The whole point, I believe, is that the chamber is gigantic, and that representatives really needed to fly to get to the center and speak.
If you allowed people to just do a videoconference from their seats, what's the point of meeting in Wash^H^H^H^H Coruscant? Everybody could stay at their home planets and telecommute!
Also, you have to give credit to the fact that a lot of the things that are "obvious" for us were not necesarily so for someone in the seventies.
Like the fact that Luke drives a fast convertible without any seatbelts or rollbars (unthinkable now, but common then)
Also, some depictions of minorities are considered offensive now, but were ok in the seventies and eighties (nevertheless, that's no excuse for Jar-Jar)
In any case, the original article writer needs to repeat MST3K's Mantra, until he feels better...
Instead of insulting a poor call-center rep, if a collection agency is trying to charge for a debt that's not yours, you need to do the following. (note: this only applies if you are in the USA)
1- Ask their address. They are legally obligated to give it to you. 2- Write a letter to them, invoking the Fair Collection Practices Act and demanding that they cease collections 3- If they can't prove the debt is yours, they must cease collecting and inform the credit bureaus of this. 4- There is no four
I work in the touristic industry in Mexico, and every so often I have to deal with jerks that come here, pay for services with their credit cards, and once back in the US, they call their credit cards claiming that "evil thieves in Mexico made unauthorized charges to my card! WAAAAAMBULANCE!!!"
I can (usually) save the day for my company sending the card issuer with copies of all the invoices and contracts, signed by the jerk, along with copy of the id, but sometimes American banks just make the refund and refuse to deal with us.
Here in Mexico, Rius (a well-known political cartoonist and avowed socialist) once said that he regretted not expressing the criticisms he had for the Soviet Union and Cuba. He refrained from doing it because he "did not want to give ammunition to the enemy".
I wonder if Alkhateeb has similar second thoughts...
At least those rallies were not protesting brain-dead stuff like demanding to see Bush's birth certificate.
If I remember correctly, Bush was ridiculed, parodied and protested* because he had launched an unjustifiable war against Irak, killing hundreds of thousands of innocents...
* Yes, and depicted as Hitler, Superman, Uncle Sam and the Joker)
You might keep your own secure systems, but your clueless friends keep "tagging" you in their Facebook photo albums, your client's secretary puts your name and contact information in the cloud, your ex-wife posts a big blog entry about the time you went drinking on company time...
Yeah, tell that to the millions of clerks and secretarys in small (and not so small) businesses all around the world that keep vital information in "control.xls" in MyDocuments
Agreed. While not as extreme as "Please meet my dad so that I can have a mommy", my brother in law used to pull a similar trick.
He would take my 2-year old for trips to the mall where he would meet his high-school girl friends... Instant popularity for him, and my kid would have 4-5 simultaneous babysitters looking at him play in the plastic playground in the mall.
In the meantime, me and my wife would have a very nice time watching a movie...
Clapton owns a lot of guitars, and has played a lot of different models live and on record, but the most envy-inspiring one is the antique Martin he played in "Unplugged"
I'm not sure if it's actually illegal or not for you to take, say, Hamlet and distribute it with your name on it, but try it and see what happens.
I don't think repackaging and selling Hamlet would be illegal... It would be immoral, and most importantly, people would find out and throw eggs at you on the street.......or maybe not, considering the many, barely-changed versions of Romeo and Juliet available for different media (West Side Story, High School Musical, innumerable soap operas, etc.)
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I work for a company that owns several hotels in all the major beaches in Mexico and the Caribbean
The whole point, I believe, is that the chamber is gigantic, and that representatives really needed to fly to get to the center and speak.
If you allowed people to just do a videoconference from their seats, what's the point of meeting in Wash^H^H^H^H Coruscant? Everybody could stay at their home planets and telecommute!
Also, you have to give credit to the fact that a lot of the things that are "obvious" for us were not necesarily so for someone in the seventies.
Like the fact that Luke drives a fast convertible without any seatbelts or rollbars (unthinkable now, but common then)
Also, some depictions of minorities are considered offensive now, but were ok in the seventies and eighties (nevertheless, that's no excuse for Jar-Jar)
In any case, the original article writer needs to repeat MST3K's Mantra, until he feels better...
The Hitchhiker's Guide defines Collection Agencies as "a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes."
Instead of insulting a poor call-center rep, if a collection agency is trying to charge for a debt that's not yours, you need to do the following. (note: this only applies if you are in the USA)
1- Ask their address. They are legally obligated to give it to you.
2- Write a letter to them, invoking the Fair Collection Practices Act and demanding that they cease collections
3- If they can't prove the debt is yours, they must cease collecting and inform the credit bureaus of this.
4- There is no four
Since the local telecom monopoly here, Telmex, has an agreement with Microsoft, most internet users in Mexico use MSN for IM and Hotmail for email...
Sad, but true... so I unavoidably have to have a MSN client if I want to IM with people here
I respectfully disagree.
I work in the touristic industry in Mexico, and every so often I have to deal with jerks that come here, pay for services with their credit cards, and once back in the US, they call their credit cards claiming that "evil thieves in Mexico made unauthorized charges to my card! WAAAAAMBULANCE!!!"
I can (usually) save the day for my company sending the card issuer with copies of all the invoices and contracts, signed by the jerk, along with copy of the id, but sometimes American banks just make the refund and refuse to deal with us.
I'm sure guns are cheap in Thailand. I'd sort it out myself, him and his family.
Yeah, but the Kingdom of Thailand has prisons that would make any Federal Pound-me-in-the-ass jail comparable to the Club Med.
Unless your Paypal decides to overcharge and your bank charges your for overdraft fees....
Download's not dead which can eternal lie.
And with strange torrents even NICs may die.
But, but... I thought they wanted us plugged in so that we could serve as batteries! (or neural networks!)
It's more like the catholic church buying a whorehouse TO get rid of all the whores.
...and then convert the place into a marriage counseling and matchmaking service.
Sure, some people might come, but none of the original customers will stay!
Indeed.
Here in Mexico, Rius (a well-known political cartoonist and avowed socialist) once said that he regretted not expressing the criticisms he had for the Soviet Union and Cuba. He refrained from doing it because he "did not want to give ammunition to the enemy".
I wonder if Alkhateeb has similar second thoughts...
Obama is not (yet) responsible for the deaths of innocents. Bush is.
At least those rallies were not protesting brain-dead stuff like demanding to see Bush's birth certificate.
If I remember correctly, Bush was ridiculed, parodied and protested* because he had launched an unjustifiable war against Irak, killing hundreds of thousands of innocents...
* Yes, and depicted as Hitler, Superman, Uncle Sam and the Joker)
Truthfully, though neat as a "Gee whiz" type of thing, I just don't see much practical application for Menuet.
I recall hearing the same arguments regarding Linux and 386BSD back in the early 90's.
The main difference being the licenses these projects are being offerred in...
Problem is, it's not always up to you.
You might keep your own secure systems, but your clueless friends keep "tagging" you in their Facebook photo albums, your client's secretary puts your name and contact information in the cloud, your ex-wife posts a big blog entry about the time you went drinking on company time...
It doesn't matter, even if this somehow apparently benefits OpenOffice.org
A Patent Troll is a Patent Troll and nothing they do benefits us in the long run
Databases really aren't that hard.
Yeah, tell that to the millions of clerks and secretarys in small (and not so small) businesses all around the world that keep vital information in "control.xls" in MyDocuments
[facepalm]
Sorry but the original poster said:
"There are plenty of good inventory/audit software solutions out there that are open source."
Agreed. While not as extreme as "Please meet my dad so that I can have a mommy", my brother in law used to pull a similar trick.
He would take my 2-year old for trips to the mall where he would meet his high-school girl friends... Instant popularity for him, and my kid would have 4-5 simultaneous babysitters looking at him play in the plastic playground in the mall.
In the meantime, me and my wife would have a very nice time watching a movie...
Clapton owns a lot of guitars, and has played a lot of different models live and on record, but the most envy-inspiring one is the antique Martin he played in "Unplugged"
I don't think I've seen Slash play anything but a Les Paul.
Right, with a notable exception: The screechy sound in "Since I don't have you" is Slash playing Gilby Clarke's Telecaster
Those are the best kind! (Haven't you ever searched through a stack of used textbooks searching for the one with good notes and highlighting?)
A textbook with very good notes and highlighting was a major part of the plot of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"
I'm not sure if it's actually illegal or not for you to take, say, Hamlet and distribute it with your name on it, but try it and see what happens.
I don't think repackaging and selling Hamlet would be illegal... It would be immoral, and most importantly, people would find out and throw eggs at you on the street. ... ...or maybe not, considering the many, barely-changed versions of Romeo and Juliet available for different media (West Side Story, High School Musical, innumerable soap operas, etc.)