Even if you don't pay for they tracks you are supposed to be buying, the RIAA still has you because they tend to limit the exposure of the artists you have access to. They push one with so much hype to make quick sales and then go to the next artist.
If you really like to listen to music, then listen to the music, not the artist. There's plenty to choose from. Just pick your favorite genre and listen. You have permission to download these songs for personal enjoyment. However, if you really like the artist's music, give them something in return. They're happy, you're happy and the RIAA can kiss your E-Ass.
The challenge is probably a randomly generated code to be returned before the original e-mail gets sent to the intended recipient.
Most spammers use fake return addresses anyway. The challenge will never arrive and the mail gets tossed. Thus, it never gets to the recipient. Voila, one less potential viagra purchase.
Instead of hanging on a long time, could it screw everything up by keeping the conversation too short?
For example, when you recognize the automated message, just hold down a number key for about a minute. If they hadn't answered after a minute, keep it on another minute. When they answer to the high volume tone, they'll hang up immediately, thus making the call TOO short.
Now, the autodialer should start making the next calls too soon and have people hang up while waiting. That should help screw things up, plus annoy the calling party
Other people on the road already get that impression of me. When I'm riding my motorcycle, I use a handlebar mounted HAM radio with a hidden speaker and microphone mounted inside my helmet. It's a full face helmet, so from the outside it looks like I'm talking to myself.
Don't believe them. In the Philly area, one of the bridges leading to New Jersey (the Ben Franklin bridge, I think) was built long ago as a toll bridge which would have been a toll bridge until costs are recouped. That point was reached long ago and it's still a toll bridge.
When they toss out a monitor at work (even if it's under warranty) that has gome 'blurry', I take it home, open it up, turn the focus knob, and upgrade my current monitor.
Apparently, they went blurry quite often at one point in time. Must have been a bad batch they bought. I'm up to a 19" now and it didn't cost me a dime.
It's all the extra 15" monitors in my garage that need to go somewhere.
When I worked the PC support desk back in the late 90's, I never had a user give me lip
That's because in the late '90s, generally intelligent people used computers. I don't just mean high IQ intelligent, more like common sense intelligent. If they didn't know what they were doing, they knew to LISTEN to tech support to learn what they did wrong.
Ever since the turn of the century, idiots have joined the computer *elite*. The department stores can't tell the difference, or don't care. It's just a commission they never say they actually get. Chances are, what they sell comes with a Getting Started(tm) packet with an 800 number for some poor soul in a manufacturer's tech support department.
among the qualifications I require is that I look to my own bottom line and hire someone cheaper, and I need to increase my non white male employee ratio so I won't be accused of discrimination.
I guess it'll be the lesser of two fines (or lawsuits) which drives your decision to hire. The one for discrimination or the one for unlawful H1-B hiring practices.
Why would you ever want to work for someone who doesn't want to hire you.
I'd reject their offer in an instant, if the tech market wasn't so dry as it is these days.
At the risk of -1 Redundant, I'll reiterate what an insightful AC just posted in reply to the parent response, just in case the threshold is set higher than zero on people's account.
The LAW says that they are to hire the equally qualified legal resident instead of the H1-B. Only when no such candidates are available, then the H1-B can be hired. Wheather you believe the law is wrong or not is an issue you must deal with on your own terms. If a hiring company fails to follow the law, they need to be punished for breaking it.
I run Apache/PHP/MySQL on my Zaurus. I use it to demo websites I create without needing an Internet connection. I just go wireless, or drop the Zaurus in the cradle connected to my laptop and it acts as a tiny server (and a fast one at that).
I don't know... It could have uses for the creative mind.
My digital TV system from the cable company gives me quick news and info in NICE BLOCKY TEXT.
The C64 has blocky text too....
I have about 7 64's in the garage. I can take one, rig up RS232 & SLIP through my Linux router, and plug the 64 into the extra AV port of the TV. Now I can get more information IN THE SAME BLOCKY TEXT than I can with digital cable.
Sure, I can do that with my desktop PC, but i'd have to get off my lazy ass to do it. I'd rather just switch channels with the remote and grab the wired up 64 from the end table and start surfing.
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Maybe they can design them in 1/16 or 1/8 inch sizes to snap together in a way that can be multiplexed. Run your lines on the horizontal and vertical edge and individually address each element in any color.
Maybe a 640x480 grid (expensive, I'm sure) of these things will be useful enough for simple gaming. But only if they change color fast enough. I'd hook a PS2 to it if I could.
If it was a SPAM message, you'd think I would put a link in there to tell you where you could buy the things. I'm certainly not going to profit off that post. I just want people to know that Bad Marketing != Bad Product.
BTW, General Abu is still waiting for your account information for that $50M transfer. You better hurry.
However, I didn't have to spend any more than $150 to get started (I must have had a benevolent leader).
It didn't take me long to quit. I still don't care for their marketing practices. However, the products are great (more than I can say about Amway's product line). I still have mine 12 years since I got them. They're still as sharp and shiny as ever. I even have an inherited set that's over 20 years old. They're in great shape also.
I'm going to risk sounding like a hypocrite. I say if you never bought Cutco knives, and someone approaches you to buy them, give them a try. Money worth spending. However, don't jump at the first offer. Make it a hard sell for them and get the maximum discount you can. Even offer a single amount, take it or leave it, just slightly below their final offer. You'll get a good set of knives, but at the same time you'll effectively discourage the wayward soul from continuing on that dastardly path. You'd be doing them a favor. There's plenty of youth around for Vector Marketing to continue the practice, just don't allow someone get stuck in it.
Let's say I go to a Gateway store to buy a PC. For arguement's sake, let's say I'm in the market for a new PC and I'll settle for a Gateway if I have to.
I let them waste over an hour on me describing the features and working up to the sale. They tell me it comes with all this extra software. I state I'd like to look at all the EULA's for the included software. If they refuse or otherwise cannot produce the info for me, I complain to the Manager before walking out the store. I then send a response back to Gateway headquarters why I refused to buy their PC's.
I do the same at CompUSA and such. If they produce EULA's, fine. I'll read them (you are reading agreements when they're presented to you, aren't you). Then I'll decide if I want to refuse purchasing the PC.
Most salespeople who sell high value items hate wasting time and getting a refusal on something for a stupid reason. In this case, the EULA's are the stupid reason.
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Even if you don't pay for they tracks you are supposed to be buying, the RIAA still has you because they tend to limit the exposure of the artists you have access to. They push one with so much hype to make quick sales and then go to the next artist.
If you really like to listen to music, then listen to the music, not the artist. There's plenty to choose from. Just pick your favorite genre and listen. You have permission to download these songs for personal enjoyment. However, if you really like the artist's music, give them something in return. They're happy, you're happy and the RIAA can kiss your E-Ass.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, for spelling "voila" correctly.
:)
No problem. After all, "Voila is not a musical instrument"
The challenge is probably a randomly generated code to be returned before the original e-mail gets sent to the intended recipient.
Most spammers use fake return addresses anyway. The challenge will never arrive and the mail gets tossed. Thus, it never gets to the recipient. Voila, one less potential viagra purchase.
Instead of hanging on a long time, could it screw everything up by keeping the conversation too short?
For example, when you recognize the automated message, just hold down a number key for about a minute. If they hadn't answered after a minute, keep it on another minute. When they answer to the high volume tone, they'll hang up immediately, thus making the call TOO short.
Now, the autodialer should start making the next calls too soon and have people hang up while waiting. That should help screw things up, plus annoy the calling party
I wrap a big loading coil around the handlebars :)
Just 2M/440 for me when I ride. The big stuff stays at home.
Other people on the road already get that impression of me. When I'm riding my motorcycle, I use a handlebar mounted HAM radio with a hidden speaker and microphone mounted inside my helmet. It's a full face helmet, so from the outside it looks like I'm talking to myself.
the cost of using those lanes would be reduced.
Don't believe them. In the Philly area, one of the bridges leading to New Jersey (the Ben Franklin bridge, I think) was built long ago as a toll bridge which would have been a toll bridge until costs are recouped. That point was reached long ago and it's still a toll bridge.
3. non-anonymous senders have to have a verification service provider
Don't give Verisign any ideas!!! Before you know it, you'll need to pay a yearly fee just to get all your e-mails through.
Jonathan Smith also probably had something to do with the decision
Johnny Smith?!?! It must have been a very terrible vision....
9. Impervious material (like Adamantium, General Products Hulls, Mithril)
Plus last night's steak dinner
7. Time machine
A point in time where the book becomes 100% accurate could prove this invention had (or will have) been invented. Think about it....
4. Stasis Field (see Larry Niven....who needs a fridge when you have one of these?)
Built into every Twinkie. They never age.
1. Brain wave reader machine that makes telepathy a reality.
My wife already has one. I can't get away with anything because she finds out about it. She just won't admit to having such a device.
I thought they did that with the wristwatch on Spy Kids 2
When they toss out a monitor at work (even if it's under warranty) that has gome 'blurry', I take it home, open it up, turn the focus knob, and upgrade my current monitor.
Apparently, they went blurry quite often at one point in time. Must have been a bad batch they bought. I'm up to a 19" now and it didn't cost me a dime.
It's all the extra 15" monitors in my garage that need to go somewhere.
How does all this compare to my VICModem 300?
When I worked the PC support desk back in the late 90's, I never had a user give me lip
That's because in the late '90s, generally intelligent people used computers. I don't just mean high IQ intelligent, more like common sense intelligent. If they didn't know what they were doing, they knew to LISTEN to tech support to learn what they did wrong.
Ever since the turn of the century, idiots have joined the computer *elite*. The department stores can't tell the difference, or don't care. It's just a commission they never say they actually get. Chances are, what they sell comes with a Getting Started(tm) packet with an 800 number for some poor soul in a manufacturer's tech support department.
among the qualifications I require is that I look to my own bottom line and hire someone cheaper, and I need to increase my non white male employee ratio so I won't be accused of discrimination.
I guess it'll be the lesser of two fines (or lawsuits) which drives your decision to hire. The one for discrimination or the one for unlawful H1-B hiring practices.
Why would you ever want to work for someone who doesn't want to hire you.
I'd reject their offer in an instant, if the tech market wasn't so dry as it is these days.
At the risk of -1 Redundant, I'll reiterate what an insightful AC just posted in reply to the parent response, just in case the threshold is set higher than zero on people's account.
The LAW says that they are to hire the equally qualified legal resident instead of the H1-B. Only when no such candidates are available, then the H1-B can be hired. Wheather you believe the law is wrong or not is an issue you must deal with on your own terms. If a hiring company fails to follow the law, they need to be punished for breaking it.
Expand it to read
"Your Rights are On the line"
The way I see it, if you're a legal resident of the US and are just as skilled as the H1-B candidate, you have the right to first hire.
I run Apache/PHP/MySQL on my Zaurus. I use it to demo websites I create without needing an Internet connection. I just go wireless, or drop the Zaurus in the cradle connected to my laptop and it acts as a tiny server (and a fast one at that).
I collect 8 bit computers....
Because someday, someone will find out another way to put them to use. (insert tongue in cheek smiley here)
I don't know... It could have uses for the creative mind.
My digital TV system from the cable company gives me quick news and info in NICE BLOCKY TEXT.
The C64 has blocky text too....
I have about 7 64's in the garage. I can take one, rig up RS232 & SLIP through my Linux router, and plug the 64 into the extra AV port of the TV. Now I can get more information IN THE SAME BLOCKY TEXT than I can with digital cable.
Sure, I can do that with my desktop PC, but i'd have to get off my lazy ass to do it. I'd rather just switch channels with the remote and grab the wired up 64 from the end table and start surfing.
applied like wallpaper to my walls or ceilings
Maybe they can design them in 1/16 or 1/8 inch sizes to snap together in a way that can be multiplexed. Run your lines on the horizontal and vertical edge and individually address each element in any color.
Maybe a 640x480 grid (expensive, I'm sure) of these things will be useful enough for simple gaming. But only if they change color fast enough. I'd hook a PS2 to it if I could.
How did this piece of SPAM get in here?
Well, how did this troll get in here?
If it was a SPAM message, you'd think I would put a link in there to tell you where you could buy the things. I'm certainly not going to profit off that post. I just want people to know that Bad Marketing != Bad Product.
BTW, General Abu is still waiting for your account information for that $50M transfer. You better hurry.
I agree..... I used to sell them also....
However, I didn't have to spend any more than $150 to get started (I must have had a benevolent leader).
It didn't take me long to quit. I still don't care for their marketing practices. However, the products are great (more than I can say about Amway's product line). I still have mine 12 years since I got them. They're still as sharp and shiny as ever. I even have an inherited set that's over 20 years old. They're in great shape also.
I'm going to risk sounding like a hypocrite. I say if you never bought Cutco knives, and someone approaches you to buy them, give them a try. Money worth spending. However, don't jump at the first offer. Make it a hard sell for them and get the maximum discount you can. Even offer a single amount, take it or leave it, just slightly below their final offer. You'll get a good set of knives, but at the same time you'll effectively discourage the wayward soul from continuing on that dastardly path. You'd be doing them a favor. There's plenty of youth around for Vector Marketing to continue the practice, just don't allow someone get stuck in it.
I think I shuddered, fell out of my car, and went trembling into the fetal position.
:)
And before this time, I bet you felt you were in charge of your own destiny....
Oh boy.... I could have some fun.
Let's say I go to a Gateway store to buy a PC. For arguement's sake, let's say I'm in the market for a new PC and I'll settle for a Gateway if I have to.
I let them waste over an hour on me describing the features and working up to the sale. They tell me it comes with all this extra software. I state I'd like to look at all the EULA's for the included software. If they refuse or otherwise cannot produce the info for me, I complain to the Manager before walking out the store. I then send a response back to Gateway headquarters why I refused to buy their PC's.
I do the same at CompUSA and such. If they produce EULA's, fine. I'll read them (you are reading agreements when they're presented to you, aren't you). Then I'll decide if I want to refuse purchasing the PC.
Most salespeople who sell high value items hate wasting time and getting a refusal on something for a stupid reason. In this case, the EULA's are the stupid reason.