Do you know what prescription strength ibuprofen is? It is the equivalent of two over the counter ibuprofen tablets. Trying to defend this as if prescription strength ibuprofen were the equivalent of Oxycontin or vicodin exposes a certain level of dumbassery.
Maybe being an asshole is not sufficient cause to crucify them, but our society has become so afraid of offending anyone that assholes have been allowed to run amuck. Sex offender's registry for gawking at a stripped 13 year old on a trumped up reason? Oh yeah!!
"EBay doesn't rape you on shipping charges" maybe not exactly like Amazon, but one of the current scams on Ebay is low product price combined with a rape with a tree stump shipping price. Sellers thus avoid Ebay fees based on selling price while retaining the ability to force the buyer to bend over.
I call bullshit. They are going to take depositions from his family. That means that the RIAA does not yet have a claim, but they are in effect going to try this guy post-mortem in order to establish that claim.
Those days are alive and well in Iowa. Weather forecasts work pretty much like this:
a) Summer: If it is hot, predict cooler weather until it happens, then predict warmer weather until it happens. Repeat. If it is dry predict rain until it happens, then predict dryer weather until it happens. Repeat.
b) Winter: If it is cold, predict a warming trend until it happens, then predict colder weather until it happens. Repeat. If it is not snowing, predict snow until it snows, then predict clearing until it clears. Repeat.
Seriously. The weathermen will predict "chance of rain tomorrow" for weeks until it rains, then predict dry weather for days until the rain stops. A chimp with a dart board would have a better accuracy rating.
The word "pots" actually refers to huge cage-like traps that are rectangular prism shaped. The ones seen on the discovery channel's series on crab fishing are easily much larger than 2 meters in two of their three directions.
"What's unusual about that? You have to be the most ass backward consumer to fall for any of that and not just walk the other way immediately. And if you think the above is very unusual, you've probably never done any of the following before:"
Did you actually read the post you're replying to or are you the most ass backward poster today? Is it your contention that all the retailers you listed use restocking fees for items they don't even have in stock and threaten their customers with various kinds of harassment?
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the current typical EULA that certifies that the software is guaranteed to do nothing except consume HD space and that if it climbs out of your computer and devours your offspring, the software company disclaims all liability. When we've been clicking through these things for years software companies can legitimately claim that the typical user accepts the liability for crap software himself.
This reply demonstrates a lack of understanding of the typical slack-jawed parent. If the law says a kid can't buy this game until they're 18, mom or dad will simply buy it for them. After all, the chief requirement of a great many parents is to minimize interaction with their children at all costs. If a copy of GTA keeps them in their rooms and out of mom and dad's hair, then a copy of GTA they will get.
I don't say this out of sheer cynicism either. During 12 years of teaching in the public schools, the most common response I heard from parents when informed their children might be acting in a manner detrimental to their future freedom or safety was something like "You're being paid to handle it, I don't want to be bothered, don't call me again."
Throwing your own cup of water into the passing flood hardly counts as "being particularly active". Neither does jumping on a bandwagon whose time has come.
When I want to listen to a great performance of classical music, I try to get tickets to a live performance. This would seem to agree with the definition of "performance".
If information can be extracted from a recording that enables duplication of all the mechanical actions that activated the piano in that recording all that will be missing are the visuals of the gyrating human body. This would seem to be a far cry from " 'cleaning up' something you didn't originate" and in some very real sense a live performance.
100% correct. I actually have a need for both an inkjet and a laser printer. (it makes no sense at all if you have a lot of black and white printing to do it on an inkjet). So when Lexmarks first hit the market in this area, I got one of each. I was just as much a sucker as any non-geek at the time. I figured with their relationship to IBM how bad could they be, and the price was attractive.
With the inkjet I was prepared for the industry-wide hit for the cartridges but I was not prepared for the fact that Lexmark has engineered the cartridges to dry up if you don't use them frequently. In my experience, the cartridges would dry up to the point of uselessness within 5 days. This meant that in order to insure that my printer would actually work when I needed it I had to print a color page every day. This of course makes economizing by only using the printer when necessary impossible. Even with refilling the cartridges myself, if I forgot to print daily the cartridge would dry up and become useless.
The laser printer was basically a paper jamming nightmare with parts that literally fell out of the printer when you opened the front output door.
It would be one thing if Lexmark printers were such killer machines that you were willing to put up with the gouging on ink and toner to use them, but what crapboxes!
If there is anyone living in this school district that still believes that these administrators value anything more important than sports and social climbing, then mission accomplished!
Is it any wonder that public schools are more scorned than admired?
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Do you know what prescription strength ibuprofen is? It is the equivalent of two over the counter ibuprofen tablets. Trying to defend this as if prescription strength ibuprofen were the equivalent of Oxycontin or vicodin exposes a certain level of dumbassery.
Maybe being an asshole is not sufficient cause to crucify them, but our society has become so afraid of offending anyone that assholes have been allowed to run amuck. Sex offender's registry for gawking at a stripped 13 year old on a trumped up reason? Oh yeah!!
"EBay doesn't rape you on shipping charges" maybe not exactly like Amazon, but one of the current scams on Ebay is low product price combined with a rape with a tree stump shipping price. Sellers thus avoid Ebay fees based on selling price while retaining the ability to force the buyer to bend over.
I call bullshit. They are going to take depositions from his family. That means that the RIAA does not yet have a claim, but they are in effect going to try this guy post-mortem in order to establish that claim.
Those days are alive and well in Iowa. Weather forecasts work pretty much like this:
a) Summer: If it is hot, predict cooler weather until it happens, then predict warmer weather until it happens. Repeat. If it is dry predict rain until it happens, then predict dryer weather until it happens. Repeat.
b) Winter: If it is cold, predict a warming trend until it happens, then predict colder weather until it happens. Repeat. If it is not snowing, predict snow until it snows, then predict clearing until it clears. Repeat.
Seriously. The weathermen will predict "chance of rain tomorrow" for weeks until it rains, then predict dry weather for days until the rain stops. A chimp with a dart board would have a better accuracy rating.
The word "pots" actually refers to huge cage-like traps that are rectangular prism shaped. The ones seen on the discovery channel's series on crab fishing are easily much larger than 2 meters in two of their three directions.
What kind of newspeak is that? Full purchase at Wal-Mart - I get a DVD. Full purchase this way I get to store one copy on a HD? Bogus.
"What's unusual about that? You have to be the most ass backward consumer to fall for any of that and not just walk the other way immediately. And if you think the above is very unusual, you've probably never done any of the following before:"
Did you actually read the post you're replying to or are you the most ass backward poster today? Is it your contention that all the retailers you listed use restocking fees for items they don't even have in stock and threaten their customers with various kinds of harassment?
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the current typical EULA that certifies that the software is guaranteed to do nothing except consume HD space and that if it climbs out of your computer and devours your offspring, the software company disclaims all liability. When we've been clicking through these things for years software companies can legitimately claim that the typical user accepts the liability for crap software himself.
This reply demonstrates a lack of understanding of the typical slack-jawed parent. If the law says a kid can't buy this game until they're 18, mom or dad will simply buy it for them. After all, the chief requirement of a great many parents is to minimize interaction with their children at all costs. If a copy of GTA keeps them in their rooms and out of mom and dad's hair, then a copy of GTA they will get.
I don't say this out of sheer cynicism either. During 12 years of teaching in the public schools, the most common response I heard from parents when informed their children might be acting in a manner detrimental to their future freedom or safety was something like "You're being paid to handle it, I don't want to be bothered, don't call me again."
Throwing your own cup of water into the passing flood hardly counts as "being particularly active". Neither does jumping on a bandwagon whose time has come.
When I want to listen to a great performance of classical music, I try to get tickets to a live performance. This would seem to agree with the definition of "performance".
If information can be extracted from a recording that enables duplication of all the mechanical actions that activated the piano in that recording all that will be missing are the visuals of the gyrating human body. This would seem to be a far cry from " 'cleaning up' something you didn't originate" and in some very real sense a live performance.
100% correct. I actually have a need for both an inkjet and a laser printer. (it makes no sense at all if you have a lot of black and white printing to do it on an inkjet). So when Lexmarks first hit the market in this area, I got one of each. I was just as much a sucker as any non-geek at the time. I figured with their relationship to IBM how bad could they be, and the price was attractive.
With the inkjet I was prepared for the industry-wide hit for the cartridges but I was not prepared for the fact that Lexmark has engineered the cartridges to dry up if you don't use them frequently. In my experience, the cartridges would dry up to the point of uselessness within 5 days. This meant that in order to insure that my printer would actually work when I needed it I had to print a color page every day. This of course makes economizing by only using the printer when necessary impossible. Even with refilling the cartridges myself, if I forgot to print daily the cartridge would dry up and become useless.
The laser printer was basically a paper jamming nightmare with parts that literally fell out of the printer when you opened the front output door.
It would be one thing if Lexmark printers were such killer machines that you were willing to put up with the gouging on ink and toner to use them, but what crapboxes!
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write to him at SGarnett@BHFS.com. I did..he has no clue what all the fuss is about.
If there is anyone living in this school district that still believes that these administrators value anything more important than sports and social climbing, then mission accomplished! Is it any wonder that public schools are more scorned than admired?