Since the only time this happened to me I got a script answer about how they would fix it just this once, I've wondered could I do a credit card challenge if Amazon refused to refund. Essentially, to me the consumer, Amazon is charging my card without authorization. Since Amazon refuses to resolve the situation after the first occurance, isn't that grounds for me to pursue it with my card company or did I sign that right away in a EULA somewhere?
It would be nice if we were a bit progressive and as a planet got ahead of the clear human abuses that typically come with our historic examples of frontiers.
There have been two shark attacks in the past 50 years at the nearest beach to me both non-fatal. They still will close the water if there is an observed abundance of sharks. From what I've heard from people who have flown over the area, large sharks close to swimmers is a typical occurance. I can't imagine what it would be like to try to plan a trip to the beach if the authorities had one of these devices.
IT, at least if you listen to the media and the politicians, is currently one of the most important industries that the US has. While it may come down to preference, we don't want to have a culture that in some way discourages people who haven't historically had opportunity from one of the healthiest sectors of the economy. We have some pretty strong statistics that say something is going on here and that something is going on from middle school to end of career. What this means is we need to find out what is happening because we may be failing at even conservative ideas of equality: equal opportunity.
So what about those of us who refuse a smartphone for various reasons? I wouldn't mind having one but I'm not going to shell out another $20/month for internet on a device that I mainly use in a place where I already pay for the internet.
Both sides want to keep more people alive and they are firmly convinced the other side's opinion on how to do that will fail miserably. My parents live in a relatively quiet neighborhood but there was an incident where three unarmed teenagers beat an elderly man to death for money and medication. They were strongly resistant to even toy guns in the house but now they own one because they simply would be overcome if anyone broke in. Gun deaths would drop without guns and maybe even overall deaths, but your position makes the elderly, the female, the weak far more tempting targets than the strong young men you think of as gun nuts. That to me is unconscienable unless you are severely reducing overall violence and that doesn't seem to follow the worldwide stats.
While we generally equate or elevate rape above death, I was going for an apples to apples comparison. But yeah. Wives, elderly, infirm. Rape. Assault....
That is a rather strange presumption that something that would cause enough unrest to cause the gun owning segment of the US population to revolt would leave the military intact. If normal firearms are worthless in battle then why does the government keep spending my tax money to make sure our soldiers have them?
Why does my right not to be shot in the face trump my right not to be beaten to death by an overwhelming group or physical specimen or not to be stabbed to death by a guy in a dark parking lot or tied down and beaten to death in my home?
If you work in a place where you have the time/resources for access to the ideal tools to solve every problem that pops up, I'd like to know where to send my resume.
I think the bigger issue in there is a parental culture shock when they can't help the kids with their homework. Getting help at home is really key to a child's early academic growth and many implementations of CC are making it hard. There really should be some resources that help the parents with the transition. I'm loving seeing the stuff my kindergartener was exposed to this year, but there were times when we got a sheet with some numbers and maybe some boxes and instructions with words that had no contextual meaning to us.
From the Head mounted displays that I've worked with, the optics portion tends to be the limiting factor for dimensionality and weight. It isn't like going with just a GPU on the thing is going to make it into a set of eyeglasses. You've also got a lot of overlap in passing/processing video and general information passing/processing. You probably aren't going to save a lot by making it just a phone accessory. You definitely aren't going to see a lot of difference from an aesthetic perspective.
Does the law mandate someone being in the driver's seat? What happens if me and two of my friends get in and avoid the driver's seat? What happens if I send my car out for my kid or groceries by itself? That last one may not be a now question, but it is a question that will need to be answered sometime.
My browser lost my original lengthy response. Short answer is my exposure to Japanese culture is through martial arts. What I'm drawing from is first hand accounts that after WWII there was pressure in the Japanese martial arts to expel martial traditions and training that weren't sport, exercise, or religious in nature. It is possible that I've over generalized those accounts. If you have information to expand my knowledge then I'd welcome it.
However, we have no clue how much those problems are going to effect the percentage of those firearm murders being converted to murders with another weapon beyond difference in lethality stats. We also know that solving the major problems that contribute to all violence have other clear social benefits that are probably even more significant than the drop in murder rate. While we are bickering over whether you can trust me with a firearm or not, the social factors that lead to violence are only getting worse.
Or perhaps it is because they have an entirely different culture? One where violence had a severe cost just two generations ago, just about the same time had all cultural celebration of violence stomped out by foreign influence, and at the same time their national defense was overseen by an entirely different country so there was no nationalistic need to push any type of propoganda for desiring a career relating to violence on its young men. Assuming you could snap your fingers and make all the guns go away in America, you still haven't solved the underlying problems of undertreatment of the mentally ill, mistreatment of the poor, and the prevailing attitude that I'm not responsible for my own actions.
The tricky part is: if I make the wrong decision and plow into some innocents then they may get a few hundred thousand out of me and my insurance company, if Toyota's car decides to plow into some innocents there are a lot more dollar signs up for grabs.
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Since the only time this happened to me I got a script answer about how they would fix it just this once, I've wondered could I do a credit card challenge if Amazon refused to refund. Essentially, to me the consumer, Amazon is charging my card without authorization. Since Amazon refuses to resolve the situation after the first occurance, isn't that grounds for me to pursue it with my card company or did I sign that right away in a EULA somewhere?
It would be nice if we were a bit progressive and as a planet got ahead of the clear human abuses that typically come with our historic examples of frontiers.
Oh for some mod points.
However it seems a technically accurate term.
There have been two shark attacks in the past 50 years at the nearest beach to me both non-fatal. They still will close the water if there is an observed abundance of sharks. From what I've heard from people who have flown over the area, large sharks close to swimmers is a typical occurance. I can't imagine what it would be like to try to plan a trip to the beach if the authorities had one of these devices.
IT, at least if you listen to the media and the politicians, is currently one of the most important industries that the US has. While it may come down to preference, we don't want to have a culture that in some way discourages people who haven't historically had opportunity from one of the healthiest sectors of the economy. We have some pretty strong statistics that say something is going on here and that something is going on from middle school to end of career. What this means is we need to find out what is happening because we may be failing at even conservative ideas of equality: equal opportunity.
Because if they can make it illegal to view their content on a computer they can go back to the more controllable form of print media.
I've always done best in the stock market when I'm choosing companies that are clearly operating outside the common good.
So what about those of us who refuse a smartphone for various reasons? I wouldn't mind having one but I'm not going to shell out another $20/month for internet on a device that I mainly use in a place where I already pay for the internet.
Both sides want to keep more people alive and they are firmly convinced the other side's opinion on how to do that will fail miserably. My parents live in a relatively quiet neighborhood but there was an incident where three unarmed teenagers beat an elderly man to death for money and medication. They were strongly resistant to even toy guns in the house but now they own one because they simply would be overcome if anyone broke in. Gun deaths would drop without guns and maybe even overall deaths, but your position makes the elderly, the female, the weak far more tempting targets than the strong young men you think of as gun nuts. That to me is unconscienable unless you are severely reducing overall violence and that doesn't seem to follow the worldwide stats.
While we generally equate or elevate rape above death, I was going for an apples to apples comparison. But yeah. Wives, elderly, infirm. Rape. Assault....
That is a rather strange presumption that something that would cause enough unrest to cause the gun owning segment of the US population to revolt would leave the military intact. If normal firearms are worthless in battle then why does the government keep spending my tax money to make sure our soldiers have them?
Why does my right not to be shot in the face trump my right not to be beaten to death by an overwhelming group or physical specimen or not to be stabbed to death by a guy in a dark parking lot or tied down and beaten to death in my home?
Broken or not, poverty safety nets are generally a crime offset. We'll have to replace what we remove.
You aren't fooling us. Every one of us with kids has seen the documentary Lilo and Stitch. There are already aliens on Hawaii.
If you work in a place where you have the time/resources for access to the ideal tools to solve every problem that pops up, I'd like to know where to send my resume.
I think the bigger issue in there is a parental culture shock when they can't help the kids with their homework. Getting help at home is really key to a child's early academic growth and many implementations of CC are making it hard. There really should be some resources that help the parents with the transition. I'm loving seeing the stuff my kindergartener was exposed to this year, but there were times when we got a sheet with some numbers and maybe some boxes and instructions with words that had no contextual meaning to us.
Oh for some mod points. The only problem I've found with the CC math examples is parents don't get the method well enough to help their kids.
From the Head mounted displays that I've worked with, the optics portion tends to be the limiting factor for dimensionality and weight. It isn't like going with just a GPU on the thing is going to make it into a set of eyeglasses. You've also got a lot of overlap in passing/processing video and general information passing/processing. You probably aren't going to save a lot by making it just a phone accessory. You definitely aren't going to see a lot of difference from an aesthetic perspective.
Does the law mandate someone being in the driver's seat? What happens if me and two of my friends get in and avoid the driver's seat? What happens if I send my car out for my kid or groceries by itself? That last one may not be a now question, but it is a question that will need to be answered sometime.
My browser lost my original lengthy response. Short answer is my exposure to Japanese culture is through martial arts. What I'm drawing from is first hand accounts that after WWII there was pressure in the Japanese martial arts to expel martial traditions and training that weren't sport, exercise, or religious in nature. It is possible that I've over generalized those accounts. If you have information to expand my knowledge then I'd welcome it.
However, we have no clue how much those problems are going to effect the percentage of those firearm murders being converted to murders with another weapon beyond difference in lethality stats. We also know that solving the major problems that contribute to all violence have other clear social benefits that are probably even more significant than the drop in murder rate. While we are bickering over whether you can trust me with a firearm or not, the social factors that lead to violence are only getting worse.
Or perhaps it is because they have an entirely different culture? One where violence had a severe cost just two generations ago, just about the same time had all cultural celebration of violence stomped out by foreign influence, and at the same time their national defense was overseen by an entirely different country so there was no nationalistic need to push any type of propoganda for desiring a career relating to violence on its young men. Assuming you could snap your fingers and make all the guns go away in America, you still haven't solved the underlying problems of undertreatment of the mentally ill, mistreatment of the poor, and the prevailing attitude that I'm not responsible for my own actions.
3D printing and a hotbutton political topic.
The tricky part is: if I make the wrong decision and plow into some innocents then they may get a few hundred thousand out of me and my insurance company, if Toyota's car decides to plow into some innocents there are a lot more dollar signs up for grabs.