It's very annoying, but it seems like the only way to get problems resolved anymore is to act like a jerk.
Problem is, the bad customer service epidemic is now conditioning people to pull the "jerk" card before they really need to.
For example, my company prides itself in customer service, to the extent that we have never not replaced a broken product, even when well outside of our posted warranty period. Nonetheless, we get daily calls where people begin rudely insisting that they're going to get what they want... and before our reps have a chance to tell them that they will. I honestly don't blame the customers... it's just a sad statement about our service culture.
It seems one would be able to expose a lot of these printers by replacing (or contaminating) the yellow ink with black.
Just try a sheet of black, glossy paper (magazine ads are good source). Toner ink has a matte texture, and is slightly opaque - when you hold your printed sheet so that light reflects off it, you'll easily see a dot pattern.
Oh, and make sure your test printout is pretty light, or you'll gum up the printer (toner doesn't fuse well to gloss surfaces)
If he picks Alberto Gonzales (currently attourney general), all hell may break loose.
Why? Gonzales would probably require less of a confirmation battle than any other candidate. He's not well liked by Republican leaders (for being too moderate on issues like abortion), and Bush's advisors are already recommending against it.
Don't forget, just because someone has an R next to their name, doesn't mean they are controlled by the party.
Case-in-point: SCOTUS. Seven of the nine were appointed "R", but have still ruled in many cases against the Republican platform (abortion rights, Schaivo, etc.)
I appreciate it when congressmen/senators cross party lines. May not agree with them, but I like knowing that our elected officials think for themselves sometimes.
How can you have Internet access without cable TV? I had to get basic cable TV with my Internet access through Comcast.
Sounds like you should've asked for a supervisor. I have Comcast cable internet, but don't subscribe to their cable TV service. They offered me a discount if I took both, but I declined.
I agreed with your original post too, in that I've been surprised at how often the mere shape of a protein defines its function, or at least its active site, rather than bond interation with a substrate. Neat stuff.
They built it because every summer thousands of cars get stuck in Millau while traveling from north to south.
Did they really need a bridge, though? Why not just build a long highway with no onramp/exit ramps. Easily the same footprint as a bridge, and without a concrete eyesore over the French countryside.
Did they? Do you know the details of that confidential settlement?
No, I don't know. But they were sued once before for selling speakers with their computeres, and based on the agreement alone, they lost. So it's a fair assumption that Apple agreed to "stay out of the music business"
Yeah, agreed. He uses "balkanization" to refer to communities isolating themselves, but it should be the opposite... people with big differences being forced to associated with each other. Ah well.
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Maybe a 802.11 cam or something.
Tornadoes generate a tremendous amount of EM radiation. Nearby twisters are known to jam low-VHF frequencies (i.e. the infamous "white channel two" warning). Of course, they may not affect WiFi frequencies at all, but I also wonder if the rotating iron in a tornado forms something of a faraday cage.
$30/month makes some sense... your average home broadband connection costs about $40/month. And some people actually spend THAT much time in coffee shops.
Also, many Starbucks stores are in strip malls with their backs to residential neighborhoods... it'd be a nice way to save $10/month if you happened to live within 1,000 feet or so.
What I don't understand is why their prepaid service plan ($50/300 minutes=$0.17/minute) costs more than their "pay-as-you-go" service plan ($0.10/minute). Am I missing something?
The American democracy??? 1. The article is talking about England.
So it is. But the question of whether online voting could spur voter turnout applies to many countries - and this thread implies that. Besides, the ideas you're responding to apply to England, too; just sub it for "America" and the parent post is right back on-topic.
2. America isn't a country - it's two continents (the US before the A in USA is how you show you're talkinb about a country instead of a region of the world).
Thanks for clearing that up - we were all confused. Seriously, "America" is always considered in context. Peruvians don't sing "God Bless America" or "I'm Proud to Be an American" as personal anthems. Likewise, the U.S. Senators who sang it on the capitol steps aren't dipshits for doing so....
3. the USA isn't a democracy, it's a republic (so minorities have rights and aren't just mowed over by the majority).
Same argument as above. The word "democracy" has become synonymous with "republic", even in academic circles. True democracies are almost always abstract concepts - so in a practical context, it's safe to assume that they're really republics.
A better example would be World War I - especially with the French troops.
I remember reading that during the Iran-Iraq war, one of the sides (Iran, I belive) used to tie their civilians together and march them ahead of tanks in order to "find" landmines.
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It's very annoying, but it seems like the only way to get problems resolved anymore is to act like a jerk.
Problem is, the bad customer service epidemic is now conditioning people to pull the "jerk" card before they really need to.
For example, my company prides itself in customer service, to the extent that we have never not replaced a broken product, even when well outside of our posted warranty period. Nonetheless, we get daily calls where people begin rudely insisting that they're going to get what they want... and before our reps have a chance to tell them that they will. I honestly don't blame the customers... it's just a sad statement about our service culture.
You mean tredecimal Duodecimal?
You called?
Floats? Have you never heard of quantum mechanics? Duh!
God does not use rand() on the universe.
It seems one would be able to expose a lot of these printers by replacing (or contaminating) the yellow ink with black.
Just try a sheet of black, glossy paper (magazine ads are good source). Toner ink has a matte texture, and is slightly opaque - when you hold your printed sheet so that light reflects off it, you'll easily see a dot pattern.
Oh, and make sure your test printout is pretty light, or you'll gum up the printer (toner doesn't fuse well to gloss surfaces)
If he picks Alberto Gonzales (currently attourney general), all hell may break loose
Disregard my above comment... I see what you're getting at.
If he picks Alberto Gonzales (currently attourney general), all hell may break loose.
Why? Gonzales would probably require less of a confirmation battle than any other candidate. He's not well liked by Republican leaders (for being too moderate on issues like abortion), and Bush's advisors are already recommending against it.
Don't forget, just because someone has an R next to their name, doesn't mean they are controlled by the party.
Case-in-point: SCOTUS. Seven of the nine were appointed "R", but have still ruled in many cases against the Republican platform (abortion rights, Schaivo, etc.)
I appreciate it when congressmen/senators cross party lines. May not agree with them, but I like knowing that our elected officials think for themselves sometimes.
How can you have Internet access without cable TV? I had to get basic cable TV with my Internet access through Comcast.
Sounds like you should've asked for a supervisor. I have Comcast cable internet, but don't subscribe to their cable TV service. They offered me a discount if I took both, but I declined.
They're different. NASA World Wind has no annoying streaming problems, for example.
I'm wondering how much of that is just because this is their first day of free service...
Entrapment?
Undercover cops nab prostitutes by offering cash and a passenger seat. Not entrapment there, either.
It will mean they will have to download each complete file for each person they want to sue.
Why wouldn't a chunk/fragment count? One minute of a film is just as copyrighted as the whole thing...
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=airport&ll=33.647046 ,-84.411231&sll=33.748889,-84.388056&spn=0.006341, 0.007864&sspn=1.154297,1.855359&t=k&hl=en
Find the MD-80 taking off (runway 8R). Keep scrolling right, and you'll see the same airplane every 3/4 mile or so.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=New+York+City&ll=40. 763934,-74.000173&spn=0.006276,0.005976&t=k&hl=en
0 48,-117.153225&spn=0.006276,0.005976&t=k&hl=en
9 0391,-98.620609&spn=0.006276,0.005976&t=k&hl=en
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=San+Diego&ll=32.727
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=San+Antonio&ll=29.3
Wow. You just made my day... (grabbing credit card)
"They're for, um... my son. Yeah."
A: Atlanta
If it were only in the form of a question...
Tsk.
Well said, WOV.
I agreed with your original post too, in that I've been surprised at how often the mere shape of a protein defines its function, or at least its active site, rather than bond interation with a substrate. Neat stuff.
They built it because every summer thousands of cars get stuck in Millau while traveling from north to south.
Did they really need a bridge, though? Why not just build a long highway with no onramp/exit ramps. Easily the same footprint as a bridge, and without a concrete eyesore over the French countryside.
Did they? Do you know the details of that confidential settlement?
No, I don't know. But they were sued once before for selling speakers with their computeres, and based on the agreement alone, they lost. So it's a fair assumption that Apple agreed to "stay out of the music business"
This whole situation is bullshit, Nobody on earth is going to confuse Apple Computer Inc. with Apple Corps Ltd. So the trademark point should be moot.
It's not a trademark battle. Apple Computer signed a binding agreement that promised that they'd stay out of the music business.
Shortsighted, but still a legal contract.
Yeah, agreed. He uses "balkanization" to refer to communities isolating themselves, but it should be the opposite... people with big differences being forced to associated with each other. Ah well.
Maybe a 802.11 cam or something.
Tornadoes generate a tremendous amount of EM radiation. Nearby twisters are known to jam low-VHF frequencies (i.e. the infamous "white channel two" warning). Of course, they may not affect WiFi frequencies at all, but I also wonder if the rotating iron in a tornado forms something of a faraday cage.
$30/month makes some sense... your average home broadband connection costs about $40/month. And some people actually spend THAT much time in coffee shops.
Also, many Starbucks stores are in strip malls with their backs to residential neighborhoods... it'd be a nice way to save $10/month if you happened to live within 1,000 feet or so.
What I don't understand is why their prepaid service plan ($50/300 minutes=$0.17/minute) costs more than their "pay-as-you-go" service plan ($0.10/minute). Am I missing something?
More information, including a map of where the eclipse is visible
i.e. it's visible pretty much everywhere where it's dark around 10pm ET.
The American democracy???
1. The article is talking about England.
So it is. But the question of whether online voting could spur voter turnout applies to many countries - and this thread implies that. Besides, the ideas you're responding to apply to England, too; just sub it for "America" and the parent post is right back on-topic.
2. America isn't a country - it's two continents (the US before the A in USA is how you show you're talkinb about a country instead of a region of the world).
Thanks for clearing that up - we were all confused. Seriously, "America" is always considered in context. Peruvians don't sing "God Bless America" or "I'm Proud to Be an American" as personal anthems. Likewise, the U.S. Senators who sang it on the capitol steps aren't dipshits for doing so....
3. the USA isn't a democracy, it's a republic (so minorities have rights and aren't just mowed over by the majority).
Same argument as above. The word "democracy" has become synonymous with "republic", even in academic circles. True democracies are almost always abstract concepts - so in a practical context, it's safe to assume that they're really republics.
A better example would be World War I - especially with the French troops.
I remember reading that during the Iran-Iraq war, one of the sides (Iran, I belive) used to tie their civilians together and march them ahead of tanks in order to "find" landmines.