This congress does not even have the teeth to override a veto for Children's insurance, let alone sell them into slavery.
This is the most spineless, gutless, toothless congress critter i have EVER seen.
In 1990s, the republican congress stopped the country by refusing to pass the budget. This congress cannot even override a veto for the Children's sake,
WHAAAT ??? No Can't be true! They put the battery, they maintain it. Damn, atleast copper is backed by the massive scenectady generators at the verizon exchange.
You made my day ! I laughed so hard my co-workers looked across the cubicle.
True. Just call them and give them a tear-jerker about how the kid is the first-born of a lawyer, and his dad wants to know whom to serve the civil notice.
Turn around just in time to see verizon removing the cable.
Its not "their" device anymore. Once they sold it to you, its yours as First-Sale. You can use it, modify it, tear it up, etc., but Apple or AT&T has no rights after a True Sale (legal terms). I welcome this class-action suit. This will make Apple realize they can't continue to take customers for granted. Yes, apple has had good karma for its iPhone. But instead of ignoring/turning a blind eye to hacks, Apple is aggressively bricking iPhones through hacking, thus breaking the contract of first and True Sale.
Imagine if i bought a TV capable of playing HD content, and then instead of subscribing to comcast, i take it to Germany DW TV. Does the TV maker and/or comcast have the right to break my HD display ability?
If they do that, they would have a tough time explaining to their shareholders why their CEO and CTO are counting bars in prison.
Its time people started suing Apple. They are not exactly saints. Imagine the outcry if Microsoft had done so!
Let them try disconnecting a landline telephone line in mid winter in East Coast to a house which has an infant in it. Laws exist that prevent disconnecting landline AND electricity which is used to power heat to any house in New England states which has an elder or an infant in it.
Let AT&T just try it.
You would see the full weight of law and the CT Supreme Court falling upon it.
And the Hoover Dam was built by GE??? What are you talking about? NASA, USPS, Hoover Dam and lots of governmental successes exist. Private developers are selfish hogs who would think of nothing but to rip you off $25 for a 56 Kbps line. Government atleast is elected and the sheriff and local country knows that if they screw up a major road-laying or bridge laying, they can say goodbye to their golf clubs. Yes larger projects like FAA get screwed up, but middle and smaller ones succeed where private would not even touch (like broadband to rural areas in midwest). Comcast would place an arbitrary limit on your download without telling you. The Govt. will respond to a FOIA and tell you exactly why it is blocking you. Comcast will respond with a "fcuk off".
Communism is a form of Government where there is only one party allowed to participate and there is supposed to a good deal of healthy debate on who should be allowed to stand in elections. Communism also holds regular elections. The candidates are nominated by the Party and the people have a choice voting Yes or NO for the candidate. If NO, then the Party has to send another candidate to stand. This forces the Party to listen to people when allowing them to choose their representatives. Communism aimed to reduce the cost-overhead of multiple-party democracy like the Weimar Republic which was the finest democracy but died under its own weight of parties.
All other democracies today are flawed to make them work.
Communism did not mean terrorising people, although it was very easy for a single Party in power to do so.
Karl Max envisaged a situation where people were unselfish and this clearly separated the individual from the power he held as an official. For instance i could be a commisar in the KGB and if i find another college dude romping with my GF, am NOT supposed to drag this guy to Lubyanka.
Unfortunately that is not possible, since human beings are selfish by nature.
Maybe when we find alien life and IT has communism that is actually working we may see a vast difference.
Very True. For a price of a single Burger at McDonalds (esp. near the Oxford station), i could eat for a whole day in Hartford CT. Damn, thank God, my employer is the second largest bank and took care of all stay and travel costs.
LONDON??? Oh that is a different place altogether. Sorry. I was referring to continental EU. London is Waaaayyy much costlier, i agree, ever since Dockland Light Rail raised its prices and reduced quality of services to unheated stations. And if you add in the local taxes, etc., BPD 70,000 (no keys for Pound symbol on my keyboard, another symbol of yankee supremacy) is not enough to live within the city.
Is not netherlands part of Europe and EU? And considering the high-cost of living in Delft versus same cost in Frankfurt (except for 3 train changes between these places). I dont think it varies much between EU cities except for a +10/-10% variance to account for local county taxes.
I don't think u got what the parent was trying to say. The parent was not questioning the need for a custom ring-tone. The parent was questioning the need for "buying" a ringtone when you could your own mp3 by ripping a CD. BTW, the theater example is good. That is why in Boston they put up the announcements before the movies "The only sound we like is the sound of silence."
Hey ! I lived in Boston next to Mass. General Hospital (The Emerson Place) and i got PBS(which was interesting) and some 5 other channels. Of course i did get to watch Noddy and the stupid dinosaur a lot, but hey the channels were free and it kinda was relaxing. Oh and i also watched the Annual Presidential Address to the congress. It was awesome ! There are some good news (no political coloring of any kind), good local news, events like the Boston Blues, etc. For a month i delayed cable, and then ultimately succumbed to the temptation of Desperate Housewives and SG Atlantis.
WHAT? And let them share the entire server's drive via P2P???
Listen as long as there are idiots, no software can be safe. Howmuchever security you build into a software is based on the assumption that an intelligent user will try to break it. Like the saying goes, fools sometimes rush in and get the job done where angels fear to tread.
shit where are my mod points when i need them badly....to continue your post..."he continued reading a story about a goat for the next 8 minutes [clueless] since cheney could not be located to give him orders on what to do next. Obviously even the famed cheney could not anticipate this situation and hence could not program bush for this."
Can't get running water? Check. Can't get proper housing? Check. Losing their houses? Check. Rampant corruption? Check. Big Oil profiteering? Check. War profiteering? Check. Firing and hiring government employees for political gains? Check.
Not just russia, USA too has all this? Wanna know how? Katrina. Iraq War. $3.10 per gallon price for Gas. Cheney and Halliburton. Gonzales Rumsfeld.
Sorry not true. Viacom used this guy's material without permission. Once this guy came to know of it, he should have informed youtube that this is a copyright violation and it would have been deleted. Instead by allowing viacom to continue flouting his copyright knowingly, he has diluted his claim.
Now he needs to get a lawyer to send a notice to viacom of the first violation and ask them to pay financial compensation.
Remember, that managers think differently from the rest of us. Am 12 yrs+ exp. and i refused to go into management and instead became a software architect primarily to escape the politics that surrounds management.
Managers are of two kinds: Manager 1: Those who think the project runs only because of their expertise and run around the team and meetings carrying MS Project plans, discussing resource variance, etc. They always push their team to do the extra mile to get to finish the project before schedule so they could have some "buffer" to get a bigger assignment. Has zero technical expertise and thinks getting technical is getting ugly and hence leave it to the techies. Patronizing kind who try hard to make their team think they are the team's protector. Does not hesitate to pull authority on team members who refuse to roll over and agree to one of their hair-brained ideas. Never discusses schedules with team before agreeing to a schedule.
I have had my share of these egotistic assholes in my 12 year career. I have seen the good Jedi become the Dark Lord once they are promoted as manager.
Manager 2: Laid back approach. Knows almost all contigencies are planned for and lets the team run with the plan. ALWAYS makes sure he/she is available to the team when the team wants it, BUT never interferes with their work. NEVER calls a snap meeting to disturb concentration to discuss hair-brained schemes. Takes calculated risk, but also knows like General Patton that once the battle has started, there is almost nothing a General can do, except tweak a few things.
I had very few managers like this one and one am deeply indebted to is a VP at a east coast CT small Bank. I seriously hope and wish i could be as cool and a good human as this guy some day. He was an architect himself and almost had an inhuman knack of smelling out tactical trouble and was ALWAYS on hand to guide us when we wanted it desperately but were too proud to goto him.
ALWAYS took the flak on our behalf and battled the various processes , quality control audits without bothering us.
And when he a risky path to take, made very clear to us, we are free to opt out or register our dissent. Much like Picard in First Contact, when Beverly says: "Once the captain has made his decision, the debate is over."
It is high time the congress stopped the tax-payer funded subsidies provided to these fuckers like AT&T and Verizon. They were provided these subsidies primarily to help them compensate for their loss in providing supplies to such rural areas.
Now since verizon, comcast and MtF AT&T have instead used that money to provide million dollar parachutes to their retired CEOs and CFOs it is high time a democrat controlled congress started withdrawing the money train.
Robin hoods have always been there from time immemorial. Its a case of chicken versus Egg. What is the guarantee that if we stop "making a copy", the company will stop putting DRM/Rootkits ?
Pirate is not the correct term.: Pirates kill people and loot them Based on your definiton, a pirate is someone who takes intellectual property from another person without paying a financial compensation for the same.
Lets take it a step further: US Constitution and subsequent court rulings have proved that my computer, my email and my phone records are NOT subject to search or seizure without a due process of law.
A rootkit/SecurROM does just that. It "searches" my computer for a CD Drive, searches again for any CDs installed made by sony, and then again seizes my computer's processor usage time for its execution.
In all these cases, Sony as a person has violated an important amendment of US constitution and as such is fully liable to be criminally prosecuted.
In addition commercial law states that misrepresenting a property of sale is disallowed and punishable by law.
Furthermore, Texas and Florida laws state that branding a property belonging to someone else is punishable by death. In this case i can claim Sony has "branded" my property (PC) with its stamp thus making it a crime.
Any lawyers who can get Sony heads to do serious time with Bubba in alcatraz???
In fact its downright prohibited by law in CT,MA,NH for a cop to ticket you, if you travel just 5-10 MHPH above speed limit. Also NH does not have seat belt requirements (which is a totally different topic), but their cops are atleast nice when they stop you. I got stopped at 2330 hrs one day in Keene, near the college when one of my headlights had failed. The cops were real nice and they just warned me to get the headlight fixed the first thing in morning. Compare this with MS cops who were downright rude and laughing when they handed the ticket. Their demeanor was such that whatever i said could be used against me.
Fortunately my friend was a lawyer who referred me to another lawyer for contesting this ticket successfully.
Wish i could mod you up. The reason is simple: Corporates provide bribes in form of campaign money to congres critters and in turn get laws changed in their favor. We the people are dumb voters who have no say since we are as disparate enough.
We should stop voting altogether. Not just vote against one candidate for another. Just queue in front of polling booths on voting day BUT do not vote. Everyone. That would have a serious impact on democracy as the Supreme Court will step in.
With no government elected and the term expiring on one...most congress critters would have a nervous breakdown.
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This congress does not even have the teeth to override a veto for Children's insurance, let alone sell them into slavery.
This is the most spineless, gutless, toothless congress critter i have EVER seen.
In 1990s, the republican congress stopped the country by refusing to pass the budget. This congress cannot even override a veto for the Children's sake,
WHAAAT ??? No Can't be true!
They put the battery, they maintain it.
Damn, atleast copper is backed by the massive scenectady generators at the verizon exchange.
You made my day !
I laughed so hard my co-workers looked across the cubicle.
True.
Just call them and give them a tear-jerker about how the kid is the first-born of a lawyer, and his dad wants to know whom to serve the civil notice.
Turn around just in time to see verizon removing the cable.
I agree. I dont deny the fact that apple can update their OS.
What they can't do is refuse to service the products their updates break.
Its not "their" device anymore. /turning a blind eye to hacks, Apple is aggressively bricking iPhones through hacking, thus breaking the contract of first and True Sale.
Once they sold it to you, its yours as First-Sale.
You can use it, modify it, tear it up, etc., but Apple or AT&T has no rights after a True Sale (legal terms).
I welcome this class-action suit.
This will make Apple realize they can't continue to take customers for granted.
Yes, apple has had good karma for its iPhone.
But instead of ignoring
Imagine if i bought a TV capable of playing HD content, and then instead of subscribing to comcast, i take it to Germany DW TV. Does the TV maker and/or comcast have the right to break my HD display ability?
If they do that, they would have a tough time explaining to their shareholders why their CEO and CTO are counting bars in prison.
Its time people started suing Apple.
They are not exactly saints.
Imagine the outcry if Microsoft had done so!
Let them try disconnecting a landline telephone line in mid winter in East Coast to a house which has an infant in it.
Laws exist that prevent disconnecting landline AND electricity which is used to power heat to any house in New England states which has an elder or an infant in it.
Let AT&T just try it.
You would see the full weight of law and the CT Supreme Court falling upon it.
And the Hoover Dam was built by GE???
What are you talking about?
NASA, USPS, Hoover Dam and lots of governmental successes exist.
Private developers are selfish hogs who would think of nothing but to rip you off $25 for a 56 Kbps line.
Government atleast is elected and the sheriff and local country knows that if they screw up a major road-laying or bridge laying, they can say goodbye to their golf clubs.
Yes larger projects like FAA get screwed up, but middle and smaller ones succeed where private would not even touch (like broadband to rural areas in midwest).
Comcast would place an arbitrary limit on your download without telling you.
The Govt. will respond to a FOIA and tell you exactly why it is blocking you.
Comcast will respond with a "fcuk off".
Go Figure.
Communism is NOT a social or Economic Model.
Socialism is an economic model.
Communism is a form of Government where there is only one party allowed to participate and there is supposed to a good deal of healthy debate on who should be allowed to stand in elections.
Communism also holds regular elections. The candidates are nominated by the Party and the people have a choice voting Yes or NO for the candidate. If NO, then the Party has to send another candidate to stand.
This forces the Party to listen to people when allowing them to choose their representatives.
Communism aimed to reduce the cost-overhead of multiple-party democracy like the Weimar Republic which was the finest democracy but died under its own weight of parties.
All other democracies today are flawed to make them work.
Communism did not mean terrorising people, although it was very easy for a single Party in power to do so.
Karl Max envisaged a situation where people were unselfish and this clearly separated the individual from the power he held as an official.
For instance i could be a commisar in the KGB and if i find another college dude romping with my GF, am NOT supposed to drag this guy to Lubyanka.
Unfortunately that is not possible, since human beings are selfish by nature.
Maybe when we find alien life and IT has communism that is actually working we may see a vast difference.
Very True. For a price of a single Burger at McDonalds (esp. near the Oxford station), i could eat for a whole day in Hartford CT.
Damn, thank God, my employer is the second largest bank and took care of all stay and travel costs.
LONDON??? Oh that is a different place altogether. Sorry. I was referring to continental EU.
London is Waaaayyy much costlier, i agree, ever since Dockland Light Rail raised its prices and reduced quality of services to unheated stations.
And if you add in the local taxes, etc., BPD 70,000 (no keys for Pound symbol on my keyboard, another symbol of yankee supremacy) is not enough to live within the city.
Is not netherlands part of Europe and EU?
And considering the high-cost of living in Delft versus same cost in Frankfurt (except for 3 train changes between these places).
I dont think it varies much between EU cities except for a +10/-10% variance to account for local county taxes.
Dude! Give some respect.
It was Professor Calculus. Not just plain Calculus.
Anyway that was the best tintin i had read (After Tibet).
I don't think u got what the parent was trying to say.
The parent was not questioning the need for a custom ring-tone. The parent was questioning the need for "buying" a ringtone when you could your own mp3 by ripping a CD.
BTW, the theater example is good.
That is why in Boston they put up the announcements before the movies "The only sound we like is the sound of silence."
Hey !
I lived in Boston next to Mass. General Hospital (The Emerson Place) and i got PBS(which was interesting) and some 5 other channels.
Of course i did get to watch Noddy and the stupid dinosaur a lot, but hey the channels were free and it kinda was relaxing.
Oh and i also watched the Annual Presidential Address to the congress. It was awesome !
There are some good news (no political coloring of any kind), good local news, events like the Boston Blues, etc.
For a month i delayed cable, and then ultimately succumbed to the temptation of Desperate Housewives and SG Atlantis.
WHAT? And let them share the entire server's drive via P2P???
Listen as long as there are idiots, no software can be safe.
Howmuchever security you build into a software is based on the assumption that an intelligent user will try to break it.
Like the saying goes, fools sometimes rush in and get the job done where angels fear to tread.
dumb people do stupid dangerous things.
shit where are my mod points when i need them badly. ...to continue your post..."he continued reading a story about a goat for the next 8 minutes [clueless] since cheney could not be located to give him orders on what to do next.
Obviously even the famed cheney could not anticipate this situation and hence could not program bush for this."
Nope.
Bushism #insert#: "The terrorists find new ways to harm our country and so do we."
Does that answer your question?
Can't get running water? Check.
Can't get proper housing? Check.
Losing their houses? Check.
Rampant corruption? Check.
Big Oil profiteering? Check.
War profiteering? Check.
Firing and hiring government employees for political gains? Check.
Not just russia, USA too has all this? Wanna know how?
Katrina.
Iraq War.
$3.10 per gallon price for Gas.
Cheney and Halliburton.
Gonzales
Rumsfeld.
Maybe we should build the moon base first.
Sorry not true.
Viacom used this guy's material without permission.
Once this guy came to know of it, he should have informed youtube that this is a copyright violation and it would have been deleted.
Instead by allowing viacom to continue flouting his copyright knowingly, he has diluted his claim.
Now he needs to get a lawyer to send a notice to viacom of the first violation and ask them to pay financial compensation.
Precisely. Why dont they go after IBM's Notes which has an auto-response feature???
If they can sue a kid, they can sue a gorilla.
Oh wait... that gorilla can bleed them to death through attrition, slowly and surely.
Maybe they are setting precedents and then plan to sue IBM later.
If that is the case a pre-emptive strike by IBM is necessary.
IBM ! are u listening???
200% correct.
Good managers are Leaders first.
Remember, that managers think differently from the rest of us.
Am 12 yrs+ exp. and i refused to go into management and instead became a software architect primarily to escape the politics that surrounds management.
Managers are of two kinds:
Manager 1: Those who think the project runs only because of their expertise and run around the team and meetings carrying MS Project plans, discussing resource variance, etc. They always push their team to do the extra mile to get to finish the project before schedule so they could have some "buffer" to get a bigger assignment.
Has zero technical expertise and thinks getting technical is getting ugly and hence leave it to the techies.
Patronizing kind who try hard to make their team think they are the team's protector.
Does not hesitate to pull authority on team members who refuse to roll over and agree to one of their hair-brained ideas.
Never discusses schedules with team before agreeing to a schedule.
I have had my share of these egotistic assholes in my 12 year career. I have seen the good Jedi become the Dark Lord once they are promoted as manager.
Manager 2: Laid back approach. Knows almost all contigencies are planned for and lets the team run with the plan.
ALWAYS makes sure he/she is available to the team when the team wants it, BUT never interferes with their work.
NEVER calls a snap meeting to disturb concentration to discuss hair-brained schemes.
Takes calculated risk, but also knows like General Patton that once the battle has started, there is almost nothing a General can do, except tweak a few things.
I had very few managers like this one and one am deeply indebted to is a VP at a east coast CT small Bank. I seriously hope and wish i could be as cool and a good human as this guy some day. He was an architect himself and almost had an inhuman knack of smelling out tactical trouble and was ALWAYS on hand to guide us when we wanted it desperately but were too proud to goto him.
ALWAYS took the flak on our behalf and battled the various processes , quality control audits without bothering us.
And when he a risky path to take, made very clear to us, we are free to opt out or register our dissent.
Much like Picard in First Contact, when Beverly says: "Once the captain has made his decision, the debate is over."
Read the "Deadline" novel Tom DeMarco.
It is high time the congress stopped the tax-payer funded subsidies provided to these fuckers like AT&T and Verizon.
They were provided these subsidies primarily to help them compensate for their loss in providing supplies to such rural areas.
Now since verizon, comcast and MtF AT&T have instead used that money to provide million dollar parachutes to their retired CEOs and CFOs it is high time a democrat controlled congress started withdrawing the money train.
Robin hoods have always been there from time immemorial.
Its a case of chicken versus Egg.
What is the guarantee that if we stop "making a copy", the company will stop putting DRM/Rootkits ?
Pirate is not the correct term.: Pirates kill people and loot them
Based on your definiton, a pirate is someone who takes intellectual property from another person without paying a financial compensation for the same.
Lets take it a step further: US Constitution and subsequent court rulings have proved that my computer, my email and my phone records are NOT subject to search or seizure without a due process of law.
A rootkit/SecurROM does just that. It "searches" my computer for a CD Drive, searches again for any CDs installed made by sony, and then again seizes my computer's processor usage time for its execution.
In all these cases, Sony as a person has violated an important amendment of US constitution and as such is fully liable to be criminally prosecuted.
In addition commercial law states that misrepresenting a property of sale is disallowed and punishable by law.
Furthermore, Texas and Florida laws state that branding a property belonging to someone else is punishable by death. In this case i can claim Sony has "branded" my property (PC) with its stamp thus making it a crime.
Any lawyers who can get Sony heads to do serious time with Bubba in alcatraz???
In fact its downright prohibited by law in CT,MA,NH for a cop to ticket you, if you travel just 5-10 MHPH above speed limit.
Also NH does not have seat belt requirements (which is a totally different topic), but their cops are atleast nice when they stop you.
I got stopped at 2330 hrs one day in Keene, near the college when one of my headlights had failed.
The cops were real nice and they just warned me to get the headlight fixed the first thing in morning.
Compare this with MS cops who were downright rude and laughing when they handed the ticket.
Their demeanor was such that whatever i said could be used against me.
Fortunately my friend was a lawyer who referred me to another lawyer for contesting this ticket successfully.
Wish i could mod you up.
The reason is simple:
Corporates provide bribes in form of campaign money to congres critters and in turn get laws changed in their favor.
We the people are dumb voters who have no say since we are as disparate enough.
We should stop voting altogether.
Not just vote against one candidate for another. Just queue in front of polling booths on voting day BUT do not vote.
Everyone.
That would have a serious impact on democracy as the Supreme Court will step in.
With no government elected and the term expiring on one...most congress critters would have a nervous breakdown.