Really, my friend bought a car on his American Express while in college
My sister did this (but it was Visa).
Her car died, and she needed a new one. My dad checked out a Hyundai at the local dealer (this was back in the '80s when they had just come to the US), and told her to get one -- He figured she'd finance it and he'd send her a check (didn't believe in credit).
Instead, she put it on his Visa card (it was the minimal $4995 model). My dad paid it off in full, but had a bit of a surprise there.
The big secret, I mean the one they really keep under wraps to try to keep the nuclear genie in the bottle... Is that plutonium and uranium are delicious
It's not that big of a secret... I mean, why do you think they call it "Yellowcake"?
I said something to that effect (abstaining/voting for someone else), but noted that given CA's huge number of electoral votes, in a non-landslide situation, it could seriously affect the voting for VP (most likely).
Therefore it's <VIZZINI>inconceivable</VIZZINI> that a candidate would choose a running mate from the same state.
Can't happen, per the 12th Amendment. The Pres and VP must be from separate states.
Actually, the wording of the amendment is such that they *CAN* be from the same states, but then the Electoral college reps from that state would have to vote for somebody from a different state for either Pres or VP.
Given that CA has a humungous number of electoral votes, you could wind up with a different VP than was nominated at the convention (not that this would necessarly be a bad thing).
This is why Cheney had to change his official residence to WY from TX prior to the 2000 election.
I just took my car in for service, and the service rep's name was "Paul McCartney". I asked him if he got a lot of flak over the name, and then I dropped it.
Many more years ago than I'd care to discuss, I used to pull graveyards at the local 7-11. Corporate and Franchise policy back then was, that if you were robbed, you gave up the entire store, on the theory that you were more valuable than the cash or store contents.
I know it was probably a CYA to avoid lawsuits from clerks, but it was still a sensible and sane policy.
If you want something to happen, try reporting the situation to the Beijing branch manager, and CC a higher-up of appropriate stature at the home office
Did you even RTFS? That's exactly what he did.
My response (CC'd to our CFO) was to ask for copies of all receipts and serial numbers for the software they're using. and see what happens.
We did that once. We had a subnet of a Motorola Delta 3600 with seven PC workstations (one running SCO OpenDesktop -- this was oldSCO).
The Delta 3600 was snowwhite, the Unix PC was doc (because it knew everything), and the rest were the remaining dwarves.
We also had another 4 node subnet, named Brahma (main unix server, for development, hence the creator), Vishnu, Kali and Shiva.
But the best one had some basis in fact. We had a subnet where the first machine was named "ulysses", because it had a long and torturous journey to get there (it took forever for approval, etc...), so we named the rest of the nodes after the Odyssey. We had "Ajax" as our PC Unix server (it was a short name, plus it was a pun on the "White Tornado"), "Circe", "Scylla", and when we added a second PC Unix server (this was a kick-ass Pentium Pro 200 -- circa mid 1990s), I called it "Helen", as it was fast, and Helen of Troy being a fast woman was the cause of the Trojan war.
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Really, my friend bought a car on his American Express while in college
My sister did this (but it was Visa).
Her car died, and she needed a new one. My dad checked out a Hyundai at the local dealer (this was back in the '80s when they had just come to the US), and told her to get one -- He figured she'd finance it and he'd send her a check (didn't believe in credit).
Instead, she put it on his Visa card (it was the minimal $4995 model). My dad paid it off in full, but had a bit of a surprise there.
But that would be because 50 of them used broadband, which is like using 100 56K modem lines.
The big secret, I mean the one they really keep under wraps to try to keep the nuclear genie in the bottle... Is that plutonium and uranium are delicious
It's not that big of a secret... I mean, why do you think they call it "Yellowcake"?
I said something to that effect (abstaining/voting for someone else), but noted that given CA's huge number of electoral votes, in a non-landslide situation, it could seriously affect the voting for VP (most likely).
Therefore it's <VIZZINI>inconceivable</VIZZINI> that a candidate would choose a running mate from the same state.
Oh geez, Peg, why can't you remember that? I'm going to the Nudie Bar.
Oh wait, the press doesn't like reporting on real news any more.
Are you saying that Britney isn't "real news"? <emo-kid>LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!!!!!</emo-kid>
Wasn't he Speaker of the House, not Senate Majority Leader?
Can't happen, per the 12th Amendment. The Pres and VP must be from separate states.
Actually, the wording of the amendment is such that they *CAN* be from the same states, but then the Electoral college reps from that state would have to vote for somebody from a different state for either Pres or VP.
Given that CA has a humungous number of electoral votes, you could wind up with a different VP than was nominated at the convention (not that this would necessarly be a bad thing).
This is why Cheney had to change his official residence to WY from TX prior to the 2000 election.
May I suggest that you use ZIP 90001 instead? 12345 is an east coast ZIP.
Depends. Do you have a NIC card in your ATM machine that you put your Personal PIN Number into?
I just took my car in for service, and the service rep's name was "Paul McCartney". I asked him if he got a lot of flak over the name, and then I dropped it.
Did you even RTFA?
Boeing had done the analysis in depth. Lindbergh was the suit from Pan Am, who had to be convinced.
But as it stands now, you basically have "The cable company" or "The phone company"
Or, as Lily Tomlin's Ernestine put it so succinctly back in the late '60s and early '70s
We don't care. We don't have to. We're the Phone Company
Doesn't matter though, assuming TFS is correct, the WSJ is absolutely right.
Thank you.
Many more years ago than I'd care to discuss, I used to pull graveyards at the local 7-11. Corporate and Franchise policy back then was, that if you were robbed, you gave up the entire store, on the theory that you were more valuable than the cash or store contents.
I know it was probably a CYA to avoid lawsuits from clerks, but it was still a sensible and sane policy.
Anything else I'm missing?
Items 4 and 5?
No, actually, because companies need customers to survive.
But in the case of Google, you're not the customer, you're the product. Google's customers are the advertisers, and they're selling your eyeballs.
As Captain Renault would say, "I'm shocked! SHOCKED!"
If you want something to happen, try reporting the situation to the Beijing branch manager, and CC a higher-up of appropriate stature at the home office
Did you even RTFS? That's exactly what he did.
My response (CC'd to our CFO) was to ask for copies of all receipts and serial numbers for the software they're using. and see what happens.
Don't be such a Marklar.
Not really, my last class in QM was 25+ years ago. I just read the lay press (I'm fond of Gribbin and Kaku).
Where's BadAnalogyGuy when you need him?
We did that once. We had a subnet of a Motorola Delta 3600 with seven PC workstations (one running SCO OpenDesktop -- this was oldSCO).
The Delta 3600 was snowwhite, the Unix PC was doc (because it knew everything), and the rest were the remaining dwarves.
We also had another 4 node subnet, named Brahma (main unix server, for development, hence the creator), Vishnu, Kali and Shiva.
But the best one had some basis in fact. We had a subnet where the first machine was named "ulysses", because it had a long and torturous journey to get there (it took forever for approval, etc...), so we named the rest of the nodes after the Odyssey. We had "Ajax" as our PC Unix server (it was a short name, plus it was a pun on the "White Tornado"), "Circe", "Scylla", and when we added a second PC Unix server (this was a kick-ass Pentium Pro 200 -- circa mid 1990s), I called it "Helen", as it was fast, and Helen of Troy being a fast woman was the cause of the Trojan war.
Informative? INFORMATIVE???? What non-Futurama watching person modded this informative?