I'm no lawyer but wouldn't this be considered an agreement of adhesion perhaps even to the point of being potentially unconscionable? I can't see how any rational person would agree to this.
I guess that show is in the eye of the beholder because I have the series on DVD and I really enjoy it. Yes it did get cornier in the later seasons which is why it probably got canceled but the first season really stimulated the imagination (in particular the episodes 'Mr. Nobody' and 'Wish Upon a Star' comes to mind) and I'm looking forward to seeing someone trying to bring it back.
I have a Sapphire Radeon HD 7970 and Fallout 4 runs smooth even on Ultra. AMD's drivers are not nearly as bad as they used to be, and sometimes I think people just repeat what they hear or otherwise they don't look at things objectively to see how much has improved.
I am an experienced web developer who has worked with both PHP, ASP, ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC.
In my opinion PHP is very powerful and I enjoy working with it because of how flexible it is but it has a lot of legacy baggage it must carry for the forseeable future but I don't believe PHP in itself is bad as people paint it but rather it's the inexperienced and the incompetent that give PHP its bad name because they don't write or setup their scripts with security in mind so you end up with all these PHP sites with security holes big enough to fly a 747 jumbo jet through.
Microsoft has said that Windows 10 will be free with no monthly or yearly charges. Is Microsoft going to renege on that also?
Actually they only said Windows 10 would be free for existing Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 machines for up to a year. Users that don't already have Windows (or a recent enough version) will have to buy retail copies.
I was hoping for a completely new engine, or a resurrection of Opera, so I was disappointed with this especially given how disillusioned I've become with Mozilla's insanity lately. It seems every "new" browser is actually Chrome with a different veneer.
Given that US police seem to hit ten innocent bystanders for every bad guy they shoot, I'd recommend they downsize to Nerf Guns.
Part of that is that some places like NYC require police to have outrageous poundage on their service weapon trigger pulls* all in the name of safety and the result is a gun that is difficult to aim because you have to pull so hard on the trigger.
This is what happens when you have politicians dictating things they know nothing about.
* A typical handgun might have a factory trigger pull of about ~5 lbs give or take a pound whereas NYPD has a trigger pull of at least 12 lbs.
I'd like to play an HD remake of Tomb Raider II but I don't trust Square Enix to not screw up such a beloved title like they did with Thief.
I think Crystal Dynamics did an excellent job with a remake of the first Tomb Raider and had a good thing going but Square Enix decided to reboot the TR franchise as an angsty teenage girl adventure discarding everything CD built up in the process.
The fact that they're not HIPAA-covered should, really, be enough reason to not let them handle your sample
Even then the government doesn't seem to pay much attention to HIPAA given the SAFE act in New York and similar legislation in California where they presume people are automatically guilty by mass searching through health records that meets some vague criteria like if you were ever referred to a mental health specialist by your general doctor because you had trouble sleeping at night and needed something to relax.
I had an oral swab done once as part of a diagnostic lab work by my doctor so I'm sure I'm in some CODIS like database somewhere.
Well another thing is that Porsche is owned by Volkswagen which came out with the E-Golf last year so technically I don't think Porsche coming out with an electric car is as huge a thing no matter how you look at it.
I agree with you. I've tried to contribute to Wikipedia before, with sources, and every time my edits were reverted by some self-proclaimed editor whose pet article I happened to stumble upon. Most of the times it seems these "editors" want to push an agenda or a particular idea and will always revert anything contrary regardless of how NPOV it is or how many credible references there are.
That being said I consider the people who run Wikipedia to be the same obsessive compulsive wanna-be dictators that run housing associations and that is why I keep away from Wikipedia.
If I were the judge, I'd not allow Lexmark to REQUIRE consumers agree to those terms. But that's not what happened. I might ALLOW consumers to choose between an unrestricted catridge for $15 OR agreeing to return it in order to save $3. That's the case here. Consumers could have their cartridges refilled any where they please, or they could instead choose to get a discount by agreeing to return them only to Lexmark. In general, I have hard time making it illegal to offer consumers more choices.
An interesting relevant law in my state is this:
N.C.G.S. 75-36. Certain contracts relating to toner or inkjet cartridges void and unenforceable as a matter of public policy.
Any provision in any agreement or contract that prohibits the reusing, remanufacturing, or refilling of a toner or inkjet cartridge is void and unenforceable as a matter of public policy. Nothing in this section shall prevent any maintenance contract that warrants the performance of equipment under the contract from requiring the use of new or specified toner or inkjet cartridges in the equipment under contract.
I'm no attorney but it appears there is only a very narrow scope (a maintenance contract on the printer itself?) under which Lexmark could enforce something like this in North Carolina.
In Massachusetts, (unless it has changed) they pay a yearly tax on cars they own, does that mean they are renting them from the state?
No; you're basically paying for the right to use the public roads with that particular vehicle which in turn is used to maintain those public roads, and should you fail to pay those taxes the state revokes the right of that vehicle to be operated on public highways. On the other hand in stark contrast failing to pay property taxes the state typically evicts you and takes possession of the property.
1) 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, living room, big kitchen, total 781 square feet, single floor unit and located on the first floor.
Rent in my area is almost as expensive so I figured rent was a huge ripoff and consequently bought a house for $800/mo through my local bank via the Federal Housing Administration at 3% interest; 3 bedroom, 2 bath, total 2300 square feet, 1 acre. Mortgage payments include home owner's insurance, mortgage insurance and property taxes in an escrow account.
When I upgraded from 8.1 Pro to 10 Pro all my custom default apps were replaced with Microsoft apps including the browser which got changed from Firefox to Edge.
I can't see electric cars being at the same or less purchase price than gasoline powered cars for some time. Don't forget there is also the cost of the charger installation and this could be a very significant cost for people who live in (rented and owned) apartments.
I don't think we'll see significant adoption of electric cars until they start reaching a significant portion of the sub-$10,000 used car market because most people cannot, or are unwilling, to drop $50,000 on a brand new car especially given how plight things look for the middle class in the past few years. I'm somewhat basing this on when Japanese 4 cylinder engines started hitting the US market around the late 1970's and only relatively wealthy people could afford them but now that it has been some 40 years these cars have had time to saturate the used car market so now everyone is driving a 4 cylinder Honda Accord or similar.
Browser makers should treat these kind of keyboard/mouse hooks the same way they treat websites asking for location data. With a message asking the user if they want to allow the behavior or not. Furthermore, they should do it in such a way that operators can not force users to click allow.
Firefox used to have a settings dialog that allowed you to choose how much control you wanted JavaScript to have but then Mozilla in all their wisdom decided to remove those options when they removed the settings to disable JavaScript all together. I'm not entirely sure what the rationale for that decision was because making JavaScript and all its hooks absolutely mandatory doesn't seem to benefit the user in any way.
The absolute worst offender is Tapatalk. Not only is it annoying every time you visit any kind of web based forum but last I checked it is a paid app and all the reviews for it on Google Play say it's absolutely horrible.
The rational behind starting tax bills in the HR is that it's "closer to the electorate" - or was before Senators were elected by popular vote. Now, the differences between the two as far as being held to the will of the people is lessened.
This is just my worthless opinion but I feel the 17th Amendment should be repealed because ever since the 17th Amendment was ratified the state legislatures no longer have any voice in the federal government and now the whole system is grossly out of balance and state's rights are being slowly eroded into a unitary state. The people are already represented in the House of Representatives which makes a senate elected via the populace just redundant.
I predict, based on past behavior, that Google Photos will be retired a year from now, maybe two.
I find that many people have gotten hesitant to trust using products and services from Google or Microsoft because both of them tend to start projects, promote it to death, and then decide to suddenly drop it one day.
Politics 101: What will happen is your state legislature, if not Congress, will be lobbied by the major auto manufacturers (perhaps in the form of some sort of cartel posing as PAC - political action committee) and they will basically bribe legislators to make it a felony to remove or alter any kind of data recording equipment. Typical excuses will things along the lines of; safety, improving criminal investigations and of course thinking of the children.
Since such violation of the law will inevitably be a felony you would lose your right to vote, own a firearm, obtain welfare and any other sort of human right since the law would be placing you in the same group of people as murderers, rapists and drug dealers.
I'd rather see a movie entitled 'Woz' where Steve Jobs is a mere supporting character but I doubt that would make as much money at the box office because at this point Steve Jobs might as well be a god king.
I'm trying to figure out what happened to the frosted glass Microsoft promised us. In the screenshots from the article we only see frosted glass in the start menu and taskbar but everything else, like the window titlebars, is still flat and bland.
I hope at least the frosted glass is part of the DWM again so that Stardock can take advantage of it in WindowBlinds.
It produced some PhDs and some R&D grants. But never went beyond academic labs.
The typical automatic transmission contains a fluidic computer, and that was the only computer they ran on until the 1980s. However, today the trend is towards shift-by-wire, with no linkage present even to handle limp-home mode shifting. If the electrical system serving the trans goes south, it's dead, Jim.
All the more reason to continue driving manual. Unfortunately manual transmission cars are getting increasingly hard to find as more people who don't know how to drive prefer everything automatic.
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I'm no lawyer but wouldn't this be considered an agreement of adhesion perhaps even to the point of being potentially unconscionable? I can't see how any rational person would agree to this.
I guess that show is in the eye of the beholder because I have the series on DVD and I really enjoy it. Yes it did get cornier in the later seasons which is why it probably got canceled but the first season really stimulated the imagination (in particular the episodes 'Mr. Nobody' and 'Wish Upon a Star' comes to mind) and I'm looking forward to seeing someone trying to bring it back.
I have a Sapphire Radeon HD 7970 and Fallout 4 runs smooth even on Ultra. AMD's drivers are not nearly as bad as they used to be, and sometimes I think people just repeat what they hear or otherwise they don't look at things objectively to see how much has improved.
I am an experienced web developer who has worked with both PHP, ASP, ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC.
In my opinion PHP is very powerful and I enjoy working with it because of how flexible it is but it has a lot of legacy baggage it must carry for the forseeable future but I don't believe PHP in itself is bad as people paint it but rather it's the inexperienced and the incompetent that give PHP its bad name because they don't write or setup their scripts with security in mind so you end up with all these PHP sites with security holes big enough to fly a 747 jumbo jet through.
Microsoft has said that Windows 10 will be free with no monthly or yearly charges. Is Microsoft going to renege on that also?
Actually they only said Windows 10 would be free for existing Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 machines for up to a year. Users that don't already have Windows (or a recent enough version) will have to buy retail copies.
uses chromium as the base...
I was hoping for a completely new engine, or a resurrection of Opera, so I was disappointed with this especially given how disillusioned I've become with Mozilla's insanity lately. It seems every "new" browser is actually Chrome with a different veneer.
Given that US police seem to hit ten innocent bystanders for every bad guy they shoot, I'd recommend they downsize to Nerf Guns.
Part of that is that some places like NYC require police to have outrageous poundage on their service weapon trigger pulls* all in the name of safety and the result is a gun that is difficult to aim because you have to pull so hard on the trigger.
This is what happens when you have politicians dictating things they know nothing about.
* A typical handgun might have a factory trigger pull of about ~5 lbs give or take a pound whereas NYPD has a trigger pull of at least 12 lbs.
I'd like to play an HD remake of Tomb Raider II but I don't trust Square Enix to not screw up such a beloved title like they did with Thief.
I think Crystal Dynamics did an excellent job with a remake of the first Tomb Raider and had a good thing going but Square Enix decided to reboot the TR franchise as an angsty teenage girl adventure discarding everything CD built up in the process.
The fact that they're not HIPAA-covered should, really, be enough reason to not let them handle your sample
Even then the government doesn't seem to pay much attention to HIPAA given the SAFE act in New York and similar legislation in California where they presume people are automatically guilty by mass searching through health records that meets some vague criteria like if you were ever referred to a mental health specialist by your general doctor because you had trouble sleeping at night and needed something to relax.
I had an oral swab done once as part of a diagnostic lab work by my doctor so I'm sure I'm in some CODIS like database somewhere.
Well another thing is that Porsche is owned by Volkswagen which came out with the E-Golf last year so technically I don't think Porsche coming out with an electric car is as huge a thing no matter how you look at it.
I agree with you. I've tried to contribute to Wikipedia before, with sources, and every time my edits were reverted by some self-proclaimed editor whose pet article I happened to stumble upon. Most of the times it seems these "editors" want to push an agenda or a particular idea and will always revert anything contrary regardless of how NPOV it is or how many credible references there are.
That being said I consider the people who run Wikipedia to be the same obsessive compulsive wanna-be dictators that run housing associations and that is why I keep away from Wikipedia.
If I were the judge, I'd not allow Lexmark to REQUIRE consumers agree to those terms. But that's not what happened. I might ALLOW consumers to choose between an unrestricted catridge for $15 OR agreeing to return it in order to save $3. That's the case here. Consumers could have their cartridges refilled any where they please, or they could instead choose to get a discount by agreeing to return them only to Lexmark. In general, I have hard time making it illegal to offer consumers more choices.
An interesting relevant law in my state is this:
N.C.G.S. 75-36. Certain contracts relating to toner or inkjet cartridges void and unenforceable as a matter of public policy.
Any provision in any agreement or contract that prohibits the reusing, remanufacturing, or refilling of a toner or inkjet cartridge is void and unenforceable as a matter of public policy. Nothing in this section shall prevent any maintenance contract that warrants the performance of equipment under the contract from requiring the use of new or specified toner or inkjet cartridges in the equipment under contract.
I'm no attorney but it appears there is only a very narrow scope (a maintenance contract on the printer itself?) under which Lexmark could enforce something like this in North Carolina.
In Massachusetts, (unless it has changed) they pay a yearly tax on cars they own, does that mean they are renting them from the state?
No; you're basically paying for the right to use the public roads with that particular vehicle which in turn is used to maintain those public roads, and should you fail to pay those taxes the state revokes the right of that vehicle to be operated on public highways. On the other hand in stark contrast failing to pay property taxes the state typically evicts you and takes possession of the property.
For reference, $1094 a month's rent gets me:
1) 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, living room, big kitchen, total 781 square feet, single floor unit and located on the first floor.
Rent in my area is almost as expensive so I figured rent was a huge ripoff and consequently bought a house for $800/mo through my local bank via the Federal Housing Administration at 3% interest; 3 bedroom, 2 bath, total 2300 square feet, 1 acre. Mortgage payments include home owner's insurance, mortgage insurance and property taxes in an escrow account.
When I upgraded from 8.1 Pro to 10 Pro all my custom default apps were replaced with Microsoft apps including the browser which got changed from Firefox to Edge.
I can't see electric cars being at the same or less purchase price than gasoline powered cars for some time. Don't forget there is also the cost of the charger installation and this could be a very significant cost for people who live in (rented and owned) apartments.
I don't think we'll see significant adoption of electric cars until they start reaching a significant portion of the sub-$10,000 used car market because most people cannot, or are unwilling, to drop $50,000 on a brand new car especially given how plight things look for the middle class in the past few years. I'm somewhat basing this on when Japanese 4 cylinder engines started hitting the US market around the late 1970's and only relatively wealthy people could afford them but now that it has been some 40 years these cars have had time to saturate the used car market so now everyone is driving a 4 cylinder Honda Accord or similar.
You can't because this isn't valid regex due to the fact it has non-matching ) group characters.
Browser makers should treat these kind of keyboard/mouse hooks the same way they treat websites asking for location data. With a message asking the user if they want to allow the behavior or not. Furthermore, they should do it in such a way that operators can not force users to click allow.
Firefox used to have a settings dialog that allowed you to choose how much control you wanted JavaScript to have but then Mozilla in all their wisdom decided to remove those options when they removed the settings to disable JavaScript all together. I'm not entirely sure what the rationale for that decision was because making JavaScript and all its hooks absolutely mandatory doesn't seem to benefit the user in any way.
The absolute worst offender is Tapatalk. Not only is it annoying every time you visit any kind of web based forum but last I checked it is a paid app and all the reviews for it on Google Play say it's absolutely horrible.
The rational behind starting tax bills in the HR is that it's "closer to the electorate" - or was before Senators were elected by popular vote. Now, the differences between the two as far as being held to the will of the people is lessened.
This is just my worthless opinion but I feel the 17th Amendment should be repealed because ever since the 17th Amendment was ratified the state legislatures no longer have any voice in the federal government and now the whole system is grossly out of balance and state's rights are being slowly eroded into a unitary state. The people are already represented in the House of Representatives which makes a senate elected via the populace just redundant.
I predict, based on past behavior, that Google Photos will be retired a year from now, maybe two.
I find that many people have gotten hesitant to trust using products and services from Google or Microsoft because both of them tend to start projects, promote it to death, and then decide to suddenly drop it one day.
Politics 101: What will happen is your state legislature, if not Congress, will be lobbied by the major auto manufacturers (perhaps in the form of some sort of cartel posing as PAC - political action committee) and they will basically bribe legislators to make it a felony to remove or alter any kind of data recording equipment. Typical excuses will things along the lines of; safety, improving criminal investigations and of course thinking of the children.
Since such violation of the law will inevitably be a felony you would lose your right to vote, own a firearm, obtain welfare and any other sort of human right since the law would be placing you in the same group of people as murderers, rapists and drug dealers.
I'd rather see a movie entitled 'Woz' where Steve Jobs is a mere supporting character but I doubt that would make as much money at the box office because at this point Steve Jobs might as well be a god king.
I'm trying to figure out what happened to the frosted glass Microsoft promised us. In the screenshots from the article we only see frosted glass in the start menu and taskbar but everything else, like the window titlebars, is still flat and bland.
I hope at least the frosted glass is part of the DWM again so that Stardock can take advantage of it in WindowBlinds.
It produced some PhDs and some R&D grants. But never went beyond academic labs.
The typical automatic transmission contains a fluidic computer, and that was the only computer they ran on until the 1980s. However, today the trend is towards shift-by-wire, with no linkage present even to handle limp-home mode shifting. If the electrical system serving the trans goes south, it's dead, Jim.
All the more reason to continue driving manual. Unfortunately manual transmission cars are getting increasingly hard to find as more people who don't know how to drive prefer everything automatic.