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Comment Re:LOL (Score 1) 398

The rehire question is not neccesarily a work around in some areas. The laws would treat it the same as blackballing someone. Its also likely to not work well with large companies and large HR departments. You are likely only going to get some policy of not rehiring people within a certain timeframe.

Of course all this is sort of negated if you were fired. Its obvious they do not want you working there if they fire you. The real problem is that a lot of people work in a lot of different places. These people become management and "shop talk" at various hangouts where old friends who happen to be your new prospective employer also hang out. This is more of a problrm in smaller locations but still an issue.

Comment Re:America, land of the free... (Score 3, Informative) 720

You cannot be charged with trespassing or any extent of it if someone who has charge of the property invites you on to it. You will have to show the person entered the premises by force, stealth, or deception which negates going to a friends house and getting busted by their parents for raiding the liquor cabinet.

Also, you will not be able to show any cases in which that has actually happened and a kid or anyone has been charged with a felony, convicted and now suffers from it when he was invited onto the property. If you broke into someone's house, then I would definitely say felony applies.

I'm not saying the OP is an angel, but there's no need to assume violence.

I never said violence has to be present. I said violence for lesser crimes than a first and second degree felony. Theft over a certain amount is a felony of the second degree and over a larger amount is a first degree felony offense. Stealing a gun from a federally licensed firearms dealer. it is a first degree felony. As you pointed out, burglary which doesn't have to involve violence is a second degree felony. So there are things that are not violent that can make a person non eligible to have a record expunged that do not involve the convolution of laws and situations in order to make them fit.

Comment Re:Come on people, (Score 4, Insightful) 96

The objective of the copying and likely the patent infringement is so there would be no learning cure for their products. It would end up being a cheaper clone of Cisco that any Cisco certified admin would be comfortable on.

In short, they didn't really care about getting kicked out of school. They only wanted invited into the computer labs. Once in, it is easier to stay in.

Comment Re:America, land of the free... (Score 4, Interesting) 720

In Ohio, criminal records can be expunged except for first and second degree felonies or crimes considered violent- after they are settled and punishment and fines have been paid. There is a process that is sort of like asking for parole but ends up in court with a judge making the final decision.

He said he couldn't get the felonies expunged because he is in Ohio. This means it was either violent, or a serious enough felony that it was a first or second degree felony as defined by the state. I concur, it was not a crime he woke up one day not realizing he was committing or thought was a minor misdemeanor and got roped into a felony.

Comment Re:American wastefulness at its finest (Score 1) 143

What is it with the ignorant American thinking that "less power means a lower quality of life"?

Nobody ever said that- that I am aware of. I most certainly did not. If you think I did, you might want to try a different translation service or something. All I said was do what you want to do, and let everyone else do what they want to do. It's a simple premise of freedom.

I've just changed a 35W halogen GU10 spot bulb in my bathroom for a 3W LED bulb. It requires 11.667 times less energy and yet gives me more light and less waste heat, which is not wanted in the summer.

Good for you. But I don't know what your point is other than you think you are super smart or something and want everyone else to know too? I will change out my bulbs when they blow and need changing.

My main computer for web browsing and document writing is a low-power computer which has a low-end Intel CPU with a built-in GPU and a 2.5" hard drive that runs on a 80W power supply. You don't need a power-hungry quad-core clocked at 4GHz with a 500W graphics card for day-to-day tasks.

You are correct, "you" do not need something. What I need is up to my needs and desires not yours. You are not the boss of anyone that I know of. But looking at your wording, it appears that you have more than one computer depending on your needs (read "main"). Is that not also wasteful or is the way you convoluted things the only proper way to do it?

Being energy efficient doesn't mean living like a fucking homeless person, it means being smarter about your energy consumption. But most Americans have been brainwashed by their own power companies so that they'll keep spending nearly 10 times more than everyone else on the planet.

Again, I do not know who ever said being energy efficient is living like a fucking homeless person. Do you often set up straw men arguments in order to shoot them down?

Most Americans are busy doing something else to care about the shit that seems to upset you. Most of them are the complete opposite of what you pretend they ware but I guess you need the straw man to burn along side the streets because you turned the power off to the street lamps or something. I dunno, but you set a lot of them up for no good reason other than making your point sound relevant.

Like I said, do what you want to do, just do not force others to do the same. If they want to do it, they will, if they do not, they will not. Its not yours so don't until it is, don't worry about it.

Comment Re:American wastefulness at its finest (Score 1) 143

And I will false premise your false premise. External costs are realized by cheaper prices to the consumer which is a shortcut to you paying for them anyways if the costs of every single externality was actually built into the cost of everything. Unthinkers like you likely assume that these external costs would come out of the profit those greedy share holders make like the pension funds and crap which is wrong. Those costs would be folded into the costs of products which you would end up paying anyways. And no, someone who figures out how to minimize those costs will not sell cheaper because an arbitrary market value has already been set based around competition who doesn't have that advantage so it will just be profit for the owners and share holders.

Comment Re:How good are the cops? (Score 1) 184

I don't think that was a statement about wanting to see hackers caught. It was a statement that now that something big and powerful who finally has the influence that everybody else seems to lack is hurt, we might see the real abilities of some agencies.

Its as if sarcasm was being deployed to suggest that they have not been trying when the rest of us peons suffer the fate of hackers.

Comment Re:Agenda? (Score 0) 184

Welcome to the world of terrorism where attacking innocent civilians in order to influence the actions of others (usually for political causes) is the key to victory.

Yeah, that's right, I went ahead and said it. I'll also save the idiots the trouble and post one man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter and when you don't have to size and money to play fair, not playing fair becomes the fairest option.

There we go. Got it all out of the way.

Comment Re:I'd like funding to research fairies... (Score 1) 116

That doesn't say 2014 is the hottest year on record. It says a report claims it should be the hottest year on recent record if two and a half months end up being similar to previous months in the year and the report actually only claims it will be hotter than the average temp during two different periods of time and blames it on oceanic oscillations like el nino (otherwise known as natural causes).

Comment Re:nope (Score 1) 73

It says longer than two weeks. Not within two weeks. It also places this blame on your carrier and their settings.

My first thought was that this was their answer to fast lanes- if a carrier dlowed them down they would make the carrier look like it isn't as good as others instead of paying. But it might be the opposite- so the carrier's network doesn't get saturated with large updates. This would explain giving them the control. However, it can always be used to obsolete a product and trick you into extending a contract lock in.

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