That was with Esurance and I bailed on them a long time ago for this and other reasons. One of my favorite stunts they pulled was to change their billing date from 15 days before the policy renewed to 45 days prior without telling me. They sucked $800 out of my checking account on the basis of this change and my rent check bounced as a result. They refused to make it right until I got the NYS Insurance Department involved.
Now I'm with a smaller company. Not sure how they would have handled the lawsuit but I do know they didn't surcharge me because of the not-at-fault accident. They were also $100/yr cheaper than Esurance for four times as much liability coverage ($250,000/$500,000 split limit vs $1,000,000 combined single limit)
You need to climb off your horse and realize that not every ill in this country can be blamed on business.
I got sued by someone who rear-ended me at a stop light. There is no conceivable way that accident can be attributed to my negligence. My insurance company settled with the asshole for $12,000 and then raised my rates. Their reason? It's cheaper to settle than to fight the lawsuit. The person who sued me was an individual who perverted the justice system. It had nothing to do with business.
Because our justice system is wholly subservient to business interests. It's not that hard to understand.
No, our justice system is wholly subservient to lawyers. It's just as common for individuals to exploit the system in the manner described by the GP as it is for businesses. The fact that it costs less to settle than to fight a lawsuit is leveraged by all manner of legal practices that have nothing to do with "business interests". In fact, some of them are directly opposed to "business interests", like the ambulance chaser that my insurance company settled with even though the accident was not my fault.
When I was young and poor I used to buy everclear. Oz for oz it's the cheapest way to get drunk. My favorite way to consume it was to mix it with Snapple. Drink two or three shots worth of snapple and refill the empty space with Everclear. You'll be smashed in short order and the best part is that you can barely taste the alcohol.
On the other hand, use of weapons in any civilized society is unthinkable without taking responsibility for the results
I don't disagree, but I'm still opposed to firearms registration of any kind. One of the reasons we have a 2nd amendment is as a final check against oppressive government. That check doesn't do us any good if government knows where all the weapons are and can confiscate them. Historically gun registration has led to gun confiscation. I don't even need to Godwin to make this example either -- it's happened right here in the US in California and New York City. They passed gun registration laws and later passed laws outlawing certain types of guns. Guess how they knew who owned those guns?
I hope it comes with QoS, because I'm not really looking forward to my voice calls taking a back seat to some smartphone jackass and his sense of self importance.....
Their minister of health [bbc.co.uk], for several years, was a woman who claimed that HIV doesn't cause AIDS, and that eating beets and garlic can protect you against it
Did anybody check her campaign account for donations from big garlic?
Then I don't think you understand the laws very well. Verizon can't eavesdrop on your telephone calls for the hell of it. If they are working on the lines and a tech splices into your line it's one thing -- but they can't eavesdrop on you just because you are using their services.
Here's the NYS law:
A person is guilty of eavesdropping when he unlawfully engages in wiretapping, mechanical overhearing of a conversation, or intercepting or accessing of an electronic communication. Eavesdropping is a class E felony.
There's a limited exemption in the law for a telephone company to monitor your calls in the "regular course of business", i.e: for troubleshooting or billing purposes. Somehow I doubt that a ISP monitoring all of your DNS packets to build a profile of you would qualify under this exemption.
That's another reason not to use them. When I experimented with DD-WRT to save electricity (my other router is a full fledged Linux box that uses ~50 watts) I had it set to use TWC's DNS servers. Had forgotten how often they went down until I found myself using them again.
Anyway, I solved the sluggish ISP DNS problem with simply installing bind9 and be done with it
Having my own DNS server is one of the reasons why I haven't abandoned my full fledged Linux box for a DD-WRT flashed router or similar solution. Running BIND locally gives me a local DNS cache, remains compatible with CDNs (since the requests come from my own IP) and avoids any DNS tracking on the part of my ISP. Since I have a fixed IP address I've also made my server available to friends who share my ISP -- no reason they should have to use it's crappy DNS servers when mine is a hop or two away, is there?
Already, the telescope network has been used to image the heart of a galaxy called Centaurus A, which is 14 million light-years away and contains a supermassive black hole.
Observing the galaxy for ten hours, each of the six telescopes recorded up to 10 Tb of data. This was transmitted to Perth's Curtin University of Technology via KAREN and the 10 Gbps AARNET.
At Curtin, the data was processed on a local 160-core Beowulf cluster comprising a 100 Tb spinning disk and supported by petabyte storage at the iVEC supercomputing centre.
The cluster consolidated and processed the data into a final data set a "few" gigabytes in size, according to Curtin professor Steven Tingay.
The newly connected telescope in Warkworth, New Zealand (PDF), is connected to an Australian data processing facility via a 0.000048828125 LOC/s network. Each telescope reportedly produces up to 0.05 LOC of data per hour of observation. IBM expects the whole of the SKA to produce 52428.8 LOC of data per day.
That's it exactly. At least when they outlawed booze they did it in a Constitutionally correct manner. They couldn't be bothered to do the same when they outlawed pot.
The sad thing is that they probably could have gotten 3/4 of the states to go along with it back during the days of "reefer madness" but they couldn't even be bothered. Why go through the proper channels when we can just assume powers not delegated to the Federal Government?
We have the right to do whatever the hell we want as long as it doesn't infringe on the rights of others or infringe on some power specifically delegated to the Government (i.e: I can't sign a treaty with a foreign power)
You must be one of those people that thinks the 9th and 10th amendments don't exist or hasn't even heard of them.
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That was with Esurance and I bailed on them a long time ago for this and other reasons. One of my favorite stunts they pulled was to change their billing date from 15 days before the policy renewed to 45 days prior without telling me. They sucked $800 out of my checking account on the basis of this change and my rent check bounced as a result. They refused to make it right until I got the NYS Insurance Department involved.
Now I'm with a smaller company. Not sure how they would have handled the lawsuit but I do know they didn't surcharge me because of the not-at-fault accident. They were also $100/yr cheaper than Esurance for four times as much liability coverage ($250,000/$500,000 split limit vs $1,000,000 combined single limit)
You need to climb off your horse and realize that not every ill in this country can be blamed on business.
I got sued by someone who rear-ended me at a stop light. There is no conceivable way that accident can be attributed to my negligence. My insurance company settled with the asshole for $12,000 and then raised my rates. Their reason? It's cheaper to settle than to fight the lawsuit. The person who sued me was an individual who perverted the justice system. It had nothing to do with business.
Because our justice system is wholly subservient to business interests. It's not that hard to understand.
No, our justice system is wholly subservient to lawyers. It's just as common for individuals to exploit the system in the manner described by the GP as it is for businesses. The fact that it costs less to settle than to fight a lawsuit is leveraged by all manner of legal practices that have nothing to do with "business interests". In fact, some of them are directly opposed to "business interests", like the ambulance chaser that my insurance company settled with even though the accident was not my fault.
There's a reason for 26.2 miles....
I always enjoyed these beers because I could pound one when I came home from work and it would be delicious without giving me any impairment.
You get impaired on a regular beer? What kind of light weight are you? ;)
If you want hard booze, drink hard booze
When I was young and poor I used to buy everclear. Oz for oz it's the cheapest way to get drunk. My favorite way to consume it was to mix it with Snapple. Drink two or three shots worth of snapple and refill the empty space with Everclear. You'll be smashed in short order and the best part is that you can barely taste the alcohol.
On the other hand, use of weapons in any civilized society is unthinkable without taking responsibility for the results
I don't disagree, but I'm still opposed to firearms registration of any kind. One of the reasons we have a 2nd amendment is as a final check against oppressive government. That check doesn't do us any good if government knows where all the weapons are and can confiscate them. Historically gun registration has led to gun confiscation. I don't even need to Godwin to make this example either -- it's happened right here in the US in California and New York City. They passed gun registration laws and later passed laws outlawing certain types of guns. Guess how they knew who owned those guns?
I hope it comes with QoS, because I'm not really looking forward to my voice calls taking a back seat to some smartphone jackass and his sense of self importance.....
Their minister of health [bbc.co.uk], for several years, was a woman who claimed that HIV doesn't cause AIDS, and that eating beets and garlic can protect you against it
Did anybody check her campaign account for donations from big garlic?
and eating little babies with some tomato sauce
That's absurd. Everybody knows that babies go better with a white wine sauce. Red sauce just overpowers the flavor of the meat.
You are calling racism over a Star Wars reference? Are you working for the DNC or something?
Then I don't think you understand the laws very well. Verizon can't eavesdrop on your telephone calls for the hell of it. If they are working on the lines and a tech splices into your line it's one thing -- but they can't eavesdrop on you just because you are using their services.
Here's the NYS law:
A person is guilty of eavesdropping when he unlawfully engages in wiretapping, mechanical overhearing of a conversation, or intercepting or accessing of an electronic communication.
Eavesdropping is a class E felony.
There's a limited exemption in the law for a telephone company to monitor your calls in the "regular course of business", i.e: for troubleshooting or billing purposes. Somehow I doubt that a ISP monitoring all of your DNS packets to build a profile of you would qualify under this exemption.
That would be a violation of my state's wiretapping laws.
That's another reason not to use them. When I experimented with DD-WRT to save electricity (my other router is a full fledged Linux box that uses ~50 watts) I had it set to use TWC's DNS servers. Had forgotten how often they went down until I found myself using them again.
Pathetic. How hard is it to keep BIND running?
Anyway, I solved the sluggish ISP DNS problem with simply installing bind9 and be done with it
Having my own DNS server is one of the reasons why I haven't abandoned my full fledged Linux box for a DD-WRT flashed router or similar solution. Running BIND locally gives me a local DNS cache, remains compatible with CDNs (since the requests come from my own IP) and avoids any DNS tracking on the part of my ISP. Since I have a fixed IP address I've also made my server available to friends who share my ISP -- no reason they should have to use it's crappy DNS servers when mine is a hop or two away, is there?
Under that rationale we should preemptively fingerprint and DNA swab everybody when they are born.
Except that they already can. Criminals steal the guns they use in crime. Registration does not help to catch them.
I'd like a Beowulf cluster of those ;)
Already, the telescope network has been used to image the heart of a galaxy called Centaurus A, which is 14 million light-years away and contains a supermassive black hole.
Observing the galaxy for ten hours, each of the six telescopes recorded up to 10 Tb of data. This was transmitted to Perth's Curtin University of Technology via KAREN and the 10 Gbps AARNET.
At Curtin, the data was processed on a local 160-core Beowulf cluster comprising a 100 Tb spinning disk and supported by petabyte storage at the iVEC supercomputing centre.
The cluster consolidated and processed the data into a final data set a "few" gigabytes in size, according to Curtin professor Steven Tingay.
It's probably a cloud solution involving a few million g-mail accounts ;)
The newly connected telescope in Warkworth, New Zealand (PDF), is connected to an Australian data processing facility via a 0.000048828125 LOC/s network. Each telescope reportedly produces up to 0.05 LOC of data per hour of observation. IBM expects the whole of the SKA to produce 52428.8 LOC of data per day.
It's amazing the crazy shit you wing-nuts will make up in your heads to justify your positions.
That's not a uniquely right-wing trait.....
Guns are pretty much designed for killing
And?
That's it exactly. At least when they outlawed booze they did it in a Constitutionally correct manner. They couldn't be bothered to do the same when they outlawed pot.
The sad thing is that they probably could have gotten 3/4 of the states to go along with it back during the days of "reefer madness" but they couldn't even be bothered. Why go through the proper channels when we can just assume powers not delegated to the Federal Government?
The handgun is easily concealable, requires little to no skill to use
You've never fired a handgun have you?
We have the right to do whatever the hell we want as long as it doesn't infringe on the rights of others or infringe on some power specifically delegated to the Government (i.e: I can't sign a treaty with a foreign power)
You must be one of those people that thinks the 9th and 10th amendments don't exist or hasn't even heard of them.