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  • Oct 23, 2013 @ 04:36pm

    Re: Re: Oh, the moral outrage

    Well, yes, we all need a childsafe world. If it can't be shown on Nickelodeon, I don't want to see it and neither should you!

  • Oct 21, 2013 @ 09:33pm

    If I had a company in Sylmar, California selling "The Garden Pickle" and I advertise on WREX 13 in Rockford, Illinois, I do not have to collect sales tax from sales generated in that state. If, however, I were to advertise on www.wrex.com where they would be an affiliate to my sales website of www.theamazinggadenpickele.com, prior to this ruling, I would have to pay the state sales tax. Thus, there was, in fact, discrimination based on the media type so the majority of the court was correct and the dissent was incorrect.

  • Aug 30, 2013 @ 03:55pm

    Re: Two rather telling points...

    Seems that he filed an affidavit with the court where he declares under penalty of perjury that he had never used such software or was involved in the seeding of files.

    Actually, the arguments he uses to say he was not seeding files at all would be the same arguments that the respondents (read victims) to his suits would also use.

    I wish I could eat my cake and have it too. Why isn't this joker in jail facing perjury charges based on his Chi Tribune statements and signed affidavit? Or if we are to believe his affidavit on its face, why is he not facing sanctions for filing suits he does not believe can hold up in the first place?

  • Aug 23, 2013 @ 01:52pm

    So.. does this mean AP will now go after Manning for sending their copyrighted work to the President?

  • Aug 14, 2013 @ 09:46pm

    Well private gmail is a joke...

    Once upon a time I engaged in a brief (2-3 emails) conversation with the manager of a burger joint nearby complaining about service and noise. I have never ever in my life been employed by a food service company and my entire work experience has been in telecom, industrial control and aerospace. Weeks later this same person appeared in "Updates from your Linkedin Network". Now the only way LinkedIn would have any idea that me and this person ever spoke would be from the emails I never shared with them. Because I have had no food service or relevant experience to tie me to a burger manager, I must assume that my emails were read by LinkedIn and that would have to have been done through GMail.

    (I will admit that since this place is frequented by employees of Boeing nearby there is a slightly tenable connection to aerospace, except I hadn't worked for Boeing since 1986)

  • Jul 07, 2006 @ 06:57am

    YP obsolete? Not yet.

    Even with sites such as Superpages, Google and Yahoo Local and the like I do not find information I need on those sites. The sites provided by yellowpages producers such as Superpages do not show the ads that are found in the books.

    I still use my yellow pages and nobody has made them obsolete for me -- and I live in what is considered one of the most wired states and regions: Seattle, WA

  • Dec 27, 2005 @ 08:20am

    "New" method of advertising: Between Product Place

    This is really no new news. This was done by the big three broadcasters in 50s, 60s, and 70s -- before television actors cost so much.