Ok let's get it straight.

CES allows or at least turns a blind eye to vendors who have rented space on the floor and also show products in their suites, or there might be restrictions on when the suites are used, etc.

The hotel staff who told the vendors who did not have floor space, that here were no restrictions probably did not know the hotels had a contractual agreement with CES, specifically not to allow suites to be used by vendors who did not have floor space.

There's a simple reason for this. CES spends a lot of money to rent facilities, guarantee occupancy and advertise the event. Some portion of the fee$ paid by the vendors who rent floor space goes to this.

The vendors who don't rent floor space are capitalizing on the attendees, who are their because of the efforts of CES and those vendors who rented floor space. Before anyone makes the analogy - this is NOT akin to filesharing or the alledged piracy of music or video. This is more akin to pirating someones' signal and replacing their content with your own.

The suite only vendors are not only not paying CES for their services, they are reducing the amount of face time for the vendors who are paying for those services. If they make a sale - it really is potentially at the cost of someone else who paid to show at the conference.

The agreements with the hotels are CES' insurance that attendees only view the wares of those who have paid to be at the conference, for the duration of the conference. It costs them money (or occupancy guarantees/penalties) to get those agreements..

Assuming you're buying a package from someone, in which case you're buying from a vendor. See my original comment for what's expected from a vendor.

It's not uncommon for large organizations to require access to code, have a third party audit it, or require some form of liability insurance from the vendor when closed source code is purchased. There's also the not very reliable, and very dangerous, assumption that vendors have already vetted the code against malicious/non-secure code.

For open source code - there's no-one accountable vouching for the code or offering insurance - so organizations are forced to audit the code Plus there's the usually wrong, overly paranoid but safer assumption that the code might well harbor something malicious/non-secure.

You should have tried the pterodactyl procurement prototcol like I did.

Stone tablets delivered right to your cave - all you needed was to get out of sight, and have a large supply of fish on a pile of hay handy.

Try this url -

http://www.tboonepickensfoundation.org/pdf/PCQU%20Pickens%20FINAL.pdf

There are others as well.

Quite possible, assuming the film is:

1. Not a cult classic
2. Not overly popular
3. Not a new release.
4. Popular in only certain regions.
5. Not recently nominated for an award.
6. Not starring or featuring someone recently in the news, newly popular or deceased.

If any of the above are true, the sample for a given timeframe could be skewed and the student data would not be significantly large enough to be seen.
If there was particular demographic information available that would allow the "regular" population to be filtered out - you might be able to spot the students - which might itself be useless if a significant number of the students use a parent's or partner's credit card. .

Actually the film student model would not necessarily create a cluster.
The student might be taking a class via a distance, on-line or weekend program, and the school may not be local. The other students could be scattered over a large area, even distributed across the country.

As a native of NY (and a past resident of Missouri) I'm always amazed at how everyone thinks the entire state has the population density of NYC, Westchester or LI. Most of the population lives in less than 1/3 of the land area, and a good portion of the rest is clustered along the Thruways. Most of NY has population densities closer to the great plains or the west. And it may not be the Rockies, but it's not flat. Getting cable, DSL or fiber in some parts of the state is either next to impossible for fiendishly expensive, unless you're lucky enough to have a neighbor who paid for extending the trunk into your area.

As far as European population densities, most Americans do seem to think that the whole continent is like London, Paris or Frankfurt. I lived in Germany for 2 years and traveled extensively - there are lots of relatively unpopulated areas, and a lot of terrain that would pose challenges to power and comm networks, even in some of the most densely populated areas. So the usual arguments don't not hold up.

Uranium is a metallic element, mined as a mineral - and not organic in any sense of the word.

Oil, or petroleum is decomposed plant and animal matter, organic sources and still organic in nature.
The subject of the chemistry of polymers and oil based substances (as well material sourced from anything that was once alive) is Organic Chemistry.

Organic in chemistry generally refers to anything that is or was alive. In other subjects, organic is used to describe things that are natural and not "manufactured".

The commercial term Organic - as used for produce, does not refer to the crops themselves, it refers to the method of growing them, which does not employ industrially derived fertilizers or pesticides, and using manure, etc as fertilizers.

In actuality the term is misleading, since most of the industrial fertilizers and pesticides are produced from organic sources, and minerals, which can be used to enrich organic crops, are inorganic substances.

Plastic, which is a polymer, is usually made from oil - which is organic. Some plastic is made from vegetable matter, which is also organic.

As an employee I never received overtime pay for being on call or overtime, though I always got comp time.

Technically contracting and consulting are not the same thing.

As a contractor, I've always been paid by the hour for a specific time span, when the contract expired it was extended or dropped. As far as support, I didn't get paid unless I was actually called in - my contracts always stated terms and rates. On some contracts there were ceilings on the amount I could bill.

As a consultant (current situation) I have specific deliverables, and scheduled dates for delivery. I'm paid a fixed amount for the work, with the final payment held until the acceptance conditions are met. My contracts usually include a support rider as well, for 6 months to a year after acceptance. further support requires a new contract. In any case there's no payment unless there's a problem. If I'm called in and the cause of the problem is determined not to be a "fault" in what I've delivered, I'm paid at a specified rate, otherwise, I eat the time.