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How your printer tricks you into buying ink and toner when you don't need it.
But my printer's pages hadn't been fading at all. Did it really need new toner—or was my printer lying to me?
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Fan fury over festival 'rip-off'
Hundreds of music fans have been left angry and out of pocket after their tickets for last weekend's V Festival failed to turn up.
The SOS Master Tickets agency has attracted furious complaints from fans who ordered festival passes on its website, which has now gone offline. Hundreds of music fans have been left angry and out of pocket after their tickets for last weekend's V Festival failed to turn up... more -
'Spy-in-the-sky' paves way for 'Pay as you Drive'
Yet another tax on the motorist in the pipeline.
Motorists are being warned they may face "pay as you drive" road taxes as ministers launch the first ever trials of a scheme that could see them charged for every mile they drive.
Eight areas of the country have been selected by ministers for secret pay-per-mile trials which will begin in 2010 and are expected to pave the way for tolls on motorways.
Motorists face paying up to £1.30 a mile during peak periods on the busiest roads. Yet another tax on the motorist in the pipeline. ... more -
Shoppers 'cheated' as supermarket brands offer less for same price
Yep. I've noticed this myself.
Shoppers are paying more for their goods without realising - as manufacturers shrink the pack sizes.
In the face of rising costs, firms try to protect their profits. But many brands are reluctant to put up prices for fear of a consumer backlash - particularly when household budgets are squeezed.
One solution is to charge customers the same - but make packs smaller. Yep. I've noticed this myself. ... more -
Invisible Hand
It all seems to be an illusion.
I try to see this hand that is said to be real.
It's said to be invisible.
So is it a myth?
Or is it real?
Is being invisible a reality?
Are ideas nothing more than illusions?
Are they kinds of myths?
Driving what we call reality?
Is the invisible hand a myth?
Are ideas simply a brain's way of thinking?
Is that invisible hand a fiction?
Or...
Is being invisible a reality?
Am I really free to answer that question?
Am I free to stop breathing?
Could economics be a myth or empirical fact?
More or less real than any other experience?
Do I have a choice whether or not to do something?
Is determinism true?
Is morality an illusion?
Is the invisible hand make-believe?
Should I use praise or blame?
Should I admire or show contempt?
Should I approve or disapprove?
Or should it all be eradicated?
Is the invisible hand moral?
Am I free to choose?
Choose between courses of action?
Do I enjoy freedom of will?
It seems to be invisible.
Is the hand make-believe?
Does money mean doing what I want to do?
Or what I ought to do?
Opposed to what I have to do?
It to seems to be invisible
Is the invisible hand make-believe?
Does money imply autonomy?
Does it distinguish from subservience or natural inclination?
Is choice a free decision that I make?
Where does money belong?
Economics seems to be invisible.
Does it belong to the world of science?
Or is it outside the reach of its laws?
Do I inhabit the material realm?
Or is it the realm of freedom where I live?
It all seems to be invisible.
Do I exist outside of space and time?
Do I have free choices within space and time?
Can I act in violation of such laws?
Is the material world the only world I live in?
Is there something else?
Does it influence all the choices I make?
Is materialism wrong?
Does the invisible hand even exist?
It all seems to be an illusion. It all seems to be an illusion. I try to see this hand that is said to be real. It's said to be invisible. So is it a myth? ... more -
Orange Bikes take Manhattan
This bike/point has been discussed in previous pods/posts here at current, so I just found a quick video to share. (about DKNY's fashion week take on the 'urbaniztion-gorilla type of ads' around NYC, getting many responses from the bike community and bike supporters as bad taste/ representing-misRepresenting the meaning of ghost bikes)
http://current.com/topics/88797468_ghost_bikes
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This will be part of a number of short screenings(showing Friday July 25th 9Pm @victoria theatre), Friday, as part of the SF Bike Film Festival 2008. Hope you can make it to one of the films! If you are in San Francisco, see you there!
http://current.com/items/89117633_bicycle_film_festival... This bike/point has been discussed in previous pods/posts here at current, so I just found a quick video to share. (about DKNY's ... more -
eBay fined $63m for selling fake Louis Vuitton
(CNN) -- A Paris court on Monday ordered Internet auctioneer eBay to pay $63 million in damages to Louis Vuitton for selling fake luxury goods online, according to reports.
Louis Vuitton took eBay to court for selling a range of fake luxury goods online.
Louis Vuitton took eBay to court for selling a range of fake luxury goods online.
The court also barred eBay from selling four perfume brands -- Christian Dior, Kenzo, Givenchy and Guerlain, AFP reported.
,,,,,,,,,It's unclear in some of the reports as to exactly why eBay got fined. The deal is that eBay by involving itself in arbitration and intervening was actively involved in the sale rather than just being a dumb host. (CNN) -- A Paris court on Monday ordered Internet auctioneer eBay to pay $63 million in damages to Louis Vuitton for selling fake luxu... more -
Democrats Push for the Largest Tax Increase in History
June 05, 2008
Congressman Dan Lungren, Member of the House Budget Committee, today issued the following statement after the House Majority passed a budget that would impose the largest tax increase in American history while recklessly increasing wasteful Washington spending:
http://lungren.house.gov/
http://www.cq.com/floorvideo/play.do?id=2897fefb03cea9e... June 05, 2008 ... more -
2 accused of break-in at pot club after raid
(05-30) 10:02 PDT OAKLAND -- Two men were in custody Friday on suspicion of breaking into a downtown Oakland building hours after it was raided by federal drug agents during a marijuana investigation, authorities said.
Arthur Palmer, 44, and Kenneth Goss, 41, both of Oakland, broke into 3333 Telegraph Ave. about 9:20 p.m. Wednesday, police said. Officers responding to a report of a burglary in progress caught them as they were going out the back door, police said.
Agents with the federal Drug Enforcement Administration had left the building about 12 hours earlier after raiding it early Wednesday, one of 10 such operations at homes and medical-marijuana dispensaries in San Jose, San Mateo and other cities.
No arrests have been made and the details of the case remain sealed in U.S. District Court. But Ken Estes, 50, who manages the dispensaries, said Friday that he and several of his managers whose homes were raided fear they will be arrested.
Estes said agents seized 318 marijuana plants and $100,000 during the raids - and he blames the DEA for leaving his Oakland location open to burglars.
He said the agents apparently left some bags of marijuana behind, which made it tempting for the suspects.
Oakland police did not say what Palmer and Goss allegedly took from the building, and Estes isn't sure which items disappeared in the burglary and which in the DEA raid.
The federal agents "didn't even secure it up," Estes said of the building. "They wrapped an extension cord around the door. I'm sure it's not the only building that's burglarized, but when people walk by and see that the back windows have been broken open and there's just an extension cord, I mean, there's a lot of people in that area of Oakland who would sneak into parts of abandoned buildings."
Estes said he had not been allowed onto the property, even after the agents left. "It has to be their fault," he said. "They take us and throw us out. We all had to leave."
Javier Pena, special agent in charge of the DEA in San Francisco, said of the building, "We secured it and we left the area. We took evidence out of the building."
Palmer is being held without bail at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin on a parole violation as well as on suspicion of burglary. Goss is being held in lieu of $30,000 bail on suspicion of burglary and possession of a controlled substance.
Estes said he is upset at the DEA investigation because "I've done nothing other than medical (marijuana). I've dedicated my life to this. The raid itself just shows that the federal government is out of touch with the American people. The raid was just mean-spirited."
Proposition 215, the initiative approved in 1996 by state voters, legalized growing and using marijuana for medical purposes and with a doctor's recommendation. Under federal law, marijuana used for any purpose is illegal.
Pena declined to comment on the investigation. But he said, "We go after the big clubs out there. We go after the biggest and the baddest."
E-mail Henry K. Lee at hlee@sfchronicle.com.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/31...
This article appeared on page B - 1 of the San Francisco Chronicle (05-30) 10:02 PDT OAKLAND -- Two men were in custody Friday on suspicion of breaking into a downtown Oakland building hours after it w... more -
The great oil swindle?
The very possibility that the Commodity Futures and Trading Commission (CFTC) is
investigating trading in oil futures to determine whether the surge in prices to record levels is the result of manipulation or fraud makes you wonder... They might want to take a look at wheat, rice and corn futures while they're at it!
The famous Joseph Goebbels quote comes to mind -
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” The very possibility that the Commodity Futures and Trading Commission (CFTC) is ... more -
Proof that psychics are completely useless
Having a phone call with a psychic who although told me he charges £15 p/h knew nowt of my grub
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Minibar sensor detects if you move anything, and charges you
Back away from the minibar. Do not touch anything in the minibar. Do not even look at it funny or you will be charged. Hotels are using motion-detectors and weight sensors on their minibars, and if you move it, you buy it. How ridiculous. Back away from the minibar. Do not touch anything in the minibar. Do not even look at it funny or you will be charged. Hotels are usin... more
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Best Buy Rips Off Man With Box of Tiles
Sam says that he went to BestBuy.com and bought a hard drive for in-store pick up. What he got was a box of bathroom tiles. Now Best Buy is saying he'd better take it up with manufacturer and that they're not going to issue a refund and that Sam should just take his loss. Sam says that he went to BestBuy.com and bought a hard drive for in-store pick up. What he got was a box of bathroom tiles. Now Best B... more
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