Comment Re:Not just pin numbers! (Score 1) 289
Citibank, Bank of America, Discover and Paypal all offer disposable card numbers. American Express used to, but apparently stopped around 2004.
Citibank, Bank of America, Discover and Paypal all offer disposable card numbers. American Express used to, but apparently stopped around 2004.
The $6K was most likely charged back to the merchants, leaving them with the loss. They will, in turn, have to raise prices.
The consumer gets screwed directly when someone else is allowed to get a credit card in their name.
If the merchants didn't eat the chargebacks, the banks would, which would require them to raise interest rates and/or fees, screwing the consumer in the end.
I wanted to read the actual court opinion so I logged into PACER, the official web site of the US federal courts. I was unable to find any opinion (or even any docketed case) for a Paul Little or Max Hardcore dealing with obscenity in ANY federal appeals court.
Does anyone have the docket number or a copy of the opinion?
For a debt, I don't think such a law exists. From http://www.ustreas.gov/education/faq/currency/legal-tender.shtml#q1:
The page goes on to further explain that private businesses can refuse certain denominations as an exchange for services, but that would not seem to pertain in this situation.
Science is necessary for medical treatments meaning saving and improving lives. Animals are not more important than humans and if X animals have to die so that countless human lives can be saved / horrible medical conditions can be treated so that their quality of life is better, then yes, it's a worthwhile trade off.
Your argument would have a point if we were talking about human testing against people's will (as was done during the Holocaust). However, since we're talking about animal testing, the ethics part doesn't fit in.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ethics
ethics
–plural noun
1. (used with a singular or plural verb) a system of moral principles: the ethics of a culture.
2. the rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions or a particular group, culture, etc.: medical ethics; Christian ethics.
3. moral principles, as of an individual: His ethics forbade betrayal of a confidence.
4. (usually used with a singular verb) that branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and to the goodness and badness of the motives and ends of such actions.
Your moral principals allow you to see yourself apart from and above other animals. While you are not unique in this view, it does not make you right.
Even if one was to concede that humans are indeed superior to other animals, the argument could be made stating that very superiority gives us a moral obligation to not abuse the other animals for humanity's gain.
This topic has ethical implications all over it. For what it's worth, I am not intending to convey a particular side in this discussion. My only intention is to give light to the fact that a discussion is possible.
Did you see the customer review?
Under Amazon's recommendation of this item as a great gift idea, I bought one for my new golden lab. He wasn't very thrilled with it. After gnawing on it a little (no too much damage), it just sat in the corner of his doghouse collecting shedded hair and drool.
Posted today...
3 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Not so great of a gift, January 5, 2010
Then get to flying. Imagine and old, rich, white, male. Way over represented on aircraft. What are his odds of dying in a terrorist plane attack?
Now look at the senate, or the house, or the upper management at CNN. Maybe you'll see why we get so much attention paid to plane attacks.
How many of those in the Senate, or in a senior management position with CNN fly using commercial air lines? What percentage of people exerting significant influence on Senators, or CNN's senior management do? How would your demographic argument hold up if this statistic was known and accounted for?
In a RATIONAL world, **one** terrorism flag (i.e. one-way ticket, buying with cash, no luggage, watch list, etc) would yield pulling the passenger aside and "enhanced investigation": two flags, and the person is getting a very thorough body and luggage search, and three or more flags, it's grab the latex gloves, because it's a strip-search and fine-tooth comb search through luggage and posessions.
So if I decide to buy a car 600 miles away, buy a one-way plane ticket with cash and only carry a small bag (or just a book/magazine to read on the plane), you think I should be physically violated (one-way ticket, paid cash, no luggage)?
That doesn't sound very rational to me.
DRM doesn't make any sense on books. No one even has to "crack" it -- it only takes one person with access to type the book into an open format and distribute it.
Type the books? Why would you do that? Just scan them.
The publishers can either suck it up and realize this, or lose out to the pirates who provide a better, more convenient product for zero cost.
Uh. No. Satellite (at worst) is geosynchronous, which is 500 to 900ms round trip [satsig.net].
IP round trip time from Host A to Host B is measured as: amount of time it takes for Host A to send a message to Host B and then receive a response.
Agreed.
It will take 500 to 900ms for Host A's transmission to go up the satellite link and be received on the ground, and carried to Host B's ISP.
If by "carried to Host B's ISP" you mean sent up to a satellite and back down to an earthstation, I agree. If this traffic is terrestrial, then no.
Then when Host B sends the reply, and it goes from Host B's ISP to the satellite link, it will take another 500 to 900ms to reach Host A.
Again, not unless another satellite hop is involved.
So, the Round trip is actually 1000 to 1800ms.
Geostationary orbit (where communications satellites are generally parked) is 35,786 km. Run the calculation with accurate numbers: 500 to 900 ms round trip. Or just search for "geosynchronous orbit latency in ms". Like so.
Satellite is a high-latency service up to 500 to 900ms one way.
Uh. No. Satellite (at worst) is geosynchronous, which is 500 to 900ms round trip.
The result is that it's slow/unusable for many types of applications, which can't handle a 1 second round-trip delay.
By many applications, you mean some games. Video Teleconferencing works just fine. Many free offerings (such as Skype) work less-fine, but do still work.
In other words, it's not "broadband".
That depends entirely on the definition of "broadband". If you narrowly define it to include lower than 100ms latency (which I have never seen a definition do), it can't be. But if you just specify bandwidth...
You won't be comfortable trying to use VoIP over satellite, and streaming media won't work at all without a stout amount of pre-buffering.
Streaming media only needs bandwidth. VOIP only needs reasonably low jitter. Both are achievable over satellite. YouTube, internet radio, gametrailers.com all work quite well. I even know a number of WOW players who are on the far end of a satellite connection.
While it's far from ideal, it certainly beats dial-up, which may very well also have to pass data through a satellite transponder. There are areas of the country that are not even serviced by copper.
Whether or not you believe he is making it a better country isn't the issue, either... -He- believes that (and so do many others) and he's working on his beliefs.
That's an admirable thing.
So you're saying he's kinda like Jack Thompson?
Except for the part where he's (NYCL) not unprofessional enough to get disbarred, there are certainly similarities. Passion, theatrics, showmanship... I'd have to tip the scales on talent and intelligence in NYCL's favor, though.
In the US (well, the parts I've paid attention to) "real property" is the land and anything attached to it. If you can lift it and carry it out (with or without help) with nothing more than disconnecting it from utilities (or something like a dryer vent) then it not part of the real property.
SNIP
It's rude and a violation of contract to remove anything "secured" to the grounds, and you have to unscrew [the light bulbs] to take them, so they are part of the real property.
So how exactly does your clothes washer connect to the plumbing?
I don't think that the bulbs in the fixtures (as opposed to the existence of some bulbs in the fixtures) is likely to be a point of contention with the law (unless the contract governing transference of ownership says otherwise. YMMV, IANAL, etc.
Looks like he went Tampa to London via Houston (used to be Intercontinental) and then mysteriously flew from Charles DeGaulle in Paris back to Tampa via Newark. (Hmmmmmm.. what of the missing segment? Hmm? Hmm?!!!)
They have these crazy things in Europe called "trains" that connect city centres without having to hang around in an unfashionable suburb for a few hours waiting to be put into a metal tube. You don't even have to take your shoes off to get on them.
Silly Europeans always have such a skewed sense of geography. Newark to Tampa is 1,000 miles, exactly. It's a two and a half hour flight and a 20 hour train ride.
Tampa->Houston->London [missing segment] Paris->Newark->Tampa
Newark to Tampa was a plane ride. London to Paris was the "missing segment" and is a very manageable 214 miles with a 1st class ticket price available from 99GBP.
Yeah, some good advice. I'm married, and while my wife isn't geeky, the same "rules" apply in all marriages, IMO:
Best of luck for your future together! I don't regret getting married for a second.
PS. Also, let her win at things, no matter how good you are. Trust me on this one. Oh, and when you ask her if she's okay and she says, "Nothing's wrong.", give her a hug, because something is definitely wrong!
Add to this:
It's worked for me and my wife for almost 30 years now.
Good luck!
Further additions...
* http://www.violentacres.com/archives/88/a-peaceful-marriage-is-not-always-5050
Your files are now being encrypted and thrown into the bit bucket. EOF
