If I'm at a restaurant and the check arrives with some of the items I ordered absent from that total, I am probably going to assume that the waiter comped them to me, and leave a generous tip. No sneering involved.
As a former food-service worker, you are 100% correct. You leave the difference as a tip and you don't have to worry about tipping above that number. It's called "a Win-Win". For the record, most restaurants throw more food away than they actually serve to customers. But I digress...
Ghandi was cool and all, but I doubt he was thinking of online Capitalism when he said it. As Capitalists, it's our duty to get the most for the least. Amazon set up the rules, they run the site, they charge the card. I don't feel bad for them at all. I also don't feel bad for people who got charged after the fact, as they should have known that was coming. Seems to me that everyone involved got exactly what they deserved, by way of taking care of themselves and their finances (or not, respectively).
I'm fairly certain that my dogs wouldn't leave my lifeless body until they'd eaten every delicious scrap of my flesh. They sometimes gnaw on my fingers when I get into too deep of a sleep... They're only as loyal as their next meal.
Assume someone's identity, give away all of their stuff to accomplices, jump off of bridge, log out. Sounds too good to be true, especially if you can still sell the "Spear of 10,000 Bedsores" for real-life cash...
Having never lived in AL, I feel safe in saying that what you are describing is a rare occurrence. It's a terrible crime, and when it happens, it gets national media attention. Luckily, there are no hate crimes in big cities, so they like to keep an eye Down South to drive up viewership when they see something they can use to scare Big City types.
I had no idea it that the site was that BIG. I use it all the time. I've bought and sold several pieces of electronic equipment with little to no hassle. I haven't found it as useful for drugs and sex, though. . . Sadly, I was led to believe it was going to be plentiful!
/it's only true if you count ads for their Cam sites as "sex"
If the idea is to punish people who DL, I'd go the other route and copy and re-copy and re-copy the w4r3z and pr0n into every folder on their PC. But then, I'm a cruel bastich from time to time...
Deleting it just makes me want to go get more (as if I needed an excuse).
One of my favorites. You cannot replicate the experience without speakers all around you and the little wheel to raise and lower your aim. Quite awesome.
Call me crazy for admitting it, but I like the Madden games and play them until a new one comes out. And for what it's worth, the last 3 versions have been markedly different from one another in more ways than you might care to know. Hardly a simple tweak to a graphics engine... But don't let that stop you from repeating what your older brother said in front of a chick one time!
Midway Arcade Treasures for the PSP requires firmware 2.0 to play. My PSP is 1.5 for a VERY good reason. The UMD tries to update your PSP firmware, and will NOT play the game until you do. Instead of complying, I downloaded an ISO of the game, which plays just fine on my 1.5 with a copy of UMD Emulator.
Guess how many UMDs I will buy now???
PS - I'd return it to CompUSA and get cans of compressed air or DVD-Rs if they would take it back. Instead, I keep it around as a reminder of what happens when you're stupid enough to pay good money for something like that.
/and no, it doesn't state the firmware requirement anywhere on the box or in the reviews I read before buying it simply to play Klax and Cyberball
There is a lot of conversation, but only in certain forums. They make new strides just about every day with PSPs. Mine is still an original ver. 1.5 and is more or less wide open. There are games that require 2.0 or higher to play, but that barrier is coming down (albeit slowly).
I love my PSP and recommend one to anyone who travels. 8 hour flight is nothing when you can play NES, SNES, and my personal favs: Cyberball and Klax.
Played Shadow of the Colossus on a 48" JVC 16x9 CRT with Component cables in Progressive mode. It's an impressive game, but it's washed out, jagged and pixelated when compared to the Xbox games in 720p (e.g. Tony Hawk American Wasteland).
Auto insurance is no better... At least in Mexico, you can opt out of Insurance by paying off the cops whenever you get pinched. That's more honest, IMHO...
Sure they will. They will only exchange it for the same disc. Of course, they WILL take un-opened discs and exchange them for ANY other disc... So for persistent people, it's just an extra step. Target works the same way.
There is no probably. I bought some software to install for a guy I know who likes to play it nice and legal. We jumped through hoops trying to install and "activate" it, and nothing ever really worked properly until I pointed him to a torrent site with several flavors of his new software with all the B.S. stripped. I'm sure this is nothing new to most of you bothering to read this comment...
While you are correct, you're ignoring the obvious fact that a HUGE market will open up when all 4 Big Boys pack up and go home. You think everyone will ignore that market? Someone will fill it, as surely as there will be thousands willing to spend their money on it.
Considering that people are currently broadcasting their High Speed Acces all over creation without the slightest worry about security, I'm thinking several solutions will present themselves in due time. . . WELL before we're "painted into a corner" with things like this...
Because 9 out of 10 items that were "Made In China" aren't really made in China??? They are shipped to Hong Kong, re-packaged, and exported to the rest of the world... The "Made in China" sticker is something of a joke...
But you can get a silk suit there for pennies on the dollar!
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As a former food-service worker, you are 100% correct. You leave the difference as a tip and you don't have to worry about tipping above that number. It's called "a Win-Win". For the record, most restaurants throw more food away than they actually serve to customers. But I digress...
Deleting it just makes me want to go get more (as if I needed an excuse).
"Bullshi.... I married an ugly women. Do I look happy?!?"
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You can tell an ugly woman anything... Like "Bitch, I'm going to the moon. That's right, the MOON! I'll be back later, ho..."
Guess how many UMDs I will buy now???
PS - I'd return it to CompUSA and get cans of compressed air or DVD-Rs if they would take it back. Instead, I keep it around as a reminder of what happens when you're stupid enough to pay good money for something like that.
I love my PSP and recommend one to anyone who travels. 8 hour flight is nothing when you can play NES, SNES, and my personal favs: Cyberball and Klax.
Still a fun game, though!
(I'll call you later to set something up... We'll be rich!)
But you can get a silk suit there for pennies on the dollar!