I don't believe you. You're on a $59 PLAN. Show me a bill saying that at the end of the month, your total amount owing is $59. It ain't. It's probably actually in the region of at least $75-85.
I don't think you have to wait any longer. Come June
Uhh, I don't know what timezone you're in, but here on Planet Earth, June is five MONTHS away. I'm not sure what definition of "don't... have to wait any longer" you're going by, but hey, more power to you.
I'd pay zero attention to that. People can change it to anything. Operators, too, can and do. I remember my provider a few years ago changed it to "HAPPY NEW YEAR" from 6pm on NYE til 6am New Year's Day.
I notice you didn't compare it to the SSD version. Because there, but for the difference between 1.2 and 1.8 GHz (admittedly that's substantial), the difference jumps to a rather substantial $904 (Latitude D430 with 1.2GHz processor, 2GB RAM, 64GB SSD, Bluetooth 2, Wireless-N). That's quite the gap.
Re your example, the price is actually $1495 - you forgot to upgrade from G to N for your wireless. But "some of the same specs" is a little disingenuous, too. "Some" = "CPU", and "OS X", for $304.
I told her that it was really cheap for an HD-DVD. She thought that all DVDs where HD.
Doesn't surprise me. Remember the difficulty most people had grasping (or, admittedly, caring), that the difference between floppy and hard disks was not 5.25 versus 3.5?
Apropos of anything else, what the fuck purpose is a blade on a money clip? I have never, ever seen such a thing, on many many money clips. A 'money clip with a blade' just doesn't ring right to me.
Yeah, there I was thinking that Facebook was a social site. I guess I was mistaken. I was thinking you elected to put that information out there so it became public to people you elected to note as being in your network, where your network might consist of students and faculty of the educational institution you were attending. I see now that I am wrong, however.
Here's a question - the president didn't determine the student's psychiatrist by omniscience. Speaking to someone's healthcare provider is hardly unusual. If the healthcare provider released information, it was based on consent from the patient, or on a violation of law by the provider, and is not a breach on the part of the university.
Your lawsuit reads like a plan for sensationalism. Appeals to nationalistic fervor, "preventing his American birthright - the right of freedom of expression", climbing on the coattails of tragedy, "Although his meeting with Zaccardi took place on [nice use of over emotive detail here] the same day as a gunman tragically took the lives of 32 people, and how these tragic events captivated a nation, but the heartless Zaccardi didn't even mention them in his meeting".
Huh? Reading your lawsuit had the issue of both letting me see that you have allegedly been wronged, and utterly reminded me why we view the legal system the way we do today. What in the name of blue fuck does the fact that the president of your university didn't mention a shooting have to do with your meeting, let alone the attempt to demonize him as someone who apparently was indifferent thereto?
Leaving aside the rightness of your ability to do so, I would think that someone organizing meetings and attempting to activate the student body to be against the construction of a parking garage by the college would be the very definition of "attempting to obstruct campus activity", and yet your suit claims you at no time ever did such a thing? Color me confused.
Speaking of confused, I'd love to know how the university violated HIPAA, as your lawyers claim in the Nature Of Case, but fail to ever refer to again. If there was any claim of improper use or transfer of information, isn't it YOUR doctor who has privilege with you, the university isn't a party to this, per se.
Your (ex-)University President reads like a grade A asshole.
That's silly. You were paying $x before streaming was an option, and now they're making their service include streaming, for free. That you are not using your service (for whatever reason) completely does not mean that you were offered less service, a simple comparison to the cost before it was even an option shows that. They aren't charging more to use it, why should they charge less not to? Should they also charge less if you only exchange movies once a month, too. After all, that's less than some people are.
I know Jaycar well, I moved to the US from Australia a year ago.
The Psyklone stuff is good. Component video switching, digital audio switching, ethernet switching, digital coax, HDMI, all on the same box. Programmable front LED display. Great, apart from the over sensitive remote!:)
recently bought a video switch box with remote that I had to return because the dvd remote triggered it.
That wouldn't be a Psyklone video switch and a Toshiba (HD) DVD player, would it? I figured out a way to deal with it, with far too much fiddling with the advanced settings for my Logitech Harmony...
Comcast sucks here. They rabidly insist I cannot get cable or DSL at my address. That's despite the fact that there's a Comcast junction box on my wall and at least two cable outlets in the house that I've not switched over have a different lineup to that of the city cable provider, and that when I moved in there was a Comcast DSL modem still plugged into a phoneline.
Mind you, Verizon stubbornly insist my house doesn't exist (and this is downtown Tacoma, not some new subdivision). So I'll stick with the city cable provider - though not the cheapest (well, on my plan anyway, the low-end residential cable is fine at 6mb/512 for $39), $129 for 8mbps/1mbps, 2 static IPs, zero throttling or shaping, zero port restrictions.
While they hedge their bets with some Republican donations, they tend to give about two to three times as much money to Democrats.
Hah. That has very little to do with principles and more with return-on-investment. Hollywood is in California, a traditionally blue state. There's more to be gained this way.
Use the big cable tie at the back of [pretty much every] TV like that, it lessens the strain by orders of magnitude. I've never had a HDMI cable fall out, or even wiggle out, even on vertical-down oriented connectors.
You mean your mom can't click on Applications, then Add/Remove Applications and pick from tens of thousands of applications all easily searchable from a single place? When was the last time you tried installing apps in a good distro? It's way easier than anything Microsoft
Because, yeah, Control Pannel, Add/Remove Programs sounds infinitely more complex than Applications, Add/Remove Applications... where was that bridge you mentioned?
Interestingly, and I've only seen one person mention this... that condition was on the/reverse/ of the signature page. Did that signature page mention that there were further conditions on the reverse? Usually, a "reasonable person" (an important concept under law) would expect that the signature comes at the end of the contract. Imagine being handed a piece of paper, having someone say "just read through this and sign", you doing so, and that person turning the page over and saying "hey look, more conditions you just agreed to!"
That's utter crap. The Seagate 80GB HDD/retails/ at $65. You don't pay $160, as a RESELLER, for that same device that they're selling at retail for FORTY PER CENT of that price. "We'll sell these to the peons for $X. For the peons who're actually already our customers, that simply won't do, let's gouge. Let's go with $2X, hell, $3X!"
Uhhh, why is shipping the package one way to the customer $5 at one point in your example, then magically jumps to $20 "each way" after that? Each way where? And as an aside, there is no way you'll pay $20 for shipping a HDD.
I love it. You rail against "people are so stupid they shouldn't sign papers saying 'I will be ripped off'". You make no complaint, whatsoever, about the rip off practice at all. No sir, fix the symptom, not the problem.
As an aside, what in blue fuck justification does Apple have for "We'll require you to buy a new drive from us - at greater than normal pricing - AND you will not get your old drive, that you paid for, back - it's now our property, so we can get even more money out of you by virtue of then returning that drive to manufacturer for credit. Our profit goes up, everybody* wins!"
*everybody being a synonym for "Apple shareholders"
I'm behind a slow car. I decide to overtake that car. I indicate, and wait for the lane beside me to be clear. As it clears, and I'm about to pull into that lane, car behind me figures he can do it faster, accelerates harder, without signal, into same lane as I do same.
As a recent arrival in America from Australia, I find myself amazed by how seldom people use their turn signals. Almost never. Annoys the hell out of me, and my other pet peeve: when I signal that I'm going to overtake a slow vehicle. Turn signal on, wait for lane beside me to clear, only to have some fucking clown decide he wants to get past both of us and shoot right out from behind me, no signal, nearly rear ending me in the process, and then has the audacity to blow his horn at me. Gah.
Well, it can't be the latter, because the dog wasn't vaccinated at the time he got ticketed. Frankly, I think he's lucky the charges got dismissed considering he only had the dog vaccinated as a result of being caught.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't believe you. You're on a $59 PLAN. Show me a bill saying that at the end of the month, your total amount owing is $59. It ain't. It's probably actually in the region of at least $75-85.
Uhh, I don't know what timezone you're in, but here on Planet Earth, June is five MONTHS away. I'm not sure what definition of "don't ... have to wait any longer" you're going by, but hey, more power to you.
I'd pay zero attention to that. People can change it to anything. Operators, too, can and do. I remember my provider a few years ago changed it to "HAPPY NEW YEAR" from 6pm on NYE til 6am New Year's Day.
I notice you didn't compare it to the SSD version. Because there, but for the difference between 1.2 and 1.8 GHz (admittedly that's substantial), the difference jumps to a rather substantial $904 (Latitude D430 with 1.2GHz processor, 2GB RAM, 64GB SSD, Bluetooth 2, Wireless-N). That's quite the gap.
Re your example, the price is actually $1495 - you forgot to upgrade from G to N for your wireless. But "some of the same specs" is a little disingenuous, too. "Some" = "CPU", and "OS X", for $304.
Doesn't surprise me. Remember the difficulty most people had grasping (or, admittedly, caring), that the difference between floppy and hard disks was not 5.25 versus 3.5?
Apropos of anything else, what the fuck purpose is a blade on a money clip? I have never, ever seen such a thing, on many many money clips. A 'money clip with a blade' just doesn't ring right to me.
Here's a question - the president didn't determine the student's psychiatrist by omniscience. Speaking to someone's healthcare provider is hardly unusual. If the healthcare provider released information, it was based on consent from the patient, or on a violation of law by the provider, and is not a breach on the part of the university.
Huh? Reading your lawsuit had the issue of both letting me see that you have allegedly been wronged, and utterly reminded me why we view the legal system the way we do today. What in the name of blue fuck does the fact that the president of your university didn't mention a shooting have to do with your meeting, let alone the attempt to demonize him as someone who apparently was indifferent thereto?
Leaving aside the rightness of your ability to do so, I would think that someone organizing meetings and attempting to activate the student body to be against the construction of a parking garage by the college would be the very definition of "attempting to obstruct campus activity", and yet your suit claims you at no time ever did such a thing? Color me confused.
Speaking of confused, I'd love to know how the university violated HIPAA, as your lawyers claim in the Nature Of Case, but fail to ever refer to again. If there was any claim of improper use or transfer of information, isn't it YOUR doctor who has privilege with you, the university isn't a party to this, per se.
Your (ex-)University President reads like a grade A asshole.
Your lawyers read like grade A ambulance chasers.
Well, if you want to be like that, you didn't 'attend' college in the same way that I don't say I 'attend' my home.
That's silly. You were paying $x before streaming was an option, and now they're making their service include streaming, for free. That you are not using your service (for whatever reason) completely does not mean that you were offered less service, a simple comparison to the cost before it was even an option shows that. They aren't charging more to use it, why should they charge less not to? Should they also charge less if you only exchange movies once a month, too. After all, that's less than some people are.
The Psyklone stuff is good. Component video switching, digital audio switching, ethernet switching, digital coax, HDMI, all on the same box. Programmable front LED display. Great, apart from the over sensitive remote! :)
That wouldn't be a Psyklone video switch and a Toshiba (HD) DVD player, would it? I figured out a way to deal with it, with far too much fiddling with the advanced settings for my Logitech Harmony...
Mind you, Verizon stubbornly insist my house doesn't exist (and this is downtown Tacoma, not some new subdivision). So I'll stick with the city cable provider - though not the cheapest (well, on my plan anyway, the low-end residential cable is fine at 6mb/512 for $39), $129 for 8mbps/1mbps, 2 static IPs, zero throttling or shaping, zero port restrictions.
Hah. That has very little to do with principles and more with return-on-investment. Hollywood is in California, a traditionally blue state. There's more to be gained this way.
Not that it's right.
Yes, despite my previous reply, "IAWTC". :)
Use the big cable tie at the back of [pretty much every] TV like that, it lessens the strain by orders of magnitude. I've never had a HDMI cable fall out, or even wiggle out, even on vertical-down oriented connectors.
Because, yeah, Control Pannel, Add/Remove Programs sounds infinitely more complex than Applications, Add/Remove Applications... where was that bridge you mentioned?
Interestingly, and I've only seen one person mention this... that condition was on the /reverse/ of the signature page. Did that signature page mention that there were further conditions on the reverse? Usually, a "reasonable person" (an important concept under law) would expect that the signature comes at the end of the contract. Imagine being handed a piece of paper, having someone say "just read through this and sign", you doing so, and that person turning the page over and saying "hey look, more conditions you just agreed to!"
That's utter crap. The Seagate 80GB HDD /retails/ at $65. You don't pay $160, as a RESELLER, for that same device that they're selling at retail for FORTY PER CENT of that price. "We'll sell these to the peons for $X. For the peons who're actually already our customers, that simply won't do, let's gouge. Let's go with $2X, hell, $3X!"
Then if it was a trade, where is the 80GB drive they said he'd have to purchase for $160, cause it seems to be missing out of the equation...
Uhhh, why is shipping the package one way to the customer $5 at one point in your example, then magically jumps to $20 "each way" after that? Each way where? And as an aside, there is no way you'll pay $20 for shipping a HDD.
As an aside, what in blue fuck justification does Apple have for "We'll require you to buy a new drive from us - at greater than normal pricing - AND you will not get your old drive, that you paid for, back - it's now our property, so we can get even more money out of you by virtue of then returning that drive to manufacturer for credit. Our profit goes up, everybody* wins!"
*everybody being a synonym for "Apple shareholders"
I'm behind a slow car. I decide to overtake that car. I indicate, and wait for the lane beside me to be clear. As it clears, and I'm about to pull into that lane, car behind me figures he can do it faster, accelerates harder, without signal, into same lane as I do same.
As a recent arrival in America from Australia, I find myself amazed by how seldom people use their turn signals. Almost never. Annoys the hell out of me, and my other pet peeve: when I signal that I'm going to overtake a slow vehicle. Turn signal on, wait for lane beside me to clear, only to have some fucking clown decide he wants to get past both of us and shoot right out from behind me, no signal, nearly rear ending me in the process, and then has the audacity to blow his horn at me. Gah.
Well, it can't be the latter, because the dog wasn't vaccinated at the time he got ticketed. Frankly, I think he's lucky the charges got dismissed considering he only had the dog vaccinated as a result of being caught.