Once had a Nokia 252 that I threw against the side of a brick building. The battery separated and went flying in a different direction, but there was barley a scratch on the thing and it worked fine for years after.
Yes, it is fern gully in 3D but your complaint is ignorant.
All stories have been told before and will be retold again, just slightly different. To say you can find elements from a 100 other stories as flaw in the writing seems ignorant to me. Storytelling is what drives our species: you think there's anything that hasn't been said already? It's all about arrangement, that's all. Composition of plot has been completed for centuries.
Don't forget with Park plus you can register multiple cars and phones against an account.
And you can log in and log out. So you only pay for the time you're actually using. They automatically bill you for the maximum time (if your paying via cell phone) the zone allows, then when you are ready to go, you call the system back and it asks if you want to log out, you press 1 and the difference is credited to your account.
Being as I'm too lazy to look up sources I expect to be flamed. But I do recall hearing an astronaut talk about an incident on MIR where one astronaut had clear homicidal inclinations to his counterpart and had to be talked out of it. I can't recall who. But it does happen.
I would measure my height in feet and inches, my weight in pounds.
Though I have no reference to how long a mile is and I believe a pint is roughly half a liter.
In fact, when it comes down to it, the only thing I can think of commonly that is still referred to imperially is anything relating to food and food prep (though not liquids unless you're talking cups and spoons, even then...) and a persons height and weight. The rest tends to be metric.
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We had a similar problem with rogers (for our cell phones) a few years ago.
Now I have the problem of being assigned an account number my bank and their system won't recognize, so I can't pay it. I get a bill every month, but my bank, nor their website, nor their customer service department can process payment.
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That's nothing. I'm currently in collections with Telus Mobility (ironically it's majority owned by Verizon) for $9500+. Why you may ask, because I bought two evdo PCMCIA cards on an unlimited data plan for $20 for the first three months, then $100/month afterwards on three year contracts.
Sounded like a good deal, I could RAdmin clients in my car (pull over first of course) so I bought two. One for me and one for my other tech.
Then I find out a few months later that 1. The data plan the rep signed me up for applied to blackberries, not pcmcia cards and that unlimited actually means 250mb with a $.20/kb charge. What I actually got for my $20/month was included 1mb.
Not knowing any better, I did 2 gigs of transfer one month (don't know the exact details of all months, I'd have to look them up) After three months of trying to get it sorted out and paying their ransom, they cut me off. Been fighting it since.
Apparently there are two issues:
1. the rep signing me up under the wrong plan,
2. the definition of unlimited. I contend unlimited means without limits, they assert the fine prints say 250mb. Seeing as my contract has no fine print, nor reference to any tariff's or other contract, I don't know where they get this idea.
It's really screwed me up, seeing as they filed against my credit bureau, we now have to wait until this is cleared up to buy the house we were planning to this winter. I can't get credit for a pack of gum at the moment.
Now, comparatively, I have a Rogers Portable modem which is external, and for $50/month I get a 30gb cap.
Yet somehow, it's all my fault. Oh, they did credit my bill $400, and another $800 for the misunderstanding (which brought it to $9500.) They did however fail to credit me for the $128.40 I did pay, you know, for what I agreed to.
A close friend of mine and I were offered "work" for a criminal organization years ago when we were fresh out of high school (we developed quite a rep, did some stupid things like send all the account usernames and passwords for the district to the main laser in the library. Nobody knew who did it till a friend ratted us out. That's another story though.)
The offer was nice, new machines and $10,000 each for a weeks work attacking ADT's system so they could stage a b&e spree.
Scared the crap out of me, I had friends that ran with those people, one was a runner who shortly there after went missing after he embezzled. I left the city (for other reasons) no idea what happened to Jamie...
There are other things to consider other than renumeration, like physical safety.
I actually like the packaging, It's easier to transport and doesn't get damaged.
I use an exact-o-knife (box cutter as those in the us call them) and cut along the edges in the rear close to the edge. That way If I need to return stuff, the store is none the wiser, and they can put it back out if it's a matter of I bought the wrong thing. Did that with an Xbox 360 memory card & wifi adapter (took me five minutes to pull cat-5 from the basement instead, saved me $130) the other day. Took it back to future shop and no questions asked.
They couldn't tell. No restocking fee.
What ever for? I've heard of dull decorating, but very few people desire sharper edges in their kitchen. Your counters must be able to slice through tomatoes and pipe and still stay sharp!
Now, if you had an electric knife sharpener, that would make more sense. Each to their own I guess.
You cannot by law, make the constitution irrelevant to certain people
You should tell that to George Bush. The military-tribunals bill effectively neuters 9 of the first 10 amendments. The only one left is the third, which, if your locked up in prison is going to be a moot point anyway.
I doubt the higher taxes had much to do with it. Sure, they played a small role. But high cost has little to do with it. I think rates have gone down because of education and a social shift that says smoking is not cool anymore. People who smoke are shunned, and many people avoid businesses where smoking is allowed, that's assuming the municipality hasn't banned smoking there yet. I know very few people who have stopped smoking because of how much it costs, actually, I can't think of any. Unless your on a tight fixed income, it matters little. The shift happened because of education, not cost. If cost was the true deciding factor, people would stop spending $1.50-$3.50/591ml for bottled municipal tap water at stores. Most people don't think in terms of opportunity cost.
One of my clients insists on putting her password under a clear plastic desk protector. Did I mention she's the accountant for the company and she's the only who's supposed to have access, not just to that PC, but to the database...
Everyone, even the contractors know the password, and they refuse to change it, Dolts.
I opted for a manual transmission, better gas mileage, not to many of my friends can get it out of the parking lot let alone into a collision.
Threshold breaking is a lot more effective, and there are situations where locking the wheels is very handy. That's how I was trained, and how I've driven for the last 10 years. Adding this ABS crap into the picture changes my emergency breaking techniques and gives less control.
You can, if you want to drive with hand signals and during the day time.
Hand signals are perfectly legal, I also rear ended a guy who stopped and was making a right hand turn, took me a second to realize that his lights weren't working.
I tried that approach with ABS on my 2006 Fusion. The dealer refused to disable it, said I had to get it done after sale by a non-dealership mechanic, which would probably affect my warranty.
Realistically, I don't think having the black box disabled will be an option, especially if it's a government mandated "feature" and not an industry pr "feature"
for going with telus...
Should have gone with Shaw. As an ex-Telus employee who worked in the business repair department, I thought it odd when I was first hired that virtually no one on the floor had Telus DSL at home, even though as employees we were offered it at $16/month.
Then I worked there, it explained everything. Telus is anything but a communications leader, they are totally a follower and customer service, despite the best effort of the call centre staff, isn't a company value.
I'd sign up with Shaw.
About your phone, it might be time to consider VOIP, however, if I remember my training correctly Telus cannot disconnect phone service to an account as long as the BASIC PHONE CHARGES have been paid. Even if you have a $2000 1-900 number balance, CRTC regulations prohibit it. They can kill your features, but they MUST provide basic land line service and all you are required to pay to maintain that service is the basic charge plus taxes.
It's in the tariff information in the front of the phone book, if they want to get into it with you, tell them to look it up.
BTW, Shaw hs Internet and Primus voip is still cheaper than any telus solution.
If the Mob (read:people like you) would care more about wasting "a couple cents to a dollar a month", then the cost of power would *go down* buy *a couple of dollars a KW a month*, because we wouldn't be in such a power crisis.
If your paying a more than a couple of dollars a KW, then you have bigger financial problems then leaky consoles, I'd suggest trying to negotiate a better rate, I pay 6.06 CENTS/KW for Wind turbine generated power (which is a premium cost in our market, but I'm happy to pay it). If your paying more than a dime/kw, you really need to learn how to negotiate.
I wouldn't be so worried about someone finding a card that may or may not have credit card information on it. If you destroy the card yourself, you have nothing to worry about.
What would worry me is if I lost my card and someone grabbed it, went up to the counter to check me out so they could get my folio and guest registration (and imprint). Now they got my CC, CV2, Drivers Liscence number, Home address and porn preferences.
The big danger isn't what's on the card, it's that the average hotel clerk will trust you are who you say you are if you come up to them with your card and say you want to check out. Oh, and by the way, you want the imprint and guest registration card for security, you don't feel comfortable leaving it behind.
The often to. Many hotel keycard systems only allow a maximum of five cards to be issued per room, depending on setup. I remember dealing with families who would constantly loose their cards and we would have to go create a room reset key, go to the room, reset the locks, and then issue new cards. It was a pain, didn't happen often though.
It depends on the system. I used to be a night auditor in a local Four Points Sheraton. The card encoding system was completely separate from the folio (billing) system.
We would take a card (blank or reused), enter in the room number, enter the check out date and time (or just leave it to the default of next day at noon) and swipe the card.
But there are different types of systems, some cards are encoded to the holders folio account on the hotel system in larger hotels. It really depends on the card system and how it's hooked up. A good rule of thumb, if the Hotel Clerk has to punch in numbers on a seperate machine before giving you your card, then there's likely no personal information on it. If they just swipe it on their keyboard during checkin, check it out.
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Once had a Nokia 252 that I threw against the side of a brick building. The battery separated and went flying in a different direction, but there was barley a scratch on the thing and it worked fine for years after.
Oh wow, my iPhone syncs everything to my exchange server in my basement right away, you call yourself a geek. Shame!
Yes, it is fern gully in 3D but your complaint is ignorant. All stories have been told before and will be retold again, just slightly different. To say you can find elements from a 100 other stories as flaw in the writing seems ignorant to me. Storytelling is what drives our species: you think there's anything that hasn't been said already? It's all about arrangement, that's all. Composition of plot has been completed for centuries.
Don't forget with Park plus you can register multiple cars and phones against an account. And you can log in and log out. So you only pay for the time you're actually using. They automatically bill you for the maximum time (if your paying via cell phone) the zone allows, then when you are ready to go, you call the system back and it asks if you want to log out, you press 1 and the difference is credited to your account.
Being as I'm too lazy to look up sources I expect to be flamed. But I do recall hearing an astronaut talk about an incident on MIR where one astronaut had clear homicidal inclinations to his counterpart and had to be talked out of it. I can't recall who. But it does happen.
It's pretty similar here in Canada.
I would measure my height in feet and inches, my weight in pounds.
Though I have no reference to how long a mile is and I believe a pint is roughly half a liter.
In fact, when it comes down to it, the only thing I can think of commonly that is still referred to imperially is anything relating to food and food prep (though not liquids unless you're talking cups and spoons, even then...) and a persons height and weight. The rest tends to be metric.
We had a similar problem with rogers (for our cell phones) a few years ago.
Now I have the problem of being assigned an account number my bank and their system won't recognize, so I can't pay it. I get a bill every month, but my bank, nor their website, nor their customer service department can process payment.
That's nothing. I'm currently in collections with Telus Mobility (ironically it's majority owned by Verizon) for $9500+. Why you may ask, because I bought two evdo PCMCIA cards on an unlimited data plan for $20 for the first three months, then $100/month afterwards on three year contracts. Sounded like a good deal, I could RAdmin clients in my car (pull over first of course) so I bought two. One for me and one for my other tech. Then I find out a few months later that 1. The data plan the rep signed me up for applied to blackberries, not pcmcia cards and that unlimited actually means 250mb with a $.20/kb charge. What I actually got for my $20/month was included 1mb. Not knowing any better, I did 2 gigs of transfer one month (don't know the exact details of all months, I'd have to look them up) After three months of trying to get it sorted out and paying their ransom, they cut me off. Been fighting it since. Apparently there are two issues: 1. the rep signing me up under the wrong plan, 2. the definition of unlimited. I contend unlimited means without limits, they assert the fine prints say 250mb. Seeing as my contract has no fine print, nor reference to any tariff's or other contract, I don't know where they get this idea. It's really screwed me up, seeing as they filed against my credit bureau, we now have to wait until this is cleared up to buy the house we were planning to this winter. I can't get credit for a pack of gum at the moment. Now, comparatively, I have a Rogers Portable modem which is external, and for $50/month I get a 30gb cap. Yet somehow, it's all my fault. Oh, they did credit my bill $400, and another $800 for the misunderstanding (which brought it to $9500.) They did however fail to credit me for the $128.40 I did pay, you know, for what I agreed to.
A close friend of mine and I were offered "work" for a criminal organization years ago when we were fresh out of high school (we developed quite a rep, did some stupid things like send all the account usernames and passwords for the district to the main laser in the library. Nobody knew who did it till a friend ratted us out. That's another story though.)
The offer was nice, new machines and $10,000 each for a weeks work attacking ADT's system so they could stage a b&e spree.
Scared the crap out of me, I had friends that ran with those people, one was a runner who shortly there after went missing after he embezzled. I left the city (for other reasons) no idea what happened to Jamie...
There are other things to consider other than renumeration, like physical safety.
I actually like the packaging, It's easier to transport and doesn't get damaged. I use an exact-o-knife (box cutter as those in the us call them) and cut along the edges in the rear close to the edge. That way If I need to return stuff, the store is none the wiser, and they can put it back out if it's a matter of I bought the wrong thing. Did that with an Xbox 360 memory card & wifi adapter (took me five minutes to pull cat-5 from the basement instead, saved me $130) the other day. Took it back to future shop and no questions asked. They couldn't tell. No restocking fee.
You have an electric kitchen sharpener?
What ever for? I've heard of dull decorating, but very few people desire sharper edges in their kitchen. Your counters must be able to slice through tomatoes and pipe and still stay sharp!
Now, if you had an electric knife sharpener, that would make more sense. Each to their own I guess.
I doubt the higher taxes had much to do with it. Sure, they played a small role. But high cost has little to do with it. I think rates have gone down because of education and a social shift that says smoking is not cool anymore. People who smoke are shunned, and many people avoid businesses where smoking is allowed, that's assuming the municipality hasn't banned smoking there yet. I know very few people who have stopped smoking because of how much it costs, actually, I can't think of any. Unless your on a tight fixed income, it matters little. The shift happened because of education, not cost. If cost was the true deciding factor, people would stop spending $1.50-$3.50/591ml for bottled municipal tap water at stores. Most people don't think in terms of opportunity cost.
I bill up to $95/hour for windows support to businesses $75 for residential. Yeah, it's worth it.
Everyone, even the contractors know the password, and they refuse to change it, Dolts.
I opted for a manual transmission, better gas mileage, not to many of my friends can get it out of the parking lot let alone into a collision. Threshold breaking is a lot more effective, and there are situations where locking the wheels is very handy. That's how I was trained, and how I've driven for the last 10 years. Adding this ABS crap into the picture changes my emergency breaking techniques and gives less control.
You can, if you want to drive with hand signals and during the day time. Hand signals are perfectly legal, I also rear ended a guy who stopped and was making a right hand turn, took me a second to realize that his lights weren't working.
Realistically, I don't think having the black box disabled will be an option, especially if it's a government mandated "feature" and not an industry pr "feature"
for going with telus... Should have gone with Shaw. As an ex-Telus employee who worked in the business repair department, I thought it odd when I was first hired that virtually no one on the floor had Telus DSL at home, even though as employees we were offered it at $16/month. Then I worked there, it explained everything. Telus is anything but a communications leader, they are totally a follower and customer service, despite the best effort of the call centre staff, isn't a company value. I'd sign up with Shaw. About your phone, it might be time to consider VOIP, however, if I remember my training correctly Telus cannot disconnect phone service to an account as long as the BASIC PHONE CHARGES have been paid. Even if you have a $2000 1-900 number balance, CRTC regulations prohibit it. They can kill your features, but they MUST provide basic land line service and all you are required to pay to maintain that service is the basic charge plus taxes. It's in the tariff information in the front of the phone book, if they want to get into it with you, tell them to look it up. BTW, Shaw hs Internet and Primus voip is still cheaper than any telus solution.
I wouldn't be so worried about someone finding a card that may or may not have credit card information on it. If you destroy the card yourself, you have nothing to worry about.
What would worry me is if I lost my card and someone grabbed it, went up to the counter to check me out so they could get my folio and guest registration (and imprint). Now they got my CC, CV2, Drivers Liscence number, Home address and porn preferences.
The big danger isn't what's on the card, it's that the average hotel clerk will trust you are who you say you are if you come up to them with your card and say you want to check out. Oh, and by the way, you want the imprint and guest registration card for security, you don't feel comfortable leaving it behind.
The often to. Many hotel keycard systems only allow a maximum of five cards to be issued per room, depending on setup. I remember dealing with families who would constantly loose their cards and we would have to go create a room reset key, go to the room, reset the locks, and then issue new cards. It was a pain, didn't happen often though.
It depends on the system. I used to be a night auditor in a local Four Points Sheraton. The card encoding system was completely separate from the folio (billing) system. We would take a card (blank or reused), enter in the room number, enter the check out date and time (or just leave it to the default of next day at noon) and swipe the card. But there are different types of systems, some cards are encoded to the holders folio account on the hotel system in larger hotels. It really depends on the card system and how it's hooked up. A good rule of thumb, if the Hotel Clerk has to punch in numbers on a seperate machine before giving you your card, then there's likely no personal information on it. If they just swipe it on their keyboard during checkin, check it out.
If you think books don't have problems with versioning issues, you haven't been to a college bookstore lately have you?
This is totally off topic flamebait, but you assume I'm americian.