I'm not talking about sites like that. I'm talking about companies that spam you and want them to send in an order by snail mail or the phone; companies that often don't realize how hated they are for spamming, or why. If they're really that ignorant, your comments may help teach them better manners, although I doubt it.
Better yet: get a throwaway account, and use it to email companies who spamvertise. Tell them that you've received their spam and will never, ever, under any circumstances buy anything from them because you know that anything spamvertised has to be junk. Tell them you're going to tell everybody you know to do the same. If enough people do this, maybe they'll start getting the message.
Well, I will admit I was taking Zoloft for a while to help with the stress, but that's because of some of the ID10Ts I spoke with, and others I worked with.
But it doesn't have to be. I did telephone tech support for almost a decade before my call center was outsourced, and I'd love to be doing it again. If you like talking to people, like solving puzzles and like knowing at the end of the day that there are people who's days are better because they spoke to you, tech support is great. It all depends on your attitude toward your work.
The way the FCC keeps companies from suing them is that if you do go to court against the FCC you can't aquire any more radio stations or tv stations because you still have outstanding fines...
No you don't. The fines aren't assessed until after the case is settled.
Think about what life would be life in a world where "death" did not exist. If you were killed, you came back 5 minutes later in a new body.
How about this? If there are enough complaints about a character, it's sent to jail. No matter when you log in, you're still there and can't escape. After a certain, reasonable time, your character is given a trial, while you're logged on. If convicted by a jury of other players, you're executed. That character is now dead, forever. If you want to continue, you must start a new one from scratch.
As a side note, pvp in level up games is lame and always will be. There is just no way to ever deal with the situation where one person has lower level skills then the other person.
There's a obvious way to deal with this, and I'm surprised I've never heard of it being done: you may not initiate PvP combat with a player more than N levels lower than yours, where N is some reasonable number. Naturally, you're allowed to attack players higher level than yours if you're willing to take the chance. That way, griefers can harrass you, but they can't force you to fight if you're enough levels lower than them.
What do you think the result of flash-heating the upper atmosphere to several thousand degrees for several hours is likely to be?
Several hours? How long do you think it takes a rock to fall through the atmosphere? Less than a minute or so. And, unless all the fragments go through the exact same spot one after the other, the energy will disperse. The reason you have to worry about the impact is that the energy is transferred to something solid (At those speeds water can be considered solid because it can't move out of the way fast enough.) and turns into shock waves.
No, that would just break it up and make it worse.
Maybe, maybe not. Remember, each fragment heading towards us has to go through the atmosphere and be ablated by it before impact. There's a good chance that most, if not all of them will be too small to survive and even if some hit, it will be a number of small smacks, not one big WHAM!
Asteroids this small, if they were to enter the atmosphere, would break up
Yes, a 16-yard asteroid as mentioned in the/. article would break up, but a 40-60 meter one, as described in the link would probably reach the ground. Not disputing you, just pointing out an error in the write-up.
No, we won't have to destroy and rebuild the Universe. "What do you get when you multiply six by nine" is a question, not the question because you can't have both the question and the answer in the same universe. Now that we know the answer, it's impossible to know for sure what the question is.
Actually, it looks like he's doing everything he can to avoid even the appearance of bias. He rejected the guilty plea because he's not convinced that the accuse's actions fit the requirements of the CAN-SPAM act. If he were biased, he'd just let the guy plead guilty and be done with it.
As a nice side effect, this could get rid of daylight saving time, too.
All we need to do is get rid of the stupid laws requiring it. There's no good reason for it any more, as few of us work outdoors. The stupidist thing about it was when we kept it year round for several years during the "energy crisis," forcing us to get up even longer before dawn in the winter and using more energy instead of less. Daylight Savings Time doesn't even help farmers any more because the shops they need to visit close just as early, leaving them with more daylight they can't use.
I've never denied that it would be better to have some sort of easy verification for Firfox. I do, however, think his bitching about mirror sites is simply FUD, and he knows it.
I don't think you understood my post. I don't disagree with the suggestion that Firefox should have a more secure download. I was pointing out that the author didn't address the question of which browser is more secure once it's installed on your computer, because he didn't want to admit that Firefox wins hands down.
The trouble is, that the court may well decide that clicking OK creates a contract between you and the software vendor. If so, you're stuck with any and all provisions in the EULA that are legally enforcable. It's not something you're likely to get caught by, of course, but the potential is there.
No, you didn't miss anything, because the Nanolimp appologist didn't address that. He was writing FUD to keep people from downloading and installing Firefox because he knew he'd be laughed at if he claimed Firefox isn't better than IE.
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I'm not talking about sites like that. I'm talking about companies that spam you and want them to send in an order by snail mail or the phone; companies that often don't realize how hated they are for spamming, or why. If they're really that ignorant, your comments may help teach them better manners, although I doubt it.
I'd follow the example of Liza Doolittle: "When you yell you're going to drown, I'll get dressed and go to town!"
Better yet: get a throwaway account, and use it to email companies who spamvertise. Tell them that you've received their spam and will never, ever, under any circumstances buy anything from them because you know that anything spamvertised has to be junk. Tell them you're going to tell everybody you know to do the same. If enough people do this, maybe they'll start getting the message.
Well, I will admit I was taking Zoloft for a while to help with the stress, but that's because of some of the ID10Ts I spoke with, and others I worked with.
But it doesn't have to be. I did telephone tech support for almost a decade before my call center was outsourced, and I'd love to be doing it again. If you like talking to people, like solving puzzles and like knowing at the end of the day that there are people who's days are better because they spoke to you, tech support is great. It all depends on your attitude toward your work.
No you don't. The fines aren't assessed until after the case is settled.
How about this? If there are enough complaints about a character, it's sent to jail. No matter when you log in, you're still there and can't escape. After a certain, reasonable time, your character is given a trial, while you're logged on. If convicted by a jury of other players, you're executed. That character is now dead, forever. If you want to continue, you must start a new one from scratch.
There's a obvious way to deal with this, and I'm surprised I've never heard of it being done: you may not initiate PvP combat with a player more than N levels lower than yours, where N is some reasonable number. Naturally, you're allowed to attack players higher level than yours if you're willing to take the chance. That way, griefers can harrass you, but they can't force you to fight if you're enough levels lower than them.
Flat fee only, dependant on the time spent. Giving the jurors part of the penalties encourages them to vote guilty whether deserved or not.
JMS paid a fine to the Screen Writer's Guild every year because he wrote every episode of B5 himself to keep it consistant.
You do know, don't you, that Babylon5 was designed to tell a specific story in five seasons then end?
Several hours? How long do you think it takes a rock to fall through the atmosphere? Less than a minute or so. And, unless all the fragments go through the exact same spot one after the other, the energy will disperse. The reason you have to worry about the impact is that the energy is transferred to something solid (At those speeds water can be considered solid because it can't move out of the way fast enough.) and turns into shock waves.
Maybe, maybe not. Remember, each fragment heading towards us has to go through the atmosphere and be ablated by it before impact. There's a good chance that most, if not all of them will be too small to survive and even if some hit, it will be a number of small smacks, not one big WHAM!
Yes, a 16-yard asteroid as mentioned in the /. article would break up, but a 40-60 meter one, as described in the link would probably reach the ground. Not disputing you, just pointing out an error in the write-up.
No, we won't have to destroy and rebuild the Universe. "What do you get when you multiply six by nine" is a question, not the question because you can't have both the question and the answer in the same universe. Now that we know the answer, it's impossible to know for sure what the question is.
Don't blame the act. Blame whoever it was that charged the twit with breaking the wrong law.
Actually, it looks like he's doing everything he can to avoid even the appearance of bias. He rejected the guilty plea because he's not convinced that the accuse's actions fit the requirements of the CAN-SPAM act. If he were biased, he'd just let the guy plead guilty and be done with it.
I take it you're posting from Oz? Here in Merkia it's the Winter Solstice, and it gets dark very early.
All we need to do is get rid of the stupid laws requiring it. There's no good reason for it any more, as few of us work outdoors. The stupidist thing about it was when we kept it year round for several years during the "energy crisis," forcing us to get up even longer before dawn in the winter and using more energy instead of less. Daylight Savings Time doesn't even help farmers any more because the shops they need to visit close just as early, leaving them with more daylight they can't use.
Some of them are, though. I'm fairly sure the ones about only using it on one computer and not making or selling copies can and have been enforced.
I've never denied that it would be better to have some sort of easy verification for Firfox. I do, however, think his bitching about mirror sites is simply FUD, and he knows it.
I don't think you understood my post. I don't disagree with the suggestion that Firefox should have a more secure download. I was pointing out that the author didn't address the question of which browser is more secure once it's installed on your computer, because he didn't want to admit that Firefox wins hands down.
The trouble is, that the court may well decide that clicking OK creates a contract between you and the software vendor. If so, you're stuck with any and all provisions in the EULA that are legally enforcable. It's not something you're likely to get caught by, of course, but the potential is there.
No, you didn't miss anything, because the Nanolimp appologist didn't address that. He was writing FUD to keep people from downloading and installing Firefox because he knew he'd be laughed at if he claimed Firefox isn't better than IE.
By clicking OK you have accepted the EULA. Sorry, but saying you haven't won't help you any if there's a problem.