I bet the ITU wouldn't have made this balls-up
If they had taken control.
By the time theyd reached agreement between all the members there'ds only be boringly safe tlds.
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When dealing with physical items, the purpose of discount is clearer, a wholesaler agrees to take a palletload of stuff with associated reducing packaging and processing costs compared to the ones and twos going out to the retailer and the manufacturer gets a quicker payment but at a lower return.
With the retailer, the discount to the customer is to clear old stock that isn't selling (remaindered bin), or act as lure to bring in footfall who might by other stuff (supermarkets)
With ebooks where's the incentive to discount, except to lock the buyer into returning to the same (e)store next time they want a book, or to lock them into a preferred format with the same effect. An ebook doesn't take up stockroom space, the only issue for the retailer is how many concurrent purchases and downloads it can handle.
LAst thought - with no little to no physical limit on the number of copies held, the number of available loans has to be limited to maintain the seller's market.
"Crippling rent and energy costs, and staffing those fucking barns"
Yes, what is the point of the extra 30 ft of headroom in a Comet store?
While the space may be suitable for warehousing and distribution, location within a retail trade parks is not going to be compatible with high numbers of artics.
In starting the old Mac/OpenSource/Windows (in alphabetical order not preference) arguments.
The thing we overlooked is that QGIV (never heard of them) are releasing stories to increase their own exposure not to highlight any genuine discernable useful information about one or other groups in society.
ie a manipulated news story for manipulating their newsworthyness (sorry, about that last word)
ACPO had this to say on 2nd jobs earlier this year
"Chief Constables, who consider individual cases, are clear that officers must not engage in activity which would adversely impact on their ability to fulfil their duties or would bring disrepute on the Service."
And Newman in 1985 said that a police constable exercising police powers should "Be and be seen to be, unfettered by obligation, deciding each issue without fear or favour, malice or ill-will.”
And in the "Without Fear or Favour" report HM Inspectorate say of police regulations "These regulations require an officer to apply for permission to have a business interest, and the chief officer to determine whether the interest is “compatible” with the officer being a member of the force"
The rules exist for good purpose and from the point of view of national authorities the intention is to not penalise legitimate business practices.
Unfortunately, because multinationals operate across several national areas they are able to exploit the differences between how each nation decides its tax. With added complications due to those tiny nations where the favourable tax and or banking systems is their prime "export".
You may be being ironic about google providing free stuff. I can think of a couple of (possibly contradictory) proverbs which might apply - "never look a gift horse in the mouth" and "beware of Greeks bearing gifts"
I suppose it depends on who's tracking you and for what purpose.
On the one hand, your bank tracking your movements and sending you an email that next time you're on the (your most used) line, you can get an extra 5% in store at Debenhams might be of borderline utility.
On the other, TfL knowing that you take the Circle line every weekday at 4pm, letting you know that the station at the other end is closed and you should get off the stop before might be of more use.
And worst case, if there was an accident in a tunnel it might help the emergency services to know that you went through the barriers a little before and have yet to exit from another station
don't have to even keygen. Just reusing volume license keys beyond the number you've paid for. Or even on older software versions reusing a single installation key. And it doesn't have to be malicious just a slip of the memory when in a rush to do things.
I think Spiceworks can handle comparing licenced software against what you think your've purchased and report shortfall, but I've never used that bit of it.
Hopefully as a mark of the quality of the build and not because the blue lamp switch might be flakey.
Does anyone know if the lamp can be made to flash? Missed a trick if it doesn't.
And the optical drive tray ought to "mmmmmmmmm" out (sorry ,can't imitate classic series scanner sound FX in text)
I used to feel sick in our Morris (1300 or possibly an 1800 "Landcrab") with its hydroelastic suspension. And once or twice I was sick.
Though perhaps other factors were at play.
1) being the seventies, all cars were poorly ventilated and stuffy while also bringing in fumes from the car in front
2) a tendency to try and read comics while on the move.
During the first big unpleasantness it was seen that as a result of the circumstances some were making profits in excess of what they would of have in peacetime (effectively "war profiteering") and the government did impose a "Excess War Profits Duty" - a tax of 50% on profits over a certain level.
What are we now to do in a situation of near constant but low grade war?
Is the problem magnified in perception (as in widespread rather than the amount of noise) because it is the commonest device across the cable network.
By comparison the ADSL users are spread across a multitude of ISPs big and small who supply various brands and models of modem/routers with custom firmware plus there's others who buy their own, or reuse ones from previous suppliers. Hence reporting of common issues is dliuted across various forums.
In his own words about Germans and Werhner von Braun
"When I met von Braun, there were no ill feelings, and we got on very well; subsequently he joined me in a Sky at Night TV programme"
"No-one could hate the Nazis more than me (they killed my fiancée, many of my best friends, and did their best to kill me). But on my knowledge of him I am ready to give von Braun a 'clean bill'. I do not believe that he was personally involved in atrocities, and it is also clear that he was in no position to prevent them. We will never know the full truth; I can only give my personal opinion"
Sounds quite balanced to me.
According to "Steve Parish's "Amazing facts about Australian Frogs and Reptiles" (secondhand bookshops in this country are great) about 20 species of Australian front fanged species are potentially dangerous - and as the first three are varieties of Death Adder I'll assume by potentially dangerous it means potentially lethal.
I'll add them to my list of reasons not to go visit my brother down under, after airfare costs but a lot higher up than faulty Apple maps
Its been so long I had to look it up.
In the UK, putting coins in the slot, its 60p minimum and national and local calls are charged at 60p for the first 30 minutes, then 10p for each 15 minutes ("or portion thereof") after.
That's from the BT website, I seem to recall putting more than 60p in for a five minute call in the old days.
but for credit/debit cards its 20p per minute with a minimum fee of £1.20 ouch!
I found this http://davenport.sourceforge.net/ntlm.html which says:
"While newer clients support the NTLM response, they typically send both responses for compatibility with legacy servers; hence, the security flaws present in the LM response are still exhibited in many clients supporting the NTLM response"
Which I read as NTLM is better, but unless LM is turned off, it's there as well in some cases.
MSDN say to use "Negotiate" in applications so that Kerberos if supported is automatically used instead of NTLM but that NTLM "must also be used for logon authentication on stand-alone systems".
If Apple never pay out much in dividends, unless you sell your stock when its up you will not make quite the huge amount of boodle (apologies - been reading Raffles) as if you had put the money elsewhere.
So if you want to get your money out to put it elsewhere you sell it but the buyer thinks its not worth that much to them for the same reason so they give you a lower price.
Isn't that how market works?
Water immersion triggered safety line separation
positive buoyancy device (piece of polystyrene foam)
waterproof luggage label "if found please call........."
of course there's a chance that a battered and faded Playmonaut No1 will turn up on a coast some day and someone will wonder where he came from (imagines plastic amnesiac in Dutch boy's toybox)
I do know of an expert in tidal flows around the UK....hmmm might know where the little fellow could be found.
Some sort of network of volunteers - experienced sailors naturally - on the coast ready to set forth should subsequent ascents look to be heading out over the briney. And for no consideration other than the fame and glory of being part of a great endeavour. And one or more virtual (or even real) pints from Registrar readers.
Perhaps http://www.airsearescue441.com/ is available.
that does seem to be the case if Appendix D of the Return of the King is to be trusted.
And Sauron falls on the 25th March
And Ellessar is crowned on 1st May not 23 April
and Elessar marries Arwen on "Mid-years day" not 23 June
end of the War of the Ring is 3 November with the death of Sauron.not 25 October.
good job all this is fictional and not at all important.
@Tim11
Orac made "The System", the advanced and computer controlled civilisation that built the Liberator, blow up - so that he wouldn't be proved wrong about his prediction (apparently showing the Liberator being destroyed) seen at the end of the episode when he/it is introduced.
That's quite badass