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Also that this part of the galaxy, and the Universe as a whole, seems to be favourably quiescent.
Slightly tangential, have you come across the terms island dwarfism and island gigantism (also insular -), and did you know the New Zealand Kiwi is the T-Rex’s closest living genetic relative. Here’s hoping it never makes it off the island!
In a similar way to how the solution to inflation is higher prices, it may turn out to be a self righting process.
If anything like that happens again, or something like you purchase a second hand car but weren’t supplied the signed registration paper / no receipt… need a day off work due to illness but don’t want to pay to see a doctor / telehealth etc etc
You can statutory declaration, a written statement you declare to be true, many professionals can witness them, teachers, dentists, vets, engineers, mostly anyone who’s practice requires they be a member of a professional organisation.
If you were to serve such to Anytime Fitness, either before you intended to leave serviced area, or any time prior to them selling the dept to recovery, they are obliged to cancel from the date they were served or the date you state in the declaration.
A Process Server can hand them the declaration, or you can in person, or registered mail to head office.
This also tends to work for parking ticket fines issued by private car park operators whereby you make a reasonable offer for the time you were parked there—eg ten minutes prior to the first ticket, so one whole hour of parking as a reasonable counter offer to their punitive ticketed fee—though these all tend to be electronically gated these days so mostly moot.
I tend to do a higher than average level of minor civil disobedience type behaviour, and tend to find it quite enjoyable arguing my point knowing I’ll typically win the argument.
Yours truely, Mr Middle Age Curmudgeon
We also have legislation that provides warranty on electronic devices and household appliances, everything really, except things like cars and boats etc etc, for the reasonable lifetime of the product. So a cheap washing machine, three to five years would be reasonable, an expensive unit? I want that to last six to eight years. An expensive fridge, at least ten.
Deception is bad enough, knowing people’s true motivations and opinions surely would be worse.
What truly motivates other people is largely a mystery, and what motivates oneself is wildly mysterious to that oneself indeed.
There is no perfect pasta sauce, only perfect pasta sauces.
Sales is hard. For some it comes naturally, others have had to work at it. A good sales person is valuable, and a good relationship with a sales person is very valuable, especially to those of us of the engineering breed.
Give them the time, build the relationships, could be worth the effort.
The bore of a gun is changed by every projectile that goes through it.
And, is it better to let off one hundred guilty people than to convict one innocent.
How would you know?
I can’t see them running out of sympathetic merchant sailors anytime soon.
A special law shields you? How does a law shield you from persecution?
Over ten years later, I've never forgot this comment:
If you attend, leave your phone home (atypical usage), go with other people / meet them there / other people you know are there (facial recognition / gait analysis / clothing preference) those are all good data points to predict with high probability where you are and what you’re up to, especially given your typical movements, data usage patterns, purchasing habits, friends / acquaintances / social media interactions are all in at least a few databases.
Take the security measures you’re willing to make the tradeoffs for.
If history is anything to go by, we’re only ever an election, or other political churn, away from your particular sets of beliefs / identifiers being persecuted, or at least your least favourite political prisoners being released and coming after you.
And, as you allude to, relying on the security practices of others has its own problems. Even Perfect Forward Secrecy etc etc provides little help against Rubber Hose Cryptography.
Nothing wrong with it, nothing broke, everything worked.
This was back when IBM still ran the brand.
I wouldn’t encourage anyone to try that with my HP x360.
The technology has got a shinier interface since I started, but the fundamental problems are the same.
When it breaks, you call the service technician, unless your the one in a thousand employee who happens to be a boilermaker by trade, an IT service technician and software neonate, also handy with a soldering iron, can install and repair refraction systems, work on live mains safely, research and install additional power supply protection devices, lighting suppression, UPS, knows there way around layers 1 through 7…
And that company treated me like I was some kind of freak.
But yeah, generally a laser cutter operator pushes buttons, and empties catch trays if they’re lucky.
Engineers design the things, the operators are largely meat for the grinder.
I briefly looked at a couple used vehicles just outside of warranty and one within warranty that had literally had two oil changers in 100,000k, that’s 60,000 miles for the uninitiated.
And if we could see it with the naked eye it would appear six times bigger than a full moon.
> there isn't the appetite for it.
A distinct without a difference.