I wouldn't say that. "Error establishing a database connection" is displayed in clear bold letters with nice high contrast against the background. It's hard to critique the typography much on such a short article, though.
I'd be fine with this assuming the prices were reasonable. The proverbial grandma logging in weekly to check email and look at her photos should be paying much much less than she is now. An "average" user who uses significant data but never hits the current caps should pay about what he pays now, and these "data hogs" should pay more, but not exponentially more.
And we should have a variety of tools to help us track our usage. Show us both the data usage and the current bill (and maybe a projected bill if we keep usage flat over the month).
More likely, no one knew about those $5 computers at habitat for humanity. And even if they did, were they properly loaded with software for someone to just take them home and use them?
I honestly doubt that the people who bought the $100 machine that wouldn't boot properly knew they were buying something nonfunctional.
And they really expect people to worship their asshole of a God?
Yes, I designed the world specifically so it would appear to be billions of years old and put in elaborate clues with extinct animal fossils, and precisely positioned stars moving at exactly the right velocities. Then, when the intelligent people I designed use their God-given(you're welcome) brains to study these clues and piece together the history I've deliberately hinted at, POW!!! I hit the poor bastards with horrible diseases for daring to study my Creation.
Yes, I think you'll find 10-28% of a population is a minority by definition. 70% of TV owners is still a very large market, which is why the manufacturers are pushing the technology.
Because who got more votes here is meaningless. It's like asking "Which candidate got louder applause?" You could measure and declare a winner based on that, but it wouldn't tell you how Iowa's delegates are going to be distributed. All the results tell you is that Bachmann, Hunstman, Roemer and Cain are probably not viable candidates.
Not in this case. Like the general election in November, popular vote is not important here. Several presidents have won the election, even though another candidate got a plurality in the popular vote. It is reasonably common for no one to get 50% plus 1 vote in the popular vote.
The popular vote here is pretty meaningless. It shows that Romney, Santorum and Paul all have significant support in the state, but Iowa's delegates won't be assigned until June. Before then there are county conventions to choose delegates to the state convention in June. Neither of those are bound by the results of caucus votes. At that point, the delegates are assigned proportionally, so it is quite possible for there to be a tie with two candidates getting the same number of delegates.
Well, it's good to pound into the heads of some of the trailing candidates that they have no chance in the election and should save their money and go home.
If the buyer is trying to scam the seller, well there's not much you can do, it comes down to who's word you believe. But if it's a matter of the buyer honestly being unhappy with the item once they receive it, returning it should be the first option.
A buyer who gets negative feedback just dumps his account and starts a new one. Sellers don't demand that buyers have extensive histories before they'll take the money. A seller who gets negative feedback is stuck. He needs his history, so buyers know he's a legitimate seller, but those black marks really hurt hium.
If the seller doesn't want to pay for the return, fine they can agree to proof of destruction instead. But if the seller would rather have the item back, they should have the option to pay the shipping charges to have it returned.
Paypal doesn't have the ability to determine if the violin is really a fake, they shouldn't be the ones insisting on destruction of counterfeits.
Our local theater has 3 halls of theaters branching off the central concession area. During busier times of the day, each of the three halls has a ticket taker (during less busy times there's just one ticket taker for the whole complex). I suppose they could put the more expensive films in one of those three halls and the cheaper ones in the others, and prevent this sort of behavior.
He was also lying to the customer. On the 16th, he told the customer it would ship by the 17th. Then the next week he admitted that it was still going through customs. There's no way he could have thought they would ship the next day if they hadn't even made it through customs yet. A letter email said it was still shipping from China. He couldn't even be bothered to keep his excuses consistent.
When I expect 24/7 support, I expect the company to hire several shifts worth of support people, not route my call to some poor schmuck at home afterhours.
There is such a thing as too short a yellow. If cars traveling at legal speeds can not come to a safe stop between when the light first turns yellow and when it turns red, the light is too yellow.
There is such a thing as too long a yellow. If the first time you see a light it is yellow, it provides no information to you on when the light is going to change. This would result in either drivers sitting for a twenty seconds at a yellow light, because they didn't know they caught it at the start of the light. Or people making the incorrect assumption that there was plenty of time left on the yellow and flying through only to get caught by the red.
Between these extremes there's a happy medium. We're discussing where in that range is the best length.
In your country a city can decide how long the traffic light is yellwo, that sounds pretty retarded to me.
Someone has to decide. Even if, as you say, the duration depends on the speed limit, someone wrote up an algorithm to decide, and some government official approved it. Maybe it was at the city level, maybe it was at the state level, maybe it was at the national level.
I went through a short phase where I added a bunch of people I vaguely remembered from High School. Then I went through the phase where I started muting them all because they just talk too damn much. Then I came to my senses and just unfriended them. Now my friends are just that. Or at least people who WERE friends, and I'd be happy to interact with, but while they're on Facebook, they don't use it.
I like it for what I use it for, a way to share a few things (mostly pictures) with a small group of friends and family. And occasionally, I get drawn back into Frontierville, until I realize I'm spending my free time doing virtual work for virtual money (which can't even buy any interesting virtual goods, those take real money)
Lobbying is fine. You go in, sit down, talk to the Congressman, tell him what your client wants, why, make up some reason why it's good for his constituents.
Promising that you'll contribute to his campaign if he does X is bribery and shouldn't be allowed.
Several of the founding fathers opposed the idea of a Bill of Rights for just this reason. If we enumerate a set of rights, somebody is going to come along and assume that those are our ONLY rights.
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I wouldn't say that. "Error establishing a database connection" is displayed in clear bold letters with nice high contrast against the background. It's hard to critique the typography much on such a short article, though.
I'd be fine with this assuming the prices were reasonable. The proverbial grandma logging in weekly to check email and look at her photos should be paying much much less than she is now. An "average" user who uses significant data but never hits the current caps should pay about what he pays now, and these "data hogs" should pay more, but not exponentially more.
And we should have a variety of tools to help us track our usage. Show us both the data usage and the current bill (and maybe a projected bill if we keep usage flat over the month).
More likely, no one knew about those $5 computers at habitat for humanity. And even if they did, were they properly loaded with software for someone to just take them home and use them?
I honestly doubt that the people who bought the $100 machine that wouldn't boot properly knew they were buying something nonfunctional.
And they really expect people to worship their asshole of a God?
Yes, I designed the world specifically so it would appear to be billions of years old and put in elaborate clues with extinct animal fossils, and precisely positioned stars moving at exactly the right velocities. Then, when the intelligent people I designed use their God-given(you're welcome) brains to study these clues and piece together the history I've deliberately hinted at, POW!!! I hit the poor bastards with horrible diseases for daring to study my Creation.
Yes, I think you'll find 10-28% of a population is a minority by definition. 70% of TV owners is still a very large market, which is why the manufacturers are pushing the technology.
And I expect them to try it in movie theaters again, when they have some new technology that might work better.
Because who got more votes here is meaningless. It's like asking "Which candidate got louder applause?" You could measure and declare a winner based on that, but it wouldn't tell you how Iowa's delegates are going to be distributed. All the results tell you is that Bachmann, Hunstman, Roemer and Cain are probably not viable candidates.
Not in this case. Like the general election in November, popular vote is not important here. Several presidents have won the election, even though another candidate got a plurality in the popular vote. It is reasonably common for no one to get 50% plus 1 vote in the popular vote.
The popular vote here is pretty meaningless. It shows that Romney, Santorum and Paul all have significant support in the state, but Iowa's delegates won't be assigned until June. Before then there are county conventions to choose delegates to the state convention in June. Neither of those are bound by the results of caucus votes. At that point, the delegates are assigned proportionally, so it is quite possible for there to be a tie with two candidates getting the same number of delegates.
Well, it's good to pound into the heads of some of the trailing candidates that they have no chance in the election and should save their money and go home.
If the buyer is trying to scam the seller, well there's not much you can do, it comes down to who's word you believe. But if it's a matter of the buyer honestly being unhappy with the item once they receive it, returning it should be the first option.
A buyer who gets negative feedback just dumps his account and starts a new one. Sellers don't demand that buyers have extensive histories before they'll take the money. A seller who gets negative feedback is stuck. He needs his history, so buyers know he's a legitimate seller, but those black marks really hurt hium.
If the seller doesn't want to pay for the return, fine they can agree to proof of destruction instead. But if the seller would rather have the item back, they should have the option to pay the shipping charges to have it returned.
Paypal doesn't have the ability to determine if the violin is really a fake, they shouldn't be the ones insisting on destruction of counterfeits.
Our local theater has 3 halls of theaters branching off the central concession area. During busier times of the day, each of the three halls has a ticket taker (during less busy times there's just one ticket taker for the whole complex). I suppose they could put the more expensive films in one of those three halls and the cheaper ones in the others, and prevent this sort of behavior.
He was also lying to the customer. On the 16th, he told the customer it would ship by the 17th. Then the next week he admitted that it was still going through customs. There's no way he could have thought they would ship the next day if they hadn't even made it through customs yet. A letter email said it was still shipping from China. He couldn't even be bothered to keep his excuses consistent.
When I expect 24/7 support, I expect the company to hire several shifts worth of support people, not route my call to some poor schmuck at home afterhours.
There is such a thing as too short a yellow. If cars traveling at legal speeds can not come to a safe stop between when the light first turns yellow and when it turns red, the light is too yellow.
There is such a thing as too long a yellow. If the first time you see a light it is yellow, it provides no information to you on when the light is going to change. This would result in either drivers sitting for a twenty seconds at a yellow light, because they didn't know they caught it at the start of the light. Or people making the incorrect assumption that there was plenty of time left on the yellow and flying through only to get caught by the red.
Between these extremes there's a happy medium. We're discussing where in that range is the best length.
In your country a city can decide how long the traffic light is yellwo, that sounds pretty retarded to me.
Someone has to decide. Even if, as you say, the duration depends on the speed limit, someone wrote up an algorithm to decide, and some government official approved it. Maybe it was at the city level, maybe it was at the state level, maybe it was at the national level.
I went through a short phase where I added a bunch of people I vaguely remembered from High School. Then I went through the phase where I started muting them all because they just talk too damn much. Then I came to my senses and just unfriended them. Now my friends are just that. Or at least people who WERE friends, and I'd be happy to interact with, but while they're on Facebook, they don't use it.
I like it for what I use it for, a way to share a few things (mostly pictures) with a small group of friends and family. And occasionally, I get drawn back into Frontierville, until I realize I'm spending my free time doing virtual work for virtual money (which can't even buy any interesting virtual goods, those take real money)
Lobbying is fine. You go in, sit down, talk to the Congressman, tell him what your client wants, why, make up some reason why it's good for his constituents.
Promising that you'll contribute to his campaign if he does X is bribery and shouldn't be allowed.
So at $50,000 it shouldn't really be too hard for us to buy ourselves a few Congressmen. What's the rate for Senators?
Tell that to DareDevil
It's been awhile since I've checked. hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com Looks like we're still safe.
We're sorry we got caught.
Several of the founding fathers opposed the idea of a Bill of Rights for just this reason. If we enumerate a set of rights, somebody is going to come along and assume that those are our ONLY rights.
These are refurbished models. I bet they're making more refurbishing them and selling them than they'd get throwing them in the dumpster.