I have a building in Balboa Park, the San Diego Chess Club, that easily holds over a hundred with tables and chairs and a giant white board. We're less than 10 minutes from the airport! Feel free to contact me, I'd be happy to host!
Re: Your point is ? cheating is ok as long as its a loophole !
"Its like finding a door unlocked, the right thing to do is tell someone to lock it, the wrong thing to do is open the door and see what goodies you can take from inside."
Whoa!! Easy there control freak!
Finding an unlocked door means you should tell someone to lock it? Even opening the door isn't wrong unless the door is somehow labeled to indicate restricted access. Some doors are even meant to be unlocked. You're making a pretty big assumption deciding the door needs to be locked and it is now somehow your responsibility to find that person (if you want to be doing the right thing - says you).
The part where you take the stuff inside, that is what is "wrong/immoral/illegal".
They used to pace you for a quarter/half a mile to get your speed. Of course this allowed the attentive driver to slow down and avoid the ticket while making the roads safer all at once but that doesn't generate revenue. Enter the radar gun and the driver who gets clocked pays the fine - BINGO we have revenue! Drop the expense of radar training and the equipment, add one badge, a bad cup of coffee and a lawman who left the house pissed off that morning and we have all kinds of revenue that day! No evidence required and the driver has no recourse but to accept the penalty, un-effin-believable!! A couple hundred years ago we formed a country after similar treatment from the British Crown. Hopefully, someone comes to their senses soon but don't hold your breath!
Here's the content I sent - credit to CST for making such a salient point!
Dear Mr. Cleveland,
I'm sure this isn't the first email nor the last you will receive regarding the case of Samantha Tumpach who was jailed for two nights and faces felony charges and possibly three years in prison.
It's not everybody who gets a gift at their sister's birthday party. What gift, you ask? Why, a criminal record! A gift that keeps on giving!
I'm sure Ms. Tumpach will remember this birthday every time she fills out a job application and gets to the "Have you ever been arrested or charged with a crime?" question.
You can be assured that none of my friends or family will ever spend a single dime in one of your establishments during our lifetimes. Congratulations!
hal.cleveland@muvico.com should be the email address based on other email addresses for the company. Email sent - join me in letting these people know how you feel!
For the price it costs to see a movie (ticket alone - don't get me started on the concession stand) these days they should give you the DVD when you leave the theater! The entertainment industry has historically taken advantage of consumers, despite new technology making the actual media less expensive. Remember when cassettes disappeared because CDs hold so much more content and cost less to produce? What was the result of that technological advance? Higher prices for the same album! The music industry and the movie industry still believe it's the 1980's and people will just hand them money if the content is packaged in bright shiny colors.
I take my kids to the drive in occasionally where we get to see 2 first run movies for $6/person - we bring our own food and usually arrive early to have dinner. Unfortunately not everyone has this option.
I read through all the sarcasm and and other crap wondering why no one had the "right" answer - then I got to this post by _skhn. It is practically moronic that pedestrians and motorized vehicles travel on the same plane (street level) in the first place.
Give me quiet cars that travel below the surface so the rest of the world can be enjoyed in all its natural and man made wonder! during the fossil fuel conversion which will happen over the next several decades feel free to scrub the emissions from the subterranean roadways before you unleash it on the world. Take the brown out of downtown!!
How cool would it be to be able to walk or ride a non-motorized vehicle virtually anywhere on the surface?!
Obviously the difficulty will be in neighborhoods where you'll somehow need to get your car into the driveway from below.
Here's hoping that someone from the Priority Dispatch legal team suffers the delay in emergency services that would have otherwise been prevented had they allowed progress to take place!
Similar to the way I always hope the driver who DOESN'T pull over for emergency vehicles, owns the home the firetruck is going to!
Although, once you cap and throttle a person's usage, it's not even unlimited use, is it... nor is it unlimited access.
Glad you mentioned Sprint's cap - I use to work for a company that did Verizon AND Sprint activations for wireless 3G service. Actually it's still unlimited access because you can access it anytime day or night while your contract is in effect. Except during outages, of course, which the provider expressly stipulates they are not liable for in any compensatory manner. They will infer that it is their mission to keep the service up and running at all times but there is typically no actual stated guarantee of up time for the network. A phone call to customer service will usually get you a credit just as it does with the cable companies (Cox Cable specifically here in San Diego).
Unfortunately, the ISPs typically offer unlimited usage (think 24/7) which is not the same as unlimited data transfer (think terabytes)and it is done so intentionally. I don't agree with it, I don't like it, but I do understand it. If the company you pay doesn't give you the service you want then switch. If you have no options - consider wireless or just consider yourself caught in one of the monopolies that has become high speed internet service in the majority of this country.
The cell phone carriers use the exact same tactics when they throw around the term "unlimited" knowing people think bandwidth and the company is referring to usage.
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Legislative inventions, of course, have a storied place in presidential politics.
Vice President Al Gore’s discussion of the prominent role he played in the legislation that brought about the Internet led Republicans to accuse him for years of having “invented” the Internet. It stemmed from an interview he gave with CNN in which he said that while in Congress, he “took the initiative in creating the Internet.”
Take it for what it's worth or not worth!
~Ron
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Re: little mike should be concerned
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If you'd like to come to San Diego...
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Death to an Industry!!!
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Re: Your point is ? cheating is ok as long as its a loophole !
"Its like finding a door unlocked, the right thing to do is tell someone to lock it, the wrong thing to do is open the door and see what goodies you can take from inside."
Whoa!! Easy there control freak!
Finding an unlocked door means you should tell someone to lock it? Even opening the door isn't wrong unless the door is somehow labeled to indicate restricted access. Some doors are even meant to be unlocked. You're making a pretty big assumption deciding the door needs to be locked and it is now somehow your responsibility to find that person (if you want to be doing the right thing - says you).
The part where you take the stuff inside, that is what is "wrong/immoral/illegal".
I'm just saying...
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Re: Not sure why this is noteworthy.
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Well then....
But I can sell guns legally so long as tell people to NOT rob banks or kill people and I go about it in a proactive manner?
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Re: Re: FYI
Dear Mr. Cleveland,
I'm sure this isn't the first email nor the last you will receive regarding the case of Samantha Tumpach who was jailed for two nights and faces felony charges and possibly three years in prison.
It's not everybody who gets a gift at their sister's birthday party. What gift, you ask? Why, a criminal record! A gift that keeps on giving!
I'm sure Ms. Tumpach will remember this birthday every time she fills out a job application and gets to the "Have you ever been arrested or charged with a crime?" question.
You can be assured that none of my friends or family will ever spend a single dime in one of your establishments during our lifetimes. Congratulations!
Sincerely disheartened,
~Ron Rezendes
On the post: Woman Filming Parts Of Sister's Birthday Party At Theater, Charged With Felony Movie Copying
Re: FYI
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Thou shalt Twitter!
When doing nothing is a crime, we are all in trouble!
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Considering the price...
I take my kids to the drive in occasionally where we get to see 2 first run movies for $6/person - we bring our own food and usually arrive early to have dinner. Unfortunately not everyone has this option.
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Give me quiet cars that travel below the surface so the rest of the world can be enjoyed in all its natural and man made wonder! during the fossil fuel conversion which will happen over the next several decades feel free to scrub the emissions from the subterranean roadways before you unleash it on the world. Take the brown out of downtown!!
How cool would it be to be able to walk or ride a non-motorized vehicle virtually anywhere on the surface?!
Obviously the difficulty will be in neighborhoods where you'll somehow need to get your car into the driveway from below.
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Lawyers...grrrrr!
If you light a lawyer ON fire, you'll keep him warm the rest of his life!
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Here's hoping....
Similar to the way I always hope the driver who DOESN'T pull over for emergency vehicles, owns the home the firetruck is going to!
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Re: Unlimited use vs unlimited bandwidth
Glad you mentioned Sprint's cap - I use to work for a company that did Verizon AND Sprint activations for wireless 3G service. Actually it's still unlimited access because you can access it anytime day or night while your contract is in effect. Except during outages, of course, which the provider expressly stipulates they are not liable for in any compensatory manner. They will infer that it is their mission to keep the service up and running at all times but there is typically no actual stated guarantee of up time for the network. A phone call to customer service will usually get you a credit just as it does with the cable companies (Cox Cable specifically here in San Diego).
~TBK
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Unlimited use vs unlimited bandwidth
The cell phone carriers use the exact same tactics when they throw around the term "unlimited" knowing people think bandwidth and the company is referring to usage.
Bothers me to no end!
TBK
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