After mass outrage, Equifax removed the rip-off clause from its TrustedID service, although the rip-off clause remains for Equifax's other consumer services.
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"You don't rip off retirees of IRAs," Weatherford tells AmericanGreed.
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Even Supreme made a rip off a few years ago.
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Greenleaf also somehow managed to rip off Richie's aviator sunglasses.
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They love a weak America that they can rip off.
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These institutions are not overtly trying to rip off anyone.
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So you rip off the lid and go to town.
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TG: Where is the line drawn between rip-off and inspiration?
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Witness Instagram's self-admitted rip off of Snapchat, via Instagram Stories.
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"@Forever21 are you proud to rip off young designers?" she wrote.
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Prime Minister Theresa May had called the tariffs a "rip-off".
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Is it just a cash cow to rip off the fans?
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Time to rip off the Kevlar and turn out the lights.
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Not wanting to be party to this rip-off, I quit.
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Much to my disappointment, the salad was a total rip-off.
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People at the highest levels were collaborating to rip off countries.
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She doesn't rip off other artists — she creates and is so original.
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Rip off The 1975's aesthetic and sex that campaign right up.
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Ben Stiller / Zoolander No. 2 WORST PREQUEL, REMAKE, RIP-OFF or SEQUEL
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You know what feels like a little bit of a rip-off?
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Ericka Bonds-Hasan had a security guard physically rip off her hijab.
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According to the suit, the similarity is uncanny ... and a rip-off.
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People don't rip off their clothes and be done in 10 minutes.
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I am so not for bottle service — it's such a rip off.
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It's the most [soft] fabric that does not rip off your skin.
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" International Business Times called it "pretty much a PS4, Xbox rip-off.
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There were predictable howls about this being yet another Spielberg rip-off.
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Paying for airport WiFi can be a rip-off, says Smarter Travel.
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They are definitely not worth 14 bucks each — what a rip off!
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What Clinton said Wednesday, however, will rip off the scab from 2016.
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"We will rip off the heads of those traitors," Mr. Erdogan said.
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Trump University was probably a rip-off for many who were convinced to enroll there, but it probably wasn't as big a rip-off as many other, more prestigious for-profit or not-for-profit four-year schools.
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To Fiber's team, Time Warner's broadband was a rip-off — slow and overpriced.
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"But it is rare that they rip off without incident," the technician adds.
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First, the solar panels will rip off, then the body will break apart.
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This part seems a bit too much like a Downton Abbey rip-off.
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The trailers made it look like a Lord of the Rings rip-off.
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The most successful Mommie Dearest rip-off was B.D. Hyman's My Mother's Keeper.
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Dr. Awful swiftly reentered ready to rip off any Band-Aid in sight.
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Not content to rip off just Snapchat, Instagram is going after Pinterest, too.
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I rip off the headset and gulp in a huge lungful of air.
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Does this sound like the biggest rip-off of a love horoscope ever?
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Easy to rip off in a fit of rage, then simply re-apply!
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You can't just rip off 'Bennie and the Jets' and be called good.
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How was he able to rip off a truck from Rick and Daryl?
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She mostly struggled to rip off carrot tops and didn't make a peep.
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An independent artist says it's a rip-off of her Insta-famous apartment.
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"In hindsight, it was a rip-off of Rocky," Mark wrote in Newsweek.
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All right, then, let's rip off the Band-Aid: "Destination Wedding" is torture.
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Here's one we need ask ourselves: Are we helping rip off our students?
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So why judge one a rip-off and the other a sweet bargain?
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Of course, it's a derivative rip off of Marina Ambromovic's The Artist is Present—like how his apology tweets for plagiarism were all blatantly plagiarized, and just like how Damien Hirst's work is a rip off of every artist ever.
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This is such a rip-off, because we can't "bundle" for a lower price.
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Not that it's a bad thing to rip off: The Surface Studio is gorgeous.
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The British government has previous slammed the energy suppliers for offering "rip-off" prices.
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Any Two Obnoxious Emojis in The Emoji Movie WORST REMAKE, RIP-OFF, OR SEQUEL
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Cops pursue criminals, women seek financial independence from men, mobsters rip off other mobsters.
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He's smart enough to rip off shit, but also smart enough to be unidentifiable.
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May's criticism of "rip-off" energy prices pushed Centrica towards a 14-year low.
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But not every high-end sex product is quite so transparent a rip off.
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"They were a blatant rip-off of Pac-Man," Chadwick admits, with a shrug.
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Other popular items to rip off included clothing, electrical equipment, leather goods and watches.
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Here are five reasons the deal is a rip-off for Puerto Rico: 2202.
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Instagram Stories, for instance, is widely seen as a rip-off of Snap Stories.
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H.R. 5037 would further encourage corporations and Wall Street firms to rip off investors.
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And we do—and so we don't have to rip off in our shop.
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To rip off and murder a South American drug lord in his own home.
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Is it just a weird rip-off of Lost, with endless mysteries to solve?
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It is a blatant rip-off of Yayoi Kusama's signature piece, her Obliteration Room.
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RIP OFF YOUR SHIRT AND BEAT ON YOUR CHEST LIKE KING KONG, NICK TURTURRO!!!!
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Which isn't to say that Ruiner is a straightforward rip-off, or anything like that.
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Sometimes, that old adage is true: You just have to rip off the Band-Aid.
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Or is it best to just rip off the Band-Aid, no matter the circumstances?
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Overnight, hundreds of taxis appeared from all over Austria, hawking rip-off rides to Vienna.
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The same Trump that ripped off students at Trump University continues to rip off America.
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And that's not because it's a Portal-series rip-off, which it most definitely is.
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Those with the most serious needs are often the biggest victims of the rip-off.
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I'm for a Medicare-for-all option and against drug companies that rip off seniors.
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Not quite as good as all the rip-off Nujabes beats that autoplayed after though.
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That disguise of loneliness is part of what makes freelancers so easy to rip off.
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It was definitely a lot more than a Gauntlet rip-off with a steampunk twist.
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It did just enough, however, to make it more than just a direct rip-off.
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An effort to rip off the bandaid fast on a number of fronts is likely.
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Eat "It's just a complete rip-off of mapo tofu," the chef Tien Ho said.
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The Surface laptop that they came with last week ... KS: Do not rip off the keyboard.
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Another year, a bunch of shows aimed to rip off one of those earlier ripoffs — Friends.
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I feel like your Misfits rip-off "Open Your Eyes" it's kind of fitting right now.
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In 2012, author Mary Robinette Kowal published a novelette in an audio anthology called Rip-Off!
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Yes, it's a baldfaced rip-off of the movie The Thing, but it's a good one.
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I saw a hawker selling beauty products at rip-off prices and accepting payments via WeChat.
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It's well implemented, even if it is a total rip-off of what Apple has done.
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"I like to have those companies rip off my favorite paintings," he admits to Architectural Digest.
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More simply: A 7.3 is forceful enough to destroy whole buildings or rip off their facades.
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Gooding proceeded to rip off his jacket and shirt, and strut around, topless, on the ice.
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"They told me I had to throw it away, or rip off the label," he says.
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I still remember the coupons you had to rip off, and send in with your check.
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Facebook started the rip-off race when it built a stories feature into Instagram in 2016.
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"It's kind of like a rip-off of 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail,'" he said.
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Needless to say, Comcast comes after little guys who rip off their product — and rightfully so.
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That's why it's essential that Congress leaves in place the CFPB's rule against rip-off clauses.
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"The band introduced, you know, a soul rip-off into our milieu," he says of their influence.
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People rip off my work everyday and it's honestly saddening to see this happen by YouTube itself.
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This time around, Jax fully exits the situation, going so far as to rip off his mic.
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That's not to say that "Men Against Fire" is a rip-off of Quentin Tarantino's 2009 film.
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One freelance writer for the Daily Mash (Britain's unfunny rip-off of The Onion) was particularly unpleased.
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It's not too surprising that somebody would try to rip off Cuphead for a platform like iOS.
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The government rarely claws back the bonuses of corporate executives when their companies rip off the public.
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She wants something light and portable that will allow her to rip off a paper towel easily.
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Though engulfed in flames, the man was able to rip off his shirt and douse the blaze.
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She vows to end what she calls "rip-off energy prices" by the six biggest energy suppliers.
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Why do they choose to rip off certain clients, and then how do they go about it?
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They're more likely to believe what they're getting is a bargain rather than a dangerous rip-off.
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We're told the heckler kept yelling at Desiigner during the set, calling him a Future rip-off.
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It engages in real misbehavior, especially with regard to intellectual property: The Chinese essentially rip off technology.
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"It was either the best deal or the biggest rip-off, we're still not clear," Rines says.
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San Diego State rallied to rip off nine unanswered points scored by four different players before halftime.
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In a recent article, Paul Lewis, the BBC presenter, jokes that ad valorem is Latin for rip-off.
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They looked at pharmacies and specifically at customers who may be particularly easy to rip off: new parents.
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It would be a rip-off as opposed to a recreation and would lack any sense of emotion.
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Saying goodbye is hard, but today's eclipse will help you rip off the Band-Aid and move on.
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Still, watching Arya rip off his face, as the soldiers start coughing up blood from their poisoned wine?
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"This is going to be a Band-Aid that I'm going to rip off," she told the outlet.
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I consider it penance for the company's egregious and barely functional rip-off of the iOS share sheet.
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More than just an iMac rip-off, the Surface Studio is focused squarely at artists and creative professionals.
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When you rip off your shareholders or run a fake university, you are ripping off your own fans.
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It&aposs amazing what impact that has on people that want to rip-off and destroy our industries.
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Plum — A chatbot that automates your money so you can effortlessly save, invest and avoid rip-off bills.
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The Duffer Brothers have a smoking gun to prove they didn't rip off "Stranger Things" ... TMZ has learned.
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She says the book "Gone Girl" which came out in 2012 is a rip off of her screenplay.
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It's a copy of a magazine called Beautify, which looks like a sad rip-off of Glamour. Magazines?
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And the commercial approach was to rip off consumers by overcharging for stale content packaged into oversized bundles.
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As the election draws near, capitalism will struggle to rip off the mask of Britain's least favourite bogeyman.
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"I was pretty amazed the hurricane had such power to rip off half the house," she told CNN.
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Kurt Cobain even said that he was "basically trying to rip off the Pixies" in a 1994 interview.
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Quentin Tarantino thinks "Kung Fu Panda" is a rip off of the "Kill Bill" films, which he directed.
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Similarly, he believes homeownership is a rip-off foisted upon unwitting citizens by a $14 trillion mortgage industry.
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But at what point does a dupe stop being a happy "coincidence" and become a shameless rip-off?
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I remember gathering to watch our 007 rip-off a month or two after we had filmed it.
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There's problems like payday lenders and used car salesmen really actively try to rip off families around bases.
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"We'd switch up packaging, making it more difficult to rip off," Braelyn Davis, Flav's marketing director, told me.
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She was wearing a Diana Ross rip-off dress and all of her wigs looked cheap and matted.
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If they did, no one would have joined Facebook, because it was a blatant rip-off of Friendster.
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"We should really repeal Obamacare, it was a big rip off from the get-go," James Leibhart said.
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I'll say—with shame—that particular shot is a rip-off of a Symbolist painter named Sascha Schneider.
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Winds of that speed have the power to destroy whole houses, or at least rip off the roofs.
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Contemplating the spoils of a drug-deal rip-off, one of them allows that this beats waiting tables.
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Prosecutors said Wabafiyebazu admitted to police that he was involved in planning the rip off, the Herald reported.
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Dinesh D'Souza & Bruce Schooley / Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party WORST REMAKE, RIP-OFF or SEQUEL
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"It's a rip-off of Savannah Smiles," Kimorra said, referring to a previous lemon cookie the Girl Scouts sold.
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James Franco co-directed this star-packed rip-off of Mad Max filled with some questionable female character tropes.
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Like this ugly Futurama rip-off, or the version in an even uglier white, or the Fallout Pip-Boy.
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Nearly everywhere, the bereaved have put up with rip-off last rites because of the lack of better options.
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Doing so would "permit corporations to rip off consumers, poison our environment, [and] cheat and mistreat workers," he added.
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"This is going to be a Band-Aid that I'm going to rip off," she said during her interview.
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Ed Sheeran's hit song "Photograph" is a total rip-off ... according to a new lawsuit filed by two songwriters.
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She claims the victim also sustained injuries to her wrist when the assailant tried to rip off her bracelet.
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Three boys in the Bronx allegedly punched a Muslim sixth-grader during recess, trying to rip off her hijab.
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Starting in April that year, more people began using Instagram's rip-off of Snapchat's Stories feature than Snap's own.
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It was supposed to be a celebration of music and records, but it felt like one big rip-off.
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Being able to rip off shifts while the engine sings at 6,000 RPMs is virtually impossible in any rival.
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But the era of the "rip-off clause" may soon come to an end — at least in consumer finance.
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It aims to implement it in time for winter following a government promise to tackle "rip-off" power prices.
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Brunch cocktails—especially those bottomless mimosas and Bloody Mary's—are the ultimate rip off in the whole brunch game.
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Many incarcerated men, when they receive mail, immediately rip off the return address and flush it down the toilet.
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"Status was a very late addition and just a straight rip-off of Twitter," he says on page 259.
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"This is a total rip-off, and we are ending it," Mr. Trump said in his speech on Friday.
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Rip-off clauses in employment contracts can stop justice for systemic wrongdoing in the workplace, including for sexual harassment.
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Scammers posing as tax professionals such as accountants rip off customers via refund fraud, identity theft and other schemes.
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I don't remember the other's name, but it was kind of a Tarzan rip-off, with adventures in Africa.
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Let's rip off the Band-Aid and get to the bad news for fans of Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
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Watch the actor rip off his pants and then play a game of tennis in this 2010 Vampire Weekend video.
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Both Williams and Rabinovich advise people with student loan difficulties to rip off the Band-Aid and contact your lenders.
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I hand over my credit card and rip off the Band-Aid, praying that my neck will feel better soon.
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Those photos taken on roller coasters are usually a total rip off, but this hilarious moment is a definite exception.
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While there are many people who blatantly rip off Black hairstyles, I recognize that others are simply uneducated about them.
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These pictures rip off the scabs of an excruciatingly painful history and are a piercing reminder of this nation's sins.
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They only have the small bottle which is a rip off, but I'll take what I can get for now.
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Forty-pound curls are what 250-pound, six percent body fat dudes rip off as they scream in the mirror.
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"Mark told me that the only way to stop dope traffic was to rip off the big dealers," Aldridge said.
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We need to rip off the plaster and get on with it, because then we'll know what we're contending with.
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"This is a huge rip-off," Mark Cooper, CFA Research Director, told reporters earlier this week on a conference call.
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I'm a sucker for convertibles: rip off the top and let me enjoy that 93 million miles of blue sky.
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Of course, bad teams don't really rip off five straight wins, so a hot streak would make them pretty good.
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This isn't individual crookedness but an entire political/economic system that induces companies to rip off fellow citizens quite legally.
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They immediately start using the stolen information to rip off Americans who don't even know their information has been stolen.
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And here I thought it was just a rip-off of Peregrin Took's sweet song in Lord of the Rings.
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This week: How Google's smartwatch dreams shatteredSteve Jobs famously called Google's Android mobile software a rip-off of Apple's iPhone.
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Effectively, banks and other corporations are free to rip off their consumers without fear of being held accountable in court.
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But some have said he provoked the fight by going after Garrett first and trying to rip off his helmet.
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Rudolph attempted to rip off Garrett's helmet, and Garrett responded in kind before striking Rudolph over the head with it.
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Many reports about the Fuze 23, such as those linked above, have been scathing about its supposed rip-off style.
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The Weather Service warned of high surf and wind gusts that could knock out power and rip off tree limbs.
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To Democrats, he was a champion of the public, fighting predatory companies and abusive practices that rip off ordinary people.
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Lil Nas X and Cardi B have been hit by a lawsuit claiming their song, "Rodeo," is a rip-off.
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But trust me on this: This movie would be a rip-off even if someone paid you to see it.
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Tax season is in full swing — and that means it's hunting time for scam artists hoping to rip off taxpayers.
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As a testament to its success, Facebook tried to rip off TikTok with a viral clip app of its own.
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Even more startling, after the scandal became public, Wells Fargo continues to invoke rip-off clauses to block class actions.
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Images show them sitting on top of the grave, where the man appears to try to rip off a letter.
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It needs a lot more scrutiny; it's a hotbed of anticompetitive practices and efforts to rip off the entire economy.
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When you're cold you can merely put on more layers, but when you're hot you can rip off all your skin.
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After all, Queen Bey wouldn't just rip off her wedding ring and throw it at a camera for no reason, right?
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LendUp was supposed to be different than the payday loan sharks that rip off the poor when they need emergency cash.
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"The track has origins both humble and typical—I wanted to rip off Chrome, the SF post-punk band," he said.
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Proponents argue it reflects the true vision of Bitcoin's anonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, while detractors call it a subpar rip-off.
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In an explicit rip-off of the Belgian video, two boys in Poland try to recreate the original "Two idiots" video.
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Rip Off Britain set out to test food hygiene at a number of takeaway outlets and coffee shops across the country.
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Except, Miracle World didn't play like a Mario rip-off, save for its traditional genre trappings—all of that jumping, mainly.
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After a few months of this, I figured I should just rip off the Band-Aid and delete the thing altogether.
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While frustrated at Topshop's dismissiveness, Ahmed's initial reaction was actually disappointment as the allegedly rip-off design isn't even cleanly executed.
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REZZ That cousin of Russ who likes EDM Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever Health insurance rip off lying FDA big bankers buying.
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He said that Waititi clearly felt uncomfortable doing so and would "rip off his Hitler wardrobe" as soon as he could.
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If you're going to patent something, you have to explain what you've actually invented, what's new that competitors could rip off.
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"Fifty Shades Darker" won (lost?) with two awards: worst supporting actress for Kim Basinger and worst remake, rip-off or sequel.
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The CFPB acted to adopt the rule after completing the most comprehensive review ever of the effect of rip-off clauses.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads This week, rip-off photographer, questions about the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Erdoğan vs.
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We booed when Guerrero Nocturno tried to rip off Ave Rex's mask (a serious lucha taboo) during their heated grudge match.
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Heck, the "Daily Numbers" game that states embraced during the 1980s was a deliberate rip-off of a popular illegal game.
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"Let's fucking go!" he whispers intensely, as he proceeds to rip off his shirt, then his beanie, and then flex in excitement.
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Make sure your yard is clear and remove outdoor furniture, bikes, and any building materials that could rip off in high winds.
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And then of course he'd rip off his mask to reveal himself as whichever boy we'd been crushing on at the time.
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This appears to be a straight-up rip off of the Sony Walkman but with some Aussie flare and double the size.
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It's not a great look to seemingly rip off one of America's most famous bakers, and a social media cake controversy ensued.
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The three of us talk about the blatant design rip-off and how this basically means Facebook has declared war on Snapchat.
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Originally, the installation's concept actually had nothing to do with making a statement about fast-fashion's tendency to rip off indie artists.
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The British government has asked Ofgem to put the price cap on to combat what it has called "rip off" energy prices.
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"Did you know that it only requires eight pounds of pressure to rip off a human ear like yours?" via GIPHY 225.
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The grapple, named "Justice," struggles to do more than gently hug the robot's sides, but it's able to rip off an arm.
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He links complaints about the perceived NATO rip-off with gripes about trade, where he thinks the European Union is "killing us".
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I feel like a lot of current ads rip off the black-and-white bumps and the surreal tone of the shows.
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Biggest need, biggest rip-off Scalpers buy up tickets in bulk and then sell them to would-be patients at inflated prices.
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"Misselling scandals, unfair commercial practices and the sale of rip-off, complex financial products continue unabated," said BEUC, a European consumer organization.
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The photographers that made these images in the 90s, I feel like it would be a total rip-off of their work.
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But such campaigns have also run into hurdles, due to a small number of abusive "rip off " campaigns that have gained traction.
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Price disparities will disappear, as price gougers will no longer be able to rip off those who are less able to negotiate.
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In layman's terms, he has moved from making sure that banks don't go bust to ensuring they don't rip off their customers.
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Simply put, if Wells Fargo keeps using its power as a bank to rip off customers, it shouldn't be a bank anymore.
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Britain's government is putting a wider price cap on standard variable tariffs to combat what it has called "rip off" energy prices.
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Superman: Dawn of Justice Ben Stiller for Zoolander No. 2 Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off, or SequelAlice Through the Looking GlassBatman v.
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Otonomo's docs are a systematically written rip-off of ours – from the overall structure, right down to code samples and even typos.
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You must rip off the plastic bit by bit until your hands would rather spend time clicking out an order on Seamless.
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And the intense hot flashes felt like the push I needed to rip off the symbolic Band-Aid that covered my head.
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"But I thought we had a good thing?" a confused Matt responds, which leads Teigen to rip off the proverbial band-aid.
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The Eminem case was just a bit stupid—when you're listening to it you can hear it was a deliberate rip off.
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For the Moroccan eating experience, rip off an inch-wide square of bread and push the lentils onto it with your thumb.
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AB5 stops the rip off of big tech firms and some smaller trucking firms who misclassify drivers and others as "independent contractors".
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The perpetrators allegedly used mass mailing and telemarketing to rip off seniors, as well as identity theft and financial abuse by guardians.
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A mooring rope could snap with enough force to rip off a man's head, or a falling grate could shear off fingers.
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Still, Trump knows enough to call systematic half-a-trillion, and rising, annual trade deficits a big "rip-off" of the American economy.
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You can have a sense of wonder over a thing that's basically a conjurer's trick, or a con job, or a rip-off.
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Whatever vibe suits you best, you'll be ready to rip off that monochromatic Band-Aid with the IG-approved looks coming your way.
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Depending on how charitable you're feeling, their space-bound monster movie is either a loving homage to "Alien" or a blatant rip-off.
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Then, by listing the counterfeit at a slightly lower price, its rip-off completely took over Elevation Lab's product listing for the Anchor.
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According to the accompanying text on the original tweet (which several viral rip-off tweets have loosely mimicked), these are break-up photos.
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Giant ISPs often help scammers rip off their own customers, earning them the worst customer satisfaction ratings of any business sector in America.
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And when you do get your first iPhone, there's something about the matteness of the box, once you rip off the cellophane part.
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When Takyuu Ishino and Pierre Taki formed Denki Groove in 1989, they were initially written off as a Yellow Magic Orchestra rip-off.
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He and Jorah get +5 each for taking swigs of rum while discussing how best to violently rip off most of Jorah's skin.
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At the start of August, Instagram launched "Stories" — a new feature that is basically a direct rip-off of Snapchat's own "Stories" section.
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Martha has become a butt-kicking Lara Croft rip-off, played by Karen Gillan, and Bethany is a cartographer played by Jack Black.
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A year after blatantly copying Timehop, Facebook's nostalgia feature is proving how successful big platforms can be when they rip off smaller products.
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Even so, you can't help but laugh at the sheer audacity of Silver Moon Internet's rip-off, BoxMaker, which launched on Steam recently.
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HERE'S THE RUNDOWNDave Chappelle: Controversial Stand-Up SpecialYouTube Star Logan Paul: Dead Body VideoLamar Odom: Dangerous PartyingBruno Mars: 'Uptown Funk' A Rip-Off?
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And, a little over a year since it debuted, it appears to already be embroiled in its own rip-off back-and-forth.
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If you look at me now, you'd never guess I was once too weak to rip off the paper wrapper on a straw.
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Basically, it's okay to completely rip off another company's idea as long as you don't also copy the entire interface or source code.
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In fact, the featured "Puzzle" section on the iTunes App Store was filled with these rip-off versions, which prompted several angry tweets.
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Britain's "big six" energy suppliers have been squeezed by efforts to cap energy bills following a government promise to tackle "rip-off" prices.
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The British government asked energy regulator Ofgem to put the price cap on to combat what it has called "rip off" energy prices.
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Hawd Tales #1By Devin Flynn (Revival House Press) This is a total rip-off/homage of Real Deal Comics, and you know what?
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AS A RESPONSE TO THAT, THE PRESIDENT TOOK TO TWITTER, AS HE OFTEN DOES, AND ACCUSED MERCK OF HAVING RIP-OFF DRUG PRICES.
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Unlike a lot of what we see these days, in movies and elsewhere, it doesn't feel like a rip-off or a scam.
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He considers our European partners to be freeloaders on defense (which they are) and rip-off artists on trade (which they are not).
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The "Star Wars" rip-off This one is slight — but it was enough to get me to shake my fist at the television.
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That being said, I am not willing to turn a blind eye to bad actors in that industry, who rip off unsuspecting customers.
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Homeowners often complain about thousands of dollars in damage as bears rip off car doors and tear into garages in pursuit of food.
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He could not just duck into a telephone booth, rip off the suit and tie and dash off to do the Superman thing.
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Forced arbitration clauses, also known as "rip-off clauses," frequently are hidden in the fine print of "take-it-or-leave-it" agreements.
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As a detached outsider, he is able to rip off the optical blinders and sensory filters imposed by civic conformity and functional pragmatism.
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However, federal prosecutor Saima Mohsin told Steeh that Gignac was up to his old tricks again, scouting for fresh victims to rip off.
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This feels to me like an obvious rip off of the Teletoon show Braceface, in which a young lady's braces pick up radio waves and cell phone signals and get her into trouble, as well as a more subtle rip off of Jake 2.0, a TV show in which a boy's brain gets filled with technology and he develops superpowers.
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Here is a thought: Isn't that part of what U.S. President Donald Trump never tires of calling a "rip-off" of the U.S. economy?
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I never thought I'd do it, but eventually, as I used it more, I found Instagram's rip-off of Snapchat to be more authentic.
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One of Double Tap's best sustained sequences starts with an insultingly blatant rip-off of a memorable throwaway gag from Shaun of the Dead.
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It is one reason why they forgive their candidate, though they hardly love all rich men who avoid taxes, or rip off small businesses.
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Samsung is getting criticized by hypebeasts everywhere after it claimed to be collaborating with Supreme; in reality, it partnered with a Supreme rip-off.
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This feels like a rip-off, but this is also the only contractor we have been able to get to the house in months.
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You're sweaty, wish you could rip off every shred of clothing, and would pay (nearly) any sum of money for access to a pool.
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"Take the Sally Mann rip-off [pictured above]: you never forget the original for the child's defiant gaze while holding a cigarette," Johnson wrote.
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Each of these teams, despite their deficiencies, can rip off five wins in a row at any time and find themselves in the playoffs.
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War in Estonia or the East China Sea could end up being a very bad deal indeed, a real rip-off for all humanity.
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Even at the height of Digimon's fame, at the turn of the millennium, many regarded it as a rip-off of Pikachu and pals.
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In 2017 came Pyrex Original, a rip-off of Virgil Abloh's Pyrex Vision, as well as legal fakes of Kith, Thrasher, Vetements, and Palace.
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The fewer idiots in the West who know about the good fighters in Bangkok to rip off and/or copy the better, I say.
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The Cost More expensive than street wear but less expensive than the more established clothing companies that street wear companies rip off ideas from.
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Those convenient aerosol dispensers, in addition to being a total rip-off, spew chemicals all across the sand, where the tide scoops them up.
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Dubbed "meow meow" by newspapers and sold online as "plant food," it was the "killer" drug that made people rip off their own scrotums.
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The feature, which was originally a blatant rip-off of Snapchat Stories, gave users an unfussy alternative to the curated glamour of the grid.
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The company also wants the profits from all the alleged rip-off stores, claiming they're committing trademark infringement with every Grumpy tchotchke they sell.
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They didn't — Donkey Kong 5 is an infamous bootleg that is more of a Mario rip-off than anything, but uses Donkey Kong sprites.
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Bank lobbyists and their allies in Congress are trying to overturn the CFPB's rule so they can continue to rip off consumers with impunity.
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As a "contract" between the characters and their Personas are set, they rip off their mask, blood spews, and their vigilante Persona is unveiled.
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NO MAGIC FORMULA In Britain, Prime Minister Theresa May called energy tariffs a "rip off" and a cap on bills was introduced on Jan. 1.
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On the Zenfone 5, not only did Asus rip off the iPhone X's notch, the company blatantly copied the rest of the X's design too.
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You try to rip off the Guilfoyle, I mean I had a little brother at a lemonade stand, you will get a vicious beat down.
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The findings were part of a wider investigation of several big-name takeaways and coffee shops and were broadcast by the BBC's "Rip Off Britain".
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I've been fighting for over a year to stop Facebook letting scammers use my name and face to rip off vulnerable people – yet it continues.
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Rime isn't, and couldn't be, a direct rip-off; both games went through a lengthy development, and The Last Guardian just came out in December.
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Madge famously ended up on the floor when her theatrical cape failed to properly rip off near the beginning of a 2015 Brit Awards performance.
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Written from the perspective of Barb's friend Nancy, the black and white flyer even has little tabs to rip off at the bottom – very 1980s.
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Frankly, you've got to give the North Koreans credit for having the gall to rip off the world's richest company, seemingly while giving zero shits.
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Two things: first, the woman in this video looks way too happy to be ordering salad, and second, this machine is an absolute rip-off.
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Offering a similar way to follow Collections could turn people into star curators rather than star creators without the need to rip off anyone's content.
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I have a manicure right now, and if I'm having a super masculine day or feeling very male that day, I rip off my nails.
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To knock Life for being an Alien rip-off is to erroneously assume that this solid, junk-food thriller actually cares at all about originality.
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Online forums allow dark-web users to warn each other about rip-off vendors, and addicts to seek advice on how to manage their habits.
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There have been countless stories of scammers infiltrating sites like Airbnb and eBay and operating in grey areas that allow them to rip off buyers.
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But he said "Dues Crazy union leadership" who "rip-off their membership with ridiculously high dues, medical and other expenses" throw their support behind Democrats.
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"Like millions of working families, I am fed up with rip-off energy prices," she wrote in the Sun newspaper, the country's biggest selling title.
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One moment, his niece wanted to rip off the remaining time like a Band-Aid; the next, she longed to linger inside each precious second.
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The hostel has a water machine that dispenses water for 333 euro (which is actually kind of a rip off) but I need it badly.
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When Sanders pounced on this deal as being a rip-off that will have negative consequences for workers across the nation, he was absolutely right.
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He has, for example, gutted enforcement of an Obama-era rule that would have made it illegal for financial advisers to deliberately rip off their customers.
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There's never a great time to have a competitor rip off one of your most popular products, but the timing here for Snap is particularly tough.
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EMUI, Huawei's skin atop Android, has evolved from being a clumsy iOS rip-off a couple of years ago to a quite acceptable user experience today.
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If you're a working on an Animal Crossing rip off or a Fire Emblem clone, it is time to pack it in and give it up.
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In New Jersey, the state chapter of the Sierra Club called the bills a "rip-off" and questioned whether the nuclear operators really needed the money.
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She takes the dress to a nearby cleaners who is able to remove the stain while simultaneously causing a section of the beading to rip off.
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Sporting a design that makes you feel like you need some tokens to play it, Lasso is a transparent rip-off of the popular TikTok app.
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If a tire blows, the body of the car is going to rip off and you're going up in the air — and coming down someplace else.
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Perhaps a Packers fan will rip off their shirt in single-digit temperatures to reveal some impassioned commentary on the recent United Nations vote condemning Israel.
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Some movie buffs have balked that it's a rip-off of 2014's The Book of Life, which also had a Día de los Muertos theme.
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Though Wall Street deserves much blame for the crash of 2008 and the subsequent Great Recession, the financial sector is not all a giant rip-off.
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Our trading partners would have to sit across the table from Donald Trump and I guarantee you the rip-off of the United States would end.
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"We don't mind competition, but if others rip off our intellectual property, we will go after them," Cook said of competitors during a 2009 earnings call.
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It's not a rip-off of Kindred, certainly, but it doesn't bring anything significantly new to the idea of using science fiction to talk about slavery.
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This game feels like it plays out in a similar fashion, and I trust Wisconsin's offense to rip off a big play more than the Spartans.
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He's promised to revisit deals with foreign countries if he thinks they are unfair, pinpointing Mexico and China as countries he says rip off American workers.
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A "misery loves company" approach, where we rip off the bandage quickly rather than an inch at a time, is a less economically painful option here.
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The bill at hand blocks a new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule that would have made it easier to sue banks when they rip off customers.
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The mantle of custodian of the well-being of the free world sounds like a rip-off to Mr. Trump, who thinks deals and little else.
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Trump calls Mexico's gigantic trade an enormous "rip-off" of the U.S. In their view, Trump is an enemy of billions of dollars in Texas paychecks.
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Let there be no doubt, if you cheat your employees, exploit consumers, pollute our environment or rip off the taxpayers, we're going to hold you accountable.
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Though few have tried, no one's been able to come close to flattering Allen with a rip-off of her style; that goes for music and fashion.
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Sunscreen that then dries to a rock hard shell that essentially requires you to rip off the top layer of your skin in order to remove it.
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Specifically, it's where the social media manager encounters the most fake accounts — including ones masquerading as the celebrities she represents — who attempt to rip off unsuspecting fans.
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The video, which quickly went viral, has since been re-uploaded by numerous other content farms and social media channels that rip off popular comedians and writers.
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We need to rip off the curtain for the backstage of the internet so that we can see how information is created, and why, and by whom.
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Read on for tips, strategies and ideal maps/modes to help you suck less at using Overwatch's totally-not-an-X-Man rip-off talking ape, Winston.
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"I've been fighting for over a year to stop Facebook letting scammers use my name and face to rip off vulnerable people — yet it continues," Lewis says.
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It is a super-dumb, shameless rip-off—one that I secretly enjoy and recommend if you want to make this Double Future a full-fledged triple.
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"My god, halfway through that press conference I started expecting Barr to rip off his mask and reveal it was Trump the whole time," the host joked.
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But I couldn't remove the rip-off LEGO from the case and also couldn't handle the spare blocks because they're small, and I apparently have large fingers.
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It's a mediocre rip-off of mediocre ideas, indifferently written, directed, and acted by people who all seem — for good reason — to wish they were somewhere else.
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Failure is always an option in these kinds of schemes, because the galaxy is full of targets to rip off, and jobs in need of skilled hands.
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Martens' parent company says the proof of the rip-off is right there in the footprint of 4 Madden boot designs -- the McBeth, Macen, JPlayy and JFunn.
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They claim there's no proof merchants have passed savings on to consumers– and, therefore, Congress should let banks rip-off consumers by price-fixing and blocking competition.
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The logo for "Hamilton: An American Musical" is now so iconic, it's become a target for rip-off artists ... according to producers behind the massive Broadway hit.
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Those who are bullish say that incumbent banks provide a lousy user experience, rip off customers, and innovate incredibly slowly — and therefore are ripe for the taking.
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That followed Christine Blasey Ford's allegation that Kavanaugh pinned her down at a party and tried to rip off her clothes while both were in high school.
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I've witnessed a streaker rip off his bathrobe in one proud flamboyant gesture and throw it to the floor before he went racing off into the night.
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A racing officiant is seen attempting to grab Switzer from behind and rip off her participant bib when it becomes evident that Switzer was indeed a woman.
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The price cap was aimed at saving households about a billion pounds a year following a government promise to tackle what it had called "rip-off" prices.
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"Knights of Cydonia" is what would play if you were fighting a boss, but in real life and not in some shitty World of Warcraft rip-off.
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The wealthy ophthalmologist was convicted in April over a Medicare rip-off scheme that improperly billed over $100 million in medical insurance payments to the federal government.
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"One of the greatest examples in Britain today is the broken energy market," she said, adding that a price cap would help end "rip-off energy prices".
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Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party has seized on the woes of Carillion and others to argue that "rip-off" private companies should not be allowed to "fleece" the public.
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Rick Ross' entire "Maybach Music" marketing strategy is a rip-off, jacked from a 2007 track with a similar name ... so says a rapper in a new suit.
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Earlier that same week she passed out on a bus from school after imagining she used her own teeth to rip off a piece of her forearm skin.
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As satisfying as the thought might be of Uncle Sam wading in and saying, "No, EA, you can't rip off players using loot boxes," there are broader implications.
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Image: ShutterstockInstagram released its Stories feature earlier this month—which is basically a rip-off of Snapchat Stories—in order to tap into the ephemeral social media market.
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Perhaps the M10 will have more features, making it a better phone, or maybe it's even more of a iPhone rip off that the A9 that proceeded it.
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If one were to rip off the manager's uniform—that said, probably don't—odds are they'd fit right into the uncles' cigar-smoking table at most family weddings.
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That story came to my mind when thinking of U.S. President Donald Trump's vow to put an end to the great China "rip-off" of the American economy.
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Despite the criticism of it being a rip-off of Snapchat and redundant given Instagram Stories, Facebook is trying new ways to make Stories more popular an accessible.
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PRN says Harris not only acted just like Miss Cleo in the spots, but one of them was titled "Flawless Friends Network" ... an obvious rip-off, they say.
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These "rip-off clauses" -- as described by Public Citizen -- put consumers at a disadvantage in a disagreement, because the arbitration process is skewed in favor of the corporation.
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"I am prepared to rip off the heads of 200 people, to sacrifice their lives, in order to save peace and calm in the republic," he told reporters.
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The front door is guarded by a mischief of feral rats, who rip off swaths of your skin with their teeth as you dash into the vacant restaurant.
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"For those in the industry who think it's okay to corner a market, drive up prices and rip off consumers, know that your days are numbered," Walden said.
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Ariana Grande's sexy reggae-pop tune featuring Nicki Minaj is a blatant rip-off of another song, just with their vocals added in ... according to a new suit.
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Mike: Moving on, Instagram added face filters to its app, continuing its streak of innovatively finding new ways to rip off Snapchat for its product road map. Bravo.
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You might think that it's all about profits, that corporations want to be free to pollute and rip off their customers because it's good for the bottom line.
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As if the imaginary layers of fat that I feel all over me are a thick suit that I want to rip off every second of every day.
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U2's "The Fly" is a total rip-off from a British songwriter ... according to the songwriter who's finally getting around to suing them for the 1991 hit.
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Part of me feels a little naive for expecting Kendrick's performance to rip off the bandaid of the wound that this administration has left after the Obama-era.
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Local media report that the Huansu C60 will make its debut at the Chongqing Auto Show this week with styling that's a blatant rip-off of the exotic Lamborghini.
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Britain's energy suppliers are under scrutiny from the government, with Prime Minister Theresa May pledging in October to impose controls to tackle what she called "rip-off" energy prices.
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"Now is the time for Apple to rip off the band-aid and finally do significant content [mergers and acquisitions] with the landscape ripe," Ives wrote in the note.
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The government has said British energy prices are a "rip-off" after it emerged household bills have doubled over the last decade, despite a series of market liberalisation reforms.
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Where the Notebook 9 Pro looked like a MacBook Pro rip-off, the new Galaxy Book Flex, with its striking blue hues, finally looks like its own unique product.
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The game presents itself as a cheap rip-off, the kind of garbage you find at the bottom of the App Store, and brilliantly uses those expectations against you.
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It could easily slide into parody, but it doesn't—like these other records, it's elevated by a level of integrity that staves off any glimpse of a rip-off.
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There's a petition with over 200,000 digital signatures asking Apple to keep the jack as it is: Apple is about to rip off every one of its customers. Again.
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"The Biggest Loser" needs to drop more than weight ... its new logo is a total rip-off, according to a new lawsuit filed by former NFL lineman LeCharles Bentley.
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Ford has accused Kavanaugh of pinning her down and trying to rip off her clothes during a house party while they were high school students during the early 1980s.
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The shoes have an elastic band at the ankle so they're extremely easy for me to slip on and off, but they're difficult for Ellie to rip off herself.
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Still dressed in ratty clothes and yellow from turmeric, the groom's relatives rip off his clothing to bid goodbye to his single life and to ward off bad luck.
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AXIOS, meanwhile, reported that Trump slammed NATO as worse than NAFTA, the North American trade pact he sees as a plot to rip off the US at the G7.
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During his 2016 campaign, Trump often targeted the U.S. trade relationship with China, claiming that previous administrations had allowed the world's most-populous nation to rip off American workers.
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But he's trying to divide us and distract from his own crimes, and from his deeply unpopular agenda of letting the wealthy and well-connected rip off the country.
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But if it is just for us to flex, it&aposs like, dude, you know, you&aposre jack, like you don&apost have to like rip off your sleeves.
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Whether Blur's track should be considered a rip-off or loving homage, it was only after it was released that Bowie and Eno's names were added to the credits.
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The second, Fox's The Orville, is a bafflingly misconceived Star Trek rip-off that seems to exist only because Seth MacFarlane has made 20th Century Fox billions of dollars.
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I'm sure Alex Jones would rip off his shirt and tell me I'm soft while pouring protein powder down my cuck throat because of this, but I don't care.
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Blac Chyna has no limits when it comes to hawking gear ... even if it's a total rip-off of the clothing line of her brother-in-law to be.
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Just as the roof was about to rip off their room, they ran to another building in the complex and broke into a storage room with a concrete roof.
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What seems more likely is that ET News is getting incorrect supply-based information based on the flood of incoming Android phones that rip off the iPhone X's notch.
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The rip-off was so blatant that, in March 2019, Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom admitted that, yep, he straight up stole the idea for Instagram Stories from Snapchat.
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Chefs told Insider that certain dishes at Italian restaurants are always worth ordering whereas others are often a rip-off or something you&aposre better off making at home.
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Trekkies and others on the internet pointed out the obvious similarities between the two logos, calling the symbol for the new military service for space operations a rip-off.
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Most container shipments are contaminated with drugs through a technique called "rip-on, rip-off," which means the cocaine is smuggled into cargo containers by tampering with them dockside.
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The press and interviews collected on the gallery's website lauded a conceptual beauty and rigor in his work, but the only thing I could see was a rip-off.
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Yomi Adegoke posted on Twitter that BBC Sport chose "to rip off" the title of the book "Slay in Your Lane," which she co-wrote in 2018 with Elizabeth Uviebinené.
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"I just feel terrible about what the younger, new to the market buyers must think right now: that the process is a rip-off, that they were gaffed," Cramer said.
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Well, the first record, it took us a little while to find a label, so we ended up working with Rip Off, the label we worked with on The Reds.
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One of the better Youth Crew acts to spring up in recent years, the Turn channels bands like Wide Awake and Uniform Choice, without sounding anything like a rip-off.
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"For our research we found a foreign game that's a campus story—the professors would rip off the player's clothes and have sex with him on the desk," says Zhu.
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Who holds him accountable for battles he's lost in court or the number of small business owners that allege he uses aggressive and strong-arm tactics to rip off vendors?
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The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal, July 13rd Mary Robinette Kowal published a short, audio-first story called The Lady Astronauts of Mars in Audible's 2013 anthology Rip-Off!
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Fallout Shelter developer Bethesda Softworks is suing Warner Bros Entertainment and the creator of a mobile game based on HBO's Westworld for creating "a blatant rip-off" of its game.
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Complete with a family man at the center of a heroin ring, Ozark's freshman season earned the Jason Bateman-led Netflix project the reputation of a Breaking Bad rip-off.
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While the scheme involved monitoring users' behavior, it was ultimately used to rip off app developers, who pay a fee to partners when they drive users to install new apps.
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Here are three elements of the series I wish today's television — and I mean literally any show in any setting — would rip off from one of my favorite shows ever.
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The woman ultimately has to rip off her vagina and place it in an evidence baggie and toss it onto a pile of hundreds of other "pussies" inside police headquarters.
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"Inspiring people to create other things is flattering but when people rip off your ideas and make their customers believe it's something else, it's not flattering anymore," he says bluntly.
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There's no feasible way to make every instance of duping illegal, but we can realistically imagine a society in which people who rip off customers for money face social opprobrium.
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Rihanna's "Fenty University" gear is a total rip-off -- not because that college doesn't exist, but because it jacked its initials from another clothing brand ... so claims that other brand.
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She slips out of bed every night to put in curlers, wrap her hair, rip off her fake lashes, wipe off her lipstick, wash her face, and apply cold cream.
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"It's kind of a rip off of the American show 'Last Comic Standing'", explains Milo Edwards, a British performer who took part after being spotted at a gig in Moscow.
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Kurt Cobain declared himself a huge fan of the band in 1994, claiming that when he wrote "Smells Like Teen Spirit," he was only trying to rip off the Pixies.
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"Strip away my conscience/Peel away my values/Rip off my compassion with your teeth," sings Rebecca, while black-clad jazz dancers remove Rebecca's trench coat, revealing slinky lingerie underneath.
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No longer just reading for entertainment, I was seeking out new writers in an attempt to find the styles I wanted to emulate, imitate or just straight-up rip off.
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These low-budget rip-off artists basically copied and pasted the text that has been circulating since last July, when these 'sextortion' emails were revealed by cybersecurity journo Brian Krebs.
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Forget all the huffing and puffing in pre-game warm-ups that prompted LSU's injured running back Leonard Fournette to rip off his sweats and strap on his battle gear.
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Please rip off Apple's laptops as much as possible, because the company still has great industrial design, but there's no way I'm buying another one of its laptops in 2019.
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"By transferring the patents to a tribe that had no part in the development of the drug, Allergan attempted to purchase sovereign immunity to rip off consumers," Mr. Cotton said.
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"Mick Mulvaney is letting predatory payday lenders off the hook while they rip off American consumers," Diane Standaert, executive vice president for the consumer watchdog group, said in a statement.
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Their foot glue is so strong that if you were to lift a chiton off a rock too strongly, its body and shell would rip off, leaving the foot behind.
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During a hearing with league officials this week, Garrett expressed his regret about his role in the fight, which saw him rip off Rudolph's helmet before hitting him with it.
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While that was a reasonable strategy for a New York real estate developer who was always trying to rip off so-called partners, it's obviously a limitation when you're president.
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The late feline's company -- Grumpy Cat Limited -- is suing to stop corporations and all other entities from producing and selling rip-off gear featuring GC's famous name and furry mug.
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The cap on default electricity and gas bills - a flagship policy of former British Prime Minister Theresa May to end what she called "rip-off" prices - came into force in January.
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"This is a blatant attempt by a celebrity singer to rip off other artists' work, and it won't be tolerated," Merrill's attorney, Sam P. Israel, said in a statement to CNN.
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According to his brothers, Joe also ripped off his shirt at a club the group was at and proceeded to rip off the shirts of two of his friends as well.
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One elderly gentleman he photographed, Steve Culver, recounted how he and his wife spent a terror-filled night in their house, listening to the storm rip off parts of their roof.
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ALONGSIDE "rip-off" energy companies, Sir Philip Green and anyone who thinks that a hard Brexit is not brilliant news, Britain's tabloid newspapers have a new hate figure: British Airways (BA).
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They'll go to Chicago and rip off an organization that's basically the Salvation Army by way of a scheme that — as you might have guessed — involves Willie donning a Santa suit.
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Thomas Edison wasn't ok with people ripping off his ideas, but this is your chance to rip off a bunch of his old memorabilia -- if you like grossly overpriced electric relics.
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Instead of everyone trying to rip off The Empire Strikes Back, maybe we'll have directors boasting about how their sequels are going to be the Last Jedi of a series instead.
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Monday, 50 years later, Kathrine Switzer crossed the finish line of the Boston Marathon wearing the same bib number an official tried to rip off her clothing in the 1967 race.
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It's devastating to see these fashion companies rip off designs that have taken the blood, sweat and tears of true designers who have put their all into their own original ideas.
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Jonah and the bots' constant callouts to this film's status as a blatant Star Wars rip-off are almost a detraction from how kooky this space opera is on its own.
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Could that have been enough to compel a man to scream into the lifeless eyes of a waxwork Sean Combs, rip off its head, and stomp the dismembered skull into oblivion?
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As a result, workers in those countries - many of them refugees from neighboring war-torn Syria - can face low pay, "rip-off" recruitment fees and dangerous working environments, the BHRRC said.
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This week New York's financial regulator called hedge funds a "rip-off" in a report that said the state pension fund lost $3.8 billion on them in the last eight years.
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After requesting she simply "rip off the Band-Aid," Howard offers a parting gift of helping with her remaining student loans, and reflects on his own journey in the legal world.
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Tony Liu and Lindsey Schuyler, the fashion fanatics behind the Instagram account Diet Prada, are both loved and feared for their cheeky takedowns of designers who rip off other people's concepts.
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They played the Xiao Bao [a NES rip-off console popular in China in the late 22000s and early 21s] then most of them just stopped when the ban came in.
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But even more specifically, the series feels like it's riffing on Fox's medical drama The Resident, now in its second season, which is too minor of a show to rip off.
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Madonna's concert series in New York City should be a great time for fans of the "Material Girl," but anyone trying to sell rip-off materials -- hats, t-shirts, posters, etc.
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The movie focuses on former Special Forces operatives (Ben Affleck, Charlie Hunnam, Oscar Isaac, Garrett Hedlund and Pedro Pascal) who come together to bring down (and rip off) a drug dealer.
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If progressives truly want to challenge the "blanket vilification" of Muslims, it would be helpful to rip off that blanket and differentiate "extreme right-wing Muslims" from those who are not.
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The NFL suspended Garrett following an on-field brawl last Thursday night that saw Garrett rip off Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph's helmet and strike him on the head with it.
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Still, the Sanders' team broadband plan is nightmare fuel for telecom giants, who for the better part of three decades have been allowed to rip off American consumers with relative impunity.
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Wells Fargo included rip-off clauses in its contracts and relied on such fine-print terms to defeat lawsuits that would have exposed the bank's millions of fraudulent accounts much earlier.
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It's one of the weirdest song-to-screen interpretations imaginable—who listens to a curdled eff-you like "You Got Lucky" and thinks, Hey, we should rip off Mad Max for this!?
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"Batman v Superman" took home trophies for worst screenplay, worst supporting actor for Jesse Eisenberg, worst remake rip-off or sequel, and worst screen combo for stars Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill.
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Illustration: Adam Clark Estes (Gizmodo)In a post-capitalistic world that seems very specifically and violently designed to rip off the poor for the benefit of the rich, spending money is complicated.
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The latest app to rip off Snapchat Stories is Skype with its "Highlights" — yeah, Skype, the app that ushered in VoIP to the masses and is about as cool as Microsoft Word.
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In that time, some meme accounts have instituted policies of self-regulation in which they promised to credit those they rip off, even if they don't get permission to repost others' work.
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Big fashion brands rip off small ones all the time, the most prolific offenders being fast-fashion companies, whose entire business model revolves around copying trends and bringing them to market quickly.
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The American Legion, which rarely speaks out on bank policy or politics, said in a statement it would "not be silent while banks and payday loan shops rip off servicemembers and veterans".
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I think it's not very nice of Instagram—which, if you don't remember, is owned by Facebook—to basically rip off the concept of a smaller competing app for its own benefit.
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Yet, I count myself lucky, because unlike other New York City commuters, I've yet to be on a train that derailed underground and then had a door rip off from heavy impact.
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Image: Alex Cranz/GizmodoIt looks more like a rip-off of an old iPhone than like the first phone from one of the largest and most influential tech companies in the world.
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"The benefits of taking water into public ownership are clear: ending rip-off prices and excessive dividends for private companies and investing in the long-term future of our economy," he said.
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Kaitlyn: I don't have a clear memory of the 2004 film The Butterfly Effect, but I know I watched it at one point and declared it a rip-off of Donnie Darko.
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Instead, they have dismissed the film as a rip-off of US films, lambasted it as propaganda to brainwash the West, and projected tropes of Chinese people as a yellow peril horde.
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Beyonce's adamant she didn't rip off "Lemonade" from a film about a depressed white guy, and she says the proof is right there in her visual album ... about a proud black woman.
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Tim McGraw and Faith Hill are standing by their man, Ed Sheeran, and insist one of their hit duets -- which he wrote -- was not a rip-off of an Australian hit song.
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"I'll never get the support of Dues Crazy union leadership, those people who rip-off their membership with ridiculously high dues, medical and other expenses while being paid a fortune," Trump said.
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We need to rip off the tablecloth, hurl the china against a wall and replace the crystal with something less ostentatious, more resilient and, for the love of God, safer for children.
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Play a lousy movie — the 23000 "Gremlins" rip-off, "Hobgoblins," or the 23000 Adam West thriller, "Zombie Nightmare" — then have three smart alecks weigh in on the lackluster acting and nonsensical plot.
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Yes, it's a bit of a Crazy Ex-Girlfriend rip-off, but that show was a masterpiece and seeing as it ended earlier this year, I will take everything I can get.
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But his political opponents seized on the allegations, and angry former students spoke out, painting Mr. Trump as a huckster willing to rip off ordinary people in the name of personal profits.
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Where the former established the musical archetype many bands would shamelessly rip off after Jawbreaker disbanded, this section of the band's history would launch a truly embarrassing trend: The wannabe punk poet.
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Kendrick Lamar and SZA were monumentally huge artists and that's what propelled the soundtrack for "Black Panther" ... not a 19-second clip an artist claims was a rip-off of her artwork.
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"I just feel terrible about what the younger, new to the market buyers must think right now: that the process is a rip-off, that they were gaffed," the "Mad Money " host said.
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Robinhood will have to be extremely careful, as fronting users money makes it easier for crooks to try to rip off the startup by spending the advance and then canceling the repayment transfer.
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"It's ridiculous to allow this charleton [sic] to rip off people by tithing then get tax free status as a charity by promoting hate and discrimination against fellow New Zealanders," one signatory wrote.
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One of the truly rip-offs, that was a big rip-off but we got rid of it so all of you people -- how many people were you paying for not to have?
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According to Deadline, American Animals is based on the true story of four teenagers in Lexington, Kentucky who attempted to rip off over $10 million dollars worth of rare books from a library.
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The opposition Labour Party supports the project in principle but says its guarantee to pay a minimum of roughly double the current market price for electricity for 35 years is a rip-off.
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She claims that Kavanaugh allegedly held her down on a bed, covered her mouth as she tried to scream, and grinded his body against her as he tried to rip off her clothes.
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Taye Diggs, eternal tough guy Sean Bean and top character actor William Fichtner co-star in Kurt Wimmer's 2002 action extravaganza, which was unfairly dismissed as a Matrix rip-off upon its release.
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When we're introduced to heroine Paige Townsen (Bella Thorne), she's terrified to "rip off that tag" and profess her love to Jake (Charlie DePew), her roommate/best guy friend/local dreamboat triple threat.
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A retelling of the artist's experience of sexual assault is inscribed onto panties hanging on the gallery wall, which visitors are allowed to rip off in an effort to help overcome the trauma.
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In an internet culture where ideas can almost instantly go viral and spawn a thousand imitations, it can be difficult to define what plagiarism looks like — or even what a "rip-off" is.
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"I did say to Alicia, 'Rip off The Breeders as much as you've ever wanted to but would never dare for your own music because you would be called a copycat,'" Perry recalled.
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"It's devastating to see these fashion companies rip off designs that have taken the blood, sweat and tears of true designers who have put their all into their own original ideas," she wrote.
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"It's often older people or those on low incomes who are stuck on rip-off energy tariffs, so today we are introducing legislation to force energy companies to change their ways," May said.
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"This is simply a matter of protecting American families from harmful products and making sure that we are fully mobilized to stop these rip-off artists from undercutting the American brand," said Sen.
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In Brooklyn, two women out walking their children in strollers were attacked this month, the police said, by a woman who screamed anti-Muslim obscenities and tried to rip off their traditional veils.
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The rise comes as energy regulator Ofgem prepares to implement a price cap on standard tariffs by the end of the year to combat what the government has called "rip off" energy prices.
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Metacritic Score: 35/100A gender-swapped remake of "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson star as two scam artists who team up to rip off the rotten men who've mistreated them.
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With talk of a potential Democratic wave in the midterm elections, and few significant legislative accomplishments, do Republicans in Congress really want to spend its precious time helping Wall Street rip off customers?
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That the alleged physical assault, screaming, holding a screaming woman's mouth closed while trying to rip off her clothes while two men jump on her and laugh, that's not the attack in question.
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Cornell never met a shirt he couldn't rip off or at least slash at the sleeves— constantly writhing in agony, shredding the guitar on his knees, flashing masterful Mr. Steal Your Girl stares.
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As the ad stamps "PURE EVIL" on the face of a convicted murderer who entered the United States illegally, what sounds like a lame rip-off of the Halloween theme can be heard.
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IMPERFECTIONS An unsuccessful actress (Virginia Kull) is persuaded that the way to improve her cash flow is to rip off her mother's boyfriend (Ed Begley Jr.), who works in Chicago's Jewelers Row district.
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"Corrupt public employees rip off the taxpayers and undermine everyone's faith in government," U.S. attorney for the District of Maryland Robert Hur said in the statement, which was published by the Baltimore Sun.
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The dragon teased in the film&aposs trailers looks so much like a Smaug rip-off from "The Hobbit" films that I&aposd be surprised if the Tolkien estate doesn&apost come knocking.
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Misinformation about Facebook itself also came up this year, and this Tech Tip explains how to avoid phony Facebook phone lines and the people behind them who want to rip off unsuspecting users.
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We feel complete betrayal," the caucus said in an earlier statement, adding that "these pictures rip off the scabs of an excruciatingly painful history and are a piercing reminder of this nation's sins.
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Kind of, but the idea of anyone in the Square Enix camp, furthermore legendary composer Nobuo Uematsu, taking time out of their day to rip off Powerman 5000 is... well it's not likely.
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If The Weeknd's huge hit, "Starboy," had a familiar sound, it's not because Daft Punk produced it ... it's because the song is a rip-off ... or so another artist claims in a lawsuit.
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So, for their 2014 campaign, they decided to rip off one of the world's most immediately recognisable (and Academy Award-winning) songs, 2002's "Lose Yourself," featured in Eminem's feature film debut 6003 Mile.
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But the truth is that the American people know a scam when they see one, and once people understand the way that payday loans rip off the poorest Americans, they stand up and fight.
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Unfortunately, Kimball suffered a minor wardrobe malfunction during the dance when he wasn't able to fully rip off his tank — like Amabile successfully did — when the "I'm too sexy for my shirt" lyrics played.
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Trend: Allover Colour At Chanel For my first look, I decided to rip off the metaphorical Band-Aid with a look that truly terrified me: heavy blue eyeshadow, pink blush, and bright coral lips.
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Prime Minister Theresa May will cap UK household energy bills for as long as five years under legislation introduced to parliament on Monday, aimed at tackling what she describes as "rip-off" energy prices.
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I'll be reminded of the first time I breast-fed my son in public, which happened to be while standing up in a crowded subway car (because rip off that embarrassment Band-Aid, folks).
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Before ObamaCare, insurance companies were free to charge women more than men for the exact same coverage, a rip-off that the National Women's Law Center estimated cost women about $1 billion a year.
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There was a memorable moment during Wimbledon last summer, for instance, when Novak Djokovic — after losing a tiebreaker to Roger Federer in the men's final — tried, and failed, to rip off his own shirt.
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Another reviewer on the same platform wrote that it "only goes round once and is super slow," adding that "there's too much light," you "can't get a good view," and it's a "rip-off."
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You'll also get 4K videos with the new Pixel, but the biggest rip off of the iPhone by far (and to a lesser extent, the Moto Z) is the exclusion of the headphone jack.
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It was not ''dropping out,'' argued River, in her 1974 book ''Dwelling,'' but an active search for ''a new pattern of living'' that does not ''rip off the planet or any of her inhabitants.
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The trailer premiered at NYC ComicCon today, showing the titular Future Man himself Josh Hutcherson of The Hunger Games coming to terms with being a rip-off of the hero from The Last Starfighter.
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Balenciaga's dive into the key rings business reeks of a total rip-off ... so claims the company behind Little Trees air fresheners, which is suing the luxury brand for straight-up jacking its product.
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The future implications of cases like "Blurred Lines" and the "Thinking Out Loud" one definitely come up in pub conversations, but anyone who knows music can spot a rip off and those aren't ripoffs.
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Mr. Wolfe, a singer, songwriter and guitarist nicknamed Randy California by his friend Jimi Hendrix, had long disapproved of "Stairway to Heaven," calling it "a rip-off" in an interview shortly before he died.
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"I'll never get the support of Dues Crazy union leadership, those people who rip-off their membership with ridiculously high dues, medical and other expenses while being paid a fortune," Trump tweeted last year.
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"Anyone who's been a patient or a family member of a patient knows that drug corporations rake in record profits and rip off Americans struggling to pay the bills," Mitchell said in a statement.
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In childhood, we see him violently, almost resentfully, rip off a chunk of the house's decorative trim, determined to have some piece of Hundreds Hall, even if it means destroying a part of it it.
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We should all now be aware that Eminem and his writing partner have called the National Party's 2014 election advert soundtrack a "blatant rip-off" of the iconic 2002 ode to the rapper's mom's spaghetti.
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In Dubai, the Trump Organization is building two golf courses and luxury villas with a partner who was convicted and sentenced to prison for collaborating on a deal that would rip off the Egyptian people.
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"Rip-off charges have no place in a modern Britain and that's why card-charging in Britain is about to come to an end," Stephen Barclay, economic secretary to the Treasury, said in a statement.
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Related: Son of Canadian Diplomat Heads to Boot Camp After Plea Deal in Fatal Miami Drug Rip-Off On October 22015, 215, Francisco was robbed of $25,000 in cash and killed in his Juárez home.
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While being inspired by one another creates a bit of healthy competition, it's still not easy watching our favorite brands rip off one another, especially when it happens more often than we'd like to admit.
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Back in the 1990s, a series of Bloodlines comics were released into the DC Universe, where the villains were Alien-style rip-off monsters who fed on spinal fluid and turned some people into heroes.
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Prince's estate is going after a record label, claiming it's run by a group of bootleggers conspiring to cash in by jacking his tunes and plastering the Prince logo on all their rip-off merchandise.
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Andre says he got a trademark for Konfused t-shirts and a bunch of other merch -- which is why he says Chris' Breezy Konfuzed clothing line is a total rip-off, which confuses the marketplace.
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Excerpted from Scam Me If You Can: Simple Strategies to Outsmart Today's Rip-off Artists by Frank Abagnale with permission of Portfolio, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.
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When working into retirement can come back to cost you 4 reasons why your 401(k) may be a giant rip-off The top 10 US cities where your $150,000 retirement savings will go furthest
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So let me say this to the men and women who run our country's corporations: If you cheat your employees, exploit consumers, pollute our environment, or rip off taxpayers we're going to hold you accountable.
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Once the time is up, the crowd is instructed to rip off a segment of their entry ticket and use that to vote for their favorite piece by dropping it in an easel-adjacent bucket.
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The popular car-oriented property, which had already blown up from a mid-budget, genre-film rip-off of Point Break into a mega-budget international heist series, was branching out into an expanded universe.
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Speaking of which, not only are such comparisons completely justified, but they don't bode well for The Girl on the Train, which looks like a pale rip-off next to David Fincher's creepy crime movie.
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"Once I did that, I think it freed something, in that it allowed me to write how I thought my uncles spoke — without it seeming like a rip-off of Pinter or Mamet," he said.
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But the only way to get past that hump is to rip off the bandaid (or the duct tape you may have over your webcam) and start getting comfortable with seeing yourself in this environment.
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The chairman instructed his legal staff not to show up at a court hearing on the matter and has announced no plans for finding ways to solve the rip-off in a legally proper manner.
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Last year, the Trump administration started rolling back protections for two vulnerable populations put in place during the Obama administration that would have prohibited rip-off clauses in student loan contracts and nursing home contracts.
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The cap on default electricity and gas bills came into effect in January this year and was a flagship policy of former British Prime Minister Theresa May to end what she called "rip-off" prices.
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FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK FOR MORE FOX LIFESTYLE NEWS "Delta would have been much wiser to spend $20 million on the myriad customer service issues and stop trying to rip off all the customers," another moaned.
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In the meantime, though, we learn, along with Willie, that the rip-off operation Marcus pitched to Willie is actually being run by Willie's mother Sunny (Kathy Bates), who simply used Marcus to get Willie involved.
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Before we grew up and realized that the animatronic animals were kinda creepy, that redeeming tickets was a total rip-off, and that every surface was covered in kid germs, Chuck E. Cheese's was the spot.
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A copyright and trademark infringement suit was filed yesterday by the McArthur Law Firm, claiming that the packaging of the Jeffree Star Cosmetics x Manny MUA products are a distinct rip-off of Black Moon Cosmetics.
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When considering accusations that the film relied too heavily on plot elements found in the original Star Wars trilogy, Abrams acknowledged the film could come off to some fans as a "rip-off," in Abrams' words.
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NEWARK — Hillary Clinton on Wednesday seized upon revelations about Trump University, the for-profit institution started by Donald J. Trump, calling him a "fraud" who wants to rip off the country he is running to lead.
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In this rip-off, thieves impersonate government officials and tell victims that they're eligible to receive an ATM card with a large sum of money on it — provided they send along cash and personal information first.
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" "It just proves one thing, that if you steal and rip off a Supreme Court justice, then you can try to jam any kind of nasty, racist, ugly policy down the throat's of the American people.
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While many senior officials at the White House want Pruitt gone — one told Axios his firing is inevitable and part of the need to "rip off the band-aid" — President Trump continues to stick by him.
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This makes fighting a bank over a $100 or $200 rip-off hardly worth pursuing: After hiring a lawyer and enduring the arbitration process, you could end up losing money even if you won the case.
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But as rewarding as it is to rip off the tags and put on a newer, shinier version of yourself, jumping into of-the-moment trends comes with one major potential setback: looking like everyone else.
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The police said they had reviewed video evidence showing that the gunman, whose name was not immediately released, had performed a "drug rip-off" in the lobby of an apartment complex at 98 West 183rd Street.
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And I serve on the Aging Committee, making sure that seniors have secure retirement and don't get targeted by rip-off artists who will scam them out of their savings or overcharge them for prescription drugs.
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It would be easy to call this concept device a Nintendo Switch rip off, and we're not above it, but we absolutely dig the Alienware UFO's ambition to bring PC gaming to a Switch-like concept.
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Mike: In "yet another company is ripping off Snapchat" news, Skype decided to redesign its app in a wholesale rip-off of Snapchat, the first major update I've seen from the video chat company in ages.
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In one scene, the gym rats rip off an illegal cannabis farm owned by a slinky kingpin played by Matthew McConaughey; they record the theft and turn it into a diverting music video, posting it online.
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There is no substitute for J Lo in her famous green Grammy gown -- although Fashion Nova's trying to knock it off ... according to Versace which is suing over what it calls a straight-up rip-off.
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If you thought Taraji P. Henson's movie, "What Men Want," was a new take on "What Women Want," think again -- a screenwriter says it's really a rip-off of his script, and now he's suing Paramount.
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Sometimes when you're nestled atop the porcelain throne and it's warm and comfortable, it just takes all the effort you've got to rip off a couple squares of toilet paper and finish up the task at hand.
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Now, let there be no doubt in any board room or executive suite across this country, if you cheat your employees, exploit your customers, pollute our environment or rip off the taxpayers, we will hold you accountable.
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PST: Contrary to earlier reports that Snap's new feature is a rip-off of Zenly, it turns out that Snap actually bought the social map startup last month for between $250 million and $350 million, TechCrunch reports.
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Closet indexing is both quite widespread, due to managers wanting to minimize their own career risk, and a bit of a rip-off, as you pay for active but get something pretty close to an index fund.
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It's a bit of a rip-off of Destiny with the Tower or Destiny 2 with the Farm, but it's a smart move for the game, giving a bit of life to the moments between the action.
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The stories are pretty heartbreaking, with some people explaining that even though they know that Rent-A-Center is a rip-off, it's the only way they have to give a present to their kids for holidays.
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Fast Five (2011): The franchise's pinnacle so far mostly leaves behind car racing in favor of an elaborate heist plot, with even more characters from the series' history getting together to rip off a Brazilian crime lord.
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In an attempt to counter Britain's left-wing Labour Party, May's speech to her Conservative Party on Wednesday balanced emphasizing the importance of free markets with a pledge to cap what she called "rip-off" energy prices.
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And I serve on the Aging Committee, making sure that seniors have a secure retirement and don't get targeted by rip-off artists who will scam them out of their savings or overcharge them for prescription drugs.
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"Let me say this to the men and women who run our country's corporations: If you cheat your employees, exploit consumers, pollute our environment or rip off taxpayers, we are going to hold you accountable," Clinton said.
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In the suit, he says Freenjoy, Inc and its prez were also involved in producing Kendrick Lamar's "All the Stars" video -- and you might recall ... a different artist sued over that one, also claiming a rip-off.
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"Banks will no longer be able to charge rip-off unarranged overdraft charges, which have long penalized their customers, many of whom can afford it the least," said Jenni Allen, a managing director at consumer group Which?.
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Additionally, the government plans to impose price caps on the most common tariff from these companies, the standard variable tariff, by the winter of this year to tackle what Prime Minister Theresa May called "rip-off" prices.
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Some residents in the neighborhood said the area had been flooded with users since the weather started to warm — in some cases, they recounted seeing people, apparently high, rip off their clothes and run screaming into traffic.
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While most dealers don't rip off customers—what with it being bad for business, as the goal is to build a steady base of repeat buyers—sometimes they do, for reasons that range from poverty to revenge.
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Number of streams: 138,042,125+"Robbery" attempts to recreate Juice Wrld's emo magic, but compared to his breakout hit "Lucid Dreams," the lead single for his 2019 album just feels like a watered-down, overly whiny rip-off.
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The regulator Ofgem imposed a price cap on standard energy bills at the start of 2019 under a policy introduced by former Prime Minister Theresa May, who had described prices being offered consumers as a "rip off".
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It's hard to imagine that pizza could ever be a bad choice, but Helton told Insider that Margherita pies are "a total rip-off," and are often one of the most overpriced items on any restaurant menu.
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The regulator Ofgem imposed a price cap on standard energy bills at the start of 2019 under a policy introduced by former Prime Minister Theresa May, who had described prices being offered consumers as a "rip off".
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In Chapter 53, boys rip off her underwear at recess and take turns wearing the damp cotton over their heads, so Joni Baloney runs away, pantyless, and joins a traveling freak show, rocketing horses off high-dive boards.
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If the show already went all in on Heathers, why take the time to pay separate tribute to an empty rip-off like Jawbreaker, except as a reminder that some people inexplicably consider that movie a cult classic?
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The official Westworld mobile game has been removed from Apple's App Store and the Google Play Store just one month after its publisher settled a lawsuit over the game being "a blatant rip-off" of Bethesda's Fallout Shelter.
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After thinking about it more, for what appears to be a reference grade display meant for graphics pros, Apple's $1,000 Pro Stand is expensive but it's not exactly the rip off a lot of people think it is.
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Britain's energy market, which is dominated by the so-called Big Six players, has come under severe regulatory scrutiny and recently Theresa May's government put a price cap on what she had earlier termed "rip-off" energy prices.
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If they rip off six straight wins, it likely will be because coach Mike Babcock clogged the holes in his porous defense, which is understandably bad but also the difference between finishing 13th and seventh in the East.
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"The idiot voters out there, those who are dependent on the government, addicted to the government and they can rip off their neighbors by voting for Al Franken," he added, referring to the then-Democratic senator from Minnesota.
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Live Nation claims bootleggers cause huge financial losses, and it's asking the court to order them to turn over any rip-off merch for destruction ... and give cops the power to seize unauthorized items found in the area.
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Because the Trump administration and some members of Congress are in favor of letting corporations use rip-off clauses to evade accountability, it is critical that forward-thinking companies do the right thing and voluntarily change their policies.
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That is an obscenity, and let me tell you something, when we make it to the White House, when we make it to the White House, the pharmaceutical industry will not continue to rip off the American people.
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It's not clear why Drodo agreed to let Valve rip off its hit, but the company spoke highly of Valve, saying that it has "been a great company" and that Valve was supporting its efforts to develop Auto Chess.
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It's early morning and researchers from BBC One's Rip Off Britain—a show about people being ripped off—are on the way to my shed to interview me for an episode about the seedy underbelly of fake online reviews.
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Without the unique selling point of massively undercutting everyone, and with the baggage of looking like a cynical iPhone rip-off, can the OnePlus 5 retain the small-company charm that's made its maker popular all around the world?
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To that end they've announced a new phone, the HTC 10, and despite looking like a rip off of all the other phones out there, it actually has a new idea packed into its glass and shiny metal chassis.
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He described the collapse of Carillion as a "watershed moment" and said it was time to "end the rip-off privatisation policies that have done serious damage to our public services and fleeced the public of billions of pounds".
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" Barr, 23, told PEOPLE at Hulu's 2017 Upfronts that the feeling is mutual for Watkins: "She was talking to us about [the sex scenes] and was like, 'I just wanted to rip off the pasties and just go wild!
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In separate letters, 38 senators and 65 House members urged the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to move forward with a measure to limit what they called the "rip-off" clause that's buried in the fine print of contracts.
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But this week's release of Mega Man 2 on iOS, part of Capcom rolling out the first six games in the series for Apple and Android, is so shockingly bad that even two dollars feels like a rip-off.
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"It's devastating to see these fashion companies rip off designs that have taken the blood, sweat and tears of true designers who have put their all into their own original ideas," Kardashian West said in her long Twitter thread.
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This issue has been kicking around pop culture for the better part of the last five years, thanks to social media and more opportunities for people of color to both witness and speak out when others rip off their heritage.
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Some Twitter users complained about the aesthetics of the mural itself, with one bemoaning that "This is a rip off and mish-mash of Banksy, Shepard Fairey and Colette Miller," a description which, according to Wagner, is pretty much dead-on.
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A Starbucks Corp advertising campaign showing colorful lines bursting from the coffee chain's signature green straws did not rip off the work of a Brooklyn visual artist, a U.S. judge ruled on Tuesday in throwing out her copyright infringement lawsuit.
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It may sound similar to the 2883 rip-off that poorly copied Threes and swept the internet shortly after Threes came out — but trust me, 2048 is much easier and lacks both the strategic requirements and personality that Threes possesses.
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While chatting up town clergyman Homer Jorgenson (Tom Stell), guests might pick up on the idea that he had something to hide — and sure enough, they'd later learn he was involved in a plot to rip off the Sweetwater bank.
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"It's devastating to see these fashion companies rip off designs that have taken the blood, sweat and tears of true designers who have put their all into their own original ideas," Kardashian West said in a lengthy thread on Twitter.
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Prime Minister Theresa May said in October she would impose controls to tackle what she called "rip-off energy prices" - home power bills have doubled in Britain over the past decade to an average of about 1,150 pounds ($1,500) a year.
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Both utilities' stocks were already in negative territory as traders anticipated an energy policy announcement in May's speech at the Conservative Party conference, but they extended losses on her comments, in which she hit out at "rip-off" energy prices.
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"We don't mind competition, but if others rip off our intellectual property, we will go after them," he responded in a comment that was picked up on and interpreted at the time as a pretty stark warning shot across Palm's bows.
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After all, the dealership just so happened to rip off one of the most popular indie video games of the last few years, and all it took was one tweet from Polygon's Nick Robinson to plaster it across the internet.
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Prime Minister Theresa May said in October she would impose controls to tackle what she called "rip-off energy prices" - home power bills have doubled in Britain over the past decade to an average of about 1,150 pounds ($1,590) a year.
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The rip-off is a variation of the old advance-fee hustle, in which a con artist persuades a mark, via email, to send money, and then more money, for an investment scheme that will purportedly pay off in the future.
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Why it's like that has to do with the fact it historically grew out of an organised crime rip off of black artists who didn't understand the value of their publishing and had their copyrights taken off them for very little.
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But the thing descended into complete fucking chaos when a fire alarm went off in the building, leading old Saint Nick to rip off his costume and start screaming and cursing at a bunch of terrified children, the Cambridge News reports.
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Atari unsuccessfully attempted to sue Sierra for selling a rip-off of Frogger; a close call that spooked Ken Williams into the embrace of a more traditional management ethos, hastening his metamorphosis from hot tub hacker dad into conservative chief executive.
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And he could speak to the working-class Republican voters who had been left behind in this economy, by saying he'd go after China and give them Social Security and Medicare and go after the corrupt hedge fund rip-off artists.
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But semantic quibbles seem trivial compared with the overall importance of "In Our Prime," which is a clarion call for older women to "rip off the invisibility cloak" and reinvent the world they live in so it stops cheating them.
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He's seen as a murderer by his former compatriots — or, worse, as someone who threatened to rip off the bandages hastily applied to Los Angeles's racial divides in the wake of the police officers who beat Rodney King being acquitted.
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For Trump, all the global institutions built after World War II — NATO, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, the United Nations — are just tools for small countries to rip off America or stick it to Israel.
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"With this policy overhaul, Secretary DeVos has cemented her legacy as best friend to predatory colleges and enemy to the students they rip off," Yan Cao, a fellow at The Century Fund, said in a statement to The Associated Press.
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"It's so wild that I feel the need to share this, but let's rip off the bandaid…No, I am no longer in a relationship," Booth, 28, wrote in the caption for a photo of herself laughing at something off-camera.
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Her foundation showed Mr. Atkins's unsettling 2016 video "Safe Conduct" on multiple free-standing screens, allowing an impressively diverse crowd to watch with ease the CGI-generated protagonist rip off his face and put it in an airport security scanner tray.
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It was launched not on Kickstarter or Indiegogo but with its own independent crowdfunding campaign — and considering we've seen devices like this attempt such a thing and either let down or rip off their backers, that alone was a significant risk.
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Wearing earbuds, she remains cheerfully oblivious to the surrounding chomp-chomp, which might have worked as a comment on the narcissism of youth but instead plays like a rip-off of "Shaun of the Dead," a far superior zombie movie.
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"Ali Koc reminds me a bit of Clark Kent — like he will rip off his suit and there'll be a Superman costume underneath," a fan at the campaign rally, Arif Atilgan, said, referring to the challenger for Fenerbahce team president.
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No one at Al Salam had ever heard of the foundation, and they thought at first that it was a rip-off scheme — one of those send-me-your-bank-account-number-and-we'll-send-you-a-million-dollars ruses.
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Sanders would, in a statement announcing his 1976 gubernatorial bid, call for the public takeover of Vermont's telephone company, which he called "probably the single greatest rip-off company in America," and a moratorium on debt payments to New York City banks.
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"When you rip off that T-shirt, you're not just ripping off us, you're also taking money out of the pocket of Planned Parenthood and the ACLU, because 10% of every product that we make goes directly to them," Mcilroy told Refinery29.
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Schneiderman cites one internal email in which Spectrum engineers acknowledged that the modems they were delivering could not support the speeds the company advertised, and that Spectrum executives planned to continue using the so-called fraudulent corporate strategy to rip off customers.
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She went on about bosses who do not look after their staff, companies that do not pay enough tax and utility firms that rip off consumers (even hinting at the sort of meddling in energy markets that won Mr Miliband particular barbs).
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The dancing handmaids Not that they weren't excellent performers, but the visual of Gilead handmaids — you know, the sex servants in a society that strips women of all agency — rip off their tunics and join a kick line was...a little jarring.
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The Mexican government and its leadership has made many disparaging remarks about me to the Pope, because they want to continue to rip off the United States, both on trade and at the border, and they understand I am totally wise to them.
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"I did benefit, yes, but, I believe, in seven years, anything we get is going to disappear," said Smith, adding he believed the tax plan was a "rip-off" that would help the wealthy and add $1 trillion to the national debt.
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Still, it's worth remembering that before John Wick came out, it was widely seen as yet another rip-off of the wildly successful Liam Neeson revenge movie Taken, and yet it established very different parameters and became a success in its own right.
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The Mexican government and its leadership has made many disparaging remarks about me to the Pope, because they want to continue to rip off the United States, both on trade and at the border, and they understand I am totally wise to them.
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Kansas City yielded a total of four runs to rip off four consecutive triumphs late last week, but the offense produced fewer than three runs for the fifth consecutive time in its latest setback and is 21-23 since the winning streak.
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The cap on default electricity and gas bills - a flagship policy of British Prime Minister Theresa May to end what she called "rip-off" prices - came into force in January to set a maximum price suppliers can charge consumers on certain tariffs.
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If the experience gets torturous enough—such as with the mediocre Yu-Gi-Oh rip-off Duel Masters—it's easy to see how these die-hards might be tempted to up the speed on their video player to just get it over with.
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A cap on default electricity and gas bills - a flagship policy of British Prime Minister Theresa May to end what she called "rip-off" prices - came into force in January to set a maximum price suppliers can charge consumers on certain tariffs.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May will cap the energy bills of 11 million British households for as long as five years under a new law introduced to parliament on Monday, aimed at tackling what she describes as "rip-off" energy prices.
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Moorebot is itself a rip-off of the design of Jibo, an early "social robot for the home" that boasted an abstract single-eyeball that bounces, changes color, and scrunches itself up in a variety of ways to convey Pixar-like emotions.
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After about 36 hours of absurd excuses and wild conspiracy theories, the Trump camp finally copped to what everyone pretty much already knew and admitted that, yeah, it did rip off Michelle Obama when writing Melania Trump's speech, the New York Times reports.
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Over the past century-plus, the original meaning has been flipped to commend plagiarists instead of condemning them—and it's also probably helped more than one rip-off artist—or perhaps even a company selling pasta-based meal kits—justify their behavior.
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They are 59 games back So the good news is, if the season is mysteriously extended, and the Orioles rip off a 59-game winning streak and the Red Sox lose 59 in a row, the O's could get into first place.
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"Hedge fund managers continue to reap hundreds of millions of dollars in fees, regardless of their performance, which is a rip-off at the expense of pensioners," Maria Vullo, superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services, said in a statement.
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It's a trait that can be almost endearing at times: When you read his report of "rip-off artists" who "have the decency to commit suicide by jumping out windows on Wall Street," for example, I'd urge you to follow the footnote.
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In Toledo, an area that has lost manufacturing jobs, Clinton said she wanted to "send a clear message to every boardroom and executive suite" that they companies will be held accountable if they "scam" customers, "exploit" employees and "rip off" tax payers.
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Art Betchez is ready to retort to any snark: to those who say that you can't just rip off famous paintings to recreate immersive environments, they patiently show that it's working pretty well for the Atelier Des Lumières immersive initiative on Gustav Klimt.
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My favorite is the font: Just as it is impossible to invent leather jogging pants, it is impossible to "rip off" a gothic font, a typographic style that could just as likely be a reference to graphic T-shirts sold at Walmart.
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The teenage son of a Canadian diplomat is headed to a military-style boot camp for his role in a botched marijuana rip-off that exploded in a gunfight in a Miami neighborhood last year, leaving his own brother and another teen dead.
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"What if Superman had decided to fly down, rip off the roof of the White House, and grab the President right out of the Oval Office?" asks a government official at the beginning of the new clip, which aired tonight during the MTV Movie Awards.
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But given that all of those companies took Apple's move as an opportunity to finally just rip off the band-aid, and only consequences for Jones ensued, it is probably also fair to say that fear of some kind of backlash was a little exaggerated.
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The goal was to create "a pair [of jeans] that we didn't want to rip off at the end of the day, and that complemented and smoothed our bodies without feeling like we were being sucked into yet another tight pair of jeans," she explained.
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As international regulators scramble to catch up to a strange new world that popped up under their noses, you can bet for every legitimate ICO or coin project there's a wave of sketchy ones waiting to rip off greedy investors who don't know better.
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" In one final clip, Gaga addressed her relationship with Madonna – which has long been the subject of rumors of drama after the iconic star was quoted saying that the singer's "Born This Way" single was a rip-off of her 1989 hit "Express Yourself.
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Set to the tune of what is surely a rip-off of the sexy sax man riff from "Careless Whisper," which Sakeru either couldn't or wouldn't bother to license, the eleven (!) discrete episodic commercials tell the tale of Chi-chan's rapturous, rollercoaster love life.
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I kept my dinner mostly inside its plastic wrapper and tried to rip off bites in between spritzes and moments of being tossed nearly into the air, but I felt truly bad for the people who had shelled out $10 for a bucket of popcorn.
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The over-inflated popcorn and pricey candy is a rip off considering you can buy the same products at the supermarket for much cheaper and many theaters don't care if you bring in your own snacks (as long as you clean up after yourself).
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The complaint says they conspired to "literally and conceptually rip off" America's Test Kitchen, the Boston-based television, radio and publishing empire that Mr. Kimball helped create, in order to start Christopher Kimball's Milk Street, their glossy new brand whose magazine debuted this month.
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But while it might be tempting to dismiss FFTCG as a shameless rip-off, it introduces some real and significant changes to Magic's formula—and along the way it manages to fix the one problem that MTG fans universally acknowledge as the game's biggest flaw.
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The candidate who ran as the champion of the forgotten man has led an administration dedicated to such causes as making it easier for financial advisers to rip off their clients and ensuring that workers suffer continued exposure to toxic chemicals in paint-removing solvents.
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Ishaq Muhammad -- aka Young Muhammad -- fired off a threatening letter to Rick's legal team claiming Rick's use of the phrase "Maybach Music" is a rip-off of Muhammad's "Caprice Music" ... which Muhammad says he trademarked in 2006 ... long before Rick started saying his slogan.
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The Weeknd was sued by a trio of songwriters — Brian Clover, Scott McCulloch, and William Smith — who allege that his song "A Lonely Night" was a rip-off of an unreleased song called "I Need Love" that they'd written more than a decade earlier.
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In July, the CFPB issued a rule prohibiting rip-off clauses — perhaps the single most important tool that big banks and financial companies have used to escape accountability for cheating, conning, fleecing, defrauding and plundering consumers — in the fine print of consumer financial contracts.
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"Our president would never stay in an overstated, rip-off joint like this," Sessions says, gesturing out the window as the car pulls up to Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. Mueller is escorted through a door marked "Russians Welcome" to meet with Trump.
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They "repeatedly beat them on the surface of the water" in part because they don't have strong enough teeth to cut up prey, and thus need to violently beat penguins to "tear and rip off the flesh": Unsettling, but what are you going to do?
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Trump & His Self Perpetuating Pettiness / Death of a Nation & Fahrenheit 11/9 Worst Remake, Rip-Off, or SequelDeath of a Nation (remake of Hillary's America…)Death WishHolmes & WatsonThe Meg (rip-off of Jaws)Robin Hood Worst DirectorEtan Cohen / Holmes & WatsonKevin Connolly / GottiJames Foley / Fifty Shades FreedBrian Henson / The Happytime MurdersThe Spierig Brothers (Michael and Peter) / Winchester Worst ScreenplayDeath of a Nation, Written by Dinesh D'Souza & Bruce SchooleyFifty Shades Freed, Screenplay by Niall Leonard, from the Novel by E.L. JamesGotti, Screenplay by Leo Rossi and Lem DobbsThe Happytime Murders, Screenplay by Todd Berger, Story by Berger and Dee Austin RobinsonWinchester, Written by Tom Vaughan and The Spierig Brothers
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Despite being based on creator Tim Doyle's own life, The Kids Are Alright is a pretty direct Wonder Years rip-off, with a little MAGA-inflected nostalgia in it: After all, there's a reason this show was scheduled to air behind Roseanne before Roseanne Barr imploded.
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The early stages of data collection show common frustrations in the field: the aliens ("heptapods") can't tell whether Louise is trying to talk about herself or humans generally until she and colleague Ian dramatically rip off their hazmat suits and repeatedly shout their names, Pokémon style.
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A non-profit called Gluten Intolerance Group of North America is suing Oliver for stamping some of his online recipes with a 'GF' symbol -- which they believe is a straight rip-off of their own label that they're saying is THE official gluten-free stamp of approval.
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They're usually mawkish, overly sentimental, and calculated to make people already emotional at Christmas get a bit misty eyed at an attempt to sell them stuff, but this year's version is notable for actually being quite nice — even if it does blatantly rip off viral videos.
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"The Mexican government and its leadership has made many disparaging remarks about me to the pope because they want to continue to rip off the United States both on trade and at the border and they understand that I am totally wise to them," Trump continue.
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Though they were found only to have cheated in the 2017 season, many suspected they continued beyond then — in part because of a video that showed second baseman Jose Altuve telling teammates not to rip off his shirt after hitting a home run during the 2019 postseason.
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Polis seems to be gaining most traction through his bold proposals for universal full-day preschool, powering Colorado's energy grid 100 percent from renewables by 2040 and ending what, in an interview, he called the "big health care rip off," perhaps through a single-payer system.
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But he offered one humorous thought on a scene that has spurred much of the discussion of hidden buzzers: Altuve's refusal to let his teammates rip off his jersey in celebration after he hit that homer — a clue to Astros doubters that Altuve had something hidden underneath.
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, directed by Man of Steel's Zack Snyder, earned Worst Supporting Actor for Jesse Eisenberg's Lex Luthor, Worst Screen Combo for Ben Affleck's Batman and Henry Cavill's Superman, Worst Screenplay for Chris Terrio and David S. Goyer, and Worst Remake, Rip-off, or Sequel.
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Rippon launched her experiment after a contributor to her show, Rip Off Britain: Food, told Rippon that he had been fired from his job for failing a routine drug test and had absolutely no idea why—until he realized it must have been his breakfast: some poppyseed bread.
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" McLarty allegedly wrote in one email ... "I could show up in New Zealand tomorrow and you [sic] I could rip off your clothes and f**k the British out of you and you couldn't use the restraining order against me because it's in L.A. County, not New Zealand.
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Some advice for side girl: If you ever try to replace an iPhone 5S screen by yourself, be careful that you don't rip off the flimsy Touch ID cable that connects the home button to the logic board; if you do, your fingerprint sensor will never work again!
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That more studios, in an industry that's long been about reiterating on previous design successes—which is a polite way to say that developers rip-off those who came before them all the time—haven't copied Gears' active reload in a more prominent fashion is actually pretty baffling.
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My best guess is someone who was both involved with the creation of this film, yes doesn't know how movies work on a metaphysical level, thought the Alien Queen might leap from the screen, make its way into an adjoining theater, find the BFG and rip off its head.
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Mark Johnson, 215, was arrested by the FBI on Tuesday and freed on Wednesday on $22.65 million (£22,000) bail after being charged by the US Department of Justice with conspiring to rip off a big client of the bank as part of a $3.5 billion (£2.6 billion) currency trade.
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If someone's trying to rip off Lil Peep, then suddenly they're copying a guy who's copying other music, and unless they're somehow using mall-trap as a way to tell their story or comment on the world around them, they're probably reaching something of an artistic dead end.
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But the campaign against the rip-off clause is not simply a battle over fine print; it's a necessary step toward stopping Wall Street banks and predatory lenders from rigging our economy in their favor and padding their profits at the expense of the law and the public.
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The video is even worse when you realise it's a total rip off of Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart", except at least that one was made in 1983 when it was still acceptable to run around clutching your hair like you're burnt it off making toast.
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Walden, in prepared remarks, also fired a warning shot at companies like Mylan and Turing, which have bought old drugs and hiked prices: "For those in industry who think it's OK to corner a market, drive up prices and rip off consumers, know that your days are numbered."
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In the wake of Ford's explosive allegation that Kavanaugh had drunkenly pinned her to a bed and tried to rip off her clothes at a gathering when they were both in high school, Whelan had tweeted numerous times about the possibility that Ford may be accusing the wrong man.
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But Kardashian vehemently denied these allegations and accused Fashion Nova of profiting off other designers, her husband included: It's devastating to see these fashion companies rip off designs that have taken the blood, sweat and tears of true designers who have put their all into their own original ideas.
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Like Trump's effort to let Sinclair Broadcasting violate longstanding media concentration rules, make workplaces less safe for the people who work in them, reduce workers' overtime pay, and make it easier for financial advisers to rip off their clients, there hasn't been a lot of tweeting about these two regulatory actions.
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Man sues McDonald's over value of 'Extra Value Meal' Lawsuit claims deal is a rip-off McDonald's lists the ingredients of the Quarter Pounder with Cheese on its website, which include a quarter-pound 100 percent beef patty, sesame seed bun, pasteurized process American cheese, ketchup, pickle slices and onions.
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If you've ever run an internet search for a phrase cited on Wikipedia or another open source wiki site, you've undoubtedly learned that the web is full of garbage rip-off sites that lift whole passages from wiki pages without actually bothering to fact-check or confirm any of their content.
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The 2003 comedy, about Willie (Billy Bob Thornton), an alcoholic department-store Kris Kringle who teams with the foulmouthed elf Marcus (Tony Cox) to rip off a shopping-mall safe and becomes an unlikely father figure to a bullied youngster, Thurman (Brett Kelly), was a smash with audiences and critics.
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It was an immersive education in the state of the kingdom, as MBS saw who came and went, learning who mattered in which tribe, which clerics held which positions, which businessmen had tapped which parts of the economy, and which royals had found innovative ways to rip off the state.
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It was an immersive education in the state of the kingdom, as MBS saw who came and went, learning who mattered in which tribe, which clerics held which positions, which businessmen had tapped which parts of the economy, and which royals had found innovative ways to rip off the state.
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As pure digital events, the online fundraisings are also exposed to familiar internet frauds, from phishing scams used to rip off the unwary to the hacking of the underlying software underpinning the new ventures — the fate that befell the first prominent ICO last year, for a company called the DAO.
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Of the nearly 20 tons of cocaine bound for Belgium&aposs Antwerp that was seized at Brazilian ports, the vast majority was secreted aboard the cargo containers using the "rip-on, rip-off" technique, according to the latest annual report by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA).
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Challenged to design a dining table by a client who didn't like anything on the market, the architect Lorenzo Bini attempted to avoid making a piece too boring or too pretentious by creating an amoeba-shaped tabletop that he called "an impudent rip-off" of one of Ellsworth Kelly's leaf drawings.
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Click here to view original GIFIf you want to go to the Moon, you can either hitch your ride with NASA and SpaceX or you can get yourself a camera with an incredible zoom like the Nikon P900 which comes with a 24-2000mm lens that can rip off an 83x optical zoom.
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Rather than having a power cable get locked into a laptop — leading to the possibility of someone tripping over the cable and yanking the computer onto the floor — Apple's MagSafe cables attached magnetically; strong enough to hold on, but weak enough that they'd rip off instead of taking a computer with them.
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In just the last few years, the company has been fined $18.6 million for helping rip off programs for the hearing impaired; fined $10.4 million for ripping off a program for low-income families; and fined $105 million for helping "crammers" by intentionally making fraudulent charges more difficult to see on customer bills.
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I did get the controller to work with NetEase's PUBG rip-off Knives Out, though, and it worked great — it's so much more comfortable to move your character with a stick and aim down sights by holding down a trigger, and it's also nice not to have your thumb constantly obscuring half the screen.
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" Taking aim at former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. earlier in the day, he said that China had pulled back from a trade deal because it wanted to wait him out and negotiate with a President Biden or "one of the very weak Democrats, and thereby continue to rip off the United States.
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He then followed that up Friday morning with a truly disturbing tweet in which he straight-up threatened the former FBI director like some sort of two-bit mafia boss in a cheesy Goodfellas rip-off: James Comey better hope that there are no "tapes" of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!
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" Trump wrote on Twitter on Saturday that he thinks China felt they were being "beaten so badly" in the recent negotiations that they may as well wait for the 2020 presidential election "to see if they could get lucky & have a Democrat win - in which case they would continue to rip-off the USA for $500 Billion a year.
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Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) argued the overriding purpose of the bill is to make it virtually impossible for class-action lawsuits to be brought by groups of people who have been injured by a consumer rip-off, pharmaceutical drug mistake, faulty product design, sex discrimination or sexual harassment in the workplace, or lead and asbestos poisoning.
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It was a photo of her 20163-year-old daughter modeling a mermaid romper she had sewn in her home, and it was being used to advertise a rip-off of her design, now being sold for a fraction of the price on a AliExpress, a site run by one of the world's biggest technology companies.
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Americans for Financial Reform (AFR) and Public Citizen recently partnered to step up a joint campaign to take on forced arbitration, working with a broad coalition of organizations to build support for the CFPB's rule-making by raising public awareness of rip-off clauses and the way they work across a range of industries, products and services.
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Westworld doesn't yet have the characters to completely pull this off — poor James Marsden continues to play a complete cipher as Dolores's sidekick/main squeeze Teddy — but its embrace of this kind of storytelling decompression keeps it from feeling like a watered-down Game of Thrones or Lost rip-off like it often did in season one.
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Unfortunately, this happened at the same time that a villain known as Proctor was driving Sersi to the limits of her sanity; in an attempt to save her mind, another Eternal known as Ikaris bonded Dane and Sersi together in a barely-disguised Pon Farr rip-off known as the "Gann Josin," which linked the two mentally.
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" Trump wrote on Twitter on Saturday that he thinks China felt they were being "beaten so badly" in the recent negotiations that they may as well wait for the 2020 presidential election "to see if they could get lucky & have a Democrat win - in which case they would continue to rip-off the USA for $500 Billion a year.
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Perhaps feeling good in his body, gaining greater confidence, and finding excitement in the attention he gets, while maintaining that boyish charm that made him lovable since the beginning, has gotten him to a place where he can rip off his undertank for screaming fans one day and joke about his mind-blowingly buff BAWD another day.
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Also on hand: Isabela (Alex Meneses), a fading prima donna who used to be the star of the show until age caught up with her; Rodrigo (Amaury Nolasco), who plays the villain on the telenovela; Mimi (Diana Maria Riva), who handles costumes and crisis control; and Gael (Jose Moreno Brooks), a gay hunk who likes to rip off his shirt for no reason.
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Snapchat's old Stories Page design pushed friends below Discover channels, while Instagram Stories highlights friends' Stories at the top Snapchat's old Stories Page design pushed friends below Discover channels, while Instagram Stories highlights friends' Stories at the top Though Instagram admitted its Stories are a blatant rip-off of Snapchat Stories, the product's rapid ascent could hamper growth for Snapchat.
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This campaign season has seen much of the media rip off their veneer of objectivity, too often acting instead as an unofficial campaign arm working to elect Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE.
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When she dared to mime sipping tea after scoring on England during their semi-final match, it sparked a conversation on respectability politics and gender in sports; while male players rip off their shirts, do the Fortnite dance, and are given nearly free reign to celebrate a goal in any way they like, women continue to face criticism for behaving similarly.
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During a Senate hearing last month, Dr. Blasey, a university professor and research psychologist, described a chilling scene at a high school gathering more than 30 years ago, when, she said, a young, drunken Mr. Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed, tried to rip off her clothes and placed his hand over her mouth to muffle her screams for help.
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Graphic: Clockwise: (Sam Woolley, Brett Foxwell, CDC, Sam Woolley/Shutterstock)The end of summer is fast approaching, though the fun in the sun is coming to an even swifter conclusion for some of us: Take the tale of Paul Ceglia, the man who allegedly used forged documents naming him as a Facebook co-owner to try and rip off CEO Mark Zuckerberg in court.
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But what I love about it is the way simply making the romantic relationship at its center be between two women — instead of the more frequently told tale of a con man falling in love with an heiress he means to rip off — opens up all sorts of emotional material in the story that a more traditional tale wouldn't have been able to get to.
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Reporters from BBC One's Rip Off Britain were served the ice at the Martineau Place branch of the fast food outlet in Birmingham as part of a broader investigation into food standards across the UK. A scientist who examined the results at Leeds Beckett University, Dr Margarita Gomez Escalada, said that the bacteria posed a risk of illness to anyone who might drink the icy water.
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He knows that Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward CruzTrump moves forward with F-16 sale to Taiwan opposed by China The Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape O'Rourke says he will not 'in any scenario' run for Senate MORE has out-organized him for the second ballot, when the Cruz delegates can rip off their Trump shirts and flaunt their true loyalty.
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When I see a total rip-off of this country by Japan, where they literally have no defense budget, where we have to borrow money from them in order to get them oil and defend the Persian Gulf where most of the oil goes to Japan, not us … Bottom line, Phil, I don't like being ripped off, and when I see something, I let people know.
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Strikingly, the exhibit does not mention some of the most iconic moments in fashion history that overtly use Catholic symbols: The priest's robe that Madonna dons after simulating masturabation during her Blond Ambition tour, the rosaries and crucifixes that Billy Idol meant to "show what a human rip-off religion is," or Lady Gaga's stage costumes that took turned a nun's habit into a see-through celebration of overt sexuality.
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My best friend and I would make pilgrimages out to these grimy veterans' halls, fire houses (rural South Jersey is a trip), and weird "entertainment complexes" complete with batting cages and snack stands selling vile microwaved pizza to watch local bands like The Concubine and Bodies in the Gears of the Apparatus diligently do their best to rip off Dillinger Escape Plan and Converge for hours on end.
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Take the Sooners, for example, who still could rip off four impressive wins to go with a September victory at No. 3 Ohio State (7-1) — and then find themselves ranked fifth or sixth, behind some combination of the SEC champion, the Big Ten champion, a one-loss A.C.C. champion (or even an undefeated one: hello, Miami!), a great one-loss SEC team and even one-loss Notre Dame.
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"If you see images from the first passage she has thigh high silver socks and white leather mules, and since we were at the other end of the armoury there wasn't much we could do other than either fake a non-broken heel or rip off her socks and shoes and send her out barefoot, which we did, and was all the more natural for it," Grand said.
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Senate Democrats, sensing their pet agency may be in danger, have already issued a letter to President Trump calling for a CFPB director with "…bipartisan support and a track record of being tough on big banks and other financial firms that rip off consumers…" and "…a Director who will fight for consumers allows the CFPB to continue its work without political interference," a request dripping with irony given the agencies documented pro-Democratic partisanship.
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It's no secret that he believes American troops should not be fighting what he sees as other people's wars, and he tends to view alliances as simply a chance for America's traditional friends to rip off the US. And while Trump's Pentagon and foreign policy aides have been warning that the fight to prevent an ISIS resurgence is not over, the President concocted a more simple reality that satisfies a political goal.
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Per the Reporter: It's unclear what, exactly, that new DC story is, or if Phillips plans to tackle it before or after we see Phoenix angrily smear white paint around his face again in Joker 2, but the whole thing raises an interesting question: If Phillips could take Taxi Driver and King of Comedy and mash it up into a wildly successful supervillain movie, what Scorsese film should he rip off next?
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