Well, the judge doesn't know the law very well, but aside from that. Any review system which allows the reviewed item to pay for positive reviews or to hide negative reviews is not one from which any benefit can be gained by a searching party. Illegal or not, it needs to be shut down by everybody refusing to use it. I would hazard a guess that as fewer and fewer people use it, the even truer colors of yelp will come out as they cross the line into ever more illegal tactics.
If it’s all a "liberal" conspiracy, what are they trying to gain?
Not to pick sides, but just to answer your question:
Carbon Credits
Vast Government agencies to oversee environmental regulations
Alternative fuel research and corporations
Grants and associated kickbacks for "green" and "clean" industry
True... However the dealership model is one of the few decent middle class jobs creator in the country that doesn't require a lot of education and/or certification.
Direct sale just means more profit to the big auto makers (Their price will not be lowered) and less people will benefit from the auto economy.
Not just that, but warranty and aftermarket maintenance are performed by the dealerships as well. Without a dealership presence in the state, if your car is busted, then you are just out of luck, or you have to have your car shipped to the manufacturer to get it fixed.
I recently ran into a brand contract deal at a ridiculously low level, at the concession stand for our junior high. Apparently, we can't sell Gatorade because the district has a contract with Coca-Cola. We have to sell Powerade. Honestly, I don't know how one is supposed to keep track of all of the products sold or owned by the Coca-Cola franchise so you can make sure you don't accidentally sell a competing product. It is not like they actually are supplying the Powerade either. We have to buy it at retail prices from stores in the area. I figure if they are not selling it to you wholesale, they shouldn't be able to dictate what you can sell. But I suppose a legal contract is a legal contract, even if there is no benefit for one side of that contract. Technically, I guess maybe there is a benefit in that somewhere there is an administrator driving a new car furnished by the Coca-Cola company.
It will probably work like the one on my phone. I have caught it having not updated for about 45 minutes, and it once got m some strange looks when I had the time wrong by half an hour. Then if I click a button or something, it suddenly jumps to the right time.
Sounds like a Heads Up Display would be better than cruise control.
I've never really liked cruise control anyway. I would much prefer a throttle control than a cruise control. I don't want my car to downshift three gears just to try to keep the car going the same speed up a large hill. Just to keep the same throttle setting and let the speed fluctuate. Much better for the gas mileage and saves wear and tear on the engine and transmission.
That is why GM is advertising it as a more advanced form of Cruse Control... Vs. Autonomous driving. In short it is a feature to make your drive easier. but not as a way for you to just not pay attention to the road.
I would love that feature on my car, when taking a long drive. It would prevent driving exhaustion.
Well, common sense tells me that people will see it as some sort of autonomous driving and not pay attention to the road if given this feature, and so therefore if the feature is not fit for autonomous driving, then it should not be released as advanced cruise control either. It is irresponsible.
The cruise lines also treat people like royalty, even more so than the Asian airlines. Also, the cruise lines are cheaper and include foo, lodging and entertainment. And the make money.
Somehow, airlines have managed to cut salaries by 2/3, raised prices by over 3 times, all but eliminated meals, charge for every extra, and with most other factors like fuel costs, being the same, have managed to lose money while doing it. It is an incredible phenomenon, and some enterprising PhD student could probably figure out how to prove 1=0 if they could apply the business model of airlines to mathematics.
All true, except that prices have gone up. I used to fly back and forth to Chicago, it was $100 round trip. Now it is $350 at best and $800 for standard fare. I went 10 Paris 10 years ago. it was $400 round trip. Now it is $1300.
Can't being the operative word in this case. In some cases, you don't get to choose which seat you are in. Some planes don't have assigned seating. The ones that do are overbooked and sometimes they will not let you sit in the seat that you had a written agreement backed by a large amount of money to sit in. Many times travel is arrange by a corporate travel department that cares nothing for your needs and only cares about the bottom line.
I always wondered why they call it business class when no business I have ever been involved with has ever paid for a business class ticket.
You can't stretch your legs on an airplane unless you are maybe under 5'6". I am unable to move my legs at all when I am in the seat, and getting up is not really an option on the regional jets, which is what I seem to end up flying on most of the time.
Not sure where you live. But over here the air fare have steadily dropped. Ten years ago the prices were roughly double on the routes I travel. Considering inflation, the difference is even bigger.
Definitely not dropping where I live. The very cheapest fare is 3 times what it was 10 years ago, and the normal fare is 8 times what it was 10 years ago. And inflation shouldn't count unless wages go up with it, which they don't. I make less than half what I did 10 years ago. Of course, one data point is not a statistics, but in general, everybody seems to make about the same as 10 years ago. And one thing the government average wage statistics don't bother to take into consideration is the amount that unemployed people get paid, which is nothing.
I used to think that Perl's feature of "There's More Than One Way To Do It" was great until I had to start modifying and maintaining the code of other developers,
Maintaining the code of others? Heck, I have found in perl, that it was easier to rewrite a program than try to debug it even if I wrote the original program.
I think it is the opposite of outdated. It used to be that jsmith was jsmith. Now, with all this fancy Windows Authentication, you can be guaranteed no end of hassle. For instance, at my company, our laptops are on a different domain than production, for some sort of security reason. However, one of the database servers is set up with windows authentication, which means, yup, you can't log into it from your laptop. You have to first remote desktop into something on the production domain, and then run SQL enterprise manager from there.
This is the same as the United States. You pay your withholding tax and you get some of it back from as little as two months to as many as 18 months later. On average, you could call it 9 months. So you pay your $100 now, and later you get back your $100, which is now only worth $97.50 if you use the governments inflation numbers, or about $80 if you use actual cost of living numbers. In the case of Argentina, they take your $100 now and give it back when it is worth about $80 according to the official numbers, so it is probably worth far less in actuality.
So it's an offer of conspiracy to destroy evidence. Whoever pays the most money gets the most negative reviews hidden. Once starting down this road, there is no logical end. If your competitor pays more money, they may unhide some of your negative reviews. You can compensate somewhat by doing better business and not having as many negative reviews. But let's face it, no matter how good a job you do, there is always a few customers who are bound and determined to be unhappy.
He can't do that, he would lose money. Which is why nobody does it.
The first thing I though of was that there is no way for one particular store to know that you are that person's store and therefore have to stock the phone that they have insured. So you will have to have at least one of every phone in existence that is currently under an insurance plan. Secondly, you have no way of knowing how many people are going to experience an insurance issue on a given day and come in to get a replacement phone. There are actuarials which could give averages, but the store would need to cover for the worst case, not the average.
Far cheaper for the consumer would be, instead of paying the monthly insurance and ridiculous deductible, just buy a second phone and leave it in the box.
How about legislation to make it illegal for companies to sell insurance on phone for $10-$12 a month and then charge a $90 deductible on a phone that is now several months old and could be bought on the internet for $50?
I have a cooler master haf-x. It breathes out the top. Works great, and I can put it right up against a wall, because the intlet fan is on the other side, unless I am an idiot and put the fan side against the wall. Even then there are two other fans, one in front and one in back to try to limit the damage if I am an idiot.
I can't speak enough praise about this case. From the access points, to cable grommets, to incredible airflow, to built in sdata and usb frontside.
I priced an alienware to a homebuilt with this case, and went homebuilt. I'll never look back. Alienware was probably 50-75% more and with them you don't get to pick the top of the line brand new components, if that is your choosing.
This is not a slashvertisement, as I don't have any ad links for you to click, just my opinion and I hope you are able to use it to some benefit.
So I call BS on the "regular PCs heat up because of walls and thus we introduced this case design".
Regular PCs don't heat up because regular PCs don't produce a great deal of heat. Enthusiast PCs do, but Enthusiast PC owners know better, and if they don't then they are the perfect target market for a replacement PC.
Ok, have to give SOME credit to SC5 for this. You don't have to micromanage getting utilities to everyone. The distribution system appears random and thus can be sucky if your building is out of water or power and is off on a long branch with a bunch of buildings in between. It will take forever to get the utility watering or powering them again.
Upgradable buildings is another plus, though I have hosed myself several times by not leaving space to upgrade around the building itself. Come on people, build UP!
Most of the rest of SC5 is suck, suck and more suck.
SC4 was the best graphically and simulation wise to date. The awful part of SC$ was the stupid side missions which must be accomplished to unlock this or that thing, most of which involved trying to control a vehicle on a diagonal roadway with a keyboard. Total setup for the BS which is Simcity5 Online Version.
I never used disasters in my cities if I could turn it off. Fires and whatnot are disaster enough. I never had any urge to destroy what I had made. I especially hate the unrealistic disasters. Come on, giant monster? Alien attack?
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Well, the judge doesn't know the law very well, but aside from that. Any review system which allows the reviewed item to pay for positive reviews or to hide negative reviews is not one from which any benefit can be gained by a searching party. Illegal or not, it needs to be shut down by everybody refusing to use it. I would hazard a guess that as fewer and fewer people use it, the even truer colors of yelp will come out as they cross the line into ever more illegal tactics.
If it’s all a "liberal" conspiracy, what are they trying to gain?
Not to pick sides, but just to answer your question:
Carbon Credits
Vast Government agencies to oversee environmental regulations
Alternative fuel research and corporations
Grants and associated kickbacks for "green" and "clean" industry
True... However the dealership model is one of the few decent middle class jobs creator in the country that doesn't require a lot of education and/or certification.
Direct sale just means more profit to the big auto makers (Their price will not be lowered) and less people will benefit from the auto economy.
Not just that, but warranty and aftermarket maintenance are performed by the dealerships as well. Without a dealership presence in the state, if your car is busted, then you are just out of luck, or you have to have your car shipped to the manufacturer to get it fixed.
I recently ran into a brand contract deal at a ridiculously low level, at the concession stand for our junior high. Apparently, we can't sell Gatorade because the district has a contract with Coca-Cola. We have to sell Powerade. Honestly, I don't know how one is supposed to keep track of all of the products sold or owned by the Coca-Cola franchise so you can make sure you don't accidentally sell a competing product. It is not like they actually are supplying the Powerade either. We have to buy it at retail prices from stores in the area. I figure if they are not selling it to you wholesale, they shouldn't be able to dictate what you can sell. But I suppose a legal contract is a legal contract, even if there is no benefit for one side of that contract. Technically, I guess maybe there is a benefit in that somewhere there is an administrator driving a new car furnished by the Coca-Cola company.
The app that functions like a clock.
It will probably work like the one on my phone. I have caught it having not updated for about 45 minutes, and it once got m some strange looks when I had the time wrong by half an hour. Then if I click a button or something, it suddenly jumps to the right time.
5k? Luxury! I live in Oklahoma and mine are that high. My dad lives in unincorporated DuPage county in Illinois and his are over $12,000.
I mean, if you are 50 or younger. Nothing says old and out of touch like a Cadillac.
Caddies are pretty popular among lower income minorities as well, especially the Escalade.
Sounds like a Heads Up Display would be better than cruise control.
I've never really liked cruise control anyway. I would much prefer a throttle control than a cruise control. I don't want my car to downshift three gears just to try to keep the car going the same speed up a large hill. Just to keep the same throttle setting and let the speed fluctuate. Much better for the gas mileage and saves wear and tear on the engine and transmission.
That is why GM is advertising it as a more advanced form of Cruse Control... Vs. Autonomous driving. In short it is a feature to make your drive easier. but not as a way for you to just not pay attention to the road.
I would love that feature on my car, when taking a long drive. It would prevent driving exhaustion.
Well, common sense tells me that people will see it as some sort of autonomous driving and not pay attention to the road if given this feature, and so therefore if the feature is not fit for autonomous driving, then it should not be released as advanced cruise control either. It is irresponsible.
The cruise lines also treat people like royalty, even more so than the Asian airlines. Also, the cruise lines are cheaper and include foo, lodging and entertainment. And the make money.
Somehow, airlines have managed to cut salaries by 2/3, raised prices by over 3 times, all but eliminated meals, charge for every extra, and with most other factors like fuel costs, being the same, have managed to lose money while doing it. It is an incredible phenomenon, and some enterprising PhD student could probably figure out how to prove 1=0 if they could apply the business model of airlines to mathematics.
All true, except that prices have gone up. I used to fly back and forth to Chicago, it was $100 round trip. Now it is $350 at best and $800 for standard fare. I went 10 Paris 10 years ago. it was $400 round trip. Now it is $1300.
Can't being the operative word in this case. In some cases, you don't get to choose which seat you are in. Some planes don't have assigned seating. The ones that do are overbooked and sometimes they will not let you sit in the seat that you had a written agreement backed by a large amount of money to sit in. Many times travel is arrange by a corporate travel department that cares nothing for your needs and only cares about the bottom line. I always wondered why they call it business class when no business I have ever been involved with has ever paid for a business class ticket.
You can't stretch your legs on an airplane unless you are maybe under 5'6". I am unable to move my legs at all when I am in the seat, and getting up is not really an option on the regional jets, which is what I seem to end up flying on most of the time.
Not sure where you live. But over here the air fare have steadily dropped. Ten years ago the prices were roughly double on the routes I travel. Considering inflation, the difference is even bigger.
Definitely not dropping where I live. The very cheapest fare is 3 times what it was 10 years ago, and the normal fare is 8 times what it was 10 years ago. And inflation shouldn't count unless wages go up with it, which they don't. I make less than half what I did 10 years ago. Of course, one data point is not a statistics, but in general, everybody seems to make about the same as 10 years ago. And one thing the government average wage statistics don't bother to take into consideration is the amount that unemployed people get paid, which is nothing.
I used to think that Perl's feature of "There's More Than One Way To Do It" was great until I had to start modifying and maintaining the code of other developers,
Maintaining the code of others? Heck, I have found in perl, that it was easier to rewrite a program than try to debug it even if I wrote the original program.
I think it is the opposite of outdated. It used to be that jsmith was jsmith. Now, with all this fancy Windows Authentication, you can be guaranteed no end of hassle. For instance, at my company, our laptops are on a different domain than production, for some sort of security reason. However, one of the database servers is set up with windows authentication, which means, yup, you can't log into it from your laptop. You have to first remote desktop into something on the production domain, and then run SQL enterprise manager from there.
This is the same as the United States. You pay your withholding tax and you get some of it back from as little as two months to as many as 18 months later. On average, you could call it 9 months. So you pay your $100 now, and later you get back your $100, which is now only worth $97.50 if you use the governments inflation numbers, or about $80 if you use actual cost of living numbers. In the case of Argentina, they take your $100 now and give it back when it is worth about $80 according to the official numbers, so it is probably worth far less in actuality.
So it's an offer of conspiracy to destroy evidence. Whoever pays the most money gets the most negative reviews hidden. Once starting down this road, there is no logical end. If your competitor pays more money, they may unhide some of your negative reviews. You can compensate somewhat by doing better business and not having as many negative reviews. But let's face it, no matter how good a job you do, there is always a few customers who are bound and determined to be unhappy.
He can't do that, he would lose money. Which is why nobody does it.
The first thing I though of was that there is no way for one particular store to know that you are that person's store and therefore have to stock the phone that they have insured. So you will have to have at least one of every phone in existence that is currently under an insurance plan. Secondly, you have no way of knowing how many people are going to experience an insurance issue on a given day and come in to get a replacement phone. There are actuarials which could give averages, but the store would need to cover for the worst case, not the average.
Far cheaper for the consumer would be, instead of paying the monthly insurance and ridiculous deductible, just buy a second phone and leave it in the box.
How about legislation to make it illegal for companies to sell insurance on phone for $10-$12 a month and then charge a $90 deductible on a phone that is now several months old and could be bought on the internet for $50?
I have a cooler master haf-x. It breathes out the top. Works great, and I can put it right up against a wall, because the intlet fan is on the other side, unless I am an idiot and put the fan side against the wall. Even then there are two other fans, one in front and one in back to try to limit the damage if I am an idiot.
I can't speak enough praise about this case. From the access points, to cable grommets, to incredible airflow, to built in sdata and usb frontside.
I priced an alienware to a homebuilt with this case, and went homebuilt. I'll never look back. Alienware was probably 50-75% more and with them you don't get to pick the top of the line brand new components, if that is your choosing.
This is not a slashvertisement, as I don't have any ad links for you to click, just my opinion and I hope you are able to use it to some benefit.
So I call BS on the "regular PCs heat up because of walls and thus we introduced this case design".
Regular PCs don't heat up because regular PCs don't produce a great deal of heat. Enthusiast PCs do, but Enthusiast PC owners know better, and if they don't then they are the perfect target market for a replacement PC.
Ok, have to give SOME credit to SC5 for this. You don't have to micromanage getting utilities to everyone. The distribution system appears random and thus can be sucky if your building is out of water or power and is off on a long branch with a bunch of buildings in between. It will take forever to get the utility watering or powering them again.
Upgradable buildings is another plus, though I have hosed myself several times by not leaving space to upgrade around the building itself. Come on people, build UP!
Most of the rest of SC5 is suck, suck and more suck.
Wish I could get myself to stop playing it.
SC4 was the best graphically and simulation wise to date. The awful part of SC$ was the stupid side missions which must be accomplished to unlock this or that thing, most of which involved trying to control a vehicle on a diagonal roadway with a keyboard. Total setup for the BS which is Simcity5 Online Version.
I never used disasters in my cities if I could turn it off. Fires and whatnot are disaster enough. I never had any urge to destroy what I had made. I especially hate the unrealistic disasters. Come on, giant monster? Alien attack?