The original owner of the camcorder finds he has been burgled, he informs the relevant authority and finds that a warehouse company has sold it, in good faith, to a customer, not knowing that it was stolen goods. The warehouse attempts to retrieve the camcorder back.
How is that analogy for you?
Amazon may have been d!cks in how they did it without prior notice etc but I don't totally disagree with what they had to do
Then they can bloody well ask me for it back! Heck, I'll probably give it right back to them with a proper explanation.
But what they most emphatically can not do is break into my house in the middle of the night and steal it back, even if they are kind enough to leave an envelope containing a check for the purchase price on my living room table.
But there is one reason why they could have included this that's not evil - so they can give refunds if you click the wrong book. (Which they do.)
Fine, then. Update the Kindle firmware so that, when a deletion/refund is requested, pop up a message saying, "Amazon wants to delete the title "The Wrong Book" from your Kindle, and issue you a full refund. [Delete and Refund Money] [Do Not Delete]."
Until Amazon does this, and confirms that there is absolutely no back door to secretly delete purchased books, I will never buy one, and will actively discourage others from doing so. (Three Kindles un-sold so far, Amazon. This apology just doesn't cut it.)
I'm with you. I have a good friend who loves his Kindle. He let me try it out, and it just felt awesome. But after this, I've gone from 90% certain that I'd purchase it when I had the money to spare, to 100% absolutely, positively certain that I will not purchase this, or any similar device, ever. Congratulations, Amazon!
Seemingly forever ago, I was an Everquest Senior Guide. The GMs used to used to use the secret rooms located in various zones to/summon players to if they were griefing or scamming or engaging in otherwise very bad behavior. (Guides couldn't teleport there like GMs could, but we could bind ourselves there if we were/summon'ed by a GM first.)
And, of course, there was the whole cshome zone that was downloadable only to guides. I understand they used to use the Plane of Air before cshome, but that was before my time as a guide.
Oh, Lord. My son did the exact same throwing up in my mouth, in very much the same circumstances. Now he's 2 1/2, and we're pondering having another child. Are you telling me that that's going to happen to me again!?
Can't reach that can on the top shelf? Economics can help!
Yep! Sure will! By creating a market for short ladders, grabbers, cabinetry with lower clearances, and houses with more ergonomic designs.
Is that lump in your armpit getting bigger? Don't worry; Economics will have it out in a jiffy.
You betcha! By creating an incentive for people to go to medical school, become licensed, and open practices.
Fallen down a gully in the mountains and shattered your pelvis, hundreds of miles from help, with no ways of communicating with anyone? Just chant "Economics" three times, for a speedy and efficient rescue.
Why would you do that, when you could have availed yourself of a mobile phone, satellite phone, or GPS rescue device? All of which are available because there's a market for them consisting of people who go out to the middle of nowhere with a risk of shattering their pelvises.
I'm not going to pretend that free-market capitalism is the optimal solution to all mankind's problems. It's only the best and most efficient one we've created thus far. Economics only attempts to describe how people allocate scarce resources. It is neither God nor Devil.
Uh, everything's under control. Situation normal. Uh, we had a slight weapons malfunction, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?
If you look at the images from the World Trade Center site, you can see that the debris has been cleared out, and the giant ramp into the bathtub is in place, but the temporary PATH train station has not yet been built. That would probably place that image at around late 2002/early 2003 or so.
Oh, absolutely. There are also situations where the doctors don't want the patient having access to their own records. (i.e. psych notes, or a terminal disease diagnosis of which they're not yet aware), but I was just trying to assuage the fear that a doctor would be stuck staring at "ACCESS DENIED" as someone lays dying in front of them.
Getting doctors to use the stuff (and use it properly) is one of the biggest challenges in medical IT. Standardizing the data isn't enough. Your system has to work with the clinic's workflow or they'll just toss it aside and keep using paper.
The system we use here has a concept known as "breaking the glass." A doctor who tries to view a record to which he normally wouldn't have access can (with confirmation) "break the glass" and see the record anyway. It sets off all kinds of alarm bells for the administrators, but if the situation was justified then it's all good.
I, too, was surprised by the lack of mentions for SysAdmin.
The content is written entirely by admins "in the field" rather than staff writers, generally, so the writing quality can be spotty. But reading it regularly can make you aware of solutions you might not have tried and esoterica you might not have thought of in a way that Googling for answers can't.
And the CD-ROM of back issues is worth the price of admission all by itself.
I was a bit paniced when you mentioned it. (I don't use RDC a lot, but when I need it, I really need it.) But my RDC seems to be fine after the 10.3.2 update.
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The original owner of the camcorder finds he has been burgled, he informs the relevant authority and finds that a warehouse company has sold it, in good faith, to a customer, not knowing that it was stolen goods. The warehouse attempts to retrieve the camcorder back.
How is that analogy for you?
Amazon may have been d!cks in how they did it without prior notice etc but I don't totally disagree with what they had to do
Then they can bloody well ask me for it back! Heck, I'll probably give it right back to them with a proper explanation.
But what they most emphatically can not do is break into my house in the middle of the night and steal it back, even if they are kind enough to leave an envelope containing a check for the purchase price on my living room table.
But there is one reason why they could have included this that's not evil - so they can give refunds if you click the wrong book. (Which they do.)
Fine, then. Update the Kindle firmware so that, when a deletion/refund is requested, pop up a message saying, "Amazon wants to delete the title "The Wrong Book" from your Kindle, and issue you a full refund. [Delete and Refund Money] [Do Not Delete]."
Until Amazon does this, and confirms that there is absolutely no back door to secretly delete purchased books, I will never buy one, and will actively discourage others from doing so. (Three Kindles un-sold so far, Amazon. This apology just doesn't cut it.)
I'm with you. I have a good friend who loves his Kindle. He let me try it out, and it just felt awesome. But after this, I've gone from 90% certain that I'd purchase it when I had the money to spare, to 100% absolutely, positively certain that I will not purchase this, or any similar device, ever. Congratulations, Amazon!
Seemingly forever ago, I was an Everquest Senior Guide. The GMs used to used to use the secret rooms located in various zones to /summon players to if they were griefing or scamming or engaging in otherwise very bad behavior. (Guides couldn't teleport there like GMs could, but we could bind ourselves there if we were /summon'ed by a GM first.)
And, of course, there was the whole cshome zone that was downloadable only to guides. I understand they used to use the Plane of Air before cshome, but that was before my time as a guide.
Oh, Lord. My son did the exact same throwing up in my mouth, in very much the same circumstances. Now he's 2 1/2, and we're pondering having another child. Are you telling me that that's going to happen to me again!?
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L-reactor now On-Line, as requested. WARNING: Control rods removed for self-test. Initiate emergency procedures!
Huh. Apparently, in Korea, email is for people who are one year less old than I thought they were. Who knew?
Let me guess: You failed to shoot yourself in the head?
I have a gun pointed at your head, with my finger on the trigger.
One more pun like that and I'll pullet.
[ Please, no jokes about acid-resistant Chinese overlords ]
What jokes? I, for one, welcome them!
Can't reach that can on the top shelf? Economics can help!
Yep! Sure will! By creating a market for short ladders, grabbers, cabinetry with lower clearances, and houses with more ergonomic designs.
Is that lump in your armpit getting bigger? Don't worry; Economics will have it out in a jiffy.
You betcha! By creating an incentive for people to go to medical school, become licensed, and open practices.
Fallen down a gully in the mountains and shattered your pelvis, hundreds of miles from help, with no ways of communicating with anyone? Just chant "Economics" three times, for a speedy and efficient rescue.
Why would you do that, when you could have availed yourself of a mobile phone, satellite phone, or GPS rescue device? All of which are available because there's a market for them consisting of people who go out to the middle of nowhere with a risk of shattering their pelvises.
I'm not going to pretend that free-market capitalism is the optimal solution to all mankind's problems. It's only the best and most efficient one we've created thus far. Economics only attempts to describe how people allocate scarce resources. It is neither God nor Devil.
His response when the police called back:
Uh, everything's under control. Situation normal. Uh, we had a slight weapons malfunction, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?
Several burglar tools were found at the scene of the crime. The perpetrators apparently used a sledgehammer to gain access.
If, in your travels, you should encounter a nuclear pressure vessel... The nuclear pressure vessel will be cut.
This research will revolutionize the entire "Eat this steak in 45 minutes and it's free!" industry...
I've heard that it also relies on a) knowing when to walk away, and b) knowing when to run.
Counting your money when you're sitting at the table is also frowned upon.
The kind of business where the insurance companies will negotiate it right back down to $75 per unit at best.
If you look at the images from the World Trade Center site, you can see that the debris has been cleared out, and the giant ramp into the bathtub is in place, but the temporary PATH train station has not yet been built. That would probably place that image at around late 2002/early 2003 or so.
Oh, absolutely. There are also situations where the doctors don't want the patient having access to their own records. (i.e. psych notes, or a terminal disease diagnosis of which they're not yet aware), but I was just trying to assuage the fear that a doctor would be stuck staring at "ACCESS DENIED" as someone lays dying in front of them. Getting doctors to use the stuff (and use it properly) is one of the biggest challenges in medical IT. Standardizing the data isn't enough. Your system has to work with the clinic's workflow or they'll just toss it aside and keep using paper.
The system we use here has a concept known as "breaking the glass." A doctor who tries to view a record to which he normally wouldn't have access can (with confirmation) "break the glass" and see the record anyway. It sets off all kinds of alarm bells for the administrators, but if the situation was justified then it's all good.
The content is written entirely by admins "in the field" rather than staff writers, generally, so the writing quality can be spotty. But reading it regularly can make you aware of solutions you might not have tried and esoterica you might not have thought of in a way that Googling for answers can't.
And the CD-ROM of back issues is worth the price of admission all by itself.
I was a bit paniced when you mentioned it. (I don't use RDC a lot, but when I need it, I really need it.) But my RDC seems to be fine after the 10.3.2 update.
You're right. It's entirely probable that she's a mytheth. I'd snap her up in a second!