Quite strange really that Amazon seems to have shifted to this position.
For several years Amazon has been infuriating 3rd party sellers by taking returns and then selling them again as new instead of returning the items back to the seller.
So customer one buys an item thats doa and gets returned. Amazon then put it back in stock and the next customer who orders the product gets the obviously not new dead product. Third party seller gets his reputation damaged at the least...
So now they are just destroying returns... Isn't there some middle ground.
Funny how most beers wines and spirits are sold in glass bottles or cans, the exception tends to be cheap cider.
Back when I was a lad the fizzy drinks bottles were glass with a deposit on them and the kids would bring them back and usually buy a few sweets with the money. Milk got delivered in glass bottles and you put the empty bottles out and they got taken back to the dairy cleaned and reused. It worked well.
These days the primary soft drink brands are essentially coca cola and pepsi and very profitable, shifting back to glass would probably make a small difference in costs per bottle. If they shifted back to glass it would make a huge dent in the amount of plastic bottles being made and thrown away.
In Ireland you pay for your waste to be taken away but you can choose to recycle bottles and cans for free. often supermarkets host the bottle and can banks. When you think about it a lot of plastic is for the connivence of super markets. Your local butcher or green grocer would package in grease proof paper and paper bags. At least this biodegrades.
If there are consequences for manufacturers then there are incentives to change. E.g using glass bottles instead of plastic is penalty free. It becomes the better option and there is nothing to leach into your drink...
Currently offering products in glass bottles instead of plastic would build market share. People want to do something to reduce their contribution to plastic waste.
This has been going on for years and google knows it has too. A couple of years back I had a slashdot story posted about it. This problem was raised to board members within google and still there are malicious extensions within googles extension repository.
used by south wales police (uk) it identified around 2500 people as persons of interests and around 450 arrests were made but only around 200 were actual matches
I keep a central library on my nas so i don't need to duplicate it across machines ibooks will pull all the books out of the nas and put them onto my laptop, i use several machines and duplicating my library because i have no central resource any more is unacceptable.
Its a shame as ibooks is quite good as a reading app but i will not have it mess with my data.
The music category is a bit special in itunes, its the only place itunes lets you store audio video and pdf files (maybe epubs too) recent itunes behaviour has been to rip pdfs and epubs out of itunes and into ibooks. with the content hidden in a directory with a name like hghgdykkf73y7y. rather than Books/author/title thats just too easy to use. The only way to avoid this is rip ibooks out of the os. The only way to put ibooks back is to reinstall the os...
This really sucks since i store itunesmedia on a nas thats backed up every two hours with rsync. precisely to avoid having duplicate files everywhere. I do not care to have my files backed up via icloud and rented back to me.
Hardly likely to be less agriculture, maybe some surplus to export or more likely a little less import.
farmers like to plant one crop in a field and not have anything else grow cover it in weed killer and bug spray. Cows sheep pigs don't really care too much whats growing in a field they eat it.
There is an exception if i have the ipad hooked up to my mac with duet (or pc not tried this) I can use the ipad to extend my desktop. e.g as the secondary display for lightroom. my trackpad mouse can then move onto the ipad screen. It's not the worst for speed either. it does have some nice features and its pretty responsive compared to my android tablet.
Actually can get up to 4 screens going on my mac duet to the ipad, airparrot to appletv. and then just plugin an external monitor:) it can play with the chromecast too sometimes.
An ipad isn't quite the same, you can't add a mouse you can add a keyboard you can read the DCIM folder for photos on an SDCARD you can't write back to it...
on the plus side it does work pretty well with network shares.
I've taken an android tv box and set linux up on it so now its wifi is used to create an access point and it shares drives like a nas with a quad core processor 1.5 ghz and 1 GB of ram its a bit of over kill for a nas but now the ipad can be used without a regular computer or an internet connection.:)
You have no idea how collections services work do you?
When they get a debt to collect, they charge a fee per visit. If there is 4 bills then the fee is charged 4x per visit. I think if you are not home you still get charged for the visit. The fee is typically around $50 so you might have small amounts owing to the original company but be charged $200 per visit. The best thing to do if you can't pay all of them off is to pay off the smaller bills first. Did I forget to mention interest which is charged on their fee's as well as the original debt.
Really want to get screwed try the M50 parts of which are a barrierless toll road. I went up to dublin one weekend and I figured for sure I had been on the toll section once but it was possible i had briefly been on the toll road a 2nd time. It's not clear which sections are tolled. So I paid 2 fee's just in case.
why? (currently the charge is euro 3.10 a pop).
For the M50 you have until 8pm the next day to pay the Toll. http://etoll.ie/faqs/ "If you donâ(TM)t make an M50 toll payment before the 8pm the next-day payment deadline, you will incur an additional charge of â3.00. If the original unpaid M50 toll charges and the penalty are not paid within 14 days then an additional late payment penalty of â41.00 will be incurred.
Failure to pay this outstanding amount after a further 56 days will result in an additional late penalty charge of â103.00.
If you have still not paid the amount due, legal proceedings may be initiated.
Euro Parking Collections is licensed to collect unpaid toll charges on behalf of the M50 across the European continent."
unfortunately they cannot tell you what you owe for that day before the 8pm deadline so if in doubt pay more. So 2 trips costs 6.20 paying beyond the 8pm cut off adds 3.00 (9.20 or 12.20) paying for 1 at 3.10 would result in a 2nd charge of 6.10 in addition. You also are relying on getting a notification within 14 days to avoid the late payment of 41.00 (they usually can't tell you what you owe before that time anyway or if they owe you).
To cap it off All motorists who use one of the countryâ(TM)s toll roads are liable to pay toll fees. Those who use a toll road and then fail, neglect or refuse to pay are guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction in a District Court to a fine not exceeding â1,270.
So that's how a 3.10 toll fee can grow to 1,270 and why for the last 8 years i'm in credit with the toll company for around 2.50 as it was the only sensible option at the time.
The obvious thing to do would be bring back the 17" Macbook Pro and put the touchbar between the f keys and the screen. Might as well have sockets for the Ram and SSD while they are at it and add a few ports and a replaceable battery. I probably still wouldn't want to use the touchbar but at least it would be a macbook pro worth upgrading too. Maybe even a small screen / touch pad which you could use a pressure sensitive stylus with:)
Maybe that's just asking too much for a high end laptop.
Stupid people find reading difficult and watching video easy. Who's going to buy your product? Readers tend to think watchers not so much. For advertisers the case for video is strong.
The SJW when presented with the mitigating circumstance is pretty much by definition to reluctantly accept the defense. No justice when it can not be helped...
It's worse internationally ebay and amazon rip you off left right and centre. I bought a couple of light stands £3 to ship to the uk £20 ship to Ireland from Amazon but anpost now have a thing called addresspal ship to stalbans and then they ship to your door 6 euro if the package will fit in their postoffice dimensions its about 4 euro for up to 20kg (40 pounds) .
There is a pretty good chance it would be delivered by anPost anyway.
I'm looking at getting a little item the size of a bottlecap on ebay from germany 18 euro and 20 euro to ship. I've just found a site in germany that will ship it registered via czech republic for 3.20 registered or 1.60 unregistered ebays global shipping is a con basically the seller ships to an ebay center who put a label on it and forward it on now what used to cost about £6 costs £20 and takes 2 weeks instead of 5 days.
china's economy international shipping is an interesting one, the sellers pay by the gram and eventually a shipping container is filled and it sets sail to the destination country and is then delivered free of charge by the local postal service. It's a reciprocal agreement the us post office can also ship this way and get delivered for free in china. each year there is a tally up and say china shipped 110 tonnes and usa 100 tonnes then china pays the usa for 10 tonnes. Or the otherway round. China wins all the time with this with 1000's of tiny packets and most countries shipping large bulky items. It's slow but honestly i can buy something from china and get in six weeks for less than the cost of gas to go to town and if i want mail order nationally its going to be at least 10x more expensive, although chances are the local seller bought in china paid the same euro i would have and gets his markup and the local post gets paid.
rather ironically it's about a guy trying to build his own iPhone 6S 16GB entirely from parts bought in the public cell phone parts markets in Huaqiangbei.
If you ignore that aspect you will see how the market vendors are doing deals and transferring money using these apps instead of cash.
Essentially the way the chinese are using the apps is as an electronic wallet. Only an idiot would use a wallet that tries to take 30% of each transaction. The chinese are using it to avoid transaction fees altogether. Apple charging anything on this service is going to kill the use of it on the iphone stone dead.
They honestly haven't a clue how this works, this is an alternative to paper money not some kind of game. They might use it to buy a coffee the next $10,000 of components in one of the electronics markets.
Slashdot Mirror
I've reported too many dodgy chrome extensions from the chrome store to trust it.
What this is really about is control over what you can install.
There are useful extensions for working round restrictions and google is trying to stop you using them.
Although this is often effective.
document.body.contentEditable = 'true'; document.designMode='on'; void 0
just add it as a bookmark usually is fairly successful, just delete the content you don't want.
Quite strange really that Amazon seems to have shifted to this position.
For several years Amazon has been infuriating 3rd party sellers by taking returns and then selling them again as new instead of returning the items back to the seller.
So customer one buys an item thats doa and gets returned. Amazon then put it back in stock and the next customer who orders the product gets the obviously not new dead product. Third party seller gets his reputation damaged at the least...
So now they are just destroying returns...
Isn't there some middle ground.
Funny how most beers wines and spirits are sold in glass bottles or cans, the exception tends to be cheap cider.
Back when I was a lad the fizzy drinks bottles were glass with a deposit on them and the kids would bring them back and usually buy a few sweets with the money. Milk got delivered in glass bottles and you put the empty bottles out and they got taken back to the dairy cleaned and reused. It worked well.
These days the primary soft drink brands are essentially coca cola and pepsi and very profitable, shifting back to glass would probably make a small difference in costs per bottle.
If they shifted back to glass it would make a huge dent in the amount of plastic bottles being made and thrown away.
In Ireland you pay for your waste to be taken away but you can choose to recycle bottles and cans for free. often supermarkets host the bottle and can banks. When you think about it a lot of plastic is for the connivence of super markets. Your local butcher or green grocer would package in grease proof paper and paper bags.
At least this biodegrades.
If there are consequences for manufacturers then there are incentives to change. E.g using glass bottles instead of plastic is penalty free. It becomes the better option and there is nothing to leach into your drink...
Currently offering products in glass bottles instead of plastic would build market share. People want to do something to reduce their contribution to plastic waste.
Used to be the case that you could get wooden chip forks.
This has been going on for years and google knows it has too. A couple of years back I had a slashdot story posted about it. This problem was raised to board members within google and still there are malicious extensions within googles extension repository.
I was just reading this earlier
https://www.theverge.com/2018/...
used by south wales police (uk) it identified around 2500 people as persons of interests and around 450 arrests were made but only around 200 were actual matches
is this likely to be better?
Cargill produces and controls most of the worlds wheat production. Maybe bigger than most meat producers.
her name was Elaine Herzberg, not that person or the pedestrian , `Elaine was killed by ubers car.
https://www.standard.co.uk/new...
I keep a central library on my nas so i don't need to duplicate it across machines ibooks will pull all the books out of the nas and put them onto my laptop, i use several machines and duplicating my library because i have no central resource any more is unacceptable.
Its a shame as ibooks is quite good as a reading app but i will not have it mess with my data.
The music category is a bit special in itunes, its the only place itunes lets you store audio video and pdf files (maybe epubs too) recent itunes behaviour has been to rip pdfs and epubs out of itunes and into ibooks. with the content hidden in a directory with a name like hghgdykkf73y7y. rather than Books/author/title thats just too easy to use. The only way to avoid this is rip ibooks out of the os. The only way to put ibooks back is to reinstall the os...
This really sucks since i store itunesmedia on a nas thats backed up every two hours with rsync. precisely to avoid having duplicate files everywhere. I do not care to have my files backed up via icloud and rented back to me.
Hardly likely to be less agriculture, maybe some surplus to export or more likely a little less import.
farmers like to plant one crop in a field and not have anything else grow cover it in weed killer and bug spray. Cows sheep pigs don't really care too much whats growing in a field they eat it.
Which fields will be more bio diverse?
There is an exception if i have the ipad hooked up to my mac with duet (or pc not tried this) I can use the ipad to extend my desktop. e.g as the secondary display for lightroom. my trackpad mouse can then move onto the ipad screen. It's not the worst for speed either. it does have some nice features and its pretty responsive compared to my android tablet.
Actually can get up to 4 screens going on my mac duet to the ipad, airparrot to appletv. and then just plugin an external monitor :) it can play with the chromecast too sometimes.
Surprised me, I thought it would work like android.
I believe some people have got a mouse working on a jail broken iPad.
I did manage to get a usb graphics tablet working although it said it was unsupported it could detect the pen about an inch above the surface.
https://discussions.apple.com/... read the thread it is rather a wtf moment.
An ipad isn't quite the same, you can't add a mouse you can add a keyboard you can read the DCIM folder for photos on an SDCARD you can't write back to it...
on the plus side it does work pretty well with network shares.
I've taken an android tv box and set linux up on it so now its wifi is used to create an access point and it shares drives like a nas with a quad core processor 1.5 ghz and 1 GB of ram its a bit of over kill for a nas but now the ipad can be used without a regular computer or an internet connection. :)
You have no idea how collections services work do you?
When they get a debt to collect, they charge a fee per visit. If there is 4 bills then the fee is charged 4x per visit. I think if you are not home you still get charged for the visit. The fee is typically around $50 so you might have small amounts owing to the original company but be charged $200 per visit. The best thing to do if you can't pay all of them off is to pay off the smaller bills first. Did I forget to mention interest which is charged on their fee's as well as the original debt.
Really want to get screwed try the M50 parts of which are a barrierless toll road.
I went up to dublin one weekend and I figured for sure I had been on the toll section once but it was possible i had briefly been on the toll road a 2nd time. It's not clear which sections are tolled. So I paid 2 fee's just in case.
why? (currently the charge is euro 3.10 a pop).
For the M50 you have until 8pm the next day to pay the Toll.
http://etoll.ie/faqs/
"If you donâ(TM)t make an M50 toll payment before the 8pm the next-day payment deadline, you will incur an additional charge of â3.00. If the original unpaid M50 toll charges and the penalty are not paid within 14 days then an additional late payment penalty of â41.00 will be incurred.
Failure to pay this outstanding amount after a further 56 days will result in an additional late penalty charge of â103.00.
If you have still not paid the amount due, legal proceedings may be initiated.
Euro Parking Collections is licensed to collect unpaid toll charges on behalf of the M50 across the European continent."
unfortunately they cannot tell you what you owe for that day before the 8pm deadline so if in doubt pay more. So 2 trips costs 6.20 paying beyond the 8pm cut off adds 3.00 (9.20 or 12.20) paying for 1 at 3.10 would result in a 2nd charge of 6.10 in addition. You also are relying on getting a notification within 14 days to avoid the late payment of 41.00 (they usually can't tell you what you owe before that time anyway or if they owe you).
To cap it off
All motorists who use one of the countryâ(TM)s toll roads are liable to pay toll fees. Those who use a toll road and then fail, neglect or refuse to pay are guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction in a District Court to a fine not exceeding â1,270.
So that's how a 3.10 toll fee can grow to 1,270 and why for the last 8 years i'm in credit with the toll company for around 2.50 as it was the only sensible option at the time.
The obvious thing to do would be bring back the 17" Macbook Pro and put the touchbar between the f keys and the screen. Might as well have sockets for the Ram and SSD while they are at it and add a few ports and a replaceable battery. I probably still wouldn't want to use the touchbar but at least it would be a macbook pro worth upgrading too. Maybe even a small screen / touch pad which you could use a pressure sensitive stylus with :)
Maybe that's just asking too much for a high end laptop.
Stupid people find reading difficult and watching video easy. Who's going to buy your product? Readers tend to think watchers not so much. For advertisers the case for video is strong.
The SJW when presented with the mitigating circumstance is pretty much by definition to reluctantly accept the defense. No justice when it can not be helped...
If there is a code then it basically boils down to don't be a dick or at least try not to.
If a fella has tourettes he's likely to swear, it's involuntary. It's intention that matters more than the bare facts.
It's worse internationally ebay and amazon rip you off left right and centre.
I bought a couple of light stands £3 to ship to the uk £20 ship to Ireland from Amazon but anpost now have a thing called addresspal ship to stalbans and then they ship to your door 6 euro if the package will fit in their postoffice dimensions its about 4 euro for up to 20kg (40 pounds) .
There is a pretty good chance it would be delivered by anPost anyway.
I'm looking at getting a little item the size of a bottlecap on ebay from germany 18 euro and 20 euro to ship. I've just found a site in germany that will ship it registered via czech republic for 3.20 registered or 1.60 unregistered ebays global shipping is a con basically the seller ships to an ebay center who put a label on it and forward it on now what used to cost about £6 costs £20 and takes 2 weeks instead of 5 days.
china's economy international shipping is an interesting one, the sellers pay by the gram and eventually a shipping container is filled and it sets sail to the destination country and is then delivered free of charge by the local postal service. It's a reciprocal agreement the us post office can also ship this way and get delivered for free in china. each year there is a tally up and say china shipped 110 tonnes and usa 100 tonnes then china pays the usa for 10 tonnes. Or the otherway round. China wins all the time with this with 1000's of tiny packets and most countries shipping large bulky items. It's slow but honestly i can buy something from china and get in six weeks for less than the cost of gas to go to town and if i want mail order nationally its going to be at least 10x more expensive, although chances are the local seller bought in china paid the same euro i would have and gets his markup and the local post gets paid.
Bad fans, the bearings seize the psu overheats, sometimes smokes, always dies. I've replaced a lot of them in a couple of local colleges.
She said wanna cry had infected the linux systems as well as the windows ones in her statement.
If you don't get it
try this youtube video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
rather ironically it's about a guy trying to build his own iPhone 6S 16GB entirely from parts bought in the public cell phone parts markets in Huaqiangbei.
If you ignore that aspect you will see how the market vendors are doing deals and transferring money using these apps instead of cash.
Essentially the way the chinese are using the apps is as an electronic wallet. Only an idiot would use a wallet that tries to take 30% of each transaction. The chinese are using it to avoid transaction fees altogether. Apple charging anything on this service is going to kill the use of it on the iphone stone dead.
They honestly haven't a clue how this works, this is an alternative to paper money not some kind of game. They might use it to buy a coffee the next $10,000 of components in one of the electronics markets.
It honestly seems like apple hasn't a clue here.