REI is private property. They have the right to serve a criminal trespass notice on anybody they think is being an asshole. I'm not sure, but I suspect that requires that they establish your identity. They do have the right to ask you to leave and not come back. I'm not sure why they didn't just call up the special order you just placed to ascertain your identity. I'm also not clear if they have the right to demand you give them ID just so they can file a complaint against you. I'd also expect that if REI won't let you do business with them, they should refund your membership fee. Personally, I make it a rule never to argue with anyone carrying a loaded weapon, regardless of whether or not they are "real" law enforcement. That being said, I don't believe the police have a case (unless he resisted arrest), and he will probably be handed a "no complaint" notice by the court. But he should consider himself lucky. Last time a cop decided he didn't like me and arrested me for driving the FRONT car in a rear-end collision, I got to spend the whole night in jail before going to work the next morning. And worry about it for a month before the court decided there was no valid complaint -- despite the fact that one of the arresting officers flat out lied in the report, putting words in my mouth that I had never said. (Why blame the accident on me? Because the woman who caused the accident, with 6 toddlers in the car without seatbelts, didn't have insurance.)
Anybody who actually claims to be an anarchist on their blog most likely does go around acting like an asshole with an attitude. When you cop an attitude, don't be surprised when karma bites you on the ass.
Do the GPS trackers actually transmit the updates (which would make them easier to detect, even if it is periodic), or do they save them in flash for later retrieval? They would require non-volatile storage in both cases, since it is certainly possible to drive to places where there is no cellular reception.
The other question which I forgot to ask is "If I find one of these $500 devices attached to my car, shouldn't I then consider it my property, or would I be arrested for theft for taking it off and not returning it?" Once somebody knows they are being targeted, it might get a little expensive trying to keep one of these boxes on their vehicle.
Sure, tits are tits, and this is a cultural taboo with no basis in reality. However, I strongly suspect that those pictures of you in flagrante delicto floating around the 'net might be harmful to your chances at being appointed a deacon in your church later in life. Personally, I believe the vast majority of people are actually more attractive with their clothes on. If nothing else, getting caught drunk with your shirt pulled up demonstrate extremely poor judgment, certainly not a quality I look for in employees. Unless you work for the RIAA, I suspect your employer feels the same way. However, you are welcome to perform the experiment of sending your boss pictures of yourself in the buff, and please tell me how it works out for you!
All the more ironic seeing as how you were on my friends list due to your brilliant sense of humor in the first place! Where can I pick up my bag of turds? I hear Zoo Doo is some pretty valuable stuff! (Call Call 206.625.POOP for more information.)
You obviously don't have kids. Ever imagine trying to teach you teenage daughter to behave herself when she can easily find picture of her mom drinking, doing drugs, and flashing her naughty bits (or worse) on the 'net? "Mommy, why does Google show 1,967,000 hits for your name associated with something called a 'blow job'???"
The point was that most cops are biased and treat different people differently. Some they harass because of their race, some because of their religion, some because of their sexual orientation (I personally watched the cops put an effete guy with pink socks into a drunk tank full of extremely macho Mexicans and tell them "Be nice to this guy, he's my personal friend!") Personally... well, the major reason that I get harassed by the police is than I'm an asshole... but that doesn't mean they aren't discriminating against me!
I don't get stock buybacks? If you were a CEO sitting on million of shares of stock and options which would automatically go up in value after a stock buyback, with little or no effort on your behalf required, then I suspect you might actually see the point of a stock buyback. No, it doesn't increase the net worth of the company, but it DOES put money in current shareholders pockets! I agree that stock splits are nonsense; apparently Warren Buffet thinks so too, since Berkshire Hathaway currently sells for $90,000 per share!
Your fiction is outdated; Gates is no longer in charge of financial decisions at Micro$oft, and Jobs is no longer in charge of financial decisions at Apple. Stallman is no longer relevant; I don't know if he ever was relevant in the first place. This may change any day real soon now when GNU Hurd takes off and buries Linux...
1) Never give your real name or address to a one night stand, and 2) Never say anything online that can be traced back to your work persona. If you criticize your own company, it carries more weight because you are an "insider". If you criticize another company, they can sue your company because it has deeper pockets than you as an individual. Also, if you have stock in the company you work for, anything you say about the company online is probably subject to SEC rules. Conclusion: if you absolutely have to facebook, create a separate private and career persona. Don't associate any information with the private persona that links it to your real name or career (trust me, you wouldn't be the first person that has ever lied about their personal details in their facebook profile!).
Not that it applies to anyone here, but the Michael Phelp's Corollary also applies: If millions of people recognize your face, you should be extremely careful about where and with whom you engage in embarrassing practices like taking bong hits. And the Paris Hilton corollary: Never, ever, under any circumstance, allow yourself to be recorded while having sex, or even while displaying your naughty bits. Think about it: is a cheap necklace of mardi gras beads really worth the embarrassment of showing up in a "Girl geeks gone wild!" video?
Steve Ballmer's pet project: To finally find a truly effective cure for male pattern baldness. (Contrary to popular belief, his highest priority is NOT improving the accuracy of chair-tossing!)
1) If my car is always garaged, don't the police have to break and enter to install a GPS tracker?
2) How do I detect whether or not a GPS receiver has been attached to my car?
3) If this box was there for 2 months, it must be drawing power from the car battery. Doesn't that make it a lot easier to detect? Doesn't that also mean that it is probably only working when the car ignition is on?
4) GPS signals from satellites are low-power, therefore they must be easy to jam. Isn't there a potential market for devices that do just that? You probably only need to jam the signal when the ignition is on. Better yet, transmit false GPS data and really mess with the cops' minds.
The problem I have with the exclusion rule is that it only "punishes" the police when they violate the rights of someone who is actually guilty. What recourse do I have when they pull me over without cause and/or search my vehicle and DON'T find anything incriminating? They have still harassed and intimidated me, but because they didn't find anything they could arrest me for, it is ok? Likewise, the police could use GPS to discover information totally unrelated to the case they are investigating, e.g. the vehicle of a married man they are tracing sits in a motel for a couple hours. They now have information they can use to extort the "suspect" into cooperating with the police to entrap others.
Extremely bad precedent, that any use the employer doesn't approve of is considered criminal hacking. I suspect most employers don't appreciate you accessing monster.com or dice.com from work either, but I've done it many times. Now they are saying if I actually find a better job, they can have me arrested? Trust me, I've worked for people that were big enough dicks that they would do exactly that!
Does anyone read To Kill a Mockingbird or Scarlet Letter for entertainment?
No, I read The Scarlet Letter because it was required for a high school English class. It was a brilliant psychological drama. At the time, I wondered why a nun would assign us a novel so blatantly critical of religion until it dawned on me: it is critical of the Protestant religion, not the Catholic religion. Despite being somewhat dry and difficult to read (as most books written in 1850 would be to us. Try reading Dickens sometime!), I recommend reading The Scarlet Letter.
If a game was truly offensive to everyone, nobody would buy it, and creating the game would be economic suicide. Obviously the people paying money for the game DO NOT find it offensive, and those that are offended by it should neither pay for nor play it. So, what is the problem? Claiming that I shouldn't have access to material that YOU find offensive is not just irrational, it goes against the very principles the USA was founded on. Claiming these games "desensitize" people to violence is also insane seeing how nobody objects to CSI and Law and Order. In addition, I watched a movie this weekend where 6 billion humanoids were murdered when their home planet was destroyed... that same movie grossed $72.5 million in it's first weekend, and I don't hear anybody complaining about the genocide depicted in it!
No business can succeed without a viable business model, regardless of whether or not it is based on delivering a "free" product. As far as free Danish newspapers, why would anybody pay money to print and deliver information that 99% of your customers could access for free over the internet, with a much lower marginal cost per customer? The Oregonian used to throw free newspapers in my driveway every tuesday and thursday; I had to tell them 3 times to stop because I consider it to be Criminal Trespass and Offensive Littering, both of which are unlawful in Oregon. It is not just a bad business model -- it is one which is actively offensive to potential customers which would rather save trees and know that most of these free newspapers go straight into the trash without even being read.
There is really only one law: "Do no harm, except to prevent a greater harm." Everything else is merely a codification of what constitutes "harm" and of the consequences for doing different types of harm.
First off, the college has had, and continues to have, isolated incidents of people trying to use the campus identity for their own personal needs, be it political, commercial, or otherwise. So some people with "srjc" in their email address are committing fraud, which is a crime, and the IT director expects asking only the students he knows about that have "srjc" in their address to stop doing it will actually STOP this fraud??? Sounds like the epitome of ego-centric pinheadedness to me. If he really believes criminals will change their behavior because he tells them to, why not just tell them to stop committing fraud instead?
Not sure what the legal validity of an emailed cease-and-desist letter is, but I suspect if it wasn't received via certified mail, then you can simply ignore it. Before they can take you to court for violating the C&D, they first have to prove you received it.
My point exactly. "I just stolen several million dollars worth of moon rocks... what do I do with them now? I know! I'll sell them on eBay! They'll never think to look for them there!" Not exactly the thought processes of a genius. More like something out of a Three Stooges movie. And yes, most of the Mission Impossible stuff is bullshit, although I do believe they got an ex-employee to give them access codes.
I once worked at a USAF AWACS station, where the regulations said I was not allowed in the radome without an escort, since my security clearance was still pending. My first day there, one of my coworkers said "Here's the keycode to the door. Behave yourself." At other jobs, I've been able to access computer accounts I was not supposed to be in because the administrators made the passwords so complicated that their subordinates simply wrote them down and stuck them in their desk drawers. The point is, anybody who has dealt with bureaucratic bullshit long enough is perfectly willing to bend the rules to help their coworkers actually do their job. These interns got help from lots of people who assumed they were just doing their job. Needless to say, none of them is going to volunteer a "Oh yeah, I helped these kids get in" after the fact.
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REI is private property. They have the right to serve a criminal trespass notice on anybody they think is being an asshole. I'm not sure, but I suspect that requires that they establish your identity. They do have the right to ask you to leave and not come back. I'm not sure why they didn't just call up the special order you just placed to ascertain your identity. I'm also not clear if they have the right to demand you give them ID just so they can file a complaint against you. I'd also expect that if REI won't let you do business with them, they should refund your membership fee. Personally, I make it a rule never to argue with anyone carrying a loaded weapon, regardless of whether or not they are "real" law enforcement. That being said, I don't believe the police have a case (unless he resisted arrest), and he will probably be handed a "no complaint" notice by the court. But he should consider himself lucky. Last time a cop decided he didn't like me and arrested me for driving the FRONT car in a rear-end collision, I got to spend the whole night in jail before going to work the next morning. And worry about it for a month before the court decided there was no valid complaint -- despite the fact that one of the arresting officers flat out lied in the report, putting words in my mouth that I had never said. (Why blame the accident on me? Because the woman who caused the accident, with 6 toddlers in the car without seatbelts, didn't have insurance.)
Anybody who actually claims to be an anarchist on their blog most likely does go around acting like an asshole with an attitude. When you cop an attitude, don't be surprised when karma bites you on the ass.
Do the GPS trackers actually transmit the updates (which would make them easier to detect, even if it is periodic), or do they save them in flash for later retrieval? They would require non-volatile storage in both cases, since it is certainly possible to drive to places where there is no cellular reception.
The other question which I forgot to ask is "If I find one of these $500 devices attached to my car, shouldn't I then consider it my property, or would I be arrested for theft for taking it off and not returning it?" Once somebody knows they are being targeted, it might get a little expensive trying to keep one of these boxes on their vehicle.
Sure, tits are tits, and this is a cultural taboo with no basis in reality. However, I strongly suspect that those pictures of you in flagrante delicto floating around the 'net might be harmful to your chances at being appointed a deacon in your church later in life. Personally, I believe the vast majority of people are actually more attractive with their clothes on. If nothing else, getting caught drunk with your shirt pulled up demonstrate extremely poor judgment, certainly not a quality I look for in employees. Unless you work for the RIAA, I suspect your employer feels the same way. However, you are welcome to perform the experiment of sending your boss pictures of yourself in the buff, and please tell me how it works out for you!
All the more ironic seeing as how you were on my friends list due to your brilliant sense of humor in the first place! Where can I pick up my bag of turds? I hear Zoo Doo is some pretty valuable stuff! (Call Call 206.625.POOP for more information.)
You obviously don't have kids. Ever imagine trying to teach you teenage daughter to behave herself when she can easily find picture of her mom drinking, doing drugs, and flashing her naughty bits (or worse) on the 'net? "Mommy, why does Google show 1,967,000 hits for your name associated with something called a 'blow job'???"
A cubic centimeter of the stuff would weigh 287 lbs.
Just imagine what a great paperweight you could make out of this stuff!
The point was that most cops are biased and treat different people differently. Some they harass because of their race, some because of their religion, some because of their sexual orientation (I personally watched the cops put an effete guy with pink socks into a drunk tank full of extremely macho Mexicans and tell them "Be nice to this guy, he's my personal friend!") Personally... well, the major reason that I get harassed by the police is than I'm an asshole... but that doesn't mean they aren't discriminating against me!
I don't get stock buybacks? If you were a CEO sitting on million of shares of stock and options which would automatically go up in value after a stock buyback, with little or no effort on your behalf required, then I suspect you might actually see the point of a stock buyback. No, it doesn't increase the net worth of the company, but it DOES put money in current shareholders pockets! I agree that stock splits are nonsense; apparently Warren Buffet thinks so too, since Berkshire Hathaway currently sells for $90,000 per share!
Wouldn't cloning someone who has left no DNA behind be somewhat difficult?
Your fiction is outdated; Gates is no longer in charge of financial decisions at Micro$oft, and Jobs is no longer in charge of financial decisions at Apple. Stallman is no longer relevant; I don't know if he ever was relevant in the first place. This may change any day real soon now when GNU Hurd takes off and buries Linux...
1) Never give your real name or address to a one night stand, and 2) Never say anything online that can be traced back to your work persona. If you criticize your own company, it carries more weight because you are an "insider". If you criticize another company, they can sue your company because it has deeper pockets than you as an individual. Also, if you have stock in the company you work for, anything you say about the company online is probably subject to SEC rules. Conclusion: if you absolutely have to facebook, create a separate private and career persona. Don't associate any information with the private persona that links it to your real name or career (trust me, you wouldn't be the first person that has ever lied about their personal details in their facebook profile!).
Not that it applies to anyone here, but the Michael Phelp's Corollary also applies: If millions of people recognize your face, you should be extremely careful about where and with whom you engage in embarrassing practices like taking bong hits. And the Paris Hilton corollary: Never, ever, under any circumstance, allow yourself to be recorded while having sex, or even while displaying your naughty bits. Think about it: is a cheap necklace of mardi gras beads really worth the embarrassment of showing up in a "Girl geeks gone wild!" video?
Steve Ballmer's pet project: To finally find a truly effective cure for male pattern baldness. (Contrary to popular belief, his highest priority is NOT improving the accuracy of chair-tossing!)
Dragonslicer obviously has much lighter skin than you do.
1) If my car is always garaged, don't the police have to break and enter to install a GPS tracker?
2) How do I detect whether or not a GPS receiver has been attached to my car?
3) If this box was there for 2 months, it must be drawing power from the car battery. Doesn't that make it a lot easier to detect? Doesn't that also mean that it is probably only working when the car ignition is on?
4) GPS signals from satellites are low-power, therefore they must be easy to jam. Isn't there a potential market for devices that do just that? You probably only need to jam the signal when the ignition is on. Better yet, transmit false GPS data and really mess with the cops' minds.
The problem I have with the exclusion rule is that it only "punishes" the police when they violate the rights of someone who is actually guilty. What recourse do I have when they pull me over without cause and/or search my vehicle and DON'T find anything incriminating? They have still harassed and intimidated me, but because they didn't find anything they could arrest me for, it is ok? Likewise, the police could use GPS to discover information totally unrelated to the case they are investigating, e.g. the vehicle of a married man they are tracing sits in a motel for a couple hours. They now have information they can use to extort the "suspect" into cooperating with the police to entrap others.
Extremely bad precedent, that any use the employer doesn't approve of is considered criminal hacking. I suspect most employers don't appreciate you accessing monster.com or dice.com from work either, but I've done it many times. Now they are saying if I actually find a better job, they can have me arrested? Trust me, I've worked for people that were big enough dicks that they would do exactly that!
Perhaps the jury was jealous because the jury wasn't hung, but the defendant was.
Hey, I don't mind you making jokes about lawyers, but as a German-Irish diabetic, I find the rest of your joke quite offensive!
Does anyone read To Kill a Mockingbird or Scarlet Letter for entertainment?
No, I read The Scarlet Letter because it was required for a high school English class. It was a brilliant psychological drama. At the time, I wondered why a nun would assign us a novel so blatantly critical of religion until it dawned on me: it is critical of the Protestant religion, not the Catholic religion. Despite being somewhat dry and difficult to read (as most books written in 1850 would be to us. Try reading Dickens sometime!), I recommend reading The Scarlet Letter.
If a game was truly offensive to everyone, nobody would buy it, and creating the game would be economic suicide. Obviously the people paying money for the game DO NOT find it offensive, and those that are offended by it should neither pay for nor play it. So, what is the problem? Claiming that I shouldn't have access to material that YOU find offensive is not just irrational, it goes against the very principles the USA was founded on. Claiming these games "desensitize" people to violence is also insane seeing how nobody objects to CSI and Law and Order. In addition, I watched a movie this weekend where 6 billion humanoids were murdered when their home planet was destroyed... that same movie grossed $72.5 million in it's first weekend, and I don't hear anybody complaining about the genocide depicted in it!
No business can succeed without a viable business model, regardless of whether or not it is based on delivering a "free" product. As far as free Danish newspapers, why would anybody pay money to print and deliver information that 99% of your customers could access for free over the internet, with a much lower marginal cost per customer? The Oregonian used to throw free newspapers in my driveway every tuesday and thursday; I had to tell them 3 times to stop because I consider it to be Criminal Trespass and Offensive Littering, both of which are unlawful in Oregon. It is not just a bad business model -- it is one which is actively offensive to potential customers which would rather save trees and know that most of these free newspapers go straight into the trash without even being read.
There is really only one law: "Do no harm, except to prevent a greater harm." Everything else is merely a codification of what constitutes "harm" and of the consequences for doing different types of harm.
First off, the college has had, and continues to have, isolated incidents of people trying to use the campus identity for their own personal needs, be it political, commercial, or otherwise. So some people with "srjc" in their email address are committing fraud, which is a crime, and the IT director expects asking only the students he knows about that have "srjc" in their address to stop doing it will actually STOP this fraud??? Sounds like the epitome of ego-centric pinheadedness to me. If he really believes criminals will change their behavior because he tells them to, why not just tell them to stop committing fraud instead?
Not sure what the legal validity of an emailed cease-and-desist letter is, but I suspect if it wasn't received via certified mail, then you can simply ignore it. Before they can take you to court for violating the C&D, they first have to prove you received it.
My point exactly. "I just stolen several million dollars worth of moon rocks... what do I do with them now? I know! I'll sell them on eBay! They'll never think to look for them there!" Not exactly the thought processes of a genius. More like something out of a Three Stooges movie. And yes, most of the Mission Impossible stuff is bullshit, although I do believe they got an ex-employee to give them access codes.
I once worked at a USAF AWACS station, where the regulations said I was not allowed in the radome without an escort, since my security clearance was still pending. My first day there, one of my coworkers said "Here's the keycode to the door. Behave yourself." At other jobs, I've been able to access computer accounts I was not supposed to be in because the administrators made the passwords so complicated that their subordinates simply wrote them down and stuck them in their desk drawers. The point is, anybody who has dealt with bureaucratic bullshit long enough is perfectly willing to bend the rules to help their coworkers actually do their job. These interns got help from lots of people who assumed they were just doing their job. Needless to say, none of them is going to volunteer a "Oh yeah, I helped these kids get in" after the fact.
If these interns were so smart, then how come they got caught?