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What's the problem, in detail?
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Slacker007 wrote: What's the problem, in detail?
Long version, HERE[^]
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They (the powers that be) will not install Verizon Fios in my neighborhood, because Time Warner Cable will not allow it. Who the phuck is Time Warner Cable to "not allow" something.  
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You are in the same frame of mind as I am.
This can't be legal.
Thank you (really, thanks) for alerting me/us to the fact that multiple companies are doing this.
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(We have COX. No cable company is perfect.)
When we moved to our last apartment, we called the local office to get hooked up, and wound up having to pay ($70 ?) for the "free self-install kit" -- dont ask.
So this time we called the number the rental office gave us, and the installer spent some time getting everything right, even a new cable box, all for free.
So, I suggest calling the number the leasing office gave you.
And cross your fingers.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: And cross your fingers.
Nice mind-reading software you have there !
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: "...No cable company is perfect...."
Excellent thought. Perhaps after living in the new digs for a few days, I might be able to acclimate.
There's just something in the air that smells totally wrong about this.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: (We have COX. No cable company is perfect.)
Yours does have the perfect name though, even if it bit oddly spelled.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Now I'm reminded of the great line from "My Cousin Vinny"; "It could be me, it could them, either way you're gonna be ffffff." 
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if (test mode)
show nice results
else
normal as usual
Have seen such things being done by students to pass their demos.
Will not give a link; search for 'diesel emissions recall' - today's news.
modified 19-Sep-15 22:26pm.
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Wow. Just... wow. I never would have expected that.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Gak! 
/ravi
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What else do you expect in India?
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I'm afraid that's a German company cheating it's car emissions in the USA...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Me?... the worst. (Own experience after 8 weeks there)
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Something is not in Ordnung in the State of Lower Saxony.
This is a public-relations (and financial) disaster for the company involved. Are the Germans, of all people, so over-confident as to believe that no-one would attempt to duplicate their results?!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Make you wonder how many of the other companies do the same thing... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I'll bet that the EPA is scrambling to test other manufacturers' vehicles in different modes (and that any cheats are scrambling to bury the bodies...)
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Several companies were busted in the last year or so for cooking the books on their MPG numbers.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I could find the 'Code of Conduct' document for this company - 24 pages long. Some words in there are - sustainable, responsible, compliance, etc. The employees involved in this episode have certainly signed this document .
A big embarrassment for such a reputed company. Wonder how many heads will roll, and where the buck will ultimately stop.
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Avijnata wrote: sustainable, responsible, compliance, etc
All that proves is that the 'Code of Conduct' is buzzword-compliant. Employees may have signed the document, but how many would actually sit down and read 24 pages of such fecal matter?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Those words are just that - words.
I came across this article on Johnson and Joshnson through Bloomberg View today. It was so depressing (it's also rather long) I gave up after the first chapter.
http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/miracleindustry/americas-most-admired-lawbreaker/[^]
When it came time to explain their conduct at trials and to federal investigators, Johnson & Johnson executives and salespeople have unwaveringly, even indignantly, defended themselves. One salesman, who otherwise fit the salt-of-the-earth mold that R.W. Johnson had envisioned for his company’s employees, gave thousands of Risperdal samples in child-sized doses to Austin Pledger’s doctor in Birmingham, Alabama. Yet he insisted under oath in February he didn’t recall stepping around kiddie furniture and toys as he walked into an office with a sign that said “pediatric neurologist,” and that he had no way of knowing that the doctor wasn’t treating adults.
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread 
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