Homing pigeon races generally involve taking them somewhere they've never been before, so unless they show the pigeons a road map beforehand, I find that unlikely as the sole explanation.
Landmarks may be handy for finding their home in the final stretch, but it doesn't explain their entire homing ability.
I imagine he figured he'd meet his end to a crocodile or shark or something.
Certainly not something that's killed somewhere between 3 and 17 humans (depending on who you ask) in recorded history. Hell, hamsters have probably killed more.
Irwin reportedly instructed his camera crews that, if he were to get eaten, that he really hoped they'd get it on tape. I don't think he'd mind - hell, presumably he's laughing about it inbetween harassing angels.
Someone already pointed out that this is at the registry level and not the registrar level, but even if it were a registry level thing, have you ever tried to get a domain name away from Verisign? Last time I had to transfer away from them, they told me they lock domains against transfer in the last 90 days of their validity period. All they'd have to do is raise your renewal price to the $1000 (or whatever) 89 days before you're supposed to renew and you're stuck.
No average joe can stump up $1m (or however much) to grab google.biz, just in order to get them to payup for the site (and it makes it less profitable to do anyway).
No average joe can stump up $1m (or however much) to grab googlesucks.com, either.
You're not thinking like the AOL users in the database, though. Here's a more accurate version:
2356894 I need a new job, can you give me one? 2356894 I need a new job soon, where can I find one? 2356894 I would like to work at macdonalds. 2356894 Who runs mcdonalds? 2356894 Why do people keep telling me I'm working at a mcjob? 2356894 I would like to switch to the postal service. 2356894 I am thinking of going postal, please give me advice on killing people. 2356894 guns are cool, do you agree?
I'm living in the United States, where people have been sued for less.
I don't like it, and I'd feel absurd enforcing it, but the fact of the matter is that companies need to cover their asses. I don't fault HP for enforcing their policies.
A desktop background of a supermodel isn't appropriate for a large corporate office. Companies can't afford to wait until there's a complaint, and they can't appear in any way to condone it, lest they find out that someone's offended in the form of a multi-million dollar lawsuit.
There's a good reason sexual harassment policies are so goddamned strict. The OP should have known better.
If you quote the line before that, it looks a lot more like damage control:
A senior UN official, asked about the information contained in Maj. Hess-von Kruedener's e-mail concerning Hezbollah presence in the vicinity of the Khiam base, denied the world body had been caught in a contradiction.
Hint: Israel wasn't hitting the area around the post for over an hour just for kicks. They're slightly better shots than that.
Frankly, I'd chalk that up to the difficulty of third-worlders going up against the largest military and intelligence power in the world. Seems a little more likely than "haha all the pepul who h8 us are dum".
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Homing pigeon races generally involve taking them somewhere they've never been before, so unless they show the pigeons a road map beforehand, I find that unlikely as the sole explanation.
Landmarks may be handy for finding their home in the final stretch, but it doesn't explain their entire homing ability.
That's like saying that something better than Slashdot is coming, and then posting a Geocities link.
I imagine he figured he'd meet his end to a crocodile or shark or something.
Certainly not something that's killed somewhere between 3 and 17 humans (depending on who you ask) in recorded history. Hell, hamsters have probably killed more.
Irwin reportedly instructed his camera crews that, if he were to get eaten, that he really hoped they'd get it on tape. I don't think he'd mind - hell, presumably he's laughing about it inbetween harassing angels.
Go take another look at digg.com.
An "article" includes:
Red-Hot and Filthy Library Smut
Library pics like you've never seen before...
I'd say $6.66 for that isn't too bad.
I was told I could not transfer within 90 days of the expiration date without first paying a renewal fee. It wasn't the user-activated lock.
This was a few years ago, so perhaps they got enough pissed off customers like myself.
Someone already pointed out that this is at the registry level and not the registrar level, but even if it were a registry level thing, have you ever tried to get a domain name away from Verisign? Last time I had to transfer away from them, they told me they lock domains against transfer in the last 90 days of their validity period. All they'd have to do is raise your renewal price to the $1000 (or whatever) 89 days before you're supposed to renew and you're stuck.
No average joe can stump up $1m (or however much) to grab google.biz, just in order to get them to payup for the site (and it makes it less profitable to do anyway).
No average joe can stump up $1m (or however much) to grab googlesucks.com, either.
I said ethical, not legal.
It is all about making sure your actions don't get the company sued...
One of your ethical obligations as an employee of a large company is to the shareholders.
Ask him if encrypting something with a 1 bit key 128 times is equally secure.
You're not thinking like the AOL users in the database, though. Here's a more accurate version:
2356894 I need a new job, can you give me one?
2356894 I need a new job soon, where can I find one?
2356894 I would like to work at macdonalds.
2356894 Who runs mcdonalds?
2356894 Why do people keep telling me I'm working at a mcjob?
2356894 I would like to switch to the postal service.
2356894 I am thinking of going postal, please give me advice on killing people.
2356894 guns are cool, do you agree?
You really find "we can't be responsible for other people's fuckups" to be unreasonable?
It's a race between it and a car, from the entertaining folks at TopGear.
I'm guessing this one is faster. :-p
LOL, a perfect example of how you Americans view the world.
Yes, go ahead, assume the Australian citizen is an American. Good on ya.
Bullshit. If someone feels offended by such a picture, he/she should be sent to a psychatrist asap.
In a perfect world, perhaps. Guess where they go in ours? Dewey, Cheatem, & Howe, Attorneys at Law.
What planet are you living on?
I'm living in the United States, where people have been sued for less.
I don't like it, and I'd feel absurd enforcing it, but the fact of the matter is that companies need to cover their asses. I don't fault HP for enforcing their policies.
A desktop background of a supermodel isn't appropriate for a large corporate office. Companies can't afford to wait until there's a complaint, and they can't appear in any way to condone it, lest they find out that someone's offended in the form of a multi-million dollar lawsuit.
There's a good reason sexual harassment policies are so goddamned strict. The OP should have known better.
So, a word to the wise young people, don't put clearly inappropriate things on your work computer that the company pays for.
Surely you heard of the BlackBerry case in which RIM paid $600+ million to a company with repeatedly rejected patents?
If you quote the line before that, it looks a lot more like damage control:
A senior UN official, asked about the information contained in Maj. Hess-von Kruedener's e-mail concerning Hezbollah presence in the vicinity of the Khiam base, denied the world body had been caught in a contradiction.
Hint: Israel wasn't hitting the area around the post for over an hour just for kicks. They're slightly better shots than that.
I suggest that Hezbollah deserves a lot of credit for creating a situation where innocents are at greater risk to save their own asses.
You mean the UN post Hezbollah was using as a shield, right?
Frankly, I'd chalk that up to the difficulty of third-worlders going up against the largest military and intelligence power in the world. Seems a little more likely than "haha all the pepul who h8 us are dum".