How is there a world of difference? Since he didn't pay the Firefighters would not have been covered by the Fire companies insurance if they had been injured.

As to the idea of it being the Firefighters fault if someone died in that house because they hadn't been doing their jobs. It would have actually been the Homeowners fault because he had never paid anyone to do said job. The Firefighters were doing their jobs in that they were protecting the properties where they had been paid to do the job.

Fun to see all the whack Jobs who keep focusing on the "Forgotten payment" without realizing what wasn't in force due to that fee not being paid! The Fellow lived outside of the Fire Company's coverage zone which meant that unless he was paying for the service there was no insurance coverage for any Firefighters who might have been hurt while fighting said fire!

You could accept the firing for putting out the fire but have you thought through what else you'd be accepting? You would also be willfully accept paying for the equipment damage out of your own pocket since there was no coverage for said equipment! You'd also be accepting the fact that you'd be paying out of your own pocket for treatment of any injuries you might sustain.

You might want to dig a bit deeper into RealID and not just what has been said on that thread. They've said RealID will be used on the Forums, not that 1st and last will be used, which means your RealID will be connected to your list of characters.

Ooops I guess someone forgot to let you in on the fact that clicking on a posters name will take you to the Armory list of all their characters. Pesky things all little side notes the folks screaming about "Tin Hats" just gloss over.

Is that like a rape victim learning to like it?

Compared to what? Logging on seeing there is an update and clicking a button? Maybe if you weren't tied to Steam you wouldn't need all those updates that have more to do with Steam then they do with game play!

I've never had a problem with any of my games either but of course I only have to have the game running. No need to ask some other program and servers for permission first!

Hmmm! Masses of discs? Ok what Eras games are you talking about since I haven't seen a single game in 5 years that wasn't on a single DVD. I also don't go through hours of patches since I can keep everything backed up to a nice external drive so when I rebuild I only have to reinstall the game. Not the Steam client and the Game!

Yep they sure are but its my money paying for them and not Steams so Steam shouldn't be decidding what I can do with the game when I get bored with it! Maybe you enjoy having someone telling you what you can do with something you own and what you can do with it but I like retaining full ownership after I pay for it!

God! Are they still paying guys like you to do history rewrites? Do you still use that old History book that leaves out all of Custer's killing of women, children, and elders while burning villages before his "Heroic" last stand?
I also guess you and the poster you were commenting on are youngsters since you think teaching Tribal customs is Gov. funded religion. I say this since it seems you weren't forced to take a last name (for Church/Gov records), attend Sunday services, or do a daily prayer in order to attend school like Myself, and the generations before you!

Which is going to garner you the most hype from the Tech news media?
A) Hinting that you may have a tablet in the pipeline
or
B) Having one of your PR folks get a site to start a scavenger hunt for info and then have lawyer threaten said site over the hunt.

OMG! If Apple has said this after being accused of doing something shady we know the accusation must not be true! We all know how scrupulous Apple is about the truth!

So how long is "Soon"? Is it per chance as long as say the continued review of the Google Voice app for Iphone?

You do realize that those same nonlethal means you speak off are also banned in most of the cities that also ban, or make it difficult, to obtain a gun permit. In cities like NYC you'll face the same weapon charges as someone caught with an illegal firearm.

What these "Brainiacs" at St. Ansgar have failed to realize is that in order to cover the whole school they would also have to jam the surrounding public area. Maybe someone in their science department should enlighten them to how radio signals propagate!
There is no way to restrict the jamming to just the school! Hell if they are paying $5000 for the system it could probably jam as far as five miles which in an urban area would be a disaster! This is the reason its against the law to even build one in the US.

They should just go with the system the NYC schools use. Student cell phones are banned from school property and are confiscated when found.

So tell me where would all your friends be finding out about these new artists if everyone but the Big Boys of the Industry get shut down due to the fees? If its only the Big Boys left they'll probably do what Pandora is now and do everything they can to keep the RIAA and its ilk happy by only playing the music of the Big Four and shut out the independents.
Oh! Your friends will find out on sites like Youtube you say. Well who do you think will be the next target? They'll use some excuse about there being no way to legally prove its the artists themselves posting there and that they can always get the royalty back from Soundexchange anyway if it is them posting.
As too the argument that the Music Industry doesn't get anything back from the free play of music on the Radio. musicFIRST a coalition of artist who have testified before Congress asking that Radio pay the fees is also the same coalition which has petitioned the FCC over the fact Radio Stations have stopped playing the songs of Members of musicFIRST and Artists of the Big Four. Seems they want Radio to be forced to pay royalties for playing their songs and be forced to play them since not doing so hurts since the public never hears of them.
As to Independents collecting their Royalties from these collected fees. The list of Artist whom Soundexchange, the group who collects the fees, can't find in order to pay is laughable since it seems to find such "Obscure" artists as Ted Nugent and has yet to pay out over 50% of what they;ve collected.

I guess maybe you're either a RIAA loved child or somewhere along the line you've missed the information that the RIAA using their perfect Media Sentry evidence and expert witnesses have sent "settlement" letters to those who have never owned a computer, the deaf, and the dead.

Now lets see! If instead of tying IE to Windows they had required every program that ran on Windows to be sold through them after a lengthy approval process, for the safety of your system mind you, I guess it wouldn't have been Anti-Competitive Behavior!
I'm just wondering why its legit for one company to decide what can run on its system, and make a profit being the only reseller, while MS has to always let every Tom, Dick and Steve do so. Must have been the mistake of making an operating system that wasn't tied to a machine only Microsoft could build and instead making it a system to run on a machine everyone could build.
Hmmmm! Guess it only Anti-Competitive Behavior when you start making a bigger profit from selling a system everyone can run on their machines and don't use the its "For the safety of the customer" as your PR.

Look back over the recent months and you'll notice immediately that the reaction of any government agency when faced with the public finding out they haven't secured something properly isn't that agency coming clean it is that agency immediately calling in law enforcement against the whistle blower. Right now for all we know, and all we'll ever know since they've probably locked down the system, is what the School and the politician who appointed those officials what you to hear. Notice that while they can't name the student because of his age we also haven't see any mention of who screwed up with security?
I was once a resident of the district mentioned and I'm betting that if, big if up there, the whole story comes out we find that the server was set up in such a way that when a student logged on for authorized information the "secure" file was sitting right amid that weeks home work assignments.