Good advice on the dash cam. Bad advice to skip on the attorney. A few legal acrobatics and the DA can get your dash cam "evidence" thrown out.
When a felony charge is involved, you do NOT fuck around. Lawyer up and shut up. $500 well spent.
While I'm not happy to see a bunch of drunk drivers run free, it's a necessary evil. I hope this becomes precedent throughout the country, forcing manufacturers of devices used to send people to prison to be OPEN about how their devices work down to the source code. Besides, it's the defendant who's paying for the code review, not the taxpayers, and they should have the right to be allowed to review the code for a presence of a bug in the software may cause people to test over the limit regardless of their sobriety.
Can you imagine death-penalty murder trials with "we know you did it because this machine we bought from MegaProfitTechCo analyzed the crime scene and says you're guilty." "How does that machine even work? DNA profiling?" "Can't tell you, it's a trade secret and very complicated, but it took a piece of evidence and said you're guilty."
The woman didn't push the girl off a cliff. She told her that "the world would be better without her." I've had an angry psycho ex-girlfriend that spewed out plenty of hateful shit my way with telling me to die, go kill myself, go fuck myself, etc. If I had killed myself after that, I wonder if she can be charged with murder. Well, perhaps in your world.
They're just words. Get over it. I've had to deal with bullies when I was 13 too. The woman didn't give the girl a noose or kick the chair she was standing on. The woman's still a bitch, but we shouldn't make a mockery of our justice system because we want to punish a cyber-bully.
Blizzard used to support this through it's advanced scripting system prior to the 2.0 (Burning Crusade) release. The problem was that using these helper scripts would've been required, especially with the introduction of PvP arenas, to stay competitive, diminishing the skill aspect involved of making decisions what spells to cast on what or whom vs. allowing an addon or 3rd party program to decide for you. Sadly, the disabled become a casualty in their philosophical shift.
See those quotes around "stolen"? That means it's not REALLY stolen. So you buy the phone for $299, activate for $36, cancel for $175, and you can't be forced to return the phone because it got "stolen."
Now from this point, is it as easy as going to another provider and having them swap the SIM?
Sell your broken junk on E-Bay or Craigslist. As previous posters have pointed out, it's very difficult to find parts for today's modern day electronics, and buying a broken device on the cheap is better than paying expensive shipping costs to get a replacement piece of plastic from Taiwan.
They'll keep trying to pass laws like this because they've succeeded in passing laws that prohibit selling pornographic material to minors. Restricting the sale of "violent video games" is just seen as an extension of that, and it isn't a difficult task to convince U.S. government lawmakers that controlling a virtual character to chop another person's head off with gallons of blood flying everywhere is more or just as harmful to children as seeing a pair of exposed female breasts. Lobbying dollars are not required. After all, if the "think of the children" mantra didn't work, politicians wouldn't use it so damn often.
It's no different than wanting my phone number to be unlisted for my own privacy. I still want a phone number so I can make and receive phone calls, but I don't want to tell the entire world it belongs to me and what my billing address is.
The same goes for my website. If I want the general public to be able to contact me by phone or mail, I'll put the phone number or address on my site. Otherwise, stay out of my business because I don't want to talk to you. I don't want your spam or marketing messages or other unsolicited garbage. That's why people do registrations under junk addresses or opt for the "privacy option" that many registrars now offer for an extra fee to mask that information.
"to all the people that download music, if you think you are only hurting big companies you are wrong. There are two working people with families who no longer have jobs because of music piracy." $18-$19 CDs containing 1 good track and 10 other tracks of crap vs. a $.99 single at iTunes might also have something to do with it too. But, hey, must be the pirates...
The big computer companies probably don't want to take tech support and customer service calls from grandmothers complaining their Windows apps won't work because they picked a Linux distro by mistake. "Oh hey! $100 off the price!"
cout<<"Hello World<<endl; I was going to point out that there's a missing quote mark until I realized that SCO doesn't own the right quotes, only the left quotes.
In what way is he to be held accountable? He expects to keep his job, presumably also pay, pension, benefits, etc. Where is the accountability? He's going to have one sore wrist tomorrow. He might even get slapped twice!
Worldwide daylight saving -- In a world where we're doing things in real-time with people around the globe, this is an annoying mess with different countries observing DST at different times of the month. For the love of God, just standardize it internationally or don't do it at all!
I look forward to when this DST map is completely red and orange.
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Good advice on the dash cam. Bad advice to skip on the attorney. A few legal acrobatics and the DA can get your dash cam "evidence" thrown out. When a felony charge is involved, you do NOT fuck around. Lawyer up and shut up. $500 well spent.
The promise of cake is actually a lie. Instead of getting cake, you were to be incinerated in a fire pit.
While I'm not happy to see a bunch of drunk drivers run free, it's a necessary evil. I hope this becomes precedent throughout the country, forcing manufacturers of devices used to send people to prison to be OPEN about how their devices work down to the source code. Besides, it's the defendant who's paying for the code review, not the taxpayers, and they should have the right to be allowed to review the code for a presence of a bug in the software may cause people to test over the limit regardless of their sobriety.
Can you imagine death-penalty murder trials with "we know you did it because this machine we bought from MegaProfitTechCo analyzed the crime scene and says you're guilty." "How does that machine even work? DNA profiling?" "Can't tell you, it's a trade secret and very complicated, but it took a piece of evidence and said you're guilty."
I know what a "chink in the armor" is. But since I don't see how one can easily mistype "armor" as "army"
Maybe he thought the correct word in the phrase was "army." It's like when people use the phrase "mute point" instead of "moot point."
Pepsi.
Partial credit!
The woman didn't push the girl off a cliff. She told her that "the world would be better without her." I've had an angry psycho ex-girlfriend that spewed out plenty of hateful shit my way with telling me to die, go kill myself, go fuck myself, etc. If I had killed myself after that, I wonder if she can be charged with murder. Well, perhaps in your world.
They're just words. Get over it. I've had to deal with bullies when I was 13 too. The woman didn't give the girl a noose or kick the chair she was standing on. The woman's still a bitch, but we shouldn't make a mockery of our justice system because we want to punish a cyber-bully.
Blizzard used to support this through it's advanced scripting system prior to the 2.0 (Burning Crusade) release. The problem was that using these helper scripts would've been required, especially with the introduction of PvP arenas, to stay competitive, diminishing the skill aspect involved of making decisions what spells to cast on what or whom vs. allowing an addon or 3rd party program to decide for you. Sadly, the disabled become a casualty in their philosophical shift.
This didn't start out as a secret government weapon but just another innovative invention that boils down to a new clever way to get laid.
See those quotes around "stolen"? That means it's not REALLY stolen. So you buy the phone for $299, activate for $36, cancel for $175, and you can't be forced to return the phone because it got "stolen."
Now from this point, is it as easy as going to another provider and having them swap the SIM?
Perhaps, but since when did that stop Presidential candidates from promising all this type of stuff anyway?
I've seen this exact rant pasted before. Please just let this crap die and stop modding it up.
Sell your broken junk on E-Bay or Craigslist. As previous posters have pointed out, it's very difficult to find parts for today's modern day electronics, and buying a broken device on the cheap is better than paying expensive shipping costs to get a replacement piece of plastic from Taiwan.
They'll keep trying to pass laws like this because they've succeeded in passing laws that prohibit selling pornographic material to minors. Restricting the sale of "violent video games" is just seen as an extension of that, and it isn't a difficult task to convince U.S. government lawmakers that controlling a virtual character to chop another person's head off with gallons of blood flying everywhere is more or just as harmful to children as seeing a pair of exposed female breasts. Lobbying dollars are not required. After all, if the "think of the children" mantra didn't work, politicians wouldn't use it so damn often.
You know, a scratched disc wouldn't be such a problem if he had simply made a backup of the disc. Oh wait...
Team Fortress 2 updates (new maps, patches, etc.) will be free. Team Fortress 2 itself will not be free.
So we're only interested in flatulent life, then.
Everyone poops. [cue book cover pic]
MS probably got the idea when they saw that PC gamers will happily pay $2 for horse armor! >:(
It's no different than wanting my phone number to be unlisted for my own privacy. I still want a phone number so I can make and receive phone calls, but I don't want to tell the entire world it belongs to me and what my billing address is.
The same goes for my website. If I want the general public to be able to contact me by phone or mail, I'll put the phone number or address on my site. Otherwise, stay out of my business because I don't want to talk to you. I don't want your spam or marketing messages or other unsolicited garbage. That's why people do registrations under junk addresses or opt for the "privacy option" that many registrars now offer for an extra fee to mask that information.
Can you provide all your credit card numbers too just in case one of them are on the site?
It should be soft and cuddly.
...with lots of firepower!
...and it should have telescopes! No, periscopes! No, microscopes!
The big computer companies probably don't want to take tech support and customer service calls from grandmothers complaining their Windows apps won't work because they picked a Linux distro by mistake. "Oh hey! $100 off the price!"
Worldwide daylight saving -- In a world where we're doing things in real-time with people around the globe, this is an annoying mess with different countries observing DST at different times of the month. For the love of God, just standardize it internationally or don't do it at all!
I look forward to when this DST map is completely red and orange.