If a collection agency (Windham Associates) was after you for the debt, that (in theory) means the original entity you owed money to (RCI) has sold the debt to them. In almost all cases, especially for low-value debts, the collection agency owns the debt. This keeps the original owner's hands clean legally for the bullshit collection practices used and distances them from PR nightmares.
Assuming WA owned the debt, you sending a check to RCI after they sold the debt to WA doesn't count as you paying the debt. It counts as you giving away money to RCI and not paying your debt, which is owned by WA. WA probably decided at that point that you weren't worth the hassle. Your piece of documentation, however invalid, wasn't worth fighting in court over $200 and change. They likely got the amount they paid for your debt (less than $570) back from RCI.
Alternatively, they knew they didn't have paperwork showing they owned the debt (because it's all intentionally sloppy, bought in bulk, etc.), just like this story is talking about. So your check would have been valid payment of the debt.
A unanimous three-judge panel on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco sided with a lower court ruling in finding that rules permitting the FBI to send national security letters under gag orders are appropriate and do not violate the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution's free speech protections
You'll be using fewer and fewer applications then as more and more applications require a SafetyNet check.
Everything from online banking apps to games require it. Banking apps make no sense when you can get the full functionality (and often more than the app provides) from a web browser on your phone or a PC with absolutely no "security" checks. Games at least make sense, even if I don't like it. They want to prevent cheating and prevent ad blocking.
SnapChat required it in order to prevent people from saving snaps, but they've backed off from the whole ephemeral thing in the last couple of years. SO I have no clue why they've still got the initial SafetyNet check.
THAT, friends, is why you root the shit out of Android and then use an app like AdAway, which uses the/etc/hosts file to block ads, which is why root is required. I tried other adblockers that didnt use the hosts file and none worked worth a damn.. Before I rooted my phone, it was endless ads in EVERYthing, and of course, this crap was eating up my data like mad, for which I pay for what I use (am on Ting.com). Once I rooted and installed AdAway, no more ads, and my data consumption went down signifcantly...
The problem with this is you lose access to a ton of apps that rely on "SafetyNet". Everything from Pokemon GO to AndroidPay to SnapChat uses SafetyNet and will refuse to run if it can detect that your system image has been modified or if it can detect that you have root access. (In SnapChat's case it only does this when you want to log in, so you can disable root, log in, then root again.) More and more apps are using SafetyNet, and it's fucking awful. It's a cat and mouse game to get root and still pass SafetyNet.
I'd be surprised if this thing ever comes out. All they have right now are renders. And they're not going to have anywhere near the number of interested buyers as the NES Classic or SNES Classic.
They're either going so slowly because they're working on a licensing and payment model (i.e., their own digital store to buy Atari games for a couple of bucks a piece), or they're drop feeding info to gauge interest.
We can't bust heads like we used to. But we have our ways. One trick is to tell stories that don't go anywhere. Like the time I caught the ferry to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe. So I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on themem. "Gimme five bees for a quarter," you'd say. Now where were we... oh yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. I didn't have any white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...
Calling her "Shillary" isn't sexist. It means she's a shill. Perhaps you were thinking of "Shrillary"?
Successful voter fraud isn't detected. "There have been studies" actually means "there have been surveys of people self reporting voter fraud" and "someone counted up the few dumbasses who got caught". And yes, most non-Democrats would absolutely support voter ID laws where the ID was free and easy to get.
Feelings don't mean shit, I agree. Yet here we are - liberals FEEL that Trump is guilty of something, they FEEL he's violating a clause about emoluments, etc. None of it is based in fact, but they FEEL it.
Did you skip a number? I don't know about project veritas, but if you're going to throw out illegitimate news sources for publishing nothing but bullshit, then you need to throw out the vast majority of news networks and newspapers.
You're proving voter fraud by redefining voter fraud? Damn, you're hopeless. ID's aren't hard to get, it's not "one step away from treason", etc. States get the votes they do as per the constitution. It's deliberately designed so that populous states don't get to run the show. You may not like it, but it's a good design because it keeps people like you from hijacking the nation.
But again, you're going on your feelings. Which by your own admission aren't worth shit.
No it was not the left or the so called liberal media.
It was the intelligence agencies. I tend to happen to side with them.
Why would you trust the intelligence agencies? Do you need a recap of their track record?
Even if Hillary fucked up (she did with the email server as you and I would be thrown in jail if we did this) and Putin just shared information, it is still collusion with a foreign power and treason to a high degree.
Are we at war with Russia? Or are they our ally? How is diplomacy with a foreign state we are not at war with treasonous?
A nation should not be involved in another nation's election or internal affairs. I will say this hypocritically too as an American as we did evil in the name of good in South America to prevent evil communism with propping up Pinochet in Chile who murdered people!
Why not? It's called diplomacy. The US does it all the time. And if you want to call out examples of when the US does bad things, why stop at one?
It was wrong and Russia not only interfered but had counter intelligence agents whose job was sabotage and espionage during the cold war give the information to Trump Jr. Gee what is wrong with that???!!!
Where's the evidence? It's been almost a year now since these allegations started. Further, was anything exposed false? If Putin himself "hacked" Hillary's emails (and remember - this was all due to a certain moran falling for a phishing email) and hand delivered it to Trump, so what? Putin should be given a damned medal for exposing Hillary's shit.
You'll jump to believe some made up shit about prostitutes and water sports as long as Wolf Blitzer reads it out to you. But when faced with actual evidence of gross misbehavior and wrongdoing, you get into a tizzy about the way someone got caught.
I copied the moo/cows troll a few times, because I enjoyed it. I was not the original creator and I didn't post it as AC. I do the bolding for luddites and apps occasionally in reference to that particular troll, but again, I was not the originator and I didn't go around posting it as AC. (I don't think I've ever copy-pastad this one like I have occasionally for the moo/cows one.)
I wish I had the legacy of some of those classic troll posts.
I used to go post this whenever someone mentioned zero kelvin or absolute zero or some such. But I haven't done it in a while (in part because I can't be assed to search for it each time an opportunity comes up). I am the original creator of that. (And yes, I realize the type of "last rights" - it has been corrected in later postings of it.)
This is why you turn auto update OFF for apps and plugins. Let shit notify you that updates are available. But don't let shit automatically apply them.
Jon Snow was definitively dead, corpse and all. We had previously seen the dead be revived by magic-wielding followers of the Lord of Light (when Arya was semi-kidnapped by Robin Hood and his gang). And with the red bitch on the board it was obvious that she'd pull the same stunt on Jon Snow. This violates the "if you see a body" rule, but was clearly within the established rules of the universe.
The Hound was left dying by a rock with no one around. Arya even asks if he's going to die, and he says he was done for "unless there's a master behind that rock". Some time later he's rescued by Tai Lung. This doesn't violate the "if you see a body" rule, but it was clearly bullshit as presented in the show. He directly called out his own death unless <shit that ain't gonna happen>, was last seen dying, and then <shit that ain't gonna happen> happens behind the viewer's back.
The "if you see a body rule" is, more formally, "If you don't see a character's dead body, they're not really dead.". A corollary to that is 'If you do see a character's dead body, they're really dead.". (And in comic books where this rule is most often applied/discussed, there's the overriding axiom of no death being permanent.)
Jon Snow violates the rule, but The Hound doesn't. However, the rule exists because of cheap and sloppy writing where characters that are left for dead (but not confirmed) are routinely brought back in some shitty twist. And I feel that while the The Hound doesn't violate the rule, his return is guilty of being cheap and sloppy (at least as presented in the show).
I bring these two up as they're two examples on either side of the same coin in the same popular work. I feel that The Hound coming back is more bullshit than Jon Snow coming back. Others feel differently.
Because new products tend to have higher prices because they are new. Prices drop over time. The X370 is also the newest, top of the line chipset. (The Z270 is not a board.)
If there were a walmart (or target) near me I'd shop at them more and at Amazon less. Target is mostly bearable as is, and with a walmart nearby I could at least time my trips to better avoid the dregs of society.
If it weren't for Amazon Prime I'd be driving 90+ miles round trip to get to a target or walmart, which means I'm stuck doing it on a weekend (wasting my weekend, dealing with more traffic and larger crowds, etc.). Or I'd be stuck paying stupid shipping charges, encouraging me to delay purchases so I can bundle orders and meet free shipping thresholds.
With Amazon's increasing prices, the increase in the Prime subscription cost, the addition of more and more items to the "add-on item" classification (requiring a purchase amount threshold before free shipping kicks in), and the massive influx of cheap chinese crap and counterfeits to wade through, Amazon is becoming less attractive every day. If I had more local choices I'd use them.
Let's not forget Amazon Fresh, which is next level grocery shopping. Have you heard of Prime Now? They delivered diapers to me while I was in Disney World and saved my marriage.
If your spouse can't handle the fact that sometimes you shit your pants, they don't really love you.
Sadly, vaccines are a victim of their own success. Vaccines are indisputably the single most lifesaving medical development in the entire course of human history, more than surgery or anesthesia or pharmaceuticals. And perhaps it is the ultimate irony that it is only because they have worked so spectacularly well that humans, in their seemingly infinite capacity for stupidity, have somehow managed to grow to distrust them, because people in industrialized nations have almost entirely forgotten what it was like to live in a time when these diseases were not only common, but pervasive in the general population. Entire communities were decimated by polio. People have forgotten the death and the panic and the fear of these diseases.
The present situation is the result of a failure to educate. Every single child, as soon as they are able to comprehend, must be taught of the history of these pandemics. Not just a recitation of statistics; people need to be SHOWN IN GRAPHIC DETAIL what these diseases did to humanity throughout history.
People built museums to remind ourselves of the Holocaust; of the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge. Yet, for the most part, we do not educate younger generations about the horrific scope of deaths these diseases have wrought on society. Why is that? Is it really only because we care when people die at the hands of despots? Dead is dead. A virus doesn't care who you are.
The influenza vaccine is largely useless.
Indisputably? I'll dispute. The "single most lifesaving medical development in the entire course of human history" would be fire or sewers.
That's not what "irony" means. Something that is unexpected is not ironic. Irony is the use of words to express something other than their literal intention. Such as calling a fat man "slim".
I don't even have time to schlep through the rest.
Some people in the Midwest literally do. I've heard them. I grew up around them. They'd say that QM is something "those silly scientists invented because the truth that God did it that way is too much for them to bear".
Name 3 such people making such retarded statements to or around you.
People in the midwest are no dumber than people on the coasts. As someone living on the west coast, I'd have to say that people on the coasts are dumber, but they wallow in their ignorance and consider themselves "educated" and "informed". At least people in the midwest have horse sense.
Bullshit. Autism can be caused by inflammation and toxins, aspects of the modern world. Genetics is less of a cause, we know, because there was much much less of it 100 years ago. And no, detection is not much better.
How about a child, who is now 16 years old, that has autism due to the MMR vaccine? Yes, you read that right. I'll write it again for all you deniers AUTISM CAUSED BY THE MMR VACCINE at age 18 months. Until you've had to raise a vaccine injured autistic child, do not tell me about the safety or effectiveness of modern vaccines. I hope someday vaccine injury will be fully understood. Until that day, do not force this issue. Some of us are willing to go to war and will.
Should be mod down "-1 Troll" since the poster claims facts that are not proven by science nor does the poster present valid links to actual scientific reports (not the fake reports created by the anti-vacsers out there).
That doesn't make it a troll, or even false. It makes it unsourced and potentially unsupported.
Not everything you disagree with is a troll, is racist/sexist/etc., or needs to be censored.
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If a collection agency (Windham Associates) was after you for the debt, that (in theory) means the original entity you owed money to (RCI) has sold the debt to them. In almost all cases, especially for low-value debts, the collection agency owns the debt. This keeps the original owner's hands clean legally for the bullshit collection practices used and distances them from PR nightmares.
Assuming WA owned the debt, you sending a check to RCI after they sold the debt to WA doesn't count as you paying the debt. It counts as you giving away money to RCI and not paying your debt, which is owned by WA. WA probably decided at that point that you weren't worth the hassle. Your piece of documentation, however invalid, wasn't worth fighting in court over $200 and change. They likely got the amount they paid for your debt (less than $570) back from RCI.
Alternatively, they knew they didn't have paperwork showing they owned the debt (because it's all intentionally sloppy, bought in bulk, etc.), just like this story is talking about. So your check would have been valid payment of the debt.
They're all "for-profit schools".
A unanimous three-judge panel on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco sided with a lower court ruling in finding that rules permitting the FBI to send national security letters under gag orders are appropriate and do not violate the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution's free speech protections
Well, they're wrong.
You'll be using fewer and fewer applications then as more and more applications require a SafetyNet check.
Everything from online banking apps to games require it. Banking apps make no sense when you can get the full functionality (and often more than the app provides) from a web browser on your phone or a PC with absolutely no "security" checks. Games at least make sense, even if I don't like it. They want to prevent cheating and prevent ad blocking.
SnapChat required it in order to prevent people from saving snaps, but they've backed off from the whole ephemeral thing in the last couple of years. SO I have no clue why they've still got the initial SafetyNet check.
Early swipe? The NES Classic came out late last year, was perpetually sold out, and is discontinued. This year we're getting the SNES Classic.
THAT, friends, is why you root the shit out of Android and then use an app like AdAway, which uses the /etc/hosts file to block ads, which is why root is required. I tried other adblockers that didnt use the hosts file and none worked worth a damn.. Before I rooted my phone, it was endless ads in EVERYthing, and of course, this crap was eating up my data like mad, for which I pay for what I use (am on Ting.com). Once I rooted and installed AdAway, no more ads, and my data consumption went down signifcantly...
The problem with this is you lose access to a ton of apps that rely on "SafetyNet". Everything from Pokemon GO to AndroidPay to SnapChat uses SafetyNet and will refuse to run if it can detect that your system image has been modified or if it can detect that you have root access. (In SnapChat's case it only does this when you want to log in, so you can disable root, log in, then root again.) More and more apps are using SafetyNet, and it's fucking awful. It's a cat and mouse game to get root and still pass SafetyNet.
I'd be surprised if this thing ever comes out. All they have right now are renders.
And they're not going to have anywhere near the number of interested buyers as the NES Classic or SNES Classic.
They're either going so slowly because they're working on a licensing and payment model (i.e., their own digital store to buy Atari games for a couple of bucks a piece), or they're drop feeding info to gauge interest.
Look in your mom's nightstand.
We can't bust heads like we used to. But we have our ways. One trick is to tell stories that don't go anywhere. Like the time I caught the ferry to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe. So I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on themem. "Gimme five bees for a quarter," you'd say. Now where were we... oh yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. I didn't have any white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...
"The news media in the West pose a far greater danger to Western civilization than Russia does."
That's a true statement.
Calling her "Shillary" isn't sexist. It means she's a shill. Perhaps you were thinking of "Shrillary"?
Successful voter fraud isn't detected. "There have been studies" actually means "there have been surveys of people self reporting voter fraud" and "someone counted up the few dumbasses who got caught". And yes, most non-Democrats would absolutely support voter ID laws where the ID was free and easy to get.
Feelings don't mean shit, I agree. Yet here we are - liberals FEEL that Trump is guilty of something, they FEEL he's violating a clause about emoluments, etc. None of it is based in fact, but they FEEL it.
Did you skip a number? I don't know about project veritas, but if you're going to throw out illegitimate news sources for publishing nothing but bullshit, then you need to throw out the vast majority of news networks and newspapers.
You're proving voter fraud by redefining voter fraud? Damn, you're hopeless. ID's aren't hard to get, it's not "one step away from treason", etc. States get the votes they do as per the constitution. It's deliberately designed so that populous states don't get to run the show. You may not like it, but it's a good design because it keeps people like you from hijacking the nation.
But again, you're going on your feelings. Which by your own admission aren't worth shit.
No it was not the left or the so called liberal media.
It was the intelligence agencies. I tend to happen to side with them.
Why would you trust the intelligence agencies? Do you need a recap of their track record?
Even if Hillary fucked up (she did with the email server as you and I would be thrown in jail if we did this) and Putin just shared information, it is still collusion with a foreign power and treason to a high degree.
Are we at war with Russia? Or are they our ally? How is diplomacy with a foreign state we are not at war with treasonous?
A nation should not be involved in another nation's election or internal affairs. I will say this hypocritically too as an American as we did evil in the name of good in South America to prevent evil communism with propping up Pinochet in Chile who murdered people!
Why not? It's called diplomacy. The US does it all the time. And if you want to call out examples of when the US does bad things, why stop at one?
It was wrong and Russia not only interfered but had counter intelligence agents whose job was sabotage and espionage during the cold war give the information to Trump Jr. Gee what is wrong with that???!!!
Where's the evidence? It's been almost a year now since these allegations started.
Further, was anything exposed false? If Putin himself "hacked" Hillary's emails (and remember - this was all due to a certain moran falling for a phishing email) and hand delivered it to Trump, so what? Putin should be given a damned medal for exposing Hillary's shit.
You'll jump to believe some made up shit about prostitutes and water sports as long as Wolf Blitzer reads it out to you. But when faced with actual evidence of gross misbehavior and wrongdoing, you get into a tizzy about the way someone got caught.
Hillary, the DNC, CNN, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Trump, and many more. all claimed the election was rigged.
No, I was not.
I copied the moo/cows troll a few times, because I enjoyed it. I was not the original creator and I didn't post it as AC.
I do the bolding for luddites and apps occasionally in reference to that particular troll, but again, I was not the originator and I didn't go around posting it as AC. (I don't think I've ever copy-pastad this one like I have occasionally for the moo/cows one.)
I wish I had the legacy of some of those classic troll posts.
I used to go post this whenever someone mentioned zero kelvin or absolute zero or some such. But I haven't done it in a while (in part because I can't be assed to search for it each time an opportunity comes up). I am the original creator of that. (And yes, I realize the type of "last rights" - it has been corrected in later postings of it.)
This is why you turn auto update OFF for apps and plugins.
Let shit notify you that updates are available. But don't let shit automatically apply them.
Fucking hell. I meant to type "maester", not "master". That's a typo.
It was obvious to me that both would return.
Jon Snow was definitively dead, corpse and all.
We had previously seen the dead be revived by magic-wielding followers of the Lord of Light (when Arya was semi-kidnapped by Robin Hood and his gang). And with the red bitch on the board it was obvious that she'd pull the same stunt on Jon Snow. This violates the "if you see a body" rule, but was clearly within the established rules of the universe.
The Hound was left dying by a rock with no one around. Arya even asks if he's going to die, and he says he was done for "unless there's a master behind that rock". Some time later he's rescued by Tai Lung. This doesn't violate the "if you see a body" rule, but it was clearly bullshit as presented in the show. He directly called out his own death unless <shit that ain't gonna happen>, was last seen dying, and then <shit that ain't gonna happen> happens behind the viewer's back.
The "if you see a body rule" is, more formally, "If you don't see a character's dead body, they're not really dead.". A corollary to that is 'If you do see a character's dead body, they're really dead.". (And in comic books where this rule is most often applied/discussed, there's the overriding axiom of no death being permanent.)
Jon Snow violates the rule, but The Hound doesn't. However, the rule exists because of cheap and sloppy writing where characters that are left for dead (but not confirmed) are routinely brought back in some shitty twist. And I feel that while the The Hound doesn't violate the rule, his return is guilty of being cheap and sloppy (at least as presented in the show).
I bring these two up as they're two examples on either side of the same coin in the same popular work.
I feel that The Hound coming back is more bullshit than Jon Snow coming back. Others feel differently.
Because new products tend to have higher prices because they are new. Prices drop over time.
The X370 is also the newest, top of the line chipset. (The Z270 is not a board.)
Compare apples to apples, please.
If there were a walmart (or target) near me I'd shop at them more and at Amazon less.
Target is mostly bearable as is, and with a walmart nearby I could at least time my trips to better avoid the dregs of society.
If it weren't for Amazon Prime I'd be driving 90+ miles round trip to get to a target or walmart, which means I'm stuck doing it on a weekend (wasting my weekend, dealing with more traffic and larger crowds, etc.). Or I'd be stuck paying stupid shipping charges, encouraging me to delay purchases so I can bundle orders and meet free shipping thresholds.
With Amazon's increasing prices, the increase in the Prime subscription cost, the addition of more and more items to the "add-on item" classification (requiring a purchase amount threshold before free shipping kicks in), and the massive influx of cheap chinese crap and counterfeits to wade through, Amazon is becoming less attractive every day. If I had more local choices I'd use them.
Let's not forget Amazon Fresh, which is next level grocery shopping. Have you heard of Prime Now? They delivered diapers to me while I was in Disney World and saved my marriage.
If your spouse can't handle the fact that sometimes you shit your pants, they don't really love you.
Polio. Measles. Tuberculosis. Influenza. Rubella. Hepatitis. Smallpox.
Sadly, vaccines are a victim of their own success. Vaccines are indisputably the single most lifesaving medical development in the entire course of human history, more than surgery or anesthesia or pharmaceuticals. And perhaps it is the ultimate irony that it is only because they have worked so spectacularly well that humans, in their seemingly infinite capacity for stupidity, have somehow managed to grow to distrust them, because people in industrialized nations have almost entirely forgotten what it was like to live in a time when these diseases were not only common, but pervasive in the general population. Entire communities were decimated by polio. People have forgotten the death and the panic and the fear of these diseases.
The present situation is the result of a failure to educate. Every single child, as soon as they are able to comprehend, must be taught of the history of these pandemics. Not just a recitation of statistics; people need to be SHOWN IN GRAPHIC DETAIL what these diseases did to humanity throughout history.
People built museums to remind ourselves of the Holocaust; of the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge. Yet, for the most part, we do not educate younger generations about the horrific scope of deaths these diseases have wrought on society. Why is that? Is it really only because we care when people die at the hands of despots? Dead is dead. A virus doesn't care who you are.
The influenza vaccine is largely useless.
Indisputably? I'll dispute. The "single most lifesaving medical development in the entire course of human history" would be fire or sewers.
That's not what "irony" means. Something that is unexpected is not ironic. Irony is the use of words to express something other than their literal intention. Such as calling a fat man "slim".
I don't even have time to schlep through the rest.
Some people in the Midwest literally do. I've heard them. I grew up around them. They'd say that QM is something "those silly scientists invented because the truth that God did it that way is too much for them to bear".
Name 3 such people making such retarded statements to or around you.
People in the midwest are no dumber than people on the coasts. As someone living on the west coast, I'd have to say that people on the coasts are dumber, but they wallow in their ignorance and consider themselves "educated" and "informed". At least people in the midwest have horse sense.
Good point. Either way, it's good herd management, to keep the tax cows healthy.
I've been on Slashdot for a while, so I know a bit about cows (MOOOOO).
As far as I know, paying taxes is not one of the things that cows do.
Bullshit.
Autism can be caused by inflammation and toxins, aspects of the modern world.
Genetics is less of a cause, we know, because there was much much less of it 100 years ago.
And no, detection is not much better.
OMG YOU GUISE! GLUTEN CAUSES AUTISM!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How about a child, who is now 16 years old, that has autism due to the MMR vaccine? Yes, you read that right. I'll write it again for all you deniers AUTISM CAUSED BY THE MMR VACCINE at age 18 months. Until you've had to raise a vaccine injured autistic child, do not tell me about the safety or effectiveness of modern vaccines. I hope someday vaccine injury will be fully understood. Until that day, do not force this issue. Some of us are willing to go to war and will.
Should be mod down "-1 Troll" since the poster claims facts that are not proven by science nor does the poster present valid links to actual scientific reports (not the fake reports created by the anti-vacsers out there).
That doesn't make it a troll, or even false. It makes it unsourced and potentially unsupported.
Not everything you disagree with is a troll, is racist/sexist/etc., or needs to be censored.