The one i like to see in this Dearly Departed list is Windows Me and Windows Vista. Me was the Most unstable OS ever, and Vista is the most resource hog ever.
Although in reality i like to see Microsoft as a dearly departed company, bought over by Apple in a LBO.
A mafia gang providing high-priced laundry services to a hotel is still extortion if the Feds can prove that cheaper laundry services were the norm in every other laundry company in the same street. Similarly, if RIAA tries to sue the student, the student can claim extortion based on false information, even if the student had been downloading music and sharing the same.
The law works for the student's benefit too. Get a lawer like Ray Beckermann (am not benefitted by this recommendation), or someone good enough and sue RIAA under RICO for sending threatening letters demanding payment.
You don't even need to understand the language written, just highlight words like "sue", "$3000", "failure to pay", etc. with a highlighter and say to the Judge that you received an anonymous note under your door and demand protection.
Oh no. If this had happened in US the following would have been done: 1. The blow torch manufacturer would have been sued for reckless endargement of children, and fined $3.5 million. 2. The barbeque manufacturer would have been sued and settled for $1.3 million 3. The garage would have been rebuilt with marble from the money thus made.
Kaspersky. Its Russian and hell if they let a Gaijin company like SONY to usurp them. With New Money, Russia is flexing its muscles a lot and strong arming anyone who does not play by its rules, and spreading balls of polonium around... And it took such a long time to shut down allofmp3.com even after dire threats...
Churchill's main support base was the opposition and not his own party. The opposition cheered him and wanted him as PM after Sir Neville Chamberlain was unable to halt Hitler by appeasement.
Please read the six volumes of Second World War written by Churchill. Am right now reading Gathering Storm after reading Heinz Guderian's Panzer Leader.
How does a civil judgement go into my Credit Report? Does paying $300 by cash/bankers pay order make the judgement enter my credit report??? If that is the case then all the traffic fines for no-parking, etc., would be in my credit file that is now idling in my hands. All i see in my credit file are my credit applications to www.apple.com and www.overstock.com and a overdue credit card which i can't seem to even remember i had (which is the prime reason i pulled it from Experian)
I seriously wish and hope they sue Bush's daughters by anon and Subpoena whitehouse.
Am sure not only executive privilege be invoked by Bush, but also the fact that "suddenly" RIAA may find itself under intense scrutiny by IRS and by FTC and being declared "person of interest".
Surprising. Up until 1970s medicine was subsidized in US. It is after Nixon's ill-fated privitisation program that led HMOs and this current fiasco of choosing between a severed middle or ring finger and putting a price on each finger.
Are U suggesting that killing patients by denying them treatment since they are not rich enough to get treated is constitutional?
And even if taken at face value, this current administration does not seem to consider the constitution beyond a "piece of paper". So where does this your sudden passion of unconstitutional activities come to fore?
State subsidized medical care is neither against laws of US nor against any constitution amendments passed so far. Point to me where and which clause.
ACLU winning does not mean you and me lose. It means the constitution which this administration considers as confetti is worth defending, so that when you talk to your spouse over phone some serious dirty talk or private stuff, you can be sure no one else is listening on the line. That is what ACLU stands for.
Expecting the Democrats to pull away powers from FBI aftersuch blatant abuse will NOT happen. There will be a huge cry, brownie points scoring, a few low-levels at FBI who were unfortunate enough to track their ex-spouses will be fired...but seriously this concentration of power in Executive will continue.
The Democrats are not willing to seriously bring the constitution back to balance, because when their Dem (and dumb) president takes charge in 2008 they need that power.
Good or Bad, Bush and Cheney showed the way to the nomads Democrats that Executive Privilege is something you can use and abuse at will.
Once elected, a president never needs to worry about popularity contest since he will never be unseated except when he gets a Monica...
If the dems were really serious about the welfare of soldiers and countrymen, they would have raised a BIG cry in newspapers about kicking cheney out of office first and would have brought and failed maybe atleast 3 impeachment resolutions now. Bush has acknowledged that Plame's cover was blown by someone in his admin. We know who did that. So explain why dems are hemming and slowing down...
The next decade will see more of power thrust in hands of a president who is unwise and unfit to wield them.
Ron Paul was right in questioning the right things: Unfortunately the press has frozen him out since he questions their profits ultimately.
If the Dems were serious about fellow citizens they would have done the following by now: 1. Passed a law forcing Free Medicare and state-subsidized medical insurance like MA has done. 2. Voted to impeach Cheney over abuse of power and leaking the identity of agent. 3. Censured Bush for commuting the sentence of Scooter Libby. 4. Refused to pass any funding which will help the war and bring the Govt to a screeching halt: same like the republicans did in 1990s to Clinton (even though he balanced the budget). 5. Talk tough just like Bush and state publicly that this president is violating the people's trust and misleading them. 6. Drag Colin Powell to a Subpoena and ask him to explain under oath to the senate why he recommended war and who twisted intelligence. 7. Order the Wash DC mayor to arrest and produce aides of president who refused to obey a subpoena instead of going to courts. 8. Reopen the 9-11 commission to discuss discrepancies. 9. Censure NSA and pass a law prohibint it from listening to US citizens anywhere in the World. 10. Pass a law that preserves liberty and prevents the FBI from issuing gag orders to libraries.
Am betting $1,000 (which will be donated to ACLU if i fail) that the dems will do absolutely none of the steps described above, or even remotely challenge Bush or Cheney.
These Dems are puss!es of the first order and am waiting to see a Republican President reelected thus pushing the dems further into obscurity for failing us.
Hey, you sound as if you worl for the Bank. My employer has two reboot monitors running: A weekly one which reboots after a week of non-stop running, and another called Nightwatchman which shuts down every night at 10 PM. I wonder why they have reboot counter when the nightwatchman shuts down your system forcibly and this resetting the counter.
US is still a democracy unlike Hitler's Nazi germany. The president STILL cannot run for a third time and CANNOT usurp power. The vice president does not want to run for president. The Congress is STILL elected by people although choice is limited to 2 parties.
Read Winston Churchill's six volume history of the Second World War before trying to equate Bush Administration with fascism. You don't even know what fascism means.
This is US of A. We[corporates] are not here to sell you products. We are here to make money for ourselves. In that process, if that means short-changing you legally, we will do it. If its illegal, we will change the law for our benefit. If its still illegal, we would get a pardon.
Although a class action suit will result in lesser benefits for consumers, i would still prefer it since it involves a higher payout for oil companies. A simple calculation from 2004-2007 (statue of limitations) of total gas pumped in all of US from all company owned pumps alone would result in excess fleecing of consumers by atleast 35 billion dollars. A class action suit would probably result in 25% of the amount being paid out to lawyers and consumers being given coupons. But i would still prefer it, since lawyers have a vested interest in making sure the case succeeds rather the present cheney task force.
Its called as NIH syndrome. Its reflected in CDMA, VTOL, Left-side driving, 110 volts, etc. The US military has perfected it and so has NASA [upside down pen at $400 each, when you could have used a pencil.]
The philosophy is: What is not invented by US is not invented yet.
Am not saying it angrily, am just stating it as a fact.
Australia is different. I had Vodafone when Ericsson R-320s was in vogue (2000 olympics). I paid $55 per month and got $55 worth of free calls (although my bill came to $200 every month). It was a 2-year contract, and although i could swap out the SIM with another cheaper SIM (optus crap, i didn;t know then they were crap), my bill would still say $55 and it continued to say it for another 2 years. Once the 2 years were up, i stopped receiving any bills. No automatic extension, etc. Nothing.
No. Sprint is going to tell me how do i Sprint SIM in an iPhone after throwing out AT&T SIM. Anyway Sprint service is far better than AT&F crap. (FYI: Sprint is CDMA, so no SIM is inolved.)
Actually i had a bad experience yesterday just a clean install of XP with all updates. I had installed Avast, Spyware blaster, XP firewall (enough as my prior experience with kerio led to a reinstall). I paused avast ondemand scanner to rip a DVD. XP prompted me and i just dismissed it. Then after 1 hour i forgot to resume avast, and connected to net. Somehow i got infected even though used opera. Avast full scan picked it, but could not completely wipe it. An update and a call later i was able to remove it. It was a pain
Deibold??? What the fsck? What are you talking about?
Deibold was never involved in 2001 election.
It was the stupid, dumb floridans who could not even vote properly and PUSH the vote through the ballot box since they were too busy worrying about hurricanes...
You dumb floridans, you deserve all the hurricanes you get. It is the price you pay for not voting properly and allowing bush to be appointed president first time.
There is a difference: A right to do something does not make it the right thing to do. I have the right to stand on a soap box and shout in NY Central Library. It does not mean am right in doing so.
I have the right [in texas] to use deadly force to kill somebody who enters my property. It does not mean am right in doing so without giving a warning and being attacked.
I have the right to lie to a judge. Does not mean iam right to lie though.
Presidential pardon was provided as a way to make presidents pardon draft dodgers and AWOL during and after civil war. However as with all other tools, we have twisted it to political ends.
What pains is the fact, some republicans and Leiberman still continue to cheer Libby. These are the guys who should be shooed out of office.
America; the land of free: Where convicted criminals get pardoned, while innocent blacks and hispanics spend 20 years in jail until the DNA test frees them.
It is high time this lame dems led congress start impeaching Cheney first. Cheney is the real brain and bush does only what cheney wants him to do. Going after bush does not serve any purpose.
However since republicans still have some people in congress and senate, Pelosi should start cutting funds to executive offices to fire the first salvo. Request for funds can get tied up in committees... etc.
Just like McCain, another stupid republican, cheney will be forced to pay from his own pocket for his staff which is a good way to impeach him.
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The one i like to see in this Dearly Departed list is Windows Me and Windows Vista.
Me was the Most unstable OS ever, and Vista is the most resource hog ever.
Although in reality i like to see Microsoft as a dearly departed company, bought over by Apple in a LBO.
A mafia gang providing high-priced laundry services to a hotel is still extortion if the Feds can prove that cheaper laundry services were the norm in every other laundry company in the same street.
Similarly, if RIAA tries to sue the student, the student can claim extortion based on false information, even if the student had been downloading music and sharing the same.
The law works for the student's benefit too.
Get a lawer like Ray Beckermann (am not benefitted by this recommendation), or someone good enough and sue RIAA under RICO for sending threatening letters demanding payment.
You don't even need to understand the language written, just highlight words like "sue", "$3000", "failure to pay", etc. with a highlighter and say to the Judge that you received an anonymous note under your door and demand protection.
What does it matter if turd is yellow or brown and was passed in morning or evening?
Its still a turd.
Oh no. If this had happened in US the following would have been done:
1. The blow torch manufacturer would have been sued for reckless endargement of children, and fined $3.5 million.
2. The barbeque manufacturer would have been sued and settled for $1.3 million
3. The garage would have been rebuilt with marble from the money thus made.
Yes, and the registration question to verify you are a human requires you to find the smallest polynomial of a given equation !
WTF?
What the heck is a polynomial, and how does the page assume all nerds who hit the page know mathematics as well !
Show Off !
We should sue the website for discrimination !
Kaspersky. Its Russian and hell if they let a Gaijin company like SONY to usurp them.
With New Money, Russia is flexing its muscles a lot and strong arming anyone who does not play by its rules, and spreading balls of polonium around...
And it took such a long time to shut down allofmp3.com even after dire threats...
RIAA Income from lawsuit: $300
RIAA Expenses from fees: $67,000
The look on the dead Jack Valenti's face when he learns RIAA is spending 223 times its income from litigation: Priceless
Churchill's main support base was the opposition and not his own party.
The opposition cheered him and wanted him as PM after Sir Neville Chamberlain was unable to halt Hitler by appeasement.
Please read the six volumes of Second World War written by Churchill.
Am right now reading Gathering Storm after reading Heinz Guderian's Panzer Leader.
How does a civil judgement go into my Credit Report?
Does paying $300 by cash/bankers pay order make the judgement enter my credit report???
If that is the case then all the traffic fines for no-parking, etc., would be in my credit file that is now idling in my hands.
All i see in my credit file are my credit applications to www.apple.com and www.overstock.com and a overdue credit card which i can't seem to even remember i had (which is the prime reason i pulled it from Experian)
I seriously wish and hope they sue Bush's daughters by anon and Subpoena whitehouse.
Am sure not only executive privilege be invoked by Bush, but also the fact that "suddenly" RIAA may find itself under intense scrutiny by IRS and by FTC and being declared "person of interest".
Surprising. Up until 1970s medicine was subsidized in US.
It is after Nixon's ill-fated privitisation program that led HMOs and this current fiasco of choosing between a severed middle or ring finger and putting a price on each finger.
Are U suggesting that killing patients by denying them treatment since they are not rich enough to get treated is constitutional?
And even if taken at face value, this current administration does not seem to consider the constitution beyond a "piece of paper". So where does this your sudden passion of unconstitutional activities come to fore?
State subsidized medical care is neither against laws of US nor against any constitution amendments passed so far. Point to me where and which clause.
ACLU winning does not mean you and me lose.
It means the constitution which this administration considers as confetti is worth defending, so that when you talk to your spouse over phone some serious dirty talk or private stuff, you can be sure no one else is listening on the line. That is what ACLU stands for.
Expecting the Democrats to pull away powers from FBI aftersuch blatant abuse will NOT happen.
There will be a huge cry, brownie points scoring, a few low-levels at FBI who were unfortunate enough to track their ex-spouses will be fired...but seriously this concentration of power in Executive will continue.
The Democrats are not willing to seriously bring the constitution back to balance, because when their Dem (and dumb) president takes charge in 2008 they need that power.
Good or Bad, Bush and Cheney showed the way to the nomads Democrats that Executive Privilege is something you can use and abuse at will.
Once elected, a president never needs to worry about popularity contest since he will never be unseated except when he gets a Monica...
If the dems were really serious about the welfare of soldiers and countrymen, they would have raised a BIG cry in newspapers about kicking cheney out of office first and would have brought and failed maybe atleast 3 impeachment resolutions now.
Bush has acknowledged that Plame's cover was blown by someone in his admin. We know who did that.
So explain why dems are hemming and slowing down...
The next decade will see more of power thrust in hands of a president who is unwise and unfit to wield them.
Ron Paul was right in questioning the right things: Unfortunately the press has frozen him out since he questions their profits ultimately.
If the Dems were serious about fellow citizens they would have done the following by now:
1. Passed a law forcing Free Medicare and state-subsidized medical insurance like MA has done.
2. Voted to impeach Cheney over abuse of power and leaking the identity of agent.
3. Censured Bush for commuting the sentence of Scooter Libby.
4. Refused to pass any funding which will help the war and bring the Govt to a screeching halt: same like the republicans did in 1990s to Clinton (even though he balanced the budget).
5. Talk tough just like Bush and state publicly that this president is violating the people's trust and misleading them.
6. Drag Colin Powell to a Subpoena and ask him to explain under oath to the senate why he recommended war and who twisted intelligence.
7. Order the Wash DC mayor to arrest and produce aides of president who refused to obey a subpoena instead of going to courts.
8. Reopen the 9-11 commission to discuss discrepancies.
9. Censure NSA and pass a law prohibint it from listening to US citizens anywhere in the World.
10. Pass a law that preserves liberty and prevents the FBI from issuing gag orders to libraries.
Am betting $1,000 (which will be donated to ACLU if i fail) that the dems will do absolutely none of the steps described above, or even remotely challenge Bush or Cheney.
These Dems are puss!es of the first order and am waiting to see a Republican President reelected thus pushing the dems further into obscurity for failing us.
Hey, you sound as if you worl for the Bank.
My employer has two reboot monitors running: A weekly one which reboots after a week of non-stop running, and another called Nightwatchman which shuts down every night at 10 PM.
I wonder why they have reboot counter when the nightwatchman shuts down your system forcibly and this resetting the counter.
US is still a democracy unlike Hitler's Nazi germany.
The president STILL cannot run for a third time and CANNOT usurp power.
The vice president does not want to run for president.
The Congress is STILL elected by people although choice is limited to 2 parties.
Read Winston Churchill's six volume history of the Second World War before trying to equate Bush Administration with fascism.
You don't even know what fascism means.
IF the contract is on the phone: yes.
If the contract is on service: No.
reading AT&T's contract it is on service. Hence if iphone is turned into a brick, you need to sue Apple for refund as per laws.
This is US of A.
We[corporates] are not here to sell you products. We are here to make money for ourselves. In that process, if that means short-changing you legally, we will do it.
If its illegal, we will change the law for our benefit.
If its still illegal, we would get a pardon.
Get it?
Good ! Now get back to work you id1ot.
Although a class action suit will result in lesser benefits for consumers, i would still prefer it since it involves a higher payout for oil companies.
A simple calculation from 2004-2007 (statue of limitations) of total gas pumped in all of US from all company owned pumps alone would result in excess fleecing of consumers by atleast 35 billion dollars.
A class action suit would probably result in 25% of the amount being paid out to lawyers and consumers being given coupons.
But i would still prefer it, since lawyers have a vested interest in making sure the case succeeds rather the present cheney task force.
Its called as NIH syndrome.
Its reflected in CDMA, VTOL, Left-side driving, 110 volts, etc.
The US military has perfected it and so has NASA [upside down pen at $400 each, when you could have used a pencil.]
The philosophy is: What is not invented by US is not invented yet.
Am not saying it angrily, am just stating it as a fact.
Australia is different.
I had Vodafone when Ericsson R-320s was in vogue (2000 olympics).
I paid $55 per month and got $55 worth of free calls (although my bill came to $200 every month).
It was a 2-year contract, and although i could swap out the SIM with another cheaper SIM (optus crap, i didn;t know then they were crap), my bill would still say $55 and it continued to say it for another 2 years.
Once the 2 years were up, i stopped receiving any bills. No automatic extension, etc.
Nothing.
The R-320s was never SIM locked. NEVER.
No. Sprint is going to tell me how do i Sprint SIM in an iPhone after throwing out AT&T SIM.
Anyway Sprint service is far better than AT&F crap.
(FYI: Sprint is CDMA, so no SIM is inolved.)
Super Glue is far better.
Damn where are the mod points when you need them.
Actually i had a bad experience yesterday just a clean install of XP with all updates.
I had installed Avast, Spyware blaster, XP firewall (enough as my prior experience with kerio led to a reinstall).
I paused avast ondemand scanner to rip a DVD. XP prompted me and i just dismissed it.
Then after 1 hour i forgot to resume avast, and connected to net.
Somehow i got infected even though used opera.
Avast full scan picked it, but could not completely wipe it.
An update and a call later i was able to remove it.
It was a pain
Deibold??? What the fsck? What are you talking about?
Deibold was never involved in 2001 election.
It was the stupid, dumb floridans who could not even vote properly and PUSH the vote through the ballot box since they were too busy worrying about hurricanes...
You dumb floridans, you deserve all the hurricanes you get. It is the price you pay for not voting properly and allowing bush to be appointed president first time.
There is a difference: A right to do something does not make it the right thing to do.
I have the right to stand on a soap box and shout in NY Central Library.
It does not mean am right in doing so.
I have the right [in texas] to use deadly force to kill somebody who enters my property. It does not mean am right in doing so without giving a warning and being attacked.
I have the right to lie to a judge. Does not mean iam right to lie though.
Presidential pardon was provided as a way to make presidents pardon draft dodgers and AWOL during and after civil war.
However as with all other tools, we have twisted it to political ends.
What pains is the fact, some republicans and Leiberman still continue to cheer Libby.
These are the guys who should be shooed out of office.
America; the land of free:
Where convicted criminals get pardoned, while innocent blacks and hispanics spend 20 years in jail until the DNA test frees them.
It is high time this lame dems led congress start impeaching Cheney first.
Cheney is the real brain and bush does only what cheney wants him to do.
Going after bush does not serve any purpose.
However since republicans still have some people in congress and senate, Pelosi should start cutting funds to executive offices to fire the first salvo.
Request for funds can get tied up in committees... etc.
Just like McCain, another stupid republican, cheney will be forced to pay from his own pocket for his staff which is a good way to impeach him.