Most cable companies provide a month-to-month service. You're really agreeing to a brand new contract each time you send your monthly payment in. If they don't want you as a customer anymore, they cut you off at the end of the month and don't accept anymore money from you. End of of story. Just like you could call them and say you don't want their service anymore and have it disconnected.
So, it doesn't really matter if their Acceptable Use Policy is a valid contract. They're just being polite enough to let you know that they'll no longer be doing business with you if you don't follow their policy.
That'd be like saying somebody has a gambling addiction with golf because of membership/green fees at the local course.
I wouldn't say that, but you could say that a lot of golfers are addicted to gambling. Almost every round I play involved some kind of wager these days.
Last week, a press release was issued by Ellacotya that suggested something quite startling -- HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol, aka Web traffic) had for the first time in four years overtaken P2P traffic.
Okay, so the very young Slashdotter that just popped out of his mother might not know what HTTP actually stands for, but I can't believe there are any Slashdotters who don't know what HTTP is.
Time-Warner - well their service relatively speaking is ok. It works and the bills keep coming. But when the service drops out because of some technical glitch, even in some cases for more than a day they suddenly speak only Ebonics when it comes to rebates.
Perhaps it's your local Time-Warner office, or perhaps you just don't get mad enough on the phone, but when my service was out for a week, because one of their technicians accidently disconnected my service while connecting a neighbor, I received a credit for every day I was without service.
As for Sprint, if you want good customer service or rate deals, you have to threaten to quit repeatedly. Then they transfer you to the "customer retention department," where they keep the employees who can actually deal. Right now I pay $15/mo for 150 anytime minutes. You won't see that rate plan published anywhere, but when you're out of contract and threaten to leave, they suddenly value your business a lot more.
Asphalt burns, especially near a high-priority target.
Asphalt isn't the only thing you can use to pour a parking lot. Besides, usually you "lay" asphalt and you "pour" concrete. (Google agrees with me at least).
The study itself can have merit. The problem is with people who take the study and seek to use it for other purposes.
For example, a study like this could help explain why some people seem to be "better" at certain areas of study (not because they have longer ring fingers, or because they are a different skin color, but because of certain chemicals being present in certain amounts during development). In turn, such a discovery could potentially lead to a cure for dyslexia for example, or any other learning disabilities. At the same time, someone could try to take this research and say that it means we should not allow certain races to breed with each other.
At what point does the power of a few idiots to use something for bad make it so that we ignore the potential benefits of research?
No they may not. It's in every merchant agreement with Visa/MC/etc. that the merchant absolutely may not require ID as a condition of paying pay credit card. Merchants will be fined for that, too.
Really? I'm looking at MC's Merchant Manual right now and it says as a requirement that merchants: "For unique transactions processed in a face-to-face environment (with the exception of truck stop transactions and card-read transactions where a non-signature CVM is used), request personal identification of the cardholder in the form of an unexpired, official government document. Compare the signature on the personal identification with the signature on the card."
Like almost every other product sold at Wal-Mart, I'm sure the Dell computers sold there will be of a much lower quality than the Dells sold everywhere else.
Just like everything else at Wal-Mart. Yeah, it's sold for less, but it's also a special model sold only at Wal-Mart made with the cheapest possible parts you can buy. So, when people buy your product at Wal-Mart, they are indeed getting an inferior product.
1. Actually check to make sure the person handing you the card is who they claim to be. 2. Require customers to pay cash.
Why should the merchant get a free ride to be negligent in accepting payments? Merchants should treat credit cards like checks, because they're just as responsible for taking a bad credit card as they are for taking a bad check. But instead, so that you can get through the line 5 seconds quicker, they make it easier and easier for you to use a stolen card. So part of the blame is on consumers, and part of the blame is on the merchants.
They just do a chargeback against the merchant who accepted the fraudulent transaction and they have to eat the cost. In fact, the CC company charges the merchant a hefty fee for the privilege of eating the cost.
The merchant is the person closest to the person using the card fraudulent, so the burden to discover the fraud and prevent it should rightly fall on their shoulders. Instead, the merchant chooses to be lazy and doesn't even look to see if the card actually belongs to the person handing it to them. They could ask for ID, other verifying information, compare signatures, etc. But, it's easier to just swipe the card and hand it back isn't it?
If they're online, it's even easier. Require a ship-to address to match the bill-to address of the credit card. You want to ship it somewhere else? We'll call you on the number your credit card company gives us.
Merchants foot the bill for fraud, because they are on the front lines and should be responsible for preventing it. Credit card companies could implement all kinds of security devices, but in the end, it's the merchants who are dropping the ball, and who will find someway to make security devices meaningless through their own apathy.
That depends where you go, E85 pricing is all over the board. I can get it at a station here in Dayton, Ohio for about 20-25% less than the cost of E10 on the average day. However, over in Indiana, many stations sell E85 at or above the price of E10. The problem is that the prices are many times being set by the oil companies that own the service stations. You can get a decent picture of price spreads across the country at e5prices.com.
I seem to remember even larger prices for both CD and DVD burners (at a time when that amount of money was worth even more), and people still buying them up.
But there was no real cheaper alternative that could do the same thing. Cassettes weren't cutting it, and it was something new and shiny for everyone to have. I don't think Blu-ray falls into that category. It's more like a new version of something people already have, which means they're less likely to pay the "OMG no one else has anything like this" premium for it.
I think the OP's point was that certain people do not trust the blood supply because they believe inferior medicine supplies are directed toward them, not that such practices have ever or still do occur. The distrust is the problem. Whether or not it actually happens is mostly irrelevant to the problem of people refusing treatment because they do not trust that they are receiving what they should be.
It sounds as if you want to believe the pyramids were built with slave labor.
No. My point was that we should be careful to rely upon what they wrote down in determining what they did. If this "recent research" is based off of other archeological findings, such as, for example, finding workers' living quarters where they found evidence of them eating food which slaves would not have been permitted to eat, then that might be considered better proof.
My point had nothing to do with whether they were slaves or not---that was just a convenient anology---, but whether we should believe what a particular civilization wrote down as far as what that civilization did. People tend to cast theimselves in a little better light than is warranted.
I'm curious if this "recent research" is based off of writings that were found? Imagine how the story of how the U.S. got rich would look if the right person wrote it? Slaves from Africa? Nah. How about "professional immigrant craftsmen" working those fields instead?
Gmail being announced on April 1st was a coincidence more than anything, and it was much more believeable and not written as an obvious joke like this and other Google April Fool's jokes.
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Most cable companies provide a month-to-month service. You're really agreeing to a brand new contract each time you send your monthly payment in. If they don't want you as a customer anymore, they cut you off at the end of the month and don't accept anymore money from you. End of of story. Just like you could call them and say you don't want their service anymore and have it disconnected.
So, it doesn't really matter if their Acceptable Use Policy is a valid contract. They're just being polite enough to let you know that they'll no longer be doing business with you if you don't follow their policy.
Is that like being too fugly to get laid, getting busted for prostitution?
You must not watch COPS, because you would know that there is no such thing as too fugly to be a prostitute.
That'd be like saying somebody has a gambling addiction with golf because of membership/green fees at the local course.
I wouldn't say that, but you could say that a lot of golfers are addicted to gambling. Almost every round I play involved some kind of wager these days.
Last week, a press release was issued by Ellacotya that suggested something quite startling -- HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol, aka Web traffic) had for the first time in four years overtaken P2P traffic.
Okay, so the very young Slashdotter that just popped out of his mother might not know what HTTP actually stands for, but I can't believe there are any Slashdotters who don't know what HTTP is.
Time-Warner - well their service relatively speaking is ok. It works and the bills keep coming. But when the service drops out because of some technical glitch, even in some cases for more than a day they suddenly speak only Ebonics when it comes to rebates.
Perhaps it's your local Time-Warner office, or perhaps you just don't get mad enough on the phone, but when my service was out for a week, because one of their technicians accidently disconnected my service while connecting a neighbor, I received a credit for every day I was without service.
As for Sprint, if you want good customer service or rate deals, you have to threaten to quit repeatedly. Then they transfer you to the "customer retention department," where they keep the employees who can actually deal. Right now I pay $15/mo for 150 anytime minutes. You won't see that rate plan published anywhere, but when you're out of contract and threaten to leave, they suddenly value your business a lot more.
Asphalt burns, especially near a high-priority target.
Asphalt isn't the only thing you can use to pour a parking lot. Besides, usually you "lay" asphalt and you "pour" concrete. (Google agrees with me at least).
The new solar panels were unfolded like an accordion window blind, their orange and black colors reflecting the sunlight.
Is it just me, or are solar panels that reflect sunlight not a good thing?
True, but, every penny in the campaign fund is one less penny he has to spend from his own wallet.
The stuff about finger length is just a way to make people outside the field take a look at the study.
The study itself can have merit. The problem is with people who take the study and seek to use it for other purposes.
For example, a study like this could help explain why some people seem to be "better" at certain areas of study (not because they have longer ring fingers, or because they are a different skin color, but because of certain chemicals being present in certain amounts during development). In turn, such a discovery could potentially lead to a cure for dyslexia for example, or any other learning disabilities. At the same time, someone could try to take this research and say that it means we should not allow certain races to breed with each other.
At what point does the power of a few idiots to use something for bad make it so that we ignore the potential benefits of research?
No they may not. It's in every merchant agreement with Visa/MC/etc. that the merchant absolutely may not require ID as a condition of paying pay credit card. Merchants will be fined for that, too.
Really? I'm looking at MC's Merchant Manual right now and it says as a requirement that merchants: "For unique transactions processed in a face-to-face environment (with the exception of truck stop transactions and card-read transactions where a
non-signature CVM is used), request personal identification of the cardholder in the form of an unexpired, official government document. Compare the signature on the personal identification with the signature on the card."
Like almost every other product sold at Wal-Mart, I'm sure the Dell computers sold there will be of a much lower quality than the Dells sold everywhere else.
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Just like everything else at Wal-Mart. Yeah, it's sold for less, but it's also a special model sold only at Wal-Mart made with the cheapest possible parts you can buy. So, when people buy your product at Wal-Mart, they are indeed getting an inferior product.
I remember a great story I read about some lawn mower/tractor company that refused to do business with Wal-Mart where a lot of these things were disclosed. Found it: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/102/open_snap
The merchant has options.
1. Actually check to make sure the person handing you the card is who they claim to be.
2. Require customers to pay cash.
Why should the merchant get a free ride to be negligent in accepting payments? Merchants should treat credit cards like checks, because they're just as responsible for taking a bad credit card as they are for taking a bad check. But instead, so that you can get through the line 5 seconds quicker, they make it easier and easier for you to use a stolen card. So part of the blame is on consumers, and part of the blame is on the merchants.
They just do a chargeback against the merchant who accepted the fraudulent transaction and they have to eat the cost. In fact, the CC company charges the merchant a hefty fee for the privilege of eating the cost.
The merchant is the person closest to the person using the card fraudulent, so the burden to discover the fraud and prevent it should rightly fall on their shoulders. Instead, the merchant chooses to be lazy and doesn't even look to see if the card actually belongs to the person handing it to them. They could ask for ID, other verifying information, compare signatures, etc. But, it's easier to just swipe the card and hand it back isn't it?
If they're online, it's even easier. Require a ship-to address to match the bill-to address of the credit card. You want to ship it somewhere else? We'll call you on the number your credit card company gives us.
Merchants foot the bill for fraud, because they are on the front lines and should be responsible for preventing it. Credit card companies could implement all kinds of security devices, but in the end, it's the merchants who are dropping the ball, and who will find someway to make security devices meaningless through their own apathy.
Wait, some tribes were warlike and would attack everyone including other tribes and us? We don't teach that. It would make them look bad.
Go back only about 15 years. That's ALL that was taught in U.S. schools.
That depends where you go, E85 pricing is all over the board. I can get it at a station here in Dayton, Ohio for about 20-25% less than the cost of E10 on the average day. However, over in Indiana, many stations sell E85 at or above the price of E10. The problem is that the prices are many times being set by the oil companies that own the service stations. You can get a decent picture of price spreads across the country at e5prices.com.
If ethanol corn is anything like feed corn, most humans would break their teeth on it.
And a street ounce is 22 grams, and won't send you to jail nearly as long.
I seem to remember even larger prices for both CD and DVD burners (at a time when that amount of money was worth even more), and people still buying them up.
But there was no real cheaper alternative that could do the same thing. Cassettes weren't cutting it, and it was something new and shiny for everyone to have. I don't think Blu-ray falls into that category. It's more like a new version of something people already have, which means they're less likely to pay the "OMG no one else has anything like this" premium for it.
I think the OP's point was that certain people do not trust the blood supply because they believe inferior medicine supplies are directed toward them, not that such practices have ever or still do occur. The distrust is the problem. Whether or not it actually happens is mostly irrelevant to the problem of people refusing treatment because they do not trust that they are receiving what they should be.
Read posts before you respond to them next time.
"After my friends family dumped their public defender and got a real lawyer"
Funny, in my experience, public defenders tend to get their clients much better results than "real lawyers."
Seriously, what a bunch of newbs you all are.
It sounds as if you want to believe the pyramids were built with slave labor.
No. My point was that we should be careful to rely upon what they wrote down in determining what they did. If this "recent research" is based off of other archeological findings, such as, for example, finding workers' living quarters where they found evidence of them eating food which slaves would not have been permitted to eat, then that might be considered better proof.
My point had nothing to do with whether they were slaves or not---that was just a convenient anology---, but whether we should believe what a particular civilization wrote down as far as what that civilization did. People tend to cast theimselves in a little better light than is warranted.
I'm curious if this "recent research" is based off of writings that were found? Imagine how the story of how the U.S. got rich would look if the right person wrote it? Slaves from Africa? Nah. How about "professional immigrant craftsmen" working those fields instead?
Gmail being announced on April 1st was a coincidence more than anything, and it was much more believeable and not written as an obvious joke like this and other Google April Fool's jokes.