you are correct. and there is also an absurd condition that happens in those states when a person is exonerated.
I recall a year or two back the story of a guy who spent a sizable (5yrs?) duration in prison before he was found to have been convicted on bad evidence, bogus testimony, fly in the typewriter, etc.
Anyway, this guy was found to be wrongly accused and totally innocent. He was released and cleared of all charges. Not just had his sentence commuted, but ALL charges dropped, apology from the DA, etc.
So he is released with a handshake and apology from the warden, only to be told "oh, by the way, about that room and 3 squares a day we gave you for the last few years... Here's a bill for your stay. Will that be Visa, Mastercard or Discover?"
I never heard what happened to that guy... Last I heard he was still fighting the validity of the "bill".
And your point is? its still Apple controlling Apple's sites and services; no big deal.
My point is that companies control their own stuff, some more than others. Where I would have issues is when Company A starts attempting to control the content on Company B's website because they dont like the otherwise honest and legal (and painful) factual content.
If Apple were threatening the Consumer Reports folks with a lawsuit, etc. Then I would agree, they are doing bad things.
Welcome to America, where you are free to be a douche, even if it does piss people off.
...I wonder how they managed to screw up so badly. Some internal testing had to show that iPhone 4 signal reception isn't as good as previous version were...
Several have mentioned the video of Kevin Smith which is funny. and VERY telling. (and puts this story in absolute perfect frame of reference)
I am also reminded of a story Dennis Miller tells from his days at SNL.
Apparently the time Prince played SNL, it was back when Miller was a veteran and a minor celeb in his own right. At one point he is backstage, and so is Prince.everyone is hanging out waiting and watching. All of the sudden, a prince bodyguard moves across the room to Dennis and says " excuse me, Prince would prefer that you not look at him." Dennis said he just looked at the bodyguard, then around the bodyguard to prince and said something to the effect of "oh, come on, prince baby, give me a break!" (to prince).prince smirked and realized he wasnt gonna get by with his pompous crazy act w Miller.
I still cant hear his song "lets go crazy" without replacing the chorus words in my mind of "im batshiat crazy!"/napoleon complex? he makes Napoleon look normal.
my guy says with a 12 page C&D, somebody gets paid by the hour, and was in on the fact its a parody.
I know they must defend thier TMs, but 12 pages? geez.
I can see it now:
exec: "we need to defend our TM. send them a C&D THIS INSTANT!"
lawyer: "but sir, I am not so sure..."
exec: "Nevermind YOU! DO IT!"
lawyer: "ok, but this could take a while sir, it could be VERY complex." (picks up phone and dials) hello, travel agent? extend my vacation to the french Riviera by a week, and upgrade my room to a suite, mmmkay?"
The taxpayers are exactly who should be punished. They elected a set of officials who apparently believe it's okay to spy on families in their own homes....
RIIIIGHT.... and your sister should go to jail for child abuse because she married a guy that 5 years into the relationship started drinking and then suddenly snapped, and beat the kids severely. Since he was beating the kids and she CHOSE to marry him, she therefore is just as liable for the abuse to the kids as he is, from the first unforseen blows, with no allowances for hindsight (eg she left him after the first time he became abusive).
Using your logic, the above scenario makes sense too.
I think the individuals responsible for the decision should be brought up on criminal charges PERSONALLY, and not as a member of the administration. Intent or no, this was clearly a bad idea dreamed up by a warped individual.
So why in the hell are we not nuking them all? why leave the males? So they can go find females that havent yet penetrated the perimeter and reproduce?
I say nuke them all from orbit. And biting black flies too.. The island where I vacation every year in Candada is rife with the buggers. you can see dozens of swarms of skeeters the size of a small house (the swarm not the skeeters) hovering near the tops of the treelined fields at dusk, and the flies along the beach in some areas make it impossible to inhabit without a beekeepers suit (they bite through tshirts). One year I had to run a 1/4 mile off the beach because I was being swarmed by the flies. I could feel them bouncing off the back of my head as I ran... not fun times.
How can anyone appoint such a moron as a vice principal ?
In order to get his stupid ass out of the classroom where he was doing damage to the kids daily.
I have seen this in business alot. If you cant fire the person for some reason you simply elevate them "out of reach" so they dont mess things up.
For example, the owner's nephew is lousy at sales and customer service and is alienating key customers. So you simply promote him to VP of teacups and cozies, thus removing him from any customer interaction. Problem solved! (somewhat)
Some redress is in order. I haven't been that young since the sixties, but if it had happened to me, believe me, my family would have made damn sure there were consequences to that school and the arrogant fools who apparently "administer" it. You really need to acquire a little empathy for the kid: he suffered a terrifying experience through no fault of his own whatsoever, at the hands of someone who would better serve the school by slapping burgers in the lunchroom. You think that boy is going to walk away from this unscathed?
Why do you think they are recommending counseling? Its because the school seriously F'd up and now they have scarred the poor kid.
So its not "youre a menace to society" type of counselling, but instead "You just saw your entire family slaughtered with a hatched before your eyes" type of counselling.
Do these people even know what the word "maximum" means?
THe same marketing genuses that think that "small" doesnt exist anymore:
Me: "... and a small fry." McWorker: "I'm sorry, we dont have small. Only Medium, Large, and Extra Large." Me:"um, you cant technincally have a medium without a small as medium generally means 'in the middle'. Since there is nothing smaller than a medium, medium cant really be a medium size and is really a small." McWorker: *confused look* Me: "fine, gimme a goddamned "medium" then! (And of course when I get my order, the paper envelope that is holding my fry is the same size it was 20 years ago when it was a small.)
I tried it for XP and its AMAZING when paired with dyndns.org.
However it is totally useless for Vista and higher due to video driver issues. When I attempted to use it on a vista PC, I would literally only get screen updates every 10-30 seconds. Needless to say it wasnt practical. I felt like I was operating the mars rover (click... wait, wait, wait, click... wait, wait wait. etc)
Its a known issue that at last count they were working on a fix for (which involved downloading and installing a driver on the fly, then uninstalling it as the program closed)
if they can get the new vista/7 driver issues resolved that would be my recommendation.
... a little thing called "Personal Freedom" otherwise known as Liberty.
Personal freedom/liberty does have its limits.
So you are saying you are free to do ANYTHING, regardless of its impact on others? I dont think that is how it works.
I do recall one old saying that should come into play here... "The right to swing your fist ends at the tip of my nose." AKA go ahead and smoke those 6 packs a day, just don't do it around sensitive electronics cuz it'll gum up the works prematurely.
So if I liked surfing the web on my Dell notebook while I soak in the bathtub, and my wet hands drip water into the unit damaging it, Dell should be required to fix it under their standard warranty, right? A little dihydrogen monoxide shouldnt hurt, should it? After all, its my RIGHT to use the device however I see fit.
although I agree with apple, the reasoning they use is BS.
(I used to be a bench tech and have seen tons of things I would consider abusive inside PCs. I even voided several warranties because of it.)
These are the same fanbois that bitch that a PROPERLY engineered device is too big, too ugly, etc.
Honestly, from all I have seen and read, the xbox is just in too small of a case. its all heat related issues. Trouble is as consumers, if they made it a little bigger, gave it larger fans, better cooling vents, etc.* we'd be up in arms that "its too bulky. if I wanted something this big I'd buy a computer!" but wait boys and girls, it IS a computer; its just a uni-tasker as my hero Alton Brown would say.
So the cut goes both ways. Never let Marketing have too much say in product design; Give them too much leeway and they'll F it up.
*or M$ owned up to the failed heat paste and corrected it. Trouble is thanks to lawyering, if they actually DID the right thing and admitted a design fault the'd be sued into oblivion becuase they sold a crap device. Instead they just say "nothing to see here... move along. Here's a free repair!" and appease the masses.
you must have missed the point. It was my FIRST PC. I was clueless to your uber-geekness knowlege.
The point was that many devices are all the same inside for reduced production costs, and that the price of the model changes with a "flip of a switch" that enables or disables the features you are/arent paying for.
Just like my systems management software or my helpdesk software. when I fork over my $$ to upgrade the user count or the number of systems it monitors, the only thing changing is a serial number.... nothing else.
Exactly. Back in the day, I was agonizing over my first computer to buy... the Packard Bell 486/33DX or the 486/33SX which was considerably cheaper.
After I got home, being the good inquisitive geek, I was looking through the manual, and I stumbled upon a reference to a jumper setting: SX=pins 1-2/DX=pins 2-3.
On a whim I moved the jumper to the DX position, and sure enough it posted as the more expensive PC.
We blast a filament with the energy of the ENTIRE grid for a microsecond. we then "save" energy?
Isnt that kinda like spending an extra $20 to buy a coupon to save 5$ on a product? How is that more efficient?
I can appear to be more efficient as a manager by making my underlings work longer hours behind the scenes. That still doesnt make it more efficient in reality (just in perception). Sure, you saw me do something really fast and efficient, but that doesnt mean that the entire energy used to complete the project is actually less due to hidden "costs".
This reminds me of hydrogen vehicles. "but hydrogen burns so efficiently! Its the energy of the future because it is so efficient!!!!" Yet everyone forgets that it costs so freakin much to CREATE (refine) hydrogen that the final output of hydrogen energy can actually be a NEGATIVE result (e.g. 5 units of coal energy to create/refine enough hydrogen to create 4 units of work).
"the road to hell is paved with good intentions"/yes, I know thats not an accurate quote but I am using it anyway.
if you check the statistics, child abductions* have actually DROPPPED since 1950.
The difference is the instant-on, worldwide news networks. It used to be some kid got abducted once every month (WAG=Wild Ass Guess, only an example) and nobody outside the city knew about it; Therefore according to the rest of the country, nothing ever happened. Now a kid gets abducted every 3 months (another WAG), and suddenly since it hits the WWW and international headline news media, OMG!!!!! we are worse off than we were in 1950!!!! OMFG!!! BEWAAAAAREEE OF THE FREAKS!!!!!STRANGER DANGER!!! STRANGER DANGER!!!
So are we really worse off than 1950, or are we just more acutely aware of what is going on around the world? Based on the statistics, I think its the latter.
I look forward to cautiously allowing my kids (toddlers now) to have the same freedoms I did as a kid. Letting them run wild in the 'hood for hours, and only check in once in a while, etc.
Granted, I am not in the same rural environment as my childhood, but I am not about to chain my kids to the house simply because we arent surrounded by cornfields.
Get a life helicopter parents!
*assuming strangers abducting kids, excluding relatives, etc that run off with them due to custody disputes, ec.
My money is on the new age "You're special, everyone is a winner, here have a ribbon JUST for showing up and participating" and "we cant have valedictorians because it might make the average students feel bad" mentalities.
We have coddled the youth of today into unrealistic expectations of the world.
Instead of preparing them for the world by saying, "You played really well today, too bad you didnt win. Work hard and maybe you can win the next time." We are saying "winning doesnt matter! You are special and great JUST because you tried."
Sorry sparky. No matter what your public school indoctrination told you, "try" is NOT on par with "succeed".
Now these kids are learning the hard way as they are receiving the equivalent of being thrown off a dock into 20' of freezing water so they can learn to swim.
I dont think its so much actually wanting said organ back, as much as its laying the precedent (if thats the correct word) for the basis for his monetary demand.
I am sure he doesnt expect her to give back the organ, but is asking for it first shows what he REALLY wants, but will settle for somethign else comperable instead since thats not feasible.
Its like the restaurant owner asking for the food back or the bill to be paid when he discovers you dont have any $$. He knows he cant get the food back, so the question is more academic than anything.
how about the "you're the site's 2,000,000th visitor. click here for your prize!" banner ads? Funny thing... several of these sites I have been the 2 millionth visitor every time I visit for the past month, and no matter which computer or internet connection I use I still am the 2M'th visiitor.
I especially like seeing the ads for dating sites where they stole users profile pictures to use them as examples of who is in your area that "wants to meet you". Funny thing; I travel alot on business. There is one very memorable user picture that I have seen "in my area" as I surf from hotels all over the eastern half of the country, every time she is in my city. At least some of those sites have started putting disclaimers of "photos are for illustrative purposes only" in fine print. Better but still not good.
This reminds me of one of the dating sites where a whistleblower came out a while back telling the story of how they were instructed by management to watch for expiring accounts, and when someone appeared ready to drop off the system they would send an email from a bogus user account feigning interest in the member. This would prompt the member to renew for fear of losing contact with this possible newfound love. Once the account was renewed the customer service person would stop corresponding with the person because the bait was taken and they had their money.
And I too have received those classmates emails. too bad I was a social outcast for the most part and those I see with classmates accounts generally I dont care about (and they probably dont remember me anyway). Luckilly I am smart enough to know better so I just ignore them.
Besides, now that I think back, I remember being a gold member and getting "you have a new message" email from the system and not finding anything in my inbox. I cant remember what the help desk's response was, or if there even was one when I asked about it.
"Being ripoffreport, "disgruntled employee" has a rather broad definition that could also often mean "customer who should have known better.""
True. but either way it still means they took an insane amount of $$ (IMHO) from SOMEBODY, and that reinforces the suspected business model.
So whether the report came from a disgruntled lackey that took the money, or the disgruntled customer that paid the money is irrelevant (for this discussion). Either way they are douchebags that are contributing to the litter problem in our country.
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you are correct. and there is also an absurd condition that happens in those states when a person is exonerated.
I recall a year or two back the story of a guy who spent a sizable (5yrs?) duration in prison before he was found to have been convicted on bad evidence, bogus testimony, fly in the typewriter, etc.
Anyway, this guy was found to be wrongly accused and totally innocent. He was released and cleared of all charges. Not just had his sentence commuted, but ALL charges dropped, apology from the DA, etc.
So he is released with a handshake and apology from the warden, only to be told "oh, by the way, about that room and 3 squares a day we gave you for the last few years... Here's a bill for your stay. Will that be Visa, Mastercard or Discover?"
I never heard what happened to that guy... Last I heard he was still fighting the validity of the "bill".
And your point is? its still Apple controlling Apple's sites and services; no big deal.
My point is that companies control their own stuff, some more than others. Where I would have issues is when Company A starts attempting to control the content on Company B's website because they dont like the otherwise honest and legal (and painful) factual content.
If Apple were threatening the Consumer Reports folks with a lawsuit, etc. Then I would agree, they are doing bad things.
Welcome to America, where you are free to be a douche, even if it does piss people off.
...I wonder how they managed to screw up so badly. Some internal testing had to show that iPhone 4 signal reception isn't as good as previous version were...
Easy. All of their testers are right handed. ;)
Really?
How about you come back when they are censoring OTHER sites and pulling down bad reviews from 3rd party websites with such nonsense as DMCA takedowns.
Until then, dont waste your bandwidth as its a non-issue, and status quo with MANY sites.
Next thing you are going to tell me is that there is astroturfing going on in places like Amazon, etc. /snark
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Several have mentioned the video of Kevin Smith which is funny. and VERY telling. (and puts this story in absolute perfect frame of reference)
I am also reminded of a story Dennis Miller tells from his days at SNL.
Apparently the time Prince played SNL, it was back when Miller was a veteran and a minor celeb in his own right. At one point he is backstage, and so is Prince.everyone is hanging out waiting and watching. All of the sudden, a prince bodyguard moves across the room to Dennis and says " excuse me, Prince would prefer that you not look at him." Dennis said he just looked at the bodyguard, then around the bodyguard to prince and said something to the effect of "oh, come on, prince baby, give me a break!" (to prince).prince smirked and realized he wasnt gonna get by with his pompous crazy act w Miller.
I still cant hear his song "lets go crazy" without replacing the chorus words in my mind of "im batshiat crazy!" /napoleon complex? he makes Napoleon look normal.
my guy says with a 12 page C&D, somebody gets paid by the hour, and was in on the fact its a parody.
I know they must defend thier TMs, but 12 pages? geez.
I can see it now:
exec: "we need to defend our TM. send them a C&D THIS INSTANT!"
lawyer: "but sir, I am not so sure..."
exec: "Nevermind YOU! DO IT!"
lawyer: "ok, but this could take a while sir, it could be VERY complex." (picks up phone and dials) hello, travel agent? extend my vacation to the french Riviera by a week, and upgrade my room to a suite, mmmkay?"
"We're gonna need alot more lemons...."
We now get MRSA from foliage? Thats a new one to me. Would you mind showing your work?
They'll do more good to ban the doctors' neckties than this load of rubbish.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/25/health/main619496.shtml
The taxpayers are exactly who should be punished. They elected a set of officials who apparently believe it's okay to spy on families in their own homes. ...
RIIIIGHT.... and your sister should go to jail for child abuse because she married a guy that 5 years into the relationship started drinking and then suddenly snapped, and beat the kids severely. Since he was beating the kids and she CHOSE to marry him, she therefore is just as liable for the abuse to the kids as he is, from the first unforseen blows, with no allowances for hindsight (eg she left him after the first time he became abusive).
Using your logic, the above scenario makes sense too.
I think the individuals responsible for the decision should be brought up on criminal charges PERSONALLY, and not as a member of the administration. Intent or no, this was clearly a bad idea dreamed up by a warped individual.
So why in the hell are we not nuking them all? why leave the males? So they can go find females that havent yet penetrated the perimeter and reproduce?
I say nuke them all from orbit. And biting black flies too.. The island where I vacation every year in Candada is rife with the buggers. you can see dozens of swarms of skeeters the size of a small house (the swarm not the skeeters) hovering near the tops of the treelined fields at dusk, and the flies along the beach in some areas make it impossible to inhabit without a beekeepers suit (they bite through tshirts). One year I had to run a 1/4 mile off the beach because I was being swarmed by the flies. I could feel them bouncing off the back of my head as I ran... not fun times.
How can anyone appoint such a moron as a vice principal ?
In order to get his stupid ass out of the classroom where he was doing damage to the kids daily.
I have seen this in business alot. If you cant fire the person for some reason you simply elevate them "out of reach" so they dont mess things up.
For example, the owner's nephew is lousy at sales and customer service and is alienating key customers. So you simply promote him to VP of teacups and cozies, thus removing him from any customer interaction. Problem solved! (somewhat)
Some redress is in order. I haven't been that young since the sixties, but if it had happened to me, believe me, my family would have made damn sure there were consequences to that school and the arrogant fools who apparently "administer" it. You really need to acquire a little empathy for the kid: he suffered a terrifying experience through no fault of his own whatsoever, at the hands of someone who would better serve the school by slapping burgers in the lunchroom. You think that boy is going to walk away from this unscathed?
Why do you think they are recommending counseling? Its because the school seriously F'd up and now they have scarred the poor kid.
So its not "youre a menace to society" type of counselling, but instead "You just saw your entire family slaughtered with a hatched before your eyes" type of counselling.
"Max"
"Max Plus"
"Max Turbo"
Do these people even know what the word "maximum" means?
THe same marketing genuses that think that "small" doesnt exist anymore:
Me: "... and a small fry."
McWorker: "I'm sorry, we dont have small. Only Medium, Large, and Extra Large."
Me:"um, you cant technincally have a medium without a small as medium generally means 'in the middle'. Since there is nothing smaller than a medium, medium cant really be a medium size and is really a small."
McWorker: *confused look*
Me: "fine, gimme a goddamned "medium" then!
(And of course when I get my order, the paper envelope that is holding my fry is the same size it was 20 years ago when it was a small.)
I tried it for XP and its AMAZING when paired with dyndns.org.
However it is totally useless for Vista and higher due to video driver issues. When I attempted to use it on a vista PC, I would literally only get screen updates every 10-30 seconds. Needless to say it wasnt practical. I felt like I was operating the mars rover (click... wait, wait, wait, click... wait, wait wait. etc)
Its a known issue that at last count they were working on a fix for (which involved downloading and installing a driver on the fly, then uninstalling it as the program closed)
if they can get the new vista/7 driver issues resolved that would be my recommendation.
... a little thing called "Personal Freedom" otherwise known as Liberty.
Personal freedom/liberty does have its limits.
So you are saying you are free to do ANYTHING, regardless of its impact on others? I dont think that is how it works.
I do recall one old saying that should come into play here... "The right to swing your fist ends at the tip of my nose." AKA go ahead and smoke those 6 packs a day, just don't do it around sensitive electronics cuz it'll gum up the works prematurely.
So if I liked surfing the web on my Dell notebook while I soak in the bathtub, and my wet hands drip water into the unit damaging it, Dell should be required to fix it under their standard warranty, right? A little dihydrogen monoxide shouldnt hurt, should it? After all, its my RIGHT to use the device however I see fit.
although I agree with apple, the reasoning they use is BS.
(I used to be a bench tech and have seen tons of things I would consider abusive inside PCs. I even voided several warranties because of it.)
These are the same fanbois that bitch that a PROPERLY engineered device is too big, too ugly, etc.
Honestly, from all I have seen and read, the xbox is just in too small of a case. its all heat related issues. Trouble is as consumers, if they made it a little bigger, gave it larger fans, better cooling vents, etc.* we'd be up in arms that "its too bulky. if I wanted something this big I'd buy a computer!" but wait boys and girls, it IS a computer; its just a uni-tasker as my hero Alton Brown would say.
So the cut goes both ways. Never let Marketing have too much say in product design; Give them too much leeway and they'll F it up.
*or M$ owned up to the failed heat paste and corrected it. Trouble is thanks to lawyering, if they actually DID the right thing and admitted a design fault the'd be sued into oblivion becuase they sold a crap device. Instead they just say "nothing to see here... move along. Here's a free repair!" and appease the masses.
you must have missed the point. It was my FIRST PC. I was clueless to your uber-geekness knowlege.
The point was that many devices are all the same inside for reduced production costs, and that the price of the model changes with a "flip of a switch" that enables or disables the features you are/arent paying for.
Just like my systems management software or my helpdesk software. when I fork over my $$ to upgrade the user count or the number of systems it monitors, the only thing changing is a serial number.... nothing else.
Exactly. Back in the day, I was agonizing over my first computer to buy... the Packard Bell 486/33DX or the 486/33SX which was considerably cheaper.
After I got home, being the good inquisitive geek, I was looking through the manual, and I stumbled upon a reference to a jumper setting: SX=pins 1-2/DX=pins 2-3.
On a whim I moved the jumper to the DX position, and sure enough it posted as the more expensive PC.
TA DAAA!
let me get this straight (no, I didnt RTFA):
We blast a filament with the energy of the ENTIRE grid for a microsecond. we then "save" energy?
Isnt that kinda like spending an extra $20 to buy a coupon to save 5$ on a product? How is that more efficient?
I can appear to be more efficient as a manager by making my underlings work longer hours behind the scenes. That still doesnt make it more efficient in reality (just in perception). Sure, you saw me do something really fast and efficient, but that doesnt mean that the entire energy used to complete the project is actually less due to hidden "costs".
This reminds me of hydrogen vehicles. "but hydrogen burns so efficiently! Its the energy of the future because it is so efficient!!!!" Yet everyone forgets that it costs so freakin much to CREATE (refine) hydrogen that the final output of hydrogen energy can actually be a NEGATIVE result (e.g. 5 units of coal energy to create/refine enough hydrogen to create 4 units of work).
"the road to hell is paved with good intentions" /yes, I know thats not an accurate quote but I am using it anyway.
if you check the statistics, child abductions* have actually DROPPPED since 1950.
The difference is the instant-on, worldwide news networks. It used to be some kid got abducted once every month (WAG=Wild Ass Guess, only an example) and nobody outside the city knew about it; Therefore according to the rest of the country, nothing ever happened. Now a kid gets abducted every 3 months (another WAG), and suddenly since it hits the WWW and international headline news media, OMG!!!!! we are worse off than we were in 1950!!!! OMFG!!! BEWAAAAAREEE OF THE FREAKS!!!!!STRANGER DANGER!!! STRANGER DANGER!!!
So are we really worse off than 1950, or are we just more acutely aware of what is going on around the world? Based on the statistics, I think its the latter.
I look forward to cautiously allowing my kids (toddlers now) to have the same freedoms I did as a kid. Letting them run wild in the 'hood for hours, and only check in once in a while, etc.
Granted, I am not in the same rural environment as my childhood, but I am not about to chain my kids to the house simply because we arent surrounded by cornfields.
Get a life helicopter parents!
*assuming strangers abducting kids, excluding relatives, etc that run off with them due to custody disputes, ec.
My money is on the new age "You're special, everyone is a winner, here have a ribbon JUST for showing up and participating" and "we cant have valedictorians because it might make the average students feel bad" mentalities.
We have coddled the youth of today into unrealistic expectations of the world.
Instead of preparing them for the world by saying, "You played really well today, too bad you didnt win. Work hard and maybe you can win the next time." We are saying "winning doesnt matter! You are special and great JUST because you tried."
Sorry sparky. No matter what your public school indoctrination told you, "try" is NOT on par with "succeed".
Now these kids are learning the hard way as they are receiving the equivalent of being thrown off a dock into 20' of freezing water so they can learn to swim.
I dont think its so much actually wanting said organ back, as much as its laying the precedent (if thats the correct word) for the basis for his monetary demand.
I am sure he doesnt expect her to give back the organ, but is asking for it first shows what he REALLY wants, but will settle for somethign else comperable instead since thats not feasible.
Its like the restaurant owner asking for the food back or the bill to be paid when he discovers you dont have any $$. He knows he cant get the food back, so the question is more academic than anything.
"I've never seen such an ad"
how about the "you're the site's 2,000,000th visitor. click here for your prize!" banner ads? Funny thing... several of these sites I have been the 2 millionth visitor every time I visit for the past month, and no matter which computer or internet connection I use I still am the 2M'th visiitor.
I especially like seeing the ads for dating sites where they stole users profile pictures to use them as examples of who is in your area that "wants to meet you". Funny thing; I travel alot on business. There is one very memorable user picture that I have seen "in my area" as I surf from hotels all over the eastern half of the country, every time she is in my city. At least some of those sites have started putting disclaimers of "photos are for illustrative purposes only" in fine print. Better but still not good.
This reminds me of one of the dating sites where a whistleblower came out a while back telling the story of how they were instructed by management to watch for expiring accounts, and when someone appeared ready to drop off the system they would send an email from a bogus user account feigning interest in the member. This would prompt the member to renew for fear of losing contact with this possible newfound love. Once the account was renewed the customer service person would stop corresponding with the person because the bait was taken and they had their money.
And I too have received those classmates emails. too bad I was a social outcast for the most part and those I see with classmates accounts generally I dont care about (and they probably dont remember me anyway). Luckilly I am smart enough to know better so I just ignore them.
Besides, now that I think back, I remember being a gold member and getting "you have a new message" email from the system and not finding anything in my inbox. I cant remember what the help desk's response was, or if there even was one when I asked about it.
Why is it illegal to sell something you can GIVE AWAY for free? Thats what I want to know.
"Being ripoffreport, "disgruntled employee" has a rather broad definition that could also often mean "customer who should have known better.""
True. but either way it still means they took an insane amount of $$ (IMHO) from SOMEBODY, and that reinforces the suspected business model.
So whether the report came from a disgruntled lackey that took the money, or the disgruntled customer that paid the money is irrelevant (for this discussion). Either way they are douchebags that are contributing to the litter problem in our country.