I laughed at the lady, and scribbled a note on their "agreement", stating that I did indeed own a tractor with a generator, that I owned a pickup truck with a generator, and that I owned a generator with which I was building on to our home, in lieu of the electric service that I was "applying" for. I also noted that I may or may not purchase more generators in the future.
Why do you think your scribbling on the agreement has the force of law? Did the representative of the contract authorize your changes to the legally binding (presumably) document? The lady at the desk likely does not have power to authorize contract changes.
You seem to think that your additions to the contract made a difference. I bet they didn't. I suspect you would have the same service if you had not made those additions.
If your use of generators, etc., comes up in the future, I bet they could turn off your power at will.
But how, besides accessing another student's data, can you prove that the flaw that would "allow anyone to access all of the information that the system contains about any student" is fixed?
That's why people are making the analogy to entering (or even taking things) from the hypothetical vault with no wall.
Crime? If I see a bank vault missing a wall, am I criminal for pointing out this obvious and stupid flaw?
No, but you are a criminal for pulling a stack of $20s through the wall to prove that the wall still isn't there.
(I am basing this on the other postings saying he got in trouble for running the scan to verify if it was fixed. I presume that by necessity would try checking a different student's page.)
That seems pretty stupid. I take voting very seriously, and thus on matters on which I don't have a strong opinion either way, or am not (or at least *think* I am not) educated about, I purposely skip voting on that issue/person.
Heck, I almost never vote for anybody below state level, and usually skip most of the state level people. (Yes, I realize that's opposite from how many people think, e.g. think local, but I know the opinions of the national politicians.)
And their products are pretty good, but you also pay for it. But that's no different from most other manufacturers of expensive luxury products, and that's what Apple effectively is.
What other tablet computers that have (roughly) equivalent hardware are cheaper? Or were at the introduction of the iPad?
Were other MP3 players as easy to use and fill with your own music (remember this was before the iTunes Music Store)? or just a bunch of random folders you had to drag items to that it might see?
As a consumer and developer, it's nice to know the platform I'm using will be well-supported and targeted - and that comes predominantly from being a ubiquitous, high-market-share platform. How's it going with the N900? Niche products end up hurting the consumer.
High-market share. Yeah, high market share of a whole bunch of fragmented phones that you CANNOT EVEN UPGRADE THE OS ON, and they shipped with a very old version of the OS.. and the features of the phones are SO different you can't just go to the Android phone software store and know that the apps will ALL work on your particular phone.
While HIV would be a primary cause it isn't the only cause of AIDS
Wait, can you elaborate?
Do you just mean that there are "other things that you can catch that can mess up your immune system" (like if it were possible to catch the "Boy in the Plastic Bubble" disease)? Basically, just the literal definition of the acronym AIDS.
Even if that is true, I think that in the public's mind, HIV->AIDS is so connected, that if there are other catchable immune system wreckers, they should be given other names just to not cause confusion.
My point was that I inferred (perhaps wrongly) that the original message meant that NOBODY makes money by selling CPU cycles.. and I gave a specific company and a generic one as examples.
Doesn't Amazon make money "on CPU cycles" - the thing that went down, screwing Netflix on New Year's Eve? Isn't any server farm that runs other companies' software make money on CPU cycles?
So, the average citizen ends up paying that corporate tax each time they buy the product.
Yeah, but the "average citizen" could avoid paying that taxes by NOT buying the product.
I'm not saying I really think this is a better way of taxing, but it does _indirectly_ make taxes voluntary. If one thinks food and other essentials shouldn't be taxed this way, they could be exempted, just like they are exempted from sales tax in many if not most areas.
I'm not absolutely positive that it was this robot (I listen to the audio podcast, then skim through my recording of the show once in a while if there's something I want to see), but the 1/13/13 episode did have its first segment about robotics, and they did talk about a very inexpensive robot.. I think this one.
You can still get the audio podcast, and I think watch the video at cbs.com
Though I've never actually played the physical version of this game, I've heard of it, and was wondering a while ago if there were an iOS version of this game.
I just searched, and there is a free (ad supported) and a paid version. Unfortunately it's not by Zynga (so doesn't share the same people you play with).
Bizarre, I tivo far too many shows to watch during the main season (and I watch a LOT of TV), and that's mostly even just on the broadcast networks.. Plus movies on netflix.
Netflix has basically every DVD ever released if you use them for DVDs, so they have WAY more content than any of the premium channels (or redbox).
$8 is 2 movie rentals? Wow, you rent somewhere way too expensive.
I say this as someone who is admittedly paying too much because I'm on the 1 DVD at a time only plan and lately have been watching approx 1 DVD/week (over December I got a bit more since I had a long vacation). I compare that to thinking "oh I should just use Redbox instead", since personally I don't hate the idea of going to a box, but I personally *like* the "old content" on netflix (DVDs for me), including TV shows.
Though I may cancel again for a few months and then renew again before a year is up (to keep my queue active).
since nobody in their right mind would want to live there with a history of such a problem (even after the city fixed the issue).
Do you mean fixed it *permanently*? If so, then that might be a way to buy a house at a nice discount. If it truly was fixed permanently and properly cleaned up, why not buy it?
OK thanks, that answers the specific question -- there is a specific percentage of share owners that they can get to agree to the buyout after which the rest are forced to sell. (Or rather, I guess one's broker literally just sells for you. If you had paper shares? That seems unlikely nowadays.)
I thought that was likely the case, but I didn't know the exact mechanism.
The Guinness books really have gone downhill. Now they're big "coffee table" books, and IIRC, have way less overall information than the packed paperbacks. I'm not even sure if they still have the "heaviest twins went riding on motorscooters" pictures anymore, but those you mention (and the "coffin the size of a piano case") are the ones we mention from the long ago Guinness Books of Records.
I admit I should probably know this, but what is the exact mechanism when a buyout happens?
In other words, how do they force other shareholders to sell? (Why can't someone hold onto their stock and be the equivalent of the stereotypical one homeowner who refused to sell so now there's a giant building AROUND their tiny little house.)
I presume it's: >50% of shares are owned by one entity, they get a new board, and somehow the board authorizes a buyout by X company. But I still don't know what the method of the forced stock purchase is.
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Why do you think your scribbling on the agreement has the force of law? Did the representative of the contract authorize your changes to the legally binding (presumably) document? The lady at the desk likely does not have power to authorize contract changes.
You seem to think that your additions to the contract made a difference. I bet they didn't. I suspect you would have the same service if you had not made those additions.
If your use of generators, etc., comes up in the future, I bet they could turn off your power at will.
Hahaha. Try to explain that to the jury.
But how, besides accessing another student's data, can you prove that the flaw that would "allow anyone to access all of the information that the system contains about any student" is fixed?
That's why people are making the analogy to entering (or even taking things) from the hypothetical vault with no wall.
No, but you are a criminal for pulling a stack of $20s through the wall to prove that the wall still isn't there.
(I am basing this on the other postings saying he got in trouble for running the scan to verify if it was fixed. I presume that by necessity would try checking a different student's page.)
Probably required auction fees? E.g. similar to listing a price with or without sales tax, without making that clear. Both are arguably correct.
That seems pretty stupid. I take voting very seriously, and thus on matters on which I don't have a strong opinion either way, or am not (or at least *think* I am not) educated about, I purposely skip voting on that issue/person.
Heck, I almost never vote for anybody below state level, and usually skip most of the state level people. (Yes, I realize that's opposite from how many people think, e.g. think local, but I know the opinions of the national politicians.)
What other tablet computers that have (roughly) equivalent hardware are cheaper? Or were at the introduction of the iPad?
Were other MP3 players as easy to use and fill with your own music (remember this was before the iTunes Music Store)? or just a bunch of random folders you had to drag items to that it might see?
Obviously this is from a biased source, but it's interesting nonetheless.
http://mac360.com/2013/01/how-apple-is-destroying-android-from-the-inside-out-and-why-its-difficult-to-see
High-market share. Yeah, high market share of a whole bunch of fragmented phones that you CANNOT EVEN UPGRADE THE OS ON, and they shipped with a very old version of the OS.. and the features of the phones are SO different you can't just go to the Android phone software store and know that the apps will ALL work on your particular phone.
Wait, can you elaborate?
Do you just mean that there are "other things that you can catch that can mess up your immune system" (like if it were possible to catch the "Boy in the Plastic Bubble" disease)? Basically, just the literal definition of the acronym AIDS.
Even if that is true, I think that in the public's mind, HIV->AIDS is so connected, that if there are other catchable immune system wreckers, they should be given other names just to not cause confusion.
My point was that I inferred (perhaps wrongly) that the original message meant that NOBODY makes money by selling CPU cycles.. and I gave a specific company and a generic one as examples.
Well, you're here reading Slashdot...
Doesn't Amazon make money "on CPU cycles" - the thing that went down, screwing Netflix on New Year's Eve? Isn't any server farm that runs other companies' software make money on CPU cycles?
Yeah, but the "average citizen" could avoid paying that taxes by NOT buying the product.
I'm not saying I really think this is a better way of taxing, but it does _indirectly_ make taxes voluntary. If one thinks food and other essentials shouldn't be taxed this way, they could be exempted, just like they are exempted from sales tax in many if not most areas.
I'm not absolutely positive that it was this robot (I listen to the audio podcast, then skim through my recording of the show once in a while if there's something I want to see), but the 1/13/13 episode did have its first segment about robotics, and they did talk about a very inexpensive robot.. I think this one.
You can still get the audio podcast, and I think watch the video at cbs.com
Heck, why can't they care about them now when their *children or grandchildren* will be around long enough to see the effects of their actions?
Hasbro made the WwF board game.
Now you know the REST of the story.
Though I've never actually played the physical version of this game, I've heard of it, and was wondering a while ago if there were an iOS version of this game.
I just searched, and there is a free (ad supported) and a paid version. Unfortunately it's not by Zynga (so doesn't share the same people you play with).
https://itunes.apple.com/US/app/id588252565?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4#
I haven't even TRIED this app yet, but the reviews look good.
I have no affiliation with it.
Bizarre, I tivo far too many shows to watch during the main season (and I watch a LOT of TV), and that's mostly even just on the broadcast networks.. Plus movies on netflix.
Netflix has basically every DVD ever released if you use them for DVDs, so they have WAY more content than any of the premium channels (or redbox).
$8 is 2 movie rentals? Wow, you rent somewhere way too expensive.
I say this as someone who is admittedly paying too much because I'm on the 1 DVD at a time only plan and lately have been watching approx 1 DVD/week (over December I got a bit more since I had a long vacation). I compare that to thinking "oh I should just use Redbox instead", since personally I don't hate the idea of going to a box, but I personally *like* the "old content" on netflix (DVDs for me), including TV shows.
Though I may cancel again for a few months and then renew again before a year is up (to keep my queue active).
Do you mean fixed it *permanently*? If so, then that might be a way to buy a house at a nice discount. If it truly was fixed permanently and properly cleaned up, why not buy it?
OK thanks, that answers the specific question -- there is a specific percentage of share owners that they can get to agree to the buyout after which the rest are forced to sell. (Or rather, I guess one's broker literally just sells for you. If you had paper shares? That seems unlikely nowadays.)
I thought that was likely the case, but I didn't know the exact mechanism.
The Guinness books really have gone downhill. Now they're big "coffee table" books, and IIRC, have way less overall information than the packed paperbacks. I'm not even sure if they still have the "heaviest twins went riding on motorscooters" pictures anymore, but those you mention (and the "coffin the size of a piano case") are the ones we mention from the long ago Guinness Books of Records.
I admit I should probably know this, but what is the exact mechanism when a buyout happens?
In other words, how do they force other shareholders to sell? (Why can't someone hold onto their stock and be the equivalent of the stereotypical one homeowner who refused to sell so now there's a giant building AROUND their tiny little house.)
I presume it's: >50% of shares are owned by one entity, they get a new board, and somehow the board authorizes a buyout by X company. But I still don't know what the method of the forced stock purchase is.
"All in the Family" is not an *icon*. You must not be reading the whole answer.