If the WHO said "this appears to be a normal flu," the media would have nothing to hype and fear. Governments, listening to the WHO, wouldn't have overreacted, again lessinng the medias ability to fearmonger.
No, the response was BS. The people you claim were "healthy" were not. They were obese. Go dig into the number of supposedly healthy people and check out how many were obese.
If you're going to suggest stuff like this, at least be accurate. In many cases HIV can be detected within two to eight weeks, although in some cases it can be up to three months. Testing for HIV has advanced.
Ya, it does, it's the whole point of her whole couch story.
Why she feels that relates to tech at all is beyond me, except that she doesn't like being around men apparently.
I could care less if there are more women techies or not, but then I'm functional outside the technology world as well, so don't have problems interacting with women in other environments.
Ya you are. You're claiming that they should be offering the service free forever. Pretty much the definintion of entitled attitude.
Please explain how NOT having to pay costs for freeloading users will put them out of business? Oh, it won't. Seriously, get your head out of your ass; you don't seem to be in touch with reality.
Hmm.. would a man have ruined it by becoming turned on, or simply by being there since you don't like men? I suspect the latter. If you weren't a lesbian, I might have taken your point.
Bull. Nobody is under any obligation to offer something free forever. Get your entitled head out of your ass. This is not bait and switch, this is "we're discontinuing our free service." They owe you what you paid them, nothing.
DDNS is still available for free, and you can sign up. I don't recall them ever offering anything else for free.
Why you feel they should offer a free service is beyond me; its not like offering the service is free for them, and I suspect the easydns guy sold to make back the money he's invested (and them some).
Report them to who, exactly? Shall I also report cops that blast by me on the interstate as well... no lights or anything, while I'm already donig the speed limit?
Nothing would be done, made clear by the fact that its fairly common to see.
Secondly, a hotel can refuse service to anyone, at anytime, for any reason.
No, it can't. There are quite a few limitations, race being one of them. Its certainly not anything goes.
If you don't like the hotels exercising their private property rights, you're free to not patronize The Palazzo or The Venetian.
Except that the people in question already paid for the room, so clearly they were fine with them staying there. The problem is that this is all after the fact.
Furthermore, the hotel reserves the right to determine what constitutes "disorderly conduct" or using "false pretenses" to obtain accommodation.
Again, no it doesn't. Those words describe crimes, which are not at the hotels discrimination, they are at the police's.
Renting out a suite is an obvious attempt to deprive CEA of the money they're asking for a booth.
No other business can use the hotel when CES is there? Interesting assertion. Also, note that the hotel said the presentions were fine and dandy.. oh, and this isn't new, CES was apparently fine with it in previous years. So somehow the whole "wahh! they're depriving me of money!" doesn't hold.
Thirdly, if you think The Palazzo or The Venetian are starving, think again. Maybe you don't have the money to stay there, but there are plenty of rich people with money to burn. I recently read an article in the Miami Herald about how, for example, super-luxury 180-360 day cruises around the world (starting at $100,000 and rising to $500,000 and up) aren't hurting one bit, despite the economy.
The rest of the surrounding businesses, which would benefit by increased numbers of people in Vegas, I'm sure would like these people to stay.
Oh, and $370 / night isn't exactly "super-luxury."
Ya, that logic works. That's why we didn't have a push for phone number portability a few years back too. I mean, its just a number, right? No problem to change it whenever.
No, they complain that there's no documentation or that its exteremly poor.
How am I supposed to research a command or other feature if I don't know it's there? I wouldn't have known that windowskey+L locked the screen if somebody at slashdot hadn't mentioned it. I had no idea you could lock the screen.
Really? You've never pressed CTRL+ALT+DEL and seen the Lock this computer button? Have you every tried looking in the help either?
It wouldn't have to be on paper, a CD holding printed documentation in book form (PDF maybe) or plain HTML would suffice.
Why waste all the plastic when most users aren't going to need MSDN documentation? Those that do can get it already online or it comes with visual studio. MSDN isn't relevent, and user documentation is online with windows already. Again, have you ever checked out Help / Help and Support?
Horseshit. WinXP also provides parsing methods for you to use. Even better, in.Net, you specify your culture, parse the date using a DateTime class and you're done.
But dont' let reality get in the way of your windows bashing.
Oh, and a digital signal requires MUCH less energy to send out than an analog one.
And lets face it... most of you life is not spent in an emergency. Is it worth the money to provide service just in case? It sounds like the answer is no, when there is other tech that can do the job.
Hmm... whats ironic is that people think they should be able to live in whatever backwater part of the country, and still expect all the services you'd find in a city. i used to think universal service was a good thing... but seriously, all of us are paying a lot of money because some fuckwad in a moutain cabin with no one around for miles needs a phone line. How about we accept that there are tradeoffs for living in a rural vs. city environment, and let people make the choice and live with the consequences.
No need for socialism... but a great need to stop this entitlement that no matter where you live I should have to help pay for your phone service.
I read your comment, and I can't help but wonder... who cares? If you choose to live in such an area, that's your own choice, and I don't see why anyone should be complaining. I'm not saying you are, BTW.
Your comment about sat. tv is wrong too; they offer local channels.
Not sure if its viop, but I have phone through my FTTH connection, connected via a router... with battery backup. So yes, my phone will continue to work even without the power.
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If the WHO said "this appears to be a normal flu," the media would have nothing to hype and fear. Governments, listening to the WHO, wouldn't have overreacted, again lessinng the medias ability to fearmonger.
No, the response was BS. The people you claim were "healthy" were not. They were obese. Go dig into the number of supposedly healthy people and check out how many were obese.
You might think its fine, but at the end of the day it was OUR money that was wasted. Where do you think government gets its money?
The problem is when they take the laptop. Then they don't need to memorize anything. Or they've also been known to simpy copy the files.
Your argument doesn't stand.
If you're going to suggest stuff like this, at least be accurate. In many cases HIV can be detected within two to eight weeks, although in some cases it can be up to three months. Testing for HIV has advanced.
Ya, it does, it's the whole point of her whole couch story.
Why she feels that relates to tech at all is beyond me, except that she doesn't like being around men apparently.
I could care less if there are more women techies or not, but then I'm functional outside the technology world as well, so don't have problems interacting with women in other environments.
Ya you are. You're claiming that they should be offering the service free forever. Pretty much the definintion of entitled attitude.
Please explain how NOT having to pay costs for freeloading users will put them out of business? Oh, it won't. Seriously, get your head out of your ass; you don't seem to be in touch with reality.
Hmm.. would a man have ruined it by becoming turned on, or simply by being there since you don't like men? I suspect the latter. If you weren't a lesbian, I might have taken your point.
Bull. Nobody is under any obligation to offer something free forever. Get your entitled head out of your ass. This is not bait and switch, this is "we're discontinuing our free service." They owe you what you paid them, nothing.
DDNS is still available for free, and you can sign up. I don't recall them ever offering anything else for free.
Why you feel they should offer a free service is beyond me; its not like offering the service is free for them, and I suspect the easydns guy sold to make back the money he's invested (and them some).
There's nothing wrong with profit.
And what difference does this make to a perspective employer?
Report them to who, exactly? Shall I also report cops that blast by me on the interstate as well... no lights or anything, while I'm already donig the speed limit?
Nothing would be done, made clear by the fact that its fairly common to see.
Secondly, a hotel can refuse service to anyone, at anytime, for any reason.
No, it can't. There are quite a few limitations, race being one of them. Its certainly not anything goes.
If you don't like the hotels exercising their private property rights, you're free to not patronize The Palazzo or The Venetian.
Except that the people in question already paid for the room, so clearly they were fine with them staying there. The problem is that this is all after the fact.
Furthermore, the hotel reserves the right to determine what constitutes "disorderly conduct" or using "false pretenses" to obtain accommodation.
Again, no it doesn't. Those words describe crimes, which are not at the hotels discrimination, they are at the police's.
Renting out a suite is an obvious attempt to deprive CEA of the money they're asking for a booth.
No other business can use the hotel when CES is there? Interesting assertion. Also, note that the hotel said the presentions were fine and dandy.. oh, and this isn't new, CES was apparently fine with it in previous years. So somehow the whole "wahh! they're depriving me of money!" doesn't hold.
Thirdly, if you think The Palazzo or The Venetian are starving, think again. Maybe you don't have the money to stay there, but there are plenty of rich people with money to burn. I recently read an article in the Miami Herald about how, for example, super-luxury 180-360 day cruises around the world (starting at $100,000 and rising to $500,000 and up) aren't hurting one bit, despite the economy.
The rest of the surrounding businesses, which would benefit by increased numbers of people in Vegas, I'm sure would like these people to stay.
Oh, and $370 / night isn't exactly "super-luxury."
Ya, that logic works. That's why we didn't have a push for phone number portability a few years back too. I mean, its just a number, right? No problem to change it whenever.
Why is gmail better than hotmail or aol?
No, people would still be fasicnated, because some are much nicer to look at than others.
I know you're joking but:
"Blacks have the same civil rights as white people... they can marry anyone of the same skin color that will agree to it"
Or if they just don't feel like sitting in traffic for too long.
I more often see cops turn on the light, get past traffic, then turn the light off. They weren't in any kind of hurry either.
Odd that that's what people complain about Linux.
No, they complain that there's no documentation or that its exteremly poor.
How am I supposed to research a command or other feature if I don't know it's there? I wouldn't have known that windowskey+L locked the screen if somebody at slashdot hadn't mentioned it. I had no idea you could lock the screen.
Really? You've never pressed CTRL+ALT+DEL and seen the Lock this computer button? Have you every tried looking in the help either?
It wouldn't have to be on paper, a CD holding printed documentation in book form (PDF maybe) or plain HTML would suffice.
Why waste all the plastic when most users aren't going to need MSDN documentation? Those that do can get it already online or it comes with visual studio. MSDN isn't relevent, and user documentation is online with windows already. Again, have you ever checked out Help / Help and Support?
Horseshit. WinXP also provides parsing methods for you to use. Even better, in .Net, you specify your culture, parse the date using a DateTime class and you're done.
But dont' let reality get in the way of your windows bashing.
HuH? http://stormprepare.com/Portable-TV.htm
Oh, and a digital signal requires MUCH less energy to send out than an analog one.
And lets face it... most of you life is not spent in an emergency. Is it worth the money to provide service just in case? It sounds like the answer is no, when there is other tech that can do the job.
Hmm... whats ironic is that people think they should be able to live in whatever backwater part of the country, and still expect all the services you'd find in a city. i used to think universal service was a good thing... but seriously, all of us are paying a lot of money because some fuckwad in a moutain cabin with no one around for miles needs a phone line. How about we accept that there are tradeoffs for living in a rural vs. city environment, and let people make the choice and live with the consequences.
No need for socialism... but a great need to stop this entitlement that no matter where you live I should have to help pay for your phone service.
I read your comment, and I can't help but wonder... who cares? If you choose to live in such an area, that's your own choice, and I don't see why anyone should be complaining. I'm not saying you are, BTW.
Your comment about sat. tv is wrong too; they offer local channels.
well, that was your (or your family's) choice to live out there.
Not sure if its viop, but I have phone through my FTTH connection, connected via a router... with battery backup. So yes, my phone will continue to work even without the power.