That's a fairly common practice, where the HOA requires that each time the property is sold that they receive some sort of a cut. It's not as scuzzy as it might seem, when the HOA uses that money in lieu of higher fees. OTOH it's also done by developers that expect to be paid for every sale within a hundred years of the original one.
As long as the HOA is legitimately providing services, there's nothing inherently wrong with it. It just isn't necessarily the best thing. It does however have the bight side of discouraging people from flipping the real estate on a regular basis.
That's the greatest post I've seen in a while, please tell me that it was an elaborate hoax or that they're all going to be fixed before having offspring.
Capitalone does that, however, they've got their system down to the point where it's really quick and the information that they're looking for is made clear. There's nothing wrong with Paypal being vigilant, but refusing to refund the money and failing to provide a clear request for specific information is dickish.
It wouldn't surprise me if they wind up on the losing end of an anti-trust suit in the near future. It's pretty clear that they're abusing their dominant position to steal from their customers. I'm not sure what else you would call it other than theft. They're taking the money from customers who give it to them in good faith that they will pay whomever they were wanting to pay and instead PayPal is converting the ownership of the money to themselves.
That's not how they do it though. They freeze the account, and probably invest it it while they drag their feet on resolving it. Or at least that's how it appears.
But then you're stuck with a limited choice of providers. I'm going to be curious what Mastercard does now that they've acquired a company with IP in that area. For the most part the institutions that offer it aren't ones you want to be dealing with.
More than that, exporting all those manufacturing jobs to places like China and India has definitely had a negative impact on our security. The Chinese government has no real incentive to cut down on industrial spying on foreign companies producing in China. Hell, they've got a huge incentive to look the other way and cover it up.
I wouldn't be surprised, this is a swipe at the second hand market. Most libraries stock up on large quantities of popular books to keep the wait manageable. When the demand drops they sell the extras to recoup a portion of the costs. So the book publishers basically get dinged multiple times. First they lose sales from the people who borrowed, then they lose from the second hand sale.
This type of situation is really the only situation in which DRM is useful. Basically if you're being given the copy on a time limited basis, DRM is necessary. The alternative is to be either all in or all out on it. With DRM you have the ability to rent digital media. Most of the trouble with DRM is when producers use it on media that they've sold you.
Indeed, the only reasonable alternative would be to have a site license type of thing. It is however still an asshole move on the part of the publisher, because I'm guessing that the library won't be allowed to sell spare copies when they're no longer in demand.
The local library will by large quantities of must have books so that they're available when the demand is great, later on to recoup a portion of the expense they sell them at a large book sale held periodically.
This move would almost certainly make that impossible. But OTOH it would likely make more sense to have it be more of a subscription basis.
Or Linux could get with the times and change to a less ridiculous license. *BSD does just fine with corporate contributions despite a lack of stick forcing the issue. And companies like Google and Asus fork things from Linux in a way which is essentially not compatible, but respects the license.
They don't have to completly ditch GPL, but they really ought to allow for code to just be open source, rather than that virulent and spoiled we only want GPL code.
Precisely. It's taking more time for Mozilla to do it because they're not doing it the easy way. They could've had it done quite some time ago if they just made them completely separate processes with a third party task bar. However they're going beyond that. They're pooling some of the resources to hopefully keep the bloat down, and trying to focus the separation on portions of the process which really need it.
Well, if the acid tests didn't involve purposely broken broken it wouldn't be so bad. But really, rather than kowtowing to random tests, perhaps it would make more sense to actually worry about the things which matter.
Personally, I use easy peasy on my eeepc 900. It works well, it's a shame that Asus couldn't have chosen them as the default. Although, the Ubuntu netbook remix is not bad at all either. Really it's better than the Xandros copy they included complete with broken repositories.
Indeed, that's what turned me off of Linux when I tried it in 2002. The sound card for my laptop wasn't supported under FreeBSD, but it was claimed to be under Linux. I gave it a shot, the only problem was that while the chipset was supported, it was really crackly and not particularly useful.
It's a lot better since then, but that was not a particularly positive impression to leave.
As geeks become less and less willing to use let alone support Windows, I'm sure that will change as well. Win XP will be the last version of Windows to be on any of my personal computers. Meaning that if my friends or family want help, it's going to be somewhat difficult for me to give it to them Realistically though, it seems like MS recycles bugs often enough that I might be able to help anyways.
You sir, fail at statistics. They got those words and weightings from actual profiles. They might not have weighted it correctly, but they didn't just make it up.
I wish they'd fix the option to remove Idle from the front page. I've had it disabled for the longest time, and still this trash shows up on the front page anyways.
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That's a fairly common practice, where the HOA requires that each time the property is sold that they receive some sort of a cut. It's not as scuzzy as it might seem, when the HOA uses that money in lieu of higher fees. OTOH it's also done by developers that expect to be paid for every sale within a hundred years of the original one.
As long as the HOA is legitimately providing services, there's nothing inherently wrong with it. It just isn't necessarily the best thing. It does however have the bight side of discouraging people from flipping the real estate on a regular basis.
To be fair, they do try and waste as little of your time as possible getting to the distractions.
That's the greatest post I've seen in a while, please tell me that it was an elaborate hoax or that they're all going to be fixed before having offspring.
I thought it was because a real gamer would never have time to hit on anybody.
Capitalone does that, however, they've got their system down to the point where it's really quick and the information that they're looking for is made clear. There's nothing wrong with Paypal being vigilant, but refusing to refund the money and failing to provide a clear request for specific information is dickish.
It wouldn't surprise me if they wind up on the losing end of an anti-trust suit in the near future. It's pretty clear that they're abusing their dominant position to steal from their customers. I'm not sure what else you would call it other than theft. They're taking the money from customers who give it to them in good faith that they will pay whomever they were wanting to pay and instead PayPal is converting the ownership of the money to themselves.
Could be worse, at least it's not goatse man on smellivision.
But that would represent a taking and would end the free market and how dare you suggest that corporations be regulated to socialist.
That's not how they do it though. They freeze the account, and probably invest it it while they drag their feet on resolving it. Or at least that's how it appears.
But then you're stuck with a limited choice of providers. I'm going to be curious what Mastercard does now that they've acquired a company with IP in that area. For the most part the institutions that offer it aren't ones you want to be dealing with.
More than that, exporting all those manufacturing jobs to places like China and India has definitely had a negative impact on our security. The Chinese government has no real incentive to cut down on industrial spying on foreign companies producing in China. Hell, they've got a huge incentive to look the other way and cover it up.
To be fair, they've had no trouble getting the help from elsewhere.
I wouldn't be surprised, this is a swipe at the second hand market. Most libraries stock up on large quantities of popular books to keep the wait manageable. When the demand drops they sell the extras to recoup a portion of the costs. So the book publishers basically get dinged multiple times. First they lose sales from the people who borrowed, then they lose from the second hand sale.
This type of situation is really the only situation in which DRM is useful. Basically if you're being given the copy on a time limited basis, DRM is necessary. The alternative is to be either all in or all out on it. With DRM you have the ability to rent digital media. Most of the trouble with DRM is when producers use it on media that they've sold you.
Indeed, the only reasonable alternative would be to have a site license type of thing. It is however still an asshole move on the part of the publisher, because I'm guessing that the library won't be allowed to sell spare copies when they're no longer in demand.
The local library will by large quantities of must have books so that they're available when the demand is great, later on to recoup a portion of the expense they sell them at a large book sale held periodically.
This move would almost certainly make that impossible. But OTOH it would likely make more sense to have it be more of a subscription basis.
Yeah, he's some sort of slightly less evil and slightly smaller Bill Gates.
Or Linux could get with the times and change to a less ridiculous license. *BSD does just fine with corporate contributions despite a lack of stick forcing the issue. And companies like Google and Asus fork things from Linux in a way which is essentially not compatible, but respects the license.
They don't have to completly ditch GPL, but they really ought to allow for code to just be open source, rather than that virulent and spoiled we only want GPL code.
Precisely. It's taking more time for Mozilla to do it because they're not doing it the easy way. They could've had it done quite some time ago if they just made them completely separate processes with a third party task bar. However they're going beyond that. They're pooling some of the resources to hopefully keep the bloat down, and trying to focus the separation on portions of the process which really need it.
Well, if the acid tests didn't involve purposely broken broken it wouldn't be so bad. But really, rather than kowtowing to random tests, perhaps it would make more sense to actually worry about the things which matter.
As opposed to Linux users that never get the chance?
Personally, I use easy peasy on my eeepc 900. It works well, it's a shame that Asus couldn't have chosen them as the default. Although, the Ubuntu netbook remix is not bad at all either. Really it's better than the Xandros copy they included complete with broken repositories.
Indeed, that's what turned me off of Linux when I tried it in 2002. The sound card for my laptop wasn't supported under FreeBSD, but it was claimed to be under Linux. I gave it a shot, the only problem was that while the chipset was supported, it was really crackly and not particularly useful. It's a lot better since then, but that was not a particularly positive impression to leave.
As geeks become less and less willing to use let alone support Windows, I'm sure that will change as well. Win XP will be the last version of Windows to be on any of my personal computers. Meaning that if my friends or family want help, it's going to be somewhat difficult for me to give it to them Realistically though, it seems like MS recycles bugs often enough that I might be able to help anyways.
You sir, fail at statistics. They got those words and weightings from actual profiles. They might not have weighted it correctly, but they didn't just make it up.
I wish they'd fix the option to remove Idle from the front page. I've had it disabled for the longest time, and still this trash shows up on the front page anyways.
Snooki? Isn't that Chewbacca's cousin?