Legit??? If Bush, or his Gonzales or Ashcroft or Cheney were to state the same arguments you morons would be all over them and shouting until your throats run dry. Now its Obama, your liberal moron, your president, you state it as "legit"? Wow! Take a fuckin' clue from the MSNBC guy: he criticizes Obama now... Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. It does NOT matter who is the president: and Obama is not above law. Clueless slashdot crowd: As usual a bunch of weenies and blind supporters....
That is true. I don't disagree with you that spikes in radon do NOT always precede an earthquake. It is also true that if the Government had taken the warnings seriously, it would have evacuated wrong towns and people, resulting in more deaths. BUT, what the Government could have done after the earthquake is to co-opt this guy provide him resources and a team so that his predictions are more accurate. Unfortunately, the Government took the only option it usually takes: suppress the truth-sayers so that its incompetence is covered.
Why would they hire a physicist who dabbles in earthquake detection when they've got seismologists who do this full-time around, who know that radon levels are not an accurate predictor of earthquakes?
Because the many many seismologists who are paid to do their jobs obviously did not.
The earthquake science community looked at it and dismissed it decades ago as insufficiently reliable--some earthquakes aren't preceded by a spike in radon levels, and some spikes aren't followed by an earthquake,/quote>...yeah, right, because all, these reports are obviously written by sci-fi writers
Have YOU even thought about what you are blabbering?
Well... lets not dignify your question with a response, shall we?
What you say is logical. But this is politics. The AG could have continued to tie up Mr.Tube in courts for a long time, just like the IRS did telecoms for 28 long years. The way it was handled smacks of something bigger. Same way the forced resignation of Eliot Spitzer and subsequent fraud at AIG/BofA/Citi, etc. Now that Eliot Spitzer has NOT been charged by FBI, why don't Democrats or Republicans want him back as NYC mayor? After all the same Dems and Palin want Tube Stevens back... Call me Ismael, but i think this is a symptom of a larger picture
Why do you keep harping about Bush's time? Its been 5 months since Obama was elected. Can't his AG prove ANYTHING against Ted "Tube" Stevens? Pardon me, but i don't think Obama is the True Messiah that you jokers claim him to be.. After all, he has immunity from wiretapping, while claiming during campaigning that he was against it Am sure a deal was struck between the administration and Stevens, after all Mr.Tube has immense connections and Obama needs to deflect Palin from running against him in 2012... Of course you Obama supporters will crown me with a tin hat foil, but prove me wrong if Ted Stevens becomes cooler against Palin while warming up against Obama...
Yes, and if this were a logical Government, it would by now have apologized to him, hired him to improve his predictions, given him & his team some good money to come up with a more accurate system for predicting earthquakes. However, we have been conditioned by denials and call 911 to order pizzas for so long that we accuse him of predicting it wrong and then sentence him....and we have the guts to say that Old World Europe was barbaric when it burned Galelio and crucifixed Jesus... Have you EVEN thought what you are blabbering?
Nope. You are talking about the Government man. The Big Boys. Politicians and Governments don't apologize: EVER. In fact i would not be surprised if the Government now charged him with involuntary slaughter for NOT bringing the early warning notice to the Government's attention. Yes, i know this is completelty asinine, and the logic in it will assplode your head, but that is how Governments' react when faced with potential truth and the fact that they were wrong. In fact, if this guy were in USA, he would be investigated by the Secret Service, FBI and local OSHA branch for various violations: a) Violating the state secrets act, which was applied retroactively to panic warnings. b) Professional misconduct by not following "rules" and "procedure" to warn the Government through proper channels and instead opting for creating sensations on a public media unauthorisedly and illegally. c) Creating panic with a view to spreading eco-terrorism (this one is from the local council and county) d) Civil Disobedience of not obeying government rules governing state employees. e) Spreading falsehoods (completely discounting the fact that he was right), with a view to creating panic in public and war-profiteering. f) Declared "person of interest" by the FBI and the local Sherriff for "causing" earthquakes by predicting them.
Hell, if i were District Attorney, i would make more charges against this professor than this list, and make them stick. And i would plead with the judge to send him to prison for 10 years at least.
After all, if i fail AND i apologize to this professor, the Governer and Mayor is liable to be sued for deliberate manslaughter and be forced to resign...Is that what the people want at this hour of agony???
Easy way is to shut this guy down completely. (Just like they sued and sentenced the college boy who outbid oil companies in Utah).
The Parent is correct. Get an excellent lawyer and explain to him in simple terms. File a counter-suit and an injunction and a gag order on both suits. Next, have copyright proofs of every image they accuse you of violation. Get ask the judge to dismiss the suit with prejudice. Pursue your suit citing to the jury that the company in question "deliberately" filed a suit with a view to extortion. This deliberately clause is important, else those fcukers will escape under "sorry" clause. Stick the deliberately clause, make it stick. Now, ask the judge to award punitive damages for mental harassment and money lost wasting your time, plus lawyers fees. Do NOT let them go with an apology: A corporation has no shame, no feelings and no moral sense. Its just money.
Wasn't TCP/IP suite made JUST for handling the Ultimate War? I mean after all the greatest (and probably the only) strength of IP is automatic re-routing in case of disruptions. So, an attack against even 80% of our TCP/IP-based internet would still result in the rest of 20% routers taking the traffic and still deliver... This is a clear case of Government spying on us. And i thought Obama was a nice man...
Court order??? What are you? A moron? This is the new American man! Where we free Senators who have been convicted of corruption, and refuse to prosecute presidents who broke laws. But damn it, we send kids to jail for 25 years for taking photos of themselves or stealing an apple... The French should demand that USA return back the Statue of Liberty: after all when a cop could shoot you down like a dog and not face jail for the crime, this country does not have liberty...
No no. That is pavlov principle at work. Cats don't feel pain. They feel fear. Every time i kicked my neighbors' cat off my doorway, he/she (who cares) runs away screaming... After a few weeks of well-deserved kicks, he now studiously avoids me-:) When he sees my car pulling in, he jumps and runs like hell towards his house... Now, the question is, did he feel the pain of my steel-tipped boot kicks on his perfectly furry hind side or was it the fear of flying that made him run??? eh?
How about: Politician> We need your tax money, but we will not provide any worthwhile services in return Politician> We will not work efficiently, employ 15 people to do 5 peoples' job. And blame you for troubling us. Politician> We will pass laws enforcing seat belts and speed limits, but our own governors will not follow them. Politician> We are prodigious in consumption of your tax money, but we insist you be frugal Politician> We are quite willing to sacrifice your liberty and freedom under the guise of offering security. But our policemen will shoot unarmed people, and you cannot sue them or us. People> *explodes*
Well, we both are right and wrong. I was crapping about how corporates don't earn a cent out of Ubuntu. You were saying that individuals save money and earn a profit thus, by getting ubuntu for free. Guess we both mean the same-:) My apologies.
Free software is designed so that everybody profits.
WRONG, WRONG and WRONG Again. Free software is designed so that nobody profits out of the efforts of unpaid developers. Got it? Why do you think noone is profiting from Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian (no not Ubuntu per se), and Linux in all its prior incarnations? Plus Open office, etc
I second you. It took me some time to understand what you are driving at, but i got it. Wake up Admins and torrent seeders! You WILL face traffic shaping. You WILL be prevented from using torrents. You WILL be allowed to use only a limited bandwidth. Yes, the business environment is changing because business is adapting to your abuse of bandwidth. To those who may cry that bandwidth is free, fcuk you. Its NOT free. It costs money to maintain dark or lit fibres, routers, a/c, salaries of janitors to VPs. All to enable you to feed unlimited meals??? Oh come on! The era of eat-all-you-can ended in 1950s when eateries got smarter. Of course you can change your approaches, use SSL, tunneling, but then business will adapt... Evolution.
What's gibberish is that people are willing to accept price gouging and illegal fee add-ons without the slightest protest. Some people accept corporate overlordship easily. I don't.
True to an extent. But once you publicly execute the guys, the message gets through, and the activity's reduced to a great extent or the guys go underground. If they underground, then they are illegals.
Yes they did. From us. When they forced Dell to pay more for the LCD, Dell dutifully passed the increase onto us. Which means we wuz robbed. In the wild west, this would have been solved with a Colt.48 Magnum...
Practically also its true. Anyone committing a crime is a criminal. No one can assault his in-laws and then claim his corporate policy made him do it. Acting on behalf of someone is not a license to commit crimes and escape responsibility. Contract Law states that when an Agent acts ultra-vires of his Licensor, then the Agent is individually responsible for such acts. Jail the criminal, and convict him. Period. Unfortunately none of our lawmakers would allow such a thing to happen: especially Republicans like Orrin Hatch and Ted Tube Stevens (he's out). Because our lawmakers get "benefits" from corporate lobbyists and go to work there after their terms... Symbiotic relationship.
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Legit???
If Bush, or his Gonzales or Ashcroft or Cheney were to state the same arguments you morons would be all over them and shouting until your throats run dry.
Now its Obama, your liberal moron, your president, you state it as "legit"?
Wow!
Take a fuckin' clue from the MSNBC guy: he criticizes Obama now...
Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
It does NOT matter who is the president: and Obama is not above law.
Clueless slashdot crowd: As usual a bunch of weenies and blind supporters....
That is true. I don't disagree with you that spikes in radon do NOT always precede an earthquake.
It is also true that if the Government had taken the warnings seriously, it would have evacuated wrong towns and people, resulting in more deaths.
BUT, what the Government could have done after the earthquake is to co-opt this guy provide him resources and a team so that his predictions are more accurate.
Unfortunately, the Government took the only option it usually takes: suppress the truth-sayers so that its incompetence is covered.
Why would they hire a physicist who dabbles in earthquake detection when they've got seismologists who do this full-time around, who know that radon levels are not an accurate predictor of earthquakes?
Because the many many seismologists who are paid to do their jobs obviously did not.
The earthquake science community looked at it and dismissed it decades ago as insufficiently reliable--some earthquakes aren't preceded by a spike in radon levels, and some spikes aren't followed by an earthquake,/quote> ...yeah, right, because all, these reports are obviously written by sci-fi writers
Have YOU even thought about what you are blabbering?
Well... lets not dignify your question with a response, shall we?
What you say is logical.
But this is politics.
The AG could have continued to tie up Mr.Tube in courts for a long time, just like the IRS did telecoms for 28 long years.
The way it was handled smacks of something bigger.
Same way the forced resignation of Eliot Spitzer and subsequent fraud at AIG/BofA/Citi, etc.
Now that Eliot Spitzer has NOT been charged by FBI, why don't Democrats or Republicans want him back as NYC mayor?
After all the same Dems and Palin want Tube Stevens back...
Call me Ismael, but i think this is a symptom of a larger picture
Why do you keep harping about Bush's time?
Its been 5 months since Obama was elected.
Can't his AG prove ANYTHING against Ted "Tube" Stevens?
Pardon me, but i don't think Obama is the True Messiah that you jokers claim him to be..
After all, he has immunity from wiretapping, while claiming during campaigning that he was against it
Am sure a deal was struck between the administration and Stevens, after all Mr.Tube has immense connections and Obama needs to deflect Palin from running against him in 2012...
Of course you Obama supporters will crown me with a tin hat foil, but prove me wrong if Ted Stevens becomes cooler against Palin while warming up against Obama...
Yes, and if this were a logical Government, it would by now have apologized to him, hired him to improve his predictions, given him & his team some good money to come up with a more accurate system for predicting earthquakes. ...and we have the guts to say that Old World Europe was barbaric when it burned Galelio and crucifixed Jesus...
However, we have been conditioned by denials and call 911 to order pizzas for so long that we accuse him of predicting it wrong and then sentence him.
Have you EVEN thought what you are blabbering?
Nope.
You are talking about the Government man. The Big Boys.
Politicians and Governments don't apologize: EVER.
In fact i would not be surprised if the Government now charged him with involuntary slaughter for NOT bringing the early warning notice to the Government's attention.
Yes, i know this is completelty asinine, and the logic in it will assplode your head, but that is how Governments' react when faced with potential truth and the fact that they were wrong.
In fact, if this guy were in USA, he would be investigated by the Secret Service, FBI and local OSHA branch for various violations:
a) Violating the state secrets act, which was applied retroactively to panic warnings.
b) Professional misconduct by not following "rules" and "procedure" to warn the Government through proper channels and instead opting for creating sensations on a public media unauthorisedly and illegally.
c) Creating panic with a view to spreading eco-terrorism (this one is from the local council and county)
d) Civil Disobedience of not obeying government rules governing state employees.
e) Spreading falsehoods (completely discounting the fact that he was right), with a view to creating panic in public and war-profiteering.
f) Declared "person of interest" by the FBI and the local Sherriff for "causing" earthquakes by predicting them.
Hell, if i were District Attorney, i would make more charges against this professor than this list, and make them stick.
And i would plead with the judge to send him to prison for 10 years at least.
After all, if i fail AND i apologize to this professor, the Governer and Mayor is liable to be sued for deliberate manslaughter and be forced to resign...Is that what the people want at this hour of agony???
Easy way is to shut this guy down completely. (Just like they sued and sentenced the college boy who outbid oil companies in Utah).
Possibly the most insightful comment ever written on slashdot....
The Parent is correct.
Get an excellent lawyer and explain to him in simple terms.
File a counter-suit and an injunction and a gag order on both suits.
Next, have copyright proofs of every image they accuse you of violation.
Get ask the judge to dismiss the suit with prejudice.
Pursue your suit citing to the jury that the company in question "deliberately" filed a suit with a view to extortion.
This deliberately clause is important, else those fcukers will escape under "sorry" clause.
Stick the deliberately clause, make it stick.
Now, ask the judge to award punitive damages for mental harassment and money lost wasting your time, plus lawyers fees.
Do NOT let them go with an apology: A corporation has no shame, no feelings and no moral sense. Its just money.
Wasn't TCP/IP suite made JUST for handling the Ultimate War?
I mean after all the greatest (and probably the only) strength of IP is automatic re-routing in case of disruptions.
So, an attack against even 80% of our TCP/IP-based internet would still result in the rest of 20% routers taking the traffic and still deliver...
This is a clear case of Government spying on us.
And i thought Obama was a nice man...
Court order???
What are you? A moron?
This is the new American man!
Where we free Senators who have been convicted of corruption, and refuse to prosecute presidents who broke laws.
But damn it, we send kids to jail for 25 years for taking photos of themselves or stealing an apple...
The French should demand that USA return back the Statue of Liberty: after all when a cop could shoot you down like a dog and not face jail for the crime, this country does not have liberty...
The only time I didn't spend yelling at the TV was during the AD breaks.
You like Aussie TV ads?? Really? Why?
No no. That is pavlov principle at work.
Cats don't feel pain. They feel fear.
Every time i kicked my neighbors' cat off my doorway, he/she (who cares) runs away screaming...
After a few weeks of well-deserved kicks, he now studiously avoids me-:)
When he sees my car pulling in, he jumps and runs like hell towards his house...
Now, the question is, did he feel the pain of my steel-tipped boot kicks on his perfectly furry hind side or was it the fear of flying that made him run???
eh?
Hitler too needed ballots to be printed and boxes to put them in.
So your company will in fact enjoy a greater margin of profits...
US is NOT a democracy.
It is a Republic.
But US "brings" democracy and "liberates" nations under the guise of democracy.
How about:
Politician> We need your tax money, but we will not provide any worthwhile services in return
Politician> We will not work efficiently, employ 15 people to do 5 peoples' job. And blame you for troubling us.
Politician> We will pass laws enforcing seat belts and speed limits, but our own governors will not follow them.
Politician> We are prodigious in consumption of your tax money, but we insist you be frugal
Politician> We are quite willing to sacrifice your liberty and freedom under the guise of offering security. But our policemen will shoot unarmed people, and you cannot sue them or us.
People> *explodes*
Well, we both are right and wrong.
I was crapping about how corporates don't earn a cent out of Ubuntu.
You were saying that individuals save money and earn a profit thus, by getting ubuntu for free.
Guess we both mean the same-:)
My apologies.
Free software is designed so that everybody profits.
WRONG, WRONG and WRONG Again.
Free software is designed so that nobody profits out of the efforts of unpaid developers.
Got it?
Why do you think noone is profiting from Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian (no not Ubuntu per se), and Linux in all its prior incarnations?
Plus Open office, etc
I second you.
It took me some time to understand what you are driving at, but i got it.
Wake up Admins and torrent seeders!
You WILL face traffic shaping.
You WILL be prevented from using torrents.
You WILL be allowed to use only a limited bandwidth.
Yes, the business environment is changing because business is adapting to your abuse of bandwidth.
To those who may cry that bandwidth is free, fcuk you. Its NOT free.
It costs money to maintain dark or lit fibres, routers, a/c, salaries of janitors to VPs.
All to enable you to feed unlimited meals???
Oh come on!
The era of eat-all-you-can ended in 1950s when eateries got smarter.
Of course you can change your approaches, use SSL, tunneling, but then business will adapt...
Evolution.
I checked it. It does NOT exist for 64-bit.
Any utility i can buy?
Like Diskeeper?
What's gibberish is that people are willing to accept price gouging and illegal fee add-ons without the slightest protest.
Some people accept corporate overlordship easily.
I don't.
No.
I would shoot man who wuz charging me a much higher price because than i was willing to pay.
True to an extent.
But once you publicly execute the guys, the message gets through, and the activity's reduced to a great extent or the guys go underground.
If they underground, then they are illegals.
they didn't steal anything
Yes they did. From us. When they forced Dell to pay more for the LCD, Dell dutifully passed the increase onto us. Which means we wuz robbed. .48 Magnum...
In the wild west, this would have been solved with a Colt
Practically also its true.
Anyone committing a crime is a criminal.
No one can assault his in-laws and then claim his corporate policy made him do it.
Acting on behalf of someone is not a license to commit crimes and escape responsibility.
Contract Law states that when an Agent acts ultra-vires of his Licensor, then the Agent is individually responsible for such acts.
Jail the criminal, and convict him.
Period.
Unfortunately none of our lawmakers would allow such a thing to happen: especially Republicans like Orrin Hatch and Ted Tube Stevens (he's out).
Because our lawmakers get "benefits" from corporate lobbyists and go to work there after their terms...
Symbiotic relationship.