Abusing their little sister? In cases of child abuse they are required to report it. More likely, though, the inappropriate behavior was something stupid like making out with their girlfriend.
My guess is that they decided to set up this option in cases of theft or otherwise missing laptops. A while back slashdot had an article about a macbook that was found because the thief didn't realize in time that the camera was enabled by the owner.
I doubt they intended to watch kids regularly...even "problem" kids. But perhaps if the kid was playing hooky then they might have thought it'd be okay to turn it on, find where they are and inform the parents. Still incredibly stupid and wrong but more understandable how people could justify it in their minds.
My guess is that MacMillan made a deal with Apple to sell it cheaper on the ipad. Amazon doesn't want the image of being the pricey alternative and would rather drop them than keep that image.
This is similar to Walmart and Best Buy that have guarantees for the lowest price. If you bring an add from another store with a cheaper price, they'll honor that ad. But if you check, you'll see they never sell the exact same model computer (and probably most other high end products). They cut a deal with HP or Toshiba or whoever to make a slightly different model specifically for them. Maybe the RAM or HD size is slightly different. Walmart won't sell the models found at Best Buy and vice versa. They don't want to enter into potential price wars yet they want to keep their image of "We'll beat any price in town!" I suspect a similar thing is going on with Amazon. You can sell $15 books on Amazon...but you can't go to the competitor and sell it for $10 while upping our price to $15.
I don't have an iphone or even use email on my phone but don't they have limitations on attachment file size? Don't many providers charge more for data service such as email?
I don't have the answer to your question, but this site suggests their problems may be from not jumping through proper hoops to prove it is a non-profit.
PayPal usually suspends non-profit organisations, because PayPal have to comply with local taxation laws involving the tax exempt status of such organisations, and with the world wide anti-money laundering red tape and bureaucracy.
You end up having to send them details of your charitable status, or, failing that, proof that you have a bank account in the name of your group etc.
The site also describes how wikileaks is "deep linking" a graphic on their site that may cause problems with keeping anonymity, though I can't see how that is related to the suspension.
Don't know about Vimeo but YouTube, at least, lists full screen mode as one of the "restrictions" they are currently working on fixing. Hopefully it comes out of beta faster than the typical Google project.
Another factor could be Club Bing. They allow you to earn prizes by playing their games. The games? They are games that do searches on bing.com. So for instance, every word you enter into a crossword puzzle gets a search on bing. If you click for a clue, it does another search. One game easily makes 45 searches or more even if you don't use any hints. Because of the prizes, people are always finding ways to set up bots on multiple accounts to try to get more and more points. Even if Microsoft catches them and invalidates their points, I imagine the searches done still count toward how often Bing is used. It doesn't matter that no one bothers to look at the search results (except briefly if they need a clue).
What percentage of students back then got magna cum laude? What percentage got summa cum laude? One could argue that the fact that he got magna rather than summa is indicative that "top of his class" is a tad bit hyperbole. I really don't know.
Harvard says that starting in June 2005, no more than 20% of each year's potential graduates will receive either magna cum laude or summa cum laude. I don't know if this is more or less than was previously awarded.
According to Wikipedia, Apple has 35,000 employees worldwide. Nokia has over 128,000. It has 39,350 employees just in research and development. When over 30% of your employees are in R&D, you're going to take your patents very seriously. In that sense, Nokia is much bigger than Apple. But I can see your point WRT market cap. Apple has a lot of money to throw around.
The FDA is not some magical organization that can predict every single possible negative consequence of every single drug ever sent to their offices. If a drug slipped by that happens to cause severe problems in some patients 10 years down the road, then they should be able to sue someone. Everyone may have been as careful as possible, but there was still something overlooked, or some mistake made, and that has consequences.
If someone was as careful as possible why should they be sued?
I agree if it comes to light that someone was truly negligent or intentionally caused harm then something should be done about that but if due diligence was made and someone wasn't omniscient enough to see something obscure why should they be punished simply because someone was hurt somewhere? Do you think the Chinese butterfly researcher should be sued for the hurricanes in the Atlantic caused by his butterflies? Sometimes bad things happen and there's no one you can or should be able to sue. Tough luck. You certainly shouldn't sue the ones who were trying their best to help you.
Thanks for your informative post. I do have to make one statement in defense of US doctors, though.
probably with a prescription for a drug choosen not mainly on basis of what will help the most, but on what their insurance will cover.
Most doctors of the type you describe your in-laws visiting won't have any clue what the patient's insurance provider is, much less what a particular insurance provider covers so I don't think that plays a factor at all. Even in cases where the doctor knows the patient well and may know their insurance provider, I highly doubt that plays a factor into what he prescribes the patient.
In my experience, an insurance provider doesn't ban particular drugs from coverage beyond name brands when a generic exists. Also, if the drug is considered cosmetic or "optional" in some way (e.g. viagra), it may not get coverage or may get less coverage unless the doctor writes up a report to the insurance company stating that the drug is needed.
How different are those grouped models? I noticed there are four LG series each listed separately. Perhaps some companies have slightly different model numbers as part of a deal with other companies. I've noticed Walmart, for instance, often will get a unique camera that is really just the same as a differently numbered model but gets better pricing, maybe a different color and prevents someone else from entering into a price matching war with them.
I mean, they clumped the iPhone 3G 8GB with the iPhone 3G 16GB...perhaps that's the equivalent of grouping the LG CU915 with the CU920, for instance.
It makes sense that ebooks would outsell regular books on Christmas.
How many people actually get online to buy regular books on Christmas day? The presents for others have already been bought. They aren't likely to get anything for themselves. Heck, unless you got a Kindle for Christmas you aren't likely to even go to the Amazon website on Christmas day. Most people are spending time with their family and enjoying the presents they DID receive. The people that are more into physical books likely got some physical books from friends or family. But the ones who got a Kindle will find it pretty useless until they put some books on it. Sure the gift giver may have put some books on there to begin with but more likely they gave them some cash or gift card to select their own books with.
Reminds me of the Cold War Dog Fight joke:
The Americans and Russians at the height of the arms race realized that if they continued in the usual manner they were going to blow up the whole world. One day they sat down and decided to settle the whole dispute with one dog fight. They'd have five years to breed the best fighting dog in the world and which ever side's dog won would be entitled to dominate the world. The losing side would have to lay down its arms. The Russians found the biggest meanest Doberman and Rottweiler dogs in the world and bred them with the biggest meanest Siberian wolves. They selected only the biggest and strongest puppy from each litter, killed his siblings, and gave him all the milk. They used steroids and trainers and after five years came up with the biggest meanest dog the world had ever seen. Its cage needed steel bars that were five inches thick and nobody could get near it. When the day came for the dog fight, the Americans showed up with a strange animal. It was a nine foot long Dachshund. Everyone felt sorry for the Americans because they knew there was no way that this dog could possibly last ten seconds with the Russian dog.
When the cages were opened up, the Dachshund came out of it's cage and slowly waddled over towards the Russian dog. The Russian dog snarled and leaped out of it's cage and charged the American dachshund. But, when it got close enough to bite the Dachshund's neck, the Dachshund opened it's mouth and consumed the Russian dog in one bite. There was nothing left at all of the Russian dog.
The Russians came up to the Americans shaking their heads in disbelief. 'We don't understand how this could have happened. We had our best people working for five years with the meanest Doberman and Rottweiler in the world and the biggest meanest Siberian wolves." That's nothing", an American replied."We had our best plastic surgeons working for five years to make an alligator look like a Dachshund."
Do a google image search on Jane Doe. It looks like she's had plastic surgery numerous times but most if not all of her images are not particularly attractive.
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Maybe if the hypermiling could occur on a train track it could have a use...
sourceIt seems my suspicions were correct.
You make some good points, but you've made one serious mistake. A "cool dude" would not have the lastest Spider-man movie on his drive.
Increase or decrease the project's scope? Sorry, I got nothing.
Abusing their little sister? In cases of child abuse they are required to report it. More likely, though, the inappropriate behavior was something stupid like making out with their girlfriend.
My guess is that they decided to set up this option in cases of theft or otherwise missing laptops. A while back slashdot had an article about a macbook that was found because the thief didn't realize in time that the camera was enabled by the owner.
I doubt they intended to watch kids regularly...even "problem" kids. But perhaps if the kid was playing hooky then they might have thought it'd be okay to turn it on, find where they are and inform the parents. Still incredibly stupid and wrong but more understandable how people could justify it in their minds.
My guess is that MacMillan made a deal with Apple to sell it cheaper on the ipad. Amazon doesn't want the image of being the pricey alternative and would rather drop them than keep that image.
This is similar to Walmart and Best Buy that have guarantees for the lowest price. If you bring an add from another store with a cheaper price, they'll honor that ad. But if you check, you'll see they never sell the exact same model computer (and probably most other high end products). They cut a deal with HP or Toshiba or whoever to make a slightly different model specifically for them. Maybe the RAM or HD size is slightly different. Walmart won't sell the models found at Best Buy and vice versa. They don't want to enter into potential price wars yet they want to keep their image of "We'll beat any price in town!" I suspect a similar thing is going on with Amazon. You can sell $15 books on Amazon...but you can't go to the competitor and sell it for $10 while upping our price to $15.
I don't have an iphone or even use email on my phone but don't they have limitations on attachment file size? Don't many providers charge more for data service such as email?
Are they more dangerous than fat guys with two arms?
You won't for much longer, after all your fingers are lopped off.
It makes perfect sense. Lawyers are so universally evil that even the female ones are d***s.
The site also describes how wikileaks is "deep linking" a graphic on their site that may cause problems with keeping anonymity, though I can't see how that is related to the suspension.
Don't know about Vimeo but YouTube, at least, lists full screen mode as one of the "restrictions" they are currently working on fixing. Hopefully it comes out of beta faster than the typical Google project.
Another factor could be Club Bing. They allow you to earn prizes by playing their games. The games? They are games that do searches on bing.com. So for instance, every word you enter into a crossword puzzle gets a search on bing. If you click for a clue, it does another search. One game easily makes 45 searches or more even if you don't use any hints. Because of the prizes, people are always finding ways to set up bots on multiple accounts to try to get more and more points. Even if Microsoft catches them and invalidates their points, I imagine the searches done still count toward how often Bing is used. It doesn't matter that no one bothers to look at the search results (except briefly if they need a clue).
What percentage of students back then got magna cum laude? What percentage got summa cum laude? One could argue that the fact that he got magna rather than summa is indicative that "top of his class" is a tad bit hyperbole. I really don't know.
Harvard says that starting in June 2005, no more than 20% of each year's potential graduates will receive either magna cum laude or summa cum laude. I don't know if this is more or less than was previously awarded.
According to Wikipedia, Apple has 35,000 employees worldwide. Nokia has over 128,000. It has 39,350 employees just in research and development. When over 30% of your employees are in R&D, you're going to take your patents very seriously. In that sense, Nokia is much bigger than Apple. But I can see your point WRT market cap. Apple has a lot of money to throw around.
Not me. I waited for Mojave to come out.
If someone was as careful as possible why should they be sued?
I agree if it comes to light that someone was truly negligent or intentionally caused harm then something should be done about that but if due diligence was made and someone wasn't omniscient enough to see something obscure why should they be punished simply because someone was hurt somewhere? Do you think the Chinese butterfly researcher should be sued for the hurricanes in the Atlantic caused by his butterflies? Sometimes bad things happen and there's no one you can or should be able to sue. Tough luck. You certainly shouldn't sue the ones who were trying their best to help you.
Most doctors of the type you describe your in-laws visiting won't have any clue what the patient's insurance provider is, much less what a particular insurance provider covers so I don't think that plays a factor at all. Even in cases where the doctor knows the patient well and may know their insurance provider, I highly doubt that plays a factor into what he prescribes the patient.
In my experience, an insurance provider doesn't ban particular drugs from coverage beyond name brands when a generic exists. Also, if the drug is considered cosmetic or "optional" in some way (e.g. viagra), it may not get coverage or may get less coverage unless the doctor writes up a report to the insurance company stating that the drug is needed.
How different are those grouped models? I noticed there are four LG series each listed separately. Perhaps some companies have slightly different model numbers as part of a deal with other companies. I've noticed Walmart, for instance, often will get a unique camera that is really just the same as a differently numbered model but gets better pricing, maybe a different color and prevents someone else from entering into a price matching war with them.
I mean, they clumped the iPhone 3G 8GB with the iPhone 3G 16GB...perhaps that's the equivalent of grouping the LG CU915 with the CU920, for instance.
It makes sense that ebooks would outsell regular books on Christmas.
How many people actually get online to buy regular books on Christmas day? The presents for others have already been bought. They aren't likely to get anything for themselves. Heck, unless you got a Kindle for Christmas you aren't likely to even go to the Amazon website on Christmas day. Most people are spending time with their family and enjoying the presents they DID receive. The people that are more into physical books likely got some physical books from friends or family. But the ones who got a Kindle will find it pretty useless until they put some books on it. Sure the gift giver may have put some books on there to begin with but more likely they gave them some cash or gift card to select their own books with.
Reminds me of the Cold War Dog Fight joke: The Americans and Russians at the height of the arms race realized that if they continued in the usual manner they were going to blow up the whole world. One day they sat down and decided to settle the whole dispute with one dog fight. They'd have five years to breed the best fighting dog in the world and which ever side's dog won would be entitled to dominate the world. The losing side would have to lay down its arms. The Russians found the biggest meanest Doberman and Rottweiler dogs in the world and bred them with the biggest meanest Siberian wolves. They selected only the biggest and strongest puppy from each litter, killed his siblings, and gave him all the milk. They used steroids and trainers and after five years came up with the biggest meanest dog the world had ever seen. Its cage needed steel bars that were five inches thick and nobody could get near it. When the day came for the dog fight, the Americans showed up with a strange animal. It was a nine foot long Dachshund. Everyone felt sorry for the Americans because they knew there was no way that this dog could possibly last ten seconds with the Russian dog.
When the cages were opened up, the Dachshund came out of it's cage and slowly waddled over towards the Russian dog. The Russian dog snarled and leaped out of it's cage and charged the American dachshund. But, when it got close enough to bite the Dachshund's neck, the Dachshund opened it's mouth and consumed the Russian dog in one bite. There was nothing left at all of the Russian dog.
The Russians came up to the Americans shaking their heads in disbelief. 'We don't understand how this could have happened. We had our best people working for five years with the meanest Doberman and Rottweiler in the world and the biggest meanest Siberian wolves." That's nothing", an American replied."We had our best plastic surgeons working for five years to make an alligator look like a Dachshund."
Do a google image search on Jane Doe. It looks like she's had plastic surgery numerous times but most if not all of her images are not particularly attractive.
Yes, I'm curious how he pulled it off. Is it with pirated software and paying his crew 100 pesos a day?