understand that a lot of these discs will use redundancy to counteract the increased sensitivity to scratches.
This is stupid. I've had the same glasses, with plastic lenses, on my face for the last three years. In the past, I've always replaced glasses because of broken frames, never because of scratched lenses. If I can carry a pair of glasses around with me for that long, taking them off, throwing them around, dropping them on the ground, fighting to get them away from my two year old. And no scratches. Plastics are a mature technology. Can't we find a plastic coating for CDs and DVDs that can stand up to a little more abuse?
i am tired of PC games remade for consoles, Movie based games, or other games where the game it's self was not the origional idea.
I agree. But there are exceptions, like the chronicles of riddick, and knights of the old republic. It's probably best just to avoid the mad rush the day it's released and wate a week or two for all the final reviews to come out.
Aren't you in the least bit frustrated to tune through the FM dial and find the same artists on 3/4 of the stations?
No. I'm frustrated to tune through the FM dial and find not one but five spanish speaking radio stations in Chicago when I can really only listen to three in english based on the type of music I'm looking for, which is faily broad. I'm ready for sattelite.
Of course, if they lowered the prices for Russia, then we could just buy music and software there for peanuts, and the publishers would be fucked.
Sounds like outsourcing to me. Where do I sign up? Oh, it's ok for them to hire russians (or whoever), just not for us to pay a price a typical russian could afford for music.
Increased success of scams leads to increased fees and holdbacks for credit card transactions, increased retail prices, increased costs for investigations, increased costs for prevention and decreased productivity. These are all small hidden costs but they add up. Maximizing prevetion has real economic benefits for everyone. Sympathizing with the criminals only hurts lawful consumers.
This is the propaganda that the credit card companies would like you to believe. "We're sorry. But due to an increase in identity theft, we've had to adjust everyone's interest rate up by half a point." Riiiight. And your profits were how many billions last year? Identity theft exists because credit card companies don't care. They don't care because it's not cost-effective for them to care. If they cared, the system would be secure. In stead, they would rather go after the occasional big fish that costs them an amount they can't round down to zero. For the rest of us, fuck em. The only way identity theft will be fixed is if the credit card companies are regulated, or if the credit system in the US collapses.
Monopoly teaches good money management otherwise you go bankrupt.
My kids are into this in a major way. One of my daughters got creative with the system. She has a derelict account she uses as a holding entity for her neopoints. This allows her to amass huge amounts of points while her real account can be "on welfare". Great! My daughter is learning how to become a welfare queen and milk the system.:-D
There aren't millions of millions, and they aren't being killed.
Quite right. According to the documentary I saw last night on frozen embryo adoption, there are 600,000 frozen embryos in the US at the moment. Roughly half of them would survive the thawing process. And upon reintroduction into a woman, about 50,000 of them would implant, and most likely grow into a living human. That's a lot of people. There are millions of americans who view these embryos as living beings.
I'm all for genetically engineered foods if it's for the right reasons. What we really don't need is the next high fructose corn syrup or partially hydroginated vegitable oil. What's wrong with the starches that occur naturally in potatos? I mean, if you can avoid the use of pesticides in growing insect resistant potatos using GE, that's great. But the best kinds of starches?!
I think the point is that if the babysitter calls 911, I would want to know immediately. Of course, I'm more considerate than a teenage anti-social jerk, and would set the phone to vibrate.
In the past, the babysitter would have called the theater, who would have stopped the movie and turned the lights on to find me.
Movies are shown in a room full of other people. That's a social experience. If you want to exercise that much control over the environment, watch a DVD.
Disclaimer: I hate rude people in theaters also, but I don't overreact to the situation.
Becuase the RIAA is a megacorporation (or whatever). Outsourcing hurts people trying to feed their families. Personally, I don't have a problem with outsourcing, only that the bottom fell out of my career in less than 8 months. Does the RIAA have a 5 year car loan or a 30 year mortgage?
As a father of six, I know I would never preheat the oven without first looking inside. It would be unfortunate if an action figure, or worse the cat, were to meet an early demise.
Actually, we tried to have fraud alerts placed in all three credit reporting agencies. The problem is that credit reporting agencies are just as bad (if not worse) than the credit card companies themselves. Since the credit card companies are their customers, and not the people they're gathering information on, they won't actually talk to you. To get a fraud alert, you have to send them a request, in writing. One of the agencies did this immediately. Another did so after a lot of harrassment. The third never did put it on. This was after following all the correct procedures. Once the fraud alerts were on, we ran into them exactly one time while applying for instant credit. In this case, it was a home depot card. The people at the store put me on the phone with their credit department. The woman asked, "Do you know why I'm talking to you?" I mentioned the fraud alert and that was it. Here's your card. No other proof was required. I bought a car without a word from the bank who wrote the loan. Fraud alerts are a joke.
If someone gets your information, you're hosed. There's only one thing you can do. It was modded +5 funny, but another post hit the nail on the head. Burn your credit rating.
I seriously doubt it. Whether or not your caught has everything to do with return on investment. If the credit card company can stick a customer with the cost, that's far cheaper than the legal fees involved in doing the right thing. It's only the big fish that get fried. They persue fraud artists only if they're costing the company more than the legal fees to remove them. It's all part of their business model.
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understand that a lot of these discs will use redundancy to counteract the increased sensitivity to scratches.
This is stupid. I've had the same glasses, with plastic lenses, on my face for the last three years. In the past, I've always replaced glasses because of broken frames, never because of scratched lenses. If I can carry a pair of glasses around with me for that long, taking them off, throwing them around, dropping them on the ground, fighting to get them away from my two year old. And no scratches. Plastics are a mature technology. Can't we find a plastic coating for CDs and DVDs that can stand up to a little more abuse?
i am tired of PC games remade for consoles, Movie based games, or other games where the game it's self was not the origional idea.
I agree. But there are exceptions, like the chronicles of riddick, and knights of the old republic. It's probably best just to avoid the mad rush the day it's released and wate a week or two for all the final reviews to come out.
Aren't you in the least bit frustrated to tune through the FM dial and find the same artists on 3/4 of the stations?
No. I'm frustrated to tune through the FM dial and find not one but five spanish speaking radio stations in Chicago when I can really only listen to three in english based on the type of music I'm looking for, which is faily broad. I'm ready for sattelite.
Damn! Is there anything you can't do with LAGEO bricks?
Of course, if they lowered the prices for Russia, then we could just buy music and software there for peanuts, and the publishers would be fucked.
Sounds like outsourcing to me. Where do I sign up? Oh, it's ok for them to hire russians (or whoever), just not for us to pay a price a typical russian could afford for music.
When I'm thinking of variable names my mind often turns to thoughts of Spiro Agnew.
You are aware that "Spiro Agnew" is an anagram for "Grow a Penis" aren't you?
Increased success of scams leads to increased fees and holdbacks for credit card transactions, increased retail prices, increased costs for investigations, increased costs for prevention and decreased productivity. These are all small hidden costs but they add up. Maximizing prevetion has real economic benefits for everyone. Sympathizing with the criminals only hurts lawful consumers.
This is the propaganda that the credit card companies would like you to believe. "We're sorry. But due to an increase in identity theft, we've had to adjust everyone's interest rate up by half a point." Riiiight. And your profits were how many billions last year? Identity theft exists because credit card companies don't care. They don't care because it's not cost-effective for them to care. If they cared, the system would be secure. In stead, they would rather go after the occasional big fish that costs them an amount they can't round down to zero. For the rest of us, fuck em. The only way identity theft will be fixed is if the credit card companies are regulated, or if the credit system in the US collapses.
I've never seen a room-full of drooling programmers whose job was to fill in the blanks after the software engineers spec'd it all out for them.
The buzzword for these people is heads-down coders.
Not to mention, scientists will set up reserves with massive attempts to create offspring!
This immediately brought to mind my favorite farside: "oh, look roger! Nerds! And some little nerdlings!"
Monopoly teaches good money management otherwise you go bankrupt.
:-D
My kids are into this in a major way. One of my daughters got creative with the system. She has a derelict account she uses as a holding entity for her neopoints. This allows her to amass huge amounts of points while her real account can be "on welfare". Great! My daughter is learning how to become a welfare queen and milk the system.
Airbag-featured Segway
Like this one? Note how the airbag became detached from the segway after it fell over.
Jerry Springer making a cameo to help out with the Skywalker family issues.
Oh God, please Padme, go for the beads.
3. Millineum Falcon is now totally riced
Admiral, did you remove the Type-R stickers from the Millenium Falcon?
There aren't millions of millions, and they aren't being killed.
Quite right. According to the documentary I saw last night on frozen embryo adoption, there are 600,000 frozen embryos in the US at the moment. Roughly half of them would survive the thawing process. And upon reintroduction into a woman, about 50,000 of them would implant, and most likely grow into a living human. That's a lot of people. There are millions of americans who view these embryos as living beings.
No kidding! My kids keep putting things in the oven when we're not looking. I'm sure it won't be long before we have our own dvd-burning appliance.
potatoes that contain the right kinds of starches
I'm all for genetically engineered foods if it's for the right reasons. What we really don't need is the next high fructose corn syrup or partially hydroginated vegitable oil. What's wrong with the starches that occur naturally in potatos? I mean, if you can avoid the use of pesticides in growing insect resistant potatos using GE, that's great. But the best kinds of starches?!
I think the point is that if the babysitter calls 911, I would want to know immediately. Of course, I'm more considerate than a teenage anti-social jerk, and would set the phone to vibrate.
In the past, the babysitter would have called the theater, who would have stopped the movie and turned the lights on to find me.
Movies are shown in a room full of other people. That's a social experience. If you want to exercise that much control over the environment, watch a DVD.
Disclaimer: I hate rude people in theaters also, but I don't overreact to the situation.
What constitutes an emergency? What if the babysitter had to call 911? That call would come from my home phone. Fuck the movie, I want that call.
Becuase the RIAA is a megacorporation (or whatever). Outsourcing hurts people trying to feed their families. Personally, I don't have a problem with outsourcing, only that the bottom fell out of my career in less than 8 months. Does the RIAA have a 5 year car loan or a 30 year mortgage?
I was thinking "We call it maze." Mezonic: Corn Goodness.
Opera - Searching for pr0n! (Those one-handed guestures. ;)
I tried that but it didn't work! The browser keeps thinking I'm clicking forward-back-forward-back over and over. Anyone know why?
Who wants their oven to preheat from work?
As a father of six, I know I would never preheat the oven without first looking inside. It would be unfortunate if an action figure, or worse the cat, were to meet an early demise.
Actually, we tried to have fraud alerts placed in all three credit reporting agencies. The problem is that credit reporting agencies are just as bad (if not worse) than the credit card companies themselves. Since the credit card companies are their customers, and not the people they're gathering information on, they won't actually talk to you. To get a fraud alert, you have to send them a request, in writing. One of the agencies did this immediately. Another did so after a lot of harrassment. The third never did put it on. This was after following all the correct procedures. Once the fraud alerts were on, we ran into them exactly one time while applying for instant credit. In this case, it was a home depot card. The people at the store put me on the phone with their credit department. The woman asked, "Do you know why I'm talking to you?" I mentioned the fraud alert and that was it. Here's your card. No other proof was required. I bought a car without a word from the bank who wrote the loan. Fraud alerts are a joke.
If someone gets your information, you're hosed. There's only one thing you can do. It was modded +5 funny, but another post hit the nail on the head. Burn your credit rating.
I seriously doubt it. Whether or not your caught has everything to do with return on investment. If the credit card company can stick a customer with the cost, that's far cheaper than the legal fees involved in doing the right thing. It's only the big fish that get fried. They persue fraud artists only if they're costing the company more than the legal fees to remove them. It's all part of their business model.