Not "repacked", but "re-placed". And it happens so rarely because no one will assume the liability of anything ever going wrong with the replacement. Should you have a crash and the airbag doesn't deploy, guess who's going to be sued? (answer: who ever replaced that airbag.)
Where "from the manufacturer" is far too often "type VIN into a box on a web page." VW has actually made that process much harder over the years. It used to be a 4-5 digit code on the VIN tag that came with the car. Today, the immobilizer code can only be accessed from the diagnostic computer connected to the car. (supposedly through a secure channel (SSL?) to the mothership. and may require some human interaction to allow it in the first place.) Of course, the code is fairly obvious once the ECU is disassembled.
Actually, almost everywhere around here, checks are processed just like a credit or debit card. In fact, the register will print everything necessary on the face of the check for you. Hand the cashier a check, they run it through the register (print), then through the EFT scanner, and hand it back to you. Some places want you to sign it and they put it in the drawer, others are done with it when it's handed back to you.
I don't hate them, but do hate how necessarily slow they are. The problem is with people who don't understand how they work. It's not the same as a cashier's lane. The self-checkout lanes use vision systems and scales to ensure you're scanning a single item and placing it in a bag. You cannot go fast because the system can't track you. If you're holding multiple items, it just confuses it. If you move too far away or take too long to scan the next item, it'll pause and wait for a human to sort out what's going on.
Not "robot"; Point-of-Sale terminal, the same touch screen showing pictures of everything on the menu they punch. I can tap on pictures just as well as they can -- given how inaccurate many orders turn out, I can likely do it BETTER. I've been begging for this sort of thing for YEARS.
Exactly. Waaaayyyy too convenient that "about 10 days" after returning he start showing symptoms. And I'm supposed to believe he didn't know he'd been exposed.
He stole "coins", not money. He might as well have stolen rabbit droppings, or lawn clippings. The real-world money ("leafy green spendy money") came from people (read: "fools") who will trade real money for those things.
The only crime here is fraud and computer hacking ("unauthorized access", etc.) But as he's in one part of the world, breaking into systems in various other parts of the world, taking things from people in yet other parts of the world... nobody will bother pursuing him.
Actually, it's spelled rsync
30 years ago, MAYBE. Today, "0" could be answered by a call center anywhere. Your call a) might not be answered by a human at all, or b) might not be answered by someone on the same continent.
Right, so I can pay $30+ per month for something I might use once in my lifetime, or $20/mo for unlimited text that I [i]will[/i] use every day. You failed elementary school math, didn't you?
(Also factor in the number of LECs (read: Verizon, and AT&T) doing everything they can to do away with POTS, and it's even more a waste of money. FYI, if you have FiOS, your copper loop was removed, and is forever more not an option.)
So, in your world, jackbooted thugs show up and forcefully remove your car to have recall service(s) performed? It is, and always will be, the responsibility of the current owner to get anything wrong with the car fixed -- recall or not.
Well, for recall service that was done at a dealer.
If God had not given us sticky tape, it would have been necessary to invent it.
