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When will the IRS start issuing jack boots to all agents?
I'd be more curious who gets the money if they win? From TFA:
The suit seeks $25,000 in compensatory damages, per violation. The recordsâ(TM) seizure could impact up to one in 25 Americans, UPI said.
I assume they will be passing that money to affected Americans?
Do they ever? No.
You know they have medication for your level of paranoia. You should talk to your doctor.
5318008 and turn your calculator over.
1) Do something
2) Keep your name in the press
3) ???
4) Profit
A 20 second loading of cellphones is not really a must have. It is a nice to have. With a phone you will be for longer then 20 seconds to reload it (e.g. at your desk, when you sleep)
Where such load times would come in handy is with electronic cars. That way you can drive cross country and do refills at the same speed as you do now.
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And them , if I know, I could decide what action to take. e.g. in your case none if it were the Americans or a lot, if it were the Swedes.
It does not prevent anything. It just makes identifying the guilty easier.
OTOH in the last 10 years that I do this, I have not once seen spam coming into one of those addresses, unless it was from the website itself.
In Europe, the call centers are payed for by taxes, just like you pay for police and fire departments and they come out of their budget.
The fee for the actual call is absorbed by the telco and thus is payed by everybody else indirectly. That amount however is minimal and just a cost of doing business, just like the computers they use, the domain they own and even toilet paper.
In Europe you pay the sticker price. That must include all taxes. If the pricing is wrong, they will have to give you it for the advertised price as long as it is reasonable. So no buying a Mercedes for 50EUR if they forgot a couple of zeroes.
I did buy a headset for 10EUR instead of 30 as that was how much it was advertised as. Obviously they corrected the price immediately.
This is also the case for restaurants and bars. So no tipping in many places (or minimal tipping) as people get payed by their boss for the work that they do.
Thankfully my rights aren't governed by popular opinion.
So why do people vote again?
My neighbor in the city I used to live in was a gardener. Dude was like 70. Anyway, had a nice greenhouse, would make some cash on the side selling flowers and tomatoes and such every spring/summer. Anyway, one day the feds kicked his door in, tore up his house, wrecked his greenhouse, etc, because someone reported they saw pot there. Feeling they got fucked with, the feds dragged in the person that made a tip to point out the pot. They pointed to a plant with similar leaves that looked nothing like it, that he had openly on sale.
Whatdya know? Turns out the person that called in the tip was also a gardener that now had a much better chance to sell their wares now that his competition was basically ruined. Neighbor gets out of it with a sprained wrist, bruises, a bunch of broken flower pots, ripped bags, busted lights, etc. Looked like a damn hurricane hit the place.
We wrecked an old dude's life on an anonymous tip that he was growing pot there, in the open, in front of tons of straight edged old geezers that would freak out if they so much as saw a real pot leaf.
Guess this would of ended better if you had done some minor investigation instead of stormtroopering in because you got a "tip" that pot was there? Sure, a bad tip sucks, but what sucks worse is this idea that law enforcement has to go in kicking down doors and destroying a mans business instead of doing some basic fact checking first.
This is slightly tongue in cheek, but one insidious way Google could address the privacy concerns would be to equip all Glass headsets with a special IR signal beam that would instruct other Glass devices to obscure the face of the person wearing the IR enabled Glass when it was detected. People who were concerned about their privacy would buy Glass as a means of protecting their own privacy. Just switch on the privacy beam switch.
How about someone make IR Glasses, that when you wear, make it too bright for anyone to record the features of your face? Sure, they still see you and your actions, but won't be able to make out the face.
Why is not the same as having a movie or music background in a youtube video? Because with a movie, or music it can be argued that the person could get it for free by viewing the video. That is not the same for games. No matter what video of a game i find, it's not the same as playing it. I don't get enjoyment watching someone else play video games. No one does. We get it from playing them.
Nintendo loses nothing but free advertising from these videos. Expect now they are losing goodwill, because this is a dick move, which doesn't seem legal, since video games are to be played, not watched.
Fair use for LPs:
Academic: Hell no
Actually that is a yes. If someone is playing thru the whole game, they are teaching you.
A section you are stuck on? You can fast forward it, see how it's done, then do it yourself. In fact, this is the modern version of a walkthru. Instead of a text document, you got a video of it.
So yes, it could be argued that it's Academic.
TFA is mostly bullshit written from someone that did not even do a cursory search of information about the device. There is a big bright LED blaring at you if the camera is active. Only the blind will not know if the Google Glass is recording them.
But don't let reality and facts get in the way of everyones fearmongering.
Etiquette is for those with no breeding; fashion for those with no taste.