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Old 04-08-2000, 08:54 PM
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Old 04-10-2000, 12:38 AM
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4. With intent to avoid payment by himself or another person of the
lawful charge for any telecommunications service, including, without
limitation, cable television service, or any gas, steam, sewer, water,
electrical, telegraph or telephone service which is provided for a
charge or compensation, he obtains or attempts to obtain such service
for himself or another person or avoids or attempts to avoid payment
therefor by himself or another person by means of (a) tampering or
making connection with the equipment of the supplier, whether by
mechanical, electrical, acoustical or other means, or (b) offering for
sale or otherwise making available, to anyone other than the provider
of a telecommunications service for such service provider`s own use in
the provision of its service, any telecommunications decoder or
descrambler, a principal function of which defeats a mechanism of
electronic signal encryption, jamming or individually addressed
switching imposed by the provider of any such telecommunications
service to restrict the delivery of such service, or (c) any
misrepresentation of fact which he knows to be false, or (d) any other
artifice, trick, deception, code or device. For the purposes of this
subdivision the telecommunications decoder or descrambler described in
paragraph (b) above or the device described in paragraph (d) above
shall not include any non-decoding and non-descrambling channel
frequency converter or any television receiver type-accepted by the
federal communications commission. In any prosecution under this
subdivision, proof that telecommunications equipment, including,
without limitation, any cable television converter, descrambler, or
related equipment, has been tampered with or otherwise intentionally
prevented from performing its functions of control of service delivery
without the consent of the supplier of the service, or that
telecommunications equipment, including, without limitation, any cable
television converter, descrambler, receiver, or related equipment, has
been connected to the equipment of the supplier of the service without
the consent of the supplier of the service, shall be presumptive
evidence that the resident to whom the service which is at the time
being furnished by or through such equipment has, with intent to avoid
payment by himself or another person for a prospective or already
rendered service, created or caused to be created with reference to
such equipment, the condition so existing. A person who tampers with
such a device or equipment without the consent of the supplier of the
service is presumed to do so with intent to avoid, or to enable
another to avoid, payment for the service involved. In any prosecution
under this subdivision, proof that any telecommunications decoder or
descrambler, a principal function of which defeats a mechanism of
electronic signal encryption, jamming or individually addressed
switching imposed by the provider of any such telecommunications
service to restrict the delivery of such service, has been offered for
sale or otherwise made available by anyone other than the supplier of
such service shall be presumptive evidence that the person offering
such equipment for sale or otherwise making it available has, with
intent to avoid payment by himself or another person of the lawful
charge for such service, obtained or attempted to obtain such service
for himself or another person or avoided or attempted to avoid payment
therefor by himself or another person;
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Old 04-13-2000, 08:57 AM
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Old 04-13-2000, 10:50 AM
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Old 04-13-2000, 10:52 AM
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Old 04-13-2000, 10:55 AM
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Old 04-13-2000, 10:57 AM
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Old 04-13-2000, 11:00 AM
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Old 04-13-2000, 05:24 PM
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Aha, seeing as you got officially welcomed by Ed, how about if you start an "offical welcomes by aha" thread? Kind of an Ed proxy...spread the joy. I mean you've been annointed!!! Can't we just assume you have Ed's delegated authority to welcome us newbies? Or at least me?

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Old 04-13-2000, 06:13 PM
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So can I really get this to work? I think so.
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Old 04-14-2000, 12:33 AM
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Old 04-14-2000, 12:35 AM
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Old 04-15-2000, 06:00 AM
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Old 04-15-2000, 09:14 AM
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Hmm.
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Old 04-15-2000, 02:55 PM
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Old 04-15-2000, 09:57 PM
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Old 04-16-2000, 02:34 AM
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just checking
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Old 04-16-2000, 02:35 AM
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Old 04-16-2000, 02:36 AM
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Old 04-16-2000, 02:37 AM
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Old 04-16-2000, 09:13 AM
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  • "Mom, he's a neo Nazi! He's a doctor also? Well..." - an original WallyM7 sig.
  • "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank
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Old 04-16-2000, 09:15 AM
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Hmmmmmm. I think my sig was getting too long. Does it look silly with the bullets?

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  • "Mom, he's a neo Nazi! He's a doctor also? Well..." - an original WallyM7 sig.
  • "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank
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Old 04-16-2000, 09:28 AM
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Old 04-16-2000, 06:07 PM
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Your mail's here - wanna play post office? Heh heh heh.
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Old 04-16-2000, 09:51 PM
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Old 04-16-2000, 09:52 PM
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Old 04-16-2000, 09:58 PM
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Last try.

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