"Innocent until proven guilty" refers to criminal charges. These are civil cases; the plaintiffs have a lower standard/burden of proof.
these are not legal cases at all. it's an internal issue between you and comcast. there is no burden of proof at all. comcast isn't required to be fair, or have an appears process at all, and they are not required to sell you a product. they've just laid out a TOS explaining under what conditions they will stop selling you a product.
The $35-for-an-appeal fee which they call a "due process" fee makes a mockery of the concept of due process and innocent-until-proven-guilty.
you are confused. legal charges are not being brought against you. this is the court of comcast. they have no legal obligation to you in this respect. if they want, they can hand over your logs to the FBI, MI**, or whatever without even talking to you. the $35 appeals process is just another product you can choose to purchase, or not.
This is what happens when you give stupid people that much power.
you know what's stupid? not showing respect and courtesy to others, especially those will power over you. oh, but the fellow innocently suggested that a number on the paper work wrong you say? BS. occam's razor says no way. he most likely pulled up acting like a big shot and was rude. are regular folk itching to put people like that in their place? you bet.
you can be that "respect is earned" guy, and you'll also be the guy without a boat that's spending his time jumping through hoops your mouth got you into. life is much easier if you just keep your mouth shut sometimes.
Meh, not really, considering we're talking about California, which has a higher cost of living than the average.
join the club teachers.
no one in high cost of living areas is proportionately compensated by high wages. homes in CA cost ~3x as much as the midwest, and everything else costs more too (gas, food, services). at the very high end, you might make ~1.5x as much as a worker in the midwest...
Every system of organized people I've ever personally witnessed on a long time period has had its share of entrenched people who demand seniority despite contributing the bare minimum. That's just the way people are, it has nothing to do with government, management, or budget. I suspect that if you knew of a way to solve this problem, you'd be making millions as a management guru.
ummm. lay them off? now where are my millions?
teachers, by union rules (?) obtain tenure fairly quickly and *cannot* be laid off. additionally, their salaries aren't based on performance but rather seniority. i'm not saying the same sort of problem doesn't exist other places, but it's particularly endemic to public teaching.
so anyway, re: my millions. seriously, in every job i've ever had (tech) this is how it works. if you stop contributing, they don't fire you, but instead the company has a "shift in priorities" and discovers that they no longer need you. it's not a difficult concept, but the unions themselves resist these sort of changes. the unions are run by the teachers, so who do you have to blame for the situation?
And if teachers were paid a rate of pay commensurate with the level of education, continuing training and time spent working, it would probably be easier to retain them. Not to mention the lack of proper support staff.
people don't ge paid according to their education, training, and experience. those things may correlate with higher pay, but they don't cause it. people get paid according to demand for their skills. is there a high demand for teachers that would naturally translate to higher pay?
Just because you live in the cloud, just because your users utilize the cloud, doesn't mean that your users live in the cloud. Why is this so hard to understand?
google doesn't have a lot of interest in giving you a nice system to run linux. it only pays off for them if you use their cloud services. they aren't going to jack up the price / lower their profit margin to add hardware that doesn't support that end.
it doesn't matter which twin committed the sexual assault, they are both guilty. one is guilty of conspiracy because he's lying for the other, and the other is guilty of sexual assault.
The best allegory I can give you is hard drive manufacturers and their actual vs advertised storage spaces
actually, as you said the range dropped *while he was driving*. it'd be more like if you had an empty drive w/ 100GB free, and you started to copy a 95GB file to it, and then in the middle of copying the drive capacity changed from 100GB to 70GB.
if you are in the middle of a round trip in between charging stations, it's sort of too late to find out your range has dropped.
if all it takes is stopping at starbucks to totally wipe the charge on this eletrical vehicle, that's a fail. people stop for coffee and snacks and bathrooms on 100+ trips. if non-freeway range is that much worse where 2 miles of city driving on a 250 mile trip completely screws over your range, that's a fail. people do drive in the city. not everyone lives right next to a freeway onramp.
When they cleared you to go, was that with respect to the conditioning of the battery?
tesla approved the route and when the test would take place. the reporter was in regular contact with tesla and even called about the battery level to ask them what to do.
A new product or one made for a niche audience doesn't necessarily need to conform to traditional designs.
i stopped reading after this sentence. yes, it does, because the car is being marketed as a car for the masses. that's why the reporter tested it in typical driving conditions and that is why tesla approved every aspect of the test including the route and when the test would take place.
Do you want a car that spews noxious nitrogenous and greenhouse-inducing exhaust? That even spews exhaust at all?
where do you think that electricity comes from that charges your car? the electricity fairy? just because you aren't burning the coal in your back yard doesn't mean it's not being burned.
granted, it's better to have pollution coming from a relatively small number of coal plants than millions of semi-regulated automobiles, but it's naive to see this as pollution-free.
I agree in the so far precondition. Now, imagine a time of $10/gallon gasoline price, with the current average wage. You think such a situation is improbable/impossible in the near future?
okay... then i'll buy an electric car when that happens? and you know what? i bet in 5 years or whenever your prediction comes through, electric cars will have better range, fewer quirks, and they'll be more charging stations.
he charged until the car told him "charge complete", which was 90%. you can then "overcharge" but tesla themselves state that this reduces battery life. overcharge is supposed to add 25 miles to the range.
2) He took detours
which amounted to a total of 2 miles.
3) He went above the speed limit
at some point he hit 75. for the majority of the trip, he was going 55, which around here is 10MPH under the speed limit. if you are going 55 in CA, even in the slow lane, you'll get your ass ran into the ditch.
if you are going to start listing things we have and can buy that aren't required for survival, it's going to be a long list.
We have no proof that legal porn/cybersex leads to a better way of life.
do you have proof that washing dishes leads to a better way of life? how about digging ditches? do you have proof that cybersex leads to a worse way of life?
Unfortunately these debates always become so emotional that soon it's children screaming at anyone who endorses anything but "do whatever you want, wherever and whenever, without consequences."
sex is a natural thing. cybersex may seem perverted to some but i'd have to think that it results is less problems than engaging in real sex. there are no STDs, no rape, and so on. the party providing the cybersex is being compensated for their time. as long as they are not being forced to work, i can't see the problem.
while there's no hard data, it's estimate that 1-2% of android users have rooted their devices. fewer than that will have installed custom ROMs.
cheap folks
i'd rather be cheap than stupid. stupid is paying 2x for a less powerful device. i paid $300 for my nexus 4. an iphone 5 is what? $600? oh, did i mention i have free tethering with my stock ROM on at&t?
and folks who easily succumb to marketing
did you really just say that, in support of apple? apple is the epitome of fashion over function.
But many of the free apps are riddled with holes, spyware, and have zero privacy controls...
FUD.
android has better privacy controls than iOS. every android app must declare permissions for the services it can use BEFORE it is installed. i've been an android user since the G1 and i've never had a problem.
the reports that pop up every month reporting "spyware found on google play store" are from "researchers" scanning the store and recording the permissions requested by certain apps that technically do not require that permission to operate. e.g., a flashlight app that requests internet access. there's no evidence that the apps are actually spyware, they are just suspicious. the only reason you don't see such reports on iOS is because iOS apps aren't required to declare permissions, so there's no easy way to tell what the heck they are going to do.
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"Innocent until proven guilty" refers to criminal charges. These are civil cases; the plaintiffs have a lower standard/burden of proof.
these are not legal cases at all. it's an internal issue between you and comcast. there is no burden of proof at all. comcast isn't required to be fair, or have an appears process at all, and they are not required to sell you a product. they've just laid out a TOS explaining under what conditions they will stop selling you a product.
The $35-for-an-appeal fee which they call a "due process" fee makes a mockery of the concept of due process and innocent-until-proven-guilty.
you are confused. legal charges are not being brought against you. this is the court of comcast. they have no legal obligation to you in this respect. if they want, they can hand over your logs to the FBI, MI**, or whatever without even talking to you. the $35 appeals process is just another product you can choose to purchase, or not.
This is what happens when you give stupid people that much power.
you know what's stupid? not showing respect and courtesy to others, especially those will power over you. oh, but the fellow innocently suggested that a number on the paper work wrong you say? BS. occam's razor says no way. he most likely pulled up acting like a big shot and was rude. are regular folk itching to put people like that in their place? you bet.
you can be that "respect is earned" guy, and you'll also be the guy without a boat that's spending his time jumping through hoops your mouth got you into. life is much easier if you just keep your mouth shut sometimes.
A person in a position of power abused that power?
it's also one side of the story.
Arrington suggested to the agent that they correct the error. She responded by seizing the boat.
sounds like one side of the story to me. as with most things, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
Meh, not really, considering we're talking about California, which has a higher cost of living than the average.
join the club teachers.
no one in high cost of living areas is proportionately compensated by high wages. homes in CA cost ~3x as much as the midwest, and everything else costs more too (gas, food, services). at the very high end, you might make ~1.5x as much as a worker in the midwest ...
who gives a shit about fairness?
we do.
the world isn't fair
i don't know about the world, but our nation is what we make it. it matters if we say so.
Every system of organized people I've ever personally witnessed on a long time period has had its share of entrenched people who demand seniority despite contributing the bare minimum. That's just the way people are, it has nothing to do with government, management, or budget. I suspect that if you knew of a way to solve this problem, you'd be making millions as a management guru.
ummm. lay them off? now where are my millions?
teachers, by union rules (?) obtain tenure fairly quickly and *cannot* be laid off. additionally, their salaries aren't based on performance but rather seniority. i'm not saying the same sort of problem doesn't exist other places, but it's particularly endemic to public teaching.
so anyway, re: my millions. seriously, in every job i've ever had (tech) this is how it works. if you stop contributing, they don't fire you, but instead the company has a "shift in priorities" and discovers that they no longer need you. it's not a difficult concept, but the unions themselves resist these sort of changes. the unions are run by the teachers, so who do you have to blame for the situation?
And if teachers were paid a rate of pay commensurate with the level of education, continuing training and time spent working, it would probably be easier to retain them. Not to mention the lack of proper support staff.
people don't ge paid according to their education, training, and experience. those things may correlate with higher pay, but they don't cause it. people get paid according to demand for their skills. is there a high demand for teachers that would naturally translate to higher pay?
Just because you live in the cloud, just because your users utilize the cloud, doesn't mean that your users live in the cloud. Why is this so hard to understand?
google doesn't have a lot of interest in giving you a nice system to run linux. it only pays off for them if you use their cloud services. they aren't going to jack up the price / lower their profit margin to add hardware that doesn't support that end.
How is it contempt to claim innocence when you actually are?
it's not contempt, it's conspiracy.
it doesn't matter which twin committed the sexual assault, they are both guilty. one is guilty of conspiracy because he's lying for the other, and the other is guilty of sexual assault.
The best allegory I can give you is hard drive manufacturers and their actual vs advertised storage spaces
actually, as you said the range dropped *while he was driving*. it'd be more like if you had an empty drive w/ 100GB free, and you started to copy a 95GB file to it, and then in the middle of copying the drive capacity changed from 100GB to 70GB.
if you are in the middle of a round trip in between charging stations, it's sort of too late to find out your range has dropped.
you miss the point.
if all it takes is stopping at starbucks to totally wipe the charge on this eletrical vehicle, that's a fail. people stop for coffee and snacks and bathrooms on 100+ trips. if non-freeway range is that much worse where 2 miles of city driving on a 250 mile trip completely screws over your range, that's a fail. people do drive in the city. not everyone lives right next to a freeway onramp.
When they cleared you to go, was that with respect to the conditioning of the battery?
tesla approved the route and when the test would take place. the reporter was in regular contact with tesla and even called about the battery level to ask them what to do.
A new product or one made for a niche audience doesn't necessarily need to conform to traditional designs.
i stopped reading after this sentence. yes, it does, because the car is being marketed as a car for the masses. that's why the reporter tested it in typical driving conditions and that is why tesla approved every aspect of the test including the route and when the test would take place.
Do you want a car that spews noxious nitrogenous and greenhouse-inducing exhaust? That even spews exhaust at all?
where do you think that electricity comes from that charges your car? the electricity fairy? just because you aren't burning the coal in your back yard doesn't mean it's not being burned.
granted, it's better to have pollution coming from a relatively small number of coal plants than millions of semi-regulated automobiles, but it's naive to see this as pollution-free.
I agree in the so far precondition. Now, imagine a time of $10/gallon gasoline price, with the current average wage. You think such a situation is improbable/impossible in the near future?
okay ... then i'll buy an electric car when that happens? and you know what? i bet in 5 years or whenever your prediction comes through, electric cars will have better range, fewer quirks, and they'll be more charging stations.
No, the problem is, the alternative route, likely exceeded the "real device usage" guide.
no need to speculate. you are right, it exceeded it by exactly 2 miles. lesson: better not stop off for that coffee.
you should read some more.
1) Didn't have a full battery
he charged until the car told him "charge complete", which was 90%. you can then "overcharge" but tesla themselves state that this reduces battery life. overcharge is supposed to add 25 miles to the range.
2) He took detours
which amounted to a total of 2 miles.
3) He went above the speed limit
at some point he hit 75. for the majority of the trip, he was going 55, which around here is 10MPH under the speed limit. if you are going 55 in CA, even in the slow lane, you'll get your ass ran into the ditch.
the reporter stated that the car indicated that it had well enough charge to reach the destination, and the "detour" amounted to a total of 2 miles.
It wasn't always that way when horseless carriages first came about.
real convincing. i can't wait to get back to the convenience of the horseless carriage times.
We can survive just fine without them.
if you are going to start listing things we have and can buy that aren't required for survival, it's going to be a long list.
We have no proof that legal porn/cybersex leads to a better way of life.
do you have proof that washing dishes leads to a better way of life? how about digging ditches? do you have proof that cybersex leads to a worse way of life?
Unfortunately these debates always become so emotional that soon it's children screaming at anyone who endorses anything but "do whatever you want, wherever and whenever, without consequences."
sex is a natural thing. cybersex may seem perverted to some but i'd have to think that it results is less problems than engaging in real sex. there are no STDs, no rape, and so on. the party providing the cybersex is being compensated for their time. as long as they are not being forced to work, i can't see the problem.
Android is for tinkerers
while there's no hard data, it's estimate that 1-2% of android users have rooted their devices. fewer than that will have installed custom ROMs.
cheap folks
i'd rather be cheap than stupid. stupid is paying 2x for a less powerful device. i paid $300 for my nexus 4. an iphone 5 is what? $600? oh, did i mention i have free tethering with my stock ROM on at&t?
and folks who easily succumb to marketing
did you really just say that, in support of apple? apple is the epitome of fashion over function.
But many of the free apps are riddled with holes, spyware, and have zero privacy controls...
FUD.
android has better privacy controls than iOS. every android app must declare permissions for the services it can use BEFORE it is installed. i've been an android user since the G1 and i've never had a problem.
the reports that pop up every month reporting "spyware found on google play store" are from "researchers" scanning the store and recording the permissions requested by certain apps that technically do not require that permission to operate. e.g., a flashlight app that requests internet access. there's no evidence that the apps are actually spyware, they are just suspicious. the only reason you don't see such reports on iOS is because iOS apps aren't required to declare permissions, so there's no easy way to tell what the heck they are going to do.