OK, so what about phone/web orders where all you get is the number/exp/code and you can't tell that the person has signed it and agreed to the terms?
True, many (but not all) websites have some text on the order page that says something like "I agree to pay for this according to the terms of my cardholder policy," but I've never been asked that when placing a phone order...
Yeah, but the system could use just the card/account number like a cookie and immediately look up your preferred language -- no need to store that on the card itself.
Just to be clear -- is AOL only removing its own UI to Usenet? Shutting down just their own NNTP servers? Once you have a connection established through AOL, are they going to block you from using some other NNTP server? Are they going to block HTTP access to Google Groups?
It seems that AOL users will still have SOME ways (even if it is just Google Groups) to get Usenet. and it seems to me that for AOL users, this is probably a better/easier to use interface, which is what they'd want. I'd imagine that most AOL users wouldn't know what to do with direct NNTP access anyway...
No, it's not a foreign 9/11, it's WORSE. This tragedy, which cost thousands upon thousands more lives than 9/11, was not preventable.
It certainly was (is) a tragedy, but it is not an injustice. Tsunami victims weren't wronged (well, I guess they were by mother nature, but you can hardly consider her an enemy on whom you'd like to get revenge).
9/11 was a result of someone's (or some group of people's) deliberate plan to harm others. The tsunami was the result of an earthquake. It's different. I'm not saying that one loss of life is worse than the other. Both are tragic. But only one is the fault of fellow humans.
Umm, I never said someone needed to impersonate a senator. In fact, a janitor is exactly the kind of thing I'd imagine, too. And yet, even janitors don't have access to every building in the government. My comment still applies.
I'd expect it to be a janitor, too.
Um, who cleans the oval office? Who cleans the office of the director of the CIA? Not a janitor? (I really have no idea.) I can't imagine that these people clean their own office. And I can't imagine that some senior staff member with a high security clearance dusts the president's knick-knacks, either. Do they clean while some armed guard supervises? We're paying TWO people to clean each room?;-)
What about dynamically generated gifs? Say I use PHP's functions to create some GIF buttons on my site -- are these covered or are they in violation of the rule?
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You don't hear about too many shootings in Japanese schools.
Over here it's a completely different dynamic and kids have completely different pressures to deal with.
In a culture of conformity, there are no kids who are "different" and thus teased to the point of shooting their tormentors.
One of our core American values is individuality.
Sorry, but you can't have it both ways...
OK, so what about phone/web orders where all you get is the number/exp/code and you can't tell that the person has signed it and agreed to the terms?
True, many (but not all) websites have some text on the order page that says something like "I agree to pay for this according to the terms of my cardholder policy," but I've never been asked that when placing a phone order...
Yeah, but the system could use just the card/account number like a cookie and immediately look up your preferred language -- no need to store that on the card itself.
Just to be clear -- is AOL only removing its own UI to Usenet? Shutting down just their own NNTP servers? Once you have a connection established through AOL, are they going to block you from using some other NNTP server? Are they going to block HTTP access to Google Groups?
It seems that AOL users will still have SOME ways (even if it is just Google Groups) to get Usenet. and it seems to me that for AOL users, this is probably a better/easier to use interface, which is what they'd want. I'd imagine that most AOL users wouldn't know what to do with direct NNTP access anyway...
No, it's not a foreign 9/11, it's WORSE. This tragedy, which cost thousands upon thousands more lives than 9/11, was not preventable.
It certainly was (is) a tragedy, but it is not an injustice. Tsunami victims weren't wronged (well, I guess they were by mother nature, but you can hardly consider her an enemy on whom you'd like to get revenge).
9/11 was a result of someone's (or some group of people's) deliberate plan to harm others. The tsunami was the result of an earthquake. It's different. I'm not saying that one loss of life is worse than the other. Both are tragic. But only one is the fault of fellow humans.
Umm, I never said someone needed to impersonate a senator. In fact, a janitor is exactly the kind of thing I'd imagine, too. And yet, even janitors don't have access to every building in the government. My comment still applies.
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I'd expect it to be a janitor, too.
Um, who cleans the oval office? Who cleans the office of the director of the CIA? Not a janitor? (I really have no idea.) I can't imagine that these people clean their own office. And I can't imagine that some senior staff member with a high security clearance dusts the president's knick-knacks, either. Do they clean while some armed guard supervises? We're paying TWO people to clean each room?
Maybe someone who actually knows can explain...
What about dynamically generated gifs? Say I use PHP's functions to create some GIF buttons on my site -- are these covered or are they in violation of the rule?