It's both, actually. While this is exactly what answering services do, once upon a time pagers worked this way too. In the early days of paging they didn't have a numeric display; if it beeped, you called in to the answering service to retrieve your messages, which was left by the caller in the exact same way the previous poster described.
I can't put a year on this but my dad had one when I was a kid. I'd call the number, give them is four digit (or so) ID, and tell them my message. Late '70s or early '80s, maybe.
While I agree wholeheartedly that pharmacists do not have the authority nor the right to refuse to fill valid prescriptions, that doesn't change the fact that it's a well-documented problem. One pharmacy in Virginia even advertises the fact.
You laugh, but those of us who worked ISP phone support in the pre-Win98 days remember doing exactly this, only with the added hilarity of talking people through navigating the Netscape FTP server directory tree while they were at it (the actual downloadable Netscape binary was something like eight levels deep). This situation is the reason so many ISPs distributed CDs back then -- so that first-time internet users could more easily install a web browser.
I'm not the original poster, but I absolutely am open to this possibility. I'm an atheist but I will certainly consider creationism as a valid possible explanation for life on this planet, just as soon as some actual evidence is provided. I'm not holding my breath, however.
One reason people want to retire early is so that they can choose to work or not. I enjoy my work but it's still work. If I could retire now I'd probably still do it, but I'd do it less and spend the rest of my time on other things.
Tell that to a friend of mine who was actually turned away from an emergency room when we brought him in with a concussion one night. They told us to turn around and drive him to the county hospital about 30 miles away. We had already chosen to drive him to the hospital ourselves because the paramedics warned us how much the ambulance ride was going to cost. This was in a suburb outside of Los Angeles (not LA country).
Anecdotes are not data, etc, but to claim that anyone can be treated at a hospital simply isn't true in all cases, even in emergencies.
That's easy too. Give a 'position: fixed' box a specific height and it will automatically grow a scrollbar if the contents extend beyond the height you specified. If you use JavaScript to get the size of the viewport (ie, window height) you can create what looks exactly like a side frame.
It depends on what kind of display you actually want. If you want a giant, wall-covering TV you may be right, but if your needs are more modest an integrated screen works great.
The one real concern I've seen is if someone posts a picture of you drinking and a prospective employer sees it.
Well, I don't have an employer, per se, but I suppose this means I should be sure none of my clients or business partners find out I have an entire web site about cocktails.
Actually, I was meeting with some prospective partners once and the very first question they asked me was about that site. The meeting went swimmingly from there. It's actually quite a good conversation piece.
Even Libertarians will tell you that one of the few responsibilities of the US government is to protect its citizens (eg, military, etc). How does providing for health (and education, but that's another issue) contradict this in any way? Is the country better or worse off with healthy citizens, citizens who don't have to go into life-strangling debt if they're sick or injured?
Slicehost, the preferred Linux VPS host of web 2.0 developers everywhere, has an published API that you can use to access their DNS hosting and make whatever changes you need.
I'm assuming that the hypothetical caller doesn't realize he dialed the wrong number until the other end answers the call. In this case, it's much more polite to apologize than to simply hang up in their ear.
Of course the polite thing to do is apologize for dialing the number in the first fucking place, thus avoiding the whole call-back situation.
Seriously, how difficult is that? It takes two seconds and isn't nearly as rude as just hanging up in someone's ear while leaving them wondering who the asshole who just called them was.
That's interesting. I bought an iPhone a few days ago and I was just commenting to someone the other day that when I called T-Mobile last week to ask if I needed to do anything before porting my number over to AT&T, the rep was extremely helpful and didn't make the slightest move toward "retention". He answered my question, asked if there was anything else I needed, and that was it. I was all prepared to fend off the sharks and was a little shocked when I didn't find any.
That's true, of course, but when people talk about "Apple hardware" they aren't talking about the CPU and RAM. They're talking about the design -- the look and feel of the hardware, not the components that make it up. The distinctive Apple design is what makes the hardware desirable.
I've had good experiences with both PairNIC and Gandi. I wrote up some information about them, and compared them to a couple other registrars (including Netsol), but the upshot is that after doing a good deal of research I was unable to find any significant complaints about either one of them. They're both a little more expensive than the low-end registrars like Godaddy, but by nearly all accounts the extra cost is well worth it.
You've just come full circle to what this case is about. In short, no, if you receive a CD (or any other object) in the mail that you did not request, it's a gift, per 39 USC 3009. Mail sent to a promoter based on the assumption that they will find it useful is still mail sent unsolicited. If they explicitly requested it, you can attach any terms you want; if you just assume they want it, it's a gift.
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It's both, actually. While this is exactly what answering services do, once upon a time pagers worked this way too. In the early days of paging they didn't have a numeric display; if it beeped, you called in to the answering service to retrieve your messages, which was left by the caller in the exact same way the previous poster described.
I can't put a year on this but my dad had one when I was a kid. I'd call the number, give them is four digit (or so) ID, and tell them my message. Late '70s or early '80s, maybe.
While I agree wholeheartedly that pharmacists do not have the authority nor the right to refuse to fill valid prescriptions, that doesn't change the fact that it's a well-documented problem. One pharmacy in Virginia even advertises the fact.
You laugh, but those of us who worked ISP phone support in the pre-Win98 days remember doing exactly this, only with the added hilarity of talking people through navigating the Netscape FTP server directory tree while they were at it (the actual downloadable Netscape binary was something like eight levels deep). This situation is the reason so many ISPs distributed CDs back then -- so that first-time internet users could more easily install a web browser.
I'm not the original poster, but I absolutely am open to this possibility. I'm an atheist but I will certainly consider creationism as a valid possible explanation for life on this planet, just as soon as some actual evidence is provided. I'm not holding my breath, however.
One reason people want to retire early is so that they can choose to work or not. I enjoy my work but it's still work. If I could retire now I'd probably still do it, but I'd do it less and spend the rest of my time on other things.
I'd rather see "Magnetic" changed to "Magic". That's how I read it at first and it sounds much better.
Tell that to a friend of mine who was actually turned away from an emergency room when we brought him in with a concussion one night. They told us to turn around and drive him to the county hospital about 30 miles away. We had already chosen to drive him to the hospital ourselves because the paramedics warned us how much the ambulance ride was going to cost. This was in a suburb outside of Los Angeles (not LA country).
Anecdotes are not data, etc, but to claim that anyone can be treated at a hospital simply isn't true in all cases, even in emergencies.
That's easy too. Give a 'position: fixed' box a specific height and it will automatically grow a scrollbar if the contents extend beyond the height you specified. If you use JavaScript to get the size of the viewport (ie, window height) you can create what looks exactly like a side frame.
'position: fixed;' is the CSS property/value that can give you that. The linked page explains it and also shows an example.
We did that the first time around, with a list of key phrases for each candidate.
We did that during the first debate. We had a separate list of "drink" phrases for Obama and McCain.
And yes, "My friends" was the first thing on the McCain list.
It depends on what kind of display you actually want. If you want a giant, wall-covering TV you may be right, but if your needs are more modest an integrated screen works great.
Well, I don't have an employer, per se, but I suppose this means I should be sure none of my clients or business partners find out I have an entire web site about cocktails.
Actually, I was meeting with some prospective partners once and the very first question they asked me was about that site. The meeting went swimmingly from there. It's actually quite a good conversation piece.
See also, "promote the general welfare".
Even Libertarians will tell you that one of the few responsibilities of the US government is to protect its citizens (eg, military, etc). How does providing for health (and education, but that's another issue) contradict this in any way? Is the country better or worse off with healthy citizens, citizens who don't have to go into life-strangling debt if they're sick or injured?
I believe teledildonics is the word you're looking for.
You sure that's not GOOG/Linux?
Slicehost, the preferred Linux VPS host of web 2.0 developers everywhere, has an published API that you can use to access their DNS hosting and make whatever changes you need.
Shortly after the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.
Joyent has been using the term for quite a while now.
I'm assuming that the hypothetical caller doesn't realize he dialed the wrong number until the other end answers the call. In this case, it's much more polite to apologize than to simply hang up in their ear.
Of course the polite thing to do is apologize for dialing the number in the first fucking place, thus avoiding the whole call-back situation.
Seriously, how difficult is that? It takes two seconds and isn't nearly as rude as just hanging up in someone's ear while leaving them wondering who the asshole who just called them was.
That's interesting. I bought an iPhone a few days ago and I was just commenting to someone the other day that when I called T-Mobile last week to ask if I needed to do anything before porting my number over to AT&T, the rep was extremely helpful and didn't make the slightest move toward "retention". He answered my question, asked if there was anything else I needed, and that was it. I was all prepared to fend off the sharks and was a little shocked when I didn't find any.
That's true, of course, but when people talk about "Apple hardware" they aren't talking about the CPU and RAM. They're talking about the design -- the look and feel of the hardware, not the components that make it up. The distinctive Apple design is what makes the hardware desirable.
I've had good experiences with both PairNIC and Gandi. I wrote up some information about them, and compared them to a couple other registrars (including Netsol), but the upshot is that after doing a good deal of research I was unable to find any significant complaints about either one of them. They're both a little more expensive than the low-end registrars like Godaddy, but by nearly all accounts the extra cost is well worth it.
My domains are all at Gandi currently.
You've just come full circle to what this case is about. In short, no, if you receive a CD (or any other object) in the mail that you did not request, it's a gift, per 39 USC 3009. Mail sent to a promoter based on the assumption that they will find it useful is still mail sent unsolicited. If they explicitly requested it, you can attach any terms you want; if you just assume they want it, it's a gift.