When you receive a bill it is your responsibility to always make sure that it is successfully paid, before that 14 day grace period expires.
And as others have pointed out to you, your responsibility is fulfilled the instant you schedule the payment through your bank. That's how modern finances work. If you don't accept that, you're free to attempt some sort of barter system with your creditors.
In other words, these consumers should get stuck with these late fees, and learn about a valuable lesson in taking reasonable steps to ensure their obligations are met, even if something goes not quite as expected with the payment.
The obligation was that the customer would make the payment by day X, not that he would attempt to make it on day X-7 to pad against uncertainty. A "reasonable step" would be to attempt to make the payment on day X-1 instead of a few minutes before COB on day X.
Here's a similar story, unrelated to Seagate but related to the story. Back when a major telecom firm rhyming with "Goose Lint" laid off pretty much everyone (2000), they told a co-worker of mine that he had to move to the east coast in order to keep his job. Not wanting to be laid off, he reluctantly complied. About two weeks after taking his new position there, the cocksuckers laid him off anyway, at which point he hung himself.
As it turns out, when companies fuck over people, their friends will get on Slashdot and badmouth those companies.
In this age of federally-mandated TSA molesting and DHS stupidity, I should point out that the preceding post was humor. I hereby declare that I am not going to make my way to Utah and force my penis into Orrin Hatch's mouth repeatedly, no matter how used to it he is by now from campaign contributors.
"According to the congressmen and their advisors from solid rocket producer ATK, the heavy-lift legislation's requirements can only be met by rockets utilizing ATK's solid rocket boosters. They are alarmed that NASA is also considering other approaches, such as all-liquid designs based on the rockets operated by the United Launch Alliance and SpaceX."
No, they're alarmed that the corporation that fluffed Orrin won't be getting the kickbacks he promised them. Fuck Orrin Hatch. Fuck him right in his mouth. Repeatedly.
I can't imagine myself, or anyone, for that matter, investing that amount of time in a single game nowadays.
I sank about 150 hours each into the two Disgaea tactical RPGs released for the PSP, and highly recommend them both. If that's not your genre, consider these facts:
1. I hate every other TRPG I've tried. 2. I hate nearly every other JRPG I've tried. Disgaea pulls off humor AND avoids most of the cliches shitware companies like Square have pushed.
I think the last game I spent even close to that amount of time on was Fallout 3 (at around 40 hours).
I know it was a joke, so this is for the benefit of the mod who thought it was insightful:
1. Safes don't have tumblers (unless they're keyed safes, in which case you don't need to listen for anything). 2. Putting your ear against a safe is a terrible way to hear the wheel packs through mostly solid steel. 3. Safecrackers rely on feel more than hearing.
I didn't say there were no bugs back then. In fact, I explicitly said there were. But nothing, iirc, that made it impossible to finish a game.
I do remember an entertaining one my brother and I found--as in your case, probably independently of many other people--on Bard's Tale II where one of the quests required you to enter a dungeon and kill a boss, but the game respawned the boss for some reason. Ordinarily you would never have reason to go into that dungeon again, but I did, found the boss again, and killed him all over again for the XP. Then leveled up to insane heights.
So how do you explain New Vegas being FAR more buggy than Fallout 3?
I explain it by the fact that I got F3 after it had several patches. Read any game forum and you'll find that it had just as many game-killing problems as NV on release.
You have several good points, but in this particular case it isn't about clicking on the third seashell on the northern beach, it's about corrupting save files by completing a main storyline quest (as in, completing it in any way possible) and other sundries. I love New Vegas, but I'm puzzled as to why the higher-ups allowed it to go out the door with these problems.
This era of downloadable patches seems to have made companies lazy and/or more greedy. While bugs made for some entertaining glitches in the 8- and 16-bit era, I can't recall one single game-stopping problem back then--certainly not on AAA titles.
Don't listen to this joker, people. The rabbit itself MUST be radioactive...why else would it be glowing green in that highly reliable picture up top that isn't at all reminiscent of the Weekly World News?
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When you receive a bill it is your responsibility to always make sure that it is successfully paid, before that 14 day grace period expires.
And as others have pointed out to you, your responsibility is fulfilled the instant you schedule the payment through your bank. That's how modern finances work. If you don't accept that, you're free to attempt some sort of barter system with your creditors.
Stupid fucking poor people! *shakes fist*
In other words, these consumers should get stuck with these late fees, and learn about a valuable lesson in
taking reasonable steps to ensure their obligations are met, even if something goes not quite as expected with the payment.
The obligation was that the customer would make the payment by day X, not that he would attempt to make it on day X-7 to pad against uncertainty. A "reasonable step" would be to attempt to make the payment on day X-1 instead of a few minutes before COB on day X.
Yes. But on the plus side, "Dickface" and "Zuckerberg" can now be used interchangeably with no confusion.
.beige, .vanilla, .whitebread, .boring, .babyjesus, and .uptight come readily to mind.
.stickinass...no, wait, that might be ambiguous.
"The mother-of-three [...] said internet firms should 'share the responsibility' of protecting children."
This father-of-one says Perry needs to get her head out of her ass and do some actual parenting.
Or "In Soviet Russia, code bars YOU!"
Here's a similar story, unrelated to Seagate but related to the story. Back when a major telecom firm rhyming with "Goose Lint" laid off pretty much everyone (2000), they told a co-worker of mine that he had to move to the east coast in order to keep his job. Not wanting to be laid off, he reluctantly complied. About two weeks after taking his new position there, the cocksuckers laid him off anyway, at which point he hung himself.
As it turns out, when companies fuck over people, their friends will get on Slashdot and badmouth those companies.
On the iPad it's a stunning tech demo. But at 3 short levels, I wouldn't go so far as to call it a game.
"Corporate espionage": Chinese for "good morning."
In this age of federally-mandated TSA molesting and DHS stupidity, I should point out that the preceding post was humor. I hereby declare that I am not going to make my way to Utah and force my penis into Orrin Hatch's mouth repeatedly, no matter how used to it he is by now from campaign contributors.
"According to the congressmen and their advisors from solid rocket producer ATK, the heavy-lift legislation's requirements can only be met by rockets utilizing ATK's solid rocket boosters. They are alarmed that NASA is also considering other approaches, such as all-liquid designs based on the rockets operated by the United Launch Alliance and SpaceX."
No, they're alarmed that the corporation that fluffed Orrin won't be getting the kickbacks he promised them. Fuck Orrin Hatch. Fuck him right in his mouth. Repeatedly.
What's the difference between this and High Frequency Trading?
The difference is, these scalpers aren't bankers, and thus don't own the United States government lock, stock and barrel.
I can't imagine myself, or anyone, for that matter, investing that amount of time in a single game nowadays.
I sank about 150 hours each into the two Disgaea tactical RPGs released for the PSP, and highly recommend them both. If that's not your genre, consider these facts:
1. I hate every other TRPG I've tried.
2. I hate nearly every other JRPG I've tried. Disgaea pulls off humor AND avoids most of the cliches shitware companies like Square have pushed.
I think the last game I spent even close to that amount of time on was Fallout 3 (at around 40 hours).
It's still not newsworthy. What the shit, Slashdot?
I know it was a joke, so this is for the benefit of the mod who thought it was insightful:
1. Safes don't have tumblers (unless they're keyed safes, in which case you don't need to listen for anything).
2. Putting your ear against a safe is a terrible way to hear the wheel packs through mostly solid steel.
3. Safecrackers rely on feel more than hearing.
Not only that, but the article compares launch day numbers to launch weekend numbers to 6-month sales numbers. that doesn't really tell me anything.
I didn't say there were no bugs back then. In fact, I explicitly said there were. But nothing, iirc, that made it impossible to finish a game.
I do remember an entertaining one my brother and I found--as in your case, probably independently of many other people--on Bard's Tale II where one of the quests required you to enter a dungeon and kill a boss, but the game respawned the boss for some reason. Ordinarily you would never have reason to go into that dungeon again, but I did, found the boss again, and killed him all over again for the XP. Then leveled up to insane heights.
So how do you explain New Vegas being FAR more buggy than Fallout 3?
I explain it by the fact that I got F3 after it had several patches. Read any game forum and you'll find that it had just as many game-killing problems as NV on release.
It's not the AI and scripting portions of the program that make me get stuck in walls and rocks, and sometimes just in the ground.
You have several good points, but in this particular case it isn't about clicking on the third seashell on the northern beach, it's about corrupting save files by completing a main storyline quest (as in, completing it in any way possible) and other sundries. I love New Vegas, but I'm puzzled as to why the higher-ups allowed it to go out the door with these problems.
This era of downloadable patches seems to have made companies lazy and/or more greedy. While bugs made for some entertaining glitches in the 8- and 16-bit era, I can't recall one single game-stopping problem back then--certainly not on AAA titles.
So if you read between Microsoft's lines, they appear to be suggesting a temporary workaround of not using IE.
It's funny because Obsidian is the developer of New Vegas
,,,using Bethesda's engine. Nice try, though.
Don't listen to this joker, people. The rabbit itself MUST be radioactive...why else would it be glowing green in that highly reliable picture up top that isn't at all reminiscent of the Weekly World News?
How long do you think the robots will 'treat their jobless well'?
At least as long as it takes Skynet to become self-aware.