Probably related to that:

https://www.gerbenlaw.com/blog...

Seems similar to 'rounded corners' in reach...

Since a few years here in Québec/Canada, Restaurants are obligated by law to give a paper receipt in hand even if the customer doesn't want it. They need to throw it out themselves if they don't want it. A special section is added to the receipt by the black box of the gouvernement and they don't even compensate for the additional paper and wear and tear of the printer! Inspectors are visiting restaurants and handing out penalties if those laws are not respected... Total Opposite...

Most cars leases from Kia and Hyundai are financed by real public banks that are completely separate entities like Scotia Bank for example. The public bank paperwork is indeed signed at the dealership. In this case, this finance company is part of the Beaucage Group who owns at least two dozen dealerships that I could count. They seem to provide higher risk loans. I live in Sherbrooke and like most people I distrust car dealership. I personally think that wide spread abuses will eventually make people want a dealership-less model like Tesla.

What I meant by the 'dude accepted' was that he accepted to have the GPS Tracker installed in his car. If you read the story carefully you will see that this is not what is contested here. As I stated in my original post, the client says that the 200$ removal fee was not agreed upon and certainly not the use of the tracker to immobilize the car. It is certainly a shocking story and if it turns out that it wasn't in the contract, he could sue the Finance company easily for money lost. Moral damages are not that high here.

If it turns out that there was a GPS removal clause and fees were specified, the finance company acted within its right even if it did so stupidly for a small amount.

Either way, this will damage their reputation rightly OR not depending on what the facts will provide.

Seems standard practice to me to put a GPS Tracker/Immobilizer on a high risk loan from a finance company. The clients was informed and has accepted the situation. The only problem is the use of the immobilizer for a 200$ unpaid fee in which the fee AND the use are debatable in the first place. I have first hand information that the finance company activated the immobilizer and not the dealer. In that scenario, by not removing the device free of charge, in their mind they lose the 200$ fee and the device itself on top of lose the high interest in that loan since the client paid the balance. I also have first hand information that this fee will not be charged to the client. The rest is a civil mater and if the contract really doesn't mention this removal fee, it doesn't look good for the finance company.

Unfortunately, even if the dealership itself was not involved it has already taken a hit from the bad reporting. Remember that this is how Donald Trump won the election, by spreading fear,uncertainty and doubt about his enemies and promising the undeliverable moon to his supporters.

You had years if not decades to prepare for this. I'm looking at you too Mazda, Subaru, Honda and Toyota with your absent or weak offering.... You had the facilities, the know how and the people. Instead startups developed the technology from scratch as most of you chose to drag your feet as slowly as possible to artificially preserve your old business model. Now you're crying over the fact the you're not ready and that the world is changing too fast... You don't deserve ANY pity as you are the artisan of your own demise.

Back in the early 1990 I started a BBS running Wildcat BBS on one node in a small town in Québec/Canada. It quickly became bigger. I quit my day job as a financial/cost analyst and I had to add many other nodes and my house was soon overrun by network cables and computer hardware...

In 1993 I added internet email using UUCP and newsgroups unsing PlanetConnect satellite service and migrated to a full PPP connection provider in 1995. I was able to get broadband connection from my Telco and began connecting high speed Internet client in 1997. I sold that company in 2001 to a bigger ISP but it was the best experience of my whole life. Just remembering and writing these details brings me goosebumps! Things were moving quickly on the hardware and software front. I was using Livingston Portmaster 2 and Portmaster 3 hardware (I kept them as a souvenir). A PM3's cost was 25,000$ and an equivalent Cisco unit was 50,000$+! I can proudly say that I developed my first Web App in 1994, it was a online payment system for my ISP business.

After 2001 I kept going as an IT consulted/Developer and still doing it today. Several years ago I bought a maple and I take time off during maple season to make maple syrup and server traditional sugar shack meal to my clients. Those are the last 25 years of my life... Many more to come I hope.

JF.

I was on that plan and I recently received the email. Here's the exact wording:

"Hello,

We recently learned that you received an email incorrectly announcing your Unlimited Photos plan was being changed into an Unlimited Storage trial. We're very sorry about this. We meant to let you know that the Unlimited Photos storage plan is no longer available, but you can continue to use your plan until it ends.

To make up for this, we are giving you 12 free months of the Unlimited Storage plan, which lets you store as many photos, videos, and other files as you like. When your promotional Unlimited Storage plan ends, you will be charged $59.99 for a one-year plan. You can cancel your promotional plan at any time.

This offer is valid until your current plan expires. Please accept this offer on your “Manage Storage” page: https://www.amazon.com/gp/phot...

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Sincerely,

Customer Service Department
Amazon.com"

I will take the freebie but not sure if I'm going to continue after that. I have 2.5TB of uploaded RAW photos. It took a while to upload that and it sucks that I may have to do it again. The freebie will expire in 2018 so we'll see what's available at that point.

To the developers:

Find that line of code: remaining_sentence = (base_sentence - good_behavior) + (extra_time - good_behavior)

Replace with this line: remaining_sentence = (base_sentence - good_behavior) + extra_time

There...fixed it for you.

Hope this help.

They already took a piss 2 years ago when they went closed source. Now they want to take a big steamy dump with their iTune for 3D printing.

The thingiverse repository as we know it may change completely.

Their first and foremost goal seem to divorce completely from the knowledgeable maker community and attend to the ignorant mass consumer flock who dean't know better.

The movie 'Print the legend' is really interesting to watch and Bre Petis really takes a hit from many comments. He's being called an a-hole by is ex VP Marketing!

Most people don't know what that but you are 100% correct.

I do 2 things to earn a living. I'm an IT Consultant and I operate a maple farm. We use Reverse Osmosis to separate most of the water from the maple sugar crystals. For me, pure water is the waste and the rest is my base product that I boil later.

My small RO machine can produce around 800 gallons of pure water in an hour depending on the pressure I apply on the membrane. With a properly maintained membrane, only H2O is produced, no viruses, no bacteria and no antibiotics can get beyond the membrane.. So yes, it is purer than well or tap water even the natural minerals are removed (they need to be re-added later). The pure water then created will often get polluted by the distribution pipes themselves however.

I would have no problem at all drinking waste water from Reverse Osmosis Filtrate.

Internet satellite usually come from a single Geosynchronous satellite which is located at a 42,000km orbit. At the speed of light it take 280 msec to cross that distance back and forth and you can add some more delays for the earth network time. This delay doesn't affect streaming or downloads but it will affect lag sensitive operations like ssh, gaming, vpn, voip, etc.

The proposed 700 sat network will most likely be in low earth orbit like the iridium satellites at around 750km. At that altitude, the delay becomes 5 msec which is more than reasonable.

Their Falcon Heavy launcher would be able to launch more than 50 of those in one shot bring the launch cost at just under 2M per bird witch is quite cheap.

Nice reference...

I think that the real motives of the NRA has more to do with the liberty of companies to sell guns than with the liberty of people to own them.

If it ever come to the point were guns sales plummet 50% because people are 3D Printing them for a few dollars instead of purchasing them from gun manufacturers for a few 100s... I would be curious to see the NRA's reaction.

Just sayin...

I agree, I was just pointing out that it wasn't the first time that Voltage did that here. If anything, the current landscape should weaken their claim but since the 'offenses' possibly took place before the new law maybe they will be subject to the 'old' law.