Have you ever been in a blockbuster when it is busy? Do you really want them spending 5 minutes with each of the 20 people in front of you in line telling them all the fine print?
As far as I can tell, it's about as fair a deal as you could expect. If you keep a movie more than a week past when you are supposed to bring it back, they don't send you to collections, they just sell the thing to you. If you bring it back within a month, you get a refund (but they keep $1.25). To me, a late fee would be something that increases with time. There is not really any such thing here.
Here in California, it costs 12 dollars to get a driver's license, and something like 6 or 8 for just an ID. A requirement that voters have one of the two would be equivalent to a poll tax, which I'm pretty sure is illegal.
Yeah, I read about sonoluminecence when I was in high school (about 6-7 years ago) and a friend and I tried to do the experiment. It just involved putting some speakers on the sides of a flask, generating a tone in at the resonant frequency of the flask, and trying to get a bubble into the center.
I don't remember there being any way that this would generate energy; it was just using the sound energy to create light.
We ended quitting before we finished because we smoke tested a computer that we were using as the tone generator (our high school physics lab was not very well equipped)... Note to anyone trying the same thing we did: bare wires will short out on a metal computer case.
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Have you ever been in a blockbuster when it is busy? Do you really want them spending 5 minutes with each of the 20 people in front of you in line telling them all the fine print?
As far as I can tell, it's about as fair a deal as you could expect. If you keep a movie more than a week past when you are supposed to bring it back, they don't send you to collections, they just sell the thing to you. If you bring it back within a month, you get a refund (but they keep $1.25). To me, a late fee would be something that increases with time. There is not really any such thing here.
Well, the offense is mitigated slightly by the fact that the nvidia drivers are not open source, and that is what he complained was crashing...
Here in California, it costs 12 dollars to get a driver's license, and something like 6 or 8 for just an ID. A requirement that voters have one of the two would be equivalent to a poll tax, which I'm pretty sure is illegal.
Netflix sounded like a great idea, and I was going to sign up, but then they sent me spam. I don't support any company which advertises that way.
Yeah, I read about sonoluminecence when I was in high school (about 6-7 years ago) and a friend and I tried to do the experiment. It just involved putting some speakers on the sides of a flask, generating a tone in at the resonant frequency of the flask, and trying to get a bubble into the center.
I don't remember there being any way that this would generate energy; it was just using the sound energy to create light.
We ended quitting before we finished because we smoke tested a computer that we were using as the tone generator (our high school physics lab was not very well equipped)... Note to anyone trying the same thing we did: bare wires will short out on a metal computer case.
I didn't know what a dystopia was, so I looked it up on dictionary.com... guess what their example was?