Maybe not, but you might have seen him at the gas station the night before or maybe see him the next day as he drags the kid into a motel. It is no different than advertisement, if you show enough people it will stick to some.
I wasn't very clear... my main point was that if the state requires you to make calls while not at your desk then it must either provide a means for you to do so or reimburse your efforts at making those calls (with your personal cell phone or something else). This is no different than at any other employer.
These people have no 'right' to a state-paid cell phone.
Unless, of course, their jobs require the use of a phone while away from their office. Either that or the state can look forward to a flood of reimbursement paperwork on a regular basis.
There is very little cross use of DRM-burdened content for any of the devices out there, so it isn't just Amazon (and I know you didn't suggest that, just clarifying my stance). In my case, the Kindle was the best choice since I shop on Amazon frequently anyway and don't live near a B&N store. As for other devices/formats? I have access to a PC just about everywhere else I am and can read them on it if I choose.
It would be nice if Amazon went DRM free for books like they did for music, but it is the publishers that force the issue, not Amazon. Though I'm sure they are more than happy to profit from the limitation.
Breakdown: The lighted case gets its power from the connectors that hold the Kindle in the case. The unlit case has these two connectors physically connected even though there is no light. Putting the Kindle into the unlit case where the metal contacts are clean causes a short between the two connectors.
The ability to get power through those connector points was by design in the Kindle or the lighted case never would have been able to be designed the way it was.
It sounds to me like the engineer(s) involved with the unlit case did not communicate well with the Kindle engineers or vise versa.
In recent memory, the only times I have ever contacted a store was to see if they had a "must have now" item in stock so I could go there and buy it. For all other types of purchases where I know what I want I will shop around online, read reviews, and finally buy at an online merchant I trust (Amazon and Newegg being two examples).
If I don't really know what I want and am just "looking around" then I will often do that online as well as at stores. The problem with stores is that there is a "shipping & handling" cost of me getting in my vehicle and driving there and possibly still not getting what I want if it isn't there. I have a minimum of a 15 minute drive from home to get to a store front. I'm there in less than 1 minute online and don't have to pay for gas or deal with travel time.
The real issue as I see it is that online shopping removes a lot of overhead from the whole shopping experience. The smart stores will come up with an online storefront that gives people access to their inventory with a lower-cost shipping option. Most online portals to physical stores are a horrid approximation of the shopping experience you get at sites like Amazon and provide no real advantage, especially with Amazon Prime shipping ($80 per year for two-day shipping on many, many items and a $3.99 one-day shipping option).
On a side note, it isn't that hard to put your store up on a site like Amazon. And for the brick-and-mortar stores that don't want the added expense of creating/maintaining a good e-commerce experience, setting up a storefront on an established site could be a good choice.
I wish more local stores had an online portal. I like supporting my local economy but I don't like spending a 10% - 100% premium to do it. I spend $3 in gas and 30 minutes in time just to make one trip to "town". Yeah, I live out in the middle of nowhere.
It would take a lot more than 15000 people to make an impact. Amazon probably has 100000+ people browsing their site at any given second of the day, especially this time of year.
What about the ISPs of ISPs? Will T1's get usage costs, too? Where does it end? Can the owners of the trunk lines charge for usage? Will the government start taxing Internet usage?
The scary part is that usage costs can trickle upstream very easy. You pay your ISP for usage and then they have to pay their upstream for usage, etc., etc., etc. How many times can the same data be charged for? This could easily cascade into an Internet meltdown. Especially if you consider other countries might be charged for their traffic to and from the US and the the rest of the world gets in on the game.
It's a doom and gloom scenario, but one that is very much possible.
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A kettle usually has a handle as well.
Every AC is a creep and a child molester. Most bite the heads off of neighborhood pets and plant whoopee cushions in nursing homes.
Maybe not, but you might have seen him at the gas station the night before or maybe see him the next day as he drags the kid into a motel. It is no different than advertisement, if you show enough people it will stick to some.
Your success rate is very low?
How "antitruistic" of you. :p
Here's the law from California that says they must (section 2802): http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=lab&group=02001-03000&file=2800-2810
I'm sure MANY other states have similar laws, though I'm not exactly willing at this moment to spend the time to provide you with a full list. :p
I wasn't very clear... my main point was that if the state requires you to make calls while not at your desk then it must either provide a means for you to do so or reimburse your efforts at making those calls (with your personal cell phone or something else). This is no different than at any other employer.
These people have no 'right' to a state-paid cell phone.
Unless, of course, their jobs require the use of a phone while away from their office. Either that or the state can look forward to a flood of reimbursement paperwork on a regular basis.
You could damn near have an IP address for every cell in your body.
There is no spoon?
Which is so much better than boring irradiation from "living" quasars...
But you can't do that for two to three weeks on a single charge. :p
(and yeah, I've actually gone very close to three weeks with my Kindle)
There is very little cross use of DRM-burdened content for any of the devices out there, so it isn't just Amazon (and I know you didn't suggest that, just clarifying my stance). In my case, the Kindle was the best choice since I shop on Amazon frequently anyway and don't live near a B&N store. As for other devices/formats? I have access to a PC just about everywhere else I am and can read them on it if I choose.
It would be nice if Amazon went DRM free for books like they did for music, but it is the publishers that force the issue, not Amazon. Though I'm sure they are more than happy to profit from the limitation.
Don't forget the mandatory brain wipe when the information is recalled or your license is revoked.
Or... blame both?
Breakdown: The lighted case gets its power from the connectors that hold the Kindle in the case. The unlit case has these two connectors physically connected even though there is no light. Putting the Kindle into the unlit case where the metal contacts are clean causes a short between the two connectors.
The ability to get power through those connector points was by design in the Kindle or the lighted case never would have been able to be designed the way it was.
It sounds to me like the engineer(s) involved with the unlit case did not communicate well with the Kindle engineers or vise versa.
In recent memory, the only times I have ever contacted a store was to see if they had a "must have now" item in stock so I could go there and buy it. For all other types of purchases where I know what I want I will shop around online, read reviews, and finally buy at an online merchant I trust (Amazon and Newegg being two examples).
If I don't really know what I want and am just "looking around" then I will often do that online as well as at stores. The problem with stores is that there is a "shipping & handling" cost of me getting in my vehicle and driving there and possibly still not getting what I want if it isn't there. I have a minimum of a 15 minute drive from home to get to a store front. I'm there in less than 1 minute online and don't have to pay for gas or deal with travel time.
The real issue as I see it is that online shopping removes a lot of overhead from the whole shopping experience. The smart stores will come up with an online storefront that gives people access to their inventory with a lower-cost shipping option. Most online portals to physical stores are a horrid approximation of the shopping experience you get at sites like Amazon and provide no real advantage, especially with Amazon Prime shipping ($80 per year for two-day shipping on many, many items and a $3.99 one-day shipping option).
On a side note, it isn't that hard to put your store up on a site like Amazon. And for the brick-and-mortar stores that don't want the added expense of creating/maintaining a good e-commerce experience, setting up a storefront on an established site could be a good choice.
I wish more local stores had an online portal. I like supporting my local economy but I don't like spending a 10% - 100% premium to do it. I spend $3 in gas and 30 minutes in time just to make one trip to "town". Yeah, I live out in the middle of nowhere.
Imagine the power to turn any cheese into Swiss cheese... !!!
Your head is a horse-cock dildo?
I vote we send in the Viking Kittens.
The vast majority of crap on 4Chan is not worth looking at... whether you're a girl, a boy, or something else entirely.
It would take a lot more than 15000 people to make an impact. Amazon probably has 100000+ people browsing their site at any given second of the day, especially this time of year.
Is Amazon selling that book or is someone else selling it through their site? Do you realize how easy it is to publish an ebook on Amazon?
What about the ISPs of ISPs? Will T1's get usage costs, too? Where does it end? Can the owners of the trunk lines charge for usage? Will the government start taxing Internet usage?
The scary part is that usage costs can trickle upstream very easy. You pay your ISP for usage and then they have to pay their upstream for usage, etc., etc., etc. How many times can the same data be charged for? This could easily cascade into an Internet meltdown. Especially if you consider other countries might be charged for their traffic to and from the US and the the rest of the world gets in on the game.
It's a doom and gloom scenario, but one that is very much possible.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. It used to just be patched by them but politics has allowed it to be fully paved several layers deep.