Jonnan001

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Golly Gee willickers, so, your current theory is that the USPS doing the same service for less money than UPS is *not* relevant to a discussion of whether or not a public service can be performed for less money than a private company? Oh, well why didn't you just say so Psychoak, gee, if I'd known we were going to debate the question of whether a public service could ever under any circumstance perform better than a private company without comparing things like services or prices, I w

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See - actually providing details is important since, for instance, evidently I *can* get a guarantee from Indianapolis *to* Hugo Oklahoma, but not the other way around - it's these little details that give us what is commonly known as "Reproducability" - the ability to "reproduce" results, showing that the results of a specific experiment were no0 generated due to a known flaw in the experiments and so on. And hey - you are quite right - USPS can only guarantee 2-days for $20

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Since I haven't been able to find a single set of data (Including Alaska) that reproduces your results, and you have such a knack for claiming 'X' and then when I check it turns out '!X', I'm going to have to require you actually, y'know, prove your case with a set of input and output information I can use to reproduce your results. Since, by and large, your track record is of being, y'know, factually incorrect. In fact, given the absoluteness of your original thesis, even being factu

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And then there is [link="http://xkcd.com/488/"]XKCD[/link]'s commentary on it;

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[quote who="Josef086" reply="21" id="1906355"]The trackers are good except they do not reflect delay because of air travel. Okay FEDEX (I beleive its them) carries USPS on their planes. I know that UPS is starting to take over DHL (how far I don't know). For air mail normally feeders (the single and duel prop planes) will all go to a larger airport. Such as say Bostan. Then the larger planes get loaded and are sent to their respective hi

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Alternatively - I support various companies and use this page or it's equivalent for UPS, DHL and Fedex all the time - Have you just never actually tracked anything on one of these services Psychoak - maybe I'm underestimating the confusion factor just because I use them on a regular basis and recognize what to expect? Jonnan

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I haven't had any problems with that link - the description you provides matches another page entirely. If you claim you're having problems getting a postage/date guarantee from *that* link Pschoak, then you're either lying, or just kinda mildly retarded in a new, and possibly medically interesting way. Jonnan P.S. - yep. 2nd page of the link gives a link to the [link="http://webapps.usps.com/expressmailcommitments/landing.jsp?origin=46205&dest=90069&ship=10/14

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Psychoak - what the devil do you think you're talking about? If you haven't actually setup and paid for a shipment from Anchorage AK to Hugo OK , this system isn't going to retrieve a delivery time. That's what this is for - it's not some mystery system, it just uses the zip-codes and shipping date to track shopping the same way UPS/Fedex/DHL uses tracking numbers. Read it - it's fairly obvious. The rest is your making some kind of vague assertions from

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I have a pair of PDF Keymaps sitting in the misc queue that might be useful to newbies - one for cheats, one for actual use - not terribly pretty, but easy to print off and read, I hope. Jonnan

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There are several places in the GUI where things are referred to by percentages (implying percentages of some other baseline) that seemingly should be stated in more absolute terms - off the cuff examples include sensors and speed, but it seems to permeate some other spots as well. I know early on I had several occasions to be confused - in my head, +30% speed should mean that speed 10 ship with three warp engines (3*3+1) 10 should go at 13, not that a speed one ship is actually goin

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You're going to have to give examples - I found a [link="http://maps.huge.info/zip.htm"]Zip Code Map[/link] and have run about 20 random zip codes, both from and to - midwest, southeast, two in Alaska and one in hawaii through without getting any problems whatsoever. Even an invalid zip code returns a simple "The Destination ZIP Code you have entered is invalid." error Given the complete inability to reproduce the issue, I tend to suspect the problem is on your end. Jonnan

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[quote]If I were to ship a package to my parents, tomorrow, these are my guarantees. From UPS: Money-Back Guarantee For certain services and selected destinations UPS offers a free money-back guarantee. To find out if it applies to your shipment, go to 'Calculate Delivery Time' in either the Shipping or Resources section at www.ups.com and key in your shipping details. On calculating, the guaranteed delivery time on next day air is... the ne

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First of all Psychoak - so far as I've heard, no one, commie or otherwise, has any plan to render selling short illegal. They are taking steps to tighten up the regulation of [link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_short_selling"]naked short selling[/link] (They already are mostly, but not entirely illegal, but they are tightening up loopholes). For those unfamiliar with the terms, the difference is simple, and the reason they *should* be illegal seems to me to be fairly obv

Reply to Save Multiwinia - A Cry for Help in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

I'm a fan of Introversion as well, loved Darwinia. Unfortunately, I think it may just be the economy is too tight for everyone right now - I'm almost exactly average pay for a single male (probably above average for Indiana), and it's *tight* right now - the last thing I have to drop that's a 'luxury' is DSL, and I'm considering it. Jonnan

Reply to Game Cheats Are Illegal? in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="WIllythemailboy" reply="24" id="1902070"][quote] B. Here is where your premise is incorrect. I have no *desire* to declare EULA's invalid. I *do* desire for the inherent illegality of enforcing an EULA that has provisions in it that are only enforcable via contract law (as opposed to a true license, which is defined with *much* more restraint under copyright law) on a consumer, who has been protected under the UCC from exactly that, to be enforced properly. A Prope

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[quote who="psychoak" reply="23" id="1902172"]You suck at debating a losing argument, when cherry picking aspects to make yourself look good, they can't show the opposite. You mistake optimal delivery for guaranteed delivery. UPS next day air is guaranteed by the end of the next business day. USPS Express mail is "guaranteed" inside three. Comparing Express to Second day air seems fair, maybe it arrives a day earlier, maybe a day later. Unless they lose it and

Reply to 10 things GalCiv II 2.0 needs still in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

I know what I want added for rally points! I want a planet (Even one you don't own) and a starbase to have a toggle accessible from the main map screen that adds and deletes a Rally Point of the same name at it's location. Not Always on - I asked for that before, but I was wrong, always on would clutter your rally point Gui, but a click box that just toggles a rally point on there when needed that then shows up in the Rally Point governors just like any other. Upgradin

Reply to 1.99(rc) Bugs and Issues in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

Well, this is at least somewhat interesting, or maybe I've been the only person that hadn't been aware of the obvious. I'm not even quite sure I consider this an exploit/cheat as it makes perfectly good 'sense' in real life - but if you have one colony pod on a vessel, and five troop Transports, you've got yourself a high efficiency colony ship carrying 2.75 billion colonists. I presume, but have not verified, that it also acts as slightly low efficiency troop transport. I do

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Psychoak, the only difference between me on copyright and me on the U.S. Postal Service is that you happen to diasagree with me this time, and so assume that somehow, when I disagree with you, that I must have abandoned actually looking stuff up. Because there is of course no chance you are wrong. That said - You don't actually look anything up before you type it do you? [link="https://wwwapps.ups.com/ctc/request"]UPS Rates[/link] 12^3 in, 5 lb package, India

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But - But - It's an Exploit Zyxpsilon! Say it aint so! My god, what *have* I done!!! {G} - Jonnan

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First of all, no, it is not faith - it is an axiom, a premise, or an assumption. Which presents a fundmental difference, because although neither faith nor an axiom can be proved, faith describes something that cannot be disproved, whereas an axiom, premise, or assumption is disproved if accepting it leads to a logical contradiction or contradict known facts. I know that sounds nitpicky - but it is an important distinction, and ignoring it clouds thinking, often quite badly.</

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[quote who="psychoak" reply="18" id="1901214"]Jonnan, you're a moron. I mean that in the best way possible. This is, by far, your dumbest attempt at an argument that I've seen. [/quote] Really - Oh, and all the kind things you said about my logical persuasiveness when I agreed with you - I'm hurt, I really really am. No, No, wait a second . . . Nope, actually, turns out I'm not. [quote] Comparing the post office total operations to pure package

Reply to Forum Bug? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Thank you - that forum doesn't show on my main page (On the drop down list, but it didn't occur to me that that listing would be different), so I have reposted this there. Thanks again - Jonnan

New Page Not updating in Forum Issues GalCiv2 Forums

Originally posted in the Main [link="https://forums.galciv2.com/326751"]Galciv Forum[/link] because, in other news, the "Forum Issues" Forum doesn't show up on my page (Shows on the off-topic drop down list, but not the main page) and I never knew it was here until Mumblefratz kindly redirected me. That said, I noticed that a [link="https://forums.galciv2.com/326576/page/3"]post[/link] of mine was showing in my postings, and the third page was visible if you manually edited the URL an

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[quote who="Zyxpsilon" reply="5" id="1625383"] The engine is a human brain, though. - Zyxpsilon.[/quote] The Drengin do Open Source software development? I did not know that! {G} - Jonnan