Well Pablo Picasso fathered Paloma when he was 68, not that he would have used birth control had it been available through his medical insurance plan, but since you mentioned it ..

As for the "cervical pap smears for your male child", would you mind very much if I asked you to provide a citation? This sounds like a very interesting bit of arcania if it is true, though I doubt that it's true.

And I wondered if the decrease in "voluntary departures" (e.g., "I quit") was a simple consequence of the increase in "involuntary departures" (e.g., "You're fired").

Or the state of the job market could be affecting the "voluntarily departing" crowd's decision to wait a bit before their announcing their departure.

Not the same. HP will have the patches available for download because their customers with a valid support contract in place will be entitled to download them.

HP has already sold the hardware product and finally done the work to create and stage the patches that they claim will fix the mistakes they had in place when they sold the hardware.

The difference is that if you don't pay the extortion money for a valid support contract for your out of warranty server, they will no longer let you have the patches they already made to fix the bugs they already shipped you.

If only there were some other enterprise class server vendor that we could purchase from. But who? Where?

Beneath the surface means everything when picking up a one night stand.

But to seriously address the underlying issue, attending to the "less attractive" women might sometimes lead to a very satisfying, loving, lifelong relationship. So Nash not only offered good betting advice but also may have been something of a cupid for his friends; does anyone here know if any of those pickups developed into something like a love affair or a marriage?

The stuff that ships "free" via Prime also ships "free" via their SuperSaver (slower) shipping method if your order is over $35 (raised recently from $25).

There's a lot of stuff on Amazon that is not Prime (or SuperSaver) eligible though.

Also, if you buy the $400 GoPro Hero through amazon prime, and there's an issue with it, they will ship you a new one before you drop yours, for free return, into a UPS box.

Recently I ordered a light fixture with a glass shade and an Intel CPU at the same time. Apparently Amazon decided to package these two items together to ship them to me via Prime. After a few days I checked the tracking info and found that FedEx had returned the shipment as damaged before it even entered the state that I reside in. I decided to wait to see what Amazon was going to do next.

Five days after the "guaranteed" delivery date I received email from Amazon saying that "A shipment from your order (#xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) for the following item(s) has been returned as undeliverable ... If you haven't already requested a replacement order or received a replacement notification, you'll receive a refund notification soon, in which case you may return to our website and place a new order."

They then refunded the price of the CPU. I waited a few days more to see whether they were going to add on a refund for the fixture. No. So I emailed them to note that neither the fixture nor the CPU were delivered to me and that I'd appreciate a refund on the fixture also. They then promptly refunded that.

I was curious about the "extra month of Prime" that I had read about on other discussions so I waited some more, but no, no such offer was forthcoming. This time I didn't write to Amazon to ask.

I didn't reorder the fixture yet but I ordered the CPU for $20 less with free shipping from Fry's. And now it's backordered from there :-)

So what is my point? I digress.

There's a checkbox to disable auto-renewal.

But in fairness, the gallon with the $120,000 price tag has been quality checked by the seller:

Brand new item. Opened once to check the
contents. Ships fast from NY.

I would propose that you calm down and think that perhaps the person in front of your car is moving slower than you would like for a good reason.

Although it's always possible that they are purposely trying to make you late for your appointment, it's also possible that they need to think a moment more to avoid making a dangerous mistake. Or that slow moving pedestrian might be experiencing a bit of pain from the bullet that lodged in his leg back in the war and it might be slowing him down a little.

Most times it won't kill you to chill out. No need to smile though.

I encountered this and did the same thing you did once the data was recovered.

But does anyone have a clue as to why WD is using these "encrypting" controllers? The encryption isn't safeguarding the user's data (because so far as they can tell, through the USB interface, the data is in cleartext, duh). And it doesn't look like it's doing anything for WD's reputation either to make it so difficult to recover data when the controller fails. So what's the point?

In mid-December 1987, Miniscribe's management, with Wiles' approval and Schleibaum's assistance, engaged in an extensive cover-up which included recording the shipment of bricks as in-transit inventory. To implement the plan, Miniscribe employees first rented an empty warehouse in Boulder, Colorado, and procured ten, forty-eight foot exclusive-use trailers. They then purchased 26,000 bricks from the Colorado Brick Company.

On Saturday, December 18, 1987, Schleibaum, Taranta, Huff, Lorea and others gathered at the warehouse. Wiles did not attend. From early morning to late afternoon, those present loaded the bricks onto pallets, shrink wrapped the pallets, and boxed them. The weight of each brick pallet approximated the weight of a pallet of disk drives. The brick pallets then were loaded onto the trailers and taken to a farm in Larimer County, Colorado.

Miniscribe's books, however, showed the bricks as in-transit inventory worth approximately $4,000,000. Employees at two of Miniscribe's buyers, CompuAdd and CalAbco, had agreed to refuse fictitious inventory shipments from Miniscribe totaling $4,000,000. Miniscribe then reversed the purported sales and added the fictitious inventory shipments into the company's inventory records.

Find the full text here: http://www.justice.gov/osg/briefs/1996/w961430w.txt

Now, though, Seagate is not Miniscribe.

Yet it appears that the state (OH) has concluded that the child may be best served by having a family (via adoptive parents) rather than spending his or her life shuttled between foster homes and/or orphanages. In the latter cases the state would also be helping to pay for the needs of the child but the child would not have the benefit of a (hopefully) loving (hopefully) permanent family. So maybe the $3K loan is not such a bad idea after all.

Sure, Dell and HP do the same. But how much does that same HD cost when you purchase it with your system from {Lenovo, Dell, HP} versus the cost when you purchase it from {NewEgg, TigerDirect, Amazon, Frys, ..}?

And the warranty from {Lenovo, Dell, HP} ends when the system warranty ends, so if your original system had a 1 year warranty, then so did your hard drive, and your CPU, and your memory. But if I buy an "Enterprise class" HD as a component I get a 5 year warranty; a solid brand name motherboard carries a 3 year warranty, a reatil boxed CPU gives me a 3 year warranty, and memory typically carries a "lifetime" warranty.

But to each his/her own :-)

Well, they want you to run SeaTools and give them an error code but if you can't (e.g., last drive I returned just wasn't accessible to the OS) they'll accept it anyway so long as you state why it's not available .. I think that option is actually on their RMA web form.

But yeah, almost everybody these days seems to expect you to pay to ship back the failed product. I agree this is a bad consumer policy because it encourages shipment of crap without penalty (or at least with the consumer bearing part of the penalty). However my last Seagate return was for a warranty replacement that failed within a week or so after receiving it; I told them I didn't think we ought to have to pay again to ship it back to them and they agreed and sent a prepaid shipping label. It's become quite rare for a manufacturer to pay for RMA returns, so I don't fault Seagate specifically but I do fault consumers in general for not making a louder fuss about that.

My favorite is some warranties that not only have you pay for RMA shipping but also some additional fee to cover their own shipping/handling/bullshit back to you. (E.g., Maglite flashlights.)

What problems did you have? I've RMA'd several Seagate drives over the years without difficulty; they even cross-shipped a drive after taking my credit card info for collateral in case I didn't return the failed drive.