You glossed over the important part there with the âoesome criteria they came up withâ. Bravo for sidestepping the actual conversation.

This whole debate is so weird to me. Android users constantly flout that Apple simply doesn't have any market share and their influence in the phone space is minuscule. A quick google says 81% Android vs 16% Apple, globally. If Apple phone users are so outnumbered, why the huge push to make them be "competitive" and "anti-monopolistic"? Shouldn't we be asking the Android users to do things differently, if anyone were to? Did anyone ever think perhaps the 16% of phone users specifically CHOSE the way Apple does things because they like it that way? Maybe they don't want there to be more than one App Store? Maybe they like that there are only a few choices? You are hell bent on changing the way they do things even though Apple is the one who spent the time, money, and brain power to create this entire architecture to protect their users. That you don't like it or understand it should in no way affect what happens here.

Here is the link you want. https://web.archive.org/web/20...

Yes there is, simply contact them and get an additional month of prime for free, I do it every time I have a late package, which is admittedly almost never. "Note: If you received free shipping with a guaranteed delivery date through Amazon Prime, you may be eligible for a free one-month extension if the delivery date isn't met. Prime extensions are limited to one per free trial, one per month for monthly members, and 12 for an annual membership."

2001, huh? What's really sad is that this is the honest truth. Macs just don't get spyware. Yes, it is "technically" possible to infect a mac, but it is a very rare occurrence, indeed. I've been in computer repair for the last 20 years, and the total number of macs I have ever seen with some sort of virus or spyware/malware is less than 5. I can actually remember each one individually. On the other hand, I couldn't begin to count the number of Windows PCs I've cleaned up with malware over the last two decades. It's staggering, on the order of 10,000:1 ratio. Of the 4 I have personally witnessed, as well as the handful or so I've heard about through colleagues, not a single one was a "drive-by" infection. They were ALL from a user who downloaded a questionable file and opened it, then put in their admin password to complete the infection. Contrast that with the 100's seen every month from Windows users who swear that they did nothing but check their email and are now knee deep in an infection. My kids use an iMac to play games and do homework. Not because I'm an elitist (the iMac is 9 years old), but because I don't want to spend any more time fixing their computers. In the last 4 years, I have never once had to fix a virus issue on their PC. Trust me, they've tried. I can see the infectious EXE's in the download folder, but I've stopped even clearing those out because they can't do any harm. Regardless of the scary stories you read here on slashdot, the simple fact is Mac malware just isn't an issue. Windows malware is a daily occurrence.

When viewing the actual image on eBay, simply change the final number (after the $ sign) to 57 and reload the link. Full sized, glorious image, works every time. Yes it's stupid but the real image IS there.

That's a complete lie. You can still get a Celeron G440 or G460 single core with up to 32gb DDR3 memory from Newegg right now, not to mention the thousands of options on used dells out there. If they truly need a single core machine, they are out there. Someone is being lazy or deceitful if they say otherwise.

That's a cop out I hear a lot. If you have a house payment, a car payment, insurance, cable, etc, then you can get a credit card. I got one when I lived in a dorm in college and had very little income, I was 18 at the time. If you have screwed up your credit so bad you can't get a credit card, perhaps you should work on that before you worry about buying all of this stuff online with your debit card?

And here we are again...

Ok, I know this is tough, but you just haven't figure out how to use credit cards yet. You obviously need to read up, a lot. And try to keep an open mind. I was where you are now once myself. I'd like to think I wasn't quite as cocky about my lack of knowledge as you are, but who knows.

Again, all of these issues you mention are debit card issues. stop using your personal bank account that you use for paying bills the same account as the one you give out online and all those problems will magically disappear.

30 isn't bullshit at all, I have about 15 at last count and I pared them down significantly in the last couple of years, mostly to make it easier to keep track of. Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean you should talk badly about their choices.

I usually don't bother to respond to posts like this, but this one is so blatantly off-base I feel compelled. What you experienced was not Credit Card theft. It was Debit Card theft. You can't be late on your mortgage payment because your credit card was stolen and/or used for unauthorized purchases because you are using THEIR money, not yours. While I agree that everything that happened to you was unfortunate, it all could have been easily avoided by using the cardinal rule of plastic, don't use it online if it's tied to YOUR money.

Every single item the parent mentioned is valid and true. If anyone does anything unwanted with your account, simply login and click dispute, or phone customer service and spend less than 5 minutes explaining. The bill doesn't even come out for ~30 days, and you have several months after that to get it reversed. Let them deal with it, it's their job not yours. You wasted 110 hours of your life, but have you changed the way you do things now? Or do you still use your debit card for all your purchases? If it happened once, it can and WILL happen again.

PS - Your anger is showing, you used the word "fuck" 4 times in your post. Calm down and be rational.

What you mean to say is that the government and the banks supported an industry in which they both feathered each others' nests for as long as it would take them to get obscenely rich.

They're bastards on both sides, and America is the slowest country in the world to realise this.

I said, "[UT] fees are being introduced in 2012." Typo! They are of course not being introduced until the middle of 2013. This coincides with various welfare and legal aid reforms, by which I mean reductions and eliminations. One day I will check my posts before posting, I promise...

About 25% of the British workforce is a member of a union. Not many people today spend their whole lives only in organised workplaces. Believing you have special knowledge means, in fact, that you have very little knowledge.

And you can certainly be called subjective while you're talking about your personal experience. Indeed, Unison is probably the best example of an overly politicised union, as well as being completely public sector, so unrepresentative of a mostly private sector workforce.

Compared to much of Europe, no it doesn't - and they're being thoroughly diluted.

That is one important purpose of unions, and the decline in membership has meant a corresponding weakening in labour laws. Unions also exist to ensure that labour laws are kept up-to-date, but this political angle that you perceive to be a major role is in fact a minor role, more relevant for associations of unions (e.g. the TUC).

The main purpose of a union is to facilitate a dialogue between the two sides of industry, primarily providing the voice of the workers. Workers present the grievances which cause higher staff turnover, lower productivity and (in the worst cases) desperate dishonesty, and management provide solutions which fit in with the organisation's constraints (profit or budgetary). In order to do this, unions keep their members informed about the law and company practices. They monitor for both statutory and non-statutory abuses. If negotiation should fail, they provide legally trained staff to represent their members.

With the exception of health & safety and the vague comment about pension provision (we've always had pension provision!), you evidently have no idea what you're talking about. You're just listing random protections you can remember vaguely that UK workers have, and adding words like "excellent", "incredibly strong" and "effective".

You also neglect to recognise that it is precisely unions which tend to provide representation. I am legally educated and have informally assisted with UT cases, FWIW. A few factoids to get you thinking:

decent minimum wage: Those on JSA for more than a year (less for youth), and with the WRA 2012 even those declared unfit for work, can be and in the former case already are required to work in regular jobs in profit-making establishments up to 30 hours per week for no pay beyond the JSA amount. The usual suspects (Tesco, Poundland) clearly let go of their regularly employed workforce to take advantage of this sidestepping of the minimum wage laws. It doesn't take a mathematician to work out what the effective rate of pay is.

redundancy terms and protection: Obviously you've never lived in mainland Europe.

unfair dismissal: Getting gradually worse - I assume you were asleep when the Unfair Dismissal and Statement of Reasons for Dismissal Order 2012 was passed.

equality laws: On the contrary, proving discrimination is extremely difficult except in the well-established area of gender discrimination (being backed up by a disproportionately huge amount of EU law). And good luck getting EHRC funding - a discrimination case will be hard to prove and may require substantial medical evidence for disability.

industrial tribunal (although it's not been called that for a long time): Actually, the system is fairly lame - most cases are settled or withdrawn before hearing, and the employee in general will fail at hearing or (more often) pre-hearing. Consider, for example, table 2.2. The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill will make things more hairy for employees, and some (quite hefty - especially for discrimination, surprise surprise!) fees are being introduced in 2012. As good a summary as any.

I imagine you're just another disillusioned kid turned Tory because you felt that one particular union wasn't delivering and lucked out in the private sector. I take heart in the fact that absolute union membership in the private sector has gone up since that buffoon Cameron and his ship of fools took control.

Exports per capita: Germany.
Best labour laws and most effective unions: Germany.
Sustainable public sector exists: Germany.

I'm not going to read your response because it is apparent that I'm speaking to someone who has a lot of opinion and not much knowledge. I have merely provided this post to give you a few things to think about.

The US has already lost the foundation for its power. It takes a particularly young sort of mind to think that something which will not be fully felt for another 20 years (I think your estimate is sound) is being reported "too early".

Living in the very much ex-empire that is England, I make no assumption that the end of an empire is the harbinger of Armageddon. Indeed, the US may take a moment to reflect, lose its hubris, and improve the lot of its people - that's what happened here.

I did go to private school, and while I can't speak for US private schools, here in Blighty:

1) Everyone arsed around. Good contacts mean no need to work unless you're on a scholarship - which I was, and it was hard to work around clowns whose daddies' $40,000+/year meant they weren't going anywhere. I did vaguely attend a state-funded school for a year and I'd never met a harder working bunch of students;

2) The wealth of the parents tends to reflect a certain refined competence - "easy solution: change the law", "piece of shit politically correct beaurocratic mess" and "mother is a cold hearted bitch" reflect neither refinement nor competence.

The first thing to understand about school is that it is in the interests of the powerful to keep most people undereducated - why engineer more competition for yourself?