Mismanaged credit-cards can definitely lead to debt, but using one correctly can lead to profit. I pay my card off fully every paycheque (before the bill-date, even). I also get flight points on mine, and got a $650 flight for $75 (they don't pay the taxes).
I've never paid interest on the card, nor other fees.
Not only that, but CC's are a good way to protect a purchase. If you have a scammy seller - maybe that won't honor a warranty on a recently-broken item - or various other issues with a purchase, you can in many cases charge it back. That doesn't work so well with cash...
His personal issues were overblown and I'd bet dollars to donuts that the Oval Office saw a great deal of blow jobs long before Bill Clinton.
This is something I've never understood. When it comes to womanizing, the name that comes to my head is not Clinton, but good old J F K. However, people remember him fondly, and from what I can glean had very good opinions of him at the time he was still alive. Maybe I'm just hearing information that comes from those with rose-coloured-glasses, and people really didn't like JF as much as we might be led to believe, but regardless I've always had to wonder how Clinton's personal received so much negative attention in comparison
I don't know about a population increase, but according to my research the bowhead species of whales is in fact still endangered
They also don't reproduce very often, although they do live a long time (if they survive). According to wikipedia, females can bear young about every 3-4 years.
However, the wiki article also states that the current hunts are not having an overly negetive effect upon the whale population. Given that, I would currently have no person objection (not that it makes a difference if I do) to the current hunts so long as the whale population isn't further endangered by them.
As for the other "traditions," yes, perhaps I went a bit far. However, the problem is that humans by nature also tend to go to far based on a few other concepts of our nature:
a) We use tradition, or "this is the way we've been doing it, so why should we stop", as a reason to continue doing something
b) We tend to use the "I want to do so, and I can, so I will" methodology, paying more attention to what we can do as opposed to why we shouldn't or why it was done a particular way previous.
c) We are ever-increasing in our ability to consume resources, and overwhelm nature.
Again, I perhaps went a bit far in what was meant to be a cautionary comment. Just because they can hunt due to tradition - with increasingly modern technology - doesn't mean that it's right. However, at this point it doesn't mean it is wrong either, so long as the intent is preserved. In opposition to both of our previous comments, the intent/tradition is neither "to hunt" nor "to hunt in a particular way," but rather to provide and acquire sustenance. So long as it doesn't go beyond that, keeping in mind future survival (not depleting the food resource), it would seem to be acceptable in its current form. A bit sad to cause the death of a century-old creature, but death is a part of life, it's the slaughter we should try to avoid...
I'm guessing that whatever I write here will receive a flame or insulting reply, however. Going by your previous comments you tend to take your stances for the opportunity to use profanity and insults. Perhaps that's it's just your style to be insulting, but you'll get more useful response if you toned it down a bit (and less downmods too)
I don't think it's #1, since we never named her doctor to others, and #2 doesn't apply since it's Canada and we have public healthcare. I'm not sure about #3, but I would think that another doctor might be willing to *see* the patient before making that assumption.
These were also different doctors in different areas of town, but the impression I got from mine is that the various medical associations frown upon one doctor overruling another's judgement, even if the first was wrong.
I always figured that it had more to do with not wanting to do development for multiple consoles rather than being paid for, but I guess that this makes more sense since a code rework for a high-sales game should cost less than it would profit.
I have a friend who has - in my presence - suffered from varying forms of seizures and episodes. A few times she almost fainted in my arms, and once her eyes glazed over and she was making weird noises and slumping over until I carried her over to a chair (she came to after awhile, but never remember in the time she was "out"). According to her doctor, it was simply because she was too tall and sometimes not getting enough blood circulation to her head (despite no BP issues), no further tests, no prescriptions.
I'm dreading one day where I'll hear she has had a serious accident due to a seizure. I've had little luck helping her find another doctor either as *none* want to contradict a fellow doctor's diagnosis...
We get that where I work, but only if you've been sick off work for more than X days in a row, or more than Y in a year. It somewhat makes sense to me, since if you're off for 3 days you might want to get a professional diagnosis anyhow.
But the things can't be found. Now granted 15 years later they would be obsolete and very well may have been dumped, but what are the chances that alternately somebody either "borrowed" a few or even resold them?
Forgiving the dept and not forcing an investigation seems to encourage negligence and corruption, indeed.
Going with the whole monopoly thing, if your money is coming from a monopoly in one area, are you allow to start paying people out in other areas to exclude the competition?
Anyone know the legal issues around this, or is it acceptable?
it ain't gonna happen without a 'magic wand' or two
So long as we and the planet survive long enough to discover/build the technology, I think we're safe. As far as magic wands go, I think Arthur C Clarke said it best:
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
They're not my traditions, but I still have to live on the same planet, and it still affects me when whales end up extinct.
How about traditions that involve female circumcision, or marrying 13 year-old to 40 year olds, heck, how about if it's a tradition in my family for the man of the house to beat our wife when they get out of line?
And who is going to arrest and imprison those individuals?
To add to that, if the president were found guilty of a crime and sentenced to immediate impeachment, removal, and imprisonment... who would carry out the order to do so? The police? The military?
Who is going to follow the orders of a judge over those of the FBI, or others in power?
Actually, it is. There are a lot of skills and ceremonies bound into the equipment used for a tradition. The pain and effort put into crafting the appropriate tools, the self-sacrifice, and the possibility of failure can be a big part. The appreciate and understand of performing a traditional action in the traditional way should not be underestimated, nor should the balance with nature that historic technology offered in comparison to modern technologies.
So let's let them use a machine gun. Or maybe a cannon? How about a fucking RPG. After all, it's the hunt that's important, right?
Sorry, but a large part of tradition is the methodologies used. If there's a tradition that involves a long trek through the woods in order to learn self-survival skills and commune with nature, then packing a dozen rifles on an ATV doesn't fall with tradition.
If they want to keep with traditional events or ceremonies, use traditional equipment.
What I've always found fun is how - on top of the fees for the seller etc - paypal is making a nice chunk of change on currency exchange. With the Canadian dollar up at $0.95USD, ebay will still happily only convert cash at $0.915 (for my last transaction). Not only that, but from what I've been able to tell they *require* conversion of funds. I used to use a particular Visa for Paypal specifically because they didn't charge fees for conversion of $USD. Then "Paypal Canada" came up, and suddenly all my funds are converted to Canadian anyways... at a rate that is always lower than the actual exchange.
That's fine if Paypal wants to charge a lessened exchange to cover costs/convenience etc, even most grocery stores do too, but not having the option to have the charge made to my Visa in USD and take advantage of the increasing power of my home currency is a royal pain in the rear end.
The problem for ebay nowadays is that the competition (google) *will* have ads. As google's checkout becomes more refined, ads may attract more users and attract them away from ebay. If google has a continuous presence, and ebay's diminishes, then ebay may very well start to fade.
About time, too... ebay is not even close to the bargain shop they first were, with sellers abusing the system, fraudsters rollicking around, and ebay cutting in on everyone for as much dime as they can.
Too add to that: it wouldn't be as if crazy people haven't used other methods that were equally or more destructive. Yes, a guy with a gun is worse than a knife, etc... but what about a bomb?
How about if Mr. Nutcase decides he's going to find some instructions online, then grab a bunch of fertilizer and make a little home-made explosives, then plant them near a gas pipe or something else in a building full of those he dislikes (or a random target, insane people don't make rational decisions after all). Would that be better or worse than guns?
While I don't agree with reducing the privacy of ordinary citizens, it wouldn't be a terrible thing to have better tabs on those that are diagnosed as mentally unsound+dangerous, denying them firearms and perhaps monitoring them for purchases of large amounts of explosive-potential material. The problem with that is that the government would then likely be happy to have some pet freuds declare anyone who doesn't agree with their policies as "mentally unstable"
Seems to me this is the same as how one is more likely to achieve compatibility or lower rejection-rates with closer relatives in terms of organ-transplants, etc
They don't recognise "relatives," they just see material that is close enough to not be considered an intruder.
It doesn't quite work the same with people, as "relatives" or "siblings" can in fact be imported (re-marriage) or separated (divorce, adoption) and thus unrecognized.
The sad thing being that we Canadians pay more for gas than the US, mainly because our government sold rights on the oilfields to US or other companies (and sold off Petro Canada, gee thanks Mulrooney). Canada may have oil, but for the mostpart it's not Canadians that are making money off of it
Whacked out "moral majority" of N. America and other countries+continents that read this site aside, I think that the "moral majority" here would agree that porn by itself is not bad.
In fact, I would be very very surprised to find it less than 50% readers (51% being a majority, but probably a lot higher than that) who do (or have) viewed/watched/etc some form of internet pornography (or other pornography).
Thus, the "moral majority" on here would likely be in favour of porn, so it's rather odd that the submitter managed to sneak that through, especially without a lot of opposition at the time I commented on it.
Unless they're peddling illegal porn, or through dubious methods such as spam or popup-flooding, what makes pornographers bad guys, except that perhaps they don't fall under certain groups' moral or religious views of good.
The rest: penny-stock scammers, cybercriminals, are just that... criminals. There's no crime in porn, so long as the proper laws are observed.
From what I understand it is intended to do an upload through wifi upon taking a picture, not to be accessible as a network drive itself. Since the connection is uni-directional in that sense, most likely the main concern would not be somebody gaining access to the camera-memory via wifi, but rather interception of the wifi upload.
I remember when several articles were around discussion police misconduct - especially in regards to how they treated onlookers with cameras - that there was a suggestion that a camera with wifi and/or a bluetooth/cellular connection would be very useful.
If a bad cop doesn't like you taking pictures of him beating up some dude in the street, he can try to confiscate your camera etc etc. If your camera has already uploaded the pictures/video to a "safe house" server, then the pictures will survive even if your camera doesn't.
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Mismanaged credit-cards can definitely lead to debt, but using one correctly can lead to profit. I pay my card off fully every paycheque (before the bill-date, even). I also get flight points on mine, and got a $650 flight for $75 (they don't pay the taxes).
I've never paid interest on the card, nor other fees.
Not only that, but CC's are a good way to protect a purchase. If you have a scammy seller - maybe that won't honor a warranty on a recently-broken item - or various other issues with a purchase, you can in many cases charge it back. That doesn't work so well with cash...
Software *can* put an extraordinary strain on hardware though... like running IDE drives without DMA, etc.
But I still don't see how this could void a hardware warranty, or whether it would be legal to do so.
His personal issues were overblown and I'd bet dollars to donuts that the Oval Office saw a great deal of blow jobs long before Bill Clinton.
This is something I've never understood. When it comes to womanizing, the name that comes to my head is not Clinton, but good old J F K. However, people remember him fondly, and from what I can glean had very good opinions of him at the time he was still alive. Maybe I'm just hearing information that comes from those with rose-coloured-glasses, and people really didn't like JF as much as we might be led to believe, but regardless I've always had to wonder how Clinton's personal received so much negative attention in comparison
I don't know about a population increase, but according to my research the bowhead species of whales is in fact still endangered
They also don't reproduce very often, although they do live a long time (if they survive). According to wikipedia, females can bear young about every 3-4 years.
However, the wiki article also states that the current hunts are not having an overly negetive effect upon the whale population. Given that, I would currently have no person objection (not that it makes a difference if I do) to the current hunts so long as the whale population isn't further endangered by them.
As for the other "traditions," yes, perhaps I went a bit far. However, the problem is that humans by nature also tend to go to far based on a few other concepts of our nature:
a) We use tradition, or "this is the way we've been doing it, so why should we stop", as a reason to continue doing something
b) We tend to use the "I want to do so, and I can, so I will" methodology, paying more attention to what we can do as opposed to why we shouldn't or why it was done a particular way previous.
c) We are ever-increasing in our ability to consume resources, and overwhelm nature.
Actually This comment said it pretty well.
Again, I perhaps went a bit far in what was meant to be a cautionary comment. Just because they can hunt due to tradition - with increasingly modern technology - doesn't mean that it's right. However, at this point it doesn't mean it is wrong either, so long as the intent is preserved. In opposition to both of our previous comments, the intent/tradition is neither "to hunt" nor "to hunt in a particular way," but rather to provide and acquire sustenance. So long as it doesn't go beyond that, keeping in mind future survival (not depleting the food resource), it would seem to be acceptable in its current form. A bit sad to cause the death of a century-old creature, but death is a part of life, it's the slaughter we should try to avoid...
I'm guessing that whatever I write here will receive a flame or insulting reply, however. Going by your previous comments you tend to take your stances for the opportunity to use profanity and insults. Perhaps that's it's just your style to be insulting, but you'll get more useful response if you toned it down a bit (and less downmods too)
I don't think it's #1, since we never named her doctor to others, and #2 doesn't apply since it's Canada and we have public healthcare. I'm not sure about #3, but I would think that another doctor might be willing to *see* the patient before making that assumption.
These were also different doctors in different areas of town, but the impression I got from mine is that the various medical associations frown upon one doctor overruling another's judgement, even if the first was wrong.
I always figured that it had more to do with not wanting to do development for multiple consoles rather than being paid for, but I guess that this makes more sense since a code rework for a high-sales game should cost less than it would profit.
I have a friend who has - in my presence - suffered from varying forms of seizures and episodes. A few times she almost fainted in my arms, and once her eyes glazed over and she was making weird noises and slumping over until I carried her over to a chair (she came to after awhile, but never remember in the time she was "out"). According to her doctor, it was simply because she was too tall and sometimes not getting enough blood circulation to her head (despite no BP issues), no further tests, no prescriptions.
I'm dreading one day where I'll hear she has had a serious accident due to a seizure. I've had little luck helping her find another doctor either as *none* want to contradict a fellow doctor's diagnosis...
We get that where I work, but only if you've been sick off work for more than X days in a row, or more than Y in a year. It somewhat makes sense to me, since if you're off for 3 days you might want to get a professional diagnosis anyhow.
But the things can't be found. Now granted 15 years later they would be obsolete and very well may have been dumped, but what are the chances that alternately somebody either "borrowed" a few or even resold them?
Forgiving the dept and not forcing an investigation seems to encourage negligence and corruption, indeed.
Going with the whole monopoly thing, if your money is coming from a monopoly in one area, are you allow to start paying people out in other areas to exclude the competition?
Anyone know the legal issues around this, or is it acceptable?
it ain't gonna happen without a 'magic wand' or two
So long as we and the planet survive long enough to discover/build the technology, I think we're safe. As far as magic wands go, I think Arthur C Clarke said it best:
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
I've found it for receiving payment, but not for sending, but maybe it's either well-hidden or I'm just not catching it?
They're not my traditions, but I still have to live on the same planet, and it still affects me when whales end up extinct.
How about traditions that involve female circumcision, or marrying 13 year-old to 40 year olds, heck, how about if it's a tradition in my family for the man of the house to beat our wife when they get out of line?
And who is going to arrest and imprison those individuals?
To add to that, if the president were found guilty of a crime and sentenced to immediate impeachment, removal, and imprisonment... who would carry out the order to do so? The police? The military?
Who is going to follow the orders of a judge over those of the FBI, or others in power?
Actually, it is. There are a lot of skills and ceremonies bound into the equipment used for a tradition. The pain and effort put into crafting the appropriate tools, the self-sacrifice, and the possibility of failure can be a big part. The appreciate and understand of performing a traditional action in the traditional way should not be underestimated, nor should the balance with nature that historic technology offered in comparison to modern technologies.
So let's let them use a machine gun. Or maybe a cannon? How about a fucking RPG. After all, it's the hunt that's important, right?
Sorry, but a large part of tradition is the methodologies used. If there's a tradition that involves a long trek through the woods in order to learn self-survival skills and commune with nature, then packing a dozen rifles on an ATV doesn't fall with tradition.
If they want to keep with traditional events or ceremonies, use traditional equipment.
What I've always found fun is how - on top of the fees for the seller etc - paypal is making a nice chunk of change on currency exchange. With the Canadian dollar up at $0.95USD, ebay will still happily only convert cash at $0.915 (for my last transaction). Not only that, but from what I've been able to tell they *require* conversion of funds. I used to use a particular Visa for Paypal specifically because they didn't charge fees for conversion of $USD. Then "Paypal Canada" came up, and suddenly all my funds are converted to Canadian anyways... at a rate that is always lower than the actual exchange.
That's fine if Paypal wants to charge a lessened exchange to cover costs/convenience etc, even most grocery stores do too, but not having the option to have the charge made to my Visa in USD and take advantage of the increasing power of my home currency is a royal pain in the rear end.
The problem for ebay nowadays is that the competition (google) *will* have ads. As google's checkout becomes more refined, ads may attract more users and attract them away from ebay. If google has a continuous presence, and ebay's diminishes, then ebay may very well start to fade.
About time, too... ebay is not even close to the bargain shop they first were, with sellers abusing the system, fraudsters rollicking around, and ebay cutting in on everyone for as much dime as they can.
Too add to that: it wouldn't be as if crazy people haven't used other methods that were equally or more destructive. Yes, a guy with a gun is worse than a knife, etc... but what about a bomb?
How about if Mr. Nutcase decides he's going to find some instructions online, then grab a bunch of fertilizer and make a little home-made explosives, then plant them near a gas pipe or something else in a building full of those he dislikes (or a random target, insane people don't make rational decisions after all). Would that be better or worse than guns?
While I don't agree with reducing the privacy of ordinary citizens, it wouldn't be a terrible thing to have better tabs on those that are diagnosed as mentally unsound+dangerous, denying them firearms and perhaps monitoring them for purchases of large amounts of explosive-potential material. The problem with that is that the government would then likely be happy to have some pet freuds declare anyone who doesn't agree with their policies as "mentally unstable"
Seems to me this is the same as how one is more likely to achieve compatibility or lower rejection-rates with closer relatives in terms of organ-transplants, etc
They don't recognise "relatives," they just see material that is close enough to not be considered an intruder.
It doesn't quite work the same with people, as "relatives" or "siblings" can in fact be imported (re-marriage) or separated (divorce, adoption) and thus unrecognized.
The sad thing being that we Canadians pay more for gas than the US, mainly because our government sold rights on the oilfields to US or other companies (and sold off Petro Canada, gee thanks Mulrooney). Canada may have oil, but for the mostpart it's not Canadians that are making money off of it
Whacked out "moral majority" of N. America and other countries+continents that read this site aside, I think that the "moral majority" here would agree that porn by itself is not bad.
In fact, I would be very very surprised to find it less than 50% readers (51% being a majority, but probably a lot higher than that) who do (or have) viewed/watched/etc some form of internet pornography (or other pornography).
Thus, the "moral majority" on here would likely be in favour of porn, so it's rather odd that the submitter managed to sneak that through, especially without a lot of opposition at the time I commented on it.
Unless they're peddling illegal porn, or through dubious methods such as spam or popup-flooding, what makes pornographers bad guys, except that perhaps they don't fall under certain groups' moral or religious views of good.
The rest: penny-stock scammers, cybercriminals, are just that... criminals. There's no crime in porn, so long as the proper laws are observed.
From what I understand it is intended to do an upload through wifi upon taking a picture, not to be accessible as a network drive itself. Since the connection is uni-directional in that sense, most likely the main concern would not be somebody gaining access to the camera-memory via wifi, but rather interception of the wifi upload.
I remember when several articles were around discussion police misconduct - especially in regards to how they treated onlookers with cameras - that there was a suggestion that a camera with wifi and/or a bluetooth/cellular connection would be very useful.
If a bad cop doesn't like you taking pictures of him beating up some dude in the street, he can try to confiscate your camera etc etc. If your camera has already uploaded the pictures/video to a "safe house" server, then the pictures will survive even if your camera doesn't.