The problem isn't that Microsoft sounds like other radio stations, the problem is (to quote the article) "MSN Radio promotes these online channels as being "like'' a favorite local station, "but with fewer ads, no DJ chatter and less repetition.'" They're using the actual call letters from the stations.
I agree on asking for a manager. We had to ship our laptop in for the end-of-the-warranty-fix-everything jobbie, and we needed the case, the hard drive, and the DVD-ROM replaced. When I called, the tech support guy just kept repeating "We don't replace hard drives." After hearing this about ten times, I asked to speak to a manager, since I KNEW the hard drive was covered. Turns out, what he meant was "We don't replace hard drives in-house, we ship it to you for you to replace."
They got my laptop back to me damned fast, though, when replacing the case...shipped it out on Friday afternoon, got it back Monday morning.
If you mention this at the blood donation center and tell them that the only way you will donate is if you get a very experienced phlebotomist, they will oblige you if there is someone available.
And if there's not, leave and come back another day - that's what I did for quite a while after having my vein blown.
Obviously you don't understand that volunteer work lessens the burden that is placed on our government to provide for the needy. (Plus I have a strong belief that money/time given freely returns itself to the giver - and taxation prevents giving freely)
I (and my husband also) would rather provide for ourselves than have our money taken from us for an emergency that may never happen. This is why we make the choice to carry large amounts of life and disability insurance. If something happens to one of us (which has happened, both in the case of my husband becoming ill and when I was put on bed rest during my pregnancy), we have a safety net that will last for quite some time before we would have to rely on the government for assistance.
You are obviously very resentful about your situation, or you would not try to put words in my mouth, i.e. 'So, we should volunteer instead of look for work?. Perhaps your attitude is causing problems in your job search.
Do you really know what a serving size is? A serving size is not that monster chicken breast - it's usually less than half of what a restaurant serves you.
It's safe for someone who doesn't have cholesterol problems to eat up to seven eggs a week, and for someone with mild cholesterol problems to eat up to four eggs a week.
There is the occasional case where someone has fallen into poverty through unfortunate circumstances, i.e. illness - but these cases are the rare exception to the rule. What are YOU doing to help your friend?
If everyone who needed some sort of assistance had to actually go and ask a person or a charity (i.e. a church) for aid every time they needed it instead of sitting around waiting for the checks and the food stamps to come in the mail, there would be MUCH less abuse of the system.
I did volunteer work for a few years in a job that put me in contact with quite a few people receiving welfare, disability, and food stamps. Before working in that job, I considered myself very liberal. After about a year of that job, I realized how wrong I had been. The system gets greatly abused with very little oversight of how welfare recipients spend their money - and the attitude (to quote one of the clients) was "It's just food stamps - who cares if I buy Cheetos?" In my opinion, if someone is poor enough that they have to receive food stamps on a regular basis, they generally are not capable enough of making life decisions to earn the right to choose what food they eat.
I don't currently do any volunteer work because my service to society right now is to make sure that my son grows up to be a responsible, productive person - but I will be returning to volunteer work when he is old enough that he doesn't need so much of my attention. I think if more people did volunteer work, that there would be less need for government-subsidized handouts.
(BTW, my husband became ill to the point where he couldn't work for a couple of years about 8 years ago - he never went on any kind of government-sponsored aid. It can be done.)
If you're poor enough to be receiving welfare and/or food stamps, you have enough free time to watch your kids and/or swap time watching other people's kids while they're playing outside. Kids that are young enough to get in trouble while they're outside shouldn't be playing outside unsupervised (I speak from experience).
Plus, the TV is NOT the only option for playing inside, dammit!
It's not just a matter of the name - it's that thousands of people are already using @gmail.com email addresses.
I was seriously considering dropping my email account through register.com and switching everything to gmail - the interface is clean and easy to use, it has nice search functions, it has a nice storage capacity, it is fairly bug-free, and the page response times are very fast - unlike my register.com webmail access, which is incredibly slow.
I probably won't switch to Ebooks until a waterproof reader is developed. I like to read in the bathtub and I frequently fall asleep while doing so (which is why I only buy paperbacks, since a $6.99 loss is easier to take than a $24.99 loss).
Plus, I like to read while my toddler son plays in the bathtub or in the sprinklers in the backyard. A few drops of water or a wet hand on a paperback book don't send me into a panic, but a wet hand slapping down on my reader screen would probably flip me out.
It's not IQ related, it's a certain mindset. It's the same mindset that got us 'It depends on what the definition of is is'. (I'm not meaning this as a political statement, btw - it was just the first example that came to mind.)
There's a difference between driving down the road and getting distracted by a pretty woman vs. having the pretty woman in your car giving you a hand job while you drive...
Called (800)DIRECTV, asked to speak to a CSR supervisor, was connected to a woman named Jill. She denied any knowledge of the issue and kept insisting that I call Sony. I did talk her into issuing a $79 credit (which is what we paid for a new unit Sunday since we didn't want to risk missing Six Feet Under). She claimed that they are getting NO calls regarding this issue and that there is no way DirecTV is responsible. I offered to point her to some websites where people have carefully documented the problem and what causes it, including what software version caused this, but she wasn't interested in any websites that weren't sponsored by DirecTV.
So, everyone, please call and ask to speak to Jill the customer service supervisor to let them know this is happening to you too, since she is obviously unaware of the issue.
The doctor I was referred to does both PRK and lasik. The primary benefits were that they can do very large corrections and that since there is no 'flap' there is nothing to possibly come loose later during skydiving, surfing, etc.
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The problem isn't that Microsoft sounds like other radio stations, the problem is (to quote the article) "MSN Radio promotes these online channels as being "like'' a favorite local station, "but with fewer ads, no DJ chatter and less repetition.'" They're using the actual call letters from the stations.
The nail file that is included would probably not be allowed. It could be used to poke someone's eye out.
I agree on asking for a manager. We had to ship our laptop in for the end-of-the-warranty-fix-everything jobbie, and we needed the case, the hard drive, and the DVD-ROM replaced. When I called, the tech support guy just kept repeating "We don't replace hard drives." After hearing this about ten times, I asked to speak to a manager, since I KNEW the hard drive was covered. Turns out, what he meant was "We don't replace hard drives in-house, we ship it to you for you to replace."
They got my laptop back to me damned fast, though, when replacing the case...shipped it out on Friday afternoon, got it back Monday morning.
If you mention this at the blood donation center and tell them that the only way you will donate is if you get a very experienced phlebotomist, they will oblige you if there is someone available.
And if there's not, leave and come back another day - that's what I did for quite a while after having my vein blown.
When will it learn to say "You got mail!" ?
When the IQ of the gmail users drops by about 50 points?
Obviously you don't understand that volunteer work lessens the burden that is placed on our government to provide for the needy. (Plus I have a strong belief that money/time given freely returns itself to the giver - and taxation prevents giving freely)
I (and my husband also) would rather provide for ourselves than have our money taken from us for an emergency that may never happen. This is why we make the choice to carry large amounts of life and disability insurance. If something happens to one of us (which has happened, both in the case of my husband becoming ill and when I was put on bed rest during my pregnancy), we have a safety net that will last for quite some time before we would have to rely on the government for assistance.
You are obviously very resentful about your situation, or you would not try to put words in my mouth, i.e. 'So, we should volunteer instead of look for work?. Perhaps your attitude is causing problems in your job search.
And they have no one that they can swap child care time with? No one is watching their kids while they are at work?
And I repeat - the TV is NOT the only indoor entertainment!
Do you really know what a serving size is? A serving size is not that monster chicken breast - it's usually less than half of what a restaurant serves you.
It's safe for someone who doesn't have cholesterol problems to eat up to seven eggs a week, and for someone with mild cholesterol problems to eat up to four eggs a week.
There is the occasional case where someone has fallen into poverty through unfortunate circumstances, i.e. illness - but these cases are the rare exception to the rule. What are YOU doing to help your friend?
If everyone who needed some sort of assistance had to actually go and ask a person or a charity (i.e. a church) for aid every time they needed it instead of sitting around waiting for the checks and the food stamps to come in the mail, there would be MUCH less abuse of the system.
I did volunteer work for a few years in a job that put me in contact with quite a few people receiving welfare, disability, and food stamps. Before working in that job, I considered myself very liberal. After about a year of that job, I realized how wrong I had been. The system gets greatly abused with very little oversight of how welfare recipients spend their money - and the attitude (to quote one of the clients) was "It's just food stamps - who cares if I buy Cheetos?" In my opinion, if someone is poor enough that they have to receive food stamps on a regular basis, they generally are not capable enough of making life decisions to earn the right to choose what food they eat.
I don't currently do any volunteer work because my service to society right now is to make sure that my son grows up to be a responsible, productive person - but I will be returning to volunteer work when he is old enough that he doesn't need so much of my attention. I think if more people did volunteer work, that there would be less need for government-subsidized handouts.
(BTW, my husband became ill to the point where he couldn't work for a couple of years about 8 years ago - he never went on any kind of government-sponsored aid. It can be done.)
If you're poor enough to be receiving welfare and/or food stamps, you have enough free time to watch your kids and/or swap time watching other people's kids while they're playing outside. Kids that are young enough to get in trouble while they're outside shouldn't be playing outside unsupervised (I speak from experience).
Plus, the TV is NOT the only option for playing inside, dammit!
That is possible - but all that would prove is that the original owner had rights to the gmail.com domain and sold those rights to google.
How many years has ICQ been in beta? I know it's not the same thing, but I don't think any of us expect our UINs to vanish from underneath us.
OK, here's something interesting - google has had gmail.com registered since 1995. Who is considered 'first' in this case?
I'm not going to go look, but I would be willing to bet that gspot.com and g-spot.com are already taken...
It's not just a matter of the name - it's that thousands of people are already using @gmail.com email addresses.
I was seriously considering dropping my email account through register.com and switching everything to gmail - the interface is clean and easy to use, it has nice search functions, it has a nice storage capacity, it is fairly bug-free, and the page response times are very fast - unlike my register.com webmail access, which is incredibly slow.
Yeah, the DARE program worked really well as an example...
Seems to me that teaching this in the schools gives the kids something to rebel against later.
I probably won't switch to Ebooks until a waterproof reader is developed. I like to read in the bathtub and I frequently fall asleep while doing so (which is why I only buy paperbacks, since a $6.99 loss is easier to take than a $24.99 loss).
Plus, I like to read while my toddler son plays in the bathtub or in the sprinklers in the backyard. A few drops of water or a wet hand on a paperback book don't send me into a panic, but a wet hand slapping down on my reader screen would probably flip me out.
No, I meant what I said. Look here.
It's not IQ related, it's a certain mindset. It's the same mindset that got us 'It depends on what the definition of is is'. (I'm not meaning this as a political statement, btw - it was just the first example that came to mind.)
There's a difference between driving down the road and getting distracted by a pretty woman vs. having the pretty woman in your car giving you a hand job while you drive...
I'd much rather block all stupid people who open executable attachments and zip files containing executable code...
The only 'hack' we have enabled is the 30-second skip (which is more of an undocumented feature). We save our hacks for our X-Boxes, thank you...
Called (800)DIRECTV, asked to speak to a CSR supervisor, was connected to a woman named Jill. She denied any knowledge of the issue and kept insisting that I call Sony. I did talk her into issuing a $79 credit (which is what we paid for a new unit Sunday since we didn't want to risk missing Six Feet Under). She claimed that they are getting NO calls regarding this issue and that there is no way DirecTV is responsible. I offered to point her to some websites where people have carefully documented the problem and what causes it, including what software version caused this, but she wasn't interested in any websites that weren't sponsored by DirecTV.
So, everyone, please call and ask to speak to Jill the customer service supervisor to let them know this is happening to you too, since she is obviously unaware of the issue.
Not to mention the extra time the driver of the emoticar is spending trying to get the right emotion to display...
The doctor I was referred to does both PRK and lasik. The primary benefits were that they can do very large corrections and that since there is no 'flap' there is nothing to possibly come loose later during skydiving, surfing, etc.