the law states in this case "knew or had reason to know" When the police arrest you for hiring someone to kill a person, that's exactly what the state is doing in court, trying to proove that you knew or had reason to know that it would happen.
But the telemarketing company is not an employee of DirecTV, but a contractee. The link you posted was specific about applying to employer-employee relations. Now, through my previous attempt at business I know that, the fundamental difference between an employee and a labor contractee is whether you have control over the actions of the person. If you can control how someone performs a task designated to them, you are their employee. If you do not have control over how a task is performed, then you have contracted them to perform the task.
The issue is whether you have vicarious liability over the company/person you contract. If a specific law (the DNC registry in this case) says you do, you do. If the contract says you do, you do. Otherwise, you do not have any vicarious liability over a contractee.
I see your point. I'll have to check with my friend who is acutally learning this stuff, mostly I just throw out actual tort cases I've read about and see if he can determine the decision and an explanation. So in a sense, I'm learning tort law 3rd hand. And he's only gotten through one semester. But I'll call him and get back to this tommorrow.
But based on my understanding, if the company knew or had reason to know that its agent was breaking the law, then their liable. But common sense has a surprisingly small role in torts.
In large part because the novelty has worn off, but I think it also has a lot to do with the fact that there don't seem to be any more promotions going on. When Pepsi was giving away iTunes downloads with their drinks, my brother got over 200 free songs (others gave him their caps, he didn't drink that much soda). Of course, you could only use 5 cap codes per day, so if he found a 6th song to download in one day, instead of waiting another day, he'd simply buy the last song. He got 200 free songs, and paid for about 20. Since the promotion is now over, he never even thinks to look at iTunes. The novelty is gone and so is the incentive. A lot of products go through huge sales initially, and once the novelty wears off, the successfull products are the ones that consumers actually want, not what they are told to want (since they're no longer being told to want it)
I know about a dozen engineers, spanning tracks from computer, to electrical, to mechanical, and even some civil engineers. Noe of them had any problem finding a job out of college. If you/he is really worried about finding a job and getting job security, look for openings in small firms. As long as the company is financially stable, once you get a job, as long as you don't do something to jeprodize it, you'll be there until you quit or retire. It doesn't matter if the engineers in your specialty are a dime a dozen, get in with a small company and you'll never have to worry about getting "traded in for a better model"
Other advantages of a small firm are greater flexability, and the knowledge that your work actually makes a difference in the fate of the company. One friend adjusted his shift to come in and leave an hour earlier to avoid traffic; all he had to do was tell his boss he was going to do so. Meanwhile, if he has an idea for a new product, or a more efficient proccess, the company will actually care.
IANAL, but I've been helping a law student study torts. Unless there is proof that DirecTV knew that the telemarketing company they hired was not complying with the DNC or other relevent laws and made no action, DirecTV is not liable for the outsourced company's damages. This suit should be directed at the company that actually broke the law.
It's also not illegal to watch someone buy a sports magazine at a newsstand and say "Excuse me sir. Do you mind if I ask you a question? I notice you are into sports. Would you like to buy this fine *related product here*?" Again, if you do this wrong you could be arrested for bugging people, but the act of making a recommendation based on observed public behaviour is not illegal.
Actually, if we're assuming that the person making the suggestions is not employed by the owner of the store (which I believe is the point you are making, and is the best analogy to the Google issue), then the store has the right to bar you from soliciting on their property.
Why do so few movie previews anymore tell you anything about the story? Just eye candy and a humorus scene. Based on tv commercials for this and for Aeon Flux, I had no intention of watching either of them, but after reading the slashdot reviews, I'm at least interested and, at the very least, rent the DVD when it comes out. If I get the opportunity, I probably will go see this in the theater.
Actually, saponification is what you try to avoid. Every molecule of soap in your fuel take a molecule of oil with it when you wash it out.
In the first stage, the sulfuric acid is mixed with 40% of the methanol to esterfy the free fatty acids. In the second stage, the hydroxide is mixed with the remaining methanol to form methoxide. What your saying may still be what's going on, I haven't studied the chemistry of the reaction to hard, I just read several different guides on the internet and talked to some people who make their own.
On the topic of methanol, ethanol can be used instead, but the ethanol reaction is VERY water sensitive, so you wind up spending quite a bit of money insuring that your ethanol and your oil is dry.
Other hydroxides can be used, but you need more of a weeker catalyst. Some people used potassium hydroxide instead, but you wind up needing 150% as much, and any cost savings get negated. However, when using KOH, you can use the glycerine byproduct as fertilizer.
In the 2 stage reaction, which is the only time an acid is used as a catalyst for biodiesel, the ingredients are as follows per liter of vegetable oil:
200 ml methanol. I'm currently paying $2.50/gallon for methanol. Which puts my cost per gallon of biodiesel at about $.50
1 ml Sulfuric Acid. I'm currently getting this for a little over $1/oz Technically that's expensive, but so little is needed that it works out to only $.15/gallon biodD.
31-37g Sodium Hydroxide (depending on pH of oil) Lye is what's expensive. Hopefully, this is the catalyst the Nature article is replacing. Every so often a good price on lye will show up, but it is usually between $.20-$1/gallon biodiesel.
If this article talks about replacing the lye, I'll definately try it.
Even simpler is associating the xpi filetype with Firefox (IIRC you can load Thunderbird extentions directly from the extention dialog box), and opening the extention. In my experience, it only works if FF isn't running when you load the extention. But once FF loads, the extention will install (after that annoying wait that I disabled on my personal machine with another MRTech extention). That's how I installed the extentions on the work machine I'm currently typing from.
Now I admit I can't speak for software, but for music CD's, and to a somewhat lesser extent movie DVD's, casual copying is HUGE. I'm not speaking as some industry hack, but as someone who has seen it. Many, many people make copies of their CD's for their friends, similar to the tape exchanges of the 80's. The fact that you haven't seen it simply says that your social circle is a little more technologically inclined. If you don't believe that the tape exchanges in the 80's weren't that big; my friend's brother used to buy 100 blank tapes a week.
I work in downtown Trenton, NJ and have had co-workers who were honestly, "staight from the 'hood." Stereo's are a lot easier to afford than computers and internet connections. It's easy to find some one who makes a business out of selling pirated CD's for a couple bucks each. Before the raid, the local flea market had a seller who sold thousands of dollars worth of pirated CD's and DVD's each week. Casual copying DOES exist
When his PC fucks up due to a huge malware problem he just buys a new computer
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The man off the street does not need vista. In fact the man on the street doesn't even need XP.
Is this really a problem then? Will Vista cost more than XP? Not in terms of upgrading vs not upgrading. If most people just buy a new computer when their old one has a problem do you really care whether the new computer is running Vista vs XP vs 98 vs DOS 3.11?
Sorry but technically no. There is no "northern hemisphere" or southern hemisphere. Physically hes, it is. But they are not officially named as such the only hemispheres are Western and Eastern
Sure, sure. "Time is money" But how much is time owrth if you were just going to waste it? If it take me 10 hours to home-brew my own file-server, am I really worse off than if I spent 30 minutes buying one and 9.5 hrs watching TV? I would dare say the opposite is true. By building my own I gain experience, insight, and bragging rights. By watching 9.5 hrs of TV I lose brain cells and a little bit of my sanity. Hmm. Tough decision
the ISS isn't in geosynchronous orbit, but in low-earth orbit. As such, it is constantly changing it's position WRT the ground. Once the shuttle reaches orbit, it has to "catch-up" with the ISS, or let the ISS catch-up with it. If ISS is hovering over China when the shuttle is over Florida, then that's a lot of energy it has to use (or a long wait) to reach the ISS. But if the ISS is near by during launch time, then it takes less fuel and time to reach. So yeah, it is that hard to meet up with the ISS
It would be because colleges only have so much bandwidth going off campus, and doing something like this make lives of people downloading a lot easier than simply throttling bandwidth.
To use your chocolate example: Imagine a college only had one entrance to the school. A large fraction of the student body is using that sole entrance to go down the street to the convience store to buy chocolate. This is happening so much, that it limits the ability of commuters and professors getting to and from the school, along with prospective students, and current students that have reasons other than chocolate to get off campus. The school only has so many options. Build a new entrance, but that can be quite expensive. Limit student's ability to go off campus (imagine the uproar that would cause). Or build a chocolate store on campus so students can get their chocolate store there instead. This way student traffic is distributed over higher capacity campus sidewalks leaving the entrance to the college open for more "legitamite" use.
Because, by definition, a terrorist is someone who acts outside of a governmental authority. Saddam Hussein wasthe government in Iraq. As such he cannot be a terrorist. Other definitions apply, but not terrorist
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the law states in this case "knew or had reason to know" When the police arrest you for hiring someone to kill a person, that's exactly what the state is doing in court, trying to proove that you knew or had reason to know that it would happen.
But the telemarketing company is not an employee of DirecTV, but a contractee. The link you posted was specific about applying to employer-employee relations. Now, through my previous attempt at business I know that, the fundamental difference between an employee and a labor contractee is whether you have control over the actions of the person. If you can control how someone performs a task designated to them, you are their employee. If you do not have control over how a task is performed, then you have contracted them to perform the task.
The issue is whether you have vicarious liability over the company/person you contract. If a specific law (the DNC registry in this case) says you do, you do. If the contract says you do, you do. Otherwise, you do not have any vicarious liability over a contractee.
I see your point. I'll have to check with my friend who is acutally learning this stuff, mostly I just throw out actual tort cases I've read about and see if he can determine the decision and an explanation. So in a sense, I'm learning tort law 3rd hand. And he's only gotten through one semester. But I'll call him and get back to this tommorrow. But based on my understanding, if the company knew or had reason to know that its agent was breaking the law, then their liable. But common sense has a surprisingly small role in torts.
In large part because the novelty has worn off, but I think it also has a lot to do with the fact that there don't seem to be any more promotions going on. When Pepsi was giving away iTunes downloads with their drinks, my brother got over 200 free songs (others gave him their caps, he didn't drink that much soda). Of course, you could only use 5 cap codes per day, so if he found a 6th song to download in one day, instead of waiting another day, he'd simply buy the last song. He got 200 free songs, and paid for about 20. Since the promotion is now over, he never even thinks to look at iTunes. The novelty is gone and so is the incentive. A lot of products go through huge sales initially, and once the novelty wears off, the successfull products are the ones that consumers actually want, not what they are told to want (since they're no longer being told to want it)
I know about a dozen engineers, spanning tracks from computer, to electrical, to mechanical, and even some civil engineers. Noe of them had any problem finding a job out of college. If you/he is really worried about finding a job and getting job security, look for openings in small firms. As long as the company is financially stable, once you get a job, as long as you don't do something to jeprodize it, you'll be there until you quit or retire. It doesn't matter if the engineers in your specialty are a dime a dozen, get in with a small company and you'll never have to worry about getting "traded in for a better model" Other advantages of a small firm are greater flexability, and the knowledge that your work actually makes a difference in the fate of the company. One friend adjusted his shift to come in and leave an hour earlier to avoid traffic; all he had to do was tell his boss he was going to do so. Meanwhile, if he has an idea for a new product, or a more efficient proccess, the company will actually care.
IANAL, but I've been helping a law student study torts. Unless there is proof that DirecTV knew that the telemarketing company they hired was not complying with the DNC or other relevent laws and made no action, DirecTV is not liable for the outsourced company's damages. This suit should be directed at the company that actually broke the law.
This just tells us how sorry the state of education is. Artificial gravity generators? Not 0-G because their orbiting at a low altitude?
Actually, if we're assuming that the person making the suggestions is not employed by the owner of the store (which I believe is the point you are making, and is the best analogy to the Google issue), then the store has the right to bar you from soliciting on their property.
Why do so few movie previews anymore tell you anything about the story? Just eye candy and a humorus scene. Based on tv commercials for this and for Aeon Flux, I had no intention of watching either of them, but after reading the slashdot reviews, I'm at least interested and, at the very least, rent the DVD when it comes out. If I get the opportunity, I probably will go see this in the theater.
If you want horror, read anything from H.P. Lovecraft
In my opinion, if something is a de jure standard, its specifications should be released into the public domain.
With all the fraud in the drug research field, you think that a manufacturer-based certification group is going to help with the problems you noted?
Actually, saponification is what you try to avoid. Every molecule of soap in your fuel take a molecule of oil with it when you wash it out. In the first stage, the sulfuric acid is mixed with 40% of the methanol to esterfy the free fatty acids. In the second stage, the hydroxide is mixed with the remaining methanol to form methoxide. What your saying may still be what's going on, I haven't studied the chemistry of the reaction to hard, I just read several different guides on the internet and talked to some people who make their own. On the topic of methanol, ethanol can be used instead, but the ethanol reaction is VERY water sensitive, so you wind up spending quite a bit of money insuring that your ethanol and your oil is dry. Other hydroxides can be used, but you need more of a weeker catalyst. Some people used potassium hydroxide instead, but you wind up needing 150% as much, and any cost savings get negated. However, when using KOH, you can use the glycerine byproduct as fertilizer.
200 ml methanol. I'm currently paying $2.50/gallon for methanol. Which puts my cost per gallon of biodiesel at about $.50
1 ml Sulfuric Acid. I'm currently getting this for a little over $1/oz Technically that's expensive, but so little is needed that it works out to only $.15/gallon biodD.
31-37g Sodium Hydroxide (depending on pH of oil) Lye is what's expensive. Hopefully, this is the catalyst the Nature article is replacing. Every so often a good price on lye will show up, but it is usually between $.20-$1/gallon biodiesel. If this article talks about replacing the lye, I'll definately try it.
Even simpler! Thanks! I'll keep that in mind next time I'm installing a saved extention
Even simpler is associating the xpi filetype with Firefox (IIRC you can load Thunderbird extentions directly from the extention dialog box), and opening the extention. In my experience, it only works if FF isn't running when you load the extention. But once FF loads, the extention will install (after that annoying wait that I disabled on my personal machine with another MRTech extention). That's how I installed the extentions on the work machine I'm currently typing from.
I work in downtown Trenton, NJ and have had co-workers who were honestly, "staight from the 'hood." Stereo's are a lot easier to afford than computers and internet connections. It's easy to find some one who makes a business out of selling pirated CD's for a couple bucks each. Before the raid, the local flea market had a seller who sold thousands of dollars worth of pirated CD's and DVD's each week. Casual copying DOES exist
. The man off the street does not need vista. In fact the man on the street doesn't even need XP.
Is this really a problem then? Will Vista cost more than XP? Not in terms of upgrading vs not upgrading. If most people just buy a new computer when their old one has a problem do you really care whether the new computer is running Vista vs XP vs 98 vs DOS 3.11?
Sorry but technically no. There is no "northern hemisphere" or southern hemisphere. Physically hes, it is. But they are not officially named as such the only hemispheres are Western and Eastern
Sure, sure. "Time is money" But how much is time owrth if you were just going to waste it? If it take me 10 hours to home-brew my own file-server, am I really worse off than if I spent 30 minutes buying one and 9.5 hrs watching TV? I would dare say the opposite is true. By building my own I gain experience, insight, and bragging rights. By watching 9.5 hrs of TV I lose brain cells and a little bit of my sanity. Hmm. Tough decision
the ISS isn't in geosynchronous orbit, but in low-earth orbit. As such, it is constantly changing it's position WRT the ground. Once the shuttle reaches orbit, it has to "catch-up" with the ISS, or let the ISS catch-up with it. If ISS is hovering over China when the shuttle is over Florida, then that's a lot of energy it has to use (or a long wait) to reach the ISS. But if the ISS is near by during launch time, then it takes less fuel and time to reach. So yeah, it is that hard to meet up with the ISS
Try Idlewild by Nick Sagan (Carl Sagan's son) Up until the last chapter, the main characters and reality don't coinside with a chapter at all.
To use your chocolate example: Imagine a college only had one entrance to the school. A large fraction of the student body is using that sole entrance to go down the street to the convience store to buy chocolate. This is happening so much, that it limits the ability of commuters and professors getting to and from the school, along with prospective students, and current students that have reasons other than chocolate to get off campus. The school only has so many options. Build a new entrance, but that can be quite expensive. Limit student's ability to go off campus (imagine the uproar that would cause). Or build a chocolate store on campus so students can get their chocolate store there instead. This way student traffic is distributed over higher capacity campus sidewalks leaving the entrance to the college open for more "legitamite" use.
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