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That said, they brought back an updated Elite? That's simply awesome! One of the finest - if not THE finest - game from that era. I must have logged hundreds of hours playing it on my C64 .-40hz (August 21, 2014, 02:11 PM)
Have you considered the idea that they don't want to attack you? And that they don't have any idea that they are doing it? That they could be the victim of malware?-app103 (August 21, 2014, 03:14 AM)
You could try to pull the relevant "responsible" entities by IP and/or domain and send a report to the abuse address, but my experience is that nothing will happen. So it really depends on how valuable you rate your time and how annoyed you get.-x16wda (August 21, 2014, 05:29 AM)
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At least it's commented... right?-wraith808 (August 20, 2014, 02:48 PM)
On the right, you mean-phitsc (August 20, 2014, 02:52 PM)
Honestly though...we all know our information is being bought, linked, sold, auctioned, taken apart, put back together, and whatever else...life is life-Stephen66515 (August 17, 2014, 09:46 PM)
IMHO, acquiescence and capitulation are no way to go through life. Whether or not the above is true, we don't need to accept it. Or tolerate it either. Just sayin'-40hz (August 20, 2014, 06:04 AM)
Aggravating and non-intuitive to be sure.
But when you factor in the Byzantine bidding process, the paperwork, compliance auditing, and add-on social engineering (hiring requirements, rules for preference to be given to favored suppliers for parts of the contract, commitments to targeted groups and businesses, the GSA "discount", etc.) it's easy to see how the final sticker price can soar.
Government people usually have no responsibility for recouping their expenses. Operating costs are not "real" to them. If they run in the red, they just ask the appropriations committees for more money. Businesses who need to run things off their P&L rather than the public tax base don't have that luxury.
Not saying that is always why crazy price tags happen. But it accounts for a lot of it. Just ask anybody who ever had to put together a proposal based on a government "request for bids." Providing the goods or service itself is easy to price out. But then you hit those sections on reporting and compliance - and ask: "Ok....How the heck much is it going to cost us to do all this stuff? Better quadruple the first number just to be sure we're covered."-40hz (August 20, 2014, 02:20 PM)
Hmm...do I detect a sweetheart deal with somebody on this "initiative?" I hope they didn't contract for Surface Pro 3s!-40hz (August 20, 2014, 12:18 PM)
It can be lowered each time your credit gets run - that's why one is cautioned against activity that might result in it being run (i.e. don't allow a financial institution to check if you qualify for a loan you are not serious about applying for).-Joe Hone (August 20, 2014, 07:53 AM)
That's just retarded - asking whether someone is a good/bad credit risk shouldn't have any effect on whether they are a good/bad credit risk.-4wd (August 20, 2014, 11:49 AM)
Or we may simply be dealing with the standard overypaying of academic/government contracts, where a product that would cost a normal human $200 somehow costs a government office $2000.-mouser (August 20, 2014, 11:29 AM)
insurance is recommended ($50 per student per year) to avoid being liable for the $810 replacement cost if the equipment is damaged, and-cschw (August 19, 2014, 09:47 PM)
So again, just what special magic makes a person automatically qualified to raise a child just by virtue of their contributing an egg or sperm cell to the equation?-40hz (August 19, 2014, 01:43 PM)
Because I have a deeper question: Why so?
Just what is it that makes someone who has done something they can claim very little (if any) direct credit for (i.e. biologically reproduce) feel they are automatically and absolutely qualified to raise a kid? There's this weird bit of knee-jerk magical logic that says "mother/father knows best." Even when it's quite obvious that approximately half of them do not.
How does that work?-40hz (August 19, 2014, 06:01 AM)
You're with Learnable? Awesome! I really like those folks.-40hz (August 18, 2014, 12:02 PM)
^Don't think so. Re-read it again.
This is being advanced in the name of "the children."-40hz (August 17, 2014, 01:37 PM)
“We need to develop an app that just shuts their phone completely down and they can’t even use it,” Standifird said. “And I started — literally just started researching how to develop an app.”
Perhaps it might be better thought of as, "I bought this device for you to use. The next thing it is going to be used for is to call me."-Renegade (August 17, 2014, 07:52 PM)
^Even with that, the rest of my comment still stands.-40hz (August 17, 2014, 01:20 PM)
