Seriously, by pointing out it can be used to get around the censors, it will be censored probably within a week until the games allowed are filtered based on what is allowed in China.
I hope. so. According to BattlEye, 95% of the cheaters playing PUBG are playing from China based IP addresses.
Seriously, by pointing out it can be used to get around the censors, it will be censored probably within a week until the games allowed are filtered based on what is allowed in China.
I hope. so. According to BattlEye, 95% of the cheaters playing PUBG are playing from China based IP addresses.
All good points, but ummm, why would you want that in the license plate? Put this inside the vehicle where itâ(TM)s secure, isnâ(TM)t exposed to the elements and wonâ(TM)t have accidental knocks. A digital screen is great if you need to change the contents, but s license plate never changes, so whatâ(TM)s the point?
The point is the RFID and the GPS tracking of your vehicle, silly! For when cell phone tracking isn't enough, the government needs a way to track you without having to get a warrant
Even though caffeine is a fairly weak drug, this shows the power of addiction.
Caffeine addicts need that morning cup 'o joe so badly that they'll tell the Grim Reaper to bugger off and wait until they've had their coffee. Apparently it works!
Not everyone is addicted to caffeine. I also wonder how much of the impact of caffeine is psychological. (you expect coffee to wake you up, so it does).
I love coffee, I dink a lot, but I find myself most unaffected by caffeine. It doesn't wake me up or give me energy- nor do I have any withdrawal symptoms, I sometimes go a week without coffee if I run out and can't find a good deal somewhere...
I love to drink coffee right before bed, it's warm and calms me and helps me sleep.
The only symptom I get from drinking coffee (besides yellowing teeth) is it makes me poop; that's probably not the caffeine though but something else in the coffee. Nothing gets me running to the bathroom in the morning like a cup of coffee. If I drink my coffee late, I poop late. If I drink it early, I poop early.
People metabolize caffeine at different rates, based on genetics. I find myself completely unaffected by any form of caffeine except coffee, which seems to keep me going for a short spell of 10-30 minutes. I suspect that there is some other compound in coffee that slows my metabolism of the caffeine, but could be wrong. Either way, it’s quite possible that you metabolize caffeine at a very rapid pace and feel no effect. I could drink an energy drink with 2-3 times as much caffeine as coffee and feel absolutely nothing.
After the break, woman prevented from boarding with her emotional support crocodile sues airline.
As a representative of the airline, I feel that I must clarify this matter! The woman was only denied boarding because the crocodile ate the gate agent before he could open the boarding door. Everyone was denied boarding when the support crocodile prevented the aircraft from boarding!
So give firefighting helicopters omnidirectional radio burst jammer, or a spoofer, or ultrasound emitters or any of the other anti-drone technology that doesn't require aiming.
Thank god helicopters don't use radio for communications. And that they do not have to coordinate with multiple aircraft servicing the same fire.
1) You patent an idea like this so that nobody else can use it.
2) You're fucking evil and don't give a fuck about silly frivolous things like people's privacy rights, you want all the data so you can sell it to the highest bidder.
Time to dismantle Zuckerbook once and for all, and pass legislation preventing any company from pulling the sort of shit Zuckerbook has been perpetrating for years now.
I'm not even sure how this patent is supposed to work. How does your phone know to trigger the microphone unless the microphone is already triggered? Is this inaccurate reporting and the patent is really about sending the stream that is already being recorded by Facebook? Cause to me it sounds like Facebook is basically claiming they already use your microphone 24/7 and now they're just looking for specific sounds to log more data.
It would also be mostly a moot point unless the site is owned by a major corporation, since an average blogger -- even one who earns enough from it to live on -- is effectively judgment-proof by virtue of not having enough assets to sustain more than one or two losses (and that's if they lose by virtue of not hiring a lawyer to fight... if they DO get a lawyer, they won't have anything left to sue for anyway by the time their legal fees are paid).
I'm perfectly okay with that as long as some small timer isn't hosting content on behalf of a major corporation. I don't typically visit Joe The Plumber's blog, but when I do, he likely does not have the main page content hidden unless I enable javascript. Yet a large number news organizations and many other large companies do exactly that. I'm happy to run their script content, I trust them enough for that. But I do not trust every single 3rd party script repo or CDN they choose to use on their website. They're also the ones most likely to be targeted by drive by download ads since they have such a large audience.
You're sounding like my very first posts here on/. 20 years ago. Yep, I'm gonna say it: "nobody every listens to me".
I understand art and tricky artistic and "interactive" "content". In other words, I see some value in javascript. I could argue that most of the functionality should be in html / css, but sometimes a programming language like javascript is the best and maybe only way to get some things done.
My main gripe is with browsers and what they're allowing javascript and WebAssembly to do in and to our computers.
And of course OSes which allow evil to happen.
And now we can't trust hardware.
Web browsers need to be run in small, disposable containers.
Preferably on dedicated computers that can be re-imaged frequently.
I'm not advocating that we nuke javascript from orbit. But right now it's like the wild wild west. Push some new framework from some 3rd party website that you have no control over because it "does cool things". Who cares, right? It's not your machine that is running the code. It is running on someone else's machine. At least, that is the attitude that these developers seem to have. I pretty much block all javascript content and the internet does more or less what I need it to do.
Why would anyone want this? If a website isn't going to trust javascript content enough to host it on it's own site, I don't even want to let it execute. I definitely don't need faster javascript. I need less of it. Probably 90% of the javascript websites try to push on me are from 3rd party ad firms. I'd like to see some legislation that makes a website responsible for any 3rd party ad, script, or anything else it loads during normal execution. That would likely result in fewer ad networks pushing viruses around the internet since there would actually be someone to hold responsible for it.
Did you read the ruling? It's very interesting. This is from the dissent:
This is a long-standing American tradition that goes back to the Founding Fathers: Use the flowery language of Liberty, but when it comes right down to it, support Tyranny. That's what the dissenters did today.
Translation: you didn't read it and you don't care what the legal rationale is.
Except that PAST business records did not track your position 24/7, did they? So how exactly do those previous ruling apply? And how can they claim that I consented to provide my location when I have no choice but to provide my location and I am required to have a cell phone for my job. So what choice do I have in the matter? Find a fast food job where no one cares if I have a cell phone?
including Trump's boy Gorsuch, voted that fuck your privacy rights,
Did you even read his argument as to why he dissented? Obviously not, otherwise you'd know that he did because he felt that the other opinions were too vague in order to be in favor of it. Go on, read it. Dust off that annotated copy of rulings, and you'll figure it out. When you do, you'll also figure out why you look like an idiot to anyone who's studied law.
He can claim all the reasons he wants but that doesn’t make it any more inappropriate for anyone on the supreme court to dissent from this issue. The only consent I can give in this matter is to A) Not have a cell phone and be completely unable to maintain a job or B) give up my personal location data and be able to continue my career. There is no other way to look at this issue. Cell phones and internet have become mandatory parts of life for MOST people in the industrialized world.
The fact that you consider it dumb does not make it any less valid. But I am telling you right now that a jury would be quite sympathetic to the employee and not very sympathetic to the CEO if s/he claimed they felt obligated to have sex with the CEO in order to maintain employment.
Are you claiming you would not KNOW your CEO by sight the second you saw them? Very unlikely. The CEO may not know everyone under him. In that case, the second he finds out it is a subordinate he had better start notifying legal and finding a way to mitigate the situation.
That is what they get for buying into the global warming/CO2 is bad story. They need a machine that will suck CO2 from the air and put it into the bottles they use in the beer & meat industry.
Not sure that carbon sequestration in beer would work. Someone is bound to shotgun that beer and then burp it back out!
He is CEO of the company. He has oversight over every single employee. There is no way for there to be a “consensual” relationship in this case unless his sexual partner also founded the company with him.
This thinking is just plain naive. If the underling is the one who pursues the CEO, not the other way around, how is the CEO forcing him/herself on the other? If the underling instigates a sexual encounter of their own volition it may be considered bad judgment for the CEO to go along with it, but there's no way you can claim that the one instigating the encounter is not consenting.
Your thinking is naive. The CEO cannot have a relationship with any subordinate without it causing problems. What happens if the subordinate loses interest in the CEO but feels like s/he is forced into continuing a sexual relationship to keep their job? There can be a point where consent ends but at that point it becomes difficult for the person to indicate they do not consent without causing themselves problems at work.
Hm. If the relation really was consensual, I'm inclined toward being a bit tolerant.
Of course, we haven't heard from the employee. Relations between powerful and powerless always tend to look consensual from the viewpoint of the powerful.
He is CEO of the company. He has oversight over every single employee. There is no way for there to be a “consensual” relationship in this case unless his sexual partner also founded the company with him.
Choosing not to sign in to a platform you've been steadily using, where you are a member of active groups and have friends (that you follow) who post content... and then getting updates from that platform telling you the sorts of things that are going on with your contacts/interests - that's NOT "trying to break up." Closing your account is "breaking up." Do that, and you'll stop hearing from FB in short order. Playing coy by keeping your account active and your connections established while not visiting for a week and half - sounds like he experienced exactly what one would expect.
That is not true. I deleted a facebook account that I used for some testing of the Facebook SDK with my work email address and continued to get a weekly email from Facebook asking me to restore my account every week for 3 years before I left that company. There's no such thing as deleting a Facebook account. They will let you restore it with all of its old posts at any time.
It sounds like it was 85-10 to add it to the defense bill. How many of those senators voted to add it to the bill, but have no intent to vote on the actual bill itself? Maybe they think it will kill the bill?
I read somewhere that the defense bill was considered a “must pass” bill. Therefore, I would assume that all 100 senators would be sure to vote on it and, unless something changes, would be in favor of it.
Of course, in politics, such assumptions can be dangerous.
Encrypted should be the default of ALL operating system installations, strong encryption too, the stuff that makes pigs get angry.
For many years now I have wondered what made the pigs so angry that they stole the eggs from the birds. Now I understand:
1) Birds use strong encryption on ALL operating system installs
2) Pigs get angry.
3) Pigs steal bird eggs
4) Angry Birds
But mostly because primary school tends to heavily reward the ability to memorize and regurgitate random facts and my brain isn't optimally wired for doing that.
That is entirely incorrect. I can memorize things all day long and regurgitate them back at you for weeks and sometimes months. I could ace every test in every subject and still almost failed out of high school because I refused to do homework. Primary school is geared at being a good little student and completing your homework assignments no matter how mundane or trivial they are. Tests can influence your grades but most teachers emphasize homework over test scores. Even in university some teachers geared grading towards assignments instead of testing.
Have you ever walked out your front door to find three guys covered in MS-13 tattoos on your front porch staring you in the face, and telling you that anyone who calls the cops in your neighborhood will get their heart ripped out?
When and where did this event supposedly happen to you? Cause uhhh, MS-13 stopped encouraging the face tattoos over 5 years ago. Yeah there are still some MS-13 guys running around with them but most of them are older or are in prison. Unless you actually live in El Salvador? But I think it’s on the decline there, too. Face tattoos make gang members waaay to easy to identify and MS-13 has learned the hard way that it actually makes their lives of crime more difficult.
I won't be either the first or the last to point this out, but this looks like staged chaff to distract the feeble-minded American public away from the new psy-ops operations now gearing up for the next election cycle.
So easy to think: "Ha. If Trump was colluding with the Russians would he allow this!" (stupid libs.)
Obvious answer: No.
Correct answer: Not so fast.
More likely it’s just the Trump administration working out a ‘legal’ way to initiate a funds transfer into the Trump Organization. After all, we hit ZTE with sacntions and what happens literally days later? Chinese government authorizes a $500M loan to Trump and all of the sudden we are costing the Chinese people too many jobs. So he’s just sticking his hand out asking for another check.
A few years back I ordered something small that cost $12 or so. I think it was some kind of Park bicycle wrench.
What they sent me was this:
https://www.amazon.com/YELLOW-...
An air-conditioning test and charging manifold, that was priced $175 at the time.
I got on the website and requested a return and explained what happened, and then for the next few days started getting two different sets of messages.
One set was the usual automated set that said I had to return the item by a certain number of days or I would get charged for it.
The other set was real people responding, telling me that I wouldn't get charged for it and that I didn't need to return the item and that I could dispose of it as I pleased.
When I asked why they didn't want it returned, the real person said that some items are hazardous enough that if they make a mistake and send one out, they will not accept if back for any reason. I said that I had only opened the shipping box and not the sealed item box itself, and he said that didn't matter. I could keep it since they would just destroy it if it was returned, and the company didn't want to pay the return shipping cost just to destroy it. I never got charged for it either.
I gave it to my AC repair guy, since AC maintenance is not a hobby of mine and it's not good for much else.
Ever since then I have wondered however,,,, what is the most-expensive thing that Amazon has given away just because they shipped the totally-wrong item? I don't know how happy they'd be to talk about that, but it would be an interesting read...
I bought a $400 android tablet from Amazon (a few years ago). They shipped it LaserShip and the courier tried to steal the package. I called LaserShip after they claimed it was delivered and video surveillance showed it was not. Guy tried to weasel out and make excuses. Eventually admitted that the courier had opened the package and the tablet box. I told them to return it to Amazon. I complained to Amazon and they gave me an instant refund. LaserShip then threw the box on my front porch and tried to claim it hadn’t been stolen - open boxes and everything. Video surveillance showed he literally threw it there from the street trying to stay of-frame in the camera. I actually found it on my porch and told Amazon about it. They told me they would not be able to keep it after it had been stolen by LaserShip. They told me I could do whatever I wanted with it and I still got my money. Still have that tablet to this day.
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Seriously, by pointing out it can be used to get around the censors, it will be censored probably within a week until the games allowed are filtered based on what is allowed in China.
I hope. so. According to BattlEye, 95% of the cheaters playing PUBG are playing from China based IP addresses.
Source?
The claim is actually higher than 95% but I was going by memory. http://www.ign.com/articles/20...
Seriously, by pointing out it can be used to get around the censors, it will be censored probably within a week until the games allowed are filtered based on what is allowed in China.
I hope. so. According to BattlEye, 95% of the cheaters playing PUBG are playing from China based IP addresses.
All good points, but ummm, why would you want that in the license plate? Put this inside the vehicle where itâ(TM)s secure, isnâ(TM)t exposed to the elements and wonâ(TM)t have accidental knocks. A digital screen is great if you need to change the contents, but s license plate never changes, so whatâ(TM)s the point?
The point is the RFID and the GPS tracking of your vehicle, silly! For when cell phone tracking isn't enough, the government needs a way to track you without having to get a warrant
Even though caffeine is a fairly weak drug, this shows the power of addiction.
Caffeine addicts need that morning cup 'o joe so badly that they'll tell the Grim Reaper to bugger off and wait until they've had their coffee. Apparently it works!
Not everyone is addicted to caffeine. I also wonder how much of the impact of caffeine is psychological. (you expect coffee to wake you up, so it does).
I love coffee, I dink a lot, but I find myself most unaffected by caffeine. It doesn't wake me up or give me energy- nor do I have any withdrawal symptoms, I sometimes go a week without coffee if I run out and can't find a good deal somewhere...
I love to drink coffee right before bed, it's warm and calms me and helps me sleep.
The only symptom I get from drinking coffee (besides yellowing teeth) is it makes me poop; that's probably not the caffeine though but something else in the coffee. Nothing gets me running to the bathroom in the morning like a cup of coffee. If I drink my coffee late, I poop late. If I drink it early, I poop early.
People metabolize caffeine at different rates, based on genetics. I find myself completely unaffected by any form of caffeine except coffee, which seems to keep me going for a short spell of 10-30 minutes. I suspect that there is some other compound in coffee that slows my metabolism of the caffeine, but could be wrong. Either way, it’s quite possible that you metabolize caffeine at a very rapid pace and feel no effect. I could drink an energy drink with 2-3 times as much caffeine as coffee and feel absolutely nothing.
After the break, woman prevented from boarding with her emotional support crocodile sues airline.
As a representative of the airline, I feel that I must clarify this matter! The woman was only denied boarding because the crocodile ate the gate agent before he could open the boarding door. Everyone was denied boarding when the support crocodile prevented the aircraft from boarding!
So give firefighting helicopters omnidirectional radio burst jammer, or a spoofer, or ultrasound emitters or any of the other anti-drone technology that doesn't require aiming.
Thank god helicopters don't use radio for communications. And that they do not have to coordinate with multiple aircraft servicing the same fire.
1) You patent an idea like this so that nobody else can use it. 2) You're fucking evil and don't give a fuck about silly frivolous things like people's privacy rights, you want all the data so you can sell it to the highest bidder. Time to dismantle Zuckerbook once and for all, and pass legislation preventing any company from pulling the sort of shit Zuckerbook has been perpetrating for years now.
I'm not even sure how this patent is supposed to work. How does your phone know to trigger the microphone unless the microphone is already triggered? Is this inaccurate reporting and the patent is really about sending the stream that is already being recorded by Facebook? Cause to me it sounds like Facebook is basically claiming they already use your microphone 24/7 and now they're just looking for specific sounds to log more data.
It's a shame we don't have teleportation spells...
Spoken like a true muggle.
It would also be mostly a moot point unless the site is owned by a major corporation, since an average blogger -- even one who earns enough from it to live on -- is effectively judgment-proof by virtue of not having enough assets to sustain more than one or two losses (and that's if they lose by virtue of not hiring a lawyer to fight... if they DO get a lawyer, they won't have anything left to sue for anyway by the time their legal fees are paid).
I'm perfectly okay with that as long as some small timer isn't hosting content on behalf of a major corporation. I don't typically visit Joe The Plumber's blog, but when I do, he likely does not have the main page content hidden unless I enable javascript. Yet a large number news organizations and many other large companies do exactly that. I'm happy to run their script content, I trust them enough for that. But I do not trust every single 3rd party script repo or CDN they choose to use on their website. They're also the ones most likely to be targeted by drive by download ads since they have such a large audience.
You're sounding like my very first posts here on /. 20 years ago. Yep, I'm gonna say it: "nobody every listens to me".
I understand art and tricky artistic and "interactive" "content". In other words, I see some value in javascript. I could argue that most of the functionality should be in html / css, but sometimes a programming language like javascript is the best and maybe only way to get some things done.
My main gripe is with browsers and what they're allowing javascript and WebAssembly to do in and to our computers.
And of course OSes which allow evil to happen.
And now we can't trust hardware.
Web browsers need to be run in small, disposable containers.
Preferably on dedicated computers that can be re-imaged frequently.
I'm not advocating that we nuke javascript from orbit. But right now it's like the wild wild west. Push some new framework from some 3rd party website that you have no control over because it "does cool things". Who cares, right? It's not your machine that is running the code. It is running on someone else's machine. At least, that is the attitude that these developers seem to have. I pretty much block all javascript content and the internet does more or less what I need it to do.
Why would anyone want this? If a website isn't going to trust javascript content enough to host it on it's own site, I don't even want to let it execute. I definitely don't need faster javascript. I need less of it. Probably 90% of the javascript websites try to push on me are from 3rd party ad firms. I'd like to see some legislation that makes a website responsible for any 3rd party ad, script, or anything else it loads during normal execution. That would likely result in fewer ad networks pushing viruses around the internet since there would actually be someone to hold responsible for it.
This is a long-standing American tradition that goes back to the Founding Fathers: Use the flowery language of Liberty, but when it comes right down to it, support Tyranny. That's what the dissenters did today.
Translation: you didn't read it and you don't care what the legal rationale is.
Except that PAST business records did not track your position 24/7, did they? So how exactly do those previous ruling apply? And how can they claim that I consented to provide my location when I have no choice but to provide my location and I am required to have a cell phone for my job. So what choice do I have in the matter? Find a fast food job where no one cares if I have a cell phone?
including Trump's boy Gorsuch, voted that fuck your privacy rights,
Did you even read his argument as to why he dissented? Obviously not, otherwise you'd know that he did because he felt that the other opinions were too vague in order to be in favor of it. Go on, read it. Dust off that annotated copy of rulings, and you'll figure it out. When you do, you'll also figure out why you look like an idiot to anyone who's studied law.
He can claim all the reasons he wants but that doesn’t make it any more inappropriate for anyone on the supreme court to dissent from this issue. The only consent I can give in this matter is to A) Not have a cell phone and be completely unable to maintain a job or B) give up my personal location data and be able to continue my career. There is no other way to look at this issue. Cell phones and internet have become mandatory parts of life for MOST people in the industrialized world.
Now that's just dumb.
The fact that you consider it dumb does not make it any less valid. But I am telling you right now that a jury would be quite sympathetic to the employee and not very sympathetic to the CEO if s/he claimed they felt obligated to have sex with the CEO in order to maintain employment.
Or they only met up anonymously.
Are you claiming you would not KNOW your CEO by sight the second you saw them? Very unlikely. The CEO may not know everyone under him. In that case, the second he finds out it is a subordinate he had better start notifying legal and finding a way to mitigate the situation.
That is what they get for buying into the global warming/CO2 is bad story. They need a machine that will suck CO2 from the air and put it into the bottles they use in the beer & meat industry.
Not sure that carbon sequestration in beer would work. Someone is bound to shotgun that beer and then burp it back out!
He is CEO of the company. He has oversight over every single employee. There is no way for there to be a “consensual” relationship in this case unless his sexual partner also founded the company with him.
This thinking is just plain naive. If the underling is the one who pursues the CEO, not the other way around, how is the CEO forcing him/herself on the other? If the underling instigates a sexual encounter of their own volition it may be considered bad judgment for the CEO to go along with it, but there's no way you can claim that the one instigating the encounter is not consenting.
Your thinking is naive. The CEO cannot have a relationship with any subordinate without it causing problems. What happens if the subordinate loses interest in the CEO but feels like s/he is forced into continuing a sexual relationship to keep their job? There can be a point where consent ends but at that point it becomes difficult for the person to indicate they do not consent without causing themselves problems at work.
Hm. If the relation really was consensual, I'm inclined toward being a bit tolerant.
Of course, we haven't heard from the employee. Relations between powerful and powerless always tend to look consensual from the viewpoint of the powerful.
He is CEO of the company. He has oversight over every single employee. There is no way for there to be a “consensual” relationship in this case unless his sexual partner also founded the company with him.
Choosing not to sign in to a platform you've been steadily using, where you are a member of active groups and have friends (that you follow) who post content ... and then getting updates from that platform telling you the sorts of things that are going on with your contacts/interests - that's NOT "trying to break up." Closing your account is "breaking up." Do that, and you'll stop hearing from FB in short order. Playing coy by keeping your account active and your connections established while not visiting for a week and half - sounds like he experienced exactly what one would expect.
That is not true. I deleted a facebook account that I used for some testing of the Facebook SDK with my work email address and continued to get a weekly email from Facebook asking me to restore my account every week for 3 years before I left that company. There's no such thing as deleting a Facebook account. They will let you restore it with all of its old posts at any time.
It sounds like it was 85-10 to add it to the defense bill. How many of those senators voted to add it to the bill, but have no intent to vote on the actual bill itself? Maybe they think it will kill the bill?
I read somewhere that the defense bill was considered a “must pass” bill. Therefore, I would assume that all 100 senators would be sure to vote on it and, unless something changes, would be in favor of it.
Of course, in politics, such assumptions can be dangerous.
Encrypted should be the default of ALL operating system installations, strong encryption too, the stuff that makes pigs get angry.
For many years now I have wondered what made the pigs so angry that they stole the eggs from the birds. Now I understand:
1) Birds use strong encryption on ALL operating system installs
2) Pigs get angry.
3) Pigs steal bird eggs
4) Angry Birds
But mostly because primary school tends to heavily reward the ability to memorize and regurgitate random facts and my brain isn't optimally wired for doing that.
That is entirely incorrect. I can memorize things all day long and regurgitate them back at you for weeks and sometimes months. I could ace every test in every subject and still almost failed out of high school because I refused to do homework. Primary school is geared at being a good little student and completing your homework assignments no matter how mundane or trivial they are. Tests can influence your grades but most teachers emphasize homework over test scores. Even in university some teachers geared grading towards assignments instead of testing.
Have you ever walked out your front door to find three guys covered in MS-13 tattoos on your front porch staring you in the face, and telling you that anyone who calls the cops in your neighborhood will get their heart ripped out?
When and where did this event supposedly happen to you? Cause uhhh, MS-13 stopped encouraging the face tattoos over 5 years ago. Yeah there are still some MS-13 guys running around with them but most of them are older or are in prison. Unless you actually live in El Salvador? But I think it’s on the decline there, too. Face tattoos make gang members waaay to easy to identify and MS-13 has learned the hard way that it actually makes their lives of crime more difficult.
I won't be either the first or the last to point this out, but this looks like staged chaff to distract the feeble-minded American public away from the new psy-ops operations now gearing up for the next election cycle.
So easy to think: "Ha. If Trump was colluding with the Russians would he allow this!" (stupid libs.)
Obvious answer: No.
Correct answer: Not so fast.
More likely it’s just the Trump administration working out a ‘legal’ way to initiate a funds transfer into the Trump Organization. After all, we hit ZTE with sacntions and what happens literally days later? Chinese government authorizes a $500M loan to Trump and all of the sudden we are costing the Chinese people too many jobs. So he’s just sticking his hand out asking for another check.
A few years back I ordered something small that cost $12 or so. I think it was some kind of Park bicycle wrench. What they sent me was this: https://www.amazon.com/YELLOW-... An air-conditioning test and charging manifold, that was priced $175 at the time. I got on the website and requested a return and explained what happened, and then for the next few days started getting two different sets of messages. One set was the usual automated set that said I had to return the item by a certain number of days or I would get charged for it. The other set was real people responding, telling me that I wouldn't get charged for it and that I didn't need to return the item and that I could dispose of it as I pleased. When I asked why they didn't want it returned, the real person said that some items are hazardous enough that if they make a mistake and send one out, they will not accept if back for any reason. I said that I had only opened the shipping box and not the sealed item box itself, and he said that didn't matter. I could keep it since they would just destroy it if it was returned, and the company didn't want to pay the return shipping cost just to destroy it. I never got charged for it either. I gave it to my AC repair guy, since AC maintenance is not a hobby of mine and it's not good for much else. Ever since then I have wondered however,,,, what is the most-expensive thing that Amazon has given away just because they shipped the totally-wrong item? I don't know how happy they'd be to talk about that, but it would be an interesting read...
I bought a $400 android tablet from Amazon (a few years ago). They shipped it LaserShip and the courier tried to steal the package. I called LaserShip after they claimed it was delivered and video surveillance showed it was not. Guy tried to weasel out and make excuses. Eventually admitted that the courier had opened the package and the tablet box. I told them to return it to Amazon. I complained to Amazon and they gave me an instant refund. LaserShip then threw the box on my front porch and tried to claim it hadn’t been stolen - open boxes and everything. Video surveillance showed he literally threw it there from the street trying to stay of-frame in the camera. I actually found it on my porch and told Amazon about it. They told me they would not be able to keep it after it had been stolen by LaserShip. They told me I could do whatever I wanted with it and I still got my money. Still have that tablet to this day.