Indeed. They claim, and you have to agree that there is some substance to that claim, that giving the victims prior notice will allow them to delete the pirated software from their computer, thus destroying evidence.
I hate the BSA and their way of operation, but within the framework they work in, I cannot refute that claim.
This is irrelevant to this case.
Shachar
Its not the judges problem to collect any evidence but to judge based on written laws. NO-IP was a no show that's evidence enough for me and its law they can be ruled against. Honest people show up in court dishonest don't.
They were not told of the hearing. How could they possibly show?
Shachar
I was speaking in general, you nutter! Of course I noticed the transcript in this instance. None of which is relevant to my original rant.
People who hear the word mayday and politics will think communist Russia- that is if they know anything about the cold war.
Willfully ignorant, I will give you. Stupid I cannot. It is a legitimate thought process to anyone who who lived through the cold war. It drives half the country's knee jerk hatred against socialism today.
they arrest him, know who he is and that he is not a threat, realise the charges are more or less for being annoying in public, put him in the holding while processing the paperwork. He asks to make a phone call, they hand him his cell phone, he makes the post while being bored.
They likely never would have allowed it. Knowing cops, they probably didn't know they were allowing it either.
That is, I have no idea how true this would be. It's just a possible scenario to how they could have allowed it without knowing they allowed it. The part that has me is, if it was posted as him, they would have had to get his user name and password else it would have showed as someone else posting it. That's possible with the crap they have to suck info from phones, but it makes the story a little more hard to digest. Of course they could have made him log in and post it. But then Facebook would have an IP set for the police department if you could ever get to the logs.
Ditto. Textual information trapped in a linear non-searchable video has always pissed me off. It serves the interests of the talking head and his masters more than it does my interest of having maximal access to information. Talking-head videos are a means of controlling and limiting access to information. But I digress and was trying to stay focused in my rant....
Probably by putting his head in the way of the cop's fist.
This probably happens in real life. I got slammed against a brick wall when I was 23 or so by a cop for asking him what he just said to me as I was putting some things into the trunk of a car. I filed a complaint and he wrote in his statement that he put his hands up to signal me to stop approaching and I stumbled into them and fell back against the wall a few times.
It didn't matter that it was right after a bachelor party and there were about 4 video cameras that captured it all and the cop was obviously lying (long before cell phones had cameras in them). I was charged with obstructing justice, assaulting a police officer, disturbing the peace, in control of a motor vehicle while intoxicated and destruction of public property (he siad he tore his shirt slamming me into the wall). Luckily, he was going through a bitter divorce and my lawyer knew it. He said loudly, "we talked with his wife, she said he is a habitual liar and talks a lot about the people he screws over by claiming shit that never happened and is willing to testify for us". This was in the hall waiting for the pretrial conference to start. About 20 minutes later, the prosecutor came out and offered a deal with pleading to disorderly conduct and everything else dropped. My lawyer took it.
I'm not drawing you a picture. If they are so similar that you just had to spend a second entire post describing the differences, my point still stands- people will confuse the one with the other and ignore it until it gets going and then without looking into it, fight against it.
Why do I know this? Because it happens all the time. It's like when John Stewart explained that a SOFA agreement being talked about with Iraq was an agreement on how long you can crash on somebody's couch before having to pay rent. the joke only worked because it was similar but different and you knew there would be a couple of people going "right on brother" until he explained the rest of the story.
The hardest part of climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd at the bottom.