With one of my decks, I laugh at people that bring out one of those, expecting me to tip my King over at the very sight of it.
I laugh, then point to my Chamber of Manipulation (several of them in play by that point in the game) and my Fallen Angel (I only need one to make it all happen; the rest are insurance against failure).
What generally ends up happening is that having a Lord of the Pit under your control against that deck is like holding the proverbial hot potato that you can't let go of.:)
LOTPs aren't all they're made out to be.:)
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I help out at a local computer store, and so I know how this goes.
The explanation is quite simple: we don't charge extra for Visa or MC purchases, but they're on "regular" prices. The prices in store and in our advertising are "cash-discounted". (Yes, the ads specify this in the fine print, and there's a notice at the register in-store to that effect as well.)
Therefore, by spinning it such that you're not paying "more than normal" as a result of paying by CC, but just paying "less than normal" by paying cash/debit, it semi-legitimizes the practice.
Nearly every screwdriver-shop-type computer store I know does it, and quite frankly I don't see how a CC company could punish them for so doing because of how it's spun.
For the last two years I lived in Toronto and enjoyed grocery deliveries by Grocery Gateway. They serve the whole Greater Toronto Area, have a similar minimum order requirement (C$60), and charge a delivery fee of up to $8 depending when you schedule your delivery.
The selection was incredibly good, the food was always fresh, and I was quite pleased with their customer service.
It goes to show you that you can, indeed, be successful selling groceries online, if you play your cards right...
Longhorn would be NT7 (2000 is NT5, XP is NT6). The most likely name for Longhorn would be Windows.NET
Oh boy, where do I start?
Windows 2000 is Windows NT 5.0. Windows XP is Windows NT 5.1. (Look at the System Control Panel of an XP box sometime.) Windows.NET Server RC1 is Windows NT 5.2, build 3663. I know this because I run it on one of my boxes (I have an MSDN subscription).
It makes sense, then, that Longhorn will be Windows NT 5.3 or more likely 6.0.
That's really great -- not only did you duplicate the OS and software image, but you also duplicated the security identifiers (SIDs). This will cause all sorts of havoc if any of those duplicated machines are on the same network.
Read up about it at Microsoft's Support's website.
For God's sake people, chlorinated tap water will likely contain fewer microbes than spring water, which comes out of the damned GROUND. If you're lucky.
I call bullshit.
The house I've lived in for the last while is supplied by a well (yes, the water comes out of the "damned GROUND"). Every six months we send a sample of the water to a local lab to test for parasites and bacteria. It always comes back with zeroes across the board; zero E. Coli, zero coliform, etc. And this is without one drop of chlorine, bromine, or anything else.
Know where aquafina and dasani come from? Chlorinated tap water with some salts added. So you're paying $2 a bottle for what you can get for (essentially) free. Morons.
Take chlorinated tap water and run it through a heavy-duty reverse osmosis filter (among other filters) like Coca-Cola does with Dasani, and you end up with basically nothing but dihydrogen monoxide (pure water). Then they add some minerals back into the water to give it some taste (otherwise it would be like drinking distilled water, which actually isn't as good for you and also tastes yucky).
Chlorine and fluorine don't taste good, which is why many people in areas with heavily-treated (or high-iron-content, for example) water prefer bottled water to their tap water. Yes, it costs more, but it's more pleasant.
Oh, and it should be obvious, but my original post should have noted "two wires" and not "two pairs" with regard to the DSL line at the demark. Silly me.
I figured either that was the case or you had some funky two-pair SDSL or VDSL thing going on.
I can go to Radio Shack and buy a DVD player for 100$ (CDN), and I know for certain that an MPEG-4 decoder chip does NOT cost 500$!
You're absolutely right, it doesn't -- but when you are the only company in the market offering a certain type of product, you can charge whatever the hell you think you can get for it.
You accrue minimal interest. It is not substantial.
The same can be said of nearly every checking account in the country.
Money markets are not exclusive to banks. I could open one up tomorrow.
Okay then, what about their debit cards? Think you could open up your own debit card system tomorrow and hook yourself up to the national ACH (automated clearinghouse) network?
I didn't think so.
If it flies like a duck, and waddles like a duck, and quacks like a duck...
PayPal, as much as they claim not to be, is a bank.
PayPal isn't a bank. They don't claim to be a bank. They are not insured like a bank. So why should they have to act like one? They are a payment clearinghouse.
I call bullshit -- or at least misinformed.
Not only do you accrue interest on the cash balance in your PayPal "account", they also have a money market fund you can invest in.
If they aren't trying to be a bank but saying otherwise, I... never mind.
My point is that PayPal are whores with the ethics of a petty thief, and I sincerely hope eBay straightens them right out.
However, since I read about the debacle of eBay CSRs getting told off for shutting down questionable auctions because those auctions belonged to Power Sellers (eBay's most profitable customers), I'm now questioning eBay's ethics/morals as well.
I paid for SpinRite 5, and if you own it you'll notice your serial number is embedded in the executable itself in a non-obvious manner and is displayed at runtime.
So anyone who shares it will be likely flagged by Gibson.
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Lord of the Pit?!
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:)
With one of my decks, I laugh at people that bring out one of those, expecting me to tip my King over at the very sight of it.
I laugh, then point to my Chamber of Manipulation (several of them in play by that point in the game) and my Fallen Angel (I only need one to make it all happen; the rest are insurance against failure).
What generally ends up happening is that having a Lord of the Pit under your control against that deck is like holding the proverbial hot potato that you can't let go of.
LOTPs aren't all they're made out to be.
I help out at a local computer store, and so I know how this goes.
The explanation is quite simple: we don't charge extra for Visa or MC purchases, but they're on "regular" prices. The prices in store and in our advertising are "cash-discounted". (Yes, the ads specify this in the fine print, and there's a notice at the register in-store to that effect as well.)
Therefore, by spinning it such that you're not paying "more than normal" as a result of paying by CC, but just paying "less than normal" by paying cash/debit, it semi-legitimizes the practice.
Nearly every screwdriver-shop-type computer store I know does it, and quite frankly I don't see how a CC company could punish them for so doing because of how it's spun.
Get this, we will VIBRATE the floor to see if we can the elderly sure footing!
To see if we can the elderly sure footing?
Huh?
my blind-the-senior project for better visual acuity project!
Funded by the Department of Redundancy Department, no doubt?
N-n-no, darling, they're for your feet.
(Sorry.)
For the last two years I lived in Toronto and enjoyed grocery deliveries by Grocery Gateway. They serve the whole Greater Toronto Area, have a similar minimum order requirement (C$60), and charge a delivery fee of up to $8 depending when you schedule your delivery.
The selection was incredibly good, the food was always fresh, and I was quite pleased with their customer service.
It goes to show you that you can, indeed, be successful selling groceries online, if you play your cards right...
I give you a gift:
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Customers who shopped for this item also wear:
Is it just me, or is this a cheapshot at us geeks?
Sheesh, the nerve...
Longhorn would be NT7 (2000 is NT5, XP is NT6). The most likely name for Longhorn would be Windows.NET
.NET Server RC1 is Windows NT 5.2, build 3663. I know this because I run it on one of my boxes (I have an MSDN subscription).
Oh boy, where do I start?
Windows 2000 is Windows NT 5.0.
Windows XP is Windows NT 5.1. (Look at the System Control Panel of an XP box sometime.)
Windows
It makes sense, then, that Longhorn will be Windows NT 5.3 or more likely 6.0.
That's really great -- not only did you duplicate the OS and software image, but you also duplicated the security identifiers (SIDs). This will cause all sorts of havoc if any of those duplicated machines are on the same network.
Read up about it at Microsoft's Support's website.
For God's sake people, chlorinated tap water will likely contain fewer microbes than spring water, which comes out of the damned GROUND. If you're lucky.
I call bullshit.
The house I've lived in for the last while is supplied by a well (yes, the water comes out of the "damned GROUND"). Every six months we send a sample of the water to a local lab to test for parasites and bacteria. It always comes back with zeroes across the board; zero E. Coli, zero coliform, etc. And this is without one drop of chlorine, bromine, or anything else.
Know where aquafina and dasani come from? Chlorinated tap water with some salts added. So you're paying $2 a bottle for what you can get for (essentially) free. Morons.
Take chlorinated tap water and run it through a heavy-duty reverse osmosis filter (among other filters) like Coca-Cola does with Dasani, and you end up with basically nothing but dihydrogen monoxide (pure water). Then they add some minerals back into the water to give it some taste (otherwise it would be like drinking distilled water, which actually isn't as good for you and also tastes yucky).
Chlorine and fluorine don't taste good, which is why many people in areas with heavily-treated (or high-iron-content, for example) water prefer bottled water to their tap water. Yes, it costs more, but it's more pleasant.
Now who's the moron?
Oh, and it should be obvious, but my original post should have noted "two wires" and not "two pairs" with regard to the DSL line at the demark. Silly me.
I figured either that was the case or you had some funky two-pair SDSL or VDSL thing going on.
cross-connect it to the bridge connection on the right 110 block
Ewwww!
BIX rocks. The official Nortel tool costs a fortune (like C$80), but is basically unbreakable. Also, no need to ever change "blades" like with 110.
Once you've worked with it, there's no going back.
I can go to Radio Shack and buy a DVD player for 100$ (CDN), and I know for certain that an MPEG-4 decoder chip does NOT cost 500$!
You're absolutely right, it doesn't -- but when you are the only company in the market offering a certain type of product, you can charge whatever the hell you think you can get for it.
Isn't that right, Bill?
Bill?
I haven't had such a hearty laugh in quite some time. Keep up the good work. :)
I feel like a dipshit for not including this little gem in my submission.
Oh well, here it is...
Can somebody explain how this theft occurred. It's not clear to me from the post.
How about this? Could Dom have been suckered by such a message? (More details here.)
Western Union does not permit you to carry a balance on account with them.
Western Union does not permit you to have an account in the common sense with them whatsoever.
You accrue minimal interest. It is not substantial.
The same can be said of nearly every checking account in the country.
Money markets are not exclusive to banks. I could open one up tomorrow.
Okay then, what about their debit cards? Think you could open up your own debit card system tomorrow and hook yourself up to the national ACH (automated clearinghouse) network?
I didn't think so.
If it flies like a duck, and waddles like a duck, and quacks like a duck...
PayPal, as much as they claim not to be, is a bank.
To clarify:
(1) The first line should have been italicised, since I was quoting the parent comment.
(2) The eBay CSRs were being told off by their supervisors, not by the Power Sellers.
PayPal isn't a bank. They don't claim to be a bank. They are not insured like a bank. So why should they have to act like one? They are a payment clearinghouse.
I call bullshit -- or at least misinformed.
Not only do you accrue interest on the cash balance in your PayPal "account", they also have a money market fund you can invest in.
If they aren't trying to be a bank but saying otherwise, I... never mind.
My point is that PayPal are whores with the ethics of a petty thief, and I sincerely hope eBay straightens them right out.
However, since I read about the debacle of eBay CSRs getting told off for shutting down questionable auctions because those auctions belonged to Power Sellers (eBay's most profitable customers), I'm now questioning eBay's ethics/morals as well.
*sigh*...
I paid for SpinRite 5, and if you own it you'll notice your serial number is embedded in the executable itself in a non-obvious manner and is displayed at runtime.
So anyone who shares it will be likely flagged by Gibson.
I'm going to get modded down by some lonely guy because he feels bad for this girl.
:)
Aww, c'mon, don't be so negative!
I can already see the flamebait mod.
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Hmm, maybe you had a point. Keep that crystal ball polished... and buy a few lottery tickets or something.
I dunno what they're going to do with 62 gigabytes of pr0n, though.
Probably the same thing you do with it.
Some insight if you don't get the pun.
I can't see them harvesting a chicken or turkey for human body parts, though.
Well, one could be of some use if you ever needed a replacement cock.
(Sorry.)