My former governor, Blagojevich, was a shitbag from the start I was terribly disappointed by my fellow citizens when the nearly universal attitude of them was "eh, they all do it, why pick on this guy?"
You seem to be from Illinois. For whatever reason, Illinois has a much higher rate of political corruption than any other state. There are probably a dozen examples of ex-political figures in Illinois that have gone to jail. Under no circumstances should you ever allow any politician from Illinois to climb the political ladder any further than they already are. It is a recipe for disaster.
Heads are gonna roll. They dumped pig blood in a river. Pig blood that could have been sold to somebody! That is literally money down the drain. Someone's neck is going to be on the chopping block for sure.
AT&T screwed me royally before and I will not do business with them anymore. When I first moved to this state, I lived in a rural area. I had always had AT&T so when the local telephone company asked who I wanted for long distance, I picked AT&T. The local telephone company was a small company that serviced rural areas. I talked to AT&T to set up a calling plan. I chose a plan that was 6 cents a minute anywhere in the U.S. with no monthly fee and an international plan that was like $4 a month and the rate to Korea (where my wife's family lives) was 15 cents.
The next month, I get a bill for about $400 in long distance charges. It appears that we had used about 60 minutes of long distance altogether, so they were charging roughly 100 times what they said they would. I called customer support for an explanation and she said that I did not have a calling plan in place, and they went with the default costs. I told her I most certainly had put a calling plan in place and told her the date and time I had done so and what the plan was. She told me that that plan was not available with my local phone company. I told her that that was not my problem and that I had been offered that plan by an employee of her company and had accepted it and they needed to honor it. She replied that they would not honor it and the very best they could do was to offer me a plan that was available in my area and would retroactively back off the charges to that other plan which carried significantly (about 10 times) higher per minute rates plus monthly fees. I told her that was unacceptable and I would pay only what my plan said I should pay. She told me that was fine and that they would then cancel my service and report me to a credit agency.
So I will not do business with them ever again.
we don't like being metered, even if it is cheaper. We much rather pay more and have a consistent bill then a fluctuation bill even if the average is cheaper.
Who is this "we" you keep referring to? Because I sure would rather have metered. It's the phone company that would rather we don't, because they can charge us $25 for 300 MB and they know the MAXIMUM service they have to provide is 300MB and more likely is going to be far less including possibly zero. And they have no downside if we use more than 300 MB because then they can charge ridiculous overage fees.
"You give us $20 and we give you 2GB on our network". It's as simple as that, simply cuts off after the 2GB is over because that's what you paid for, no super high fees, no bullshit.
I don't even want that. I want them to charge me by the GB used period, just like the phone company, the electric company, the gas company, the water company. Their offer of $20 for a 300 MB plan works out to about 7 cents per MB. That is certainly way too expensive, but the next tier is $30 for 3 GB, which works out to about 1 cent per MB. Presumably, another 10-fold increase would net you an additional factor of 7 volume discount, so that by the time you are using 30 GB a month, you are paying about 15/1000ths of a dollar per MB or $1.42 per GB, which is pretty reasonable.
Perhaps what they should do is just charge a $10 monthly service fee, and then charge something like 1 cent per MB actually used.
Once again, the "plans" are something that favors the cell phone companies, not the consumer. The only way for the consumer to benefit is to try to use as much as possible without going over. Meanwhile, plenty of people are frightened into buying more than they need for fear of getting hit with huge overages, and the cell companies are getting huge monthly income from the consumer that is using practically nothing.
Yes, and fortunately, as Econ 101 tells us, the marginal cost of producing each unit diminishes as units increase and therefore, their average cost per customer goes down as the number of customers increases. Which is why they are passing those savings on to the consumer. Oh, wait, they are charging the customer MORE? I guess they didn't take Econ 101 or they are hoping none of us did.
Have you seen the "that's so 27 seconds ago" ads? They feature some average-looking Americans (1 fat white guy and 1 fat black guy) surfing with their phones non-stop, including YouTube. They would blow that bandwidth cap in the time frame of 1 commercial break at that rate.
What I find amusing about that commercial, and what other people just don't seem to comprehend, is that while they are right on top of knowing about these events, if they would get their noses out of their electronics, they could actually witness them firsthand. Apparently, it is more fashionable to be told about something via electronic means rather than observing it with your own eye, even when yo have equal opportunity to do either one.
Alltel was the first to really start offering decent services and a reasonable way before the 4-goons ever did/have. When they sold-out to Verizon the services were grandfathered in but after that the rates and services ceased to exist even for those grandfathered in.
I'm still on an Alltel family plan. Verizon keeps telling me they want to get me on a Verizon plan because it would be better for me and would make their billing easier. Let's see, it would be more expensive, and I would get less minutes...I don't quite see how it is better for me.
He may have made it up, but I am working on the patent for it. I have the first 206 billion or so digits written down, and Chuck Norris knows the last digit, but getting those ones in the middle is turning out to be a challenge.
Gee, where to begin.
Most people probably can't erect a cell tower on their land due to zoning, and almost nobody can put one on top of their house unless their house is a large office building and was designed for the weight of the cell tower.
A cell tower costs between $100,000 and $200,000 to build, so I don't know how you are going to get a tower AND a 100 mb fiber loop for $68k. The cost of the fiber loop will probably be close to $1000 a month.
The Prius is ugly enough as it is, but what's with the race to produce the worlds first paper bagger car?
They have to make it look ugly so that people who don't have one will appreciate what sacrifices the owners make for the sake of our planet and therefore how much better the owners are than non-owners.
Like any religion, it's just guilt with different holidays.
Windchill will affect the speed with which the car gets down to -40 though, by resupplying the surfaces with cold air to transfer heat to. However, even at -40, the fuel will still burn and will not be frozen unless it had some water in the line as well.
All a 240V plug is, is two 120V plugs that share a ground, on two separate circuits from the panel.
Can't be just any old separate circuit. It has to be one that is from the other branch of your incoming 240V.
I echo everyone else who replied already and want to further point out that one of the crimes, yes crimes, that he was charged with was "abandoning ship". So even the law say that the captain must see to the safety of his passengers, not just thousands of years of maritime tradition.
I have a couple of suggestions:
1. Don't EOL the dual shock controller. I don't mind if other people like using the wand type controller, but I find it extremely difficult to control the game with wand type controllers.
2. Make games backwards compatible. They advertised that PS3 would be able to play PS2 games, but it doesn't. The PS4 should be able to play previous PS games.
3. Make games that you don't have to download extra cost items to play.
4. Makes games that have a rich single player experience and don't require you to have to play online with other people.
I don't know if we need a specific school to teach software, but we at least need a class to teach software. When I went to high school 25 years ago, they taught Basic on old TRS-80 Model 100s. Now that computers are so prolific, they very same school that I went to teaches no programming at all. They have a "computer" class, but it only teaches you the very basics of how to use a computer, and apparently that consists of how to play flash games and download illegal music and games and burn them to CD. The kids come out not even knowing what software they would use to write a report.
Which company is that so we can avoid it?
So far, every company I have worked for has been that way. I looked at Symantec's family coverage, and that is pretty awesome. My company pays for a me as an individual, but if I put my family in, it would be about $900 a month. It looks like Symantec's would be about $300 a month. At the moment, I am taking the free option from my company, and paying about $240 a month for an individual plan, so I would still come out ahead of Symantec's family plan.
Not in my company. The workers work. The managers play with their gadgets. I'm a manager, too, well more of a team leader, but I don't have gadgets other than a smartphone, and I don't use it for surfing at all. Since my workplace has these things called computers, I don't need to surf on my smartphone. And I wouldn't play games on it either. The UI of a smartphone doesn't lend itself to playing games efficiently.
It is also interesting that, in Brazil, you have to pay the employee for overtime even if it was UNAUTHORIZED.
Well, clearly someone sent them an e-mail asking a question. That sounds like authorization. If they didn't want the employee to answer the question, they should not have sent it during off hours.
Yes, if you are REQUIRED to do it, then yes, it should count as overtime.
I think my employer takes the position that you are not required to answer 99% of the e-mails that you get on nights and weekends, but the other 1% you are required to answer, and in order to know what that 1% is, you have to at least READ them all.
Of course, it is probably also my employers position that I am exempt, although 90% of people who are classified as exempt are not exempt.
Contractor sucks though due to lack of fringe benefits like stocks, 401K, medical insurances, etc.
Yes, but most employment positions also suck due to lack of fringe benefits like stocks, 401K, medical insurances, etc.
Most fringe benefits that a company tries to sell you on are not really that beneficial. About the only one that is worthwhile is the 401k, if they match. Almost no companies are giving stocks any more. If they offer you medical, it is something you still have to pay for so I don't see why they get to claim it as a benefit. At my company, I don't use their medical insurance, because even after paying in after tax dollars it was cheaper for me to get my own individual plan.
I have often wondered if the businesses in the gate area give kickbacks to the TSA for forcing the passengers to dispose of all of their water, food, toiletries and so forth and then having to rebuy them after the security checkpoint.
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My former governor, Blagojevich, was a shitbag from the start
I was terribly disappointed by my fellow citizens when the nearly universal attitude of them was "eh, they all do it, why pick on this guy?"
You seem to be from Illinois. For whatever reason, Illinois has a much higher rate of political corruption than any other state. There are probably a dozen examples of ex-political figures in Illinois that have gone to jail. Under no circumstances should you ever allow any politician from Illinois to climb the political ladder any further than they already are. It is a recipe for disaster.
Heads are gonna roll. They dumped pig blood in a river. Pig blood that could have been sold to somebody! That is literally money down the drain. Someone's neck is going to be on the chopping block for sure.
AT&T screwed me royally before and I will not do business with them anymore. When I first moved to this state, I lived in a rural area. I had always had AT&T so when the local telephone company asked who I wanted for long distance, I picked AT&T. The local telephone company was a small company that serviced rural areas. I talked to AT&T to set up a calling plan. I chose a plan that was 6 cents a minute anywhere in the U.S. with no monthly fee and an international plan that was like $4 a month and the rate to Korea (where my wife's family lives) was 15 cents.
The next month, I get a bill for about $400 in long distance charges. It appears that we had used about 60 minutes of long distance altogether, so they were charging roughly 100 times what they said they would. I called customer support for an explanation and she said that I did not have a calling plan in place, and they went with the default costs. I told her I most certainly had put a calling plan in place and told her the date and time I had done so and what the plan was. She told me that that plan was not available with my local phone company. I told her that that was not my problem and that I had been offered that plan by an employee of her company and had accepted it and they needed to honor it. She replied that they would not honor it and the very best they could do was to offer me a plan that was available in my area and would retroactively back off the charges to that other plan which carried significantly (about 10 times) higher per minute rates plus monthly fees. I told her that was unacceptable and I would pay only what my plan said I should pay. She told me that was fine and that they would then cancel my service and report me to a credit agency.
So I will not do business with them ever again.
we don't like being metered, even if it is cheaper. We much rather pay more and have a consistent bill then a fluctuation bill even if the average is cheaper.
Who is this "we" you keep referring to? Because I sure would rather have metered. It's the phone company that would rather we don't, because they can charge us $25 for 300 MB and they know the MAXIMUM service they have to provide is 300MB and more likely is going to be far less including possibly zero. And they have no downside if we use more than 300 MB because then they can charge ridiculous overage fees.
"You give us $20 and we give you 2GB on our network". It's as simple as that, simply cuts off after the 2GB is over because that's what you paid for, no super high fees, no bullshit.
I don't even want that. I want them to charge me by the GB used period, just like the phone company, the electric company, the gas company, the water company. Their offer of $20 for a 300 MB plan works out to about 7 cents per MB. That is certainly way too expensive, but the next tier is $30 for 3 GB, which works out to about 1 cent per MB. Presumably, another 10-fold increase would net you an additional factor of 7 volume discount, so that by the time you are using 30 GB a month, you are paying about 15/1000ths of a dollar per MB or $1.42 per GB, which is pretty reasonable.
Perhaps what they should do is just charge a $10 monthly service fee, and then charge something like 1 cent per MB actually used.
Once again, the "plans" are something that favors the cell phone companies, not the consumer. The only way for the consumer to benefit is to try to use as much as possible without going over. Meanwhile, plenty of people are frightened into buying more than they need for fear of getting hit with huge overages, and the cell companies are getting huge monthly income from the consumer that is using practically nothing.
Yes, and fortunately, as Econ 101 tells us, the marginal cost of producing each unit diminishes as units increase and therefore, their average cost per customer goes down as the number of customers increases. Which is why they are passing those savings on to the consumer. Oh, wait, they are charging the customer MORE? I guess they didn't take Econ 101 or they are hoping none of us did.
Have you seen the "that's so 27 seconds ago" ads? They feature some average-looking Americans (1 fat white guy and 1 fat black guy) surfing with their phones non-stop, including YouTube. They would blow that bandwidth cap in the time frame of 1 commercial break at that rate.
What I find amusing about that commercial, and what other people just don't seem to comprehend, is that while they are right on top of knowing about these events, if they would get their noses out of their electronics, they could actually witness them firsthand. Apparently, it is more fashionable to be told about something via electronic means rather than observing it with your own eye, even when yo have equal opportunity to do either one.
Alltel was the first to really start offering decent services and a reasonable way before the 4-goons ever did/have. When they sold-out to Verizon the services were grandfathered in but after that the rates and services ceased to exist even for those grandfathered in.
I'm still on an Alltel family plan. Verizon keeps telling me they want to get me on a Verizon plan because it would be better for me and would make their billing easier. Let's see, it would be more expensive, and I would get less minutes...I don't quite see how it is better for me.
He may have made it up, but I am working on the patent for it. I have the first 206 billion or so digits written down, and Chuck Norris knows the last digit, but getting those ones in the middle is turning out to be a challenge.
Gee, where to begin.
Most people probably can't erect a cell tower on their land due to zoning, and almost nobody can put one on top of their house unless their house is a large office building and was designed for the weight of the cell tower.
A cell tower costs between $100,000 and $200,000 to build, so I don't know how you are going to get a tower AND a 100 mb fiber loop for $68k. The cost of the fiber loop will probably be close to $1000 a month.
The Prius is ugly enough as it is, but what's with the race to produce the worlds first paper bagger car?
They have to make it look ugly so that people who don't have one will appreciate what sacrifices the owners make for the sake of our planet and therefore how much better the owners are than non-owners.
Like any religion, it's just guilt with different holidays.
Windchill will affect the speed with which the car gets down to -40 though, by resupplying the surfaces with cold air to transfer heat to. However, even at -40, the fuel will still burn and will not be frozen unless it had some water in the line as well.
All a 240V plug is, is two 120V plugs that share a ground, on two separate circuits from the panel.
Can't be just any old separate circuit. It has to be one that is from the other branch of your incoming 240V.
I echo everyone else who replied already and want to further point out that one of the crimes, yes crimes, that he was charged with was "abandoning ship". So even the law say that the captain must see to the safety of his passengers, not just thousands of years of maritime tradition.
I have a couple of suggestions:
1. Don't EOL the dual shock controller. I don't mind if other people like using the wand type controller, but I find it extremely difficult to control the game with wand type controllers.
2. Make games backwards compatible. They advertised that PS3 would be able to play PS2 games, but it doesn't. The PS4 should be able to play previous PS games.
3. Make games that you don't have to download extra cost items to play.
4. Makes games that have a rich single player experience and don't require you to have to play online with other people.
Other than being slightly more dizzy, how is that any different than the Xbox 360?
I'll say you paid a premium to get it: about 25% over the MSRP. of the most expensive model.
I don't know if we need a specific school to teach software, but we at least need a class to teach software. When I went to high school 25 years ago, they taught Basic on old TRS-80 Model 100s. Now that computers are so prolific, they very same school that I went to teaches no programming at all. They have a "computer" class, but it only teaches you the very basics of how to use a computer, and apparently that consists of how to play flash games and download illegal music and games and burn them to CD. The kids come out not even knowing what software they would use to write a report.
Which company is that so we can avoid it?
So far, every company I have worked for has been that way. I looked at Symantec's family coverage, and that is pretty awesome. My company pays for a me as an individual, but if I put my family in, it would be about $900 a month. It looks like Symantec's would be about $300 a month. At the moment, I am taking the free option from my company, and paying about $240 a month for an individual plan, so I would still come out ahead of Symantec's family plan.
Not in my company. The workers work. The managers play with their gadgets. I'm a manager, too, well more of a team leader, but I don't have gadgets other than a smartphone, and I don't use it for surfing at all. Since my workplace has these things called computers, I don't need to surf on my smartphone. And I wouldn't play games on it either. The UI of a smartphone doesn't lend itself to playing games efficiently.
It is also interesting that, in Brazil, you have to pay the employee for overtime even if it was UNAUTHORIZED.
Well, clearly someone sent them an e-mail asking a question. That sounds like authorization. If they didn't want the employee to answer the question, they should not have sent it during off hours.
Yes, if you are REQUIRED to do it, then yes, it should count as overtime.
I think my employer takes the position that you are not required to answer 99% of the e-mails that you get on nights and weekends, but the other 1% you are required to answer, and in order to know what that 1% is, you have to at least READ them all.
Of course, it is probably also my employers position that I am exempt, although 90% of people who are classified as exempt are not exempt.
Contractor sucks though due to lack of fringe benefits like stocks, 401K, medical insurances, etc.
Yes, but most employment positions also suck due to lack of fringe benefits like stocks, 401K, medical insurances, etc.
Most fringe benefits that a company tries to sell you on are not really that beneficial. About the only one that is worthwhile is the 401k, if they match. Almost no companies are giving stocks any more. If they offer you medical, it is something you still have to pay for so I don't see why they get to claim it as a benefit. At my company, I don't use their medical insurance, because even after paying in after tax dollars it was cheaper for me to get my own individual plan.
I have often wondered if the businesses in the gate area give kickbacks to the TSA for forcing the passengers to dispose of all of their water, food, toiletries and so forth and then having to rebuy them after the security checkpoint.
we're talking about an average of $2.49 per day per airport.
And it probably costs $20 every day to send that change to the finance office.