Perhaps not if you require a 7-eleven, but there's almost always going to be something closer than a Wal-Mart, those are usually out in the sticks compared to the local hardware store.
Depends on the set, in some parts of the world, the keys are quite a bit harder to duplicate. I used to have one that looked kine of like a philip's head screw driver, with 4 key edges rather than the more typical 1 or 2, I'm sure that would take a bit more effort to duplicated by hand.
Doubtful, at least for apartment dwellers, there would be some sort of access that the super would have to create a new card key and open the door. The cost of replacing one of these would likely be less than the cost of getting a locksmith to come in and open the door.
I used to work as a security officer and we loved those keys. It made it easy to change the locks when need be, as most of the time it just required changing the access from the terminal, you could quickly disable access to the super's key if that was lost or misplaced, and the cost of replacing a key, or offering a temporary to a worker was quite low.
The downside to it is the possibility of somebody cracking the key, but it's not like real keys don't have issues like that as well.
I suspect the problem is that the application forms that the submitter has to fill out, require certain degrees and get tossed into the trash if those requirements aren't met. And probably by the lowest level HR person at the firm.
One of the things I noticed years back before I gave up on IT was that they wanted very specific requirements to even allow the application to submit. And that was before the most recent economic downturn. It's probably gotten even worse now.
Precisely, the issue here was one of cost and what was being provided.
The promises were way too big for what they could provide for $100. I have an onLive miniconsole that was retailing for $100 and it's actually pretty nice. But, the rendering is done offsite and the controller doesn't have a touch pad in it. Not sure that I would have bought it, but they gave it to me for free, so what the hell.
I found it to be deeply disturbing that they didn't have a final design on either their appstore or their controller at the time they went to ask for money. And the demo requirement for all the games, was not what they originally promised. All software should have a demo version, but that does not mean that it's free software. It just means you have some option to test drive some of the features.
Indeed, I'd be surprised if there were much validity to this. Especially seeing as the Laffer Curve is a complete joke. It's never been particularly well supported by evidence, and runs completely counter to actual historical data. At least in the US the times when the economy was doing best, were times when the Laffer curve would predict that the economy would be in the tank due to excessive taxation on the rich.
My parents wouldn't let me eat that shit in grade school. I had precisely one as an adult, and I will never eat another one of those vile "foods" again.
I get the feeling that if they don't get you hooked as a kid, they'll never get you hooked as an adult. I doubt that many people get turned onto them as an adult.
Yes, but it's not just calories that matter. Otherwise I could spend $5 a day on PBR and not need to spend money on any other food.
Obviously, that wouldn't work as PBR doesn't have much nutritional content to it. And consuming that much alcohol would lead to serious health problems.
I take it you weren't drinking PBR a decade ago. My dad regularly complains about the price that he pays now versus a decade ago. A decade ago it was legitimately cheap beer, these days though, the price is way over what you're actually getting.
It's not really supposed to taste good. It's comfort food. As in it presses specific buttons in the brain to make one feel better in the short term. Sort of similar to why some people have a harder time of managing their sodium intake than others. I have very little compulsion to consume too much salt, but I have to be really careful about my sugar intake because that's a problem for me.
Twinkies and other processed foods aren't the problem. One Twinkies a week isn't likely to make a person gain weight, unless they're taking in exactly the number of calories that they're burning.
The problem is that people aren't moving enough and are eating too much. The fact that Twinkies are effectively just a source of calories without any redeeming value doesn't really factor into it.
I remember having a Twinkie once, and it was one of the most disgusting "foods" I've ever eaten. And I've eaten spiders, scorpions and tripe.
That was always an urban legend. The oils that they use will always perish at some point, it's just that you don't always notice when oils have gone rancid when they're baked into a chemical product like Twinkies.
Well, for one things, having cars parked on the side walk implies that they're being driven there, unless of course you think they're depositing the cars there via crane. And there's nothing quite like looking up as you cross the street to see a car driving in the crosswalk.
Just because you're too stupid to comprehend what I wrote, does not mean that I'm not ultimately right. I've seen how people drive in parts of the US where they aren't enforcing the law, it's hardly a stretch to imagine that happening in most other parts of the world.
Having been to China, I have to point out how silly you're being. Traffic and parking tickets there are rare, and it shows. People drive on the sidewalks, on both sides of the street, park pretty much wherever they feel like parking.
So, it would be the end of society as we know it, as the society as we know it is reasonably safe to cross the street. In much of China, if you wish to cross the street, you look left, you look right, you look left, you look behind you, then proceed after doing it a couple times.
All that would do is lend credence to the notion that he attempted to rape her. A genuinely innocent person has no incentive whatsoever to stoke the fire in that fashion. Give the prosecuting attorneys ideas to use in trial.
I really have no idea what did or did not happen, but posting that sort of information would not change anybody's minds because it never does. All it would do is fuel speculation that he was guilty.
Perhaps he is guilty, but because of the way she's handled it, there's no way that he'd get a fair trial.
As for the mental illness, has it not occurred to you that she might be mentally ill or otherwise delusional? We weren't there, all we have to go on are her remarks and a few questionable evidence photos that could easily be coincidental.
I'm not posting this AC because I'm right. She shouldn't just shut up, she should hand the evidence over to the police and cooperate as best as she can. If there is insufficient evidence to convict, or even charge, that sucks, but men have rights as well as women. Ruining a person's life over allegations like this outside of the courtroom is ever bit as evil as what she's accusing him of.
She's attempting to ruin his career and take everything that he has. If you can't see that, then you're blind. We have a court system so as to minimize the number of lives ruined in such fashion.
It's also worth noting, that she may believe that he was trying to rape her, and that she might well be mentally ill. I don't know, but it is a possibility that you seem to have ignored. She might also be trying to destroy his career for some other reason.
I wasn't there, but none of this evidence is particularly compelling. All we have is her version of events to go on.
You may know that it happened, but you might also be mentally ill. The consequences of being accused of rape or attempted rape include being unable to get a job and having ones life generally ruined. We have courts in most civilized parts of the world because accusations of this magnitude ruin lives regardless of their validity. And court proceedings give the accused the chance to clear their name. I'm sure some rapists get away with it, but that's how justice works, err on the side of caution. Ultimately, women's lives are no more valuable than men's lives.
In other words, if the facts aren't there to support charges being brought against him, let alone a conviction, perhaps it's best to just let it go. Yes, it's unfortunate, but women that do this ultimately undermine the claims of all women who claim, truthfully or not, to have been raped.
Publicly shaming somebody isn't her right. If there wasn't sufficient evidence to move forward with charges, then there isn't sufficient evidence to justify her naming and shaming him.
And no, it doesn't show any courage on her part, it makes her a part of the problem, as it encourages people to see rape survivors as gold diggers and sociopaths. And encourages men to right off accusations of rape as being motivated by things other than the facts.
Sending whatever data you have published is not the same thing as giving permission to send my data to third parties.
I cannot conceive of how you would even think that the two are the same thing. Ads are fine, I understand that free things need to be paid for in some fashion, but targeted ads based upon tracking information are not the only way to go. Ads existed prior to targeting and tracking and commercial bandwidth costs less now than it did before tracking techniques were available.
If they need to track people without their knowledge or permission, then it's probably for the best that these sites go under. Because they're being run by scum bags.
BTW, I don't block ads, but by running software to protect me from malware I end up blocking a lot of ads on various sites. If the site operators would be hosting their ads and running responsible ads their ads wouldn't be blocked. I have no problem with tasteful text ads that aren't targeted at me, but if I don't know what it is and where it's coming from, I block it.
It's plenty convincing. Just because a person is innocent, does not mean that providing a lot of details is a good idea. It's hardly unheard of for somebody to go to prison based upon things they've said, and then to be exonerated years later. He has encouraged anybody with concrete information to get in touch with the authorities. I'm not sure how going beyond what he's posted is good for anybody.
Justice is not the practice of having a trial and throwing people in prison, justice is about throwing the right people in prison until, they have hopefully learned their lesson, or they've paid their debt to society.
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Apparently, I come from a world where people are capable of reading things in a non-literal way.
Perhaps not if you require a 7-eleven, but there's almost always going to be something closer than a Wal-Mart, those are usually out in the sticks compared to the local hardware store.
Depends on the set, in some parts of the world, the keys are quite a bit harder to duplicate. I used to have one that looked kine of like a philip's head screw driver, with 4 key edges rather than the more typical 1 or 2, I'm sure that would take a bit more effort to duplicated by hand.
Why a subpoena? They would likely do what they do now, get a warrant and just bust in directly.
Doubtful, at least for apartment dwellers, there would be some sort of access that the super would have to create a new card key and open the door. The cost of replacing one of these would likely be less than the cost of getting a locksmith to come in and open the door.
I used to work as a security officer and we loved those keys. It made it easy to change the locks when need be, as most of the time it just required changing the access from the terminal, you could quickly disable access to the super's key if that was lost or misplaced, and the cost of replacing a key, or offering a temporary to a worker was quite low.
The downside to it is the possibility of somebody cracking the key, but it's not like real keys don't have issues like that as well.
While he's at it, he might be able to set up some informational interviews or get a job at a temp agency.
I suspect the problem is that the application forms that the submitter has to fill out, require certain degrees and get tossed into the trash if those requirements aren't met. And probably by the lowest level HR person at the firm.
One of the things I noticed years back before I gave up on IT was that they wanted very specific requirements to even allow the application to submit. And that was before the most recent economic downturn. It's probably gotten even worse now.
Precisely, the issue here was one of cost and what was being provided.
The promises were way too big for what they could provide for $100. I have an onLive miniconsole that was retailing for $100 and it's actually pretty nice. But, the rendering is done offsite and the controller doesn't have a touch pad in it. Not sure that I would have bought it, but they gave it to me for free, so what the hell.
I'm glad I didn't buy into it.
I found it to be deeply disturbing that they didn't have a final design on either their appstore or their controller at the time they went to ask for money. And the demo requirement for all the games, was not what they originally promised. All software should have a demo version, but that does not mean that it's free software. It just means you have some option to test drive some of the features.
Indeed, I'd be surprised if there were much validity to this. Especially seeing as the Laffer Curve is a complete joke. It's never been particularly well supported by evidence, and runs completely counter to actual historical data. At least in the US the times when the economy was doing best, were times when the Laffer curve would predict that the economy would be in the tank due to excessive taxation on the rich.
My parents wouldn't let me eat that shit in grade school. I had precisely one as an adult, and I will never eat another one of those vile "foods" again.
I get the feeling that if they don't get you hooked as a kid, they'll never get you hooked as an adult. I doubt that many people get turned onto them as an adult.
Yes, but it's not just calories that matter. Otherwise I could spend $5 a day on PBR and not need to spend money on any other food.
Obviously, that wouldn't work as PBR doesn't have much nutritional content to it. And consuming that much alcohol would lead to serious health problems.
I take it you weren't drinking PBR a decade ago. My dad regularly complains about the price that he pays now versus a decade ago. A decade ago it was legitimately cheap beer, these days though, the price is way over what you're actually getting.
It's not really supposed to taste good. It's comfort food. As in it presses specific buttons in the brain to make one feel better in the short term. Sort of similar to why some people have a harder time of managing their sodium intake than others. I have very little compulsion to consume too much salt, but I have to be really careful about my sugar intake because that's a problem for me.
Twinkies and other processed foods aren't the problem. One Twinkies a week isn't likely to make a person gain weight, unless they're taking in exactly the number of calories that they're burning.
The problem is that people aren't moving enough and are eating too much. The fact that Twinkies are effectively just a source of calories without any redeeming value doesn't really factor into it.
I remember having a Twinkie once, and it was one of the most disgusting "foods" I've ever eaten. And I've eaten spiders, scorpions and tripe.
That was always an urban legend. The oils that they use will always perish at some point, it's just that you don't always notice when oils have gone rancid when they're baked into a chemical product like Twinkies.
Because consoles are generally quiet, and you'd be giving money to Sony rather than to Microsoft or Apple.
But yeah, I don't really see any particular advantage here, other than being able to say you did it.
Well, for one things, having cars parked on the side walk implies that they're being driven there, unless of course you think they're depositing the cars there via crane. And there's nothing quite like looking up as you cross the street to see a car driving in the crosswalk.
Just because you're too stupid to comprehend what I wrote, does not mean that I'm not ultimately right. I've seen how people drive in parts of the US where they aren't enforcing the law, it's hardly a stretch to imagine that happening in most other parts of the world.
Having been to China, I have to point out how silly you're being. Traffic and parking tickets there are rare, and it shows. People drive on the sidewalks, on both sides of the street, park pretty much wherever they feel like parking.
So, it would be the end of society as we know it, as the society as we know it is reasonably safe to cross the street. In much of China, if you wish to cross the street, you look left, you look right, you look left, you look behind you, then proceed after doing it a couple times.
AK Marc, why on earth should he do that?
All that would do is lend credence to the notion that he attempted to rape her. A genuinely innocent person has no incentive whatsoever to stoke the fire in that fashion. Give the prosecuting attorneys ideas to use in trial.
I really have no idea what did or did not happen, but posting that sort of information would not change anybody's minds because it never does. All it would do is fuel speculation that he was guilty.
Perhaps he is guilty, but because of the way she's handled it, there's no way that he'd get a fair trial.
As for the mental illness, has it not occurred to you that she might be mentally ill or otherwise delusional? We weren't there, all we have to go on are her remarks and a few questionable evidence photos that could easily be coincidental.
I'm not posting this AC because I'm right. She shouldn't just shut up, she should hand the evidence over to the police and cooperate as best as she can. If there is insufficient evidence to convict, or even charge, that sucks, but men have rights as well as women. Ruining a person's life over allegations like this outside of the courtroom is ever bit as evil as what she's accusing him of.
She's attempting to ruin his career and take everything that he has. If you can't see that, then you're blind. We have a court system so as to minimize the number of lives ruined in such fashion.
It's also worth noting, that she may believe that he was trying to rape her, and that she might well be mentally ill. I don't know, but it is a possibility that you seem to have ignored. She might also be trying to destroy his career for some other reason.
I wasn't there, but none of this evidence is particularly compelling. All we have is her version of events to go on.
You may know that it happened, but you might also be mentally ill. The consequences of being accused of rape or attempted rape include being unable to get a job and having ones life generally ruined. We have courts in most civilized parts of the world because accusations of this magnitude ruin lives regardless of their validity. And court proceedings give the accused the chance to clear their name. I'm sure some rapists get away with it, but that's how justice works, err on the side of caution. Ultimately, women's lives are no more valuable than men's lives.
In other words, if the facts aren't there to support charges being brought against him, let alone a conviction, perhaps it's best to just let it go. Yes, it's unfortunate, but women that do this ultimately undermine the claims of all women who claim, truthfully or not, to have been raped.
Publicly shaming somebody isn't her right. If there wasn't sufficient evidence to move forward with charges, then there isn't sufficient evidence to justify her naming and shaming him.
And no, it doesn't show any courage on her part, it makes her a part of the problem, as it encourages people to see rape survivors as gold diggers and sociopaths. And encourages men to right off accusations of rape as being motivated by things other than the facts.
Sending whatever data you have published is not the same thing as giving permission to send my data to third parties.
I cannot conceive of how you would even think that the two are the same thing. Ads are fine, I understand that free things need to be paid for in some fashion, but targeted ads based upon tracking information are not the only way to go. Ads existed prior to targeting and tracking and commercial bandwidth costs less now than it did before tracking techniques were available.
If they need to track people without their knowledge or permission, then it's probably for the best that these sites go under. Because they're being run by scum bags.
BTW, I don't block ads, but by running software to protect me from malware I end up blocking a lot of ads on various sites. If the site operators would be hosting their ads and running responsible ads their ads wouldn't be blocked. I have no problem with tasteful text ads that aren't targeted at me, but if I don't know what it is and where it's coming from, I block it.
It's plenty convincing. Just because a person is innocent, does not mean that providing a lot of details is a good idea. It's hardly unheard of for somebody to go to prison based upon things they've said, and then to be exonerated years later. He has encouraged anybody with concrete information to get in touch with the authorities. I'm not sure how going beyond what he's posted is good for anybody.
Justice is not the practice of having a trial and throwing people in prison, justice is about throwing the right people in prison until, they have hopefully learned their lesson, or they've paid their debt to society.