What is the logic behind the so-called bottom posting and why is it so "proper"? I find top posting more efficient in an executive summary sort of way. Why should I have to cut through a bunch of email history just to find the fresh meat? If I want to refer to the quoted material, I will do so when I feel like it by scrolling down.
At least at Verizon (which carries the phone in question) you have 15 days to test out any new equipment and return it with no questions asked. I took advantage of that with my last phone that got crap for reception. I returned it 14 days later after I had determined it was "inadequate" as you say. How are you supposed to make sure it is an "adequate" device without actually using it on a day-to-day basis? It does not appear to me this person was a sucker.
I am as much a gadget guy as the next, but I choose not to use a camera phone--no matter how cool or useful they are. My job requires me to visit many facilities where cameras are not allowed because of the customer's proprietary processes and technology. Because I choose not to use a camera phone, my phone is not taken away from me for the duration of my visit. Now, I don't know how many people are in that same situation, but I venture to say I am probably not the only person. Of course there is the question does the average person really know how to tell a non-camera phone from a real one? My guess is no. Oh well.
At least for marriages, I doubt the database is complete/finished. Marriage records for myself (King County), my parents (Clark County) and my in-laws (King County) are not there. Death records are there though--at least for my family.
As others have said, I too would be afraid of people datamining this for personal gain. I hope there are decent safeguards against this.
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What is the logic behind the so-called bottom posting and why is it so "proper"? I find top posting more efficient in an executive summary sort of way. Why should I have to cut through a bunch of email history just to find the fresh meat? If I want to refer to the quoted material, I will do so when I feel like it by scrolling down.
At least at Verizon (which carries the phone in question) you have 15 days to test out any new equipment and return it with no questions asked. I took advantage of that with my last phone that got crap for reception. I returned it 14 days later after I had determined it was "inadequate" as you say. How are you supposed to make sure it is an "adequate" device without actually using it on a day-to-day basis? It does not appear to me this person was a sucker.
I am as much a gadget guy as the next, but I choose not to use a camera phone--no matter how cool or useful they are. My job requires me to visit many facilities where cameras are not allowed because of the customer's proprietary processes and technology. Because I choose not to use a camera phone, my phone is not taken away from me for the duration of my visit. Now, I don't know how many people are in that same situation, but I venture to say I am probably not the only person. Of course there is the question does the average person really know how to tell a non-camera phone from a real one? My guess is no. Oh well.
At least for marriages, I doubt the database is complete/finished. Marriage records for myself (King County), my parents (Clark County) and my in-laws (King County) are not there. Death records are there though--at least for my family. As others have said, I too would be afraid of people datamining this for personal gain. I hope there are decent safeguards against this.