That's what process servers are for. There are lots of people and companies who will undertake to deliver notices of that type (and provide you with an affidavit of service) for a fee.
You mail the process server your documents. He delivers them and sends you his affidavit.
I'd say move to Canada, but the situation is worse here.
Move to Saskatchewan instead of Ontario. Sask Tel offers unlimited high-speed DSL service in pretty much every town of 500 people or more for about $60 per month.
standing with your hand held open and neglecting customers who fairly arrived first is not indicative of someone providing good service.
Er, no. Some customers (not necessarily disabled) are far more work than they are worth. I speak from experience -- as I said, I own and operate a movie theatre, and I do some computer consulting and programming as a sort of a sideline.
Would you rather spend a half-day taking to a lookie-loo who eventually says, "I'll get back to you" (and never does), or spend that half-day dealing with customers who are actually putting money on the counter?
I may not be getting paid by the hour, but there are only so many hours in a day. And I'm definitely paying someone else by the hour. Staff is extremely expensive. Take it from me.
I have been known to refer people to other consultants or simply say "I don't do that" when I am asked to do certain jobs or work for certain people.
Does that make me a poor businessman? I think the opposite; wasting time is the mark of a poor businessman.
You could try talking to him, getting a feel for what he's looking for, and bringing up a few samples and going back a few times until you can present some fabric choices.
Or I could spend that same amount of time selling a lot more fabric to the three other customers who are waiting to see me while I conduct an interview and run up and down the stairs.
What are you doing in a cloth-based business without a sample book anyway?
Beats me. I own a movie theatre so I have nothing to do with cloth sales of any kind.
Pollworkers can take votes today, come back tomorrow and start counting. If the count isn't completed and verified by 5pm, finish it the following day, or the day after, or the day after that.
The rush here is totally unnecessary. Joe Schmoe won't be taking office for a month or two after the day of the vote anyway.
What if it is not possible to take my business upstairs? Perhaps I have some special machine in the basement that the customer must look at to, say, pick his choice of colour from. Or whatever. "The showroom is in the basement." Now what? Do I haul all 5000 bales of cloth up the stairs into my living room so he can look them over?
They made an editorial decision not to review it, for whatever reason.
They decided that it was still worth mentioning as a new product, i.e. some of their readers might be interested in it. Since you had provided them with the relevant information in your brochure they gave you some free advertising....
I don't see a problem, really.
Worth mentioning != worthwhile to spend a lot of time on a full-fledged review.
a store as large as Target, which dominates the commerce in entire towns or neighborhoods, bears a legal and social responsibility to serve that entire community.
Do smaller stores in that same community bear the same responsibility? Down to what level? If I have a home-based business with an office in my basement should I be required to install a wheelchair ramp in my yard and an elevator to the basement?
I totally agree that Target should be made to both install wheelchair ramps and to have a fully accessible text-only/semantically annotated version of their website. The question is, should I be forced to do the same thing with my home business.
How is it fair that they should be made to do something at great expense and inconvenience, and you should not?
Because they have more money than you do?
Should Bill Gates pay more for a cup of coffee at the your local diner than you pay for the same coffee?
Where is the cut-off between "must provide access" and "not required to provide access", and how do you determine it and justify it?
Population is irrelevant. The system scales nicely. If your system requires one election official to count 50 ballots, then you need two officials to count 100 ballots, 200 officials to count 10,000 ballots, and 2000 officials to count 100,000 ballots.
You also have a larger pool of people to recruit from to get election officials as your population increases, so that is also a self-solving problem.
I've got an idea of what is required as part of the counting process and it's heinous for a big election.
So?
If that's what it takes then that's what it takes.
Accurate, complete and and provably correct results trump fast and easy when it comes to this stuff. If you have to wait an extra couple of days to read about who gets to be chief dog catcher in Rump Cheek County, so be it.
I just saw a movie not so long ago, titled "Idiocracy". It is about the world becoming so dumb that economics just falls apart. The story is set in the US. Looks like the US is heading in that direction. It is worth watching that movie, it gives an insight into the future.
That's far from a brand-new idea. Read the short story The Marching Morons by C.M. Kornbluth, written in 1951.
It's a fairly small number, considering that a lot of financial calculations are done in cents. $655.25 isn't a particularly large amount of money to be working with.
Just for fun I cranked up Microsoft Multiplan 1.06 from 1983 for the Commmodore 64 (using the Vice emulator, and the magic calculation (850*77.1) gives the correct answer of 65535.
I have always been under the impression that Excel was originally based on MS Multiplan (isn't it?) so the code was correct at that time and has become broken at some subsequent point.
software that runs on Windows, Mac, and Ubuntu, let me know... Heck, when you find a common version of a spreadsheet program that runs on those three platforms let me know! Openoffice.org. Word processor, spreadsheet, database, presentation thingy.
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That's what process servers are for. There are lots of people and companies who will undertake to deliver notices of that type (and provide you with an affidavit of service) for a fee.
You mail the process server your documents. He delivers them and sends you his affidavit.
There's not much to it.
That won't work. Try it. Write a file into your home directory, chown root.root, chmod 500.
You can still delete it and replace it with no difficulty.
You could possibly accomplish what you want to do with chattr and make it an immutable file.
I'd say move to Canada, but the situation is worse here.
Move to Saskatchewan instead of Ontario. Sask Tel offers unlimited high-speed DSL service in pretty much every town of 500 people or more for about $60 per month.
Unfortunately, some of the mc function keys conflict with the default gnome-terminal keybindings.
standing with your hand held open and neglecting customers who fairly arrived first is not indicative of someone providing good service.
Er, no. Some customers (not necessarily disabled) are far more work than they are worth. I speak from experience -- as I said, I own and operate a movie theatre, and I do some computer consulting and programming as a sort of a sideline.
Would you rather spend a half-day taking to a lookie-loo who eventually says, "I'll get back to you" (and never does), or spend that half-day dealing with customers who are actually putting money on the counter?
I may not be getting paid by the hour, but there are only so many hours in a day. And I'm definitely paying someone else by the hour. Staff is extremely expensive. Take it from me.
I have been known to refer people to other consultants or simply say "I don't do that" when I am asked to do certain jobs or work for certain people.
Does that make me a poor businessman? I think the opposite; wasting time is the mark of a poor businessman.
(Very complex and expensive.)
Close the boxes, put tamper seals on the boxes, and lock the door behind you. Post a security guard if required.
That's an insignificant expense in relation to the overall cost of an election.
You could try talking to him, getting a feel for what he's looking for, and bringing up a few samples and going back a few times until you can present some fabric choices.
Or I could spend that same amount of time selling a lot more fabric to the three other customers who are waiting to see me while I conduct an interview and run up and down the stairs.
What are you doing in a cloth-based business without a sample book anyway?
Beats me. I own a movie theatre so I have nothing to do with cloth sales of any kind.
It's a long 13 hour day,
Does it all have to be done in one day?
Pollworkers can take votes today, come back tomorrow and start counting. If the count isn't completed and verified by 5pm, finish it the following day, or the day after, or the day after that.
The rush here is totally unnecessary. Joe Schmoe won't be taking office for a month or two after the day of the vote anyway.
you go upstairs to them and provide service.
What if it is not possible to take my business upstairs? Perhaps I have some special machine in the basement that the customer must look at to, say, pick his choice of colour from. Or whatever. "The showroom is in the basement." Now what? Do I haul all 5000 bales of cloth up the stairs into my living room so he can look them over?
And?
They made an editorial decision not to review it, for whatever reason.
They decided that it was still worth mentioning as a new product, i.e. some of their readers might be interested in it. Since you had provided them with the relevant information in your brochure they gave you some free advertising....
I don't see a problem, really.
Worth mentioning != worthwhile to spend a lot of time on a full-fledged review.
Target doesn't have to have a blind-accessible website, and they're not entitled some God- or Constitution-given right to a corporate charter.
What about me? I own a small business but I have no corporate charter. The business belongs to me, personally. There is no "company".
Should I be required to make my website (that I use to advertise my business) accessible to the blind as well?
a store as large as Target, which dominates the commerce in entire towns or neighborhoods, bears a legal and social responsibility to serve that entire community.
Do smaller stores in that same community bear the same responsibility? Down to what level? If I have a home-based business with an office in my basement should I be required to install a wheelchair ramp in my yard and an elevator to the basement?
I totally agree that Target should be made to both install wheelchair ramps and to have a fully accessible text-only/semantically annotated version of their website. The question is, should I be forced to do the same thing with my home business.
How is it fair that they should be made to do something at great expense and inconvenience, and you should not?
Because they have more money than you do?
Should Bill Gates pay more for a cup of coffee at the your local diner than you pay for the same coffee?
Where is the cut-off between "must provide access" and "not required to provide access", and how do you determine it and justify it?
Vote for the candidate of MY choice and show me your ballot before you mail it in or I will beat you up/burn your store down/whatever.
Population is irrelevant. The system scales nicely. If your system requires one election official to count 50 ballots, then you need two officials to count 100 ballots, 200 officials to count 10,000 ballots, and 2000 officials to count 100,000 ballots.
You also have a larger pool of people to recruit from to get election officials as your population increases, so that is also a self-solving problem.
Where is the difficulty?
I've got an idea of what is required as part of the counting process and it's heinous for a big election.
So?
If that's what it takes then that's what it takes.
Accurate, complete and and provably correct results trump fast and easy when it comes to this stuff. If you have to wait an extra couple of days to read about who gets to be chief dog catcher in Rump Cheek County, so be it.
I just saw a movie not so long ago, titled "Idiocracy". It is about the world becoming so dumb that economics just falls apart. The story is set in the US. Looks like the US is heading in that direction. It is worth watching that movie, it gives an insight into the future.
That's far from a brand-new idea. Read the short story The Marching Morons by C.M. Kornbluth, written in 1951.
I guess both kinds of sawmills work with logs. Which is probably where those guys came up with the name, and it is cute.
home users and small buisnesses seem to manage fine without any meaningfull support from MS, why do corps need it so badly?
Because they do more stuff on a larger scale than home users and small businesses.
and surely if they are really desperate they can just ring microsoft support in the USA.
Who will be absolutely unfamiliar with any localization that is required in Ecuador.
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The bug doesn't appear on the C64 version.
=sqrt(0.01) gives 0.1
=sqrt(0.000123) gives 0.0110905 (and several more decimal places)
So it appears to be correct.
That's within the past 65535 days, then?
It's a fairly small number, considering that a lot of financial calculations are done in cents. $655.25 isn't a particularly large amount of money to be working with.
Just for fun I cranked up Microsoft Multiplan 1.06 from 1983 for the Commmodore 64 (using the Vice emulator, and the magic calculation (850*77.1) gives the correct answer of 65535.
I have always been under the impression that Excel was originally based on MS Multiplan (isn't it?) so the code was correct at that time and has become broken at some subsequent point.
software that runs on Windows, Mac, and Ubuntu, let me know... Heck, when you find a common version of a spreadsheet program that runs on those three platforms let me know!
Openoffice.org. Word processor, spreadsheet, database, presentation thingy.