yes but that isn't what tfa is about. a lot of the forbidden city is crumbling away by accident. all the walkway rail for example are carved soapstone. super easy to carve beautifuly but after a couple hundred years of rain the figures are sad blobs.
My work Pc is slow and has trouble connecting because of the n layers of Corp security whatnot. My home Pc is reasonably fast and always connects quickly.
Of course, it's all relative. I lived a couple of years in China and once purchased there, it's yours. Nobody takes returns in the first place.
That's why we have consumer protection laws in the USA. Libertarians would strip that protection away from you and reinstate caveat emptor. The way the Republican party is going, I suspect they'd soon consider doing the same,
No, returns are not why we have consumer protection laws. There's no law requiring stores to take back purchases. Consumer protection laws make sure that if the product you're buying claims it cures cancer then it really does cure cancer. And that if it claims to not cause cancer, it doesn't cause cancer.
As someone who doesn't abuse that, I welcome the move so we honest people get things cheaper
Are you someone who might honestly need to return two items at two different times in the course of three months?
A number of less draconian methods come to mind: A) restocking fee for opened items that are not defective. B) Issuing a second (...nth) refund via check mailed from the refund processing center in Mongolia.
But returns are only allowed for 30 days, so buy a second item within 59 days of your first return and you're stuck with it and that sounds rather nasty for a business in the US. Of course, it's all relative. I lived a couple of years in China and once purchased there, it's yours. Nobody takes returns in the first place.
How does Visa know that you personally won't do anything drastic? For their own liability reasons they can't tell you who did it. One of the headlines on Yahoo news is 'man shoots wife because her dog pooped on the floor'. You think in New York City there isn't anyone who might have a strong reaction to a credit card system breach?
Suppose you're running a parking lot. You're no IT expert; you just buy vendor X's credit card kiosk widget and plug it in. If there's a problem with security, sure it's your lot but you're standing there in the little booth and last thing you need is a hot headed customer in your face. All you need is vendor X and/or Visa need to send a technician to update the kiosk so the problem doesn't happen again and meanwhile all the compromised cardholders get new cards. Until you hear there's complicit acts by the company owners or employees instead of just a data security problem with all the interrelated third party systems involved in credit card processing, it's rather hard to find an appropriate target for you to act against.
What would you do if you knew whose system was compromised? Tie up the courts with lawsuits? Head over in a mob and smash their front windows? What are you going to do if their initial suspect turns out not to be at fault? File more suits? Form more mobs?
Since demand versus supply should yield price, the problem would be fixed by an auction to determine price. The problem is that price is not being determined properly and I've suggested a solution. I don't understand your reply. Are the tickets not for sale? Is the final price (either by sale>scalper>attendee or auction>attendee) not reflective of the demand? You seem to use "rich" in some way as to mean "can afford but should not be allowed to afford" which doesn't make sense.
The tricky part about surviving any given explosion is just not getting caught in the blast radius, firestorm, and/or getting hit on the head by large debris fallout. The tricky part about surviving the nuclear weapons kind of explosions is not just that part but also avoiding the lingering radiation. So you can't really compare any cataclysmic natural mega-event with widespread nuclear weapons detonations.
There aren't really any opponent pairs large enough to cause a serious problem though. The Americans, Russians (formerly Soviets), Chinese, British, French and Indians are all rational actors who realize the dangers of retaliatory strikes. The only ones to worry about are the irrational actors, who may outweigh heavenly rewards compared to earthly survival. While there are plenty of these who cause roadside carnage, only a limited number have access to nuclear weapons and even those don't have the quantity needed to cause long term racial survival problems.
Maybe instead of an online first-come first-serve process Google should hold a ticket lottery for those who want to attend, That will help get the tickets into the hand of pre-qualified developers instead of eBay ticket scalpers.
No, Google should just auction them off on Ebay in the first place. It's hard to make a profit at scalping if the scalper has to pay more in the first place than the next highest bidder.
Not sure why this got marked insightful. Most airbags are round in shape. The airbag isn't a long oval, and the position of the wheel really has no bearing on the shape of the bag when it's deployed
It is insightful because the hard plastic shell cover and its hinge rotate with the steering wheel. There are two things to worry about with a steering wheel airbag: 1. Your hand becomes embedded in your face and 2: the hard cover slamming open rips your hands off (see para 7 of the article). While you are addressing #1, the GP is addressing item 2 with his theory of keeping hands in a static position as the wheel turns. The real trick is how to avoid both.
Define "journalist". Maybe I have an obscure blog that hardly anyone reads where I comment on this kind of thing. Am I a journalist? Exactly how many readers do you need to have to be a journalist? But never mind that; what about concerned citizens who want to stay current on what people out to kill them en masse are thinking? I guess they just have to wait for a qualified journalist to interpret for them.
If the cave is not properly engineered, it can be a death trap. Just look at all the miners that die from collapsed tunnels. If you're living in a mountain, then you're going to be dealing with ground swells, and potential tunnel collapses.
That doesn't seem to be the problem for the caves in the article. Some have been handed down so many generations the family doesn't know anymore which great*n grandparent first carved it out.
Credit cards weren't accepted in the beginning. Of course, it has teething problems, but give it time, and I'm sure it would be as accepted as PayPal is today.
Except credit cards were run by private companies with their own hides on the line. Government digital currency will be implemented by the lowest cost-plus bidder. It will be about as touted as the most excellent cost saving efficiency thing ever by politicians and be as reliable as the average digital voting machine.
I swear, all you Slashdotters had better start learning Mandarin with this attitude.
Mandarin is a good example of what this article is talking about. Watch the compilations on youku of crashes caught on street intersection cameras in China. People on three wheeled delivery bikes who work 7 days per week pedal numbly into intersections full of traffic and get run over all the time. People may drive cars like maniacs there but you see so many that are clearly just people just unable to pay basic attention.
Except you're placing an arbitrary and retarded limit on the data. There's no difference from using the data on the phone, to using it as tethering.
Contracts that specify illegal activity are null and void. Contracts that specify arbitrary and retarded activity are perfectly valid; that's what this guy signed up for, broke, and is now whining about. No sympathy.
This is only true for individuals. When one party is a corporation it is OK for a lawyer to show up at small claims court. They have to be careful though, the typical small claims court judge will loose patience and rule for the little guy if the lawyer tries any legal double talk.
I for one wonder why he won; he admits to sucking down the bandwidth due to tethering which is a clear violation of the terms of service he signed up for as part of getting unlimited bandwidth. If he'd used it all watching videos and whatever else you can do with just the phone itself, I'd be completely supportive. But are all the people complaining about ATT throttling them using so much due to tethering? If so, I've suddenly lost all interest and sympathy. Here I thought all the complaints were from people using their phones' internal capabilities and getting cut off.
As the summary mentions, Ben's argument was basically that "early to bed and early to rise" saved energy.
Yes, but note that while he's saying go to bed early, he also admits to not getting home and to bed until 3AM and notes that he never sees the sun before noon. If anything, I like him more after reading that bit.
If heights is the reason for the lack of people then we have really lost our way. Reference the pictures of the guys building the Empire State Building, are they saying we couldn't get people to do that now?
The Empire State workers didn't go through modern public school's 12 years of "Rah rah rah! I'm great for no particular reason!"
Oh no! A 45 meter space rock might hit us, and it might mean the end of the world, even though we're about 26,000 mi in diameter and it will probably burn up in the atmosphere! And of course, we all know when someone throws a pebble at a person, that person EXPLODES! WE ARE ALL DOOM-ED!
Looks like someone skipped class that day the high school physics teacher went over kinetic energy.
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yes but that isn't what tfa is about. a lot of the forbidden city is crumbling away by accident. all the walkway rail for example are carved soapstone. super easy to carve beautifuly but after a couple hundred years of rain the figures are sad blobs.
EVERY HOUSE should have the option for affordable or free internet, its that important.
Free internet service? How does that happen? Oh, you mean "paid for by someone else". Is it really that important?
My work Pc is slow and has trouble connecting because of the n layers of Corp security whatnot. My home Pc is reasonably fast and always connects quickly.
Of course, it's all relative. I lived a couple of years in China and once purchased there, it's yours. Nobody takes returns in the first place.
That's why we have consumer protection laws in the USA.
Libertarians would strip that protection away from you and reinstate caveat emptor.
The way the Republican party is going, I suspect they'd soon consider doing the same,
No, returns are not why we have consumer protection laws. There's no law requiring stores to take back purchases. Consumer protection laws make sure that if the product you're buying claims it cures cancer then it really does cure cancer. And that if it claims to not cause cancer, it doesn't cause cancer.
As someone who doesn't abuse that, I welcome the move so we honest people get things cheaper
Are you someone who might honestly need to return two items at two different times in the course of three months?
A number of less draconian methods come to mind: A) restocking fee for opened items that are not defective. B) Issuing a second (...nth) refund via check mailed from the refund processing center in Mongolia.
But returns are only allowed for 30 days, so buy a second item within 59 days of your first return and you're stuck with it and that sounds rather nasty for a business in the US. Of course, it's all relative. I lived a couple of years in China and once purchased there, it's yours. Nobody takes returns in the first place.
How does Visa know that you personally won't do anything drastic? For their own liability reasons they can't tell you who did it. One of the headlines on Yahoo news is 'man shoots wife because her dog pooped on the floor'. You think in New York City there isn't anyone who might have a strong reaction to a credit card system breach?
Suppose you're running a parking lot. You're no IT expert; you just buy vendor X's credit card kiosk widget and plug it in. If there's a problem with security, sure it's your lot but you're standing there in the little booth and last thing you need is a hot headed customer in your face. All you need is vendor X and/or Visa need to send a technician to update the kiosk so the problem doesn't happen again and meanwhile all the compromised cardholders get new cards. Until you hear there's complicit acts by the company owners or employees instead of just a data security problem with all the interrelated third party systems involved in credit card processing, it's rather hard to find an appropriate target for you to act against.
What would you do if you knew whose system was compromised? Tie up the courts with lawsuits? Head over in a mob and smash their front windows? What are you going to do if their initial suspect turns out not to be at fault? File more suits? Form more mobs?
" they arrived at the toney Hotel Concorde Lafayette"
Do you mean "tony" as in "upscale and/or fashionable"?
Since demand versus supply should yield price, the problem would be fixed by an auction to determine price. The problem is that price is not being determined properly and I've suggested a solution. I don't understand your reply. Are the tickets not for sale? Is the final price (either by sale>scalper>attendee or auction>attendee) not reflective of the demand? You seem to use "rich" in some way as to mean "can afford but should not be allowed to afford" which doesn't make sense.
The tricky part about surviving any given explosion is just not getting caught in the blast radius, firestorm, and /or getting hit on the head by large debris fallout. The tricky part about surviving the nuclear weapons kind of explosions is not just that part but also avoiding the lingering radiation. So you can't really compare any cataclysmic natural mega-event with widespread nuclear weapons detonations.
There aren't really any opponent pairs large enough to cause a serious problem though. The Americans, Russians (formerly Soviets), Chinese, British, French and Indians are all rational actors who realize the dangers of retaliatory strikes. The only ones to worry about are the irrational actors, who may outweigh heavenly rewards compared to earthly survival. While there are plenty of these who cause roadside carnage, only a limited number have access to nuclear weapons and even those don't have the quantity needed to cause long term racial survival problems.
No, it would be vastly superior. The scalpers wouldn't be making great paydays for being leeches.
Maybe instead of an online first-come first-serve process Google should hold a ticket lottery for those who want to attend, That will help get the tickets into the hand of pre-qualified developers instead of eBay ticket scalpers.
No, Google should just auction them off on Ebay in the first place. It's hard to make a profit at scalping if the scalper has to pay more in the first place than the next highest bidder.
Not sure why this got marked insightful. Most airbags are round in shape. The airbag isn't a long oval, and the position of the wheel really has no bearing on the shape of the bag when it's deployed
It is insightful because the hard plastic shell cover and its hinge rotate with the steering wheel. There are two things to worry about with a steering wheel airbag: 1. Your hand becomes embedded in your face and 2: the hard cover slamming open rips your hands off (see para 7 of the article). While you are addressing #1, the GP is addressing item 2 with his theory of keeping hands in a static position as the wheel turns. The real trick is how to avoid both.
Let me guess, you don't own a tv either.
... and never sets foot in a Starbuck's.
No, just journalists and researchers.
Define "journalist". Maybe I have an obscure blog that hardly anyone reads where I comment on this kind of thing. Am I a journalist? Exactly how many readers do you need to have to be a journalist? But never mind that; what about concerned citizens who want to stay current on what people out to kill them en masse are thinking? I guess they just have to wait for a qualified journalist to interpret for them.
If the cave is not properly engineered, it can be a death trap. Just look at all the miners that die from collapsed tunnels. If you're living in a mountain, then you're going to be dealing with ground swells, and potential tunnel collapses.
That doesn't seem to be the problem for the caves in the article. Some have been handed down so many generations the family doesn't know anymore which great*n grandparent first carved it out.
Credit cards weren't accepted in the beginning. Of course, it has teething problems, but give it time, and I'm sure it would be as accepted as PayPal is today.
Except credit cards were run by private companies with their own hides on the line. Government digital currency will be implemented by the lowest cost-plus bidder. It will be about as touted as the most excellent cost saving efficiency thing ever by politicians and be as reliable as the average digital voting machine.
I swear, all you Slashdotters had better start learning Mandarin with this attitude.
Mandarin is a good example of what this article is talking about. Watch the compilations on youku of crashes caught on street intersection cameras in China. People on three wheeled delivery bikes who work 7 days per week pedal numbly into intersections full of traffic and get run over all the time. People may drive cars like maniacs there but you see so many that are clearly just people just unable to pay basic attention.
Except you're placing an arbitrary and retarded limit on the data. There's no difference from using the data on the phone, to using it as tethering.
Contracts that specify illegal activity are null and void. Contracts that specify arbitrary and retarded activity are perfectly valid; that's what this guy signed up for, broke, and is now whining about. No sympathy.
This is only true for individuals. When one party is a corporation it is OK for a lawyer to show up at small claims court. They have to be careful though, the typical small claims court judge will loose patience and rule for the little guy if the lawyer tries any legal double talk.
and I'm glad the guy won
I for one wonder why he won; he admits to sucking down the bandwidth due to tethering which is a clear violation of the terms of service he signed up for as part of getting unlimited bandwidth. If he'd used it all watching videos and whatever else you can do with just the phone itself, I'd be completely supportive. But are all the people complaining about ATT throttling them using so much due to tethering? If so, I've suddenly lost all interest and sympathy. Here I thought all the complaints were from people using their phones' internal capabilities and getting cut off.
As the summary mentions, Ben's argument was basically that "early to bed and early to rise" saved energy.
Yes, but note that while he's saying go to bed early, he also admits to not getting home and to bed until 3AM and notes that he never sees the sun before noon. If anything, I like him more after reading that bit.
If heights is the reason for the lack of people then we have really lost our way. Reference the pictures of the guys building the Empire State Building, are they saying we couldn't get people to do that now?
The Empire State workers didn't go through modern public school's 12 years of "Rah rah rah! I'm great for no particular reason!"
That would be funny until you got tired of it and landed. Then they'd sue you for taking down a warning sign.
Oh no! A 45 meter space rock might hit us, and it might mean the end of the world, even though we're about 26,000 mi in diameter and it will probably burn up in the atmosphere! And of course, we all know when someone throws a pebble at a person, that person EXPLODES! WE ARE ALL DOOM-ED!
Looks like someone skipped class that day the high school physics teacher went over kinetic energy.