While I agree Harper's supported on the right, the right certainly doesn't have the influence in Canada that it seems to in the USA. Gay marriage is legal and in Vancouver you can walk past the police smoking dope and no one will care. Harper is going to attempt to re-open the gay marriage debate in Canada and it will go down in flames - He probably wishes he'd never brough the issue up in the first place.
...and there's certainly no creationism debate. It's just weird that I feel more aligned with Holland than I do with our closest neighbour, and it certainly wasn't always that way.
The problem is that the transaction is not over upon payment
From my perspective as a buyer, it is. My end of the deal is to give the money, the sellers end of the deal is to give me a product. Once I've paid promptly, and follwed instructions, I should get positive feedback. If the buyer winds up being sleazy just write a rebuttal.
As long as sellers keep holding buyer feedback in 'ransom' for positive seller feedback the feedback system remains broken.
Is there anyone who think eBay's feedback system is truly useful or even fair?
You're bang-on. Most sellers won't leave positive feedback until they in turn have received positive feedback - So as a buyer I'll never leave negative feedback as it will turn around and slam me. One simple solution would be to REQUIRE sellers to leave feedback to get their Paypal money. Once they've gotten paid I've held up my end of the bargain.
Last night I was in ecomony on United, with a full recline in front of me. Like I said, all I could open was a paperback book. I could have probably used a PDA, but that was about it. "Standard" Dell laptop stayed in the overhead bin.
I find all this talk of internet access in economy hilarious. On most flights with the seat pitch what it is I can barely open a paperback book on the tray table. My laptop? Forget it!! It stays in the overhead bin.
>as a sign of how detached the wealthy are from the reality of the everyday person.
Meh, if I worked harder I could be rich too, I just choose not to. Unless you live in North Korea, most people in the west could be rich if they put the effort in. They (like me) just choose not to.
>probably taking at least 8 hours, which is not realistic for business travel within the U.S.
Sure it is, managers just need to change their expectations. Let's say I'm going on a business trip from the West Coast of North America to London. Between sitting on a plane, time changes and a day to recover on arrival the trip takes way longer than 8 hours, and 'bosses' are fine with that. You just need to change that expectations when it comes to 'domestic' travel as well. In fact, if the trains had WiFi, cellular and food an employee could probably have a more productive day than they would travelling by air.
Personally I'd miss flying because I love looking out the window:)
I think like lots of things in life this will have to change. People are stubborn but eventually they adapt. I suspect new behaviours will be:
1) Accepting that the bulk of a travellers belongings will have to go into the hold, with the only things going on board being a paperback book and a change of underwear
2) Travelling one carrier, or one 'alliance' between points A and B to ensure luggage has a more liklihood of arriving at one's destination.
#2 might wind up costing the flying public a few more dollars, but air travel is DRAMATICALLY cheaper than it was thirty years ago, so people will live with it.
I certainly can't afford to do it (well, I could, but I have other priorities like putting food on the table and mortgage payments), but if the OP is considering chartering a private plane as an alternative to checking a bag or buying toothpaste upon arrival he's obviously in a different tax bracket than the rest of us.
If you do enough flying to seriously consider a solution like this (a chartered Cessna) then go ahead and learn to fly. You can buy a safe, serviceable used plane for about what you'd pay for an average new loaded SUV (~$50,000). You can learn to fly it for $5K-$6K. Park it at your local general aviation field and just fly it where you want to go.
My brother-in-law and his family live up here in Vancouver. When his father-in-law comes up to visit from the Bay Area he just flies his own plane. No security, no lines, and he can even smoke a cigar.
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Yes, send them economic help. In fact, I guarantee you they will be MOST appreciative of this. They will now have even MORE money to use to arm themselves for the coming war against the west.
Actually, there's a lot of sound reasoning to this economic strategy. The problem is it takes 30 years and no one is willing to wait that long.
Let's take one small example in Pakistan: Madrasas.
Pakistan is too poor to build 'proper' schools for its citizens, so parents send their children to religious schools, known as Madrasas. These Madrasas are free, and often provide food and a roof over the children's heads. They also teach extremism, hatred and intolerance all day long. Here's one article:
If there was funding to provide 'proper' schools in Pakistan then the influence of the Madrasas would diminish - Until then they're breeding ground for children who grow up to be terrorists.
What's the difference between some guy selling a tonic via SPAM and a tonic at the state fair? At the end of the day, not much, just that the spammer reaches more people.
Depends how they're going to position it. Sinise is fifteen years older than Damon, so it's a bit of a stretch to suggest they'd be classmates at Starfleet Academy together (which seems to be the rumoured premise.) However, Kelly was eleven years older than Shatner, so the timelines bascially line up if it's a post-Academy thing, or is Bones isn't actually a classmate of Kirk's.
>that enables partial noun and verb recognition at best
Which still gives a Japanese speaker a leg up over an English speaker, and explains why my wife can read the odd Chinese sign around town, whereas for me it's just a pretty picture.
The "Keep my iTunes Folder Organized" option contains the following text right under it and isn't checked by default: Places song files into album and artist folders, and names the files based on the disc number, track number, and the song title.
This sounds like a great idea. However, NO helptext suggests that it will take song X and arbitrarily move into into directory Y.
However, I didn't mean to dwell on specifics in my OP. Rather, I wanted to suggest that iTunes is a poor program for a Windows user and (anecdotally) leads to frustration for the people I've seen using it on Windows boxes. That's where MS might have an edge up.
>I will never understand why the "right wing" is concerned with homosexuals
I agree it doesn't make sense - If you're 'right wing' you should believe that the govt. shouldn't get involved in other's lives, therefore they shouldn't care about homosexuality. Where it falls down, however is Christian groups who believe (in my opinion wrongly) that homosexuality is a sin. These Christian groups also vote for the right-wing parties. Therefore, the right-wingers must oppose homosexuality in order to please their electorate.
Meaning it will allow for easy replacement of the rechargeable battery, not require proprietary vendor lock-in formats (ACC), and use generic cables/interfaces/devices to extend the use of the product?
Let's not forget also use music management software that isn't just ported over from the mac. I absolutely HATE iTunes.
As a Windows-savvy user I first found myself using iTunes on Boxing Day. I think the root of the problem is iTunes is a Mac application, ported to the windows platform. As a result, hard-core Windoze user will find a lot of what iTunes does to be counter-intutitive. For example, I put in an audio CD and an icon appears. As a PC user, my instinct is to right-click on that icon and be presented with some options (play, rip, copy to ipod, explore, eject, buy (?) etc.) That doesn't happen in iTunes - I've got to click somewhere else.
Or, *by default*, iTunes starts re-arranging music on people's hard disks. I'm sure this feature is handy - But by default? It's *very* confusing and all day long my wife was saying "Where did my song go!?!!"
I'm sure it's brilliant on the Mac, but on the PC itunes is useless and counter-intuitive.
Just remember that next time you try to learn Chinese. Because yes, English is more difficult.
For whom? I would argue that a French-only speaker/reader would have a much easier time learning English than an Arabic-only speaker/reader. Ditto an English user vs. a Japanese user learning Chinese. My wife spent a couple of years in Japan ten years ago. She can still read the odd Chinese sign around town, whereas I have no idea.
Humanity will accept destruction, if saving itself costs too much
I would amend that and say "Humanity will accept the destruction of *future generations* if saving them costs too much *today*. I think if we discovered some big rock hurtling at the Earth that would kill us all in five years we'd move the earth (literally) at whatever the cost to deal with it. A huge rock that's going to hit the earth in 250 years? Not so much.
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While I agree Harper's supported on the right, the right certainly doesn't have the influence in Canada that it seems to in the USA. Gay marriage is legal and in Vancouver you can walk past the police smoking dope and no one will care. Harper is going to attempt to re-open the gay marriage debate in Canada and it will go down in flames - He probably wishes he'd never brough the issue up in the first place.
...and there's certainly no creationism debate. It's just weird that I feel more aligned with Holland than I do with our closest neighbour, and it certainly wasn't always that way.
But surely as a percentage of the total electorate they're a small number? How can the insane rule over the sane? Makes no sense...
From my perspective as a buyer, it is. My end of the deal is to give the money, the sellers end of the deal is to give me a product. Once I've paid promptly, and follwed instructions, I should get positive feedback. If the buyer winds up being sleazy just write a rebuttal.
As long as sellers keep holding buyer feedback in 'ransom' for positive seller feedback the feedback system remains broken.
You're bang-on. Most sellers won't leave positive feedback until they in turn have received positive feedback - So as a buyer I'll never leave negative feedback as it will turn around and slam me. One simple solution would be to REQUIRE sellers to leave feedback to get their Paypal money. Once they've gotten paid I've held up my end of the bargain.
Last night I was in ecomony on United, with a full recline in front of me. Like I said, all I could open was a paperback book. I could have probably used a PDA, but that was about it. "Standard" Dell laptop stayed in the overhead bin.
I find all this talk of internet access in economy hilarious. On most flights with the seat pitch what it is I can barely open a paperback book on the tray table. My laptop? Forget it!! It stays in the overhead bin.
Meh, if I worked harder I could be rich too, I just choose not to. Unless you live in North Korea, most people in the west could be rich if they put the effort in. They (like me) just choose not to.
Sure it is, managers just need to change their expectations. Let's say I'm going on a business trip from the West Coast of North America to London. Between sitting on a plane, time changes and a day to recover on arrival the trip takes way longer than 8 hours, and 'bosses' are fine with that. You just need to change that expectations when it comes to 'domestic' travel as well. In fact, if the trains had WiFi, cellular and food an employee could probably have a more productive day than they would travelling by air.
Personally I'd miss flying because I love looking out the window :)
I think like lots of things in life this will have to change. People are stubborn but eventually they adapt. I suspect new behaviours will be:
1) Accepting that the bulk of a travellers belongings will have to go into the hold, with the only things going on board being a paperback book and a change of underwear
2) Travelling one carrier, or one 'alliance' between points A and B to ensure luggage has a more liklihood of arriving at one's destination.
#2 might wind up costing the flying public a few more dollars, but air travel is DRAMATICALLY cheaper than it was thirty years ago, so people will live with it.
I certainly can't afford to do it (well, I could, but I have other priorities like putting food on the table and mortgage payments), but if the OP is considering chartering a private plane as an alternative to checking a bag or buying toothpaste upon arrival he's obviously in a different tax bracket than the rest of us.
My brother-in-law and his family live up here in Vancouver. When his father-in-law comes up to visit from the Bay Area he just flies his own plane. No security, no lines, and he can even smoke a cigar.
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eBay Motors> Other Vehicles & Trailers> Aircraft> Airplanes - Single-Engine
Actually, there's a lot of sound reasoning to this economic strategy. The problem is it takes 30 years and no one is willing to wait that long.
Let's take one small example in Pakistan: Madrasas. Pakistan is too poor to build 'proper' schools for its citizens, so parents send their children to religious schools, known as Madrasas. These Madrasas are free, and often provide food and a roof over the children's heads. They also teach extremism, hatred and intolerance all day long. Here's one article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2054719.stm
If there was funding to provide 'proper' schools in Pakistan then the influence of the Madrasas would diminish - Until then they're breeding ground for children who grow up to be terrorists.
"A fool and his money are soon parted."
What's the difference between some guy selling a tonic via SPAM and a tonic at the state fair? At the end of the day, not much, just that the spammer reaches more people.
Quite a few, apparently.
I read one article which claimed that one spammer in particular "received 10,000 credit card orders in one month [snip] each for $39.95 US."
So that's nearly $400,000 per month. Nice work if you can get it.
Source:
http://www.cbc.ca/story/business/national/2005/04/ 08/spam-050408.html
I suspect these are a dying breed...
A salesman once tried to sell me a cordless screwdriver. I didn't understand. None of my existing screwdrivers have cords.
Depends how they're going to position it. Sinise is fifteen years older than Damon, so it's a bit of a stretch to suggest they'd be classmates at Starfleet Academy together (which seems to be the rumoured premise.) However, Kelly was eleven years older than Shatner, so the timelines bascially line up if it's a post-Academy thing, or is Bones isn't actually a classmate of Kirk's.
Which still gives a Japanese speaker a leg up over an English speaker, and explains why my wife can read the odd Chinese sign around town, whereas for me it's just a pretty picture.
This sounds like a great idea. However, NO helptext suggests that it will take song X and arbitrarily move into into directory Y.
However, I didn't mean to dwell on specifics in my OP. Rather, I wanted to suggest that iTunes is a poor program for a Windows user and (anecdotally) leads to frustration for the people I've seen using it on Windows boxes. That's where MS might have an edge up.
I agree it doesn't make sense - If you're 'right wing' you should believe that the govt. shouldn't get involved in other's lives, therefore they shouldn't care about homosexuality. Where it falls down, however is Christian groups who believe (in my opinion wrongly) that homosexuality is a sin. These Christian groups also vote for the right-wing parties. Therefore, the right-wingers must oppose homosexuality in order to please their electorate.
Let's not forget also use music management software that isn't just ported over from the mac. I absolutely HATE iTunes.
As a Windows-savvy user I first found myself using iTunes on Boxing Day. I think the root of the problem is iTunes is a Mac application, ported to the windows platform. As a result, hard-core Windoze user will find a lot of what iTunes does to be counter-intutitive. For example, I put in an audio CD and an icon appears. As a PC user, my instinct is to right-click on that icon and be presented with some options (play, rip, copy to ipod, explore, eject, buy (?) etc.) That doesn't happen in iTunes - I've got to click somewhere else.
Or, *by default*, iTunes starts re-arranging music on people's hard disks. I'm sure this feature is handy - But by default? It's *very* confusing and all day long my wife was saying "Where did my song go!?!!"
I'm sure it's brilliant on the Mac, but on the PC itunes is useless and counter-intuitive.
For whom? I would argue that a French-only speaker/reader would have a much easier time learning English than an Arabic-only speaker/reader. Ditto an English user vs. a Japanese user learning Chinese. My wife spent a couple of years in Japan ten years ago. She can still read the odd Chinese sign around town, whereas I have no idea.
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I would amend that and say "Humanity will accept the destruction of *future generations* if saving them costs too much *today*. I think if we discovered some big rock hurtling at the Earth that would kill us all in five years we'd move the earth (literally) at whatever the cost to deal with it. A huge rock that's going to hit the earth in 250 years? Not so much.
LOL. Google maps can't even give me a map of Tel Aviv or even tell me where Mexico City is.