"Luckily I live in a country where that kind of sharp practice is illegal.... I'm actually surprised it's legal in the US - don't you have consumer protection over there?"
Here in America, we don't take kindly to that commie pinko "consumer protection" crap.
If the bank left piles of money outside, ripe for the taking, then yes, it would be the bank's fault. I'm sure they would be found negligent in some way.
I'm not saying that it's an analogy for the hacking situation- it's not.
Could poor computer security (the equivalent of a bank leaving piles of your money outside) be considered some form of negligence on the part of the computer operator?
If any of you have a tape of last week's episode of Buffy and would be willing to part with it (or make a copy) please let me know. I missed it due to some unforseen circumstances... reply to this and I'll post some contact information. thanks.
another twist to this scam that I've heard of involves a second person.. they pay with a $20 first, get their change, and leave.
The twist is that the $20 has some sort of writing on the back, like a phone number or something on it. So when they pay with a $10, and get change back for a $10, they say "no, I paid with a $20- it's right there, it has some writing on the back."
the cashier pulls out the $20, sees the writing, and assumes they must have made a mistake.
extra $10 in the scammers pocket.
though if you have to split it for $5, it hardly seems worth it (not that it seemed worth it for $10, but still)
There are various ways a widescreen TV can format a square 4:3 TV image to show on the widescreen, but in my opnion they all look really bad.
You can either get the black vertical bars on the sides of the screen, stretch the square to fit the rectangle so everything looks horribly distorted, chop off the top and bottom of the picture, etc.
Personally, I'd much rather watch a widescreen image on a square TV (with the black bars on the top and the bottom) than a square image on a widescreen TV.
"Every time there's some advance in technology, there's doom and gloom predicted about it. Have any doom and gloom predictions actually come true?"
Ask the citizens of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Halabja, those living around Three Mile Island or Chernobyl... they could probably answer better than I could.
"It would also fix problems like trying to explain how uncharted islands happen in the 21st century."
They could always just update the story accordingly...
you have to look at the historical perspective. 100 years ago monsters came from unknown lands. 50 years ago they came from radioactivity. Today they're genetically engineered.
Look at what they did with Spiderman (not technically a monster I guess, but the radioactive spider was changed to a genetically engineered spider.)
So they'll probably make King Kong a genetic experiment gone horribly wrong.. that's my theory.
sweatshops are illegal in other countries too. That's what makes them sweatshops- they violate even the lax wage, hour and conditions laws of the country they are located in.
That and the whole murder-and-arrest the workers workers who try to organize thing.
Also, there *are* plenty of sweatshops in the US. And yes, they are illegal.
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Then they'll start paying in Walmart scrip, I imagine.
"Luckily I live in a country where that kind of sharp practice is illegal.... I'm actually surprised it's legal in the US - don't you have consumer protection over there?"
Here in America, we don't take kindly to that commie pinko "consumer protection" crap.
that's because the entire country is filled with evil people.
every last citizen- evil to the core.
If the bank left piles of money outside, ripe for the taking, then yes, it would be the bank's fault.
I'm sure they would be found negligent in some way.
I'm not saying that it's an analogy for the hacking situation- it's not.
Could poor computer security (the equivalent of a bank leaving piles of your money outside) be considered some form of negligence on the part of the computer operator?
she had a pink bow.
If any of you have a tape of last week's episode of Buffy and would be willing to part with it (or make a copy) please let me know. I missed it due to some unforseen circumstances... reply to this and I'll post some contact information.
thanks.
-J
another twist to this scam that I've heard of involves a second person.. they pay with a $20 first, get their change, and leave.
The twist is that the $20 has some sort of writing on the back, like a phone number or something on it. So when they pay with a $10, and get change back for a $10, they say "no, I paid with a $20- it's right there, it has some writing on the back."
the cashier pulls out the $20, sees the writing, and assumes they must have made a mistake.
extra $10 in the scammers pocket.
though if you have to split it for $5, it hardly seems worth it (not that it seemed worth it for $10, but still)
Embiggens is a perfectly cromulent word.
I think the poster was trying to claim that the two of them were ex-evil, which is a pretty dubious claim.
There are various ways a widescreen TV can format a square 4:3 TV image to show on the widescreen, but in my opnion they all look really bad.
You can either get the black vertical bars on the sides of the screen, stretch the square to fit the rectangle so everything looks horribly distorted, chop off the top and bottom of the picture, etc.
Personally, I'd much rather watch a widescreen image on a square TV (with the black bars on the top and the bottom) than a square image on a widescreen TV.
If a human was the size of a VW Beetle, how many Big Macs worth of fat would be in their body?
don't forget the boat chase
anything written in a language other than assembly just shows laziness on the part of the programmer.
one of the passwords at a company I used to work at was "no clue"
so when I was a newbie, asking everyone "what's the password?"
"no clue"
"who does know it then?"
"Every time there's some advance in technology, there's doom and gloom predicted about it. Have any doom and gloom predictions actually come true?"
Ask the citizens of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Halabja, those living around Three Mile Island or Chernobyl... they could probably answer better than I could.
in Soviet Russia, the universe parallels YOU.
actually the parallel universe sounds a lot like Soviet Russia. Wouldn't that be crazy?
"It would also fix problems like trying to explain how uncharted islands happen in the 21st century."
They could always just update the story accordingly...
you have to look at the historical perspective.
100 years ago monsters came from unknown lands.
50 years ago they came from radioactivity.
Today they're genetically engineered.
Look at what they did with Spiderman (not technically a monster I guess, but the radioactive spider was changed to a genetically engineered spider.)
So they'll probably make King Kong a genetic experiment gone horribly wrong.. that's my theory.
Usually it's one or the other.
sweatshops are illegal in other countries too.
That's what makes them sweatshops- they violate even the lax wage, hour and conditions laws of the country they are located in.
That and the whole murder-and-arrest the workers workers who try to organize thing.
Also, there *are* plenty of sweatshops in the US. And yes, they are illegal.
has anyone been able to teach a monkey how to drive?
it ain't human.
If each application pretty much has their own version of the DLLs, doesn't that defeat the purpose of having shared libraries anyway?
Promo merchandise = more advertising.
So they "pay" you to advertise for them with products that advertise for them.
Personally, if I'm going to sell my soul I'm going to do it for cash.
"Take into account that only 40% of the voting population actually casted ballots and you realize that apathy actually got him the chair. "
Now where have I seen a similar situation, maybe somewhere closer to home?
gee, if they *say* all this information will be handled appropriately, then it must be so!
I can't imagine this power being abused at all.
I always give my name as Pupupu.
As in:
"Pupupu-party of 3, your table is ready"
Then the nickname Papa Pupupu started....