So turn off smoothing. It's a function of the tv, and takes about 10 seconds to turn off. I personally hate the feature, it makes movies look like they were filmed for basic cable tv.
Do they expect email providers to flag every email with keywords in it? Because I'm sure they'll love hearing about all the bath bombs people order. Or the new version of death and decay from warcraft patch notes.
You'd think any kind of organized terrorist would use codewords and not actually write an email saying "the bomb will be placed at and it's set to blow up at 3:00pm, We expect 100+ deaths"
What point are you trying to make here, specifically? Money hasn't been backed by gold since the 70's. Dollars are backed by the government itself. The bitcoin shills keep saying 'FIAT DOLLARS' like the US dollar is going to fail tomorrow. If the US dollar fails, the entire world economy fails, and even those that are invested in buying gold/silver are completely fucked. ALSO all of your bitcoins will immediately be absolutely worthless.
As for fractional banking, it's been done that way for far longer than bitcoin or the actual reasons the economy crashed. Putting that as the example for why bitcoin is great is laughable at best.
How many bitcoin banks have decided to cut and run at this point?
The best part about bitcoin is that there's no takebacks or market controls. Meaning when you get scammed like happens so often, your money is GONE. Definitely the currency of the future, better than credit cards with all those shitty government and business protections. Obviously the wild west mentality is better than anything with protections.
So they gave you a legitimate compromise of finding a *single* other person interested to make their groundbreaking worth it to them in case you cancelled your contract at the end and leaving them in the red... and you said no?
There's a person who is wrong here... but I don't think it's the person you think it is.
A very large part of it is companies putting embargos on game reviewers; so while in the past we might have seen a review about a new Batman game coming out that plays like absolute shit and the buyer deciding to wait, now the developers push out extra skins or bonus weapons or whatever it takes to get that first pile of cash to them before people read any reviews. So instead of holding the game back for another couple months for polish, the developers decide "well... good enough I guess" and dump the turd to the public.
After that, They can take their time patching because they've already got a massive portion of the possible purchasers cash.
"Sending out a technician" includes sending one out to the box a mile up the street from you. Half the time I send a tech out to someones house I tell them specifically that they (likely) won't need to be home and if for some strange reason the issue isn't at the box then the tech will call their cell phone and arrange to meet them as long as they're (or someone else is) able to get home in a reasonable timeframe after the tech calls.
Seriously though, why do you need to keep yourself anonymous on a totally different site? Lets see the thread you were banned in so we can determine if you were drunkposting bullshit in a science subreddit or if you were actually right and got banned because circlejerking in a science area.
Also, reddit has a bunch of autobans for really stupid things like doubleposting links. Have you actually contacted a mod and confirmed why you were banned?
I'm not sure how intricate they get with laptops, Are you just required to show that it turns on? They can't rifle through it if it's out of juice. Or do they keep an emergency set of generic power adapters?
Even the disposable razor market has off-brand options. I can get sets of mach3 blades for 1/3-1/2 the name brand price by going with store brand at HEB.
I work in phone support for a different ISP but I'll tell you that for every person that ACTUALLY has powercycled the equipment, bypassed 3rd party devices, etc. there are 5 that skipped some of the most basic steps and just lie. Whenever someone calls in and lists their references at the start of the call ("I work with all this for a living, I'm an admin for 500 computers and the network that connects them all, blah blah) the calls are more difficult than the people that call in that know nothing and will just do what I ask them to do. After an hour of fighting with a person and them claiming that they've checked the cables 10 different times, they'll finally ACTUALLY take a look at it and see that when they painted the room they forgot to plug the cord back in.
There's no way for me to know if you're the first type of person or the second type, so I HAVE to get you to redo some steps sometimes. If it didn't happen on the phone with me, then I'm going to assume that it didn't happen, even if I believe you.
As for asking to reboot the computer when the modem sync light is showing disconnected, that's silly and anyone following any kind of tech support tree would be starting with the modem itself. Always start outside and work your way in.
I want your post to be true so much. In reality, they'll just apply for the exception in the law and if they are denied, they will throw money to a politician until they get added to the exception list.
Sadly, I agree, and it's also the reason that no real change will ever happen until we are literally on the brink of extinction and we're forced to choose between killing off the entire race or reverting to an age without fossil fuels (or moving on to an age where we no longer need fossil fuels by using alternate fuels). Politicians in the US shoot for being career politicians, so they won't ever rock the boat. We'll never get the change that's needed until the last possible second.
We've been doing this for years, both with cap&trade and with better emissions standards. Countries need to start doing a lot more and not just passing the buck so politicians can get reelected again. At some point we as a whole need to make some changes that are going to make people comfortable with the norm pretty unhappy. They can deal with it and adjust, but the norm isn't going to work.
And as we all know, jezebel.com is definitely a non-biased site and always presents facts in a 100% neutral light, with no spin whatsoever. Just like FoxNews.
"Programmer error" != some idiot pressing the wrong button.
If you want powerful software, you get powerful results. You also get powerful fuck-ups. Don't blame the person who coded it, blame the idiot who clicked through 4 different "are you REALLY SURE you want to do this" warnings.
Incorrect. Buying a *single* ticket is worth it, since it puts you on the playing field at least. It's buying 2+ tickets that aren't worth the money, Every ticket after the first raises your chances by such an incredibly small amount that it's not worth it. The first ticket raising your chances above a flat zero is worth it though.
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So turn off smoothing. It's a function of the tv, and takes about 10 seconds to turn off. I personally hate the feature, it makes movies look like they were filmed for basic cable tv.
Do they expect email providers to flag every email with keywords in it? Because I'm sure they'll love hearing about all the bath bombs people order. Or the new version of death and decay from warcraft patch notes.
You'd think any kind of organized terrorist would use codewords and not actually write an email saying "the bomb will be placed at and it's set to blow up at 3:00pm, We expect 100+ deaths"
What point are you trying to make here, specifically? Money hasn't been backed by gold since the 70's. Dollars are backed by the government itself. The bitcoin shills keep saying 'FIAT DOLLARS' like the US dollar is going to fail tomorrow. If the US dollar fails, the entire world economy fails, and even those that are invested in buying gold/silver are completely fucked. ALSO all of your bitcoins will immediately be absolutely worthless.
As for fractional banking, it's been done that way for far longer than bitcoin or the actual reasons the economy crashed. Putting that as the example for why bitcoin is great is laughable at best.
How many bitcoin banks have decided to cut and run at this point?
The best part about bitcoin is that there's no takebacks or market controls. Meaning when you get scammed like happens so often, your money is GONE. Definitely the currency of the future, better than credit cards with all those shitty government and business protections. Obviously the wild west mentality is better than anything with protections.
So they gave you a legitimate compromise of finding a *single* other person interested to make their groundbreaking worth it to them in case you cancelled your contract at the end and leaving them in the red... and you said no?
There's a person who is wrong here... but I don't think it's the person you think it is.
A very large part of it is companies putting embargos on game reviewers; so while in the past we might have seen a review about a new Batman game coming out that plays like absolute shit and the buyer deciding to wait, now the developers push out extra skins or bonus weapons or whatever it takes to get that first pile of cash to them before people read any reviews. So instead of holding the game back for another couple months for polish, the developers decide "well... good enough I guess" and dump the turd to the public.
After that, They can take their time patching because they've already got a massive portion of the possible purchasers cash.
"Sending out a technician" includes sending one out to the box a mile up the street from you. Half the time I send a tech out to someones house I tell them specifically that they (likely) won't need to be home and if for some strange reason the issue isn't at the box then the tech will call their cell phone and arrange to meet them as long as they're (or someone else is) able to get home in a reasonable timeframe after the tech calls.
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Seriously though, why do you need to keep yourself anonymous on a totally different site? Lets see the thread you were banned in so we can determine if you were drunkposting bullshit in a science subreddit or if you were actually right and got banned because circlejerking in a science area.
Also, reddit has a bunch of autobans for really stupid things like doubleposting links. Have you actually contacted a mod and confirmed why you were banned?
Hence the battery at 1% idea. Show them it turns on, then 60 seconds later it's dead.
And leave the battery at 1%?
I'm not sure how intricate they get with laptops, Are you just required to show that it turns on? They can't rifle through it if it's out of juice. Or do they keep an emergency set of generic power adapters?
Even the disposable razor market has off-brand options. I can get sets of mach3 blades for 1/3-1/2 the name brand price by going with store brand at HEB.
I work in phone support for a different ISP but I'll tell you that for every person that ACTUALLY has powercycled the equipment, bypassed 3rd party devices, etc. there are 5 that skipped some of the most basic steps and just lie. Whenever someone calls in and lists their references at the start of the call ("I work with all this for a living, I'm an admin for 500 computers and the network that connects them all, blah blah) the calls are more difficult than the people that call in that know nothing and will just do what I ask them to do. After an hour of fighting with a person and them claiming that they've checked the cables 10 different times, they'll finally ACTUALLY take a look at it and see that when they painted the room they forgot to plug the cord back in.
There's no way for me to know if you're the first type of person or the second type, so I HAVE to get you to redo some steps sometimes. If it didn't happen on the phone with me, then I'm going to assume that it didn't happen, even if I believe you.
As for asking to reboot the computer when the modem sync light is showing disconnected, that's silly and anyone following any kind of tech support tree would be starting with the modem itself. Always start outside and work your way in.
They'll put one on? Why wouldn't they?
What exactly were they showing off? Also you come off as some idiot teenager trying to take some credit for someone elses hack.
I want your post to be true so much. In reality, they'll just apply for the exception in the law and if they are denied, they will throw money to a politician until they get added to the exception list.
Sadly, I agree, and it's also the reason that no real change will ever happen until we are literally on the brink of extinction and we're forced to choose between killing off the entire race or reverting to an age without fossil fuels (or moving on to an age where we no longer need fossil fuels by using alternate fuels). Politicians in the US shoot for being career politicians, so they won't ever rock the boat. We'll never get the change that's needed until the last possible second.
I can't edit, but when I say doing this for years I mean putting band-aids on. We need real, legitimate change.
We've been doing this for years, both with cap&trade and with better emissions standards. Countries need to start doing a lot more and not just passing the buck so politicians can get reelected again. At some point we as a whole need to make some changes that are going to make people comfortable with the norm pretty unhappy. They can deal with it and adjust, but the norm isn't going to work.
Band-aid on a gushing wound here. We're just pushing issues around and avoiding the real one.
And as we all know, jezebel.com is definitely a non-biased site and always presents facts in a 100% neutral light, with no spin whatsoever. Just like FoxNews.
Did you try moving your mouse down 3 inches? As soon as you're off the collapsible part, it *gasp* collapses back out of the way!
"Programmer error" != some idiot pressing the wrong button.
If you want powerful software, you get powerful results. You also get powerful fuck-ups. Don't blame the person who coded it, blame the idiot who clicked through 4 different "are you REALLY SURE you want to do this" warnings.
Incorrect. Buying a *single* ticket is worth it, since it puts you on the playing field at least. It's buying 2+ tickets that aren't worth the money, Every ticket after the first raises your chances by such an incredibly small amount that it's not worth it. The first ticket raising your chances above a flat zero is worth it though.
I guess going off your comment, assuming coding was just a blue collar job...
A room full of shitty coders is always going to be worth less than a couple real coders salaries. Either in initial cost or support.
Domino's is already ahead of the game here. If you're faking engine noise, might as well get creative with it.
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