Like it or not, this is how limited liability companies work. Your potential liabilities exceed your assets, you fold your tent ans steal away like a theif in the night. The same shareholders and same directors can set up a phoenix company the next day and buy the assets of the old company (at firesale price) and start again.
The limited liability company is the root of capitalism, and I suggest we are stuck with it, for better or worse.
If many sites have taken the video down I hope that is a matter of good taste rather than bullying by the IOC. What public interest is there in seeing someone die a painful death? We must remember that just because members of the public are interested, that doesn't make release or dissemination "in the public interest".
There was a pneumatic system up and working in Ballantynes, a department store in Christchurch NZ. When you booked something up on your account (or your mother's account LOL) they sent the paperwork to the office in these cool little tubes. It was still working well into the 80's.
The company is called Rocket Lab Ltd. It makes rockets. One shareholder/director is called Mark Rocket.
http://coys.co.nz/company/?no=1835428
Coincidence? I think not!
Yep those who read TFA AND the comments will realise that its the law that requires WF to name itself as a defendant (which is not the same as suing yourself).
And you rightly identify that the real stupidity was lending too much. Thats the real story.
I had a bank manager ring me the other day about a client's contract to buy a house. She said "My god these people seem to have signed a contract that isn't subject to gettiong bank finance approval, why would someone do such a thing?"
My response: "Because for the last 3 to 5 years everyone in the market is used to the banks saying 'yes' to every damn thing!"
Farah Fawcett died and went to heaven. God asked "What do you want most for the world?"
Farah answered "I want all the children to be safe"
Well you know what God did next...
How about this as a solution to the perceived problem of print media losing sales because of people linking to stories on their web pages. Take down the print media web pages, then is someone says "theres a good article in the NY Times on X" the reader has to go out and buy the NY Times.
Or, to put it another way, by developing extensive web sites the print media are no longer just "print" media - they are by definition internet media (in relation to their web pages) and must find new ways of making money. (Thank god for adblock plus)
Memento just would not be the same if Guy Pearce|Leonard had to attach the camera to a digital printer, print out the picture and THEN write all over the pic. He'd have forgotten what the pic was about before he got all that done.
I suppose he would have had some i-phone like device and spoken the notes into the inbuilt voice recorder. But the movie just would not be the same!
The opposition has always had access to every relevant "document" in a court case. A computer file is a "document" - at least in the jurisdiction where I practise law.
The usual procedure for paper documents is simply to copy them and send them to the other side. Its not so simple for computer files. At least the court has limited what the expert can look at.
Rubbish he pleaded guilty and was then discharged without conviction. That is deemed to be an acquittal, but it doesn't mean he didn't intentionally break the law. The judge just gave him another chance. Note he was ordered to pay a large amount of compensation for his wrongs.
In New Zealand we have a procedure to have vexatious litigants declared as such, with the result that they may not issue proceedings (sue people) without leave of the High Court. Of course they still make applications for leave, but it does slow them down.
Mind you we have a single national system of courts, and no state/federal structure, so its easier to have a system where this happens.
I imagine in the US you probably have a constitutional right to bring vexatious suits.
'Ex parte' does not really mean without notice. Yes it does. It means without notice to the other part[y|ies].
If someone is about to do me a legal wrong (e.g. undermine my house by excavating under my land) and the situation is urgent I may be able to obtain ex parte an injunction to stop them. Becasue the bulldozer is humming outside my house I can get the order urgently. The quid pro quo for getting it without the bulldozer man getting an opportunity to show his side of the case is that I must be scrupulously honest and up front to the judge and provide all relevant evidence, whether it helps me or the other side, and my lawyer must refer the court to any cases or laws which may be against me as well as those that may be for me.
ex parte orders are reserved for urgent situations, which is why the judge here said there was no need for an ex parte discovery order as there was no evidence that records were about to be destroyed.
Oh and IAAL.
The local District Court is where (alleged) criminals appear after arrest and in subsequent stages. They've been increasing security for a few years. At one stage they had security scanners at the front door but not other doors, leading to a situation where you could go in another door, through a little known but public set of stairs and corridors and be inside the security cordon with no checks at all.
Now they fixed that, but the checking gets packed up at about 10:15 (at the latest) after court starts for the day.
Most crims don't actually have to be there at 10:00 as there case probably won't get called first. So if they hang around until 10:15 they avoid the search. Crazy.
Mind you I did hear of the security guys balling out a uniformed cop the other day for ducking under the barrier rather than going through the scanner. Nice to see them being even handedly inefficient.
From TFA:
"...Yezza, who is Algerian, was immediately rearrested on unrelated immigration charges and now faces deportation..." Just wanted to clarify why he's being deported. The brits' reaction to the downloading of the document was a bit extreme, but if ya want to live in a country then ya gotta play by their(sometimes idiotic) rules. So he was an illegal immigrant working or researching openly in a university and living in the UK for 13 years? If so why did they only arrest him when he downloaded his research material? Too much co-incidence here I am afraid.
It's not eye-player its eye-pee-layer.
You know, the DRM layer that protects your Intellectual Property. It's only supposed to be playable for 30 days after download.
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Like it or not, this is how limited liability companies work. Your potential liabilities exceed your assets, you fold your tent ans steal away like a theif in the night. The same shareholders and same directors can set up a phoenix company the next day and buy the assets of the old company (at firesale price) and start again. The limited liability company is the root of capitalism, and I suggest we are stuck with it, for better or worse.
You guys should read "Solar" by Ian McEwan.
you assume that the price of these things won't get cheaper.
If many sites have taken the video down I hope that is a matter of good taste rather than bullying by the IOC. What public interest is there in seeing someone die a painful death? We must remember that just because members of the public are interested, that doesn't make release or dissemination "in the public interest".
There was a pneumatic system up and working in Ballantynes, a department store in Christchurch NZ. When you booked something up on your account (or your mother's account LOL) they sent the paperwork to the office in these cool little tubes. It was still working well into the 80's.
The company is called Rocket Lab Ltd. It makes rockets. One shareholder/director is called Mark Rocket. http://coys.co.nz/company/?no=1835428 Coincidence? I think not!
Somegreyguy has the answer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFKHaFJzUb4
Yep those who read TFA AND the comments will realise that its the law that requires WF to name itself as a defendant (which is not the same as suing yourself). And you rightly identify that the real stupidity was lending too much. Thats the real story. I had a bank manager ring me the other day about a client's contract to buy a house. She said "My god these people seem to have signed a contract that isn't subject to gettiong bank finance approval, why would someone do such a thing?" My response: "Because for the last 3 to 5 years everyone in the market is used to the banks saying 'yes' to every damn thing!"
Farah Fawcett died and went to heaven. God asked "What do you want most for the world?" Farah answered "I want all the children to be safe" Well you know what God did next...
How about this as a solution to the perceived problem of print media losing sales because of people linking to stories on their web pages. Take down the print media web pages, then is someone says "theres a good article in the NY Times on X" the reader has to go out and buy the NY Times. Or, to put it another way, by developing extensive web sites the print media are no longer just "print" media - they are by definition internet media (in relation to their web pages) and must find new ways of making money. (Thank god for adblock plus)
Memento just would not be the same if Guy Pearce|Leonard had to attach the camera to a digital printer, print out the picture and THEN write all over the pic. He'd have forgotten what the pic was about before he got all that done. I suppose he would have had some i-phone like device and spoken the notes into the inbuilt voice recorder. But the movie just would not be the same!
Of course there are places where prostitution is legal, as is its advertising. Craigslist operates in more than just the U.S.
The opposition has always had access to every relevant "document" in a court case. A computer file is a "document" - at least in the jurisdiction where I practise law. The usual procedure for paper documents is simply to copy them and send them to the other side. Its not so simple for computer files. At least the court has limited what the expert can look at.
Because in most jurisdictions court proceedings are privileged, ie cannot be the subject of a slander or libel suit.
Rubbish he pleaded guilty and was then discharged without conviction. That is deemed to be an acquittal, but it doesn't mean he didn't intentionally break the law. The judge just gave him another chance. Note he was ordered to pay a large amount of compensation for his wrongs.
In New Zealand we have a procedure to have vexatious litigants declared as such, with the result that they may not issue proceedings (sue people) without leave of the High Court. Of course they still make applications for leave, but it does slow them down. Mind you we have a single national system of courts, and no state/federal structure, so its easier to have a system where this happens. I imagine in the US you probably have a constitutional right to bring vexatious suits.
... our new blocky pixellated re-masters!
The local District Court is where (alleged) criminals appear after arrest and in subsequent stages. They've been increasing security for a few years. At one stage they had security scanners at the front door but not other doors, leading to a situation where you could go in another door, through a little known but public set of stairs and corridors and be inside the security cordon with no checks at all. Now they fixed that, but the checking gets packed up at about 10:15 (at the latest) after court starts for the day. Most crims don't actually have to be there at 10:00 as there case probably won't get called first. So if they hang around until 10:15 they avoid the search. Crazy. Mind you I did hear of the security guys balling out a uniformed cop the other day for ducking under the barrier rather than going through the scanner. Nice to see them being even handedly inefficient.
Thats the question ./ers will need to know.
How is a "sanctioned" release "piracy".
Don't you watch SG-1? Smallville?
It's not eye-player its eye-pee-layer. You know, the DRM layer that protects your Intellectual Property. It's only supposed to be playable for 30 days after download.
gentoo's portage system being ported to windows... emerge outlook