Comment No, lawyers being lawyers... (Score 1) 116
Lawyers being lawyers will just either buy a law the prohibits this (in direct or indirect ways) or just sue anyways. Remember that much of what's in the congressional chambers are lawyers.
Lawyers being lawyers will just either buy a law the prohibits this (in direct or indirect ways) or just sue anyways. Remember that much of what's in the congressional chambers are lawyers.
purportedly payments for physical injuries are tax exempt. Are the pay out in your case are for physical injuries? The pay out in the robocall case is not.
The plaintiff's 229k winning is 100% taxable as regular income. Most of us thinks in terms of how landsharks wins no matter which way the case swings, in practice IRS wins across the board.
corrective action would be swift if you deduct that 229k off the CEO compensation.
My problem isn't that particular hack is considered an appropriate fix, but that the original problem was never root-caused. A properly configured ICE should be able to trap the problem, but instead a hack is put in place and victory declared.
This I heard from a ex-Quantum coworker; purportedly the drive firmware was suffering from a memory corruption problem (several consecutive bytes keep getting overwritten in RAM.) The engineer tasked with fixing the problem shifts the code by the said number of bytes and declares victory. After that I never looked at HDD the same way again.
those workers are being fired for failure to achieve management objectives; to adequately train their replacements.
For the record labels, every passing thought of the melody or lyric constitutes an infringement. The only thing that's stopping them right now is their inability to read minds.
I was going to ask it'll be the current version of early 80s version...
... as PayPal fell under the banking regulations and played by a different set of rules... Just like working at a bank.
And to this day PayPal continues to fight tooth and nail to have itself _NOT_ classified as a bank in the US to evade banking regulations.
Because PayPal is, and has always been, ran by assholes who don't give a shit about their users.
I am incline to think it was started by assholes and that shaped the corporate culture into that of an asshole. So long after their departure, the company continue to act like assholes. At this point the only remedy is to nuke the company (with all hands) from orbit.
Considering that HTC stock recently tanked due to far-below-expectation earning number, there are rumors abound of a possible acquisition by ASUS. If this pans out, the entire venture might be dead on arrival.
Recall what M$ is known for; Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
“Last night while at her home in L.A., Nichelle Nichols suffered from a mild stroke,” McGinnis wrote. “She is currently undergoing testing to determine how severe the stroke was. Please keep her in your thoughts.” Nichols, 82, appeared in the original “Star Trek” TV series, which ran from 1966-1969, as well as the “Star Trek” movies. She also played the role of Nana Dawson in the ABC show “Heroes,” and voiced characters in the TV series “Futurama,” “Gargoyles” and “Spider-Man.”
he was not charged with sexual misconduct is that the victim refuses to cooperate
Well, pedophiles generally don't stop at just one victim or cease after a few years. There're probably many more victims out there.
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