The parent post doesn't know what he's talking about. I've lived in The US since 1976, and it doesn't cost any more here to call a cell phone than a land-line phone. For instance, if someone wants to call me at home or on my cell, it is the same price (usually free if you are local, long-distance if you are not local).
There is no penalty for calling a cell. The cellphone owner pays for both sending and receiving calls.
Weaselmancer said "manslaughter" which is not the same as "murder".
According to your document (I hate pdfs. Grrr.), negligent manslaughter (included in "other violent felonies") has a mean sentence of 33 months (2.75 years).
Granted, there are some of us who are... less than polite when it comes to their views
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I chock it up to "fear of all that is different."
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It's not fear of what is different. It's, as you say, that vegetarians have a tendency to be impolite.
Here's an example. I was sitting at a table at a wedding and one of the people at the table was a vegetarian. The wait staff messed up who had the vegetarian meal and accidentally set down a steak in front of said vegetarian. What do you think she did she do to address the situation? Do you think she politely informed the waiter that she had ordered the vegetarian entree and could he please correct the problem? No, that would be the normal thing to do. Instead, she let out a blood-curdling scream and started shrieking, "Get it away! Get it away!"
Now, is there any point in making a scene like that? If it really distressed her so much to see something that once went "Moo" put in front of her, she could have stood up, walked over to the waiter, and asked him to correct the problem. You want to know why the meat-eating public doesn't want to hear about your vegetarianism? It's experiences like that, coupled with moralistic lectures (we've heard them all before, believe me) that make us uninterested. You want meat-eaters to not be abraisive? Here's a hint: when you go out with us, simply order a meal that doesn't contain meat and keep your fucking lectures to yourself.
I'm afraid a 300 minute plan wouldn't last me a week, and most of my calls are to landlines, not mobiles. Sprint has so-so rates, but excellant flat rate pricing on internet service through the phone, and AT&T has really good deals for people that use 2000+ minutes with ease.
I know I must sound like a Verizon account rep at this point (I'm not), but I just looked at verizonwireless.com vs. attws.com and AT&T has 2200 minutes for $150 or 3200 minutes for $200 while Verizon has 2400 minutes for $150 or 3400 minutes for $200.
I'm still not thrilled that major opposition was their first reflex. Too many companies seem to initiate legal action first, then look at their market position and whether something is good or bad for them.
Verizon is a very large company (230,000 employees). I used to work for a big company once, and this is sorta how things work. It doesn't surprise me for a minute that Accounting's first reaction was "Hey! This is a government mandate and it's gonna cost us a lot of money! I'm calling Legal to put an end to this right quick!". It also doesn't surprise me that it took a while for the business analysts to finally get together with the techies, run the numbers, and say, "Oh wait! This number portability thing is actually gonna make us money. Somebody call Accounting and Legal and tell them to STFU already!".
Also, don't forget that a comporation's primary responsibility is to its shareholders, not its customers. You'll find that AT&T is no different from VZ in this respect.
4. Charges outrageous rates (I'm on them, and can't wait to switch in November).
Ho huh? I just looked at sprintpcs.com and verizonwireless.com and they both have 300 minute national plans for $35/mo, but Verizon gives you 1000 mobile to mobile minutes (in addition to the free night and weekend airtime). How does that make Verizon outrageous? Anyway, I'd be willing to pay more for Verizon because their network doesn't suck. I don't work for Vz, but I am a satisfied customer.
5. Doesn't charge for number portability because they don't offer it, and are fighting in court the possibility of having to.
6. As seen in this, will fight in court having to do anything that might benefit the consumer.
Look, they dropped their opposition to number portability months ago. Probably, because they realize they stand to gain many customers from it! They provide superior service for about the same price as other carriers. You have no idea how happy I am to have switched from Sprint to Verizon.
Funny that you mention that. Many years ago, when I was president of my fraternity house, a few people brought a trampoline to the house and set it up. Now, as a former gymnast, I thought it would be fun to have, but also as a former gymnast, I recognized the risk such an apparatus posed to kids in the neighborhood (never mind the drunkards I lived with).
A quick call to our insurance carrier settled what our responsibility would be to avoid a potentially huge liability:
Erect an 8-foot-high fence around the trampoline with a locking gate.
Keep the gate locked at all times, and
Place large signs on all fence walls which read, "DANGER! TRAMPOLINE!"
Needless to say, the trampoline was removed. But we did get a few laughs at dinner about that phone call.
For example, as mentioned, the *maximum* sentence you can receive for one count of copyright infringement is 60 months
To give an idea how this stacks up, my wife served on a jury which convicted a man of raping a 12-year-old girl. The sentence he received for one count of raping a child was 60 months (there were multiple counts, so his actual sentence was much longer). Hopefully that will put copyright infringement sentences into perspective.
Yes but do you go to the nursery and say "May I see your tulip?"
As a matter of fact, just last weekend I went into a nursery and said, "I'd like to buy an azalea to replace the azalea that my painter destroyed." Why should it matter that I searched for tulip or tulips?
Now obviously the only reason I bothered to respond was because the guy before me said search for tulip and, duh, I already knew that if I searched for tulip, I'd get many irrelevant results and I wanted to make a point. If I told my grandmother to google for tulips and she typed 'tulip' in the search box, she would get real confused to see ethernet drivers and not flowers. There were hardly any flowers in the top 10 results. If I looked in the dictionary under tulip, do you think in the first 10 definitions I'd find "a frickin' flower"?
Don't get me wrong, google is the only search engine I use since it is by far the best out there, but I think there might be a little room for improvement on this point. To 90% of the population, a tulip is a flower. Google really should have returned flower-related results for that one and only if I typed "tulip driver" should they have given me NIC-related results.
The reason the buying alcohol with a fake trick works is that if you show reasonably-close ID, then the clerk is no longer at fault if you're underage. Consider the difference between these two situations:
Officer: You just sold alcohol to a 16-year old. Did you card him? You: No Officer: You're in trouble, then.
vs.
Officer: You just sold alcohol to a 16-year old. Did you card him? You: Yes, and the picture looked like him. Officer: Well, it turns out it was his older brother. Try to be more careful next time.
At that point, it's the 16-year-old's fault for posessing a fake id and using it to misrepresent himself. Both are crimes in the US.
Also, it's in the store's best interest to sell to as many people as they can. After all, they're in the biz to make money. Not to enforce our puritanical drinking laws.
Ok, I'll bite. I googled 'tulip' and here are the first few results:
tulip.com - a Dutch PC manufacturer
www.tuliptoys.co.uk - a children's wooden gift store
www.goldentulip.com - a travel agency site
www.tulipfestival.org - The closest match so far: the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival
www.tulip.org - Reformed
Christian theological and teaching resources
Another tulip festival
Info on some Dutch university's licensing with the computer dealer referenced in #1
Linux and the "Tulip" NIC Architecture
Some Dutch company where I can buy tulip bulbs
Tulip Software, dedicated to the visualization of huge graphs
Now if I was looking for info on the tulip (the actual flower), would I be a little dismayed by the results? I mean, wow, that's pretty much the kind of crap I'd expect from AskJeeves.
As the crow flies, Washington National Airport is 3.2 miles from the White House. Assuming we "soft-wall" the White House and the US Capital building (3.6 miles from DCA), how near do you mean when you say 'near'? The planes gotta land somewhere.
Assuming that mid-air collisions are more likely where there is a greater density of air traffic (at places like airports), do you still think that these soft-walls are safe and that the "nearby soft-wall" situation is covered?
Well, it looks like you might be routing some requests to a different box or httpd server. At any rate, the server that I connected to looks like it is experiencing SSI issues because the EULA it's asking me to "sign" before doing the trial download is
"<!--#include file="license.txt"-->"
On the bright side, it is quite possibly the most easy-to-understand EULA I've ever read...:-)
System requirements for MoneyDance (according to their website): 64 Megabytes of RAM Windows 95 or higher 166 Mhz or higher Processor
Apparently those requirements won't cut it for your webserver, eh?
Anyhow, I am downloading it right now and they are serving at ~ 10K/sec even though their front page just ain't loadin'. If you just want to try to download the thing, just point the 'ol browser here (windows version) and give 'em a try.:-)
Then your mailserver must keep a connection open for 5 more seconds than required. Each connection consumes system resources (which resources depends on your OS, but likely candidates are RAM, INODEs, extra connections that count toward the limits set at the OS or MTA level, you get the idea), so you would effectively be hurting your own server.
This is why some busy websites choose to disable keepalives or set the keepalive timeout to something short like 1 second. If the webserver keeps that connection open while waiting on the user, the resources consumed are more than the resources of creating and destroying that conection. Better to get that connection closed ASAP.
Or did you assume that the spammer would be nice and wait for one attempt to fail before starting the next?:-)
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Seriously. For more information than you ever wanted to know about why "virii" is incorrect, please see here.
Thank you.
The parent post doesn't know what he's talking about. I've lived in The US since 1976, and it doesn't cost any more here to call a cell phone than a land-line phone. For instance, if someone wants to call me at home or on my cell, it is the same price (usually free if you are local, long-distance if you are not local).
There is no penalty for calling a cell. The cellphone owner pays for both sending and receiving calls.
According to your document (I hate pdfs. Grrr.), negligent manslaughter (included in "other violent felonies") has a mean sentence of 33 months (2.75 years).
But I feel real, real bad about it now. I'm sorry.
Or buy it online if you're too lazy. (thanks google)
See http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18574# c14 (no clickable link, 'cuz clickable links to bugzilla from slashdot don't work).
You'll notice that someone implementing it didn't really help.
It's not fear of what is different. It's, as you say, that vegetarians have a tendency to be impolite.
Here's an example. I was sitting at a table at a wedding and one of the people at the table was a vegetarian. The wait staff messed up who had the vegetarian meal and accidentally set down a steak in front of said vegetarian. What do you think she did she do to address the situation? Do you think she politely informed the waiter that she had ordered the vegetarian entree and could he please correct the problem? No, that would be the normal thing to do. Instead, she let out a blood-curdling scream and started shrieking, "Get it away! Get it away!"
Now, is there any point in making a scene like that? If it really distressed her so much to see something that once went "Moo" put in front of her, she could have stood up, walked over to the waiter, and asked him to correct the problem. You want to know why the meat-eating public doesn't want to hear about your vegetarianism? It's experiences like that, coupled with moralistic lectures (we've heard them all before, believe me) that make us uninterested. You want meat-eaters to not be abraisive? Here's a hint: when you go out with us, simply order a meal that doesn't contain meat and keep your fucking lectures to yourself.
Also, don't forget that a comporation's primary responsibility is to its shareholders, not its customers. You'll find that AT&T is no different from VZ in this respect.
Don't you have an Owner's Title Insurance policy? That should take care of that.
- Is a US company
- Doesn't have a sucky network like T-Mobile
- Doesn't change me for number portability.
I guess this is why I am not pissed (that means upset, Mr. UK Person).Do you keep 5 months worth of backups? Well? Do ya?
Well, cut them some slack, then!
A quick call to our insurance carrier settled what our responsibility would be to avoid a potentially huge liability:
- Erect an 8-foot-high fence around the trampoline with a locking gate.
- Keep the gate locked at all times, and
- Place large signs on all fence walls which read, "DANGER! TRAMPOLINE!"
Needless to say, the trampoline was removed. But we did get a few laughs at dinner about that phone call.Duh.
Now obviously the only reason I bothered to respond was because the guy before me said search for tulip and, duh, I already knew that if I searched for tulip, I'd get many irrelevant results and I wanted to make a point. If I told my grandmother to google for tulips and she typed 'tulip' in the search box, she would get real confused to see ethernet drivers and not flowers. There were hardly any flowers in the top 10 results. If I looked in the dictionary under tulip, do you think in the first 10 definitions I'd find "a frickin' flower"?
Don't get me wrong, google is the only search engine I use since it is by far the best out there, but I think there might be a little room for improvement on this point. To 90% of the population, a tulip is a flower. Google really should have returned flower-related results for that one and only if I typed "tulip driver" should they have given me NIC-related results.
The reason the buying alcohol with a fake trick works is that if you show reasonably-close ID, then the clerk is no longer at fault if you're underage. Consider the difference between these two situations:
Officer: You just sold alcohol to a 16-year old. Did you card him?
You: No
Officer: You're in trouble, then.
vs.
Officer: You just sold alcohol to a 16-year old. Did you card him?
You: Yes, and the picture looked like him.
Officer: Well, it turns out it was his older brother. Try to be more careful next time.
At that point, it's the 16-year-old's fault for posessing a fake id and using it to misrepresent himself. Both are crimes in the US.
Also, it's in the store's best interest to sell to as many people as they can. After all, they're in the biz to make money. Not to enforce our puritanical drinking laws.
- tulip.com - a Dutch PC manufacturer
- www.tuliptoys.co.uk - a children's wooden gift store
- www.goldentulip.com - a travel agency site
- www.tulipfestival.org - The closest match so far: the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival
- www.tulip.org - Reformed
Christian theological and teaching resources
- Another tulip festival
- Info on some Dutch university's licensing with the computer dealer referenced in #1
- Linux and the "Tulip" NIC Architecture
- Some Dutch company where I can buy tulip bulbs
- Tulip Software, dedicated to the visualization of huge graphs
Now if I was looking for info on the tulip (the actual flower), would I be a little dismayed by the results? I mean, wow, that's pretty much the kind of crap I'd expect from AskJeeves.As the crow flies, Washington National Airport is 3.2 miles from the White House. Assuming we "soft-wall" the White House and the US Capital building (3.6 miles from DCA), how near do you mean when you say 'near'? The planes gotta land somewhere.
Assuming that mid-air collisions are more likely where there is a greater density of air traffic (at places like airports), do you still think that these soft-walls are safe and that the "nearby soft-wall" situation is covered?
Ha. Sounds a lot like what I said when I got pulled over last Saturday.
Honeshtly ossifer... I'm 38, and have never taked a drink in my life. Hey! Whatsh with se handcuffsh?
Well, it looks like you might be routing some requests to a different box or httpd server. At any rate, the server that I connected to looks like it is experiencing SSI issues because the EULA it's asking me to "sign" before doing the trial download is
:-)
"<!--#include file="license.txt"-->"
On the bright side, it is quite possibly the most easy-to-understand EULA I've ever read...
Depends on whom you ask, I suppose. My guess is that they indicate Win95 because I was downloading the Windows version of the product.
:-)
No OS flames, please. Believe me, if I could convince my company to use Linux instead of Windows I would.
System requirements for MoneyDance (according to their website):
:-)
64 Megabytes of RAM
Windows 95 or higher
166 Mhz or higher Processor
Apparently those requirements won't cut it for your webserver, eh?
Anyhow, I am downloading it right now and they are serving at ~ 10K/sec even though their front page just ain't loadin'. If you just want to try to download the thing, just point the 'ol browser here (windows version) and give 'em a try.
Then your mailserver must keep a connection open for 5 more seconds than required. Each connection consumes system resources (which resources depends on your OS, but likely candidates are RAM, INODEs, extra connections that count toward the limits set at the OS or MTA level, you get the idea), so you would effectively be hurting your own server.
:-)
This is why some busy websites choose to disable keepalives or set the keepalive timeout to something short like 1 second. If the webserver keeps that connection open while waiting on the user, the resources consumed are more than the resources of creating and destroying that conection. Better to get that connection closed ASAP.
Or did you assume that the spammer would be nice and wait for one attempt to fail before starting the next?