It's more like, doing a sweep in a crack zone for all the 2 and 3 block dope dealers after spending 2 years building a case against their distributor. It makes for flashy headlines to say '77 Drug Dealers Arrested in Sweep' than 'Cocaine Distributor Arrested', no matter how much product he was moving.
No, they're not. The military has to follow lawful orders. If the Commander in Chief declares that the US is in open rebellion, the military has the duty to supress it. Orders to attack armed citizens become lawful. Go Wiki up the 'Whiskey Rebellion' of 1794 for precidents.
5% of the population wants to overthrow the government 1% of the population (who is the government) want to NOT overthrow the government
94% of the population doesn't give a rats ass either way
Sounds about like the situation on the ground in Vietnam during the war. 2.5% of the people were deeply involved with the government and wanted to keep it in power. 2.5% of the people were deeply involved with the opposition and wanted to line up & shoot the government and put their own bastards in. And 95% of the people just wanted to be left alone so they could get their rice crop in and thereby have enough to eat to survive yet another year.
And you think the lower courts will find in favor of the citizen? I don't.
Will Rogers said it best when he claimed nobody's life, liberty, or property was safe when the legislature was in session.
I'm just wondering when the corporation formerly known as the Post Office is going to introduce legislation to charge users for sending and recieving emails. Snail mail is pretty much limited these days to junk mail & magazines, except for holiday cards around this time of the year. Everybody else is using email.
They'll just pass more laws regarding the licensing of pigeons. Good luck proving you're not a terrorist when they catch you with an unlicensed pigeon sitting on your windowseal.
You're forgetting of course the 'free speech zones', far far away from the cameras, ignored by anybody, stuffed with protesters ready to be trucked away to some holding cell.
The power switch on the front panel died. Dunno what kind of voodoo they used on it, but I was unable to replace it. Strangest thing, though, is it's supposed to be just a momentary contact normally open switch.
I used an EPIA motherboard for a settop box for ages, til the case died. I liked it, it had a built-in S-Video out and a PCI slot for my tv card. Bolted right up to my TV & my sat feed. It was only a 900 HHz motherboard, but it worked.
More like, you rent the same car the rental company rented out to 6 other people. You're supposed to get it 24/7 according to the rental agreement, but it's way overbooked. So, you only get to use it a fraction of the time you paid for.
ISPs consistently oversell their bandwidth. It's more profitable than actually upgrading their capacity.
I would be delighted to see that happening. "American dream" is essentially an aspiration to obtain massive amount of wealth by whatever means, and use it to elevate yourself into position of control over other people (supposedly ones who implemented that dream at your expense before, or would implement it if you didn't stop them first), abusing them for your own pleasure. It is imposed on all population by propaganda, to make sociopaths in position of power seem normal.
The problem is, this thing is still alive.
The dream is very much alive. The realisation of the dream is just this side of impossible these days. Back in the day, when we were hunting dinosaurs from the backs of our '57 Chevies, we used to hear all the time that 'any boy can become President'. These days, they modified that to 'any boy with the proper connections and shitpiles of money can become President'. Kinda leaves us who are struggling just to make enough for groceries in the 'also-ran' category.
The American Dream has been myth for generations, but it doesn't stop the powers that be from continually pushing it. And when you get beaten down by the system, the mythmakers just say that you were insufficiently motivated or productive in order to 'make it'. Getting fucked by the system is your own damned fault.
Problem is, of course, it's the only game in town and the penalties for not playing it are pretty draconian.
Not when the estate is responsible for all other costs of pursuing litigation, such as transcripts, witnesses, etc. Look at the bills over the last couple of years - millions blown even after the supposed fee cap.
He would have done better spending it on booze and hookers, and returning the empties for a refund.
Even given that blowing all that cash on booze & hookers and returning the empties would have brought in more cash than continuing the pursuit of the suit, it wouldn't have been legal under the bankruptcy laws for him to do this. By law, the trustee(s) is/are obligated to continue pursuit until a final judge drops the final hammer for good or evil.
Nobody's done business with them for a decade already. There's nothing left except lawyers and the only reason they're there is because SCO bought their services until this is resolved, back before they ran out of money.
I'm struggling to see the bad in that. It just looks like your run-of-the-mill speeding fine to me.
What's the difference in this case?
In most states, (Ohio and Arizona are the two I'm most familiar with. Don't ask...), money collected from traffic tickets goes to the community. These surcharges go directly to the State of Texas. And it doesn't matter if you're an out of state resident who has points on his license, if convicted in Texas, you get to pay on all the points for 3 years. To Texas.
Your congressman/senators are your lawmakers (unless they have been bought). Write to them and tell them not to vote for it. People always overstate the power of the executive branch and seem to try to understate the power of congress. https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml
Too late, they're already bought. The technical term for this is 'campaign contributions'.
Even better. Somebody with more resources and experience than I should try to croudsource a bill to update the DCMA and Regan era internet regulations.
Until you can field a wad of cash greater than the *IAAs can, you can do all the crowdsourcing you want, it won't mean a thing. As has been noted several times over the last several years, 'If voting ever really changed anything, they'd make it illegal'.
The more paranoid among us of course will theorise that attempts like this are a way for the *IAAs are doing this to scrape every possible dime from the consumer to prevent any attempt by the public to outbuy their influence.
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It's more like, doing a sweep in a crack zone for all the 2 and 3 block dope dealers after spending 2 years building a case against their distributor. It makes for flashy headlines to say '77 Drug Dealers Arrested in Sweep' than 'Cocaine Distributor Arrested', no matter how much product he was moving.
No, they're not. The military has to follow lawful orders. If the Commander in Chief declares that the US is in open rebellion, the military has the duty to supress it. Orders to attack armed citizens become lawful. Go Wiki up the 'Whiskey Rebellion' of 1794 for precidents.
Are you seriously suggesting 94% of the population wouldn't mind having their country plunged into civil war?
Not if they can sit back and watch it on Pay-Per-View. Kinda gives a whole new dimension to the expression 'Now THAT'S entertainment!!'
5% of the population wants to overthrow the government
1% of the population (who is the government) want to NOT overthrow the government
94% of the population doesn't give a rats ass either way
Sounds about like the situation on the ground in Vietnam during the war. 2.5% of the people were deeply involved with the government and wanted to keep it in power. 2.5% of the people were deeply involved with the opposition and wanted to line up & shoot the government and put their own bastards in. And 95% of the people just wanted to be left alone so they could get their rice crop in and thereby have enough to eat to survive yet another year.
And you think the lower courts will find in favor of the citizen? I don't. Will Rogers said it best when he claimed nobody's life, liberty, or property was safe when the legislature was in session.
Not really. The SCOTUS can simply refuse to hear any of those cases. They have the right to do so. You better believe they'll take that right.
I'm just wondering when the corporation formerly known as the Post Office is going to introduce legislation to charge users for sending and recieving emails. Snail mail is pretty much limited these days to junk mail & magazines, except for holiday cards around this time of the year. Everybody else is using email.
They'll just pass more laws regarding the licensing of pigeons. Good luck proving you're not a terrorist when they catch you with an unlicensed pigeon sitting on your windowseal.
But if he's found in possession of a strap-on, he's fucked.
Who DOESN'T like lesbians? On film, anyways...
Yeah, but what happens if we all catch a disease from an unsanitised phone???
So this weather balloon killed Kennedy? Makes more sense than most of the conspiracy theories I've heard so far...
shows the surface shape and features over nearly the entire moon with a pixel scale close to 100 meters
So I doubt you can see any footprints :)
I dunno, Neil Armstrong took one bigassed leap...
You're forgetting of course the 'free speech zones', far far away from the cameras, ignored by anybody, stuffed with protesters ready to be trucked away to some holding cell.
The power switch on the front panel died. Dunno what kind of voodoo they used on it, but I was unable to replace it. Strangest thing, though, is it's supposed to be just a momentary contact normally open switch.
I used an EPIA motherboard for a settop box for ages, til the case died. I liked it, it had a built-in S-Video out and a PCI slot for my tv card. Bolted right up to my TV & my sat feed. It was only a 900 HHz motherboard, but it worked.
I'm 30, my grandchildren will doubtfully see the Beatles in the public domain.
No they won't. THEIR great-great grandkids MIGHT be able to sing 'Happy Birthday(C)' without paying royalties, but that's about it.
ISPs consistently oversell their bandwidth. It's more profitable than actually upgrading their capacity.
American dream is dead
I would be delighted to see that happening. "American dream" is essentially an aspiration to obtain massive amount of wealth by whatever means, and use it to elevate yourself into position of control over other people (supposedly ones who implemented that dream at your expense before, or would implement it if you didn't stop them first), abusing them for your own pleasure. It is imposed on all population by propaganda, to make sociopaths in position of power seem normal.
The problem is, this thing is still alive.
The dream is very much alive. The realisation of the dream is just this side of impossible these days. Back in the day, when we were hunting dinosaurs from the backs of our '57 Chevies, we used to hear all the time that 'any boy can become President'. These days, they modified that to 'any boy with the proper connections and shitpiles of money can become President'. Kinda leaves us who are struggling just to make enough for groceries in the 'also-ran' category.
The American Dream has been myth for generations, but it doesn't stop the powers that be from continually pushing it. And when you get beaten down by the system, the mythmakers just say that you were insufficiently motivated or productive in order to 'make it'. Getting fucked by the system is your own damned fault.
Problem is, of course, it's the only game in town and the penalties for not playing it are pretty draconian.
Not when the estate is responsible for all other costs of pursuing litigation, such as transcripts, witnesses, etc. Look at the bills over the last couple of years - millions blown even after the supposed fee cap.
He would have done better spending it on booze and hookers, and returning the empties for a refund.
Even given that blowing all that cash on booze & hookers and returning the empties would have brought in more cash than continuing the pursuit of the suit, it wouldn't have been legal under the bankruptcy laws for him to do this. By law, the trustee(s) is/are obligated to continue pursuit until a final judge drops the final hammer for good or evil.
Nobody's done business with them for a decade already. There's nothing left except lawyers and the only reason they're there is because SCO bought their services until this is resolved, back before they ran out of money.
I'm struggling to see the bad in that. It just looks like your run-of-the-mill speeding fine to me.
What's the difference in this case?
In most states, (Ohio and Arizona are the two I'm most familiar with. Don't ask...), money collected from traffic tickets goes to the community. These surcharges go directly to the State of Texas. And it doesn't matter if you're an out of state resident who has points on his license, if convicted in Texas, you get to pay on all the points for 3 years. To Texas.
Seriously it would serve society better if they got paid for life not to work
No. Absolutely not.
Use lawyers for animal testing instead of fluffy bunnies. This not only shuts PETA up, but also does something about the excess lawyer population.
Great idea. Too bad lawyers don't have hearts.
Your congressman/senators are your lawmakers (unless they have been bought). Write to them and tell them not to vote for it. People always overstate the power of the executive branch and seem to try to understate the power of congress. https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml
Too late, they're already bought. The technical term for this is 'campaign contributions'.
Even better. Somebody with more resources and experience than I should try to croudsource a bill to update the DCMA and Regan era internet regulations.
Until you can field a wad of cash greater than the *IAAs can, you can do all the crowdsourcing you want, it won't mean a thing. As has been noted several times over the last several years, 'If voting ever really changed anything, they'd make it illegal'.
The more paranoid among us of course will theorise that attempts like this are a way for the *IAAs are doing this to scrape every possible dime from the consumer to prevent any attempt by the public to outbuy their influence.