Comment: Re:Smeagol (Score 1) 722
You do understand the these same people who are now fighting for budget cuts before approving to raise the debt ceiling are the same people that voted and approved the spending to begin with? House votes to approve spending on items. Then the credit card that this was put onto is now coming due. So now the tea party wants to put controls on spending??? What happened to when the budget was up for voting, did they miss that part?
Comment: Re:Rewrite the Constitution or face default! (Score 1) 1042
Mod parent up!
Comment: Same old story (Score 1) 307
This has always been Apple's business model. In the past they did the same thing with their computer business. If you want to make an application to run on our computers you owe us a cut. So all programmers went over to pc / dos. No cut. Fast forward and pc / windows has major market share of the business. They lost the computer war doing this business practice. Why do they think its going to work again this time? I expect we will be seeing history repeating its self.
Comment: Re:I'm not sure I like this... (Score 1) 58
That is also why in your contract with your marketing agency (fly by night or not) that you say no spamming allowed and if that is broken, the contract has liability and penalties for the marketing agency. The purpose of that contract is so if you get sued for spamming then you pass those cost to the marketing agency that actually performed the action. It is all standard when dealing with a 3rd party vendor in business.
Comment: Re:Healthcare (Score 2, Insightful) 235
WAY off topic but.
Actually they are not in charge of health care. It is called regulations. The same kind that they used to have on the banks, before they removed them and it all went to hell. The same kind that used to be on CC and how much they could charge you interest, before they removed that then everyone got to see rates from 20% to 30%.
It is and only will be health insurance regulations. but you just keep on believing that its a take over and its all going to come out bad for you.
Start using your brain and stop living in a world of wordsmiths.
Comment: Re:Or... (Score 1) 477
about time we started getting some consumer protection again, instead of business protection.
Good to see some consumer protection agencies are starting to do their jobs again!
Comment: Re:Lawyers... (Score 2, Informative) 475
if they are on contingency fee, if they loose the client does not pay. only if they win do they get paid.
Comment: Re:Associated costs (Score 4, Informative) 475
The big difference between lawyer and most other skills is that as a IT person someone asks me for advice, I am not held accountable.
A lawyer who is asked for advice by the very nature of answering is giving "Legal Advice" and can be held accountable even if it is in the setting of a party or casual question.
Makes it a lot harder for a lawyer to just answer a quick easy question.
Comment: Re:When will Apple learn... (Score 1) 298
When will apple learn what they should have learned in the 90's.
DOS, Windows, vs Apple.
Apple: Must pay us royalties to make software for our system. Must play by our rules. Etc...
Dos: Anyone can make software for our systems. You market and sell it, it is all yours!!!
Dos , Windows Major market share Apple