I live in the U.S. southeast and I can tell you that incandescent bulbs above 20W or so are not in demand. Most places that have them stock one or 2 packages only while they fill shelves with CF and LED bulbs.
That in spite of the SE generally having cheaper power than the NE or West coast.
So where are all those jobs? Do you actually think these people are turning down better offers for some reason? Rip away the smoke and mirrors and you'll find that adequate employment isn't that easy for a lot of people to find.
The problem is, often so called contractors are legally employees in spite of the smoke and mirrors obfuscation. The law being violated is employment law.
You DO know that incandescent lighting is not so common these days, don't you? You might wanna update your knowledge if you're going to be calling people ignorant.
True, their many sins don't (yet) include losing control of a kill switch. They do highlight why people are wary of a kill switch or anything that might need one. Subsequent events do call into question Monsanto's testimony in court and the decisions reached as a result. As you say, it also amps up suspicion for the whole industry.
Monsanto based many of their claims in lawsuits on the idea that resistance could not be bread in and could not jump. Both have since happened. In particular, South American cocoa growers bred resistance (making the DEA their unwitting weed control partners), many weeds evolved resistance, and wild plants related to canola now carry Monsanto's genes. Further, Monsanto's canola is now growing wild along some roads.
Why should I pay the extra cost of making a phone that's thin enough to chop onions with just to spend even more money to make it thick enough to have a decent battery life and not snap in half if I sneeze too hard?
THANK GOD you caught that terribly confusing mistake before it killed billions!!! That was, of course, the most important aspect of the discussion. People dying (or not) of cancer pales in comparison.
Of course they can, with the calling party's U.S. phone provider who could then check it with the dealer's phone provider. Don't be daft.
Decent ISPs manage the analogous checking of BGP and source IP addresses all the time even in the absence of regulations. Since the phone companies don't do it voluntarily, regulation it is.
Are tou really this God damned stupid? All caller ID have to be either sanity checked or egress filtered or none. Otherwise the scams will continue. If, as you suggest, your cellular provider presents anything but your cell number as a caller ID (as you seem to claim), then it needs to be validated. Possibly by looking in their own database (if your POTS comes from the same provider) or by checking with your POTS provider. You started the example of a cellphone,
so I continued with it. If you like, substitute POTS line, VoID service, or tin cans and string as you like. If it makes it's way to the phone network, the example holds.
If you would spend a quarter as much energy on seeing a solution as you do crying about us being helpless, you might just be able to understand.
As for the rest (which you for some reason felt the need to repeat), if we can't VERIFY that the ID is correct or enforce a requirement that it be so (due to the caller not being in the U.S.), then we should block it if it claims to be from the U.S. (since it is not). The caller and the company that contracted them can prove the validity by using a reflector that exists within the U.S.s regulatory jurisdiction. That way they become responsible and the ID then really does originate (on the POTS system) from the U.S.
Other countries are free to do/not do as they please but that will at least make U.S. origin caller ID trust worthy.
I have Comcast and have NEVER been asked for a callback number from tier 1 support. Only once I was asked by tier 2 support but that was a U.S. call center. Also, being asked for a callback number doesn't say much about the volume of actual outbound calls. Essentially, the volume of outbound calls wouldn't be terribly taxing on a reflector. Not sure why you find that non sequitur.
It wound be necessary to filter based on country of origin not matching caller ID to keep scammers from just going somewhere where a caller ID regulation couldn't/wouldn't be enforced.
Your objections are non-problems. Your cell provider should simply ask you to verify the number you present in caller ID as belonging to you. It should be penalized if it doesn't. If a call originates outside the U.S. jurisdiction, the caller ID should at least be plausible (that is, block it if it claims to originate in the U.S.).
The problem can be solved even with a very broad filter. That is, require U.S. providers to do full and proper egress filtering. Further, drop any international calls that claim to be from a U.S. telephone number (since that can't be true).
For those cases where a U.S. corporation employs a foreign call center that makes outbound calls, they can either live with it or set up a reflector to give the call a verifiable U.S. number.
In this case, it is likely supporters of Moore making the calls in order to discredit the well corroborated accusations that he has a history of perving on teenage girls.
It's almost never possible to prove they didn't believe what they said. However, you can also win if you can show a reckless disregard for the truth. In other words, they can't just repeat gossip that you kick puppies and prevail in court unkes they have some reason to believe it's true other than "because the town's biggest liar said so".
Also, the child would have to be old enough to read and write to communicate in pictochat. Not ideal for dealing with strangers, but the toys in TFA could reach younger children who might not properly understand that the voice isn't their toy come to life.
But seriously, as terrible as local licence managers and dongles can be, at least when something goes wrong, you aren't left sitting in the dark hoping someone a thousand miles away will do the right thing to get things running again eventually. That and in some environments, a connection to the outside world is forbidden or just unavailable.
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I live in the U.S. southeast and I can tell you that incandescent bulbs above 20W or so are not in demand. Most places that have them stock one or 2 packages only while they fill shelves with CF and LED bulbs.
That in spite of the SE generally having cheaper power than the NE or West coast.
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So where are all those jobs? Do you actually think these people are turning down better offers for some reason? Rip away the smoke and mirrors and you'll find that adequate employment isn't that easy for a lot of people to find.
If it's such a nothing of a job, why doesn't the CEO just drop the packages off on the way home from work?
The problem is, often so called contractors are legally employees in spite of the smoke and mirrors obfuscation. The law being violated is employment law.
You DO know that incandescent lighting is not so common these days, don't you? You might wanna update your knowledge if you're going to be calling people ignorant.
If you chip them and bake the chips in a solar oven, you get stable charcoal.
True, their many sins don't (yet) include losing control of a kill switch. They do highlight why people are wary of a kill switch or anything that might need one. Subsequent events do call into question Monsanto's testimony in court and the decisions reached as a result. As you say, it also amps up suspicion for the whole industry.
Monsanto based many of their claims in lawsuits on the idea that resistance could not be bread in and could not jump. Both have since happened. In particular, South American cocoa growers bred resistance (making the DEA their unwitting weed control partners), many weeds evolved resistance, and wild plants related to canola now carry Monsanto's genes. Further, Monsanto's canola is now growing wild along some roads.
Why should I pay the extra cost of making a phone that's thin enough to chop onions with just to spend even more money to make it thick enough to have a decent battery life and not snap in half if I sneeze too hard?
THANK GOD you caught that terribly confusing mistake before it killed billions!!! That was, of course, the most important aspect of the discussion. People dying (or not) of cancer pales in comparison.
better yet, a result and a confidence figure. Most likely, high confidence results just accepted and a human review for more marginal cases.
Of course they can, with the calling party's U.S. phone provider who could then check it with the dealer's phone provider. Don't be daft.
Decent ISPs manage the analogous checking of BGP and source IP addresses all the time even in the absence of regulations. Since the phone companies don't do it voluntarily, regulation it is.
Are tou really this God damned stupid? All caller ID have to be either sanity checked or egress filtered or none. Otherwise the scams will continue. If, as you suggest, your cellular provider presents anything but your cell number as a caller ID (as you seem to claim), then it needs to be validated. Possibly by looking in their own database (if your POTS comes from the same provider) or by checking with your POTS provider. You started the example of a cellphone, so I continued with it. If you like, substitute POTS line, VoID service, or tin cans and string as you like. If it makes it's way to the phone network, the example holds.
If you would spend a quarter as much energy on seeing a solution as you do crying about us being helpless, you might just be able to understand.
As for the rest (which you for some reason felt the need to repeat), if we can't VERIFY that the ID is correct or enforce a requirement that it be so (due to the caller not being in the U.S.), then we should block it if it claims to be from the U.S. (since it is not). The caller and the company that contracted them can prove the validity by using a reflector that exists within the U.S.s regulatory jurisdiction. That way they become responsible and the ID then really does originate (on the POTS system) from the U.S.
Other countries are free to do/not do as they please but that will at least make U.S. origin caller ID trust worthy.
I have Comcast and have NEVER been asked for a callback number from tier 1 support. Only once I was asked by tier 2 support but that was a U.S. call center. Also, being asked for a callback number doesn't say much about the volume of actual outbound calls. Essentially, the volume of outbound calls wouldn't be terribly taxing on a reflector. Not sure why you find that non sequitur.
It wound be necessary to filter based on country of origin not matching caller ID to keep scammers from just going somewhere where a caller ID regulation couldn't/wouldn't be enforced.
So let the corporation set up a reflector for that. But most of the time, call centers are taking inbound calls.
So only allow it if the dealer has registered the call originator.
Your objections are non-problems. Your cell provider should simply ask you to verify the number you present in caller ID as belonging to you. It should be penalized if it doesn't. If a call originates outside the U.S. jurisdiction, the caller ID should at least be plausible (that is, block it if it claims to originate in the U.S.).
The problem can be solved even with a very broad filter. That is, require U.S. providers to do full and proper egress filtering. Further, drop any international calls that claim to be from a U.S. telephone number (since that can't be true).
For those cases where a U.S. corporation employs a foreign call center that makes outbound calls, they can either live with it or set up a reflector to give the call a verifiable U.S. number.
In this case, it is likely supporters of Moore making the calls in order to discredit the well corroborated accusations that he has a history of perving on teenage girls.
It's almost never possible to prove they didn't believe what they said. However, you can also win if you can show a reckless disregard for the truth. In other words, they can't just repeat gossip that you kick puppies and prevail in court unkes they have some reason to believe it's true other than "because the town's biggest liar said so".
I have seen a few Jewish homes with a "Hanukkah bush" " inside.
Also, the child would have to be old enough to read and write to communicate in pictochat. Not ideal for dealing with strangers, but the toys in TFA could reach younger children who might not properly understand that the voice isn't their toy come to life.
There is literally nothing online can do that local patching can't.
MUST.......RESIST........DONGLE.............JOKE!
But seriously, as terrible as local licence managers and dongles can be, at least when something goes wrong, you aren't left sitting in the dark hoping someone a thousand miles away will do the right thing to get things running again eventually. That and in some environments, a connection to the outside world is forbidden or just unavailable.