And ya im pissed, i have had my debit card used 3 times in the last 2 years no don't tell me i should be using a CC i don't want to pay the extortion fees they charge not going to happen.
There is stupid and then, there is aggressively stupid. There are only 3 reasons to use debit cards in preference to credit cards:
1. Lower pricing (ARCO gas stations).
2. Can't get a credit card because of bad or non-existent credit history.
Replaced the Bosch with a Maytag, a model with a grinder, and it's the first dishwasher I've bought that I haven't hated in two decades. Not sure where it's made.
Good luck with that Maytag. I replaced a 20+ year old Whirlpool washer with a Maytag (the Whirlpool was working, but the tub was rusting out). The Maytag failed about 5 years later, and was not economically repairable.
You or your employer has almost certainly spent over $40,000 in airline fees for you to get lifetime gold status. Someone who travels as much as you probably would have gotten status (though not lifetime) on multiple airlines without trying.
Although I have been Platinum some years and was Gold some years before getting Lifetime Gold, most of the creidt for Lifetime Gold actually came from using a single credit card for my own purchases (which no longer provides the same credit towards Lifetime Gold).
But you are crazy if you think that spreading my flying across multiple airlines would have got me enhanced status -- it would not.
There's no such thing as Motel 8; you mean either Super 8 or Motel 6. I see no reason why an employee, CEO or otherwise, should not stay in such a motel if it is convenient to the venue and provides enough space to work in the evenings, if that is a concern.
So why don't CEO's stay in such hotels? You know they don't, right? Why should they get the benefit of a nice hotel, yet employees lower down the pole, travelling in their own time, get no benefit from it? It's very easy to say "I see no reason why an employee, CEO or otherwise, should not stay in such a motel if it is convenient to the venue", but, the simple fact is that they don't. Are the CEOs embezzling the company? Please explain why CEOs stay in fancy hotels without embezzling the company, while lower down the pole, people who travel on a flight that is not quite the cheapest are embezzling the company?
Also, I have worked in departments of large companies that insisted I travel in economy when the company policy clearly stated that I was entitled to business class travel.
Another trick by senior management is to say that they travel in economy, while the truth is that they buy economy tickets, but travel in business class because there is a deal with a travel agency or airline that provides a certain number of upgrades to executives.
The bottom line is that in many companies, there is masses of hypocrisy surrounding travel, all the way to the top.
The real answer is get Marriott's in-house wi-fi to DDoS the ever-lovin' shit out of itself. There has to be a tipping point where the amount of disruptive attack packets they're sending basically floods their network
How many people have been prosecuted under criminal statutes for DDoS-ing websites? Surely this is just the same?
There's no "long game" with airline perks. Sure, get an account; there's no downside. But, once you have an account, try to get rid of your miles as quickly and efficiently as possible. Don't hold onto them; the airline can and will devalue them eventually if you do that.
Tell that to my Lifetime Gold frequent flyer membership. It's saved me hundreds of dollars in baggage fees and in upgraded seat fees (I almost always get an exit row, with more room). I get miles through my credit card and, as long as there is activity on my account once every 18 months, I don't lose the miles.
As for embezzeling, if any careful emplyer won't allow you to take a more expensive flight just so that you can get the miles. Travelling on business means time away from home, often weekends. Most employers don't provide extra pay for time away from home to salaried employees, so the miles are a small compensation fro this additional burden on the employees' private lives.
Here is another way to look at it. Why doesn't the CEO stay in a Motel 8 or equivalent?
The story is BS.
Every employee at Comcast gets 3 cards a year.
The idea is that if you see or hear someone who's having a problem, you can give them a card and they get a better experience.
You assume that there is only one type of card. Perhaps certain employees get a different type of card, to be given only to political influencers.
The customer, his doctors and insurance companies would be free to look at the FDA data and decide for themselves what to medicate with.
All this does is move liability for bad drugs to entities less able to defend against bogus claims. No doctor would prescribe anything with a scintilla of risk.
Not all 4 legged animals are dogs and I don't think that your reversal of the scenario proves the point.
Can a court really throw out a document, signed by a genuine cop authorizing the person to commit a crime? The cop knowingly signed the document. Isn't this more important than the beliefs of the thief? The thief could explain his belief as "I thought that I was authorized if any one of us was a cop". So, his belief is premised on a factual basis that happened to be unlikely, but true.
Niether your opinion, nor mine matters -- all that matters is what a competant court decides. I wonder if there are any cases where this has actually happened?
Having a habit of asking all of your criminal buddies to sign such a statement, and signing it yourself claiming that you are a cop, would tend to show that you know it's a sham.
But it's not a sham for the hypothetical real cop. The fact that all the documents signed by non-cops were sham documents isn't important.
Note: don't get your legal advice from/. -- it's likely to be wrong.
Apparently this critter is so new that by the time we checked, only a few AV companies had caught on to it.
What this shows yet again is that anti-virus scanners are a flawed methodology. There will always be a delay between a virus being released and the signature updates getting to the clients. It's inherent in the concept.
Unfortunately, some early technology journalists were partially responsible for this because, in reviews, they ranked anti-virus products that identified threats by signature higher than ones that identified threats through behaviour -- and this was because signature analysis also provided a name to the threat.
In other words, the flawed idea that if you tell the user a name for the threat, you provide better protection than if you just block it. This reinforced the concept of signature analysis and slowed down research of identification of threats based on generic behavioural patterns.
If this actually turns into an El Nino year (the forecasts for this are mixed, but generally unreliable either way) this may be another flood year
Sorry, but El Nino only brings large rainfalls if there is a very large El Nino event. Since we know that it won't be a big El Nino year, don't look for help from this direction. However, there are other factors that affect the weather on a cyclic basis and, if this winter isn't very wet, California should be in for a wet winter soon.
The real question is, what does an average average californian rainfall look like.
There is no such thing. California is a very diverse state, with very different climates in different areas. California has both the highest point in the lower 48 states (Mount Whitney) and the lowest point in the lower 48 (Death Valley).
Boies may be a douchebag, but he's a douchebag who actively practices law and apparently reads the cases in full, unlike the good Professor Volokh, who has never actually practiced.
You know that he lost a case to a gardener, who was unrepresented by a lawyer, right? His firm did not cover itself with glory in the SCO cases either.
IANAL but I'm pretty damned sure that if I were to go to the Pirate Bay (RIP) and find a link to the latest Debian distro, there is absolutely nothing illegal about that regardless of which site
Legal: yes, sensible: no. Get your links from a reputable Debian mirror.
My worst experience was with a 1TB WB "Green" drive. From brand new, SMART said it was perfect, but I could not write over about 900GB to it. This was not a GiB vs. GB issue -- the failures occurred before reaching 931GiB and manifested as drive I/O errors, not filesystem full errors. Writes were consistently failing before I reached the nominal size of the drive.
That's a hell of a bargain. Take 1 beating, then don't have to work for the rest of my life!
This may not happen to you. Looking at TFA, I see that the victim was guilty of a heinous offense: DwB (Driving while Black). Unless you have the correct skin colour, your plan may fail at step 3.
This is why it's so hard to get corrupt/bad cops out of the system. The entire system is built to protect them, at all costs.
Perhaps some types of disciplinary records should be published. For example, any record that the cop tampered with evidence, hid evidence, lied in court, etc.. should be available to any defence lawyer.
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There is stupid and then, there is aggressively stupid. There are only 3 reasons to use debit cards in preference to credit cards:
1. Lower pricing (ARCO gas stations).
2. Can't get a credit card because of bad or non-existent credit history.
3. Stupidity.
Which are you?
Good luck with that Maytag. I replaced a 20+ year old Whirlpool washer with a Maytag (the Whirlpool was working, but the tub was rusting out). The Maytag failed about 5 years later, and was not economically repairable.
It's not like the police have anything else to investigate, like, perhaps anything from institutionalized paedophilia to common burglaries, is it?
This is all about taking people's attention away from the documented failings of the police.
Although I have been Platinum some years and was Gold some years before getting Lifetime Gold, most of the creidt for Lifetime Gold actually came from using a single credit card for my own purchases (which no longer provides the same credit towards Lifetime Gold).
But you are crazy if you think that spreading my flying across multiple airlines would have got me enhanced status -- it would not.
So why don't CEO's stay in such hotels? You know they don't, right? Why should they get the benefit of a nice hotel, yet employees lower down the pole, travelling in their own time, get no benefit from it? It's very easy to say "I see no reason why an employee, CEO or otherwise, should not stay in such a motel if it is convenient to the venue", but, the simple fact is that they don't. Are the CEOs embezzling the company? Please explain why CEOs stay in fancy hotels without embezzling the company, while lower down the pole, people who travel on a flight that is not quite the cheapest are embezzling the company?
Also, I have worked in departments of large companies that insisted I travel in economy when the company policy clearly stated that I was entitled to business class travel.
Another trick by senior management is to say that they travel in economy, while the truth is that they buy economy tickets, but travel in business class because there is a deal with a travel agency or airline that provides a certain number of upgrades to executives.
The bottom line is that in many companies, there is masses of hypocrisy surrounding travel, all the way to the top.
How many people have been prosecuted under criminal statutes for DDoS-ing websites? Surely this is just the same?
Tell that to my Lifetime Gold frequent flyer membership. It's saved me hundreds of dollars in baggage fees and in upgraded seat fees (I almost always get an exit row, with more room). I get miles through my credit card and, as long as there is activity on my account once every 18 months, I don't lose the miles.
As for embezzeling, if any careful emplyer won't allow you to take a more expensive flight just so that you can get the miles. Travelling on business means time away from home, often weekends. Most employers don't provide extra pay for time away from home to salaried employees, so the miles are a small compensation fro this additional burden on the employees' private lives.
Here is another way to look at it. Why doesn't the CEO stay in a Motel 8 or equivalent?
You assume that there is only one type of card. Perhaps certain employees get a different type of card, to be given only to political influencers.
All this does is move liability for bad drugs to entities less able to defend against bogus claims. No doctor would prescribe anything with a scintilla of risk.
Not all 4 legged animals are dogs and I don't think that your reversal of the scenario proves the point.
Can a court really throw out a document, signed by a genuine cop authorizing the person to commit a crime? The cop knowingly signed the document. Isn't this more important than the beliefs of the thief? The thief could explain his belief as "I thought that I was authorized if any one of us was a cop". So, his belief is premised on a factual basis that happened to be unlikely, but true.
Niether your opinion, nor mine matters -- all that matters is what a competant court decides. I wonder if there are any cases where this has actually happened?
But it's not a sham for the hypothetical real cop. The fact that all the documents signed by non-cops were sham documents isn't important.
/. -- it's likely to be wrong.
Note: don't get your legal advice from
I am not sure that it really is right wing, instead it is news through the lens of the super-rich.
"Never let a good crisis go to waste". They don't seriously think it was North Korea. Instead, there is an ulterior motive for blaming North Korea.
What this shows yet again is that anti-virus scanners are a flawed methodology. There will always be a delay between a virus being released and the signature updates getting to the clients. It's inherent in the concept.
Unfortunately, some early technology journalists were partially responsible for this because, in reviews, they ranked anti-virus products that identified threats by signature higher than ones that identified threats through behaviour -- and this was because signature analysis also provided a name to the threat. In other words, the flawed idea that if you tell the user a name for the threat, you provide better protection than if you just block it. This reinforced the concept of signature analysis and slowed down research of identification of threats based on generic behavioural patterns.
Sorry, but El Nino only brings large rainfalls if there is a very large El Nino event. Since we know that it won't be a big El Nino year, don't look for help from this direction. However, there are other factors that affect the weather on a cyclic basis and, if this winter isn't very wet, California should be in for a wet winter soon.
No, but you can restart mothballed plants.
There is no such thing. California is a very diverse state, with very different climates in different areas. California has both the highest point in the lower 48 states (Mount Whitney) and the lowest point in the lower 48 (Death Valley).
The GP poster was talking about the USA. Britain does have pennies (actually, pence -- one penny, two pence).
Some if it is, some of it isn't. Employee social security numbers are not. Details of possible gender inequality in pay clearly is.
You know that he lost a case to a gardener, who was unrepresented by a lawyer, right? His firm did not cover itself with glory in the SCO cases either.
Legal: yes, sensible: no. Get your links from a reputable Debian mirror.
I haven't seen a /. effect for a long time.
Because that is where the money is
My worst experience was with a 1TB WB "Green" drive. From brand new, SMART said it was perfect, but I could not write over about 900GB to it. This was not a GiB vs. GB issue -- the failures occurred before reaching 931GiB and manifested as drive I/O errors, not filesystem full errors. Writes were consistently failing before I reached the nominal size of the drive.
I haven't bought a WD drive since then.
This may not happen to you. Looking at TFA, I see that the victim was guilty of a heinous offense: DwB (Driving while Black). Unless you have the correct skin colour, your plan may fail at step 3.
Perhaps some types of disciplinary records should be published. For example, any record that the cop tampered with evidence, hid evidence, lied in court, etc.. should be available to any defence lawyer.