If an owner's dog goes crazy and starts biting people and claiming everywher its territory, it's the owner's responsibility to correct its behavior. If the owner doesn't do anything, he is to blame.
BTW, you don't need to indent paragraphs; the web browser chooses how to visually distinguish paragraphs. Usually it does this by putting extra whitespace between them. Indenting the first line (and not inserting extra whitespace) is another way of doing so, used more in books because it reduces paper usage. Thus, using indention on the web, especially indention and extra whitespace, is silly IMO.
Sorry, that $400 was just in property taxes. If you want to talk of those services, be sure to include income tax, sales tax, gasoline tax, and all the other indirect taxes that are included in the prices of things.
Well, if people could actually own their houses, their costs would be much lower when they retire. My mother "bought" an average house, but still has to pay about $400 a month in taxes (i.e. rent to the state).
"Sunglasses wouldn't help," he says - in fact, wearing them would only exacerbate the effect. That's because the glasses would not affect the green laser light - chosen because that colour is particularly irritating - but the laser would appear even brighter contrasted against the darkened background.
Sorry for the double reply, just felt compelled to respond to the second part as well:)
It doesn't even take a person having not saved for retirement for them to be destitute in their old age. All it takes is for them to be blinded by their love of a family member. How many people have had their life savings blown because their spouse went off the deep end and decided to blow the whole thing. How many people have ended up destitute because when realized that they couldn't handle their own finances anymore, they let their child 'help' them. Then their child siphoned it all off, leaving their parent with nothing.
Siphoning the money off, kind of like the Social Security Administration itself has done? They didn't save it; they spent it, and now depend on the money current people are "saving" to pay for the people who they were supposed to be saving for decades ago. Let people decide how to invest their own damn money. At least those who can do so properly will be allowed to do so, instead of being forced to buy into this pyramid scheme.
That being said, most people CANT be trusted to save for their retirement. It is sad but true. We either need something like SSI, we need to be willing to let old people starve, or we need to figure out something else to do with all of the 70+ people who can't work and have no savings. I am open to debate on the subject, and won't even dismiss letting them stave out of hand.
I wonder if knowing that they won't be allowed to starve is part of the reason they don't save for their retirement. Sort of like the too-big-to-fail thing with companies; why be careful if you'll get bailed out when you screw up badly?
At the very least I'd want them to only make customer data available over a secure site on their own WAN-based intranet. I'm a Vodafone customer and I'm really not happy about this.
Hopefully not for long. Change your CC number and close your account (and don't let them charge you any kind of disconnection/early termination fee).
Nobody cares about [my license plate number] and nobody wants to steal it. It's not valuable.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but people do steal license plates; that's why there are special security bolts you can buy to attach it. If you mean just the number, how could someone steal the number itself? And if they did, would your car just have no number, even in databases?
You're assuming that the buyers in the market aren't satisfied with this bullshit. Blame it on them for paying these companies for their shitty service. The free market doesn't listen to complaints; it listens to money.
In related news, police have issued warrants for 400 traffic lights in connection with recent phone fraud. If you encounter a traffic light, exercise caution.
I was trying to use Sprint's web site to see whether their cellphone service was worth using. It seemed to require JavaScript, the latest Flash, a fast web connection, and the latest web browsers to even show any useful content. Lacking all these, I had to give up.
Right. The monitoring systems should summarize things to a point that human operators can reliably understand the situation with a reasonable amount of detail, not too much or too little. If they don't do this, then they are badly designed.
Are You Ready For the Digital Afterlife? [...] To illustrate how digital afterlives might play out [...] Unfortunately, how long Mac Tonnies's digital afterlife will remain [...] people will increasingly want control over their digital afterlife
If you grant dolphins "personhood" (whatever that means), then you've got to do the same thing with chimps. And probably orang-utans. And then maybe whales and elephants too.
Hey, we already grand corporations personhood, why not dolphins?
While apparent motion can be very strong, it is not the same as true motion.
What's the difference? Our eyes can't directly perceive motion, just a side-effect of it: the image of the object translated. If the object is a single bright spot, then seeing a bright spot in a nearby position with the original spot no longer there is no different than if the light itself had moved.
I don't trust smart meters to give an accurate reading. They're not only electronic, they have wireless (that's probably terribly insecure). It's like electronic voting. How do you verify that they don't just give you a correct reading when you're testing them, but inflate things once in the field? Plus, you can't calculate your instantaneous power usage anymore as you could on the old spinning wheel kind (at least the smart meters here only show total kilowatt hours on the LCD).
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If an owner's dog goes crazy and starts biting people and claiming everywher its territory, it's the owner's responsibility to correct its behavior. If the owner doesn't do anything, he is to blame.
BTW, you don't need to indent paragraphs; the web browser chooses how to visually distinguish paragraphs. Usually it does this by putting extra whitespace between them. Indenting the first line (and not inserting extra whitespace) is another way of doing so, used more in books because it reduces paper usage. Thus, using indention on the web, especially indention and extra whitespace, is silly IMO.
Maybe they're longing to be real pirates.
Sorry, that $400 was just in property taxes. If you want to talk of those services, be sure to include income tax, sales tax, gasoline tax, and all the other indirect taxes that are included in the prices of things.
Sounds like a modernized version of an old Sufi tale, where Nasrudin is smuggles donkeys across the border.
Yes, but how is that theft of the number? The number copied is still there on the original vehicle. Sounds more like copying.
Well, if people could actually own their houses, their costs would be much lower when they retire. My mother "bought" an average house, but still has to pay about $400 a month in taxes (i.e. rent to the state).
So they'd just have to wear glasses with optical notch filters to defeat thus?
Siphoning the money off, kind of like the Social Security Administration itself has done? They didn't save it; they spent it, and now depend on the money current people are "saving" to pay for the people who they were supposed to be saving for decades ago. Let people decide how to invest their own damn money. At least those who can do so properly will be allowed to do so, instead of being forced to buy into this pyramid scheme.
I wonder if knowing that they won't be allowed to starve is part of the reason they don't save for their retirement. Sort of like the too-big-to-fail thing with companies; why be careful if you'll get bailed out when you screw up badly?
Hopefully not for long. Change your CC number and close your account (and don't let them charge you any kind of disconnection/early termination fee).
Correct me if I'm wrong, but people do steal license plates; that's why there are special security bolts you can buy to attach it. If you mean just the number, how could someone steal the number itself? And if they did, would your car just have no number, even in databases?
It's even worse; $500000000.0000000000000000000000000000000000000 spent on failed IT project!!!!
It's for your own good. You cannot be trusted to save for your retirement, and make wise investments, so we're doing that for you.
The iPhone is a physical device. Android is an OS. How does the iPhone compare to a single company's phones that run Android?
You're assuming that the buyers in the market aren't satisfied with this bullshit. Blame it on them for paying these companies for their shitty service. The free market doesn't listen to complaints; it listens to money.
In related news, police have issued warrants for 400 traffic lights in connection with recent phone fraud. If you encounter a traffic light, exercise caution.
Why will this succeed where others have so far failed?
I was trying to use Sprint's web site to see whether their cellphone service was worth using. It seemed to require JavaScript, the latest Flash, a fast web connection, and the latest web browsers to even show any useful content. Lacking all these, I had to give up.
Right. The monitoring systems should summarize things to a point that human operators can reliably understand the situation with a reasonable amount of detail, not too much or too little. If they don't do this, then they are badly designed.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Hey, we already grand corporations personhood, why not dolphins?
What's the difference? Our eyes can't directly perceive motion, just a side-effect of it: the image of the object translated. If the object is a single bright spot, then seeing a bright spot in a nearby position with the original spot no longer there is no different than if the light itself had moved.
I don't trust smart meters to give an accurate reading. They're not only electronic, they have wireless (that's probably terribly insecure). It's like electronic voting. How do you verify that they don't just give you a correct reading when you're testing them, but inflate things once in the field? Plus, you can't calculate your instantaneous power usage anymore as you could on the old spinning wheel kind (at least the smart meters here only show total kilowatt hours on the LCD).
And water is made of two parts hydrogen, one part oxygen. Also, H is the eighth letter in the alphabet.