PayPal just went out of their way to screw someone and take their money? That's so unlike them. This must be the first time that PayPal has ever done anything like this. They're usually so respectable.
You need to get out and read more books. If you had, you might have spotted the reference.
Also -- and I am only saying this because I care -- there are a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market today that are just as tasty as the real thing.
Perhaps the terms of service should use some terms as well, like these:
Restrictions on Use. The Service is a consumer grade service and is not designed for or intended to be used for any commercial purpose. You may not resell, re-provision or rent the Service, (either for a fee or without charge) or allow third parties to use the Service via wired, wireless or other means. For example, you may not provide Internet access to third parties through a wired or wireless connection or use the Service to facilitate public Internet access (such as through a Wi-Fi hotspot), use it for high volume purposes, or engage in similar activities that constitute such use (commercial or non-commercial). If you subscribe to a Broadband Service, you may connect multiple computers/devices within a single home to your modem and/or router to access the Service, but only through a single Verizon-issued IP address. You also may not exceed the bandwidth usage limitations that Verizon may establish from time to time for the Service, or use the Service to host any type of server. Violation of this section may result in bandwidth restrictions on your Service or suspension or termination of your Service.
I don't think anyone can disagree that 77 TB a month, an _average_ of roughly 250 megabits per second, constitutes "[using the service] for high volume purposes".
This is the same guy who spent over a decade refusing to report his expenses as a City Councillor, kept his election spending secret until a municipal auditor forced him to reveal that he had spent far more than he was legally allowed to, and was impeached last year after taking bribes from companies that did business with the city. Rather than pay back $3150 (about one week's pay for him) when asked to and making the entire issue go away, he insisted on a lengthy court battle which cost the city and province over $100,000, demonstrated that he really didn't know what the words "Conflict of Interest" meant even when they did bite him in the butt (repeatedly), and was finally removed from office by the Ontario Superior Court. A second, taxpayer-funded appeal overturned that decision, allowing his royal Fordness to continue showing respect for taxpayers and cutting the waste out of government spending.
Doing things the hard way isn't just a habit for Rob Ford, it's a way of life. He has a history of not doing the right thing even after every possible alternative has been exhausted -- He just makes up new things to do wrong. When confronted with a middle-aged woman dressed as Xena who tried to interview him for the CBC, he had a choice between talking to her or saying "No comment" and walking away. Instead, he called 911 and demanded that the police arrest her because, after all, he pays their salaries. When the story went public he insisted that he had done nothing wrong and certainly hadn't requested special treatment. All he needed to do to prove this was to ask that the recording of his 911 call be released to the public and he would be completely in the clear and never have to worry about it again.
Know what? I still haven't heard that recording. And I'm not holding my breath on seeing any kind of drug test or medical report either.
What Mayor Ford doesn't want to admit is that the video is real, but it was taken while he was in the middle of secret negotiations with rival Toronto and Scarborough gangs. Ford was trying to broker a peace treaty and also recruit the gang members to work as the city's new sanitation engineering team, allowing him to cut the fat at city hall and pass on the savings to the taxpayers he respects.
Due to the tense nature of the meetings and the highly strung personalities present, Ford was loathe to bring something so provocative and weapon-shaped as his asthma inhaler, so he had no choice but to settle for a large glass pipe filled with prescription corticosteroids.
To minimize the possibility of rival gangs finding out about the meetings, all discussions were conducted in code. When he said "Justin Trudeau’s a fag", what he really meant was "I agree with your interpretation of paragraph seventeen, but I still feel that it contradicts the spirit of section seven which is also laid out in the preamble" and "those kids are just effing minorities" was a code phrase for "We cannot compromise on the issue of banked sick days, and have you ever been to the Russian Tearoom on Adelaide? Their curried chicken salad is to die for."
It's all quite obvious when you look at it. It's just the vast left wing media conspiracy that is trying to blow it out of proportion and make it look like something inappropriate.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but is this the core of the problem?
"I contract people to do a set amount of work at a fixed rate, and have no problem getting them to work for me. After that's done I offer them a new contract where they continue working for an unspecified time and not get paid at all, but for some reason they refuse to do it. What is wrong with them?"
If this is really what you're asking, and you actually have to ask it, then I think I see where the problem lies.
The problem is that you're comparing Star Trek (1966 - 1969) to television from this century.
Seriously, compare the role of Uhura to anything else that was on the air or in the theatres at that time.
She wasn't the mom or the maid. She wasn't blonde. She was a female character in a position of responsibility, even if her job was just to repeat everything the computer says, and did things which were more important than baking cookies for the male characters or screaming whenever the villain showed up.
You didn't see much of that on "The Lucy Show", "The Jackie Gleason Show", "The Beverley Hillbillies", "Hogan's Heroes", "Hawaii Five-O", "Casino Royale", "Thoroughly Modern Millie", or "Lost in Space".
Then contact your credit card company to tell them the rental car agency made bad charges to the card.
And they will send you a copy of a rental contract with your signature on it in which you agreed to pay any fines.
Next bright idea?
Then pay with cash next time.
Please, tell me the name of this rental company which is so kind and generous that they will hand you the keys to a car in exchange for only a small handful of cash and not even ask to see a credit card. I would like to see them while they are still in business.
Right. "Ryan Ackroyd, Jake Davis and Mustafa al-Bassam were charged" and as a result of this "Cleary also pleaded guilty to possession [...]"
So the missing detail here is "Who's Cleary"? Everyone else gets to have a full name while Cleary is just the fourth crewmember who beams down wearing a red shirt and gets eaten by a monster.
Is it so hard for Debian to have two main distros like "Debian Stable" and "Debian Mainstream"? Everybody will be happy.
That's a good idea, but can I suggest a small change? Make three of them and call them stable, unstable and testing. Then you can have one distribution that is well tested and reliable which people can use as a reliable, long lasting platform, one which is more up to date while still being fairly solid, and another which can have the latest features but which may not have all the issues straightened out. The alternative, having two completely different distributions called "Debian Enterprise Linux" and "Debian Fedora", has already been tried by another group and has somehow failed to bring about an age of universal peace and contentment.
I've heard another post-self-mortification words like "you know we've got 236272927 packages in here". Oh yes, it's scaring, you are using only 5% of these packages and 95% of users - about 15 I think... Who cares about the rest? Why are they so blind?
If they were so blind, it would be because they weren't paying attention to the popularity contest. Yes, 15% of packages are installed on 95% of the systems surveyed. What of it? Not all users have the same needs. 95% of the adult male population of the USA is under 190cm is height. Does it also trouble you that the remaining 5% are able to find pants in their size?
How do you expect to get close air support without communication (and thus network) ?
According to every movie I have ever seen about the Vietnam war, the best way is to have your newly appointed Lieutenant shout his own map coordinates at a hand cranked radio and hope that the pilots will figure out what he meant.
Since the Cylons were able to dominate the colonial computer networks because they manufactured most of the key parts, wasn't the lesson of Battlestar Galactica more like "Hey, maybe it might not be such a good idea to outsource production of all of your really important defense stuff to the people you are going to use it to defend yourself against?"
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Not beating the puppies is something we can put off until the next sprint.
Without any trouble I can just download the song. Why can't the MAfia do a site like that?
You may be in the wrong country. These complaints are coming from the British Pornographic Industry, not the Music And Film Industry of America.
You're assuming that it would behave better when installed on a genuine copy of Windows 8.
PayPal just went out of their way to screw someone and take their money? That's so unlike them. This must be the first time that PayPal has ever done anything like this. They're usually so respectable.
Railroads are starting to fence off their switch and storage yards, and put cameras high up on polls,
What I don't understand is who keeps voting for all of those cameras, and how come they do so well in the polls.
You need to get out and read more books. If you had, you might have spotted the reference.
Also -- and I am only saying this because I care -- there are a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market today that are just as tasty as the real thing.
But a metric fucktonne is equal to 1.12 US fucktons so you have to be specific.
"Server" is a bad term
You're right, it is.
Perhaps the terms of service should use some terms as well, like these:
Restrictions on Use. The Service is a consumer grade service and is not designed for or intended to be used for any commercial purpose. You may not resell, re-provision or rent the Service, (either for a fee or without charge) or allow third parties to use the Service via wired, wireless or other means. For example, you may not provide Internet access to third parties through a wired or wireless connection or use the Service to facilitate public Internet access (such as through a Wi-Fi hotspot), use it for high volume purposes, or engage in similar activities that constitute such use (commercial or non-commercial). If you subscribe to a Broadband Service, you may connect multiple computers/devices within a single home to your modem and/or router to access the Service, but only through a single Verizon-issued IP address. You also may not exceed the bandwidth usage limitations that Verizon may establish from time to time for the Service, or use the Service to host any type of server. Violation of this section may result in bandwidth restrictions on your Service or suspension or termination of your Service.
I don't think anyone can disagree that 77 TB a month, an _average_ of roughly 250 megabits per second, constitutes "[using the service] for high volume purposes".
Well, here's the video. Judge for yourself. Send it to the Batcave and let the crime computer analyze it if you want.
I don't see any indication that any part of that video has been faked at all.
This is the same guy who spent over a decade refusing to report his expenses as a City Councillor, kept his election spending secret until a municipal auditor forced him to reveal that he had spent far more than he was legally allowed to, and was impeached last year after taking bribes from companies that did business with the city. Rather than pay back $3150 (about one week's pay for him) when asked to and making the entire issue go away, he insisted on a lengthy court battle which cost the city and province over $100,000, demonstrated that he really didn't know what the words "Conflict of Interest" meant even when they did bite him in the butt (repeatedly), and was finally removed from office by the Ontario Superior Court. A second, taxpayer-funded appeal overturned that decision, allowing his royal Fordness to continue showing respect for taxpayers and cutting the waste out of government spending.
Doing things the hard way isn't just a habit for Rob Ford, it's a way of life. He has a history of not doing the right thing even after every possible alternative has been exhausted -- He just makes up new things to do wrong. When confronted with a middle-aged woman dressed as Xena who tried to interview him for the CBC, he had a choice between talking to her or saying "No comment" and walking away. Instead, he called 911 and demanded that the police arrest her because, after all, he pays their salaries. When the story went public he insisted that he had done nothing wrong and certainly hadn't requested special treatment. All he needed to do to prove this was to ask that the recording of his 911 call be released to the public and he would be completely in the clear and never have to worry about it again.
Know what? I still haven't heard that recording. And I'm not holding my breath on seeing any kind of drug test or medical report either.
A mayor is not a random anonymous schmuck so he presumably has opponents, rivals, or even enemies.
Would one of these stand to gain from a fake movie? Is it worthwhile to them? Such cold analysis is a reasonable approach, I think.
Okay, that narrows it down to "Everybody who lives in downtown Toronto". Clearly you're on to something.
What Mayor Ford doesn't want to admit is that the video is real, but it was taken while he was in the middle of secret negotiations with rival Toronto and Scarborough gangs. Ford was trying to broker a peace treaty and also recruit the gang members to work as the city's new sanitation engineering team, allowing him to cut the fat at city hall and pass on the savings to the taxpayers he respects.
Due to the tense nature of the meetings and the highly strung personalities present, Ford was loathe to bring something so provocative and weapon-shaped as his asthma inhaler, so he had no choice but to settle for a large glass pipe filled with prescription corticosteroids.
To minimize the possibility of rival gangs finding out about the meetings, all discussions were conducted in code. When he said "Justin Trudeau’s a fag", what he really meant was "I agree with your interpretation of paragraph seventeen, but I still feel that it contradicts the spirit of section seven which is also laid out in the preamble" and "those kids are just effing minorities" was a code phrase for "We cannot compromise on the issue of banked sick days, and have you ever been to the Russian Tearoom on Adelaide? Their curried chicken salad is to die for."
It's all quite obvious when you look at it. It's just the vast left wing media conspiracy that is trying to blow it out of proportion and make it look like something inappropriate.
If the weather satellite fails, we can just get our weather from the Internet like everybody else.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but is this the core of the problem?
"I contract people to do a set amount of work at a fixed rate, and have no problem getting them to work for me. After that's done I offer them a new contract where they continue working for an unspecified time and not get paid at all, but for some reason they refuse to do it. What is wrong with them?"
If this is really what you're asking, and you actually have to ask it, then I think I see where the problem lies.
Sure they have: the grandparent just made some.
And you just referred to them. That's a second source, so we have confirmation. Let's print it!
The problem is that you're comparing Star Trek (1966 - 1969) to television from this century.
Seriously, compare the role of Uhura to anything else that was on the air or in the theatres at that time.
She wasn't the mom or the maid. She wasn't blonde. She was a female character in a position of responsibility, even if her job was just to repeat everything the computer says, and did things which were more important than baking cookies for the male characters or screaming whenever the villain showed up.
You didn't see much of that on "The Lucy Show", "The Jackie Gleason Show", "The Beverley Hillbillies", "Hogan's Heroes", "Hawaii Five-O", "Casino Royale", "Thoroughly Modern Millie", or "Lost in Space".
But don't listen to me, listen to what Dr. Martin Luther King had to say about it.
Isn't there already a perfectly good forum for outing suspicious people in Florida?
Then contact your credit card company to tell them the rental car agency made bad charges to the card.
And they will send you a copy of a rental contract with your signature on it in which you agreed to pay any fines.
Next bright idea?
Then pay with cash next time.
Please, tell me the name of this rental company which is so kind and generous that they will hand you the keys to a car in exchange for only a small handful of cash and not even ask to see a credit card. I would like to see them while they are still in business.
So this unfortunate image should be gone before it causes anyone from NASA any embarrassment.
Right. "Ryan Ackroyd, Jake Davis and Mustafa al-Bassam were charged" and as a result of this "Cleary also pleaded guilty to possession [...]"
So the missing detail here is "Who's Cleary"? Everyone else gets to have a full name while Cleary is just the fourth crewmember who beams down wearing a red shirt and gets eaten by a monster.
We should be proud the US, "only 6% of the world's population, using 25% of it's energy" invents 50% of everything invented every year.
Indeed. And brave Americans like John Steele are at the forefront of protecting that 50% from the world's other 94% who want to take away.
Go USA.
Is it so hard for Debian to have two main distros like "Debian Stable" and "Debian Mainstream"? Everybody will be happy.
That's a good idea, but can I suggest a small change? Make three of them and call them stable, unstable and testing. Then you can have one distribution that is well tested and reliable which people can use as a reliable, long lasting platform, one which is more up to date while still being fairly solid, and another which can have the latest features but which may not have all the issues straightened out. The alternative, having two completely different distributions called "Debian Enterprise Linux" and "Debian Fedora", has already been tried by another group and has somehow failed to bring about an age of universal peace and contentment.
I've heard another post-self-mortification words like "you know we've got 236272927 packages in here". Oh yes, it's scaring, you are using only 5% of these packages and 95% of users - about 15 I think... Who cares about the rest? Why are they so blind?
If they were so blind, it would be because they weren't paying attention to the popularity contest. Yes, 15% of packages are installed on 95% of the systems surveyed. What of it? Not all users have the same needs. 95% of the adult male population of the USA is under 190cm is height. Does it also trouble you that the remaining 5% are able to find pants in their size?
How do you expect to get close air support without communication (and thus network) ?
According to every movie I have ever seen about the Vietnam war, the best way is to have your newly appointed Lieutenant shout his own map coordinates at a hand cranked radio and hope that the pilots will figure out what he meant.
Since the Cylons were able to dominate the colonial computer networks because they manufactured most of the key parts, wasn't the lesson of Battlestar Galactica more like "Hey, maybe it might not be such a good idea to outsource production of all of your really important defense stuff to the people you are going to use it to defend yourself against?"
If this kind of thing gets people arrested and tried as adults, how come this guy is still walking free?