The right where they supported the company in developing the infrastructure that said company uses. Do you think these companies became monopolies out of their superior offerings? No, it's because they lobbied for control, got government grants and right-of-way, and laid the road with government help. The concept was that by doing so, they could make a profit and help the people.
The problem is that now there's no incentive to main, increase, or otherwise improve service. They're in control, nobody else can break the entry barriers created by the government-granted monopoly, and competition is pretty much nill when drilled down to the "how do I get connected" arena.
Bell's solution: Our customers are leaving to 3rd-parties because they're tired of getting screwed by our messed-up policies and cruddy service. But wait, we control a small part of the lines that 90% of the competition uses. So, in order to not lose customers, as opposed to fixing the issues, we'll just give everyone the same problem and to make their customers' connections suck too.
Sorry, but the "we're screwing everyone equally" answer doesn't add up.
It's plainly anti-competitive, all you have to ask is:
If Bell didn't have the ability to interfere with 3rd-party connections, would this issue exist, and would the other ISP's gain customers. If the issue wouldn't exist, or the other ISP's would gain customers, then Bell is abusing their control of the lines and monopoly therein.
Don't these people ever learn? My mother just recently called me asking why her TV wouldn't let her play movies from the laptop (/w Vista). At first I thought it was a connection issue, but then she explained that the screen was displaying an "unauthorized device" message.
Laptop has Blu-Ray, and the TV is even HDCP compliant. It's sad to see that Macs will be going down the same road.
I noticed that too in Toronto, but I also noticed that the escalators in a lot of other places (notably a bunch of Chapters locations, stores, etc) seemed to also break down quite frequently. The stores tended to get things fixed a bit faster than the TTC, but overall I'm wondering if there's a shortage of escalator repair-persons or perhaps the parts are in short supply (I've heard that many parts come from overseas - Germany I think - and are available only from a very small number of suppliers).
Not to mention that the "basic" version, while still an overpriced POS, lacks even those pretty-graphics capabilities of the more-expensive crap, and lacks what were commonplace capabilities in XP pro/home such as the ability to connect to a password-protected SMB share.
Take a small recorder to class, or even a small videocamera if you can hide it. Record him. File a report, even an anonymous one.
It's a generalization, but I notice that women (and people in general, but we're talking womens' issues here) are often willing to stand up against an overall issue, but not against an actual perpetrator. Take him down, plenty of people (girls and guys) will likely than you for it.
I usually consider it a relief to talk to some of my female co-workers around here.
Mainly because I get tired of the usually belch, fart, and other lame topics that otherwise tend to pop up.
Not that all men are crass or all women are interesting conversationalists, but maybe some of the guys want to talk to you because they're actually interested in a conversation.
Unfortunately it's not really possible in many cases. The episodes themselves tend to conflict with each other in various ways, especially between the series. Of course, in those cases they often invent pseudo-scientific-sounding gabbledegook to explain it, but the conflict still exists.
Maybe they can cooperate with other countries? In a various cases some of the countries mentioned are rather crowded and lacking in the land for such things. Seems that far out in the remote outback deserts of Australia would be a really *good* location for a launchpad or something of the like. No people, not necessarily a lot of wildlife, but still fairly accessible by air, etc.
You know. I could live with that in some cases. Battle.net, for example, has a few banner ads here and there, and stuff that pops up during load-screens.
As long as their not actually offsetting the gameplay (increasing load-times, sticking shitty banners in places they don't realistically belong), it's actually not that bad. Sometimes it's even humorous.
Banners while waiting for the game to find opponents in an online RTS, no prob (heck, it probably helps pay for the server bandwidth).
Billboards for Pepsi in GTA. Why not? a real city would have them.
Adds for a Pepsi in WoW. No fucking way. It ruins the meme. However, I seem to remember hearing about some ads that were recognizable, but adapted to fit the game. For a similar situation, how about the "Burger King" medieval meals, or Starbucks in the second Shrek movie, par example. I thought those added to the humor of the movie.
Dell desktops, on the other hand, I've never been disappointed by.
Try adding a standard consumer component to them. Add a floppy/optical driev? Pick one up from the store and... *BZZT* nope. The mounting screws are inverted in such a manner that you need the specific Dell drive (at 3-4x the price) to fit your computer. Even if the holes were made (a few mins with a power drill), they still wouldn't fit through the damn Dell-specific front bezel half the time
In your case, your webmaster (and thus a member of your company) put up the images.
In this case, it appears to be a site wherein members have uploaded the wallpapers (hence "fan wallpapers") and NOT the site owner. Their obligation is thus to remove specific items as notified by the copyright owner.
Seems to me that, to start with, you'd need at least one sample of marrow from the different blood-types (I think marrow-types and blood-types are pretty much related, marrow creating blood and all). Once you have that, you can transplant recipients. Once the recipient is clean and (presumably again) their own marrow is making antibodies, the recipient could become a donor.
So maybe if every recipient had to legally become a donor after being HIV-free (and free of other diseases that could transfer through marrow/blood), then the resistant marrow could then be produced and distributed almost exponentially...
Or maybe the courts are just being "allowed" to draft in restrictions now because the Reps have already figured that they're not going to be in this time around...
There will be plenty to post, unless you think that Obama is going to come true on every single thing people expect. Which, even if he does so on most, it's unlike he won't turn around on at least some key issues.
In many of these cases the problem is not income, it's debt. Maybe these people are making decent enough coin, but they're not smart enough to live within their means. Often enough people of a lower income may actually *save* more money than them, simply by living more economically.
Actually, around here a cellular plan costs about as much as landline with some carriers. Many will throw in a phone with a contract. And a phone *IS* pretty much a necessity these days. When job-seeking, a cellular is even more important. Try to tell potential employers to "only call me after 5:30 PM because I'm home then and otherwise have no available phone" and you're screwed, because 90% of the HR/recruiting departments also tend to work fairly close to a 9-5 and that means be available at the times they call you.
In short, an iPhone is pretty much excessive, but a cellular is pretty important these days.
Actually, I just thought of perhaps a better way to play. How about giving games the option for players to flag themselves as "mature" and choose whether to allow games with other players that are not marked as "mature."
If you start acting like an immature dickhead, you can still play online and post in the forums, but you have to play in the little kid's sandbox while the others can happily ignore you from the "adults" table...
I do wonder what behavior they consider bannable. However, one of the major issues I've had playing games these days, including both C&C and Warcraft, are all the immature little shitheads that have nothing better to do than talking shit when they lose, or sit around calling other players ni**ers and talking shit about their moms.
Personally, if saying fuck gets you banned, then I'd say it's a pretty stupid idea. If there's a decent strikes system and/or it helps filter the useless gametrolls, then I'm actually for it.
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The right where they supported the company in developing the infrastructure that said company uses. Do you think these companies became monopolies out of their superior offerings? No, it's because they lobbied for control, got government grants and right-of-way, and laid the road with government help. The concept was that by doing so, they could make a profit and help the people.
The problem is that now there's no incentive to main, increase, or otherwise improve service. They're in control, nobody else can break the entry barriers created by the government-granted monopoly, and competition is pretty much nill when drilled down to the "how do I get connected" arena.
So basically what happens is:
Bell's solution: Our customers are leaving to 3rd-parties because they're tired of getting screwed by our messed-up policies and cruddy service. But wait, we control a small part of the lines that 90% of the competition uses. So, in order to not lose customers, as opposed to fixing the issues, we'll just give everyone the same problem and to make their customers' connections suck too.
Sorry, but the "we're screwing everyone equally" answer doesn't add up.
It's plainly anti-competitive, all you have to ask is:
If Bell didn't have the ability to interfere with 3rd-party connections, would this issue exist, and would the other ISP's gain customers. If the issue wouldn't exist, or the other ISP's would gain customers, then Bell is abusing their control of the lines and monopoly therein.
Don't these people ever learn? My mother just recently called me asking why her TV wouldn't let her play movies from the laptop (/w Vista). At first I thought it was a connection issue, but then she explained that the screen was displaying an "unauthorized device" message.
Laptop has Blu-Ray, and the TV is even HDCP compliant. It's sad to see that Macs will be going down the same road.
I noticed that too in Toronto, but I also noticed that the escalators in a lot of other places (notably a bunch of Chapters locations, stores, etc) seemed to also break down quite frequently. The stores tended to get things fixed a bit faster than the TTC, but overall I'm wondering if there's a shortage of escalator repair-persons or perhaps the parts are in short supply (I've heard that many parts come from overseas - Germany I think - and are available only from a very small number of suppliers).
Not to mention that the "basic" version, while still an overpriced POS, lacks even those pretty-graphics capabilities of the more-expensive crap, and lacks what were commonplace capabilities in XP pro/home such as the ability to connect to a password-protected SMB share.
Take a small recorder to class, or even a small videocamera if you can hide it. Record him. File a report, even an anonymous one.
It's a generalization, but I notice that women (and people in general, but we're talking womens' issues here) are often willing to stand up against an overall issue, but not against an actual perpetrator. Take him down, plenty of people (girls and guys) will likely than you for it.
I usually consider it a relief to talk to some of my female co-workers around here.
Mainly because I get tired of the usually belch, fart, and other lame topics that otherwise tend to pop up.
Not that all men are crass or all women are interesting conversationalists, but maybe some of the guys want to talk to you because they're actually interested in a conversation.
Unfortunately it's not really possible in many cases. The episodes themselves tend to conflict with each other in various ways, especially between the series. Of course, in those cases they often invent pseudo-scientific-sounding gabbledegook to explain it, but the conflict still exists.
Much as the client sucks in windows, the format works across major OS's, and on popular devices such as the iPhone and iPod, etc.
So probably they're looking for a format that gives smallish files, but has good penetration.
Maybe they can cooperate with other countries? In a various cases some of the countries mentioned are rather crowded and lacking in the land for such things. Seems that far out in the remote outback deserts of Australia would be a really *good* location for a launchpad or something of the like. No people, not necessarily a lot of wildlife, but still fairly accessible by air, etc.
You know. I could live with that in some cases. Battle.net, for example, has a few banner ads here and there, and stuff that pops up during load-screens.
As long as their not actually offsetting the gameplay (increasing load-times, sticking shitty banners in places they don't realistically belong), it's actually not that bad. Sometimes it's even humorous.
Banners while waiting for the game to find opponents in an online RTS, no prob (heck, it probably helps pay for the server bandwidth).
Billboards for Pepsi in GTA. Why not? a real city would have them.
Adds for a Pepsi in WoW. No fucking way. It ruins the meme. However, I seem to remember hearing about some ads that were recognizable, but adapted to fit the game. For a similar situation, how about the "Burger King" medieval meals, or Starbucks in the second Shrek movie, par example. I thought those added to the humor of the movie.
Dell desktops, on the other hand, I've never been disappointed by.
Try adding a standard consumer component to them. Add a floppy/optical driev? Pick one up from the store and ... *BZZT* nope. The mounting screws are inverted in such a manner that you need the specific Dell drive (at 3-4x the price) to fit your computer. Even if the holes were made (a few mins with a power drill), they still wouldn't fit through the damn Dell-specific front bezel half the time
In your case, your webmaster (and thus a member of your company) put up the images.
In this case, it appears to be a site wherein members have uploaded the wallpapers (hence "fan wallpapers") and NOT the site owner. Their obligation is thus to remove specific items as notified by the copyright owner.
Should they then be able to sue Toyota for claiming ownership of non-Toyota property...
Apparently that is something that has changed, however, as they used to charge for their services (I think on a percentage basis).
Seems to me that, to start with, you'd need at least one sample of marrow from the different blood-types (I think marrow-types and blood-types are pretty much related, marrow creating blood and all). Once you have that, you can transplant recipients. Once the recipient is clean and (presumably again) their own marrow is making antibodies, the recipient could become a donor.
So maybe if every recipient had to legally become a donor after being HIV-free (and free of other diseases that could transfer through marrow/blood), then the resistant marrow could then be produced and distributed almost exponentially...
Precisely how does the use of expletives ever harm children?
Well, when I catch the boy dropping certain words in inappropriate situations, my hand often finds the back of his head. Does that count? :-)
The mentally deficient, ruthless, and inbred of course remained safely at home (and in noble circles, more often than not).
Or maybe the courts are just being "allowed" to draft in restrictions now because the Reps have already figured that they're not going to be in this time around...
There will be plenty to post, unless you think that Obama is going to come true on every single thing people expect. Which, even if he does so on most, it's unlike he won't turn around on at least some key issues.
In many of these cases the problem is not income, it's debt. Maybe these people are making decent enough coin, but they're not smart enough to live within their means. Often enough people of a lower income may actually *save* more money than them, simply by living more economically.
Actually, around here a cellular plan costs about as much as landline with some carriers. Many will throw in a phone with a contract. And a phone *IS* pretty much a necessity these days. When job-seeking, a cellular is even more important. Try to tell potential employers to "only call me after 5:30 PM because I'm home then and otherwise have no available phone" and you're screwed, because 90% of the HR/recruiting departments also tend to work fairly close to a 9-5 and that means be available at the times they call you.
In short, an iPhone is pretty much excessive, but a cellular is pretty important these days.
Actually, I just thought of perhaps a better way to play. How about giving games the option for players to flag themselves as "mature" and choose whether to allow games with other players that are not marked as "mature."
If you start acting like an immature dickhead, you can still play online and post in the forums, but you have to play in the little kid's sandbox while the others can happily ignore you from the "adults" table...
I do wonder what behavior they consider bannable. However, one of the major issues I've had playing games these days, including both C&C and Warcraft, are all the immature little shitheads that have nothing better to do than talking shit when they lose, or sit around calling other players ni**ers and talking shit about their moms.
Personally, if saying fuck gets you banned, then I'd say it's a pretty stupid idea. If there's a decent strikes system and/or it helps filter the useless gametrolls, then I'm actually for it.
Seems to me the easiest way to have that work would be two parts
a) Reads the card ID, ensures that the user hasn't already voted. Allows user to vote:
b) Registers the vote after verifying the voter is eligible, but doesn't tie the vote to any ID
a) Registers that the vote for this ID is now "used" but not what candidate has voted for...