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That's the rental base fee. Tack on insurance and gas (both of which Zipcar covers) it turns out to be a better deal. Also factor in the hassle of making it to the rental counter versus walking to the nearest zipcar parking spot with the car waiting.
Zipcar is able to offer this because they have a continual customer base, whereas a rental agency has unpredictable business.
It's also likely that the employees just didn't care enough to make a fuss about it.
I don't think that it is a question of caring.
You must remember that Walmart has a HUGE inventory and for all purposes impossible for any single checkout clerk to be aware of price fluctuations. Couple this with the fact that Walmart awards clerks who are very fast at checking out, and it is apparent that by time the thieves made it to the checkout line it was too late already.
The article mentions that they were well travelled covering stores in multiple states, and that there were other retailers beside Walmart involved. So it was a pretty complex and effective scam, never giving any one clerk a chance to recognize them.
It must suck for them to be spending New Years (and likely a few more) in jail.
How do they put all the footage together in the correct 'order', that is to say where each frame is in sequence.How can they be sure that none of the cameras capture the same instant of the action?
Maybe, maybe not. I don't think it is for any one person to decide.
As the old and tired cliche' goes "One man's junk is another man's treasure." I think it certainly applies here.
If stuff can be kept out of the landfill and somebody can find a useful purpose from the stuff, freecycle is doing a minimal amount of harm and a lot of good.
Just browsing his site and forums, it doesnt appear that he intents this software to be used by spammers. Though the name really sucks.
Agreed. This guy deserves the benifit of the doubt on this one.
If you take a look at his other software it is clear that his business is not spam-centric.
Maillist King is no "SpamShoveler 3000" either, as it doesn't have many of the features that I see in the spam I have been regularly receiving.
Also, there are legitimate businesses that send out mailings to customers. There are a couple that I don't mind receiving that tells me about new stuff on the shelves.
I never had to give any reason when I subscribed a couple months ago.
I went to subscribe to a different group earlier today and they asked for a comment about myself, which I thought unusual.
I suspect that this might be a way for yahoo to help deal with the increasing spam problem on the groups. I wouldn't take it as an invasion of privacy.
like cheapo computer speakers. People, I'm all for the recycling bit, but take that shit to the RECYCLING CENTER, don't waste anyone's time putting it up for sale for $5. Round trip subway fare costs at least half that...
I think that freecycle deserves a mention to help people dispose of stuff that has too little monetary value to hassle a price with it, but yet want to keep it out of the dumpster. Also, it is helping people out.
doctor from Voyager appears as a government lawyer in SG-1, one kind of expects him to have his emitter fail every minute
Joking aside, this has to be one of the great injustices of current copyright law.
I think that it would be interesting to see to different universes put together where you have plotlines from voyager intersect with SG-1 (as an example).
It would give us a chance to explore characters in new ways. Sure, some of them might be bad, but many would be interesting nonetheless.
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I recently struck it up with a very nice man from Nigeria...
That's great. The internets are not all bad. Lately I've been getting a lot of offers for hot dates!!
That's the rental base fee. Tack on insurance and gas (both of which Zipcar covers) it turns out to be a better deal. Also factor in the hassle of making it to the rental counter versus walking to the nearest zipcar parking spot with the car waiting.
Zipcar is able to offer this because they have a continual customer base, whereas a rental agency has unpredictable business.
Walmart could have caught this by auditing returns.
I bet that the big RFID push they are making will help them do just that.
It's also likely that the employees just didn't care enough to make a fuss about it.
I don't think that it is a question of caring.
You must remember that Walmart has a HUGE inventory and for all purposes impossible for any single checkout clerk to be aware of price fluctuations. Couple this with the fact that Walmart awards clerks who are very fast at checking out, and it is apparent that by time the thieves made it to the checkout line it was too late already.
The article mentions that they were well travelled covering stores in multiple states, and that there were other retailers beside Walmart involved. So it was a pretty complex and effective scam, never giving any one clerk a chance to recognize them.
It must suck for them to be spending New Years (and likely a few more) in jail.
Japan, get some cheap DVD players
So you would spend $1000(at least) to go and by a $40 DVD player that you can find at Walmart?
Does this mean that Ken Jennings can move back in with Alex Trebek???
how excally does 'mankind' benifit from by going into space?
So when you buy that expensive gadget and it turns out to be a piece of junk, you can "go to the moon."
How do they put all the footage together in the correct 'order', that is to say where each frame is in sequence.How can they be sure that none of the cameras capture the same instant of the action?
You know, there might be a reason why those people are at Stanford.
If you are hard up for disk space for this, may I suggest emailing frames to this free email account
I know it's a hack, but whatever gets the job done, right??
Maybe, maybe not. I don't think it is for any one person to decide.
As the old and tired cliche' goes "One man's junk is another man's treasure." I think it certainly applies here.
If stuff can be kept out of the landfill and somebody can find a useful purpose from the stuff, freecycle is doing a minimal amount of harm and a lot of good.
Just browsing his site and forums, it doesnt appear that he intents this software to be used by spammers. Though the name really sucks.
Agreed. This guy deserves the benifit of the doubt on this one.
If you take a look at his other software it is clear that his business is not spam-centric.
Maillist King is no "SpamShoveler 3000" either, as it doesn't have many of the features that I see in the spam I have been regularly receiving.
Also, there are legitimate businesses that send out mailings to customers. There are a couple that I don't mind receiving that tells me about new stuff on the shelves.
So the criticisms are not justified IMHO.
I never had to give any reason when I subscribed a couple months ago.
I went to subscribe to a different group earlier today and they asked for a comment about myself, which I thought unusual.
I suspect that this might be a way for yahoo to help deal with the increasing spam problem on the groups. I wouldn't take it as an invasion of privacy.
like cheapo computer speakers. People, I'm all for the recycling bit, but take that shit to the RECYCLING CENTER, don't waste anyone's time putting it up for sale for $5. Round trip subway fare costs at least half that...
I think that freecycle deserves a mention to help people dispose of stuff that has too little monetary value to hassle a price with it, but yet want to keep it out of the dumpster. Also, it is helping people out.
You grab the pitchforks, I grab the torches.
I say we get some bricks and see for ourselves if the webcams are fake or not.
already /.'ed.. The power of Slashdot.... :)
Actually the AA batteries probably died.
The website has been slashdotted into the fourth dimension.
"Study shows FP makes people want to have sex with you"
What??? You mean it doesn't?!?!
With that kinda money you could rebuild the sound stage they faked the first trip to the moon on!
Bahh! It would have meant more for mankind if he had built the stage for a mars mission. We've already been to the moon.
The problem is that there are at least 232 OTHER asteroids that have only a 1/233 chance of hitting earth.
T minus 1 post until some misconfigured HTML shows up in your Internet Explorer and you are Own3d.
they just didn't put a windshield wiper with a mister on the rovers.
Then there would be water on Mars!
doctor from Voyager appears as a government lawyer in SG-1, one kind of expects him to have his emitter fail every minute
Joking aside, this has to be one of the great injustices of current copyright law.
I think that it would be interesting to see to different universes put together where you have plotlines from voyager intersect with SG-1 (as an example).
It would give us a chance to explore characters in new ways. Sure, some of them might be bad, but many would be interesting nonetheless.
I just can't see this technology being common when you need special media - sorry, try again.
Tha't a nerd speaking. But it might be worth it to some people to not have to deal with the inkjet and stomper to get a labeled CD.
There were people laughing about the guy who first started selling bottled water. Why buy it when you can get it for free??
That seems to have found it's niche, and this might too. If everybody only bought a few discs, that still is a lot of discs.
It's all about convenience.
Our cars are more important than anything else. Everyone should know that by now, including weathermen who can't predict the weather anyway.
he was let go. At least he didn't become a consultant.