Assuming they are using the U.S. Mail service to solicit this false-renewl, are they not committing Mail Fraud? Or is it only fraud if they do not provide what they are offering and accept your money anyway?
Yes, you read that correctly... for once, reading the article is actually more wasteful than posting on the topic without reading it, since pretty much everything contained in the article is housed in the "common-sense" sector of your brain just waiting to be released.
It might have been, 'time to post another flame attraction article', time or something, who knows, but this article is the most LAME I've read here. Which isn't bad considering the 1000's I've read that were good-to-GREAT...just my humble opinion.
Apply to BE the manager in India...take some crash courses in Hindi at the local University, and kick it old-school in India, grub'n on all that delicious food!
Lease a Quickie Mart for 6 months. Convert it into cubicle spaces.Leave room around the edges for cots. Leave the Slurpie Machine and Microwave. Hire the Indians to come and stay for 6 months.
the know-it-all-Lord of the Rings-guru-wannabe sitting next to me with his girlfriend explaining every damn scene to her, it's historical relevance and what each character had eaten for lunch that day, as well as when they went to the bathroom and what toilet paper they prefer to wipe with.
Bitter? Nah...just pissed off that assholes like that can't wait for the bloody DVD to give an entire commentary DURING the freaking movie!
I support speak freely adamently. It allowed my wife(in Brasil) and I(in Washington State) to "speak freely" on pun intended. And let me tell you it beats the hell out of $0.35/min long distance to Brasil. It even had a nice little conference calling ability that was pretty cool.
Unfortunately it seems to be the way many of the Baby-boomer generation think. Even though it was not the fault of the child, restrict the child's freedoms so this can't happen again, instead of educating the child and teaching them what to do when such an event occurs.
My nephew was "approached" on an AOL kids chatroom, while at his grandma's house. I was visiting from college at the time and when he came and told me (he was 10) I promptly proceeded to tell the perverse idiot off and wrote an e-mail to AOL's cyber-patrol people(which I believe to be more of an automated mail system that gets grep'd for keywords rather than read) and never received a response.
His grandmother then refused to let him use the internet at all, and the computer for games only when someone else was in the office to supervise.
Sad, when a kid can't just be a kid anymore, on the net or anywhere else for that matter.
I agree. My newly-wed wife is constantly telling me how I need to clean everything soooooooo thoroughly, and how bad bacteria is.
I keep telling her that what doesn't kill me makes me stronger, and keep having to point out that I have not been ill since I was 11yrs old, while she is constantly sick.
Actually invited a colleague's physics class into my lab for them to pick a hero and do a report on the different abilities. The kids(high-school) loved it!
Now you know what your kids are being taught now days!
After touring Rio with my wife 3 times and driving past(merely viewing distance) the slums and hovels in Rio. The Simpson's episode was QUITE accurate! Street kids "rob" you when you simply park your car. They are standing on the sidewalk when you park and when you come back you either pay them a buck for "taking care of your car" or they proceed to damage it either by breaking a window and running or scratching up the paint...so extortion I guess would be a better word than 'rob'.
As for the monkeys...I've only seen them at a lovely beach resort and they were only there to steal the food off of your plate when you went back to the buffet for 2nds.
kidnapping by unlicensed taxi?...haha even the licensed ones will drive you all over the city to get to your destination...but only if you don't speak Portugese...they will take advantage of an English speaking tourist until you make them aware that you know where you need to go and how to get there.
Rio's tourist board is full of crap and the Simpsons episode was dead-on.
Why should they release their API's? So you or I can "fix" their bugs for them? Modify our MS programs? Tinker here and there...fiddle and faddle around? Now, if they were to SELL their info... oh but we all know that you'd just have to download Kazaa or some similar P2P software in order to get access to it 10 minutes or less after it was released... (10 min to allow for driving time from store-->home)
So they REALLY have no material gain in releasing their API's. Sure they may retain a bulk-load of positive PR, but positive PR is rarely the catalyst for positive cash flow.
IBM with their infinite wisdom (KNOWING what happens when you create proprietary systems), came up with the greatest resolution. Coupled with their hardware know-how, why is anyone surprised that they won the bid due to eBay's high-load testing?
IBM is heading back towards BIG BLUENESS..even if only one meager step at a time...and to incorporate OpenSource solutions...how novel!
Well with these little buggars maybe we'll be able to save money at Christmas time when we all festively decorate our houses in all their glorious splendor! Worth some looking into anyway...
I guess I'll just have to set filters to deny anything with a.pro in it... just for the sheer hate of Medical Professionals in general...
besides...who actually LOOKS for dentists/gynecologists/opthamologists, etc on the internet?
You think I would distrust them anyless because they have a nifty website? GIVE ME A BREAK!
If they want their own community...someone go set them up a slashMD.org site =) and charge them a few bucks to throw advertising banners in the middle of articles and banners at the top of the screen...
for about a year now I have come home from work and the stress of teaching 260 overly hormonal teenagers to relax in front of my computer playing a few games of StarCraft... Computer games, muds, etc. have always been my relaxation tool...
During college I was the tester-of-code for a CS friend of mine. Each time he had an assignment I would be fruitlessly hanging out in his room and volunteer to see if his code was "bug-proof".
All this did was to make him an even MORE anal programmer...and thus when teaching me how to code, making damn sure I knew how to do it CLEANLY.
Books like these are why I dropped High-school Chemistry and ran headlong into Physics... MUCH more enjoyable and didn't have to memorize no damn periodic table!
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Assuming they are using the U.S. Mail service to solicit this false-renewl, are they not committing Mail Fraud? Or is it only fraud if they do not provide what they are offering and accept your money anyway?
Yes, you read that correctly...
for once, reading the article is actually more wasteful than posting on the topic without reading it, since pretty much everything contained in the article is housed in the "common-sense" sector of your brain just waiting to be released.
It might have been, 'time to post another flame attraction article', time or something, who knows, but this article is the most LAME I've read here.
Which isn't bad considering the 1000's I've read that were good-to-GREAT...just my humble opinion.
Apply to BE the manager in India...take some crash courses in Hindi at the local University, and kick it old-school in India, grub'n on all that delicious food!
Lease a Quickie Mart for 6 months.
Convert it into cubicle spaces.Leave room around the edges for cots.
Leave the Slurpie Machine and Microwave.
Hire the Indians to come and stay for 6 months.
the know-it-all-Lord of the Rings-guru-wannabe sitting next to me with his girlfriend explaining every damn scene to her, it's historical relevance and what each character had eaten for lunch that day, as well as when they went to the bathroom and what toilet paper they prefer to wipe with.
Bitter? Nah...just pissed off that assholes like that can't wait for the bloody DVD to give an entire commentary DURING the freaking movie!
I support speak freely adamently.
It allowed my wife(in Brasil) and I(in Washington State) to "speak freely" on pun intended.
And let me tell you it beats the hell out of $0.35/min long distance to Brasil.
It even had a nice little conference calling ability that was pretty cool.
Looks like one hell've a juicy apple to me!
Is it a Fuji or Granny Smith?
Unfortunately it seems to be the way many of the Baby-boomer generation think. Even though it was not the fault of the child, restrict the child's freedoms so this can't happen again, instead of educating the child and teaching them what to do when such an event occurs.
First he'd need to figure out a way to reconstruct the 'glow' that is NOT there, due to the silhouette caused by head being in front of my monitor.
My nephew was "approached" on an AOL kids chatroom, while at his grandma's house. I was visiting from college at the time and when he came and told me (he was 10) I promptly proceeded to tell the perverse idiot off and wrote an e-mail to AOL's cyber-patrol people(which I believe to be more of an automated mail system that gets grep'd for keywords rather than read) and never received a response.
His grandmother then refused to let him use the internet at all, and the computer for games only when someone else was in the office to supervise.
Sad, when a kid can't just be a kid anymore, on the net or anywhere else for that matter.
I agree.
My newly-wed wife is constantly telling me how I need to clean everything soooooooo thoroughly, and how bad bacteria is.
I keep telling her that what doesn't kill me makes me stronger, and keep having to point out that I have not been ill since I was 11yrs old, while she is constantly sick.
Actually invited a colleague's physics class
into my lab for them to pick a hero and do a report on the different abilities. The kids(high-school) loved it!
Now you know what your kids are being taught now days!
Binary with documentation/training
GPL the source...and give them a copy.
badda-bing badda-bang,
all parties involved are happy!
After touring Rio with my wife 3 times
and driving past(merely viewing distance)
the slums and hovels in Rio. The Simpson's episode was QUITE accurate!
Street kids "rob" you when you simply park your car. They are standing on the sidewalk when you park and when you come back you either pay them a buck for "taking care of your car" or they proceed to damage it either by breaking a window and running or scratching up the paint...so extortion I guess would be a better word than 'rob'.
As for the monkeys...I've only seen them at a lovely beach resort and they were only there to steal the food off of your plate when you went back to the buffet for 2nds.
kidnapping by unlicensed taxi?...haha even the licensed ones will drive you all over the city to get to your destination...but only if you don't speak Portugese...they will take advantage of an English speaking tourist until you make them aware that you know where you need to go and how to get there.
Rio's tourist board is full of crap and the Simpsons episode was dead-on.
David Packard illustrated, imho, The HP Way.
By tastefully posting a brief of his position and doing so without mud-slinging. Props to Junior.
"Precious few are ambivalent about Richard Stallman."
I guess I'm one of the "precious few".
I don't care what it's called as long as it
works like it aught to and doesn't lock up
on me in the middle of an application or game.
In my meager 3 years as a network admin/sysadmin
I've been root'd 3 times on Redhat systems, 0 on NT/Windows...
but the viral infections on the windows machines have caused a greater about of woe than the 3 root hacks on Linux.
Then again at the time I didn't know diddly about network/e-mail security...*shrugs* maybe I just got lucky.
Why should they release their API's?
So you or I can "fix" their bugs for them?
Modify our MS programs?
Tinker here and there...fiddle and faddle around?
Now, if they were to SELL their info...
oh but we all know that you'd just have to download Kazaa or some similar P2P software
in order to get access to it 10 minutes or less
after it was released...
(10 min to allow for driving time from store-->home)
So they REALLY have no material gain in releasing their API's. Sure they may retain a bulk-load of positive PR, but positive PR is rarely the catalyst for positive cash flow.
IBM with their infinite wisdom
(KNOWING what happens when you create proprietary systems), came up with the greatest resolution.
Coupled with their hardware know-how, why is anyone surprised that they won the bid due to eBay's high-load testing?
IBM is heading back towards BIG BLUENESS..even if only one meager step at a time...and to incorporate OpenSource solutions...how novel!
Well with these little buggars
maybe we'll be able to save
money at Christmas time when we
all festively decorate our houses
in all their glorious splendor!
Worth some looking into anyway...
I guess I'll just have to set filters .pro in it...
to deny anything with a
just for the sheer hate of Medical Professionals
in general...
besides...who actually LOOKS for dentists/gynecologists/opthamologists, etc
on the internet?
You think I would distrust them anyless because they have a nifty website? GIVE ME A BREAK!
If they want their own community...someone go set them up a slashMD.org site =)
and charge them a few bucks to throw advertising banners in the middle of articles and banners at the top of the screen...
for about a year now I have come
home from work and the stress of
teaching 260 overly hormonal teenagers
to relax in front of my computer playing
a few games of StarCraft...
Computer games, muds, etc. have always
been my relaxation tool...
Educate the Hotel People.
Explain to them what they want.
Explain to the the extra time/money/effort required.
Provide an alternate solution, or charge them out the wazoo =)
Enjoy =)
During college I was the tester-of-code
for a CS friend of mine. Each time he had
an assignment I would be fruitlessly hanging out in his room and volunteer to see if his code was "bug-proof".
All this did was to make him an even MORE anal programmer...and thus when teaching me how to code, making damn sure I knew how to do it CLEANLY.
Books like these are why
I dropped High-school Chemistry
and ran headlong into Physics...
MUCH more enjoyable and didn't have
to memorize no damn periodic table!