It's also the tax rebates and other payouts. Child benefit? Fuck that. Maternity pay? Fuck that. If you want kids, fucking pay for them.
If you don't earn enough, the answer is to make housing more affordable, reduce taxes on transport, make it easier for people to earn a living. It's not to give them more actual cash than they contribute.
I don't want people living in absolute poverty, but I do resent paying for people to maintain a lifestyle that I can't - I earn well above the average wage and have at best the average disposable income. I do resent that.
More likely is that they went to a website (or dodgy bloke in a pub) and expressed an interest (e.g. searched for "man fucking pre-teen boy" or something) and encountered a paywall stating, "hot teen action. See Lolita get it on with her Sugar Daddy. Today's special: 8 year old 'plays' with his pet Alsation" then provided credit card details to get through the paywall.
At which point the honeypot has his card details and a police unit is dispatched.
I've got unique email addresses attached to around 80 accounts on my kill list, purely because they got hacked/leaked/sold/abused and started receiving spam.
As that happens to probably one in five, maybe one in ten accounts, the implication is that I have around 400-800 accounts in use across the Internet. Which feels pretty reasonable - I do a fair amount of online shopping, with each site usually requiring an account, I engage in a number of social activities, and I've been using the internet for just under 23 years. Shit, Google has Usenet posts I made in '92 in its archive.
This of course ignores the accounts and online identities I may use in the future. I'd have to set up a server that every second sent an email to the relevant department telling them, "I am known online as xxxx@bbbb.org" (although I'd seed it with other text to prevent autoparsing, and use different email addresses, which I'd then have to register too). Owning a few domain names gives you rather a lot of online identities. Giving a couple of friends accounts on those domains means that you can't just register the domain in its entirety.
Why pay for a format conversion for data unlikely to be ever needed? On this one occasion it has, but many organisations have a ton of data that they can't immediately access, but that they can't just delete (for various reasons, usually regulatory).
£2000 is bloody cheap for accessing an obsolete data store. Given the conversion could have cost anywhere from £50,000 to £500,000 or more, an occasional £2000 is fuck all.
Charging someone making a subject access request £2000 is the problem, not the organisation saving a lot of money by avoiding premature data conversion.
The minimum retention time is completely irrelevant. They have an obligation to provide all records for an individual, on request.
Whether they should have those records is irrelevant. Indeed, one use of a Subject Access Request is to find records that should not exist, that are inaccurate (and/or expired), or that contain data that the organisation does not have permission to hold/process.
As the existence of that data has been admitted (through the quote of a price to retrieve it) the statutory maximums should come into play.
There are a number of exemptions, including the ability to withhold data that may damage someone's physical or mental health. As the data has been offered (at a ludicrous price) I'd assume those exemptions do not apply.
..but a spoiled ballot paper _is_ a vote. It just happens to be a vote against, rather than a vote for.
I just voted for the new Police Commissioner role introduced in the UK. I don't want police commissioners to be elected so I wrote "NONE" across the piece of paper.
So mod the game. And stop using the term "Autopillock", I'm mentally applying it to you.
But seriously, just mod the game. Make it the way you want it to be, instead of bitching about it. I enjoyed X3:TC (and X2, and X:BTF). Hell, I'm planning to enjoy X3:AP if I ever get the time to play it.
Enjoy the game for what it is, or mod it to be what you want it to be.
X3 : Start the game, wiggle your joystick, shoot stuff. Elite : Start the game, go "wtf?" at the 'rotate or pitch' control scheme, then wiggle your joystick, shoot stuff.
X3 : Insane depth around the economy, the ship variety, the ability to fund, build and control an empire. Elite : Save up and buy a docking computer before you go insane.
In other words, the extra complexity in X3 was around the stuff that just wasn't in Elite. If you play X3 as a simple "transport goods around while shooting pirates" game then it's no more complex than the original Elite.
It's pretty obvious that Apple was the victim of Samsung making a concerted effort to copy their industry-leading product.
No, it's not. It's pretty obvious that technology advances build on previous advances, leading to different people/companies reaching the same point at the same time. It's also pretty obvious that Samsung devices were already exhibiting the characteristics that Apple are so precious about before Apple even released the iPhone.
Still, feel free to demonstrate some actual evidence. Because so far, it's been pretty fucking lacking.
Being lawful has always been about obeying the exact and explicit letter of the law.
Of course. That'll be why despite Apple being letter-perfect to the original ruling, the court said, "Stop being fuckwits" and demanded a change.
Or maybe in this country obeying the exact and explicit letter of the law would obviate a few centuries of common law, and the judges provide a rather more rounded level of justice.
Sorry that they have to have The Same Argument, all over again, in every single petty-jurisdiction in The Known Universe.
This is easily avoided: Stop raising stupid fucking court cases in every single petty-jurisdiction in The Known Universe.
Apple's patents are just fucking bullshit. Trying to use them to stifle competition (while refusing to pay for other peoples' patents - including Samsung, who you suggest failed to Have Even A Single Original Idea, despite their patents being far more innovative than the crap Apple are suing over) deserves derision.
Apple isn't being asked to be sorry. Apple is being asked not to act like complete cunts. So far, they're failing miserably.
For Apple to post a statement that purports to be from Apple stating that Samsung did not copy would be ridiculous, because it's already won judgments in other jurisdictions that say Samsung did copy.
Apple spread the suggestion that Samsung had infringed on their IP. A court found that Samsung did not infringe. The court has ruled that Apple make it clear that Samsung did not infringe, to correct the damage caused by their initial list.
You may call that juvenile. I consider it to be a reasonable request. Other jurisdictions are utterly irrelevant and the ruling didn't even demand that Apple state that Samsung didn't copy, merely draw attention to the lack of infringement and link to the case.
Let the people know their judges are looking to deceive them.
Please. Tell me how the judges are trying to deceive people. Quote the specific sentence or sentences in the transcript from the court. Because I've read it and the only attempts at deception that I can see come from Apple.
Which people are Apple employing unnecessarily, that they could currently shed to gain 10% additional profits, and have decided against shedding, but would shed to regain 10% of their profits?
If those jobs were surplus to the efficient and effective operations of the business, a corporation would already have shed them.
Then find a sufficiently attractive person with whom to share your interest.
FFS don't view or buy bondage porn over the 'net. There are just too many people being forced into participating in it, and personal involvement is the only way to be sure nobody's being coerced.
Trust me, this annoys the hell out of me, but I refuse to be part of the sex slave industry.
I'd personally quit working for a living rather than pay a $150,000 fine. I'm not coping with the stress and distress of working 40-60 hours a week and getting fuck all in return.
Worse case, I find poverty too stressful and kill myself. Frankly that's probably a better outcome than working for several years for effectively no pay.
I personally hold the judge liable for being fucking stupid.
It's pretty clear that damages higher than the costs of making the fucking movies are excessive and unnecessary.
Just because some twat demands that a court awards him over a million dollars doesn't mean the court has to merely accede to that request. Well, not in countries with a reasonable legal system.
Comically they're not even obligated to post those words, as far as I can tell. I think if they post something that gives the same information in a clear and simple manner then they can change the specific wording.
They would be wise to confirm with the court that the new wording is ok, and the court may want Samsung's agreement, but I suspect the court would be reasonable on this.
The wording of the original notice was not reasonable, which is why the court have requested that it be changed.
Like misquoting the judge you mean? Oh, along with flagrantly breaching the entire purpose of the notice, quoting invalidated court decisions and running impressively close to contempt of court?
All Apple had to do was follow the law. That's it, the spirit does not enter into it. If the judges did not want Apple to wonder off the reservation then they needed to explicitly state what Apple can and cannot do. That's how the law works.
Maybe in America. Over here we have a more mature and less easily bribed legal system.
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It's also the tax rebates and other payouts. Child benefit? Fuck that. Maternity pay? Fuck that. If you want kids, fucking pay for them.
If you don't earn enough, the answer is to make housing more affordable, reduce taxes on transport, make it easier for people to earn a living. It's not to give them more actual cash than they contribute.
I don't want people living in absolute poverty, but I do resent paying for people to maintain a lifestyle that I can't - I earn well above the average wage and have at best the average disposable income. I do resent that.
More likely is that they went to a website (or dodgy bloke in a pub) and expressed an interest (e.g. searched for "man fucking pre-teen boy" or something) and encountered a paywall stating, "hot teen action. See Lolita get it on with her Sugar Daddy. Today's special: 8 year old 'plays' with his pet Alsation" then provided credit card details to get through the paywall.
At which point the honeypot has his card details and a police unit is dispatched.
I encounter public urination quite often in the UK. It's hard to hold it when you're in a woodland an hour or more from the nearest toilet.
Crikey, only 15-20?
I've got unique email addresses attached to around 80 accounts on my kill list, purely because they got hacked/leaked/sold/abused and started receiving spam.
As that happens to probably one in five, maybe one in ten accounts, the implication is that I have around 400-800 accounts in use across the Internet. Which feels pretty reasonable - I do a fair amount of online shopping, with each site usually requiring an account, I engage in a number of social activities, and I've been using the internet for just under 23 years. Shit, Google has Usenet posts I made in '92 in its archive.
This of course ignores the accounts and online identities I may use in the future. I'd have to set up a server that every second sent an email to the relevant department telling them, "I am known online as xxxx@bbbb.org" (although I'd seed it with other text to prevent autoparsing, and use different email addresses, which I'd then have to register too). Owning a few domain names gives you rather a lot of online identities. Giving a couple of friends accounts on those domains means that you can't just register the domain in its entirety.
Why pay for a format conversion for data unlikely to be ever needed? On this one occasion it has, but many organisations have a ton of data that they can't immediately access, but that they can't just delete (for various reasons, usually regulatory).
£2000 is bloody cheap for accessing an obsolete data store. Given the conversion could have cost anywhere from £50,000 to £500,000 or more, an occasional £2000 is fuck all.
Charging someone making a subject access request £2000 is the problem, not the organisation saving a lot of money by avoiding premature data conversion.
The minimum retention time is completely irrelevant. They have an obligation to provide all records for an individual, on request.
Whether they should have those records is irrelevant. Indeed, one use of a Subject Access Request is to find records that should not exist, that are inaccurate (and/or expired), or that contain data that the organisation does not have permission to hold/process.
As the existence of that data has been admitted (through the quote of a price to retrieve it) the statutory maximums should come into play.
There are a number of exemptions, including the ability to withhold data that may damage someone's physical or mental health. As the data has been offered (at a ludicrous price) I'd assume those exemptions do not apply.
It's free for far too fucking many people.
I do support having a NHS, but I also support people contributing. Right now too many don't.
I just voted for the new Police Commissioner role introduced in the UK. I don't want police commissioners to be elected so I wrote "NONE" across the piece of paper.
So mod the game. And stop using the term "Autopillock", I'm mentally applying it to you.
But seriously, just mod the game. Make it the way you want it to be, instead of bitching about it. I enjoyed X3:TC (and X2, and X:BTF). Hell, I'm planning to enjoy X3:AP if I ever get the time to play it.
Enjoy the game for what it is, or mod it to be what you want it to be.
X3 : Start the game, wiggle your joystick, shoot stuff.
Elite : Start the game, go "wtf?" at the 'rotate or pitch' control scheme, then wiggle your joystick, shoot stuff.
X3 : Insane depth around the economy, the ship variety, the ability to fund, build and control an empire.
Elite : Save up and buy a docking computer before you go insane.
In other words, the extra complexity in X3 was around the stuff that just wasn't in Elite. If you play X3 as a simple "transport goods around while shooting pirates" game then it's no more complex than the original Elite.
It's pretty obvious that Apple was the victim of Samsung making a concerted effort to copy their industry-leading product.
No, it's not. It's pretty obvious that technology advances build on previous advances, leading to different people/companies reaching the same point at the same time. It's also pretty obvious that Samsung devices were already exhibiting the characteristics that Apple are so precious about before Apple even released the iPhone.
Still, feel free to demonstrate some actual evidence. Because so far, it's been pretty fucking lacking.
Being lawful has always been about obeying the exact and explicit letter of the law.
Of course. That'll be why despite Apple being letter-perfect to the original ruling, the court said, "Stop being fuckwits" and demanded a change.
Or maybe in this country obeying the exact and explicit letter of the law would obviate a few centuries of common law, and the judges provide a rather more rounded level of justice.
Sorry that they have to have The Same Argument, all over again, in every single petty-jurisdiction in The Known Universe.
This is easily avoided: Stop raising stupid fucking court cases in every single petty-jurisdiction in The Known Universe.
Apple's patents are just fucking bullshit. Trying to use them to stifle competition (while refusing to pay for other peoples' patents - including Samsung, who you suggest failed to Have Even A Single Original Idea, despite their patents being far more innovative than the crap Apple are suing over) deserves derision.
Apple isn't being asked to be sorry. Apple is being asked not to act like complete cunts. So far, they're failing miserably.
For Apple to post a statement that purports to be from Apple stating that Samsung did not copy would be ridiculous, because it's already won judgments in other jurisdictions that say Samsung did copy.
Apple spread the suggestion that Samsung had infringed on their IP. A court found that Samsung did not infringe. The court has ruled that Apple make it clear that Samsung did not infringe, to correct the damage caused by their initial list.
You may call that juvenile. I consider it to be a reasonable request. Other jurisdictions are utterly irrelevant and the ruling didn't even demand that Apple state that Samsung didn't copy, merely draw attention to the lack of infringement and link to the case.
Let the people know their judges are looking to deceive them.
Please. Tell me how the judges are trying to deceive people. Quote the specific sentence or sentences in the transcript from the court. Because I've read it and the only attempts at deception that I can see come from Apple.
So tell me, which jobs would be shed?
Which people are Apple employing unnecessarily, that they could currently shed to gain 10% additional profits, and have decided against shedding, but would shed to regain 10% of their profits?
If those jobs were surplus to the efficient and effective operations of the business, a corporation would already have shed them.
Sorry, I don't trust you at all.
Annual thing : http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/support-us/
The date is the anniversary of Armistice Day: 11/11
Programmer logic is correct. You haven't stolen anything.
Of course, you're guilty of fraud and/or inducement to steal and/or being an accessory to theft. So yes, you're going to be in trouble. Don't do it.
Then find a sufficiently attractive person with whom to share your interest.
FFS don't view or buy bondage porn over the 'net. There are just too many people being forced into participating in it, and personal involvement is the only way to be sure nobody's being coerced.
Trust me, this annoys the hell out of me, but I refuse to be part of the sex slave industry.
I'd personally quit working for a living rather than pay a $150,000 fine. I'm not coping with the stress and distress of working 40-60 hours a week and getting fuck all in return.
Worse case, I find poverty too stressful and kill myself. Frankly that's probably a better outcome than working for several years for effectively no pay.
I personally hold the judge liable for being fucking stupid.
It's pretty clear that damages higher than the costs of making the fucking movies are excessive and unnecessary.
Just because some twat demands that a court awards him over a million dollars doesn't mean the court has to merely accede to that request. Well, not in countries with a reasonable legal system.
after offering Samsung a deal
A deal, like chasing some poor girl down an alley and offering to rape her for no more than the contents of her purse?
Comically they're not even obligated to post those words, as far as I can tell. I think if they post something that gives the same information in a clear and simple manner then they can change the specific wording.
They would be wise to confirm with the court that the new wording is ok, and the court may want Samsung's agreement, but I suspect the court would be reasonable on this.
The wording of the original notice was not reasonable, which is why the court have requested that it be changed.
Like misquoting the judge you mean? Oh, along with flagrantly breaching the entire purpose of the notice, quoting invalidated court decisions and running impressively close to contempt of court?
Appeal against ruling lost: October 18th
Notice posted on website: October 26th
How long did it take? What is your source?
Do your own fucking research.
Oh, never mind, we all know you just made that up.
We do? I happen to know that he didn't make it up, he's right, and you're talking nonsense. Please stop.
All Apple had to do was follow the law. That's it, the spirit does not enter into it. If the judges did not want Apple to wonder off the reservation then they needed to explicitly state what Apple can and cannot do. That's how the law works.
Maybe in America. Over here we have a more mature and less easily bribed legal system.