Nope. All the fault is comcast. They lied. Plain and simple. If you have to go on the assumption that everybody is always lying to you all the time and double and triple check everything then you will get zero things done in your lifetime. At some point, you have to trust that after a reasonable amount of research has resulted in a company claiming to provide a service, and then they renege on you, that is the fault of the company and they shoulder 100% of the blame.
Well, to be honest, they didn't advertise falsely. They just lied. However, damages were done, and Comcast should pay for the homeowners relocation, heartache, stress, loss of income, closing costs, time and expenses and court fees.
it's still the homeowner's fault for not getting a contract signed ahead of closing
I'm sure that would be easy enough to do. All you have to do is prove that you own the house or show them a lease agreement. Oh, wait, you can't do that until you buy the house.
Well, then he simply needs to sue the company for the cost of relocating him to another home of equal value in an area where they do provide service, plus court costs, time and expenses and mental anguish.
I certainly believe this could happen. I once signed up for a long distance plan with AT&T and month later I got a bill for $600. It turns out that they did not offer that plan in my area, despite the fact that their representative sold it to me. Apparently after having determined that the plan was not available, they did not call and discuss other options with me but just defaulted me to "no plan" with charges approximately 10 times the amount of the plan that I had purchased from them. Not only would they not honor the contract which I and they had signed, but they would not even retroact the first month to that plan, and would only agree to reducing the bill by half. I told them I would only pay what the plan that I had purchased would cost and they said that would be fine and they would report the difference to the credit agencies and send the bill to collections. They claimed no responsibility for what the agent under their employ and trained by them had sold me and apparently it was entirely MY responsibility to figure out what plans AT&T offered in my area, despite the fact that finding that out would have also broken computer hacking laws.
>legal limit is 75
>whines that you fall just short of hitting it
Do you know what a goddamn LIMIT is, fool? You are not supposed to ever reach it, much fucking less go past it!
You are speaking from a mathematical perspective. You simply can't go past a limit in math. In real life, you can go past arbitrary assigned numbers easily and usually safely. If the speed limit were really a hard and fast number then the people who travel 20 mph under the minimum speed are far more a danger than the people going 5 mph over it, and the people going to be slow should be singled out more frequently for tickets.
After all of the American workers are fired, who is going to buy all the cheap stuff they make in China? The Chinese? Well, first you would have to pay them more. So the goods would cost more to produce. Doesn't seem to make much sense from a business point of view. Maybe from a charity point of view. On the other hand, hurting 1/3 of a billion in order to help 1 billion is not really a great ratio for a charity either.
Well, I can't say for sure because I am actually from Oklahoma and my company has not been trying to hire anyone other than me yet. However, my estimation is that there are a small number of both IT professionals and IT jobs and that any disruption to the static state of either probably takes a long time to fill the void.
That is not surprising. Back then, probably almost every high school offered a programming course. However, since then they have removed the programming course in favor of the more generic "computers" course, which teaches nothing but web surfing and how to burn illegal copies of games and music.
Any high school class is not intended to establish a career. It is intended to begin you down a track of learning which will be rounded out in college and polished to a fine hone during your first job.
In the USA, programming was also taught in schools 30 years ago. Now, however, they teach "Computers" instead of programming. As far as I can tell, "Computers" means how to surf the internet and burn illegal copies of games and music. After having gotten an "A" in computers, my stepson had to ask me what a good program would be to use if he wanted to write an essay.
There are about 164,000 911 calls nationwide in a 6 hour period on average. For 7 states, that averages out to about 23,000. So what happened that there were 500 times as many 911 calls in that area as the average dictates? Or by affected, do they mean, could have been affected, if they were one of the 0.006% of the people that may have needed to call 911 at that time?
Additionally, it is difficult to know what affected means when many areas already have hold times for 911.
EA screwed up Simcity when it decided to turn it into the Facebook of city builders. Nobody wants to play a single person strategy game online with all their friends. Nobody wants to have to buy content to fix issues with the game.Nobody wants city sizes smaller than the previous version.
I eventually bought it when they released the offline mode, but I still found it kind of disappointing.
Besides I have phone GPS which frankly is easier to use.
That is pretty said if they have developed an in-car device that is less useful than a phone. Why don't they just buy cars with GPS? Just about every car has it at least as an option these days. You get a much larger screen, no worrying about batteries dying, usually a much less dangerous UI than a phone or other separate GPS, and some models even have limited inertial navigation for when you go into tunnels or are traveling in mountainous areas.
So you have arbitrarily decided your definition of a portable device is what fits into your definition of the size of a pocket. This tablet is less than 25% larger than your arbitrarily decided maximum pocket size. While we are at it, your arbitrarily decided maximum pocket size is rather huge. I am guessing you have decided on a particular manufacture that only has up to 8 inch tablets and are trying to justify it.
Exactly. If anything, they invented the smartphone. But nobody knew about it until Apple made the iphone and decided that they had invented the smartphone.
More like "Fire the school administrators who approve this crap." This one is not on the teachers.
Fire the school administrators anyway. People complain about the teacher's union, but teacher's salaries have barely kept up with inflation. The administration budget, meanwhile, has gone up by thousands or tens of thousands of percent all across the country. Why were we able to get by in the 70s and 80s with effectively a couple of secretaries and a principal, but now we need an entire separate building to house hundreds of administrators? Why is the student to administrator ratio less than the student to teacher ratio? It is needless red tape and needless expense that drives up property taxes and sales taxes and reduces the amount of money going toward education. Fire all of them and education will be improved.
In my school district, in the 1970s, the band program received $15,000 a year, which helped to repair, replace and purchase instruments, music, and equipment. It is now $1,500 in actual dollars or $243 in inflation adjusted dollars. Meanwhile the administrative staff in my school district has gone from a size of perhaps 20 in the 1970s to several hundred now. The number of students in the district has remained approximately the same. The number of teachers has gone down so we can afford to pay all the administrators. Other services have disappeared as well. Bus service is only available if you live more than 1.5 miles from the school. School lunches have been cut back such that about once a week my kids come home and tell me that the cafeteria ran out of the meal and gave them a cold sandwich, yet charged full price.
What administrative costs have done to our schools is a nationwide epidemic and needs to be reversed and quickly. The entire department lives only continue its own existence at the expense of our children's education.
This is consistent with the overall American trend of replacing solid blue-collar jobs with entry-level service type jobs.
I wonder how long that hypothetical arrangement could last?
Well eventually, as more and more blue collar jobs are replaced with entry level service jobs, nobody will be able to afford the goods and services produced, so the need for OTR trucking will go away, and the companies that make the products will go away, so the need for IT people like us will go away. Everybody wins!
Yeah, right. So these drones are going to start flying people and cargo around?
Plenty of pilots make money taking aerial photos, inspecting fences and pipelines, spraying crops, monitoring livestock, and many other services that do not involve "flying people and cargo around". Nearly all of these things can be done more cost effectively with drones.
It's still not a threat to pilots. People doing that kind of work can't do it with a Private Pilot's license. it requires a Commercial Pilot's license. Anyone else also putting metal in the air for the same task in the same airspace also requires a Commercial Pilot's license. So no Pilot's jobs are at risk.
what if the drone were flying a banner (and not recording a video)?
If they were paid to tow the banner, it is commercial. If they were doing it out of the kindness of their heart then that is not commercial. That includes no discounts, kickbacks or free items from the place that is being advertised.
What if the banner said "Vote for Joe Candidate" and nothing else?
Exactly the same as above.
The FAA has been pretty tough historically on non-commercial rated pilots performing commercial duties in the past as well. The people who think they are just out to get drone operators are idiots. The FAA has always been about enforcing that pilots are trained and certificated to the level of operation that they perform. Private Pilots regularly get in trouble for performing commercial operations. They just aren't certificated for commercial operations. All they have to do is have enough time built up, take a written and practical exam and demonstrate proficiency. It is not like the FAA says nobody can ever fly commercially period. Just get the certification.
All of these pilots see commercial use of drones as a threat to their livelihood.
Yeah, right. So these drones are going to start flying people and cargo around? Nope. Not anything heavier than a briefcase anyway. And if the drones ARE used for hauling stuff around (ie, commercial use), then the pilots of said drones need to be certified. No threat to pilots jobs whatsoever.
Yes, this has the possibility to get really deep. Suppose I was flying a drone and somebody else took pictures and posted them on a not-for-profit site and then somebody saw them and Linked them to YouTube. Now there are three degrees of separation between the drone operator and the person profiting from the footage. It is possible that they don't even know who the drone operator is.
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Nope. All the fault is comcast. They lied. Plain and simple. If you have to go on the assumption that everybody is always lying to you all the time and double and triple check everything then you will get zero things done in your lifetime. At some point, you have to trust that after a reasonable amount of research has resulted in a company claiming to provide a service, and then they renege on you, that is the fault of the company and they shoulder 100% of the blame.
You can't get a contract from a utility until you own the home or have a lease agreement in place.
Well, to be honest, they didn't advertise falsely. They just lied. However, damages were done, and Comcast should pay for the homeowners relocation, heartache, stress, loss of income, closing costs, time and expenses and court fees.
it's still the homeowner's fault for not getting a contract signed ahead of closing
I'm sure that would be easy enough to do. All you have to do is prove that you own the house or show them a lease agreement. Oh, wait, you can't do that until you buy the house.
Well, then he simply needs to sue the company for the cost of relocating him to another home of equal value in an area where they do provide service, plus court costs, time and expenses and mental anguish.
I certainly believe this could happen. I once signed up for a long distance plan with AT&T and month later I got a bill for $600. It turns out that they did not offer that plan in my area, despite the fact that their representative sold it to me. Apparently after having determined that the plan was not available, they did not call and discuss other options with me but just defaulted me to "no plan" with charges approximately 10 times the amount of the plan that I had purchased from them. Not only would they not honor the contract which I and they had signed, but they would not even retroact the first month to that plan, and would only agree to reducing the bill by half. I told them I would only pay what the plan that I had purchased would cost and they said that would be fine and they would report the difference to the credit agencies and send the bill to collections. They claimed no responsibility for what the agent under their employ and trained by them had sold me and apparently it was entirely MY responsibility to figure out what plans AT&T offered in my area, despite the fact that finding that out would have also broken computer hacking laws.
>legal limit is 75 >whines that you fall just short of hitting it
Do you know what a goddamn LIMIT is, fool? You are not supposed to ever reach it, much fucking less go past it!
You are speaking from a mathematical perspective. You simply can't go past a limit in math. In real life, you can go past arbitrary assigned numbers easily and usually safely. If the speed limit were really a hard and fast number then the people who travel 20 mph under the minimum speed are far more a danger than the people going 5 mph over it, and the people going to be slow should be singled out more frequently for tickets.
After all of the American workers are fired, who is going to buy all the cheap stuff they make in China? The Chinese? Well, first you would have to pay them more. So the goods would cost more to produce. Doesn't seem to make much sense from a business point of view. Maybe from a charity point of view. On the other hand, hurting 1/3 of a billion in order to help 1 billion is not really a great ratio for a charity either.
Well, I can't say for sure because I am actually from Oklahoma and my company has not been trying to hire anyone other than me yet. However, my estimation is that there are a small number of both IT professionals and IT jobs and that any disruption to the static state of either probably takes a long time to fill the void.
I'm an Arkansas programmer. I don't actually live there, but I work for a company in Arkansas. They had to outsource to Oklahoma to get me.
That is not surprising. Back then, probably almost every high school offered a programming course. However, since then they have removed the programming course in favor of the more generic "computers" course, which teaches nothing but web surfing and how to burn illegal copies of games and music.
Any high school class is not intended to establish a career. It is intended to begin you down a track of learning which will be rounded out in college and polished to a fine hone during your first job.
In the USA, programming was also taught in schools 30 years ago. Now, however, they teach "Computers" instead of programming. As far as I can tell, "Computers" means how to surf the internet and burn illegal copies of games and music. After having gotten an "A" in computers, my stepson had to ask me what a good program would be to use if he wanted to write an essay.
There are about 164,000 911 calls nationwide in a 6 hour period on average. For 7 states, that averages out to about 23,000. So what happened that there were 500 times as many 911 calls in that area as the average dictates? Or by affected, do they mean, could have been affected, if they were one of the 0.006% of the people that may have needed to call 911 at that time?
Additionally, it is difficult to know what affected means when many areas already have hold times for 911.
EA screwed up Simcity when it decided to turn it into the Facebook of city builders. Nobody wants to play a single person strategy game online with all their friends. Nobody wants to have to buy content to fix issues with the game.Nobody wants city sizes smaller than the previous version.
I eventually bought it when they released the offline mode, but I still found it kind of disappointing.
IBM Model M. Slashdot should have a permanent banner saying "need new keyboard? IBM Model M".
Well, hopefully that would cut down on the monthly "Which keyboard should I get?" article.
Besides I have phone GPS which frankly is easier to use.
That is pretty said if they have developed an in-car device that is less useful than a phone. Why don't they just buy cars with GPS? Just about every car has it at least as an option these days. You get a much larger screen, no worrying about batteries dying, usually a much less dangerous UI than a phone or other separate GPS, and some models even have limited inertial navigation for when you go into tunnels or are traveling in mountainous areas.
So you have arbitrarily decided your definition of a portable device is what fits into your definition of the size of a pocket. This tablet is less than 25% larger than your arbitrarily decided maximum pocket size. While we are at it, your arbitrarily decided maximum pocket size is rather huge. I am guessing you have decided on a particular manufacture that only has up to 8 inch tablets and are trying to justify it.
Exactly. If anything, they invented the smartphone. But nobody knew about it until Apple made the iphone and decided that they had invented the smartphone.
More like "Fire the school administrators who approve this crap." This one is not on the teachers.
Fire the school administrators anyway. People complain about the teacher's union, but teacher's salaries have barely kept up with inflation. The administration budget, meanwhile, has gone up by thousands or tens of thousands of percent all across the country. Why were we able to get by in the 70s and 80s with effectively a couple of secretaries and a principal, but now we need an entire separate building to house hundreds of administrators? Why is the student to administrator ratio less than the student to teacher ratio? It is needless red tape and needless expense that drives up property taxes and sales taxes and reduces the amount of money going toward education. Fire all of them and education will be improved.
In my school district, in the 1970s, the band program received $15,000 a year, which helped to repair, replace and purchase instruments, music, and equipment. It is now $1,500 in actual dollars or $243 in inflation adjusted dollars. Meanwhile the administrative staff in my school district has gone from a size of perhaps 20 in the 1970s to several hundred now. The number of students in the district has remained approximately the same. The number of teachers has gone down so we can afford to pay all the administrators. Other services have disappeared as well. Bus service is only available if you live more than 1.5 miles from the school. School lunches have been cut back such that about once a week my kids come home and tell me that the cafeteria ran out of the meal and gave them a cold sandwich, yet charged full price.
What administrative costs have done to our schools is a nationwide epidemic and needs to be reversed and quickly. The entire department lives only continue its own existence at the expense of our children's education.
This is consistent with the overall American trend of replacing solid blue-collar jobs with entry-level service type jobs. I wonder how long that hypothetical arrangement could last?
Well eventually, as more and more blue collar jobs are replaced with entry level service jobs, nobody will be able to afford the goods and services produced, so the need for OTR trucking will go away, and the companies that make the products will go away, so the need for IT people like us will go away. Everybody wins!
Yeah, right. So these drones are going to start flying people and cargo around?
Plenty of pilots make money taking aerial photos, inspecting fences and pipelines, spraying crops, monitoring livestock, and many other services that do not involve "flying people and cargo around". Nearly all of these things can be done more cost effectively with drones.
It's still not a threat to pilots. People doing that kind of work can't do it with a Private Pilot's license. it requires a Commercial Pilot's license. Anyone else also putting metal in the air for the same task in the same airspace also requires a Commercial Pilot's license. So no Pilot's jobs are at risk.
what if the drone were flying a banner (and not recording a video)?
If they were paid to tow the banner, it is commercial. If they were doing it out of the kindness of their heart then that is not commercial. That includes no discounts, kickbacks or free items from the place that is being advertised.
What if the banner said "Vote for Joe Candidate" and nothing else?
Exactly the same as above.
The FAA has been pretty tough historically on non-commercial rated pilots performing commercial duties in the past as well. The people who think they are just out to get drone operators are idiots. The FAA has always been about enforcing that pilots are trained and certificated to the level of operation that they perform. Private Pilots regularly get in trouble for performing commercial operations. They just aren't certificated for commercial operations. All they have to do is have enough time built up, take a written and practical exam and demonstrate proficiency. It is not like the FAA says nobody can ever fly commercially period. Just get the certification.
All of these pilots see commercial use of drones as a threat to their livelihood.
Yeah, right. So these drones are going to start flying people and cargo around? Nope. Not anything heavier than a briefcase anyway. And if the drones ARE used for hauling stuff around (ie, commercial use), then the pilots of said drones need to be certified. No threat to pilots jobs whatsoever.
Yes, this has the possibility to get really deep. Suppose I was flying a drone and somebody else took pictures and posted them on a not-for-profit site and then somebody saw them and Linked them to YouTube. Now there are three degrees of separation between the drone operator and the person profiting from the footage. It is possible that they don't even know who the drone operator is.
Google is making money from him posting pictures of flying his drone. Flying his drone was not done for commercial purposes.