Yeah can''t stand the stuff either. I tried it 4 different times in life (16, 21, 25, 28) and each time tastes disgusting. Only way to make it drinkable is loading it with cream and sugar, but what's the point, it isn't even coffee anymore, and the no calorie drink all of a sudden turns into a high carb high fat drink.

If you actually HAD to follow every single guidelines, the app store would have almost nothing on it.
I recently submitted a book to the iBook store, and we were worried because it blatantly broke a few of the rules. We were going to correct them but thought, eh let's just submit it and will fix it if it gets rejected. Well it got rejected, but for an entirely different reason (some broken links that we didn't even know existed). Fixed those, resubmitted, and was approved.

Exactly, my one friend did this with PC games. He would buy the game from Electronics Boutique, burn them, then return it claiming it didn't work. After about a dozen returns or so he was banned from the store. (Note: this was back in the mid 90s when CD burners were extremely expensive, so they had a no questions asked full refund on video games since this system wasn't widely abused).

yes worst part in Canada is definitely Quebec, but Windsor is really a shit-hole. Everyone hates Windsor.

Omg I am a professional php developer I didn't even know these functions existed, I thought you were joking and had to look it up. Don't think I would ever have a use for them

Well then they will just add a surcharge. On my hydro bill there is an "adjustment factor" that accounts for line loss. It is usually a couple percent extra. Really there is no difference except for the hydro company being more transparent. However, it is easy for people to understand that there is line loss, so probably not many question it. If the ISPs started adding a "line loss" surcharge called ATM/PPPoE encapsulation most people would think it is some BS surcharge and a way to make extra money. So why not just be easy and incorporate the extra 15% into the bandwidth usage instead.

Things do get more tricky with caps on whether the 15% extra should be included against the cap or not, and I don't know the answer.

No he was friends with the owner.

They did friendly competition, sometimes when he did get a government contract he didn't even like it because it goes too slow (having to deal with an engineer for pretty much everything, and everything moving at a snails pace), he said now he understands why government projects take 10x longer than private company would take,

no it isn't bullshit. I live in canada where we even have stricter rules than the US and it still happens here. My dad owns a business and whenever he bids on government jobs his main competitor always wins the contract. Anyways when the owner of the compitor sold the company and retired my dad asked him how did he keep winning the contracts even though the bids were the same. The guy said easy, he would go to whoever is awarding the contract and say "how would your wife like a new washing machine?" and then magically a top of the line washing machine would show up at their house a couple days later (completely off the books of course, he would pay for it out of his own pocket, then just take a bonus out of the company to reimburse himself).

oh my god no. She finally figured out how to use email and open office. I don't know if you can "remote desktop" an android tablet.

Best way to annoy these guys is get them to call my grandma. She has 15 year old computer with 64MB ram that somehow runs xp. It literally takes 10 minutes to boot the pc. She also barely knows how to turn on the monitor. These guys were talking to my grandma for about 50 minutes when finally she said "maybe you should talk to my grandson he is in IT support", they promptly hung up after that.
She asked me if it was legit I said no, never ever listen to what these guys say because they will try to scam you and get your money. Unfortunetly sometimes she has a bad memory and 2 years later she fell to the exact same scam. I got her to call her credit card company to halt/cancel any payments, and I told her to buy a new pc because there was no way in hell I was reformatting a 64MB xp box. It took me over 2 hours just to backup documents.

actually i meant to say millennia

Ok, I agree with most of those, but how is dairy products processed? People been drinking milk and making cheese for centuries

Seriously? spanking kids can be productive. It is just like anything else in this world, punishment is not a one size fits all.
I respond well to physical punishment because i am not very tolerant to pain. So when I got spanked / wooden spooned, I wouldn't do it again because I didn't want the pain. Send me for a "timeout" big whoop-de-do I didn't find it as a punishment at all and would be at it again within 5 minutes of me being out of a timeout.
Where as my friend was complete opposite, spanking just made him furious and would make him lashout more, but giving him a timeout made him completely obedient.

Actually it is, and for exactly this. I made a decision that I wasn't going to buy an SSD until I could get a good one that was > 200GB at $0.5/gig just like this example. This was the price I was comfortable paying. I ended up getting a Samsung 840 EVO 250GB for exactly $125 (canadian) at staples.

I guess it depends on the company. I work for a small company with just 2 developers. We have A LOT of processes automated. If we didn't we would only be doing 1/4 the amount of work we currently do. Yes you know what sometimes automation breaks but we fix it. Also any automation that is done that only saves 10 minutes per day the person that was originally in charge of that work still is required to know how to do it manually so that if it eventually breaks it won't effect them other than opening a ticket and doing the process manually.
We get p(raises) for our automation and how much we can churn out.