I think it's funny that people act like it's perfectly normal to send other people an extra $6/month and not expect anything in return, and yet nobody's setting up an automated paypal subscription to my bank account.
Yeah, I know the feeling. I live in a very small town with fewer than 800 bars, so getting to see ESPN if not at my house could require walking upwards of 50 feet.
All medical care is ultimately paid for. The parent is probably in the "rural country" that's about to go belly-up from the trillions of dollars in foreign aid it subsidizes smug a-holes like you to the tune of.
I've got several food allergies, one of which did put me in the hospital as a child. Of course, I actually have to eat the foods in question before that happens, so apparently I'm not a representative sample of overblown hysteria.
And I flew Continental last month; they gave full cans of pop in coach free (adult beverages were $7), and I even got multiple cans no-hassle. No peanuts (that I recall, other than the M&Ms I brought along), but they did have almonds for sale. $#!%%y, saltless almonds, but nuts nonetheless.
There's a simple solution here: the government has the right to seize the computer as evidence. The suspect has the right not to incriminate herself by telling them how to get dirt on her. The feds therefore just have to either use the intel they have on the suspect to figure out the password (have they tried her kids' names already?), or else brute-force it. If no one in the DOJ is smart enough to do that, what are we paying taxes for?
There's an Android app (and probably some for IOS that do the same thing for $3) that stores a scanned version of all your rewards cards. Doesn't work for the ones that they punch holes in, but it's not entirely necessary to carry all those cards (except the ones they give you for your keychain).
I'm still trying to figure that one out. "No one's applying for jobs at our company. Maybe we should start offering our employees ten buggerings in the breakroom instead of dollars every hour like our competitors, and then we'll get the talent!"
Minimum wage is something that kills off business asshattery by making it uneconomic, nothing more.
I have to wonder if you've ever actually had a job. MW encourages shitty management by being set so artificially high that useful employees' wages are effectively no higher than the janitors'. MW is supposed to be what you pay a 17 year-old kid to flip burgers for the summer so he can buy a Dodge Neon, but when it's a quarter an hour less than people were making in established professional careers, all it ends up accomplishing is driving up consumer goods prices and effectively legislating professional careers into the poorhouse.
Why should a company claim to offer "training" as payment and get a free employee?
For the same reason college sports teams get away with paying their employees with "education". Internships are hands-on practical courses done to supplement a field of study.
Clearly, it was his or her think, which served as the totality of the student's actions. If you read the whole sentence, however, the student's supposition is held to prove false when faced with practical, non-academic ("real code") work.
Price them appropriately, and the piracy "problem" would virtually drop off the radar. There's no reason an e-book needs to retail for $25. Even publishers' greed isn't an acceptable reason, because nobody needs a publisher to get a e-book published. The same author is going to go through months or years of rejections to get the deal to print the book on dead trees, only to make a fifty-cent royalty per copy sold.
Cut out the useless middleman, self-publish on a website that lets the author upload directly, and price the e-book at $0.99 (maybe more for established authors, but no more than $5) with the hosting site taking a 10-25% cut to cover its own operating expenses. Then drop any DRM, because at this point it's counter-productive—the buyer has all the incentive to buy more because DRM-free e-books are more useful to him (portable, no expiration...); the author makes just as much if not more; and at this reasonable a price point, the incentive to go through the extra work of transferring a file between two users versus paying an almost-neglible $0.99 to have it sent straight to a user's own device to save $20 disappears. Sure, some users may end up "trading" e-book files with each other for ones they haven't yet read but keeping the originals, but there's no physical property "stolen" to cost the publishing site, both "theft-victim" authors still make two half-sales they wouldn't have made at all otherwise, and those two halves are still worth as much in bottom-line profits as one "whole" sale would have through a traditional publishing house. The only drawback to such a practise is somewhat of a underranking if the sites offering the e-books measure volume of merchandise sold as a method of either setting royalties or displaying results earlier in a search/browse on their sites—and of course, the "damage" to the dinosaur media who persist in their obsolete publishing model, rather than embrace new technology and set up a site like this (or just partner with Amazon/Barnes and Noble to get their titles listed through their stores).
If I couldn't convince the boss that people coming in with half-empty beers in their hands and joints burning in the ashtray were enough reason to call the cops, then a crime in progress that only served to enrage frightened german shepherds against his employees wasn't going to faze him.
That's very easy to say when you met the dogs with their owner around. When he's not, even the calmest dog will become territorially protective and aggressive towards strangers coming near a home (or car, as anyone who's ever worked as a parking valet and had to deal with asshole customers who complain to your boss because you didn't want to get in the car that their rottweiler was growling in the back of and then leave unattended in the July noonday sun for five hours can attest to).
That's exactly why I've stopped ordering anything from Borders. Or Verizon; when I got my last phone, I had to chase the FedEx guy down the street after the second time he tried to stick a note in the door while I was in the house (the first day, I waited eight hours by the door, except for the thirty seconds I was in the bathroom he snuck up and didn't ring). But at this point, if I'm buying anything online and get to the shipping part of the checkout and see FedEx in there, I abort.
That, and the fact that FedEx doesn't even actually DO most of the shipping (they tend to hand a package off to the Post Office, which ships it across a few states, then a FedEx facility gets it and hands it off to the PO to send across a few more states... until it finally reaches your town, where they then proceed to deliver only a "sorry we missed you" note) makes me wonder how they even stay in business. My best guess is the reason the Post Office never turns a profit is they kickback to FedEx to have such shitty delivery practises that they actually look good by comparison (that's right, their service is so craptacular that they've got a Libertarian extolling the virtues of the Post Office).
I assume you're doing the same thing as people who watch on one device while their family members in other rooms watching on up to three other devices do, as the Netflix system allows.
Violating contract terms, perhaps. But I'm pretty sure under no moral or legal code is theft defined as "giving something to a person other than a member of your immediate family." Blatant discrimination against those of us who are responsible enough not to have kids it is.
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I think it's funny that people act like it's perfectly normal to send other people an extra $6/month and not expect anything in return, and yet nobody's setting up an automated paypal subscription to my bank account.
Yeah, I know the feeling. I live in a very small town with fewer than 800 bars, so getting to see ESPN if not at my house could require walking upwards of 50 feet.
News flash: we treat everyone that way now.
Which is reason enough not to let someone behind the wheel.
All medical care is ultimately paid for. The parent is probably in the "rural country" that's about to go belly-up from the trillions of dollars in foreign aid it subsidizes smug a-holes like you to the tune of.
That explains things. I never could quite get the hang of Thursdays.
I've got several food allergies, one of which did put me in the hospital as a child. Of course, I actually have to eat the foods in question before that happens, so apparently I'm not a representative sample of overblown hysteria.
And I flew Continental last month; they gave full cans of pop in coach free (adult beverages were $7), and I even got multiple cans no-hassle. No peanuts (that I recall, other than the M&Ms I brought along), but they did have almonds for sale. $#!%%y, saltless almonds, but nuts nonetheless.
There's a simple solution here: the government has the right to seize the computer as evidence. The suspect has the right not to incriminate herself by telling them how to get dirt on her. The feds therefore just have to either use the intel they have on the suspect to figure out the password (have they tried her kids' names already?), or else brute-force it. If no one in the DOJ is smart enough to do that, what are we paying taxes for?
Except Canada. And Australia. Pretty much everywhere, in fact, where the words "foot" and "ball" mean those things.
If anything, you pommies are just too literal.
There's an Android app (and probably some for IOS that do the same thing for $3) that stores a scanned version of all your rewards cards. Doesn't work for the ones that they punch holes in, but it's not entirely necessary to carry all those cards (except the ones they give you for your keychain).
No wonder my picture's so lousy -- my data are all in Papyrus!
I'm still trying to figure that one out. "No one's applying for jobs at our company. Maybe we should start offering our employees ten buggerings in the breakroom instead of dollars every hour like our competitors, and then we'll get the talent!"
I have to wonder if you've ever actually had a job. MW encourages shitty management by being set so artificially high that useful employees' wages are effectively no higher than the janitors'. MW is supposed to be what you pay a 17 year-old kid to flip burgers for the summer so he can buy a Dodge Neon, but when it's a quarter an hour less than people were making in established professional careers, all it ends up accomplishing is driving up consumer goods prices and effectively legislating professional careers into the poorhouse.
For the same reason college sports teams get away with paying their employees with "education". Internships are hands-on practical courses done to supplement a field of study.
The Ubuntu system stays on.
And what computer needs four keyboards?
Massive fucktons are heavy, not light.
and that's sad, and will lead to future generations of stressed out slaves, all under the eye of the bossman 24/7.
To have the job security (or in this economy, prospects) of a slave! Wouldn't that be the life?
Clearly, it was his or her think, which served as the totality of the student's actions. If you read the whole sentence, however, the student's supposition is held to prove false when faced with practical, non-academic ("real code") work.
Put on the glasses!
Price them appropriately, and the piracy "problem" would virtually drop off the radar. There's no reason an e-book needs to retail for $25. Even publishers' greed isn't an acceptable reason, because nobody needs a publisher to get a e-book published. The same author is going to go through months or years of rejections to get the deal to print the book on dead trees, only to make a fifty-cent royalty per copy sold.
Cut out the useless middleman, self-publish on a website that lets the author upload directly, and price the e-book at $0.99 (maybe more for established authors, but no more than $5) with the hosting site taking a 10-25% cut to cover its own operating expenses. Then drop any DRM, because at this point it's counter-productive—the buyer has all the incentive to buy more because DRM-free e-books are more useful to him (portable, no expiration ...); the author makes just as much if not more; and at this reasonable a price point, the incentive to go through the extra work of transferring a file between two users versus paying an almost-neglible $0.99 to have it sent straight to a user's own device to save $20 disappears. Sure, some users may end up "trading" e-book files with each other for ones they haven't yet read but keeping the originals, but there's no physical property "stolen" to cost the publishing site, both "theft-victim" authors still make two half-sales they wouldn't have made at all otherwise, and those two halves are still worth as much in bottom-line profits as one "whole" sale would have through a traditional publishing house. The only drawback to such a practise is somewhat of a underranking if the sites offering the e-books measure volume of merchandise sold as a method of either setting royalties or displaying results earlier in a search/browse on their sites—and of course, the "damage" to the dinosaur media who persist in their obsolete publishing model, rather than embrace new technology and set up a site like this (or just partner with Amazon/Barnes and Noble to get their titles listed through their stores).
If I couldn't convince the boss that people coming in with half-empty beers in their hands and joints burning in the ashtray were enough reason to call the cops, then a crime in progress that only served to enrage frightened german shepherds against his employees wasn't going to faze him.
That's very easy to say when you met the dogs with their owner around. When he's not, even the calmest dog will become territorially protective and aggressive towards strangers coming near a home (or car, as anyone who's ever worked as a parking valet and had to deal with asshole customers who complain to your boss because you didn't want to get in the car that their rottweiler was growling in the back of and then leave unattended in the July noonday sun for five hours can attest to).
That's exactly why I've stopped ordering anything from Borders. Or Verizon; when I got my last phone, I had to chase the FedEx guy down the street after the second time he tried to stick a note in the door while I was in the house (the first day, I waited eight hours by the door, except for the thirty seconds I was in the bathroom he snuck up and didn't ring). But at this point, if I'm buying anything online and get to the shipping part of the checkout and see FedEx in there, I abort.
That, and the fact that FedEx doesn't even actually DO most of the shipping (they tend to hand a package off to the Post Office, which ships it across a few states, then a FedEx facility gets it and hands it off to the PO to send across a few more states ... until it finally reaches your town, where they then proceed to deliver only a "sorry we missed you" note) makes me wonder how they even stay in business. My best guess is the reason the Post Office never turns a profit is they kickback to FedEx to have such shitty delivery practises that they actually look good by comparison (that's right, their service is so craptacular that they've got a Libertarian extolling the virtues of the Post Office).
I assume you're doing the same thing as people who watch on one device while their family members in other rooms watching on up to three other devices do, as the Netflix system allows.
Violating contract terms, perhaps. But I'm pretty sure under no moral or legal code is theft defined as "giving something to a person other than a member of your immediate family." Blatant discrimination against those of us who are responsible enough not to have kids it is.