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Fight Club / Rants and Raves / Re: T-Mobile Won't Provide Me My Call Log Without a Subpoena
« on: July 05, 2011, 01:43:02 PM »
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Businesses are not required to do "anything" for you. If you don't like the service for whatever the reason, your only legal option is to get a different carrier. Fact that they are all the same is ..........to be expected?
There is little to no "real" consumer protection laws in the USA. We are ruled by corporations.
So--if enough people actually did go ahead and sue for their records, the policy would change. But few have the time/interest in going even to small claims court to required the documents and even then you might well not get them. You'd have to manufacture a dollar claim they would forfeit on default.
Whats needed is a "Freedom of Information Act" with regard to publicly traded corporations.
Let's get crackin? |
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Water Cooler / Entertainment / Re: This is not an Optical Illusion
« on: July 03, 2011, 07:12:09 PM »
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Obtuser--why not just accept the fact that other people can have other opinions?
Your label is: "This is not an optical illusion?" Why do that? Why not label it: "This is not a ham sandwich?" I'll ask you again, what is the fine distinction you try to make between "looking like" an optical illusion but in reality not actually being one?
You said because there was no element of deception or untruth. But when unconnected balls are arranged to look like they are connected, why is that not the element of deception you require?
I post intentionally. |
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Water Cooler / Entertainment / Re: This is not an Optical Illusion
« on: July 02, 2011, 11:16:56 AM »
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We both see exactly the same thing. When the balls form that wave, the optical illusion is that then are "connected" so as to form that wave. And various illusions thereafter form and dissolve as if by manipulation. The slight of hand is in the design of the machine and the timing of the release of the balls.
Just another example of what words mean. "Optical Illusion" can be understood broadly or narrowly to various effects---forming waves or chaotic randomness---all as defined.
Fascinating example. |
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Water Cooler / Tasteless or Not Tasteless / Re: NO COMMENT..
« on: July 01, 2011, 12:30:12 PM »
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Obtuser---subject helps all visitors to this blog identify the subject of a post to see if it is of interest to them. No comment does not identify the subject. That is not helpful.
No comment means no comment. Anything other than a blank is a comment whether it is a "direction" following a duplicate comment same as the subject header or not.
As I said: basic stuff.
I would have thought ECA would MODIFY THE SUBJECT LINE to include what he thought was interesting. I also find comments helpful to direct my attention. If no comment is made, I can tell that by nothing being there.
Basic Stuff. |
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Water Cooler / Tasteless or Not Tasteless / Re: NO COMMENT..
« on: July 01, 2011, 06:22:11 AM »
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Subject line "should" identify the subject. Your reaction to it is a bonus if it fits.
eg: "Another study showing Artificial Sweetner makes us Fat."
THEN, if you are going to unhelpfully make the subject "No Comment" then you really shouldn't comment.
Basic stuff---really. I hope you see the logic/social benefit of this? |
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The Tech Section / Science / Space / Re: What Birds See, By Timothy H. Goldsmith
« on: June 29, 2011, 06:43:24 AM »
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I vaguely recall reading an article 10 years ago talking about birds "seeing" the magnetic flux of the earth thereby allowing navigation.
These issues all add heft to any discussion of how the eye evolved--intelligently or not, how "similar" they all are in vertebrates and even non-vertebrates alike.
Seems similarity and intelligence is in the eye of the beholder? |
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Water Cooler / Picture Of The Day / Re: NYC--Old Bank Building used as Private Home. $$$ Appreciate Much?
« on: June 26, 2011, 10:44:01 PM »
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Scott--the linked article didn't say it directly but I got the impression that the artist used the "home" as his studio too. So, he recycled one Bank into one home and one studio. I also have to assume although the article "implied" otherwise that there have been people in there paying rent from time to time. All a bit iffy though as "an artist" certainly should have his goods on display on the first floor? Maybe the neighborhood was too gang ridden for that when he first moved in and he made other arrangements?
The world is made up of rich and poor. That ain't gonna change until the collapse. Its good the rich will recycle old Bank Buildings. You may be too pure for this world Scotty.
When I google street viewed this location, I took a walk around the block. Historical preservation is a worthwhile endeavor as well as minimizing carbon footprints. Note the building right next to our subject. It appears to have 2-3 more stories in the same height. Nice little bit of historical interest right there that ought to be preserved? |
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Water Cooler / Picture Of The Day / Re: NYC--Old Bank Building used as Private Home. $$$ Appreciate Much?
« on: June 26, 2011, 06:16:21 PM »
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Obtuser--are you keeping up with computers? All I do is type (190 Bowery new york) into my search bar and I get a page with a map. I click on the Map and get an overhead satelite view of the location with a sidebar menu for "Street View" from which I can walk all around the place. Very nice neighborhood what with the Sweet and Viscious Bar right next door. Bit too much grafitti and the cars look like they were parked with a fork lift putting them into place. Ha, ha. Life in the city.
Scott--its a RECYCLED Building. I'd think you'd be all for that. |
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Water Cooler / GMOTW - M. Scott / Re: Life in the Anthopocene, it's grim enough to make a robot cry, PUOTD (NSFW)
« on: June 25, 2011, 10:44:13 PM »
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Obtuser--rather "stark" isn't it. I think the "blame" goes to everyone that had more than 2.1 kiddies, but thats just me. You don't need a steam engine to burn down a forest.
And even now, "Nations" want to over fish and get the last whale, last tuna, last salmon from the sea and then be all surprised there are no more fish. "Short sighted" doesn't even begin to describe the situation. Not that it will matter in the long run---its clear we are going to increase our numbers until we have a catastrophic die off. Its the way of every creature that is too successful. |
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Water Cooler / This and that / Re: sand, solar, printing, 3d, I WANT A HOUSE..
« on: June 25, 2011, 10:34:27 PM »
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ECA--the efficiency of using the sun's heat is only one, ONE, factor in a matrix of 20 other factors that dictate whether a service/product will be successful or not. Go 30 Degrees North and you get about 15 of those factors benefited by x% and all you have to do is double the number of heliostats to break even.
side note that didn't fit in anywhere: as the guy was moving that fresnel lens around I was thinking of helicopter landings and ready to be amused if he cooked his head off in an industrial accident. Thats weird huh? |
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