Van Halen used to have a clause in their performance contracts that they must be provided with a bowl of MM's with the brown ones picked out. What does 'fairness' have to do with a legal civil contract?
They also demanded that venue owners not set the band on fire, cause the building to collapse, or kill hundreds of their fans in a stampede for the exits. The brown M&Ms thing was just a lot safer and easier to check up on.
All Bush had to do on 9/11 was "look presidential". Sitting in a fucking classroom for 7.5 minutes listening to kids read "My Pet Goat" was not the actions of a true leader. All he had to do was politely excuse himself, and get into his armored limo and drive somewhere
But then he would have to spend the rest of his term not knowing what happened to the goat.
This change removes the exemption for buying a new phone under contract (and thus, at a discount) and then unlocking it.
Let's run some numbers here...
If a new phone, let's call it a J-Phone just as an example, costs $650 at full price, and I can enter into a three year contract to get it for $100 plus $80 a month, that's a discount?
$100 + (3 * 12) * $80 = $2980.
That's a discount of -$2330, or roughly $65 a month for service, interest, and miscellaneous fees, and even if you unlock your J-phone and take it to another carrier, you're still paying for it until the three year contract is up.
Except that "locked" phones are "locked" to a single carrier for the purpose of preventing the end user from swapping a SIM. "Jail-breaking" is an entirely different thing, and has no relation to carrier locks.
If you want to swap the SIM, you need to unlock the phone. If you want to install third party software on your iPhone, you need to jail-break it. It's easy to confuse the two terms, but they are not the same.
We all know that George Lucas would never stand for anything which smacked of racial prejudice and vulgar insinuations against Asians and Orientals as people with deceitful and criminal personalities.
Actually, when Mega requires me to use JavaScript local file access APIs just to read a public text-only release explaining that their web site is implemented quite well despite what Lee Hutchinson says, then I have no choice but to regard it as a failure on Mega's side.
Making a web server which is severely lacking in the ability to serve web pages is usually not what I would call a big success.
The perversity of the universe tends towards the maximum
Larry Niven (I think).
It's a restatement of Finagle's Law, which was first used by John Campbell in the 40s. Niven popularized it up in the 60s, but it was already old by then.
This petition, asking the White House to censure the prosecutor responsible for Aaron Swartz' felony case, will need a lot more signatures if they apply this standard to it. So now would be a good time to go sign it.
Tomorrow would be a good time too, since the limit only applies to _new_ petitions, not existing ones.
If you look at the link you provided, it clearly states that the goal was 25,000, not 100,000.
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If you read the article, the official Android documentation is nothing but an ad for Stack Overflow.
Try mixing Debian and Ubuntu repositories some time and see how big of a deal that is.
The irony is that a song called "Isn't it Ironic?" is not about irony.
Betteridge's Law of song titles clearly applies there.
Perhaps there should be a "Do-Not-Lie-Through-Your-Teeth" option for journalists.
It would have solved the same problem that Tesla's black box did.
In the UK its illegal for anyone to possess information that might be useful in commiting an act of terror. So that pretty much bans all knowledge
But it does explain a lot about Comprehensive Education.
Indeed. Without training, how is the dog going to know how to use the AR-15 safely?
A product called "Budweiser" has been making tiny amounts of alcohol intolerable to drinkers for years.
It's the "Chair Force Medal of Honor", isn't it?
Thanks for reading Wikipedia for us. Now we don't have to.
Do you really need ten pounds of MDMA?
Van Halen used to have a clause in their performance contracts that they must be provided with a bowl of MM's with the brown ones picked out. What does 'fairness' have to do with a legal civil contract?
They also demanded that venue owners not set the band on fire, cause the building to collapse, or kill hundreds of their fans in a stampede for the exits. The brown M&Ms thing was just a lot safer and easier to check up on.
As always, Van Snopes has the whole story.
Al Qaeda has a licensing department?
They're trying to keep up with the Taliban.
Where do you think the U.S. Military's funding comes from, anyway? Magical unicorn farts?
It comes from Japan and China. Do you have any other questions?
All Bush had to do on 9/11 was "look presidential". Sitting in a fucking classroom for 7.5 minutes listening to kids read "My Pet Goat" was not the actions of a true leader. All he had to do was politely excuse himself, and get into his armored limo and drive somewhere
But then he would have to spend the rest of his term not knowing what happened to the goat.
I propose "Jane's Law"
I thought that name was already taken, and had something to do with somebody always mentioning the really nice hat.
This change removes the exemption for buying a new phone under contract (and thus, at a discount) and then unlocking it.
Let's run some numbers here...
If a new phone, let's call it a J-Phone just as an example, costs $650 at full price, and I can enter into a three year contract to get it for $100 plus $80 a month, that's a discount?
$100 + (3 * 12) * $80 = $2980.
That's a discount of -$2330, or roughly $65 a month for service, interest, and miscellaneous fees, and even if you unlock your J-phone and take it to another carrier, you're still paying for it until the three year contract is up.
Who exactly is getting ripped off by this?
Except that "locked" phones are "locked" to a single carrier for the purpose of preventing the end user from swapping a SIM. "Jail-breaking" is an entirely different thing, and has no relation to carrier locks.
If you want to swap the SIM, you need to unlock the phone. If you want to install third party software on your iPhone, you need to jail-break it. It's easy to confuse the two terms, but they are not the same.
We all know that George Lucas would never stand for anything which smacked of racial prejudice and vulgar insinuations against Asians and Orientals as people with deceitful and criminal personalities.
That would be "Denny's".
Dropping pr0n instead would certainly make them change their minds about the US.
"These poor, capitalist women cannot even afford clothes! Glorious Leader would never allow this to happen here!"
Actually, when Mega requires me to use JavaScript local file access APIs just to read a public text-only release explaining that their web site is implemented quite well despite what Lee Hutchinson says, then I have no choice but to regard it as a failure on Mega's side.
Making a web server which is severely lacking in the ability to serve web pages is usually not what I would call a big success.
The perversity of the universe tends towards the maximum
Larry Niven (I think).
It's a restatement of Finagle's Law, which was first used by John Campbell in the 40s. Niven popularized it up in the 60s, but it was already old by then.
No, that kind of thing only works in Dwarf Fortress.
The problem is that those damn Elephants keep stepping on the infinite strip of tape and ruining my Turing Megaproject.
This petition, asking the White House to censure the prosecutor responsible for Aaron Swartz' felony case, will need a lot more signatures if they apply this standard to it. So now would be a good time to go sign it.
Tomorrow would be a good time too, since the limit only applies to _new_ petitions, not existing ones.
If you look at the link you provided, it clearly states that the goal was 25,000, not 100,000.
Really? 'catastrophic outrage'? People really need to get a grip. It's like calling someone a Nazi for minor offenses.
Indeed. What kind of person would over-react like that to something as simple as a change in the rules of a game?