Worse than that, they say they can terminate the contract for any reason. And if you read the bit on termination fees, you pay it when your contract is disolved before the end date. So by their illegal contracts, they can the day after you sign up, terminate you without notice, and make you pay the monthly fee for all 3 years of your contract!
Bait and switch is advertising an unlimited plan and when you go to buy it, being told it's no longer offered. This is just plain fraud, no fancy name.
Quite right, how dare Google update the cache with a newer version of the document, as posted. Clearly this was done with malicious intent, and not an automatic cache working as designed. Even more disturbing, check the Google Cache of the Slashdot front page. August 16, 2008! That's a mighty recent change considering the age of Google and Slashdot both. Just what happened on or before August 15, 2008, that Slashdot had to alter their own archives, AND pay off Google to alter their cache? (You know the archives must have been altered or there would be no reason for Google to alter their cache so blatantly).
In summary, while you boycott Google for their evil cache-updating practicices, please boycott Slashdot, their self-evident partner in crime.
I certainly hope you ask to borrow something from somebody some day, and when they want it back, they report your robbery to the police immediately. After all, its theirs, you have it, they don't want you to have it. Theft by any definition, and I hope you get the maximum!
It is not a gaff like, Chevy Nova in South America, No va meaning No go
Entirely true, just like nobody in America goes to a therapist because in English, therapist literally translates as "The rapist" meaning somebody who rapes! They really should have checked with a local to see what things mean.
And it would be a major mistake to sell a dinette set under the brand name "notable", as literally translated, "notable" in english means that the set does not include a table.
They are endangered, and therefore prevent you from clearcutting certain forests where they live, which is extremely extremely bad. Republicans took out multipage ads attacking the "sheer insanity" of preventing them from wiping out "only 50 owls" (10% of their total population).
In Britain if your car is stolen you not only have to buy it back from the police (like in the US anything used in the commission of a crime becomes property of the police) but you have to pay for any damage to any vehicles that may occur while the car was stolen. Was in the news recently lol. Some guy got his car stolen. The police chased it, the perp crashed it into a police cruiser. Guy had to pay like 200 pounds to buy the car back from the police. Then 800 pounds to fix his own car. Then the police charged him 4,000 pounds for the damage to the police cruiser.
Except that you are NEVER liable for *downloading*.
It's the uploading that's disallowed.
Depends on the jurisdiction. In some countries, it is the person providing the files, the uploader, who is considered to be making the copy. In some countries, like Canada, (at least in a lower court decision I believe, could have been overturned) it is held that the downloader requests the copy, and so they are the one at fault for the creation of the unauthorized copy. The analogy was made that if somebody requests a photocopier copy a book, it's the fault of the person who made the request of the device , not of the owner of said device. I think in the USA its held that both parties colluded to create the copy, and so both are guilty (and probably also then guilty of collusion and conspiracy!)
Creative location would then permit file sharing in which neither party committed a crime in their own country? Interesting;)
Sure, I'll take that deal. As long as you accept my $10,000 in form of a license to use my proprietary software on a single computer (a $10,000 value!) and you give me the $4,000 back in cold hard cash.
I tried updating, it said I can only install it on Windows 2000 SP4 or higher (I have Windows XP SP2 which apparently is NOT higher) but I also couldn't NOT upgrade. So I switched to Avast! It also doesn't have the issue of hundreds of false positives and a tech support response of "Upgrade to pro and then you can whitelist that version of the file". Yeah, thanks for your dedication in correcting those false positives.
If you wanted to be protected on the pages you view, you could, I don't know, scan them instead of having every computer on the internet doing daily crawls of everywhere even tangentially related to the pages they actually view?
Or they could only scan once, and only crawl a website if it hasn't been scanned recently. There is no reason their software has to scan/. 5 million times a day when once would do. After all, if they want to be so cavalier about bandwidth, they can pony up and have their software ask their database about the page every time, instead of just doing another redundant scan.
There have been numerous articles about this problem, with all sorts of vitamins and minerals. The RDI is based on how much will prevent you from developing deficiency-based diseases. For example, the RDI for vitamin C is based on how much is needed to not get noticeable symptoms of scurvy. A study showed you needed several times that for optimal health, although of course should be careful of overdoes due to kidney damage, especially if you're getting it from citrus!
It goes beyond that. I recall seeing a few studies that aimed to show the exact effect of getting too much sun on skin cancer rates, by studying life guards in Australia, and comparing them to office workers. And it turns out they found the opposite correlation. Office workers had a high incidence of skin cancer, and it was completely unheard of amongst people who spend all of their time in bathing suits soaking up the sun. Probably because they are bronzed and don't burn, and the pasty white guy goes to the beach one day and gets a bad burn. And quite possibly tying in with this study, that the lack of vitamin D from sunlight is bad for you.
He stole a key and broke into the school after hours. First time, was to install a keylogger. Second time was to use the password he stole to log in as an administrator so he could access the mark system. Which of those two things required any smarts at all. Did he write the keylogger? No, he bought it. Did he hack the marking system? No, he had the password and it was easy to use. He got busted not because of the other students, but because he changed his AP marks. But those marks are sent TO the school, not FROM the school. So his transcript didn't match. You know, when the college of his dreams called his school to ask why this kid with straight A's flunked his AP tests, and the highschool said "Huh? He got 100% on his AP tests..."
They could have been more harsh. They could have charged him with a felony count of altering public records, unauthorized access, fraud, and altering official records for every key he pressed. Then a felony count each of theft of property, theft of records, and receiving stolen property, for every pixel he saw, plus felony AND civil copyright infringement. Plus they could have charged him with fraud and identity theft for each key pressed, since each key pressed was done so under the fraudulent identity of the person who's password he logged. Add all those up and you get a trillion dollar fine and a billion years in prison. They were being merciful by only charging him with 3 counts of altering records and 2 counts of theft for every person's grades he altered, and only 4 counts of identity theft!
That's a good idea. A good way to do this is fill them with people who aren't criminals, then they can't pass on their knowledge of crime to other prisoners. But I think they are doing this already!
30 minutes containing 22 minutes of actual content was how it was 15 years ago. Times have changed.
It's down to 19-20. This is why old episodes of The Simpsons have scenes cut. Because the time slot has shrunk by 3 minutes and they need to trim the episodes down.
I love Monk. I buy the DVDs because in Canada only A Channel shows it, and they're terrible about actually showing shows instead of playing bait and switch. First season episodes were 45 minutes long or so. Season 6 and 7 are 38-40 minutes long. At this rate, by 2020 hour long shows will be only half an hour long, and in 2040 TV will have 5 minute clips padded by 55 minutes of commercials.
It's an urban legend that Walt Disney became increasingly interested in cryogenics in his later years, requested to be frozen when he died, and was frozen after he died.
All three parts are untrue. It's impossible to rule out that Walt Disney had even heard of cryogenics, but there's certainly no proof he did, let alone that he became obsessed with the idea. He was, in fact, cremated, the polar opposite of being frozen, if there is one!
That's fine and all, but the Judge did sign her oath. Jack Thompson accused her of having a third party forge her signature in order to "get out of it" or something.
It'll tell you every few minutes that it wants to reboot, no matter how often you tell it to go stand in the corner.
If you ignore it for too long, something like 20 minutes or whatever, it forces the reboot for you. So if you have stuff you are working on, and get up for lunch, you can come back and find Windows decided to reboot itself since you were obviously not around to mind.
It's not free, it's just non-discriminatory, and SOME but not all provinces provide it free of charge. In BC it isn't free, it costs $54 / month. You can get a discout, possibly all the way to $0, if you make under something like $20,000 a year.
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Worse than that, they say they can terminate the contract for any reason. And if you read the bit on termination fees, you pay it when your contract is disolved before the end date. So by their illegal contracts, they can the day after you sign up, terminate you without notice, and make you pay the monthly fee for all 3 years of your contract!
Bait and switch is advertising an unlimited plan and when you go to buy it, being told it's no longer offered. This is just plain fraud, no fancy name.
Quite right, how dare Google update the cache with a newer version of the document, as posted. Clearly this was done with malicious intent, and not an automatic cache working as designed. Even more disturbing, check the Google Cache of the Slashdot front page. August 16, 2008! That's a mighty recent change considering the age of Google and Slashdot both. Just what happened on or before August 15, 2008, that Slashdot had to alter their own archives, AND pay off Google to alter their cache? (You know the archives must have been altered or there would be no reason for Google to alter their cache so blatantly).
In summary, while you boycott Google for their evil cache-updating practicices, please boycott Slashdot, their self-evident partner in crime.
I certainly hope you ask to borrow something from somebody some day, and when they want it back, they report your robbery to the police immediately. After all, its theirs, you have it, they don't want you to have it. Theft by any definition, and I hope you get the maximum!
Entirely true, just like nobody in America goes to a therapist because in English, therapist literally translates as "The rapist" meaning somebody who rapes! They really should have checked with a local to see what things mean. And it would be a major mistake to sell a dinette set under the brand name "notable", as literally translated, "notable" in english means that the set does not include a table.
They are endangered, and therefore prevent you from clearcutting certain forests where they live, which is extremely extremely bad. Republicans took out multipage ads attacking the "sheer insanity" of preventing them from wiping out "only 50 owls" (10% of their total population).
In Britain if your car is stolen you not only have to buy it back from the police (like in the US anything used in the commission of a crime becomes property of the police) but you have to pay for any damage to any vehicles that may occur while the car was stolen. Was in the news recently lol. Some guy got his car stolen. The police chased it, the perp crashed it into a police cruiser. Guy had to pay like 200 pounds to buy the car back from the police. Then 800 pounds to fix his own car. Then the police charged him 4,000 pounds for the damage to the police cruiser.
Depends on the jurisdiction. In some countries, it is the person providing the files, the uploader, who is considered to be making the copy. In some countries, like Canada, (at least in a lower court decision I believe, could have been overturned) it is held that the downloader requests the copy, and so they are the one at fault for the creation of the unauthorized copy. The analogy was made that if somebody requests a photocopier copy a book, it's the fault of the person who made the request of the device , not of the owner of said device. I think in the USA its held that both parties colluded to create the copy, and so both are guilty (and probably also then guilty of collusion and conspiracy!)
Creative location would then permit file sharing in which neither party committed a crime in their own country? Interesting ;)
Sure, I'll take that deal. As long as you accept my $10,000 in form of a license to use my proprietary software on a single computer (a $10,000 value!) and you give me the $4,000 back in cold hard cash.
I tried updating, it said I can only install it on Windows 2000 SP4 or higher (I have Windows XP SP2 which apparently is NOT higher) but I also couldn't NOT upgrade. So I switched to Avast! It also doesn't have the issue of hundreds of false positives and a tech support response of "Upgrade to pro and then you can whitelist that version of the file". Yeah, thanks for your dedication in correcting those false positives.
If you wanted to be protected on the pages you view, you could, I don't know, scan them instead of having every computer on the internet doing daily crawls of everywhere even tangentially related to the pages they actually view? Or they could only scan once, and only crawl a website if it hasn't been scanned recently. There is no reason their software has to scan /. 5 million times a day when once would do. After all, if they want to be so cavalier about bandwidth, they can pony up and have their software ask their database about the page every time, instead of just doing another redundant scan.
That's your solution to everything.
There have been numerous articles about this problem, with all sorts of vitamins and minerals. The RDI is based on how much will prevent you from developing deficiency-based diseases. For example, the RDI for vitamin C is based on how much is needed to not get noticeable symptoms of scurvy. A study showed you needed several times that for optimal health, although of course should be careful of overdoes due to kidney damage, especially if you're getting it from citrus!
It goes beyond that. I recall seeing a few studies that aimed to show the exact effect of getting too much sun on skin cancer rates, by studying life guards in Australia, and comparing them to office workers. And it turns out they found the opposite correlation. Office workers had a high incidence of skin cancer, and it was completely unheard of amongst people who spend all of their time in bathing suits soaking up the sun. Probably because they are bronzed and don't burn, and the pasty white guy goes to the beach one day and gets a bad burn. And quite possibly tying in with this study, that the lack of vitamin D from sunlight is bad for you.
He stole a key and broke into the school after hours. First time, was to install a keylogger. Second time was to use the password he stole to log in as an administrator so he could access the mark system. Which of those two things required any smarts at all. Did he write the keylogger? No, he bought it. Did he hack the marking system? No, he had the password and it was easy to use. He got busted not because of the other students, but because he changed his AP marks. But those marks are sent TO the school, not FROM the school. So his transcript didn't match. You know, when the college of his dreams called his school to ask why this kid with straight A's flunked his AP tests, and the highschool said "Huh? He got 100% on his AP tests..."
They could have been more harsh. They could have charged him with a felony count of altering public records, unauthorized access, fraud, and altering official records for every key he pressed. Then a felony count each of theft of property, theft of records, and receiving stolen property, for every pixel he saw, plus felony AND civil copyright infringement. Plus they could have charged him with fraud and identity theft for each key pressed, since each key pressed was done so under the fraudulent identity of the person who's password he logged. Add all those up and you get a trillion dollar fine and a billion years in prison. They were being merciful by only charging him with 3 counts of altering records and 2 counts of theft for every person's grades he altered, and only 4 counts of identity theft!
That's a good idea. A good way to do this is fill them with people who aren't criminals, then they can't pass on their knowledge of crime to other prisoners. But I think they are doing this already!
30 minutes containing 22 minutes of actual content was how it was 15 years ago. Times have changed. It's down to 19-20. This is why old episodes of The Simpsons have scenes cut. Because the time slot has shrunk by 3 minutes and they need to trim the episodes down.
I love Monk. I buy the DVDs because in Canada only A Channel shows it, and they're terrible about actually showing shows instead of playing bait and switch. First season episodes were 45 minutes long or so. Season 6 and 7 are 38-40 minutes long. At this rate, by 2020 hour long shows will be only half an hour long, and in 2040 TV will have 5 minute clips padded by 55 minutes of commercials.
A modest proposal.
Firing bullets in planes can be dangerous. He'll just taze you, bro!
Paypal does check, but apparently other places do not.
It's an urban legend that Walt Disney became increasingly interested in cryogenics in his later years, requested to be frozen when he died, and was frozen after he died.
All three parts are untrue. It's impossible to rule out that Walt Disney had even heard of cryogenics, but there's certainly no proof he did, let alone that he became obsessed with the idea. He was, in fact, cremated, the polar opposite of being frozen, if there is one!
That's fine and all, but the Judge did sign her oath. Jack Thompson accused her of having a third party forge her signature in order to "get out of it" or something.
It's not free, it's just non-discriminatory, and SOME but not all provinces provide it free of charge. In BC it isn't free, it costs $54 / month. You can get a discout, possibly all the way to $0, if you make under something like $20,000 a year.