You forgot the steps to go through even if you get your rebate check:
R1: Store check in safe place. R2: Get in car. R3: Get out of car, get check you forgot, get in car. R4: Drive to bank. R5: Fill out deposit slip. R6: Wait in line. R7: Wait at teller. R8: Drive home.
Their rebate policy was flawed, but so are their other "policies". I will no longer shop at Bust Buy because "policy" always trumps the customer.
What?!
Talk about cutting off your nose in order to spite your face. Face it: corporations are there for their own convenience, not yours. Keep refusing to shop at stores because of their "anti-consumer" policies, and you'll be left growing your own food, and watching the grass grow for entertainment.
I don't like it any more than you do, but at least be practical about it.
I used to have music waking me up on my alarm clock, but before I woke up, I'd experience a waking dream having to do with the song. The worst was the dreams that came with Hotel California.
Looks like this will be one of those cases where the company deserves exactly what it's asking for. I wonder how they'll try to spin their declining web readership?
I've never quite understood why companies "hire" so many non-employees.
There will certainly be bennies -- matched 401Ks, stock options, tuition reimbursements -- that you won't be eligible for.
I think you just answered your own question. When everything is totalled up, a company's cost for an employee is double, or sometimes triple what the company actually pays that employee in salary.
A company pays virtually nothing over a contractor's pay.
While language can be a barrier between people, it also allows for a suitable wording of your ideas, for diplomacy etc. If everyone could 'read' other's real ideas, people would not necessarily get along better...
That's what the "politenessizingtude filter" is for.
User thinks, in Elbonian: "Microsoft sucks, man!"
Translator speaks, in English: "It is the opinion of this one that perhaps it is the case that Microsoft exceeds expectations in the domain of suckitude. You are a fine specimen of humanity."
This is the story of Google and their Server Farm. One day, Farmer Google was checkin' out the Server Farm's back 40, when the farmer's wife came all a-runnin' and all a-out-of-breath. "Lordy, lordy, Farmer Google! You gotta come all a-quick now! That new Power Mac dual G5 we got at the Server Farm Auction is ready to give birth!"
Wa-a-a-all, Farmer Google drops his little screwdriver with the phillips head on the one end and the flathead on the other, ayup, and runs after his farmer's wife, whose tablecloth-patterned dress is flippin' and flappin' all over the place, showing off her gleaming white fat calves. "I've gotta get me some o' that them thar pr0n I keep finding on my servers," thinks Farmer Google as he looks disapprovingly at his farmer's wife's fat white calves.
"iMmmmmmooooooooo" lows the Power Mac that Farmer Google and his farmer's wife just got at the Server Farm Auction. "Git me some o' that them thar hawt heat sink compound, and some towels!" orders Farmer Google to his farmer's wife that has the fat white calves. "And quick, or else I'm-a gonna have to look dissapprovingly some more at your fat white calves!"
Oh boy, I just can't go on. I just gave myself a headache.
A type of estoppel that bars a person from adopting a position in court that contradicts his or her past statements or actions when that contradictory stance would be unfair to another person who relied on the original position.
If i downloaded desperatehousewives.s1e21.avi, how would I know if this was a marketing release or not?
You need to set the "detect evil bit" setting in your p2p client. Now, if you're asking whether marketing releases have the evil bit set or not, then I'm not sure.
I must be missing the point here. Secret law? If airport security requires passengers to show their ID before boarding, then either it's a law, in which case it's not so secret, or the airlines are requiring security to check ID's, in which case it's the airlines' terms of use of their private property.
So why does it matter so much that you be identified before boarding? Isn't it true that private property can have any restriction not explicitly prohibited by law?
A mail carrier further up mentioned that Netflix DVDs tend to be delivered in sets of three. There's a pretty easy explanation for this: Netflix processes on Monday through Friday. The mail service ships Monday through Saturday.
Actually, the reason I get my DVD's in sets of three is that I return them in sets of three. I'm too lazy to go to the mailbox every time I finish watching one DVD, so I wait until all DVD's are watched.
The Unquirer has a story that the next generation of Angel Spyware exploits that are starting to make use of "kernel crappiness". A paper at Microsoft Research has details on a tool that spies on your Windows kernel and attempts to fix its bugs. Computerworld has more details, as well." From the article: "Newer Windows Service Patches can intercept system calls that are passed to the kernel by legitimate software and filter out queries generated by malware. This makes Windows completely vulnerable to bugs and to rootkit tools..."
And hey, if you decide to do something like this - make sure you port to a carrier OTHER than Verizon Wireless. That is, if you're doing it because you're sick of Verizon.
I was rockin' to your post until I read this. As any telecom afficionado knows, Verizon landlines are handled by Verizon Domestic Telecom, while mobile is handled by Verizon Wireless. They use completely separate equipment, service centers, and billing systems.
I've never had a problem with Verizon Wireless. And I have a plan that's $40 for the first phone, and $20 for each additional. Back when Cingular hadn't changed its name from Cellular One to rid itself of the bad publicity its bad service got, billing mistakes turned my service into a nightmare, so I switched. Never had a problem since. So there!:)
Okay, so "more than half" of 30% makes it a little over 15%.
More likely, you have to assume the 70% that didn't respond hold opinions in the same proportion as those that did respond. After all, choosing to respond should have nothing to do with knowing of reversal cases.
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You forgot the steps to go through even if you get your rebate check:
R1: Store check in safe place.
R2: Get in car.
R3: Get out of car, get check you forgot, get in car.
R4: Drive to bank.
R5: Fill out deposit slip.
R6: Wait in line.
R7: Wait at teller.
R8: Drive home.
--Rob
What?!
Talk about cutting off your nose in order to spite your face. Face it: corporations are there for their own convenience, not yours. Keep refusing to shop at stores because of their "anti-consumer" policies, and you'll be left growing your own food, and watching the grass grow for entertainment.
I don't like it any more than you do, but at least be practical about it.
--Rob
They can sell ink for the printing presses!
--Rob
javax.media.bbc.BadTypecastException: actor does not want to be typecast.
--Rob
--Rob
"We surrender"?
Sorry! No, really, I love the French.
--Rob
I think you just answered your own question. When everything is totalled up, a company's cost for an employee is double, or sometimes triple what the company actually pays that employee in salary.
A company pays virtually nothing over a contractor's pay.
--Rob
"Yeah, it's like goldy and bronzy, only it's made of iron."
Quiz: In what Time Team episode did Tony Robinson have to say "baldrick", but said it with a pause so those in the know could smirk?
--Rob
That's what the "politenessizingtude filter" is for.
User thinks, in Elbonian: "Microsoft sucks, man!"
Translator speaks, in English: "It is the opinion of this one that perhaps it is the case that Microsoft exceeds expectations in the domain of suckitude. You are a fine specimen of humanity."
--Rob
"Google and their Server Farm"
This is the story of Google and their Server Farm. One day, Farmer Google was checkin' out the Server Farm's back 40, when the farmer's wife came all a-runnin' and all a-out-of-breath. "Lordy, lordy, Farmer Google! You gotta come all a-quick now! That new Power Mac dual G5 we got at the Server Farm Auction is ready to give birth!"
Wa-a-a-all, Farmer Google drops his little screwdriver with the phillips head on the one end and the flathead on the other, ayup, and runs after his farmer's wife, whose tablecloth-patterned dress is flippin' and flappin' all over the place, showing off her gleaming white fat calves. "I've gotta get me some o' that them thar pr0n I keep finding on my servers," thinks Farmer Google as he looks disapprovingly at his farmer's wife's fat white calves.
"iMmmmmmooooooooo" lows the Power Mac that Farmer Google and his farmer's wife just got at the Server Farm Auction. "Git me some o' that them thar hawt heat sink compound, and some towels!" orders Farmer Google to his farmer's wife that has the fat white calves. "And quick, or else I'm-a gonna have to look dissapprovingly some more at your fat white calves!"
Oh boy, I just can't go on. I just gave myself a headache.
--Rob
Oh, like for example, a CEO claiming that he's really an idiot and doesn't know how his company's finances work?
--Rob
You need to set the "detect evil bit" setting in your p2p client. Now, if you're asking whether marketing releases have the evil bit set or not, then I'm not sure.
--Rob
I guess you didn't see the 1% tax on Internet services and new computers proposed in the same breath as the 5 cent download?
--Rob
So why does it matter so much that you be identified before boarding? Isn't it true that private property can have any restriction not explicitly prohibited by law?
--Rob
Actually, the reason I get my DVD's in sets of three is that I return them in sets of three. I'm too lazy to go to the mailbox every time I finish watching one DVD, so I wait until all DVD's are watched.
Oh, my mailbox is a block away.
--Rob
--Rob
IsntReally operator: &a != b
IsQuiteOdd operator: &a & 0x01
IsCircleJerk operator: &a == &b == &c (for languages supporting trinary operators)
IsNameOf: !strcmp(a, "#b")
IsNearly: (abs(a - b) LessThan b/10)
IsHardly: (abs(a - b) GreaterThan 10*b)
IsSucky: a == 0
ItAintSo: a != 0 (for languages with "say" as a keyword)
The possibilities are endless!
--Rob
The Unquirer has a story that the next generation of Angel Spyware exploits that are starting to make use of "kernel crappiness". A paper at Microsoft Research has details on a tool that spies on your Windows kernel and attempts to fix its bugs. Computerworld has more details, as well." From the article: "Newer Windows Service Patches can intercept system calls that are passed to the kernel by legitimate software and filter out queries generated by malware. This makes Windows completely vulnerable to bugs and to rootkit tools..."
Who was it that said it should be called Artificial Stupidity?
--Rob
I was rockin' to your post until I read this. As any telecom afficionado knows, Verizon landlines are handled by Verizon Domestic Telecom, while mobile is handled by Verizon Wireless. They use completely separate equipment, service centers, and billing systems.
I've never had a problem with Verizon Wireless. And I have a plan that's $40 for the first phone, and $20 for each additional. Back when Cingular hadn't changed its name from Cellular One to rid itself of the bad publicity its bad service got, billing mistakes turned my service into a nightmare, so I switched. Never had a problem since. So there! :)
--Rob
Ahhh.... but by fucking up the environment, we're also fucking you over! Now that's American!
--Rob
More likely, you have to assume the 70% that didn't respond hold opinions in the same proportion as those that did respond. After all, choosing to respond should have nothing to do with knowing of reversal cases.
So the probable total is 700+.
--Rob
So Slashdot is now "hittorrent"?
--Rob
That's just to get them back for decades of "Be sure you bring a Number 2 pencil" abuse.
--Rob
Uh... wouldn't that mean everybody's dead?
--Rob