Except that a professional would not carry the gun past committing the crime. So they will want their boss to procure one from some random thief, off this shopping list.. They won't steal the gun themselves and won't be tied to it in any way.

Because a robber is going to wait for you to open a safe, right? So at least one gun as to be next to the bed for defense.

So we just wait for your wife to be alone, you gotta work.. Or we wait for you to leave the kids with a sitter... And get your gun then. Point is, crime is organized... They will have this list for years to come. You won't always be so hot-headed...

Except this now makes their guns a target for those whom can't legally get them. ThEse registrations go back a LONG way... A lot of little old ladies are sitting on hubby's gun long after he's gone... Now they're gonna get robbed.

It was bad enough when they made a mobile list of offenders.... Forget if somebody is gonna take a bat to some guy who banged his wife a year too early. No, we'll up that posting where to get easy guns... So the person posted gets mugged (or worse) and their firearm gets used to hurt somebody else.

No, it's more like the postman adding an extra separate note when they deliver other mail to your mailbox... And you're complaining about the postman opening your mailbox.... Or the phone company playing a message when you pick up the phone to dial.

As this is a pop-up ad, I'm afraid the FCC would agree with them. They are not changing anybody else's page, just adding a note when you make a connection to THEIR NETWORK. Wifi hot spots do this all the time and people are fine. I suppose they could just redirect ALL your HTTP traffic until you click to acknowledge the message. It's THEIR NETWORK, they have a right to send customers physically connected a message.

I have to admit, if its a pop-up ad then they are not hiding anything... Like say changing DNS resolution, or replacing ads in other websites pages.

How ARE they supposed to tell subscribers about something? They can't send an email because they are taking downtime. They could call everybody? SMS? But in the short term, they own the end-client connection, so adding an extra message doesn't seem so bad.

I kind of wish you could have a service like this for local weather and alerts. We have similar push alerts for TV and Radio, but more people spend their time on HTTP traffic than anywhere else now. It would be an easy spec to knock out... You just need a way to trust the messages are from your Internet provider via their equipment and not leave the thing wide open. It would also be very clever for mobile users as well. They would get the local alerts when they star up their browsers.

Closed -shop means you have to be a dues paying Union member BEFORE you can ASK to be employed at a workplace.

This is a Union-shop where the Union and company agree everybody after they are hired will be in the Union.

Ironically, most companies dontbhavebany mechanism to deal with non-union employees. Many don't even have a way to PAY you outside the formal rules of the union contract. Michigan is such a strong union state we have virtually no "work" rules that are enforced outside minors.

The BIGGEST reason for a government union....
Your bosses are elected liars and sociopaths. And change every two-four years. Union bosses are still one step higher in morality than that lot.

Part of the reason for government unions is that the process of getting a government job in 1900 was so corrupt, politicians and and a President were getting shot and killed for failing basic job ethics we enjoy today.

Stop sniveling about a trial version... It's a $3 game. You're just a cheap bastard. The game is a SEQUEL to a game that has sold well on iOS and android... Just the cross-over traffic should have been more than what they made... Unless the game was so buried nobody could find it.

At least on iOS, they have lite versions that are free with pay-to-unlock for GLWG & GBWG.

This game does OK on other platforms... The issue is that Microsoft isn't helping out with an established game on THEIR new platform because the game doesn't jump through their hoops. Microsoft isn't in a position for such demands... This is as silly as Apple demanding every iOS game run on OSX.

It's a lot like real estate. The politics of real estate are much the same. Open a strip mall, fill it up with local shops and anybody you can grab. Wait for it to fill up and then jack rates up... "Where are they gonna go" moving a small business is a death sentence in general. IP, especially owned by investors, is treated much the same way, as rental property.. Like out-of-touch old landlords, they don't have a clue what they have.

In reality, the discussion was probably: we spent $2.8M, how do we get it back in X months to flip this thing? How much do we raise rates to get 40% margin a "software house" (like business software) should get? Accountants and sales made a number, and gave it to publishers, take-it-or-leave-it.

Of course that could always be negotiated DOWN. nobody seemed to complain when copyright time went UP ex post facto for free? Did they?

That's the proposal right out of Ars a few years ago. This would allow companies like Lucasfilm or Warner-brothers to keep their famous properties quite easily. But Ars ran the numbers and the VAST 90%+ number of works don't make ANY money after about 12 years.... Proving 14 years was a great idea in the first place, and we didn't need to mess with it at all! GO CONSERVATIVISM!

The VAST majority of copyright is used to keep somebody else from finding your work and sampling 5 seconds of 25 year-old songs without big kickbacks to somebody that forgot they "owned" it.

Mitt's comment was a classic "let them eat cake" comment. He's too rich and busy to realize most people live on his pocket change... Much like a certain queen was too clueless to realize that if you are too poor to buy bread, you are too poor for cake because its the same thing.

The top 20% income starts about $150k.. That means 8 of 10 WORKING people are poorer than you. Note that's not counting wives, children, etc... So as a percent of "people" you are in even rarer company.

You do realize all those groups are "too poor" to pay what Romney would call a fair share... That's more like 60-70% he's got there. Even then you aren't considered "comfortable" until about $75k... Which is $30k above the median wages!

I'd qualify #1 as "landed" rich. The second-gen rich and little old ladies living off interest from robber-baron riches.. It takes a LOT of money for interest to hit $150k a year and have big taxes. And it's mostly capital gains at 15% anyway... Those are your rich (mostly Democrats) that "don't mind" paying taxes because its still less taxes than working for the same income.