...And we hear from Cap'n Ad-Hom who has nothing at all constructive or factual to add but simply couldn't resist demonstrating his teenage level of maturity for the world to witness in all it's glory!
Thanks Cap'n!
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What's there to say to someone who thinks making a billion dollars is just something produced by force of will?
The Americas have a long history of grandiose idealists forming communities. Few of them ever lasted. Even the Mormons guaranteed Congress they would pursue polygamists to get Utah admitted as a state.
I can't speak to British law, but in many jurisdictions there are actually legal definitions of employment to prevent what Uber appears to be doing, namely hiring people but calling them independent contractors to evade labor laws. It isn't like this is the first time that a company has tried a contractor scam to get around minimum wage and other worker protections.
Do you see anyone on the ticket that isn't a scoundrel? Has there been any presidential candidate in decades who wasnt a scoundrel?
What some want in a candidate comes along maybe once or twice in a nation's history, and if that was what someone was looking for, they sure wouldn't find it in a real estate huckster, and let's not even get started on the third party candidates.
Perhaps they support her because the alternative is an utter idiot. If Rubio or hell, even Jeb Bus, had been heading the Republican ticket it might have been different, but picking a Trump was an act of mass stupidity. Clinton is wounded, but she'll cross the finish line first, probably to the most miserable term in office since Carter, mind you, but she'll win.
Trump should have stuck to his real estate scams, and Clinton should have retired.
Veritas is a scam, so the idea that it has anything other than cleverly edited video is ludicrous, even more unbelievable that it has anything to make Clinton worry. Veritas is a sideshow designed more to keep Trump supporters pumped up.
I've had dealings with a three lawyers in any detailed way (I've used a couple of others largely for quicky legal advice or escrow). Of the three lawyers I have had significant dealings with, one was my attorney, one was the opposing party's first lawyer, and the other was the opposing party's second lawyer. My lawyer made it very clear to me from the get-go that under no circumstances was I to lie or distort. My statements and any depositions were to be truthful. My lawyer was at the only deposition I was ever involved with mainly to make sure the other lawyer stayed within the bounds.
Now as to the other party's first lawyer, he did some pretty damned dubious things, one of them in particular which my lawyer viewed as completely unethical. About half way through the case, he removed himself from the case and recommended another firm, which suggested to us that he probably knew he'd fucked up royally. The second lawyer seemed a decent, honest sort who was stuck with a case that should never have been pursued (that's my biased view). In the end he convinced the other party (we were countersuing each other) to accept a relatively small settlement. I was unhappy about having to pay the money, but I did win the war, even if I lost that battle.
So, on purely anecdotal grounds, 4/5s of the lawyers I've met seemed fairly trustworthy, and for the one that didn't, I prefer to think that he was just plain incompetent, rather than malicious. That, of course, may actually be the worst thing a lawyer can be.
What about the lawyer fees? she can try to go her own but how will that work in court on your own?
Because of the low likely return on a personal infringement case, the likely cost to the potential defendant is a few hundred bucks in legal fees. The *maximum* penalty is $5k, which means the likely award would be far far less, probably around the same is an hour consult to draft a response.
It's never wise to ignore such a notice. It might cost you a few hundred bucks, but retaining a lawyer and having him send a response as your legal representative will be a good deal safer. With the very low fines for personal infringement this company would almost certainly abandon it, but don't assume ignoring such a notice carries no risk.
And it's a hyped up fear. This sort of tribunal exists in NAFTA and has never lead to this result. Not only that but the agreement that got Belgium onboard heavily modifies this tribunal, and corporate interests will no longer be able to name anyone to these tribunals. The tribunals will be picked from a fixed body of experts chosen by the EU and Canada and called in deal with disputes on a rotating basis.
Unless you think nations who are signatories to treaties can just wantonly abrogate the obligations they agreed to and the affected party should have no right to seek a hearing. If that's the case, then just come out and say you reject any agreements between nation states of any kind, and believe treaties, big or small, are absolute wrongs.
And the investor dispute protocols are going to be changed; the makeup of any tribunal that makes the decisions on investor disputes with the EU or its constituent nations will be a fixed body and will not have anyone on the panel from the investor in question. The Wallonians didn't "fold", no matter how this ludicrous article claims, they got what they wanted, not to mention that it's likely they will still be able to set up roadblocks to agricultural imports if they feel it puts their own producers at hardship.
We've experienced the problem on some pretty varied hardware so while I think driver issues may be part of the problem, I think Microsoft has some culpability here. After all, "test for Internet" usually means pinging some hardcoded addresses and seeing if they respond, so if you have an outage of any kind, that could produce a false flag. I've certainly see iOS, Windows and Android devices complain that a connection has no Internet, but I've never had any of them disconnect me, and sometimes I've been happily surfing the net even as the device alerts me that I don't have Internet access. If the cause of this is Microsoft flagging a connection because of what it sees as a lack of Internet, then that's just bad logic.
But I don't really think that it explains this. In this case, it isn't merely that Windows drops the connection, it's that you cannot re-establish the connection without instructing Windows to forget the network. I think those goes deeper, and to my mind it indicates some flakiness in the Windows 10 WiFi subsystem. The only time I ever experienced this sort of issue was very early on in the 802.11a/b days when the hardware and software were far less mature, and where reboots or driver unloads/reloads were needed at times. But we're talking fifteen years ago now.
Not quite. A military organization designed to hem Russia in, to contain it, and lock it in a box, which is why the best Russia can do these days is harass Ukraine, Georgia and stir up some trouble on behalf of Assad.
NATO's military and economic power dwarfs Russia. Russia is, these days, a regional power whose reach basically extends little past the Bosporus. Yes, it has some big nukes, but it can never actually use them because to do so would see the Russian state dissolve in a nuclear fire. So it has it points its nuclear penis around, trying to embolden its own citizens, even as Putin and his pals lead the country into a prolonged economic decline that can only end with Russia on its knees.
It's a pity. Russians are a great people, they deserve better than the likes of Putin.
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That a lot of males would like to bed her isn't in question. The problem is that her dad shouldn't be counted among them.
Not to mention governments who properly enforce specifically consumer-friendly regulatory regimes.
I just change my e-reader app to black background with white (more off white) text, and eyestrain issues disappeared.
No, cute and moronic.
...And we hear from Cap'n Ad-Hom who has nothing at all constructive or factual to add but simply couldn't resist demonstrating his teenage level of maturity for the world to witness in all it's glory!
Thanks Cap'n!
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What's there to say to someone who thinks making a billion dollars is just something produced by force of will?
That's impossible. We all know fossil fuel extraction is totally harmless and that Christ himself protects people from such things.
The Americas have a long history of grandiose idealists forming communities. Few of them ever lasted. Even the Mormons guaranteed Congress they would pursue polygamists to get Utah admitted as a state.
No, cute and moronic.
Then they can lobby to get the laws changed. But until then they have no more right to ignore statute than does Uber.
I can't speak to British law, but in many jurisdictions there are actually legal definitions of employment to prevent what Uber appears to be doing, namely hiring people but calling them independent contractors to evade labor laws. It isn't like this is the first time that a company has tried a contractor scam to get around minimum wage and other worker protections.
Well we know you're not on Trump's, because his campaign doesn't have enough money.
Do you see anyone on the ticket that isn't a scoundrel? Has there been any presidential candidate in decades who wasnt a scoundrel?
What some want in a candidate comes along maybe once or twice in a nation's history, and if that was what someone was looking for, they sure wouldn't find it in a real estate huckster, and let's not even get started on the third party candidates.
Perhaps they support her because the alternative is an utter idiot. If Rubio or hell, even Jeb Bus, had been heading the Republican ticket it might have been different, but picking a Trump was an act of mass stupidity. Clinton is wounded, but she'll cross the finish line first, probably to the most miserable term in office since Carter, mind you, but she'll win.
Trump should have stuck to his real estate scams, and Clinton should have retired.
Veritas is a scam, so the idea that it has anything other than cleverly edited video is ludicrous, even more unbelievable that it has anything to make Clinton worry. Veritas is a sideshow designed more to keep Trump supporters pumped up.
"Word on the street"? Really
You're either a Russian or an idiot.
I've had dealings with a three lawyers in any detailed way (I've used a couple of others largely for quicky legal advice or escrow). Of the three lawyers I have had significant dealings with, one was my attorney, one was the opposing party's first lawyer, and the other was the opposing party's second lawyer. My lawyer made it very clear to me from the get-go that under no circumstances was I to lie or distort. My statements and any depositions were to be truthful. My lawyer was at the only deposition I was ever involved with mainly to make sure the other lawyer stayed within the bounds.
Now as to the other party's first lawyer, he did some pretty damned dubious things, one of them in particular which my lawyer viewed as completely unethical. About half way through the case, he removed himself from the case and recommended another firm, which suggested to us that he probably knew he'd fucked up royally. The second lawyer seemed a decent, honest sort who was stuck with a case that should never have been pursued (that's my biased view). In the end he convinced the other party (we were countersuing each other) to accept a relatively small settlement. I was unhappy about having to pay the money, but I did win the war, even if I lost that battle.
So, on purely anecdotal grounds, 4/5s of the lawyers I've met seemed fairly trustworthy, and for the one that didn't, I prefer to think that he was just plain incompetent, rather than malicious. That, of course, may actually be the worst thing a lawyer can be.
What about the lawyer fees? she can try to go her own but how will that work in court on your own?
Because of the low likely return on a personal infringement case, the likely cost to the potential defendant is a few hundred bucks in legal fees. The *maximum* penalty is $5k, which means the likely award would be far far less, probably around the same is an hour consult to draft a response.
It's never wise to ignore such a notice. It might cost you a few hundred bucks, but retaining a lawyer and having him send a response as your legal representative will be a good deal safer. With the very low fines for personal infringement this company would almost certainly abandon it, but don't assume ignoring such a notice carries no risk.
And it's a hyped up fear. This sort of tribunal exists in NAFTA and has never lead to this result. Not only that but the agreement that got Belgium onboard heavily modifies this tribunal, and corporate interests will no longer be able to name anyone to these tribunals. The tribunals will be picked from a fixed body of experts chosen by the EU and Canada and called in deal with disputes on a rotating basis.
Unless you think nations who are signatories to treaties can just wantonly abrogate the obligations they agreed to and the affected party should have no right to seek a hearing. If that's the case, then just come out and say you reject any agreements between nation states of any kind, and believe treaties, big or small, are absolute wrongs.
And the investor dispute protocols are going to be changed; the makeup of any tribunal that makes the decisions on investor disputes with the EU or its constituent nations will be a fixed body and will not have anyone on the panel from the investor in question. The Wallonians didn't "fold", no matter how this ludicrous article claims, they got what they wanted, not to mention that it's likely they will still be able to set up roadblocks to agricultural imports if they feel it puts their own producers at hardship.
We've experienced the problem on some pretty varied hardware so while I think driver issues may be part of the problem, I think Microsoft has some culpability here. After all, "test for Internet" usually means pinging some hardcoded addresses and seeing if they respond, so if you have an outage of any kind, that could produce a false flag. I've certainly see iOS, Windows and Android devices complain that a connection has no Internet, but I've never had any of them disconnect me, and sometimes I've been happily surfing the net even as the device alerts me that I don't have Internet access. If the cause of this is Microsoft flagging a connection because of what it sees as a lack of Internet, then that's just bad logic.
But I don't really think that it explains this. In this case, it isn't merely that Windows drops the connection, it's that you cannot re-establish the connection without instructing Windows to forget the network. I think those goes deeper, and to my mind it indicates some flakiness in the Windows 10 WiFi subsystem. The only time I ever experienced this sort of issue was very early on in the 802.11a/b days when the hardware and software were far less mature, and where reboots or driver unloads/reloads were needed at times. But we're talking fifteen years ago now.
No it isn't good enough. Injecting cynicism isn't a replacement for context.
Not quite. A military organization designed to hem Russia in, to contain it, and lock it in a box, which is why the best Russia can do these days is harass Ukraine, Georgia and stir up some trouble on behalf of Assad.
NATO's military and economic power dwarfs Russia. Russia is, these days, a regional power whose reach basically extends little past the Bosporus. Yes, it has some big nukes, but it can never actually use them because to do so would see the Russian state dissolve in a nuclear fire. So it has it points its nuclear penis around, trying to embolden its own citizens, even as Putin and his pals lead the country into a prolonged economic decline that can only end with Russia on its knees.
It's a pity. Russians are a great people, they deserve better than the likes of Putin.
I give you credit. Most Kremlin-paid posters pretend to be Westerners. At least you make it very clear who you are.
You certainly write a lot of anti-Apple posts for a guy who claims to have until recently been a big Apple user.