You ever see an insurance plan that covers hearing aides?
I need a pair, and looked into it. When I brought up insurance coverage, the doctor basically laughed, and said 'We'll see of yours has hearing aide coverage, but I doubt it.' Sure enough, nope. Since then, I've talked to many others, and found no one with hearing aide coverage.
And a sub $1000 one from Amazon does not provide enough power for my level of hearing loss in one ear. Classified as 'profound' Just upping the power would result in feedback. The expensive ones have programmable digital processors that amplify different levels at different frequencies. Cheap ones have nothing like that, just a mic, amp, and speaker.
The government collected money from the businesses, successful or not, to build the infrastructure.
Without businesses paying property taxes, sales taxes, business license fees, etc, the government would not have been able to build those streets.
Sometimes, it's not even the government that pays for, or even builds. When moving a small business across town to a larger location, the city required us to pay for a contractor to build a sidewalk in front of our building.
The read-end collisions occur because 2 drivers decide to run a red light, but at the last minute one notices the red light camera and slams on their brakes to avoid a ticket, and the 2nd can't stop in time. 2 people set out to break the law, so, 2 people got in an accident.
If both drivers were driving safely, they would have slowed down at the yellow, and stopped because they clearly had no time to make it through.
Those same 2 drivers will eventually be involved in more serious accidents at another time, based on their unsafe driving that led to the rear-end collision.
Back when I was working at a computer shop, a customer brought in a PC they had bought elsewhere, and the hard drive failed. The drive was still under warranty, so, I took care of everything, returned the drive to Maxtor for a replacement.
After receiving a new hard drive, I placed it into the PC, and turned it on. I forgot the Windows install CD, and expecting a boot error, I was quite surprised to find the PC booting into Win2K. Found lots of sales documents, other business related documents for a Ford car lot.
Maxtor says 'Sorry, just reformat the drive, and it's got a full warranty as if it were new' I was informed that warranty returns are tested, and if they don't find them bad, they're sent back out, only this one missed the format step.
So how would you handle a situation in which this juror, or any juror had looked up the exact same wiki page previous to becoming a juror? With no knowledge of becoming a juror on this case, but just because they were curious about something for any sort of reason. They would still know all the same information, biased or not, true or not, but they didn't get it while seated on the jury.
Sounds all neat and cool. Sounds like it would work.
But, the problem is, those that are smart enough, and educated enough to figure out how to find this, and use it correctly, wouldn't be getting their accounts hacked by spambots to begin with.
Gmail has had this for a couple years at least BTW.
In the last 2 weeks (in my town), there have been 3 news stories about drivers driving into buildings while trying to park. None of them were driving Toyotas.
ASCAP in effect shut down a local venue because they had no way to pay the exceptionally high fees they wanted in order to allow live music to be played.
They catered to local, younger musicians playing ORIGINAL music. At first, they let them go because they were playing original music. Then, they came back and said they had to pay the fees.
Why? because someone warming up, tuning up, or whatever may play a few notes that someone else wrote.
This place was for a younger audience, so no alcohol sales. Cover charges were just to keep the place open. They had to close down.
When I worked for a computer repair shop many years ago, we had a customer bring in a PC with a dead hard drive. It was a Maxtor, and we didn't sell that brand in store, so all we could do was handle the online RMA in their name.
After getting a 'new' sealed replacement drive, I plugged it into the machine and booted it. I forgot to put in the Windows boot CD to run the install. Upon looking back at the screen, the PC was booting into Win2K!! Letting it continue, and checking around, I found that the harddrive belonged to a Ford dealership. It had all sorts of sales and customer information in it.
I called Maxtor and explained the situation, more upset about receiving a used drive as a replacement. They informed me that it's standard practice to issue refurb drives for warranty replacement. And, it's common to receive 'failed' drives as warranty returns that have nothing wrong with them. They just wipe them, and send them back out as refurb. I got one of those drives. She told me there was nothing they would do, unless I wanted to do another RMA, and pay shipping to return the drive.
Even in this hick town, the jurors had some common-sense. Because the females were active participants, they were not 'victims.' So even though taking, and having pictures of females under 18 having sex is a crime, they decided this situation was different'
You don't necessarily pay for those channels. They are bundled by the studio/broadcaster that owns them into one purchase. The more channels a studio has, the more advertisements they can sell.
Think of Nickelodeon or Disney. They have their main channels. They pay money to either get, or produce shows for those main channels. Does Nicktoons, and ToonDisney pay that same money again to rerun them? No, but the studio does get another channel to sell advertisement slots on. The more impressions, the more money they bring in.
So, we go a-la-carte, no one buys Nicktoons, because they want all the programming, not just the cartoons, on Nickelodeon. No one watches Nicktoons, advertisers won't buy slots on Nicktoons, soon, it goes away. The extra revenue generated by another channel that really didn't have much expense is lost. Nickelodeon now costs more to recoup those loses in order to cover their production costs.
TV Viewers need to understand, it's not the cable company that's forcing them to get every channel offered under one package. Whoever owns a particular channel requires the cable provider to bundle them all together, and asks for a specific amount per viewer for all of the channels together. If they are forced to allow cable providers to offer them individually, each channel you want will end up costing more overall than if you just got then entire bundle to begin with.
After I called, and cancelled, they billed me for another month!!!
I called again to complain, and it was explained to me like this:
You sign up for the free trial. You use that trial, and at the end of it, they bill you for a month of service. If you cancel at the end of that month, you are then billed again. Why? Becuase the first month 'free trial' is not really free. Only if you cancel within the month. If you keep it, they will bill you for it at the end of your use.
What made this matter worse was that I only cancelled after finding out that they raised the price from 5 something to 15 something in one month!!!! I cancelled within 5 days of the renewal. I was informed at the time of cancelling that my account would be turned off right then, and that I would not get any refund for the unused 3 weeks. Then I was billed again for 15 something for the first month's 'free trial'
This may be true, we may not have to worry about wasting the water. It will just get recycled back into the water supply.
But, think about the power used to get that extra bit of water to all those toilets. By not using as much water, we're not using as much power to pump that water. Less water in the filtration systems, means less power needed to filter, etc, etc.
Six defendants are charged with willfully infringing a copyright by distributing or reproducing copies of the film. All were charged with misdemeanors that carry up to one year in prison.
Hoaglin is charged with one felony count of uploading the movie onto the Internet.
...one felony count of uploading (distributing or reproducing copies) of the movie (film)...
why 2 different charges for doing the same thing? One of them having more severe punishment?
What happens everytime I use mine is that the restaurant authorizes a payment of the bill PLUS xx%.
I'm not sure of the exact amount, but it's always more than the amount of the bill. From that point, they have up to 3 days to run the final charge thru for whatever amount they want up to the authorized amount.
I thought it strange the first time I used one to pay for a meal, and didn't put in a tip amount. Then checked my account online the next day, and the pending charge was for more than the bill. 3 days later when it became final, it was just for the amount.
How long did it take National Treasure to go to dvd? a week? two?
Theatrical release date: Nov 19, 2004
DVD release date: May 3, 2005
Took 2 weeks shy of six months, which is the norm for most movies.
I worked in video rental for several years, getting out of it about 4 years ago. Six months was the time between theater release, and video rental release. It was then anywhere from a month to sometimes 3 months before it was available to consumers to purchase. Once DVDs came out, the biggest hits were available for purchase right away with rentals, but you had to wait for a VHS copy. Then just about every movie started being available right away for purchase, and the rental window was gone completely.
The reason for this time period, first of all, is to allow them to suck as much out of theater ticket sales as posible. But also, a couple months before video release, it's available to hotel PPV, and airlines.
You would find once in a while, that a really crappy movie that bombed would be released to video direct sales a month early. And on the same note, if it did great, they may hold off video release for a couple more weeks, adding on more theater runs.
These companies can't afford expensive support contracts with computer service organisations - and they haven't got the time to pack up the computer and take it to a shop, and then wait a week or so for it to be fixed.
This is what I hate most about people that HAVE to have a PC. Do these companies think twice when they go to their local lube shop, and agree to monthly servicing of their fleet? Do they have montly phone plans that they have to pay for?
The list goes on and on regarding regular bills that have to be paid to maintain and operate a business. If you want computers, you had better plan on one more. Don't want that bill? Buy a lot of pens and paper. Enough said.
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out of sapient pearwood. Then, watch as would be thieves disappear, never to be seen again.
As an added bonus, your laundry will always be washed, and folded when you go to retrieve it.
'fraid not.
You ever see an insurance plan that covers hearing aides?
I need a pair, and looked into it. When I brought up insurance coverage, the doctor basically laughed, and said 'We'll see of yours has hearing aide coverage, but I doubt it.' Sure enough, nope. Since then, I've talked to many others, and found no one with hearing aide coverage.
And a sub $1000 one from Amazon does not provide enough power for my level of hearing loss in one ear. Classified as 'profound' Just upping the power would result in feedback. The expensive ones have programmable digital processors that amplify different levels at different frequencies. Cheap ones have nothing like that, just a mic, amp, and speaker.
The government collected money from the businesses, successful or not, to build the infrastructure.
Without businesses paying property taxes, sales taxes, business license fees, etc, the government would not have been able to build those streets.
Sometimes, it's not even the government that pays for, or even builds. When moving a small business across town to a larger location, the city required us to pay for a contractor to build a sidewalk in front of our building.
Really?? One whole web page full of advertisements, and 2 paragraphs of actual content? And there's 15 total pages?
Closed tab at page 2.
But hey, Happy Birthday Donkey Kong!
The read-end collisions occur because 2 drivers decide to run a red light, but at the last minute one notices the red light camera and slams on their brakes to avoid a ticket, and the 2nd can't stop in time. 2 people set out to break the law, so, 2 people got in an accident.
If both drivers were driving safely, they would have slowed down at the yellow, and stopped because they clearly had no time to make it through.
Those same 2 drivers will eventually be involved in more serious accidents at another time, based on their unsafe driving that led to the rear-end collision.
Back when I was working at a computer shop, a customer brought in a PC they had bought elsewhere, and the hard drive failed. The drive was still under warranty, so, I took care of everything, returned the drive to Maxtor for a replacement.
After receiving a new hard drive, I placed it into the PC, and turned it on. I forgot the Windows install CD, and expecting a boot error, I was quite surprised to find the PC booting into Win2K. Found lots of sales documents, other business related documents for a Ford car lot.
Maxtor says 'Sorry, just reformat the drive, and it's got a full warranty as if it were new' I was informed that warranty returns are tested, and if they don't find them bad, they're sent back out, only this one missed the format step.
So how would you handle a situation in which this juror, or any juror had looked up the exact same wiki page previous to becoming a juror? With no knowledge of becoming a juror on this case, but just because they were curious about something for any sort of reason. They would still know all the same information, biased or not, true or not, but they didn't get it while seated on the jury.
As far as postal service goes, there's laws about items being sent to you unsolicited. Could something like that be applied here?
Think CueCat. You gave it to me, I'll do with it as I please, and you can't say anything about it.
Sounds all neat and cool. Sounds like it would work.
But, the problem is, those that are smart enough, and educated enough to figure out how to find this, and use it correctly, wouldn't be getting their accounts hacked by spambots to begin with.
Gmail has had this for a couple years at least BTW.
In the last 2 weeks (in my town), there have been 3 news stories about drivers driving into buildings while trying to park. None of them were driving Toyotas.
ohhhhhhhhhhh sarcasm. oops
I recently moved, and had a few weeks of missed TV watching. I missed 3 weeks of all my shows, starting with all the season premieres.
Within 24 hours, I got every missed episode, of every show downloaded. Plus several high quality DVD rips of movies not yet available on retail DVD.
I don't use hosting services such as RapidShare. I use bittorrent.
Dare accepted, and completed. Your move.
Not playing covers songs isn't enough for them.
ASCAP in effect shut down a local venue because they had no way to pay the exceptionally high fees they wanted in order to allow live music to be played.
They catered to local, younger musicians playing ORIGINAL music. At first, they let them go because they were playing original music. Then, they came back and said they had to pay the fees.
Why? because someone warming up, tuning up, or whatever may play a few notes that someone else wrote.
This place was for a younger audience, so no alcohol sales. Cover charges were just to keep the place open. They had to close down.
When I worked for a computer repair shop many years ago, we had a customer bring in a PC with a dead hard drive. It was a Maxtor, and we didn't sell that brand in store, so all we could do was handle the online RMA in their name.
After getting a 'new' sealed replacement drive, I plugged it into the machine and booted it. I forgot to put in the Windows boot CD to run the install. Upon looking back at the screen, the PC was booting into Win2K!! Letting it continue, and checking around, I found that the harddrive belonged to a Ford dealership. It had all sorts of sales and customer information in it.
I called Maxtor and explained the situation, more upset about receiving a used drive as a replacement. They informed me that it's standard practice to issue refurb drives for warranty replacement. And, it's common to receive 'failed' drives as warranty returns that have nothing wrong with them. They just wipe them, and send them back out as refurb. I got one of those drives. She told me there was nothing they would do, unless I wanted to do another RMA, and pay shipping to return the drive.
My lan parties had a keg.
And, they were held in the basement of a comic book store.
http://www.the-nextdimension.com/photos/main.php?g2_itemId=3035
Nevada. Fallon to be exact. My wonderful home town.
The local military recruiter was having sex with 2 high school girls. All he could be charged with was taking pictures of them having sex.
Arrest:
http://www.lahontanvalleynews.com/article/20050528/NEWS/105280010&parentprofile=search
Going to trial:
http://www.lahontanvalleynews.com/article/20050924/NEWS/109240017&parentprofile=searchGoing to trail
And found not guilty:
http://www.lahontanvalleynews.com/article/20070825/NEWS/108250051&parentprofile=search
Even in this hick town, the jurors had some common-sense. Because the females were active participants, they were not 'victims.' So even though taking, and having pictures of females under 18 having sex is a crime, they decided this situation was different'
Charter has been doing it for at least a year now.
You don't necessarily pay for those channels. They are bundled by the studio/broadcaster that owns them into one purchase. The more channels a studio has, the more advertisements they can sell.
Think of Nickelodeon or Disney. They have their main channels. They pay money to either get, or produce shows for those main channels. Does Nicktoons, and ToonDisney pay that same money again to rerun them? No, but the studio does get another channel to sell advertisement slots on. The more impressions, the more money they bring in.
So, we go a-la-carte, no one buys Nicktoons, because they want all the programming, not just the cartoons, on Nickelodeon. No one watches Nicktoons, advertisers won't buy slots on Nicktoons, soon, it goes away. The extra revenue generated by another channel that really didn't have much expense is lost. Nickelodeon now costs more to recoup those loses in order to cover their production costs.
TV Viewers need to understand, it's not the cable company that's forcing them to get every channel offered under one package. Whoever owns a particular channel requires the cable provider to bundle them all together, and asks for a specific amount per viewer for all of the channels together.
If they are forced to allow cable providers to offer them individually, each channel you want will end up costing more overall than if you just got then entire bundle to begin with.
Did you report that quarter you found on the sidewalk, picked up, and then put in your pocket?
After I called, and cancelled, they billed me for another month!!!
I called again to complain, and it was explained to me like this:
You sign up for the free trial. You use that trial, and at the end of it, they bill you for a month of service. If you cancel at the end of that month, you are then billed again. Why? Becuase the first month 'free trial' is not really free. Only if you cancel within the month. If you keep it, they will bill you for it at the end of your use.
What made this matter worse was that I only cancelled after finding out that they raised the price from 5 something to 15 something in one month!!!! I cancelled within 5 days of the renewal. I was informed at the time of cancelling that my account would be turned off right then, and that I would not get any refund for the unused 3 weeks. Then I was billed again for 15 something for the first month's 'free trial'
This may be true, we may not have to worry about wasting the water. It will just get recycled back into the water supply.
But, think about the power used to get that extra bit of water to all those toilets. By not using as much water, we're not using as much power to pump that water. Less water in the filtration systems, means less power needed to filter, etc, etc.
why 2 different charges for doing the same thing? One of them having more severe punishment?
I use a credit card regularly to pay for dinners.
What happens everytime I use mine is that the restaurant authorizes a payment of the bill PLUS xx%.
I'm not sure of the exact amount, but it's always more than the amount of the bill. From that point, they have up to 3 days to run the final charge thru for whatever amount they want up to the authorized amount.
I thought it strange the first time I used one to pay for a meal, and didn't put in a tip amount. Then checked my account online the next day, and the pending charge was for more than the bill.
3 days later when it became final, it was just for the amount.
Theatrical release date: Nov 19, 2004
DVD release date: May 3, 2005
Took 2 weeks shy of six months, which is the norm for most movies.
I worked in video rental for several years, getting out of it about 4 years ago. Six months was the time between theater release, and video rental release. It was then anywhere from a month to sometimes 3 months before it was available to consumers to purchase. Once DVDs came out, the biggest hits were available for purchase right away with rentals, but you had to wait for a VHS copy. Then just about every movie started being available right away for purchase, and the rental window was gone completely.
The reason for this time period, first of all, is to allow them to suck as much out of theater ticket sales as posible. But also, a couple months before video release, it's available to hotel PPV, and airlines.
You would find once in a while, that a really crappy movie that bombed would be released to video direct sales a month early. And on the same note, if it did great, they may hold off video release for a couple more weeks, adding on more theater runs.
These companies can't afford expensive support contracts with computer service organisations - and they haven't got the time to pack up the computer and take it to a shop, and then wait a week or so for it to be fixed.
This is what I hate most about people that HAVE to have a PC. Do these companies think twice when they go to their local lube shop, and agree to monthly servicing of their fleet? Do they have montly phone plans that they have to pay for?
The list goes on and on regarding regular bills that have to be paid to maintain and operate a business. If you want computers, you had better plan on one more. Don't want that bill? Buy a lot of pens and paper. Enough said.