Secondly.. the website does not need to be 'fixed' as it is not broken. He is forcing them to make a change that suits his needs. Probably a spoiled only child product of bad parenting.
Regardless of wether the stock is publicly traded or not, the airline is a private company. That person may make a suggestion to the company - but unless they hold voting shares they have no right to dictate changes the company must make. And I'm speaking purely from a common sense stand point not legal or financial.. a nicely worded letter or petition showing the potential market value to southwest in providing this service would have yielded the same result. As the saying goes, common sense is apparently not so common - especially in the USA. Regardless of wether he is suing for money or not, he is doing monetary damage to the company and setting a bad example for all those that support his efforts. I don't care if he's blind, i'd still punch him out.
This is not a public service, this is the website for southwest airlines, which is a private business. If they chose not to cater to certain markets, that's there business - the blind person can put their money towards a company that does cater to their needs. This is nothing but a greedy money grab, they could go elsewhere for this service - this person is more than visually blind.
That's not the same access, it's special access for him and all his blind friends. We will all suffer now that prices sky rocket due to law suits.. this is the same as the dumbass suing mcdonalds for millions for hot coffee spilled on them. The affliction in that case was greed and stupidity, the same as it is in this case. Frivolous lawsuits affect us all. That sucks that he's blind.. I empathise really - but don't make everyone suffer because of it.
I can't belive this hasn't been mentioned yet - I work in the telecommunications field, and fibre optic connectors are great (working like bnc connectors) but why has this good connector not passed over to the consumer optical market? the "toslink" optical plug in for my home theatre receiver is absolute junk!!! I think someone decided they would try to make the most useless connector possible - it is too small, doesn't positively lock in, has a small useless cover that always get's lost and is really hard to use with good quality cable - thick flexible cable is often heavy and defeats the friction lock of the toslink connection - please, get rid of this crap!!
For a long time the US has been creating false reports saying there was a huge lack of skilled technical workers.. all the while thousands of skilled local workers went unemployed. They did this so that the guvmint would allow cheap labourers to come in from other cuntries, so that they wouldn't have to pay the high wages demanded by the local boys.. haha.. funny, this strategy is killing them now!
Hitlers reign of terror is responsible for creating alot of things that we use today.. lasers.. rockets.. advanced airplanes with jet engines.. his control made alot f our lives better today.. all you ever hear about is how many jews he killed.. which.. yeah.. sucks.. but how often do you hear about how many arabs the jews killed? and what did they give us!?
Yhis "giver of life" of yours.. gave you a brain too.. USE IT! Your brain is made to protect you.. advancing technology and civilization is what "the giver of life" intended.. otherwise he will think you are wasting his precious gift and you will rot in hell dumbass - clone or go to hell
This is not the scary part.. this is the good part that confirms their findings and proves that it works.. now it's a matter of localizing the treatment and controlling it's affects..
Unless your some lab rat fanatic..
Because of agreements made between the US and Canada regulating the price of canadian generated electricity sold to the US, california has closed 9 of their power plants. It is cheaper for them to exploit these trade agreements then it is to keep their own power plant operations going. This sees Canada and it's citizens taking it up the ass - it's no wonder that mexico wants NAFTA re-drafted. Canada should not stand for this nonsense. The price of electricty has doubled in the last six months in Canada because of the demand the US is putting on our resources. The agreement states that we cannot charge the US more for electricity than we charge our own citizens. That is just BULLSHIT. As a result we all suffer because California and the like are having a below average temperature this winter.
an oddity to note.. if you make alot of sql queries or use the structured language.. you find it quite logical and useful.. it starts to cross over into your every day english uncontrollably and you find yourself structuring any query in the same manner..
select 'donut' in table 'box' where glaze='chocolate';
or is this just me?? it's like a disease...:)
go to www.audioreview.com and the best piece of advice.. don't buy bose.. unless your looking for marketing.. because they are the best marketers.. as you can see by peopels comments here.. there speakers, however, are pretty much bottom-of-the-line (in the 70's though, they rocked).
if you want to go cheap.. i'd say go yamaha receiver.. and jbl/polk/paradigm/psb speakers.
You obviously don't have a clue... If you want to make a comparison.. you aren't taking your car down to the toyota dealership and stopping prospective toyota owners before they purchase a new vehicle. That is what is happening here. Perhaps they should have a seperate auction site.. amazonused.com or something.
Amazon could change their policy so that used books can only be sold 1 year after their publish date, allowing the author and publisher to receive the majority of the proceeds they would anyway. After a year it should be fair game. But I don't agree that selling them right away as used is good practice.. sure it may be a free country.. but I think we owe it to the authors to let them make a decent living first..
Yeah.. it's true.. and part of the reason our call times are so high is because our remedy applications are so godamn slow.. do you guys intentionally cause us this hell to amuse yourselves?
There are so many things this would be good for...
1. Hand held devices
Think of how easy this would be on your web enabled cell phone - it's much easier to dial a number than type in a web address. This little change in the way we refer to sites could really kick off the mobile web device trend.
2. Language barriers.
Numbers are the 'universal language' no more language hassles and no more regulation hassles cross border. The phone numbering system is already out there.. it's already laid out.
3. Long distance? nope.
Your dialing a number in hamburg, from new york - long distance charges incurred? nottta... because your actually on your web enabled handheld device and it's all going over the internet.
4. Little to no effort to migrate.
Literaly 100's of thousands of telephone directories exits - does it not make sense to continue making use of these huge volumes of information? The good old phone number would easily adapt to double duty.. and more.
5. Think of all those future sci-fi movies..
Come on now.. in the future are we all going to type in www.something.com? not likely.. that system is subject to all sorts of problem that will grow exponentially as the global community comes together.. you know all your friends numbers.. now you will know more.
6. The combining of all communications.
Analogue communications are basicly gone. I work the for the second largest telecommunications company in Canada, 80% of our netowork is data, not voice, simply because voice is now carried over data lines in many situations. Extending the use of phone numbers to data systems is only logical. In the future, calling a buddy may mean reaching their/a computer. and then from their you could have the option to message them, email them, fax them, talk to them voice, or access other information.. no more email, voice mail, fax.. it could all be in the same place.
True nerds will instantly see the merit of this system over the current one..
Think about the usefulness of this with handheld devices.. most are easier to enter number then letters, especially in the case of a web enabled cell phone.. you could just dial someone and have the option to go to their webpage, or voice.. or have voice enable website that are hosted on the net.. and no long distance charges because your actually dialling an address on the net.. there are a million possibilities here.. numbers are the universal language.. no more language/domain name problems as a result.. i'm i the only one seeing how cool this could be?
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the type of computer work the study participants performed varied considerably, as did the size of the computer used
OMG!! I have a hugeass 24" tower case.. my computer is HUGE -I'M GONNA DIE!
Perhaps you don't need to spend the $10 when you can see it here for free...
A beowulf cluster of these would *REALLY* suck.
Secondly.. the website does not need to be 'fixed' as it is not broken. He is forcing them to make a change that suits his needs. Probably a spoiled only child product of bad parenting.
Regardless of wether the stock is publicly traded or not, the airline is a private company. That person may make a suggestion to the company - but unless they hold voting shares they have no right to dictate changes the company must make. And I'm speaking purely from a common sense stand point not legal or financial.. a nicely worded letter or petition showing the potential market value to southwest in providing this service would have yielded the same result. As the saying goes, common sense is apparently not so common - especially in the USA. Regardless of wether he is suing for money or not, he is doing monetary damage to the company and setting a bad example for all those that support his efforts. I don't care if he's blind, i'd still punch him out.
This is not a public service, this is the website for southwest airlines, which is a private business. If they chose not to cater to certain markets, that's there business - the blind person can put their money towards a company that does cater to their needs. This is nothing but a greedy money grab, they could go elsewhere for this service - this person is more than visually blind.
That's not the same access, it's special access for him and all his blind friends. We will all suffer now that prices sky rocket due to law suits.. this is the same as the dumbass suing mcdonalds for millions for hot coffee spilled on them. The affliction in that case was greed and stupidity, the same as it is in this case. Frivolous lawsuits affect us all. That sucks that he's blind.. I empathise really - but don't make everyone suffer because of it.
it's not even a rock.. it's a damn dirty chunk of ice.. now.. if that was in my drink i might have something to say about it..
Great, we all suffer because of one assholes affliction.
I can't belive this hasn't been mentioned yet - I work in the telecommunications field, and fibre optic connectors are great (working like bnc connectors) but why has this good connector not passed over to the consumer optical market? the "toslink" optical plug in for my home theatre receiver is absolute junk!!! I think someone decided they would try to make the most useless connector possible - it is too small, doesn't positively lock in, has a small useless cover that always get's lost and is really hard to use with good quality cable - thick flexible cable is often heavy and defeats the friction lock of the toslink connection - please, get rid of this crap!!
This is basically the same thing as hard drive manufacturers saying that a mb is 1000 bytes..
For a long time the US has been creating false reports saying there was a huge lack of skilled technical workers.. all the while thousands of skilled local workers went unemployed. They did this so that the guvmint would allow cheap labourers to come in from other cuntries, so that they wouldn't have to pay the high wages demanded by the local boys.. haha.. funny, this strategy is killing them now!
Just dessert!
If you have ever played the trivia game "You Don't Know Jack" (the netshow) - You've already been subject to this form of advertising.
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True, True.
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Hitlers reign of terror is responsible for creating alot of things that we use today.. lasers.. rockets.. advanced airplanes with jet engines.. his control made alot f our lives better today.. all you ever hear about is how many jews he killed.. which.. yeah.. sucks.. but how often do you hear about how many arabs the jews killed? and what did they give us!?
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Yhis "giver of life" of yours.. gave you a brain too.. USE IT! Your brain is made to protect you.. advancing technology and civilization is what "the giver of life" intended.. otherwise he will think you are wasting his precious gift and you will rot in hell dumbass - clone or go to hell
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This is not the scary part.. this is the good part that confirms their findings and proves that it works.. now it's a matter of localizing the treatment and controlling it's affects.. Unless your some lab rat fanatic..
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Because of agreements made between the US and Canada regulating the price of canadian generated electricity sold to the US, california has closed 9 of their power plants. It is cheaper for them to exploit these trade agreements then it is to keep their own power plant operations going. This sees Canada and it's citizens taking it up the ass - it's no wonder that mexico wants NAFTA re-drafted. Canada should not stand for this nonsense. The price of electricty has doubled in the last six months in Canada because of the demand the US is putting on our resources. The agreement states that we cannot charge the US more for electricity than we charge our own citizens. That is just BULLSHIT. As a result we all suffer because California and the like are having a below average temperature this winter.
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an oddity to note.. if you make alot of sql queries or use the structured language.. you find it quite logical and useful.. it starts to cross over into your every day english uncontrollably and you find yourself structuring any query in the same manner.. select 'donut' in table 'box' where glaze='chocolate'; or is this just me?? it's like a disease...:)
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go to www.audioreview.com and the best piece of advice.. don't buy bose.. unless your looking for marketing.. because they are the best marketers.. as you can see by peopels comments here.. there speakers, however, are pretty much bottom-of-the-line (in the 70's though, they rocked). if you want to go cheap.. i'd say go yamaha receiver.. and jbl/polk/paradigm/psb speakers.
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You obviously don't have a clue... If you want to make a comparison.. you aren't taking your car down to the toyota dealership and stopping prospective toyota owners before they purchase a new vehicle. That is what is happening here. Perhaps they should have a seperate auction site.. amazonused.com or something.
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Amazon could change their policy so that used books can only be sold 1 year after their publish date, allowing the author and publisher to receive the majority of the proceeds they would anyway. After a year it should be fair game. But I don't agree that selling them right away as used is good practice.. sure it may be a free country.. but I think we owe it to the authors to let them make a decent living first..
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Yeah.. it's true.. and part of the reason our call times are so high is because our remedy applications are so godamn slow.. do you guys intentionally cause us this hell to amuse yourselves?
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There are so many things this would be good for... 1. Hand held devices Think of how easy this would be on your web enabled cell phone - it's much easier to dial a number than type in a web address. This little change in the way we refer to sites could really kick off the mobile web device trend. 2. Language barriers. Numbers are the 'universal language' no more language hassles and no more regulation hassles cross border. The phone numbering system is already out there.. it's already laid out. 3. Long distance? nope. Your dialing a number in hamburg, from new york - long distance charges incurred? nottta... because your actually on your web enabled handheld device and it's all going over the internet. 4. Little to no effort to migrate. Literaly 100's of thousands of telephone directories exits - does it not make sense to continue making use of these huge volumes of information? The good old phone number would easily adapt to double duty.. and more. 5. Think of all those future sci-fi movies.. Come on now.. in the future are we all going to type in www.something.com? not likely.. that system is subject to all sorts of problem that will grow exponentially as the global community comes together.. you know all your friends numbers.. now you will know more. 6. The combining of all communications. Analogue communications are basicly gone. I work the for the second largest telecommunications company in Canada, 80% of our netowork is data, not voice, simply because voice is now carried over data lines in many situations. Extending the use of phone numbers to data systems is only logical. In the future, calling a buddy may mean reaching their/a computer. and then from their you could have the option to message them, email them, fax them, talk to them voice, or access other information.. no more email, voice mail, fax.. it could all be in the same place. True nerds will instantly see the merit of this system over the current one..
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Think about the usefulness of this with handheld devices.. most are easier to enter number then letters, especially in the case of a web enabled cell phone.. you could just dial someone and have the option to go to their webpage, or voice.. or have voice enable website that are hosted on the net.. and no long distance charges because your actually dialling an address on the net.. there are a million possibilities here.. numbers are the universal language.. no more language/domain name problems as a result.. i'm i the only one seeing how cool this could be?
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