period, the end. Yes, that makes their lipsync equally obvious and utter violations of their ToS, since you are not allowed having any music in your video unless you yourself own the copyright to it. But your argument was that they shouldn't have pulled the videos, not that they're hypocrites ;)
Musicians can use the site to advertise their CD. Movie makers can post their trailers. Artists can post samples of their work. Authors can talk about their new books. BUT FUCK INDY GAME DEVELOPERS, THEY AND THEY ALONE DON'T COUNT.
Oh, you'd heavily disagree with it? Because you're an expert somehow? Or because you saw Swordfish? The surface area of a sphere is 4 * pi * r^2. If you blow shrapnel out around you, it will be at ten millionth its starting density by the time its traveled 1000 feet. If you're aiming at a ship whose largest two dimensions are both 100 feet, its maximum cross section would be 10,000 square feet. From an explosion 1000 feet away, the blast sphere has a surface area of 12 million square feet. So only one shard in 1000 will hit the ship. One is all you need? The total kinetic energy of impacts on the ship would, at most, sum to one thousandth of the bombs blast. Pretty inefficient, and missing by only 1000 feet is pretty close on an interplanetary scale. Sure, in ultra close range encounters, where you can manage to land those missiles pretty close to the target, you might actually be able to inflict some real. But at such close range, evasive maneuvers would be observed near instantly, so your lightspeed and near-lightspeed weapons would have near 100% accuracy.
Anyways, if you still think shrapnel is more dangerous than the shockwave, watch Mythbusters when they're testing surviving an explosion, like a grenade, and compare how many of their plywood targets are "dead" by virtue of the shock sticker on their chest, vs. how many have visible shrapnel hits. Unless you're quite near a grenade when it goes off, there usually isn't any shrapnel damage. But the shockwave is potentially lethal from a lot farther away than that. More so under water, where the shrapnel danger radius is tiny, but the shockwave kill zone is hundreds of feet out. (Related to that, due to diffraction, it's somewhat challenging to shoot a fish in a barrel without practicing at it first, except that any shot that even hits the water will kill the fish from the shockwave).
Wrong hinge. If you open the tumbler, the drawer itself will move, and be stopped by the padlocks through the eyes. If one padlock is off, the other padlock is now a hinge, and you can possibly wedge the drawer open a crack...though not really, since it really can't move very much sideways. So the AC did read the article, obviously, since he's talking about the tumbler, but failed his own SECOND requirement, a basic understanding of physics. Maybe you could bend the drawer in the tracks a bit, but that's beside the point. If one launch officer walked in, he'd be detained or shot immediately for being alone in a "no lone zone". If he found a buddy to get him in there, he'd be shot by the armed guards the second he started trying to force the lock! It's not designed to stop James Bond, who not only has bolt cutters and the combination, but also can shoot hundreds of guards with a silenced PP7 without raising the alarm (or reloading) ;)
Are you kidding? It's not like we're limited to the big 3 (Rogers, Telus, Bell), we have all sorts of other providers! There's KOODO, their ads lead me to believe they don't do all that nasty hidden fee stuff. Oh, rebranded TELUS to seem less evil? Oh, well, there's always FIDO, they make the same claims about being not as evil as Rogers in all their ads! Oh...they're owned by Rogers, to rebrand and seem less evil, too? Well, there's always Solo Mobile. Oh...same deal with Bell? Virgin Mobile? Oh, Bell again? Why do they need TWO sham fronts? My favorite customer gouging one was the guy who ran up the $60,000 monthly bill, because they sold him an "Unlimited* Data** Plan!" that didn't cover any data usage other than the phones built in browser, so all that smartphone shit that also used data was billed at dollars on the kilobyte. The best part of that was the way Telus or whoever it was was unrepentant "It's not our fault he did not fully read the contract, but out of sheer generosity we will reduce the bill to a mere 6 grand!" A close runner up is KOODO/Telus's promise of "No activation fee", while there is a cancellation fee that is due in advanced when you sign up! Sort of like Blockbusters "No late fee *cough*but-there's-a-restocking-fee-if-you-return-it-late*cough*"
All good points, but they're suing people for doing the straight forward flag in config.ini stuff, too. Adobe Photoshop doesn't have an overlay that Adobe sends you, you just enter a fucking key. Windows activates over the network, but there's no overlay program, you enter a key, it handshakes with the servers and makes sure that key isn't in use/marked as pirated, and then it sets a flag somewhere marking it as registered. I bet most of the plantiffs WISH they had a system that works like the one described, it would make it harder to pirate them. As it is, snooze, all those companies with their "bulletproof" online registration are trivially hacked. Adobe gives you a car, but they put an ignition system that doesn't work, unless you use the key they gave you, or if you slice it open and just short the wires.
They're just relying on the fact that the Marshall, TX judge always ALWAYS finds in favor of the plaintiff. That or they're trying to argue that technically a registration CD Key is technically a "code" and therefore an "overlay program" that the main program doesn't function without.
Look, the East Texas District always finds in favor of the patent holder, always, without exception. This case is unusual in that they're actually suing over something even 1% related to the patents. File the suit, pay the judge, $100 billion verdict in your favor.
Or you could read TFA and see that he did call the midwife, but the baby was coming fast, so he had to step in since she still hadn't arrived? Naw, too much work.
Look at those numbers. 25% happen within 6 weeks, and 31% happen within the first 8.5 weeks. Consider what happens if you have a miscarriage during week 4 or so LMP. Your first period, you miss or it's light (spot bleeding). By the time your second period should arrive, or thereabouts, you have it (miscarriage means that lining is shed just the same). A light/missed period and then a normal one roughly on time isn't that unusual, especially if you're not on the pill, so, I'd say that without a home test, 20% or so could easily be ignored, with the woman not even knowing she was pregnant. Missing 2 in a row is pretty rare, but with spot bleeding masking the first one, even a miscarriage around 8 weeks LMP, while initially considered a pregnancy, could be dismissed as an irregularity. So, given all that, I wouldn't be surprised if increased prevalence of cheap and effective pregnancy tests could easily double the reported number of miscarriages. Nothing at all about the study indicates the rate is higher in the USA than elsewhere. In fact, the point of the study was that the rate is much higher than is reported.
The bigger question is, what exactly was he arrested for? Because they reqested the password of him via teleconference, as you said, but his side of the conference was inside a police interrogation room. He was already under arrest for something before they ever asked for the password. He made a fatal mistake that's cost him EVERYTHING, and that was following company policy. Always do whatever your boss says, especially if your boss had you arrested and all your possessions seized before he asked! The guy is an idiot.
Using your door analogy where he is the custodian, imagine that company policy listed who he's authorized to give his key ring to, and the person demanding he turn them over AFTER arresting him on trumped up, later dropped, charges of corporate espionage, wasn't on the list? He'd be breaking the law to hand it over to her, said as much, and said he has to turn them over to somebody on his list of authorized recipients.
You have it almost right. The new manager had him arrested FIRST after he confronted her over conducting "secret audits" IE searching peoples desks and filing cabinets, and swapping out their desktop's HDs.
He couldn't do that, because he was already in jail before they ever asked. Somebody claiming to be his boss in the background told him to do it, but that's speaker phone, how can he be sure. Remember, the person who called and asked was the same person he thought was fired, and then caught skulking about with pilfered hardware after hours.
Actually, they had him arrested first, fired second, and somebody who wasn't his boss, and as far as he knew, was an ex-employee, asked for the password over speakerphone THIRD. All this because he caught this ex-employee (who apparently was secretly promoted to the secret police to conduct "secret audits" at midnight on Fridays by snooping through desks and stealing hardware), and told his boss about it.
Except he did have a lot to worry about, if you read about it. What happened is he caught a former coworker who got promoted to a different department, without his knowledge. He thought she was fired because she just vanished, and he never saw her again. He catches her searching through peoples desks, and removing hard drives from their computers. She claims he was taking illegal pictures of her and disrupting her "secret audit", which is why she had him arrested and held on a $5 million bond. (The "illegal pictures" he took never surfaced). That's right, he was arrested before being fired, and before refusing to give up the password. The "refused to give up the password" was when she called him in jail and demanded it. Still a woman who, as far as he knows, was fired, not promoted, demands the password over speakerphone in a police station. He says no way. His boss pipes in over the speaker phone and says "Just do whatever she says, or else", and he says no, it's against corporate policy to discuss that sort of thing over speakerphone where anybody can pipe in, but if the boss or the mayor calls in person without speakerphone, he will. They hung up and told the police to process him.
As far as he knows, an ex-employee was breaking in and snooping though peoples files and desks. And I guess she must be blackmailing his boss, for the boss to be says "do what she says or else". If Childs doesn't own the network, how do you reason this middle management fuck owns it?!!? The OWNERS didn't ask shit. At any rate, for him to have given the password like that violated company policy, which he told them, he told them they had to get it in person, and they REFUSED. He told them he'd tell the Mayor, he told the police, who refused to tell him what he was being held on, that he would tell the Mayor, who as the people's representative, is the owner of the network. At this point, people ran with the fact that he was a corporate spy of some sort, because his CITY OWNED CELL HAD A CAMERA IN IT JUST LIKE ALL CELLS, and also he used a firing range, highly illegal, only outlaws use firearms, remember! He also was looking at storage space, a clear crime. When all he really did was refuse to give a password to a co-worked who was "fired" but actually secretly promoted to conduct "secret audits" by searching desks and desktop HDs at midnight on a Friday night. And, to repeat, he was arrested and charged before he even was asked for the password. AND he was asked for the password in a way that was against corporate policy, and also possibly a felony.
Using the same reasoning as the law in TFA: Ads are loud as fuck. Thus, any time it fails to skip an ad, it wasn't an obnoxiously loud ad to begin with, so your eardrums are likely intact. While you might say "What about loud bits of shows like explosions!?" no, they've got nothing on ads. I'd watch BSG, loud explosions, etc. Then it goes to ads. "MY LITTLE PONY" is screamed at a volume that absolutely dwarfs the loudest things in the show itself. It's been getting worse lately. Compression can't really make ads any louder than it already has, so the networks are actually turning the shows down more and more so you crank your TV and will get absolutely BLASTED by ads. I don't know why, its making it more and more desirable to skip them.
Ummm, I think not? An ion engine provides tiny amounts of thrust. A VASIMR, the most efficient ionised propellent engine built so far, as a thrust of 0.5 netwons. The next gen one operates at 5x the power levels, so legs be generous and say that it gets 20 newtons of thrust somehow. They predict it will weigh about 1 tonne when finished. So lets assume that the ship, and the 1MW nuclear reactor to power it, weigh nothing. 20 newtons / 1 tonne = 0.02 m/s^2. To reach .1 c, still a crawl considering the previous poster wanted time dilation to make the decades long trip seem like nothing, you'd need to be thrusting for 50 years solid. (Well, and then consider that mass increase from relativity means it'll actually take longer than that, from Earth's perspective).
Unfortunately, putting a ship, even on that's all engines, at near relativistic speeds is currently beyond us. Yes, ion engines have a huge specific impulse, meaning that the fuel requirement equations will converge much more quickly. But their thrust-to-mass ratio is tiny.
OK, I take it back. I think a nuclear explosion driven ship might be able to do it. But that's no ion drive!
That's how it already works though. Judges can award attorneys fees, though they tend to reserve this for awarding large corporations their legal fees, not individuals. For example, a Fox reporter was fired because his boss told him "I like that bit about bovine growth hormones, but we're sponsored by Monsanto, so change your conclusion to say that it's perfectly harmless", and he refused to lie on TV. A judge held that not only does Fox have a right to fire for refusing to outright lie on TV, but he found the lawsuit so DISGUSTING of an assault on free speech that he awarded Fox 2 million to cover their legal fees.
Yeah, if you're ever on Air Canada (God have mercy on you), and you use their complementary headphones (that they now charge you for), you'll notice that even at 100% volume, you can barely hear the movie over the engine noise. However, I brought my non-noise canceling, $40 Koss headphones, and I had to turn it down to 10% (the min)! Mind you, those airline headphones are amazingly poor. I tried using them in an MP3 player on the ground, no background noise, couldn't hear anything at any volume...
Actually, you're thinking battery of an Agent, which is unwanted contact of any form, including brushing their hand away when they're punching you. Assault is anything that makes them think you might batter them, such as shaking your fist or raising your voice.
There may be 100,000 stories, but what's that without dupes though? 1000, 2000 tops? ;)