hit them with the sale of goods act. goods have to be satisfactory quality and fit for the purpose they were sold sold. You don't *need* a receipt either (though it does help quite a bit).
A PC world warranty is in addition to your statutory rights, not a replacement for. A laptop that is broken after 5months is not of satisfactory quality.
Ask store manager again, pointing out his duties under sale of goods act - do not listen if he tries to get you to take it up with manafacturer - the contract is between you and the store. Feel free to take notebook / dictaphone to recored his words.
if they refuse to repair or replace, write to the registered office, insisting on repair or replacement within 14 cal. days, send it recorded delivery. If no response, send another recorded letter headed "LETTER BEFORE ACTION" threatening legal action in cal 14 days if they do not repair or replace. Ideal person to send it to is company secretary.
if no reply, google "money claim online" for the online small claims track of the county courts (form N1 is the one you need). It'll cost you a few quid to serve the papers, but you will get it all back when you win at the County Court. Plus statutory interest at 8% pa (non-compounded) under the county courts act.
Also remember to claim for you time/costs - around £10/ hour is reasonable. They will almost certainly play ball on receipt of the court papers - it costs them far more to contest a case than it does to give you a new laptop. district judges are sympathetic to claimants in person dealing with large companies. As long as you have shown reasonable behaviour throught you will be just fine.
court process slightly different in Scotland (and NI?) but general principles the same.
It may seem like this is an overly agressive method, it will get you the result you want and is quite empowering to take on a multinational and win.
you walk in, give your name and address (or polling card, if you remember to bring it), you name is crossed off the list of voters for that ward/constituency/region, you get handed your ballot paper(s), walk into a booth - and *using a pen* make an 'X' on the candidate who you want.
the votes are counted by hand (normally it is council workers, bank tellers and post office workers who do the count as they are fast and accurate) - the candidates are allowed to watch the count, and if the result is very close can demand as many recounts as needed to identify the winner.
what advantage is there to voting machines? What do they bring to the democratic process above pen and paper?
In the world of digital music players, anything apple does is fast becoming the 'industry standard'
As for what airline, they are a business, and will respond to customer demands. I have an iPod. I'd like airline seats to have iPod connections. It's the number 1 music player. If you can only afford to put one type of connector in your seat, you'd be an idiot not to choose the iPod
what about all the data generated over the last 30 years that is stored in formats that are obsolete, on media that are redundant...how will we read a report written in 1980 on the comuters of 2080?
I mean, researchers and scholars can still read, for example, vatican documents written in latin from 1000 years ago without extreme difficulty
But I'd be royally fucked if I needed to read a school essay written in word* and saved to a 5.25" Amstrad Gem formated floppy
With so much uncertainty, won't someone please think of our children
i voted in 2003 in local elections in Sheffield (england) online. This has been tried before, so is hardly new to the UK.
Online you entered a PIN (sent to you along with your normal election literature) and were forced to scroll through a pdf of the actual ballot paper, to endure you viewed all candidates, then clicked the appropriate box and that was it
presumably there was some sort of tallying system to prevent me from going to the polling booth round the corner
IIRC there were even e-voting booths in supermarkets for the trial. It worked just fine, I believe
I'm just waiting for myspace to launch the career of a politician
In the 80s the price of a mars bar was used as a method of measuring relative costs.
The cost of a mars bar reflects raw material costs, energy costs, labour costs, transport costs and local taxation.
It's a good yardstick to measure prices between places and over time.
Sounds like the same principle is being applied with iPods, with the added advantage that the mention of the word ipod guarantees coverage, more so than something as mundane as the price of a mars bar
No, but you could be tracked all the way back to your house.
Or M&S could track you as you visit other stores, to build up a picture of your shopping habits
Actually, the woman who does the current M&S ads is probably trying to hypnotise us all through the TV. "This. Is. Your. M & S.......You. Will. Obey. Us"
One of the facts about Suse/Novell is that they are 'Free' (as in speech) to do deals with 'every'./ers arch enemy MS
You might not like the direction they are going in, but you are also 'Free' to take GPLd code and write your very own GNU/Linux distribution.
If, like me you have neither the time or skill to do that, then be grateful that there is wide choice of Free (beer/speech) distros out there for you to take your pick from. If you really like one and want to support their product and ethos, then you should give 'em a few ££, help fix some code or something similar
It doesn't suprise me one little bit that two major software companies would sigh a strategic deal. And it probably shouldn't suprise you either.....
Cuba has an excellent, well developed acute and preventative medical programme. Doctors from all over the world learn from their system.
They also train many, many Drs from the 3rd world, cheaply, which allows them to go home and benefit their country.
I saw a BBC2 (UK) show recently where they even interviewed some trainee medics from the US who were learning in Cuba as a)it was cheaper b)they liked the system.
That's not to say the Cuba is a wonderland - Castros human rights record stinks - but it is simplistic to dismiss their socialised healthcare for this reason.
Also, you might like to consider the quality of social healthcare availble in, for example, the Scandinavian countries. If I had to get cancer (Intelligent Designer forbid) I'd rather have it in Denmark than Delaware.
Unless, of course, you think your medical choices should be solely a function of your personal income.
NB As a Canadian, if you don't like your healthcare system, exercise your democratic rights and vote for a party that will improve things (in your eyes, anyway). Failing that, run for office yourself. And be damned grateful you can - unlike people in the 3 countries you mention can/could.
"It's worth keeping in mind that television in the UK has a very different flavor then in the US. Firstly, the country is geographically smaller, so it's all national. There are no local affiliates. Channel Four is literally channel 4 on the dial for the whole country."
Wrong.
BBC and ITV channels are split into regions. You have BBC Wales, BBC, BBC Scotland and BBC N. Ireland. Each of those is sub-divided for local news, etc.
"Secondly, the top stations (BBC1 and BBC2) have no ads what so ever, they are funded by a per household tv tax"
Wrong. BBC1 and ITV1 are the two most popular channels.
"Only somewhat 'new' channels like Four have ads and they are often regarded as somewhat 'tacky'. Maybe I'm missing something,"
Partially wrong. C4 is moderatley tacky (but does show a lot of art-film, etc.) Channel <i>5</i> on the other hand is pure drivel. Channel 4 started in 1982. Making it of a similr vintage to MTV. Harldy 'new'.
"but all I ever seen to see on UK tv is ads for car insurance and ring tones"
Wrong. You are, of course, forgetting ads for home refinance.
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bugger the UN, it's their UEFA status that matters to me.......
beer. cheap. britain? Mean price of pint of generic lager in London is at least £3 now (> USD 6) Rest of UK is not far behind.
Iceland, Faroe Islands, Cyprus, Malta, Isle of Man.
hit them with the sale of goods act. goods have to be satisfactory quality and fit for the purpose they were sold sold. You don't *need* a receipt either (though it does help quite a bit).
A PC world warranty is in addition to your statutory rights, not a replacement for. A laptop that is broken after 5months is not of satisfactory quality.
Ask store manager again, pointing out his duties under sale of goods act - do not listen if he tries to get you to take it up with manafacturer - the contract is between you and the store. Feel free to take notebook / dictaphone to recored his words.
if they refuse to repair or replace, write to the registered office, insisting on repair or replacement within 14 cal. days, send it recorded delivery. If no response, send another recorded letter headed "LETTER BEFORE ACTION" threatening legal action in cal 14 days if they do not repair or replace. Ideal person to send it to is company secretary.
if no reply, google "money claim online" for the online small claims track of the county courts (form N1 is the one you need). It'll cost you a few quid to serve the papers, but you will get it all back when you win at the County Court. Plus statutory interest at 8% pa (non-compounded) under the county courts act.
Also remember to claim for you time/costs - around £10/ hour is reasonable. They will almost certainly play ball on receipt of the court papers - it costs them far more to contest a case than it does to give you a new laptop. district judges are sympathetic to claimants in person dealing with large companies. As long as you have shown reasonable behaviour throught you will be just fine.
court process slightly different in Scotland (and NI?) but general principles the same.
It may seem like this is an overly agressive method, it will get you the result you want and is quite empowering to take on a multinational and win.
good luck.
yeah, vietnam war-era technology is a heap of crap.
That's why FORTRAN and UNIX died out they way they did.
what is wrong with the system used in the UK?
you walk in, give your name and address (or polling card, if you remember to bring it), you name is crossed off the list of voters for that ward/constituency/region, you get handed your ballot paper(s), walk into a booth - and *using a pen* make an 'X' on the candidate who you want.
the votes are counted by hand (normally it is council workers, bank tellers and post office workers who do the count as they are fast and accurate) - the candidates are allowed to watch the count, and if the result is very close can demand as many recounts as needed to identify the winner.
what advantage is there to voting machines? What do they bring to the democratic process above pen and paper?
It's a PIN. Not a PIN number.
Say you wrote a killer song that would make you lots of $$$. Then you died in a "bizarre gardening accident".
Would you be happy to stop any payments to the wife and children you left behind?because there is a day (and it will come) when apple will fix it so you can buy things through the Apple TV box.
You will sit in your lounge, flick through music/videos/TV and buy it. It will then beam direct to your wireless iPod and your PC/Mac.
In short, because wireless mp3 players are a potential revenue stream for apple/MS/whoever
Other biochemical systems have been shown to rely on QM effects. See, for example,
0 06/128/i24/abs/ja061585l.html
http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/abstract.cgi/jacsat/2
There is even some debate that enzymes may have evolved to take advantage of QM tunneling and the like. This is interesting, but not "news for nerds"
Seriously, if you want to make science 'interesting', just stick the words nano and quantum in front and everyone will listen.
"The market needs more competing products, not less."
or, indeed, fewer.
Only if humans get chimp rights.
I quite fancy having a tea party every afternoon, eating lots of 'nanas.
And being allowed to openly masturbate in public.
A compulsory tax. As opposed to an optional one?
The Magna Carta signed in the 1200s prevents people from being imprisoned without conviction for a crime.
Such a law would need approval in the house of lords, and royal assent
such a law could be ruled unconstitutional by a Law Lord
The european court of human rights could declare such an action to be illegal
This is not a defence of the Blair government.
In the world of digital music players, anything apple does is fast becoming the 'industry standard'
As for what airline, they are a business, and will respond to customer demands. I have an iPod. I'd like airline seats to have iPod connections. It's the number 1 music player. If you can only afford to put one type of connector in your seat, you'd be an idiot not to choose the iPod
what about all the data generated over the last 30 years that is stored in formats that are obsolete, on media that are redundant...how will we read a report written in 1980 on the comuters of 2080?
I mean, researchers and scholars can still read, for example, vatican documents written in latin from 1000 years ago without extreme difficulty
But I'd be royally fucked if I needed to read a school essay written in word* and saved to a 5.25" Amstrad Gem formated floppy
With so much uncertainty, won't someone please think of our children
i voted in 2003 in local elections in Sheffield (england) online. This has been tried before, so is hardly new to the UK.
Online you entered a PIN (sent to you along with your normal election literature) and were forced to scroll through a pdf of the actual ballot paper, to endure you viewed all candidates, then clicked the appropriate box and that was it
presumably there was some sort of tallying system to prevent me from going to the polling booth round the corner
IIRC there were even e-voting booths in supermarkets for the trial. It worked just fine, I believe
I'm just waiting for myspace to launch the career of a politician
In the 80s the price of a mars bar was used as a method of measuring relative costs.
The cost of a mars bar reflects raw material costs, energy costs, labour costs, transport costs and local taxation.
It's a good yardstick to measure prices between places and over time.
Sounds like the same principle is being applied with iPods, with the added advantage that the mention of the word ipod guarantees coverage, more so than something as mundane as the price of a mars bar
Best according to what criteria?
With the internet comprising just 1% smut, thank the Lord for google! I might never have been able to find pornography online without it.
I wonder what %ge of money made online is through this 1% of the content?
No, but you could be tracked all the way back to your house.
Or M&S could track you as you visit other stores, to build up a picture of your shopping habits
Actually, the woman who does the current M&S ads is probably trying to hypnotise us all through the TV. "This. Is. Your. M & S.......You. Will. Obey. Us"
One of the facts about Suse/Novell is that they are 'Free' (as in speech) to do deals with 'every' ./ers arch enemy MS
You might not like the direction they are going in, but you are also 'Free' to take GPLd code and write your very own GNU/Linux distribution.
If, like me you have neither the time or skill to do that, then be grateful that there is wide choice of Free (beer/speech) distros out there for you to take your pick from. If you really like one and want to support their product and ethos, then you should give 'em a few ££, help fix some code or something similar
It doesn't suprise me one little bit that two major software companies would sigh a strategic deal. And it probably shouldn't suprise you either.....
Cuba has an excellent, well developed acute and preventative medical programme. Doctors from all over the world learn from their system. They also train many, many Drs from the 3rd world, cheaply, which allows them to go home and benefit their country. I saw a BBC2 (UK) show recently where they even interviewed some trainee medics from the US who were learning in Cuba as a)it was cheaper b)they liked the system. That's not to say the Cuba is a wonderland - Castros human rights record stinks - but it is simplistic to dismiss their socialised healthcare for this reason. Also, you might like to consider the quality of social healthcare availble in, for example, the Scandinavian countries. If I had to get cancer (Intelligent Designer forbid) I'd rather have it in Denmark than Delaware. Unless, of course, you think your medical choices should be solely a function of your personal income. NB As a Canadian, if you don't like your healthcare system, exercise your democratic rights and vote for a party that will improve things (in your eyes, anyway). Failing that, run for office yourself. And be damned grateful you can - unlike people in the 3 countries you mention can/could.
"It's worth keeping in mind that television in the UK has a very different flavor then in the US. Firstly, the country is geographically smaller, so it's all national. There are no local affiliates. Channel Four is literally channel 4 on the dial for the whole country."
Wrong.
BBC and ITV channels are split into regions. You have BBC Wales, BBC, BBC Scotland and BBC N. Ireland. Each of those is sub-divided for local news, etc.
"Secondly, the top stations (BBC1 and BBC2) have no ads what so ever, they are funded by a per household tv tax"
Wrong. BBC1 and ITV1 are the two most popular channels.
"Only somewhat 'new' channels like Four have ads and they are often regarded as somewhat 'tacky'. Maybe I'm missing something,"
Partially wrong. C4 is moderatley tacky (but does show a lot of art-film, etc.) Channel <i>5</i> on the other hand is pure drivel. Channel 4 started in 1982. Making it of a similr vintage to MTV. Harldy 'new'.
"but all I ever seen to see on UK tv is ads for car insurance and ring tones"
Wrong. You are, of course, forgetting ads for home refinance.
C- overall. See me after class.
It's been released ?
That's a real shame. It'll never survive in the wild...../P