utility bills aren't "credit" they are a bill for services rendered. just because the bill comes after the service does not make it credit any more than paying the bill at a restaraunt is credit. same with rent and oither such things. though i don't think it's common for landlords to even be reporting agents so not paying on time will likely not hurt your credit rating, just get your ass evicted.
i do believe that legally credit cards are better protected than debit cards, however the cardholder agreements even things out to better than either is protected legally due to competition among card issuers. namely NOBODY can afford to be the card that will screw you if your debit card gets stolen.
store managers at large chain stores negotiate lower prices for big ticket items ALL THE TIME
it's simply good business. if you have a $5000 item which you make $750 in profit on when sold, you still make a profit of $250 if you knock half a grand off in negotiation with a potential customer. the only time that is unwise for the store is if the item is hot enough you can be sure it will sell at full sticker price before you would have a chance to replace it.
and if your business is carrying items with a $750 markup which are hot enough to be unable to reorder in time.... well i want to get into that line of work.
in the current market real estate cannot be depended upon to appreciate over the medium or even the long term. the market was white hot and because of that prices in many areas are just plain silly. $100,000 to $500,000 for a tiny plot of land and a shitty recently built house. also with a rental the property cannot become a liability to you. if your insurance is insufficient you will be up a well known creek without a paddle if, for example, your home is damaged or destroyed by flood, and you don't have flood insurance. there is no home but you still owe the money.
what the hell does one bureaucratic cocksucker half a century ago ago have to do with treating an IRS clerk like shit because you are a childish douchebag?
if you only apply the filter to calls from outside your area code that shouldn't be a problem. if they are in your area code you can drive down and raise hell.
if they sold code that would allow remote use of, say, a very expensive multi-user version of office with a tiny front end on linux that handled the file storage either to the corporate document storage or to the desktop hard drive, and ran the suite itself mostly on the application server but the GUI operated as a bytecode application sent to the client machine for better user experience.
a setup like this would be less of a strike at linux and more of a hedge against eventual loss of windows share of the desktop market. losing the corporate desktop OS market would be painful, having the office suite monoculture cracked enough that people don't simply expect.doc and shit bricks when they get emailed anything else would be much more painful.
they AREN'T gunning for firefox. they are concentrating on how they can knock down IE because IE is a threat. firefox dominating in the market will not hurt apple or safari users. IE has done a great deal to hurt users of other browsers though embrace/extend tactics and horrible mutilation of standards causeing many "IE" targetted pages to look horrible or fail to function at all on other browsers. the problem has lessened in recent years but it's still a threat. apple doesn't make money selling safari, they give it out with OSX and selling it for windows would be pointless since there are so many free browsers.
right now the only competition that matters a damn is IE v. everything, now that firefox has cut so deep into MS web developers and designers are forced to actually follow the standards and test across multiple browsers.
ibm might be to blame? in what universe does a company look at a sale and question whether the customer needs the items? for that matter it is highly unlikely that IBM had a detailed enough understanding of the school disctrict to know what they would need anyways.
the point is that cable companies are given special rights above and beyond normal companies, just try to start up darjen's cable service and string some copper from the telephone poles and see what happens.
since they are given special access to public property there is a legitimate public interest in regulating their buisiness practices beyond simply preventing dishonesty and criminal activity.
the "minority view" is being trotted out by business interests and politicians beholden to big oil constantly, it's not the scientists being targetted, it's the cocksuckers trying to suppress the general scientific community for the sake of campaign contributions.
when i go on vacation the first 12 hours i have to adjust to not having news/info instantly available--but after that i'm fine and a good book (or stack of good books) can easilly take the place of internets for leisure.
actually a digital video feed which encodes realtime speedometer info could easilly simulate one long photo with moving objects and people blurred but buildings in clear view, not only that but with a bit of different processing (mode value rather than mean) you could eliminate most moving objects and small items like signs and parking meters
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the credit card company gets plenty in merchant fees from your teransactions. they don't mind what you are doing one bit.
utility bills aren't "credit" they are a bill for services rendered. just because the bill comes after the service does not make it credit any more than paying the bill at a restaraunt is credit. same with rent and oither such things. though i don't think it's common for landlords to even be reporting agents so not paying on time will likely not hurt your credit rating, just get your ass evicted.
i do believe that legally credit cards are better protected than debit cards, however the cardholder agreements even things out to better than either is protected legally due to competition among card issuers. namely NOBODY can afford to be the card that will screw you if your debit card gets stolen.
store managers at large chain stores negotiate lower prices for big ticket items ALL THE TIME
it's simply good business. if you have a $5000 item which you make $750 in profit on when sold, you still make a profit of $250 if you knock half a grand off in negotiation with a potential customer. the only time that is unwise for the store is if the item is hot enough you can be sure it will sell at full sticker price before you would have a chance to replace it.
and if your business is carrying items with a $750 markup which are hot enough to be unable to reorder in time.... well i want to get into that line of work.
in the current market real estate cannot be depended upon to appreciate over the medium or even the long term. the market was white hot and because of that prices in many areas are just plain silly. $100,000 to $500,000 for a tiny plot of land and a shitty recently built house. also with a rental the property cannot become a liability to you. if your insurance is insufficient you will be up a well known creek without a paddle if, for example, your home is damaged or destroyed by flood, and you don't have flood insurance. there is no home but you still owe the money.
what the hell does one bureaucratic cocksucker half a century ago ago have to do with treating an IRS clerk like shit because you are a childish douchebag?
if you only apply the filter to calls from outside your area code that shouldn't be a problem. if they are in your area code you can drive down and raise hell.
if they sold code that would allow remote use of, say, a very expensive multi-user version of office with a tiny front end on linux that handled the file storage either to the corporate document storage or to the desktop hard drive, and ran the suite itself mostly on the application server but the GUI operated as a bytecode application sent to the client machine for better user experience.
.doc and shit bricks when they get emailed anything else would be much more painful.
a setup like this would be less of a strike at linux and more of a hedge against eventual loss of windows share of the desktop market. losing the corporate desktop OS market would be painful, having the office suite monoculture cracked enough that people don't simply expect
they AREN'T gunning for firefox. they are concentrating on how they can knock down IE because IE is a threat. firefox dominating in the market will not hurt apple or safari users. IE has done a great deal to hurt users of other browsers though embrace/extend tactics and horrible mutilation of standards causeing many "IE" targetted pages to look horrible or fail to function at all on other browsers. the problem has lessened in recent years but it's still a threat. apple doesn't make money selling safari, they give it out with OSX and selling it for windows would be pointless since there are so many free browsers.
right now the only competition that matters a damn is IE v. everything, now that firefox has cut so deep into MS web developers and designers are forced to actually follow the standards and test across multiple browsers.
AOL!
if everything is bad on OSX, and fine on other systems, i doubt it is everything else that is bad. perhaps you need more ram, or a real computer?
yes it is insane to not want a wall of "the *" in an alphabetical search
good luck starting a CPU without it erasing the cache or chopping it up to access the cache with special hardware.
ibm might be to blame? in what universe does a company look at a sale and question whether the customer needs the items? for that matter it is highly unlikely that IBM had a detailed enough understanding of the school disctrict to know what they would need anyways.
copyright infringement is not a property crime.
Nobody is deprived of their property by copyright infringement.
Copyright infringement is a violation of statutory rights created by the government, property crimes are violations of natural rights.
China is not an enemy of the united states. even chimpy understands that one
"partially restored" means "they don't work" amirite?
the point is that cable companies are given special rights above and beyond normal companies, just try to start up darjen's cable service and string some copper from the telephone poles and see what happens.
since they are given special access to public property there is a legitimate public interest in regulating their buisiness practices beyond simply preventing dishonesty and criminal activity.
the "minority view" is being trotted out by business interests and politicians beholden to big oil constantly, it's not the scientists being targetted, it's the cocksuckers trying to suppress the general scientific community for the sake of campaign contributions.
the government already grants the providers license to put their infrastructure on public property
indefinitely.
when i go on vacation the first 12 hours i have to adjust to not having news/info instantly available--but after that i'm fine and a good book (or stack of good books) can easilly take the place of internets for leisure.
porn *store* !?
but 4chan is free
actually at the community college i graduated from in may, every non-geek i knew of with vista either had trouble with it or just outright hated it.
geeks tand to get things fixed or returned, while non-geeks are more likely to live with the problems and bitch a lot.
will it be the iFlop?
actually a digital video feed which encodes realtime speedometer info could easilly simulate one long photo with moving objects and people blurred but buildings in clear view, not only that but with a bit of different processing (mode value rather than mean) you could eliminate most moving objects and small items like signs and parking meters