A few days later, I went back to Fry's when the store advertised a DVD player for $39.99. What I got, for $43.29 including tax
When WILL you Americans enact some laws that require that consumer goods must be advertised to consumers with their price INCLUDING sales tax? The current situation is ludicrous. It almost seems to be encouraging people to try and reclaim the tax they paid on the goods, because after all they were advertised as $39.99, weren't they?
Over here in the UK, all advertised consumer goods MUST include VAT, or have a *clear* notice that the price excludes VAT.
Wow. Sunil from CUT, didn't think I'd see you again:-)
BTW that BT Broadband voice is horribly misleading, claiming that you can make unlimited 1 hour UK calls for a fixed amount per month. Does that include calls to non-BT providers? BT Together's Options 1, 2 and 3 make the same boast, all 1 hour UK/national calls for a fixed amount, and on my latest phone bill I discovered that unfortunately that didn't include customers of Guernsey Telecom, despite this being a UK national number. Nice one, BT. Is this worth a complaint to OFCOM?
Actually I find this feature of Yahoo! fucking annoying. Some people just leave that preference turned on permenantly, and they always appear to be offline. This takes away the rather useful ability for me to see when they're online, and results in my not talking to them when I might otherwise have wanted to. It turns Yahoo! into much more of an e-mail type system, as you're just leaving offline messages for these people, and vice versa.
Huh? I find webmail to be very convenient. I can check my mail anywhere in a very secure manner
Perhaps the grandparent was referring to the fact that webmail interfaces are - Typically slower to load than a POP e-mail client - Typically filled with ads - Typically filled with slow-loading images - Lacking a standard interface; every provider has their own - Requiring the user to manually login again every time they navigate away from their webmail page or leave it idle for a short period of time.
All these factors help to contribute to webmail being damn inconvenient. I'd rather whip up a POP client and click send/receive mail' any day.
Bad method. The worst case scenario is that not everyone can drive properly, not everyone has a roadworthy car, and therefore cars should be banned because they cause more than 0 deaths per year.
The law does *NOT* cater for the lowest common denominator, nor could it; you can always think of some reason to ban something outright. What the law *should* try to do is cater for the average person, and be reasonable. I think banning cellphone use is stepping over that line.
I have to intercede here and point out that this argument is bullshit. Here in the UK, authorities have taken carte blanche to put up speed cameras left, right and centre. Many roads have them every few miles. If anything, the average speed limit has gone *DOWN*, not up, becuase it's easier for the police to enforce speed limits and slap fines on people, they're more likely to try and enforce a strict speed limit than raising it a little to 'bargain' with motorists into keeping to the speed limit.
The law will by no means change to increase speed limits, if automated speeding fines come into effect.
The Chinese gov is not so stupid to get caught by the "hahaha - my data was encrypted, you can't prove anything"-argument.
Erm, that's not the point of Freenet at all. The point is more like 'hahaha - my data was routed through 100 random IPs before it received you, has absolutely nothing to indicate who wrote it, and anyone on Freenet can read it. So go shove your fascist censorship up your ass.' If the government could get round it, it would be very unfortunate indeed.
Note to mods: it's occured to me that my above comment might appear as flamebait, but I'm trying to make a rather valid point. Being found 'not guilty' is a perfectly acceptable justification for you to have the right not to have your reputation smeared. It'd be awful nice if you didn't mod it down.
Mmm, but what if the large majority of vendors don't have the option of turning off Trusted Computing features on the motherboard? So much for just switching granny's machine over to Linux, she'd have to buy new hardware! It's been shown that the majority of vendors are perfectly prepared to lower the standards of their systems for whatever reason; just look at the kind of backup media you get with a new system nowadays. Previously, CDs or floppies with installers for your OS on. Now? A partition on the hard drive that MIGHT help your system recover if the data is slightly damaged; although you'd better hope the hard drive doesn't fail completely.
I use viri. I've never been fond of the sound of "viruses" whereas "viri" has a nice clean ring to it.
Bah, 'viruses' sounds fine to me. Besides, how the heck do you pronounce 'viri'? I usually pronounce it 'vee-ree', but it could be pronounced 'vye-rye', 'vee-rye' or 'vye-ree'!
Like both "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; BTopenworld;.NET CLR 1.0.3705)" and "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031126".
Actually, I'd say most people nowadays with a computer *do* have exactly the equivalent of a printing press - a printer. The real problem is that there's a lot of stuff that just doesn't lend itself to being stored on paper, owing to sheer size and its not being text. Continually updated webpages are a good example of sheer size, sound and video are a good example of not being text.
In other words, organised religion is fine and a good thing, and essential for the survival of primitive societies (and the integration of primitives in less primitive societies) as long as those leading it know that its a means to an end, and not a great truth in and of itself.
What?? Are you seriously suggesting that the Pope doesn't believe in Catholocism, and that the Archbishop of Cantebury doesn't believe in Anglican Christianity, and that the religions would go downhill quickly if they did?
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What? I don't think it's THAT unreasonable for manufacturers to assume a certain level of physical ability when they design a product. Think of all the disabilities a person could have; deafness, blindness, broken bones, no legs, no arms, cerebal palsy, how the hell can you design a car that's able to be driven by someone with any disability?? It would need to be virtually mind-controlled, unless you're suggesting that cars should be able to be driven by those in a vegetative state.
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A few days later, I went back to Fry's when the store advertised a DVD player for $39.99. What I got, for $43.29 including tax
When WILL you Americans enact some laws that require that consumer goods must be advertised to consumers with their price INCLUDING sales tax? The current situation is ludicrous. It almost seems to be encouraging people to try and reclaim the tax they paid on the goods, because after all they were advertised as $39.99, weren't they?
Over here in the UK, all advertised consumer goods MUST include VAT, or have a *clear* notice that the price excludes VAT.
Wow. Sunil from CUT, didn't think I'd see you again :-)
BTW that BT Broadband voice is horribly misleading, claiming that you can make unlimited 1 hour UK calls for a fixed amount per month. Does that include calls to non-BT providers? BT Together's Options 1, 2 and 3 make the same boast, all 1 hour UK/national calls for a fixed amount, and on my latest phone bill I discovered that unfortunately that didn't include customers of Guernsey Telecom, despite this being a UK national number. Nice one, BT. Is this worth a complaint to OFCOM?
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Actually I find this feature of Yahoo! fucking annoying. Some people just leave that preference turned on permenantly, and they always appear to be offline. This takes away the rather useful ability for me to see when they're online, and results in my not talking to them when I might otherwise have wanted to. It turns Yahoo! into much more of an e-mail type system, as you're just leaving offline messages for these people, and vice versa.
Huh? I find webmail to be very convenient. I can check my mail anywhere in a very secure manner
Perhaps the grandparent was referring to the fact that webmail interfaces are
- Typically slower to load than a POP e-mail client
- Typically filled with ads
- Typically filled with slow-loading images
- Lacking a standard interface; every provider has their own
- Requiring the user to manually login again every time they navigate away from their webmail page or leave it idle for a short period of time.
All these factors help to contribute to webmail being damn inconvenient. I'd rather whip up a POP client and click send/receive mail' any day.
Bad method. The worst case scenario is that not everyone can drive properly, not everyone has a roadworthy car, and therefore cars should be banned because they cause more than 0 deaths per year.
The law does *NOT* cater for the lowest common denominator, nor could it; you can always think of some reason to ban something outright. What the law *should* try to do is cater for the average person, and be reasonable. I think banning cellphone use is stepping over that line.
Fancy a shag?
Is that the way you end all your conversations?
s/mantissa/integer portion/
Our numbers are written backwards? The mantissa is *right-justified*, but I see nothing backwards about the way we write numbers.
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I have to intercede here and point out that this argument is bullshit. Here in the UK, authorities have taken carte blanche to put up speed cameras left, right and centre. Many roads have them every few miles. If anything, the average speed limit has gone *DOWN*, not up, becuase it's easier for the police to enforce speed limits and slap fines on people, they're more likely to try and enforce a strict speed limit than raising it a little to 'bargain' with motorists into keeping to the speed limit.
The law will by no means change to increase speed limits, if automated speeding fines come into effect.
Netscape were competing with Microsoft on Microsoft's operating system.
OSS is competing with Microsoft on (currently) open PC architecture.
Admittedly Microsoft DRM hardware could change this, but that's why we're all fighting so hard against it, and God help us if it becomes the standard.
The Chinese gov is not so stupid to get caught by the "hahaha - my data was encrypted, you can't prove anything"-argument.
Erm, that's not the point of Freenet at all. The point is more like 'hahaha - my data was routed through 100 random IPs before it received you, has absolutely nothing to indicate who wrote it, and anyone on Freenet can read it. So go shove your fascist censorship up your ass.' If the government could get round it, it would be very unfortunate indeed.
Babelfish already does this.
Note to mods: it's occured to me that my above comment might appear as flamebait, but I'm trying to make a rather valid point. Being found 'not guilty' is a perfectly acceptable justification for you to have the right not to have your reputation smeared. It'd be awful nice if you didn't mod it down.
Well I charge you of molesting and raping very young children and savagely murdering them, as well as listening to Britney Spears music.
Oh by the way you may not be guilty.
For Christ's sakes, it's Kim Jong Il, not Kim Jong 2! Get your facts straight before you write it about 10 times.
Mmm, but what if the large majority of vendors don't have the option of turning off Trusted Computing features on the motherboard? So much for just switching granny's machine over to Linux, she'd have to buy new hardware! It's been shown that the majority of vendors are perfectly prepared to lower the standards of their systems for whatever reason; just look at the kind of backup media you get with a new system nowadays. Previously, CDs or floppies with installers for your OS on. Now? A partition on the hard drive that MIGHT help your system recover if the data is slightly damaged; although you'd better hope the hard drive doesn't fail completely.
Didn't they make the design for their little logo that goes on the systems they have produced, or did they outsource that too?
I use viri. I've never been fond of the sound of "viruses" whereas "viri" has a nice clean ring to it.
Bah, 'viruses' sounds fine to me. Besides, how the heck do you pronounce 'viri'? I usually pronounce it 'vee-ree', but it could be pronounced 'vye-rye', 'vee-rye' or 'vye-ree'!
Um, right.
.NET CLR 1.0.3705)" and "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031126".
Like both "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; BTopenworld;
There's a character in place of the '*' that I can't seem to duplicate in the text entry field.
Maybe that's because it's an image.
hell, have a look at something you printed out just a couple of years back.
*looks at schoolwork from a couple of years back*
Yep, it's in pretty much perfect condition, having been kept in a nice folder. Your point?
Actually, I'd say most people nowadays with a computer *do* have exactly the equivalent of a printing press - a printer. The real problem is that there's a lot of stuff that just doesn't lend itself to being stored on paper, owing to sheer size and its not being text. Continually updated webpages are a good example of sheer size, sound and video are a good example of not being text.
In other words, organised religion is fine and a good thing, and essential for the survival of primitive societies (and the integration of primitives in less primitive societies) as long as those leading it know that its a means to an end, and not a great truth in and of itself.
What?? Are you seriously suggesting that the Pope doesn't believe in Catholocism, and that the Archbishop of Cantebury doesn't believe in Anglican Christianity, and that the religions would go downhill quickly if they did?
What? I don't think it's THAT unreasonable for manufacturers to assume a certain level of physical ability when they design a product. Think of all the disabilities a person could have; deafness, blindness, broken bones, no legs, no arms, cerebal palsy, how the hell can you design a car that's able to be driven by someone with any disability?? It would need to be virtually mind-controlled, unless you're suggesting that cars should be able to be driven by those in a vegetative state.