Most street parking meters have a maximum length of time that you can put on the meter. It is frequently illegal to park longer than the maximum time that the meter allows.
The official rationale is that meters are intended to limit the length of time that a car can park in a spot. Meters are frequently used to enforce parking time limits.
A. H. Robins filed for Chapter 11 in 1985. (debt reorganization, not liquidation.) This effectively fucked the womens' ability to sue AHR. In 1987 AHR's stock price skyrocketed -- while they were in chapter 11. AHR was purchased by American Home Products in 1989 and AHR's stock quadrupled in value. The affected women received token payments.
"Imagine if the American subsidiary of a Swiss bank ignored a subpoena from the FBI for information about one of its clients, who was thought to have links with Al Qaeda. I would imagine the bank would get shut down by law enforcement."
In your example, the Swiss Bank made a choice to open an American subsidiary and they should have investigated American laws before they decided to open an American subsidiary. Although the New and Improved FBI laws are crappier than the old laws, the requirement that banks operating in the US divulge customer information to the US government under certain circumstances is not new. I assume that the problem for Swiss Bank is that it may also be bound by conflicting Swiss laws regarding customer confidentiality; which they also should have known about. The directors and board of Swiss Bank should have known about the conflicting laws when they opened the American subsidiary, yet Swiss Bank went ahead and created their very own no-win situation.
TFA is specifically about TiVo, it does not address any other devices that may also be hosed.
TiVo is unique from most other CableCARD devices because it contains what is essentially a general purpose computer running Linux, it can be connected to the Internet, it is remotely programmable, and it has standard USB ports.
With the previous paper balloting systems that I have used (including the type that can have 'hanging chads'), there was no correlation between a paper ballot and a particular voter. There was a record of who voted and there was a box of anonymous paper ballots.
Oh, yeah, I had an RCA Selectavision, with stereo sound, what a piece of crap -- I guess that I was trying to forget about it. I guess that it was unfair for me to call the LaserDisc a flop, they just never really caught on. I knew a few people who had them, but they were never common; I wonder if MCA ever made money on them.
I suspect that both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray will go the way of LaserDisc, both of them lingering on until they die or some new format blows them out of the water.
Neither format has caught on at all, and the only players that are in homes in any sort of numbers are the PS3. I think that most people who have a PS3 bought it as a gaming machine and don't care that it can play any sort of DVD. Any format decision made by any studio is subject to change without notice; if Blu-Ray becomes dominant I am sure that Paramount will make Blu-Ray disks. Other than all of the major studios going to only one format, the only significant format change by a studio would be if Sony started to sell their movies in HD-DVD.
It could be that this is not a Beta / VHS format war, it be a Laserdisc flop and neither of the new formats will catch on; so far, it does not appear that people see a compelling reason to buy either HD-DVD or Blu-Ray players and disks.
I have an HD TiVo with 2 CableCARD; setting them up took three installer trips and three stacks of cards.
Yesterday I received a call from a cable company rep telling me that a large number of digital channels will cease working with my CableCARD. She read off a very long list of channels, most of them were foreign language and weird channels that I had never heard of; she also said that any newly added channels will not work with CableCARD. The only channel I cared about was NASA, and I am not going to rent a cable box jut to get NASA.
When I asked why these channels are going away, she assured me that they were not going away, i just won't be able to receive them without a cable box. When I kept pressing, she told me that they were adding Switched Video.
This is nothing new, only the technology has changed. Most people have always listened to music on crappy equipment. 8 track tapes were quite popular until they were replaced by cassettes -- and they both suck. Does an iPod with stock earphones really sound any worse than a 1980's Walkman with stock headphones?
In the 1950's and 1960's many people listened to music played on portable record players, most of which had ceramic cartridges. In the 1970's people listened to music on cheap stereos with a record changer, tape player, and tuner. In the 1980's and 1990's the stereos got smaller and CD players replaced the record changers, but they were still crap.
I just checked the show out, it was also the first sitcom and it originally aired live on Dumont. It is too bad there are no known surviving complete kinescopes of the show.
I wonder when the first bathroom with a full toilet was shown on TV. Even the Brady Bunch's bathroom didn't have a toilet. Leave It to Beaver showed the top of a toilet TANK in one episode, but not the bowl.
In the '50's, "The Flintstones" and "I Love Lucy" episodes had animated cigarette commercials embedded into them -- and they were shown prime time. "I Love Lucy" even had Philip Morris cigarettes product placement. Of course Lucy and Ricky had to sleep in twin beds; the first TV show that indicated that a couple slept in the same bed was the "Brady Bunch".
My kids are in their teens now, and I never really cared what they watched on TV. Trying to protect them is going to cause problems later when they are no longer protected. The only potential problem was with one kid who loved listening and singing along to a particular Jimmy Buffet CD that had "let's get drunk and screw" in it. He knew all of the words to all of the songs on the CD.
IF it get to the judge, most judges do not see zero tolerance, they see many other factors. IANAL, but from what I understand, judges hate being asked to hear trivialities; and I suspect that most judges would see a 20 second clip out of an hour and a half movie as being a triviality. As this is a criminal thing, it is not up to the theater whether to prosecute, it is up to the district attorney. I am not sure, but the case may also have to go before a grand jury before it goes before a judge. Lots of "if's".
TFA specified that the security minion brought in an armed security cop. I believe that an "armed security cop" is pretty much equivelant to "armed guard". The only quibble I would have is with the pluralization of the term.
"We kept telling him some were purchased at the Visitor Center Gift Shop, but he did not care. He ended up coming around with an armed security cop until we took them down and shredded them."
Although Wal-Mart does some scummy things, I seriously doubt that Wal-Mart would hire somebody off the books or without documentation. One of Wal-Mart's janitorial contracting companies was accused of hiring undocumented workers.
It is not OK if they are illegal -- and you or I have no idea whether they are illegal or not.
Even if they are illegal, they pay taxes because it is withheld from their pay checks. Illegals tend to overpay payroll taxes because although they pay withholding they don't get refunds; they also get social security and Medicare withheld from their wages.
They would be no more unlikely to pay their hospital bills than any other Wal-Mart employee.
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Most street parking meters have a maximum length of time that you can put on the meter. It is frequently illegal to park longer than the maximum time that the meter allows.
The official rationale is that meters are intended to limit the length of time that a car can park in a spot. Meters are frequently used to enforce parking time limits.
Feeding meters like that is illegal in many areas.
The large number of Bollywood titles might mean that there will be a good sized market in Northern Virgina.
It would have been interesting to replace them onto somebody else's vehicle, perhaps a trash truck or long haul truck.
A. H. Robins filed for Chapter 11 in 1985. (debt reorganization, not liquidation.) This effectively fucked the womens' ability to sue AHR. In 1987 AHR's stock price skyrocketed -- while they were in chapter 11. AHR was purchased by American Home Products in 1989 and AHR's stock quadrupled in value. The affected women received token payments.
I should have specified a SUNW package for a recent version of Firefox. Have you actually tried installing these Firefox tgz's? I have.
I'm just waiting for a Firefox package for Solaris ..
It would be easier to say:
/etc/dhcp.conf
/etc/init.d/dhcp restart
sudo gedit
change DhcpConnDisableBcastFlagToggle 0
to DhcpConnDisableBcastFlagToggle 1
Save modified file and quit gedit
sudo
Using your logic, all web sites would be compatible with all commonly used browsers, and not written to work only with MSIE.
"Imagine if the American subsidiary of a Swiss bank ignored a subpoena from the FBI for information about one of its clients, who was thought to have links with Al Qaeda. I would imagine the bank would get shut down by law enforcement."
In your example, the Swiss Bank made a choice to open an American subsidiary and they should have investigated American laws before they decided to open an American subsidiary. Although the New and Improved FBI laws are crappier than the old laws, the requirement that banks operating in the US divulge customer information to the US government under certain circumstances is not new. I assume that the problem for Swiss Bank is that it may also be bound by conflicting Swiss laws regarding customer confidentiality; which they also should have known about. The directors and board of Swiss Bank should have known about the conflicting laws when they opened the American subsidiary, yet Swiss Bank went ahead and created their very own no-win situation.
TFA is specifically about TiVo, it does not address any other devices that may also be hosed.
TiVo is unique from most other CableCARD devices because it contains what is essentially a general purpose computer running Linux, it can be connected to the Internet, it is remotely programmable, and it has standard USB ports.
No apology is necessary.
With the previous paper balloting systems that I have used (including the type that can have 'hanging chads'), there was no correlation between a paper ballot and a particular voter. There was a record of who voted and there was a box of anonymous paper ballots.
Oh, yeah, I had an RCA Selectavision, with stereo sound, what a piece of crap -- I guess that I was trying to forget about it. I guess that it was unfair for me to call the LaserDisc a flop, they just never really caught on. I knew a few people who had them, but they were never common; I wonder if MCA ever made money on them.
I suspect that both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray will go the way of LaserDisc, both of them lingering on until they die or some new format blows them out of the water.
Neither format has caught on at all, and the only players that are in homes in any sort of numbers are the PS3. I think that most people who have a PS3 bought it as a gaming machine and don't care that it can play any sort of DVD. Any format decision made by any studio is subject to change without notice; if Blu-Ray becomes dominant I am sure that Paramount will make Blu-Ray disks. Other than all of the major studios going to only one format, the only significant format change by a studio would be if Sony started to sell their movies in HD-DVD.
It could be that this is not a Beta / VHS format war, it be a Laserdisc flop and neither of the new formats will catch on; so far, it does not appear that people see a compelling reason to buy either HD-DVD or Blu-Ray players and disks.
I have an HD TiVo with 2 CableCARD; setting them up took three installer trips and three stacks of cards.
Yesterday I received a call from a cable company rep telling me that a large number of digital channels will cease working with my CableCARD. She read off a very long list of channels, most of them were foreign language and weird channels that I had never heard of; she also said that any newly added channels will not work with CableCARD. The only channel I cared about was NASA, and I am not going to rent a cable box jut to get NASA.
When I asked why these channels are going away, she assured me that they were not going away, i just won't be able to receive them without a cable box. When I kept pressing, she told me that they were adding Switched Video.
This is nothing new, only the technology has changed. Most people have always listened to music on crappy equipment. 8 track tapes were quite popular until they were replaced by cassettes -- and they both suck. Does an iPod with stock earphones really sound any worse than a 1980's Walkman with stock headphones?
In the 1950's and 1960's many people listened to music played on portable record players, most of which had ceramic cartridges. In the 1970's people listened to music on cheap stereos with a record changer, tape player, and tuner. In the 1980's and 1990's the stereos got smaller and CD players replaced the record changers, but they were still crap.
I just checked the show out, it was also the first sitcom and it originally aired live on Dumont. It is too bad there are no known surviving complete kinescopes of the show.
I wonder when the first bathroom with a full toilet was shown on TV. Even the Brady Bunch's bathroom didn't have a toilet. Leave It to Beaver showed the top of a toilet TANK in one episode, but not the bowl.
In the '50's, "The Flintstones" and "I Love Lucy" episodes had animated cigarette commercials embedded into them -- and they were shown prime time. "I Love Lucy" even had Philip Morris cigarettes product placement. Of course Lucy and Ricky had to sleep in twin beds; the first TV show that indicated that a couple slept in the same bed was the "Brady Bunch".
My kids are in their teens now, and I never really cared what they watched on TV. Trying to protect them is going to cause problems later when they are no longer protected. The only potential problem was with one kid who loved listening and singing along to a particular Jimmy Buffet CD that had "let's get drunk and screw" in it. He knew all of the words to all of the songs on the CD.
IF it get to the judge, most judges do not see zero tolerance, they see many other factors. IANAL, but from what I understand, judges hate being asked to hear trivialities; and I suspect that most judges would see a 20 second clip out of an hour and a half movie as being a triviality. As this is a criminal thing, it is not up to the theater whether to prosecute, it is up to the district attorney. I am not sure, but the case may also have to go before a grand jury before it goes before a judge. Lots of "if's".
Perhaps a boycott of Regal Cinemas would be in order.
TFA specified that the security minion brought in an armed security cop. I believe that an "armed security cop" is pretty much equivelant to "armed guard". The only quibble I would have is with the pluralization of the term.
"We kept telling him some were purchased at the Visitor Center Gift Shop, but he did not care. He ended up coming around with an armed security cop until we took them down and shredded them."
Although Wal-Mart does some scummy things, I seriously doubt that Wal-Mart would hire somebody off the books or without documentation. One of Wal-Mart's janitorial contracting companies was accused of hiring undocumented workers.
Until recently it was trivial (~$150) to get a fraudulent green card and social security card.
It is not OK if they are illegal -- and you or I have no idea whether they are illegal or not.
Even if they are illegal, they pay taxes because it is withheld from their pay checks. Illegals tend to overpay payroll taxes because although they pay withholding they don't get refunds; they also get social security and Medicare withheld from their wages.
They would be no more unlikely to pay their hospital bills than any other Wal-Mart employee.