Our handsomest politicians have come up with a cheap, last minute way to combat global warming. We need to start mining this shit so we can drop a giant ice cube into the ocean now and again. Of course, because the greenhouse gasses are still building up, it will take more and more ice each time, thus solving the problem once and for all.
But in all seriousness, if you dropped a 600 million metric ton ice cub into the ocean, what would happen?
You also forgot to mention that you have to sign up for an annual contract. You cannot just pay $15 a month and quit at any time or you will be charged a $150 cancellation fee. This happened when I finally canceled my service. The real kicker was that they charged me the fee twice in error yet withheld $8 when they refunded me the double charge. This was an issue for me because the checking account I had the service linked to did not have much money in it and it became overdrawn. They claimed the discrepancy had something to do with sales tax and that I would have to contact the tax office to get my money back from them. They absolutely refused to simply cover the $8 difference since it was their mistake in the first place. The man on the phone was actually quite rude about it as well.
To sum up, TiVo made a mistake and I had to pay for it. I will never do business with them again and I have been sure to warn everyone I know about how greedy these assholes are and to stay away from them. Also, never link any service or account to a checking account. It is much easier to issue a charge-back or stop payment on a credit card.
I think one aspect you are overlooking is human error. We could easily discover new music through a simple programming error that achieves a completely unintended yet beautiful new style. I agree that it wouldn't be an achievement of the machine, but I don't know enough to say for certain that this will always be the case.
I'm wondering why it's possible to order the bottom of the bikini w/o the top? What good's a swimsuit with no top?
The reason for this is so that people have to buy the top and bottom separately. This way they can overcharge women twice. I don't know if you've ever noticed, but womens' bathing suites can be incredibly expensive.
I profess nothing more than what Jesus did: Love everyone even if they hate you.
Have you tried professing it without name-dropping Jesus?
Why should he have to? I'm an atheist myself, but I for the life of me cannot understand why anyone would have a problem with such a sentiment, regardless of who expresses it.
I'm not trying to disagree with you, but usually any Xbox game that has a LAN multiplayer option can be fooled using XBconnect or some other tunneling software. This is how we were able to play the original Halo online before Halo 2 was released. So, perhaps not all hope is completely lost.
In a few countries I have visited (Spain, Mexico, can't remember how they do it in Italy) the tip can be automatically factored into your bill. This doesn't usually happen in the US unless you have a table with 8 or more people.
In Texas (and as far as I know every other state that requires a CCL to legally carry a concealed weapon) you are required to pass not only a written test but also an accuracy test in order to obtain a CCL (Concealed Carry License). I'm pretty sure that would rule out most blind people. I doubt they have the written test in braille either...
I believe this has to do with the fact that Shockwave used to be a competitor to Flash before Adobe bought out Macromedia. Apparently there are still a few key differences between the two products. From the Wikipedia article:
Features not replicated by Flash include a much faster rendering engine, including hardware-accelerated 3D, and support for various network protocols, including Internet Relay Chat. Furthermore, Shockwave's functionality can be extended with so-called "Xtras".
Depending where you are in your career, it might be easier to just start out at the bottom. I don't currently work for a "Mega-Corp" but I did intern at one for a few years back in my university days. Often times it is much easier to get your foot in the door doing some menial job like data entry or QC and then slowly work your way up the ladder. However, from my experience I believe this will only work up to a point. Usually there is a dead zone in the corporate structure where the executives and upper management decide to not promote from within but to hire cronies, or the children of their cronies, from outside the organization. Just my limited observation.
Off topic, but I believe this is because drive-up ATMs use the same keypads as the regular walk-up ones. The only real difference between the two in the US is how far they are from a curb. Supposedly it would cost more to manufacture two different keypads (one with braille and one without) so they just use the same for both types of ATM. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
Employees are also a company's greatest asset. For some reason most managers and corporate officers forget this. Also, I have never met anyone who works every second of the day while in the office, especially when it comes to upper management. Taking five minutes to check your personal email or scan the headlines on slashdot doesn't really hurt anyone or get in the way of productivity. Taking small, inexpensive perks away from your employees, especially when in the name of cost cutting, does nothing but create resentment and signal to your most valuable talent that its time to start looking for employment elsewhere.
Not this bullshit again. We all know that women can do whatever they want because they are superior to men in every way (except for bad things like starting wars and committing murder, then of course men are superior).
If there are less women in IT than men it is because the women want it that way. I think there were at most 5 women in my entire graduating class that were in the CS program. Most women (and to be fair, most people) just see computers as gadgets and expensive toys and don't really care about how they work on the inside. Again, just being honest here, most men get excited when you ask them about their plasma TV, surround sound, network setup, etc but I've never known any women that could be considered technophiles. I'm sure they exist, it just isn't as common.
Another serious problem I've noticed is that there are not enough women working in construction. Living in Houston, I drive by a lot of construction throughout the city on a daily basis and I have never seen a single woman working at a construction site. Talk about a crisis!
That sure as hell won't happen until we have some magic technology which lets you instantly transfer funds between two parties instantly and anonymously (scratch that, I imagine governments would love to have a record of all financial transactions) no matter where you are. My point is that if people can't exchange funds without an internet connection and if they can't buy drugs from the man on the corner, they won't use it.
Besides, without cash what am I going to slip into a stripper's thong? What am I going to use to snort up the leftover piles of coke in the executive bathroom?
Hopefully someone will go out of their way to dig up some dirt on Dent, Bilirakis, and King and immediately post it to WikiLeaks. Smells like they have some dark secrets and the idea of WikiLeaks makes them very nervous. All the more reason to put them under a magnifying glass.
the simple truth is that I use WAY more than most people and they get to pay for some of it and that kind of thing is going to come to an end one way or another
You are right. If they switch to billing by usage they will just charge an obscene amount per MB. If the majority of users are people who are paying $50/month just to browse the web and check email then billing by usage will drastically reduce profits. Somehow I doubt any ISP would let that happen. Either way average users will probably end up paying around the same rate while costs for people who thoroughly utilize their connection will increase.
If ISPs charged a low monthly fee for the first 50 GB (or any predefined limit) and a reasonable rate for each GB over the original limit they might find consumers to be a bit more receptive to the change. I know some providers do exactly this in other countries but as far as I am aware, none of the big players in the US offer this for residential users. However, that still does nothing to address the complete lack of actual competition in most major US cities or the fact that the public has ponied up a lot of dough for some infrastructure upgrades that we will never see without an act of Congress.
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Our handsomest politicians have come up with a cheap, last minute way to combat global warming. We need to start mining this shit so we can drop a giant ice cube into the ocean now and again. Of course, because the greenhouse gasses are still building up, it will take more and more ice each time, thus solving the problem once and for all.
But in all seriousness, if you dropped a 600 million metric ton ice cub into the ocean, what would happen?
No one forces you to apply to or attend public universities either, right? Does BYU accept any federal or state funding?
You also forgot to mention that you have to sign up for an annual contract. You cannot just pay $15 a month and quit at any time or you will be charged a $150 cancellation fee. This happened when I finally canceled my service. The real kicker was that they charged me the fee twice in error yet withheld $8 when they refunded me the double charge. This was an issue for me because the checking account I had the service linked to did not have much money in it and it became overdrawn. They claimed the discrepancy had something to do with sales tax and that I would have to contact the tax office to get my money back from them. They absolutely refused to simply cover the $8 difference since it was their mistake in the first place. The man on the phone was actually quite rude about it as well.
To sum up, TiVo made a mistake and I had to pay for it. I will never do business with them again and I have been sure to warn everyone I know about how greedy these assholes are and to stay away from them. Also, never link any service or account to a checking account. It is much easier to issue a charge-back or stop payment on a credit card.
I think one aspect you are overlooking is human error. We could easily discover new music through a simple programming error that achieves a completely unintended yet beautiful new style. I agree that it wouldn't be an achievement of the machine, but I don't know enough to say for certain that this will always be the case.
The reason for this is so that people have to buy the top and bottom separately. This way they can overcharge women twice. I don't know if you've ever noticed, but womens' bathing suites can be incredibly expensive.
Why should he have to? I'm an atheist myself, but I for the life of me cannot understand why anyone would have a problem with such a sentiment, regardless of who expresses it.
I'm not trying to disagree with you, but usually any Xbox game that has a LAN multiplayer option can be fooled using XBconnect or some other tunneling software. This is how we were able to play the original Halo online before Halo 2 was released. So, perhaps not all hope is completely lost.
The CIA cafeteria menu for the week of May 15th is as follows: Monday: shepherd's pie. Tuesday:...
Your sentence is a little repetitive and redundant ;)
In a few countries I have visited (Spain, Mexico, can't remember how they do it in Italy) the tip can be automatically factored into your bill. This doesn't usually happen in the US unless you have a table with 8 or more people.
In Texas (and as far as I know every other state that requires a CCL to legally carry a concealed weapon) you are required to pass not only a written test but also an accuracy test in order to obtain a CCL (Concealed Carry License). I'm pretty sure that would rule out most blind people. I doubt they have the written test in braille either...
I believe this has to do with the fact that Shockwave used to be a competitor to Flash before Adobe bought out Macromedia. Apparently there are still a few key differences between the two products. From the Wikipedia article:
Depending where you are in your career, it might be easier to just start out at the bottom. I don't currently work for a "Mega-Corp" but I did intern at one for a few years back in my university days. Often times it is much easier to get your foot in the door doing some menial job like data entry or QC and then slowly work your way up the ladder. However, from my experience I believe this will only work up to a point. Usually there is a dead zone in the corporate structure where the executives and upper management decide to not promote from within but to hire cronies, or the children of their cronies, from outside the organization. Just my limited observation.
Off topic, but I believe this is because drive-up ATMs use the same keypads as the regular walk-up ones. The only real difference between the two in the US is how far they are from a curb. Supposedly it would cost more to manufacture two different keypads (one with braille and one without) so they just use the same for both types of ATM. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
It works because they think they have a good union, but they don't. They're basically slaves.
Kind of sounds like a trap...
Employees are also a company's greatest asset. For some reason most managers and corporate officers forget this. Also, I have never met anyone who works every second of the day while in the office, especially when it comes to upper management. Taking five minutes to check your personal email or scan the headlines on slashdot doesn't really hurt anyone or get in the way of productivity. Taking small, inexpensive perks away from your employees, especially when in the name of cost cutting, does nothing but create resentment and signal to your most valuable talent that its time to start looking for employment elsewhere.
How about linking to the actual list instead of just the article on nuclear proliferation
Not this bullshit again. We all know that women can do whatever they want because they are superior to men in every way (except for bad things like starting wars and committing murder, then of course men are superior).
If there are less women in IT than men it is because the women want it that way. I think there were at most 5 women in my entire graduating class that were in the CS program. Most women (and to be fair, most people) just see computers as gadgets and expensive toys and don't really care about how they work on the inside. Again, just being honest here, most men get excited when you ask them about their plasma TV, surround sound, network setup, etc but I've never known any women that could be considered technophiles. I'm sure they exist, it just isn't as common.
Another serious problem I've noticed is that there are not enough women working in construction. Living in Houston, I drive by a lot of construction throughout the city on a daily basis and I have never seen a single woman working at a construction site. Talk about a crisis!
That sure as hell won't happen until we have some magic technology which lets you instantly transfer funds between two parties instantly and anonymously (scratch that, I imagine governments would love to have a record of all financial transactions) no matter where you are. My point is that if people can't exchange funds without an internet connection and if they can't buy drugs from the man on the corner, they won't use it.
Besides, without cash what am I going to slip into a stripper's thong? What am I going to use to snort up the leftover piles of coke in the executive bathroom?
Hopefully someone will go out of their way to dig up some dirt on Dent, Bilirakis, and King and immediately post it to WikiLeaks. Smells like they have some dark secrets and the idea of WikiLeaks makes them very nervous. All the more reason to put them under a magnifying glass.
You are right. If they switch to billing by usage they will just charge an obscene amount per MB. If the majority of users are people who are paying $50/month just to browse the web and check email then billing by usage will drastically reduce profits. Somehow I doubt any ISP would let that happen. Either way average users will probably end up paying around the same rate while costs for people who thoroughly utilize their connection will increase.
If ISPs charged a low monthly fee for the first 50 GB (or any predefined limit) and a reasonable rate for each GB over the original limit they might find consumers to be a bit more receptive to the change. I know some providers do exactly this in other countries but as far as I am aware, none of the big players in the US offer this for residential users. However, that still does nothing to address the complete lack of actual competition in most major US cities or the fact that the public has ponied up a lot of dough for some infrastructure upgrades that we will never see without an act of Congress.
Either way, we will all end up paying for it.
Based on his appearance in these commercials, it would appear that they have been paying him in tacos.
How can there be such a thing as non-malicious malware when malware is a portmanteau of "malicious software"?
Yup. Quick! Someone tell NASA!