Usually the cable companies make a deal with the city wherein the cable company lays the wire in exchange for an exclusivity contract (state sponsored monopoly) for a specified time period which the city can extend. Complaining to the city counsel or is your best bet as they usually make these determinations, but don't be surprised when these complaints fall on deaf ears as these contracts usually come with nice amenities for the people who negotiate them (read "free unlimited everything packages for the city counsel.")
OK, here's your problem. You gave her the wrong games. You need to swap them out for Mario Kart and Donkey Kong Country. Girls go crazy for those games. Also, do your parents have an ice maker? If so, take some ice up to her. You should be good to go after that.
From TFA: "In most cases, funds are in the customers account immediately."
in the customers account != available for withdrawal.
You may get credit for the funds when interest is paid, but you can't remove the funds until the issuing bank clears the check.
You have to read the fine print! The funds show in your account immediately, but are not available for withdrawal. Your bank will not allow you to withdraw those funds until they have been cleared by the check writer's bank. It's the same as if you walked the check into the bank and deposited it. Your bank will always cover it's own behind. That's why banks won't let you cash a check unless a) the check writer's account is with said bank, or b) you have an account with said bank that has enough funds to cover the check. If both cases are false, then they make you deposit the check.
Most companies have to pre-authorize checks before they will clear. The company sends the check number and amount to their bank. When you deposit said check, your bank sends the check number and amount to the company's bank, that bank notices that the check number a) has not been authorized or b) does not match the authorized amount and notifies your bank to remove deposited amount from your account.
You fail and probably go to jail.
I've been doing this for months using USAA's iPhone app. When I showed my mom, she went out and got an iPhone and started using it. Before that I used their deposit@home service to scan checks on my computer. Beats driving to the bank just to deposit a check.
I was just thinking most lay people don't even know about the controversy. The only people who even care about it are the ones who have an anti-global warming political agenda and they already didn't trust scientists.
I use a Fit-PC for my home Linux server. It came with Ubuntu and Gentoo installed. It uses 6W and easily handles my e-mail, DNS, ssh, apache, and file-serving needs.
First, I routinely have to sit through an entire green light because cross traffic entered the intersection even though they couldn't make it all the way through because they didn't want to get stuck and miss their green light. They end up sitting through their green light because the traffic was stopped and making me sit through a green light because they are blocking cross traffic. It is illegal to enter an intersection unless you are sure you can get all the way through, so they *should* be ticketed.
Second, under Arkansas law, it is perfectly legal to enter an intersection with a yellow light and proceed through the intersection even if the light changes to red while you are in the intersection. It is only considered "running" a red light if the light is red before you enter the intersection. Any camera's had better be calibrated to only take a picture if the light is red BEFORE I enter the intersection or you can bet the municipality will get sued.
I don't think it's up to the DA... In every legal drama I've ever seen, it's entirely up to the judge's digression to find someone in contempt of court. My guess is that if they HAD gone before a judge in Austin, that is exactly what would have happened. Unfortunately, and IANAL, I believe that even federal judges' ruling are only regional unless the judges happen to be on the Supreme Court. So yes, the RIAA violated the ruling by filing the subpoena to the Austin ISP, but they are still free to file them in any other region until told not to do so.
So, wait... Is this some new technology, or just the ajax from google earth ported to silverlite? This is just another in a long line of ripoffs that M$ has pulled.
I love to be captain obvious, so why are the cars separating the hydrogen from the carbon and storing the carbon? Why don't they separate it at a central plant, then ship the hydrogen to the fueling stations? Then the car wouldn't have to carry all that extra carbon around and they fueling stations wouldn't have to send the carbon back to be stored somewhere.
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Like any new input device, it takes some time to adjust to, but I am much faster on it than t9 on my Erickson. The spell check on the iPhone works much better than t9 IMHO.
The program for parsing millions of records as they flow into permanent data farms sounds oddly close to the data mining the NSA performed after 9/11 to find targets for its warrantless spying on American citizens calls and emails.
Ok, this is going WAY too far! Could you have at lease included some LINKS to actual PROOF that ANY government agency conducted warrantless spying on US citizens? I mean other than the FUD that the NYT and Democrats spread which also is not based on any actual proof. IIRC the warrentless wiretaps were on NON-US citizens that were OUTSIDE of US jurisdiction. The whole "it's common knowledge that" defense is wearing quite thin. If you're going to make outrageous claims, you need to back them up with actual proof. No wonder he posted as AC.
Obviously you've never seen Superman 3 of Office Space. Anyone who works at a financial institution has to be fingerprinted no matter what the position. This ensures they aren't hiring a known criminal and makes it easier to track them down if they do end up embezzling or stealing. This should go DOUBLE for computer programmers who can write code to slide money into a secret account... My wife had to get fingerprinted to work at a non-financial institution that was owned by a bank. One day another girl was offered a job and refused to be fingerprinted. They let her go but everyone was thinking "what is she trying to hide?"
Depends on if I notice it or not. I certainly wouldn't drive back to give wally world extra money after looking at a receipt at home. Usually this washes out in the long run as they forget to put sale prices in their registers, too. In Amazon's case there was no one to notify. Either pay the reduced price, or don't get them at all.
Let's think about this for a second... If you go to Wal*Mart, and buy a jar of pickles marked 2/$5 and get to the checkout, and they only charge you $0.50 because they had the wrong price in their system (which happens quite often), then Wal*Mart can't come to your house later and mug you to make up for it. Amazon should have verified the prices BEFORE shipping. If they had done their due diligence, then they would have canceled the order and e-mailed the customer. This is totally Amazon's fault and as many others have suggested, these customers should refuse the charges on their next statement.
> It seems like a strange state of affairs when a magazine can take people to space, but the USA can't.
Why is that sad? Private companies can get into space cheaper and easier. Just look at the bloated, over engineered shuttle that resulted from letting the government monopolize the space industry. If, instead of letting NASA build whatever it wanted, we had put the specs out and let companies compete for NASA's business, then we would probably already have a fully developed space tourism industry just like our airline industry. Instead NASA blew its load on the shuttle, and then development on space vehicles capable of carrying humans stopped. Now, 30 years later, we're still waiting for new space vehicles. It's high time NASA turned development over to the private sector.
Another one of my "tricks" was to create a user.css and move the ad div off the screen with a size of 0x0 and top of -1000px. That's more work as you have to copy the the site's original css, but it still gives an impression to the ad counter, you just don't have to see the ad.
One trick that worked in Opera was to find out which javascript function was creating the adds and overwrite it. Opera allows you to define a user.js file and any functions in it overwrite the functions in any page loaded javascript. I just created a function with an empty body and I was good to go.
That doesn't work in a business setting. As an e-mail system manager, I get heat for letting in spam but I get a LOT more heat for blocking legitimate business related e-mail. And my bosses don't care about RBLs and ISPs that allow spam, they just want their e-mail. Just yesterday dnsrbl.sorbs.net blocked an e-mail from an sbc mail server. I had to switch to safe.dnsrbl.sorbs.net. That doesn't block as many IPs because it doesn't include the escalations. It would be nice to punish brain-dead ISPs, but in the business world you'd just be punishing yourself.
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Usually the cable companies make a deal with the city wherein the cable company lays the wire in exchange for an exclusivity contract (state sponsored monopoly) for a specified time period which the city can extend. Complaining to the city counsel or is your best bet as they usually make these determinations, but don't be surprised when these complaints fall on deaf ears as these contracts usually come with nice amenities for the people who negotiate them (read "free unlimited everything packages for the city counsel.")
If these school board members want to revel in their ignorance, then that's fine, but to try to force that ignorance on their children is nothing short of child abuse. The Texas and Louisiana school board members should read these articles and try to grasp that every educated person in the world thinks they are morons... http://www.theonion.com/articles/evangelical-scientists-refute-gravity-with-new-int,1778/ http://www.theonion.com/articles/sumerians-look-on-in-confusion-as-god-creates-worl,2879/
OK, here's your problem. You gave her the wrong games. You need to swap them out for Mario Kart and Donkey Kong Country. Girls go crazy for those games. Also, do your parents have an ice maker? If so, take some ice up to her. You should be good to go after that.
From TFA: "In most cases, funds are in the customers account immediately."
in the customers account != available for withdrawal.
You may get credit for the funds when interest is paid, but you can't remove the funds until the issuing bank clears the check.
See USAA's information on deposit@mobile
Specifically the FINE print: "Deposits may not be available for immediate withdrawal."
You have to read the fine print! The funds show in your account immediately, but are not available for withdrawal. Your bank will not allow you to withdraw those funds until they have been cleared by the check writer's bank. It's the same as if you walked the check into the bank and deposited it. Your bank will always cover it's own behind. That's why banks won't let you cash a check unless a) the check writer's account is with said bank, or b) you have an account with said bank that has enough funds to cover the check. If both cases are false, then they make you deposit the check.
Most companies have to pre-authorize checks before they will clear. The company sends the check number and amount to their bank. When you deposit said check, your bank sends the check number and amount to the company's bank, that bank notices that the check number a) has not been authorized or b) does not match the authorized amount and notifies your bank to remove deposited amount from your account. You fail and probably go to jail.
I've been doing this for months using USAA's iPhone app. When I showed my mom, she went out and got an iPhone and started using it. Before that I used their deposit@home service to scan checks on my computer. Beats driving to the bank just to deposit a check.
I was just thinking most lay people don't even know about the controversy. The only people who even care about it are the ones who have an anti-global warming political agenda and they already didn't trust scientists.
I use a Fit-PC for my home Linux server. It came with Ubuntu and Gentoo installed. It uses 6W and easily handles my e-mail, DNS, ssh, apache, and file-serving needs.
First, I routinely have to sit through an entire green light because cross traffic entered the intersection even though they couldn't make it all the way through because they didn't want to get stuck and miss their green light. They end up sitting through their green light because the traffic was stopped and making me sit through a green light because they are blocking cross traffic. It is illegal to enter an intersection unless you are sure you can get all the way through, so they *should* be ticketed.
Second, under Arkansas law, it is perfectly legal to enter an intersection with a yellow light and proceed through the intersection even if the light changes to red while you are in the intersection. It is only considered "running" a red light if the light is red before you enter the intersection. Any camera's had better be calibrated to only take a picture if the light is red BEFORE I enter the intersection or you can bet the municipality will get sued.
I don't think it's up to the DA... In every legal drama I've ever seen, it's entirely up to the judge's digression to find someone in contempt of court. My guess is that if they HAD gone before a judge in Austin, that is exactly what would have happened. Unfortunately, and IANAL, I believe that even federal judges' ruling are only regional unless the judges happen to be on the Supreme Court. So yes, the RIAA violated the ruling by filing the subpoena to the Austin ISP, but they are still free to file them in any other region until told not to do so.
SwiftFuel has more energy per gallon than gasoline so your airplane (or your car) will go 15-20 percent further on each gallon.
According to TFA, SwiftFuel is slightly MORE efficient than gasoline. So you get slightly more MPG and considerably fewer dollars per mile.So, wait... Is this some new technology, or just the ajax from google earth ported to silverlite? This is just another in a long line of ripoffs that M$ has pulled.
California seems to have figured it out...
I love to be captain obvious, so why are the cars separating the hydrogen from the carbon and storing the carbon? Why don't they separate it at a central plant, then ship the hydrogen to the fueling stations? Then the car wouldn't have to carry all that extra carbon around and they fueling stations wouldn't have to send the carbon back to be stored somewhere. - SuckItDown!
Is this the same idea as time becoming space-like?
Like any new input device, it takes some time to adjust to, but I am much faster on it than t9 on my Erickson. The spell check on the iPhone works much better than t9 IMHO.
Obviously you've never seen Superman 3 of Office Space. Anyone who works at a financial institution has to be fingerprinted no matter what the position. This ensures they aren't hiring a known criminal and makes it easier to track them down if they do end up embezzling or stealing. This should go DOUBLE for computer programmers who can write code to slide money into a secret account...
My wife had to get fingerprinted to work at a non-financial institution that was owned by a bank. One day another girl was offered a job and refused to be fingerprinted. They let her go but everyone was thinking "what is she trying to hide?"
Depends on if I notice it or not. I certainly wouldn't drive back to give wally world extra money after looking at a receipt at home. Usually this washes out in the long run as they forget to put sale prices in their registers, too. In Amazon's case there was no one to notify. Either pay the reduced price, or don't get them at all.
Let's think about this for a second... If you go to Wal*Mart, and buy a jar of pickles marked 2/$5 and get to the checkout, and they only charge you $0.50 because they had the wrong price in their system (which happens quite often), then Wal*Mart can't come to your house later and mug you to make up for it. Amazon should have verified the prices BEFORE shipping. If they had done their due diligence, then they would have canceled the order and e-mailed the customer. This is totally Amazon's fault and as many others have suggested, these customers should refuse the charges on their next statement.
> It seems like a strange state of affairs when a magazine can take people to space, but the USA can't.
Why is that sad? Private companies can get into space cheaper and easier. Just look at the bloated, over engineered shuttle that resulted from letting the government monopolize the space industry. If, instead of letting NASA build whatever it wanted, we had put the specs out and let companies compete for NASA's business, then we would probably already have a fully developed space tourism industry just like our airline industry. Instead NASA blew its load on the shuttle, and then development on space vehicles capable of carrying humans stopped. Now, 30 years later, we're still waiting for new space vehicles. It's high time NASA turned development over to the private sector.
Another one of my "tricks" was to create a user.css and move the ad div off the screen with a size of 0x0 and top of -1000px. That's more work as you have to copy the the site's original css, but it still gives an impression to the ad counter, you just don't have to see the ad.
One trick that worked in Opera was to find out which javascript function was creating the adds and overwrite it. Opera allows you to define a user.js file and any functions in it overwrite the functions in any page loaded javascript. I just created a function with an empty body and I was good to go.
That doesn't work in a business setting. As an e-mail system manager, I get heat for letting in spam but I get a LOT more heat for blocking legitimate business related e-mail. And my bosses don't care about RBLs and ISPs that allow spam, they just want their e-mail. Just yesterday dnsrbl.sorbs.net blocked an e-mail from an sbc mail server. I had to switch to safe.dnsrbl.sorbs.net. That doesn't block as many IPs because it doesn't include the escalations.
It would be nice to punish brain-dead ISPs, but in the business world you'd just be punishing yourself.