You must not have read the fine print. There's an exceptions clause that is pretty broad and covers, well, anyone who chooses to enact this clause. It's pretty simple too... just have to accept one guys way of life and tell others that you accept his way of life, and in exchange, he takes all the hell, and you get to have a nice big party with a whole lot of other people who chose this exclusion clause.
Sounds like a good deal more of these hundreds of millions of people, though they don't exactly "measure up" to the legalistic Option A of the contract, can keep the contract anyways (through the exclusions available in Option B) and will not be going to hell.
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Before you comment on the Christian Bible, please read the Christian Bible, and in a couple of different translations to be certain that you actually understand what it says.
Why not simply print a unique barcode on each receipt. Then, when pulling a random sampling of say 10-20% of votes, you feed the receipts into a computer, which brings up the computer tally for those votes. Then, you count the paper votes, and if they match, you can safely assume a valid computerized count.
If one of those running for the office/position contests the vote, then do a full recount by hand.
So someone who attempts to meet with an undercover cop that he believes is a 14 year old girl can't be arrested, because if everything went well, he would not have committed a crime? The girl he attempted to commit statutory rape with doesn't exist... yet the man is still arrested. Seems like the logic could apply to other areas too...
Attempted fraud and money laundering is not a crime? What if you work in accounting, and a good friend and coworker came up to you and said "hey, I've been embezzling money from this company for years, but I can't seem to get the money out of my off shore account without someone from this company calling in and saying that all of the transactions were authorized, and prove it by sending one final transaction for a measly $500. If you'll call this number, transfer the money, and sign off on it, I'll cut you in for $50,000. You can then put the money back into the company, scrub the books and the database, and no one will be the wiser. Interested?" and you say yes, make the phone call, transfer the money from your bank account into the company and from there to the off shore account (not necessarily illegal in and of itself, but it might get you fired), and your friend doesn't cut you in on the profits (because there were none... he just wanted to steal $500 from you), have you committed a crime? I would say yes. You lost $500 and were the "victim" of the crime, but even though your actions in and of themselves may not be a crime, your attempt to embezzle money from your company surely must be considered criminal activity, even if you did not in fact succeed in performing the embezzlement?
Think of the possibilities...
Call around to people unfriendly to the US. Mention that you are calling from FEMA, and that you've hacked their system. Mention that your services are available for hire, and that a simple message posted on some board somewhere and money placed into an account will activate said services. Now imagine who might be willing to pay money for access to FEMA or DHS?
Exactly. Consider what social engineering you could pull off when any caller id system would show you as FEMA? Perhaps some attempts at scamming money from the recipients of the calls was involved in the fraud?
And when you get 2-10 calls per day and at all hours of the day and night to the point where you can't get more than 2 hours of sleep and you're exhausted and then you fall asleep at the wheel and get in a car accident putting you in the hospital? (not a "hypothetical situation" at all... trust me). Just hanging up the phone is not a solution. There needs to be 2 things to solve this:
1. Change the caller ID system such that it cannot be spoofed.
2. Allow quick and easy blacklisting of a number by way of the Caller ID system.
Problem solved. As much as I'd prefer an Opt-In system (with laws in place that require disclosing the actual name of each organization and their phone number which will be calling so that you can then opt out or blacklist later), but while I'm dreaming, I might as well wish to be the first man on Mars.
If you actually see the number, write it down look it up on http://800notes.com/ and if it's not there, report it. Sometimes I see class action lawsuits form based on illegal collection agency actions. Also, report it to the FTC.
I'm pretty sure that debt collector is not trying to sell any goods or services either... they just want to collect money to pass on to those who did request their services.
Good point, and in response to treeves' comment as well, no, I had not done the math. Thank you both for correcting me on this one. But what about the hydrogen/oxygen burning station? That, at least, has to be feasible, and it could charge not only your own car, but make you a mint by charging others'. Any issues with this concept? Oh, and to keep others from stealing it, you would need a method for locking the cable on both ends, but some engineer on the project would figure that out when the time comes.
Charging station? Charging station??? Come on... get a little DIY action going on here: Build your own charging station using solar paneling on the roof (and a windshield sunblocker that also has solar paneling) and you should be able to get considerable amounts of charge from the sun every day.
Or maybe you should see if your company would consider it a valuable perk?
Or... why not see this as an opportunity? Build your own charging system (big sucker) and charge your other friends at work to use it. Use electrolysis to break water into Hydrogen and Oxygen, burn both, and charge the cars with that.
Where there's a demand, offering a supply is almost always accompanied with profits.
I would buy whatever gaming system decided to do this. It would be worth $$$ to me just to play something with as much creative ideas behind it as this franchise.
how many connectors out there do you know of that let you plug it in any way you feel like?
Coaxial, RCA, 3/4ths of my power adapters... simly put, the design could have been done such that the inner wafer contained the 4 'wires' on both the top and bottom of the wafer, and the outer metal sheath would still perform the same grounding as before... put it in with either side as 'up' and you still get the right connectors touching the right ends in the PC.
one for job applications (my full first and last name separated by a period)
one for friends (my last name, just because I could, and got in early on the gmail rush)
one for ebay selling (not really much to that one)
one for spam (that one is pretty blunt in that anyone with half a brain would know I don't read that account... it gets the least amount of spam of all my addresses)
one for my business (the business name @gmail.com)
and one for mystery shopping use.
And that's not even including all of the email addresses I have at my actual business domain address.
So... yeah... either I'm completely schizophrenic, or I simply compartmentalize my life. Oh, and I also have two different email addresses for the purposes of posting "anonymously" to other forums that don't allow anonymous postings... these accounts have their own personae associated with them, and are used to post specific styled comments (not flamebait, trolling, or crap, but comments that are not in line with my actual thoughts and beliefs... it's good to play devil's advocate from time to time to keep a conversation good).
So, yes, an email address could mean multiple personae.... oh... wait... you were joking... Sheesh! now I need another email address: whoosh@idiot.com
Live (in relation to filming): "Concurrently recorded voice track and action, in contrast to a voice track recorded after the action has been shot."
As long as the station did nothing more than timeshift the original video footage (with allowances for additional time shifting for commercials), then technically speaking, they can call it "live", however messed up that may seem.
Write your game so that non-online play is free, but limited. Allows you to get a feel for the gameplay and decide if you want it. Online play? Monthly subscription. Simple solution to many types of games... not all games, but with this market, why not create a subscription style game and give away the application that accesses the backend network?
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Take a look at Helvetica vs. Arial. Basically Yes is a very accurate summation.
You must not have read the fine print. There's an exceptions clause that is pretty broad and covers, well, anyone who chooses to enact this clause. It's pretty simple too... just have to accept one guys way of life and tell others that you accept his way of life, and in exchange, he takes all the hell, and you get to have a nice big party with a whole lot of other people who chose this exclusion clause.
Sounds like a good deal more of these hundreds of millions of people, though they don't exactly "measure up" to the legalistic Option A of the contract, can keep the contract anyways (through the exclusions available in Option B) and will not be going to hell.
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Before you comment on the Christian Bible, please read the Christian Bible, and in a couple of different translations to be certain that you actually understand what it says.
I for one welcome our new lawn defending overlords.
Next time, record the conversation (make sure to tell them that you are doing so), and send it to the EFF. More fuel for the fire!
Human corruption... any way around it? No? Sigh.
"Dear God, I'd like to file a bug report..."
Why not simply print a unique barcode on each receipt. Then, when pulling a random sampling of say 10-20% of votes, you feed the receipts into a computer, which brings up the computer tally for those votes. Then, you count the paper votes, and if they match, you can safely assume a valid computerized count.
If one of those running for the office/position contests the vote, then do a full recount by hand.
So someone who attempts to meet with an undercover cop that he believes is a 14 year old girl can't be arrested, because if everything went well, he would not have committed a crime? The girl he attempted to commit statutory rape with doesn't exist... yet the man is still arrested. Seems like the logic could apply to other areas too...
Attempted fraud and money laundering is not a crime? What if you work in accounting, and a good friend and coworker came up to you and said "hey, I've been embezzling money from this company for years, but I can't seem to get the money out of my off shore account without someone from this company calling in and saying that all of the transactions were authorized, and prove it by sending one final transaction for a measly $500. If you'll call this number, transfer the money, and sign off on it, I'll cut you in for $50,000. You can then put the money back into the company, scrub the books and the database, and no one will be the wiser. Interested?" and you say yes, make the phone call, transfer the money from your bank account into the company and from there to the off shore account (not necessarily illegal in and of itself, but it might get you fired), and your friend doesn't cut you in on the profits (because there were none... he just wanted to steal $500 from you), have you committed a crime? I would say yes. You lost $500 and were the "victim" of the crime, but even though your actions in and of themselves may not be a crime, your attempt to embezzle money from your company surely must be considered criminal activity, even if you did not in fact succeed in performing the embezzlement?
Think of the possibilities... Call around to people unfriendly to the US. Mention that you are calling from FEMA, and that you've hacked their system. Mention that your services are available for hire, and that a simple message posted on some board somewhere and money placed into an account will activate said services. Now imagine who might be willing to pay money for access to FEMA or DHS?
Asia and Iraq, not North America... these can cost up to $5 or $7 per minute on some crappy phone plans.
Exactly. Consider what social engineering you could pull off when any caller id system would show you as FEMA? Perhaps some attempts at scamming money from the recipients of the calls was involved in the fraud?
And when you get 2-10 calls per day and at all hours of the day and night to the point where you can't get more than 2 hours of sleep and you're exhausted and then you fall asleep at the wheel and get in a car accident putting you in the hospital? (not a "hypothetical situation" at all... trust me). Just hanging up the phone is not a solution. There needs to be 2 things to solve this:
1. Change the caller ID system such that it cannot be spoofed.
2. Allow quick and easy blacklisting of a number by way of the Caller ID system.
Problem solved. As much as I'd prefer an Opt-In system (with laws in place that require disclosing the actual name of each organization and their phone number which will be calling so that you can then opt out or blacklist later), but while I'm dreaming, I might as well wish to be the first man on Mars.
If you actually see the number, write it down look it up on http://800notes.com/ and if it's not there, report it. Sometimes I see class action lawsuits form based on illegal collection agency actions. Also, report it to the FTC.
I'm pretty sure that debt collector is not trying to sell any goods or services either... they just want to collect money to pass on to those who did request their services.
Good point, and in response to treeves' comment as well, no, I had not done the math. Thank you both for correcting me on this one. But what about the hydrogen/oxygen burning station? That, at least, has to be feasible, and it could charge not only your own car, but make you a mint by charging others'. Any issues with this concept? Oh, and to keep others from stealing it, you would need a method for locking the cable on both ends, but some engineer on the project would figure that out when the time comes.
My Ford Aspire doesn't get much over 200 miles per tank.
Charging station? Charging station??? Come on... get a little DIY action going on here: Build your own charging station using solar paneling on the roof (and a windshield sunblocker that also has solar paneling) and you should be able to get considerable amounts of charge from the sun every day.
Or maybe you should see if your company would consider it a valuable perk?
Or... why not see this as an opportunity? Build your own charging system (big sucker) and charge your other friends at work to use it. Use electrolysis to break water into Hydrogen and Oxygen, burn both, and charge the cars with that.
Where there's a demand, offering a supply is almost always accompanied with profits.
I would buy whatever gaming system decided to do this. It would be worth $$$ to me just to play something with as much creative ideas behind it as this franchise.
how many connectors out there do you know of that let you plug it in any way you feel like?
Coaxial, RCA, 3/4ths of my power adapters... simly put, the design could have been done such that the inner wafer contained the 4 'wires' on both the top and bottom of the wafer, and the outer metal sheath would still perform the same grounding as before... put it in with either side as 'up' and you still get the right connectors touching the right ends in the PC.
I've noticed that my various pets have seemed more intelligent than strays who were "adopted" late in life. Maybe there is something to this study?
When your karma gets high, you get automatic trust, and your score starts at 2... or something similar to that. Read the Slashdot FAQ. :-)
You love your dog?
I have email addresses for particular purposes:
And that's not even including all of the email addresses I have at my actual business domain address.
So... yeah... either I'm completely schizophrenic, or I simply compartmentalize my life. Oh, and I also have two different email addresses for the purposes of posting "anonymously" to other forums that don't allow anonymous postings... these accounts have their own personae associated with them, and are used to post specific styled comments (not flamebait, trolling, or crap, but comments that are not in line with my actual thoughts and beliefs... it's good to play devil's advocate from time to time to keep a conversation good).
So, yes, an email address could mean multiple personae.... oh... wait... you were joking... Sheesh! now I need another email address: whoosh@idiot.com
Depends on your definition of "Live".
Live (in relation to filming): "Concurrently recorded voice track and action, in contrast to a voice track recorded after the action has been shot."
As long as the station did nothing more than timeshift the original video footage (with allowances for additional time shifting for commercials), then technically speaking, they can call it "live", however messed up that may seem.
A much more simple solution:
Write your game so that non-online play is free, but limited. Allows you to get a feel for the gameplay and decide if you want it. Online play? Monthly subscription. Simple solution to many types of games... not all games, but with this market, why not create a subscription style game and give away the application that accesses the backend network?