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When contacted by The Press, Shaw declined to comment other than to say: "Police use a variety of legitimate investigation techniques when investigating serious crime. However, it is not the policy of the police to comment on those techniques or other operational matters." Anyone else interpret that as "it is not the policy of the police to comment on those [legitimate] techniques or other [illegitimate] operational matters"?
Want it all you want. It won't happen. I call bull.
I have just that sort of plan. $30/month plus tax, period.
Any additional charges are for extras that I have added to the plan.
Bell Canada introduced a few of these such plans after Virgin Mobile came to town with its easy-to-understand, no-contract, no-hidden-fees, pay-by-the-minute plans.
The truth is that while they will be hiring people, this will result in a NET LOSS for Atlanta and the United States. What?!? That's like saying that shopping at Wal-Mart doesn't save money!
And indeed even more broadly, "web applications" are a terrible idea; the web makes a really crappy platform Yes, especially when you are trying to synchronize your data across multiple computers at different locations.
"It doesn't fit my needs" does not translate to "should not be done".
Only if your country has mandatory DNA recordings. I want to be protected from the terrorists. And from the children! Oh, god, someone think of the children!
Well, if you just cut your lawn with a gas mower, congratulations, you just put out more pollution in one hour than these cars do in 2,000 miles of driving. What I want to know is, if small engines like lawnmowers and (shudder) leaf blowers emit so many emissions, why the fuck are we spending so much attention on squeezing out minor efficiencies of car emissions, and none on the unfiltered emissions from lawnmowers?
This is one of the things I love about wikis: when you see something you know is wrong, you can just go and fix it (yes, with all the requisite risks).
I appreciate very much that the CBC has two links (among others) on their news stories: one called "report typo" and one called "Submit feedback". This is an admission that they sometimes make mistakes, and are willing to correct them.
I once submitted a correction on an article that was two or three years old, and they still phoned me up to get the right information to fix it.
For newspapers, I just read them at the coffeeshop and write comments in the margins about the angles that they totally missed. Bwa ha ha! The world is my wiki!
You may completely disagree with what Baptists believe, but they'll tell you the entire story in advance and let you decide for yourself. Unless you are a child and they are raising you.
Still, though, the economy depends on continual acceleration in sales.
If Apple sells a hundred thousand more iPods than it did last year, or if GM sells a hundred thousand more cars than it did last year, but last year they sold a hundred and one thousand more than the previous year, this is seen as a bad thing, even though they sold more cars than last year.
Money works the same way, and the fact that the world economy depends on such an unsustainable model is, actually, Stuff That Matters. (Not that that was the point of the original story)
Aside from the points about defending his rights, Mr. Rithi would be back in the bind of not having a birthday gift for his niece.
At the point where he refused to show his papers to the loss prevention officer, Rithi had no reason to assume that his afternoon would be spent dealing with police officers and idiot store managers, neither of which knew the laws very well.
In the end, the people paying the price will be Circuit City (which will likely settle the lawsuit, not to mention the bad press), the manager (who will likely take a hit), and possibly also the police officer (though the most he'll likely get is a slap on the wrist, depending on how cozy the department is in that district). Rithi will likely be reimbursed as part of the settlement.
I'll show you a "common courtesy": I shop at your store, be polite to your store's employees, and don't steal from it. Heck, I'll even bring my own bag.
But as a "common courtesy", how about you don't treat me like a thief without grounds to do so?
I also noticed in TFA (well, not the actual one, but the copy printed in a comment) that the cop showed the bag's contents to the store manager.
As it has been established in the comments that the bag and its contents were his private property, is that not also a breach of Mr. Righi's privacy in some way?
It's not about claiming a crime, it's about detention of the allgeded criminal. See "Shopkeeper's privilege", described in this comment earlier in the thread.
Unfortunately, in the U.S., it's quite common for stores to force you to show a receipt before they'll let you leave. I've never been in such a store. What if you don't find what you're looking for, and leave without purchasing something?
This big brother paranoia is going through the roof on/. How else would I be able to fit in my joke about vendors "bully"ing school districts by "locking them in" to their Virtual "Locker" software?
Technology will only help you so far, but numbers win every time. Case in point: Iraq: $600 billion dollars of technology and (highly?-)trained soldiers can't defeat a bunch of peasants with decades-old explosives and garage door openers.
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Anyone who's seen just one episode of that "Guinness World Records" TV show knows that no record is "cheating" if you qualify it enough.
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I have just that sort of plan. $30/month plus tax, period.
Any additional charges are for extras that I have added to the plan.
Bell Canada introduced a few of these such plans after Virgin Mobile came to town with its easy-to-understand, no-contract, no-hidden-fees, pay-by-the-minute plans.
So it is possible.
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Ah, but who has the authority to create the Terms of Reference for such committees?
Clearly, a standard is needed in order to establish a standards committee.
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"It doesn't fit my needs" does not translate to "should not be done".
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If we didn't invade Iraq, we wouldn't be supporting the troops!
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Are you like George Bush or something?
Eliminating homelessness by changing the definition?
Please, stop using semantics to dismiss social problems.
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This is one of the things I love about wikis: when you see something you know is wrong, you can just go and fix it (yes, with all the requisite risks).
I appreciate very much that the CBC has two links (among others) on their news stories: one called "report typo" and one called "Submit feedback". This is an admission that they sometimes make mistakes, and are willing to correct them.
I once submitted a correction on an article that was two or three years old, and they still phoned me up to get the right information to fix it.
For newspapers, I just read them at the coffeeshop and write comments in the margins about the angles that they totally missed. Bwa ha ha! The world is my wiki!
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On the bright side, the astrologers made it back safely on that first space shuttle mission!
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(I have no objections to the rest of your post.)
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Indeed. An AP calculus class is probably not that difficult to engage; why wedge a machine between the teacher and student?
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Still, though, the economy depends on continual acceleration in sales.
If Apple sells a hundred thousand more iPods than it did last year, or if GM sells a hundred thousand more cars than it did last year, but last year they sold a hundred and one thousand more than the previous year, this is seen as a bad thing, even though they sold more cars than last year.
Money works the same way, and the fact that the world economy depends on such an unsustainable model is, actually, Stuff That Matters. (Not that that was the point of the original story)
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Aside from the points about defending his rights, Mr. Rithi would be back in the bind of not having a birthday gift for his niece.
At the point where he refused to show his papers to the loss prevention officer, Rithi had no reason to assume that his afternoon would be spent dealing with police officers and idiot store managers, neither of which knew the laws very well.
In the end, the people paying the price will be Circuit City (which will likely settle the lawsuit, not to mention the bad press), the manager (who will likely take a hit), and possibly also the police officer (though the most he'll likely get is a slap on the wrist, depending on how cozy the department is in that district). Rithi will likely be reimbursed as part of the settlement.
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I'll show you a "common courtesy": I shop at your store, be polite to your store's employees, and don't steal from it. Heck, I'll even bring my own bag.
But as a "common courtesy", how about you don't treat me like a thief without grounds to do so?
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I also noticed in TFA (well, not the actual one, but the copy printed in a comment) that the cop showed the bag's contents to the store manager.
As it has been established in the comments that the bag and its contents were his private property, is that not also a breach of Mr. Righi's privacy in some way?
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You really think a manager at Circuit City is competent enough to be able to track down a slashdot user?
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It's not about claiming a crime, it's about detention of the allgeded criminal. See "Shopkeeper's privilege", described in this comment earlier in the thread.
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(To paraphrase a recent issue of Adbusters.)
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