Wrong, Juniper has to prove the statements are false. The burdern of proof is on them, not on the people they are suing.
Also, the truth is an absolute defense. Thus, I could call your mother a filthy whore if she doesn't bath and has sex with everyone (not that I'm suggesting that's the case).
And check out "unlawful imprisonment" and "kidnapping". You better be pretty damn sure that the person did commit a crime or you're screwed. "He looked suspicious" isn't good enough. On the other hand, video tape of the person shoving a $300 portable dvd player into his pants might get you out of trouble when it's later proven he did it as a joke and had placed the dvd player back on the shelf when turned his back to the camera. I said _might_.
It varies by state. Here in California, it is definately illegal. It's also illegal for a store employee to lay a finger on you. That's called battery.
I worked with someone who was a former security employee of Frys. He was under the impression that it was perfectly ok to rough up suspected thieves. Bullshit. My aunt is the V.P. of security for a _major_ clothing chain. She couldn't emphesize enough that you never, ever use force of any type to detain someone. The potential damage in lawsuits (and public relations) is way too much compared to the tiny merchandise loss if someone decided to resist. Especially if it turned out to be a mistake (which does happen).
The rules she used at her chain:
1. You must see the person take the item. 2. You must never lose sight of that person from that moment until they leave the store. 3. You had security personal confront the person AFTER they left the store. 99% of the time the person just gave up on the spot. 4. You called the police immediately.
For that 1% who didn't cooperate. Security simply followed the person until they could get a license plate number, then called the police.
In July 1999, the United States Senate voted 95-0 to pass a resolution co-sponsored by Sen. Byrd (D-W.Va.) and Sen. Hagel (R-Neb.), which stated the Senate would not ratify the Protocol unless rapidly developing countries such as China were included in its requirements to reduce greenhouse gases.
I was slightly off in my initial guess. I'd still say it was completely one-sided.
Side note to the people who moderated me down: A differing opinion does not make the comment flame-bait or a troll. That's such a "berkeley" attide, "We don't want to hear what he is saying, so we will call him names instead of arguing the issue." Whatever, kiss my ass.
wasn't the Kyoto protocol designed to prevent global warming?
How naive. It was absolutely not designed to prevent global warming.
If that was the intention, China would not have been given a free pass to pollute, especially since they are the largest producer of the types of pollution it was designed to reduce.
Before anyone screams "republican conspiracy", keep in mind that our Senate rejected it by a vote of 100 to 0 (actually, it might have been 99 to 1). It was so overwhelmingly obvsious that it was designed to destroy our economy that there was absolutely no doubt in the minds of all the senators, regardless of party affiliation. When was the last time you saw a vote so one sided in this country?
It's easy enough for me to create a home made high pitched squeal. Just take the phone away from my teenage daughter. From what I have been able to ascertain, the telephone is permanently attached to her ear. Taking it away causes her physical pain which results in her emitting an extremely loud high pitched squeal.
I try not to do that anymore because the neighbors complain.
No, we didn't put him in power. He put himself in power because he controlled the Iraqi military. No, we did not help in in that, either.
When we were having a bit of a problem with Iran (hostages, etc) we did give Iraq some information about Iran's troops (no, we didn't give him weapons as is so often claimed). The "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" thinking. In retrospect a very bad idea, but looking back now we can easily see it was a mistake.
It's not the same. Cisco is actively helping them to set up the firewalling to prevent freedom of speech. While the gun companies sells guns to a licensed dealer, who then sells it to an individual who later has it stolen by a crackhead who kills someone with it.
On the other hand, if the gun company sold large quantities of guns and ammo to a repressive government and sent over a bunch of buys to train government thugs on the most efficient means to kill large numbers of peaceful protestors, then we might have a reasonable comparison.
The music industry has had it their way for so long that they simply can not grasp the concept of sharing the piece of the pie, even if it's a huge ass pie. They want it all.
To put it simply for the record executes (who are too stupid to understand basic math): you can have all of this lovely McDonalds hot apple pie (contents may be hot), or you can have half of this full-sized, deep-dish apple pie.
The record executives will, of course, take the McDonalds pie and sue the bakery out of existence.
The United Nations has been bitching about gaining control of the internet. Funny how they chose to have their conference on the subject in a country that has strict controls on media and internet access. No big surprise, members of their committee on human rights reads like a who's-who of the worse human rights violators in the world, so to them, it makes since to put countries with the most censorship in charge of the free exchange of digital information.
Since the terrorists ignore the Geneva Convention (e.g. killing civilians) means the U.S. military and allies are not bound by them. The fact that we still abide by them is simply because we aren't barbarians like the terrorists.
For those people bitching about us holding people in Gitmo. According to the Geneva Convention, we could have shot those assholes on the spot (combatants in civilian clothes). Again, we aren't barbarians so we stick them in a prison that is actually far better than their home life and try to figure out if they were forced into the military operations or were enthusiastic participants. Perhaps we should stick to the Geneva Convention to the letter and start shooting the ones we have in custody, one a day, until the fucknuts bitching about us holding them shut the hell up.
I can see it now: "The U.S. needs to abide by the Geneva Convention!". "Ok." BANG! "WTF!" BANG! "What the hell are you doing!?" "Exactly what you demanded."
Because installing a Windoze patch is risky business. They have a nasty habit of breaking important things. Good IT departments will test the crap out of a patch before rolling it out to several hundred desktops.
Sonic.net all the way. They've been rated the best regional ISP in the country. They are geek friendly, their terms of use are agreeble, and their customer support is outstanding.
I get 5meg/500k (service is rated up to 6m/600k, but distance will affect actual speeds).
I have a static IP.
I can run a server.
You don't get put on "hold hell" when you call them (Unlike SBC which guarantees a minimum of 30 minutes hold time).
They have excellent spam filtering that is highly configurable.
The owner isn't too proud to provide tech support.
The downside, I pay more because of the "SBC Tax". It's worth it however, because I don't have to deal with SBC.
All the problems in the Star Wars universe (at least in episodes 1-3) are being blamed on the Trade Federation and the Banking Cartel. I don't really like being lectured on the evils of capitalism by a filthy rich jerk who has made a fortune by selling franchise rights to any asshole with a checkbook.
If I had to choose between having Bushie in the White House and Saddam Hussein in the White House, I'd pick Saddam without even thinking twice.
So you would have prefered a mass murdering evil bastard who had used chemical weapons against his own people running this country? You are a fucking idiot. No, that demeans fucking idiots. You are beyond a fucking idiot. People like you are why the far left has lost any shred of legitimacy it might have had. You hate Bush so much you spew out lunacy without thinking once - let alone thinking twice.
Just once, stop and think about what you are saying. Did you actually consider your statement before committing it to public scrutiny? "I want a thug running things who likes to torture and murder a large percentage of the population so he can stay in power."
Go back to indymedia where intelligence is considered a negative attribute.
Google should comply with the court order to the extreme. Any search on the company's name should return the message "Nothing found for search term 'whatever'".
My wife is a linguist (but I am not), she would NEVER use google hits as proof that her translation is correct. In English, especially, there are far too many grammatical and spelling errors that have come into common useage (think "their", "there", and "they're" or "it's" and "its").
A high number of google hits could mean the translation is correct, but it could also mean there are a lot of idiots using the internet.
PPC! I used to hang at the PPC headquarters in Orange County on the weekends. Obviously I did not have a life.
Yeah, I did the microcode stuff. I had the "dan rom" (I think that's what it was called) for easy entry of op codes. My big project was a microcode debugger that allowed you to single step through your code by emulating the instructions, but I never did release the program.
The one important thing programming the HP-41CV taught me was optmizing for space. We were always trying to remove just a few more bytes from the program due to the limited address space.
We were overclocking our HP-41CVs a decade ago. I have this little work-horse sitting in front of me this very moment. It has a magnetic switch for enabling/disabling the speed improvement (pass a magnet across the back). The overclocking rates at about 1.8 times the original speed, but you sacrifice battery life for that performance boost. I don't bother kicking up the speed these days as I never do complicated calculations with it any more.
There will always be moronic moonbats who denounce anything the U.S. does as self-serving and tyrannical, ignoring the injustice everywhere else in the world. The same fucktards denouncing the vote counting in Florida were calling Saddam's election a fair democracy (only Saddam was on the ballot, and your vote was public record). These same idiots denounce the liberation of an entire country as unilateral aggression (over 40 countries is unilateral?), and in the same breath scream for a "people's revolution" to put a communist dictatorship in power.
The scary part is the population of these half-brain assholes seems to be growing.
I would call it religious tyranny, not politics. The reactionary mullahs don't wish people to actually think for themselves or to exchange subversive ideas such as democracy and freedom, they just want them to follow orders from allah (as interpreted by themselves, of course).
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Wrong, Juniper has to prove the statements are false. The burdern of proof is on them, not on the people they are suing.
Also, the truth is an absolute defense. Thus, I could call your mother a filthy whore if she doesn't bath and has sex with everyone (not that I'm suggesting that's the case).
And check out "unlawful imprisonment" and "kidnapping". You better be pretty damn sure that the person did commit a crime or you're screwed. "He looked suspicious" isn't good enough. On the other hand, video tape of the person shoving a $300 portable dvd player into his pants might get you out of trouble when it's later proven he did it as a joke and had placed the dvd player back on the shelf when turned his back to the camera. I said _might_.
So what's the pay to work at Victoria's Secret?
I think I can swing about $10/hour. I'm not sure I can afford to pay more without cutting back my hours severely.
It varies by state. Here in California, it is definately illegal. It's also illegal for a store employee to lay a finger on you. That's called battery.
I worked with someone who was a former security employee of Frys. He was under the impression that it was perfectly ok to rough up suspected thieves. Bullshit. My aunt is the V.P. of security for a _major_ clothing chain. She couldn't emphesize enough that you never, ever use force of any type to detain someone. The potential damage in lawsuits (and public relations) is way too much compared to the tiny merchandise loss if someone decided to resist. Especially if it turned out to be a mistake (which does happen).
The rules she used at her chain:
1. You must see the person take the item.
2. You must never lose sight of that person from that moment until they leave the store.
3. You had security personal confront the person AFTER they left the store. 99% of the time the person just gave up on the spot.
4. You called the police immediately.
For that 1% who didn't cooperate. Security simply followed the person until they could get a license plate number, then called the police.
In July 1999, the United States Senate voted 95-0 to pass a resolution co-sponsored by Sen. Byrd (D-W.Va.) and Sen. Hagel (R-Neb.), which stated the Senate would not ratify the Protocol unless rapidly developing countries such as China were included in its requirements to reduce greenhouse gases.
I was slightly off in my initial guess. I'd still say it was completely one-sided.
Side note to the people who moderated me down: A differing opinion does not make the comment flame-bait or a troll. That's such a "berkeley" attide, "We don't want to hear what he is saying, so we will call him names instead of arguing the issue." Whatever, kiss my ass.
If that was the intention, China would not have been given a free pass to pollute, especially since they are the largest producer of the types of pollution it was designed to reduce.
Before anyone screams "republican conspiracy", keep in mind that our Senate rejected it by a vote of 100 to 0 (actually, it might have been 99 to 1). It was so overwhelmingly obvsious that it was designed to destroy our economy that there was absolutely no doubt in the minds of all the senators, regardless of party affiliation. When was the last time you saw a vote so one sided in this country?
It's easy enough for me to create a home made high pitched squeal. Just take the phone away from my teenage daughter. From what I have been able to ascertain, the telephone is permanently attached to her ear. Taking it away causes her physical pain which results in her emitting an extremely loud high pitched squeal.
I try not to do that anymore because the neighbors complain.
No, we didn't put him in power. He put himself in power because he controlled the Iraqi military. No, we did not help in in that, either.
When we were having a bit of a problem with Iran (hostages, etc) we did give Iraq some information about Iran's troops (no, we didn't give him weapons as is so often claimed). The "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" thinking. In retrospect a very bad idea, but looking back now we can easily see it was a mistake.
It's not the same. Cisco is actively helping them to set up the firewalling to prevent freedom of speech. While the gun companies sells guns to a licensed dealer, who then sells it to an individual who later has it stolen by a crackhead who kills someone with it.
On the other hand, if the gun company sold large quantities of guns and ammo to a repressive government and sent over a bunch of buys to train government thugs on the most efficient means to kill large numbers of peaceful protestors, then we might have a reasonable comparison.
The music industry has had it their way for so long that they simply can not grasp the concept of sharing the piece of the pie, even if it's a huge ass pie. They want it all.
To put it simply for the record executes (who are too stupid to understand basic math): you can have all of this lovely McDonalds hot apple pie (contents may be hot), or you can have half of this full-sized, deep-dish apple pie.
The record executives will, of course, take the McDonalds pie and sue the bakery out of existence.
The United Nations has been bitching about gaining control of the internet. Funny how they chose to have their conference on the subject in a country that has strict controls on media and internet access. No big surprise, members of their committee on human rights reads like a who's-who of the worse human rights violators in the world, so to them, it makes since to put countries with the most censorship in charge of the free exchange of digital information.
Since the terrorists ignore the Geneva Convention (e.g. killing civilians) means the U.S. military and allies are not bound by them. The fact that we still abide by them is simply because we aren't barbarians like the terrorists.
For those people bitching about us holding people in Gitmo. According to the Geneva Convention, we could have shot those assholes on the spot (combatants in civilian clothes). Again, we aren't barbarians so we stick them in a prison that is actually far better than their home life and try to figure out if they were forced into the military operations or were enthusiastic participants. Perhaps we should stick to the Geneva Convention to the letter and start shooting the ones we have in custody, one a day, until the fucknuts bitching about us holding them shut the hell up.
I can see it now: "The U.S. needs to abide by the Geneva Convention!". "Ok." BANG! "WTF!" BANG! "What the hell are you doing!?" "Exactly what you demanded."
Because installing a Windoze patch is risky business. They have a nasty habit of breaking important things. Good IT departments will test the crap out of a patch before rolling it out to several hundred desktops.
The best tool to deal with vulnerable Windoze servers is the "format" command.
Never, EVER allow a windoze box to be directly connected to the internet. Put something decent between windows and the world. I recommend smoothwall.
Sonic.net all the way. They've been rated the best regional ISP in the country. They are geek friendly, their terms of use are agreeble, and their customer support is outstanding.
I get 5meg/500k (service is rated up to 6m/600k, but distance will affect actual speeds).
I have a static IP.
I can run a server.
You don't get put on "hold hell" when you call them (Unlike SBC which guarantees a minimum of 30 minutes hold time).
They have excellent spam filtering that is highly configurable.
The owner isn't too proud to provide tech support.
The downside, I pay more because of the "SBC Tax". It's worth it however, because I don't have to deal with SBC.
Let's take a look at the European economy....
Kind of fucked, isn't it?
I wonder if the "tax the crap out of everybody to pay for social welfare system" is at fault?
Nah, couldn't be.
All the problems in the Star Wars universe (at least in episodes 1-3) are being blamed on the Trade Federation and the Banking Cartel. I don't really like being lectured on the evils of capitalism by a filthy rich jerk who has made a fortune by selling franchise rights to any asshole with a checkbook.
So you would have prefered a mass murdering evil bastard who had used chemical weapons against his own people running this country? You are a fucking idiot. No, that demeans fucking idiots. You are beyond a fucking idiot. People like you are why the far left has lost any shred of legitimacy it might have had. You hate Bush so much you spew out lunacy without thinking once - let alone thinking twice.
Just once, stop and think about what you are saying. Did you actually consider your statement before committing it to public scrutiny? "I want a thug running things who likes to torture and murder a large percentage of the population so he can stay in power."
Go back to indymedia where intelligence is considered a negative attribute.
Google should comply with the court order to the extreme. Any search on the company's name should return the message "Nothing found for search term 'whatever'".
My wife is a linguist (but I am not), she would NEVER use google hits as proof that her translation is correct. In English, especially, there are far too many grammatical and spelling errors that have come into common useage (think "their", "there", and "they're" or "it's" and "its").
A high number of google hits could mean the translation is correct, but it could also mean there are a lot of idiots using the internet.
PPC! I used to hang at the PPC headquarters in Orange County on the weekends. Obviously I did not have a life.
Yeah, I did the microcode stuff. I had the "dan rom" (I think that's what it was called) for easy entry of op codes. My big project was a microcode debugger that allowed you to single step through your code by emulating the instructions, but I never did release the program.
The one important thing programming the HP-41CV taught me was optmizing for space. We were always trying to remove just a few more bytes from the program due to the limited address space.
We were overclocking our HP-41CVs a decade ago. I have this little work-horse sitting in front of me this very moment. It has a magnetic switch for enabling/disabling the speed improvement (pass a magnet across the back). The overclocking rates at about 1.8 times the original speed, but you sacrifice battery life for that performance boost. I don't bother kicking up the speed these days as I never do complicated calculations with it any more.
There will always be moronic moonbats who denounce anything the U.S. does as self-serving and tyrannical, ignoring the injustice everywhere else in the world. The same fucktards denouncing the vote counting in Florida were calling Saddam's election a fair democracy (only Saddam was on the ballot, and your vote was public record). These same idiots denounce the liberation of an entire country as unilateral aggression (over 40 countries is unilateral?), and in the same breath scream for a "people's revolution" to put a communist dictatorship in power.
The scary part is the population of these half-brain assholes seems to be growing.