This kinda happened already, but to Cingular, not T-Mobile. The California state Public Utilities Commission fined Cingular $12.1 million last year after an agressive campagin resulted in poor service.
In Hawaii, sales tax applies to everything. Even food purchased at a grocery store and medical services.
In theory, the sales tax to be paid by the customer is 4%, and the business pays 4% of what is collected, resulting in an effective tax rate of 4.167%. In reality, all business just charge the customer the full 4.167%.
Technically, it's not a sales tax at all, but a General Excise Tax.
In my personal experience (HP iPAQ versus Apple iBook), I found that the iPAQ had much poorer WiFi reception than the iBook, and most other students' laptops. I could sit in a classroom and the iPAQ would have much trouble finding the access point, while the iBook would find it right away with a pretty strong signal. So coverage in your room may not be as bad as you think.
how many major airline employees have moved to budget airline companies?
Probably more than you'd think. Remember which airlines are making money (WestJet, JetBlue, Southwest, AirTran) and which airlines aren't (Air Canada, Delta, United, American, US Airways).
Add me to the list of those wanting a newer Mozilla (preferably Firefox) for OS 9. Not for me, I use OS X, but for my parents, who use a Mac (StarMax 3000/160) that has no hope of ever running OS X. IE 5 of Mac OS 9 is actually pretty good, but I'd like to get them on a Mozilla browser if I could. I tried Netscape 7.01 but that was too slow to be useful. As long as the StarMax keeps working, they're planning on keeping it... rather not spend the money on a new computer if they don't have to.
Anyway, I've been trying to guess the "theme" for this year's topic and I think perhaps tomorrow that it will be revealed that all these "unfunny" stories are all actually real news/submissions that the mods have been queuing up for a while just for today.
Did you notice that a number of stories have the tagline from the real-submissions-unedited dept.?
GMail used to be the free email service offered for fans of Garfield (the overweight lasanga-loving orange cat on the comics page). I notice that they now offer e-garfield.com emails instead.
AppleWorks's various modules are decendants of the individual applications: MacWrite, MacDraw, MacPaint, and FileMaker. Though FileMaker has now far surpassed anything AppleWorks Database offers. When ClarisWorks first came out, the word processor wasn't quite as full featured as MacWrite Pro, and I imagine the modules were the same way.
I had something like this used once when a podiatrist had to remove an ingrown toenail. He used it to deliver a local anesthetic. It felt like being hit by a rubber band.
I currently live in Monterey, and, at least using a set top antenna (I live in an apartment) I could not get any ABC over the air. Like I mentioned, Comcast provides KGO out of San Francisco, and IIRC Dish Network gives Monterey customers the option of an ABC Distant Network, the only one on Pacific time is KABC out of Los Angeles.
You don't happen to know of a link with more details about the whole story? I've gotten bits and pieces of the story, but I do know that one of the end results of all this was that Monterey gets no ABC and two NBC stations (KSBW and KNTV) over the air; Comcast provides KGO to cover for the lack of local ABC.
I have Comcast cable and have seen them while watching SpikeTV.
So just to summarize, I get the crawl even though I'm not watching through Dish Network, on a channel that it is unclear as to whether or not will be cut off.
Usually when I see local ads on a cable station (such as SpikeTV), they're the last two commercials in the block. I haven't paid enough attention to figure out if there's a pattern to which breaks get local ads and which don't. It's quite obvious to me which are local; aside from the content, Comcast's timing is off so the local ad starts a second early, and I see the last second of the ad it replaced before returning to the program.
In my experience, the original Imagewriter was more reliable than the ImageWriter II. The II had a more complicated paper path and seemed like it was too fast, resulting in it jamming itself easier. The original Imagewriter was virtually indestructable, but slower and couldn't print in color.
Actually, I find most older printers are. I rarely had problems with my old DeskWriter 550C, nor with the LaserWriter IIg that replaced it.
Students might love this - they can have desktop performance in something they can take to lectures. slowly. in a cart.:-P
Actually, students might like this, for a different reason. A laptop like this will take up much less space in a small dorm room than a desktop. They probably would not want to bring it to class everyday, but for occasional trips to the library, or when going home for the weekend.
I agree. Microsoft Internet Explorer is the only browser I know of that does this by default. If VeriSign reactivates SiteFinder, Microsoft should sue VeriSign for abusing their monopoly position to unfarily compete with MSN Search.
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In theory, the sales tax to be paid by the customer is 4%, and the business pays 4% of what is collected, resulting in an effective tax rate of 4.167%. In reality, all business just charge the customer the full 4.167%.
Technically, it's not a sales tax at all, but a General Excise Tax.
This page has some further information: http://www.hawaii.gov/dbedt/hecon/he98sp/compare.h tml
DarwinPorts also uses /opt.
Actually, pre-G3 systems have never been able to (officially) run OS X. Since 10.0 at least, I'm not sure about the Public Beta.
Their sysadmin must have been having one of those wet dreams when they aliased cp to mv.
In my personal experience (HP iPAQ versus Apple iBook), I found that the iPAQ had much poorer WiFi reception than the iBook, and most other students' laptops. I could sit in a classroom and the iPAQ would have much trouble finding the access point, while the iBook would find it right away with a pretty strong signal. So coverage in your room may not be as bad as you think.
My observations show them mostly reading/writing email. I've also seen people reading Slashdot during lectures.
Probably more than you'd think. Remember which airlines are making money (WestJet, JetBlue, Southwest, AirTran) and which airlines aren't (Air Canada, Delta, United, American, US Airways).
Actually, it's just one airline that offers it, United Airlines. It is at pilot's discretion.
Add me to the list of those wanting a newer Mozilla (preferably Firefox) for OS 9. Not for me, I use OS X, but for my parents, who use a Mac (StarMax 3000/160) that has no hope of ever running OS X. IE 5 of Mac OS 9 is actually pretty good, but I'd like to get them on a Mozilla browser if I could. I tried Netscape 7.01 but that was too slow to be useful. As long as the StarMax keeps working, they're planning on keeping it... rather not spend the money on a new computer if they don't have to.
Did you notice that a number of stories have the tagline from the real-submissions-unedited dept.?
I think you're right.
GMail used to be the free email service offered for fans of Garfield (the overweight lasanga-loving orange cat on the comics page). I notice that they now offer e-garfield.com emails instead.
AppleWorks's various modules are decendants of the individual applications: MacWrite, MacDraw, MacPaint, and FileMaker. Though FileMaker has now far surpassed anything AppleWorks Database offers. When ClarisWorks first came out, the word processor wasn't quite as full featured as MacWrite Pro, and I imagine the modules were the same way.
What about the doors that know exactly when (or when not) to open?
I had something like this used once when a podiatrist had to remove an ingrown toenail. He used it to deliver a local anesthetic. It felt like being hit by a rubber band.
I currently live in Monterey, and, at least using a set top antenna (I live in an apartment) I could not get any ABC over the air. Like I mentioned, Comcast provides KGO out of San Francisco, and IIRC Dish Network gives Monterey customers the option of an ABC Distant Network, the only one on Pacific time is KABC out of Los Angeles.
You don't happen to know of a link with more details about the whole story? I've gotten bits and pieces of the story, but I do know that one of the end results of all this was that Monterey gets no ABC and two NBC stations (KSBW and KNTV) over the air; Comcast provides KGO to cover for the lack of local ABC.
So just to summarize, I get the crawl even though I'm not watching through Dish Network, on a channel that it is unclear as to whether or not will be cut off.
Usually when I see local ads on a cable station (such as SpikeTV), they're the last two commercials in the block. I haven't paid enough attention to figure out if there's a pattern to which breaks get local ads and which don't. It's quite obvious to me which are local; aside from the content, Comcast's timing is off so the local ad starts a second early, and I see the last second of the ad it replaced before returning to the program.
In my experience, the original Imagewriter was more reliable than the ImageWriter II. The II had a more complicated paper path and seemed like it was too fast, resulting in it jamming itself easier. The original Imagewriter was virtually indestructable, but slower and couldn't print in color.
Actually, I find most older printers are. I rarely had problems with my old DeskWriter 550C, nor with the LaserWriter IIg that replaced it.
IE with an ugly workaround makes it that much easier to convince people to try Mozilla or Opera.
Actually, students might like this, for a different reason. A laptop like this will take up much less space in a small dorm room than a desktop. They probably would not want to bring it to class everyday, but for occasional trips to the library, or when going home for the weekend.
I agree. Microsoft Internet Explorer is the only browser I know of that does this by default. If VeriSign reactivates SiteFinder, Microsoft should sue VeriSign for abusing their monopoly position to unfarily compete with MSN Search.
And don't forget... Ingpay Atinlay.
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