If by "city" you mean Chicago citizens, then I'd agree. However, Mayor Daley, his father before him, and the City Council all have been consistently and staunchly anti-gun.
All the more reason for armed guards or even armed employees
Good luck there - this is *Chicago*, remember. They, like many other large cities, much prefer to disarm the populace and then pretend that there's no more gun crime as a result.
Because it costs too much for the benefit I'd receive. Even assuming I won the case (quite likely, as I doubt they'd send a representative to court), there's still the not-so-minor matter of collecting the judgement.
You as the end consumer are NOT bound by agreements between other people. The place where you bought it from may have sold something to you in contravention of their contracts with THEIR partners, but that's not your problem... or it SHOULDN'T be your problem... and if law and/or reality contradict that, then the law and/or reality is in error and needs fixing.
Wish it had worked that way with me and VMware. Last year, I bought a shrinkwrapped copy of Workstation 5.5 from an Amazon vendor, registered with VMware, etc., and life was good for a while. It's a great piece of software, and probably the single most useful package I own. Fast forward a bit to the 6.0 release. I participated in the pre-release beta, and was really looking forward to picking up the retail package. VMware offered 6.0 as a $100 upgrade from 5.x, so of course I jumped at that. However, I found I was unable to register on the site with my 5.x key and when I contacted VMware about it, they said they'd had some kind of issue with the vendor, and had invalidated all of his licenses instead of pursuing whatever direct legal action would have been appropriate. They refused to work with me *at all* on the upgrade pricing, even though I had a legitimate shrink-wrapped package and by their own admission, a legitimate license key. To add insult to injury, they insinuated that the problem was my fault because I didn't check the VMware web site before purchasing to make sure the vendor was a VMware Authorized Reseller.
It'll be a cold day in hell before I do business with VMware again, and I've recommended Xen to more than a couple of folks since then.
Bingo. There are a *lot* of people out there that don't know what a night sky really looks like. It's kind of saddening to read reports of people calling in during widespread power failures to report "a strange silvery band in the sky", when it's just that they've never seen the Milky Way before because of all the light pollution.
VenTel here. My 1200 baud modem worked great until a friend of mine plugged it into his Amiga, which provides power on a couple of pins. All the magic smoke got out shortly thereafter. I remember a few years later thinking that the new 14.4K modems were PFM, and it was nice having high speeds without giving up the real estate for a Courier HST - you could just about put legs on a Courier and use it as a coffee table.
Yeah, I've not figured that one out yet. Not that I necessarily disagree with charging a differential for card/non-card purchases (3% or so is a fair bit of money for a merchant to have to eat), but it's silly to make one rule and then totally turn it around with another rule.
The general population should NOT be entrusted to ride herd on the police force - the police force should not be directly controlled or regulated by the public.
I think you misunderstood what I was trying to say there - what I meant was that it's the public's duty to not stand for or allow the force to do things it shouldn't be doing. For instance, if the officer asks you if it's okay to search your car, then you say no. The officer has no business asking, and has no legal justification to search, so you gain nothing by allowing it and the officer learns that he can often perform searches without going through the proper procedures. If the public doesn't enforce the limits, then the police will continue push those limits further and further.
It is a big problem when you have a police force filled with cops who get the respect one gives to potentially dangerous animals, instead of "real" respect.
It's also a big problem when the general public is accorded the same respect by law enforcement that it generally extends to the criminal element.
I flew business class from Scotland to London (approx. 50 minutes), and while the meal (and seats) were nice, the difference in cost over a normal ticket wasn't remotely justified. I'd rather have flown economy and had my employer pay me the difference:)
I'd rather have taken a train - by the time you factor in having to be at the airport early, all the fussing with baggage, the security checks, waiting for your baggage on the other end, etc., the train really doesn't take that much longer, it's a *lot* more comfortable, you can get up and get something to eat/drink pretty much whenever you want to, and there are no worries about lost luggage. Last year's round trip from London to Edinburgh via GNER was great - about 4 hours, but I wouldn't consider flying that route unless I *had* to. I wish we had more rail options here in the U.S.
Instead of a complex system of separate queues, one could attach coloured stickers on the priority luggage. Maybe red for priority and the regular ones will do for the others.
Almost easier done than said - just load all the non-red-stickered baggage first and set the red-stickered bags aside until all of the others are done.
Charging to get your baggage first is the same as offering a discount if you don't mind them coming out last.
Yes, it is. However, how it's *perceived* can make a world of difference, and people are usually more responsive to a discount than an additional charge. For instance, when I do consulting gigs, I charge the customer a hefty fee for not paying on the agreed-upon schedule. Customers generally don't like that, so instead what I do is inflate the base rate slightly, then offer a discount on the billed amount for paying on net 7, a little less of a discount for net 15, and so on. It produces exactly the same result as if I'd explicitly charged them for paying late, but the customers don't whine nearly as much and I get paid on time a lot more often.
I think the ultimate problem is simply that police officers are people, with all of the human failings that go along with that. It's one thing to have an ideal of what a police officer should be, but the fact remains that no cop out there will always apply the law in a totally objective, impartial manner. For instance, you'll almost never see one cop writing a speeding ticket to another. They call it "professional courtesy", when in fact it's a willful refusal to apply the law to their peers because "you don't do that kind of thing to your brother". In reality, it's often just them covering their ass - when you're pinned down by an armed assailant, you don't want a fellow officer taking his sweet time getting to you because he's pissed off about the ticket you gave him a month ago.
There's not a police officer out there who doesn't let their personal feelings and beliefs cloud the performance of their duty to some degree, but that's simply a by-product of human nature and as such can't ever be eliminated. Consequently, they can't be trusted to always do what they're supposed to, and it's incumbent upon the general population to ride herd on them and keep them firmly in line.
How the cop asks permission to search isn't really relevant. The point is, too many people will still willingly agree to searches the police have no business asking for.
America is dying under the thumb of the police and soon to arrive police state.
Yes it is, in large part because the citizens allow it to. Why did you let the cop "toss your car"? He had no basis for a legal search, so either he searched without your permission, or asked if he could and you said "yes". If he searched without your permission you should have followed up in court. If you told him it was okay to search, then you have nothing to bitch about and aren't any better than the rest of the sheep that are letting the government get away with murder. Either way, there was action you could have taken as a citizen, and chose not to.
They then cross-license with one another, leaving the small group of large established companies free to pursue all things telephone. Any newcomers to the market face the impossible task of finding a way through this patent minefield that the big companies are free to ignore.
It's remarkable how much that sounds like "conspiracy", isn't it? Also bears a striking resemblance to "price-fixing".
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And they're much less accountable for it, too.
If by "city" you mean Chicago citizens, then I'd agree. However, Mayor Daley, his father before him, and the City Council all have been consistently and staunchly anti-gun.
Simply put, people are stupid, and really shouldn't be trusted with lethal weapons.
The crime rates of the states of Vermont and Alaska would tend to refute that statement.
All the more reason for armed guards or even armed employees
Good luck there - this is *Chicago*, remember. They, like many other large cities, much prefer to disarm the populace and then pretend that there's no more gun crime as a result.
Because it costs too much for the benefit I'd receive. Even assuming I won the case (quite likely, as I doubt they'd send a representative to court), there's still the not-so-minor matter of collecting the judgement.
Ate at Burger King in Waterloo Station after getting off the Eurostar, cost me 6 pounds ($12!) for a Whopper Meal, OMG!
:-)
Hey, I've eaten at that BK as well. Had the same vague feeling of being financially violated too.
You as the end consumer are NOT bound by agreements between other people. The place where you bought it from may have sold something to you in contravention of their contracts with THEIR partners, but that's not your problem... or it SHOULDN'T be your problem... and if law and/or reality contradict that, then the law and/or reality is in error and needs fixing.
Wish it had worked that way with me and VMware. Last year, I bought a shrinkwrapped copy of Workstation 5.5 from an Amazon vendor, registered with VMware, etc., and life was good for a while. It's a great piece of software, and probably the single most useful package I own. Fast forward a bit to the 6.0 release. I participated in the pre-release beta, and was really looking forward to picking up the retail package. VMware offered 6.0 as a $100 upgrade from 5.x, so of course I jumped at that. However, I found I was unable to register on the site with my 5.x key and when I contacted VMware about it, they said they'd had some kind of issue with the vendor, and had invalidated all of his licenses instead of pursuing whatever direct legal action would have been appropriate. They refused to work with me *at all* on the upgrade pricing, even though I had a legitimate shrink-wrapped package and by their own admission, a legitimate license key. To add insult to injury, they insinuated that the problem was my fault because I didn't check the VMware web site before purchasing to make sure the vendor was a VMware Authorized Reseller.
It'll be a cold day in hell before I do business with VMware again, and I've recommended Xen to more than a couple of folks since then.
I didn't address your critique because I didn't want a flamewar.
Then perhaps you shouldn't have acted like a total asshole.
Bingo. There are a *lot* of people out there that don't know what a night sky really looks like. It's kind of saddening to read reports of people calling in during widespread power failures to report "a strange silvery band in the sky", when it's just that they've never seen the Milky Way before because of all the light pollution.
VenTel here. My 1200 baud modem worked great until a friend of mine plugged it into his Amiga, which provides power on a couple of pins. All the magic smoke got out shortly thereafter. I remember a few years later thinking that the new 14.4K modems were PFM, and it was nice having high speeds without giving up the real estate for a Courier HST - you could just about put legs on a Courier and use it as a coffee table.
In any event it seems like the saturn v's could have gotten the IIS up in aprox 4 lifts
And it put Skylab up in one.
Both offered a free soft drink, so I suppose that's something.
Yeah, considering you're not allowed to bring your own anymore.
United, BA and Virgin are generally the easiest alternatives and there's no way I'm going back to BA at least.
No contest there - Virgin has half-naked ladies on the noses of their individually-named aircraft, after all. The great service is just a bonus.
Yeah, I've not figured that one out yet. Not that I necessarily disagree with charging a differential for card/non-card purchases (3% or so is a fair bit of money for a merchant to have to eat), but it's silly to make one rule and then totally turn it around with another rule.
The general population should NOT be entrusted to ride herd on the police force - the police force should not be directly controlled or regulated by the public.
I think you misunderstood what I was trying to say there - what I meant was that it's the public's duty to not stand for or allow the force to do things it shouldn't be doing. For instance, if the officer asks you if it's okay to search your car, then you say no. The officer has no business asking, and has no legal justification to search, so you gain nothing by allowing it and the officer learns that he can often perform searches without going through the proper procedures. If the public doesn't enforce the limits, then the police will continue push those limits further and further.
It is a big problem when you have a police force filled with cops who get the respect one gives to potentially dangerous animals, instead of "real" respect.
It's also a big problem when the general public is accorded the same respect by law enforcement that it generally extends to the criminal element.
I flew business class from Scotland to London (approx. 50 minutes), and while the meal (and seats) were nice, the difference in cost over a normal ticket wasn't remotely justified. I'd rather have flown economy and had my employer pay me the difference :)
I'd rather have taken a train - by the time you factor in having to be at the airport early, all the fussing with baggage, the security checks, waiting for your baggage on the other end, etc., the train really doesn't take that much longer, it's a *lot* more comfortable, you can get up and get something to eat/drink pretty much whenever you want to, and there are no worries about lost luggage. Last year's round trip from London to Edinburgh via GNER was great - about 4 hours, but I wouldn't consider flying that route unless I *had* to. I wish we had more rail options here in the U.S.
Instead of a complex system of separate queues, one could attach coloured stickers on the priority luggage. Maybe red for priority and the regular ones will do for the others.
Almost easier done than said - just load all the non-red-stickered baggage first and set the red-stickered bags aside until all of the others are done.
Charging to get your baggage first is the same as offering a discount if you don't mind them coming out last.
Yes, it is. However, how it's *perceived* can make a world of difference, and people are usually more responsive to a discount than an additional charge. For instance, when I do consulting gigs, I charge the customer a hefty fee for not paying on the agreed-upon schedule. Customers generally don't like that, so instead what I do is inflate the base rate slightly, then offer a discount on the billed amount for paying on net 7, a little less of a discount for net 15, and so on. It produces exactly the same result as if I'd explicitly charged them for paying late, but the customers don't whine nearly as much and I get paid on time a lot more often.
Of course, charging extra to use a credit card to pay is outrageous
It sure is, and it's a breach of every merchant agreement I know of. Talk to your card issuer and let them know what's going on.
Interesting link - thanks for posting it.
I think the ultimate problem is simply that police officers are people, with all of the human failings that go along with that. It's one thing to have an ideal of what a police officer should be, but the fact remains that no cop out there will always apply the law in a totally objective, impartial manner. For instance, you'll almost never see one cop writing a speeding ticket to another. They call it "professional courtesy", when in fact it's a willful refusal to apply the law to their peers because "you don't do that kind of thing to your brother". In reality, it's often just them covering their ass - when you're pinned down by an armed assailant, you don't want a fellow officer taking his sweet time getting to you because he's pissed off about the ticket you gave him a month ago.
There's not a police officer out there who doesn't let their personal feelings and beliefs cloud the performance of their duty to some degree, but that's simply a by-product of human nature and as such can't ever be eliminated. Consequently, they can't be trusted to always do what they're supposed to, and it's incumbent upon the general population to ride herd on them and keep them firmly in line.
How the cop asks permission to search isn't really relevant. The point is, too many people will still willingly agree to searches the police have no business asking for.
America is dying under the thumb of the police and soon to arrive police state.
Yes it is, in large part because the citizens allow it to. Why did you let the cop "toss your car"? He had no basis for a legal search, so either he searched without your permission, or asked if he could and you said "yes". If he searched without your permission you should have followed up in court. If you told him it was okay to search, then you have nothing to bitch about and aren't any better than the rest of the sheep that are letting the government get away with murder. Either way, there was action you could have taken as a citizen, and chose not to.
You forgot to mention that Bruce Schneier also taught martial arts to Chuck Norris.
They then cross-license with one another, leaving the small group of large established companies free to pursue all things telephone. Any newcomers to the market face the impossible task of finding a way through this patent minefield that the big companies are free to ignore.
It's remarkable how much that sounds like "conspiracy", isn't it? Also bears a striking resemblance to "price-fixing".
A 0.6% failure rate still qualifies as "not very often" for most of the world.