The card fees add more to the price than covering robbery and employee theft do. That's why gas stations offer a cash discount (when not forbidden in their contract with the credit cards).
As various cards become necessary rather than a convenience, the fees become more like a privately levied tax. I;m not so sure that's in the public interest.
It's just more of the same denialism as they slowly backpeddle when it becomes clear that their current stage makes them look like residents of a loony bin:
There is no warming. It's probably cooling.
OK, not cooling but not warming either
OK, so it's warming but just a teeny tiny bit and it's not our fault!
OK, so it's a bit more warming than that, but it'll be good for us and it's definitly not our fault.
OK, so it's maybe a little our fault.
Alright, alright, it's probably our fault but it won't hurt anything.
OK, so it's not entirely harmless, but it's not that big of a deal.
All based on the incredibly strong evidence that it would deeply inconvenience some combination of buddies who own oil companies and people who refuse to drive anything weighing less than 10 tons over the incredibly rugged and adventurous terrain known as a city street.
Because Trump was the only casino that couldn't turn a profit during the Atlantic City boom. He crowed about being the junk bond king just in time for the bottom to fall out of the market. He regularly restructures businesses such that small contractors and workers get stiffed.
The Trump apparel he wore while campaigning is made just about everywhere but America.
Platinum plated badger boogers are scarce too, but I don't think they'll ever be worth more than the platinum itself minus the cost to process out the badger boogers.
Meanwhile, a bitcoin contains nothing at all that has intrinsic value, so it can easily go to zero.
The original proposal was that once it enters common use in commerce, it's utility would prop up it's value, but the crazy price swing created by speculators squashed that. Nobody wants to be holding the hot potato when time runs out.
Part of the problem is extrapolation. For example, the subjects who sat more than 12 hours a day were in worse health by the end of the study. Reporter conclusion, "sitting kills". Further analysis may well show that those who started sitting more than 12 hours a day did so BECAUSE of ill health.
As an American living in the U.S. not handling classified material, Chinese spying is not much of a personal concern. If I was Chinese or living in China, it would bve much more concerning personally.
Guess again. There have been several deaths and quite a few hospitalizations. But if being in the hospital on dialysis is your idea of a jolly ol' time, go ahead and chow down.
The pensions are part of employment compensation. In effect they act as a 20 year loan from the employees to the employer. Surprise! Loans come due eventually. If they don't have the money now that it's coming due, it goes back to poor management.
As for the rest, those union terms are the result of people suddenly becoming 'incompetent' when they didn't allow a manager to cheat on safety or pay (or invest in the manager's brother's new venture) and management's nephews and neighbor's kids somehow managing to merit maximum raises for poor performance, others somehow becoming better employees when they invest in said manager's brother's new venture, and of course,
the employees that skimp on safety enforcement magically becoming more meritorious.
That sort of thing is generally the case when you see strict union rules baked in to the contract. Each rule represents some historical; attempt to boil the frog by management.
The mythbusters demonstrated copying a fingerprint known to be accepted by the scanner. This is a skeleton key created fingerprint that has about a 20% chance of working even if you don't have a fingerprint to copy.
Yes, and that's a step in the right direction. Next step is to make it a standard, complete with pragmas or other directive to disable it on a single access. Then, once it is well deployed and everyone is well warned, make that the default with a compiler option needed to turn it off.
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So a law that insists on giving customers an extra choice is taking choice away? How very Orwellian of you!
So a law that grants people the choice to use cash is eliminating choice? Your statement sounds a bit Orwellian in it's logic.
There exists no debt if they don't give you the coffee before you pay. And until you pay they are not obligated to give you coffee.
In theory, if you grab a coffee off of the counter and spit in it, THEN a debt is created and they would be obligated to accept payment in cash.
The card fees add more to the price than covering robbery and employee theft do. That's why gas stations offer a cash discount (when not forbidden in their contract with the credit cards).
As various cards become necessary rather than a convenience, the fees become more like a privately levied tax. I;m not so sure that's in the public interest.
It's a sad commentary on our society that that simple statement is considered to be racist.
It is true that some racists have posted that sentence around, but to call the sentence itself racist is a great exemplar of the ad-hominem attack.
It's just more of the same denialism as they slowly backpeddle when it becomes clear that their current stage makes them look like residents of a loony bin:
All based on the incredibly strong evidence that it would deeply inconvenience some combination of buddies who own oil companies and people who refuse to drive anything weighing less than 10 tons over the incredibly rugged and adventurous terrain known as a city street.
Even worse, since the report came out of his own office, he's jamming his fingers in his ears and shouting "La La La, I cant hear ME!"
At this point, he might as well put on the Napoleon hat and bobble his lips.
Meanwhile, he is tacitly admitting that he has lost control of the executive branch.
They usually manage to deliver on at least a small percentage of their promises.
Because Trump was the only casino that couldn't turn a profit during the Atlantic City boom. He crowed about being the junk bond king just in time for the bottom to fall out of the market. He regularly restructures businesses such that small contractors and workers get stiffed.
The Trump apparel he wore while campaigning is made just about everywhere but America.
The Great Pumpkin would be a better risk.>/p>
Platinum plated badger boogers are scarce too, but I don't think they'll ever be worth more than the platinum itself minus the cost to process out the badger boogers.
Meanwhile, a bitcoin contains nothing at all that has intrinsic value, so it can easily go to zero.
The original proposal was that once it enters common use in commerce, it's utility would prop up it's value, but the crazy price swing created by speculators squashed that. Nobody wants to be holding the hot potato when time runs out.
Part of the problem is extrapolation. For example, the subjects who sat more than 12 hours a day were in worse health by the end of the study. Reporter conclusion, "sitting kills". Further analysis may well show that those who started sitting more than 12 hours a day did so BECAUSE of ill health.
As an American living in the U.S. not handling classified material, Chinese spying is not much of a personal concern. If I was Chinese or living in China, it would bve much more concerning personally.
Yes, they did. It was an exceptionally bad year. But I notice nobody was lining up to be the target in a sneezing contest.
Since it;'s not a big deal for people to not eat one particular variety of lettuce, it seems like a perfectly reasonable precaution.
You need to try a decent vinegar cayenne sauce.
Guess again. There have been several deaths and quite a few hospitalizations. But if being in the hospital on dialysis is your idea of a jolly ol' time, go ahead and chow down.
So dead is "a litte sick"?
The pensions are part of employment compensation. In effect they act as a 20 year loan from the employees to the employer. Surprise! Loans come due eventually. If they don't have the money now that it's coming due, it goes back to poor management.
As for the rest, those union terms are the result of people suddenly becoming 'incompetent' when they didn't allow a manager to cheat on safety or pay (or invest in the manager's brother's new venture) and management's nephews and neighbor's kids somehow managing to merit maximum raises for poor performance, others somehow becoming better employees when they invest in said manager's brother's new venture, and of course, the employees that skimp on safety enforcement magically becoming more meritorious.
That sort of thing is generally the case when you see strict union rules baked in to the contract. Each rule represents some historical; attempt to boil the frog by management.
Hot fusion is also "just an engineering problem".
If the employees bark and wag enthusiastically, will they get a treat?
Look out when it comes time to downsize! I guess they'll just take the chipped pets^wemployees to the pound to be euthanized.
It is not my desire to work for an agent of the beast.
That would still be Trump trying to pass his share of the blame to the state of California at best.
Science does in fact say we are mismanaging forest and brush lands.
Yes, but the mismanaged forest is FEDERAL, not State owned. Meaning Trump is blaming the California state government for his own failure.
The mythbusters demonstrated copying a fingerprint known to be accepted by the scanner. This is a skeleton key created fingerprint that has about a 20% chance of working even if you don't have a fingerprint to copy.
Also interesting, the most expensive one tested was the easiest to fool.
Yes, and that's a step in the right direction. Next step is to make it a standard, complete with pragmas or other directive to disable it on a single access. Then, once it is well deployed and everyone is well warned, make that the default with a compiler option needed to turn it off.