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Comment Re:Jackpot (Score 1) 617

Why are you so mad when I state the truth that the guy was a jerk for adding conditions after an agreement?

Because you're a liar, because that is not what happened. One last time, then I'm done with you forever. He agreed to send the stuff back, he did not agree to pay for it. When he contacted them for shipping instructions, they failed to provide them. He did not add any conditions. They failed to live up to their end of the transaction. You are lying. Stop lying. It only makes you a liar.

Comment Re:Cherry-pick, much? (Score 1) 586

Maybe you missed that President Obama recently decreed that insurance policies didn't have to be cancelled, that enforcement would be pushed out?

The federal policies allow for that. If states shit on their citizens, that's not the federal government's fault.

regulators in at least a half dozen states, including Indiana, say they wonâ(TM)t allow insurers to do it and many more have yet to decide

See? Your citation shows that it's the states, not the federal government, which are actually causing this problem. You included the antidote to your bullshit in your own citation! Slashdotfail.

Comment Re:All Tomorrow's Excuses (Score 1) 216

It didn't stop the greenhouse effect overall, though, did it? Because sufficient impetus wasn't given to citizens or to governments to avoid expelling greenhouse gases. Especially when it's an issue of what's coming out of your whip cream canister, it gives you little reason to put thought behind that next cut of steak you're going to put that whip cream onto.

Whipping cream is propelled by Nitrous Oxide. Comment invalidated.

Comment Re:Why not just do this using batteries? (Score 1) 296

It's a good idea, but you don't use batteries for this. They are horrible. The charging losses will be greater than your savings;

You then go on to suggest the use of a power storage mechanism that depends on the grid, which is completely irrelevant to the current discussion, and which also has even greater losses than using batteries. What?

Comment Re:Electric cars are impressive power houses (Score 1) 296

Doing it on a classic UNIMOG would make sense, because it has 88hp and it's a fuel sipper. Also, the engine is designed to take lots of idling hours. It's already got a PTO. Doing it on your truck doesn't make sense. There isn't room to attach a generator that really makes use of the whole engine, and your engine isn't designed for long idling periods. You'll have to add a PTO, which is expensive all by itself.

It makes more sense to just buy a generator.

Comment Re:Please grow up (Score 2) 131

I've got nothing wrong with enormous breasts or skimpy costumes, but is the gaming industry really happy being a male-only endeavor?

You're forgetting the lucrative lipstick lesbian market.

Seriously though, as long as boobs sell stuff, we'll have boobs everywhere.

Comment Re:Go ALL THE WAY OUT! (Score 1) 153

The US is one of the least dense countries in the world -- especially at its population.

Yes, and no. If you ignore the most rural 20% of the US, Britain, and France, there's really not that much of a difference.

Yes, and right now the problem is that there's lots of people in the USA with no broadband internet access at all, and even more who can't get anything worth using. That's a bigger problem than that some people can't get super-fast broadband.

Comment Re:Go ALL THE WAY OUT! (Score 1) 153

The last mile in the boonies is where cellphones don't work well, so people haven't abandoned their land line service. It's also where you can't get decent internet access. I have access from a regional WISP, which charges me $45/mo for 1Mbps bursting to 3 (but mostly 1) and am about to move to another one which will give me a bit more for a bit less.

Comment Re:This isn't about animal rights (Score 1) 370

If they were seriously interested in the humane treatment of animals, they would be pushing for tighter restrictions on mistreatment and better living conditions of corporate farm animals.

Just like if the GNOME developers were seriously interested in improving GUIs for Linux, they would work on KDE, or vice versa?

You are engaging in logical fallacy, and it saddens but does not surprise me to see your comment at the top of the discussion.

Comment Re:Why not just do this using batteries? (Score 1) 296

It makes sense because the batteries are already sitting there, in this hypothetical scenario in which the average business has that many EVs sitting around in front of it all day which is actually highly likely. And perhaps the company could simply offer those vehicles to employees on some sort of basis, such as under a lease or as a reward for performance, and write the cost of their ownership off entirely and be able to reap the benefits of having the power storage on hand.

Comment Re:Jackpot (Score 2) 617

If he had originally said "If you send me the correct items and a return shipping label, I'll return the wrong items" and they sent him the correct items without a shipping label, he's not a jerk for keeping them. But changing the deal after it's made makes him a jerk.

Is the sky brown on the planet of the assholes? You would never, ever pay return shipping on something you didn't order in exchange for something you did. Never. That is always the retailer's fault. They always have to provide return shipping. Unless you explicitly state otherwise, that is the default mode of operation. Further, this is ordinarily handled by including the return shipping slip in the top of box with the correct merchandise, so that the buyer can simply open the box, slap a self-adhesive label on the old shipping box, and send it away with the delivery agent.

What we're talking about here is an etailer acting incompetently and sending product which will not fulfill the original order's purpose, then continuing to act incompetently by not providing return shipping instructions or labels to the extent that they made it clear that they were not interested in receiving the original goods. Eventually they will have likely written this off as some form of theft not worth attempting to recover, which will have been fraudulent as it was entirely due to their failure to do business in the standard fashion.

That doesn't make anyone in this scenario anything but incompetent, except for you. Because you're calling someone a jerk for expecting business to be done as usual, you're an asshole.

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