Well, I would always write it as yoghurt, but it's very tempting to go in a rename all instance of yoghurt to yogurt and vice verca, just for shits and giggles.
They log and track all serial numbers for all devices sold, and they exercise especial care to track high value merchandise.
Clearly they didn't log S/N, otherwise the packer would have been informed that they packed the wrong thing. In this case it sounds like the packer looks at the slip and picks something off the shelf and shoves it in a box. In an ideal world, the packer would scan the slip, and then scan each of the items being put in the box, the scanner would then warn if an incorrect item was selected, or if something was left out before allowing the box to be shipped.
It's trivial to enter the incorrect amount when doing a bank transfer (or to get the account details wrong), and good luck trying to get the money back. Sure it's easy to double check the number, but likewise it's a trivial mistake to pack a kettle lead rather than a SATA HD*, but it's easy for the packer to double check the consignment slip. Put simply, it was a mistake, and the GP is correct, it's hypocritical to expect money back when you make a mistake, but want to keep things when they make a mistake.
* eBuyer sent a courier to collect the kettle lead (confused them no end when they wanted the S/N on it). If I were more unethical, it'd be a great scam - order something expensive, complain they sent a kettle lead, get an unused kettle lead (we can trade in them), send it back and get 2nd shiny thing**
** Obviously will only work if you order a small shiny thing - in my case it came in a jiffy bag and a colleague signed for it, so it *could* have contained a HD. If you order a computer, they'll be able to tell from the original package size.
Similar story here - my DVR died a couple of months ago and I haven't gotten around to taking i apart to see what the problem is - probably just a fuse. Even though my TV has a digital receiver I've only used it for watching iPlayer and Netflix. I've missed a couple of interesting programs, but that's it.
A subsequent poster mentioned XKCD's "I don't own a TV", it's not really smugness, just the realisation that I don't miss live TV - I can pick something to watch that matches my mood at the time.
That really bothers you? For me it's quite the opposite - I like to hear about religious people who are less about the trimmings and more about the faith. Granted, the two you overheard may just be completely apathetic.
A for allowing their children to "find their own way in religion", again I think it's not a bad idea. My sister (who is completely atheist) had her son baptised. I asked if it was so that he could go to a CofI (Church of Ireland - Anglican) school, rather than a Catholic one. She said no (although said that it was a definite benefit), but that she feels it easier to lose a faith than to gain a faith later on in life and wanted to give him the choice. Plus, she has some acquaintances who were given no faith guidance when young and turned into some religious nut-cases.
This is why international terrorism (tm) will lose (if our respective governments wouldn't keep bigging them up) - they just don't have the imagination, intelligence and wherewithal to do things like that.
A colleague of mine did this the other day to an Indian "Windows support" call.
Q Is your mother very proud of what you do? A Oh yes, very proud Q And your father? A Yes, him too Q And your brothers and sisters, do they know what job you do? A Yes, my whole family is very proud of my job Q I knew it, you're *all* a fucking bunch of lying scumbags.
I've never had one of the calls, which is a shame, I could have a hell of a lot of fun.
You don't need to be technically competent to get around the filters - you just need to be able to follow instructions. You don't even need to know any keywords like "proxy" - "how do i unblock torrents" does just fine.
I think you overestimate the capabilities and patience of a large percentage of the population of the UK. I think these actions will shut down 80% of the movie sharing.
Don't really agree with this. The people [that I know of] that torrent are *not* tech savy, however they are more than capable of googling something along the lines of "BT piratebay blocked"* which will give them a workaround on the 2nd link. I think the best way to describe it is "never underestimate the ingenuity of someone who doesn't want to pay anything"
* Typing "BT pirate" immediately suggests BT pirateproxy. These people don't know need to understand what a proxy is, all they know is that a proxy lets them get to stuff they not allowed to see.
Tell me about it, in the UK a Policeman was let off doing 159mph as he was the "creme de la creme of drivers". They completely ignored the fact that other drivers have no ability to deal with people driving at over twice the expected speed on a motorway.
This happened to me on a dual carriageway (70mph limit) - I looked in my mirror and saw a car in the distance and estimated that I had enough time to pull out and overtake the lorry. By the time I'd started indicating and pulling out, a Nobel was on top of me - based on the distance covered he must have been doing about 140mph.
Well, at the London Olympics they had cat^H^H^H wireless detectors to find people with personal hotspots - they had signs up at the entrances saying they were prohibited. I think it's because they'd conned a shit load of money from BT as the official telecoms sponsor. If they'd been allowed to set up mobile jammers, I'm sure they would have.. Seeing as this one is in Russia, it'll be interesting to see if the IOC and organisers to go more draconian.
I think I've missed something about the curvature - a lot of people seem to be taking as if it's huge. My thought was that it would be like that of the galaxy nexus, ie the centre of the screen 1mm off-plane. I suppose that's big for iPhones as they have a uniform thickness.
Hmm, never had that problem with my Galaxy Nexus. Granted, if I'm stupid enough to drop a breeze block on it or leave my phone on the floor for someone to step on, then yes, the very large radius of curvature of the screen may enable the phone to deform. However, odds are that if I stand on my phone it will be damaged regardless.
The funny this is that just because the screen is curved, it doesn't mean the back has to be curved.
My first thought is that it would be to prevent screen damage - if the display is curved and you place it face down on a flat surface there will be only two points of contact.
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Well, I would always write it as yoghurt, but it's very tempting to go in a rename all instance of yoghurt to yogurt and vice verca, just for shits and giggles.
Taxi drivers like to think that they are always the most informed folks in any city
They log and track all serial numbers for all devices sold, and they exercise especial care to track high value merchandise.
Clearly they didn't log S/N, otherwise the packer would have been informed that they packed the wrong thing. In this case it sounds like the packer looks at the slip and picks something off the shelf and shoves it in a box. In an ideal world, the packer would scan the slip, and then scan each of the items being put in the box, the scanner would then warn if an incorrect item was selected, or if something was left out before allowing the box to be shipped.
It's trivial to enter the incorrect amount when doing a bank transfer (or to get the account details wrong), and good luck trying to get the money back. Sure it's easy to double check the number, but likewise it's a trivial mistake to pack a kettle lead rather than a SATA HD*, but it's easy for the packer to double check the consignment slip. Put simply, it was a mistake, and the GP is correct, it's hypocritical to expect money back when you make a mistake, but want to keep things when they make a mistake.
* eBuyer sent a courier to collect the kettle lead (confused them no end when they wanted the S/N on it). If I were more unethical, it'd be a great scam - order something expensive, complain they sent a kettle lead, get an unused kettle lead (we can trade in them), send it back and get 2nd shiny thing**
** Obviously will only work if you order a small shiny thing - in my case it came in a jiffy bag and a colleague signed for it, so it *could* have contained a HD. If you order a computer, they'll be able to tell from the original package size.
Expansys by any chance?
Similar story here - my DVR died a couple of months ago and I haven't gotten around to taking i apart to see what the problem is - probably just a fuse. Even though my TV has a digital receiver I've only used it for watching iPlayer and Netflix. I've missed a couple of interesting programs, but that's it.
A subsequent poster mentioned XKCD's "I don't own a TV", it's not really smugness, just the realisation that I don't miss live TV - I can pick something to watch that matches my mood at the time.
That really bothers you? For me it's quite the opposite - I like to hear about religious people who are less about the trimmings and more about the faith. Granted, the two you overheard may just be completely apathetic.
A for allowing their children to "find their own way in religion", again I think it's not a bad idea. My sister (who is completely atheist) had her son baptised. I asked if it was so that he could go to a CofI (Church of Ireland - Anglican) school, rather than a Catholic one. She said no (although said that it was a definite benefit), but that she feels it easier to lose a faith than to gain a faith later on in life and wanted to give him the choice. Plus, she has some acquaintances who were given no faith guidance when young and turned into some religious nut-cases.
This is why international terrorism (tm) will lose (if our respective governments wouldn't keep bigging them up) - they just don't have the imagination, intelligence and wherewithal to do things like that.
Hex is all well and good, but you can still get 0 & O mixed up.
They'd probably do you for "assaulting a police officer".
Bill Bailey: "Marx said Religion is the opium of the masses, but surely opium is the opium of the masses."
Try these for some pointers.
A colleague of mine did this the other day to an Indian "Windows support" call.
Q Is your mother very proud of what you do?
A Oh yes, very proud
Q And your father?
A Yes, him too
Q And your brothers and sisters, do they know what job you do?
A Yes, my whole family is very proud of my job
Q I knew it, you're *all* a fucking bunch of lying scumbags.
I've never had one of the calls, which is a shame, I could have a hell of a lot of fun.
It's not a problem, in the small print they've defined % as 999900 ppm
You don't need to be technically competent to get around the filters - you just need to be able to follow instructions. You don't even need to know any keywords like "proxy" - "how do i unblock torrents" does just fine.
I think you overestimate the capabilities and patience of a large percentage of the population of the UK. I think these actions will shut down 80% of the movie sharing.
Don't really agree with this. The people [that I know of] that torrent are *not* tech savy, however they are more than capable of googling something along the lines of "BT piratebay blocked"* which will give them a workaround on the 2nd link. I think the best way to describe it is "never underestimate the ingenuity of someone who doesn't want to pay anything"
* Typing "BT pirate" immediately suggests BT pirateproxy. These people don't know need to understand what a proxy is, all they know is that a proxy lets them get to stuff they not allowed to see.
Rule 2. Don't make them look bad.
Hot fuzz : your making us look bad
Tell me about it, in the UK a Policeman was let off doing 159mph as he was the "creme de la creme of drivers". They completely ignored the fact that other drivers have no ability to deal with people driving at over twice the expected speed on a motorway.
This happened to me on a dual carriageway (70mph limit) - I looked in my mirror and saw a car in the distance and estimated that I had enough time to pull out and overtake the lorry. By the time I'd started indicating and pulling out, a Nobel was on top of me - based on the distance covered he must have been doing about 140mph.
Well, at the London Olympics they had cat^H^H^H wireless detectors to find people with personal hotspots - they had signs up at the entrances saying they were prohibited. I think it's because they'd conned a shit load of money from BT as the official telecoms sponsor. If they'd been allowed to set up mobile jammers, I'm sure they would have.. Seeing as this one is in Russia, it'll be interesting to see if the IOC and organisers to go more draconian.
I think I've missed something about the curvature - a lot of people seem to be taking as if it's huge. My thought was that it would be like that of the galaxy nexus, ie the centre of the screen 1mm off-plane. I suppose that's big for iPhones as they have a uniform thickness.
Justice and Security Act 2013
Unfortunately the US doesn't have a monopoly on "secret courts". I truly wish it did, but we can't get everything we wish for.
1). Look carefully at s.petry's post
2). Didn't see anything about the US
3). Got caught out by troll
4). ???
5). Um, profit?
Hmm, never had that problem with my Galaxy Nexus. Granted, if I'm stupid enough to drop a breeze block on it or leave my phone on the floor for someone to step on, then yes, the very large radius of curvature of the screen may enable the phone to deform. However, odds are that if I stand on my phone it will be damaged regardless.
The funny this is that just because the screen is curved, it doesn't mean the back has to be curved.
My first thought is that it would be to prevent screen damage - if the display is curved and you place it face down on a flat surface there will be only two points of contact.