"Things like the cost of a good mysteriously increasing in price up to 50% between the shelf and the cash register. And, according to those who this has happened to, is a regular occurance. "
This happens at many stores. Usually, it's because some item is being marked down for the week, but the store is taking its sweet time updating its database.
In California, the law is very clear about this. The price at the shelf always trumps the price at the cash register. We even have inspectors who make sure this law is enforced.
"Since then, I have noticed a lot of new software requiring IE 6.0 before it will even run. Acrobat Reader 6.0 is really nasty in this regard: they go through ~ 1 hour download and unpacking before the software aborts, telling you that you must install IE 6.0 before it can install. Fuck 'em. I scrounged a copy of Acrobat 5.01 exe (something they don't provide anymore!) from an earlier install and I've been using that since. There will be no later copy of Acrobat Reader until they get rid of this requirement! "
Last week, I got a new computer and I installed Firefox 0.9.3 and the Acrobat Reader 7.0. Acrobat Reader installed without a glitch, in fact I think Acrobat reader is now even more nicely integrated with FireFox than with IE.
On a side-note, I've also just installed Mozilla Thunder Bird, the mail client, and it's by far the best mail client I have ever used. I'm a long time outlook user, so you would think I would still be used to Outlook's interface, but I still found the Thunder Bird interface far more usable and far more mature than the Outlook interface.
I'm really not surprised that people are converting in droves. Firefox and Thunderbird are both kick ass products.
"Getting rid of that ability is endangering victims and making life a lot harder for law enforcement agencies. That is a far more substantial argument than that of a marketing tool. "
Law enforcement agencies already have this ability (and they don't need to pay a third party company for it either). Not only, they can already block their identities, but they can spoof their identities and they can do emergency breakthroughs (cut someone off and take over their phone lines) without any warrant.
This company is not marketing a new service. As I said law enforcement agencies already have this capibility free-of-charge. This company is only using this emergency capability, which is something they haven't invented, so they can simply resell it to private companies.
"No, they can block their Caller ID information, they can't replace it on the fly. "
Your information is just plain wrong. Law enforcement agencies can already spoof their ids. Hell, I'm not even in law enforcement and I could even do that at one point (although I never did).
"There would periodically be problems with doctors using caller ID blocks being unable to call people back who block those calls, leading to sometimes unimaginable frustration in the middle of a medical emergency. "
That problem could have easily been resolved by your answering service. If the phone call from the doctor gets automatically blocked, the phone company automatically tells the person calling that their number has been blocked, so the only thing that the doctor had to do was to call your service and your answering service would have only needed forward his call. Forwarding/transferring a call is the only thing needed to spoof a phone id.
If on the other hand, the phone call from the doctor gets ignored manually by the person who's about to pick up the phone, then that person is a dumb ass, especially if that person is the one who called the doctor in the first place.
I see you attend CMU, I grew up less than 15 minutes away from Oakland.
Ha ha.
You obviously never lived inside Oakland (as I have).
If you lived in a place like Berkeley, cops do outnumber perpetrators there. If there is a disturbance in Berkeley, usually a couple of cop cars will show up and show up quickly. Or if you lived in a place like Brentwood, the first link that you posted, and a city which happens to be a conservative Republican suburb, I bet they'll have the entire sheriff's office on each perpetrator.
In Oakland, the cops won't show up for a while and when they do show up -- it's usually one cop car and only one cop. I've seen so many fights and so many pursuits in Oakland. It's not even funny. And despite everything that I've seen, in a hand-to-hand combat situation I've never seen the lonely Oakland cop take out his gun from his holster. In fact, I haven't seen the lonely Oakland cop win many fights -- the perpetrators usually end up running away and the lonely Oakland cop usually ends up running out of breath.
"Actually, in my experience, libertarians fall in to two groups: (i) they think pot should be legal, and (ii) they are rich enough that they don't feel like paying taxes. All other justifications that either group comes up with are after the fact; just window dressing. Not that those reasons are necessarily bad, but I haven't found libertarians to be a very insightful bunch w.r.t. public policy, economic policy, etc."
First, you attack our character. We're either elitists or stupid pot heads to you. Then, you simply dismiss everything we have to say, afterall it's all ass-backwards rationalization. Then you have the gull to say "Not that those reasons are necessarily bad". Yeah right. And then, to top it all off; you make one last sweeping generalization about how insightful we are. Wow! Thanks, I needed that.
Yeah, you've made your points so eloquently, so objectively, and so insightfully. There is obviously nothing I can say to counter them. Good bye.
"I believe the term you're looking for is *"Libertarian";) "
No, I don't think so. The overwhelming majority of Libertarians are actually the only ones that understand that the dilution of the money supply is a form of fraud (and really has nothing whatsoever to do with copyright violation).
The majority of the people supporting the other parties either don't understand this point, or they are simply unaware that this form of fraud is being perpetrated by our own government right now.
I'd further suggest to use your pet's name as your identifier (with your ISP and with your phone service). Since credit card companies don't mind sending Platinum credit cards to pets, I'm sure that the MPAA won't mind sending threatening letters to them either.
Your comment was moderated down into oblivion, which is a shame because everything you said is accurate. Take a look at Linuxworld.com, even they are running on a CFML Server
Right now, CFML is the only language that will run on either a Java Server or
the.NET framework
Sure, there are better cheaper tag-based languages out there, but CFML is still one of the easiest languages I've ever come across. If anything, it's too easy, that's why there is so much disdain for it, in many ways, it's so easy -- it doesn't feel like a real computer language.
The insurance company that is doing this study, Progressive, is one of the more expensive ones out there. If you want to save money, try http://insweb.com, they're an online insurance broker -- but they were recommended as a top choice by Consumer Reports a couple of years ago.
However, if you have a bad driving record, it can go over the base rate. It might not be perfect, but it does let safer drivers (or at least lucky ones) pay less than bad drivers.
In the US, bad drivers get to pay two to three times more than good drivers. I kind of like that system.
If it's by neighborhood -- Why is a complete registration required? Craigslist also does it by geographical location, but it does NOT require a registration before it lets you see anything. In fact, I can already find 5 badminton partners within a short driving distance.
By the way, there aren't many neighborhoods registered right now. I just checked out 4 or 5 zip codes and none of them had any...
Well, don't hold your breath. The domain name was only registered less than a year ago and there are probably thousands of identical competitors already. Personally, I'll just stick to Craigslist and Yahoo, at least they have critical mass.
"Does anyone else think that merely analyzing how english is read is very closed minded? "
No.
I remember reading some insightful study on how the Chinese spoken language compared to the English spoken language affected the learning of math. I'm sure one could find thousands of studies on those types of cross-linguistic topics. The last time I checked, Slashdot was not the definitive guide on linguistics/cognitive science. Probably, the only reason this article ever made it past the/. editors in the first place -- was because it was published on Microsoft and it contained the word "word" in the lead.
"Microsoft", "word", "SCO", or "Google". It doesn't matter if those words (or those organizations) have nothing to do with your story, but if those keywords are included in your headline -- it means your story is good enough to be published on Slashdot.
In France, I've seen a system that protects consumers from giving out their real credit/debit card numbers to online merchants. Instead, the consumer would first have to go to his own bank's web site, he would have to enter the amount (or the range of the amount) he was about to charge, and then the bank would generate a unique one-time only credit card number. It was pretty nifty -- the online merchant would have no idea that you were giving him a one-time only credit card number.
One drawback was that this additional service came at an extra service charge of a few dollars per month (can't remember the exact amount). If anyone hears of an American bank doing this, either online or in California, please let me know. I've heard of American banks having a similar service for preauthorizing checks (via fax), but what I saw in France is taking it quite a step further.
Yahoo, and everyone else, should simply stop doing business in France until they come to their senses.
Actually, the situation is simpler than that. I suspect that the market for Nazi stuff is smaller than the French market, so Yahoo might have to give up the Nazi stuff and a couple of smaller companies will pick up the slack as a result.
This is silly really. There is no way they can stop this.
"I work in the mortgage industry, and in this industry, no-compete clauses are very common"
It's not because something is written in a contract, it can be enforced in a court of law. Non-compete clauses, for example, usually don't fare very well in California.
"Largest ever non-nuclear blast has already occured."
Yeah, it was a volcano eruption.
Next time, be sure to say it's the largest man-made non-nuclear that-has-yet-to-occur type of explosion.
In any case, shouldn't those explosive materials start to decay after some time. I'm not saying that they can't explode, but at least I would expect the explosion to be a fraction of what it might have been fifty years ago.
(rated on a scale from 0 to 10 -- 10 being the best and 0 the worst)
In the past six months, the customer satisfaction ratings are
1.41 for Best Buy (55 reviews within the past six months)
0.66 for CompUSA (19 reviews within the past six months)
3.72 for Fry's Electronics (Outpost, I don't know if I have the right one) -- (53 reviews within the past six months)
(not found) Future World
6.67 for Radio Shack (although it had no reviews within the past six months)
9.73 for NewEgg (930 reviews within the past six months)
ATHENS,
Greece - Iraqi soccer players reacted angrily Friday after being told
that their nation's Olympic participation was mentioned in TV
commercial by the re-election campaign for President Bush.
The players called on Bush to stop using them to win votes in the United States.
"Iraq
as a team does not want Mr. Bush to use us for the presidential
campaign," midfielder Salih Sadir was quoted as saying. "He can find
another way to advertise himself."
However, the Iraqi Olympic delegation accused journalists of deliberately provoking an angry response from their players.
"Our
purpose is not to politicize the football team in any way," Mark Clark,
a consultant for the Iraqi Olympic Committee, said. "It seems the story
was engineered."
The
flags of Iraq and Afghanistan appear in the Bush commercial ahead of
the Republican National Convention, to be held in September.
A narrator says: "At this Olympics there will be two more free nations--and two fewer terrorist regimes."
Another
Iraqi player asked: "How will (Bush) meet his God having slaughtered so
many men and women? He has committed so many crimes."
But Clark insisted journalists were wrong to take advantage of the athletes.
"It
is a little naughty," he said. "The players are not very sophisticated
politically; they are a little naive. Whoever posed these questions
knew that the reaction would be negative.
"It
is possible something was lost in translation. It's a free, new Iraq,
and the players are entitled to their opinions but we are disappointed."
Iraq's
soccer players once lived in fear of Uday Hussein, son of toppled
dictator Saddam Hussein, who used to beat the soles of their feet or
throw them in prison for slip-ups on the pitch.
Under
current coach Adnan Hamd, they have defied the odds to reach the
quarterfinals at the Athens Olympics, where they will play Australia on
Saturday.
Hamd
said, "The American army has killed so many people in Iraq. What is
freedom when I go to the stadium and there are shootings on the road?"
Clark expressed hope that Iraq could play on without further political waves.
"Any success we... have here could be beneficial in the broader picture," he said. "But we are here to play football."
"Why on earth would you want to prevent these people from telling their stories?"
Because the Bush reelection campaign paid good money to use clips from the Iraqi and Afghani athletes in its television commercials and it would be embarassing if those same athletes continued speaking out against Bush.
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This happens at many stores. Usually, it's because some item is being marked down for the week, but the store is taking its sweet time updating its database.
In California, the law is very clear about this. The price at the shelf always trumps the price at the cash register. We even have inspectors who make sure this law is enforced.
Last week, I got a new computer and I installed Firefox 0.9.3 and the Acrobat Reader 7.0. Acrobat Reader installed without a glitch, in fact I think Acrobat reader is now even more nicely integrated with FireFox than with IE.
On a side-note, I've also just installed Mozilla Thunder Bird, the mail client, and it's by far the best mail client I have ever used. I'm a long time outlook user, so you would think I would still be used to Outlook's interface, but I still found the Thunder Bird interface far more usable and far more mature than the Outlook interface.
I'm really not surprised that people are converting in droves. Firefox and Thunderbird are both kick ass products.
Law enforcement agencies already have this ability (and they don't need to pay a third party company for it either). Not only, they can already block their identities, but they can spoof their identities and they can do emergency breakthroughs (cut someone off and take over their phone lines) without any warrant.
This company is not marketing a new service. As I said law enforcement agencies already have this capibility free-of-charge. This company is only using this emergency capability, which is something they haven't invented, so they can simply resell it to private companies.
"No, they can block their Caller ID information, they can't replace it on the fly. "
Your information is just plain wrong. Law enforcement agencies can already spoof their ids. Hell, I'm not even in law enforcement and I could even do that at one point (although I never did).
That problem could have easily been resolved by your answering service. If the phone call from the doctor gets automatically blocked, the phone company automatically tells the person calling that their number has been blocked, so the only thing that the doctor had to do was to call your service and your answering service would have only needed forward his call. Forwarding/transferring a call is the only thing needed to spoof a phone id.
If on the other hand, the phone call from the doctor gets ignored manually by the person who's about to pick up the phone, then that person is a dumb ass, especially if that person is the one who called the doctor in the first place.
Ha ha.
You obviously never lived inside Oakland (as I have).
If you lived in a place like Berkeley, cops do outnumber perpetrators there. If there is a disturbance in Berkeley, usually a couple of cop cars will show up and show up quickly. Or if you lived in a place like Brentwood, the first link that you posted, and a city which happens to be a conservative Republican suburb, I bet they'll have the entire sheriff's office on each perpetrator.
In Oakland, the cops won't show up for a while and when they do show up -- it's usually one cop car and only one cop. I've seen so many fights and so many pursuits in Oakland. It's not even funny. And despite everything that I've seen, in a hand-to-hand combat situation I've never seen the lonely Oakland cop take out his gun from his holster. In fact, I haven't seen the lonely Oakland cop win many fights -- the perpetrators usually end up running away and the lonely Oakland cop usually ends up running out of breath.
First, you attack our character. We're either elitists or stupid pot heads to you. Then, you simply dismiss everything we have to say, afterall it's all ass-backwards rationalization. Then you have the gull to say "Not that those reasons are necessarily bad". Yeah right. And then, to top it all off; you make one last sweeping generalization about how insightful we are. Wow! Thanks, I needed that.
Yeah, you've made your points so eloquently, so objectively, and so insightfully. There is obviously nothing I can say to counter them. Good bye.
No, I don't think so. The overwhelming majority of Libertarians are actually the only ones that understand that the dilution of the money supply is a form of fraud (and really has nothing whatsoever to do with copyright violation).
The majority of the people supporting the other parties either don't understand this point, or they are simply unaware that this form of fraud is being perpetrated by our own government right now.
I'd further suggest to use your pet's name as your identifier (with your ISP and with your phone service). Since credit card companies don't mind sending Platinum credit cards to pets, I'm sure that the MPAA won't mind sending threatening letters to them either.
Your comment was moderated down into oblivion, which is a shame because everything you said is accurate. Take a look at Linuxworld.com, even they are running on a CFML Server
Right now, CFML is the only language that will run on either a Java Server or the .NET framework
Sure, there are better cheaper tag-based languages out there, but CFML is still one of the easiest languages I've ever come across. If anything, it's too easy, that's why there is so much disdain for it, in many ways, it's so easy -- it doesn't feel like a real computer language.
I've seen unprovoked drunken attacks before. They happen. May be he's lying, may be he's not lying. Who are you to know?
The insurance company that is doing this study, Progressive, is one of the more expensive ones out there. If you want to save money, try http://insweb.com, they're an online insurance broker -- but they were recommended as a top choice by Consumer Reports a couple of years ago.
In the US, bad drivers get to pay two to three times more than good drivers. I kind of like that system.
The justification given is safety, but the real reason is the cost of having a cell phone switching cell towers every couple of seconds.
If it's by neighborhood -- Why is a complete registration required? Craigslist also does it by geographical location, but it does NOT require a registration before it lets you see anything. In fact, I can already find 5 badminton partners within a short driving distance.
Well, don't hold your breath. The domain name was only registered less than a year ago and there are probably thousands of identical competitors already. Personally, I'll just stick to Craigslist and Yahoo, at least they have critical mass.
No.
I remember reading some insightful study on how the Chinese spoken language compared to the English spoken language affected the learning of math. I'm sure one could find thousands of studies on those types of cross-linguistic topics. The last time I checked, Slashdot was not the definitive guide on linguistics/cognitive science. Probably, the only reason this article ever made it past the /. editors in the first place -- was because it was published on Microsoft and it contained the word "word" in the lead.
"Microsoft", "word", "SCO", or "Google". It doesn't matter if those words (or those organizations) have nothing to do with your story, but if those keywords are included in your headline -- it means your story is good enough to be published on Slashdot.
One drawback was that this additional service came at an extra service charge of a few dollars per month (can't remember the exact amount). If anyone hears of an American bank doing this, either online or in California, please let me know. I've heard of American banks having a similar service for preauthorizing checks (via fax), but what I saw in France is taking it quite a step further.
Actually, the situation is simpler than that. I suspect that the market for Nazi stuff is smaller than the French market, so Yahoo might have to give up the Nazi stuff and a couple of smaller companies will pick up the slack as a result.
This is silly really. There is no way they can stop this.
Yeah, for instance many countries are pissed that France let Henry Kissinger get away.
It's not because something is written in a contract, it can be enforced in a court of law. Non-compete clauses, for example, usually don't fare very well in California.
Yeah, it was a volcano eruption.
Next time, be sure to say it's the largest man-made non-nuclear that-has-yet-to-occur type of explosion.
In any case, shouldn't those explosive materials start to decay after some time. I'm not saying that they can't explode, but at least I would expect the explosion to be a fraction of what it might have been fifty years ago.
(rated on a scale from 0 to 10 -- 10 being the best and 0 the worst)
In the past six months, the customer satisfaction ratings are
1.41 for Best Buy (55 reviews within the past six months)
0.66 for CompUSA (19 reviews within the past six months)
3.72 for Fry's Electronics (Outpost, I don't know if I have the right one) -- (53 reviews within the past six months)
(not found) Future World
6.67 for Radio Shack (although it had no reviews within the past six months)
9.73 for NewEgg (930 reviews within the past six months)
Methinks Bush had something to do with this new action by the IOC.
Iraqi athletes object to Bush campaign ad
Reuters Updated: 5:46 p.m. ET Aug. 20, 2004Soccer players say president shouldn't exploit their success
ATHENS, Greece - Iraqi soccer players reacted angrily Friday after being told that their nation's Olympic participation was mentioned in TV commercial by the re-election campaign for President Bush.
The players called on Bush to stop using them to win votes in the United States.
"Iraq as a team does not want Mr. Bush to use us for the presidential campaign," midfielder Salih Sadir was quoted as saying. "He can find another way to advertise himself."
However, the Iraqi Olympic delegation accused journalists of deliberately provoking an angry response from their players.
"Our purpose is not to politicize the football team in any way," Mark Clark, a consultant for the Iraqi Olympic Committee, said. "It seems the story was engineered."
The flags of Iraq and Afghanistan appear in the Bush commercial ahead of the Republican National Convention, to be held in September.
A narrator says: "At this Olympics there will be two more free nations--and two fewer terrorist regimes."
Another Iraqi player asked: "How will (Bush) meet his God having slaughtered so many men and women? He has committed so many crimes."
But Clark insisted journalists were wrong to take advantage of the athletes.
"It is a little naughty," he said. "The players are not very sophisticated politically; they are a little naive. Whoever posed these questions knew that the reaction would be negative.
"It is possible something was lost in translation. It's a free, new Iraq, and the players are entitled to their opinions but we are disappointed."
Iraq's soccer players once lived in fear of Uday Hussein, son of toppled dictator Saddam Hussein, who used to beat the soles of their feet or throw them in prison for slip-ups on the pitch.
Under current coach Adnan Hamd, they have defied the odds to reach the quarterfinals at the Athens Olympics, where they will play Australia on Saturday.
Hamd said, "The American army has killed so many people in Iraq. What is freedom when I go to the stadium and there are shootings on the road?"
Clark expressed hope that Iraq could play on without further political waves.
"Any success we ... have here could be beneficial in the broader picture," he said. "But we are here to play football."
URL: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5772644/Because the Bush reelection campaign paid good money to use clips from the Iraqi and Afghani athletes in its television commercials and it would be embarassing if those same athletes continued speaking out against Bush.