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this is what will happen to me the first day i get my kaiser

http://www.influks.com/post636.html
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Ouch!!! that's gotta hurt

Damn, but it was his own fault

it all depends. the guy could have been on the phone to their father on his death bed for all you know. He could have been taking notes about the class on his kaiser.
The teacher had no right to smash it - personally I would take him to court.
Acceptable actions would have been to confiscate the phone or to eject the student from the class, not destroy private property.

Well, you got there
1. Criminal Battery (taking a women's purse off her wrist is considered a battery because its a unwarranted touching of something attached to the person)
2. Theft and destruction of property.
Teacher could face criminal charges and restitution of the amount for the phone
Also could file a lawsuit for the cost of the phone and the cost of having to go get another one.
Assuming this is in the US.
Hmmm, Civil or Criminal route. but fear not, tell your teacher he better pony up the cash to buy a new one or else your going to have to exersise the legal options available to you.
Not smart on the phone in class, but you got to be an idiot to smash it

no jury in the world would convict!

I would just get up and kick his ass.....
Thats almost as bad as physically assaulting someone. Especially if they just got a brand new 800.00 dollar Kaiser
JB

Buzz313th said:
I would just get up and kick his ass.....
Thats almost as bad as physically assaulting someone. Especially if they just got a brand new 800.00 dollar Kaiser
JB
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i can not even imagine the beating i would put on that guy.

haha so much interesting feedback. fortunatly it was no kaiser, just some cheap flip phone.

Absolutely Ridiculous!!!

First off, let me start by saying that I DO NOT condone piracy in any form or fashion. However when I read the story below, my blood pressure shot through the roof. They are strictly trying to prove a point here, and if I didn't know better, I would swear the story was false. They are trying to make an example out of a housewife that downloaded 24 songs. What are your thoughts?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_tec_music_downloading

agreed the lawyers are just greedy. it is scary that there is such a big penalty for something that most people I know do regularly.

Of course they are trying to make a point. As much as you hate all the " music idiots " living in their million dollar " cribs " and driving expensive cars and acting like total A-holes, they do have a marketable talent, that makes loads of money. Piracy is a billion dollar business. Did anyone really think the music industry was going to stand by and shrug off internet " shoplifting " from their stores.
I am a writer, and if my work , which I get paid a living wage for, got repeatedly stolen and shared for free, costing me millions of dollars a year, you can bet I would want someone made an example of.
The " software police " do it all the time. That is one of the major ways of getting back at the company that just fired/laid you off, turn in the IT dept for buying that copy of Vista and then sharing it with 100 other computers, instead of buying 100 licenses. US businesses get fined millions and millions every year.
" She is only a housewife, and it was only 24 songs " Do the math 24 songs = $24 dollars , bet she wishes she had obeyed the law now. The bottom line is, the RIAA tried to settle with her, and she thought that she could use her " I am only a poor housewife " defense in court and the court of public opinion, to get away with her theivery. How is that working out for you ? She could have settled for a $2000 fine like others did but she didn't.
As much as we all hate the music industry, you wouldn't want the night cleaning crew going into your desk at the office and stealing that project you just spent the last 4 months working on, and sharing it with all your competitors , leaving you with nothing and neither does the record industry.
My wife was implying that I might be a little hypocritical the other day when I was chastizing my kids for having limewire on their computers. Since last month I upgraded the five Macs we have to OSX Leopard, that was until I dug out the reciept for the the Family Pack OSX with five user licenses.

So this woman gets charged $80,000 per song for downloading illegally, while Donte Stallworth can run someone down and get a week in jail???
Our legal system is seriously ****ed.

Agree this is the most Ridiculous! Hope they appeal all the way to the Surpreme court the next 2 years...

WTF???
80.000 for a song, but you can buy it for 0.99$, please.
this is the most ridiculous Judgement i've ever heard of

denco7 said:
" She is only a housewife, and it was only 24 songs " Do the math 24 songs = $24 dollars , bet she wishes she had obeyed the law now. The bottom line is, the RIAA tried to settle with her, and she thought that she could use her " I am only a poor housewife " defense in court and the court of public opinion, to get away with her theivery. How is that working out for you ? She could have settled for a $2000 fine like others did but she didn't.
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well that woman doesn't look like she had the 2000 usd to pay, also it could have been good that she wouldn't settle for it, if the court had decided in her favour, to show others they should not give in to such blackmail either.
I hope this gets appealed and sorted. this can't go on like this forever. the thread title is correct
PS: I've never downloaded music myself but it is not because I'm a saint (I'm not).
I am a writer, and if my work , which I get paid a living wage for, got repeatedly stolen and shared for free, costing me millions of dollars a year, you can bet I would want someone made an example of.
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I just noticed this one. well if I was a writer (maybe one day ), and was earning this much (if an amount that is worth millions of dollars gets shared it means your work is very successful) I might just live on happily with the remaining millions. but it is a bit hard to imagine as I'm not in such a situation (i.e. earning this load of money) right now.

denco7 said:
Of course they are trying to make a point. As much as you hate all the " music idiots " living in their million dollar " cribs " and driving expensive cars and acting like total A-holes, they do have a marketable talent, that makes loads of money. Piracy is a billion dollar business. Did anyone really think the music industry was going to stand by and shrug off internet " shoplifting " from their stores.
I am a writer, and if my work , which I get paid a living wage for, got repeatedly stolen and shared for free, costing me millions of dollars a year, you can bet I would want someone made an example of.
The " software police " do it all the time. That is one of the major ways of getting back at the company that just fired/laid you off, turn in the IT dept for buying that copy of Vista and then sharing it with 100 other computers, instead of buying 100 licenses. US businesses get fined millions and millions every year.
" She is only a housewife, and it was only 24 songs " Do the math 24 songs = $24 dollars , bet she wishes she had obeyed the law now. The bottom line is, the RIAA tried to settle with her, and she thought that she could use her " I am only a poor housewife " defense in court and the court of public opinion, to get away with her theivery. How is that working out for you ? She could have settled for a $2000 fine like others did but she didn't.
As much as we all hate the music industry, you wouldn't want the night cleaning crew going into your desk at the office and stealing that project you just spent the last 4 months working on, and sharing it with all your competitors , leaving you with nothing and neither does the record industry.
My wife was implying that I might be a little hypocritical the other day when I was chastizing my kids for having limewire on their computers. Since last month I upgraded the five Macs we have to OSX Leopard, that was until I dug out the reciept for the the Family Pack OSX with five user licenses.
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denco i agree with what you say, well mostly, but you have to understand when people realise they dont have to follow the ruyles they wont
but i tink its important to have a moral code when i comes to piracy
now before i explain again i do not condone it, im not telling you its clever or cool.
i think piracy on a small scale is fine within boundaries. for instance, i live 50 miles from a cinema that sgow actual films instead crap so if i want to see a movie its not just the admission price or the gas i have to pay its at least £20 on bus or trainfare and that before i get my snackage. i see this as very uneconomical. so i reason im just one person, i dont see anything wrong with downloading a movie especially since ill buy it on dvd anyway
however, any app thats made for pocket pcs i would never pirate due to respect for the creators, and i know how much work goes into the app made.
that may seem a bit hypcritical becuase hard work goes into movies aswell but its not justifiable
basically the new star trek movie is going to make just under 400 million at the box office, so then i dont see anything wrong with having a look now and then buying it mon dvd anyway but for instance i know certain app makers who make app and they spend a lot of time on them and the money will actually make a diference to the development
all in all i like to deal with piracy on a "Cross that bridge when its come to it"

Seriously weak.
This is from my musician point of view: music is for everybody who would like to hear it, you can't put a price on the joy and emotion of music, that someone downloads your songs means that they like your music, and that is way more important then to catch a few bucks if someone buys your stuff.
Stupid music industry, trying to make money out of something all people need.

Money Money Money we still need moar money right?
They are just another maffia.

WTH???
Fined $80.000 for a song cause of downloading illegally??
Well, it's OK to fined someone because of piracy, but $80.000 ??
I can live my life for 20 years (maybe more) with that money...

Most of these musicians wouldn't be as rich as they are if their fans didn't make them what they are today. They are being greedy. END OF STORY. Then on top of that, they are now wanting to "Tax" radio stations everytime they play of their songs... Guess who the front runners are on that?? U2 and Metallica. The same ones that whine about it everytime they don't get paid a royalty, also probably some of the richest musicians in the world.

http://www.plyrics.com/lyrics/exploited/****theusa.html
nothin' new, i'd say.
haha, Dredge, your avatar is awesome lol..

No job, bills keep coming in, need advice!

Hello!
I left my night shift job last month and still don't have a job. I'm actively looking for a job, but even then I won't make it to my first pay at this pace.
Is there any way I could make a few bucks at least for gas in the meantime, just so I don't reach the negative balance?

hey sorry about that better times will come.. in the meantime I'll give you my advice and this one comes from personal experience(yes I've had a few rough times, who hasn't?)
Last time I was short on the "thing you use to buy potatoes"(sounds better in portuguese) aka money, I sold something(s) that I had and was not making use of, like my PSP for example. Broke my heart to let it go but you gotta do what you gotta do.
The point is, we always keep things we don't use anymore because we think "well I might be needing this some day" and probably will need that thing again but until then there are more important things one might need.
hope this helps

I have been out of work for 6 months...
are you handy around the house? why not post your talents online (painting, wallpapering, cleaning) on free classified postings...

I lost my job in february due to a work injury, and I was physically unable to do most work with out the use of my left arm. I have healed since then but stopped receiving disability pay in october. It has been 10 weeks and unemployment still has yet to come through and help me out.
I also have sold off things that were luxury items like my ATV and an engine I had built sitting around in my garage. A friend of mine supplements his unemployment doing odd jobs he finds off craigslist and I have helped people move and cut firewood for cash. Hoping the economy picks up locally so i can get back to work soon.
Good luck and look everywhere. Craigslist is a good place to start.

what response have you received from the unemployment office?
Have you gone to them?
If you have, did you show the letter stating when disability payments would start and/or end?
They may be waiting from a response from your previous employer...

I don't get unemployment cheques, but I'm getting a job internview this morning. Thankfully, I don't have many financial responsabilities (college student here), but I could use a few bucks just to close the gap 'till I get a job.
As for putting gas in my car... I got rear-ended yesterday, total loss, and 5 minutes later Staples calls for a job offer!

N1c0_ds said:
I don't get unemployment cheques, but I'm getting a job internview this morning. Thankfully, I don't have many financial responsabilities (college student here), but I could use a few bucks just to close the gap 'till I get a job.
As for putting gas in my car... I got rear-ended yesterday, total loss, and 5 minutes later Staples calls for a job offer!
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CA-CHING!!!!!!!
I can already feel your neck stiffening up and a slight loss in feeling both of your pinky toes!!!

Not really, the car took it all so I'm feeling fine, but still. Now I have to get another car with what the insurance company judges my car is worth (360 000 km, but in better condition than anything that mileage).
Trouble likes company

N1c0_ds said:
Not really, the car took it all so I'm feeling fine, but still. Now I have to get another car with what the insurance company judges my car is worth (360 000 km, but in better condition than anything that mileage).
Trouble likes company
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There are lots of sites that pay you to fill in serveys, you only get a couple of dollars each but do 10 a day thats 20-30 dollars suppose lol

Just make sure that the company you represent isn't from Nigeria...
Dang it I hate this laggy keyboatd!!!

My mother is financially retarded

So i'm making this thread to vent..and ask for advice from fellow XDA'ers
basically my mother planned a trip to visit her parents in china for 20days, but she plans to bring 10,000 CAD and spend it on..well she doesn't even seem to have a idea what she is going to spend her money on.. Now 10,000 CAD isn't that much money.. but the issue comes from the fact that my family is paying mortage, my parent's salaries aren't very high..they are just about enough to cover the mortage and save a few hundred bucks a month.. and from what i'm hearing from my dad it seems that 10,000 cad is all there is in the account..so it seems like a stupid move to take out most if not all of the money out of the bank for a 20day trip, not to mention the fact that she already has a place to live in china..
10,000cad is roughly 60922.30 yuan btw
of course i wouldn't be worried if my mother was a bit more financially intelligent.. but there have been a lot of times when she bought fake "brand name" stuff for an extremely high price.. knowing that theres a lot of that crap in china i'm quite worried
so ya..hopefully you guys would give me some inputs on how to talk her out of being an idiot..

Wtf? Suggest to her she might have trouble carrying that much money with her through customs...
That's not a lie either, here you would get stopped with that much cash... And rightly so.
Failing that, what about the risk of robbery? I wouldn't take that much money with me... And I'm presumably slightly larger and more intimidating looking than your mother...
10k is just silly...

pulser_g2 said:
Wtf? Suggest to her she might have trouble carrying that much money with her through customs...
That's not a lie either, here you would get stopped with that much cash... And rightly so.
Failing that, what about the risk of robbery? I wouldn't take that much money with me... And I'm presumably slightly larger and more intimidating looking than your mother...
10k is just silly...
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she told me that i have no say in this since i don't have a job(that is true, in some ways) ..
i'm kinda trying to get her to tell me why she would even want to bring that much money to begin with.. but she seems to be in a locked down mode..-.-
and yes..there are actually a lot of theives in china too.. my issue is that nothing i say get through to her.. i think it could be the fact that she's turning to her 50s that's driving her crazy.. for example
she recently tried to get my dad to invest in some middle of nowhere condos that have not been sold despite being up for sale for more than 2 years now.. i tried to talk her out of it back then with no luck, thankfully we didn't have enough money to invest in that place or we'd be in a lot of **** right now.. but this bringing the entire bank account back home crap seems to get to me, considering the fact that it's entirely possible that she succeed and food/services cost 2-5 times less than prices here(after you convert the currency, of course..)

also about bringing 10grand into china..she doesnt plan to bring cash, but she intends to use one of those overseas transfer service..

Overseas transfer services? That seems like a silly idea. I don't know what the fees are, but even if it's 1% of the transfer amount, that's 100 CAD, which is substantial (to me, at least).
Does your mother intend to give some of the money to your grandparents in China? I mean, it is customary in Chinese culture for the children to support their parents.

ohyeahar said:
Overseas transfer services? That seems like a silly idea. I don't know what the fees are, but even if it's 1% of the transfer amount, that's 100 CAD, which is substantial (to me, at least).
Does your mother intend to give some of the money to your grandparents in China? I mean, it is customary in Chinese culture for the children to support their parents.
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i understand if she wants to give her parents money, most definitely.. in fact i expect her to be giving away most of that money.. but the thing is.. we are still paying for the darn mortage.. we barely save a few hundred bucks a month yet she intends to take out the entire bank(that we saved up, at least).. which sounds very stupid to me..

woo
talked her out of the crap by telling her that she's going through a difficult time and that if she does this we could have the potential of losing the house

Just hope your mother is good at bargaining and doesn't buy american/foreign brand names, cuz that's just stupid.
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Help me make money?

I know this is way off topic but id get some help/advice from xda family. ive already accepted loan for this coming semester(first time having to do so, ran out of money) , i dont start work back until january 15th, i only have 88 bucks in my bank acct now, almost no gas in my jeep, only decent internet source is my phone but my data for this month is getting close and it renews the 5th... How the heck do i come up with some money? I got xbox, ps3, smartphone repair services and parts posted on knoxville and Chattanooga craigslist, but i get no business cuz they dont wanna meet in sweetwater
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Judging from your post, you are a student. 88 bucks is enough to survive for 3 weeks as a student. Just make sure you have stuff that you can prepare for meals. Driving is not important.

Depends whether you want to survive or live.
LIVE:
Take a part time job. Ask friends for money. Don't drive. Cancel the cellphone for the month(if possible). Sell your PS3/XBOX.
SURVIVE :
Eat only once every two days. Don't take a bath. Take the thug life. Start a clan in the neighborhood and start stealing. Blackmail friends for money. Start pick pocketing. Thrive on Christmas party left over.

^^^THAT^^^

Im at home about an hour and half away from college and where work is... And at parents house til dorms open back up so i have food and water and all that... I need money for books for next semester and i only pay 50 a month for my cell... Only means of internet, staying in touch with people
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moparfreak426 said:
Im at home about an hour and half away from college and where work is... And at parents house til dorms open back up so i have food and water and all that... I need money for books for next semester and i only pay 50 a month for my cell... Only means of internet, staying in touch with people
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You're pretty much set. Borrow money for books from parents, or just wait till the first pay check to buy the books. Or do what I do. get drunk now and worry about stuff tomorrow.

Lol... I only have half bottle of hot damn left... And parents dont have the extra money, theyre about to lose their vehicles and home phone has been cut off, i paid for electric here for the month
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Make some moonshine

Sell all your electonics on eBay, including youre smartphone. Go with tracphone get their barebones plan, get a cheap dumb phone. For internet access, use the school computers. This is the time to make hard choices.

Worst case scenario is living on the streets begging for money... and judging by interviews with bums i've seen, they're generally pretty happy...