Nothing wrong with a last minute request if it was unavoidable. However, if you had time to report it before, you should have done that. If you know it's not urgent, don't pretend it is, because we can tell, and we will remember your lies.
As best as I can tell, the purpose of this device is to make it easier for book sellers to lose customers by introducing errors into the carefully constructed and edited text presented to them by the author, making the reading experience painful and disappointing. I've commented elsewhere about not touching my Kindle for two months because I was so infuriated by numerous typographical errors in pretty much every ebook I have. I put it down to sloppy conversion from the text, but soon realised that the sort of errors cropping up would be picked up by even the laziest of automatic checking done by a word processing package.
As such, it is their duty to provide a stable, reliable network and INSTALLING RANDOM SHIT is the antithesis of this.
You are paid to provide internet access TO WHATEVER RANDOM SHIT I CONNECT TO THE LINE I PAY YOU FOR.Your say in the matter stops at the wire coming into my premises. Whatever I connect, equipment wise, is NOYFB.
By the way, in this instance *I* am the sysadmin, even if I'm a home user. It's MY network inside my house, not yours.
I've just realised why I've not touched my Kindle in over two months. I remember being too irritated by the poor quality of editing in eBooks, and put it down to Amazon farming out the work to minimum wage interns or leaving it to text-recognition software. I stopped buying eBooks and went back to paperbacks.
There is nothing so sharp as the jolt back to reality when, midway through a tense scene, bad grammar or punctuation means I have to re-read a sentence several times. They might has well have stamped on my foot, or set off a fire alarm. In the back of my mind I keep thinking over about fucking stupid mistake, like a comma after a space, and how irritating it was. I have to stop reading, because I'm just not in the book anymore.
If this is DRM, it's costing eBook publishers sales.
Does accidentally leaving your car unlocked make you liable for theft of its contents? It's a ToS violation at the least, and just like the insurer not paying out for your stolen car stereo the eBook rights holder will ban you.
There are no feasible need for having an eBook on a memory stick. You can access it on your phone, computer, Kindle etc without one, and you can re-download it at any time, so the only reason to have it on there is for unlicensed use / sharing.
N.B. I don't agree with this, it's just the opinion they will hold. You will be deemed liable.
I wouldn't be surprised. I would point out, however, that it is entirely possible to disable the service while you are at home and enable it when you leave. All you need do is complete a short web form.
The day anything said to a police officer can be used by the defense as well as the prosecution (as it is in the UK) is the day I'll agree with you. Until then, absolutely anything I say to a police officer in the USA can only be used to your detriment. I'm not saying that they're incapable of compassion, or "turning a blind eye" every now and then, but do I really want to take the chance that the officer I'm conversing with is one of those 1% who just can't wait to get another notch on his belt?
This is exactly my point. I understand that maybe 1%, if not fewer, are the corrupt / abusive PoS that we see in YouTube videos pepper-spraying women sat on the ground or tasering "uncooperative" geriatrics until they wet themselves. However, the risk of harm if you're confronted by one of these assholes is so high that it outweighs the gains, in my opinion, from social interaction with a police officer.
Maybe if we treated all police officers as sub-human scumbags they'd be less likely to defend those who are giving the others a bad reputation.
In the UK we have something called Chancel Repair Liability insurance, designed to protect us from the incredibly unlikely event that the house you buy is on land that was once part of a rectory or glebe (land where a portion of the product of that land goes towards parish upkeep), meaning the current modern-day owner is then potentially subject to paying for the upkeep of the parish church buildings and lands. There was a case in the early 2000s of a parish claiming under this, for around £100,000 in repair bills.
Besides, an actual insurance underwriter (not a broker) will insure you against anything. Just be prepared to pay for it.
You get to use the same service on any other technology-enabled access point on the network, wherever you are.
BT-FON in the UK is wonderful. I have used WiFi all over the country because my home connection advertised FON capability; Anyone else on BT Internet advertises it by default. I have FTTC; I can afford to lend out a couple of Mb in order to get that kind of service while out and about. I don't mind because where I live is densely residential, so likely nobody would use it. If they do, I've not noticed.
I also am not a lawyer. I'm not even American. Why would you get into casual conversation with someone who, by the very nature of their position, is to be considered hostile at all times?
I am not in the habit of engaging in casual conversation in the presence of to the politically correct nutbag at work because I know they will use anything I say against me, regardless of context. Why shouldn't you treat a police officer (in the US) the same way?
Why don't you crawl over to that lame site and find out? I've had it with Reddit hipsters. Reddit is like a Down Syndrome convention.
Failure to capitalise the start of a sentence, failure to use an apostrophe in contractions, failure to capitalise proper nouns, failure to end a sentence with a full stop. Failure seems to be a common occurrence for you.
If this were Reddit, I'd be asking for AWildSketchAppears to draw a plane crashing and burning into a train wreck because the pilot shot out the tires while simultaneously trying to insert his head up his own ass.
Of course, Snowden isn't being seditious either as he's simply provided evidence of their highly questionable activities.
It depends on your perspective. From the NSA's point of view, the seditious are the ones getting in the way of their lawful monitoring of communications in order to try and prevent the treasonous acts of bombing the US. Maybe the NSA are like IT Support; You only ever realise they exist when they get it wrong?
From your point of view, the NSA are the seditious, infringing on your rights to privacy and freedom of association etc.
The thing about Tor / I2P private email addresses is that they are still addressable from the regular internet. Otherwise, they wouldn't be much use! This doesn't stop PRISM in the least; It still "knows" that SimonLeakpublisher@yourfavouritenewspaper.com is communicating with BobNSAHacker@Toremails.Tor or whatever. They just can't trace who's accessing that account. If they get that info in any other way (emailed the account yourself to "check it's anonymous"?) then you're still just as exposed.
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"5. You make unreasonable last-minute requests."
Nothing wrong with a last minute request if it was unavoidable. However, if you had time to report it before, you should have done that. If you know it's not urgent, don't pretend it is, because we can tell, and we will remember your lies.
The European Arrest Warrant was brought after he had left Sweden. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/nov/18/sweden-arrest-warrant-julian-assange
"If you want a puppy, ask for a horse."
- Me.
I don't know. Why not check the license?
As best as I can tell, the purpose of this device is to make it easier for book sellers to lose customers by introducing errors into the carefully constructed and edited text presented to them by the author, making the reading experience painful and disappointing. I've commented elsewhere about not touching my Kindle for two months because I was so infuriated by numerous typographical errors in pretty much every ebook I have. I put it down to sloppy conversion from the text, but soon realised that the sort of errors cropping up would be picked up by even the laziest of automatic checking done by a word processing package.
Tell that to anyone who suffers from motion sickness.
As such, it is their duty to provide a stable, reliable network and INSTALLING RANDOM SHIT is the antithesis of this.
You are paid to provide internet access TO WHATEVER RANDOM SHIT I CONNECT TO THE LINE I PAY YOU FOR.Your say in the matter stops at the wire coming into my premises. Whatever I connect, equipment wise, is NOYFB.
By the way, in this instance *I* am the sysadmin, even if I'm a home user. It's MY network inside my house, not yours.
I've just realised why I've not touched my Kindle in over two months. I remember being too irritated by the poor quality of editing in eBooks, and put it down to Amazon farming out the work to minimum wage interns or leaving it to text-recognition software. I stopped buying eBooks and went back to paperbacks.
There is nothing so sharp as the jolt back to reality when, midway through a tense scene, bad grammar or punctuation means I have to re-read a sentence several times. They might has well have stamped on my foot, or set off a fire alarm. In the back of my mind I keep thinking over about fucking stupid mistake, like a comma after a space, and how irritating it was. I have to stop reading, because I'm just not in the book anymore.
If this is DRM, it's costing eBook publishers sales.
Does accidentally leaving your car unlocked make you liable for theft of its contents? It's a ToS violation at the least, and just like the insurer not paying out for your stolen car stereo the eBook rights holder will ban you.
Did you expect it do be any other way? Seriously?
There are no feasible need for having an eBook on a memory stick. You can access it on your phone, computer, Kindle etc without one, and you can re-download it at any time, so the only reason to have it on there is for unlicensed use / sharing.
N.B. I don't agree with this, it's just the opinion they will hold. You will be deemed liable.
I wouldn't be surprised. I would point out, however, that it is entirely possible to disable the service while you are at home and enable it when you leave. All you need do is complete a short web form.
The day anything said to a police officer can be used by the defense as well as the prosecution (as it is in the UK) is the day I'll agree with you. Until then, absolutely anything I say to a police officer in the USA can only be used to your detriment. I'm not saying that they're incapable of compassion, or "turning a blind eye" every now and then, but do I really want to take the chance that the officer I'm conversing with is one of those 1% who just can't wait to get another notch on his belt?
Until then, I say make them pariahs.
This is exactly my point. I understand that maybe 1%, if not fewer, are the corrupt / abusive PoS that we see in YouTube videos pepper-spraying women sat on the ground or tasering "uncooperative" geriatrics until they wet themselves. However, the risk of harm if you're confronted by one of these assholes is so high that it outweighs the gains, in my opinion, from social interaction with a police officer.
Maybe if we treated all police officers as sub-human scumbags they'd be less likely to defend those who are giving the others a bad reputation.
In the UK we have something called Chancel Repair Liability insurance, designed to protect us from the incredibly unlikely event that the house you buy is on land that was once part of a rectory or glebe (land where a portion of the product of that land goes towards parish upkeep), meaning the current modern-day owner is then potentially subject to paying for the upkeep of the parish church buildings and lands. There was a case in the early 2000s of a parish claiming under this, for around £100,000 in repair bills.
Besides, an actual insurance underwriter (not a broker) will insure you against anything. Just be prepared to pay for it.
You get to use the same service on any other technology-enabled access point on the network, wherever you are.
BT-FON in the UK is wonderful. I have used WiFi all over the country because my home connection advertised FON capability; Anyone else on BT Internet advertises it by default. I have FTTC; I can afford to lend out a couple of Mb in order to get that kind of service while out and about. I don't mind because where I live is densely residential, so likely nobody would use it. If they do, I've not noticed.
I immediately envisioned this (SFW)
I also am not a lawyer. I'm not even American. Why would you get into casual conversation with someone who, by the very nature of their position, is to be considered hostile at all times?
I am not in the habit of engaging in casual conversation in the presence of to the politically correct nutbag at work because I know they will use anything I say against me, regardless of context. Why shouldn't you treat a police officer (in the US) the same way?
Why don't you crawl over to that lame site and find out? I've had it with Reddit hipsters. Reddit is like a Down Syndrome convention.
Failure to capitalise the start of a sentence, failure to use an apostrophe in contractions, failure to capitalise proper nouns, failure to end a sentence with a full stop. Failure seems to be a common occurrence for you.
If this were Reddit, I'd be asking for AWildSketchAppears to draw a plane crashing and burning into a train wreck because the pilot shot out the tires while simultaneously trying to insert his head up his own ass.
This seriously cannot get any worse. Can it?
Or, at least, put off going down that road until I'm dead, after which I won't give a crap, because I'll be dead.
Spoken like a true corporate sociopath.
It just means there's more rampant totty for the rest of us real men!
(It's a Black Adder quote. Get over yourself.)
Certainly, my name is Smith, A. I reside at:
Fort George G. Meade, Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Bring some friends, we have a keg.
Of course, Snowden isn't being seditious either as he's simply provided evidence of their highly questionable activities.
It depends on your perspective. From the NSA's point of view, the seditious are the ones getting in the way of their lawful monitoring of communications in order to try and prevent the treasonous acts of bombing the US. Maybe the NSA are like IT Support; You only ever realise they exist when they get it wrong?
From your point of view, the NSA are the seditious, infringing on your rights to privacy and freedom of association etc.
The thing about Tor / I2P private email addresses is that they are still addressable from the regular internet. Otherwise, they wouldn't be much use! This doesn't stop PRISM in the least; It still "knows" that SimonLeakpublisher@yourfavouritenewspaper.com is communicating with BobNSAHacker@Toremails.Tor or whatever. They just can't trace who's accessing that account. If they get that info in any other way (emailed the account yourself to "check it's anonymous"?) then you're still just as exposed.
Similar situation here. I've played computer games since Contra on the NES, and I have a girlfriend that doesn't need quote marks! :D