don't most insurance coverages have exceptions for "acts of God [sic], war, ...". seems Sony is using govt not only to change the subject from their ineptitude but covering their liability ass as well.
you're still supporting them. very few corpations have commendable ethics, but some corporations simply have deplorable ethics. imho comcast, amazon, and gates-era microsoft certainly qualify.
to me the issue is how much you personally choose to help enable them, knowing it will always be a cost to you.
as a progressive-liberal, have been (lightly) following huffpost since its inception. it's a corporate-liberal rag that has no hesitation in selling its soul.
for years huffpo has been a microsoft proxy, for example, reporting as facts any astro-turf anti-google campaigns as if fact, while ignoring ms being caught with hands in the cookie jar. they have always pandered to bill gates as if he were an ethical and wise person.
of course, one of ms lead attorneys was on the huffpost board, so I don't know if this influence was paid for with cash or buddy-buddy.
I emailed huffpo several times on this relationship, never receiving a reply. I posted to corrections to comments, to the best of my recollection several of these comments being deleted.
of course, John Oliver nails it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_F5GxCwizc
They wish to both to control standards used by the public and to charge the public (when they can get away with it) when the standards are used.
If they were to prohibit use of the standards in the public arena, then no one would have an issue in their profiting from the use. What they've done is create a monopoly through the law, and using the monopoly to coerce payment from users of the standards the monopoly maintains.
In Thailand there is one television channel that promotes "red shirt" politics, similar to Fox with Republicans, except more incendiary. The Red Shirts have publicly threatened violent succession in case of a military coup. Instead of singling out that station, the army had all stations shut off their own programming and only carry the army's own channel.
This included cable channels as well, for example, HBO in Thailand now shows the army channel.
This is not your ordinary military coup - after all the problems begat by the last coup this was certainly not something desired by the military. Both the yellow shirts and red shirts were each able and willing to bring the country to its knees in its war against the other, a situation cycling and building for some time. For good or bad, this is a gamble by the military to defuse the longstanding conflict. Experience says this is not one of those military dictator for life type situations.
(If anyone wishes to discuss further can email me bangakmaco at gmail.)
When bush and co began its first huge data sweeps the only company that resisted was qwest. Pulled lush govt contracts from qwest, resulting in revenue drop. Then get sec to prosecute the ceo for misreporting. In trail, ceo not allowed to reference nsa requests etc. Now in prison. Since then telcos have been very compliant. (Not to mention Carslile Funds, Halliburton and other Bush, Cheny related corporations making money on the carnage.)
BestNetTech has not posted any stories submitted by cc young.
Tyler, Texas?
thought the suits were being brought in Marshall, Texas (home of Bill Moyer).
a la romney
recall that when romney left governorship of Massachusetts he had all computer hard disks destroyed, law be damned.
fbi undercover
i know first hand much of the "voilence" attributed to the 60's antiwar demonstrations was instigated by fbi informants.
red bandana headgear in abq ring a bell with anyone?
subsidizing the enemy
having cable means having to subsidize fox news. I'd really rather not, thank you.
while cnn and msnbc are perhaps woefully inadequate, inadequacy should not be conflated with purposeful deceit.
limiting liability
don't most insurance coverages have exceptions for "acts of God [sic], war, ...". seems Sony is using govt not only to change the subject from their ineptitude but covering their liability ass as well.
litigatious attorneys
i think that attributing Amazon's behavior to litigatious attorneys is a stretch. to put it mildly.
Re: Why I don't purchase any e-cruft from Amazon
you're still supporting them. very few corpations have commendable ethics, but some corporations simply have deplorable ethics. imho comcast, amazon, and gates-era microsoft certainly qualify.
to me the issue is how much you personally choose to help enable them, knowing it will always be a cost to you.
First Step in Training
The first requirement should be not to listen to Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, etc.
As long as they're thinking that blacks are entitled blah blah blah they're going to be fighting their inner id.
Re: drawing the line (in case you're not trolling)
you don't hit women. period. if you can't control yourself in the situation, then you walk away. period.
yes, some women will take advantage of this and will bait you. but the rule still stands: don't hit women or children.
if the ship is sinking, you offer women and children your life-vest. you offer your seat to an old person on the bus.
that's just what you do.
"Code of Conduct" to the top?
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones caught with with pecker in the cookie jar
Huffpost fabricated news
as a progressive-liberal, have been (lightly) following huffpost since its inception. it's a corporate-liberal rag that has no hesitation in selling its soul.
for years huffpo has been a microsoft proxy, for example, reporting as facts any astro-turf anti-google campaigns as if fact, while ignoring ms being caught with hands in the cookie jar. they have always pandered to bill gates as if he were an ethical and wise person.
of course, one of ms lead attorneys was on the huffpost board, so I don't know if this influence was paid for with cash or buddy-buddy.
I emailed huffpo several times on this relationship, never receiving a reply. I posted to corrections to comments, to the best of my recollection several of these comments being deleted.
of course, John Oliver nails it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_F5GxCwizc
Public use of standards
They wish to both to control standards used by the public and to charge the public (when they can get away with it) when the standards are used.
If they were to prohibit use of the standards in the public arena, then no one would have an issue in their profiting from the use. What they've done is create a monopoly through the law, and using the monopoly to coerce payment from users of the standards the monopoly maintains.
IMHO classic troll.
TV Censorship, Coup in General
In Thailand there is one television channel that promotes "red shirt" politics, similar to Fox with Republicans, except more incendiary. The Red Shirts have publicly threatened violent succession in case of a military coup. Instead of singling out that station, the army had all stations shut off their own programming and only carry the army's own channel.
This included cable channels as well, for example, HBO in Thailand now shows the army channel.
This is not your ordinary military coup - after all the problems begat by the last coup this was certainly not something desired by the military. Both the yellow shirts and red shirts were each able and willing to bring the country to its knees in its war against the other, a situation cycling and building for some time. For good or bad, this is a gamble by the military to defuse the longstanding conflict. Experience says this is not one of those military dictator for life type situations.
(If anyone wishes to discuss further can email me bangakmaco at gmail.)
Trial Lawyers?
I think title is conflating "trial lawyers" with "patent attorneys". Trial lawyers have a long history of opposing "Big Pharma", not supporting them.
qwest
When bush and co began its first huge data sweeps the only company that resisted was qwest. Pulled lush govt contracts from qwest, resulting in revenue drop. Then get sec to prosecute the ceo for misreporting. In trail, ceo not allowed to reference nsa requests etc. Now in prison. Since then telcos have been very compliant. (Not to mention Carslile Funds, Halliburton and other Bush, Cheny related corporations making money on the carnage.)