Poor baby is tired of people criticizing his boy. People just don't understand! He's trying to do the best he can, and everybody's being MEAN to his baby! Blaming his snookums for EVERYTHING! Mean, mean people!
A childish come-back is not a good refutation of a childish argument.
His talents were drinking, roughhousing, strength, hammering things, and blind (e.g.foolish) courage -- none of which are associated with a believable female avatar
Wow, just... wow.
Nearly all of them are nicely associated with Karen Allen's character from Raiders of the Lost Ark (when she wasn't shouting "IIINDYYYYYYY!!")
Easy solution: Don't buy and in a few month this joke is over.
That's true. It feels like the "Death of Superman" situation again. Every once in awhile Marvel and DC have to make a controversial announcement to try to attract attention, but give it a little while and the most important rule of all will be invoked: Status Quo is God. Almost no big hero (and few big villains) can have anything that changes their fundamental nature in the long run. Like the others, this change will be short term. See: Death of Jean Grey, Civil War, House of M, etcetc.
Thor is a Norse God, NOT a USA Hollywood invention
To be fair, the Thor retcon had little to do with Hollywood and happened decades ago in the comics.
It was the only way to have the Norse gods, and the Greek gods, the South American gods, the Japanese gods, etcetc all exist in the same universe without much narrative conflict.. to say they weren't REALLY gods in our modern conception, but that they were super-powerful beings originally worshiped as gods by earlier cultures.
The country I live in has chip+pin and contactless terminals everywhere
Yeah, I'd love to get rid of the magnetic stripe, and the "CC number + security code" system in the US. Not sure what it will take to actually get that ball rolling.
That's not the way it worked for us. Overdraw charges? Sounds like you're talking about a debit card, not a credit card.
For most people now, their debit card is a credit card as well. Thief charges the credit card, then you rack up overdrawn charges when you try to online bill pay, use the ATM, etc.
The government put Japanese-American citizens in internment camps
They had reason. We may think it's a totally bullshit reason, but it's an easily understandable reason.
spied on civil rights and anti-war activists
They had reason. We may think it's a totally bullshit reason, but it's an easily understandable reason.
is doing all sorts of unconstitutional things
See above. Though that's pretty vague.
So "they refuse to give me any reason for why I owe $37,000" strains credibility. The AC is leaving something out, making it up, or is entirely and utterly incompetent in financial matters.
You know, here's the thing about good lawyers -- they like to get paid. They take cases where you'll be able to afford paying them. Defending against this $37k lien or whatever it is may not be worth their time. It can be quite difficult to find a good lawyer willing to take on a shit case with little payout.
If a tampered vending machine takes my cash, it's my word against theirs that it's my money they stole.
And woohoo, you're out $1. If your identity is stolen, if your card information is relayed and used, that's a hell of a lot more money available. My five-dollar bill is great because... it can't be used for anything other than five dollars. There's no way for that five dollars to be used to get at more of my money.
Writing the mag strip to a new card won't work for long anyway, since every time I put my card in an ATM machine, the mag strip is re-written
And yet card skimmers are currently quite profitable. The local Costco just found a bunch of them combined with pinhole cameras on their gas POS kiosks. Why would people go through all that effort if there was no financial payday?
If they use my credit card details, I get the money back. The insurance for that is paid by the merchant fees. There is no cash insurance.
All of that drives up fees -- that insurance is passed onto you. No one else is eating it, you're paying the cost through higher prices.
And tipping a bellman for getting my luggage to my room - in a busy hallway it's far easier to give him a 5 or a 10 with my room number. Paypal/Square/... are slow compared to handing off a fiver. And, at least in the US, a discreet monetary thank-you is appreciated far more than a "transaction" that requires a 30-40 second interchange of electronics.
I'd also have to say that in the US at least, the reliability of electronics and networks is greatly exaggerated. I've gone to plenty of places where the CC reader was down, but you could still pay cash. And there are huge, huge swaths of the country where you cannot get even piss-poor cell phone service, not with any sort of reliability. Would you want to limit them to network-required payment methods? >_>
1. Purchaser pays you via credit card. 2. Purchaser receives good. 3. Purchaser calls credit company to revert the transaction. 4. No profit.
You can only get away with that a certain number of times before the CC companies catch on and figure out you're scamming them. At that point you'll be out a lot more money than you got from the reversed charges, and you could lose a lot more than cash as well.
Generally, when the price of gold moves, it's as a result of a sudden influx in supply (can you say, Forty-Niners? the original ones, not the football team), or a sudden (or not so sudden) change in the money supply.
Or speculation. The current fad of "buy gold for your future" is meant to form a bubble for current sellers to profit from before the bubble bursts.
Yes, we've been waiting for this fiat money crash, as we've been told the end is nigh, for decades now. Still waiting.
The gold standard discussions are always interesting because they all assume that gold has some sort of intrinsic, non-volatile value. It really doesn't help that much of the "you should buy gold!" press in the last five years has come from people who have a vested interest in the price of gold rising (like Glenn Beck) so they can sell it off at a profit and recent buyers will be hit with a loss. Pretty much the opposite situation from the one Beck et all describe would actually happen if we went back to the gold standard.
No, he has a point. Back in the day, we had few tools and we learned how to use them.
And every web page looked like Geocities. There was no interactivity, there was no visual polish, there was no load-on-demand. These days we just expect more from our experiences.
And on the other hand...
now, we have a tool for every hour of the week, and as soon as you've mastered one, someone comes along and says "your skills are sooo obsolete, you must learn now or fall behind", so you get to grips with it and start top master it, and then realise its a pile of poop and hunt around for a new, cooler tech to use instead.
Possibly due to the decline of standards. Remember when HTML, NNTP, SMTP all how strict operating standards? As long as your client spoke the language properly, you could choose your frontend interface. Now every web site has their own private code for how to handle comments. Some sites like Disqus are trying to make a unified interface/login, but we're still at just a fraction of the usability that we had 15 years ago.
I remember when I first started using email and the Internet in 1993, people thought the idea that you could get a virus just from opening an email (any email) was a joke. An urban legend. It didn't take long for times to radically change.
Of those who are willing to publish peer-reviewed research in the field and are willing to take a position on the issue
That second clause is extremely important. The "97% of climate scientists" figure is often used by people claiming that climate scientists are all in agreement. They may be, but "I'm not sure" and "more research is needed before we can draw a conclusion" is an answer that shouldn't be discarded. It's just as valid as "humans are the primary driver behind AGW," and an I'm Not Sure or even "I don't want to say" should be counted and lower the 97% number.
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Oh come on now, how could anyone mistake this guy for being gay?
Hey now, I'd like to ride shirtless in the warm weather on the back of a horse. Who wouldn't?
I am pretty gay, though.
Poor baby is tired of people criticizing his boy. People just don't understand! He's trying to do the best he can, and everybody's being MEAN to his baby! Blaming his snookums for EVERYTHING! Mean, mean people!
A childish come-back is not a good refutation of a childish argument.
His talents were drinking, roughhousing, strength, hammering things, and blind (e.g.foolish) courage -- none of which are associated with a believable female avatar
Wow, just... wow.
Nearly all of them are nicely associated with Karen Allen's character from Raiders of the Lost Ark (when she wasn't shouting "IIINDYYYYYYY!!")
Or hell, promote Lady Sif to full Thor.
Easy solution: Don't buy and in a few month this joke is over.
That's true. It feels like the "Death of Superman" situation again. Every once in awhile Marvel and DC have to make a controversial announcement to try to attract attention, but give it a little while and the most important rule of all will be invoked: Status Quo is God. Almost no big hero (and few big villains) can have anything that changes their fundamental nature in the long run. Like the others, this change will be short term. See: Death of Jean Grey, Civil War, House of M, etcetc.
Thor is a Norse God, NOT a USA Hollywood invention
To be fair, the Thor retcon had little to do with Hollywood and happened decades ago in the comics.
It was the only way to have the Norse gods, and the Greek gods, the South American gods, the Japanese gods, etcetc all exist in the same universe without much narrative conflict.. to say they weren't REALLY gods in our modern conception, but that they were super-powerful beings originally worshiped as gods by earlier cultures.
In other words, Thor is a position/rank as much as it is a proper name.
And it happened before: Beta Ray Bill -> Beta Ray Thor.
She-Hulk is fantastic! I enjoy her fourth-wall breaking more than Deadpool, who feels like he mugs a bit too much.
The country I live in has chip+pin and contactless terminals everywhere
Yeah, I'd love to get rid of the magnetic stripe, and the "CC number + security code" system in the US. Not sure what it will take to actually get that ball rolling.
That's not the way it worked for us. Overdraw charges? Sounds like you're talking about a debit card, not a credit card.
For most people now, their debit card is a credit card as well. Thief charges the credit card, then you rack up overdrawn charges when you try to online bill pay, use the ATM, etc.
That sort of stupidity has no business existing.
Fair 'nuff.
The government put Japanese-American citizens in internment camps
They had reason. We may think it's a totally bullshit reason, but it's an easily understandable reason.
spied on civil rights and anti-war activists
They had reason. We may think it's a totally bullshit reason, but it's an easily understandable reason.
is doing all sorts of unconstitutional things
See above. Though that's pretty vague.
So "they refuse to give me any reason for why I owe $37,000" strains credibility. The AC is leaving something out, making it up, or is entirely and utterly incompetent in financial matters.
...I said to get a good lawyer.
You know, here's the thing about good lawyers -- they like to get paid. They take cases where you'll be able to afford paying them.
Defending against this $37k lien or whatever it is may not be worth their time. It can be quite difficult to find a good lawyer willing to take on a shit case with little payout.
If a tampered vending machine takes my cash, it's my word against theirs that it's my money they stole.
And woohoo, you're out $1. If your identity is stolen, if your card information is relayed and used, that's a hell of a lot more money available. My five-dollar bill is great because... it can't be used for anything other than five dollars. There's no way for that five dollars to be used to get at more of my money.
Writing the mag strip to a new card won't work for long anyway, since every time I put my card in an ATM machine, the mag strip is re-written
And yet card skimmers are currently quite profitable. The local Costco just found a bunch of them combined with pinhole cameras on their gas POS kiosks. Why would people go through all that effort if there was no financial payday?
If they use my credit card details, I get the money back. The insurance for that is paid by the merchant fees. There is no cash insurance.
All of that drives up fees -- that insurance is passed onto you. No one else is eating it, you're paying the cost through higher prices.
And tipping a bellman for getting my luggage to my room - in a busy hallway it's far easier to give him a 5 or a 10 with my room number. Paypal/Square/... are slow compared to handing off a fiver. And, at least in the US, a discreet monetary thank-you is appreciated far more than a "transaction" that requires a 30-40 second interchange of electronics.
I'd also have to say that in the US at least, the reliability of electronics and networks is greatly exaggerated. I've gone to plenty of places where the CC reader was down, but you could still pay cash. And there are huge, huge swaths of the country where you cannot get even piss-poor cell phone service, not with any sort of reliability. Would you want to limit them to network-required payment methods? >_>
1. Purchaser pays you via credit card.
2. Purchaser receives good.
3. Purchaser calls credit company to revert the transaction.
4. No profit.
You can only get away with that a certain number of times before the CC companies catch on and figure out you're scamming them. At that point you'll be out a lot more money than you got from the reversed charges, and you could lose a lot more than cash as well.
Your incredulous attitude will only prevent you from getting into Bitcoin and realizing the benefits before it becomes ubiquitous
Ah, so is Bitcoin yet another speculative bubble ready to crash, then?
His incredulous attitude is also preventing him from getting taken to the cleaners by Mt. Gox and their ilk.
Lol. Please mod up. This works on several levels.
Generally, when the price of gold moves, it's as a result of a sudden influx in supply (can you say, Forty-Niners? the original ones, not the football team), or a sudden (or not so sudden) change in the money supply.
Or speculation. The current fad of "buy gold for your future" is meant to form a bubble for current sellers to profit from before the bubble bursts.
Yes, we've been waiting for this fiat money crash, as we've been told the end is nigh, for decades now. Still waiting.
The gold standard discussions are always interesting because they all assume that gold has some sort of intrinsic, non-volatile value.
It really doesn't help that much of the "you should buy gold!" press in the last five years has come from people who have a vested interest in the price of gold rising (like Glenn Beck) so they can sell it off at a profit and recent buyers will be hit with a loss. Pretty much the opposite situation from the one Beck et all describe would actually happen if we went back to the gold standard.
Is this that "new world order?"
I always give myself a rule of at least half a day before complaining about moderation. :-)
On one hand...
No, he has a point. Back in the day, we had few tools and we learned how to use them.
And every web page looked like Geocities. There was no interactivity, there was no visual polish, there was no load-on-demand. These days we just expect more from our experiences.
And on the other hand...
now, we have a tool for every hour of the week, and as soon as you've mastered one, someone comes along and says "your skills are sooo obsolete, you must learn now or fall behind", so you get to grips with it and start top master it, and then realise its a pile of poop and hunt around for a new, cooler tech to use instead.
Possibly due to the decline of standards. Remember when HTML, NNTP, SMTP all how strict operating standards? As long as your client spoke the language properly, you could choose your frontend interface. Now every web site has their own private code for how to handle comments. Some sites like Disqus are trying to make a unified interface/login, but we're still at just a fraction of the usability that we had 15 years ago.
I remember when I first started using email and the Internet in 1993, people thought the idea that you could get a virus just from opening an email (any email) was a joke. An urban legend. It didn't take long for times to radically change.
Of those who are willing to publish peer-reviewed research in the field and are willing to take a position on the issue
That second clause is extremely important. The "97% of climate scientists" figure is often used by people claiming that climate scientists are all in agreement. They may be, but "I'm not sure" and "more research is needed before we can draw a conclusion" is an answer that shouldn't be discarded. It's just as valid as "humans are the primary driver behind AGW," and an I'm Not Sure or even "I don't want to say" should be counted and lower the 97% number.
Or +5. Same thing.