maybe some of the components wouldn't react well to sitting at a 90 degree angle; maybe the other sides aren't perfectly flat so it won't sit perfectly that way either?
some computer cases+innards are kinda like this too.
Even in my current sleep-deprived state, it seems obvious that this is unlikely-event fear-mongering from established business interests, or something of the sort.
I believe I read about this in dead-tree form, so I don't have a link handy. Maybe it's a *slight* discount essentially offered to the scalpers to work according to the mechanism described.
Yeah, Fenway at a shade under 40K is one of the smallest parks in major league baseball.
Indeed, I saw very few empty seats when I was there on July 3 and 4. (I got in on a cheaper standing room only ticket each day; I found an empty seat in the upper grandstand rows. Both times, it was filled by someone several innings late - perhaps that was a really late sale by the scalper?)
so some of the Toyota mess was the 'wrong pedal' mistake? Even realizing that mistake ASAP, it's still dangerous. Being in the wrong gear is a similar thing, although not relevant to this particular issue.
I recall hearing of it as a symbol of a post-Flood covenant saying "I won't do this again" (which is what the linked passage refers to) long before I heard of its association with homosexual politics, but the latter association was stronger in my mind now, which was why this didn't come to mind until you referenced it.
I continue to use PayPal even though I am well aware of these fringe horror stories. Sucks to be this guy of course, but seems like paranoia from the average user's perspective.
Yeah, I often withdraw the entire balance to my bank account, especially since I don't have any problems with taking $ back out of my account (either on the bank end or the PayPal end) if I want to spend $ through PayPal. [Now that I have my own payment card, I often use that directly to spend money, but I can't so easily avoid PayPal when *receiving* money]
For those targeted by selective enforcement who are actually guilty, they shouldn't be absolved of what they did do because of the corrupt nature of selective enforcement. (that is, "oh, but it was selective enforcement" shouldn't be used in response as a get-out-jail-free card, and that I see them as separate issues.)
Competing to see who can provide the best versions of a public domain work/concept makes sense.
Not sure how it works with classical [since I'm not interested, at least not yet, I don't see myself getting involved], but in the still-under-copyright popular music I tend to listen to, there can also be value in having multiple versions because of the variations in performance (as opposed to just seeking the one highest-quality performance) [Similarly, multiple performances by the same artist may also be interesting.]
Yes, the flashing pattern is not cool, but I found it ironic that a Christian fundamentalist site would be making such extensive use of rainbow coloring, even though this particular site doesn't say much if anything about homosexuals.
I was amused by their salvation-related imitation of a browser security bar.
I think he meant something like "as an unintended side-effect of this anti-discrimination measure, it's easier for stupid people [of whatever ethnicity] to vote"
Okay, I understand that the data breach is the main point of TFA. However, the rational economist in me finds it hard to get angry about scalping itself. Either the lowered initial ticket prices are irrational, or rational in some non-obvious/non-direct manner.
Passport would make for a form of ID even if other forms (drivers license, whatever) would also be accepted. Maybe it's a way to 'encourage' fans to take care of that rather important preparation for going overseas to the event.
The Boston Red Sox make a point of making their ticket prices a bit low, so that they get credit for a sell-out as the scalpers pick them up; this also moves unsold-ticket risk form the owners to the scalpers.
Figures; I got the tix for the 2 games I went to off StubHub.
Several dozen games in the same place might be different from concerts spread out over the country/continent/world (with 1, maybe 2 or 3, stops per city), I don't know.
I also saw BNW somewhat unconventionally, joked about here:
Me: We must protect ourselves from the horrors of free drugs and genetically perfect women! English Professor: Yes, but it was a society where literature such as Shakespeare was marked as forbidden trash.
BNW does show that we can't all be super-smart Alphas
More directly replying to your comment, wasn't Bernard Marx glad to be sent to the island where the interesting people were? (Sorry, haven't read it in awhile, so I remember the concepts but not details like that.)
I was impressed by a 1930s book having the material it did on genetic and social engineering.
Analogy to 'the thin blue line' - even though most people are not religious or political fanatics, couldn't those with more-moderate versions of those beliefs be doing more about it? Maybe the moderates are scared of the extremists too, maybe the moderates harbor at least some sympathy.
American divorcee = Wallis Simpson with Edward VIII. Edward VIII was getting more active in politics (pro-Nazi unfortunately), and Simpson may have provided a convenient rationale.
Maybe that helps give the idea of an active monarchy a bad flavor; in US history, "state's rights" gets a worse rap because of its prominence amongst the slaveholding Confederates
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maybe some of the components wouldn't react well to sitting at a 90 degree angle; maybe the other sides aren't perfectly flat so it won't sit perfectly that way either?
some computer cases+innards are kinda like this too.
Even in my current sleep-deprived state, it seems obvious that this is unlikely-event fear-mongering from established business interests, or something of the sort.
I believe I read about this in dead-tree form, so I don't have a link handy.
Maybe it's a *slight* discount essentially offered to the scalpers to work according to the mechanism described.
Yeah, Fenway at a shade under 40K is one of the smallest parks in major league baseball.
Indeed, I saw very few empty seats when I was there on July 3 and 4. (I got in on a cheaper standing room only ticket each day; I found an empty seat in the upper grandstand rows. Both times, it was filled by someone several innings late - perhaps that was a really late sale by the scalper?)
so some of the Toyota mess was the 'wrong pedal' mistake? Even realizing that mistake ASAP, it's still dangerous.
Being in the wrong gear is a similar thing, although not relevant to this particular issue.
I recall hearing of it as a symbol of a post-Flood covenant saying "I won't do this again" (which is what the linked passage refers to) long before I heard of its association with homosexual politics, but the latter association was stronger in my mind now, which was why this didn't come to mind until you referenced it.
I continue to use PayPal even though I am well aware of these fringe horror stories. Sucks to be this guy of course, but seems like paranoia from the average user's perspective.
The FDIC limit was upped to $250,000 in 2008, but I see your point.
At either 100K or 250K, I wish this was a problem I had to deal with. :P
Yeah, I often withdraw the entire balance to my bank account, especially since I don't have any problems with taking $ back out of my account (either on the bank end or the PayPal end) if I want to spend $ through PayPal. [Now that I have my own payment card, I often use that directly to spend money, but I can't so easily avoid PayPal when *receiving* money]
For those targeted by selective enforcement who are actually guilty, they shouldn't be absolved of what they did do because of the corrupt nature of selective enforcement. (that is, "oh, but it was selective enforcement" shouldn't be used in response as a get-out-jail-free card, and that I see them as separate issues.)
Yes, Paste Special has saved me lots of formatting clusterfucks in both Word and Excel.
Competing to see who can provide the best versions of a public domain work/concept makes sense.
Not sure how it works with classical [since I'm not interested, at least not yet, I don't see myself getting involved], but in the still-under-copyright popular music I tend to listen to, there can also be value in having multiple versions because of the variations in performance (as opposed to just seeking the one highest-quality performance) [Similarly, multiple performances by the same artist may also be interesting.]
Yes, the flashing pattern is not cool, but I found it ironic that a Christian fundamentalist site would be making such extensive use of rainbow coloring, even though this particular site doesn't say much if anything about homosexuals.
I was amused by their salvation-related imitation of a browser security bar.
I think he meant something like "as an unintended side-effect of this anti-discrimination measure, it's easier for stupid people [of whatever ethnicity] to vote"
Rigid extreme ideology is the problem, whether there are supernatural beings involved or not.
Yeah, -40 is the point at which Fahrenheit and Celsius cross.
Okay, I understand that the data breach is the main point of TFA.
However, the rational economist in me finds it hard to get angry about scalping itself.
Either the lowered initial ticket prices are irrational, or rational in some non-obvious/non-direct manner.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_passport#physical_appearance
TFA talks about English fans; the info in that passport seems to be similar to your list.
they could just as easily bash your preferred forms of entertainment. Just as valid - or just as invalid.
Passport would make for a form of ID even if other forms (drivers license, whatever) would also be accepted.
Maybe it's a way to 'encourage' fans to take care of that rather important preparation for going overseas to the event.
The Boston Red Sox make a point of making their ticket prices a bit low, so that they get credit for a sell-out as the scalpers pick them up; this also moves unsold-ticket risk form the owners to the scalpers.
Figures; I got the tix for the 2 games I went to off StubHub.
Several dozen games in the same place might be different from concerts spread out over the country/continent/world (with 1, maybe 2 or 3, stops per city), I don't know.
Huxley's world (and maybe Orwell's to a lesser extent) does seem to ask if ignorance is really bliss.
I also saw BNW somewhat unconventionally, joked about here:
Me: We must protect ourselves from the horrors of free drugs and genetically perfect women!
English Professor: Yes, but it was a society where literature such as Shakespeare was marked as forbidden trash.
BNW does show that we can't all be super-smart Alphas
More directly replying to your comment, wasn't Bernard Marx glad to be sent to the island where the interesting people were? (Sorry, haven't read it in awhile, so I remember the concepts but not details like that.)
I was impressed by a 1930s book having the material it did on genetic and social engineering.
Analogy to 'the thin blue line' - even though most people are not religious or political fanatics, couldn't those with more-moderate versions of those beliefs be doing more about it? Maybe the moderates are scared of the extremists too, maybe the moderates harbor at least some sympathy.
American divorcee = Wallis Simpson with Edward VIII.
Edward VIII was getting more active in politics (pro-Nazi unfortunately), and Simpson may have provided a convenient rationale.
Maybe that helps give the idea of an active monarchy a bad flavor; in US history, "state's rights" gets a worse rap because of its prominence amongst the slaveholding Confederates
IANAB (I Am Not A Briton)
I've got that on VHS somewhere, sounded cool but over the course of several years, I have not gotten around to actually watching it.