Here are my solutions: If I need, I ask before what the price will be . I know this is not exact, but will indicate it. If you do a search before, you will know what to expect. This means asking others what the expected price will be. Internet has this info available for most places. The tipping part is valid for everything. This has nothing to do with taxis by itself. You will more likely be in more places where you might need to tip besides taxis. So till now the trick is to be informed about the country you travel to. Wiki Travel is very helpful for this.
Yes, a decent app would be great, just like getting a pony. As not even public transport is one, it is very unlikely this will ever happen in the near future. I also do not see it as a huge issue. It is a 'nice to have' thing, not a 'must have'. And reading up on a place you visit, even if only for a business meeting, is a good thing to do.
The taxis I take in Europe are from/to the airport, if I have more than carry on. Otherwise I will take public transport as it is way cheaper and in busy cities not much slower and sometimes even faster. Again http://wikitravel.org/en/Main_Page will be very helpful for almost all major cities. It will take away a lot of the uncertainty of how much you need to pay.
Please alsp define "Social media" I do not have Facebook, twitter or similar accounts. Is/. Social Media? Is the webserver with my domain name one, because that is where I put anything I think is important on (It is nothing). Is Usernet "Social Media"? What about email?
It is nice to know who took the cookies from the cookie jar as long as there are consequences. If there are not, it means nothing. In fact it means more than nothing, because is uses resources that are not needed. It is as if the NSAA or CIA are asked "Do you do illegal things" and they go "Yeah, we do. LOL" and then nothing happens.
It is nice for administration and stats, just like the numbering of Jews during WWII (Yep, going full Godwin here). It is absolutely meaningless and even will give people some idea that what they do is morally correct and justified. (Not using the word legal here.)
People who do not ask correctly can be pointed to here http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/... Often it is that they have no idea WHAT to ask. That can be solved by the above. It will show people who are willing to answer that the person asking has put some time and effort into it. Even saying "I looked for 'ABC + DEF' and found nothing" will show that it is not just somebody that is just somebody who wants the easy way out.
On part of the people who reply, I believe it is due to a lack of people who are active on forums. It is the same small group who replies and they will have seen all the standard questions 50 times at least and are tired of it. Also what happens with me is that if I get an answer, I have no incentive to return to the forum, so I don't. That means that I won't give any answers, even if I would have them.
With Usenet I would have subscribed to the Newsgroup and I would have to unsubscribe from the group. Most likely I will stay subscribed for at least a day and read a bit. I might also read other things that come in. And perhaps I will then contribute to the general knowledge. Not so with forums that I need to open and then try to follow what went on. I have tried, but it is just too messy to try to follow websites when comparing to Usenet.
And concerning the 'works for me' crowd. It becomes even harder when you have three parties involved. I had an issue with displaying Windowmaker correctly with the NVidea drover and running X. Each of them said it was not them and to ask the next guy.
Similar frustrations happened when I did bug reporting. Either no follow up or "It works here, please give more details." When you gave details, the answer was "It works here, try the latest version" Next a silence and "Please try the newest version, but install 25GB of extra software that will break your machine. And if you don't want to, there clearly is unwillingness on your side." So, yeah, I am not doing that anymore.
A pass should be 'I did the exercises and now I know what it's like'.
Depends on the age. But I would rather see that there is a general aproach to learning. Not so much basic knowledge, but thinking. That would need more qualified teachers and that would mean more monies.
No, you should not feel sorry about the companies. Nor should you feel sorry about all the people affected. What you should feel sorry about is the fact that a decision was taken without thinking things through. Not even talking if the decision was right or wrong.
If you take such a decision and it can be withdrawn within a week, it means to me that you have no clue what you are doing.
If your CEO asks you to block a server and you know it is the web server and you explain that you can't just shut it down and he STILL insists to shut it down, you have an idiot as CEO.
A green card is a non-expiring, permanent resident work permit. It confers a right to permanent residency within the U.S., and provides a path to citizenship.
Is there a specific reason as to why the citizenship part is important? The reason I ask is that I have seen it several times and I do not see it as an essential part as a European. My parents and sister have 4 different nationalities and we live in 3 different countries and non in the country that is our nationality. My sisters kids are not even born in the country of their nationality as they took the nationality of the mother and not the father. (Parents are still happy together) and don't even speak the language of their nationality.
We all pay the same taxes as others in the country we live in. We have the same rights as others have. To become a national of the country I live in now I would have to take a lot of time and a lot of effort for basically replacing my passport and ID.
That is just me. Others will want, for various reason, get the nationality of the country they live in. However I would never assume that somebody who gets official papers to stay in the country is a way to get the nationality (although technically correct).
For those wondering: I do not care about my official nationality. It is a piece of paper, nothing more, nothing less. If you have 4 nationalities inside your direct family, being proud of that becomes a bit silly.
Trump won, because people voted against something. Do not confuse that with voting for something.
If you have the choice of having you left or right pinky cut of in a 'insurance settlement', it does not mean you wanted it cut of. It just means you did not wanted to cut off the other one even less.
As it is a public forum, it should. Just like you should not be able to restrict Jews from stores and say "But we are not government." or "Sure you can smoke here, this is not a public building."
And before you call me a bleeding heart liberal, I'm retired usmc with 23 years and 3 combat deployments.
And that means you can't be a bleeding heart liberal because... It sound like you are saying "You can't call me a Republican, because I like pizza." To me the two are not in any way interchangeable. And if they are and there are no people that are liberals with combat experience, there will be a serious issue, worse than refusing homosexuals into combat situations.
No "and" If I label myself a Neo-Nazi, I do not get to say that this was a self-label and what I mean with it is 'person who likes beer'. I am sick of people taking a word and just decide suddenly it means something else. It is not "alternative truth". It is "lies and bullshit". Your gender is NOT "Apache Helicopter" or "Mayonnaise".
So if you call yourself Alt-Right and then decide it does not mean what you thought it means, you call yourself something else. Otherwise you are Alt-Right and that means White Nationalist. Again: if you do not like that label, don't use it and make up one of your own that does not yet exist.
On the other had, I could get 20USD instead of the senator. So I see it as a win. Now I am down 20USD and the way I vote does not affect the way that senator votes.
How do you know that? For all I know they are just people who are using it to watch entertainment videos. And then they are being tricked by law enforcement. So they where innocent until the law enforcement made them guilty.
I have seen child porn. I was not looking for it. I even had to explain myself to the police after they called my job and asked if they could speak to me concerning a child porn. Luckily I had a CEO who not only understood almost instantly what was going on, but also offered to pay for my lawyer if I would need one, because of the fuckup of the police.
The fuckup was not only that I informed them (Oh, sorry, we did not read our email) and the provider. The provider was asked to leave the website up while the URL was already posted on several Usenetgeroups (this was a while ago) just so the case would be bigger for them.
Yes, they did know why the 15 year old boy who posted the image was.
the reason why they took it down was because I contacted the newspaper and they did an interview with me and it was public (No, not the URL)
They tried to get me for the following offenses: 1) Taking a false identity, because I did not use my real name and address when I made my free email account 2) Spreading of childporn, because in a reply I did on a anti-abuse Usenetgroup the URL was in the reply 3) Obstruction of the law, because I contacted the newspaper, even if I had send them an email and they did not reply in any way.
At one moment they left the room and I was alone and there where several floppies around I could easily take. I am still not sure if that was another attempt of entrapment or if they where that stupid. The fact that they did not know what headers where or had no ide there was a difference between a login and an email address, I assume they where just stoopid.
So using entrapment on such a random scale is great if you want to boost your arrest numbers, but it is not really good for anything else.
If the doctor can guess the answer, it is not a very good test. He could guess wrong even without the influence of the family.
And perhaps the patient has such a stupid sense of humor that he answers wrong just for the heck of it. I know I would and I know my dad would as well. Paris the capital of Germany? Sure. Ask stupid questions, get stupid answers. Then there is my mom who would answer yes if she would not be sure. And she would be confused by such a question. Even the fact that it is such a stupid question would throw here of. I might say yes as well if you ask me the question and I am not in a coma yet. Too early and not a weekend yet.
Indeed. Compare it to living in New England and all those states are different countries. There are people who live in one state and work in another. Same in Europe. Shopping? Hop over to another country for a few hours. I went to school in a different country and came back each day.
Can you imagine that you say to all the people working in NYC, NY they need a different phone if they live in NJ and change their simcard twice per day?
Living in Belgium. Prices are not the lowest, but are clearly falling. I just got a doubling of my data, calls and SMS at no extra charge. International rates are dropping as well as roaming costs that already have a maximum price for international sending.
Those are now such that I have had a prepaid where national SMS would be more expensive than international sending with the same provider.
Not all is perfect as Proximus is still too big, but it is slowly going in the right direction. Some things they did right: 1) By law there need to be 3 mobile operators. 2) Phones are unlocked. All of them. 3) Number portability exists and works 4) New contracts are for a year and after that you are able to quit after a month, each month. They are working to make those periods even shorter.
The bad thing they did was to allow coupling of sales. In the past it was not possible to link a sale of a phone to the sale of a contract. It was the companies that where forcing that. So you know that was not in advantage of the customer. And no, the prices you will gave as an example that it works are not correct.
I can co into a supermarket and buy a phone. I go to another supermarket and buy a pre-paid card. I then can ask online to transfer my old number to my new number without an issue. I do this about every two years, shopping around.
So yes, I do think that lowering the roaming prices by law is a good thing. It is not as if these companies are in a despair and going broke next week.
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Here are my solutions:
If I need, I ask before what the price will be . I know this is not exact, but will indicate it. If you do a search before, you will know what to expect.
This means asking others what the expected price will be. Internet has this info available for most places.
The tipping part is valid for everything. This has nothing to do with taxis by itself. You will more likely be in more places where you might need to tip besides taxis.
So till now the trick is to be informed about the country you travel to. Wiki Travel is very helpful for this.
Yes, a decent app would be great, just like getting a pony. As not even public transport is one, it is very unlikely this will ever happen in the near future. I also do not see it as a huge issue. It is a 'nice to have' thing, not a 'must have'. And reading up on a place you visit, even if only for a business meeting, is a good thing to do.
The taxis I take in Europe are from/to the airport, if I have more than carry on. Otherwise I will take public transport as it is way cheaper and in busy cities not much slower and sometimes even faster. Again http://wikitravel.org/en/Main_Page will be very helpful for almost all major cities. It will take away a lot of the uncertainty of how much you need to pay.
It sounds as if Hollywood has its own type of accounting. I will be back if I have a specific name for it.
Well, that is what they want. If you are unwilling to look at the ads, they are unwilling to give you the content. Seems like a win-win.
Or do you think you are somehow entitled to see their content?
If not showing the content is a good idea or not is besides the point. They think it is and it is their content.
So no more /. ?
Please alsp define "Social media" I do not have Facebook, twitter or similar accounts. Is /. Social Media? Is the webserver with my domain name one, because that is where I put anything I think is important on (It is nothing).
Is Usernet "Social Media"? What about email?
It is nice to know who took the cookies from the cookie jar as long as there are consequences. If there are not, it means nothing.
In fact it means more than nothing, because is uses resources that are not needed.
It is as if the NSAA or CIA are asked "Do you do illegal things" and they go "Yeah, we do. LOL" and then nothing happens.
It is nice for administration and stats, just like the numbering of Jews during WWII (Yep, going full Godwin here). It is absolutely meaningless and even will give people some idea that what they do is morally correct and justified. (Not using the word legal here.)
Throwing tea in a harbor was not exactly legal either. So it goes back a long time.
People who do not ask correctly can be pointed to here http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/...
Often it is that they have no idea WHAT to ask. That can be solved by the above. It will show people who are willing to answer that the person asking has put some time and effort into it. Even saying "I looked for 'ABC + DEF' and found nothing" will show that it is not just somebody that is just somebody who wants the easy way out.
On part of the people who reply, I believe it is due to a lack of people who are active on forums. It is the same small group who replies and they will have seen all the standard questions 50 times at least and are tired of it.
Also what happens with me is that if I get an answer, I have no incentive to return to the forum, so I don't. That means that I won't give any answers, even if I would have them.
With Usenet I would have subscribed to the Newsgroup and I would have to unsubscribe from the group. Most likely I will stay subscribed for at least a day and read a bit. I might also read other things that come in. And perhaps I will then contribute to the general knowledge.
Not so with forums that I need to open and then try to follow what went on. I have tried, but it is just too messy to try to follow websites when comparing to Usenet.
And concerning the 'works for me' crowd. It becomes even harder when you have three parties involved. I had an issue with displaying Windowmaker correctly with the NVidea drover and running X. Each of them said it was not them and to ask the next guy.
Similar frustrations happened when I did bug reporting. Either no follow up or "It works here, please give more details." When you gave details, the answer was "It works here, try the latest version" Next a silence and "Please try the newest version, but install 25GB of extra software that will break your machine. And if you don't want to, there clearly is unwillingness on your side." So, yeah, I am not doing that anymore.
Depends on the age. But I would rather see that there is a general aproach to learning.
Not so much basic knowledge, but thinking.
That would need more qualified teachers and that would mean more monies.
No, you should not feel sorry about the companies. Nor should you feel sorry about all the people affected. What you should feel sorry about is the fact that a decision was taken without thinking things through. Not even talking if the decision was right or wrong.
If you take such a decision and it can be withdrawn within a week, it means to me that you have no clue what you are doing.
If your CEO asks you to block a server and you know it is the web server and you explain that you can't just shut it down and he STILL insists to shut it down, you have an idiot as CEO.
Is your nickname Captain Obvious?
Is there a specific reason as to why the citizenship part is important? The reason I ask is that I have seen it several times and I do not see it as an essential part as a European.
My parents and sister have 4 different nationalities and we live in 3 different countries and non in the country that is our nationality.
My sisters kids are not even born in the country of their nationality as they took the nationality of the mother and not the father. (Parents are still happy together) and don't even speak the language of their nationality.
We all pay the same taxes as others in the country we live in. We have the same rights as others have. To become a national of the country I live in now I would have to take a lot of time and a lot of effort for basically replacing my passport and ID.
That is just me. Others will want, for various reason, get the nationality of the country they live in. However I would never assume that somebody who gets official papers to stay in the country is a way to get the nationality (although technically correct).
For those wondering: I do not care about my official nationality. It is a piece of paper, nothing more, nothing less. If you have 4 nationalities inside your direct family, being proud of that becomes a bit silly.
The fact that they pay shit and treat them like shit and most likely more people went out of a job because of this, most definitely.
Trump won, because people voted against something. Do not confuse that with voting for something.
If you have the choice of having you left or right pinky cut of in a 'insurance settlement', it does not mean you wanted it cut of. It just means you did not wanted to cut off the other one even less.
As it is a public forum, it should. Just like you should not be able to restrict Jews from stores and say "But we are not government." or "Sure you can smoke here, this is not a public building."
And that means you can't be a bleeding heart liberal because ...
It sound like you are saying "You can't call me a Republican, because I like pizza." To me the two are not in any way interchangeable.
And if they are and there are no people that are liberals with combat experience, there will be a serious issue, worse than refusing homosexuals into combat situations.
No "and" If I label myself a Neo-Nazi, I do not get to say that this was a self-label and what I mean with it is 'person who likes beer'.
I am sick of people taking a word and just decide suddenly it means something else.
It is not "alternative truth". It is "lies and bullshit". Your gender is NOT "Apache Helicopter" or "Mayonnaise".
So if you call yourself Alt-Right and then decide it does not mean what you thought it means, you call yourself something else. Otherwise you are Alt-Right and that means White Nationalist.
Again: if you do not like that label, don't use it and make up one of your own that does not yet exist.
So that is the reason the USofA isn't a Democracy. I thought it was because they where a republic.
On the other had, I could get 20USD instead of the senator. So I see it as a win. Now I am down 20USD and the way I vote does not affect the way that senator votes.
How do you know that? For all I know they are just people who are using it to watch entertainment videos. And then they are being tricked by law enforcement. So they where innocent until the law enforcement made them guilty.
I have seen child porn. I was not looking for it. I even had to explain myself to the police after they called my job and asked if they could speak to me concerning a child porn. Luckily I had a CEO who not only understood almost instantly what was going on, but also offered to pay for my lawyer if I would need one, because of the fuckup of the police.
The fuckup was not only that I informed them (Oh, sorry, we did not read our email) and the provider. The provider was asked to leave the website up while the URL was already posted on several Usenetgeroups (this was a while ago) just so the case would be bigger for them.
Yes, they did know why the 15 year old boy who posted the image was.
the reason why they took it down was because I contacted the newspaper and they did an interview with me and it was public (No, not the URL)
They tried to get me for the following offenses:
1) Taking a false identity, because I did not use my real name and address when I made my free email account
2) Spreading of childporn, because in a reply I did on a anti-abuse Usenetgroup the URL was in the reply
3) Obstruction of the law, because I contacted the newspaper, even if I had send them an email and they did not reply in any way.
At one moment they left the room and I was alone and there where several floppies around I could easily take. I am still not sure if that was another attempt of entrapment or if they where that stupid. The fact that they did not know what headers where or had no ide there was a difference between a login and an email address, I assume they where just stoopid.
So using entrapment on such a random scale is great if you want to boost your arrest numbers, but it is not really good for anything else.
If the doctor can guess the answer, it is not a very good test. He could guess wrong even without the influence of the family.
And perhaps the patient has such a stupid sense of humor that he answers wrong just for the heck of it. I know I would and I know my dad would as well. Paris the capital of Germany? Sure. Ask stupid questions, get stupid answers.
Then there is my mom who would answer yes if she would not be sure. And she would be confused by such a question. Even the fact that it is such a stupid question would throw here of.
I might say yes as well if you ask me the question and I am not in a coma yet. Too early and not a weekend yet.
Indeed. Compare it to living in New England and all those states are different countries. There are people who live in one state and work in another. Same in Europe.
Shopping? Hop over to another country for a few hours.
I went to school in a different country and came back each day.
Can you imagine that you say to all the people working in NYC, NY they need a different phone if they live in NJ and change their simcard twice per day?
Living in Belgium. Prices are not the lowest, but are clearly falling. I just got a doubling of my data, calls and SMS at no extra charge.
International rates are dropping as well as roaming costs that already have a maximum price for international sending.
Those are now such that I have had a prepaid where national SMS would be more expensive than international sending with the same provider.
Not all is perfect as Proximus is still too big, but it is slowly going in the right direction. Some things they did right:
1) By law there need to be 3 mobile operators.
2) Phones are unlocked. All of them.
3) Number portability exists and works
4) New contracts are for a year and after that you are able to quit after a month, each month. They are working to make those periods even shorter.
The bad thing they did was to allow coupling of sales. In the past it was not possible to link a sale of a phone to the sale of a contract. It was the companies that where forcing that. So you know that was not in advantage of the customer. And no, the prices you will gave as an example that it works are not correct.
I can co into a supermarket and buy a phone. I go to another supermarket and buy a pre-paid card. I then can ask online to transfer my old number to my new number without an issue. I do this about every two years, shopping around.
So yes, I do think that lowering the roaming prices by law is a good thing. It is not as if these companies are in a despair and going broke next week.
So calling them Orcs or Hobbits is not an option?
The thing is that with a magician you should not look at the distraction. With Trump it is not just a distraction. He does both.