So according to this, if I had a competitor I don't want around I could just buy their app a lot and keep getting refunds until I bleed them dry? Sounds good to me.
I am ashamed to say that I absolutely suck at video games. Especially for someone who has spent as much time with them as I have. I completely attribute my suckiness to cheat codes, because I often used to have the codes for a game looked up and ready to go before I ever even opened the box or took the time to try legitamately. From Doom (iddqd how the crap do I stil remember that) to original warcraft to Half-Life 2 I have missed a bunch of the enjoyment from my games because I never had to get good at them. I also hate multiplayer games (a la halo) where I get pitted against real life humans who are good, and I have no way to dominate them. Its kinda stressful. Mothers don't let your kids use cheat codes!
What's wrong with this is that my bank already gave them the money (or at least authorized it) at the point of sale. After that, my business with the vendor is done. If something goes wrong with the transaction, the store goes and bangs on the bank's door, and the bank comes to me. The bank acts as a middleman to protect both sides. The store does not need to know my address, because they know my bank details, and my bank will verify payment and contact me if necessary. That is not the store's business once the bank vouches for me.
I'm not eligible for an upgrade until next august, and the sales rep tells me I will have to pay $400 for an iphone no matter what. I thought about trying to save money by paying $175 to terminate my current plan, but then I would get screwed by the activation fee again. It seems pretty lame that they tricked me into getting a crappy razr for free a year ago, and now the screen doesn't even come on anymore and they tell me to suck it up or give them more money. It seems I should get the subsidized price by agreeing to extend my contract, but they just don't seem to care about their own customers at all once they get you to sign that contract. Hooray for broken capitalism!
Company B is operating beyond their current means, instead of ceasing purchase of mahogany office furniture, use faulty statistics to target people with higher disposable incomes for auto insurance rate increases, (males around 22-28). As a male age 22-28 I take great offense to this. I like to think I pay more because I'm dangerous, not because I have more free money floating around.
Almost every library I have ever been in has copy machines all over. I have never seen any posted signs warning against copyright violation, and I have never been questioned by an employee while making copies of copyrighted books. I would assume that publishers are aware that this occurs, but they don't seem to care. It seems that 5 cents a page amounts to roughly the value of the book, or much greater, if I were to copy the whole thing. So either libraries are above the law, or nobody cares, because the cost involved with copying a book is equivalent to just buying it anyway.
Exactly. It seems silly for a military to spend all this money to gain a tactical advantage, and then leave it wide open for the enemy to use. This is the modern equivalent of blowing up your own bridges so the bad guys can't cross 'em.
I think you guys are all missing one vital point. Well over 90% of the time, if you get pulled over for speeding, its because you actually were BREAKING THE LAW! It seems ridiculous to me that if you are knowingly breaking the law, and you actually get caught doing it, you will whine and moan and try and figure out how you can get out of it. I've had one speeding ticket in my life, and I was dissapointed to get it, but I acknowledged that I deserved it, and I payed the fine, because I broke the law. Yeah, say what you will about unjust laws and how speeding tickets are only for revenue, blah blah blah, but the fact remains that you have no inherent right to drive, and upon being issued a liscence you agree to observe the rules of the road. I think this country could be benefitted a lot by a healthy dose of responsibility.
I think there are further hinderances to practical applications of fusion other then just the science. As soon as this stuff tries to sneak out of the labaratory (and often long before), there will be a whole bunch of hippie "enviornmentalists" screaming their heads off about how its not safe, and how it will kill all of the baby seals. These people just plain don't want nuclear reactions running their cars or their houses and they don't even wanna listen to all of the perfectly good reasons why it is perfectly safe if done right. As I understand this is already putting pretty good obstacles in the way of current research, and would only get worse if we actually tried to move it to the real world.
I can see your point, but my issue is that speeding tickets have evolved far beyond their role in public safety into a trivial form of revenue for local governments. I cops set up speed traps not because they are particularly concerned about the law or about public safety, but because they have a quota. Setting up a system like this is just asking to get sucked dry if you ask me.
Yeah, it sounds like a good idea now, but think about the privacy issues. If they can track where I am, where I'm going, and how fast, what's to stop a ticket for showing up in my mailbox everytime I go 1 mph over the speed limit? How long until some creep hacks the system and has access to everything he knows to stalk whoever he wants and do all kinds of no good? I don't want radio transmitters in my clothes, I don't want my cell phone to track me, and I don't want my car disclosing my personal information.
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what about people like me with only one eye, you insensitive clod.
So according to this, if I had a competitor I don't want around I could just buy their app a lot and keep getting refunds until I bleed them dry? Sounds good to me.
I am ashamed to say that I absolutely suck at video games. Especially for someone who has spent as much time with them as I have. I completely attribute my suckiness to cheat codes, because I often used to have the codes for a game looked up and ready to go before I ever even opened the box or took the time to try legitamately. From Doom (iddqd how the crap do I stil remember that) to original warcraft to Half-Life 2 I have missed a bunch of the enjoyment from my games because I never had to get good at them. I also hate multiplayer games (a la halo) where I get pitted against real life humans who are good, and I have no way to dominate them. Its kinda stressful. Mothers don't let your kids use cheat codes!
So we should start paying attention to TPB's top 40 list from now on for the real good stuff?
What's wrong with this is that my bank already gave them the money (or at least authorized it) at the point of sale. After that, my business with the vendor is done. If something goes wrong with the transaction, the store goes and bangs on the bank's door, and the bank comes to me. The bank acts as a middleman to protect both sides. The store does not need to know my address, because they know my bank details, and my bank will verify payment and contact me if necessary. That is not the store's business once the bank vouches for me.
Why is this rated informative?
I'm not eligible for an upgrade until next august, and the sales rep tells me I will have to pay $400 for an iphone no matter what. I thought about trying to save money by paying $175 to terminate my current plan, but then I would get screwed by the activation fee again.
It seems pretty lame that they tricked me into getting a crappy razr for free a year ago, and now the screen doesn't even come on anymore and they tell me to suck it up or give them more money. It seems I should get the subsidized price by agreeing to extend my contract, but they just don't seem to care about their own customers at all once they get you to sign that contract. Hooray for broken capitalism!
I believe what you want is an ipod touch. Its a portable computer that is not a phone.
Almost every library I have ever been in has copy machines all over. I have never seen any posted signs warning against copyright violation, and I have never been questioned by an employee while making copies of copyrighted books. I would assume that publishers are aware that this occurs, but they don't seem to care. It seems that 5 cents a page amounts to roughly the value of the book, or much greater, if I were to copy the whole thing. So either libraries are above the law, or nobody cares, because the cost involved with copying a book is equivalent to just buying it anyway.
It also sounds pretty funny to a unilingual north-American.
Slashdot to Goatse ... One click. I find that to be fairly accurate of slashdot.
Exactly. It seems silly for a military to spend all this money to gain a tactical advantage, and then leave it wide open for the enemy to use. This is the modern equivalent of blowing up your own bridges so the bad guys can't cross 'em.
You can assassinate whoever you want, as long as I can still get my cheap v14gR4.
I think you guys are all missing one vital point. Well over 90% of the time, if you get pulled over for speeding, its because you actually were BREAKING THE LAW! It seems ridiculous to me that if you are knowingly breaking the law, and you actually get caught doing it, you will whine and moan and try and figure out how you can get out of it. I've had one speeding ticket in my life, and I was dissapointed to get it, but I acknowledged that I deserved it, and I payed the fine, because I broke the law. Yeah, say what you will about unjust laws and how speeding tickets are only for revenue, blah blah blah, but the fact remains that you have no inherent right to drive, and upon being issued a liscence you agree to observe the rules of the road. I think this country could be benefitted a lot by a healthy dose of responsibility.
I think there are further hinderances to practical applications of fusion other then just the science. As soon as this stuff tries to sneak out of the labaratory (and often long before), there will be a whole bunch of hippie "enviornmentalists" screaming their heads off about how its not safe, and how it will kill all of the baby seals. These people just plain don't want nuclear reactions running their cars or their houses and they don't even wanna listen to all of the perfectly good reasons why it is perfectly safe if done right. As I understand this is already putting pretty good obstacles in the way of current research, and would only get worse if we actually tried to move it to the real world.
Maybe I can finally pull of that "These are not the droids you are looking for" stunt.
I can see your point, but my issue is that speeding tickets have evolved far beyond their role in public safety into a trivial form of revenue for local governments. I cops set up speed traps not because they are particularly concerned about the law or about public safety, but because they have a quota. Setting up a system like this is just asking to get sucked dry if you ask me.
Yeah, it sounds like a good idea now, but think about the privacy issues. If they can track where I am, where I'm going, and how fast, what's to stop a ticket for showing up in my mailbox everytime I go 1 mph over the speed limit? How long until some creep hacks the system and has access to everything he knows to stalk whoever he wants and do all kinds of no good? I don't want radio transmitters in my clothes, I don't want my cell phone to track me, and I don't want my car disclosing my personal information.