I agree 100%. We see all the time stories about new evidence in death row cases. The first thing the prosecutor always argues is "he doesn't deserve a new trial, I stand by the conviction". If they truly cared about justice they'd say "hey we need to take another look at this". I don't know how they can live with that on their conscience anymore than I understand how defense lawyers can live with setting rapists and killers free on technicalities. I think the answer is that most lawyers in general lack a conscience, you'd have to to be successful.
I have seen first hand how the justice system truly works. Back in my youth I was a bit of a delinquent, and was convicted of many fairly petty crimes, mostly misdemeanor but nothing worse than a gross misdemeanor. I freely admit that I was usually guilty as charged, and I took my licks, but there were two cases where I was absolutely innocent.
Part of their strategy is to charge you with everything in the book, that way when plea bargaining comes around they can act like they are doing you a favor by dropping the extraneous charges if you plead to the main charge. The prosecutor had absolutely no interest in justice and wasn't interested in explanations or evidence, it was made very clear that if I refused to plead guilty it was going to cost me. In retrospect i'm confident I would have won both cases had I gone to trial, but the scare tactics can be quite effective, especially on a 20 year old kid.
I accepted the plea bargain in both cases to stay out of jail and avoid a costly trial and missing more work. Being innocent is just as costly as being guilty. Ironically I had to tell the judge under oath that I was really guilty and wasn't just saying so for the sake of the plea bargain. The convictions went on my permanent record and I got some hefty fines and probation, and the prosecutor got 2 more notches on her holster. 8 years later these convictions in particular, which were gross misdemeanors, cost me a very nice job.
Like I said, it was fairly petty and doesn't compare with the innocent people who are rotting in prison right now, but I can definitely sympathize. We see it all the time, people pleading guilty to avoid the death penalty or long prison sentences. When it is more of a punishment to prove your innocence than it is to plead guilty, something is wrong with the system.
Yep I think i'm going to downgrade today. FF3 has completely borked the iGoogle layout for me, and spankwire videos suddenly don't work at all.
Also there's some other strange behavior with the saved passwords I can't exactly put my finger on. I think maybe http authentication and form logins are no longer saved separately, so when you have more than one login for a site it doesn't auto-fill the fields and you have to remember the username, which defeats the point.
Not to rag on firefox, I love it and my biggest pet peave (the FF3 memory usage) seems to be hugely improved, but it needs some time to be tweaked.
Come on, seriously, what boy/man would be "offended" by seeing computer characters having sex, after installing a patch do see just that ?
Well the other thing is the vast majority never even saw this offending content. I'd go as far as saying the 3,000 people who did respond did so fraudulently. How could anyone say they were offended by seeing explicit content, when they had to make a fairly significant effort to crack the game specifically to reveal said explicit content?
My iGoogle layout broke the day I upgraded to FF3 also, so I assume it's the culprit. It's still usable so I haven't dug too deep for a solution, being lazy and all.
Yep, if I went to a "legitimate" encyclopedia rather than Wikipedia i'd guess 99% or more of the topics I look up every day wouldn't be there at all.
I don't get all the hate for Wikipedia. So it's not perfect, well neither is the Encyclopedia Britannica, but for me Wikipedia is the single most useful resource on the internet second only to Google, and even that may be a tossup because Google often just links me to a Wikipedia page. I'm there dozens of times every day, whether it be looking up something I saw on TV, an actor's name, a musician's discography, or something I just read about.
It's a shame such a valuable resource takes so much heat. Maybe it has its problems but it's alot more accurate and alot less opinionated than the average webpage you'll find on any given topic, and honestly it doesn't really matter to me that the article on Chevy Chase hasn't been published in a scientific journal for peer review.
Who said anything about wanting to see them? If nobody has ever forwarded you photos for their humor or shock value you and your associates take themselves way too seriously. Nobody said you have to jerk off to them ffs...
Who cares? He's not trolling, he's posting relevant and often insightful responses so why are you so angry? He's getting a rise out of an awful lot of people around here, and probably enjoying every second of it.
Well I think everyone in the affected data center are legacy EV1 customers on old outdated hardware. I guess it would make sense that the big companies would have decided to upgrade hardware in the last 4 years and subsequently been moved out of that data center.
Luckily I just canceled my last legacy server a few weeks ago so this didn't affect me.
Yes I know i've bought hundreds of songs on Amazon and iTunes, I wasn't commenting on my personal music stealing habits, just pointing out the music industries fucked up philosophy.
It's not that people won't pay for music, most people would happily pay for high quality DRM free music, but they don't want to offer that. They'd rather come up with stupid schemes like this. This crap isn't worth a dime when I can get the same songs for free in a much more friendly format.
Whoever said they take it by force with no intent of returning it? Because that would be theft.
You have two options, you can leave the property or you can voluntarily surrender your PDA to the PDA holding area where you pick it up when you leave. Neither of those are theft or even close to it so quit being so melodramatic.
Who knows, call them up and ask them. I don't see anyone defending the policy, it's stupid and will cost them money. But they certainly have the right to make stupid policies that will cost them money. They could make a "no yellow t-shirt" policy if they fancy.
If they have a big sign that says "No PDA's allowed inside" and you bring your PDA in anyway, well I have a hard time feeling sorry for you if you have to leave it at the pda holding desk or whatever.
Why do people think anyone cares about their health info? Worst case scenario is someone finds out you have VD, well sorry to inform you an overwhelming percentage of the planet don't care about you or your STD's.
I read somewhere that at the current rate of reproduction in 300ish years there will be enough people that every square yard of dry land on the planet will be occuped by a person.
I don't know if that's accurate, but if it is something drastic and deadly on a huge scale will need to happen between now and then.
God damn it people need to learn if you say unlimited on the ad it means fucking unlimited. If you don't want people using it you need to say so.
It's time people got together and sued these fuckers that do this crap.
If you RTFA they are considering bandwidth caps, right now it is still unlimited. I'd assume if they do add caps they'd stop marketing it as "unlimited", or maybe they won't, who knows? There's no reason to throw a tantrum about it right now though.
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I agree 100%. We see all the time stories about new evidence in death row cases. The first thing the prosecutor always argues is "he doesn't deserve a new trial, I stand by the conviction". If they truly cared about justice they'd say "hey we need to take another look at this". I don't know how they can live with that on their conscience anymore than I understand how defense lawyers can live with setting rapists and killers free on technicalities. I think the answer is that most lawyers in general lack a conscience, you'd have to to be successful.
I have seen first hand how the justice system truly works. Back in my youth I was a bit of a delinquent, and was convicted of many fairly petty crimes, mostly misdemeanor but nothing worse than a gross misdemeanor. I freely admit that I was usually guilty as charged, and I took my licks, but there were two cases where I was absolutely innocent.
Part of their strategy is to charge you with everything in the book, that way when plea bargaining comes around they can act like they are doing you a favor by dropping the extraneous charges if you plead to the main charge. The prosecutor had absolutely no interest in justice and wasn't interested in explanations or evidence, it was made very clear that if I refused to plead guilty it was going to cost me. In retrospect i'm confident I would have won both cases had I gone to trial, but the scare tactics can be quite effective, especially on a 20 year old kid.
I accepted the plea bargain in both cases to stay out of jail and avoid a costly trial and missing more work. Being innocent is just as costly as being guilty. Ironically I had to tell the judge under oath that I was really guilty and wasn't just saying so for the sake of the plea bargain. The convictions went on my permanent record and I got some hefty fines and probation, and the prosecutor got 2 more notches on her holster. 8 years later these convictions in particular, which were gross misdemeanors, cost me a very nice job.
Like I said, it was fairly petty and doesn't compare with the innocent people who are rotting in prison right now, but I can definitely sympathize. We see it all the time, people pleading guilty to avoid the death penalty or long prison sentences. When it is more of a punishment to prove your innocence than it is to plead guilty, something is wrong with the system.
Fun fact, by replying to all his posts to call him an idiot you drastically increase his exposure. Ever hear of "don't feed the trolls"?
Link: http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/
Hard to RTFA without a link to TFA...
It may or may not be Mozilla's fault, but from a user's prospective that is irrelevant, all a user knows is what used to work fine doesn't any longer.
I'll try a fresh install, thanks for the suggestion.
Yep I think i'm going to downgrade today. FF3 has completely borked the iGoogle layout for me, and spankwire videos suddenly don't work at all.
Also there's some other strange behavior with the saved passwords I can't exactly put my finger on. I think maybe http authentication and form logins are no longer saved separately, so when you have more than one login for a site it doesn't auto-fill the fields and you have to remember the username, which defeats the point.
Not to rag on firefox, I love it and my biggest pet peave (the FF3 memory usage) seems to be hugely improved, but it needs some time to be tweaked.
My iGoogle layout broke the day I upgraded to FF3 also, so I assume it's the culprit. It's still usable so I haven't dug too deep for a solution, being lazy and all.
Yep, if I went to a "legitimate" encyclopedia rather than Wikipedia i'd guess 99% or more of the topics I look up every day wouldn't be there at all.
I don't get all the hate for Wikipedia. So it's not perfect, well neither is the Encyclopedia Britannica, but for me Wikipedia is the single most useful resource on the internet second only to Google, and even that may be a tossup because Google often just links me to a Wikipedia page. I'm there dozens of times every day, whether it be looking up something I saw on TV, an actor's name, a musician's discography, or something I just read about.
It's a shame such a valuable resource takes so much heat. Maybe it has its problems but it's alot more accurate and alot less opinionated than the average webpage you'll find on any given topic, and honestly it doesn't really matter to me that the article on Chevy Chase hasn't been published in a scientific journal for peer review.
I like to wipe back to front, it makes my balls smell nice.
Who said anything about wanting to see them? If nobody has ever forwarded you photos for their humor or shock value you and your associates take themselves way too seriously. Nobody said you have to jerk off to them ffs...
Then you and everyone you know is a prude.
It's nice to know that cable internet is an inaliable right...
Who cares? He's not trolling, he's posting relevant and often insightful responses so why are you so angry? He's getting a rise out of an awful lot of people around here, and probably enjoying every second of it.
Firebug.
Also, it's much easier to develop for firefox and then tweak for IE than vice versa.
Well I think everyone in the affected data center are legacy EV1 customers on old outdated hardware. I guess it would make sense that the big companies would have decided to upgrade hardware in the last 4 years and subsequently been moved out of that data center.
Luckily I just canceled my last legacy server a few weeks ago so this didn't affect me.
Yes I know i've bought hundreds of songs on Amazon and iTunes, I wasn't commenting on my personal music stealing habits, just pointing out the music industries fucked up philosophy.
It's not that people won't pay for music, most people would happily pay for high quality DRM free music, but they don't want to offer that. They'd rather come up with stupid schemes like this. This crap isn't worth a dime when I can get the same songs for free in a much more friendly format.
Whoever said they take it by force with no intent of returning it? Because that would be theft.
You have two options, you can leave the property or you can voluntarily surrender your PDA to the PDA holding area where you pick it up when you leave. Neither of those are theft or even close to it so quit being so melodramatic.
Who knows, call them up and ask them. I don't see anyone defending the policy, it's stupid and will cost them money. But they certainly have the right to make stupid policies that will cost them money. They could make a "no yellow t-shirt" policy if they fancy.
If they have a big sign that says "No PDA's allowed inside" and you bring your PDA in anyway, well I have a hard time feeling sorry for you if you have to leave it at the pda holding desk or whatever.
Why do people think anyone cares about their health info? Worst case scenario is someone finds out you have VD, well sorry to inform you an overwhelming percentage of the planet don't care about you or your STD's.
Well considering Age of Conan is due to be released today I think (or tomorrow?) I would be expecting some well timed "leaks" from Blizzard.
assuming every single subscriber is using his connection continuously 24 hours per day, not even stopping to so much as read a webpage or an email ...
I read somewhere that at the current rate of reproduction in 300ish years there will be enough people that every square yard of dry land on the planet will be occuped by a person.
I don't know if that's accurate, but if it is something drastic and deadly on a huge scale will need to happen between now and then.
Good luck with your lawsuit.