Comment Re: The Romans (Score 1) 75
Just think how many silica particles youâ(TM)re breathing in! So far, almost everyone who has ever breathed in silica has died!
Submission + - FTC Bans Hidden Fees For Live Events and Short-Term Rentals (techcrunch.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Monday released new documentation detailing its new “Rule on Unfair or Deceptive Fees.” The rule, set to take effect on May 12, prohibits hidden fees for live events, hotels, and short-term rentals. It also bans practices such as “bait-and-switch pricing” and any actions that conceal or misrepresent total prices and fees.
In a newly published FAQ, the FTC offers a guide for these types of businesses, providing detailed information about pricing transparency. The rule will impact businesses, including live-event ticket sellers and short-term lodging providers, like hotels, motels, Airbnb, or VRBO. Third-party platforms, resellers, and travel agents are also covered by the new regulation. (Airbnb already updated its service in advance of this new regulation to show users the total cost of their stay upfront.) [...] Also included in the FTC’s new FAQ are the types of fees that can be excluded, such as taxes or government fees, shipping charges, and charges for optional goods or services people may select to buy as part of the same transaction. (Note that handling charges aren’t on this list.) However, the FTC notes that businesses must disclose that it has excluded charges from the total price before asking for payment. For example, if a business excludes shipping charges from the advertised price, it’s required to clearly state the amount and purpose of those charges.
In a newly published FAQ, the FTC offers a guide for these types of businesses, providing detailed information about pricing transparency. The rule will impact businesses, including live-event ticket sellers and short-term lodging providers, like hotels, motels, Airbnb, or VRBO. Third-party platforms, resellers, and travel agents are also covered by the new regulation. (Airbnb already updated its service in advance of this new regulation to show users the total cost of their stay upfront.) [...] Also included in the FTC’s new FAQ are the types of fees that can be excluded, such as taxes or government fees, shipping charges, and charges for optional goods or services people may select to buy as part of the same transaction. (Note that handling charges aren’t on this list.) However, the FTC notes that businesses must disclose that it has excluded charges from the total price before asking for payment. For example, if a business excludes shipping charges from the advertised price, it’s required to clearly state the amount and purpose of those charges.
Comment Re:Hi (Score 1) 124
They’ll milk it until the teats dry up.
Comment Re:Slippery slope (Score 1) 214
You must be from the East Coast. It’s only 15mph over the speed limit. Here in Utah, we have portions of freeway that has a 85mph speed limit.
Comment Re: Enshittification (Score 1) 153
I hope it is as successful as the Amazon adaptation of Tolkienâ(TM)s works.
Comment Re: Sad stories everywhere (Score 1) 150
Definitely classism and greed. Thatâ(TM)s why Rome burned to the ground. Same for London and Chicago. All classism and greed. Every last home and life. Youâ(TM)d know since you were there.
Comment A 680 MB Download!?!?!?!? (Score 1) 57
A 680 mb download for software that ran on systems that had a 20 - 40 mb hard drive for everything
Comment Re: Of course it is (Score 5, Informative) 113
Yes. People forget or are too clueless to know that two of the best shields for radioactivity are salt and water. Also, there are approximately 4 billion tons of uranium already dissolved in the worldâ(TM)s oceans.
One of the best ideas Iâ(TM)ve seen on what to do with nuclear waste was published in Scientific American in the early 1980â(TM)s. They found an area of seabed that was geologically stable where nothing has happened there in hundreds of thousands of years. The area has hundreds of feet of silt as well. They proposed putting it in containers under a few hundred feet of silt where it will sit there undisturbed for another few hundred thousand years.
Comment We really need to ban pinto beansâ¦.. (Score 3, Funny) 238
And lima, navy, kidney, fava, black and other types of beans as they too create methane and contribute to global warming.
Comment Re: Because you always have them on you (Score 2) 199
It would be better to research why everyone keeps misplacing their tape measures so they canâ(TM)t be found when they need them.
Comment Re: Monkey show. (Score 1) 37
As usual, Monty Python explains things better than most people.
https://youtu.be/ZtYU87QNjPw
Comment There Still Isnâ(TM)t a Good Way to Read a We (Score 1) 63
If you want your iPhone to read a web page, the only way to do it is to select all the text of a page (which is hard to do if it is very long) and have it speak that. There is no option to simply select âoeRead Pageâ which is a shame.
Comment He forgot the Toba eruption (Score 0) 234
The Toba volcano eruption in Indonesia wiped out the majority of life on earth. Apparently the reporter didnâ(TM)t spend the time to research mass extinction events much.
Comment Re: Average W. Virginian smarter than entire gover (Score 1) 277
Whatâ(TM)s unethical about it ? They created a market and he filled that need. He didnâ(TM)t break any NY rules. (Though making automatic seers do violate federal law.). Of course by the nature of laws, laws are only followed by the honest which on some levels defeats the whole point of laws
Comment Re: Average W. Virginian smarter than entire gove (Score 1) 277
Whatâ(TM)s really amazing are the videos on YouTube of some dude in Pakistan or Afghanistan hammering out an AK-47 with not much more than a couple basic hand tools. Without even a machine shop. If you want to make something, there isnâ(TM)t much that anyone can do to stop you.
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