OTOH, if they shut down now, they have many corporate assets they can sell off to get something out of it. If they don't, they will have more lawsuits than they have assets to pay for.
True, at the pro level, at least in some industries gear is actually not just rebranded junk, but that tends to be advertised with a fairly narrow focus. You won't find pro photography gear advertised on TV or billboards (unless there's a convention in town).
Again, that's why they might WANT the data but provides them no RIGHT to it. My credit and bank balance are for me to know, not them. The closest they get to a right to know is a simple boolean: Do I have enough credit left on my card for the thing I am trying to buy from them right now.
It's a matter of a somewhat slippery group of terms. Coal tar is carcinogenic. Pine tar is not unless creosote is formed due to the method of pyrolysis. Asphalt is the residue after distillation of crude oil or bitumen just as coal tar and pine tar are the residues or pyrolysis of coal and pine.
In any event, it shares the problematic traits GP listed for plastic, as do the tars from other sources.
Some advertising is OK. The type that tells you what it is, where to get it, and what it costs is OK. Naturally, they think theirs is the best.
Then there's the obnoxious commercials. The ones that throw in gratuitous doorbells and filter the audio until it sounds like you're delirious so they can push the volume up while technically (just barely) staying within guidelines.
Beyond that, there's the constant attempt to transfer your feelings for everything good to their product. They actually want to intrude on cherished childhood memories for their benefit. Make no mistake, it's no accident, they hire a bunch of psychologists to help them.
The worst is advertising to kids. A committee of grown-ups with doctorates ganging up on a child to give them the wrong impression without saying anything legally actionable in order to get them to pester their parents.
As for brands, they've got to be kidding. It's been a very long time since brands were anything but a well known name stuck on some Chinese no-name product bought from a random manufacturer.
I would love to see a cleanup for people trying to solve a technical problem. You do a search and find thousands of results where someone asks pretty much your exact question and instead of an actual useful answer, the thread dies after 4 or 5 people in a row berate the questioner and tell them to Google it. That, and of course, offer$ of possible answers (or not) from ExpertSexChange.com
Admittedly, that may be a hard problem to solve in an automated way.
If there was a law that you could only use foreign made tomato sauce if you couldn't find domestic tomato sauce AND the store brand 'just happened' to be foreign made, the analogy would hold.
If the contractor would care to hire all American labor and still offer a better deal, THEN it is free to do so.
Or we need to apply the principle of construction. No matter what 'just happened' to be the case, the American workers were constructively replaced by H1-Bs.
That is exactly the sorty of thing the principle of construction is meant to cover.
It seems like ECT may be a more or less reasonable treatment of last resort, but it has a long history of being way over-used, used as punishment, used on conditions it doesn't help, and even being used without any anesthetic or muscle relaxer.
Read up on the frontal lobotomy and the abuses of ECT, then tell us that psychiatry doesn't have a tendency to lose sight of what actually helps the patient.
That really shouldn't be. I can understand being MORE upset when it is a citizen since it is supposed to be their (possessive) government, but any instance should be cause for anger.
The gray area here is that the individual is being detained in an international zone
That is the claim, but note, the Constitution is a document that says what the government may or may not do. It says nothing about where. None of the Bill of Rights have the phrase "unless in an international zone".
She kept saying, but that doesn't mean he kept doing.
In the U.K. there is a difference between releasing without charges and de-arresting. The former just means it's probably not worth it, the latter means the arrest shouldn't have happened in the first place.
Remember where I suggested read carefully? I did not introduce the analogy.
Don't make me retract the part about you having the ability.
No, she didn't, but she chose to when her request to stop doing something illegal was refused.
Can you quote me something from TFA that says she initially just asked him to unplug?
They arrested the man on her say-so, but then decided she was wrong.
This has nothing to do with how a business owner treats customers, so your attempt at sidetracking the issue will be ignored.
I guess you didn't bother to read the post I was replying to which is where the discussion went from TFA to analogous situations. You know, the one where it was claimed that any individual would not be OK with it if THEIR power was being used.
This is a text based forum. You have the ability to slow down and read carefully if you can't keep up. You should try it.
She was a community support officer (AKA "plastic plod" or "hobby bobby"). She didn't have to escalate to getting the actual cops to make an arrest. The actual cops with arrest power decided arrest was the wrong call once they got the full story.
If you treat customers at a place of business that way, you will HAVE to be a monopoly to stay in business.
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OTOH, if they shut down now, they have many corporate assets they can sell off to get something out of it. If they don't, they will have more lawsuits than they have assets to pay for.
Hear Hear!
There is exactly once in my life that I have been actually morally offended by a commercial and it's theirs.
Or perhaps they just got tired of late-night commercials that actually urge them to behave in an immoral and sleazy manner. Do we REALLY need that?
True, at the pro level, at least in some industries gear is actually not just rebranded junk, but that tends to be advertised with a fairly narrow focus. You won't find pro photography gear advertised on TV or billboards (unless there's a convention in town).
Fully agreed on the billboards and TV.
Again, that's why they might WANT the data but provides them no RIGHT to it. My credit and bank balance are for me to know, not them. The closest they get to a right to know is a simple boolean: Do I have enough credit left on my card for the thing I am trying to buy from them right now.
It's a matter of a somewhat slippery group of terms. Coal tar is carcinogenic. Pine tar is not unless creosote is formed due to the method of pyrolysis. Asphalt is the residue after distillation of crude oil or bitumen just as coal tar and pine tar are the residues or pyrolysis of coal and pine.
In any event, it shares the problematic traits GP listed for plastic, as do the tars from other sources.
Did you read TFA at all?
I get why they want the info, but I don't get why they think they have any right to know.
If only the major brands actually handled customer service anymore. I have seen little discernible difference.
Some advertising is OK. The type that tells you what it is, where to get it, and what it costs is OK. Naturally, they think theirs is the best.
Then there's the obnoxious commercials. The ones that throw in gratuitous doorbells and filter the audio until it sounds like you're delirious so they can push the volume up while technically (just barely) staying within guidelines.
Beyond that, there's the constant attempt to transfer your feelings for everything good to their product. They actually want to intrude on cherished childhood memories for their benefit. Make no mistake, it's no accident, they hire a bunch of psychologists to help them.
The worst is advertising to kids. A committee of grown-ups with doctorates ganging up on a child to give them the wrong impression without saying anything legally actionable in order to get them to pester their parents.
As for brands, they've got to be kidding. It's been a very long time since brands were anything but a well known name stuck on some Chinese no-name product bought from a random manufacturer.
What makes Apple think it would be any of their damned business what my available credit balance is?
I would love to see a cleanup for people trying to solve a technical problem. You do a search and find thousands of results where someone asks pretty much your exact question and instead of an actual useful answer, the thread dies after 4 or 5 people in a row berate the questioner and tell them to Google it. That, and of course, offer$ of possible answers (or not) from ExpertSexChange.com
Admittedly, that may be a hard problem to solve in an automated way.
If there was a law that you could only use foreign made tomato sauce if you couldn't find domestic tomato sauce AND the store brand 'just happened' to be foreign made, the analogy would hold.
If the contractor would care to hire all American labor and still offer a better deal, THEN it is free to do so.
Or we need to apply the principle of construction. No matter what 'just happened' to be the case, the American workers were constructively replaced by H1-Bs.
That is exactly the sorty of thing the principle of construction is meant to cover.
That's a pretty good description of asphalt, composed of tar and aggregate.
It seems like ECT may be a more or less reasonable treatment of last resort, but it has a long history of being way over-used, used as punishment, used on conditions it doesn't help, and even being used without any anesthetic or muscle relaxer.
Read up on the frontal lobotomy and the abuses of ECT, then tell us that psychiatry doesn't have a tendency to lose sight of what actually helps the patient.
People who are part of the system often refer to it as "the system". Are you saying they have mental problems?
That really shouldn't be. I can understand being MORE upset when it is a citizen since it is supposed to be their (possessive) government, but any instance should be cause for anger.
The gray area here is that the individual is being detained in an international zone
That is the claim, but note, the Constitution is a document that says what the government may or may not do. It says nothing about where. None of the Bill of Rights have the phrase "unless in an international zone".
Alas, never has the crapflood of punditry been so deep.
She kept saying, but that doesn't mean he kept doing.
In the U.K. there is a difference between releasing without charges and de-arresting. The former just means it's probably not worth it, the latter means the arrest shouldn't have happened in the first place.
Remember where I suggested read carefully? I did not introduce the analogy.
Don't make me retract the part about you having the ability.
Actually, the 900MHz cards use an ISM band, just like a/b/g/n do.
Even the real cops call them "chimps".
No, she didn't, but she chose to when her request to stop doing something illegal was refused.
Can you quote me something from TFA that says she initially just asked him to unplug?
They arrested the man on her say-so, but then decided she was wrong.
This has nothing to do with how a business owner treats customers, so your attempt at sidetracking the issue will be ignored.
I guess you didn't bother to read the post I was replying to which is where the discussion went from TFA to analogous situations. You know, the one where it was claimed that any individual would not be OK with it if THEIR power was being used.
This is a text based forum. You have the ability to slow down and read carefully if you can't keep up. You should try it.
She was a community support officer (AKA "plastic plod" or "hobby bobby"). She didn't have to escalate to getting the actual cops to make an arrest. The actual cops with arrest power decided arrest was the wrong call once they got the full story.
If you treat customers at a place of business that way, you will HAVE to be a monopoly to stay in business.