yes, yes you did. which was exactly my reaction. The government, at the behest of a private party, shuts down a legitimately operated business, whom the RIAA bots have decided are infringers. It turns out, the guy is selling his own music. Or, he has obtained the rights to use the music. But his business is closed until he can prove he didn't do anything wrong. By the time he convinces a judge the slick $500/hr RIAA/MPAA lawyers are wrong, his small operation which he sunk his life savings into, and which was feeding his family with, has gone under.
No one will compensate him. He's just fucked.
I'm trying to figure out how "prick" is obscenity, so much so to get you banned from the United States? I don't think this is about the kid or the word. I think this is more about the kid is British. Whatever you think of them or us or Bush or whatever, there are plenty of examples of thinly veiled hostility from this administration toward our most important ally in the world.
Cut/extract the RFID tag from the 'recycle' bin, and duct tape it to the backside of your regular trashcan. Problem solved.
Cleveland is a hell hole, financially ruined by decades of corrupt entitlement/welfare government. This is nothing more than another way to impose a tax on the citizenry - calling it a fine - to pay for their bankrupt big government programs.
You make a good point. If I'm going to break into someone's house, a good time to do it would probably be between 9am and 5pm Monday-Friday. Most thefts are crimes of opportunity, not premeditated Oceans-Eleven style. I could just sit out in front of their house in the morning and wait for them to leave for work. No pictures or geotags needed. With a just a couple of guys, I can clean the place out in about 10-15 minutes. Where I live, assuming someone notices and phones the cops, that is about twice the time needed before dispatch will finally put the call through to officers.
Took the cops more than an hour to show up for a suspicious person sitting in his car one morning doing what appeared to be casing a house in my neighborhood. More recently, took them 30 minutes to show up after a call about a man banging on the neighbor's door, yelling and threatening to kick it in.
The most effective deterrent is one of those 'ADT' type stickers. After that, the dog. If that doesn't work, a double-tap to the center of mass should end things rather abruptly.
This is lazy reporting, nothing more. If the AZ Star et al. had bothered to talk to Southwest about it, they might have gotten a clue. It is a sensationalist headline to draw eyeballs and gin up controversy where there is none.
In our latest update, we offered our definition, which states that “Force Majeure Event means any event outside of Carrier’s control” and so the “mechanical difficulties” we are referring to as Force Majeure events would be those outside of our control, such as airport mechanical difficulties (e.g., the airport de-icing system breaks) or Air Traffic Control issues (e.g., airport or regional tower goes down).
We are not referring to our own aircraft mechanical difficulties, which would clearly be under our control. Our policies and practices confirm this interpretation.
None of our procedures have changed — we still accommodate customers exactly the same as we did previously in the event of our own aircraft mechanical issues occur.
Maybe one day your grandma or your pregnant wife would not be able to handle her luggage by themselves, or will need to eat something at the plane, and they will be taken advantage of. Of, course, you will not have a problem with that, would you, big guy?
No, big guy, I don't have a problem with it. The guy who handles your luggage also has a family to feed. Or maybe you think somehow he should just get paid him in magic fake fairy dust? The machines hauling your luggage have a price. The food grandma eats has a cost associated with the production and delivery.
As far as I know, there is no airline which prohibits passengers from bringing their own food onto the plane. If you don't want to buy their food, then don't. No one is making you. The clowns running the TSA have declared that you can't bring liquids through security - but that is government, not airlines.
Some people just like the sound of their voice coming out of their own ass.
the "fees" just become pure shareholder profit
What profit are you talking about? Ironically, Southwest - which does not generally charge the same sorts of fees decried - is the one making evil profit. How many times have the taxpayers bailed out the legacy airlines?
There are plenty of transportation choices. If you don't like the fee, pick another airline. Take a charter flight. Take a bus. Ride a train. Drive yourself. Learn to fly an airplane and fly yourself.
We should hold responsible this prosecutor for every criminal he didn't successfully convict or even bother to charge for lack of evidence - especially any who went on to later kill someone.
Yeah, that would be pretty slick, and DC was the first thing I thought of. The DC aviation headset I have has two plugs - one for the headphone (1/4" stereo) and one smaller for the mic - they can't be mixed up. You can certainly find or fashion a connector to merge these two functions into one 1/8" plug, for say an iPhone.
The biggest problem I can foresee is power. If you're using some type of wireless, it will take a bit of juice to drive a headset of this size. I can see it wearing out something like an iPhone pretty quickly. If you want to hardline it, I don't see why you couldn't disassemble a POTS handset and wire in a female receptacle for something like the DC headset plugs. I would talk to someone smarter than me about basic electrical circuits to see how you could wire up a volume/gain control to the handset, even though the headset itself has independent volume controls.
yep. this is the first thing I thought of. I understand why they want to do it (would be nice if the protocol were extended to allow attaching a URL, even if it had to go through them), but they're already running into capacity issues, what seems like fairly often.
I'm abusive? No. I'm a realist. Am I a little over the top? Maybe.
You can try to can me. The second you tried to defend the insolence of those techs, I would quit or find a way to get you fired, because you suck as a supervisor and have just demonstrated you're part of the problem. In this situation, as a doctor, the techs are not my peers. They are there to do a specific job, and the "kiss my ass or I'm not doing any work" insubordination is completely, totally unacceptable in the real world where things have to get done or people die. This type of foot stomping and shin kicking "I want a cookie!" is how unions treat companies (and indirectly that company's customers) in the US, and then they cry like little princess bitches when the jobs go overseas. It ain't rocket science.
My boss doesn't write "please" on the trouble tickets he assigns me. He rightfully expects me to do the work, and I rightfully expect to get paid for doing the job. My clients don't have to write "please" on every changeorder just for me to do the most basic tasks of my job. The postmaster doesn't have to say "please deliver your route" or the city manager beg the [non-union] employees "please go pick up the trash" It is completely upside down ridiculous for a workorder form to have to include a hand-written "pretty please, do the job we're paying you for so the patient doesn't die"
That said - if I was asking someone from the helpdesk to go grab me a cup of coffee because I'd been on the phone w/ their customer for 2 hours, I would say 'please' - because it is a request for them to do a task not normally assigned. If I filled out a normal form instructing them on a process that needed to be completed for a customer, I sure as hell don't need to write "pretty please".
Supposing that I came back from a couple of days off to find out that an overnight order to a really important client was thrown in the corner (and not shipped) because I didn't write "please" on the shipping docs, you can bet I'd go ballistic. You really think the customer is going to care more about a) why they didn't get the critical widget or b) that the missing critical widget just cost them a $2 million contract - putting them out of business, and all of their employees out of a job? They're going to (rightfully) chew my ass, maybe sue my company, and if they manage to somehow survive, find a new widget supplier. That is how the real world works.
Would it kill you to do your fucking job without having to be coddled, you whiny little bitch?
No? Clean out your desk, because I'll find someone else who will. It doesn't mean the doctors treat the staff like shit, but a minimum of doing the tasks you were hired to do is absolutely expected, demanded in exchange for your paycheck. What next? Should the doctor have slip a $5 note with the request? Bullshit. Do. your. fucking. job.
It isn't just about paying attention to the briefing. It *is* about safety. The most dangerous part of any flight is taxi, takeoff, and landing. The flight attendants, despite popular conception, are there first and primarily for your safety, not to serve you a drink. The don't want your iPod jammed in your ears so that that if something goes wrong, you can actually hear and follow the instructions. Being stuffed into a small metal tube with thousands of pounds of jet fuel all around you isn't just about you - it is also about you moving your ass so you're not preventing other people from also exiting in a timely and orderly fashion.
The fact that something is wrong or about to go very wrong isn't always as obvious as a big ball of flames - and may not be at all evident to the un-trained passenger - which is why your two ears need to be available during these phases of flight.
The airline in the story is.au. I will grant you, the FAA regs do lag a little bit. Kindles, like anything else w/ an on/off switch, are not permitted under FL010 (10,000 feet).
That isn't entirely true. Many of the obdii systems are now linked with the vehicle CAN bus, meaning you can screw things up royally if you do it wrong. We were experimenting on a Ford Escape a couple of months ago, trying to determine what commands were sent for things like seatbelt or ABS event. We built an OBDII connector, but a minor short in our harness caused the entire instrument cluster, radio, etc to wig out. There was no permanent damage, but it demonstrated that simply plugging something into the OBDII port could have ill effects on the vehicle outside of just reading trouble codes.
I work for a company that makes equipment to control aspects of and interface with existing vehicle systems, primarily emergency and commercial vehicles (firetrucks, ambulances, buses and the like). Even we have a hell of a time getting straight answers out of the manufacturers (Ford, etc) when we ask about proprietary network messages (ie seatbelt latched) - regardless of the fact that we're not competing with them to build vehicles.
Oh how I wish it were that easy. The president of the company comes to you and says "30% of our web sales come from IE6 users. Make the site work with IE6 or you and your team can find another job, because we won't be able to pay you anymore."
That said, I know the pain of fighting with all the different versions of IE. Generally speaking, things look relatively close in Safari, Firefox, and Opera. Often, not so in IE. Doesn't matter which version. 6 is certainly the worst though. Outside of the nonsense of ActiveX apps causing loads of lock-in headaches, there are three major areas I've found where IE gets really stupid:
not following CSS rules, especially when it comes to layout/element positioning
not supporting common features, like PNG transparency. There is a workaround for that in IE6, but when I tried a similar work-around for rounded borders, I couldn't make IE7 stop crashing.
Javascript. Fortunately, js libraries like prototype.js have helpfully done the heavy lifting of working through the many javascript compatibility issues.
I was a grader as well, "TA" seems easier to write b/c no one knows wth a "grader" is, and I tried to spend at least as much time helping the students who wanted it as I did grading.:) It was probably '97 or so? I can't remember exactly. It was CIS221/Resolve C++, before they started calling it CSE.
I only did it for one quarter because apparently there was some kind of huge issue when HR realized I had another job on campus at the same time. oops?
One of my cheaters actually had the balls to accuse me of being sexist and preferring the girls. Except, he was such a moron because there were only two girls in my class. One of the girls had to take a W because she kept turning in her compile errors instead of any source code - which I could have graded. I felt bad, but there wasn't much I could do.
You're right, when you're only talking about 3 lines of code, things are going to look very similar, maybe even exactly the same. But once you get beyond that, you expect some differences to start showing up.
When I was a TA for a 200-series CS class at Ohio State, I caught cheaters without any sophisticated tools more than common sense. Two examples:
On a test, getting the same wrong answers, nearly exactly down to misspellings - from two people who were sitting next to each other.
A lab submitted by a student that a) seemed to go outside the scope of the assignment b) had no source code was (which was part of the grade) c) showed a level of sophistication unexpected for this particular student. I showed the student's program to another TA who recognized it as the assignment she gave the previous quarter.
There were other examples, but those are the two I can think of easily.
I might look into that. My CU has a similar deposit service, but no iPhone app, and it it is a 9 step process including snail mailing in the check w/ a written confirmation # after you submit the image. And there was some weird rule about having to put the check in the mail within 24 hours or something. Completely asinine. I can drive to an ATM and deposit the check there in 3 steps. I told them as much.
Correct. I should also clarify that my relationship w/ USAA is civilian and independent, not anything to do w/ my brother-in-law other than knowing of USAA b/c he talked about it.
USAA will accept non-military customers. However, the services they provide are severely limited. The only deposit method is a transfer from another bank, visiting a USAA branch in person, or snail-mailing in your checks.
The reason, they explained to me, is that in order to qualify for the "photographic" (scanned image, or iPhone app) deposits, you must have (or qualify for?) three specific services with them including some type of line of credit, insurance, and something else. If you're non-military, you aren't eligible for those services, ergo your options for depositing checks are very limited.
I'm not military (found out about them b/c my brother-in-law is), but I have checking, savings, direct deposit, and EBPP (both bill presentment, where ie the electric company sends USAA my bill and USAA notifies me how much the bill is, and payment - which everyone can do) with them.
You can already do this at USAA Bank. My sister has had this option for a few years now. USAA has recently added the ability to snap a photo and make a deposit from your iPhone.
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yes, yes you did. which was exactly my reaction. The government, at the behest of a private party, shuts down a legitimately operated business, whom the RIAA bots have decided are infringers. It turns out, the guy is selling his own music. Or, he has obtained the rights to use the music. But his business is closed until he can prove he didn't do anything wrong. By the time he convinces a judge the slick $500/hr RIAA/MPAA lawyers are wrong, his small operation which he sunk his life savings into, and which was feeding his family with, has gone under. No one will compensate him. He's just fucked.
I'm trying to figure out how "prick" is obscenity, so much so to get you banned from the United States? I don't think this is about the kid or the word. I think this is more about the kid is British. Whatever you think of them or us or Bush or whatever, there are plenty of examples of thinly veiled hostility from this administration toward our most important ally in the world.
Cut/extract the RFID tag from the 'recycle' bin, and duct tape it to the backside of your regular trashcan. Problem solved.
Cleveland is a hell hole, financially ruined by decades of corrupt entitlement/welfare government. This is nothing more than another way to impose a tax on the citizenry - calling it a fine - to pay for their bankrupt big government programs.
You make a good point. If I'm going to break into someone's house, a good time to do it would probably be between 9am and 5pm Monday-Friday. Most thefts are crimes of opportunity, not premeditated Oceans-Eleven style. I could just sit out in front of their house in the morning and wait for them to leave for work. No pictures or geotags needed. With a just a couple of guys, I can clean the place out in about 10-15 minutes. Where I live, assuming someone notices and phones the cops, that is about twice the time needed before dispatch will finally put the call through to officers.
Took the cops more than an hour to show up for a suspicious person sitting in his car one morning doing what appeared to be casing a house in my neighborhood. More recently, took them 30 minutes to show up after a call about a man banging on the neighbor's door, yelling and threatening to kick it in.
The most effective deterrent is one of those 'ADT' type stickers. After that, the dog. If that doesn't work, a double-tap to the center of mass should end things rather abruptly.
In our latest update, we offered our definition, which states that “Force Majeure Event means any event outside of Carrier’s control” and so the “mechanical difficulties” we are referring to as Force Majeure events would be those outside of our control, such as airport mechanical difficulties (e.g., the airport de-icing system breaks) or Air Traffic Control issues (e.g., airport or regional tower goes down).
We are not referring to our own aircraft mechanical difficulties, which would clearly be under our control. Our policies and practices confirm this interpretation.
None of our procedures have changed — we still accommodate customers exactly the same as we did previously in the event of our own aircraft mechanical issues occur.
One of the best analogies I've read to explain why differential pricing makes sense, and isn't "picking on fat people". That means you, Kevin Smith.
Maybe one day your grandma or your pregnant wife would not be able to handle her luggage by themselves, or will need to eat something at the plane, and they will be taken advantage of. Of, course, you will not have a problem with that, would you, big guy?
No, big guy, I don't have a problem with it. The guy who handles your luggage also has a family to feed. Or maybe you think somehow he should just get paid him in magic fake fairy dust? The machines hauling your luggage have a price. The food grandma eats has a cost associated with the production and delivery.
As far as I know, there is no airline which prohibits passengers from bringing their own food onto the plane. If you don't want to buy their food, then don't. No one is making you. The clowns running the TSA have declared that you can't bring liquids through security - but that is government, not airlines.
Some people just like the sound of their voice coming out of their own ass.
the "fees" just become pure shareholder profit
What profit are you talking about? Ironically, Southwest - which does not generally charge the same sorts of fees decried - is the one making evil profit. How many times have the taxpayers bailed out the legacy airlines?
There are plenty of transportation choices. If you don't like the fee, pick another airline. Take a charter flight. Take a bus. Ride a train. Drive yourself. Learn to fly an airplane and fly yourself.
We should hold responsible this prosecutor for every criminal he didn't successfully convict or even bother to charge for lack of evidence - especially any who went on to later kill someone.
Microsoft came up with this? You're one of those comedian ACs.
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Yeah, that would be pretty slick, and DC was the first thing I thought of. The DC aviation headset I have has two plugs - one for the headphone (1/4" stereo) and one smaller for the mic - they can't be mixed up. You can certainly find or fashion a connector to merge these two functions into one 1/8" plug, for say an iPhone.
The biggest problem I can foresee is power. If you're using some type of wireless, it will take a bit of juice to drive a headset of this size. I can see it wearing out something like an iPhone pretty quickly. If you want to hardline it, I don't see why you couldn't disassemble a POTS handset and wire in a female receptacle for something like the DC headset plugs. I would talk to someone smarter than me about basic electrical circuits to see how you could wire up a volume/gain control to the handset, even though the headset itself has independent volume controls.
http://www.davidclark.com/
yep. this is the first thing I thought of. I understand why they want to do it (would be nice if the protocol were extended to allow attaching a URL, even if it had to go through them), but they're already running into capacity issues, what seems like fairly often.
the author would have not chosen to name it anything like "Twitter" because his readers wouldn't have taken him seriously.
"TrisexualPuppy"? @Kettle tweeted that you screamed you're black! at him and now won't reply to his DMs.
I'm abusive? No. I'm a realist. Am I a little over the top? Maybe.
You can try to can me. The second you tried to defend the insolence of those techs, I would quit or find a way to get you fired, because you suck as a supervisor and have just demonstrated you're part of the problem. In this situation, as a doctor, the techs are not my peers. They are there to do a specific job, and the "kiss my ass or I'm not doing any work" insubordination is completely, totally unacceptable in the real world where things have to get done or people die. This type of foot stomping and shin kicking "I want a cookie!" is how unions treat companies (and indirectly that company's customers) in the US, and then they cry like little princess bitches when the jobs go overseas. It ain't rocket science.
My boss doesn't write "please" on the trouble tickets he assigns me. He rightfully expects me to do the work, and I rightfully expect to get paid for doing the job. My clients don't have to write "please" on every changeorder just for me to do the most basic tasks of my job. The postmaster doesn't have to say "please deliver your route" or the city manager beg the [non-union] employees "please go pick up the trash" It is completely upside down ridiculous for a workorder form to have to include a hand-written "pretty please, do the job we're paying you for so the patient doesn't die"
That said - if I was asking someone from the helpdesk to go grab me a cup of coffee because I'd been on the phone w/ their customer for 2 hours, I would say 'please' - because it is a request for them to do a task not normally assigned. If I filled out a normal form instructing them on a process that needed to be completed for a customer, I sure as hell don't need to write "pretty please".
Supposing that I came back from a couple of days off to find out that an overnight order to a really important client was thrown in the corner (and not shipped) because I didn't write "please" on the shipping docs, you can bet I'd go ballistic. You really think the customer is going to care more about a) why they didn't get the critical widget or b) that the missing critical widget just cost them a $2 million contract - putting them out of business, and all of their employees out of a job? They're going to (rightfully) chew my ass, maybe sue my company, and if they manage to somehow survive, find a new widget supplier. That is how the real world works.
Would it kill you to do your fucking job without having to be coddled, you whiny little bitch?
No? Clean out your desk, because I'll find someone else who will. It doesn't mean the doctors treat the staff like shit, but a minimum of doing the tasks you were hired to do is absolutely expected, demanded in exchange for your paycheck. What next? Should the doctor have slip a $5 note with the request? Bullshit. Do. your. fucking. job.
It isn't just about paying attention to the briefing. It *is* about safety. The most dangerous part of any flight is taxi, takeoff, and landing. The flight attendants, despite popular conception, are there first and primarily for your safety, not to serve you a drink. The don't want your iPod jammed in your ears so that that if something goes wrong, you can actually hear and follow the instructions. Being stuffed into a small metal tube with thousands of pounds of jet fuel all around you isn't just about you - it is also about you moving your ass so you're not preventing other people from also exiting in a timely and orderly fashion.
.au. I will grant you, the FAA regs do lag a little bit. Kindles, like anything else w/ an on/off switch, are not permitted under FL010 (10,000 feet).
The fact that something is wrong or about to go very wrong isn't always as obvious as a big ball of flames - and may not be at all evident to the un-trained passenger - which is why your two ears need to be available during these phases of flight.
The airline in the story is
That isn't entirely true. Many of the obdii systems are now linked with the vehicle CAN bus, meaning you can screw things up royally if you do it wrong. We were experimenting on a Ford Escape a couple of months ago, trying to determine what commands were sent for things like seatbelt or ABS event. We built an OBDII connector, but a minor short in our harness caused the entire instrument cluster, radio, etc to wig out. There was no permanent damage, but it demonstrated that simply plugging something into the OBDII port could have ill effects on the vehicle outside of just reading trouble codes.
I work for a company that makes equipment to control aspects of and interface with existing vehicle systems, primarily emergency and commercial vehicles (firetrucks, ambulances, buses and the like). Even we have a hell of a time getting straight answers out of the manufacturers (Ford, etc) when we ask about proprietary network messages (ie seatbelt latched) - regardless of the fact that we're not competing with them to build vehicles.
Oh how I wish it were that easy. The president of the company comes to you and says "30% of our web sales come from IE6 users. Make the site work with IE6 or you and your team can find another job, because we won't be able to pay you anymore."
That said, I know the pain of fighting with all the different versions of IE. Generally speaking, things look relatively close in Safari, Firefox, and Opera. Often, not so in IE. Doesn't matter which version. 6 is certainly the worst though. Outside of the nonsense of ActiveX apps causing loads of lock-in headaches, there are three major areas I've found where IE gets really stupid:
I was a grader as well, "TA" seems easier to write b/c no one knows wth a "grader" is, and I tried to spend at least as much time helping the students who wanted it as I did grading. :) It was probably '97 or so? I can't remember exactly. It was CIS221/Resolve C++, before they started calling it CSE.
I only did it for one quarter because apparently there was some kind of huge issue when HR realized I had another job on campus at the same time. oops?
One of my cheaters actually had the balls to accuse me of being sexist and preferring the girls. Except, he was such a moron because there were only two girls in my class. One of the girls had to take a W because she kept turning in her compile errors instead of any source code - which I could have graded. I felt bad, but there wasn't much I could do.
You're right, when you're only talking about 3 lines of code, things are going to look very similar, maybe even exactly the same. But once you get beyond that, you expect some differences to start showing up.
When I was a TA for a 200-series CS class at Ohio State, I caught cheaters without any sophisticated tools more than common sense. Two examples:
There were other examples, but those are the two I can think of easily.
I might look into that. My CU has a similar deposit service, but no iPhone app, and it it is a 9 step process including snail mailing in the check w/ a written confirmation # after you submit the image. And there was some weird rule about having to put the check in the mail within 24 hours or something. Completely asinine. I can drive to an ATM and deposit the check there in 3 steps. I told them as much.
Correct. I should also clarify that my relationship w/ USAA is civilian and independent, not anything to do w/ my brother-in-law other than knowing of USAA b/c he talked about it.
USAA will accept non-military customers. However, the services they provide are severely limited. The only deposit method is a transfer from another bank, visiting a USAA branch in person, or snail-mailing in your checks.
The reason, they explained to me, is that in order to qualify for the "photographic" (scanned image, or iPhone app) deposits, you must have (or qualify for?) three specific services with them including some type of line of credit, insurance, and something else. If you're non-military, you aren't eligible for those services, ergo your options for depositing checks are very limited.
I'm not military (found out about them b/c my brother-in-law is), but I have checking, savings, direct deposit, and EBPP (both bill presentment, where ie the electric company sends USAA my bill and USAA notifies me how much the bill is, and payment - which everyone can do) with them.
You can already do this at USAA Bank. My sister has had this option for a few years now. USAA has recently added the ability to snap a photo and make a deposit from your iPhone.