Charging an un-activated card could easily be considered unethical, and the definition of "scam" is using an unethical method to get money out of a consumer. However, you're absolutely correct that anyone ignoring their letter that long is stupid. Not noticing that their card has been run up to $1500 indicates that they would have lost that money somehow, if not in this scam then in another.
You work for a very unusual company indeed. Your so-called "company" really respects consumer's opinions more than the bottom line? Do you work in Narnia or something?
Usually companies pay more for custom programming than they do for pre-packaged code, and they perceive themselves to be paying less for out-of-country programming. It's just another cost to hiring someone that companies won't want to pay.
Strikes and unions have been more effective than regulations at keeping people out of unsafe conditions. My dad is an electrical engineer who works 12 hour days on salary without any overtime pay. The lineman that work under him earn roughly the same amount of money, but they also get overtime and better benefits because they have a union and are have gone on strike before.
I'm just sad that Prince--whose music I really like--can't understand that he's the new Metallica versus Napster. And we all know who lost that... Umm, I know he's trying to say that Metallica lost. However, Napster was closed down and turned into a less popular subscription service and file sharing was dealt a harsh blow that it took a while to recover from. They definitely lose that court case. Metallica won the smaller case and lost the larger war of digital piracy, at least so far. The difference here is that Prince actually has been embracing the internet and consumer rights in general. This situation isn't as clearly a case of "dinosaur fights the inevitable," and it certainly doesn't mean that TPB will be able to survive it.
I obviously didn't mod you, but I would guess it's because you are advocating that people do something which is illegal and illogical, since not paying taxes would be a very bad thing overall since I enjoy our social contract, corrupt as it is. You're also insulting to the government of Maryland, offensive in general and insulting of those who don't support your position. Insulting and offensive while lacking useful content isn't technically trolling, but it should be modded down and there's no option that fits, so the mod could have chosen troll because it fit the closest. Personally, I wouldn't have modded you down, but I don't think it's inappropriate.
Overall it's bad for the programming sector in the US. Whether you prefer contracting or employment, it doesn't change the fact that it also encourages the companies to go overseas. Also, it encourages less programming in general. This is overall bad for the IT sector.
But which of the two would be a more likely explanation for the origin of something unusual? I think the answer is obvious I don't think it's obvious, not at all. If life is common in the galaxy, then it's entirely probably that some rock which crashed into the earth would have contained life from somewhere else, at least the building blocks of it. On the other hand, if life isn't common, then it's more likely to have arisen on the earth. Surviving a direct and prolonged vacuum isn't that far from being able to survive direct and prolonged contact with oxygen for a microbe, and there are plenty that can do that here on earth.
That's why it's more likely that they'll only survive in conditions where the type of that's common wouldn't be so well adapted for. For instance, volcanic fissures deep in the ocean. If another type of life were to have evolved to feed on that, our kind of life wouldn't be so fast to adapt to it and they could keep their monopoly on that area. It's like *nix operating systems dominating the server market where Windows dominates the desktop.
I often work on problems for a couple of days, so I often have a bug report up in one tab, the example in another, and then relevant documentation in another. When I leave for the day, I can close the browser down, or I can choose instead to leave the browser up and preserve my tabs.
I'll wait a long time to get the kindle. I've always found a paper book to be more convenient than anything online. The kindle is, apparently, quite light and very easy to read, which fixes a couple of the problems. But can you lend a book to a friend or just give it away? What about take it to the toilet and not have to worry? What about a low replacement cost? It looks like they have the price per book to a reasonable level, but everything about paper books is perfect for me. The kindle would have to be amazing to supplant my current library, and the same goes for the iPhone.
I'm just happy they forced the responsible person to resign. Data security isn't taken seriously enough by most people. Who would think of putting all that information on a disc in the first place unless it were a backup? Who would think of putting a backup in a place that people could get to it without some serious security measures getting in the way? This is just ridiculous.
Bottom line: we don't care what causes it, just fix it. When my ubuntu install feels sluggish because I haven't restarted firefox in a few days, there's a serious problem that they need to fix.
I'm MySQL through and through, but honestly, the worst flame wars I've ever seen on the site were mysql vs. postgres. I would say pirates vs. the "thou shalt be honest, even unto the music industry" folks, but there aren't too many of the latter around here...
I'm not saying it supports immortality, but it'd be a pretty good reason for people to defy logic in following religion. If religion and a belief in a higher power are built into the human psyche (as I believe they are), then saying that they "believe it is because they want to believe" isn't actually the case. Perpetual consciousness aside, I get frustrated with the condescension and arrogance directed towards religious people because they believe in something that can't be directly supported by scientific evidence. If it is a primal urge, then faulting someone for being religious is like faulting someone for having sex outside of marriage.
Fitting, since Mass Effect was the last game they'll release without the taint of the beast. I still have some hopes for them, but I've seen EA shit all over too many good games and studios to be truly optimistic.
The only reason people believe it is because they want to believe. what about the mushrooms that give people the most spiritual experience of their life? Or the helmet that can stimulate the brain in such a way that a person feels God/some other entity is in the room? Isn't it more likely that, for whatever reason, religion is built into humans?
Reflexes from the driving sim plus some knowledge of physics and traffic laws/layout, not to mention spatial memory. Memory, spatial awareness and reflexes in an fps. Managing various spells is cost/benefits analysis and also optimal configuration of complex mechanisms in a fantasy rpg. Let's not forget either that these children are subconsciously learning that any problem which is given to them can be solved with the given resources, or if not, that the resource exists to solve the problem. They also receive a sense of achievement/ability and a feeling that they can affect the world as a whole.
No, no, none of those models will of course. The problem is that they all try to cancel magnetic fields, or create a static magnetic field. However, the earrings I have right here for a measly $1399 use a reverse ionization engine that will modulate the electromagnetic fields centered on your brain. These modulations are self-adjusting and completely unaffected by power lines and are proven to increase your brains throughput by 33%, but only in those regions which promote healthy thinking and habits.
Taking into account the way that your white blood cells will respond to our reverse-ionization self adjusting magnetic fields, I think you can just see for yourself how curing AIDS and bringing back your hair is just one of the many miracles that these earrings can offer you.
I'm assuming that the 73.1% using directx 9 means that 26.9% were using directx 10. If that's the case, doesn't this mean that vista adoption is higher among gamers, those who are usually more technically adept? IMHO, that's the most interesting tidbit right there.
An alternate interpretation is that a large number of the computer playing HL2:2 were bought from a large retailer rather than built by the owner. I'm seeing a lot of potential with those statistics if combined with more information, like the rate of old OS reuse, etc.
I wonder if he could have provided evidence that common knowledge says that he's not the webmaster of slashdot. If he had shown that the title was indeed false, and if he had then shown that it was obviously false to almost anyone, then maybe he would have gotten somewhere...
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Charging an un-activated card could easily be considered unethical, and the definition of "scam" is using an unethical method to get money out of a consumer. However, you're absolutely correct that anyone ignoring their letter that long is stupid. Not noticing that their card has been run up to $1500 indicates that they would have lost that money somehow, if not in this scam then in another.
You work for a very unusual company indeed. Your so-called "company" really respects consumer's opinions more than the bottom line? Do you work in Narnia or something?
Usually companies pay more for custom programming than they do for pre-packaged code, and they perceive themselves to be paying less for out-of-country programming. It's just another cost to hiring someone that companies won't want to pay.
Strikes and unions have been more effective than regulations at keeping people out of unsafe conditions. My dad is an electrical engineer who works 12 hour days on salary without any overtime pay. The lineman that work under him earn roughly the same amount of money, but they also get overtime and better benefits because they have a union and are have gone on strike before.
I obviously didn't mod you, but I would guess it's because you are advocating that people do something which is illegal and illogical, since not paying taxes would be a very bad thing overall since I enjoy our social contract, corrupt as it is. You're also insulting to the government of Maryland, offensive in general and insulting of those who don't support your position. Insulting and offensive while lacking useful content isn't technically trolling, but it should be modded down and there's no option that fits, so the mod could have chosen troll because it fit the closest. Personally, I wouldn't have modded you down, but I don't think it's inappropriate.
Overall it's bad for the programming sector in the US. Whether you prefer contracting or employment, it doesn't change the fact that it also encourages the companies to go overseas. Also, it encourages less programming in general. This is overall bad for the IT sector.
That's why it's more likely that they'll only survive in conditions where the type of that's common wouldn't be so well adapted for. For instance, volcanic fissures deep in the ocean. If another type of life were to have evolved to feed on that, our kind of life wouldn't be so fast to adapt to it and they could keep their monopoly on that area. It's like *nix operating systems dominating the server market where Windows dominates the desktop.
I often work on problems for a couple of days, so I often have a bug report up in one tab, the example in another, and then relevant documentation in another. When I leave for the day, I can close the browser down, or I can choose instead to leave the browser up and preserve my tabs.
for your small nitpick, I did it a few years back and replacement was cheap. Probably not the case with the kindle.
I'll wait a long time to get the kindle. I've always found a paper book to be more convenient than anything online. The kindle is, apparently, quite light and very easy to read, which fixes a couple of the problems. But can you lend a book to a friend or just give it away? What about take it to the toilet and not have to worry? What about a low replacement cost? It looks like they have the price per book to a reasonable level, but everything about paper books is perfect for me. The kindle would have to be amazing to supplant my current library, and the same goes for the iPhone.
I'm just happy they forced the responsible person to resign. Data security isn't taken seriously enough by most people. Who would think of putting all that information on a disc in the first place unless it were a backup? Who would think of putting a backup in a place that people could get to it without some serious security measures getting in the way? This is just ridiculous.
Bottom line: we don't care what causes it, just fix it. When my ubuntu install feels sluggish because I haven't restarted firefox in a few days, there's a serious problem that they need to fix.
I'm MySQL through and through, but honestly, the worst flame wars I've ever seen on the site were mysql vs. postgres. I would say pirates vs. the "thou shalt be honest, even unto the music industry" folks, but there aren't too many of the latter around here...
I'm not saying it supports immortality, but it'd be a pretty good reason for people to defy logic in following religion. If religion and a belief in a higher power are built into the human psyche (as I believe they are), then saying that they "believe it is because they want to believe" isn't actually the case. Perpetual consciousness aside, I get frustrated with the condescension and arrogance directed towards religious people because they believe in something that can't be directly supported by scientific evidence. If it is a primal urge, then faulting someone for being religious is like faulting someone for having sex outside of marriage.
Fitting, since Mass Effect was the last game they'll release without the taint of the beast. I still have some hopes for them, but I've seen EA shit all over too many good games and studios to be truly optimistic.
Reflexes from the driving sim plus some knowledge of physics and traffic laws/layout, not to mention spatial memory. Memory, spatial awareness and reflexes in an fps. Managing various spells is cost/benefits analysis and also optimal configuration of complex mechanisms in a fantasy rpg. Let's not forget either that these children are subconsciously learning that any problem which is given to them can be solved with the given resources, or if not, that the resource exists to solve the problem. They also receive a sense of achievement/ability and a feeling that they can affect the world as a whole.
No, no, none of those models will of course. The problem is that they all try to cancel magnetic fields, or create a static magnetic field. However, the earrings I have right here for a measly $1399 use a reverse ionization engine that will modulate the electromagnetic fields centered on your brain. These modulations are self-adjusting and completely unaffected by power lines and are proven to increase your brains throughput by 33%, but only in those regions which promote healthy thinking and habits.
Taking into account the way that your white blood cells will respond to our reverse-ionization self adjusting magnetic fields, I think you can just see for yourself how curing AIDS and bringing back your hair is just one of the many miracles that these earrings can offer you.
Sadly, selling false hope to the terminally ill is one of the easiest frauds possible.
I'm assuming that the 73.1% using directx 9 means that 26.9% were using directx 10. If that's the case, doesn't this mean that vista adoption is higher among gamers, those who are usually more technically adept? IMHO, that's the most interesting tidbit right there.
An alternate interpretation is that a large number of the computer playing HL2:2 were bought from a large retailer rather than built by the owner. I'm seeing a lot of potential with those statistics if combined with more information, like the rate of old OS reuse, etc.
I wonder if he could have provided evidence that common knowledge says that he's not the webmaster of slashdot. If he had shown that the title was indeed false, and if he had then shown that it was obviously false to almost anyone, then maybe he would have gotten somewhere...