Were I in her hospital gown, I know what my answer would be.
Really? Because I don't know what mine would be. And I have thought about it. Some days I feel like I could live without sight as long as I had my limbs. Other times I think I'd be OK in a wheelchair. Then there are days when my inner cheap bastard comes out and says "do whatever's cheapest!" I'm not about to judge somebody who decides either way. This is one of those "unless you've walked a mile in their shoes" sort of situations.
Hell, I don't even know what I will want for dinner tomorrow night.
Good thing I'm no lawyer, looks like I completely misunderstood the scope of this law. I hope you get modded up. But these guys I was dealing with apparently didn't know the law either. This was a mid-sized 125hp unit to run a plant, don't remember the price, but it had to be well into five figures.
IR sells some standard lubricant in a fancy bottle with their logo on it. The local rep tried to charge us 9 grand for an oil change that should have cost half that. I told them to go pound sand, and had a competitor do the service instead. IR's local service guy got fired shortly thereafter.
But as for a 3D printer... It walks the line between consumer good and intermediate good. I really don't know how a court would decide, but it would be worth the fight. Is a 2D printer considered a final good? It can arguably be used to "make" newsletters or photographic prints. So, it's arguably an intermediate good, right? Like I said, not a lawyer.:-)
On a good note, the guys at Generac (since you mentioned Home Depot) consider their backup gens to be consumer goods, and completely respected my rights to buy a replacement battery from any vendor. They did offer a replacement, but were not pushy about it.
Joshua Steimle just wrote a mind-boggling anti-neutrality article at Forbes. It's a perfect example of the hypocrisy you're talking about. He whines about government intervention = BAD, but then completely ignores the fact that bigass monopolies acting against the public interest is also bad. It is not "free market" when companies are given government subsidies (AKA tax breaks), rights of way, and spectrum licenses. You didn't hear radio stations talking about "free market" back during the pirate radio days, now did you?
Honestly, I wouldn't have any problem with non-neutral networks if there was competition. Those of us who cared would flock to net neutral competitors, or competitors whose QOS favored our packets of choice. Let's face it, this is an area that just cries out for a natural monopoly. And just about every economist agrees that natural monopolies must be heavily regulated to function in the public's best interest.
IANAL, but wouldn't this be prohibited by the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act? Ingersoll-Rand try to pull that crap on me with an oil change on an air compressor. Once they knew I knew my rights, they got real apologetic real quick.
(c) Prohibition on conditions for written or implied warranty; waiver by Commission
No warrantor of a consumer product may condition his written or implied warranty of such product on the consumer's using, in connection with such product, any article or service (other than article or service provided without charge under the terms of the warranty) which is identified by brand, trade, or corporate name; except that the prohibition of this subsection may be waived by the Commission if—
(1) the warrantor satisfies the Commission that the warranted product will function properly only if the article or service so identified is used in connection with the warranted product, and
(2) the Commission finds that such a waiver is in the public interest.
The Commission shall identify in the Federal Register, and permit public comment on, all applications for waiver of the prohibition of this subsection, and shall publish in the Federal Register its disposition of any such application, including the reasons therefor.
Eight? I only knew of three when I voted for her*, but whatever. I don't really understand why pushing for constitutional amendments automatically makes someone a lunatic. It is not the most practical or probable solution to a problem. Unfortunately once the Supreme Court has weighed in on something like "money is speech," then it if the people want to change it, pretty much the only option is a change to the constitution. Seems like enough people on the left and right agree with this basic theory.
*I work for a company that directly benefits from pipeline construction, so it was not a decision made lightly.
Fuck SurePost and SmartPost. These two "services" are the worst of both worlds. More expensive than USPS, less reliable than UPS/FedEx/USPS. If you ever lose a package each provider will blame the other, and you will never see it again. You can only track it to the nearest Post Office. The most fun is if you have a PO Box. If your vendor doesn't mention that they use SmartPost, you naturally put in your street address. When the post office gets your box and sees your street address, they return to sender, since that street address doesn't receive USPS mail. Good luck!
I consider this "accidental" suffering nothing short of karma injecting a tiny slice of justice back into this particular case.
Accidental?! Really? You can't be serious in thinking that this was an accident. This was a deliberate bypass of ethical measures put in place decades ago. It might have been unintended or unexpected by some, but it was perfectly expected by many. Why else would Oklahoma have gone through all the trouble of concealing the nature of the drugs being used?
That being said, I'm surprised they didn't do the baby raper first. Burying a 19-year-old alive is pretty heinous, but raping and murdering a baby... It would have been hard to shed a tear if that SOB had suffered for 43 minutes.
Thank you! Finally somebody else who finds this frustrating. That was one of my biggest concerns. Almost NOBODY else seems to think this is a problem. Not my wife, nor 99% of the people on the Apple forums. Wait, this is sad... I find the validation from a complete stranger on the Internet as comforting. Oh well.
A host computer is not required, but being able to communicate with one is a big part of why my wife liked the iOS/iTunes combo. Nobody expects an upgrade to lose functionality, especially something as basic as being able to download the photos from your camera onto your computer.
Moving water over a mountain is easy in a pipe. Say you have a reservoir at height, like a mountain lake, and you want to pump it to a city in the valley below. You need only get it over the ridge. Once the flow to the lower height starts, it will continue. The problem with your suggestion is that you can't get the siphon started. All this guy is saying is that the flow continues due to gravity. Which makes good sense. The atmospheric pressure at the lower basin is actually slightly higher than at the higher basin, so it's clearly not atmospherically driven.
This is totally off topic, but I'm posting it anyway because I need to vent.
My wife recently upgraded her iPhone to iOS7. Of course nobody* told her it requires iTunes 11 to run. But her laptop is an old one running on 10.5.something. And guess what, iTunes 11 won't install on anything less than 10.6.8 or so. Of course an upgrade costs $20. So now a supposedly free upgrade is going to cost $20, or else my wife won't be able to get pictures and stuff off her phone. Luckily it's not a PPC, otherwise she'd be really screwed. Just missed that by a few months.
All the comments on discussions.apple are basically full of rude people asking why anybody would be so stupid as to still be using a 6 year old computer or whatever. It totally misses the bigger picture that Apple is defrauding people $20 at a time. Granted even if they have a million such suckers, it's not a lot of money. But I can guaran-damn-tee ya that the next laptop in my house will not be a Mac. My PC laptop can communicate with her iPhone just fine. Seriously.
*and by "nobody," I mean "nobody besides me" since I'm apparently just a paranoid lunatic.
OK, so I need to recalibrate my humor detector. I totally missed the "pop tart" bit. D'oh!
But just in case anybody else takes you seriously, I'd like to interject. In Texas it's quite common for families to supplement their food supply with fresh game and fish. A buddy of mine gets over half of his protein budget from stuff he raises, catches, or shoots. He grows most of his own veggies, too. The Wild West might be long gone, but feeding your family the old fashioned way is still appreciated around here. Even in the suburbs where I live, we have neighbors who eat quite a bit of fresh-caught fish and venison.
yeah. the supreme court said you can even strip search a 13 year old girl for Advil. So I guess it's anything goes. It's a wonder there aren't *more* psychopath principals.
If this was in 2007 or something when you could get a 5% account, things would be different. (That'd be $387.)
I've done this intentionally a couple of times. Once the year my wife started working and once the year she went back to work after our son was born. I made something like $500 bucks back in '05, a lot less in '08 (fewer safe options). It sure felt good to write that four-figure check to Uncle Sam, though. The trick was withholding the same or slightly more than I did the previous year (with one income). Then penalties don't kick in.
I do everything by hand as well. I find it somewhat fulfilling, although it's always a bit crazy. I messed up one year and didn't take a credit I was entitled to. The IRS gave it to me anyway.
The math isn't the hard part. Knowing what goes in what box is a nightmare, though. My wife runs a small business that loses money each year, and she doesn't keep very good track of her P&Ls. To get that extra hundred bucks or so, there are instructions that refer to publications, which in turn refer to other instructions, which have worksheets that require you to input something from the original form that you haven't calculated yet. Whee!
Don't even get me started on the lines that say things like "other gains (losses)" or "other credits." Really?
Hmmm... it depends on the bulb. Most glow purple more than in that photo, but I don't know about "bright." You may check with somebody you trust with the prism-sticky note test in the article. Just have them put a sticky note where they cease seeing color and compare it to your own vision. Not exactly scientific, but it could be interesting.
There are thousands of things that reduce your chance of survival. Kids drive like idiots, jump off of buildings, huff paint, sleep around, all sorts of stupid shit. We parents have to prioritize what we feel is most important for our family. Decreasing morbidity is not a valid argument for requiring parents to take some corrective action. I'm sure you don't allow your kids to do anything that puts them at a lower risk of survival, like swim, drive, or be left-handed.
I'm sure that getting cancer from unseen UV sources is also bad. So should we expect parents to get cataract surgery for their children? Getting electrocuted is no good either, should we require surgical implants for that hazard as well? People have tubes put in the ears of their kids to prevent nuisance ear infections. My ENT just had us put my son on a healthy round of saline rinses for a year. But I'm not going to call a parent that chooses tubes unfit.
Look, unless it's your kid, you should butt out. That goes for the big D Deaf community, too. They should stop complaining about parents who choose cochlear implants for their kids.
We've actually got something akin to that in body-image discrimination: different healthy body types are usually adept at different kinds of physical activity, but we tend to call e.g. the stocky guy who can lift a car or walk for many miles without even tiring "fat", because he doesn't have a lean body built for running and jumping that we think of as "fit"
Interesting choice. There are some cultures (especially in the south) that use "healthy" and "thin," rather than "fat" and "fit," respectively. And "thin" is almost always said with a derisive tone implying that the person is too obsessed with body image to eat properly.
This. I'm gonna bring a sound meter and a pair of earplugs next time I go to the theater. WTF guys. Especially at kids movies. My eardrums were about to bleed at Frozen and the Lego Movie (I don't get to see grown up movies anymore). I already bring earplugs to pop concerts. good god that shit is loud. At least with movies there are quiet parts.
There are people who can see UV. This can be a side effect of having certain parts of your eye removed during cataract surgery. So would not being able to see UV when some people can be considered a reduced sense or impairment? Most people would argue not. But it does make you think... What if non-deaf people got cochlear implants to hear better, or have more control over what they hear? If optic implants become common (or even wearables like Google Glass), would it be an impairment not to have them?
You could even go further, citing cell phones, warm clothing, SCUBA gear, and other technological advances as being "super powers," right? How far down does that rabbit hole go? When my friends pull out their smartphones to look something up on Wikipedia, I feel handicapped by my meager meatbrain. Yet I militantly choose to have a 2007 flip phone and deride people who insist on augmenting themselves like that. Call it meatbrain culture, I guess. Ironically, when I was given the opportunity to artificially improve my vision (glasses), I did it without hesitation.
I don't disagree that hearing is great (I'm a musician, so it's particularly special to me). But I don't think we should criticize parents who choose not to give their children superpowers or even normal powers. Bear in mind that cochlear implants are (or at least used to be) very invasive. A long time ago I used to volunteer at a deaf school, and it was obviously a struggle for the kids to get used to them. There was also risk of infection or other complications. I'm sure things have gotten better, but surgery is still surgery.
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Were I in her hospital gown, I know what my answer would be.
Really? Because I don't know what mine would be. And I have thought about it. Some days I feel like I could live without sight as long as I had my limbs. Other times I think I'd be OK in a wheelchair. Then there are days when my inner cheap bastard comes out and says "do whatever's cheapest!" I'm not about to judge somebody who decides either way. This is one of those "unless you've walked a mile in their shoes" sort of situations.
Hell, I don't even know what I will want for dinner tomorrow night.
Good thing I'm no lawyer, looks like I completely misunderstood the scope of this law. I hope you get modded up. But these guys I was dealing with apparently didn't know the law either. This was a mid-sized 125hp unit to run a plant, don't remember the price, but it had to be well into five figures.
IR sells some standard lubricant in a fancy bottle with their logo on it. The local rep tried to charge us 9 grand for an oil change that should have cost half that. I told them to go pound sand, and had a competitor do the service instead. IR's local service guy got fired shortly thereafter.
But as for a 3D printer... It walks the line between consumer good and intermediate good. I really don't know how a court would decide, but it would be worth the fight. Is a 2D printer considered a final good? It can arguably be used to "make" newsletters or photographic prints. So, it's arguably an intermediate good, right? Like I said, not a lawyer. :-)
On a good note, the guys at Generac (since you mentioned Home Depot) consider their backup gens to be consumer goods, and completely respected my rights to buy a replacement battery from any vendor. They did offer a replacement, but were not pushy about it.
Honestly, I wouldn't have any problem with non-neutral networks if there was competition. Those of us who cared would flock to net neutral competitors, or competitors whose QOS favored our packets of choice. Let's face it, this is an area that just cries out for a natural monopoly. And just about every economist agrees that natural monopolies must be heavily regulated to function in the public's best interest.
IANAL, but wouldn't this be prohibited by the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act? Ingersoll-Rand try to pull that crap on me with an oil change on an air compressor. Once they knew I knew my rights, they got real apologetic real quick.
15 USC S2302
(c) Prohibition on conditions for written or implied warranty; waiver by Commission
No warrantor of a consumer product may condition his written or implied warranty of such product on the consumer's using, in connection with such product, any article or service (other than article or service provided without charge under the terms of the warranty) which is identified by brand, trade, or corporate name; except that the prohibition of this subsection may be waived by the Commission if—
(1) the warrantor satisfies the Commission that the warranted product will function properly only if the article or service so identified is used in connection with the warranted product, and
(2) the Commission finds that such a waiver is in the public interest.
The Commission shall identify in the Federal Register, and permit public comment on, all applications for waiver of the prohibition of this subsection, and shall publish in the Federal Register its disposition of any such application, including the reasons therefor.
Eight? I only knew of three when I voted for her*, but whatever. I don't really understand why pushing for constitutional amendments automatically makes someone a lunatic. It is not the most practical or probable solution to a problem. Unfortunately once the Supreme Court has weighed in on something like "money is speech," then it if the people want to change it, pretty much the only option is a change to the constitution. Seems like enough people on the left and right agree with this basic theory.
*I work for a company that directly benefits from pipeline construction, so it was not a decision made lightly.
Fuck SurePost and SmartPost. These two "services" are the worst of both worlds. More expensive than USPS, less reliable than UPS/FedEx/USPS. If you ever lose a package each provider will blame the other, and you will never see it again. You can only track it to the nearest Post Office. The most fun is if you have a PO Box. If your vendor doesn't mention that they use SmartPost, you naturally put in your street address. When the post office gets your box and sees your street address, they return to sender, since that street address doesn't receive USPS mail. Good luck!
There's a news article that got it backwards. I nearly made the same mistake, too.
I consider this "accidental" suffering nothing short of karma injecting a tiny slice of justice back into this particular case.
Accidental?! Really? You can't be serious in thinking that this was an accident. This was a deliberate bypass of ethical measures put in place decades ago. It might have been unintended or unexpected by some, but it was perfectly expected by many. Why else would Oklahoma have gone through all the trouble of concealing the nature of the drugs being used?
That being said, I'm surprised they didn't do the baby raper first. Burying a 19-year-old alive is pretty heinous, but raping and murdering a baby... It would have been hard to shed a tear if that SOB had suffered for 43 minutes.
Thank you! Finally somebody else who finds this frustrating. That was one of my biggest concerns. Almost NOBODY else seems to think this is a problem. Not my wife, nor 99% of the people on the Apple forums. Wait, this is sad... I find the validation from a complete stranger on the Internet as comforting. Oh well.
A host computer is not required, but being able to communicate with one is a big part of why my wife liked the iOS/iTunes combo. Nobody expects an upgrade to lose functionality, especially something as basic as being able to download the photos from your camera onto your computer.
Moving water over a mountain is easy in a pipe. Say you have a reservoir at height, like a mountain lake, and you want to pump it to a city in the valley below. You need only get it over the ridge. Once the flow to the lower height starts, it will continue. The problem with your suggestion is that you can't get the siphon started. All this guy is saying is that the flow continues due to gravity. Which makes good sense. The atmospheric pressure at the lower basin is actually slightly higher than at the higher basin, so it's clearly not atmospherically driven.
...a pubic stop... grinds to a halt
Best. Unintentional. Joke. EVAR!
This is totally off topic, but I'm posting it anyway because I need to vent.
My wife recently upgraded her iPhone to iOS7. Of course nobody* told her it requires iTunes 11 to run. But her laptop is an old one running on 10.5.something. And guess what, iTunes 11 won't install on anything less than 10.6.8 or so. Of course an upgrade costs $20. So now a supposedly free upgrade is going to cost $20, or else my wife won't be able to get pictures and stuff off her phone. Luckily it's not a PPC, otherwise she'd be really screwed. Just missed that by a few months.
All the comments on discussions.apple are basically full of rude people asking why anybody would be so stupid as to still be using a 6 year old computer or whatever. It totally misses the bigger picture that Apple is defrauding people $20 at a time. Granted even if they have a million such suckers, it's not a lot of money. But I can guaran-damn-tee ya that the next laptop in my house will not be a Mac. My PC laptop can communicate with her iPhone just fine. Seriously.
*and by "nobody," I mean "nobody besides me" since I'm apparently just a paranoid lunatic.
It's OK. Apple never listens to their users anyway. We apparently don't know what's best for ourselves.
OK, so I need to recalibrate my humor detector. I totally missed the "pop tart" bit. D'oh!
But just in case anybody else takes you seriously, I'd like to interject. In Texas it's quite common for families to supplement their food supply with fresh game and fish. A buddy of mine gets over half of his protein budget from stuff he raises, catches, or shoots. He grows most of his own veggies, too. The Wild West might be long gone, but feeding your family the old fashioned way is still appreciated around here. Even in the suburbs where I live, we have neighbors who eat quite a bit of fresh-caught fish and venison.
yeah. the supreme court said you can even strip search a 13 year old girl for Advil. So I guess it's anything goes. It's a wonder there aren't *more* psychopath principals.
If this was in 2007 or something when you could get a 5% account, things would be different. (That'd be $387.)
I've done this intentionally a couple of times. Once the year my wife started working and once the year she went back to work after our son was born. I made something like $500 bucks back in '05, a lot less in '08 (fewer safe options). It sure felt good to write that four-figure check to Uncle Sam, though. The trick was withholding the same or slightly more than I did the previous year (with one income). Then penalties don't kick in.
I do everything by hand as well. I find it somewhat fulfilling, although it's always a bit crazy. I messed up one year and didn't take a credit I was entitled to. The IRS gave it to me anyway.
The math isn't the hard part. Knowing what goes in what box is a nightmare, though. My wife runs a small business that loses money each year, and she doesn't keep very good track of her P&Ls. To get that extra hundred bucks or so, there are instructions that refer to publications, which in turn refer to other instructions, which have worksheets that require you to input something from the original form that you haven't calculated yet. Whee!
Don't even get me started on the lines that say things like "other gains (losses)" or "other credits." Really?
Hmmm... it depends on the bulb. Most glow purple more than in that photo, but I don't know about "bright." You may check with somebody you trust with the prism-sticky note test in the article. Just have them put a sticky note where they cease seeing color and compare it to your own vision. Not exactly scientific, but it could be interesting.
There are thousands of things that reduce your chance of survival. Kids drive like idiots, jump off of buildings, huff paint, sleep around, all sorts of stupid shit. We parents have to prioritize what we feel is most important for our family. Decreasing morbidity is not a valid argument for requiring parents to take some corrective action. I'm sure you don't allow your kids to do anything that puts them at a lower risk of survival, like swim, drive, or be left-handed.
I'm sure that getting cancer from unseen UV sources is also bad. So should we expect parents to get cataract surgery for their children? Getting electrocuted is no good either, should we require surgical implants for that hazard as well? People have tubes put in the ears of their kids to prevent nuisance ear infections. My ENT just had us put my son on a healthy round of saline rinses for a year. But I'm not going to call a parent that chooses tubes unfit.
Look, unless it's your kid, you should butt out. That goes for the big D Deaf community, too. They should stop complaining about parents who choose cochlear implants for their kids.
Being able to detect electrical fields, shark style, would be pretty cool as well(and just think of the diagnostic utiity in circuit debugging!).
I will personally give you 700 Internets if you can make this happen.
We've actually got something akin to that in body-image discrimination: different healthy body types are usually adept at different kinds of physical activity, but we tend to call e.g. the stocky guy who can lift a car or walk for many miles without even tiring "fat", because he doesn't have a lean body built for running and jumping that we think of as "fit"
Interesting choice. There are some cultures (especially in the south) that use "healthy" and "thin," rather than "fat" and "fit," respectively. And "thin" is almost always said with a derisive tone implying that the person is too obsessed with body image to eat properly.
This. I'm gonna bring a sound meter and a pair of earplugs next time I go to the theater. WTF guys. Especially at kids movies. My eardrums were about to bleed at Frozen and the Lego Movie (I don't get to see grown up movies anymore). I already bring earplugs to pop concerts. good god that shit is loud. At least with movies there are quiet parts.
There are people who can see UV. This can be a side effect of having certain parts of your eye removed during cataract surgery. So would not being able to see UV when some people can be considered a reduced sense or impairment? Most people would argue not. But it does make you think... What if non-deaf people got cochlear implants to hear better, or have more control over what they hear? If optic implants become common (or even wearables like Google Glass), would it be an impairment not to have them?
You could even go further, citing cell phones, warm clothing, SCUBA gear, and other technological advances as being "super powers," right? How far down does that rabbit hole go? When my friends pull out their smartphones to look something up on Wikipedia, I feel handicapped by my meager meatbrain. Yet I militantly choose to have a 2007 flip phone and deride people who insist on augmenting themselves like that. Call it meatbrain culture, I guess. Ironically, when I was given the opportunity to artificially improve my vision (glasses), I did it without hesitation.
I don't disagree that hearing is great (I'm a musician, so it's particularly special to me). But I don't think we should criticize parents who choose not to give their children superpowers or even normal powers. Bear in mind that cochlear implants are (or at least used to be) very invasive. A long time ago I used to volunteer at a deaf school, and it was obviously a struggle for the kids to get used to them. There was also risk of infection or other complications. I'm sure things have gotten better, but surgery is still surgery.
This is what I was thinking. Although, in this case, it doesn't appear to be Yahoo!'s fault. I miss (the real, pre-Yahoo!) Flickr. :-(