Exactly. Wanting it is one thing. Expecting it to actually happen when by any sensible analysis it clearly isn't going to is an entirely different kettle of horses.
That's cute and everything, but when you buy a company you take on its liabilities[1]. I suspect that's why so companies are looking under the veil and walking away from the altar.
So when ID thief comes in with my info, and says they are me, and takes out a loan as me, that I am NOT responsible for that transaction (as it is today, and why LifeLock makes a mint)
I'm not disputing that it is the case - I've heard the stories too.
What I don't understand how any sane legal system allows two parties to make a contract on behalf of a third party, absent the typical situations where they have prior authorization to do so.
Why can't the alleged debtor turn up with a letter purporting to be from the bank's president saying that they're dropping the case and offering 100 grand for your trouble? That's exactly equivalent to what they have.
The use cases are exactly that -- you know you're about to do something bandwidth heavy for a (relatively) short period of time, and you want to signal to your upstream provider this fact so that they can make your connection mysteriously drop out for 59 minutes
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If Trump gets elected it might not be fiction.
[takes a puff on his ePipe and strokes his beard - which he had before hipsters even existed - and looks very smug]
Oryx and Crake is certainly SF, and what's more it has pigs in it.
Clearly you've never been to Paris. I'm not even sure if brakes exist there.
If you're lucky, they might blow the horn.
You've got some old pals on the other side of the Atlantic who are going to be needing some friends real soon.
We promise not to do the "eh" jokes. Well, only a bit.
They aren't on that list because it's not the other way round. We're talking guests[1], not hosts.
[1] which does not necessarily imply they're welcome, before anyone chimes in.
That or they'd find another workaround, like not actually trading the stock but trading a ticket that gives you the right to buy it.
Don't believe everything you read on google.
One other thing: it spells teps, which is what South Africans clean paintbrushes with.
Exactly. Wanting it is one thing. Expecting it to actually happen when by any sensible analysis it clearly isn't going to is an entirely different kettle of horses.
Would it make sense to have a mathematic? Would you put it on the same shelf as your economic?
That's cute and everything, but when you buy a company you take on its liabilities[1]. I suspect that's why so companies are looking under the veil and walking away from the altar.
[1] Unless you're this jumped-up barrow boy, apparently.
I agree. They should learn to summarize better though.
Err, what? Is this a mixed metaphor or did a cat walk across the keyboard?
This is msmash. Not the same thing at all . No no no. About as similar as Windscale and Sellafield.
Something that happens to escutcheons in a really weird book.
I'm pretty sure I've had it happen to me. Was only two years back, so you can't reasonably expect them to have fixed it by now.
Still, at least it didn't turn into a pound sign and an Angstrom symbol in brackets. That's progress, I suppose.
I'm not disputing that it is the case - I've heard the stories too.
What I don't understand how any sane legal system allows two parties to make a contract on behalf of a third party, absent the typical situations where they have prior authorization to do so.
Why can't the alleged debtor turn up with a letter purporting to be from the bank's president saying that they're dropping the case and offering 100 grand for your trouble? That's exactly equivalent to what they have.
FTFY.
//TO DO: Joke about The Hurd goes here
I can think of a particularly appropriate one that supposedly dates back to the days of knights and longbows.
But it's not racist when they do it.
Hang on. Isn't it not being racist when they do it racist?
A bigger question is what kind of subhuman oaf shoots at something when they don't know what it is.
ATT haven't blocked this yet? They're losing their touch.
No. We're talking about the construction using a gerund. Look it up.
It's all in lowercase, because he thinks that's "edgy" or something.
People could supply a few on a freelance basis. It's the magic of the gig economy!
And if they didn't try to block anyone else (like city councils) from providing it.