Yes she broke the law, there should be a penalty for the infraction, but all the settlements so far have been unjustly high. And yes, I'd like to see it played out to the point where a precedent will be set and honoured.
No there shouldn't be a penalty for the infraction, the law should be changed. That is another purpose of the courts that people forget.
Some politicians write a horrible law and it is applied to an unintended group, it goes to court, the court rules that it doesn't apply to said group a precedent is set and it no longer applies to that group.
In this case individuals sharing music aren't the intended target of copyrights, other distributors selling works they don't own were the intended target. Other performers claiming the works of others as there own was the intended target. An individual humming a few bars of a song or sharing something they like with their friends spreading the word about a band to get them more fans was not the people Copyright laws were designed to deter. So I'd like to see the case get thrown out. Anything less is unjust.
That was from personal experience. I went to a small "Christian" college that caters to home school students. You can spot them from a mile away and they really do miss normal social cues.
What you don't realize is that some Sociopathic/Psychopathic tendencies are part of normal society and the fact that they don't have them is why they are messed up.
Like I said I'm a fan of Home Schooling your kids and I think it is better than the crap they are feeding kids in public schools, but the studies are biased and don't match real world observations.
Big fan of home schooling myself, however the biggest problem with home schooling isn't the quality of education. It is the lack of socialization. Home school kids are massively underdeveloped socially, they miss out on a lot of cues that the rest of the population learned the hard way in social environment.
IF governments couldn't get Big Brother information from Corporations, then I wouldn't have a problem with data mining. What is scary about Big Brother is a government using the information to use the force of the state to put people in jail. A corporation uses that information to provide products that consumers want. The government uses that information to control the population through force.
If Google could be trusted to never hand that information over to the government, then I would have no problem with them data mining as much as they want.
Those were really big IF's since we all know the government can easily get the information from Google, therefore we don't want them to have it.
There are lots of value add services that can be done because of data mining that consumers and the population want, they just ignore the consequences of the government also having access to the same data.
Now use the sand or granite method you mention. Then use the base of the existing wind towers for your tower. You now have compact storage and production at the same location.
Does the size of the weight determine how efficient it is, or could you just build 100,000 small towers and achieve the same results?
I know the TVA pumps water up mountains to then run through turbines during peak energy usage. So my question would be why can't you build a tower that pushes a lead brick to the top and then lets it drop to regain the energy?
I've got the Britney Spears "Baby One More Time" video. Does that count?
Oh, and I believe that in the earliest Jenna Jamenson videos she was 17. It was on the VH-1 special about her. I don't know if anyone has any of those laying around.
Everyone is so quick to pass judgment on sex offenders; yet there are no sources for finding help before a crime is committed. Where is the 1-800 number to get help if you might be struggling with sex issues? You can go to AA if you're an alcoholic, but what if you have an odd sex fetish? Just looking for help and you're already guilty of a crime, which by the way makes it less likely to look for help turning the deviant inward away from help where they are more likely to commit a crime. Sex offenders are just acting on a basic need (eat, sleep, reproduce); they just can't control a primal instinct. Most just need some help dealing with hormonal imbalances, some so much so that they need to be locked up, but that is a very small minority.
People are so offended by the act that they are blind to real issues. The sex offenders need help just as much as the victims; but where is the outcry to help these people before they commit a crime? Everyone just wants to string up these people, who in many cases are productive members of society and can be helped. This grand inquisition on the internet for pedophiles is actually causing more harm as it shames people away from the help they need. I'm not saying the act isn't horrible, but I'm saying the offenders need the help as much as the victims. If you helped the offenders you could save many, if not most, of the victims from ever being abused in the first place.
The time to complain about a contract is BEFORE you sign it, not after you decide you want to back out of it.
Yeah, thats great and all, but I had a contract with Powertel and it got bought by T-mobile. I met the obligations of my contract and T-mobile still hit me with a $400 disconnect fee. I never paid it, they sold it to a collections agency and I explained what happened. Every so often it gets bought by a new collection agency and I send them a letter explaining that that debt is not valid and will never be paid.
What really sucks is that they have "automatic rollover" in most contracts. So that once you've met your two-year obligation you have about 30 days to disconnect service or else your contract rolls over and you're obligated for another 2 years. Just by paying the 25th months bill you agree to the contract. It is stupid.
That is because he cuts through all sides bull shit and calls it like it is under the guise of satire; when in fact all he is doing is telling the truth that the other sources are afraid to tell because it might offend someone.
If I was doing something meaningful that had a real purpose and my punishment was a year and a day I would be proud. I'd use the year and a day of free room and board, free food, and unlimited down time to better myself. I have friends on the outside and I would spend my entire incarceration reading books. I'd come out stronger both mentally and physically.
If these two men believed in their cause I think their are fine with their punishment. If they were just ass-hat kids messing around and got busted I'm sure they are pretty upset, not so fun getting busted for a prank.
I have lots of problems with it. There are lots of illegal activities that many people participate in that their social circles approve of that draconian laws have been put in place to outlaw that could be seen by these drones.
Here are some examples:
Yard has a privacy fence, the couple enjoys outdoor sex and without the drone spying on them they could do it in the privacy of their back yard.
Having a party, someone brings a joint. You and your social circle don't mind, but the eye in the sky does.
You can't make it to a restroom, nobody is around, you duck in the bushes and relieve yourself, but the eye in the sky sees.
You're driving down the interstate and there aren't any cars on a strait away, you can see clearly for several miles and see the median is clear of enforcement officers the entire length of the strait away. You think to yourself, I wonder how fast my car can go. You tap your car out. Nobody was around and nobody cares, except for the eye in the sky.
There are lots of things we do everyday that are completely safe, nothing morally wrong with doing, and don't cause harm to anyone; yet there are laws against them. Under normal circumstances we obey the laws to make the watchers happy, because we know they aren't watching all the time. But we still all break some laws some of the time. Jaywalking. If we had 100% surveillance all the time we wouldn't be safer, we'd probably go insane.
When I was younger I used to do exactly that just to piss people like you off. I've mostly outgrown that stage of life, but when someone pulls up next to me like that I roll down my windows and listen to what they are playing.
If you are in south Florida and you have a problem with it you need to move to a different location. It is part of the culture down there.
I'm not saying you shouldn't do it. I'm saying don't make a law against it, because there are times when using a cellphone and driving are safe and not only safe but needed. I've called 911 while driving many times to report road hazards such as sheets of metal in the road.
Also as a commercially-licensed professional driver, do you pull over to use your CB?
I'm sorry but you are wrong. I'm learning to play the drums and I can tell you I'm doing three distinct things at one time. It takes practice but you can multi-task in parallel. Learn the left hand, learn the right hand, learn what you're feet should be doing. Then try singing along while doing that and you're adding another level of parallel processing and complexity. Honestly there is a lot of multitasking that you can train yourself to do; but it takes practice. We just haven't been trained to do it.
Second we've had cell phones since the 1980's and cb's and radios for nearly 100 years. We've been driving with them for as long as we've had cars. Why are we just now making all these laws to ban cell-phone usage? Should we also ban two-way radios? Its a rhetorical question, but I'm going to answer it: NO we shouldn't outlaw the use of cellphones while driving. What we should do is educate people on the dangers of driving while talking on cellphones. If there was a cellphone law maybe it should be double or triple fines if you are in an accident while texting/talking on a cell phone. So only those people who do get in accidents are punished and not the 309.05 million people who don't. (310 million us population - 55,000 traffic accidents from "distracted drivers").
Really, answering the phone is always in your power - and missing a phone call is not the end of the world.
Hi, have you met my wife.
Some additional points:
1) Laws against cell-phones while driving are stupid. We've had cell-phones since the 1980's. Its not as bad as you're making it out to be.
2) On surface streets I don't use my cell unless its a reference for directions. Then it is a driving tool.
3) I talk on the phone while driving only when I'm on the interstate, once I've finished my merge and am cruising outside of traffic. Before I merge, during my merge, and while I'm in traffic I do not answer my phone.
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Yes she broke the law, there should be a penalty for the infraction, but all the settlements so far have been unjustly high. And yes, I'd like to see it played out to the point where a precedent will be set and honoured.
No there shouldn't be a penalty for the infraction, the law should be changed. That is another purpose of the courts that people forget.
Some politicians write a horrible law and it is applied to an unintended group, it goes to court, the court rules that it doesn't apply to said group a precedent is set and it no longer applies to that group.
In this case individuals sharing music aren't the intended target of copyrights, other distributors selling works they don't own were the intended target. Other performers claiming the works of others as there own was the intended target. An individual humming a few bars of a song or sharing something they like with their friends spreading the word about a band to get them more fans was not the people Copyright laws were designed to deter. So I'd like to see the case get thrown out. Anything less is unjust.
That was from personal experience. I went to a small "Christian" college that caters to home school students. You can spot them from a mile away and they really do miss normal social cues.
What you don't realize is that some Sociopathic/Psychopathic tendencies are part of normal society and the fact that they don't have them is why they are messed up.
Like I said I'm a fan of Home Schooling your kids and I think it is better than the crap they are feeding kids in public schools, but the studies are biased and don't match real world observations.
This was back in 2000-2001. I've been with Verizon ever since. T-Mobile lost a lawsuit over the issue and I think changed policy since then.
Big fan of home schooling myself, however the biggest problem with home schooling isn't the quality of education. It is the lack of socialization. Home school kids are massively underdeveloped socially, they miss out on a lot of cues that the rest of the population learned the hard way in social environment.
Are you being deliberately obtuse?
No, I was being acute.
IF governments couldn't get Big Brother information from Corporations, then I wouldn't have a problem with data mining. What is scary about Big Brother is a government using the information to use the force of the state to put people in jail. A corporation uses that information to provide products that consumers want. The government uses that information to control the population through force.
If Google could be trusted to never hand that information over to the government, then I would have no problem with them data mining as much as they want.
Those were really big IF's since we all know the government can easily get the information from Google, therefore we don't want them to have it.
There are lots of value add services that can be done because of data mining that consumers and the population want, they just ignore the consequences of the government also having access to the same data.
Now use the sand or granite method you mention. Then use the base of the existing wind towers for your tower. You now have compact storage and production at the same location.
Does the size of the weight determine how efficient it is, or could you just build 100,000 small towers and achieve the same results?
It wasn't until I got to "Ask for Help" that I had to look up and see you were modded funny.
I know the TVA pumps water up mountains to then run through turbines during peak energy usage. So my question would be why can't you build a tower that pushes a lead brick to the top and then lets it drop to regain the energy?
So then the Tesla Model S is a great deal!
I'm saving for mine already. I just bought a 2009 Corolla knowing that is was in the works. I hope to get one in about 5 years.
I've got the Britney Spears "Baby One More Time" video. Does that count?
Oh, and I believe that in the earliest Jenna Jamenson videos she was 17. It was on the VH-1 special about her. I don't know if anyone has any of those laying around.
Everyone is so quick to pass judgment on sex offenders; yet there are no sources for finding help before a crime is committed. Where is the 1-800 number to get help if you might be struggling with sex issues? You can go to AA if you're an alcoholic, but what if you have an odd sex fetish? Just looking for help and you're already guilty of a crime, which by the way makes it less likely to look for help turning the deviant inward away from help where they are more likely to commit a crime. Sex offenders are just acting on a basic need (eat, sleep, reproduce); they just can't control a primal instinct. Most just need some help dealing with hormonal imbalances, some so much so that they need to be locked up, but that is a very small minority.
People are so offended by the act that they are blind to real issues. The sex offenders need help just as much as the victims; but where is the outcry to help these people before they commit a crime? Everyone just wants to string up these people, who in many cases are productive members of society and can be helped. This grand inquisition on the internet for pedophiles is actually causing more harm as it shames people away from the help they need. I'm not saying the act isn't horrible, but I'm saying the offenders need the help as much as the victims. If you helped the offenders you could save many, if not most, of the victims from ever being abused in the first place.
The time to complain about a contract is BEFORE you sign it, not after you decide you want to back out of it.
Yeah, thats great and all, but I had a contract with Powertel and it got bought by T-mobile. I met the obligations of my contract and T-mobile still hit me with a $400 disconnect fee. I never paid it, they sold it to a collections agency and I explained what happened. Every so often it gets bought by a new collection agency and I send them a letter explaining that that debt is not valid and will never be paid.
What really sucks is that they have "automatic rollover" in most contracts. So that once you've met your two-year obligation you have about 30 days to disconnect service or else your contract rolls over and you're obligated for another 2 years. Just by paying the 25th months bill you agree to the contract. It is stupid.
That is because he cuts through all sides bull shit and calls it like it is under the guise of satire; when in fact all he is doing is telling the truth that the other sources are afraid to tell because it might offend someone.
I think this is the part where you say something like "If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to hide."
To that I say: "Sex with my wife in the hot tub isn't wrong, you filming it with your aerial drone is."
If I was doing something meaningful that had a real purpose and my punishment was a year and a day I would be proud. I'd use the year and a day of free room and board, free food, and unlimited down time to better myself. I have friends on the outside and I would spend my entire incarceration reading books. I'd come out stronger both mentally and physically.
If these two men believed in their cause I think their are fine with their punishment. If they were just ass-hat kids messing around and got busted I'm sure they are pretty upset, not so fun getting busted for a prank.
What is wrong with Chrome? Whats wrong with analytics? I get the toolbar, ad sense, and double click, but Chrome and Analytics are nice.
The day they start flying drones in my town is the day I buy my first gun. They have a 50 cal at my local Sportsman Warehouse.
I have lots of problems with it. There are lots of illegal activities that many people participate in that their social circles approve of that draconian laws have been put in place to outlaw that could be seen by these drones.
Here are some examples:
Yard has a privacy fence, the couple enjoys outdoor sex and without the drone spying on them they could do it in the privacy of their back yard.
Having a party, someone brings a joint. You and your social circle don't mind, but the eye in the sky does.
You can't make it to a restroom, nobody is around, you duck in the bushes and relieve yourself, but the eye in the sky sees.
You're driving down the interstate and there aren't any cars on a strait away, you can see clearly for several miles and see the median is clear of enforcement officers the entire length of the strait away. You think to yourself, I wonder how fast my car can go. You tap your car out. Nobody was around and nobody cares, except for the eye in the sky.
There are lots of things we do everyday that are completely safe, nothing morally wrong with doing, and don't cause harm to anyone; yet there are laws against them. Under normal circumstances we obey the laws to make the watchers happy, because we know they aren't watching all the time. But we still all break some laws some of the time. Jaywalking. If we had 100% surveillance all the time we wouldn't be safer, we'd probably go insane.
When I was younger I used to do exactly that just to piss people like you off. I've mostly outgrown that stage of life, but when someone pulls up next to me like that I roll down my windows and listen to what they are playing.
If you are in south Florida and you have a problem with it you need to move to a different location. It is part of the culture down there.
I'm not saying you shouldn't do it. I'm saying don't make a law against it, because there are times when using a cellphone and driving are safe and not only safe but needed. I've called 911 while driving many times to report road hazards such as sheets of metal in the road.
Also as a commercially-licensed professional driver, do you pull over to use your CB?
I'm sorry but you are wrong. I'm learning to play the drums and I can tell you I'm doing three distinct things at one time. It takes practice but you can multi-task in parallel. Learn the left hand, learn the right hand, learn what you're feet should be doing. Then try singing along while doing that and you're adding another level of parallel processing and complexity. Honestly there is a lot of multitasking that you can train yourself to do; but it takes practice. We just haven't been trained to do it.
Second we've had cell phones since the 1980's and cb's and radios for nearly 100 years. We've been driving with them for as long as we've had cars. Why are we just now making all these laws to ban cell-phone usage? Should we also ban two-way radios? Its a rhetorical question, but I'm going to answer it: NO we shouldn't outlaw the use of cellphones while driving. What we should do is educate people on the dangers of driving while talking on cellphones. If there was a cellphone law maybe it should be double or triple fines if you are in an accident while texting/talking on a cell phone. So only those people who do get in accidents are punished and not the 309.05 million people who don't. (310 million us population - 55,000 traffic accidents from "distracted drivers").
Really, answering the phone is always in your power - and missing a phone call is not the end of the world.
Hi, have you met my wife.
Some additional points:
1) Laws against cell-phones while driving are stupid. We've had cell-phones since the 1980's. Its not as bad as you're making it out to be.
2) On surface streets I don't use my cell unless its a reference for directions. Then it is a driving tool.
3) I talk on the phone while driving only when I'm on the interstate, once I've finished my merge and am cruising outside of traffic. Before I merge, during my merge, and while I'm in traffic I do not answer my phone.
I'm waiting for Gundanium.
Na, 10 miles outside CR-3.