Well, in that case, the USA will ship you off to some country where torture is legal, and CIA operatives will proceed to beat the secrets out of you. Now THAT'S brute force...
Actually since most consumer broadband "contracts" include a clause stating that they can be changed at any time without notice, SBC probably can change those just 'cause they see a new revenue source.
I live in the USA and the answer to your question is yes, even glass and paper. Recycling is the exception rather than the rule here. Fortunately, there is not now (and never will be) a shortage of places to dump our trash, and recycling anything other than aluminum is a complete waste of time and energy anyway.
Gator hell. I've seen recent HP desktops come from Best Buy with MyWay searchbar pre-installed. Every URL visited gets passed to MyWay's servers, ostensibly to allow it to "target" the search results it displays. In reality the end-user is just bombarded with more advertising. And what's worse, many of the MyWay ads link to sites that install -really- invasive crapware like SurfSidekick.
Don't worry, it will be. As soon as the majority decides that it doesn't want to wait out or deal with a filibuster, it will use what the press is terming "the nuclear option" and essentially ban filibustering (is that even a word?) when it comes to judicial nominations. Apparently they've already come close to doing this at least once.
Even if the amount of C14 changed dramatically over 20 million years, it wouldn't matter much because it isn't used to date anything older than about 50,000. And during that time, we can be pretty confident that the amount of C14 in the atmosphere did stay relatively constant. Since C14 is formed by cosmic radiation interacting with the upper atmosphere, any significant increase in C14 concentration would probably also involve an increase in radiation bombardment leading to (another) global extinction event.
Isn't of the requirements of collecting sales tax is that the customer must know you are collecting sales tax, and that the tax cannot be rolled into the overall price? I hardly read tax code for a living, but I seem to remember reading this somewhere.
Completely off-topic, but your description (borg cube that assimilated the Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory) cracked me up even before I saw the picture. Having seen the picture, I can say that your description is not only amusing but 100% accurate. Kudos.
Generally I try to pretend that "Mostly Harmless" never happened. But I have to say the Guide mk. 2 and its temporal reverse engineering is one of the most intriguing bits of scifi technology I've come across.
Why do companies do this? Money. And when your competitor does it and you don't, you're letting them take advantage of an "opportunity" that you are not.
The real problem is even if the Yahoo execs aren't "evil", they have no good way out. If publicly-held company A is making money by taking over users' computers, company B's shareholders will want to know why company B isn't doing the same thing. And if company B's execs say they don't want to do it on something as flimsy as moral grounds, then company B's shareholders will fire said execs and replace them with robot drones.
Publicy-held corporations have a single motivation: profit. Anything you see such a company do, regardless of how "good" or "bad" it appears, was done to make the shareholders more money. If Yahoo's execs refused to submit their users to pop-ups and flash ads and such, they could very well be removed from the company.
Okay, double posts are bad form, but I just saw the text underneath the pricing table: "Speed reduction once data usage reaches 150% of included data (to ensure your bill remains under control)".
So in other words, if you pay for the 4Mb/s at about $80/month, you get 2000MB of free data transfer. So you download at full speed for a little over an hour. After that, every megabyte you download after that costs you a dime. Ouch. And I thought Mediacom had a racket running...
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Hey, you can laugh at it, or you can cry about it. Either way nothing changes. I know which I prefer.
Well, in that case, the USA will ship you off to some country where torture is legal, and CIA operatives will proceed to beat the secrets out of you. Now THAT'S brute force...
Am I the only one who finds this amusing? I mean... wow. Whatever monkey at Sony that approved this scheme must be soiling their armor by now.
And that the first (known) exploit of this thing should be a game cheat. The world is a strange place; Sony has made it just a bit stranger.
Be sure you don't fire on the workers in the alien factory, either, or they'll all turn on you.
From the screenshots, this looks just like the "Post-processing" used by Guild Wars since its release...
Actually since most consumer broadband "contracts" include a clause stating that they can be changed at any time without notice, SBC probably can change those just 'cause they see a new revenue source.
"And who will that inconvenience?"
I'd mod this up if I had points. That would be the perfect response...
If the Custom install doesn't provide this option, why not file a bug report?
If you are running a legal copy of Windows then you did, in fact, pay for software that almost works.
I live in the USA and the answer to your question is yes, even glass and paper. Recycling is the exception rather than the rule here. Fortunately, there is not now (and never will be) a shortage of places to dump our trash, and recycling anything other than aluminum is a complete waste of time and energy anyway.
Gator hell. I've seen recent HP desktops come from Best Buy with MyWay searchbar pre-installed. Every URL visited gets passed to MyWay's servers, ostensibly to allow it to "target" the search results it displays. In reality the end-user is just bombarded with more advertising. And what's worse, many of the MyWay ads link to sites that install -really- invasive crapware like SurfSidekick.
"Sony to stop distribution of PS2 in Australia, citing quality control issues"
... was Larry Niven, who would probably give his left nut to get someone like Jackson to do Ringworld.
Don't worry, it will be. As soon as the majority decides that it doesn't want to wait out or deal with a filibuster, it will use what the press is terming "the nuclear option" and essentially ban filibustering (is that even a word?) when it comes to judicial nominations. Apparently they've already come close to doing this at least once.
Replies to sigs are always off-topic.
You're Bingo! YOU'RE BINGO! BINGO the CLOWN-O!
Even if the amount of C14 changed dramatically over 20 million years, it wouldn't matter much because it isn't used to date anything older than about 50,000. And during that time, we can be pretty confident that the amount of C14 in the atmosphere did stay relatively constant. Since C14 is formed by cosmic radiation interacting with the upper atmosphere, any significant increase in C14 concentration would probably also involve an increase in radiation bombardment leading to (another) global extinction event.
As I recall, Gary Larson (the Far Side guy) has some kind of louse named after him: Strigiphilus garylarsoni. Lives on owls, apparently.
Isn't of the requirements of collecting sales tax is that the customer must know you are collecting sales tax, and that the tax cannot be rolled into the overall price? I hardly read tax code for a living, but I seem to remember reading this somewhere.
Completely off-topic, but your description (borg cube that assimilated the Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory) cracked me up even before I saw the picture. Having seen the picture, I can say that your description is not only amusing but 100% accurate. Kudos.
Generally I try to pretend that "Mostly Harmless" never happened. But I have to say the Guide mk. 2 and its temporal reverse engineering is one of the most intriguing bits of scifi technology I've come across.
Why do companies do this? Money. And when your competitor does it and you don't, you're letting them take advantage of an "opportunity" that you are not.
The real problem is even if the Yahoo execs aren't "evil", they have no good way out. If publicly-held company A is making money by taking over users' computers, company B's shareholders will want to know why company B isn't doing the same thing. And if company B's execs say they don't want to do it on something as flimsy as moral grounds, then company B's shareholders will fire said execs and replace them with robot drones.
Publicy-held corporations have a single motivation: profit. Anything you see such a company do, regardless of how "good" or "bad" it appears, was done to make the shareholders more money. If Yahoo's execs refused to submit their users to pop-ups and flash ads and such, they could very well be removed from the company.
Fucked up, huh?
Okay, double posts are bad form, but I just saw the text underneath the pricing table: "Speed reduction once data usage reaches 150% of included data (to ensure your bill remains under control)".
So in other words, if you pay for the 4Mb/s at about $80/month, you get 2000MB of free data transfer. So you download at full speed for a little over an hour. After that, every megabyte you download after that costs you a dime. Ouch. And I thought Mediacom had a racket running...
Good gravy! I can only hope those are the "included webspace" numbers and not the "maximum free transfer" limits...
Put a giant teddy bear costume on it. No one would shoot a cute teddy bear!