Well, I can't stand the liquid thing, though its never affected me directly. If I want to take several litres of water on board a plane, then I should be able to. Its not like restricting the volume of liquids and gels each person can take will make much of a difference. I mean, several people could pool their liquids and blow up the plane. Done. I digress.
I read about a man was making a weekend holiday flight abroad, who took with him two bottles of Penfold's Grange 1986 (fetching about AU$2,000 per bottle). Of course, security wouldn't let him take it on board, in case it was an explosive. They gave him two options: put it in his checked luggage (of which he had none), or surrender it to security. In the end, he opened them both there with his corkscrew (which for some reason they allowed him to keep), and poured them out into the nearest bin. What a waste.
Clearly, this fellow should have known that the wine would be confiscated, but still...its not right by my reckoning.
Disclaimer: I read this headline a few months ago, and heard about from word-of-mouth, and have done no fact-checking.
That's exactly how my ISP does it. I pay my monthly access fee and get a 10M/256K link.
All downloads on the link are recorded. I get 12GB for peak times and 24GB for off-peak. Uploads are free. And there's a nasty catch in there as well - if I use all my peak quota, I then lose the rest of my off-peak quota.
If the limit gets exceeded, I am capped to 64K/64K for the rest of the month.
Its fine, it just means you have to watch what you download.
Its a little different with Vista. You pay a decent sum of money for (arguably) a pretty shitty product, and then they run all sorts of checks on the keys you give it and so on to make sure its legit. Fair enough if it ends there, but it doesn't. They then deactivate your OS, and effectively your computer, if you do something like update to the latest video drivers. That's not an unusual thing for a gamer to do.
The point is, they treat the paying customer like a criminal, and constantly remind them of it. Tobacco companies don't treat their customers like criminals. They just kill them slowly. They even tell them about it. Meat packing companies probably don't intentionally contaminate their shipments. And the airline thing? Not a typical day on a plane. That's just bad luck.
They need to realize that their business model is no longer valid. Technology has made it obsolete, same way mobile phones made traditional phone companies business model obsolete (that's why you now get free calls from/to "fixed" phone numbers).
Who gives free phone calls to/from fixed phones? I want them to do my phone!
Seriously, though, I couldn't get by without a fixed phone. Calls to a call centre aren't charged by the minute when they're not made from a mobile.
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Perhaps what you say is true, but no government will work without a certain amount of regulation. Someone at some point decided that it would not be truly democratic to allow people's votes to be bought. And it may be for the best (I happen to believe it should be allowed, btw).
Elections here in Australia are compulsory. If you don't vote on or before the election day, you will be fined an annoyingly large amount of money (I think its like $500, don't really know). Many might argue that that isn't truly democratic, either. But I think its for the best, nonetheless, because most people try to do it right, instead of just donkey-voting. It leads to a result that more accurately represents the will of the population, IMHO.
No, I haven't really based any of this any any hard evidence, or statistics. Its just me looking at how things are and seeing what works well.
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Well, I can't stand the liquid thing, though its never affected me directly.
If I want to take several litres of water on board a plane, then I should be able to. Its not like restricting the volume of liquids and gels each person can take will make much of a difference. I mean, several people could pool their liquids and blow up the plane. Done. I digress.
I read about a man was making a weekend holiday flight abroad, who took with him two bottles of Penfold's Grange 1986 (fetching about AU$2,000 per bottle). Of course, security wouldn't let him take it on board, in case it was an explosive. They gave him two options: put it in his checked luggage (of which he had none), or surrender it to security. In the end, he opened them both there with his corkscrew (which for some reason they allowed him to keep), and poured them out into the nearest bin. What a waste.
Clearly, this fellow should have known that the wine would be confiscated, but still...its not right by my reckoning.
Disclaimer: I read this headline a few months ago, and heard about from word-of-mouth, and have done no fact-checking.
That's exactly how my ISP does it. I pay my monthly access fee and get a 10M/256K link.
All downloads on the link are recorded. I get 12GB for peak times and 24GB for off-peak. Uploads are free.
And there's a nasty catch in there as well - if I use all my peak quota, I then lose the rest of my off-peak quota.
If the limit gets exceeded, I am capped to 64K/64K for the rest of the month.
Its fine, it just means you have to watch what you download.
Well, given that I have to pay an extra $5 per month to have access to caller ID...yeah, I do it all the time.
Its a little different with Vista. You pay a decent sum of money for (arguably) a pretty shitty product, and then they run all sorts of checks on the keys you give it and so on to make sure its legit.
Fair enough if it ends there, but it doesn't.
They then deactivate your OS, and effectively your computer, if you do something like update to the latest video drivers. That's not an unusual thing for a gamer to do.
The point is, they treat the paying customer like a criminal, and constantly remind them of it. Tobacco companies don't treat their customers like criminals. They just kill them slowly. They even tell them about it. Meat packing companies probably don't intentionally contaminate their shipments. And the airline thing? Not a typical day on a plane. That's just bad luck.
Who gives free phone calls to/from fixed phones? I want them to do my phone!
Seriously, though, I couldn't get by without a fixed phone. Calls to a call centre aren't charged by the minute when they're not made from a mobile.
Perhaps what you say is true, but no government will work without a certain amount of regulation.
Someone at some point decided that it would not be truly democratic to allow people's votes to be bought. And it may be for the best (I happen to believe it should be allowed, btw).
Elections here in Australia are compulsory. If you don't vote on or before the election day, you will be fined an annoyingly large amount of money (I think its like $500, don't really know). Many might argue that that isn't truly democratic, either. But I think its for the best, nonetheless, because most people try to do it right, instead of just donkey-voting. It leads to a result that more accurately represents the will of the population, IMHO.
No, I haven't really based any of this any any hard evidence, or statistics. Its just me looking at how things are and seeing what works well.
As granny always said, if you want a futurama movie released in November, you've got to do it yourself....god rest her zombie bones.
All I've ever heard from anyone about Futurama is that is should have continued.
I've heard rumors for ages, but this one looks pretty solid.
Yay!
Secret squirrel finally becomes a reality. I bet they were all wearing trench coats and big purple hats with eye-holes in them.