It's the restaurant's responsibility, not the DJs. DJs aren't obligated to pay at all. Perhaps the DJ lied to him, perhaps it's just something the guy said after the fact.

But it doesn't really matter. This wasn't a one-time event he was sued for. If you read the article, you'll see that BMI had been warning him for years.

They call you, and warn you that you need a license to play their music? Effectively giving you the option of just not playing their music? Not just surprising you by suing you for currently playing their music?

Why is that thuggish? Aside from just giving their music away freely, how would you want them to act?

Well, that's because you are relatively poor, and go to fast food, or occasionally low-end chain restaurants. Quality restaurants will generally not have music, and even semi-decent restaurants will either not have music, or will have it playing at barely-noticeable volumes.

When I get on, I tell them I need Tier 2 support. They'll ask what the issue is, and I'll be completely technical... so much so that they know some of the words, but are overwhelmed. If that doesn't do it, ask for a manager.

I pay hostmonster for hosting. I now have a direct Tier 2 email address for some issues.....

It's all a case of proving your bonafides. Did you offer to send them logfiles? And what o/s are you running? It frequently gets me past the calltaker when I tell them I run Linux.

                  mark

Then I could send him a check, so a) I could say he was working for me, and b) he could argue that he was not doing espionage, but legitimately working for US citizens.....

            mark "all you millenials: go read about the Church Commission, in the '70's"

We'll ignore the NIMBY huge issue of what the hell we do with the long-lived wastes; this is in France. In the US, with the GOP and the libertarians wanting ever-less regulation, I say, with a 99.44% confidence, that the private sector will cut corners as far as they can go, and with a nuclear plant, the results are far more widespread and longer lasting than other power plants.

So, who here actually lives near a nuclear plant?

                mark

Of course, there are folks who appear to be *terrified* of actually talking to another person over a telephone, and ignore their voicemail all the time.

So,turn off voicemail... and then set up your phonemenu system so that there's almost no way to get to an actual person.... It took me a while for just that reason when I was putting in a tech support call from work to HP.

Anything other than have enough staff to respond to your customers.

                  mark

Sorry for the long quote, but this isn't the wikipedia of a guy who was a "badass," although he did serve honorably and with initiative, as did many other soldiers:

When World War II broke out, Lee volunteered to fight for the Finnish forces during the Winter War in 1939.[33] He and other British volunteers were kept away from actual fighting, but they were issued winter gear and were posted on guard duty a safe distance from the front lines. After a fortnight, they returned home.[34] Lee returned to work at United States Lines and found his work more satisfying, feeling that he was contributing. In early 1940, he joined Beecham's, at first as an office clerk, then as a switchboard operator.[35] When Beecham's moved out of London, he joined the Home Guard.[36] In the winter, his father fell ill with double pneumonia and died on 12 March 1941. Realising that he had no inclination to follow his father into the Army, Lee decided to join up while he still had some choice of service, and volunteered for the Royal Air Force.[37]

Lee reported to RAF Uxbridge for training and was then posted to the Initial Training Wing at Paignton.[38] After passing his exams in Liverpool, the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan meant that he travelled on the Reina del Pacifico to South Africa, then to his posting at Hillside, at Bulawayo in Southern Rhodesia.[39] Training with de Havilland Tiger Moths, Lee was having his penultimate training session before his first solo flight when he suffered from headaches and blurred vision. The medical officer hesitantly diagnosed a failure of his optic nerve and he was told he would never be allowed to fly again.[40] Lee was devastated and the death of a fellow trainee from Summer Fields only made him more despondent. His appeals were fruitless and he was left with nothing to do.[41] He was moved around to different flying stations, before going to Salisbury in December 1941.[42] He then visited the Mazowe Dam, Marandellas, the Wankie Game Reserve and the ruins of Great Zimbabwe. Thinking he should "do something constructive for my keep", he applied to join RAF Intelligence. His superiors praised his initiative and he was seconded into the Rhodesian Police Force and was posted as a warder at Salisbury Prison.[43] He was then promoted to leading aircraftman and moved to Durban in South Africa, before travelling to Suez on the Nieuw Amsterdam.[44]

After "killing time" at RAF Kasfareet near the Great Bitter Lake in the Suez Canal Zone, he resumed intelligence work in the city of Ismaïlia.[45] He was then attached to No. 205 Group RAF before being promoted to pilot officer and attached to No. 260 Squadron RAF as an intelligence officer.[46] As the North African Campaign progressed, the squadron "leapfrogged" between Egyptian airstrips, from RAF El Daba to Maaten Bagush and on to Mersa Matruh. They lent air support to the ground forces and bombed strategic targets. Lee, "broadly speaking, was expected to know everything."[47] The Allied advance continued into Libya, through Tobruk and Benghazi to the Marble Arch and then through El Agheila, Khoms and Tripoli, with the squadron averaging five missions a day.[48] As the advance continued into Tunisia, with the Axis forces digging themselves in at the Mareth Line, Lee was almost killed when the squadron's airfield was bombed.[49] After breaking through the Mareth Line, the squadron made their final base in Kairouan.[50] After the Axis surrender in North Africa in May 1943, the squadron moved to Zuwarah in Libya in preparation for the Allied invasion of Sicily.[51] They then moved to Malta, and, after its capture by the British Eighth Army, the Sicilian town of Pachino, before making a permanent base in Agnone Bagni.[52] After the Sicilian campaign was over, Lee came down with malaria for the sixth time in under a year. He was flown to a hospital in Carthage for treatment and when he returned, the squadron was restless. Frustrated with a lack of news about the Eastern Front and the Soviet Union in general, and with no mail from home or alcohol, unrest spread and threatened to turn into mutiny. Lee, by now an expert on Russia, talked them into resuming their duties, which much impressed his commanding officer.[53]

After the Allied invasion of Italy, the squadron was based in Foggia and Termoli during the winter of 1943. Lee was then seconded to the Army during an officer's swap scheme.[54] He spent most of this time with the Gurkhas of the 8th Indian Infantry Division during the Battle of Monte Cassino.[55] While spending some time on leave in Naples, Lee climbed Mount Vesuvius, which erupted three days later.[56] During the final assault on Monte Cassino, the squadron was based in San Angelo and Lee was nearly killed when one of the planes crashed on takeoff and he tripped over one of its live bombs.[57] After the battle, the squadron moved to airfields just outside Rome and Lee visited the city, where he met his mother's cousin, Nicolò Carandini, who had fought in the Italian resistance movement.[58] In November 1944, Lee was promoted to flight lieutenant and left the squadron in Iesi to take up a posting at Air Force HQ.[59] Lee took part in forward planning and liaison, in preparation for a potential assault into the rumoured German Alpine Fortress.[60] After the war ended, Lee was invited to go hunting near Vienna and was then billeted in Pörtschach am Wörthersee.[61] For the final few months of his service, Lee, who spoke fluent French and German, among other languages, was seconded to the Central Registry of War Criminals and Security Suspects.[62] Here, he was tasked with helping to track down Nazi war criminals.[63] Of his time with the organisation, Lee said: "We were given dossiers of what they'd done and told to find them, interrogate them as much as we could and hand them over to the appropriate authority ... We saw these concentration camps. Some had been cleaned up. Some had not."[63] Lee then retired from the RAF in 1946 with the rank of flight lieutenant

90% of that was, "he was an actor." Like those ponces in high school who did glee club, only he held on to it for a career. Not a proper job for a man.

Wow, some stuff is getting manufactured, in the nation with the largest manufacturing economy!

"Computer Science" is a misnomer anyway. Only .3% of it, even at a college level, involves applying the scientific method. Really it just involves knowing computer stuff and doing clever computer things. Why not teach that to children?

> Here is the problem, these people don't have a clue what is learned at what levels.

Looking at the backgrounds of the board members, they seem to be a very good mix of teachers, people educated in teaching, a therapist, a pediatrician, PTA members...

> Why not focus on reading, writing, math and building upon those at the appropriate times?

Kids are using iPads at this age. Why not introduce them to the idea of how the devices they use actually work, from the very beginning? Especially when they live in a city where the tech industry is a major employer? It's not like they're coding, they're just learning basic concepts.

> We have spent the last 250 years in factory schools

Have the last 250 years really been that bad? I'd rather live in 2015 than 1765 any day.

> student paced education system where each student has a customized curriculum,

This is pie-in-the-sky nonsense. Classroom teaching works, and is actually affordable. "Common Core" is just a series of education standards that proscribes a minimal level of education that children should achieve, before they (inevitably, nowadays) go on to college. I'm glad we have a system where educators aren't encouraged to give up on lower-achieving students, just because they seem to lack the "ABILITY and WILLINGNESS" to learn.

I would like a handjob from a 1977-era Farah Fawcett, please.

On the one hand, the folks in charge seem to be a collegium of folks who believe death marches are the proper manner to develop software.

On the other, the big companies wrote the rules (check out the US Labor Dept), so that all computer people, pretty much, are "in management", and so can't join, say, unions. And the companies don't need to pay overtime, because they're "salaried" (really? that used to mean that if you had a light week, and worked fewer hours, no biggie, since you were around enough to more than make it up during crunches.*; now... raise your hands - who here *must* have a client charge number, and if not, THERE IS NO "OVERHEAD" NUMBER, you get to take it with or without pay? Who here, under the cover of "plausible deniability", has not charged the actual number of hours they worked?)

But we don't need unions. Thanks for keeping me from ever getting into one, you stupid suckers.

                    mark "there are two kinds of Republicans: millionaires and sucker"

* And if you don't believe that this is what "salaried* used to mean, and still means in some areas, let me introduce you to my wife, the salaried lawyer.

So you have two independent clauses: "This is a bad article" & "The submitter, editor, and readers should all feel bad."

To combine independent clauses, you usually want to:

- Just put a "." between them, to make two sentences.
- Put a ";" between them.
- Put a "," between them, and then For/and/nor/but/or/yet/so (depending on context).

"; and" is never correct. Either use ", and" or ";".