I've noticed the same thing with DSL. Last time this issue came up, people reported being heavily throttled on Bell, while I was, at the time, getting 700kB/s off of one swarm. I was only uploading at 45 though, so maybe they do throttle upstream bandwidth, or maybe most people in the swarm already had most of what I had;)
There was a ruling on that years and years ago. It was deemed not fair use to load a program from your hard-drive or CD, into memory. Hence, EULAs must be agreed to or running the program is copyright violation.
It would be interesting, what would they do if they don't find any possession of child porn?
The usual thing that happens when they seize all of your possessions executing a warrant, but don't turn up any evidence: Auction off all your equipment anyways and tell you to go to hell. Then, after 8 years of trying to sue later, cut you a check for $200 as "just compensation" since that's what your now 8 year old computer is worth in the current market.
let us find out why they hate their creators so much that they'd rather go back to war with them again then just go off in the galaxy and do whatever Cylons do to have fun!
The Cylon episodes explained that fairly well. They went back to war because in their opinion, humanity was capricious and untrustworthy. They felt it was inevitable that humanity would try to destroy them again at some point in the future, and the optimal solution would be to nuke them all from orbit before that could happen. (It is, after all, the only way to be sure).
It will be great to see the Galactica back in the days when it was shiny and new. The only lack of suspense here is that it will never be under true threat of destruction, since we know it survives 50 years into the future. Bit of a problem there in making a tight, edge of your seat, drama.
I don't think at any point in any of the first three seaons, was there a time I thought the BSG might be destroyed;)
I'm on Bell Sympatico DSL. My upload usually doesn't go much faster than 100-200, and is usually only 30-40...but I download at 300 kilobyes or higher if it's a busy swarm. Dunno what you are talking about, maybe your swarms aren't busy or the people in them are the ones capping the transfer on you;)
You seem to be taking this out of context, and taking it personally. They aren't saying "You play WoW for like 3-5 hours a night, and 8+ saturdays and sundays, you are an addict and need help." In that case, you clearly have lots of free time, and perhaps not a lot of a "real" social life to take up that free time. (Although I somewhat disagree with the notion that it isn't a social life. I chat and play games with friends in Texas, the UK, California, and Bermuda, how is that fundamentally less social that playing darts with them at the bar, other than the fact that its less physical?) I admit I play online games perhaps too much, and could be doing other things with my free time (like the dishes). The difference is, the addicts they are talking about, they don't just spend all their free time on it, they make more free time by calling in sick to work, skipping classes, skipping out on family functions. Playing during work. That's when you would call it an addiction. They aren't using up their free time, they are MAKING free time to do it more. If you have a pint with dinner every night, you probably wouldn't be called adicted, though you might not being doing your liver any favours. But if you have a flask at work, and are coming in to work hung over or drunk most days, then you have a problem. Given that there ARE people who fit into the latter category, you wouldn't expect a person in the former (a beer or a glass of wine with dinner most nights) to object to the notion that you can have an alcohol problem.
It works the same way with games. In my group, there was somebody who dropped out of college to play full time, sold his car to upgrade his computer and pay his monthly fees. I'd say that is a big problem. In my group, there is also somebody who probably played just as much as this guy, more or less. They are a university student. They aren't on as much during the day, but often are evenings and all weekends. But when their courses and research get heavy, they vanish for a week or two. They only show up for important raids, so only a few hours a week, tops. That's the difference. It is all their free time, or at least most of it. But it doesn't interfere with the rest of their life. If your playing isn't messing with the rest of your life, you aren't the sort of person they are talking about, and shouldn't get defensive;)
That's not the point. The point isn't "oh no somebody will mean to buy a four year old card from ATI but accidentally buy a much more expensive and new card from nVidia, even though GeForce/Radeon are the far more prominant parts of the name", it's that they gave it the same number as a four year old card from ATI! I'm just guessing 4 year old, I don't care to go look it up, but I'm sure I bought my 9800 PRO in 2004, and it wasn't the top of the line even then, I don't think. Seems kind of silly, you wouldn't want to name your new CPU a 486DX for the same reason.
In the KWA, we do that one of the routes, anyways. The iExpress buses all have GPS and all (well, most) of the iExpress stops have a LED readout that shows the schedule and the ETA based on the GPS data, plus or minus about a minute. Its pretty good, up at the mall it usually ticks from "1 minute" to "due" just as you can see the bus turning into the parking lot.
Well, its true that the scanner shows off images of your naked body in high resolution, comparable to a home-camcorder in infrared nightshot mode, (AKA Paris Hilton mode) the face is fairly blurred and indistinguishable so they can't really tell from the scanner who exactly they are seeing naked. Hence it preserves your privacy because unless they also look at you, not just at the scanner, they don't know who they saw naked!
Uhhhhh, you don't understand what is happening, do you? Here is what happens: You get two cable channels. Fox and FoxLite AKA Global. You watch Fox, you get Fox, you see everything somebody in Seattle, or Buffalo, or whatever the local Fox station is, would see. Then House comes on and the cable company terminates the Fox feed for an hour and shows Global on both channels. After House, or the Simpsons, or American Idol, or whatever, is over, it switches back to the horribly confusing ads, as you say...
It has its up sides though. Global doesn't cover 9/10 of the screen at all times with ads for their other shows.
He does it because he's bored. See, people liked Chrono Trigger, but it was pretty easy. So they came up with the "wood sword" challenge, where you have to beat the game without buying a new weapon for Chrono. FF9 had a popular challenge where you had to beat it without leveling up. I'm sure FF7 has a "no materia" challenge. Any divinity can make a kick-ass universe if they have the cheat codes, says God. But it takes a true 1337dude to do it if you only allow yourself to skew random events;) If you change "Is only able to alter reality indirectly" with "Only feels like altering reality indirectly" the objections disappear. God works in mysterious ways, what place does anybody have to question His choice to not meddle directly? In summary, God does it for the lulz.
Copyright violation. In the USA, a judge has ruled that you need a contract to legally run software, since when activated the computer loads portions of the code into memory, which is considered copying, and additionally, most software also must first be copied and extracted from archives on the CD, creating a derivative work on your hard-drive. No word on the legality of DVD players, which "illegally" transfer blocks of the film into their internal memory while playing it back.
You can't believe it? Every movie ever made in the past 100 years has lost money. The studios ate like 100M in pure loss on Spiderman, after all. That's why they couldn't pay Marvel or Stan Lee anything, they agreed to net points and the movie was sheer loss. Dunno how they raised funds for Spiderman II and III when the first one lost so much money and they had to beg the government for a bailout package (which they received). It's standard practice and they all do it. You leave your own salary blank in the accounting books. A few weeks after launch, you know more or less how much the movie made and will make. So you just put a larger number than that into your salary. Boom, finish up the books, your film lost money. Now you can't pay all the people who agreed to a split of the profits. The best part is now California and the Feds pay you millions of dollars to bail you out! AND since you lost money, you can write the loss off on your taxes. So not happy with accounting fraud and contract fraud, they also commit tax fraud and defraud government programs. But some of the money they steal goes to bribe...oops I mean lobby politicians, and mysteriously their criminal actions are never investigated.
It does not take any imagination at all to determine what the CoS is likely to do with this information.
Especially when you consider that the CoS has murdered at least 23 people, and got away with it through huge settlements. (One of these murder victims was the reason for this protest). And that their "fair game" doctrine repeatedly states that protesters are to be silenced by "any means necessary" and "at all costs" etc. And finally, that in the CoS's press release with regards to Project Chanology, the CoS has stated that all of Anonymous should be put to death. Their reasoning goes like this. 1) Treason is punishable by death during times of war. 2) Treason is defined as acting against your country at the behest of another country. 3) Protesting the CoS is acting against freedom of religion, and therefore acting against your country. 4) (And this is the best one) Anonymous is run by Nazi Psychiatrists (who invented Psychiatry by torturing jews during WW2) and therefore anonymous is acting at the behest of a foreign government, and guilty of treason. Being called a secret spy ring of German Nazi Psychiatrists from WW2 is perhaps even better than being called "Hackers on Steroids", so clearly Project Chanology, from this one statement alone, is made of Epic Win. Fortunately its PROBABLY all just hot air, although there were reports of protesters being trailed, in some cases all the way home, after the events, and some of the protesters who reported this have since stopped posting. Are they dead? Or did they just go to sleep? ONLY TIME WILL TELL.
Did you know that the USA is taking action against Germany for its "human rights violations" in considering revoking Scientology's status as a tax-exempt religion? Yup. That's how totally in control of the government the CoS is. The Church is a terrorist organization, and nobody is more guilty of high treason than the despicable celebrities gathering Intel and support, in exchange for an easy tax scam. To explain, Tom Cruise manages to make $10M off some movie deal. But oh snap, he owes $5M in taxes on that! But wait, if he donates all $10M to the church, suddenly boom, no taxes to pay! YAY! But now he has no $10M:( Except that as a celebrity member of the church, that money is instantly transfered into a PR account in his name. And he has sole discretion over what to do with it. Wants a new house. No problem, the PR fund can buy it. The Church still technically owns it, or he would need to pay taxes on it if it was gifted to him, but he is free to live there all the same. At the bare minimum, the treasonous celebrity members need to be locked up on tax evasion and conspiracy to commit tax evasion.
Anyways, not surprising that in spite of all of the cameras and media vans, it's not on the news, at least in Canada. 200-300 people stay out in -30c weather all day in Toronto, and CBC, CTV, cityTV, and AChannel all conveniently ignore it. Guess it's not news worthy. It would have been a perfect tidbit for their half hour section on the people braving the cold in Toronto's coldest day yet! (Vancouver had way more people show up but since it wasn't bloody -30 their attendance is not nearly so epic)
In Florida a man was given the minimum sentence of 25 years for having 56 viccodin, of the 80 he was prescribed, in a valid bottle. Because, in Florida at least, any more than 50 is automatic guilt in drug trafficking. Having a valid prescription is not an exception, and the defense attorney was not permitted to even mention his valid prescription to the jury. The judge ruled that since the law does not mention prescriptions, that knowledge would be distracting and irrelevant. As a convicted drug trafficker, his two condos, car, and boat were all seized by the state and sold. Since they were auctioned for pennies on the dime, he still owes them a big chunk of the $500,000 minimum fine for drug trafficking.
I think that's how House should end. He's at a conference in Florida. He gets busted with a bottle full of pills, in the proper prescription bottle. Doesn't matter. He had more than 50, he's guilty of drug trafficking. 25 years in prison. All his possessions are sold. According to their records he paid large amounts of money to Dr. Wilson, and received large amounts in turn. "But he was just paying me back, he borrows money all the time". Likely story Dr. Wilson, 10 years for money laundering, all your possessions seized too. The end. No opportunity for appeal, the law is clear.
That's just silly. Don't know where to begin. The only reason the fictional character would need to march off to the provincial office to get his birth certificate, would be if he lost it, or it was stolen or destroyed. That's hardly the governments fault. The reason they aren't in the same building is that birth certificates are handled by the province of birth! If he lived in Ontario but was born in BC he might be right screwed, I don't know how the handle that, since I've never been in that situation.
In Canada we already have national "ID". It's called a Social Insurance card. I had mine since birth so my parents could establish a joint mutual fund in my name, although many people don't get it until they are in highschool and need to apply for a job or a drivers license. Are you suggesting that a unique number that anybody who has ever held a job or got a drivers license, is an insufficient "primary key"? Beyond that, are you suggesting that the reason you have to write down your current address and your birthday, and your full name, and your citizenship status, when you apply for a passport, is that they don't know it? Of course they know it. The point is, do you? Are you who you claim you are? So this fictional character was in the army for 30 years. That means he should get a special application form where he just send in a photo and a post-it note with his SIN, they fill in the rest and mail him his passport? And that wouldn't be exploitable? If, as he claims, he has held 8 other passports, all he has to do is bring in two photos and his most recent passport. As long as he hasn't changed his name, and the passport expired no more than 1 year ago. (And he was over 16 and living in Canada at the time he applied for it), then he doesn't need all the other supporting documentation. No letters from a lawyer or doctor or notary public or government official or university professor (or whoever else is acceptable as an important figure), none of it. Just bring those pictures in with your old passport and that's it. And the reason they can do this is, they DO know all your information already. They use it to confirm who you are. Since you already have a valid passport, they know already that it really is you, problem solved. If you want it in a different name, then things become somewhat suspicious, but other than that, it's AWWWWWWWWWRIGHT.
This article is actually all about the RFID and giving the Americans access to the database, and nothing at all about the concept of "national ID", as though we don't already have national ID...
If they don't stop children from downloading music, the record studios will be FORCED to get a $100,000,000,000,000 judgment against their parents, ruining their potential future and ability to go to a post-secondary institution (unless they manage to get a scholarship while living on the streets). So yes, it's for the children.
In New Zealand, publishing, including on a personal website, pictures or other depictions of urination is a "highly illegal" felony with a penalty of 10 years in prison. Sucks to be Penthouse New Zealand;) If you only possess these pictures or view them on a website it's only 5 years in prison. The 10 year number was increased from 1 year in 2005. Pretty hilarious actually. Get caught importing American Pie 2, spend the next half a decade in federal prison for crimes against decency. Perfectly reasonable, IMHO.
Then again, this was posted on Wikipedia so it's quite possibly not true [citation needed]. What's extra awesome [POV?] is that the NZ website protesting censorship of urination and other "objectionable" fetishes which are decided after your arrest, has been taken down for objectionable content [citation needed] and its hosts are probably now serving 10 years in prison [original research?];) YouTube has many videos of monkeys and other animals peeing. I wonder if NZ will try to extradite the admins from YouTube, or if it's only a high crime for humans to pee, not animals.
What currently stops your boss from ordering you to come to his office and swear a solemn oath with God as your witness, that you voted as he told you to?
Gold sure is toxic. Occasionally lethal. Causes heavy metal poisoning, severe kidney and liver damage, the usual stuff. Treated by chelation just like lead and mercury and arsenic poisoning. But its elemental form is quite harmless due to the fact that it'll just sit there and not react, since its in a non-soluble, non-ionic form, and doesn't react with anything typically found in a human body. Lead is bad for you because even in its elemental form, there are a number of things in your body that can react with it and form soluble compounds, though I heard somewhere that this isn't much of a danger for say, a bullet lodged somewhere, mostly just a danger of ingestion (though this is not true for lead salts like those used in paints and glazes, which are already in a soluble form). Swallowing a gold ring, on the other hand, isn't dangerous, since it won't react in your stomach and will remain just a chunk of gold. Gold salts (which is what they call soluble gold compounds even if they aren't technically a salt) are used in electroplating stuff, as an anesthetic agent, and for treating arthritis, and these are the danger. Since gold won't become soluble in your body, having a soluable form of gold enter your body is a bad thing, but its the ONLY way to get gold poisoning. I seem to recall an episode of House where a woman was poisoning her husband with whichever gold compound is used to treat arthritis. House might not always be a good source, but gold poisoning from overdosing on this medication is a very real danger. It's also a very real danger for those whose job it is to electroplate things with gold, and there have been a few rare deaths from lethal gold poisoning as the result of workplace accidents.
When you said stealth mode, I imagined taking a picture of your desk and mapping the corresponding portions of the photo to the keys above that location, so it looks like the keys are transparent;)
Fraudulent article, summary, and title. While technically correct that the RIAA is filing suits against consumers who rip CDs, its also technically correct to state that the RIAA is filing suits against consumers who listen to music. Or that the justice department is seeking the death penalty against criminals who jaywalk. Technically correct, but that's not what the suit is over. He is being sued for making copyright music available for download on the internet. They are merely stating that the files he legally owns are included. And they are unauthorized copies. They never said illegal, they said unauthorized. Putting spinnerz on your phat alloy rims isn't ILLEGAL, but its not a dealer authorized modification (in some states it may be illegal as a "distracting device", like undercarriage lights are most places) I haven't heard of people being arrested for unauthorized biographies, either. If the studio specifically granted him permission to copy these files to his hard-drive, and share them online, then they wouldn't have a case, you see. So the fact that he was not granted permission to rip them, even though he doesn't need it, is important. You see, if a movie star sues the author of a biography for libel, the fact that it's unauthorized does matter, even though the unauthorized bit isn't illegal.
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I've noticed the same thing with DSL. Last time this issue came up, people reported being heavily throttled on Bell, while I was, at the time, getting 700kB/s off of one swarm. I was only uploading at 45 though, so maybe they do throttle upstream bandwidth, or maybe most people in the swarm already had most of what I had ;)
There was a ruling on that years and years ago. It was deemed not fair use to load a program from your hard-drive or CD, into memory. Hence, EULAs must be agreed to or running the program is copyright violation.
I'm on Bell Sympatico DSL. My upload usually doesn't go much faster than 100-200, and is usually only 30-40...but I download at 300 kilobyes or higher if it's a busy swarm. Dunno what you are talking about, maybe your swarms aren't busy or the people in them are the ones capping the transfer on you ;)
You seem to be taking this out of context, and taking it personally. They aren't saying "You play WoW for like 3-5 hours a night, and 8+ saturdays and sundays, you are an addict and need help." In that case, you clearly have lots of free time, and perhaps not a lot of a "real" social life to take up that free time. (Although I somewhat disagree with the notion that it isn't a social life. I chat and play games with friends in Texas, the UK, California, and Bermuda, how is that fundamentally less social that playing darts with them at the bar, other than the fact that its less physical?) I admit I play online games perhaps too much, and could be doing other things with my free time (like the dishes). The difference is, the addicts they are talking about, they don't just spend all their free time on it, they make more free time by calling in sick to work, skipping classes, skipping out on family functions. Playing during work. That's when you would call it an addiction. They aren't using up their free time, they are MAKING free time to do it more. If you have a pint with dinner every night, you probably wouldn't be called adicted, though you might not being doing your liver any favours. But if you have a flask at work, and are coming in to work hung over or drunk most days, then you have a problem. Given that there ARE people who fit into the latter category, you wouldn't expect a person in the former (a beer or a glass of wine with dinner most nights) to object to the notion that you can have an alcohol problem.
It works the same way with games. In my group, there was somebody who dropped out of college to play full time, sold his car to upgrade his computer and pay his monthly fees. I'd say that is a big problem. In my group, there is also somebody who probably played just as much as this guy, more or less. They are a university student. They aren't on as much during the day, but often are evenings and all weekends. But when their courses and research get heavy, they vanish for a week or two. They only show up for important raids, so only a few hours a week, tops. That's the difference. It is all their free time, or at least most of it. But it doesn't interfere with the rest of their life. If your playing isn't messing with the rest of your life, you aren't the sort of person they are talking about, and shouldn't get defensive ;)
That's not the point. The point isn't "oh no somebody will mean to buy a four year old card from ATI but accidentally buy a much more expensive and new card from nVidia, even though GeForce/Radeon are the far more prominant parts of the name", it's that they gave it the same number as a four year old card from ATI! I'm just guessing 4 year old, I don't care to go look it up, but I'm sure I bought my 9800 PRO in 2004, and it wasn't the top of the line even then, I don't think. Seems kind of silly, you wouldn't want to name your new CPU a 486DX for the same reason.
Indeed! Now we're the Google capital too, not just the bathtub racing, mall, weed capital!
In the KWA, we do that one of the routes, anyways. The iExpress buses all have GPS and all (well, most) of the iExpress stops have a LED readout that shows the schedule and the ETA based on the GPS data, plus or minus about a minute. Its pretty good, up at the mall it usually ticks from "1 minute" to "due" just as you can see the bus turning into the parking lot.
Well, its true that the scanner shows off images of your naked body in high resolution, comparable to a home-camcorder in infrared nightshot mode, (AKA Paris Hilton mode) the face is fairly blurred and indistinguishable so they can't really tell from the scanner who exactly they are seeing naked. Hence it preserves your privacy because unless they also look at you, not just at the scanner, they don't know who they saw naked!
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Uhhhhh, you don't understand what is happening, do you? Here is what happens: You get two cable channels. Fox and FoxLite AKA Global. You watch Fox, you get Fox, you see everything somebody in Seattle, or Buffalo, or whatever the local Fox station is, would see. Then House comes on and the cable company terminates the Fox feed for an hour and shows Global on both channels. After House, or the Simpsons, or American Idol, or whatever, is over, it switches back to the horribly confusing ads, as you say...
It has its up sides though. Global doesn't cover 9/10 of the screen at all times with ads for their other shows.
He does it because he's bored. See, people liked Chrono Trigger, but it was pretty easy. So they came up with the "wood sword" challenge, where you have to beat the game without buying a new weapon for Chrono. FF9 had a popular challenge where you had to beat it without leveling up. I'm sure FF7 has a "no materia" challenge. Any divinity can make a kick-ass universe if they have the cheat codes, says God. But it takes a true 1337dude to do it if you only allow yourself to skew random events ;) If you change "Is only able to alter reality indirectly" with "Only feels like altering reality indirectly" the objections disappear. God works in mysterious ways, what place does anybody have to question His choice to not meddle directly? In summary, God does it for the lulz.
Copyright violation. In the USA, a judge has ruled that you need a contract to legally run software, since when activated the computer loads portions of the code into memory, which is considered copying, and additionally, most software also must first be copied and extracted from archives on the CD, creating a derivative work on your hard-drive. No word on the legality of DVD players, which "illegally" transfer blocks of the film into their internal memory while playing it back.
You can't believe it? Every movie ever made in the past 100 years has lost money. The studios ate like 100M in pure loss on Spiderman, after all. That's why they couldn't pay Marvel or Stan Lee anything, they agreed to net points and the movie was sheer loss. Dunno how they raised funds for Spiderman II and III when the first one lost so much money and they had to beg the government for a bailout package (which they received). It's standard practice and they all do it. You leave your own salary blank in the accounting books. A few weeks after launch, you know more or less how much the movie made and will make. So you just put a larger number than that into your salary. Boom, finish up the books, your film lost money. Now you can't pay all the people who agreed to a split of the profits. The best part is now California and the Feds pay you millions of dollars to bail you out! AND since you lost money, you can write the loss off on your taxes. So not happy with accounting fraud and contract fraud, they also commit tax fraud and defraud government programs. But some of the money they steal goes to bribe...oops I mean lobby politicians, and mysteriously their criminal actions are never investigated.
Especially when you consider that the CoS has murdered at least 23 people, and got away with it through huge settlements. (One of these murder victims was the reason for this protest). And that their "fair game" doctrine repeatedly states that protesters are to be silenced by "any means necessary" and "at all costs" etc. And finally, that in the CoS's press release with regards to Project Chanology, the CoS has stated that all of Anonymous should be put to death. Their reasoning goes like this. 1) Treason is punishable by death during times of war. 2) Treason is defined as acting against your country at the behest of another country. 3) Protesting the CoS is acting against freedom of religion, and therefore acting against your country. 4) (And this is the best one) Anonymous is run by Nazi Psychiatrists (who invented Psychiatry by torturing jews during WW2) and therefore anonymous is acting at the behest of a foreign government, and guilty of treason. Being called a secret spy ring of German Nazi Psychiatrists from WW2 is perhaps even better than being called "Hackers on Steroids", so clearly Project Chanology, from this one statement alone, is made of Epic Win. Fortunately its PROBABLY all just hot air, although there were reports of protesters being trailed, in some cases all the way home, after the events, and some of the protesters who reported this have since stopped posting. Are they dead? Or did they just go to sleep? ONLY TIME WILL TELL.
Did you know that the USA is taking action against Germany for its "human rights violations" in considering revoking Scientology's status as a tax-exempt religion? Yup. That's how totally in control of the government the CoS is. The Church is a terrorist organization, and nobody is more guilty of high treason than the despicable celebrities gathering Intel and support, in exchange for an easy tax scam. To explain, Tom Cruise manages to make $10M off some movie deal. But oh snap, he owes $5M in taxes on that! But wait, if he donates all $10M to the church, suddenly boom, no taxes to pay! YAY! But now he has no $10M :( Except that as a celebrity member of the church, that money is instantly transfered into a PR account in his name. And he has sole discretion over what to do with it. Wants a new house. No problem, the PR fund can buy it. The Church still technically owns it, or he would need to pay taxes on it if it was gifted to him, but he is free to live there all the same. At the bare minimum, the treasonous celebrity members need to be locked up on tax evasion and conspiracy to commit tax evasion.
Anyways, not surprising that in spite of all of the cameras and media vans, it's not on the news, at least in Canada. 200-300 people stay out in -30c weather all day in Toronto, and CBC, CTV, cityTV, and AChannel all conveniently ignore it. Guess it's not news worthy. It would have been a perfect tidbit for their half hour section on the people braving the cold in Toronto's coldest day yet! (Vancouver had way more people show up but since it wasn't bloody -30 their attendance is not nearly so epic)
In Florida a man was given the minimum sentence of 25 years for having 56 viccodin, of the 80 he was prescribed, in a valid bottle. Because, in Florida at least, any more than 50 is automatic guilt in drug trafficking. Having a valid prescription is not an exception, and the defense attorney was not permitted to even mention his valid prescription to the jury. The judge ruled that since the law does not mention prescriptions, that knowledge would be distracting and irrelevant. As a convicted drug trafficker, his two condos, car, and boat were all seized by the state and sold. Since they were auctioned for pennies on the dime, he still owes them a big chunk of the $500,000 minimum fine for drug trafficking.
I think that's how House should end. He's at a conference in Florida. He gets busted with a bottle full of pills, in the proper prescription bottle. Doesn't matter. He had more than 50, he's guilty of drug trafficking. 25 years in prison. All his possessions are sold. According to their records he paid large amounts of money to Dr. Wilson, and received large amounts in turn. "But he was just paying me back, he borrows money all the time". Likely story Dr. Wilson, 10 years for money laundering, all your possessions seized too. The end. No opportunity for appeal, the law is clear.
That's just silly. Don't know where to begin. The only reason the fictional character would need to march off to the provincial office to get his birth certificate, would be if he lost it, or it was stolen or destroyed. That's hardly the governments fault. The reason they aren't in the same building is that birth certificates are handled by the province of birth! If he lived in Ontario but was born in BC he might be right screwed, I don't know how the handle that, since I've never been in that situation.
In Canada we already have national "ID". It's called a Social Insurance card. I had mine since birth so my parents could establish a joint mutual fund in my name, although many people don't get it until they are in highschool and need to apply for a job or a drivers license. Are you suggesting that a unique number that anybody who has ever held a job or got a drivers license, is an insufficient "primary key"? Beyond that, are you suggesting that the reason you have to write down your current address and your birthday, and your full name, and your citizenship status, when you apply for a passport, is that they don't know it? Of course they know it. The point is, do you? Are you who you claim you are? So this fictional character was in the army for 30 years. That means he should get a special application form where he just send in a photo and a post-it note with his SIN, they fill in the rest and mail him his passport? And that wouldn't be exploitable? If, as he claims, he has held 8 other passports, all he has to do is bring in two photos and his most recent passport. As long as he hasn't changed his name, and the passport expired no more than 1 year ago. (And he was over 16 and living in Canada at the time he applied for it), then he doesn't need all the other supporting documentation. No letters from a lawyer or doctor or notary public or government official or university professor (or whoever else is acceptable as an important figure), none of it. Just bring those pictures in with your old passport and that's it. And the reason they can do this is, they DO know all your information already. They use it to confirm who you are. Since you already have a valid passport, they know already that it really is you, problem solved. If you want it in a different name, then things become somewhat suspicious, but other than that, it's AWWWWWWWWWRIGHT.
This article is actually all about the RFID and giving the Americans access to the database, and nothing at all about the concept of "national ID", as though we don't already have national ID...
If they don't stop children from downloading music, the record studios will be FORCED to get a $100,000,000,000,000 judgment against their parents, ruining their potential future and ability to go to a post-secondary institution (unless they manage to get a scholarship while living on the streets). So yes, it's for the children.
You had to use unauthorized HTTP requests to get that far though.
In New Zealand, publishing, including on a personal website, pictures or other depictions of urination is a "highly illegal" felony with a penalty of 10 years in prison. Sucks to be Penthouse New Zealand ;) If you only possess these pictures or view them on a website it's only 5 years in prison. The 10 year number was increased from 1 year in 2005. Pretty hilarious actually. Get caught importing American Pie 2, spend the next half a decade in federal prison for crimes against decency. Perfectly reasonable, IMHO.
Then again, this was posted on Wikipedia so it's quite possibly not true [citation needed]. What's extra awesome [POV?] is that the NZ website protesting censorship of urination and other "objectionable" fetishes which are decided after your arrest, has been taken down for objectionable content [citation needed] and its hosts are probably now serving 10 years in prison [original research?];) YouTube has many videos of monkeys and other animals peeing. I wonder if NZ will try to extradite the admins from YouTube, or if it's only a high crime for humans to pee, not animals.
What currently stops your boss from ordering you to come to his office and swear a solemn oath with God as your witness, that you voted as he told you to?
Gold sure is toxic. Occasionally lethal. Causes heavy metal poisoning, severe kidney and liver damage, the usual stuff. Treated by chelation just like lead and mercury and arsenic poisoning. But its elemental form is quite harmless due to the fact that it'll just sit there and not react, since its in a non-soluble, non-ionic form, and doesn't react with anything typically found in a human body. Lead is bad for you because even in its elemental form, there are a number of things in your body that can react with it and form soluble compounds, though I heard somewhere that this isn't much of a danger for say, a bullet lodged somewhere, mostly just a danger of ingestion (though this is not true for lead salts like those used in paints and glazes, which are already in a soluble form). Swallowing a gold ring, on the other hand, isn't dangerous, since it won't react in your stomach and will remain just a chunk of gold. Gold salts (which is what they call soluble gold compounds even if they aren't technically a salt) are used in electroplating stuff, as an anesthetic agent, and for treating arthritis, and these are the danger. Since gold won't become soluble in your body, having a soluable form of gold enter your body is a bad thing, but its the ONLY way to get gold poisoning. I seem to recall an episode of House where a woman was poisoning her husband with whichever gold compound is used to treat arthritis. House might not always be a good source, but gold poisoning from overdosing on this medication is a very real danger. It's also a very real danger for those whose job it is to electroplate things with gold, and there have been a few rare deaths from lethal gold poisoning as the result of workplace accidents.
When you said stealth mode, I imagined taking a picture of your desk and mapping the corresponding portions of the photo to the keys above that location, so it looks like the keys are transparent ;)
Fraudulent article, summary, and title. While technically correct that the RIAA is filing suits against consumers who rip CDs, its also technically correct to state that the RIAA is filing suits against consumers who listen to music. Or that the justice department is seeking the death penalty against criminals who jaywalk. Technically correct, but that's not what the suit is over. He is being sued for making copyright music available for download on the internet. They are merely stating that the files he legally owns are included. And they are unauthorized copies. They never said illegal, they said unauthorized. Putting spinnerz on your phat alloy rims isn't ILLEGAL, but its not a dealer authorized modification (in some states it may be illegal as a "distracting device", like undercarriage lights are most places) I haven't heard of people being arrested for unauthorized biographies, either. If the studio specifically granted him permission to copy these files to his hard-drive, and share them online, then they wouldn't have a case, you see. So the fact that he was not granted permission to rip them, even though he doesn't need it, is important. You see, if a movie star sues the author of a biography for libel, the fact that it's unauthorized does matter, even though the unauthorized bit isn't illegal.