You should ALWAYS have returned it as defective, regardless of what the manufacturer reckons; depending on your local consumer protection laws, of course.
You would never expect to roll a new car off the lot with a flat tyre. Why would you expect a screen to be ok when the main part is glaringly defective?.
The short answer is there an ISO standard, ISO 13406-2 for LCD displays; pretty much every display is sold as a class II. A guaranteed defect free display (class I) is a premium product. Shops have sold 'seconds', products with minor imperfections since forever.
So, especially back when defects were relatively common, I reckon your case is fairly thin, although jurisdictions will vary. Now, when expectations are higher, maybe that's changed.
The problem with the owner being liable is that if a self-driving car does serious injury to someone else then most people won't be able to afford to pay; then the burden will end up on the taxpayer.
The important thing is that whether you are driving a self-driving car or not, you carry valid liability insurance. Then it's up to the market to decide what to price the insurance premiums at.
If CCTV cam now records any part of someone's property its autowin in court?.
No, that's a stupid interpretation. UK courts have regularly been much less tolerant of audio recordings, which rarely have a legitimate use without a warrant.
Personally I'm surprised the VC's or whoever put the money up let him get away with this sort of behavior.
I suspect that most of the money coming from his father had something to do with it but even then there were limits on how much money he was willing to spend indulging Nardone Jr.
So the most reliable, and most obvious way for a doctor to increase their rating is to try to avoid treating patients the who are in poor health - exactly the opposite of what we want doctors to do.
shilly addressed this point in the parent post. Crudely looking at success rates, and over-incentivising them is bad. Not collecting the data because it is liable to misinterpretation is not the solution, however. There are huge benefits in clinical outcomes available by using these metrics sensibly; even some counterintuitive things like closing some regional units - because they saw the trickier cases too rarely to keep their clinical skills up to date.
It has the largest population, the largest military and the largest industry. It's busy making strategic investments around the world and territorial claims. It's investing huge sums on science and engineering to make up for any technological lag.
I wouldn't like to bet against China being the dominant world power by the end of the century, whether I like it or not. Mostly not.
All 5eyes countries have moved to a more extreme surveillance regime over time.
Take Theresa May, she was Home Secretary. For quite a while only women would be made Home Secretary, and we didn't know why.
I know why only women were made home secretary; it's because you are delusional. Before Theresa May only one out of the last hundred or so home secretaries was a woman. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If you feel that way, go ahead and short the price of bitcoin.
That's missing the point: whether the price of Bitcoin is going to go up or down, the article is still spam. There are plenty of places you can go on the internet if you want to read [random person] says [random thing] is over|under valued articles.
The company did nothing wrong - Prugar is an asshole who deserved what he got. If you think that he suddenly developed an attitude problem and a complete lack of professional integrity after he got fired without cause, then Occam's razor says you're wrong.
And, no a job isn't purely about personal productivity. As a sysadmin you need to document the fuck out of things, and nurture your team so they can handle things without you being around 24/7, because shit happens. If you have a sysadmin that doesn't do these things you need to fire them as fast as possible, whilst your company still has a chance of getting over it.
If you've been treated badly by big corporations for being a bit different then I can sympathise with that. Identifying with a jerk who put his company out of business because he couldn't walk away, not so much.
The trouble is that the biggest providers like TalkTalk keep buying out the smaller providers who suck less. It's a chore to swap, especially if you made the mistake of using your ISP provided e-mail address.
I must say that I was staggered to be in almost complete agreement with Okian Warrior. However, on reflection I think that was Hawking's point. It's easy to dismiss populist movements (of the left or right) as being short sighted; however, the sad truth is that the 'business as usual' alternatives aren't a whole lot (if at all) better.
We are in for some profound changes in society in the next few decades, and I don't think in the end the individual personalities will make a whole load of difference. Hopefully we will come through it into some better future (whatever that is) but it's going to be a hell of a ride.
Tesco will compensate - at least to some degree. And they are probably better placed with a large retail network open 24x7 to provide emergency cash withdrawals than normal banks. Having said that for some people it will be a problem.
AIUI in the Icelandic tradition it was the job of the speaker to recite the entire legal code from memory before the Althing conducted any further business.
My understanding is that the House of Lords would have heard this case in the past, before there was a high court. Welcome to the world of appointed judges who legislate from the bench, Great Britain. Fun times - you'll just love it.
You understand incorrectly. In the past the law lords were ex officio members of the House of Lords but they were only 12 out of several hundred members. Separating them off into a Supreme Court (which isn't the High Court, btw) to make a clearer distinction between legislature and judiciary was a positive move IMHO.
Secondly, I am amazed that so many Americans, in particular, support the idea that executive fiat should override a law passed in Parliament. Taking the Lord Chief Justice's ruling, which includes the words, "“the most fundamental rule of the UK constitution is that parliament is sovereign” as judicial activism is really misguided.
It was a performance hack for a microkernel system, so no. Apple had to do some extensive reworking to fix it, so it seems sensible to me to cut them some slack in this case.
So, what you need to do is to open an Uber account, go to the furthest part of the island, where there is a zero demand for UBER service, preferably during the night and check-in. Leave the car overnight and let the idle car make money, while doing nothing.
If UBER is willing to employ people for whom it has no work, then it needs to rethink its hiring policy. It's UBER's job to find a business model that is profitable under the law; it's not the law's job to accomodate UBER's business model.
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You should ALWAYS have returned it as defective, regardless of what the manufacturer reckons; depending on your local consumer protection laws, of course.
You would never expect to roll a new car off the lot with a flat tyre. Why would you expect a screen to be ok when the main part is glaringly defective? .
The short answer is there an ISO standard, ISO 13406-2 for LCD displays; pretty much every display is sold as a class II. A guaranteed defect free display (class I) is a premium product. Shops have sold 'seconds', products with minor imperfections since forever.
So, especially back when defects were relatively common, I reckon your case is fairly thin, although jurisdictions will vary. Now, when expectations are higher, maybe that's changed.
I think we can reasonably be sure that IBM will deliver on time; just not necessarily in this universe.
If you follow the letter of the law, you're ok. Unless you look like you're doing something wrong, it which case we'll arrest you anyway.
That's crap.
No it's not. All it means is that you drive badly because you are distracted, like not staying in lane you risk getting a ticket for that.
The problem with the owner being liable is that if a self-driving car does serious injury to someone else then most people won't be able to afford to pay; then the burden will end up on the taxpayer.
The important thing is that whether you are driving a self-driving car or not, you carry valid liability insurance. Then it's up to the market to decide what to price the insurance premiums at.
If CCTV cam now records any part of someone's property its autowin in court? .
No, that's a stupid interpretation. UK courts have regularly been much less tolerant of audio recordings, which rarely have a legitimate use without a warrant.
Personally I'm surprised the VC's or whoever put the money up let him get away with this sort of behavior.
I suspect that most of the money coming from his father had something to do with it but even then there were limits on how much money he was willing to spend indulging Nardone Jr.
So the most reliable, and most obvious way for a doctor to increase their rating is to try to avoid treating patients the who are in poor health - exactly the opposite of what we want doctors to do.
shilly addressed this point in the parent post. Crudely looking at success rates, and over-incentivising them is bad. Not collecting the data because it is liable to misinterpretation is not the solution, however. There are huge benefits in clinical outcomes available by using these metrics sensibly; even some counterintuitive things like closing some regional units - because they saw the trickier cases too rarely to keep their clinical skills up to date.
Funnily enough, they have been busted for price fixing Monopoly. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/bus...
It's easier to pay a few developers than buy a company with a stupid valuation. Who'd have thought it? Shame for Snapchat but that's business.
The FBI thought that Steve Jobs had taken drugs that altered other people's perception of reality? Have I woken up in a Philip K Dick story?
It has the largest population, the largest military and the largest industry. It's busy making strategic investments around the world and territorial claims. It's investing huge sums on science and engineering to make up for any technological lag.
I wouldn't like to bet against China being the dominant world power by the end of the century, whether I like it or not. Mostly not.
It's a figurative expression. I know people round here can be very literal minded but surely as a writer you know better.
All 5eyes countries have moved to a more extreme surveillance regime over time.
Take Theresa May, she was Home Secretary. For quite a while only women would be made Home Secretary, and we didn't know why.
I know why only women were made home secretary; it's because you are delusional. Before Theresa May only one out of the last hundred or so home secretaries was a woman. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If you feel that way, go ahead and short the price of bitcoin.
That's missing the point: whether the price of Bitcoin is going to go up or down, the article is still spam. There are plenty of places you can go on the internet if you want to read [random person] says [random thing] is over|under valued articles.
The company did nothing wrong - Prugar is an asshole who deserved what he got. If you think that he suddenly developed an attitude problem and a complete lack of professional integrity after he got fired without cause, then Occam's razor says you're wrong.
And, no a job isn't purely about personal productivity. As a sysadmin you need to document the fuck out of things, and nurture your team so they can handle things without you being around 24/7, because shit happens. If you have a sysadmin that doesn't do these things you need to fire them as fast as possible, whilst your company still has a chance of getting over it.
If you've been treated badly by big corporations for being a bit different then I can sympathise with that. Identifying with a jerk who put his company out of business because he couldn't walk away, not so much.
The trouble is that the biggest providers like TalkTalk keep buying out the smaller providers who suck less. It's a chore to swap, especially if you made the mistake of using your ISP provided e-mail address.
I must say that I was staggered to be in almost complete agreement with Okian Warrior. However, on reflection I think that was Hawking's point. It's easy to dismiss populist movements (of the left or right) as being short sighted; however, the sad truth is that the 'business as usual' alternatives aren't a whole lot (if at all) better.
We are in for some profound changes in society in the next few decades, and I don't think in the end the individual personalities will make a whole load of difference. Hopefully we will come through it into some better future (whatever that is) but it's going to be a hell of a ride.
Theresa May is an attempt to give credit/blame for the Brexit vote to a single individual
Hardly, she was on the losing side. She just didn't campaign strongly enough to alienate leavers.
Yes, but they aren't reinventing it. It's doing things like providing minimum jitter for PTP packets.
Tesco will compensate - at least to some degree. And they are probably better placed with a large retail network open 24x7 to provide emergency cash withdrawals than normal banks. Having said that for some people it will be a problem.
Did you hear that "whoosh" sound?
I don't think his mail program supports that.
AIUI in the Icelandic tradition it was the job of the speaker to recite the entire legal code from memory before the Althing conducted any further business.
My understanding is that the House of Lords would have heard this case in the past, before there was a high court. Welcome to the world of appointed judges who legislate from the bench, Great Britain. Fun times - you'll just love it.
You understand incorrectly. In the past the law lords were ex officio members of the House of Lords but they were only 12 out of several hundred members. Separating them off into a Supreme Court (which isn't the High Court, btw) to make a clearer distinction between legislature and judiciary was a positive move IMHO.
Secondly, I am amazed that so many Americans, in particular, support the idea that executive fiat should override a law passed in Parliament. Taking the Lord Chief Justice's ruling, which includes the words, "“the most fundamental rule of the UK constitution is that parliament is sovereign” as judicial activism is really misguided.
It was a performance hack for a microkernel system, so no. Apple had to do some extensive reworking to fix it, so it seems sensible to me to cut them some slack in this case.
So, what you need to do is to open an Uber account, go to the furthest part of the island, where there is a zero demand for UBER service, preferably during the night and check-in. Leave the car overnight and let the idle car make money, while doing nothing.
If UBER is willing to employ people for whom it has no work, then it needs to rethink its hiring policy. It's UBER's job to find a business model that is profitable under the law; it's not the law's job to accomodate UBER's business model.