God I love this man, Jeremy Clarkson's sense of humour has me cracked up
every time, he a genius.
I think I remember him describing owning a dodge viper as: It's as stupid
and as wonderful as owning a pet elephant.
Hilarious!
Yeah, I didn't do that yet. I'm still trying to figure out how somebody can
be so sure of a theory until the data doesn't support his personal beliefs.
I'd started to write a couple of times that ID supports Larry's position
perfectly, but that's a different discussion and I have no interest
Chesty wrote:
I'm not looking to vilify any race out there... just suggesting the
eminently logical. There *are* known differences between races.
Which is why I find the whole argument against *the possibility* such
an affront to logic: If there weren't any differences, there wouldn't
be
No what I am saying is that that sort of experiment is illegal and unethical.
It has nothing to do with PC or whatever, it has everything to do with
seriously fucking up the lives of people for a theory that the existant data
has shown is incorrect. First you are tearing infants away from their
Best Buy Sells You A Box Of Bathroom Tiles Instead Of Hard Drive,
Won't Issue Refund
Quote
Hey Guys,
I got on my computer and bought a Western Digital 1TB hard drive from
BestBuy.com and arranged for a store pickup so I could speed up my
normal Saturday errands. I got the confirmation sheet and
So the mere inquiry into the possibility is unethical.Illegal is a
stretch, unless you can point at the actual law for me.
You're way off base with your notions. This is PC because your polticial
beliefs are interfering with the hard science. This isn't experimenting on
live humans where
I hope to get the local news media involved seeing how it's getting close
to the holiday shopping season and they love to get horror stories like this
out on the air.
I'd be going down that route as well, considering that it seems their going
to support their managers decision, you might just
Well, the game Saturday was pretty awesome. Always fun in the big
house... started out a little scary with Minnesota taking a 10-3 led
on a fumble returned for a touchdown, but that was the only time the
Gophers saw the end zone, and Michigan won 34-10.
It was cold, wet, and windy. Though it
Larry wrote:
No what I am saying is that that sort of experiment is illegal and unethical.
Wouldn't it be fairly easy to come up, say, an international 4 part
intelligence test:
1.) Quantitative
2.) Arts
3.) Emotional
4.) verbal/reading
The whole thing could use symbols rather than language
I don't think it can be done.
On Oct 29, 2007 8:58 AM, Chesty Puller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So you're saying that if definitions were applied to these metrics, you
would be fine with it? I don't buy it.
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the hell we do. This thread is NSFW :0
On Oct 29, 2007 9:28 AM, Gruss Gott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chesty wrote:
So you're saying that if definitions were applied to these metrics, you
would be fine with it? I don't buy it.
There are 2 issues:
1.) How do we best define human
I'm not sour. You are saying untrue things is all.
On Oct 29, 2007 11:29 AM, Robert Munn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
what are you so sour about?
On 10/25/07, Dana wrote:
actually -- a lot of them did not. Some of the early news stories were
talking about the fire-fighting beng hampered by
On 10/30/07, Gruss Gott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've told American Express to stop payment
That's all that's required.
Best Buy will have to sue him to get their $300.
American Express doesn't stand for its customers getting ripped off.
Personally, though, I have a hard time believing this
Yea, it does come across as sounding like a scam
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Gainey IT
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From: Rick Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 10:50 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: WOW! Best Buy Sucks!
On 10/30/07,
I with Rick here. Seems VERY fishy.
On 10/30/07, Rick Root [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10/30/07, Gruss Gott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've told American Express to stop payment
That's all that's required.
Best Buy will have to sue him to get their $300.
American Express doesn't stand
I tend to agree with you. I have order from Best Buy many times and
never had an issue. One time I even thought my PSP was broken (under
warranty), took it back to Best Buy and they replaced it. Come to find
out I was using the wrong charger to re-charge it.
BB never gave me any problems or
Ceramic tiles would be significantly heavier than a hard disk should be.
It just doesn't sound like a very plausible story.
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I know that cell phones, at least a few years ago, had a memory. You
had to charge them up all the way, and then drain them entirely at
least twice to set it's memory.
Anyways I ordered a laptop and it's due in any day now.. Do they have
the memory issue like cell phones do/did?
Thanks
+1
On Oct 30, 2007, at 9:55 AM, Crow T. Robot wrote:
I with Rick here. Seems VERY fishy.
On 10/30/07, Rick Root [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10/30/07, Gruss Gott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've told American Express to stop payment
That's all that's required.
Best Buy will have to sue
if you look at the picture, there were just enough tiles to make it about
the same weight as a HD.
On 10/30/07, Vivec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ceramic tiles would be significantly heavier than a hard disk should be.
It just doesn't sound like a very plausible story.
Gel wrote:
Ceramic tiles would be significantly heavier than a hard disk should be.
It just doesn't sound like a very plausible story.
First I would wonder if that store has any tiles similar. Could be
that an employee pulled the drive and then put some tiles in there.
The weight doesn't
Fill out a police report, and get a case number and a copy of the report.
Once you have a case number, fill out an affidavit with every detail of the
event and have it notarized at your bank, then fax it to both your credit
card company, the merchant, and the manufacturer. Explain in your cover
But, the customer is always right!
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From: Zaphod Beeblebrox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 30 October 2007 15:10
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: WOW! Best Buy Sucks!
+1
On Oct 30, 2007, at 9:55 AM, Crow T. Robot wrote:
I with Rick here. Seems VERY fishy.
On
Anyways I ordered a laptop and it's due in any day now.. Do they have
the memory issue like cell phones do/did?
They used to, but not so much anymore. at least in my experience.
YMMV, read your manual and see what the mfg recommends...
:-)
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will
If my life weren't funny, it would just
Heh.
Back when I was a young wiseass and was working in the retail industry, I
had an irate woman yell The customer is always right! at me. I responded
with Except when the customer is wrong... in a deadpan kinda way. I was
sent home for the day. :)
I still hold my argument that she was
Lol, we've all been there, I used to work in an electronics retailer over
here part time when I was a teen, got this kind of thing all the time, balls
if I'm going to sit there and take being shouted at by an irate customer for
£6 an hour.
Rob
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But, the customer is always right!
No, the customer is never wrong.
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Like will said, RTM. Lithium-ion tends to do better than older technologies,
but over time batteries still tend to wear out.
On 10/30/07, Greg Morphis wrote:
Anyways I ordered a laptop and it's due in any day now.. Do they have
the memory issue like cell phones do/did?
I don't know. Internal theft is a HUGE problem for retailers, doubly so for
electronics retailers like BestBuy. They keep all the really expensive
stuff, like laptops, memory, and CPUs, locked in storage- to protect it from
employees as much as from customers. Hard disks are expensive enough for
Some people would not evacuate and the firefighters did the right thing and
saved those people before saving property. I never said otherwise. The vast
majority of people left when asked.
Half a million people evacuated, there was very little criminal activity in
the wake of the fires, and in
I guess I need to explain it in simple terms, for the second time the
experiment is illegal as in against the law. It is unethical, as per the APA
and other professional organizations ethics committees. It is illegal in terms
of child abuse.
You should also read carefully I said use triplets
I am just appreciating the irony of your position :) Still think New
Orleans should not be rebuilt?
On 10/30/07, Robert Munn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Some people would not evacuate and the firefighters did the right thing and
saved those people before saving property. I never said otherwise.
Larry wrote:
No what I am saying is that that sort of experiment is illegal and unethical.
Wouldn't it be fairly easy to come up, say, an international 4 part
intelligence test:
1.) Quantitative
2.) Arts
3.) Emotional
4.) verbal/reading
The whole thing could use symbols rather than language
Someone wrote a book that I'm too lazy to look up, but basically it
pointed out that your probability of poverty was directly proportional
to your distance from the equator.
His reasoning was that people from cold climates had to work harder
and plan more to get food due to winters whereas
you just can't let it go, can you?
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it sounds like an over-simplification.
On 10/30/07, Gruss Gott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Someone wrote a book that I'm too lazy to look up, but basically it
pointed out that your probability of poverty was directly proportional
to your distance from the equator.
His reasoning was that people
Why is this always a personal attack? Just provide some resources making
your point and I'll concede.
- Matt
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From: Larry Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: CF-Community cf-community@houseoffusion.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 3:53 PM
Subject: Re: AYFKM?
I guess
Any thoughts of whether that's true or is it bogus science?
Sounds suspiciously like anecdotal clap-trap of the brown-people are
all too lazy for their own good variety.
Bullshit alarm again.
On 10/30/07, Gruss Gott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Someone wrote a book that I'm too lazy to look up,
WillBo wrote:
Bullshit alarm again.
Well, should be pretty simple to disprove in possibly 2 ways:
1.) Is it true that a human's probability of living in poverty is
directly proportional to their distance from the equator?
2.) Is that coincidence a reasonable observation?
The presumption is so ludicrous as to not be worth the effort.
It would be complimentary to you if your absurd and disingenuous
statements could be thought to come from an utter ignorance of
history.
For at the worst , coupled with your inane rantings in the previous
thread, it can be seen as
Vivec wrote:
The presumption is so ludicrous as to not be worth the effort.
Why? Seems no more ludicrous than saying that, say, the 19th century
Indians are better buffalo hunters than 19th century Norwegians.
Why is it that any suggestion of differentiation amongst the world's
is
Like Gel said, it's a goofy-ass argument.
On 10/30/07, Gruss wrote:
Vivec wrote:
The presumption is so ludicrous as to not be worth the effort.
Why? Seems no more ludicrous than saying that, say, the 19th century
Indians are better buffalo hunters than 19th century Norwegians.
seems plausible...
hmmm...
On 10/30/07, Dave l [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I had a client call today and ask a question about google adwords.
Long story short.
It appears that someone (he thinks a competitor) is going in and clicking on
his adwords ads every morning until his limit runs
So let me try this one on you - tell me what you think:
What if this 19th century wealth effect was happening today except
in the 1st World countries?
Remember the concept: due to abundance of basic needs items (food)
there is less incentive to develop advanced methods of production
(which is
I had a client call today and ask a question about google adwords.
Long story short.
It appears that someone (he thinks a competitor) is going in and clicking on
his adwords ads every morning until his limit runs out. I have noticed 1 ip
that is doing this so it seems a legit complaint. I
Your lack of knowledge of world affairs and economy is astounding.
What you continue to post is such sophistry as to be ill fitting of a
decent response.
On 10/30/07, Gruss Gott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So let me try this one on you - tell me what you think:
What if this 19th century wealth
interesting.
On 10/30/07, Gruss Gott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So let me try this one on you - tell me what you think:
What if this 19th century wealth effect was happening today except
in the 1st World countries?
Remember the concept: due to abundance of basic needs items (food)
there is
impressed with biden.
very impressed.
tony
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From: Vivec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 8:31 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: Sun Belt Work Ethic
The presumption is so ludicrous as to not be worth the effort.
Oh - you're just mad because you live on the equator.
And are poor.
impressed with biden.
very impressed.
why?
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his demeanor.
his answers.
his candor.
his likability.
his view on foreign policy and repairing relations.
his natural ability to talk and sound intelligent.
other than that, i dont give a flying hootie patoootie
they are all fucked the fuck up.
lobbyists rule the place
and it doesnt matter what
Check the adwords site, I *think* there's a way to block IP's
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Though not popular I have got to admit that some of what you say is
actually fairly interesting to think about, Gus.
Of course, I also find watching and reading speeches given by Hitler
very interesting and educational, but I'm no fan of his.
Not that I'm comparing you to Hitler, of course.
To
Weegs wrote:
his demeanor.
his answers.
his candor.
his likability.
his view on foreign policy and repairing relations.
his natural ability to talk and sound intelligent.
+1000. Biden is the most competent candidate out there right now for
the challenges the next President will face.
the batteries of today prefer to catch fire
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Simon wrote:
When you didn't
stay quiet after your people near the equator are more likely to be
poor comment (which is absurd in and of itself)
Just to be clear, that's not my comment, it's an economics theory by
an author whose book I read a few years ago.
The reason I brought it up was
Simon wrote:
3rd World workers, seeing the relative wealth they lack and the path to
get it (free trade!), get hungry and try to grab the brass ring? I'm
sorry Gruss - but that really is just plain dumb. When you're from the
third world, pretty much everything else IS a brass ring... and
scott
i had read something about it having that capability (i haven't ever used it),
after I posted but will pass it along..
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On 10/30/07, Gruss wrote:
Huh. Well maybe it is dumb, but it seems to me that wealth is created
and gained by those most hungry for it - and that's ALWAYS at the
expense of others.
Economics, contrary to what Marx and other communist economic thinkers
believed, is not a zero sum game. As
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