Comment Re:Who buys them? (Score 1) 668
I can reasonably extrapolate from my present experience.
No, you can't... You really have no idea how you'll respond, nor do most people, unless they have been there...
I can reasonably extrapolate from my present experience.
No, you can't... You really have no idea how you'll respond, nor do most people, unless they have been there...
The irony is that you can purchase a working tank... that even shoots... but you can't buy a newly made fully automatic rifle...
More proof that our laws can sometimes be silly...
Granted, the NFA was created for a reason, mail order Thomson Submachine Guns did get out of hand (however not to the extent that the media portrays).
That being said, the Hughes Amendment is in direct violation of the 2nd Amendment and is unconstitutional. But what else is new, so is a whole lot of what our government does and few people seem to care.
And I won't ever be in enough pain to try something that I know won't work.
You actually don't know that...
Or, for the same amount of effort and frustration, just install one of the Linux variants and try an OS where at least you don't get charged for the privilege of being abused...
Nice idea, I keep seeing people saying that...
But Linux doesn't run Windows programs and there are a LOT of Windows only programs.
Until that changes, Linux isn't an option...
The Pope holds a great deal of moral authority.
Says who, you?
I frankly think the Pope and the entire Catholic Church is without any moral authority whatsoever.
Of course, to true believers, why I believe that won't matter, nothing will change their minds anyway.
For me even Windows 8.1 is not stable. I do a dism and a WindowsUPDATE FIXIT every freaking month! Literally after 2 years 8.1 still corrupts itself with updates.
The problem might well be on your end then...
I have Windows 8.1 on many computers, it is solid as a rock, I have no complaints.
My main work machine is still on 7, only because I have it setup just so and I'm happy with it, but all my secondary machines have 8.1 on them, with a single XP box for testing purposes.
10 is just fine, relax...
I buy things from Amazon pretty regularly for both business and personal needs. Out of 50+ orders in the last 2 years, I've had 2 packages show up late and got a free month extension of my Prime benefits each time just by asking for it.
Amazon's customer service is, frankly, second to none... They are rather old-school in terms of "the customer is always, always right... make them happy at almost any cost..."
In return, I buy almost everything from Amazon, from computer parts to paper towels...
Sometimes said "small tweaks" to improve sales --- instead of involving changes to the product, involve employees or paid shills to buy the product and write favorable reviews.
If the product is a less popular one that doesn't have a large amount of purchases and only has a relatively small number of reviews, then these changes could further facilitate artificial score inflation.
You are assuming that the announced changes are the only ones being made.
If I were Amazon, I'd also secretly place reviews from established accounts with long purchase histories ahead of those that are new and haven't bought much.
Someone who has purchased 500 unique items should have more "weight" than someone who has bought 5.
IMHO of course.
I could be missing something, but frankly everything I read in the summery seems like reasonable changes to me.
Someone who actually is known to have purchased the item, yea, their review should be worth more than random Internet person #4827341
A review from last month is probably worth more than one from two years ago. The product may have changed.
The problem is this: he could have been reading that section while doing research on a mystery novel, acting as editor for that section of Wikipedia article on that book or just got interrupted a lot and had to go back. Or any number of other innocent actions.
All true, but that is why the requirement to convict isn't "proof beyond all doubt", it is "proof beyond a reasonable doubt".
If the wife was murdered at home, the husband has no alibi, no one else's DNA was found, and the wife was killed in the manor in which the husband researched a week before and read 27 times...
That likely is plenty to get a conviction.
Nothing is unlimited... by your definition, nothing could ever be called unlimited...
Reasonable people are not so black and white...
Well your honor, not only did the defendant purchase "How to murder your spouse", he read the page on poison techniques 37 times and only read the rest of the book twice. Since the autopsy indicates death by poison as described by the page in question, I rest my case.
And frankly, if that DID happen, then he probably DID kill his wife... and he should go to prison...
I fail to see the problem...
You advertise "unlimited" anything, it better be unlimited and fuck them if they don't deliver.
There are reasonable and understood limits to "unlimited" in most situations.
Imagine an all-you-can-eat buffet. Within reason, eat all you like... to a point...
I imagine you can't go there for Breakfast and sit there all day working on your laptop while eating slowly all day long. I also imagine you won't have much of a case when they ask you to leave. They might even refund you, to avoid issues, then ask you to not come back.
There has to be some level of reasonable to the whole thing. Besides, "unlimited" has almost always had conditions, such as not using it for business purposes or for 24/7 downloading.
Yep, that is why I sold them once I got married and had kids...
You can go through a few thousand dollars of ammo in an afternoon without trying very hard...
Is there only 1? I thought there were at least 3.
I'm pretty sure there are 6 M134 miniguns that can be transferred, but that number might change over time for various reasons.
I'd fully expect to pay six figures for a M249, but it would be easier to get a post-86 "demo" gun to use for movies and events, rather than a pre-86 gun.
Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem. -- P.D. Ouspensky
