And the flagship product of Prime, the free shipping is sort of a scam, too. You'll see many sellers on Amazon selling the same product, and surprise, surprise, the ones that are Prime eligible happen to cost more, and the increase is pretty much exactly the price of shipping.
That's because Amazon charges the seller a fee to warehouse the item in their warehouse(s) and for fulfilling the order. You have the option to get "free" shipping in a day or two days with Prime, or anywhere from a few days days to weeks if you wait for the seller to ship it themselves.
I personally am an impulsive buyer that wants things ASAP. I have a prime membership as I order enough stuff that it pays for itself vs paying for normal shipping and not having to wait 7-10 days for the free we'll-get-it-to-you-when-we-get-around-to-it-shipping to make it's way to me. I also like that if there's any issues with the shipping, returns, etc I just have to deal with Amazon's support that's always been great for me. I've never had to pay for return shipping for a problem that wasn't my doing, something I have with other online retailers.
My guess is that they use the same definition of unlimited some cell phones company use. You can use all that you want, as long as you want, as long as you don't mind dialup-like speeds.
My bank solved that problem. You have to insert then remove your card as you normally would, then wait for it to prompt you to reinsert your card where you leave it until your transaction(s) are done.
This, combined with their chip not being accepted randomly for multiple retailers as a "credit" transaction, and their refusal to support Apple Pay or Android Pay because "it may just be a fad" really makes me want to find another credit union. But they are the largest in the area so I doubt other local CU would be much better.
Basically, Apple is required by laws in various states and countries to recycle e-waste because they are a manufacturer of electronics. The waste that they collected, which included cell phones but likely included far more non-cellphone electronics, went to many different recyclers for processing. Most of the articles implied that only Apple's phones/devices/gadgets where involved but would have included a lot of non-Apple products as well. Any e-waste would qualify to meat their requirements, not just their own products.
Apple paid the recyclers to process the electronics. As part of that recycling, $40m worth of gold was recovered. It is very likely that the total cost of the recycling exceeded $40m (plus whatever else was made on other materials recovered). If that is indeed the case, it wasn't $40m in profit, it would be some expense offset by the $40m that was recovered.
Why do you want an external HDMI switch, rather than have that built into the TV?
Because my TV is mounted on a wall while all my AV equipment is not. I want 2 cables running to my TV: a HDMI cable and a power cable. My receiver serves as the HDMI switch since all my audio has to go through it anyways.
Actually, quite a lot of religious conservatives do protest...
And by quite a lot, I presume you mean a very small number of extremely vocal groups such as the Parents Television Council that roboform generate 99.8% of the complaints for obscenity, indecency, and/or profanity.
Technically, they are probably more discriminating based on beliefs of all those that don't support the law. Or maybe those that are hypocrites that find LGBT getting married, using restrooms, existing, etc so offensive but don't mind watching porn of them online.
If you had given me the address of the hackers on that day, I would have hunted them down and strung them up in the public square by their balls.
and what you do is remove the bits needed to pass on their genes and "pleasure" a woman.
Now I do admit that I've never been strung up by my balls, but I'd imagine that if you strung them up tight enough, long enough, you'd still accomplish the same goal of preventing them from passing on their genetic material and pleasing a woman.
There is ZERO chance that said router is in a hospital with medical equipment hooked up to it. And who the hell cares if it's in a medical insurance office. Insurance offices don't provide medical services so zero lives are at risk.
I remember a time when the US had all the good encryption and wasn't allowed to export it. Now the rest of the world will have good encryption and the US won't be allowed to import it.
In other industries, such as cars, if the product fails craptastically, people can die. If a badly designed coffee pot malfunctions, people could be hurt or die. If a baby crib has a part that is found to be able to break off creating a choking hazard, a baby could die. All these types of events are already covered under existing laws/regulations by several different federal agencies (or by equivalents in many other non-US countries).
If a router fails due to some massive security holes, no one dies.
Keep a little perspective when considering what is a serious design flaw and how recalls for defects should be treated the same.
PayPal has made it very clear: there are 49 other states that will gladly accept our proposition to employ hundreds of high skilled knowledge workers.
Well, 48 states when you exclude Mississippi. Or 47 if you include Indiana which passed and then walked back some their RFRA. Or less if you include many of the other states that have passed or tried to pass similar legislation in the last few years in attempts to reverse any progress that was made at the federal level.
They exist, just not very common. It's easier/cheaper to just make them 2.5" since physical space isn't normally required and just use an adapter when a 3.5" drive is needed then have 2 different product line sizes.
While I'm sure the tenant wasn't happy with all the delays, I don't think that was the issue. I think the real issue was Comcast demanding $60,000 for the contract, as well as keeping the $2,000 deposit for a service they could not and would not deliver.
When the wealthy have a police state with killbots on their side, what chance do you think the people have?
I've seen all those movies. In the short term, it's bad for humans, both the innocent as well as the idiots that made the killbots. But usually humans prevail in the end. So I'm putting my money on the humans.
A settlement of what? The US government is demanding Apple do something Apple refuses to do. If Apple settles, they've lost. If the US government settles, they've lost. There is no partial settlement from either side where the US government gets what it wants and Apple doesn't have to do what it doesn't want to do.
When NIST drops the degrees from degrees Celsius then so will I. Until then, I'll still continue to refer to individual temperatures on the Celsius scale as degrees Celsius.
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That's because Amazon charges the seller a fee to warehouse the item in their warehouse(s) and for fulfilling the order. You have the option to get "free" shipping in a day or two days with Prime, or anywhere from a few days days to weeks if you wait for the seller to ship it themselves.
I personally am an impulsive buyer that wants things ASAP. I have a prime membership as I order enough stuff that it pays for itself vs paying for normal shipping and not having to wait 7-10 days for the free we'll-get-it-to-you-when-we-get-around-to-it-shipping to make it's way to me. I also like that if there's any issues with the shipping, returns, etc I just have to deal with Amazon's support that's always been great for me. I've never had to pay for return shipping for a problem that wasn't my doing, something I have with other online retailers.
My guess is that they use the same definition of unlimited some cell phones company use. You can use all that you want, as long as you want, as long as you don't mind dialup-like speeds.
Didn't you hear, C/C++ are really just clones of Java. /s
The sentence is poorly worded but I think they are trying to say that the IDE is written in java (which it is).
My bank solved that problem. You have to insert then remove your card as you normally would, then wait for it to prompt you to reinsert your card where you leave it until your transaction(s) are done.
This, combined with their chip not being accepted randomly for multiple retailers as a "credit" transaction, and their refusal to support Apple Pay or Android Pay because "it may just be a fad" really makes me want to find another credit union. But they are the largest in the area so I doubt other local CU would be much better.
Basically, Apple is required by laws in various states and countries to recycle e-waste because they are a manufacturer of electronics. The waste that they collected, which included cell phones but likely included far more non-cellphone electronics, went to many different recyclers for processing. Most of the articles implied that only Apple's phones/devices/gadgets where involved but would have included a lot of non-Apple products as well. Any e-waste would qualify to meat their requirements, not just their own products.
Apple paid the recyclers to process the electronics. As part of that recycling, $40m worth of gold was recovered. It is very likely that the total cost of the recycling exceeded $40m (plus whatever else was made on other materials recovered). If that is indeed the case, it wasn't $40m in profit, it would be some expense offset by the $40m that was recovered.
Japan, Singapore and Taiwan all have capital punishment and all would have issue being excluded from being considered a high income/developed country.
Because my TV is mounted on a wall while all my AV equipment is not. I want 2 cables running to my TV: a HDMI cable and a power cable. My receiver serves as the HDMI switch since all my audio has to go through it anyways.
And by quite a lot, I presume you mean a very small number of extremely vocal groups such as the Parents Television Council that roboform generate 99.8% of the complaints for obscenity, indecency, and/or profanity.
Or just, you know, NOT do something completely stupid in the first place.
For you maybe. For my family's 4 lines, it's far more than adequate for our usage, where we use it, and for the price we pay.
Technically, they are probably more discriminating based on beliefs of all those that don't support the law. Or maybe those that are hypocrites that find LGBT getting married, using restrooms, existing, etc so offensive but don't mind watching porn of them online.
Now I do admit that I've never been strung up by my balls, but I'd imagine that if you strung them up tight enough, long enough, you'd still accomplish the same goal of preventing them from passing on their genetic material and pleasing a woman.
There is ZERO chance that said router is in a hospital with medical equipment hooked up to it. And who the hell cares if it's in a medical insurance office. Insurance offices don't provide medical services so zero lives are at risk.
I remember a time when the US had all the good encryption and wasn't allowed to export it. Now the rest of the world will have good encryption and the US won't be allowed to import it.
In other industries, such as cars, if the product fails craptastically, people can die. If a badly designed coffee pot malfunctions, people could be hurt or die. If a baby crib has a part that is found to be able to break off creating a choking hazard, a baby could die. All these types of events are already covered under existing laws/regulations by several different federal agencies (or by equivalents in many other non-US countries).
If a router fails due to some massive security holes, no one dies.
Keep a little perspective when considering what is a serious design flaw and how recalls for defects should be treated the same.
Well, 48 states when you exclude Mississippi. Or 47 if you include Indiana which passed and then walked back some their RFRA. Or less if you include many of the other states that have passed or tried to pass similar legislation in the last few years in attempts to reverse any progress that was made at the federal level.
They exist, just not very common. It's easier/cheaper to just make them 2.5" since physical space isn't normally required and just use an adapter when a 3.5" drive is needed then have 2 different product line sizes.
So do the cores battle each other to see which one is better? Or how does that work?
Iraq didn't have weapons of mass destruction...
While I'm sure the tenant wasn't happy with all the delays, I don't think that was the issue. I think the real issue was Comcast demanding $60,000 for the contract, as well as keeping the $2,000 deposit for a service they could not and would not deliver.
I've seen all those movies. In the short term, it's bad for humans, both the innocent as well as the idiots that made the killbots. But usually humans prevail in the end. So I'm putting my money on the humans.
A settlement of what? The US government is demanding Apple do something Apple refuses to do. If Apple settles, they've lost. If the US government settles, they've lost. There is no partial settlement from either side where the US government gets what it wants and Apple doesn't have to do what it doesn't want to do.
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When NIST drops the degrees from degrees Celsius then so will I. Until then, I'll still continue to refer to individual temperatures on the Celsius scale as degrees Celsius.
To be fair though, those same moms would freak out if their precious snowflake was 37.2 degrees C when they should only be 37 degrees C.
Yeah. Violate me. As in my right to privacy, right to be or not to be tracked, right to not be exposed to potential security issues, etc.