"T-Mobile already offers a very affordable $50 plan with or without a credit check for their customers, which can genuinely help some low income customers."
Affordable? 50$ is *a lot* of money when you are poor.
$50? Must be for the talk+text+web plan. I'm only paying $30/mo for unlimited talk and text through T-Mobile, as a post-paid regular customer.
If you're that bad financially you can't get a bank account and are using payday loan services, you have no business subscribing to outrageous mobile data plans. Just stick with the $15/mo high-usage limit DSL service and use your Internet at home.
Check the policies of a lot of major banks --- they often require $1500+ balances to keep a free checking account; otherwise, it's $15+ fees per month (which will eat through your "couple hundred dollars" pretty quick).
I think you have bad luck with choosing banks. I have to have at least $1500/mo in direct deposits, but my balance drops down below $50 on a regular basis between paydays and averages probably $200 at the most (since i have all my bills send out immediately after the paycheck hits and usually do grocery/other shopping within a couple days after that). The account maintenance fees for not enough deposits is either $6.95 or $8.95/mo I believe. Certainly not more than $10. Overdraft fee is $29 a transaction I think (I actually have overdraft protection now), but the transaction/check gets paid so you don't get blacklisted by any local businesses.
I'm on my banks "regular" checking account, too. Not the free checking. U.S. Bank is certainly not a minor financial institution.
It would be if you trademarked your face. Trademark your face / image and you could sue facebook for trademark infringement.
Nice try, but keep in mind Facebook likely has a clause in their terms of service saying that anything you post they are free to monetize/use without compensating you. They would just say since you uploaded your photo to their servers you gave them a license to the trademarked visage.
This was customs, it had nothing to do with the TSA whatsoever.
Customs has been a division of the Department of Homeland Security since 2003, which is the same happy family as the TSA, Immigration Services, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (you know, that group that likes to illegally seize people's domains for the copyright cops), and others. I think the only decent division of it is likely the Coast Guard. Other than that It's become a nice little beehive of government out to control people in the name of fighting "the terrorists".
Things are a little different in the U.S. The return policy is written by the stores (where it doesn't run afoul of state law -- which it rarely does if there are any such laws in the state). After the return period the store is off the hook. The manufacturer is the one responsible for the warranty, and how you make claims is up to them. Some have you contact them in advance and they send you a pre-paid mailer, some leave shipping up to you, if it's a big-ticket item (like a major appliance) there may be an in-home visit from a licensed repair person. Smaller appliances and electronics might mean the customer ships or brings it to a designated local repair center.
The longer a mystery novel is, the more likely readers are to jump to the end to see who done it.
I know this references the nickname for mystery novels ("whodunits") but I still say it appears the same readers skipped to the end of their grammar books in grade school.
Great.. And how long will it take saving approximately $7.00 per bulb over the life of them to cover the costs of rewiring your house?
It's all good and everything that you can rewire your home or perhaps throw it away and build another, but many people are stuck with what was standard for well over 50 years.
I know what you mean. The kitchen in my mom's house has a lowered ceiling (like an office would have) and fluorescent fixtures with eight-foot bulbs installed. One of those fixtures recently stopped working (ballast went bad). The problem is it's a magnetic ballast (illegal to sell as of 2010) and there is no direct replacement for it. The modern switching ballast that would work for this bulb wattage/setup is wired completely differently in the fixture, so I can't just wire the new ballast in where the old one was. It was less hassle to just replace the entire fixture for a new one with the ballast pre-wired (only cost about $10 more than the ballast alone).
Except the new ballasts also require grounding now -- and the house was built in the 1950's and is only partially wired for grounding. So now I have to call in an electrician to add a grounding for the wiring that runs to those fixtures on the kitchen ceiling.
As a consumer he is still paying a hefty premium for a product that is not living up to its lifespan claims.
So get a free replacement under warranty?
LOL.
CFL's have the same warranty on them. The catch is you have to ship the burnt-out bulb back to the manufacturer for them to study it to get a replacement -- the cost of shipping and handling to them being about what you paid for the bulb to start with.
So you can either make a warranty claim and be without a light for several weeks while they process the warranty claim and ship it to you, or just go buy another bulb -- there is no financial difference, but one way is clearly more convenient for the consumer.
I suppose with the higher up-front cost of LEDs there might be an advantage to shipping one back. But there's still that being without a light for an extended period of time. Buying an extra bulb seems like an odd move to make for a bulb that should technically never need to be replaced.
wrong i have dealt with led for years now they last for a very long time the problem with the 120v bulbs is the power converter that's what fails.
It doesn't matter if it's the power converter that's failing or the diode itself. LED bulbs are not made to be easily user-serviceable. The "bulb" is all the parts but together -- if the power converter fails the bulb has burnt out. And if they are failing at rates comparable to the lifespan of incandescent bulbs Arker's complaint is valid. As a consumer he is still paying a hefty premium for a product that is not living up to its lifespan claims.
Trying to cloud this with geeky tricks like soldering in higher quality electronics in the lamp's base or running them at a lower voltage doesn't apply to the product as a direct replacement for traditional bulbs.
If you have a brain, you got rid of those fucking things more than 5 years ago.
Notice how it's not suggested the reason 60% of people are "blissfully unaware" of this phase-out is because they stopped using incandescent bulbs already and don't care.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Web Rings on the shoulders of AngelFire. I watched animated GIFs glitter in the dark profiles on MySpace. All those... upvotes... will be lost in time, like memes... on... 4chan. Time... to die...
The Internet will remember you as long as the services that have information about you exist. The services... they'll remember you as long as their owners can make money off them one way or another. As soon as they can't make money (even if it's just milking venture capitalists for another round of financing), they'll shut the servers down and wipe the databases. A couple months after that, the search engine caches will have lost track of the pages and that'll be that.
I was going to say pretty much the same thing. How long did those Angelfire and Tripod sites stay up?
Wasn't the problem to start with that we didn't want to keep a certain Windows XP box on the network because of lack of updates? Sounds like you already own a copy of Windows.
You at some point here you're gonna have to decide which you want more: this one song you can only get on iTunes, or to keep an unpatched Windows XP machine off the Internet forever. It's not like having it online for 10 minutes while you use iTunes is going to doom the entire thing.
The music isn't locked to computer. Buy it on another machine and just copy the files over.
Hey, if you're running this in a VM wouldn't it be possible to make the Music folder a shared folder on the host machine? Buy on host (or another VM), it gets added to the shared folder, then you just have to add it to the library on the playback VM.
It makes perfect sense. AT&T and Verzion don't give a rat's ass about their customers' privacy. They're only in this coalition so they can give the appearance of caring, and so they can publish the reports. Putting out a report like this focuses citizen anger at the government, and not at them for not taking any sort of actual action. They can continue to play the "we're just following orders" card.
The thing about AT&T/Verizon having such a huge swath of the telecom landscape is, while it really is bad for consumers, it also gives these companies the power to resist the government if they wanted. Lavabit gets the government on them and they're forced to fold up because they're a small operation used by the fringe of society. If AT&T actively ignored NSA letters the government isn't going to do much to them -- because they're AT&T and such a huge amount of communications (and by extension, the economy) is dependent on them being able to remain fully operational. That's what it means to be a "too big to fail" company.
The fine (if ever paid) would likely provide a higher income than the film netted at the cinema.
Well that's not a hard bar to clear. If they're practicing Hollywood Accounting the movie will never net any movie regardless of how many tickets it sold.
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"T-Mobile already offers a very affordable $50 plan with or without a credit check for their customers, which can genuinely help some low income customers."
Affordable? 50$ is *a lot* of money when you are poor.
$50? Must be for the talk+text+web plan.
I'm only paying $30/mo for unlimited talk and text through T-Mobile, as a post-paid regular customer.
If you're that bad financially you can't get a bank account and are using payday loan services, you have no business subscribing to outrageous mobile data plans.
Just stick with the $15/mo high-usage limit DSL service and use your Internet at home.
Check the policies of a lot of major banks --- they often require $1500+ balances to keep a free checking account; otherwise, it's $15+ fees per month (which will eat through your "couple hundred dollars" pretty quick).
I think you have bad luck with choosing banks. I have to have at least $1500/mo in direct deposits, but my balance drops down below $50 on a regular basis between paydays and averages probably $200 at the most (since i have all my bills send out immediately after the paycheck hits and usually do grocery/other shopping within a couple days after that). The account maintenance fees for not enough deposits is either $6.95 or $8.95/mo I believe. Certainly not more than $10. Overdraft fee is $29 a transaction I think (I actually have overdraft protection now), but the transaction/check gets paid so you don't get blacklisted by any local businesses.
I'm on my banks "regular" checking account, too. Not the free checking. U.S. Bank is certainly not a minor financial institution.
This order to disperse sponsored by McDonalds- We do it all for you!
Would like some government approved fires with that?
No thanks. We have cocktails to make our own.
+1 Irony
Wins what? I never understand why people pick a tribe and then pray for the destruction of their foes.
You're not alone.
I guess you missed the whole part where this story is not taking place in the United States...
Whoa, Brama bought the Llama?
Facebook is for hipsters.
Ha! I knew Facebook was lame before it was cool to know it was lame, so I never opened a (normal public) account to start with.
It would be if you trademarked your face. Trademark your face / image and you could sue facebook for trademark infringement.
Nice try, but keep in mind Facebook likely has a clause in their terms of service saying that anything you post they are free to monetize/use without compensating you. They would just say since you uploaded your photo to their servers you gave them a license to the trademarked visage.
This was customs, it had nothing to do with the TSA whatsoever.
Customs has been a division of the Department of Homeland Security since 2003, which is the same happy family as the TSA, Immigration Services, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (you know, that group that likes to illegally seize people's domains for the copyright cops), and others. I think the only decent division of it is likely the Coast Guard. Other than that It's become a nice little beehive of government out to control people in the name of fighting "the terrorists".
Things are a little different in the U.S. The return policy is written by the stores (where it doesn't run afoul of state law -- which it rarely does if there are any such laws in the state). After the return period the store is off the hook. The manufacturer is the one responsible for the warranty, and how you make claims is up to them. Some have you contact them in advance and they send you a pre-paid mailer, some leave shipping up to you, if it's a big-ticket item (like a major appliance) there may be an in-home visit from a licensed repair person. Smaller appliances and electronics might mean the customer ships or brings it to a designated local repair center.
The longer a mystery novel is, the more likely readers are to jump to the end to see who done it.
I know this references the nickname for mystery novels ("whodunits") but I still say it appears the same readers skipped to the end of their grammar books in grade school.
Great.. And how long will it take saving approximately $7.00 per bulb over the life of them to cover the costs of rewiring your house?
It's all good and everything that you can rewire your home or perhaps throw it away and build another, but many people are stuck with what was standard for well over 50 years.
I know what you mean. The kitchen in my mom's house has a lowered ceiling (like an office would have) and fluorescent fixtures with eight-foot bulbs installed. One of those fixtures recently stopped working (ballast went bad). The problem is it's a magnetic ballast (illegal to sell as of 2010) and there is no direct replacement for it. The modern switching ballast that would work for this bulb wattage/setup is wired completely differently in the fixture, so I can't just wire the new ballast in where the old one was. It was less hassle to just replace the entire fixture for a new one with the ballast pre-wired (only cost about $10 more than the ballast alone).
Except the new ballasts also require grounding now -- and the house was built in the 1950's and is only partially wired for grounding. So now I have to call in an electrician to add a grounding for the wiring that runs to those fixtures on the kitchen ceiling.
As a consumer he is still paying a hefty premium for a product that is not living up to its lifespan claims.
So get a free replacement under warranty?
LOL.
CFL's have the same warranty on them. The catch is you have to ship the burnt-out bulb back to the manufacturer for them to study it to get a replacement -- the cost of shipping and handling to them being about what you paid for the bulb to start with.
So you can either make a warranty claim and be without a light for several weeks while they process the warranty claim and ship it to you, or just go buy another bulb -- there is no financial difference, but one way is clearly more convenient for the consumer.
I suppose with the higher up-front cost of LEDs there might be an advantage to shipping one back. But there's still that being without a light for an extended period of time. Buying an extra bulb seems like an odd move to make for a bulb that should technically never need to be replaced.
wrong i have dealt with led for years now they last for a very long time the problem with the 120v bulbs is the power converter that's what fails.
It doesn't matter if it's the power converter that's failing or the diode itself. LED bulbs are not made to be easily user-serviceable. The "bulb" is all the parts but together -- if the power converter fails the bulb has burnt out. And if they are failing at rates comparable to the lifespan of incandescent bulbs Arker's complaint is valid. As a consumer he is still paying a hefty premium for a product that is not living up to its lifespan claims.
Trying to cloud this with geeky tricks like soldering in higher quality electronics in the lamp's base or running them at a lower voltage doesn't apply to the product as a direct replacement for traditional bulbs.
If you have a brain, you got rid of those fucking things more than 5 years ago.
Notice how it's not suggested the reason 60% of people are "blissfully unaware" of this phase-out is because they stopped using incandescent bulbs already and don't care.
Wow -- according to his Tripod site, he still has an @webtv.net email address.
Well that service is truly gone as of earlier this year. I think the addresses function as aliases to outlook.com accounts now.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Web Rings on the shoulders of AngelFire. I watched animated GIFs glitter in the dark profiles on MySpace. All those... upvotes... will be lost in time, like memes... on... 4chan. Time... to die...
The Internet will remember you as long as the services that have information about you exist. The services... they'll remember you as long as their owners can make money off them one way or another. As soon as they can't make money (even if it's just milking venture capitalists for another round of financing), they'll shut the servers down and wipe the databases. A couple months after that, the search engine caches will have lost track of the pages and that'll be that.
I was going to say pretty much the same thing.
How long did those Angelfire and Tripod sites stay up?
Wasn't the problem to start with that we didn't want to keep a certain Windows XP box on the network because of lack of updates? Sounds like you already own a copy of Windows.
You at some point here you're gonna have to decide which you want more: this one song you can only get on iTunes, or to keep an unpatched Windows XP machine off the Internet forever. It's not like having it online for 10 minutes while you use iTunes is going to doom the entire thing.
The music isn't locked to computer. Buy it on another machine and just copy the files over.
Hey, if you're running this in a VM wouldn't it be possible to make the Music folder a shared folder on the host machine? Buy on host (or another VM), it gets added to the shared folder, then you just have to add it to the library on the playback VM.
I find the term "out-of-the-box" much preferable to "baked-in", which they are even using to describe built-in features on software nowadays.
It makes no sense.
It makes perfect sense. AT&T and Verzion don't give a rat's ass about their customers' privacy. They're only in this coalition so they can give the appearance of caring, and so they can publish the reports. Putting out a report like this focuses citizen anger at the government, and not at them for not taking any sort of actual action. They can continue to play the "we're just following orders" card.
The thing about AT&T/Verizon having such a huge swath of the telecom landscape is, while it really is bad for consumers, it also gives these companies the power to resist the government if they wanted. Lavabit gets the government on them and they're forced to fold up because they're a small operation used by the fringe of society. If AT&T actively ignored NSA letters the government isn't going to do much to them -- because they're AT&T and such a huge amount of communications (and by extension, the economy) is dependent on them being able to remain fully operational. That's what it means to be a "too big to fail" company.
This must mean something, or not.
...those would be the choices
The fine (if ever paid) would likely provide a higher income than the film netted at the cinema.
Well that's not a hard bar to clear. If they're practicing Hollywood Accounting the movie will never net any movie regardless of how many tickets it sold.