On other locations, Cell carriers like Verizon and cingular have got taxpayer subsidized locations for setting up their infrastructure. So as a taxpayer, i demand they open up their network to other carriers. Not opening up is not right.
government is supposed to server the people, not businesses
[sarcasm]Are U crazy? Who do you think pays for their re-election? Do you have any idea how much it costs to run and win?
Do you think your pitiful $3.00 contribution to the president's election fund in your Tax Return is enough to win an election?
Wake up Buddy![/sarcasm]
Now to talk reality: This dems controlled congress won on the promise that they would bring our Boys home. What did they do? NOTHING.
Money speaks everywhere, and corporates have more money than you and me.
I hope someone silently slips in a bill within the Iraq War budget which says that if a congressman/senator does not keep up election promises within the one year of election, he/she automatically is disqualified and prevented from running for 10 years.
You are wrong. Here's why and also how a Good Lawyer can sue and win atleast 1.2 million dollars from MPAA.
First, the fact that MPAA violated his license. According to the DMCA under section 1204 penalties range up to a $500000 fine...
Next, each visitor to MPAA pages could have been a POTENTIAl licensee of the software. This POTENTIAL was lost by the author since no link backs were provided. Assuming a good lawyer subpoenas' MPAA website administrator and gets a total of number of visitors to the page(s) from date of violation till date of verdict, takes a very conservative estimate that atleast 50% of the people visited could have licensed the software, (same calculations that MPAA uses to send take-down notices and suits for damages), the author can easily claim atleast $1.2 million.
Now, once the case goes to court, by that time it has been proven MPAA had violated his copyright. The judge would have no qualms declaring MPAA guility under DMCA. The second play is for more damages outside the $5000000 fine.
If only 1,000 visitors visited the site since the day of violation the fine would stand reduced, however i bet it is more.
A more serious lawyer can pursue it even further and argue that since the MPAA in its role as a guardian of digital copyrights has ITSELF violated the DMCA (thus a case of fence eating the flock), it must be criminally tried and asked to pay a more amount as fine to the poor author.
One sympathetic judge is enough to screw MPAA in this case. I would say, first get a GOOD lawyer.
I agree with you that today's cars are very silent and less vibrating that older models. Sometimes, i need to switch off my car stereo and listen keenly to detect the engine if i have stopped for a toll booth (i use a manual shift). Other times i just try shifting the gear and see if it works: if it doesn't i restart the engine knowing it has stopped. I suggest that at such low noise ratio, cars should emit a quiet beep-beep every 10 seconds when going below 20 mph (which means it is a residential area) to warn pedestrians.
Alberta has lots of oil in the slush sands that are begging to be explored/drilled. Since Canada does not respect global copyright regulations, the first step would be to blacklist it in UN Sec council. Then comes the escalation to a few sanctions against canada banks, etc. Third comes an ultimatum worded in such a way that no self-respecting candian PM would agree to. Fourth comes the invasion and occupation. And lastly, britain having already gotten rid of Bush crony Blair, would decide to defend canada since it has same soverign and is part of commonwealth. We will have a 2nd war of independence only this time fought by canada and there will be another Patriot movie made in Canada.
OK, time for Physics 101: The mass of the original object collapsing will decide the mass of the black hole. Weight != Mass. A larger star collapsing will form a larger black hole of the SAME mass. A molecule collapsing to form a black hole[forced to] will form a black hole of the same mass of the molecule. The smaller the black hole [smaller mass], the faster it will evaporate due to Hawkins Radiation.
BestBuy in CT. I have returned AoE III for Mac since it can't run on my iBook G4. The store clerk accepted my reason and gave me an option of Store Credit or Refund. I took credit since i plunked for AoM for Mac. That was 2 months back. Depends on which clerk you approach and how nice you are to her.
Money is peanuts for them. It comes out of profits that are going to be distribited to shareholders. They should be jailed and their salaries seized for payment to shareholders and victims. Somebody should bring a civil case against them in Sitka, Alaska, get a default judgement and then send in bailiffs to clear their HQ out of everything it has....
Once they impose this tax, the torrents are Legal. This has been extablished as a precedent in France courts. So i can pay the iPod tax, crack it open and upload all the music for you to download..."legally". The tax is supposed to cover that. RIAA cannot have it both ways: its double jeopardy. Will be struck down by courts as was done in France.
You can sue the nearest Dell Store outlet in your town/city. One guy had done this against a Dell outlet located in a mall and got default judgment. You can do the same and once the complaint goes unanswered you get a default judgement. Send in the bailiffs and seize all the computers there for reselling....
Not always the case. My employer, a Bank, prefers the grey hairs since it means: Discipline, respect for authority, seriousness to get the job done, and generally not "gung-ho". More companies prefer companies who can develop, and not just code.
They prefer the grey-haired suits more than the Jeans & T-Shirts gang, as the greys do not come with a terrible hangover on Monday morning, nor do they fly off at 3.30 PM on a Friday evening.
To supplement your good suggestions, i can add the following: 1. Automatically make private and personal data of an individual as a copyrighted piece of art with protection under DMCA. 2. Any waiver to this copyright would have to be approved by the person concerned. 3. Such waivers are mandatorily limited to the scope of the transaction OR 3 years (whichever is smaller), after which the copyright reverts to the person. 4. Misuse of this private copyrighted data including but not limited to publishing photos of my house taken from the street, etc., are punishable under the draconian DMCA laws which thankfully the corporates have paid for. 5. This becomes a constitutional amendment. 6. Any future AG or prez who would violate this amendment would automatically stand impeached and in addition become a convicted felon under the eyes of law. The courts only need to sentence the person. 7. Govt. monitoring programs that outsource their data collection to corporates are held responsible under DMCA.
Let's see how many AG's would risk becoming a felon under DMCA which has more punishments than homicide.
>>If I invest my money to run a wire from mofn to bfe Nope. Its not YOUR money. It's OUR money taxed from us to and given to YOU as subsidies so that YOU can lay "pipes" to regions that are generally not profitable for you. And when its our money, You better pull your head out of your as* and do as WE say. As you are so fond of saying, "when its my money, i damn well will do as i want." You are damn right. Its OUR money and we damn will force you to do it out way.
Oh, BTW read pages 234-247 of Ann Ryand to really understand what it means.
The fact that a patient publicly announces reviews about a Doctor does NOT absolve the doctor from maintaining confidentiality about the patient.
Protection of Free Speech is available to citizens as a whole. However confidentiality agreements between two parties that prevent disclosure of certain (Not all) facts overrules the free speech right, because the former is a right granted under the constitution, while the latter is a valid contract.
It is the same reason why you are asked to sign confidential non-disclosure agreements for some jobs. These agreements are specific for a certain purpose and that purpose is narrow. If it was anymore broader, like preventing you ever from writing a letter to the editor about unrelated stuff, they are struck down by courts as they infringe free speech.
In a doctor's case, the doctor took a confidential agreement oath when he/she became a doctor. That oath cannot be released unilaterally by the doctor, just because one of the patients is criticizing. And in some states, even if the patient signs a waiver of confidentiality, it still is illegal to release a patient's info.
Dear Music Lover, Since you have 3000 mp3 songs, you must have atleast 750 of them illegally obtained/copied. At $750 per song, that is a lot of money for us if we sue. Pls. call 1-800-PAY-RIAA to "settle" for a lot less at just $150 per song if you don't want to be subponaed through your ISP and sued in a civil case in Sitka, Alaska (where you can't fly easily to defend yourself). We already have your IP address (127.0.0.1) and we will sue if you don't comply.
Thanks and have a great day Your friendly neighborhood RIAA
As an architect i would say it is mostly due to faulty architecture or design or both. The PM has a responsibility only to deliver. The architect has the real responsibility for deciding what should be delivered. And if he can't gather and understand the future needs of a system and prepare for it, then he would design a crappy piece of software.
Blaming Leaning Tower of Pisa on the construction workers is just plain bad. Blame it on the architect who designed it in that location.
The first priority of Michael Dell should be to improve Dell's lousy customer service and in-source it to US again. If you are selling PC's by mail-orders (sort of), you better have more than good customer service that customers can depend on. Even a premium corporate customer care at Dell su8ks big time. Apple's phenomenal customer support is the main reason iPod and iMac's still rock. If i call Apple and am under warranty, the dude am talking to knows the business and take me step-by-step to solve the problem. (am not even comparing store-based support, since Dell doesn't have many stores to sell from).
If Michael Dell can bring customer support back to what it was long back, then am sure Dell will rock. Corporates love Dell because of its uniform ugly black boxen.
My bank switched to HP after Dell's customer support was unresponsive for the last time.... And also ditch the Dell DJ Music Player. Seriously.
To plagarise Jobs: "Move on from MP3 players. The battle was won long back by Apple.".
Get back to core business of assembling high-quality PCs and phenomenal customer service.
If the GeekSquad charged me $550 to repair my computer, would Sony BMG pay the higher of the amounts? What makes Sony say they can pay only $175/-? Who estimates it would take only that much? FTC Should not have settled at all. They should have charged Sony with criminal trespass, and jailed the CEO. if i write a rootkit and distribute it inadvertently (because my GF burned it to CD??), would FTC settle? Heck, i would be in Gitmo after being "renditioned" to Syria! So if you are a corporate, all you get is a settlement. If you are an individual, especially single mom, you get to be sued for $1.5 million and jailed. I wish people would pursue a criminal case against Sony and jail them.
NASA would love to fix Hubble, but doesn't have the money to do so, since the money has been spent on "surge" in Iraq. http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories /nation/01/30/30nation.html Science has taken a back seat in this past 6 years. Instead we have right-wingers spewing Intelligent Design on Fox news. This congress should stop funding this illegal war, put the money back to Treasury and ask NASA to partner with SpaceShip One to build a reusable space vehicle to replace the Shuttle.
This summer, Motiva pleaded no contest to criminally negligent homicide and assault, only the second such prosecution in state history. The company was ordered to pay $46,000 in fines, then the maximum under state law, and $250,000 more to a victims fund.
If a human had done so, he would be doing some serious time in a Federal Prison. Since its a corporation, they have "fined" it.
Maybe we too should incorporate ourselves...
Hence retrospectively if you want to be the next Hannibal Lecter, better be born as a corporate -:))
No Siree! Corporate crimes are meant to be "settled" or "fined".
Corporates should have a criminal sheet and a blotter plus an impact on their credit scores like us.
A criminal conviction should result in the CEO being directly implicated, and the credit scores updated to reflect that. With a score of 320 good luck to the corporate to get cheap loans/raise money by stock.
Mac OS X? Not virus scanned... i agree. Not Defragmented? Not so sure. And that too for a decade? Nope. I don't think so. I bought my iBook on the same day Tiger came out, and i bought iDefrag 1.5.6 last month (now its 1.5.8). I had to defrag it twice. Once to make it run faster (last month, second time i bought iWork '06 (last month) and i wanted to make sure performance didn't go down. I agree that defrag is not required so much... but a decade is a long time. And file systems have changed...
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On other locations, Cell carriers like Verizon and cingular have got taxpayer subsidized locations for setting up their infrastructure. So as a taxpayer, i demand they open up their network to other carriers.
Not opening up is not right.
[sarcasm]Are U crazy? Who do you think pays for their re-election? Do you have any idea how much it costs to run and win?
Do you think your pitiful $3.00 contribution to the president's election fund in your Tax Return is enough to win an election?
Wake up Buddy![/sarcasm]
Now to talk reality: This dems controlled congress won on the promise that they would bring our Boys home. What did they do? NOTHING.
Money speaks everywhere, and corporates have more money than you and me.
I hope someone silently slips in a bill within the Iraq War budget which says that if a congressman/senator does not keep up election promises within the one year of election, he/she automatically is disqualified and prevented from running for 10 years.
You are wrong. Here's why and also how a Good Lawyer can sue and win atleast 1.2 million dollars from MPAA.
First, the fact that MPAA violated his license. According to the DMCA under section 1204 penalties range up to a $500000 fine...
Next, each visitor to MPAA pages could have been a POTENTIAl licensee of the software. This POTENTIAL was lost by the author since no link backs were provided. Assuming a good lawyer subpoenas' MPAA website administrator and gets a total of number of visitors to the page(s) from date of violation till date of verdict, takes a very conservative estimate that atleast 50% of the people visited could have licensed the software, (same calculations that MPAA uses to send take-down notices and suits for damages), the author can easily claim atleast $1.2 million.
Now, once the case goes to court, by that time it has been proven MPAA had violated his copyright. The judge would have no qualms declaring MPAA guility under DMCA. The second play is for more damages outside the $5000000 fine.
If only 1,000 visitors visited the site since the day of violation the fine would stand reduced, however i bet it is more.
A more serious lawyer can pursue it even further and argue that since the MPAA in its role as a guardian of digital copyrights has ITSELF violated the DMCA (thus a case of fence eating the flock), it must be criminally tried and asked to pay a more amount as fine to the poor author.
One sympathetic judge is enough to screw MPAA in this case.
I would say, first get a GOOD lawyer.
I agree with you that today's cars are very silent and less vibrating that older models. Sometimes, i need to switch off my car stereo and listen keenly to detect the engine if i have stopped for a toll booth (i use a manual shift).
Other times i just try shifting the gear and see if it works: if it doesn't i restart the engine knowing it has stopped.
I suggest that at such low noise ratio, cars should emit a quiet beep-beep every 10 seconds when going below 20 mph (which means it is a residential area) to warn pedestrians.
Alberta has lots of oil in the slush sands that are begging to be explored/drilled.
Since Canada does not respect global copyright regulations, the first step would be to blacklist it in UN Sec council.
Then comes the escalation to a few sanctions against canada banks, etc.
Third comes an ultimatum worded in such a way that no self-respecting candian PM would agree to.
Fourth comes the invasion and occupation.
And lastly, britain having already gotten rid of Bush crony Blair, would decide to defend canada since it has same soverign and is part of commonwealth.
We will have a 2nd war of independence only this time fought by canada and there will be another Patriot movie made in Canada.
OK, time for Physics 101: The mass of the original object collapsing will decide the mass of the black hole. Weight != Mass.
A larger star collapsing will form a larger black hole of the SAME mass.
A molecule collapsing to form a black hole[forced to] will form a black hole of the same mass of the molecule.
The smaller the black hole [smaller mass], the faster it will evaporate due to Hawkins Radiation.
BestBuy in CT. I have returned AoE III for Mac since it can't run on my iBook G4. The store clerk accepted my reason and gave me an option of Store Credit or Refund. I took credit since i plunked for AoM for Mac.
That was 2 months back. Depends on which clerk you approach and how nice you are to her.
Money is peanuts for them. It comes out of profits that are going to be distribited to shareholders. They should be jailed and their salaries seized for payment to shareholders and victims.
Somebody should bring a civil case against them in Sitka, Alaska, get a default judgement and then send in bailiffs to clear their HQ out of everything it has....
Once they impose this tax, the torrents are Legal. This has been extablished as a precedent in France courts.
So i can pay the iPod tax, crack it open and upload all the music for you to download..."legally".
The tax is supposed to cover that.
RIAA cannot have it both ways: its double jeopardy. Will be struck down by courts as was done in France.
You can sue the nearest Dell Store outlet in your town/city.
One guy had done this against a Dell outlet located in a mall and got default judgment.
You can do the same and once the complaint goes unanswered you get a default judgement.
Send in the bailiffs and seize all the computers there for reselling....
So the machine is already on the Pallet for shipping to Iraq, along with other Pentagon stuff like Active-Denial Weapon, etc?
And does it have instructions detailing which end to point to the enemy? Like as in the landmine: "Point this way to enemy." ?
Not always the case. My employer, a Bank, prefers the grey hairs since it means: Discipline, respect for authority, seriousness to get the job done, and generally not "gung-ho".
More companies prefer companies who can develop, and not just code.
They prefer the grey-haired suits more than the Jeans & T-Shirts gang, as the greys do not come with a terrible hangover on Monday morning, nor do they fly off at 3.30 PM on a Friday evening.
You must be new here.
This is Slashdot.
Either you are against the Evil Empire, or you are for it. Comprende?
To supplement your good suggestions, i can add the following:
1. Automatically make private and personal data of an individual as a copyrighted piece of art with protection under DMCA.
2. Any waiver to this copyright would have to be approved by the person concerned.
3. Such waivers are mandatorily limited to the scope of the transaction OR 3 years (whichever is smaller), after which the copyright reverts to the person.
4. Misuse of this private copyrighted data including but not limited to publishing photos of my house taken from the street, etc., are punishable under the draconian DMCA laws which thankfully the corporates have paid for.
5. This becomes a constitutional amendment.
6. Any future AG or prez who would violate this amendment would automatically stand impeached and in addition become a convicted felon under the eyes of law. The courts only need to sentence the person.
7. Govt. monitoring programs that outsource their data collection to corporates are held responsible under DMCA.
Let's see how many AG's would risk becoming a felon under DMCA which has more punishments than homicide.
>>If I invest my money to run a wire from mofn to bfe
Nope. Its not YOUR money. It's OUR money taxed from us to and given to YOU as subsidies so that YOU can lay "pipes" to regions that are generally not profitable for you.
And when its our money, You better pull your head out of your as* and do as WE say.
As you are so fond of saying, "when its my money, i damn well will do as i want."
You are damn right. Its OUR money and we damn will force you to do it out way.
Oh, BTW read pages 234-247 of Ann Ryand to really understand what it means.
The fact that a patient publicly announces reviews about a Doctor does NOT absolve the doctor from maintaining confidentiality about the patient.
Protection of Free Speech is available to citizens as a whole. However confidentiality agreements between two parties that prevent disclosure of certain (Not all) facts overrules the free speech right, because the former is a right granted under the constitution, while the latter is a valid contract.
It is the same reason why you are asked to sign confidential non-disclosure agreements for some jobs. These agreements are specific for a certain purpose and that purpose is narrow.
If it was anymore broader, like preventing you ever from writing a letter to the editor about unrelated stuff, they are struck down by courts as they infringe free speech.
In a doctor's case, the doctor took a confidential agreement oath when he/she became a doctor. That oath cannot be released unilaterally by the doctor, just because one of the patients is criticizing.
And in some states, even if the patient signs a waiver of confidentiality, it still is illegal to release a patient's info.
Everyone knows Space is just a series of Tubes, where you can't just dumb something and expect it to go away.
From:
RIAA.
Dear Music Lover,
Since you have 3000 mp3 songs, you must have atleast 750 of them illegally obtained/copied. At $750 per song, that is a lot of money for us if we sue.
Pls. call 1-800-PAY-RIAA to "settle" for a lot less at just $150 per song if you don't want to be subponaed through your ISP and sued in a civil case in Sitka, Alaska (where you can't fly easily to defend yourself).
We already have your IP address (127.0.0.1) and we will sue if you don't comply.
Thanks and have a great day
Your friendly neighborhood RIAA
As an architect i would say it is mostly due to faulty architecture or design or both.
The PM has a responsibility only to deliver. The architect has the real responsibility for deciding what should be delivered.
And if he can't gather and understand the future needs of a system and prepare for it, then he would design a crappy piece of software.
Blaming Leaning Tower of Pisa on the construction workers is just plain bad. Blame it on the architect who designed it in that location.
The first priority of Michael Dell should be to improve Dell's lousy customer service and in-source it to US again.
If you are selling PC's by mail-orders (sort of), you better have more than good customer service that customers can depend on.
Even a premium corporate customer care at Dell su8ks big time.
Apple's phenomenal customer support is the main reason iPod and iMac's still rock.
If i call Apple and am under warranty, the dude am talking to knows the business and take me step-by-step to solve the problem. (am not even comparing store-based support, since Dell doesn't have many stores to sell from).
If Michael Dell can bring customer support back to what it was long back, then am sure Dell will rock.
Corporates love Dell because of its uniform ugly black boxen.
My bank switched to HP after Dell's customer support was unresponsive for the last time....
And also ditch the Dell DJ Music Player. Seriously.
To plagarise Jobs: "Move on from MP3 players. The battle was won long back by Apple.".
Get back to core business of assembling high-quality PCs and phenomenal customer service.
Is that difficult Mr.Dell?
If the GeekSquad charged me $550 to repair my computer, would Sony BMG pay the higher of the amounts?
What makes Sony say they can pay only $175/-? Who estimates it would take only that much?
FTC Should not have settled at all. They should have charged Sony with criminal trespass, and jailed the CEO.
if i write a rootkit and distribute it inadvertently (because my GF burned it to CD??), would FTC settle? Heck, i would be in Gitmo after being "renditioned" to Syria!
So if you are a corporate, all you get is a settlement. If you are an individual, especially single mom, you get to be sued for $1.5 million and jailed.
I wish people would pursue a criminal case against Sony and jail them.
NASA would love to fix Hubble, but doesn't have the money to do so, since the money has been spent on "surge" in Iraq.s /nation/01/30/30nation.html
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/storie
Science has taken a back seat in this past 6 years. Instead we have right-wingers spewing Intelligent Design on Fox news.
This congress should stop funding this illegal war, put the money back to Treasury and ask NASA to partner with SpaceShip One to build a reusable space vehicle to replace the Shuttle.
Not in this country where the penalty for killing fish and crabs is higher than the penalty for killing a Human.
http://spewingforth.blogspot.com/2005/03/of-fish-a nd-men-corporate-penalties.html
To quote from the article:
This summer, Motiva pleaded no contest to criminally negligent homicide and assault, only the second such prosecution in state history. The company was ordered to pay $46,000 in fines, then the maximum under state law, and $250,000 more to a victims fund.
If a human had done so, he would be doing some serious time in a Federal Prison. Since its a corporation, they have "fined" it.
Maybe we too should incorporate ourselves...
Hence retrospectively if you want to be the next Hannibal Lecter, better be born as a corporate -:))
$35 million for Fraud.
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/1979/11/do wie.html As you can see, more than 15,000 people have been killed by corporates worldwide directly.
http://www.healthsquare.com/fgwh/wh1ch20.htm The Dalkon Shield device killed 17 people in US. Yet what was done? The product was withdrawn and the company censured.
No Siree! Corporate crimes are meant to be "settled" or "fined".
Corporates should have a criminal sheet and a blotter plus an impact on their credit scores like us.
A criminal conviction should result in the CEO being directly implicated, and the credit scores updated to reflect that. With a score of 320 good luck to the corporate to get cheap loans/raise money by stock.
Mac OS X?
Not virus scanned... i agree.
Not Defragmented? Not so sure. And that too for a decade? Nope. I don't think so.
I bought my iBook on the same day Tiger came out, and i bought iDefrag 1.5.6 last month (now its 1.5.8).
I had to defrag it twice. Once to make it run faster (last month, second time i bought iWork '06 (last month) and i wanted to make sure performance didn't go down.
I agree that defrag is not required so much... but a decade is a long time.
And file systems have changed...