She just can't sell the original photos for $4000, so she posts it on the internet and hopes that someone will be creative with the photo so that she can then sue. It's a new creative art form of extorsion. Make your pictures available on the internet and then sue over them.
What I would suggest is that since Comcast charges $5.00 per month for their router (or $60 per year). Buy one of your own like a Buffalo router for $60. It will last 5 to 10 years and can be configured to your hearts desire AND save a lot of money in the long run. The Buffalo router comes with DNSmasq and DHCP, so it will work a Home network just fine with DNSmasq managing both the internal machines and forwarding to the external Internet when necessary.
They seem to think its positive, but EVERYONE I know who has Comcast has many many many Comcastic moments when it doesn't work. I telecommute full time and having cable Internet access is critical. I have a UPS on all my computers and networking components, I have a backup generator in case the power goes out, but I can't replace the Internet access when a Comcastic moment occurs. Well, there is at least another option in my neighborhood, I could subscribe to FIOS also and double my monthly cost (at least double). Everybody I know that is stuck with Comcast knows what I mean when I say that I'm having a Comcastic moment and that it ain't a good thing.....
I like this idea. Something like the SETI system that can set up willing systems to be constantly pumping data (of the useless nature) into their servers while the systems would otherwise be idle.
You keep calling them FTA negotiations. Actually, they seem to be more of LIFFFTA, as in they LIFFFTA profits. It stands for Legacy Industries Freedom From Free Trade Agreements. I mean after all, a Free Trade Agreement would open trade up more, not provide so many restrictions that try to keep out innovators and start-ups from causing disruption and lowering the profits from the cash cows of legacy (US) industries.
Well, it appears that LG just thought that nobody would ever notice that their TV was spying on them. How about some charges against LG for transmitting the contents of a hard drive that they should be accessing and transmitting. Isn't it great that now we pay for a TV for the company to use to spy on us. At least it used to be that you got a free service in exchange for being watched (one example is Yahoo and another is Google). Now, LG wants you to pay them for the TV, then they get to sell all of your personal info. I think they should have to give me a free TV for that access.
He didn't add the extremely dangerous Poptart chewed into a gun shape, the gun drawn on paper, or the ever popular gun shaped fingers while saying "BANG" weapons...... How incomplete!
It's the NSA's job to spy on the rest of the world...
It's what we pay them to do and the rest of the world know this. Governments have always spied on each other. What's new in these revelations is that they are now spying on every communication on the rest of the world and on every US citizen that uses a phone or the Internet. The NSA and the CIA were supposed to be watching the rest of the world. Not everything every US citizen does. If anything, that is the job of the FBI and there is a warrant process for that, not just a suck it all up and get the warrant later.
Journalism to Influence the Government is Terrorism
You better build some more prisons for all of those journalists then because of election season because that's exactly what those darn journalists are going to do, influence the government by writing articles about the politicians and wannabe politicians.
Well, governments seem to be forgetting the old adage "An Ounce of Prevention is Better than a Pound of Cure". The new logic is that is it better to hide in dark rooms and secretly watch everybody (who are these perves) than to let everybody know they are being watched.
Because you know, the bad guys are extremely stupid and don't know that all the major Internet lines have been tapped and everybody is being watched.
This is not the language I would have used, but it is my sentiment exactly. Innocent until proven guilty. This poor guy was proven innocent 8 time before he was charged or even arrested. Those cops and doctors should be held personally responsible because they seriously overstepped police policy, proper police procedure, and trampled the guys constitutional rights out of jurisdiction and on an expired warrant.
You can say, well show me proof that this really worked. I can show you proof that the lack of this really failed. And when you lose 3,000 people, that proof is pretty compelling.
Well, the US Government was not giving me $10 million a day, so the lack of this is proof that they should start giving me $10 million a day. Yeah, that's the ticket.
It's gone "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth" it been classified out of existence
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
It appears tht Lincoln got it wrong at Gettysburg. Alexander has changed it to:
and that government by me, for me and against all those people in the country that just won't let me do anything I want, shall not perish from the earth.
There is no government "by the people" if they are not allowed to know what the government is doing because it classified. The true hypocrasy that keeps recurring is that he is no longer protecting the foundations of this once great country. He is waging a personal war against an enemy he can't actually name, so we keep getting the "BUT TERRORIST" argument. There always have been terrortists, there always will be terrorists. There will always be people who don't like the way things are. They believe they have a better way and are willing to kill to make the change to their way. Oh wait isn't that what a "targeted drone strike" means (why bother with those pesky trials and rules of evidence)?
Instead of protecting the foundations of this country, he is waging a personal unwinnable war against a vague enemy at taxpayer expense. The worst part is that (again at taxpayer expense and against their will) he's got the tools that the Nazis and Hoover would drool over.
The sad part is that the pesky entitlement programs are getting in the way of spending more taxpayer money on this unwinnable war. Its called target blindness and Air Force pilots crash their planes when they get it, Alexander is going to crash the country if he is not stopped soon.
Is there any hope that the next election will see a wave of congressional change that will result in the resolve to downsize the Alexander empire and return to protecting Americans by upholding the Constitution by the highest law enforcement agencies in the country?
If you are going to contest the facts, you should at least start with correct spelling... as in a "Big RED herring". The other fact you should start with is that "features and functions" are not copyrightable. The code set down in a fixed form can get a copyright but not the features and functions. Otherwise, there would only be one word processor, one spreadsheet, one accounting program, and so on (they all have the same features and functions in their respective areas). Could you imagine if only one program could have a general ledger function? And, it appears that you are trying to pull the wool over others eyes instead of Thuen. If you had ever written a C program(and more then a "Hello World" program), then his statement about "low level" stuff like memory management is extremely accurate for C language programs. Java, JavaScript and .NET for example implement automatic memory management and garbage collection, but C leaves it all up to the individual programmer. Having been a professional software developer for 30 years and developing programs in each of those languages I can personnaly attest to Thuen's accurracy on this matter. Before you start calling anyone uneducated, you really should get yourself an education and do some fact checking before submitting a rant that demonstrates your lack of said education.
That used to be the "motto" on the police cars around me. Now police departments seem to be trying to recreate themselves in the image or the Pre-Crime Bureau and Big Brother. The cops have been watch too many movies. They seem to want to move toward predicting and pre-stopping crimes rather than catching the criminals once a crime has been commited. In their efforts to pre-stop the crimes, they seem to have forgotten the laws of the land like the 1st and 4th amendments which they are also supposed to be upholding, not trampling them with ever more invasive technologies. Many law enforcement officers don't even seem to get it that they have cameras to record everything, but the citizens they are supposed to be protecting aren't allowed to have cameras. The irony seems lost on them.
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It's just a new revenue stream
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Not Bad Service....
Or, when a truck shows up at my neighbors house, then I have to call them out again because my service stops working.
Nope, no problem there.....
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You Keep Labeling These Agreements Incorrectly
Just saying.....
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Security by Obscurity - FAIL
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What didn't make his list:
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It's the NSA's job to spy on the rest of the world...
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Journalism to Influence the Government is Terrorism
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The Multi-Rhetoric Solution
Because you know, the bad guys are extremely stupid and don't know that all the major Internet lines have been tapped and everybody is being watched.
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And Ya'll Thought it was a Joke....
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A New Internet Meme is looming......
Well, the US Government was not giving me $10 million a day, so the lack of this is proof that they should start giving me $10 million a day. Yeah, that's the ticket.
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It's gone "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth" it been classified out of existence
It appears tht Lincoln got it wrong at Gettysburg. Alexander has changed it to:
There is no government "by the people" if they are not allowed to know what the government is doing because it classified. The true hypocrasy that keeps recurring is that he is no longer protecting the foundations of this once great country. He is waging a personal war against an enemy he can't actually name, so we keep getting the "BUT TERRORIST" argument. There always have been terrortists, there always will be terrorists. There will always be people who don't like the way things are. They believe they have a better way and are willing to kill to make the change to their way. Oh wait isn't that what a "targeted drone strike" means (why bother with those pesky trials and rules of evidence)?
Instead of protecting the foundations of this country, he is waging a personal unwinnable war against a vague enemy at taxpayer expense. The worst part is that (again at taxpayer expense and against their will) he's got the tools that the Nazis and Hoover would drool over.
The sad part is that the pesky entitlement programs are getting in the way of spending more taxpayer money on this unwinnable war. Its called target blindness and Air Force pilots crash their planes when they get it, Alexander is going to crash the country if he is not stopped soon.
Is there any hope that the next election will see a wave of congressional change that will result in the resolve to downsize the Alexander empire and return to protecting Americans by upholding the Constitution by the highest law enforcement agencies in the country?
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Re: Big RED heiring
And, it appears that you are trying to pull the wool over others eyes instead of Thuen. If you had ever written a C program(and more then a "Hello World" program), then his statement about "low level" stuff like memory management is extremely accurate for C language programs. Java, JavaScript and .NET for example implement automatic memory management and garbage collection, but C leaves it all up to the individual programmer. Having been a professional software developer for 30 years and developing programs in each of those languages I can personnaly attest to Thuen's accurracy on this matter.
Before you start calling anyone uneducated, you really should get yourself an education and do some fact checking before submitting a rant that demonstrates your lack of said education.
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To Protect and To Serve
Many law enforcement officers don't even seem to get it that they have cameras to record everything, but the citizens they are supposed to be protecting aren't allowed to have cameras. The irony seems lost on them.
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He's not at the bottom yet!
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