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Expressing concern over the increasing number of rape cases, the bench asked the police and the Centre to find out the 'root cause' of such incidents.
New Delhi: Insensitive attitude of police in handling cases like rape on Thursday came under the scanner of the Delhi High Court which asked the city police to take a cue from its judicial academy and impart training to sensitise them.
"Take the module of the Judicial Academy for the sensitisation of police officers. Give them intensive training on how to handle heinous crimes particularly the issue of rape. One officer must get continuous training at least twice in a year on various crimes," the bench headed by Chief Justice D Murugeasan said and asked Delhi police to frame a training scheme on the issue.
The court's observations came when Meera Bhatia, an amicus curiae in the case, pointed out the callous and insensitive attitude of some policemen during a probe into the recent gangrape of a five-year-old girl in an east Delhi locality.
The court, meanwhile, also asked a senior officer, who is in-charge of a police training centre at Rajendra Nagar here, to file a report about the scheme of training, being imparted to the policemen. "Keeping in mind the alarming increase in such incidents in recent past here, police should also identify the areas of training to make its officials more sensitive," the bench, which had earlier taken a suo motu cognizance of the brutal rape of 23-year-old girl in a moving bus, said.
Expressing concern over the increasing number of such cases, the bench asked the police and the Centre to find out the "root cause" of such incidents and said the "sensitisation of police officers is equally important."
"There is something wrong somewhere with Delhi. People have become mad. Other aspects we can understand," the bench also said after Delhi Police stated that mere policing will not stop such kind of incidents.


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I love a great article about collection practices. Not only is a topic I've written about in the past (see posts from the Construction Lien Blog here, and from the this blog here), but it's one of the more important topics for those in the construction industry. Consider a "bad debt calculator." I love these types of calculators, because it puts the tragedy of bad debt in your face. Take a modest amount of bad debt ($25,000), and a candid profit margin (5%), and you'll see that it takes $500,000 of revenue to recover the lost income. Amazing. Last week, Melissa Brumback's Construction Law in North Carolina blog posted a blog post with "8 Best Collection Practices." The article does a great job of hitting on the things you can do to minimize your bad debt - and things, that we've even said over and over: Be careful when extending credit, have a written contract, and don't let too much time pass before implementing your collection procedures. These, of course, are just a few tips. The post does a great job of enumerating each tip and discussing their importance, so there is not need for me to regurgitate it here...just take a look at Melissa's post for more.
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Thanks for the mention, Scott. In the rush to land a new job or customer, sometimes people skip over these important steps, but just a little bit of proactive effort can pay off big later.

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The absence of economic incentives to fight AIDS might make an observer feel, apart from any moral, sectarian or theological considerations, that a religious revival alone can save South Africa from eventually consigning perhaps a third of its population to death.
Discussion with a philosopher who takes technology seriously. Technology is more than a tool, it's an inducement, and it's so strong that for the most part people find themselves unable to refuse it.
Myths, science, religious experience and empirical research are frequently set in opposition, but it's an irony that some scientists can contribute to a recovery of what many people in churches have abandoned: a belief in a divine force outside ourselves, a healing presence deep within that still speaks through dreams and visions.
Education in a multiracial society should place emphasis on growth in character and virtue. It is certainly time that advocates for racial justice began to insist that schools take on the high mission of developing such high qualities.
Executive Al Campanis lost his job with the Los Angeles Dodgers which served to expose the fact that our culture has embraced tolerance without making a comparable commitment to the principle of equal rights. Tolerance of the rights and opinions of others is a virtue, but when that tolerance becomes a substitute faith, it reveals its emptiness.
By late 1998, Namibia was the third most HIV-infected country in the world, with more than one in five adults estimated to be HIV-positive. Even more disturbing was that the churches were "conspirators in the silence," doing nothing to address the crisis.
Who will try to salvage the human wreckage of the green felt jungle? There are 6 million compulsive gamblers in the U.S., many living in Nevada. Because of the state government's interest in increasing gambling revenues, there is little concern for rehabilitating those addicted to gambling, and the churches offer little help to these victims.
Drawing on her own experience as a compulsive overeater and dieter, Mary Louise Bringle maintains that the sin of gluttony is not against temperance but against trust, and that the remedy lies not in resorting to "caloric Pelagianism" but in following the path of grace.
The radical incarnation of the power of God in "the halt and the maimed" -- the powerless -- is such a compelling irony as to have revolutionary potential for atheist and Christian alike. The "question of God," for Harrington, is really a question about God's guilt.
A global economy without a global community is morally bankrupt. One thing is certain. The migrants will keep coming.
Trudy Bush reviews three books which deal with the phenomenal growth of aging in the last few decades. Many stereotypes of old age are untrue. Many problems with aging need to be addressed.
Review of a book about food politics: For the sake of profit large corporations conspire with the government to manipulate and confuse consumers in the food they eat.
(ENTIRE BOOK) The author summarizes the thoughts of Hannah Arendt, then uses them as a framework to ask whether America is slipping into a new kind of totalitarianism.
Because of the need for constant blood transfusions, about 90 percent of severe hemophiliacs have been exposed to the AIDS virus. Perhaps as many as 50 percent of these will contract the disease.
The great majority of immigrants coming to America are Christian, so immigrants do not represent the de-Christianization of American society but the de-Europeanization of American Christianity.
Mr. Westbrook hoped that LBJ would fulfill the promise of southern liberalism.
The author spells spell out the implications of Skinner's thought for religion. Skinner forces us to face up to the formidable reality of genetic and environmental conditioning and the elusive nature and scope of freedom.
Review of a book on the consequences of slavery in America. The reluctance of African-Americans to "air dirty laundry" in public is grounded in a justifiably defensive posture. Anyone growing up in America should be aware of the twisted nature of those bent on preserving the notion of white supremacy.
Legal segregation is dead, yet America is more segregated in some respects now than a century ago. We need redemption, but we too easily put a redemptive spin on history. We don't do ourselves any favors by producing a false historical narrative.
Perhaps the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a sign of a new world community in which the religious traditions will find common ground. Jews, Christians and Muslims do agree that rights are gifts from God, and that people have duties toward one another and God that require the recognition of fundamental human rights.
If one goes out into the world of the disabled, one will soon discover that, as always, there is only one world – that of the able-bodied. As Christians we are not asked to play God and decide about another person's quality of life. We are asked only to love God and our neighbor, to be God's agents on earth, not by taking away hope but by giving it.<
In The Shame of the Nation, Kozol reveals what school is like for the almost three-fourths of black and Latino students who attend "apartheid schools." In Tearing Down the Gates, Sacks documents the fierce war being waged to keep public education segregated.
The authors discuss the difficult problems facing Social Security, not only the overwhelming medical aspects, but the philosophy of the right of adequate financial retirement. They also offer some possible solutions.
Dr. Jenkins is critical of many aspects of the American Indian history and culture as presented in the new National Museum of the American Indian and wonders why so much of importance is left out.
Our rights are protected by the Constitution, but our exercise of those rights is governed by our moral disciplines. Civility entails treating fellow citizens as people of goodwill—which is a risky act of trust. Laws on sexual harassment and "hate speech" sprout up when people do not share a code of civility.
Our ambivalences in the areas of abortion, euthanasia and elective suicide call us to coordinate our scientific knowledge with moral wisdom. Although the global problems in these areas are compelling, we cannot expect to resolve them without first reforming our personal values and life styles.
The author says the moral cost involved is the reason why she believes embryonic stem cell research is not consonant with Christian faith.
The U.S. subsidy program is not only problematic for Americans but also disrupts the global food economy. It is not so much a means of stabilizing family farms as a way of supporting agribusinesses.
The Christian Community has paid little attention to work as a religious issue. As technology makes jobs increasingly specialized, work is becoming meaningless, alienating and dehumanizing.
The danger of the "conspiracy theorists" lies less in such beliefs themselves . . than in the behavior they might stimulate or justify. Should they believe that the prophesied evil predictions had in fact arrived, their behavior would become far more difficult to predict.
When the average American child spends nine hours a week playing video games we need to ask what sort of a worldview are the games causing? Are they teaching what it means to be human, about decision-making, about social roles, about living in the real world? In this world there is no socialization, no engagement with a live opponent – it's a very lonely place.
The tobacco industry likes to portray itself as just another American business, but the facts point to precisely the opposite conclusion. The author suggests what individuals can do to curb the tobacco industry.
We must resist the claim of any government that it represents some mystical "general will of the people," thus relegating its opponents to the categories of subversive, subhuman or counterrevolutionary. In the age of electronic torture, computers and sophisticated behavioral controls, the Leviathan of the modern state, here and elsewhere, must be resisted.
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I had a s***** manager too. She'd delegate out all her work to us, took all the swag, and was just a b**** to everyone. Customers and employees all hated her. One time she tried to take one of our regular's limited editions and just tell the guy we didn't get it. She backed down after I threatened to call the DM.
I finally had enough of her BS and quit. A week later I went back and canceled $500 worth of preorders that I had slowly accumulated for the very moment (Oregon Trail 3DS? Sure, I'll put $5 down). Her hands were shaking as she was canceling my orders and I had the biggest grin on my face. I'm banned from shopping at GS, but it was worth it.
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Its a blatant bribe to the managers to push the Xbox more than the PS4.
Hahahahahaha, except they're getting a PS4 too. Know several GS managers who are getting both free
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For the most part, the poo poo store manager is the rule and not the exception. I actually found out what the asms and sgas got for their effort, a mass generalized email from the their regional director saying "thanks". Essentially the equivalent of a dollar pinned to their shirts after receiving a dry pounding. I have seen three store managers at the gamestop I shop at, when they're actually there, and they are truly the epitome of under qualified, at least compared to the asm there, who has been there for six years. I swear to God that no one is more knowledgeable than that nerd and he is actually respectful of the customers. I've actually driven by that gamestop at night, you have to buy booze at odd hours sometimes, and I've seen that guy there sometime at one in the morning. If that jerk hasn't gotten a ps 4 or Xbox one for his time and effort, then I would completely understand him just pipe bombing the heck out of that place.
When I saw those red lights, a little bit of my soul fell out of my butt.
This is the first I've heard of thus, but if true I'm happy for the manager at the GS I go to most often. He's been there for years and is very "knowledgeable and dedicated". His enthusiasm and "knowledge" rivals anyone here, that's for damn sure. Good for him.
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"Would anyone like to thank God this morning?" We had just finished 40 minutes of worship before starting work, when the Thai worship leader invited the women to share a testimony. Mindy was on the worship team that day, and with the microphone already in her hand, she stepped forward. I never know what the women will say during these times. Sometimes it's a simple as praising God for a seat on the bus, sometimes it's a long unrelated story, and sometimes it's a tearful testimony of gratitude for God's presence in a difficult situation. Mindy has had a hard life. She was orphaned at age 10 when her mother died of HIV. Raised by her grandmother, Mindy never felt liked she belonged, and by 15 she was pregnant and dropping out of school. It wasn't long before her insecurity and family devotion lead her to prostitution on the streets of Bangkok. She drowned her insecurities in drugs, alcohol, and the comforts money received from prostitution could buy. God rescued her from all of that and Mindy is deeply grateful.
Mindy wants to do more though. She has a deep desire to serve God in ministry, and recently she started joining an outreach to children in a slum. It costs money to travel to the slum every Saturday, and Mindy was too often running out of the funds. She was feeling inadequate and therefore sorry for herself when she realized that Moses had felt terribly inadequate as well. When Moses argued with God that he was inadequate, God asked him, "What is in your hand?" "A staff," Moses answered. The staff immediately turned into a snake. Mindy began to cry as she told us she realized that God didn't want us to wait until we have enough money or we think we are good enough. God wants us as we are, and he will use what we have. Mindy said, "If all I have is my life, then I want to give my life to serve God. If God can use a staff, then God can use my life."
I have often felt inadequate to make a difference in these women's lives and the lives of so many exploited through human trafficking and prostitution. Mindy's testimony was a good reminder that God takes the little that we have and uses it to perform miracles. What looks like a worthless stick to us can be turned into a snake (not my preference!) or even used to part the Red Sea. God uses me in spite of my inadequacies, and I have been so grateful to witness the miraculous transformation in these women's lives. What's in your hand? It may not look like much to us, but when we give it to God, it can be transformational.
This Thanksgiving day, we are so grateful to all of you. So many of you have given even when you may have felt you had nothing worthwhile. I can testify that your gifts have made an impact in many lives. Mindy is one of those women. Your gifts have impacted her, and now she is using what she has to impact others. Thank you!
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Georgetown McDonough Executive MBA student Nick Abramczyk and his friend Thomas Panek, who has been blind since his early 20's, have accomplished a goal they have been working toward: qualifying for the 2014 Boston Marathon. Abramczyk first served as a blind guide for Panek in October during the Army Ten-Miler in Washington, D.C. They trained by using a tether and directional code words. On December 8, the duo ran the California International Marathon and qualified for next year's Boston Marathon.


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Employers are calling for a bipartisan approach to KiwiSaver and say "constant fiddling" by politicians worries them.
The Government is considering automatically enrolling workers who don't have KiwiSaver accounts because it wants more people in the scheme, but has ruled out making it compulsory.
At present people are automatically enrolled when they start work or change jobs, the change would mean those who haven't changed jobs would be enrolled with the same opt out provision.
The Employers and Manufacturers Association (EMA) said today certainty was an important principle in any retirement policy and it would be "very helpful" if National and Labour had a common approach.
"As it is, we're finding the constant fiddling with KiwiSaver by politicians is a significant cause for employer concern," EMA employment services manager David Lowe said.
"The feedback from employers, who are responsible for a large chunk of the scheme's administration as well as paying employer contributions, is that changes are disruptive and come at a cost to business."
Mr Lowe said the feedback from employees who had not joined KiwiSaver suggested policy "chopping and changing" was a factor in putting them off joining the scheme.
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"Any sudden change to the scheme would have a significant impact on employers, and those with stretched wage budgets experiencing tight business conditions would find a sudden potential increase in co-funding costs hard to deal with," chief executive Phil O'Reilly said.
Meanwhile, a superannuation provider says it is inevitable KiwiSaver will become compulsory.
Tower Investments chief executive Sam Stubbs said compulsory savings were necessary if New Zealand wanted to move into the same realm as countries such as Sweden, Denmark and Singapore.
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Team Needs 2012…Chicago Bears
Team Needs 2012…Chicago Bears
From the time Lovie Smith took over as the Bears' head coach, they've been an average team at worst who, at times, flirts with greatness. While they need to take care of a few of their own guys first (starting with Matt Forte), they have needs elsewhere that can be filled.
In the past, Chicago has shown no problem making the big moves in the offseason to improve their football team. In 2009 they traded for Jay Cutler, and in 2010 they added Julius Peppers. Both moves greatly altered how the team played on their respective sides of the ball. With the Packers being the class of the division and the Lions continuing to rise, the Bears need to make some changes in order to keep up.
Here are just three of the changes the Bears could make this offseason to help their team return to playing into January.
Primary Need: Offensive Tackle
The Bears could add any quality linemen in free agency, and they would be able to find a spot along the line to use him. Last week was offensive line week here at PFF, and when we ranked the offensive line, Chicago finished at the bottom. While they could improve on the inside, tackle is the far bigger need. J'Marcus Webb (-26.2) started all 16 games at left tackle in 2011 and, while he did improve on his pass blocking compared to 2010, he still allowed 12 sacks–the most among left tackles. On the right side for most of the season was Lance Louis, who managed the third-lowest rating for right tackles at -33.5 despite starting just 12 games there.
Replacing one of the tackles will be Gabe Carimi who was a first round pick last year that unfortunately sustained a serious knee injury in Week 2. With a full offseason to learn, we're guessing he will move to left tackle, which means the biggest need on the right. The tackle market is weak, with the most intriguing right tackle prospect being Anthony Collins of the Bengals. He started two games and played most of a third and allowed just one overall pressure in 2011. Since moving to right tackle in his second season, he has looked good in his limited time, but was buried on the Cincinnati depth chart. Pairing Carimi with Collins would be a big improvement, especially compared to recent years.
Secondary Need: Wide Receiver
In 2009 and 2010, the Bears ran with Johnny Knox, Devin Hester and Earl Bennett at receiver. Since that wasn't working out, Roy Williams and Dane Sanzenbacher were added to the mix for 2011. Last season, Hester and Sanzenbacher had two of the lowest catch rates in the league as both caught less than 51% of passes thrown their way. It's looking like Roy Willliams' one-year experiment might be over as he is a free agent and Bennett had one catch or less in five of his last six games. Knox's status is uncertain for the start of 2012 due to a serious back injury he sustained against Seattle. This team is sorely in need of a makeover at the receiver position.
The Bears likely will want to keep Bennett in the slot, so they need someone who can play out wide. Of the available unrestricted free agents, Vincent Jackson (+5.0) might be the best. He's a high-risk receiver that had eight dropped passes in 2011, but high reward too, with nine touchdowns and 18.4 yards per catch. The Bears are used to receivers who aren't always consistent, but can sometimes make the big plays. Jackson is just that, but a much better version than what's currently on the roster.
Tertiary Need: Safety
Chicago has used third round picks on safeties the last two years in Chris Conte (-2.1) and Major Wright (-5.0). Neither player has panned out yet, although it is definitely not too late in their careers. The Bears are a unique team in that they like rotating players in and out at safety more than most. They likely need at least a third man to bring in competition and push everyone to be better. Both Craig Steltz (+4.8) and Brandon Meriweather (-3.2) are free agents who are likely to look for a home elsewhere, which leaves a big opening on the depth chart.
Someone who can come in and win a starting job is Thomas DeCoud who has spent the first part of his carrier with the Falcons. In 2010, the Bears had Danieal Manning and Chris Harris who brought a strong run stopping presence that Chicago was lacking in 2011. DeCoud had a run defense rating of +4.4, which was the 12th-best for safeties. He had some problems in coverage early on in the season, but was solid down the stretch. He would make it three third round picks at the position on the roster, but DeCoud has performed better than Conte or Wright so far.
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How does this statement by Obama sit with you?
WASHINGTON (AFP) Barack Obama set his sights on November's general election Saturday as he campaigned in Oregon, where he hopes to declare victory in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Obama has said Tuesday's primaries in Oregon and Kentucky could mark the end of his drawn-out battle with rival Hillary Clinton, and his campaign pressed home that message by announcing a symbolic return to Iowa that day.
Iowa was the scene of the Illinois senator's first victory in the 2008 presidential nominating race, and his campaign noted Saturday it is "a critical general election state that Democrats must win in November."
Polls show Obama leading in Oregon, where 52 delegates are up for grabs, while Clinton is ahead in Kentucky, a state with 51 delegates that has a similar demographic to West Virginia, where she won a thumping victory Tuesday.
His campaign says he needs just 17 more pledged delegates won through state votes to reach a majority of 1,627, not counting the "superdelegates," party officials who can vote either way at August's Democratic national convention.
Using a baseball analogy, Obama said May 8 that if after Tuesday's primaries "we have a majority of pledged delegates, which is possible, then I think we can make a pretty strong claim that we have got the most runs and its the ninth inning and we have won."
The official finishing line is 2,025 delegates, including superdelegates.
During a rally in Roseburg, Oregon, Saturday, Obama presented himself as the front-runner almost without question, attacking presumptive Republican nominee John McCain on foreign policy, the environment and healthcare.
Reviving Friday's furious row sparked by President George W. Bush's suggestion that Democrats wanted to appease terrorists, Obama said that not talking to North Korea and Iran had only made those states stronger.
"I want everybody to be absolutely clear about this because George Bush and McCain have suggested that me being willing to sit down with our adversaries is a sign of weakness and sign of appeasement," he said.
He also attacked McCain's plan for a gas tax holiday to cope with rising pump prices, which Clinton supports, as well as his other environmental plans, saying the Republican had consistently opposed fuel efficiency standards.
"For him to come to Oregon as an environmental president, but his big strategy is to do more drilling and to have a gas tax holiday for three months, that's a phony solution," he said.
Pitching his message to Oregon's environmentally-conscious voters, Obama called on the United States to "lead by example" on global warming, and develop new technologies at home which could be exported to developing countries.
"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said.
"That's not leadership. That's not going to happen," he added.
The Illinois senator also argued that the differences between his healthcare plan and that of Clinton "pale in comparison to the differences we have with John McCain," whose proposals would only work "if you're healthy and wealthy."
The escalating rhetoric between Obama and McCain has evoked the kind of campaign battles more common in the immediate run-up to an election -- and emphasized further Obama's pole position in the Democratic race.
But Clinton has vowed to keep fighting until the end of the primary season on June 3, and campaigning in Kentucky Saturday, she defended the plan for the gas tax holiday and accused McCain of having no idea how to fund it.
"Senator McCain said let's give everybody a gas tax holiday but doesn't want to pay for it. I think I've got the best plan. Let the oil companies pay it out of their excess profits," she said.
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heh, yeah - "compiling the full source code" is a bit of a misleading turn of phrase!
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I'm waiting for someone to actually do something useful with this code that's been so hotly demanded.
Linux really is much more about political pointmaking than practical computing.
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Linux really is much more about political pointmaking than practical computing.
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I'm a Windows (dependent) user and a casual Linux user (I use Xubuntu on VMware Player and on an old pc), but I do consider (nowadays) Linux as practical computing. Ubuntu 7.10 is a good example of it IMHO.
It swings in roundaboutsOriginally Posted by leexgx
ubuntu 7.10 is the worst Ver of ubuntu ever made stick with 7.04, never seen so many problems on the ubuntu forums as i keep up with each rels
if you do upgrade (back up \home as it probably will fail the upgrade) or planning on installing 7.10 make sure the network cable is unplugged so the set up does not fail (you need to turn the repositories back on after install as the setup turns them off)
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It does look lice IceWM, but I don't think that's the case...
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We try hard to put our best foot forward and look professional when we meet face-to-face.
Then what do we do? We write an e-mail, post a forum comment or blog filled with spelling and grammatical errors.
Technology's on-demand ability, through the use of smart phones and laptop computers, has pushed text-driven communications to the forefront, where often the first impression we make is through the words we write.
Unfortunately, the acceptance of electronic communications and the use of social media have eased some of the strict rules of grammar. Misspelled words, wrong tenses and bad punctuation demonstrate carelessness, undermining our professionalism.
The underlying impression we leave is that we do not care; that we are in a hurry; that we did not take the time to review or think about what we were writing; that the person we are communicating with is not important.
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Spell check is another technology on which we've grown to rely. Don't. Remember, spell check only finds misspelled words. For example, "the office is looked and secure;" 'looked' is spelled correctly, but isn't what you want to say.
I recommend reading Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. It's written by Lynn Truss, who uses humour to write informatively about the state of punctuation and the English language.
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convicted of sending hundreds of thousands of unsolicited e-mail messages to AOL subscribers......amassed a fortune of $24m from his sales, prosecutors said.
I hate spam email as much as the next person, but 9 years is a bit excessive, don't you think?
Hey guys, sly's brother here. He is a wimp. I am the spammer (mails not serps) and he keeps on telling me to stop or get it sent from China or something. In fact he even posted me that link this morning as a warning. What a hypocrite!
Me personally, I do spam for link requests and they are pretty targeted. If I get 9 years in a Czech prison for that then I would be surprised. This guy just was way out there and got greedy.
this is not a wind up, seriously, I think it's my duty to help a businessman who got caught, am sure someone would do the same if it happened to me.
personally I think there are 100s of other people who should be serving 9 years for other non web crimes.
anyone else care to donate, GoogleGuy?
However, I think some laws are not in the interst of all people, and also the definition of spam varies from land to land. Where I live the definition is "an email where no attempt was made to target it." That's very different from the US Can-Spam act.
The Can-Spam act allows people to spam anyone who has been tricked into an opt-in mail list. It's obviously made to protect large corporates like AOL/Yahoo! who have their buddies looking out for them on Capitol Hill. What is right about that?
EDITED: And what about the biggest hypocrite of all? I had to unsubscribe from hotmail because I was getting too many spam mails. Where did they get my hotmail address from? Microsoft is suing some Chinese ISPs. That is really schizophrenic.
[edited by: SlyOldDog at 7:52 pm (utc) on Nov. 5, 2004]
can someone tell me what prison this guy is in, I'd like to send him a book or something.
Sure, Shak, here's the book I'd send him:
Are you a judge or something? The USA's prisons are creaking at the seams.
A thought just came to me. Doesn't the US anti-spam legislation contradict the first amendment? Freedom of speech? A commercial message is a message, regardless of its content.
I am a little lost here...
I don't think the First Ammendment has anything to do with personal property, and my email address IS personal property. You can not "graffiti" somebody else's personal property, or public property.
Free speech has to do with your right to say something, and crossing the line of free speech is in the delivery. For example in the recent case of telemarketers, and now thus the No Call Lists. Or yelling fire in a movie theater.
I used to be able to have an email addess as "webmaster." But now, I no longer can use that email address because spammers make it cost ineffectively to sift through the mess, and or accidentally delete an important message. Spamming cost me money and time.
Any email address used in an WHOIS is spammed . What gives a person a right to farm that email address and use it for purposes that "I" deem unimportant, and costs me money and time.
How about the farming of email address in usenet, ie G. Groups..... You have to have a valid email address to participate and join the group... so it costs yahoo, gmail, hotmail, time and money for all the bogus emails we set up just to participate in the USENET.
If you want to spam.... send it to yourself, and or have an "opt-in I want Spam" , but nobody is that freaking lonely, not even me, to opt-in to a Spam list, or telemarketers list.
If you want to do Graffiti... go out and spend $3000 dollars and build a cement wall infront of your house, and Graffiti all you would like.
There is no free speech in spamming, or in graffiti, when it is with somebody else's property. My email address is personal property. When a spammer picks up my email address some place and uses it for profit or personal gain without my permission they have infringed on my personal property.
And don't even tell me a bus, a train, or a sidewalk is public property, and thus open "game" for free speech of graffiti.
Does that mean we have to keep track of the laws of every jurisdiction to which we send email (solicited or unsolicited)? Or every jurisdiction that is able to view our web pages?
Obviously, this verdict will be appealed and overturned. The conviction was unconstitutional on the grounds that the Virginia legislature is not empowered to make laws restricting interstate trade. Only the federal government may do that.
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First of all, there's a debate whether even a domain name is private property. See what happens if you miss a payment.
second: your house is private property but I can knock on your door and ask to preach about Jesus, Allah or if you want to buy Mary Kay junk. Kmart can send you all the junk they want and clog your mailbox.
9 years is way too much for what he was convicted (spaming 55,000 people). If they want to charge him with fraud more power to them, as long as they prove it beyond reasonable doubt. You can't charge one with jaywalking and give them a rapist sentence. If he's a rapist, charge him with rape. That's my only problem with this case.
Other that that, I wish it was legal to go and kick his f-ing ass since I get at least 300 spam emails a day.
I think spamming is here to stay along with popups, box holders in the mail and telemarketing.
The only way to escape all this is to move to a cabin in the wilderness.
Out of curiousity have they considered convicting any one yet for excessive popups?
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wait till the start prosecuting people for high keyword density /spam on their websites. Google and other search engines spend billions a year trying to overcome spam. Not to mention users who waste untold hours trying to find relevant results.
If your keyword density is over 3% but less than 5% it's a misdemeanor and only 1 year in jail. If it reaches 7% it becomes a felony and 9 years in jail for each page.
NO, you can not. You can not come on my property without my permission. You can not knock on my door without permission.
I do not need to put out a sign that says no soliciting, or no tresspassing. YOU are on my property, you are not invited. If it were really true that people can come on anybody's property without official business or acceptance then the rights of private property would go out the window.
It just has been accepted as a trivial matter. And a
laissez-faire rule has been adopted.
Come over to my house and try it. There is a sign, the Louisville Slugger is next to the door, the shotgun loaded and the hounds are off the leash.
If you come on my personal property, how am I to know your intentions?
My email address is my personal property. I pay for it. And if you use it I'll be down on your fat behind faster than squealing pigs in "Deliverance."
Of course this is an idle threat because it is far easier to just change the email, alert my friends, etc etc... than chase down the forger.
Yes my email address is my personal property. If I miss a payment then it does not belong to me anymore, that is just the way it is. It is a lease because somebody has to maintain it somewhere. I am not sure about copyrighting stuff, but I'd imagine if you decided to spend the money to copyright it, then it would be yours to the extent of the copyright.
BUT THEN WHOOPS! LOOKS LIKE WE JUST BUSTED SOMEONE that we have all been complaining about for years. All the innocent IPs that were blackholed, all the alt.abuse emails and corrspondence...
Spamming is a con. Because nobody can do it, honestly, for any length of time without being attached to some sort of abuse.
Abuse is illegal, any way you look at it, and as far as I am concerned, 9 years is not enough.
Not only has spamming taken on the stature of fraud, it is now, as so many of you know, perpetuated explicitly by viruses looking for "zombie" boxes to send out the spam.
If spam was conceptually legal, than all these avenues of deceit would not be created.
And if you still think spam is free speech,
Please post your email address here ;-)
uh.. no... I had to g--gle it to figure out what you may be speaking of...
Really it's not me.
Not sure if it's a dig on me or not..
"Hello, kahuna.... do you by chance answer to "Merlinious" elsewhere? "
No, but I am accustom to answering to a-hole so if it's the same it will work :-)))
The only way to escape all this is to move to a cabin in the wilderness.
If that cabin has a PC connected to the web there is no escape. I'm as close to a suburban-hermit as one can get (the mountains and remote cabins are right over there...), and I still get to delete spam every single day, 365 days a year. If I miss a day then it's almost easier to delete every-freaking-thing and start over, but I can't do that and try to run a business too.
The fellow is lucky I'm no judge in VA. 9 years, and add another year every time he whines about it.
My thoughts on why he was prosecuted for violating Can-Spam and not for fraud.. someone has to be first, and this fellow was ripe for picking. Too bad the remaining defendants got off so light.
A lot of the replies in here are lame. I am with SlyOldDog, most people would do it if they could make that much. The sentence he got is way too excessive for what he did. Wow, he disrupted a bunch of peoples email boxes... Get over it.
You won't ever get away from spam. I don't spam on the internet, but it never ceases to amaze me how some people will actually go to all the trouble of trying to report every spammer that comes into their email box... 3 words... "Get a Life"
All the Best,


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Wow, I was looking for this plugin again and ended up on the authors main site and BOY does he have a bunch of useful plugins released.
This one sounded particularly useful: http://www.unwrongest.com/projects/lazy/ but there are a dozen others that all look great.
Bookmark this guy.
danggg, mentioned by name.
seriously though, no problem, thanks for the fix.
Hypothetically would the contest only be open to brand new templates? Or could they be templates that received a massive update during the contest?
Left two replies this morning that both showed up instantly. Looks to be fixed! Big thanks to the dev(s) that sorted it out.
That's fine but it would reduce the impact on sales by randomizing and again not help users to easily see what they came here for – wordpress or html or php etc
The featured space on the front page doesn't sort in any way, its just all categories displaying thumbs in one place. Its not so much about finding what they came here for as it is about presenting the user with something they may not know they need yet. Even if its random, its still an extra pair of eyes that may have never noticed the item buried on page 8 of a category they wouldn't have otherwise visited.
Maybe we could just have a page that displays random templates. Or something like Wikipedia's "Random Article" link that just jumps you to a random page. I wouldn't random mindlessly hopping around a web of templates for a while.
More info: the replay comments seem to be held in limbo until another top level comment is made. two times now I've seen a reply hang for extended period of time then show up right when a new top level comment does.
Sorry for all the replies, just trying to report all the info I can to help the devs get it fixed.
Its been hours now and the comment has yet to surface. Should we still be experiencing this kind of delay or do I need to submit a ticket?
So how long of a delay are we talkin here? I've got one post thats been hanging in limbo for like half an hour now.
let the final countdown begin
damn you!! I can't see the words 'the final countdown' without having the song jump loudly into my head…