. . . solution is obvious. Choose any one of the following: (a) un-friend her; (b) add her to your Restricted list; (c) set Default Post Visibility settings to "Custom" and add her to the visible to "Except" list.
Option (a), she probably notices. Option (b), she may notice, since if she checks your profile there will be almost nothing there. Option (c) she probably won't notice, unless she checks your profile and notices that posts she remembers have disappeared, in which case you can just tell her you didn't like putting your entire life on Facebook and decided to clean up your wall. If she has any close friends who'd tell her (if the subject came up) that your wall looks the same as it ever did, except them from seeing your posts too.
By which I mean - yesterday, when I tried to ping dumpgodaddy.com, it resolved to that IP but couldn't ping it; today the host name doesn't resolve at all. The DNSTools listing hasn't changed but the DNS TTL could be playing in the equation somewhere.
According to DNSTools the domain "dumpgodaddy.com" was reserved for 1 year starting two days ago, but gives no IP address for it. The name resolves to 67.215.66.132, which can't be pinged or accessed via port 80, and is within an IP block assigned to OpenDNS, LLC.
In that last case, only as long as the character immediately preceding "http" is a whitespace character (or none, at the beginning of the comment). An HTML tag immediately preceding is not considered a whitespace character (even if a whitespace character immediately preceded the tag), which is useful when you specifically don't want it to link; e.g. the trick I used for my 3rd example above (simplest case, a useless tag that is stripped out but prevents it from auto-linking):
<>http://www.example.com/
Putting the link in quotes, parentheses, <p></p> tags, etc. would also prevent it from auto-linking.
Is he really that busy, sitting on his thumbs waiting for a shipment to come through customs, that he can't take the time to write one, single, polite form letter and blast it to everyone who's ordered that item informing them of the delay before they get annoyed and ask about it?
And in road rage you'd probably be right, but it wouldn't normally be very damaging to anyone to spend ten or fifteen minutes on the phone with an unhelpful support tech. It's just a waste of your time, which you can presumably spare, but it looks really bad for them.
That's not all there is to it, though. If it "doesn't matter because it's 50%-50%", why won't people switch?
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Either the dental office was being heavily subsidized by the government, or it was being heavily subsidized by milking the insurance companies of patients who did have insurance. No way could they afford to see and treat you for €60.
As long as we're sharing personal anecdotes, I've never had a headache due to caffeine withdrawal. I've been told both "maybe you don't drink enough coffee" (like hell) and "maybe you'll have to stop for longer before you get them" (I have).
I do notice the fact that it has less of an effect after habitual use, but that applies to anything. Even chewing gum. Know why it tastes better, if you stick it on its wrapper and chew it later, than it tasted when you took it out the first time? That's why.
Not necessarily - the customers who ask to complain to a manager tend to be the type who weren't going to be satisfied no matter what the rep did (maybe the rep didn't even have the authority to do what the customer wanted), so it doesn't really reflect badly on the rep. In fact, they did their job well: they handled the customer's call quickly, and accomplished all that they were expected to accomplish (i.e. resolved nothing with an incorrigible customer).
That said, I've been told before, flat out, (from a Kodak rep - yeah, I'll name names) that no, I couldn't speak to her manager because "a manger doesn't want to talk to you".
Yeah, as a matter of fact it's the electrolytes in the Roundup which kill the plants (just like in the movie - they just needed to breed plants for resistance, I guess).
For some reason I had been thinking of a pesticide/insecticide where you'd typically want it to dry or settle on the plant's surface to make pests avoid it, but Roundup is a herbicide so obviously it has to be absorbed through the plant's pores.
Because reps are rated based on how efficiently (i.e. quickly) they are able to resolve customers' complaints. Hanging up when your complaint hasn't been resolved makes them appear better than they are; keeping them on the line longer makes them appear worse.
No, it's a bank calling a customer to try to sell them on adding $premium_feature to their current service. And he got "B" and "C" mixed up. Paste into a text editor and do a global search-and-replace of "B:" -> "Customer:" and "C:" -> "Bank:" to make it readable.
That's exactly it - you don't feel like you should be polite to cold-calling marketers. They're after the people who do feel like they should be polite. Get a polite person saying "yes" enough times, and eventually you have a sale.
Why the hell did you say "B" meant bank and "C" meant customer and then in the dialogue used "B" for customer and "C" for bank? It took me about 5 minutes (and several mental seg faults) to straighten that out.
What you should draw from it is that your first "gut feeling" is usually right and you should stick with it, but humans are really bad at taking new information and appropriately adjusting their original gut feeling based on the new information. But if you have all the information from the get-go, your gut feeling is probably correct. It's only if you get new information that you need to be careful to objectively consider all of the information, and don't let your gut feeling (which was based on incomplete information) taint your final decision.
The Monty Hall problem tricks people by making them feel lucky. They know their "gut feeling" only had a 1-in-3 chance of being correct, but after you reinforce the notion that their original choice "wasn't wrong" (since they didn't lose yet), they're inclined to trust their luck further.
If you told someone to pick 1 door, and then told them "now, you get to choose: either what's behind the door you picked, or what's behind both the doors you didn't pick", obviously everyone's gut feeling would be to switch. They just don't realize that that's what the Monty Hall problem essentially does. Their gut feeling was correct, it's only that they processed the additional information incorrectly.
Technically I suppose it's an electrolyte when it's in an aqueous solution, which it would be upon application but would afterward of course dry on the plants and the salt would recrystallize.
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. . . solution is obvious. Choose any one of the following:
(a) un-friend her;
(b) add her to your Restricted list;
(c) set Default Post Visibility settings to "Custom" and add her to the visible to "Except" list.
Option (a), she probably notices. Option (b), she may notice, since if she checks your profile there will be almost nothing there. Option (c) she probably won't notice, unless she checks your profile and notices that posts she remembers have disappeared, in which case you can just tell her you didn't like putting your entire life on Facebook and decided to clean up your wall. If she has any close friends who'd tell her (if the subject came up) that your wall looks the same as it ever did, except them from seeing your posts too.
By which I mean - yesterday, when I tried to ping dumpgodaddy.com, it resolved to that IP but couldn't ping it; today the host name doesn't resolve at all. The DNSTools listing hasn't changed but the DNS TTL could be playing in the equation somewhere.
Not anymore, but it did when I posted that. Curious.
According to DNSTools the domain "dumpgodaddy.com" was reserved for 1 year starting two days ago, but gives no IP address for it. The name resolves to 67.215.66.132, which can't be pinged or accessed via port 80, and is within an IP block assigned to OpenDNS, LLC.
Quite a few HTML entities work, too: for instance, you can use < and > for "less than" and "greater than" symbols.
E.g. all of the following will create an identical link (including the bracketed domain, if the user's settings are configured to show it):
<a href="http://example.com/">http://example.com/</a>
<URL:http://example.com/>
http://example.com/
In that last case, only as long as the character immediately preceding "http" is a whitespace character (or none, at the beginning of the comment). An HTML tag immediately preceding is not considered a whitespace character (even if a whitespace character immediately preceded the tag), which is useful when you specifically don't want it to link; e.g. the trick I used for my 3rd example above (simplest case, a useless tag that is stripped out but prevents it from auto-linking):
<>http://www.example.com/
Putting the link in quotes, parentheses, <p></p> tags, etc. would also prevent it from auto-linking.
Uh, point obviously being that under SOPA they wouldn't need to buy up hate domains; they could just seize the domain if anyone tried to register one.
Yeah, I was exactly the same and never had a headache and what people told me was, "well, after 3 or 4 days without you'd start getting them".
At least in my case, I didn't after 3 or 4 days without, either.
Is he really that busy, sitting on his thumbs waiting for a shipment to come through customs, that he can't take the time to write one, single, polite form letter and blast it to everyone who's ordered that item informing them of the delay before they get annoyed and ask about it?
And in road rage you'd probably be right, but it wouldn't normally be very damaging to anyone to spend ten or fifteen minutes on the phone with an unhelpful support tech. It's just a waste of your time, which you can presumably spare, but it looks really bad for them.
That's not all there is to it, though. If it "doesn't matter because it's 50%-50%", why won't people switch?
Either the dental office was being heavily subsidized by the government, or it was being heavily subsidized by milking the insurance companies of patients who did have insurance. No way could they afford to see and treat you for €60.
As long as we're sharing personal anecdotes, I've never had a headache due to caffeine withdrawal. I've been told both "maybe you don't drink enough coffee" (like hell) and "maybe you'll have to stop for longer before you get them" (I have).
I do notice the fact that it has less of an effect after habitual use, but that applies to anything. Even chewing gum. Know why it tastes better, if you stick it on its wrapper and chew it later, than it tasted when you took it out the first time? That's why.
Not necessarily - the customers who ask to complain to a manager tend to be the type who weren't going to be satisfied no matter what the rep did (maybe the rep didn't even have the authority to do what the customer wanted), so it doesn't really reflect badly on the rep. In fact, they did their job well: they handled the customer's call quickly, and accomplished all that they were expected to accomplish (i.e. resolved nothing with an incorrigible customer).
That said, I've been told before, flat out, (from a Kodak rep - yeah, I'll name names) that no, I couldn't speak to her manager because "a manger doesn't want to talk to you".
Yeah, as a matter of fact it's the electrolytes in the Roundup which kill the plants (just like in the movie - they just needed to breed plants for resistance, I guess).
For some reason I had been thinking of a pesticide/insecticide where you'd typically want it to dry or settle on the plant's surface to make pests avoid it, but Roundup is a herbicide so obviously it has to be absorbed through the plant's pores.
Because reps are rated based on how efficiently (i.e. quickly) they are able to resolve customers' complaints. Hanging up when your complaint hasn't been resolved makes them appear better than they are; keeping them on the line longer makes them appear worse.
...and pandas are the ones which eat, shoot, and leave.
Or something like that.
I think the confusion was "cute bears which eat leaves" - of which, koalas are the marsupials, not pandas.
No, it's a bank calling a customer to try to sell them on adding $premium_feature to their current service. And he got "B" and "C" mixed up. Paste into a text editor and do a global search-and-replace of "B:" -> "Customer:" and "C:" -> "Bank:" to make it readable.
That's exactly it - you don't feel like you should be polite to cold-calling marketers. They're after the people who do feel like they should be polite. Get a polite person saying "yes" enough times, and eventually you have a sale.
Customers are allowed to be grumpy, especially when a thing that was promised is taking longer than was promised.
Why the hell did you say "B" meant bank and "C" meant customer and then in the dialogue used "B" for customer and "C" for bank? It took me about 5 minutes (and several mental seg faults) to straighten that out.
No. That's exactly wrong.
What you should draw from it is that your first "gut feeling" is usually right and you should stick with it, but humans are really bad at taking new information and appropriately adjusting their original gut feeling based on the new information. But if you have all the information from the get-go, your gut feeling is probably correct. It's only if you get new information that you need to be careful to objectively consider all of the information, and don't let your gut feeling (which was based on incomplete information) taint your final decision.
The Monty Hall problem tricks people by making them feel lucky. They know their "gut feeling" only had a 1-in-3 chance of being correct, but after you reinforce the notion that their original choice "wasn't wrong" (since they didn't lose yet), they're inclined to trust their luck further.
If you told someone to pick 1 door, and then told them "now, you get to choose: either what's behind the door you picked, or what's behind both the doors you didn't pick", obviously everyone's gut feeling would be to switch. They just don't realize that that's what the Monty Hall problem essentially does. Their gut feeling was correct, it's only that they processed the additional information incorrectly.
Whoops, that's for i.imgur.com - the imgur.com TTL appears to be only 2 days.
I like to think HTML5 will be there pretty soon.
Technically I suppose it's an electrolyte when it's in an aqueous solution, which it would be upon application but would afterward of course dry on the plants and the salt would recrystallize.