Sentences with phrase «many ordinary consumers»

He later reversed his opinion once he determined the core technology would be useful to businesses and ordinary consumers.

Teresa Scassa, the Canada research chair in information law and policy at the University of Ottawa, poked around the links and said she thought «wow, the ordinary consumer lost interest minutes ago.»

The crypto - currency that so tantalized techies and excited investors is today in a sorry state: Its core supporters are at war with each other and ordinary consumers still don't care about this supposedly revolutionary form of money.

As the Cambridge Analytica scandal has shown, even ordinary consumers have been unwittingly conscripted for this purpose — in this case, with no pay at all.

«For the ordinary consumer, these rates are completely unaffordable,» said Michael Geist, a law professor at the University of Ottawa.

I put it to you that just as yesterday's ordinary consumers wouldn't use Linux, today's won't use Bitcoin and other blockchain apps, even if Bitcoin and the the other apps built atop blockchains are technically and politically amazing (which some are.)

Legacy Learning Systems of Nashville, Tennessee, and owner Lester Gabriel Smith advertised the Learn and Master Guitar program through online affiliate marketers who posed as ordinary consumers or independent reviewers, the FTC said in a press release.

Since then, divestment has become a grassroots movement to urge ordinary consumers to invest their retirement savings in ethical ways, and even to use them as vehicles for political change, such as with the divestment movement targeting fossil fuels.

Debuting today, the Ant Fortune app is set up as a one - stop platform for China's vast population of ordinary consumers who have limited options when it comes to money management and investment.

Fruit Expo is a first - time event born against the background of an expanding global fruit market, open to worldwide fruit insiders, ordinary consumers, related officials, media, scholars, and etc..

In a press release, City Council Member Leroy Comrie explains the latest developments in a hearing regarding a piece of legislation that will increase the availability of show tickets for ordinary consumers.

We are, with this statement, demanding an immediate reversal of the announced 15 % increase in transport fares as we deem it unwarranted and inappropriate to the ordinary consumer.

How do we protect trial participants and ordinary consumers without adversely affecting research and quality of care?

And, too, GPS may be a perfect example of technology that reaches the market the moment it becomes unnecessary — at least where ordinary consumers are concerned.

Although many questions remain as to how the Post and his two lab technicians will manage to mass - produce the meat at a cost that would give ordinary consumers a reasonable alternative to farm - raised beef, one thing is certain: the meat he is producing is not geared toward vegetarians.

WWF is holding a 1 - day Symposium on Responsible Consumption of Tuna here tomorrow where it hopes that government officials, seafood industry representatives, and ordinary consumers will listen to talks on how overfishing, capturing juvenile tunas for fish farming, and poor fisheries management has driven bluefin stocks to 15 % of historical levels.

Endocrine disrupters are not the only worrying chemicals that ordinary consumers are exposed to in everyday life.

Most ordinary consumers are not going to undertake anything like the level of investigation and calculation that was required to generate this page.

His energy and zeal to educate the Filipino people has translated into transformed lives, financially free families and has transformed ordinary consumers into investors.

However, the problem remains that commercial fishermen (who supply ordinary consumers with seafood) operate under different rules than the deep - pocketed recreational fishing sector; the latter too often have the ears of legislators, who tend to favor wealthier constituents and state tourism industries.

The fact that technology progresses does not turn ordinary consumers into super-users.

VHS tapes were priced to keep them out of the hands of ordinary consumers, and only affordable by deep pocketed buyers.

Translation — people are buying ebooks in huge numbers, in particularly in the «trade» sector (that means us ordinary consumer types) and the industry is growing more rapidly than they had ever predicted.

What does this mean to you, the ordinary consumer?

But since the Card Act was passed in March 2009, companies have been inundating ordinary consumers with applications.

His energy and zeal to educate the Filipino people has translated into transformed lives, financially free families and has transformed ordinary consumers into investors.

Ordinary consumer bank loans are handy as home improvement loans, especially for those who need to borrow relatively small amounts of money without much paperwork or delay.

They are not experts, just ordinary consumers who observe and know their cats.

His energy and zeal to educate the Filipino people has translated into transformed lives, financially free families and has transformed ordinary consumers into investors.

While the world of high - end credit cards doesn't have a lot of silk or octane, it is rich with exclusive perks and rewards that can make you feel like more than an ordinary consumer.

Like Sierra before them, they had decided that if the only way to advance the technological state of the art among ordinary consumers was to release games whose hardware requirements were ahead of the curve — a reversal of the usual approach among game publishers, who had heretofore almost universally gone where the largest existing user base already was — then that's what they would do.

Launched in 1997, Sony's Net Yaroze project aimed to allow ordinary consumers to develop games for the biggest selling console of the time: the original PlayStation.

When it comes to free - speech protections, art lies somewhere between ordinary speech and ordinary consumer goods.

Thus Pop - art - the first postmodernist movement - made art out of ordinary consumer items (hamburgers, tins of soup, packets of soap powder, comic strips) that were instantly recognizable by Joe Public.

Yea, being forced by law to taking off my shoes at the airport and having a mandated carbon footprint setoff tax imposed on ordinary consumers are the same illusions of government protection in exchange for the certainty of lost liberty.

Then we want to be able to have ordinary consumers sell back the electricity that's generated from those car batteries, back into the grid.

Holding ordinary consumers in the developed world responsible on an individual basis for the continued dominance of fossil fuels either implicitly or explicitly is unfair and unrealistic.

Wind power a bonanza for power corporations on Christmas, but meant a bad day for ordinary consumers

The purpose of this furniture was trying to locate a material that would break with the ordinary consumer's habitus, in order to increase consumers» perceptions about what materials can be used for furniture today.

Similar to how a pack of M&M;'s states they were manufactured in a plant that processes peanuts, future items containing RFID tags should make it easy for the ordinary consumer to know whether the item is tagged.»

Thus, they were not ordinary consumer transactions within the purview of the Consumer Fraud Act.

The Commission generally will not pursue cases involving obviously exaggerated or puffing representations, i.e., those that the ordinary consumers do not take seriously.

And, the primary issue would be whether there is any possibility that an ordinary consumer of the type who buys that kind of product could be confused by this and think that they were buying a product of the owner of the trademark when they weren't actually doing so.

Any move to hand nation states the power to decrypt messages simply undermines the privacy of businesses and ordinary consumers.

This helps to prevent insurance companies from taking advantage of ordinary consumers and people who likely do not know enough about the legal claims process to protect their own interests and avoid making mistakes.

Skilled Ardsley antitrust attorneys work to protect ordinary consumers from several questionable business practices, including price fixing, bid rigging, and market allocation.

The English experience suggests that ordinary consumer protection law may be sufficient to address unreserved areas.

PIAC seeks to represent and advocate on behalf of ordinary consumers, in particular vulnerable consumers, concerning the rates, policies, rules and regulations associated with the delivery of these services with a view to ensuring principles of access and affordability and fair treatment for the constituencies it tries to serve.

Skilled Paterson antitrust attorneys work to protect ordinary consumers from several questionable business practices, including price fixing, bid rigging, and market allocation.

A claim for strict products liability requires proof, in the alternative, either of the ordinary consumer's expectations or of the risk - utility of a product.