I've stopped buying products advertised at a price after rebate. It simply isn't worth the hassle to assemble the appropriate documentation, photocopy it, file the photocopy, and then send it in. Then, 6 to 8 weeks later, start phoning the company asking where my rebate is. All that to save a few bucks on some cheap piece of Chinese-made crap simply isn't worth my time. I'll continue to review the ads and buy something I want when it is truly on sale. As a result, I've pretty much stopped going in to Fry's since nearly everything has some sort of rebate attached to it. I never go to Best Buy either, partly for the same reason, but mainly because their prices are always high and their service sucks so bad.
Does this matter to a place like Fry's. Admittedly, no it doesn't, but I feel better about it.
You know. You're giving your life for Allah tomorrow so you wanna relax by taking in the falls and scenery at Yosemite. You drive up to the Big Oak Flat entrance and the ranger asks for your ID and boom, you're immediately arrested for being on the watch list. Boo-yah! Score one for DHS!
Let's just hope they don't get swamped with false positives.
Of course, they're going to get swamped. And they're going to over-react to each and every one and some $8/hour junior Gestapo wanna-be is going to pull 75-year old grannies out of line for full body cavity searches because they know that sweet grin is just a mask for true evil-doers. Face it, TSA and their staff are worthless suckers on the public money teat. They're the Milhouse Van Houten's of society but armed with the power to ruin your day.
I wonder how many of us knew what they wanted to do with their lives when they were 21 let alone 15 or 16. About the only time you knew that was when you were 5 or 6 and you wanted to be a fireman, cowboy, or a ballerina.
However, if this really does keep a few students in school who otherwise would have dropped out, its probably a non-issue. For those who are motivated to go to college, it isn't going to do anything.
I got tired of running through the same mazes and features that I wrote some sort of script that allowed me to automate play up to the last point where I either got killed or was stuck. It worked most of the time but there was an element of randomness with regards to those damned dwarves randomly throwing their damned axes. Even so, I was finally able to solve the entire puzzle and had a script that walked through it from beginning to end including the twisty little mazes that all look alike. I also recall obtaining the Fortran source code from some where as well.
When the decider's attitude is that the Constitution is just a damn piece of paper, why should something like this surprise anybody. Compared to his other desecrations of that document, this is nothing.
You ain't never gonna win the PR battle on this one and, in fact, you're going to come out smelling like a 6-week dead sea lion washed up on the beach. Don't you guys have other guys that tell you this kind of stuff?
In America, I thought it was the government's responsibility to choose who and when to prosecute, not private citizens or corporations.
Its the district attorney who usually decides whether a case is worth taking to court. The police simply respond to a complaint. They don't have the leeway to call BS when a complaint is made. They can sometimes talk to the complaintent about how their case isn't going anywhere but if they insist upon continuing with it, then the police carry out their duties.
Any private citizen or a company can make a complaint if they feel they've been wronged. That, of course, doesn't mean it's justified. That's for the DA/courts to decide.
Members of a rock band from the 60's or 70's playing country fairs or in Branson or a aging actor replaying a role he did 40 years ago on a cheesy TV show.
Given that he is a bit of a free-thinker and visionary, it will be interesting to see whether he can succeed in the world of a large defense contractor who is more concerned with profit over innovation. Once the bean-counters arrive, Scaled Composites is going to be a much different place.
The company also confirmed that it is considering a subscription model to complement Windows
Thats kind of like the bank down the street closing its doors and consolidating their business to a new place 15 miles away for my convenience and to better serve me. Or the business who fires the phone support staff to install a voice-mail from hell system because they really value my business.
Totally different situation. Casinos are private property and, as such, the owners may bar entrance to their gambling facilities for any reason. If they feel a player is "too lucky", they can ask him to stop playing. That said, however, he still legally owns whatever profits he had accumulated to that point (barring accusations and proof of cheating, of course).
Here, apparently, they are considering prosecution of an individual who was on the property legally and was playing the machine according to the rules saying they either knew the machine was defective or that they should have known. This, of course, is pure and utter bullshit. It isn't the responsibility of the player to know a machine is defective. The casino owns the machines and are responsible for their maintenance. If they've left a defective (but operational) machine on the floor allowing it to be played, then any losses that accrue due to the defect is their problem. Maybe the player just figured this was one of those "loose" slots, the casinos are always advertising.
about these "records"? I sure don't. Whether its Steve Fosset or Richard Branson playing with their rich-man toys or some meaningless [insert duration] while [insert activity] record, the result is the same -- Stop pestering me with reports, I simply don't give a damn.
Family history records him purchasing a batch of records from VinylTorrent for a nickel each and subsequently being sued under the aforementioned EULA. He had to pay two horses, a mule, and several chickens if I'm not mistaken.
I never signed any MLB broadcast agreement. Should I ever decide to buy a slingbox and should I ever decide to watch MLB again, there are no restrictions at all on me preventing me from watching at home or 3000 miles away. Since this is a moot point to me, I'm only reacting to someone telling me what I shouldn't be doing. Otherwise, MLB can go take a flying leap...
Just like attempts to outlaw pornography, this one will fail as well. What is pornography is one person's eye is art in another. Just what is a hacking tool? Who gets to say? If it has some socially redeeming value, is it still a hacking tool? Although I don't read German, it didn't appear there were any specific programs specified in the law so I suspect this is one of those "I don't know how to define it, I just know when I see it" kind of laws.
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Does this matter to a place like Fry's. Admittedly, no it doesn't, but I feel better about it.
Please, Joe. Say it ain't so!
You know. You're giving your life for Allah tomorrow so you wanna relax by taking in the falls and scenery at Yosemite. You drive up to the Big Oak Flat entrance and the ranger asks for your ID and boom, you're immediately arrested for being on the watch list. Boo-yah! Score one for DHS!
Yeah. Sounds plausible to me.
Of course, they're going to get swamped. And they're going to over-react to each and every one and some $8/hour junior Gestapo wanna-be is going to pull 75-year old grannies out of line for full body cavity searches because they know that sweet grin is just a mask for true evil-doers. Face it, TSA and their staff are worthless suckers on the public money teat. They're the Milhouse Van Houten's of society but armed with the power to ruin your day.
I've already won my free iPod by clicking on the dancing monkey.
I don't need another one, thank you.
I wonder how many of us knew what they wanted to do with their lives when they were 21 let alone 15 or 16. About the only time you knew that was when you were 5 or 6 and you wanted to be a fireman, cowboy, or a ballerina.
However, if this really does keep a few students in school who otherwise would have dropped out, its probably a non-issue. For those who are motivated to go to college, it isn't going to do anything.
I got tired of running through the same mazes and features that I wrote some sort of script that allowed me to automate play up to the last point where I either got killed or was stuck. It worked most of the time but there was an element of randomness with regards to those damned dwarves randomly throwing their damned axes. Even so, I was finally able to solve the entire puzzle and had a script that walked through it from beginning to end including the twisty little mazes that all look alike. I also recall obtaining the Fortran source code from some where as well.
What fun and what very fond memories.
When the decider's attitude is that the Constitution is just a damn piece of paper, why should something like this surprise anybody. Compared to his other desecrations of that document, this is nothing.
You ain't never gonna win the PR battle on this one and, in fact, you're going to come out smelling like a 6-week dead sea lion washed up on the beach. Don't you guys have other guys that tell you this kind of stuff?
Four galaxies enter. One galaxy leaves.
Well, Burritos R Us wants more money each time it comes back up.
Its the district attorney who usually decides whether a case is worth taking to court. The police simply respond to a complaint. They don't have the leeway to call BS when a complaint is made. They can sometimes talk to the complaintent about how their case isn't going anywhere but if they insist upon continuing with it, then the police carry out their duties.
Any private citizen or a company can make a complaint if they feel they've been wronged. That, of course, doesn't mean it's justified. That's for the DA/courts to decide.
Members of a rock band from the 60's or 70's playing country fairs or in Branson or a aging actor replaying a role he did 40 years ago on a cheesy TV show.
In any case, keep at it, Burt.
Thats kind of like the bank down the street closing its doors and consolidating their business to a new place 15 miles away for my convenience and to better serve me. Or the business who fires the phone support staff to install a voice-mail from hell system because they really value my business.
In other words, bullshit.
Here, apparently, they are considering prosecution of an individual who was on the property legally and was playing the machine according to the rules saying they either knew the machine was defective or that they should have known. This, of course, is pure and utter bullshit. It isn't the responsibility of the player to know a machine is defective. The casino owns the machines and are responsible for their maintenance. If they've left a defective (but operational) machine on the floor allowing it to be played, then any losses that accrue due to the defect is their problem. Maybe the player just figured this was one of those "loose" slots, the casinos are always advertising.
Sort of like the smell that comes from a whole barnyard of male bovines?
Nah, give me a Red Tick Beer. I'd suck one dry in a second!
is that they tasted just like chicken.
about these "records"? I sure don't. Whether its Steve Fosset or Richard Branson playing with their rich-man toys or some meaningless [insert duration] while [insert activity] record, the result is the same -- Stop pestering me with reports, I simply don't give a damn.
Some angry fists were shaken that day, I'll bet.
Because the legislators don't receive as much mon.., errr, campaign contributions from the game lobbyists as they do from the booze industry.
I never signed any MLB broadcast agreement. Should I ever decide to buy a slingbox and should I ever decide to watch MLB again, there are no restrictions at all on me preventing me from watching at home or 3000 miles away. Since this is a moot point to me, I'm only reacting to someone telling me what I shouldn't be doing. Otherwise, MLB can go take a flying leap...
When will politicians ever learn? sigh...