The mobile browser Skyfire has also been blocked. I used that browser mainly for hulu videos since it was the only one I could find that could play videos from the site. I tried it last week and found it was blocked as well.
Someone should suggest to these people that they burn a book the "offended group" likes, but offends OTHER people. Hell I'd tell them a book they like offends me and demand they burn it just to see how retarded it is.
The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act says that the guy can't do this. Sections § 804. Acquisition of location information, § 805. Communication in connection with debt collection, and more so § 806. Harassment or abuse say that what this guy did violates the act. I think him saying, "Legal options range from having a replevin order served on you or even worse reporting the collateral as stolen to local authorities in Illinois under the A.R.S. act 18-5-504. Failure to comply with this notice of surrender is a class 5 felony and carries a maximum penalty of imprisonment for two years plus all applicable surcharges. You must contact the writer within 5 days to prevent this action from taking place." falls under section 806. I had a debt wiped because I was getting harassed about it and eventually the person harassed my ex-wife about it too telling her she would be responsible as well. The harassment and disclosing details to a third party without my consent was what did it. This guy should really look into this more with a lawyer.
The whole scam is detailed by that guy here http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/cash-4-gold-c115287.html. There's a lot of people that were taken in by this "service" that posted complaints on that site. I'm surprised networks would even agree to run their commercials.
@dkp...no, NOT only in texas. Stupid crap like this happens everywhere. Although I really wasn't that surprised when I saw that it was an article in the dallas morning news, and that it was from Fort Worth. I live in Fort Worth and I have to say that this city has some pretty bad judges. We have really good ones too. The only reason this guy sued the 178 people is because they had their feelings hurt and when a lawyer gets his/her feelings hurt they sue people. Even if it's for a retarded reason.
They're in dating/other social networking sites. I actually got an IM from a "woman" claiming to be from Oregon, but was working in south africa at the time. She couldn't get her story straight. She said she was in Johannesburg, but gave me a Nigeria phone number and wanted me to call. lol I fucked with her for months before getting bored with it. Multiple names, multiple people involved, and I made "her" think she got me killed for talking to "her". For all I know it wasn't even a woman. "She" was, of course, trying to get money out of me....didn't work lol
It's funny that it was the state prosecutors that were charging the guy and not private attorneys. Now if he said something like, "I watch you while you sleep" or "I'll kill anyone that tries to take you away from me", I could see where they'd have a case lol.
I'd say I'm pretty desensitized to violence, but it doesn't make me any more prone to commit it. I did a tour in Iraq with the Army and I wasn't bothered in the least by seeing Iraqis blow themselves up right in front of me. Well...not RIGHT in front of me, but close enough to see the body parts fly and feel the shock wave.
I've been playing violent video games for as long as I can remember. I've also watched horror movies for as long as I can remember. If anything, they actually help negate my aggressive tendencies. Video games and media are just a convenient scapegoat for crappy parents. You always hear about "kids" that say they committed a crime because they were "influenced" by GTA or some other equally violent game, but you never hear about the positive aspects of video games.
You never hear about how video games drastically improve hand-eye coordination and IQ. You never hear how violent video games are a great method of stress relief and that they can actually curb aggressive tendencies. Online first person shooters and other multiplayer games (violent or otherwise) even improve otherwise poor social skills. The parents of the kids that commit crimes and blame video games don't WANT to hear about those things because then where would the blame fall? Right where it belongs, on them. I've also found it funny how those parents talk about how bad GTA is since you can beat up old ladies and hookers and kill cops etc..., but they never mention that when you do so you get a wanted level that can get so high the military comes after you and they shoot to kill.
When I play GTA, Call of Duty, Manhunt, Soul Calibur, or any other bloody/violent video game I don't go out and feel the need to recreate those acts because of one simple fact. THEY TOOK PLACE IN A VIDEO GAME. If you were to do such things in real life you face real life consequences. You die in a game you can start over. You can always hit reset, or load a saved game, or a checkpoint. You screw up in real life and that's it. You don't get 1-ups in the real world.
I've always liked Steven King's works and now I have yet another reason to respect him as a person.
Even with firewalls and antivirus/spyware, a user can still be infected if they don't know what they are doing. There is a spyware called "privacydanger" (or something like that), which gives the user a false report of other spyware and directs them to their website to buy antispiware software. That's not all it does though. I cleaned a system that had it on there. The web-desktop was turned on and was showing a webpage stored in a local directory. It was a picture of a biohazard sign and it said "Privacy Danger". If you didn't know it was a web page it would appear as though the desktop was changed because it was set to be behind the desktop icons. The spyware also added shortcuts to the desktop that would reappear every time you deleted them because of a registry entry. The worst thing it did was pop up porn ads all over the screen and simultaneously open web browsers that you couldn't easily close. The computer user was freaking out. It was also on her husband's computer. This was at a business too. What did they have in common? They both let their daughter on their systems and she LOVES myspace. People will comment on a user's profile with what looks like a video, but if you click it you are directed to a site that tries to install spyware on your system. You have to actually click something before its installed though. This spyware requires some sort of user interaction to get installed and a lot of anti-spyware programs don't detect things that the user has given permission to install. Someone who doesn't know what they are doing might not think anything of it, click the ok or cancel (some install when you hit cancel too) and the window closes. They don't know that they just installed the spyware.
None of the actual anti-spyware or anti-virus apps on the systems detected the spyware. I had to download a removal tool to get rid of it.
I think this (or something like it) is what happened to this teacher.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAzMuHyg8Eg
Someone should suggest to these people that they burn a book the "offended group" likes, but offends OTHER people. Hell I'd tell them a book they like offends me and demand they burn it just to see how retarded it is.
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The whole scam is detailed by that guy here http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/cash-4-gold-c115287.html. There's a lot of people that were taken in by this "service" that posted complaints on that site. I'm surprised networks would even agree to run their commercials.
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It's funny that it was the state prosecutors that were charging the guy and not private attorneys. Now if he said something like, "I watch you while you sleep" or "I'll kill anyone that tries to take you away from me", I could see where they'd have a case lol.
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Desensitized to violence
I've been playing violent video games for as long as I can remember. I've also watched horror movies for as long as I can remember. If anything, they actually help negate my aggressive tendencies. Video games and media are just a convenient scapegoat for crappy parents. You always hear about "kids" that say they committed a crime because they were "influenced" by GTA or some other equally violent game, but you never hear about the positive aspects of video games.
You never hear about how video games drastically improve hand-eye coordination and IQ. You never hear how violent video games are a great method of stress relief and that they can actually curb aggressive tendencies. Online first person shooters and other multiplayer games (violent or otherwise) even improve otherwise poor social skills. The parents of the kids that commit crimes and blame video games don't WANT to hear about those things because then where would the blame fall? Right where it belongs, on them. I've also found it funny how those parents talk about how bad GTA is since you can beat up old ladies and hookers and kill cops etc..., but they never mention that when you do so you get a wanted level that can get so high the military comes after you and they shoot to kill.
When I play GTA, Call of Duty, Manhunt, Soul Calibur, or any other bloody/violent video game I don't go out and feel the need to recreate those acts because of one simple fact. THEY TOOK PLACE IN A VIDEO GAME. If you were to do such things in real life you face real life consequences. You die in a game you can start over. You can always hit reset, or load a saved game, or a checkpoint. You screw up in real life and that's it. You don't get 1-ups in the real world.
I've always liked Steven King's works and now I have yet another reason to respect him as a person.
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None of the actual anti-spyware or anti-virus apps on the systems detected the spyware. I had to download a removal tool to get rid of it.
I think this (or something like it) is what happened to this teacher.
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