Lee Iacocca in his autobiography stated that people are more interested in reading headlines rather than content or Opinion. Before any of you slashdotters start venting foam from your mouths, let us be clear on content: 1. The Congress is NOT trying to strip THIS judge from power to do anything. 2. The Congress/Senate votes on July 8th to provide immunity to Telecoms who allegedly violated law. 3. If such immunity is provided, then, and only then will this judge lose his power to apply the law to Telecoms on spying. If the vote stalls, (any senator can bring in a "Hold") the judge can proceed on existing laws and there is absolutely NOTHING the Congress or president can do to stop him, short of impeaching him (which will invite the wrath of even Scalia and probably result in arrest of President). The title is wrong, misleading and similar to what FOX news or Karl Rove would have done. Shame on you s'dotters, i thought you were more intelligent and accurate than FOX News.
NOT voting is the worst thing you can do. The Federal Reserve came into being because 25 years earlier [before 1913], the Democrats were hijacked by a single leader who forsake all that the Democrat party stood for [at that time], and resulted in a huge majority of voters staying at home. Proof read the Monetary History of the United States book published by Mises institute. Courts don't overturn their own rulings much. Not just in US but in other countries. They don't like to second-guess junior justices because it undermines confidence. Not because it is politicised. True, Antonin Scalia was and is a HUGE republican, but single-handedly he could not fear-monger the SCOTUS into denying Habeus Corpus.
the appearance of a conflict of interest is unethical.
Is it illegal? That is the point. Unethical, ethical does not count. Was it illegal?
Or the former CEO of Diebold stating pretty clearly that his intention in Ohio was to ensure Bush's election.
Again, proof that MOST or ALL voting machines were tampered with? Or that Kerry lost the vote by exactly the same number of people who were misdirected? Gore being an idiot for not fighting back does not matter, He was an idiot and still is. That is why he will never be a president. That does NOT mean 2000 was a fraud. So, once again, Proof please, or else you are just McCain camp inverted.
Fraudulent elections??? Proof please! All other items you have said are true. DNA printing, spying, and detaining. But fraud in elections? PLEASE... Provide some concrete proof where a court overturned an election/ballot for fraud. Just because you hate Bush doesn't mean you blame anything you want.
Yes. You and AOL are in a contract. Contractual law states that any one party cannot unilaterally change the material terms of the contract without concurrence in writing of ALL parties of the contract. Since AOL does not ask for your permission to change, the contract is void. You can send AOL a bill for breaking terms of the contract plus costs. Sue them in a small-claims court and get your money back. Alternately if they fail to pay you can ask the court declare them bankrupt.
Well, the much vaunted VISTA can't use all of my 4GB RAM, let alone dual-core processing. The/PAE switch for boot.ini doesn't work at all and crashes to a BSOD. The VISTA/XP license prevents me from installing Quad-Core processor. and Intel wants to put 1,000 cores into one chip??? Wow they live in their own small world, don't they? Well, be prepared to see thousands of cores crashing simultaneously -:)
...so Bush sics the Anti-Trust Act on them? Next thing the SEC will "investigate" Larry Page for "suspected" securities violations, and Eric Schmidt will be investigate on his "citizenship" revocation. You can't investigate Enron or Exxon, and let Microsoft scot-free, but investigate Google? This corrupt, rotten-to-the-core regime puts 2nd world regimes in South America and i guess Venezuala regime is our equal now. Take for instance: 1. Daring to question Govt on Iraq: CIA Agent leaked. 2. Daring to refuse NSA request: CEO under trial Qwest. 3. Daring to drag NSA to court: Investigation. Man, and we thought Nixon was tricky dick. Obama should first of all boot out Rupert Murdoch's empire by changing media ownership laws to prevent anyone owning more than 4.99% of any media company.
If you are a heavy user of a service with limited resources, you should expect to be charged more. Deal with it.
Limited my as$! Bell advertises "Unlimited Internet Plans". So can you explain, corporate shill, what "unlimited plan" is? Care to venture a guess? Probably it means unlimited plan to milk customers unlimited amount of money? 2.6% was the "whooping" traffic increase they had. And 2.6% is still less than the CEO/CFO uses to browser the "intarnet" from their Free-home-PCs. Probably if the CEO's and CFO of Bell start paying from their pay packets for all the use they do accessing their blackberries etc., then you will see some good done. I say, sue Bell for false advertising, perjury and convict their CEO.
True. Each day it moves away from the common man to transmit and receive files via torrents, esp Linux updates and legal files. Net Neutrality should not only be established but rigorously policed. No friggin' "Settlements" for violations. Plain State Jails (Federal jails are too nice) for those a$sholes who violate it. Once AT&T CEO is convicted and sentenced to 10 years (similar to copyright violations), then suddenly you will see Telecoms rushing to bleat they are Net Neutral. Hell, some of them will go one step further and tell RIAA/MPAA to screw off when approached. Sigh... that is my dream. In practice, Obama will capitulate like he did for the Spying bill and end up opposing Net Neutrality.
Yup. 100% True. My flatmate and me bought laptops the same day Tiger OS was released. He bought a HP Laptop and i bought a 14" iBook with 768MB memory. One year later (exactly after one year,) his popping-out DVD-RW drive broke down. I mean it simply refused to work. He took it back to Radioshack where he bought it and they blew him off. He called HP and after a long hold (i was watching Desperate Housewives so i timed him to half-time) he was answered by someone who asked him to send it to the at his cost. They also told him to fork out $130 for the writer. Total=$220/- plus CT friggin' taxes. Me? After about 4 years+ am still running good. I did have to change my HD because my 3 yrs kid dropped the laptop from bed and it made a whiny noise. Cost me $125 for a new Hitachi 5400RPM drive (and no it was NOT a Apple store bought drive) and the Apple guy came to my house to fix it up (he was a friend). Over the years my flatmate's laptop gave him so much trouble he ultimately ended up gifting it to his college-brother who is now struggling with all the virus, etc. Iam running smooth. Nope. Not a dollar spent more. And my DVD drive still works -:) My flatmate laughed at me 4 years ago. Now look who's laughing.
Yes. And you were brought in by a blue stork onto your parents' doorstep from a land far, far beyond, where daisies and lillies grow beautifully well, where dinosaurs and deers ate together at the Golden Pool. Then one mighty day, Lord the God, finished developing the rest of the real-estate (WoW), and wanted to let Adam & Eve and everyone out to make room for Himself. However, the Golden Pool and the excellent infrastructure in the Garden of Love were too good to make any of them voluntarily leave. So the God had to boot Adam & Eve out of the Garden by throwing a snake upon them, which made Eve scream and rush out of the Garden followed by Adam. Eve refused to go back into the Garden when persuaded to do so by Adam and told him he wouldn't get any "dessert" if he did not move out with her. So Adam had to move out to keep the "desserts" coming. But, since he didn't want his offspring to know why, he invented this Moses stuff, etc., which resulted in the Bible, and a few thousand years later the Vatican money machine and ultimately resulted in you being "pollinated". Get it?
...american school education couldn't go any lower, somebody out there surprises me. I can't even imagine why such idiots serve in the board. I recently saw Idiocracy and i think it might come true. Much quicker.
I actually did this with my ex-banker. You would have seen a news item about 5 years ago saying someone auctioned assets of a bank because of a court order and how it was stopped by a personal guarantee by the bank president. Yup. I did manage to sell off about 5 PCs before the bank served me with a court's injunction. I got my order signed by a Justice of Peace -:) And eventually i got my money back (the PCs of course were valued at $1.10 each-:))
You don't know who they are?? Ohhh... dude i pity you. True, i may have studied in an Indian school long time back, but even i know who they are. Anyway coming back to the point: The recent books i read are: 1. Ivan's War: Teaches you really the war from soviet angle. Esp the Finland campaign where Molotov Cocktail was invented by Finns. 2. Congressional Anecdotes: Paul F Boller. Henry Clay, et al. 3. Presidential Anecdotes: Paul F Boller. Eisenhower's roundabout way of speech and how a reporter rewrote Lincoln's address if Ike could tell it. 4. Victorian Internet: Tom Standage. Wonderful story about how telegraphy evolved (from sign telegraphs, to pneumatic tubes like you see in LOST, to WW1 and WW2, Atalntic line, etc) 5. Bio-Inspired Credit Risk Analysis.
Am sorry though. I didn;t mean to disrespect you. I was mighty pissed off at Obama when he supported Immunity and i took out my anger on this thread.
Be careful or you could end up like the New Zealand guy who built a similar thing under $5K and ended up losing his shirt, or worse come under the 'tender' ministrations of our own Gestapo: DHS.
Ah... American schools at work. Seriously, you should read a book or two on Science; once a year. Just casually flip through it and absord the facts, without being distracted by the antics of Eva Longoria or Patteniere..
The bank needs to repay you the money they let Bell steal. If a bank allows money to be withdrawn from an account of a deceased person, then the bank is liable to put the money back WITH interest and penal charges. Once a person dies, the bank needs to legally freeze the account to prevent any deposits or withdrawals (esp. withdrawals). Only the estate or the nominee can withdraw (not deposit) ALL the money from the account in one single operation. Nope, the bank cannot unilaterally close and send you a check for the same. If you are the legal heir, you need to either prove by way of nomination OR successor OR court orders asking the bank to pay you the money. The check that the bank cashed and the Direct Debit, if both happened AFTER your dad died, are not valid. In a court you WILL prevail, plus the bank has to pay a nasty fine. But BEll cannot be held liable. You were not in a contractual relationship with Bell. Order the bank in writing stating facts and giving them 7 days to repay you with interest. If the bank fails to respond, file a criminal case stating fraud, and simulatenously ask the court to rule in your favor citing your dad's death certificate and date of debit. The court usually will not want to hear from the bank because if the debit happened AFTER death then any legal arguments are moot. Get a court order making the bank pay you. If you want to play real nasty, send the order by ordinary post undistinguishable from other letters (after all banks hide their rate increases in same way) to the bank's registered office (NOT the branch). Those morons at the registered office will have no clue and throw away the letter. (Assuming you have given a deadline to pay you from date of letter do next steps). Approach the court again whining pitifuly (yes it pays) that the Holy Judge's order was disobeyed (get the same judge) by an unruly bank.
The judge will ask what you want to do next.
This is most important: Now the culpability of the bank is established as defying court orders (your money now plays a second role. Judges don't like to see anyone defying their orders). Request the court grants you permission to seize and auction the bank's nearest branch's assets to get your money back. The judge will accept this.
Go with a sheriff and his posse to the branch, and now you are legally authorised to rob the bank. You can shut down the doors, throw out customers, restrain staff, seize cash from tills, auction PCs on the spot (better yet, arrange a few friends to be there for the auction to get bank's PCs at HUGE discounts). Sell ALL their stuff to get your money back: Remember, your goal is to first bankrupt the branch. Don't seize cash. Seize the hardware, valuable furniture anything that the bank needs to run its branch. Sell it on doorfront with sheriff standing by for a dollar or whatever you like.
The bank will try to move mountains to get the order overturned. So do it quickly, very fast. Get some 100 friends to suddenly appear, bid for the assets, and block the traffic to prevent their lawyers from reaching you to serve you a STOP SALE order they can get from a sympathetic judge. Good luck
Oh please stop throwing mud on Bush. Dodd is a hypocrite. And so are all you Liberals. Dodd aims to undo damage to his image [sleeping with Countrywide] by filibustering the Immunity bill knowing very well that it will not succeed. If his filibustering had any chance of success, he would have backed out. He knows the winds are changing away from Bush and hence he wants to win the upcoming election by pandering to the Liberal crowd without doing them any advantage. There are numerous ways individually for Dodd to stop the bill. Eg., Why didn't he put a "Hold" on the bill? That way the bill is effectively dead.
Bush never was a hypocrite. Did you even read Bod Woodward's "Bush at War?" Bush never wanted to attack Iraq. And he was right about one thing: Americans would soon move to World Series and others, while terrorists never stop thinking about ways to hurt. And he was right about the long-drawn out battle needed to win against terrorism. Yes, made questionable judgements, generally was of low intelligence, but past 7 years we never had another set of towers collapsing.
Obama made a motion of opposing the immunity bill and once he realized that if he opposed it seriously, the bill would not pass, he started to support it unconditionally. When have the republicans wavered like this? Bush and Cheney always have said that if anyone needs to be punished it should be the president and not telecoms which only did what the president ordered them to do. Do you have any idea of the fear during those dark days? Its not NSA wants to listen to your stupid cellphone fight with your spouse. And if they do the law punishes them for it. During WW2, we did worse. We trampled on rights of every citiZen. This time it is far better. We don't see muslims locked up in detainment camps and like.
Liberal idiots always have been cowards. How come you guys were willing to support PATRIOT Act in 2001 and you oppose it now? Aren't you all hypocrites? When you are feeling safe, you attack the laws, immunity etc., conveniently forgetting you supported all those measures soon after fear overcame your "Liberal" feelings after 9/11. Why don't you go preach Geneva conventions to those terrorists who attacked us? Are you afraid? And please stop quoting our Founding Fathers and their preach of equality. They did not grant voting rights to blacks and women until much later.
I bet they're not even ashamed of it. Dude... we humans feel shame and anger. Politicians belong to Politica impudens species. They are NEVER ashamed of anything; including eating their first born if necessary or bending over to Bush. Remember that We, the people belong to Homo Sapiens species. Politicians belong to Politica impudens species. Asking them if they don't feel shame is like asking if FOX news will support Obama, or Bush is highly intelligent. Nope. The only thing Politica impudens is afraid of losing influence and power. A credible threat of defeat in elections and losing face will make them think the way you want them to. Threatening their life, threatening their family, etc., all will make them a martyr. Remember: These guys love these publicity like a Pig loves rolling in mud. They have the ability to make any adverse thing into publicity for them. Writing to them if they have any shame, etc., will achieve nothing. You may as well write to Bush asking him to write a paper on Newton's Principia.
Dodd is a Great Man. But he is all alone in this weakling-democrat led House & Senate. The Democrats fear that not passing the bill will make Bush 'allow' another terror strike to happen and that the Democrats will lose this presidency that they think they are going to win. What they have forgotten is they have already lost the battle of minds. The people elected them to throw out Bush/Cheney.
Nancy Pelosi rode to power shrieking that she will show Bush who's the boss. The moment she was elected, she switched sides and said impeachment is off the table, thinking that her seat is 'safe' and that nov 08 needs to be won next. What she forgot was that Americans love people with boldness and spine. Not people like Pelosi and Obama.
After all when Republicans were a minority during Clinton years, they made such a ruckus, impeached clinton for telling lies [which killed no one], and brought the government to a halt. The democrats were given a majority by the People specifically to do the same. But the democrats have betrayed the People. This many democrats switching sides at such short notice for very little money is suspicious. I wonder what did the illegal spying by Bush reveal about the private lives of Democrats such that they were "persuaded" to change their votes.
Now, you can fool some people some of the time. Not all the people all the time, which is what Pelosi is trying to do.
This Nov i recommend the People throw out Democrats once and for all and ensure McCain and the Republican party are elected by a HUGE margin.
After all the democrats did NOTHING for the people. They deserve NOTHING in return.
Is it? The Hague conventions were followed even by Hitler during Barbarossa. He refused to authorise http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/dec99-03.htm/ explosive bullets even though Stalin was using then all along. It was only in 1944 he authorised explosive bullets. The Hague prevents torture of any kind of any armed combatant. Even http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_war/ unlawful combatants "treated with humanity and, in case of trial, shall not be deprived of the rights of fair and regular trial" because they are still covered under GC IV Article 5. Hmmm.. so that just makes Bush a War Criminal as he is the C-in-C of armed forces. Or are you claiming Executive Privilege to move him to an alternate timeframe where Bush is president & not president at same time.
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Lee Iacocca in his autobiography stated that people are more interested in reading headlines rather than content or Opinion.
Before any of you slashdotters start venting foam from your mouths, let us be clear on content:
1. The Congress is NOT trying to strip THIS judge from power to do anything.
2. The Congress/Senate votes on July 8th to provide immunity to Telecoms who allegedly violated law.
3. If such immunity is provided, then, and only then will this judge lose his power to apply the law to Telecoms on spying.
If the vote stalls, (any senator can bring in a "Hold") the judge can proceed on existing laws and there is absolutely NOTHING the Congress or president can do to stop him, short of impeaching him (which will invite the wrath of even Scalia and probably result in arrest of President).
The title is wrong, misleading and similar to what FOX news or Karl Rove would have done.
Shame on you s'dotters, i thought you were more intelligent and accurate than FOX News.
NOT voting is the worst thing you can do.
The Federal Reserve came into being because 25 years earlier [before 1913], the Democrats were hijacked by a single leader who forsake all that the Democrat party stood for [at that time], and resulted in a huge majority of voters staying at home. Proof read the Monetary History of the United States book published by Mises institute.
Courts don't overturn their own rulings much. Not just in US but in other countries. They don't like to second-guess junior justices because it undermines confidence. Not because it is politicised.
True, Antonin Scalia was and is a HUGE republican, but single-handedly he could not fear-monger the SCOTUS into denying Habeus Corpus.
the appearance of a conflict of interest is unethical.
Is it illegal? That is the point. Unethical, ethical does not count. Was it illegal?
Or the former CEO of Diebold stating pretty clearly that his intention in Ohio was to ensure Bush's election.
Again, proof that MOST or ALL voting machines were tampered with?
Or that Kerry lost the vote by exactly the same number of people who were misdirected?
Gore being an idiot for not fighting back does not matter, He was an idiot and still is. That is why he will never be a president.
That does NOT mean 2000 was a fraud.
So, once again, Proof please, or else you are just McCain camp inverted.
Fraudulent elections???
Proof please!
All other items you have said are true. DNA printing, spying, and detaining. But fraud in elections? PLEASE...
Provide some concrete proof where a court overturned an election/ballot for fraud.
Just because you hate Bush doesn't mean you blame anything you want.
Yes.
You and AOL are in a contract. Contractual law states that any one party cannot unilaterally change the material terms of the contract without concurrence in writing of ALL parties of the contract.
Since AOL does not ask for your permission to change, the contract is void.
You can send AOL a bill for breaking terms of the contract plus costs. Sue them in a small-claims court and get your money back.
Alternately if they fail to pay you can ask the court declare them bankrupt.
Oh yeah! And M$FT will cripple Vista to use only 2 out of them for Home use and extort $300/CPU for the Pro version.
Well, the much vaunted VISTA can't use all of my 4GB RAM, let alone dual-core processing. /PAE switch for boot.ini doesn't work at all and crashes to a BSOD.
The
The VISTA/XP license prevents me from installing Quad-Core processor.
and Intel wants to put 1,000 cores into one chip??? Wow they live in their own small world, don't they?
Well, be prepared to see thousands of cores crashing simultaneously -:)
...so Bush sics the Anti-Trust Act on them?
Next thing the SEC will "investigate" Larry Page for "suspected" securities violations, and Eric Schmidt will be investigate on his "citizenship" revocation.
You can't investigate Enron or Exxon, and let Microsoft scot-free, but investigate Google?
This corrupt, rotten-to-the-core regime puts 2nd world regimes in South America and i guess Venezuala regime is our equal now.
Take for instance:
1. Daring to question Govt on Iraq: CIA Agent leaked.
2. Daring to refuse NSA request: CEO under trial Qwest.
3. Daring to drag NSA to court: Investigation.
Man, and we thought Nixon was tricky dick.
Obama should first of all boot out Rupert Murdoch's empire by changing media ownership laws to prevent anyone owning more than 4.99% of any media company.
If you are a heavy user of a service with limited resources, you should expect to be charged more. Deal with it.
Limited my as$!
Bell advertises "Unlimited Internet Plans".
So can you explain, corporate shill, what "unlimited plan" is? Care to venture a guess? Probably it means unlimited plan to milk customers unlimited amount of money?
2.6% was the "whooping" traffic increase they had. And 2.6% is still less than the CEO/CFO uses to browser the "intarnet" from their Free-home-PCs.
Probably if the CEO's and CFO of Bell start paying from their pay packets for all the use they do accessing their blackberries etc., then you will see some good done.
I say, sue Bell for false advertising, perjury and convict their CEO.
So its just desserts then?
What else are you looking for?
True. Each day it moves away from the common man to transmit and receive files via torrents, esp Linux updates and legal files.
Net Neutrality should not only be established but rigorously policed. No friggin' "Settlements" for violations. Plain State Jails (Federal jails are too nice) for those a$sholes who violate it. Once AT&T CEO is convicted and sentenced to 10 years (similar to copyright violations), then suddenly you will see Telecoms rushing to bleat they are Net Neutral. Hell, some of them will go one step further and tell RIAA/MPAA to screw off when approached.
Sigh... that is my dream. In practice, Obama will capitulate like he did for the Spying bill and end up opposing Net Neutrality.
Yup. 100% True.
My flatmate and me bought laptops the same day Tiger OS was released. He bought a HP Laptop and i bought a 14" iBook with 768MB memory.
One year later (exactly after one year,) his popping-out DVD-RW drive broke down. I mean it simply refused to work. He took it back to Radioshack where he bought it and they blew him off. He called HP and after a long hold (i was watching Desperate Housewives so i timed him to half-time) he was answered by someone who asked him to send it to the at his cost. They also told him to fork out $130 for the writer. Total=$220/- plus CT friggin' taxes.
Me? After about 4 years+ am still running good.
I did have to change my HD because my 3 yrs kid dropped the laptop from bed and it made a whiny noise. Cost me $125 for a new Hitachi 5400RPM drive (and no it was NOT a Apple store bought drive) and the Apple guy came to my house to fix it up (he was a friend).
Over the years my flatmate's laptop gave him so much trouble he ultimately ended up gifting it to his college-brother who is now struggling with all the virus, etc.
Iam running smooth. Nope. Not a dollar spent more.
And my DVD drive still works -:)
My flatmate laughed at me 4 years ago.
Now look who's laughing.
Yes. And you were brought in by a blue stork onto your parents' doorstep from a land far, far beyond, where daisies and lillies grow beautifully well, where dinosaurs and deers ate together at the Golden Pool.
Then one mighty day, Lord the God, finished developing the rest of the real-estate (WoW), and wanted to let Adam & Eve and everyone out to make room for Himself.
However, the Golden Pool and the excellent infrastructure in the Garden of Love were too good to make any of them voluntarily leave.
So the God had to boot Adam & Eve out of the Garden by throwing a snake upon them, which made Eve scream and rush out of the Garden followed by Adam. Eve refused to go back into the Garden when persuaded to do so by Adam and told him he wouldn't get any "dessert" if he did not move out with her.
So Adam had to move out to keep the "desserts" coming.
But, since he didn't want his offspring to know why, he invented this Moses stuff, etc., which resulted in the Bible, and a few thousand years later the Vatican money machine and ultimately resulted in you being "pollinated".
Get it?
...american school education couldn't go any lower, somebody out there surprises me.
I can't even imagine why such idiots serve in the board.
I recently saw Idiocracy and i think it might come true. Much quicker.
I actually did this with my ex-banker. You would have seen a news item about 5 years ago saying someone auctioned assets of a bank because of a court order and how it was stopped by a personal guarantee by the bank president.
Yup. I did manage to sell off about 5 PCs before the bank served me with a court's injunction.
I got my order signed by a Justice of Peace -:)
And eventually i got my money back (the PCs of course were valued at $1.10 each-:))
Who is is Eva Longoria or Patteniere BTW??
You don't know who they are??
Ohhh... dude i pity you.
True, i may have studied in an Indian school long time back, but even i know who they are.
Anyway coming back to the point: The recent books i read are:
1. Ivan's War: Teaches you really the war from soviet angle. Esp the Finland campaign where Molotov Cocktail was invented by Finns.
2. Congressional Anecdotes: Paul F Boller. Henry Clay, et al.
3. Presidential Anecdotes: Paul F Boller. Eisenhower's roundabout way of speech and how a reporter rewrote Lincoln's address if Ike could tell it.
4. Victorian Internet: Tom Standage. Wonderful story about how telegraphy evolved (from sign telegraphs, to pneumatic tubes like you see in LOST, to WW1 and WW2, Atalntic line, etc)
5. Bio-Inspired Credit Risk Analysis.
Am sorry though. I didn;t mean to disrespect you. I was mighty pissed off at Obama when he supported Immunity and i took out my anger on this thread.
Be careful or you could end up like the New Zealand guy who built a similar thing under $5K and ended up losing his shirt, or worse come under the 'tender' ministrations of our own Gestapo: DHS.
Ah... American schools at work.
Seriously, you should read a book or two on Science; once a year. Just casually flip through it and absord the facts, without being distracted by the antics of Eva Longoria or Patteniere..
Well, the GP asked for it. WTF is he doing in a NASA discussing forum asking dumb questions -:))
Mach? What does that mean?
It refers to Gillete MACH 3 Shaving System to shave your #@$$%
The bank needs to repay you the money they let Bell steal.
If a bank allows money to be withdrawn from an account of a deceased person, then the bank is liable to put the money back WITH interest and penal charges.
Once a person dies, the bank needs to legally freeze the account to prevent any deposits or withdrawals (esp. withdrawals).
Only the estate or the nominee can withdraw (not deposit) ALL the money from the account in one single operation.
Nope, the bank cannot unilaterally close and send you a check for the same. If you are the legal heir, you need to either prove by way of nomination OR successor OR court orders asking the bank to pay you the money.
The check that the bank cashed and the Direct Debit, if both happened AFTER your dad died, are not valid. In a court you WILL prevail, plus the bank has to pay a nasty fine.
But BEll cannot be held liable. You were not in a contractual relationship with Bell.
Order the bank in writing stating facts and giving them 7 days to repay you with interest.
If the bank fails to respond, file a criminal case stating fraud, and simulatenously ask the court to rule in your favor citing your dad's death certificate and date of debit.
The court usually will not want to hear from the bank because if the debit happened AFTER death then any legal arguments are moot.
Get a court order making the bank pay you.
If you want to play real nasty, send the order by ordinary post undistinguishable from other letters (after all banks hide their rate increases in same way) to the bank's registered office (NOT the branch). Those morons at the registered office will have no clue and throw away the letter. (Assuming you have given a deadline to pay you from date of letter do next steps).
Approach the court again whining pitifuly (yes it pays) that the Holy Judge's order was disobeyed (get the same judge) by an unruly bank.
The judge will ask what you want to do next.
This is most important: Now the culpability of the bank is established as defying court orders (your money now plays a second role. Judges don't like to see anyone defying their orders). Request the court grants you permission to seize and auction the bank's nearest branch's assets to get your money back. The judge will accept this.
Go with a sheriff and his posse to the branch, and now you are legally authorised to rob the bank. You can shut down the doors, throw out customers, restrain staff, seize cash from tills, auction PCs on the spot (better yet, arrange a few friends to be there for the auction to get bank's PCs at HUGE discounts). Sell ALL their stuff to get your money back: Remember, your goal is to first bankrupt the branch. Don't seize cash. Seize the hardware, valuable furniture anything that the bank needs to run its branch. Sell it on doorfront with sheriff standing by for a dollar or whatever you like.
The bank will try to move mountains to get the order overturned. So do it quickly, very fast. Get some 100 friends to suddenly appear, bid for the assets, and block the traffic to prevent their lawyers from reaching you to serve you a STOP SALE order they can get from a sympathetic judge.
Good luck
Oh please stop throwing mud on Bush.
Dodd is a hypocrite. And so are all you Liberals. Dodd aims to undo damage to his image [sleeping with Countrywide] by filibustering the Immunity bill knowing very well that it will not succeed. If his filibustering had any chance of success, he would have backed out. He knows the winds are changing away from Bush and hence he wants to win the upcoming election by pandering to the Liberal crowd without doing them any advantage. There are numerous ways individually for Dodd to stop the bill. Eg., Why didn't he put a "Hold" on the bill? That way the bill is effectively dead.
Bush never was a hypocrite. Did you even read Bod Woodward's "Bush at War?" Bush never wanted to attack Iraq. And he was right about one thing: Americans would soon move to World Series and others, while terrorists never stop thinking about ways to hurt.
And he was right about the long-drawn out battle needed to win against terrorism.
Yes, made questionable judgements, generally was of low intelligence, but past 7 years we never had another set of towers collapsing.
Obama made a motion of opposing the immunity bill and once he realized that if he opposed it seriously, the bill would not pass, he started to support it unconditionally.
When have the republicans wavered like this? Bush and Cheney always have said that if anyone needs to be punished it should be the president and not telecoms which only did what the president ordered them to do.
Do you have any idea of the fear during those dark days? Its not NSA wants to listen to your stupid cellphone fight with your spouse. And if they do the law punishes them for it. During WW2, we did worse. We trampled on rights of every citiZen. This time it is far better. We don't see muslims locked up in detainment camps and like.
Liberal idiots always have been cowards. How come you guys were willing to support PATRIOT Act in 2001 and you oppose it now? Aren't you all hypocrites? When you are feeling safe, you attack the laws, immunity etc., conveniently forgetting you supported all those measures soon after fear overcame your "Liberal" feelings after 9/11.
Why don't you go preach Geneva conventions to those terrorists who attacked us? Are you afraid?
And please stop quoting our Founding Fathers and their preach of equality. They did not grant voting rights to blacks and women until much later.
Politicians belong to Politica impudens species. They are NEVER ashamed of anything; including eating their first born if necessary or bending over to Bush.
Remember that We, the people belong to Homo Sapiens species. Politicians belong to Politica impudens species.
Asking them if they don't feel shame is like asking if FOX news will support Obama, or Bush is highly intelligent.
Nope.
The only thing Politica impudens is afraid of losing influence and power. A credible threat of defeat in elections and losing face will make them think the way you want them to. Threatening their life, threatening their family, etc., all will make them a martyr. Remember: These guys love these publicity like a Pig loves rolling in mud. They have the ability to make any adverse thing into publicity for them.
Writing to them if they have any shame, etc., will achieve nothing. You may as well write to Bush asking him to write a paper on Newton's Principia.
DISCLAIMER: I posted the same letter in Salon.com
Dodd is a Great Man. But he is all alone in this weakling-democrat led House & Senate.
The Democrats fear that not passing the bill will make Bush 'allow' another terror strike to happen and that the Democrats will lose this presidency that they think they are going to win.
What they have forgotten is they have already lost the battle of minds.
The people elected them to throw out Bush/Cheney.
Nancy Pelosi rode to power shrieking that she will show Bush who's the boss. The moment she was elected, she switched sides and said impeachment is off the table, thinking that her seat is 'safe' and that nov 08 needs to be won next.
What she forgot was that Americans love people with boldness and spine. Not people like Pelosi and Obama.
After all when Republicans were a minority during Clinton years, they made such a ruckus, impeached clinton for telling lies [which killed no one], and brought the government to a halt.
The democrats were given a majority by the People specifically to do the same.
But the democrats have betrayed the People.
This many democrats switching sides at such short notice for very little money is suspicious. I wonder what did the illegal spying by Bush reveal about the private lives of Democrats such that they were "persuaded" to change their votes.
Now, you can fool some people some of the time. Not all the people all the time, which is what Pelosi is trying to do.
This Nov i recommend the People throw out Democrats once and for all and ensure McCain and the Republican party are elected by a HUGE margin.
After all the democrats did NOTHING for the people. They deserve NOTHING in return.
As Henry Clay would like to say: "Quid Pro quo".
Is it?
The Hague conventions were followed even by Hitler during Barbarossa. He refused to authorise http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/dec99-03.htm/ explosive bullets even though Stalin was using then all along.
It was only in 1944 he authorised explosive bullets.
The Hague prevents torture of any kind of any armed combatant. Even http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_war/ unlawful combatants "treated with humanity and, in case of trial, shall not be deprived of the rights of fair and regular trial" because they are still covered under GC IV Article 5.
Hmmm.. so that just makes Bush a War Criminal as he is the C-in-C of armed forces.
Or are you claiming Executive Privilege to move him to an alternate timeframe where Bush is president & not president at same time.