Usually Paypal tells the buyer to return the item, even it's just an empty box, to the seller. They go by the tracking number to verify the seller received something, and THEN refund the money. It's not standard procedure to refund money if they buyer never returned anything.
Anyway - In such cases, I monitor the dishonest buyer and immediately buy whatever they are selling. Then I do to them, what they did to me (i.e. scam them out of the goods).
Thus I have reverse-scammed the scam artist, and balance is restored.
>>>If you used your credit card you could have done a chargeback...of course you'd lose your paypal account for doing this
This is an oft-repeated myth. I've done several chargebacks on my ebay/paypal purchases, and my account is still alive and well. I think the key is that I followed Paypal's Dispute process, waited until they agreed to reimburse me, and then did a chargeback as a last resort (i.e. if paypal could not recover the money from the seller).
If you're still confused, consider a boss has the same right of free speech as we all do. You can not take-away his right to make a request of an employee and/or forcing him to shutup.
>>>Why should she even be asked to remove the photo, though?
Can you not read? I answered this question in depth, and thus there was no need to repeat it twice. For a teacher to stand in class and say, "Drinking is dangerous and damages your liver," while her or his students are browsing the web and seeing the teacher participating in said behavior, is confusing to the students. I think the principal has every right to REQUEST the photos be taken-down, just the same as the principal has the right to request teachers smoke behind closed doors, out-of-view of the kids.
This is no different than my own boss *requesting* I not travel internationally, unless I inform them, due to concerns about exportation of state secrets. Yes it's legal to travel, but it's still something they like to monitor. It's part of being a professional.
Many medical organizations in Europe and Japan have already reduced the upper BMI range from 25 to 23, so 189 would be considered overweight. The American Medical Association is still reviewing the studies, but they appear to be leaning towards reducing the BMI too, since people above 23 have increased risk of arterial disease and/or diabetes.
I dislike the sun, mainly because I hate being hot. In fact I'm hating the current sunny 95 degree weather and looking forward to the cool days of fall.
Maybe I'm a vampire? Hmmm. Nah more-likely it's just the influence of my mountain ancestors (from the Alps). I used to live in Grand Rapids Michigan, and I kinda miss it. Yeah the winters were brutal but that's why double-layer sweaters were invented, plus the summers were a nice cool 80 degrees most of the time. I like being cool.
I think both of ye are in denial. YOU say you're fit, but what would a medical doctor say after he performed an official fat-measuring? I suspect he'd confirm the Wii's BMI is accurate, that yes you have too much fat, and you need to lose about 20-to-30 pounds.
Discussing this reminds me of a PBS program where a guy was tasked to live in the wilderness. He started chopping down trees, building his cabin, and rapidly lost weight. Both he and the PBS people said, "You're too thin," so they brought in a doctor. The doctor looked at him and said, "No he was fat before. And now he's not. This is what a healthy human being is supposed to look like." To my eyes he looked thin, but the doctor confirmed he's normal weight.
So rather than rely on appearance, which can b skewed by all the fat Americans around me, I always stop and think about where I used to be: - I was 120. - Now I'm 150. - Clearly I weigh more than I should. The BMI confirms that, and my doctor does as well.
I don't understand these studies about addictive gamers who are depressed, lonely, blah blah blah. Gaming, like watching tv dramas or sports or news, or listening to the radio or ipod, is simply a way to pass the time. Why gaming would make someone depressed makes zero sense to me.
The key word, which you ignored, is the boss would ASK her to remove the photos. She certainly has the option to say "no" since this is a free country, but hopefully she would recognize that posting drinking photos (or using dirty language, or posting home sex videos) sends the wrong message to her kids. She doesn't deserve to be fired, but I see no harm in a boss simply asking her to use better judgment.
>>>They make it sound like that's easier, as though they're getting into your shed.
It is easier to access data on an ISP. Just ask anyone who's been sued by RIAA or MPAA - in most cases the ISP will turn-over your personal information with a simple phonecall by the RIAA/MPAA employees, whereas information stored inside your home requires a *search warrant* issued by a judge.
Your data is safer at home, with constitutional protections, than in the hands of an ISP that doesn't care about your privacy.
You are correct. I still have an answering machine. Not only is it cheaper than voicemail (no monthly fee), but also it's under my control. I have a public facebook page, but because it's public I am very careful what I release. Other citizens need to learn to be as vigilant.
Vice-versa, bosses need to stop being such prudes. If a teacher posts a bunch of wedding photos and in some of those she's drinking wine, DON'T fire the teacher for actions performed off-the-clock. Simply ask her to remove the photo. More importantly - teach the students there's a difference between an adult drinker (okay) and a child (not okay), instead of trying to keep them ignorant.
The American fear of their own bodies is borderline psychotic. So what if Miss America posed topless, or Miss Obama is wearing shorts? Who the fuck cares? Even if you're religious surely you must recognize that God created the human body, and what God creates is holy, not sinful. A naked human is as "godly" as a naked cow or naked deer or naked tree.
>>>Do you know any wiimote players who think they could take on PC gamers playing the same FPS head-to-head? I sure don't.
Here's one.
I've been gaming since the 1970s. I've used everything from those simple Atari joysticks to trackballs to lightguns to mouses and on and on. A good gamer doesn't blame his tools. I'd be happy to take on a PC gamer with his mouse/keyboard and my wiimote (and vice-versa). Which is better? I've no idea but I suspect the wiimote's similarity to a lightgun would be the better tool.
>>>Why exactly are PC gamers so intent on informing us of how much better in every way PCs are to consoles?
Don't know. Personally I think PCs are inferior. For one thing they cost a shitload of money, in the thousands of dollars over ~5 years time, whereas my PS2 and Gamecube cost only $199 and $50 brandnew. For another thing, PCs run Windoze which is hella-difficult to make work properly and I have better things to do with my time than dick-around with Bill Gates' stupid settings trying to make a game operate without crashing. The PS2/Cube just work.
>>>I don't care, none of us console gamers do.
Correct. It's just gaming, and the cheaper the cost, and the easier it is to setup, the better IMHO. One of the advantages of my ancient Commodore/Amiga computers was the "play-and-play" ease of use, and I like that today's consoles provide the same thing.
(1) NASCAR has alternating left and right turn tracks.
(2) If you consider left-turn-only races as "not races" does that mean you think horse racing is not really racing? Or that the ancient Roman chariot racing was not really racing? Or that Olympic track events are not really racing? Hmmmm. Something to think about.
Which means they were not technically AMD's "efforts". AMD was simply copying Intel-supplied designs. So the grandparent poster was correct - When AMD started doing their OWN designs, the early attempts were buggy and incompatible.
But they learned and now they are better. Likewise diesels are becoming better, such that Ford claims they are designing a Ford Focus Diesel that passes SULEV-II standards.
One unfair policy is to exempt gasoline engines from Particulate Matter (soot) tests while diesels are expected to pass. So you have diesel cars that "fail" to get SULEV ratings due to high PM counts, but the gasoline cars that are supposedly "clean" are spitting PMs all over the place.
I never understood that double standard.
And don't give me that old line about how diesel PM is more-dangerous than gasoline PM. The gasoline PM is smaller, can be absorbed directly into the bloodstream, and therefore is the more dangerous pollutant.
>>>Here's the most recent one that fueleconomy.gov has
You are such a fucking liar. You've done it twice now, first by claiming a modern diesel only gets a "1" and using old old data. And now again by claiming 2006 was the most-recent available year. False. 2009 Jetta Diesel == 6 on the EPA pollution scale. LINK - http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/2008car2tablef.jsp?column=2&id=25262 - That's equivalent to what the gasoline version gets.
And the Diesel has a smaller "carbon footprint" - 11.9 diesel versus 7.3 for gasoline
European countries, which have signed the greenhouse gas reduction treaties, are encouraging diesel and diesel-electric cars as the cleanest technology. Once again the United States is falling behind its E.U. neighbors with bass-backwards antidiesel policies, just the same way its falling-behind in internet speeds, cellphone speeds, and so on.
Yes true, but while my hybrid Honda might get high MPG, if I want to pass a car on the interstate I need to downshift from 5th to *3rd* gear!!! A Volkswagen diesel, thanks to its high torque at 2000rpm, doesn't need to downshift and it's why it's more "driveable" than a hybrid.
False. Gasoline Jetta versus Diesel Jetta (or Golf, or Passat, or Beetle) == ~60% better MPG.
>>>half of which is simply due to the denser fuel.
Jeez. False again. DON'T YOU KNOW HOW TO USE GOOGLE??? 147000/125000 BTUs == 17% more energy in each diesel gallon. The rest of the efficiency comes from the engine itself, which uses higher pressures and more-thoroughly burns the fuel. How thoroughly? You can sit inside a garage with a running diesel car, and it won't kill you.
The only drawback is the high particulate matter (soot), but it's a problem that has already been solved using new catalysts. A modern diesel with PM filtering is as clean as my ULEV Insight Hybrid.
>>>Also the Jetta TDI set the world record for most efficient non-hybrid vehicle in a cross country road trip: 58mpg.
The Lupo 3L beat that several years ago - it went-around-the-world (and across the country) to average 99mpg at average speed of 65mph (in other words they were not hypermiling). While my gas-electric Honda Insight can match that feat, I would have to drive a turtle-crawlingly slow 45mph so I consider the Lupo diesel a more practical car.
Volkswagen now has a two-seater diesel that will get 250mpg on the highway when it's released next year.
If Volkswagen sold their Lupo or Polo TDIs in the U.S., they would qualify as SULEVs - mainly because they get such high gas mileage (60+ MPG). The only reason VW doesn't offer them here is because of the belief that Americans don't like small high MPG cars, but they would pass the SULEV test since they emit so few grams of NOx, HCs, or CO.
Diesels are not "gutless". They have very high torque numbers which allows the driver to accelerate rapidly on the highway without needing to downshift like a gasoline car needs to do. Put another way - if you take a 110hp Diesel Jetta and put it against a 110hp gasoline Jetta, the diesel will accelerate faster since it has almost triple the torque (rotational force).
>>>I've never driven one, but I am genuinely curious....
Then go to your local VW dealer and drive one. You'll be surprised.
>>>Gates is an asshole. Assholes get arrested for no reason all the time.
Yes and when that happens the cops should be immediately demoted. Cops are not there to arrest people they don't like - they are there to enforce the law, and the Supreme Law of the land provides assholes with the protection to say whatever they desire inside their own home, or even on their front porch. It's called free speech.
Slashdot Mirror
Usually Paypal tells the buyer to return the item, even it's just an empty box, to the seller. They go by the tracking number to verify the seller received something, and THEN refund the money. It's not standard procedure to refund money if they buyer never returned anything.
Anyway - In such cases, I monitor the dishonest buyer and immediately buy whatever they are selling. Then I do to them, what they did to me (i.e. scam them out of the goods).
Thus I have reverse-scammed the scam artist, and balance is restored.
>>>If you used your credit card you could have done a chargeback...of course you'd lose your paypal account for doing this
This is an oft-repeated myth. I've done several chargebacks on my ebay/paypal purchases, and my account is still alive and well. I think the key is that I followed Paypal's Dispute process, waited until they agreed to reimburse me, and then did a chargeback as a last resort (i.e. if paypal could not recover the money from the seller).
P.S.
If you're still confused, consider a boss has the same right of free speech as we all do. You can not take-away his right to make a request of an employee and/or forcing him to shutup.
>>>Why should she even be asked to remove the photo, though?
Can you not read? I answered this question in depth, and thus there was no need to repeat it twice. For a teacher to stand in class and say, "Drinking is dangerous and damages your liver," while her or his students are browsing the web and seeing the teacher participating in said behavior, is confusing to the students. I think the principal has every right to REQUEST the photos be taken-down, just the same as the principal has the right to request teachers smoke behind closed doors, out-of-view of the kids.
This is no different than my own boss *requesting* I not travel internationally, unless I inform them, due to concerns about exportation of state secrets. Yes it's legal to travel, but it's still something they like to monitor. It's part of being a professional.
Many medical organizations in Europe and Japan have already reduced the upper BMI range from 25 to 23, so 189 would be considered overweight. The American Medical Association is still reviewing the studies, but they appear to be leaning towards reducing the BMI too, since people above 23 have increased risk of arterial disease and/or diabetes.
I like dark days.
I dislike the sun, mainly because I hate being hot. In fact I'm hating the current sunny 95 degree weather and looking forward to the cool days of fall.
Maybe I'm a vampire? Hmmm. Nah more-likely it's just the influence of my mountain ancestors (from the Alps). I used to live in Grand Rapids Michigan, and I kinda miss it. Yeah the winters were brutal but that's why double-layer sweaters were invented, plus the summers were a nice cool 80 degrees most of the time. I like being cool.
I think both of ye are in denial. YOU say you're fit, but what would a medical doctor say after he performed an official fat-measuring? I suspect he'd confirm the Wii's BMI is accurate, that yes you have too much fat, and you need to lose about 20-to-30 pounds.
Discussing this reminds me of a PBS program where a guy was tasked to live in the wilderness. He started chopping down trees, building his cabin, and rapidly lost weight. Both he and the PBS people said, "You're too thin," so they brought in a doctor. The doctor looked at him and said, "No he was fat before. And now he's not. This is what a healthy human being is supposed to look like." To my eyes he looked thin, but the doctor confirmed he's normal weight.
So rather than rely on appearance, which can b skewed by all the fat Americans around me, I always stop and think about where I used to be:
- I was 120.
- Now I'm 150.
- Clearly I weigh more than I should. The BMI confirms that, and my doctor does as well.
I don't understand these studies about addictive gamers who are depressed, lonely, blah blah blah. Gaming, like watching tv dramas or sports or news, or listening to the radio or ipod, is simply a way to pass the time. Why gaming would make someone depressed makes zero sense to me.
>>>Why should she even do that?
The key word, which you ignored, is the boss would ASK her to remove the photos. She certainly has the option to say "no" since this is a free country, but hopefully she would recognize that posting drinking photos (or using dirty language, or posting home sex videos) sends the wrong message to her kids. She doesn't deserve to be fired, but I see no harm in a boss simply asking her to use better judgment.
>>>They make it sound like that's easier, as though they're getting into your shed.
It is easier to access data on an ISP. Just ask anyone who's been sued by RIAA or MPAA - in most cases the ISP will turn-over your personal information with a simple phonecall by the RIAA/MPAA employees, whereas information stored inside your home requires a *search warrant* issued by a judge.
Your data is safer at home, with constitutional protections, than in the hands of an ISP that doesn't care about your privacy.
You are correct. I still have an answering machine. Not only is it cheaper than voicemail (no monthly fee), but also it's under my control. I have a public facebook page, but because it's public I am very careful what I release. Other citizens need to learn to be as vigilant.
Vice-versa, bosses need to stop being such prudes. If a teacher posts a bunch of wedding photos and in some of those she's drinking wine, DON'T fire the teacher for actions performed off-the-clock. Simply ask her to remove the photo. More importantly - teach the students there's a difference between an adult drinker (okay) and a child (not okay), instead of trying to keep them ignorant.
I hope you're right.
The American fear of their own bodies is borderline psychotic. So what if Miss America posed topless, or Miss Obama is wearing shorts? Who the fuck cares? Even if you're religious surely you must recognize that God created the human body, and what God creates is holy, not sinful. A naked human is as "godly" as a naked cow or naked deer or naked tree.
>>>Do you know any wiimote players who think they could take on PC gamers playing the same FPS head-to-head? I sure don't.
Here's one.
I've been gaming since the 1970s. I've used everything from those simple Atari joysticks to trackballs to lightguns to mouses and on and on. A good gamer doesn't blame his tools. I'd be happy to take on a PC gamer with his mouse/keyboard and my wiimote (and vice-versa). Which is better? I've no idea but I suspect the wiimote's similarity to a lightgun would be the better tool.
>>>Why exactly are PC gamers so intent on informing us of how much better in every way PCs are to consoles?
Don't know. Personally I think PCs are inferior. For one thing they cost a shitload of money, in the thousands of dollars over ~5 years time, whereas my PS2 and Gamecube cost only $199 and $50 brandnew. For another thing, PCs run Windoze which is hella-difficult to make work properly and I have better things to do with my time than dick-around with Bill Gates' stupid settings trying to make a game operate without crashing. The PS2/Cube just work.
>>>I don't care, none of us console gamers do.
Correct. It's just gaming, and the cheaper the cost, and the easier it is to setup, the better IMHO. One of the advantages of my ancient Commodore/Amiga computers was the "play-and-play" ease of use, and I like that today's consoles provide the same thing.
(1) NASCAR has alternating left and right turn tracks.
(2) If you consider left-turn-only races as "not races" does that mean you think horse racing is not really racing? Or that the ancient Roman chariot racing was not really racing? Or that Olympic track events are not really racing? Hmmmm. Something to think about.
Which means they were not technically AMD's "efforts". AMD was simply copying Intel-supplied designs. So the grandparent poster was correct - When AMD started doing their OWN designs, the early attempts were buggy and incompatible.
But they learned and now they are better. Likewise diesels are becoming better, such that Ford claims they are designing a Ford Focus Diesel that passes SULEV-II standards.
One unfair policy is to exempt gasoline engines from Particulate Matter (soot) tests while diesels are expected to pass. So you have diesel cars that "fail" to get SULEV ratings due to high PM counts, but the gasoline cars that are supposedly "clean" are spitting PMs all over the place.
I never understood that double standard.
And don't give me that old line about how diesel PM is more-dangerous than gasoline PM. The gasoline PM is smaller, can be absorbed directly into the bloodstream, and therefore is the more dangerous pollutant.
Alternate link in case the other one does not work: http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/2008car1tablef.jsp?id=25262
And also I stated the carbon footprint wrong:
6.4 diesel versus 7.3 for gasoline (diesel is smaller and better)
>>>Here's the most recent one that fueleconomy.gov has
You are such a fucking liar. You've done it twice now, first by claiming a modern diesel only gets a "1" and using old old data. And now again by claiming 2006 was the most-recent available year. False. 2009 Jetta Diesel == 6 on the EPA pollution scale. LINK - http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/2008car2tablef.jsp?column=2&id=25262 - That's equivalent to what the gasoline version gets.
And the Diesel has a smaller "carbon footprint" - 11.9 diesel versus 7.3 for gasoline
European countries, which have signed the greenhouse gas reduction treaties, are encouraging diesel and diesel-electric cars as the cleanest technology. Once again the United States is falling behind its E.U. neighbors with bass-backwards antidiesel policies, just the same way its falling-behind in internet speeds, cellphone speeds, and so on.
>>>I like to call it a "gearbox".
Yes true, but while my hybrid Honda might get high MPG, if I want to pass a car on the interstate I need to downshift from 5th to *3rd* gear!!! A Volkswagen diesel, thanks to its high torque at 2000rpm, doesn't need to downshift and it's why it's more "driveable" than a hybrid.
>>>They generally have about 25% better MPG
False. Gasoline Jetta versus Diesel Jetta (or Golf, or Passat, or Beetle) == ~60% better MPG.
>>>half of which is simply due to the denser fuel.
Jeez. False again. DON'T YOU KNOW HOW TO USE GOOGLE??? 147000/125000 BTUs == 17% more energy in each diesel gallon. The rest of the efficiency comes from the engine itself, which uses higher pressures and more-thoroughly burns the fuel. How thoroughly? You can sit inside a garage with a running diesel car, and it won't kill you.
The only drawback is the high particulate matter (soot), but it's a problem that has already been solved using new catalysts. A modern diesel with PM filtering is as clean as my ULEV Insight Hybrid.
>>>Also the Jetta TDI set the world record for most efficient non-hybrid vehicle in a cross country road trip: 58mpg.
The Lupo 3L beat that several years ago - it went-around-the-world (and across the country) to average 99mpg at average speed of 65mph (in other words they were not hypermiling). While my gas-electric Honda Insight can match that feat, I would have to drive a turtle-crawlingly slow 45mph so I consider the Lupo diesel a more practical car.
Volkswagen now has a two-seater diesel that will get 250mpg on the highway when it's released next year.
Show me a hybrid that can get 250mpg. ;-)
>>>Show me a single SULEV diesel, for example.
If Volkswagen sold their Lupo or Polo TDIs in the U.S., they would qualify as SULEVs - mainly because they get such high gas mileage (60+ MPG). The only reason VW doesn't offer them here is because of the belief that Americans don't like small high MPG cars, but they would pass the SULEV test since they emit so few grams of NOx, HCs, or CO.
Diesels are not "gutless". They have very high torque numbers which allows the driver to accelerate rapidly on the highway without needing to downshift like a gasoline car needs to do. Put another way - if you take a 110hp Diesel Jetta and put it against a 110hp gasoline Jetta, the diesel will accelerate faster since it has almost triple the torque (rotational force).
>>>I've never driven one, but I am genuinely curious....
Then go to your local VW dealer and drive one. You'll be surprised.
>>>Gates is an asshole. Assholes get arrested for no reason all the time.
Yes and when that happens the cops should be immediately demoted. Cops are not there to arrest people they don't like - they are there to enforce the law, and the Supreme Law of the land provides assholes with the protection to say whatever they desire inside their own home, or even on their front porch. It's called free speech.