I'm pretty sure this is based on building size not the fact that you're a hotel.
I lived in a tower in boston, and they had an integrated smoke detection system (don't burn something at 03:00 am you'll wake the neighbors), a fire marshal who checked everything was working on a regular basis, sprinklers, fire extinguishers in the hallway, etc.
A few days ago I was in London, and stayed in a B&B. It was an old building, and there might have been smoke detectors, but there wasn't a fire escape I could see, and I would have burned alive if there was a fire.
People get uppity about the definition of rape, because the definition is basically how does the female feel the next day.
Case in point, a girl I know got drunk one night, and on her way home from the pub met a guy on the street (who was also drunk). The guy accompanied her to her home, and she was lucid enough to tell her brother (visiting from a different town) she needed the apartment for an hour or two so she could get laid.
The guy left after the deed was done, and the next day, having drunk so much she had a black out, she went to the police and reported a rape.
The police actually took her statement, and if she had been able to ID the guy, would have made an arrest.
Hearing this story, I really got the feeling that if the guy had stayed the whole night, and she'd woken up in his arms, she'd have been happy to have found a new man (she was a bit desperate).
THAT'S how society views rape. Much rape is not about men jumping out from bushes on helpless women, but just at the woman's discretion. And, as a man, you've got some issues if you haven't taken a vow of chastity, because you always run a risk with a one night stand.
Yeah see that's something that wasn't said in the original post and you're taking bits and pieces of reality and making specious arguments based on them.
It's reasonable to say that, whereas with a rented apartment the tenant has certain things they need to do, a person renting a hotel room should have less of these given the transient nature of his renting.
So, while I buy my own toilet paper in my flat, for instance, I would be quite annoyed if I showed up at a hotel and they told me you have to buy your own toilet paper (or lightbulbs, or any number of things).
However that's all sort of implied in the rental contract, and whether you're renting for long term or short term.
But, no where is it said hotels have to have smoke detectors / alarms / etc but apartments not. In the same way that it's not required for hotels to have lights, and apartments not.
Really this whole argument is specious. It's very simple:
a. The bigger your building, the more fire equipment needed b. For very big apartment buildings, you have the same sorts of precautions as in a hotel. When I lived in a tower in Boston, we did actually have a fire marshall come through to test our alarms. c. Hotels tend to be the size of very big apartments (see point a). This in no way means hotels must have fire equipment whereas apartments not. If you end up at a small bed and breakfast, you might find it is not equipped with the same fire equipment as a tower. d. If you are renting out your apartment short term like a hotel, you must maintain it. If you rent it out long term, like a flat, the tenant maintains it. But this is a separate issue, and in no instance is someone allowed an exception to the fire code.
Will you say a different story when someone is burned to death because there was no fire alarm system which a hotel is required to have but a private residence is not?
That's just a ridiculous argument. Apartment buildings are required to maintain fire alarm systems, have fire escapes, fire extinguishers, etc.
Unless you are saying the requirements for a hotel are safer, in which case why not regulate so that everyone can live in a fire safe dwelling?
Well that's not entirely true because of the way genes mix up (the whole idea of dominance and inheritance). This is what might allow two brown haired brunettes to have a blue eyed blonde child: the brown eyes and brown hair is dominant, and when the bits of the couple is mixed, you get two recessive traits (blonde hair / blue eyes).
Of course it's not even so simple as dominant / recessive because genes mix about in all kinds of other ways. So getting a true breeding pair from just one generation of people is not possible.
However, it's highly likely if we had a eugenics program whereby over a long period (say several hundred generations) we attempted to identify, and breed a "smart" race of people, it would happen (in the same way we've bred dogs that are smarter than other dogs).
Funny you know my mom used to say the same thing. Every time I played video games she'd tell me how useless they were and what a waste of time.
Back when I was in high school, I had a buddy who wanted to play FIFA all the time. So we'd play online (this was back in the day when you'd have one modem call the other modem). I wasn't really interested in soccer, but I was competitive, and wanted to beat him at the game.
Fast forward 10 years. I ended up getting transferred to Europe. After work we went to a bar the first week I was there, and small talk one night included this funny sport called soccer. And I knew all the teams, and all the rules. And it helped me out professionally.
Sounds great where do I get one? I've got about 3000 wifi access points coming into my apartment I'd like to degrade...
Seriously though, I can see how if you live in the country this maybe requires you to pump additional power into your wifi device. But in any city, wifi range is MUCH bigger than apartment size, and it's a non-issue.
There is no right to a game designed the way you would want to design it. Your right is to vote with your wallets. If the second companies instituted DRM everyone stopped buying their products, then companies would not see DRM as a valid business model.
Not true. When I go to the US (or travel) I buy a prepaid sim card for local calls.
Verizon is able to sell you a sim card for your iphone if you have a 5 or later. If you have a 4S, you are right, but it's been some years since that was state of the art.
It's cheaper for cell phone manufacturers to make 1 chip for all the bands, then have to retool for each different cell provider
Phones like the iPhone have the ability to use most american, european, asian, and FAIK african cell phone bands, for years now. Most high end android phones have similar abilities (and some allow multiple sims).
My iphone has never been unable to communicate on a region's network, and I travel a lot, My (unlocked) iphone has worked on all four continents mentioned. Quite a few places in America, most countries in europe west of Czech (and who'd want to go east of there), South East Asia, and Morocco (OK, not all of Africa).
Of course, maybe el cheapo brand cell phones might differ, but if you are paying $20 for a cell, who cares if you can unlock it and use it again?
My sisters's iphone screen broke. I asked her what she was doing with it, she said "Nothing, Apple wanted $100 to fix the screen but I just signed on for another contract with Verizon and got a free iphone."
This is how a lot of people think, and they're too naïve (or dumb) to realize the truth (no comment on sis). Her iphone is worth several hundred dollars, and if the phone is fixed for $100 she still comes out ahead. Verizon, meanwhile, will charge her more per month and actually, she's losing money on the deal.
I second that. I'm at 300+ books (although I have a tendency to buy professional reference materials that are $50+)
Kindle is awesome. Easy access to English language books (I live abroad, try finding the latest anything in Vietnam), it's searchable (great for reference books), and I own two kindles so I can keep an entire kindle of reference books in my desk without a huge footprint.
The nice thing about ebola is it's not airborne, you need to actually touch someone's fluids to get ebola. So, it's completely avoidable, as opposed to airborne pathogens.
I share your hope but not your optimism. Disappearing over the Ukrainian/Russian border would be a remarkable coincidence. Then again, a remarkable coincidence started WWI, so...
Well it is also a remarkable coincidence this happens to Malaysia air -- who lost another Boeing 777 in March.
It's entirely possible the reason both flights are lost is the same. But, all is speculation until we hear more news
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I'm pretty sure this is based on building size not the fact that you're a hotel.
I lived in a tower in boston, and they had an integrated smoke detection system (don't burn something at 03:00 am you'll wake the neighbors), a fire marshal who checked everything was working on a regular basis, sprinklers, fire extinguishers in the hallway, etc.
A few days ago I was in London, and stayed in a B&B. It was an old building, and there might have been smoke detectors, but there wasn't a fire escape I could see, and I would have burned alive if there was a fire.
People get uppity about the definition of rape, because the definition is basically how does the female feel the next day.
Case in point, a girl I know got drunk one night, and on her way home from the pub met a guy on the street (who was also drunk). The guy accompanied her to her home, and she was lucid enough to tell her brother (visiting from a different town) she needed the apartment for an hour or two so she could get laid.
The guy left after the deed was done, and the next day, having drunk so much she had a black out, she went to the police and reported a rape.
The police actually took her statement, and if she had been able to ID the guy, would have made an arrest.
Hearing this story, I really got the feeling that if the guy had stayed the whole night, and she'd woken up in his arms, she'd have been happy to have found a new man (she was a bit desperate).
THAT'S how society views rape. Much rape is not about men jumping out from bushes on helpless women, but just at the woman's discretion. And, as a man, you've got some issues if you haven't taken a vow of chastity, because you always run a risk with a one night stand.
95% of marketing is convincing people they need your product. In very few cases, do they actually need it
Yeah see that's something that wasn't said in the original post and you're taking bits and pieces of reality and making specious arguments based on them.
It's reasonable to say that, whereas with a rented apartment the tenant has certain things they need to do, a person renting a hotel room should have less of these given the transient nature of his renting.
So, while I buy my own toilet paper in my flat, for instance, I would be quite annoyed if I showed up at a hotel and they told me you have to buy your own toilet paper (or lightbulbs, or any number of things).
However that's all sort of implied in the rental contract, and whether you're renting for long term or short term.
But, no where is it said hotels have to have smoke detectors / alarms / etc but apartments not. In the same way that it's not required for hotels to have lights, and apartments not.
Really this whole argument is specious. It's very simple:
a. The bigger your building, the more fire equipment needed
b. For very big apartment buildings, you have the same sorts of precautions as in a hotel. When I lived in a tower in Boston, we did actually have a fire marshall come through to test our alarms.
c. Hotels tend to be the size of very big apartments (see point a). This in no way means hotels must have fire equipment whereas apartments not. If you end up at a small bed and breakfast, you might find it is not equipped with the same fire equipment as a tower.
d. If you are renting out your apartment short term like a hotel, you must maintain it. If you rent it out long term, like a flat, the tenant maintains it. But this is a separate issue, and in no instance is someone allowed an exception to the fire code.
OK, but in both cases you need a fire alarm, right? And in neither case is someone legally allowed to disable the alarm, right?
I still don't see any difference.
Will you say a different story when someone is burned to death because there was no fire alarm system which a hotel is required to have but a private residence is not?
That's just a ridiculous argument. Apartment buildings are required to maintain fire alarm systems, have fire escapes, fire extinguishers, etc.
Unless you are saying the requirements for a hotel are safer, in which case why not regulate so that everyone can live in a fire safe dwelling?
Well that's not entirely true because of the way genes mix up (the whole idea of dominance and inheritance). This is what might allow two brown haired brunettes to have a blue eyed blonde child: the brown eyes and brown hair is dominant, and when the bits of the couple is mixed, you get two recessive traits (blonde hair / blue eyes).
Of course it's not even so simple as dominant / recessive because genes mix about in all kinds of other ways. So getting a true breeding pair from just one generation of people is not possible.
However, it's highly likely if we had a eugenics program whereby over a long period (say several hundred generations) we attempted to identify, and breed a "smart" race of people, it would happen (in the same way we've bred dogs that are smarter than other dogs).
Funny you know my mom used to say the same thing. Every time I played video games she'd tell me how useless they were and what a waste of time.
Back when I was in high school, I had a buddy who wanted to play FIFA all the time. So we'd play online (this was back in the day when you'd have one modem call the other modem). I wasn't really interested in soccer, but I was competitive, and wanted to beat him at the game.
Fast forward 10 years. I ended up getting transferred to Europe. After work we went to a bar the first week I was there, and small talk one night included this funny sport called soccer. And I knew all the teams, and all the rules. And it helped me out professionally.
Thank you video games.
Given that Ebola is currently confined to Africa
You were saying?
Sounds great where do I get one? I've got about 3000 wifi access points coming into my apartment I'd like to degrade...
Seriously though, I can see how if you live in the country this maybe requires you to pump additional power into your wifi device. But in any city, wifi range is MUCH bigger than apartment size, and it's a non-issue.
Usually prototypes are a scaled down model. If I were a betting man, I'd say the final model will be more like 300kg...
I'd settle for textbooks available in ebook form on a common platform like kindle, as well as pricing them below $50.
YES!
There is no right to a game designed the way you would want to design it. Your right is to vote with your wallets. If the second companies instituted DRM everyone stopped buying their products, then companies would not see DRM as a valid business model.
Option 6: Slag the tablet. Data destruction assured
But there's opportunity cost to committing for another 2 years.
And are you seriously telling me if she gets an iphone 64 GB 5S it's the same price as if she gets the $20 special?
Not true. When I go to the US (or travel) I buy a prepaid sim card for local calls.
Verizon is able to sell you a sim card for your iphone if you have a 5 or later. If you have a 4S, you are right, but it's been some years since that was state of the art.
It's cheaper for cell phone manufacturers to make 1 chip for all the bands, then have to retool for each different cell provider
Phones like the iPhone have the ability to use most american, european, asian, and FAIK african cell phone bands, for years now. Most high end android phones have similar abilities (and some allow multiple sims).
My iphone has never been unable to communicate on a region's network, and I travel a lot, My (unlocked) iphone has worked on all four continents mentioned. Quite a few places in America, most countries in europe west of Czech (and who'd want to go east of there), South East Asia, and Morocco (OK, not all of Africa).
Of course, maybe el cheapo brand cell phones might differ, but if you are paying $20 for a cell, who cares if you can unlock it and use it again?
True story:
My sisters's iphone screen broke. I asked her what she was doing with it, she said "Nothing, Apple wanted $100 to fix the screen but I just signed on for another contract with Verizon and got a free iphone."
This is how a lot of people think, and they're too naïve (or dumb) to realize the truth (no comment on sis). Her iphone is worth several hundred dollars, and if the phone is fixed for $100 she still comes out ahead. Verizon, meanwhile, will charge her more per month and actually, she's losing money on the deal.
I second that. I'm at 300+ books (although I have a tendency to buy professional reference materials that are $50+)
Kindle is awesome. Easy access to English language books (I live abroad, try finding the latest anything in Vietnam), it's searchable (great for reference books), and I own two kindles so I can keep an entire kindle of reference books in my desk without a huge footprint.
Not as bad as one million trillion microbecquerels.
Oh, wait....
That's brilliant. Sir, I tip my hat to you.
The nice thing about ebola is it's not airborne, you need to actually touch someone's fluids to get ebola. So, it's completely avoidable, as opposed to airborne pathogens.
These are quite small! You could easily jump off it I think.
What I'm waiting for is a BIG room like treadmill. Something you REALLY could move on as if you were in space
I come into the comments looking for someone modded up for actually explaining things, and THIS is the only thing modded +5?!?!?!?!?!?!?
I share your hope but not your optimism. Disappearing over the Ukrainian/Russian border would be a remarkable coincidence. Then again, a remarkable coincidence started WWI, so...
Well it is also a remarkable coincidence this happens to Malaysia air -- who lost another Boeing 777 in March.
It's entirely possible the reason both flights are lost is the same. But, all is speculation until we hear more news