Hopefully someone has said it already, but: It doesn't matter what the consensus is... only what the data says.
It's all aliens anyway. Or, to be more serious, go Read Crichton's essay on the subject.
Right or wrong, political or otherwise, consensus is what economists, journalists, and politicians do, not what scientists do. Scientists do science and to hell with the "consensus" opinion.
Can we complain about lack of options in this one?
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If you need your cell for work, you absolutely should be a: itemizing your bill and getting reimbursed for calls you make/receive 9if you pay for incoming calls/SMS messages), and b: expecting your employer to provide you with an alternate solution if the one you've implemented is no longer allowed. Perhaps when you offer them the options of either getting you a mobile for work, making an exception for you, or letting the servers go down silently, they'll pick one of the first two options.
You know, you're absolutely right in that the CC company should not have issued her a card without her signature on the form. There is some legitimate cause of action against the company, and (as long as it's limited to returning the card and removing history of it from her credit report) she should pursue it.
I don't hold out much hope for her credit reports though... my understanding is that they are obligated to remove incorrect information; it's probably not incorrect to say that she was approved for and issued a card, even though she really shouldn't have been.
Except, that's exactly how it works. It's not illegal for me to sign you up for a credit card, or a telemarketing survey, or anything else at all, really. It *might* be illegal if I was maliciously representing myself as you in order to defraud someone else or damage your character, but it's not illegal for me to go down to the city dump, get an address off an envelope, and fill out a credit card app with it (minus signature, which would be forgery).
There's nothing preventing anyone from selling your information to third parties, providing you've made it public already. Tossing the app unsigned in the trash is functionally identical to spraypainting your details on the floor of the mall, or leaving a stack of flyers at the door to JC Penny's. The CC company isn't prohibited from gathering personal information in any legal manner, and if they want to stoop to rooting around in the bins at the mall, whatever. It's still legal. No contract is necessary, and from the description none was inferred. Thus:
Checking the "If you tell us, we'll sell it all to Spammers, Inc" box and handing the form over is equivalent to writing your info on a piece of paper and discarding it publicly. The checkbox is your warning that your confidentiality won't be protected, but the reverse, i.e. discarding the form = the CC company guaranteeing that they WON'T sell your info, doesn't follow from that. The fact they wanted her to agree to it doesn't mean they HAD to get her consent when the info was already publicly available. If she'd wanted to keep her info secret, she should've taken more care of where she left copies of it lying around. If she's pissed now, her best course of action is to lobby Congress for an individual privacy amendment or something. A lawsuit is frivolous and an abdication of personal responsibility following a boneheaded mistake.
Unfortunately, once you throw it in the bin anybody has a right to it. Underhanded, yes. Illegal? Sorry, no. Your wife should have ripped up the form, not tossed it whole in the trash.
Don't contribute to the lawsuit nonsense... suck it up and live with your mistake.
Here in Ireland, the doors lock from both sides and my kids have been doing the opposite.. lock the door from the inside with my keys, then shove them through the mail slot. Now I can't leave the key in the door, which worries me because I'd rather not have to look for my keys in the event the place catches fire.
You'd seriously let your kids run free in the park, and feel safer because you'd know if they were being abducted?
Sheesh, man, that's the sort of thing you want to stop BEFORE it happens... knowing about 30 seconds after the kid is gone isn't much more useful than knowing about it 5 minutes after he's gone... you're still gonna spend another 5 minutes running around in circles before you start calling the cops.
Useful for kids who are already headed out of your sight, yes. Useful in situations where keeping them in sight is critical, NO. Your kid is not your car.
This axiom is written in blood on the wall over my desk, lest I ever forget.
Seriously, I bought an Epson C1000N color laser because it was very cheap (550) but it's the laser version of the Epson inkjets. It goes through toner and oil drums like no other printer I've seen. It's drivers are pathetic. It doesn't understand different paper sizes, if you can believe it, so if you try to print an A5 size page on A4 paper (half-page on standard letter size) it stops everything in the queue and blinks a little red error light at you. The drivers don't tell you what's wrong, and the red light blinks the same way for every fault, from "wrong paper" to no paper, to a jam, to low toner. There's not even a distinct blink code for different faults. You can't reset it via telnet or through the web interface and there's no reset button, so the only solution is to power off the printer, dumping everything in the queue. Power cycling it takes about 3 minutes.
If my experience is anything like th norm for low-end color lasers, I'd stay far far away from them. The next printer I buy for the office will be an HP, and price be damned. "I hate this printer" translates too easily and too quickly into "Our net admin sucks".
Clearly either the Buddhist system for controlling desire is flawed, or it's fake. A culture founded so strongly on religious beliefs should easily reject the simplistic temptations of TV... shouldn't it?
jesus, folks... some of you sound like Homer. "Maybe TV's right! TV's always right..."
That's not Home Depot, that's the Bay Area. Hatred of the customer is a permanent fixture in practically every retail shop within a hundred miles of SF.
I lived there for a year... I was so desensitized to the insults that when I got back to Texas I was rendered speechless by a lady at a gas station who said "How are you today" when I walked in.
I actually had to stand outside a Macy's handing out flyers to customers before a manager would talk to me about the cashier who called by wife a little white bitch (in front of my 3-yr old daughter) and threatened to punch her, because my wife noticed she'd mischarged us.
SF and Oakland are useless for service. It's not just HD.
Though it may have been pointed out already, it should be noted that EA did NOT produce Wing Commander; Origin did. You remember Origin... they made Ultima (and I don't mean the online version, youngsters). EA absorbed them, eviscerated their development staff and ran off the rest, then buried them.
While EA has in fact published some good games, WC was before its time (though I think WC3 was during the reign of EA).
Being from Austin, I'm a bit sensitive to this sort of thing... but it seems to me that EA has taken a page or two out of the Disney "How to Be an Evil Media Conglomerate" manual.
It sure is a good thing for the Swedes that they don't have to defend themselves, and thus have the luxury of gazing up at the sun while other countries make sure no one's flying hostile airborne targets over their observatories.
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Hopefully someone has said it already, but:
It doesn't matter what the consensus is... only what the data says.
It's all aliens anyway. Or, to be more serious, go Read Crichton's essay on the subject.
Right or wrong, political or otherwise, consensus is what economists, journalists, and politicians do, not what scientists do. Scientists do science and to hell with the "consensus" opinion.
I pick Cowboyneal!
Follow the Slate link, it's on there.
I, for one, welcome our young death-choosing overlords!
If you need your cell for work, you absolutely should be a: itemizing your bill and getting reimbursed for calls you make/receive 9if you pay for incoming calls/SMS messages), and b: expecting your employer to provide you with an alternate solution if the one you've implemented is no longer allowed. Perhaps when you offer them the options of either getting you a mobile for work, making an exception for you, or letting the servers go down silently, they'll pick one of the first two options.
Whoo! Trogdor is great! I got to level 6!
Why in the hell would you keep 50 browser pages open at once?
You know, you're absolutely right in that the CC company should not have issued her a card without her signature on the form. There is some legitimate cause of action against the company, and (as long as it's limited to returning the card and removing history of it from her credit report) she should pursue it.
I don't hold out much hope for her credit reports though... my understanding is that they are obligated to remove incorrect information; it's probably not incorrect to say that she was approved for and issued a card, even though she really shouldn't have been.
Except, that's exactly how it works. It's not illegal for me to sign you up for a credit card, or a telemarketing survey, or anything else at all, really. It *might* be illegal if I was maliciously representing myself as you in order to defraud someone else or damage your character, but it's not illegal for me to go down to the city dump, get an address off an envelope, and fill out a credit card app with it (minus signature, which would be forgery).
There's nothing preventing anyone from selling your information to third parties, providing you've made it public already. Tossing the app unsigned in the trash is functionally identical to spraypainting your details on the floor of the mall, or leaving a stack of flyers at the door to JC Penny's. The CC company isn't prohibited from gathering personal information in any legal manner, and if they want to stoop to rooting around in the bins at the mall, whatever. It's still legal. No contract is necessary, and from the description none was inferred. Thus:
Checking the "If you tell us, we'll sell it all to Spammers, Inc" box and handing the form over is equivalent to writing your info on a piece of paper and discarding it publicly. The checkbox is your warning that your confidentiality won't be protected, but the reverse, i.e. discarding the form = the CC company guaranteeing that they WON'T sell your info, doesn't follow from that. The fact they wanted her to agree to it doesn't mean they HAD to get her consent when the info was already publicly available. If she'd wanted to keep her info secret, she should've taken more care of where she left copies of it lying around. If she's pissed now, her best course of action is to lobby Congress for an individual privacy amendment or something. A lawsuit is frivolous and an abdication of personal responsibility following a boneheaded mistake.
Unfortunately, once you throw it in the bin anybody has a right to it. Underhanded, yes. Illegal? Sorry, no. Your wife should have ripped up the form, not tossed it whole in the trash.
Don't contribute to the lawsuit nonsense... suck it up and live with your mistake.
With no information on the total servers, this is completely useless.
Site isn't loading anymore...
good riddance. What tripe!
It's obvious that the other two companies are actually vampires!
Here in Ireland, the doors lock from both sides and my kids have been doing the opposite.. lock the door from the inside with my keys, then shove them through the mail slot. Now I can't leave the key in the door, which worries me because I'd rather not have to look for my keys in the event the place catches fire.
You'd seriously let your kids run free in the park, and feel safer because you'd know if they were being abducted?
Sheesh, man, that's the sort of thing you want to stop BEFORE it happens... knowing about 30 seconds after the kid is gone isn't much more useful than knowing about it 5 minutes after he's gone... you're still gonna spend another 5 minutes running around in circles before you start calling the cops.
Useful for kids who are already headed out of your sight, yes. Useful in situations where keeping them in sight is critical, NO. Your kid is not your car.
This axiom is written in blood on the wall over my desk, lest I ever forget.
Seriously, I bought an Epson C1000N color laser because it was very cheap (550) but it's the laser version of the Epson inkjets. It goes through toner and oil drums like no other printer I've seen. It's drivers are pathetic. It doesn't understand different paper sizes, if you can believe it, so if you try to print an A5 size page on A4 paper (half-page on standard letter size) it stops everything in the queue and blinks a little red error light at you. The drivers don't tell you what's wrong, and the red light blinks the same way for every fault, from "wrong paper" to no paper, to a jam, to low toner. There's not even a distinct blink code for different faults. You can't reset it via telnet or through the web interface and there's no reset button, so the only solution is to power off the printer, dumping everything in the queue. Power cycling it takes about 3 minutes.
If my experience is anything like th norm for low-end color lasers, I'd stay far far away from them. The next printer I buy for the office will be an HP, and price be damned. "I hate this printer" translates too easily and too quickly into "Our net admin sucks".
Clearly either the Buddhist system for controlling desire is flawed, or it's fake. A culture founded so strongly on religious beliefs should easily reject the simplistic temptations of TV... shouldn't it?
jesus, folks... some of you sound like Homer. "Maybe TV's right! TV's always right..."
That's not Home Depot, that's the Bay Area. Hatred of the customer is a permanent fixture in practically every retail shop within a hundred miles of SF.
I lived there for a year... I was so desensitized to the insults that when I got back to Texas I was rendered speechless by a lady at a gas station who said "How are you today" when I walked in.
I actually had to stand outside a Macy's handing out flyers to customers before a manager would talk to me about the cashier who called by wife a little white bitch (in front of my 3-yr old daughter) and threatened to punch her, because my wife noticed she'd mischarged us.
SF and Oakland are useless for service. It's not just HD.
Though it may have been pointed out already, it should be noted that EA did NOT produce Wing Commander; Origin did. You remember Origin... they made Ultima (and I don't mean the online version, youngsters). EA absorbed them, eviscerated their development staff and ran off the rest, then buried them.
While EA has in fact published some good games, WC was before its time (though I think WC3 was during the reign of EA).
Being from Austin, I'm a bit sensitive to this sort of thing... but it seems to me that EA has taken a page or two out of the Disney "How to Be an Evil Media Conglomerate" manual.
Insert (heh) joke about Wil and the "Captain's Log"...
The Republic of China is Taiwan.
The People's Republic of China is China.
Both countries claim that they are the legitimate government of 'China'. That's what all the fuss is about.
I stand so marked.
Or something... Man, you people are annoying.
It sure is a good thing for the Swedes that they don't have to defend themselves, and thus have the luxury of gazing up at the sun while other countries make sure no one's flying hostile airborne targets over their observatories.
How is that contrast interesting again?
Not to mention that the French special forces are some unbelievably bad-ass motherfuckers.
Has anybody asked Declan yet if he's smoking rock? Maybe he's positioning news.com for a swing at the DMCA...