Because contrary to any logic that I apply to the subject, I actually enjoy wasting time playing penny slots and getting free drinks. Plus I generally get my money back as the retention rates are pretty high. The other game with such high retention rates is... You guessed it: Blackjack.
Card counting really doesn't work that well in Vegas casinos unless you go with a distributed ring: its pretty obvious when an individual is card counting, if you miscount slightly the casino ends up winning big, and the casions can really mess you up, from shuffling more to "backrooming" you and intimidating the F-outta you.
Take note that this is illegal. This is what pissed me off about the movie "21". None of the people who were beat the fuck up in the backroom pressed charges against the attackers. Counting cards is NOT illegal. Assault and Battery IS illegal and will get you brought up on Criminal and Civil charges quick like.
No, you don't understand. It is not that the hardware is not CAPABLE of running the new software. It is that Cisco is forcing customers to upgrade hardware to get access to later software which in all actuality would more then likely run just fine on the older hardware.
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
He said this in 1999 on a show hosted by Wolf Blitzer. That's pretty clear to me even though snopes comes to his defense, Al Gore still deserves to suffer as the perpetual butt of all jokes because of that stupid political move.
What? Are you smoking something? The optimal decision is always to float your purchase for 29 days over having to pay for it that moment. It just makes sense.
If you are in a business where your margin is so slim that taking credit cards affects it so much to where you now lose money then you are probably in the wrong business. In addition, like I said before you can get the transaction charges down if you know who to setup a merchant account with.
Lame and not informative at all. I have actually setup merchant accounts myself so let me explain something basic. All the fees are negotiable. You can in addition ask for a lower transaction fee and in place pay a higher percentage. For a food service merchant account that is the way to go. For high dollar items you want a high transaction fee so you can get a low percentage.
Are you freain' kidding me? It's cost of doing business! Take credit cards or go work in McDonalds. This is 2009 after all. And Cash is NOT free. You have to pay someone to take it to the bank and to drop off spare change of smaller bills. Then there are the security risks it entails. Basically you are telling one side of the argument and being a complete Luddite at the same time.
Our Hosted VOIP service took a dump today at 8:40 AM PST. Supposedly it was a server in the Czech Republic.
From the Carrier
2009-02-16 0945 PST CP experienced a core network connectivity issue due to a world wide BGP issue that affected all BGP interconnected networks. A rouge machine in the Czech Republic was making bad AS advertisements that caused systems world wide to fail. We have worked with our providers as well as our internal Engineering department to effectively block this node and restore service to our network.
This is an ongoing issue that is still being worked to get a 100% correction. There is a workaround currently in place until a complete fix is available.
Hmmm. Did you really think that one through? Really? Try again. If we opened the flood gates we would have a lot more than 3 million immigrants added to the pool of immigrants already coming in. We would have tens of millions. If you mean to only grant amnesty to those here then I argue on moral standing because I don't think we should reward those who break the law.
Actually it has been shown that illegal immigrants are more likely to end up in the hospital with no insurance and make the public foot the bill. After all you can only ignore a gunshot wound for so long.
You also have to help out the people who bought 10 houses and didn't pay a single payment on any of them but were friends with the Loan Officer and the Appraiser and took a cut from both for each house they bought.
Even better idea. How about we have a "Fair Tax" which is a flat tax rate on all goods and services sold. Then repeal the income tax, the tax on telco customers, the tax on electrical customers, the tax on gas, the tax on everything...
Based on how many people they would be able to lay off at the IRS alone this tax would pay for itself.
(Sarcasm) Because companies should be allowed to make it harder to use a credit card and force cash only transactions because carrying around cash is a good idea. In addition if you want a candy bar you better had the cash or you get to go hungry... serves you right for living in the 21st century! (end sarcasm)
Seriously! What are you smoking. Those Credit Card rules are totally fair and anybody who wants to break them doesn't deserve to get my business.
Actually you will because Comtastic people abound in this world and they will make your life suck because people around you are breaking the law even if you don't.
The point is that once you go through all the process to get licensed on a frequency you should be able to say whatever you want. To say otherwise is in fact a restriction of free speech. The reason why is that you are now restriction what I can say because I'm a guest on a Radio show. Or I CAN say it but I now have to dig up someone to be a proponent of the other side of the issue even if there really is no logical other side. Look we don't have to guess what will happen. It was a doctrine before and it resulted in Self-Censorship.That is bad. The media is already dumbing things down for people enough without this doctrine getting in the way.
You can't. Which is the point. It makes the car more efficient but it doesn't make it go on it's own. You still need something to give the car its first push or it's first battery charge.
These arguments are seriously fallacious. They ignore the facts surrounding the situation which include statements by ATT and others which point to an eventual move away from net neutrality by ISPs. This combined with government mandated localized monopolies leads to problems. Never mind that fact that you are just plain WRONG in saying that the Internet is not regulated now. ISPs are very much regulated and receive public funding.
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IOW if you want to cheat at gambling better gamble with something less serious like the economy.
Obama took your advice already.
I agree but you lose more money when you are drunk and distracted.
Because contrary to any logic that I apply to the subject, I actually enjoy wasting time playing penny slots and getting free drinks. Plus I generally get my money back as the retention rates are pretty high. The other game with such high retention rates is... You guessed it: Blackjack.
Card counting really doesn't work that well in Vegas casinos unless you go with a distributed ring: its pretty obvious when an individual is card counting, if you miscount slightly the casino ends up winning big, and the casions can really mess you up, from shuffling more to "backrooming" you and intimidating the F-outta you.
Take note that this is illegal. This is what pissed me off about the movie "21". None of the people who were beat the fuck up in the backroom pressed charges against the attackers. Counting cards is NOT illegal. Assault and Battery IS illegal and will get you brought up on Criminal and Civil charges quick like.
Sounds like you missed out and some of the fun... Pole Dancers and 'free' drinks sound liek a nice way to spend an evening...
And to lose a lot of money.
No, you don't understand. It is not that the hardware is not CAPABLE of running the new software. It is that Cisco is forcing customers to upgrade hardware to get access to later software which in all actuality would more then likely run just fine on the older hardware.
He said this in 1999 on a show hosted by Wolf Blitzer. That's pretty clear to me even though snopes comes to his defense, Al Gore still deserves to suffer as the perpetual butt of all jokes because of that stupid political move.
What? Are you smoking something? The optimal decision is always to float your purchase for 29 days over having to pay for it that moment. It just makes sense.
...And then there's the privacy issue of leaving name-tied transaction records...
Why, because you plan on murdering your wife tonight and you don't want your name tied to the purchase of that sledgehammer?
If you are in a business where your margin is so slim that taking credit cards affects it so much to where you now lose money then you are probably in the wrong business. In addition, like I said before you can get the transaction charges down if you know who to setup a merchant account with.
If it is a corner store they probably take a loss on every damned thing in the store beside liquor, porn, and cigarettes... oh an lottery tickets.
Lame and not informative at all. I have actually setup merchant accounts myself so let me explain something basic. All the fees are negotiable. You can in addition ask for a lower transaction fee and in place pay a higher percentage. For a food service merchant account that is the way to go. For high dollar items you want a high transaction fee so you can get a low percentage.
Fees are not that high. For instance Paypal is 1.9% to 2.9% + $0.30 USD See here... https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_wp-standard-overview-outside&nav=2.0.0 So basically you either had a shitty merchant bank or you pulled the numbers out of your ass.
Are you freain' kidding me? It's cost of doing business! Take credit cards or go work in McDonalds. This is 2009 after all. And Cash is NOT free. You have to pay someone to take it to the bank and to drop off spare change of smaller bills. Then there are the security risks it entails. Basically you are telling one side of the argument and being a complete Luddite at the same time.
Hmmm. Did you really think that one through? Really? Try again. If we opened the flood gates we would have a lot more than 3 million immigrants added to the pool of immigrants already coming in. We would have tens of millions. If you mean to only grant amnesty to those here then I argue on moral standing because I don't think we should reward those who break the law.
Actually it has been shown that illegal immigrants are more likely to end up in the hospital with no insurance and make the public foot the bill. After all you can only ignore a gunshot wound for so long.
Wow, that's racist. I didn't say "illegal" immigration, the vast majority of immigrants are legal workers with visas.
You sir are a moron! It is completely disingenuous to call someone racist because they bring up illegal immigration!
You also have to help out the people who bought 10 houses and didn't pay a single payment on any of them but were friends with the Loan Officer and the Appraiser and took a cut from both for each house they bought.
Even better idea. How about we have a "Fair Tax" which is a flat tax rate on all goods and services sold. Then repeal the income tax, the tax on telco customers, the tax on electrical customers, the tax on gas, the tax on everything...
Based on how many people they would be able to lay off at the IRS alone this tax would pay for itself.
(Sarcasm) Because companies should be allowed to make it harder to use a credit card and force cash only transactions because carrying around cash is a good idea. In addition if you want a candy bar you better had the cash or you get to go hungry... serves you right for living in the 21st century! (end sarcasm)
Seriously! What are you smoking. Those Credit Card rules are totally fair and anybody who wants to break them doesn't deserve to get my business.
Actually you will because Comtastic people abound in this world and they will make your life suck because people around you are breaking the law even if you don't.
I actually have an iptable rule that does this. It is below:
iptables -I FORWARD -i eth0 -o eth1 -m iprange ! --src-range 192.168.1.251-192.168.1.253 -p tcp --dport 25 -j DROP
That is where my exchange servers sit within the 192.168.1.251-192.168.1.253 IP range.
The point is that once you go through all the process to get licensed on a frequency you should be able to say whatever you want. To say otherwise is in fact a restriction of free speech. The reason why is that you are now restriction what I can say because I'm a guest on a Radio show. Or I CAN say it but I now have to dig up someone to be a proponent of the other side of the issue even if there really is no logical other side. Look we don't have to guess what will happen. It was a doctrine before and it resulted in Self-Censorship.That is bad. The media is already dumbing things down for people enough without this doctrine getting in the way.
You can't. Which is the point. It makes the car more efficient but it doesn't make it go on it's own. You still need something to give the car its first push or it's first battery charge.
These arguments are seriously fallacious. They ignore the facts surrounding the situation which include statements by ATT and others which point to an eventual move away from net neutrality by ISPs. This combined with government mandated localized monopolies leads to problems. Never mind that fact that you are just plain WRONG in saying that the Internet is not regulated now. ISPs are very much regulated and receive public funding.