Maybe if they did not obsess over metrics written by some MBA by hounded customers on geeksquad protection plans and credit card sales there would not be any drop. I went to a job fair yesterday to get some extra part time work under my belt and all the retailers are doing this. At JCPenny you can not be a cashier unless you have experience selling credit cards at 25% to poor people and that is the only metric that follows.
With 1 trillion in debt people are no longer consuming because of shady deals like this are strangling their customer base for those who are dumb enough to use them. Geeksquad is a ripoff and it is so annoying when all you want is a job.
Actually, those cards can prove to be a GREAT value!! They often, like the BB Rewards Zone, give you points or $$ to be used on other purchases. You just have to pay them off.
I don't generally buy anything I don't have cash in pocket for....I bought a 59" plasma from BB, and used their card. I got a new one for that which like doubled the rewards points...etc. I paid it off in cash when first bill was due...and out of that, I got basically a 'free' nook color which I'd been wanting to get and root into a nice tablet.
People's debt problems...are their own problems, not the CC purveyors. I have tons of credit...but use it judiciously. I do, on occasion on a big ticket item (my recent purchase of a loaded up mac pro)...take advantage of the 12 mo interest free financing which is a great deal!! Basically using their money to finance your purchase. I was able to get my mac a little earlier as that I'd only saved about half the price...so, I used the 12 mo financing (apple store)...first payment, I paid off what I had saved up for the mac, and calculated the remaining payments for 10 mos, and set my bank up to pay it about 2 days before due electronically automatically. Voila, computer is mine, and I don't even need to worry about the payments (although I do open the bills when they come in the mail, and routinely check my bank account when paying most of my other bills manually).
People getting into debt over their heads is their own stupidity....don't buy what you can't afford!!!
Even that isn't saving them. A lot of consumers now go to Best Buy etc brick'n'mortar to "window shop", find what they want, write it down, and go home and amazon it etc. The brick'n'mortar stores are tired of being the window shopping of the online clearance stores.
Yep...even easier than writing stuff down, just use one of the many barcode scanners, and bang..you record what you want, model# and all...and a listing of best prices to be found locally or online.
Another big reason you don't actually buy at BB, especially if a big ticket item....to avoid the sales tax!!
I know...everyone is supposed to pay the use tax on it [rolls eyes]......but let's be realistic about this, that just doesn't happen.
Even if Google has the information needed to predict general outcomes, they don't necessarily have the processing power to make the necessary conclusions.
Every time CSI or some other crime drama is on, there will be tens of thousands of searches. You could attempt to filter those out, but then you have someone with intent simply searching while watching CSI.
Ah...so the smart person, wanting to google for crime info to use it...should do most all their controversial searches during CSI showings...to hide their searching in the 'noise' generated by these shows.
And considering CSI seems to be on about 5x times a day or something....
The caveat to this is that "ethical" is opinionated and everyone's is different.
For sure.
I mean, I would nave absolutely NO problem with wanting to terminate the pregnancy if I found out the kid was going to be retarded, or crippled....anything that would keep it from starting out with a 'normal' childhood. In fact, I'd welcome it...I think many people might like this option, especially if you're a bit older having kids....which is happening more and more these days.
Different strokes for different folks....I respect those who would have a different opinion on this...but that's mine.
his micro-bootloader will most likely just chain load a special version of grub that will verify the kernel is signed by a correct key (at this point, any key that Red Hat wants).
But, what happens when you want to re-roll your RHEL kernel to customize it for your specific needs....is it then invalidated?
I don't think anyone has ever eaten some guy's face after smoking a cigarette or filling up their car with gas, so no... the same reason shouldn't be used to ban cigarettes and fossil fuels.
There are rational arguments for why you might want to ban either (and arguments for why you shouldn't), but the one you're presenting here makes no sense whatsoever.
A very small minority of these actions tho.
I mean, in human history, there have been many more incidents of egregious acts by humans to other humans...fueled by nothing more than breathing simple oxygen. People that snap...can and will do it with or without chemical help.
The VAST majority of people that use chemicals...alcohol (actually one of the more dangerous ones), pot, coke..what-have-you do not go out and harm other people. If that were the case, the world would be a smoking, smoldering pile many decades back.
The majority can and often does use these chemicals recreationally with no harm to anyone, except possibly themselves. It isn't the governments job to protect someone from their own actions, is it? If so...where is that in any of the state or federal constitutions as an enumerated function of said governing body?
Homeland Security agressively patrols that area since it borders Canada and has a international crossing at Cornwall. I've been stopped at road blocks hosted jointly by NYS Police & Homeland Security. The State Police stayed in the background while my car was singled out by Homeland Security for a walk-around sniff by their dog and an uncomfortable amount of questioning. I'm an old Unix admin who does not resemble a terrorist in the slightest. Also worth noting that that St. Regis Native American Reservation sits on both sides of the border there. Perhaps someone is trying to keep tabs on them??
I wonder by what authority they are stopping you? I mean...you don't have to answer their questions from what I've seen on other videos at the southern border. Can you just ask them if you're being detained...and if not...you'd like to go about your way?
A pinhole in a non-obvious device could conceal a laser until the kill, and a conventional laser weapon sight could be boresighted beforehand to assist aiming. Put a camera behind the laser sight, and you could aim it remotely....
You know..if you could rig this up with some auto tracking and aiming gear....I'd be VERY interested in this...to blow out all traffic cameras in the area around here....
Real guns work even better than paintball guns... just sayin.
Yeah, but you can get in trouble for shooting guns in public....how about some of those extremely high powered lasers you can buy off the internet...I'd have to guess a blast of one of those would burn out any sensors on the cameras beyond repair.
Not agreeing or disagreeing with your point, but since Mitt isn't going to be any better, according to you, why are you focusing on Obama? Agreed that he is president, but implicit in your statement is an admission that the problem is bigger than Obama.
Well, at this point, I'd vote for anything....a small soap dish, over Obama.
If nothing else, we know he's a failure, and what is that saying?
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result"
Voting for Obama again, and expecting any better (I actually would fear worse from him if he's re-elected with no worries of further re-election hanging over him)....would be insanity. by that definition.
But what's the deal with the US covert ops community these days?
Do they NOT know how to keep a fucking secret anymore?!?
Whomever leaked this...needs to be found out, and put on trial for treason....or at the very least, be prosecuted for breaking the oath they took/signed to keep said secrets.
I know on rare occasions, there needs to be exceptions for whistle blowers, and that's a tricky fine line to walk....something has to be genuinely bad.
But something like this....a covert ops thing, should never have seen the light of day outside of the CIA.
Maybe its not the covert people that blew it.....likely a politician. No matter who let this out....they need to be found out and be made an example of.....
George Zimmerman left his car and confronted Trayvon Martin. It was in the evidence release. Self Defense goes out the window once you put yourself in a dangerous situation.
Confronting someone...is not attacking them.
Zimmerman was on the neighborhood patrol, that's what they do.
It appears (and of course, no one has seen all the facts since no court case yet), but from what I've seen...the documented injuries to Zimmerman, and the eyewitness accounts...it appears for some reason that Trayvon at some point, was on top of Zimmerman, beating him against the sidewalk/street...Zimmerman felt threatened for his life and drew his gun at THAT point...and fired once in self defense.
Did this happen? I dunno..but from the evidence I've seen so far...it appears VERY plausible.
Confronting someone in the neighborhood, when you are a neighborhood watch person, is not inviting attack from someone, just because they possibly get pissed for thinking they are being profiled...whether or not they are.
The jury will have to decide who started the fight....but from the facts we have now...we're not sure. It does not appear at this point from what's out..that Zimmerman came out with his gun and threatened Trayvon and initiated a fight. It sounds like he asked him what he was doing, if he lived around there...etc...things typically a neighborhood watch person would do...and at some point, a fight ensued and at some point, Trayvon was on top beating Zimmerman, possibly he initiated the attack for some reason,and Z defended himself under FL law.
At the same time, I find it preposterous when people suggest that if everyone just walked around with a gun strapped to their belt all the time, that this would somehow reduce gun violence.
I believe most all of the stats I've read show that states that enacted carry concealed weapons legislation, did indeed experience a DROP in violence.
I'm not sure about any stats concerning states with open carry laws....anyone know about those?
I grew up in a church that was pretty fundamentalist...I mean, Hell, we thought the Baptists were too liberal...seriously.
But in all those years, I'd never heard anyone preach that the earth was only 10K years old?!? They never put a time on it...just that God created the world. No one disputed how old the earth was...I'd actually never heard that christains supposedly thought this till I read it so readily displayed on slashdot to be honest.
To me, I supposed God created things....I mean, science hasn't come up yet with an explanation how things started. The big bang...well, what was there before that? So, until they can explain how things really all started, I supposed God is as good of an explanation as any. If God was here in the beginning, I have no problems in him designing things to evolve either....it seems apparent that thing do evolve....so, what's the big argument?
However, Obamacare....isn't using taxes to do its dirty work. They are forcing you to buy insurance from a private company, OR, you have to pay a fine.
They went out of their way in the wording to make it NOT be a tax. So, that part you quoted in the constitution isn't relevant.
It's also a return deterrant. Once you've shredded the package, you're much less likely to try and return it if you don't like it.
Interesting...
I've seen this put forth here a few times on this early thread...and I'm baffled. Really?
Would anyone here be deterred from returning something just because packaging was shredded? I've never heard of this before till this thread....I'd not have thought of it at all actually.
Way back in the dark ages, when I was working retail jobs in HS and first years of college, I was amazed at what people would try to return...shoes that were obviously worn. I had one kid bring in an old old worn pair of shoes, said his brother handed them down to him, and they didn't fit and wanted to return them for a new pair that fit him. No joke...
I used to also sell clothes in the young men's area....and had some lady bring in bags of clothes..that were obviously worn and in cases stained.
What was nice...was back then...the management backed you up when you refused to accept a return in that shape. I argued with her...called mgr...he looked at it and said no and when the lady started throwing a fit, he called security and they had her removed from the store telling her not to come back. Don't get me wrong...customer service was good with us...I got award for it and sales, had many happy return customers.
Sadly...you don't see that today...bad service, and mgrs would never back up a sales person like that...and they accept returns on EVERYTHING....which is horribly abused. Hell, i've talked to girls that thought nothing, of buying a complete outfit to wear out somewhere nice...and then, returning it the next day......really?
With that mentality...I can't imagine a clamshell case would deter anyone from a return.
No, it's about banning sodas larger than 16 fl. oz in restaurants. If you want to drink 32 fl. oz of soda (the size of a large at McDonald's), you still can do it, it'll probably just cost you a little bit more (if you buy two) or take a bit more time (if you get a refill).
But why should a government entity be making this decision for you, rather than leaving it up to the individual?
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Actually, those cards can prove to be a GREAT value!! They often, like the BB Rewards Zone, give you points or $$ to be used on other purchases. You just have to pay them off.
I don't generally buy anything I don't have cash in pocket for....I bought a 59" plasma from BB, and used their card. I got a new one for that which like doubled the rewards points...etc. I paid it off in cash when first bill was due...and out of that, I got basically a 'free' nook color which I'd been wanting to get and root into a nice tablet.
People's debt problems...are their own problems, not the CC purveyors. I have tons of credit...but use it judiciously. I do, on occasion on a big ticket item (my recent purchase of a loaded up mac pro)...take advantage of the 12 mo interest free financing which is a great deal!! Basically using their money to finance your purchase. I was able to get my mac a little earlier as that I'd only saved about half the price...so, I used the 12 mo financing (apple store)...first payment, I paid off what I had saved up for the mac, and calculated the remaining payments for 10 mos, and set my bank up to pay it about 2 days before due electronically automatically. Voila, computer is mine, and I don't even need to worry about the payments (although I do open the bills when they come in the mail, and routinely check my bank account when paying most of my other bills manually).
People getting into debt over their heads is their own stupidity....don't buy what you can't afford!!!
It doesn't get much simpler than that.
Yep...even easier than writing stuff down, just use one of the many barcode scanners, and bang..you record what you want, model# and all...and a listing of best prices to be found locally or online.
Another big reason you don't actually buy at BB, especially if a big ticket item....to avoid the sales tax!!
I know...everyone is supposed to pay the use tax on it [rolls eyes]......but let's be realistic about this, that just doesn't happen.
I guess it is up to the parents.
I mean, it isn't like you HAVE to give a reason when you go in for an abortion.
Yet...
Ah...so the smart person, wanting to google for crime info to use it...should do most all their controversial searches during CSI showings...to hide their searching in the 'noise' generated by these shows.
And considering CSI seems to be on about 5x times a day or something....
For sure.
I mean, I would nave absolutely NO problem with wanting to terminate the pregnancy if I found out the kid was going to be retarded, or crippled....anything that would keep it from starting out with a 'normal' childhood. In fact, I'd welcome it...I think many people might like this option, especially if you're a bit older having kids....which is happening more and more these days.
Different strokes for different folks....I respect those who would have a different opinion on this...but that's mine.
But, what happens when you want to re-roll your RHEL kernel to customize it for your specific needs....is it then invalidated?
Currently...true.
But what's to say that Apple isn't courting HBO and the like to be able to stream them through and AppleTV or like device?
As long as HBO get's their money, and potentially more customers...why would they not jump at this opportunity?
A very small minority of these actions tho.
I mean, in human history, there have been many more incidents of egregious acts by humans to other humans...fueled by nothing more than breathing simple oxygen. People that snap...can and will do it with or without chemical help.
The VAST majority of people that use chemicals...alcohol (actually one of the more dangerous ones), pot, coke..what-have-you do not go out and harm other people. If that were the case, the world would be a smoking, smoldering pile many decades back.
The majority can and often does use these chemicals recreationally with no harm to anyone, except possibly themselves. It isn't the governments job to protect someone from their own actions, is it? If so...where is that in any of the state or federal constitutions as an enumerated function of said governing body?
I wonder by what authority they are stopping you? I mean...you don't have to answer their questions from what I've seen on other videos at the southern border. Can you just ask them if you're being detained...and if not...you'd like to go about your way?
You know..if you could rig this up with some auto tracking and aiming gear....I'd be VERY interested in this...to blow out all traffic cameras in the area around here....
For educational purposes only, of course.
Yeah, but you can get in trouble for shooting guns in public....how about some of those extremely high powered lasers you can buy off the internet...I'd have to guess a blast of one of those would burn out any sensors on the cameras beyond repair.
Well, at this point, I'd vote for anything....a small soap dish, over Obama.
If nothing else, we know he's a failure, and what is that saying?
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result"
Voting for Obama again, and expecting any better (I actually would fear worse from him if he's re-elected with no worries of further re-election hanging over him)....would be insanity. by that definition.
All I can do is hear "Smoking in the Boys Room" in my head.....
He's not above the law, right?
But what's the deal with the US covert ops community these days?
Do they NOT know how to keep a fucking secret anymore?!?
Whomever leaked this...needs to be found out, and put on trial for treason....or at the very least, be prosecuted for breaking the oath they took/signed to keep said secrets.
I know on rare occasions, there needs to be exceptions for whistle blowers, and that's a tricky fine line to walk....something has to be genuinely bad.
But something like this....a covert ops thing, should never have seen the light of day outside of the CIA.
Maybe its not the covert people that blew it.....likely a politician. No matter who let this out....they need to be found out and be made an example of.....
....get a MBA so you can actually make some $$$.
Confronting someone...is not attacking them.
Zimmerman was on the neighborhood patrol, that's what they do.
It appears (and of course, no one has seen all the facts since no court case yet), but from what I've seen...the documented injuries to Zimmerman, and the eyewitness accounts...it appears for some reason that Trayvon at some point, was on top of Zimmerman, beating him against the sidewalk/street...Zimmerman felt threatened for his life and drew his gun at THAT point...and fired once in self defense.
Did this happen? I dunno..but from the evidence I've seen so far...it appears VERY plausible.
Confronting someone in the neighborhood, when you are a neighborhood watch person, is not inviting attack from someone, just because they possibly get pissed for thinking they are being profiled...whether or not they are.
The jury will have to decide who started the fight....but from the facts we have now...we're not sure. It does not appear at this point from what's out..that Zimmerman came out with his gun and threatened Trayvon and initiated a fight. It sounds like he asked him what he was doing, if he lived around there...etc...things typically a neighborhood watch person would do...and at some point, a fight ensued and at some point, Trayvon was on top beating Zimmerman, possibly he initiated the attack for some reason,and Z defended himself under FL law.
I believe most all of the stats I've read show that states that enacted carry concealed weapons legislation, did indeed experience a DROP in violence.
I'm not sure about any stats concerning states with open carry laws....anyone know about those?
And even useful for protecting your guns, when the Socialist Democrats come to take them away from you...
Or...tell it to the guy Trayvon apparently attacked....who successfully protected himself from Trayvon's attack.
See?
You example is actually a success story!
But in all those years, I'd never heard anyone preach that the earth was only 10K years old?!? They never put a time on it...just that God created the world. No one disputed how old the earth was...I'd actually never heard that christains supposedly thought this till I read it so readily displayed on slashdot to be honest.
To me, I supposed God created things....I mean, science hasn't come up yet with an explanation how things started. The big bang...well, what was there before that? So, until they can explain how things really all started, I supposed God is as good of an explanation as any. If God was here in the beginning, I have no problems in him designing things to evolve either....it seems apparent that thing do evolve....so, what's the big argument?
They went out of their way in the wording to make it NOT be a tax. So, that part you quoted in the constitution isn't relevant.
Interesting...
I've seen this put forth here a few times on this early thread...and I'm baffled. Really?
Would anyone here be deterred from returning something just because packaging was shredded? I've never heard of this before till this thread....I'd not have thought of it at all actually.
Way back in the dark ages, when I was working retail jobs in HS and first years of college, I was amazed at what people would try to return...shoes that were obviously worn. I had one kid bring in an old old worn pair of shoes, said his brother handed them down to him, and they didn't fit and wanted to return them for a new pair that fit him. No joke...
I used to also sell clothes in the young men's area....and had some lady bring in bags of clothes..that were obviously worn and in cases stained.
What was nice...was back then...the management backed you up when you refused to accept a return in that shape. I argued with her...called mgr...he looked at it and said no and when the lady started throwing a fit, he called security and they had her removed from the store telling her not to come back. Don't get me wrong...customer service was good with us...I got award for it and sales, had many happy return customers.
Sadly...you don't see that today...bad service, and mgrs would never back up a sales person like that...and they accept returns on EVERYTHING....which is horribly abused. Hell, i've talked to girls that thought nothing, of buying a complete outfit to wear out somewhere nice...and then, returning it the next day......really?
With that mentality...I can't imagine a clamshell case would deter anyone from a return.
But why should a government entity be making this decision for you, rather than leaving it up to the individual?