I imagine you're much less likely to be ticketed for going 65 in a 65 zone (while most everyone else is going 75) than you are for going 85 in the same flow of traffic. No matter what the flow of traffic is, if you are going over the posted speed limit, you are by definition breaking the law, so you'll have a hard time fighting it in court. That, and tickets in many places scale with how far over the speed limit you are, so the faster driver is at times a more lucrative target.
If there's a Higher Cost plan that would have covered your usage, customers should be automatically upgraded to that plan and charged that, rather than get a $1000 or more surprise in the mail.
Your statements about WoW 1.x are spot-on, but no one can PLAY WoW 1.0. No new MMO is going to be compared by its customers to the ORIGINAL wow, but rather to what they could be playing Right Now, the current version, and all the polish and content that implies. I know, it's not fair.
I recently re-subscribed to Aion, so my friend could get a trial account. Playing a new character (of the other faction from my prior abandoned character) is fun and interesting, but everything feels like it's a hybrid between "unpolished" and "hidden mechanics". I'm really glad that (so far at least) I've not seen a SINGLE spam message (unlike my experiences at release), but I still miss that little things like/inspect don't work easily, and that combat mechanics are such that I need to watch my combat log to see when my white hits are in order to properly intersperse attack skills. Ugh. (The difference seems noticeable, even with only one or two specials to use, since each seems to reset the swing timer, and hit for about as much as a white hit.)
Aion at release was even less polished than it is now -- especially when compared to Warcraft's recent Wrath expansion. I've since played new characters in both games, even leveling a new warcraft toon, and the difference is night and day. Quest tracking in WoW is easier (though added post-Aion-release), combat mechanics are more forgiving (I don't have to watch my combat log, merely my skill cooldowns), and so on. It's possible that Aion's improved a great deal since six months ago, but so many things seem like unpolished corners, despite all the neat things it also has.
While sibling respondents will mention the weakness of EULAs for things that you've never seen, I'm just curious how long it will be before someone feels compelled to jailbreak their printer.
.... a means of self-defense that is practical in those situations where the state can't protect you. Today that amounts to handguns, shotguns, etc.; tomorrow it will mean stun-phasers, sleep rays, whatever. It does not and will not include nukes (etc.) because it is the state's prerogative to protect you in those contexts... hence, nukes are not included in the RKBA.
I was under the impression that the reason for the right to keep and bear arms (RKBA) was that we had just fought an insurrection, and the intent was that the citenry be equipped to do so in the future if it became necessary. In these days, that would imply that we should be as well-armed as the Swiss citizenry. I believe the founded/did/ expect us to be able to own and operate cannons, for example... but, I could always be wrong. They almost certainly expected us to be as well armed as any occupying force (foreign or domestic), which means that I'm pretty sure a ban on assault weapons is not something they'd support. That said, there was surely some level of disagreement among the founders -- I know not everyone agreed 100% with Jefferson.;)
I think they'd not include nukes. Partly because I doubt they could imagine city-destroying weapons.
Who would you then hire to ensure that employees are well-informed about the law and policies that cover them, who ensure that employee grievances are handled properly, and who manage the paperwork and such for benefits and so forth? Who would be responsible for making sure employees were fully informed (in a uniform and consistent way) at interviews about company benefits, and so on?
HR does a lot more than managing hiring, doesn't it? Sure, we want to think of them as useless twits who either screen out the good applicants we want or screen US out when we want to apply via bogus job requirements, but not all of them are like that. Moreover, there are many important parts of any business/employee relationship which have to be fulfilled by SOMEONE.
****A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.****
How the fuck is that vague? What part of SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED do people not understand?!?!?!
- What constitutes "arms"? Personal small arms only? May we own and use tanks/jets/cannons/PT boats/SAMs? - Is it infringement to tax ownership of arms? - Is it infringement to require a permit for concealed carry? - Is it only for people in a militia, and if so what constitutes one? - Does this apply to non-citizens and illegal immigrants?
Few people disagree that such rights shouldn't be infringed, but many seem to want to redefine (or argue about, or "reinterpret") what the surrounding terms mean. The fact that the founders did not lay out in explicit detail that "'Arms' refers to any weapon operatable by a person or group of persons" (e.g., tanks are OK), or "This refers to all people, not merely citizens in a militia" means that it is something that people will interpret differently.
I notice this, too. I frequently realize that I do not notice (upon waking) the smell of cat poop in the litter boxes, or the (good) smell of something my wife's cooking. Sometimes I can't even notice it when I am trying to pay attention to it.
Oh please stop apologizing for lawyers. The only reason you ever need one is because someone else has one. If you get yourself into the position where you feel like you need to sue someone I suggest taking some personal responsibility. If you get sued, you're paying protection money because someone else can't accept personal responsibility. Lawyers create nothing.
They may not create much, but they provide a professional service. Your plumber or air conditioning repair main doesn't create much, either. Everything they do, you could do too -- it's just that it will take you a long time to get the expertise to do it as well as they do.
You can do the same thing Lawyers do... they're just trained to do it better. They're not inherently evil or selfish. When you need one, you're glad to find a skilled one. The laws are a bramble created by people (and some lawyers), and in order to navigate them well it is wise to have a guide. Think of a lawyer as a sherpa who guides you and saves your ass when you are forced to travel in a hostile landscape.
Yes, but hardly any consumer can do such math anyways, which means they're already using a calculator... if anything. Dividing and mutiplying have similar costs when you're punching keys.
I pay a monthly fee to play WoW. I like that I don't need to "buy" items to be competetive. However, I could understand the appeal of being able to buy a level 80 character (with absolutely minimal gear), in order to save me the several days of playtime (and months of actual calendar time) to level Yet Another Character.
Similarly, I wouldn't mind being able to buy a "starter" set of gear for raids or dungeons, which I normally would need to spend a month or so grinding instances and questing to get. I'd probably happily pay $10 or $15 to skip a month's drudgery of something in order to play the game in a new way (e.g., have a healer character that is geared enough to raid, even if it's not geared enough to raid "progression" content). My play time is valuable to me, and I'd much rather spend it raiding with friends than questing madly and doing random dungeons ad nauseum with strangers.
Now, clearly, one doesn't want to do this with TOP TIER progression (and probably not even previous-tier), as then there's definitely a feeling of "pay to play" which I don't think we want. Rather, make it so that people leveling new characters, or perhaps even starting late in an expansion, can get up to speed Even More Quickly if all they want to do is raid, or PvP.
Also (I wish I'd thought of this before posting), the common-ness of a spelling is orthogonal to its proper-ness. Hundreds of thousands of teens spell "wait" as "w8" and "your" as "ur" (while also abusing the same letters to mean "you are" and "you're"), but I doubt anyone would consider that a proper spelling of the word.
Now, if you want to say that some particular mangling of a word (like "runned" or "sinked") is used in some dialect, that's OK. The rest of the English-speaking world, though, tends to believe that they don't know how (or want) to speak proper English.
Would you care to offer a better example of a dictionary? I was under the impression that for pretty much any scholar of the English language, the OED was pretty much the absolute definitive source.
Reading more ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary#Criticisms ), it seems that the OED is criticized for putting more emphasis on written english than spoken. However, given that written records are all we have of what was proper (and, indeed, authors like Shakespeare used relatively common language in their writing), I'm not sure where you'd find a "better" dictionary than the OED for finding out what was "proper" in the history of the language.
2 GB in a month is ~67 MB/day. I download more than that with DI.fm's streaming radio. I imagine that is basically 3-4 youtube videos. In a week, it's about 300 MB/day... which is a bit heavier usage. However, if you were on vacation and doing mapping, reading, browsing someone's facebook pictures, etc, I could see you getting close. Perhaps.
I mean, I don't think I would do it, but I *could* do it if I were careless.
And all of these are being built in the same factories overseas, contracted out from a few people.... Sometimes a TV will come off the line and be slapped with stickers from multiple brands, or will be custom built to a particular brand's specifications.
What's the easiest way to find out which low-priced brands are selling the same basic product (minus the brand name) as the expensive, well-recognized brands?:)
Have you considered transcribing or digitizing those hundred-year-old books for Project Gutenberg, so that we can read them too? I haven't looked up what formats they're interested in, and I don't know how you'd do it without either being labor-intensive or destructive, but if you were willing, I bet the Project would benefit from it.
You note that as satite, but that's basically exactly what happened with the Challenger. The engineers had reliability reports and lots of testing data that showed launching in the cold was a Bad IDea... however, poorly constructed presentations didn't highlight THAT aspect of the data, and their warnings were generally misunderstood or ignored.
Morgan Freeman would do a good job (I guess) portraying Neo post-enlightenment... but I don't think he really would be accepted by an audience portraying a naive player in the scene. Keanu's semi-befuddled acting, maligned by many, seemed (to me) to reflect well the way someone thrust into the situation could conceivably behave. It highlights the world-changing newness of his discovery that it's all imaginary.
Freeman makes a good Mentor-type, but not really a good Neo-type. Or, not a good proto-Neo (oh god someone's going to kill me for that).
0.0 to 1.0 in 0.1 increments = 10 levels. Nullsec, Low-sec, and High-sec are the only groupings of these that have large overarching significance to you as a player.
Were you Cheap? Not IMO. Poor service gets a small tip. Were you a jerk about it? Somewhat.
If you really wanted to effect change in restaurant service, you would have left an itemized list of the things which the server handled poorly. Sometimes things like kitchen mishaps affect the timely arrival of your food (though in your case, I don't see how that could have been the case)
If the server is new, they might not know specifically what they need to improve. In any case, a list of Poor Service examples helps both your server and their employer get it right next time.
Slashdot Mirror
I imagine you're much less likely to be ticketed for going 65 in a 65 zone (while most everyone else is going 75) than you are for going 85 in the same flow of traffic. No matter what the flow of traffic is, if you are going over the posted speed limit, you are by definition breaking the law, so you'll have a hard time fighting it in court. That, and tickets in many places scale with how far over the speed limit you are, so the faster driver is at times a more lucrative target.
If there's a Higher Cost plan that would have covered your usage, customers should be automatically upgraded to that plan and charged that, rather than get a $1000 or more surprise in the mail.
Your statements about WoW 1.x are spot-on, but no one can PLAY WoW 1.0. No new MMO is going to be compared by its customers to the ORIGINAL wow, but rather to what they could be playing Right Now, the current version, and all the polish and content that implies. I know, it's not fair.
I recently re-subscribed to Aion, so my friend could get a trial account. Playing a new character (of the other faction from my prior abandoned character) is fun and interesting, but everything feels like it's a hybrid between "unpolished" and "hidden mechanics". I'm really glad that (so far at least) I've not seen a SINGLE spam message (unlike my experiences at release), but I still miss that little things like /inspect don't work easily, and that combat mechanics are such that I need to watch my combat log to see when my white hits are in order to properly intersperse attack skills. Ugh. (The difference seems noticeable, even with only one or two specials to use, since each seems to reset the swing timer, and hit for about as much as a white hit.)
Aion at release was even less polished than it is now -- especially when compared to Warcraft's recent Wrath expansion. I've since played new characters in both games, even leveling a new warcraft toon, and the difference is night and day. Quest tracking in WoW is easier (though added post-Aion-release), combat mechanics are more forgiving (I don't have to watch my combat log, merely my skill cooldowns), and so on. It's possible that Aion's improved a great deal since six months ago, but so many things seem like unpolished corners, despite all the neat things it also has.
While sibling respondents will mention the weakness of EULAs for things that you've never seen, I'm just curious how long it will be before someone feels compelled to jailbreak their printer.
I can see how that could be confusing.
What's this about oppressive steering floss? How does that make any sense?
For those of us who are not Windows gurus, can you elaborate on what you mean by "run a security audit"?
I was under the impression that the reason for the right to keep and bear arms (RKBA) was that we had just fought an insurrection, and the intent was that the citenry be equipped to do so in the future if it became necessary. In these days, that would imply that we should be as well-armed as the Swiss citizenry. I believe the founded /did/ expect us to be able to own and operate cannons, for example... but, I could always be wrong. They almost certainly expected us to be as well armed as any occupying force (foreign or domestic), which means that I'm pretty sure a ban on assault weapons is not something they'd support. That said, there was surely some level of disagreement among the founders -- I know not everyone agreed 100% with Jefferson. ;)
I think they'd not include nukes. Partly because I doubt they could imagine city-destroying weapons.
Who would you then hire to ensure that employees are well-informed about the law and policies that cover them, who ensure that employee grievances are handled properly, and who manage the paperwork and such for benefits and so forth? Who would be responsible for making sure employees were fully informed (in a uniform and consistent way) at interviews about company benefits, and so on?
HR does a lot more than managing hiring, doesn't it? Sure, we want to think of them as useless twits who either screen out the good applicants we want or screen US out when we want to apply via bogus job requirements, but not all of them are like that. Moreover, there are many important parts of any business/employee relationship which have to be fulfilled by SOMEONE.
- What constitutes "arms"? Personal small arms only? May we own and use tanks/jets/cannons/PT boats/SAMs?
- Is it infringement to tax ownership of arms?
- Is it infringement to require a permit for concealed carry?
- Is it only for people in a militia, and if so what constitutes one?
- Does this apply to non-citizens and illegal immigrants?
Few people disagree that such rights shouldn't be infringed, but many seem to want to redefine (or argue about, or "reinterpret") what the surrounding terms mean. The fact that the founders did not lay out in explicit detail that "'Arms' refers to any weapon operatable by a person or group of persons" (e.g., tanks are OK), or "This refers to all people, not merely citizens in a militia" means that it is something that people will interpret differently.
I notice this, too. I frequently realize that I do not notice (upon waking) the smell of cat poop in the litter boxes, or the (good) smell of something my wife's cooking. Sometimes I can't even notice it when I am trying to pay attention to it.
They may not create much, but they provide a professional service. Your plumber or air conditioning repair main doesn't create much, either. Everything they do, you could do too -- it's just that it will take you a long time to get the expertise to do it as well as they do.
You can do the same thing Lawyers do ... they're just trained to do it better. They're not inherently evil or selfish. When you need one, you're glad to find a skilled one. The laws are a bramble created by people (and some lawyers), and in order to navigate them well it is wise to have a guide. Think of a lawyer as a sherpa who guides you and saves your ass when you are forced to travel in a hostile landscape.
Yes, but hardly any consumer can do such math anyways, which means they're already using a calculator... if anything. Dividing and mutiplying have similar costs when you're punching keys.
Exactly.
I pay a monthly fee to play WoW. I like that I don't need to "buy" items to be competetive. However, I could understand the appeal of being able to buy a level 80 character (with absolutely minimal gear), in order to save me the several days of playtime (and months of actual calendar time) to level Yet Another Character.
Similarly, I wouldn't mind being able to buy a "starter" set of gear for raids or dungeons, which I normally would need to spend a month or so grinding instances and questing to get. I'd probably happily pay $10 or $15 to skip a month's drudgery of something in order to play the game in a new way (e.g., have a healer character that is geared enough to raid, even if it's not geared enough to raid "progression" content). My play time is valuable to me, and I'd much rather spend it raiding with friends than questing madly and doing random dungeons ad nauseum with strangers.
Now, clearly, one doesn't want to do this with TOP TIER progression (and probably not even previous-tier), as then there's definitely a feeling of "pay to play" which I don't think we want. Rather, make it so that people leveling new characters, or perhaps even starting late in an expansion, can get up to speed Even More Quickly if all they want to do is raid, or PvP.
Also (I wish I'd thought of this before posting), the common-ness of a spelling is orthogonal to its proper-ness. Hundreds of thousands of teens spell "wait" as "w8" and "your" as "ur" (while also abusing the same letters to mean "you are" and "you're"), but I doubt anyone would consider that a proper spelling of the word.
Now, if you want to say that some particular mangling of a word (like "runned" or "sinked") is used in some dialect, that's OK. The rest of the English-speaking world, though, tends to believe that they don't know how (or want) to speak proper English.
Would you care to offer a better example of a dictionary? I was under the impression that for pretty much any scholar of the English language, the OED was pretty much the absolute definitive source.
Reading more ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary#Criticisms ), it seems that the OED is criticized for putting more emphasis on written english than spoken. However, given that written records are all we have of what was proper (and, indeed, authors like Shakespeare used relatively common language in their writing), I'm not sure where you'd find a "better" dictionary than the OED for finding out what was "proper" in the history of the language.
2 GB in a month is ~67 MB/day. I download more than that with DI.fm's streaming radio. I imagine that is basically 3-4 youtube videos. In a week, it's about 300 MB/day... which is a bit heavier usage. However, if you were on vacation and doing mapping, reading, browsing someone's facebook pictures, etc, I could see you getting close. Perhaps.
I mean, I don't think I would do it, but I *could* do it if I were careless.
What's the easiest way to find out which low-priced brands are selling the same basic product (minus the brand name) as the expensive, well-recognized brands? :)
Have you considered transcribing or digitizing those hundred-year-old books for Project Gutenberg, so that we can read them too? I haven't looked up what formats they're interested in, and I don't know how you'd do it without either being labor-intensive or destructive, but if you were willing, I bet the Project would benefit from it.
You note that as satite, but that's basically exactly what happened with the Challenger. The engineers had reliability reports and lots of testing data that showed launching in the cold was a Bad IDea... however, poorly constructed presentations didn't highlight THAT aspect of the data, and their warnings were generally misunderstood or ignored.
Morgan Freeman would do a good job (I guess) portraying Neo post-enlightenment ... but I don't think he really would be accepted by an audience portraying a naive player in the scene. Keanu's semi-befuddled acting, maligned by many, seemed (to me) to reflect well the way someone thrust into the situation could conceivably behave. It highlights the world-changing newness of his discovery that it's all imaginary.
Freeman makes a good Mentor-type, but not really a good Neo-type. Or, not a good proto-Neo (oh god someone's going to kill me for that).
0.0 to 1.0 in 0.1 increments = 10 levels.
Nullsec, Low-sec, and High-sec are the only groupings of these that have large overarching significance to you as a player.
That won't sit well with many Slahdotters' decisions to boycott the MPAA. ;)
Time well spent ;)
Legal choke
Fixed that for ya
Burma Shave.
Were you Cheap? Not IMO. Poor service gets a small tip. Were you a jerk about it? Somewhat.
If you really wanted to effect change in restaurant service, you would have left an itemized list of the things which the server handled poorly. Sometimes things like kitchen mishaps affect the timely arrival of your food (though in your case, I don't see how that could have been the case)
If the server is new, they might not know specifically what they need to improve. In any case, a list of Poor Service examples helps both your server and their employer get it right next time.