It's also related to the fact that the high-end market is full of fraud as well. For instance, high end auctioneers will often bid secretly on behalf of sellers to encourage bidding wars. With eBay at least, you don't have that type of collusion, it's a lot more transparent, although there still exists the very real problem of verifying the authenticity of those objects of course.
"The Golden Book of Chemistry" It's been pulled by the Publisher, mainly because a kid built a passive nuclear reactor with it, but it should still be available somewhere. It's a wonderfully written book, that's a bit dated, and a bit dangerous, but with proper parental supervision -- it should be fine.
It sounds like we need something like synaptic-mail, something that will allow apps to install and execute themselves as soon they're received -- without user intervention.
Read the fine print. The airline is not responsible for the damage.
I agree about not checking in laptops. That was a stupid thing to do. However, do not ever assume that the airline is not liable. So do read those fine prints, but also do not rely on your memory. Here are the links to the "conditions of carriage" or "contract of carriage" for a number of airlines.
And also know your rights, in the US you can try to recover up to $1,250 for lost/delayed/damaged luggage (unless you're on an international flight, which has its own limits governed by international treaties).
Also if you travelled with British Airways, see if that class action lawsuit against British Airways is still going on. And on that topic of class action lawsuits, I agree that small claims court (depending on your State) is probably the most efficient way to recover your money after you've exhausted the airlines claims and claims appeals process, but it pays to use the word "class action lawsuit" in your legal threats. Most corporate lawyers know that threats of a class action lawsuit from a lay people are almost always empty threats, but no corporate lawyer wants to have a class action lawsuit come to him on his watch especially if it was so easily avoidable in the first place.
What? He doesn't have any form of insurance of his own?
Well he could also have purchased additional insurance for a premium, or insurance for excess valuation, at the ticket counter as well, but airlines are also notorious for trying not to pay out on those as well. And as to the other types of insurances, the ones with your credit card, travel insurance, etc, he should check out if he has any there as well, but hindsight being 20/20 -- I doubt he would be asking us this question if he did.
Wow i didn't know the RIAA and MPAA could lobby the USA to condemn other countries.
It's called. Do as we say, not as we do.
For instance, when South Korea passed a law that prevented people under 18 years old from buying cigarettes, which is something the US had already done for decades. The US Congress nailed South Korea to the Wall for it, and retaliated with trade sanctions.
The same goes for this customs bullshit. The US doesn't try to enforce foreign customs laws on their own soil from people leaving the US. It never did. It never will. For instance, if I pack my briefcase full of US-legal pornography the next time I fly to Saudi Arabia, a US customs official isn't going to care about it.
And the same goes if I buy untaxed items in a particular American State and cross the border back to my home State. My home State might care, but the State where I made the purchase -- sure isn't going to.
Yeah, but it's not like it was created from scratch. A lot of it, the grammar especially, was taken from a dead Native American language. This was mostly because one of the writers for the show had done his Phd Thesis on that language.
Also, if you're not paying taxes for such activities (income taxes or sales taxes, or at least declaring those amounts). Don't come crying to the authorities if you get ripped off. There are plenty of contracts in real life that are also not enforceable, either because the amount is too small to go after -- or simply because it's not in the interest of a government that has better things to do with its time.
Actually, this is precisely the right metaphor. This is a public health issue. People, all people, need to learn about proper computer hygiene, just like all people needed to learn about proper food preparation hygiene and proper human hygiene. What I'm proposing is a massive Public Health outreach program, that targets school children and the new generation, but also targets the existing population that is already out of school, and already using computers (possibly already infected computers).
Hasn't Apple done that with the iTouch already? The iTouch already vastly outsells the number of iPhones in every category (even without the cellular carrier subsidy). It's no wonder Apple is wanting to make more iTouch-like devices to experiment with that market.
Palm needs to break their exclusivity agreement with Sprint for that particular plan to work.
Clearly, Apple has shown them the way. Palm just needs to make a new prototype of different dimensions and different functionality, and call it a Finger Pre, or a Thumb Pre, or a Little Finger Pre.
Excellent! Please make sure all your fellow athiests get the memo and stop trying to convert everyone just like the adherents of any other religion.
Sure. I'll let them know about the new policy. Between our atheist pope, our atheists bishops, our atheist priests, and the fact that most atheists love the chain of command, think alike, and respect authority -- that memo will be disseminated super quickly.
What I am trying to say is that the analogy fails because it implies atheism requires inaction or no thought. At some point an atheist has concluded that the evidence for atheism is great enough to accept it as their current paradigm (or that all other evidence for contrary paradigms is weak enough).
The English word "Atheism" comes from a French word (of Greek origin). As a French guy (born and educated in France, but currently living in the United States), I do believe I know a little more French than you do (or even a little more Greek for that matter).
Atheism(e) means "without god" (or "godless"). There is no talk of proof, or evidence, it's not like one can prove a negative anyway. At least, "without god" is what it used to mean, and it still means that in France right now. And fine, I understand that language evolves, and language changes over time, especially in America or with English. That said, there is still a large section (if not most) of American atheists who still use that word in its original sense. So if you or your church are going to change the meaning of the English language, that's fine, feel free to call us anything you want, or explain it however you want. After all this is not France/French, it's not like you're going to have the language police, or some historical society, show up angrily on your doorsteps. So call us agnostics, no-gnostics, anti-god, infidels, assholes, idiots, or whatever... just don't expect all of us to agree to it (or use it on ourselves, although some of us may -- many of us just won't).
Thank you. I didn't know that. Making a simple vocabulary mistake is like having toilet paper stuck to your shoe. I do prefer when someone points it out to me.
A former Military General and Secretary of State is also the one who was behind the idea of "Second Sourcing" in government contracts, which is the requirement that you can't rely on any single one supplier to be your sole source for supplies. It's basically that requirement that forced Intel to share trade secrets, training, and patents with its arch rival and enemy AMD -- in order for AMD to be listed as a viable second source for Intel's lucrative defense contracts.
This blog post reads more like a marketing piece written by a shill, and if there is any hype, it just seems like it's just self-delusion or just wishful thinking at this point.
Any search engine query and corresponding results can be manually optimized and tweaked to quasi-perfection. In fact, that's the exact recipe many of the now defunct search engines were using a while ago. They would optimize the hell out of a couple of queries or use case scenarios, and then they would fall in love with the layout and content of their contrived results. And then, when the users didn't use the search engine the way the developers wanted them to use it, the developers tried changing the behaviors of their users instead of trying to change their search engine. For the most recent example of this, of actually one company that still had money to waste a year ago, think back to the ask.com commercial where they tried to teach us about the *cool* ajax feature of previewing web sites. Not that this feature was bad per say, but if it was any good, or groundbreaking in any usable way, users would be telling each other about it -- they wouldn't need to be educated about it -- at such a large expense.
And the same goes for the tone of this blog post was written in. It was written from the perspective of a shill, or from the perspective of the company itself, but not from the perspective of an actual user. Personally, I don't want to know about the supposed hype or marketing-speak from the developer's own mouth, I just want to know how useful it's going to be for me. And I don't want contrived examples, I want one or two random example from the (supposedly independent) blogger himself (if possible). And I don't want an actual screenshot of the search box, I want the actual search box itself. Am I only one who tried clicking on it? And if you're going to give me the screenshot of something, give me the screenshot of the search results page (at the very least) and not just a verbal description of it.
Which brings me to my last point: Show. Don't tell. And if there is one thing that Google does well, it's that they don't try to prematurely hype their nascent lab products. They release them first, then they see if the users fall in love with their creation (or not), which is rather a hit-or-miss proposition and a long iterative process. So don't tell me about a fancy search engine, if it's not even out for a public trial yet. I want to try it. I don't want to be told about it.
Yes, but if it's just life, then there is the very real incentive to simply kill the author. In my opinion, a set number of years after registration is better (with the default going to the public commons with an attribution and a date instead).
I guess the people who translated/copied the bible, at great personal peril to themselves and to their family, were not *ethically* disobedient. The same goes for the people who published and distributed anti-nazi leaflets in the dead of night in Nazi Germany.
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It's also related to the fact that the high-end market is full of fraud as well. For instance, high end auctioneers will often bid secretly on behalf of sellers to encourage bidding wars. With eBay at least, you don't have that type of collusion, it's a lot more transparent, although there still exists the very real problem of verifying the authenticity of those objects of course.
"The Golden Book of Chemistry" It's been pulled by the Publisher, mainly because a kid built a passive nuclear reactor with it, but it should still be available somewhere. It's a wonderfully written book, that's a bit dated, and a bit dangerous, but with proper parental supervision -- it should be fine.
It sounds like we need something like synaptic-mail, something that will allow apps to install and execute themselves as soon they're received -- without user intervention.
Assuming TPB even wants to bother. If a defendant is absent, the trial might actually be quite fast.
Tell that to Ebay after France blocked it in its DNS for allowing Nazi objects to be sold.
Is that song on iTunes?
I agree about not checking in laptops. That was a stupid thing to do. However, do not ever assume that the airline is not liable. So do read those fine prints, but also do not rely on your memory. Here are the links to the "conditions of carriage" or "contract of carriage" for a number of airlines.
http://www.independenttraveler.com/resources/article.cfm?AID=91&category=1&page=2
And also know your rights, in the US you can try to recover up to $1,250 for lost/delayed/damaged luggage (unless you're on an international flight, which has its own limits governed by international treaties).
http://www.kevincoffee.com/airlines/lost_baggage.htm
Also if you travelled with British Airways, see if that class action lawsuit against British Airways is still going on. And on that topic of class action lawsuits, I agree that small claims court (depending on your State) is probably the most efficient way to recover your money after you've exhausted the airlines claims and claims appeals process, but it pays to use the word "class action lawsuit" in your legal threats. Most corporate lawyers know that threats of a class action lawsuit from a lay people are almost always empty threats, but no corporate lawyer wants to have a class action lawsuit come to him on his watch especially if it was so easily avoidable in the first place.
Well he could also have purchased additional insurance for a premium, or insurance for excess valuation, at the ticket counter as well, but airlines are also notorious for trying not to pay out on those as well. And as to the other types of insurances, the ones with your credit card, travel insurance, etc, he should check out if he has any there as well, but hindsight being 20/20 -- I doubt he would be asking us this question if he did.
And certainly, don't forget TiVo and many of the DVRs out there.
flying pigs flu
It's called. Do as we say, not as we do.
For instance, when South Korea passed a law that prevented people under 18 years old from buying cigarettes, which is something the US had already done for decades. The US Congress nailed South Korea to the Wall for it, and retaliated with trade sanctions.
The same goes for this customs bullshit. The US doesn't try to enforce foreign customs laws on their own soil from people leaving the US. It never did. It never will. For instance, if I pack my briefcase full of US-legal pornography the next time I fly to Saudi Arabia, a US customs official isn't going to care about it.
And the same goes if I buy untaxed items in a particular American State and cross the border back to my home State. My home State might care, but the State where I made the purchase -- sure isn't going to.
Yeah, but it's not like it was created from scratch. A lot of it, the grammar especially, was taken from a dead Native American language. This was mostly because one of the writers for the show had done his Phd Thesis on that language.
Also, if you're not paying taxes for such activities (income taxes or sales taxes, or at least declaring those amounts). Don't come crying to the authorities if you get ripped off. There are plenty of contracts in real life that are also not enforceable, either because the amount is too small to go after -- or simply because it's not in the interest of a government that has better things to do with its time.
gps-enabled irremovable ankle bracelets work for felons, they should also work for the elderly.
Speaking of which, President Bush did purchase lots of property outside of the United States before he left office.
Actually, this is precisely the right metaphor. This is a public health issue. People, all people, need to learn about proper computer hygiene, just like all people needed to learn about proper food preparation hygiene and proper human hygiene. What I'm proposing is a massive Public Health outreach program, that targets school children and the new generation, but also targets the existing population that is already out of school, and already using computers (possibly already infected computers).
Hasn't Apple done that with the iTouch already? The iTouch already vastly outsells the number of iPhones in every category (even without the cellular carrier subsidy). It's no wonder Apple is wanting to make more iTouch-like devices to experiment with that market.
Clearly, Apple has shown them the way. Palm just needs to make a new prototype of different dimensions and different functionality, and call it a Finger Pre, or a Thumb Pre, or a Little Finger Pre.
What could possibly go wrong.
Sure. I'll let them know about the new policy. Between our atheist pope, our atheists bishops, our atheist priests, and the fact that most atheists love the chain of command, think alike, and respect authority -- that memo will be disseminated super quickly.
The English word "Atheism" comes from a French word (of Greek origin). As a French guy (born and educated in France, but currently living in the United States), I do believe I know a little more French than you do (or even a little more Greek for that matter).
Atheism(e) means "without god" (or "godless"). There is no talk of proof, or evidence, it's not like one can prove a negative anyway. At least, "without god" is what it used to mean, and it still means that in France right now. And fine, I understand that language evolves, and language changes over time, especially in America or with English. That said, there is still a large section (if not most) of American atheists who still use that word in its original sense. So if you or your church are going to change the meaning of the English language, that's fine, feel free to call us anything you want, or explain it however you want. After all this is not France/French, it's not like you're going to have the language police, or some historical society, show up angrily on your doorsteps. So call us agnostics, no-gnostics, anti-god, infidels, assholes, idiots, or whatever... just don't expect all of us to agree to it (or use it on ourselves, although some of us may -- many of us just won't).
Except for the fact that the girls are younger and sluttier, a definitive improvement.
Thank you. I didn't know that. Making a simple vocabulary mistake is like having toilet paper stuck to your shoe. I do prefer when someone points it out to me.
A former Military General and Secretary of State is also the one who was behind the idea of "Second Sourcing" in government contracts, which is the requirement that you can't rely on any single one supplier to be your sole source for supplies. It's basically that requirement that forced Intel to share trade secrets, training, and patents with its arch rival and enemy AMD -- in order for AMD to be listed as a viable second source for Intel's lucrative defense contracts.
This blog post reads more like a marketing piece written by a shill, and if there is any hype, it just seems like it's just self-delusion or just wishful thinking at this point.
Any search engine query and corresponding results can be manually optimized and tweaked to quasi-perfection. In fact, that's the exact recipe many of the now defunct search engines were using a while ago. They would optimize the hell out of a couple of queries or use case scenarios, and then they would fall in love with the layout and content of their contrived results. And then, when the users didn't use the search engine the way the developers wanted them to use it, the developers tried changing the behaviors of their users instead of trying to change their search engine. For the most recent example of this, of actually one company that still had money to waste a year ago, think back to the ask.com commercial where they tried to teach us about the *cool* ajax feature of previewing web sites. Not that this feature was bad per say, but if it was any good, or groundbreaking in any usable way, users would be telling each other about it -- they wouldn't need to be educated about it -- at such a large expense.
And the same goes for the tone of this blog post was written in. It was written from the perspective of a shill, or from the perspective of the company itself, but not from the perspective of an actual user. Personally, I don't want to know about the supposed hype or marketing-speak from the developer's own mouth, I just want to know how useful it's going to be for me. And I don't want contrived examples, I want one or two random example from the (supposedly independent) blogger himself (if possible). And I don't want an actual screenshot of the search box, I want the actual search box itself. Am I only one who tried clicking on it? And if you're going to give me the screenshot of something, give me the screenshot of the search results page (at the very least) and not just a verbal description of it.
Which brings me to my last point: Show. Don't tell. And if there is one thing that Google does well, it's that they don't try to prematurely hype their nascent lab products. They release them first, then they see if the users fall in love with their creation (or not), which is rather a hit-or-miss proposition and a long iterative process. So don't tell me about a fancy search engine, if it's not even out for a public trial yet. I want to try it. I don't want to be told about it.
Yes, but if it's just life, then there is the very real incentive to simply kill the author. In my opinion, a set number of years after registration is better (with the default going to the public commons with an attribution and a date instead).
I guess the people who translated/copied the bible, at great personal peril to themselves and to their family, were not *ethically* disobedient. The same goes for the people who published and distributed anti-nazi leaflets in the dead of night in Nazi Germany.