Is this a name/acronym for a particular system, or are you talking about using a pin number when you use your card? We have the same system in the US and it has always been easily hackable and vulnerable.
You can ask your bank to make your account that you do not go in debit. That way you can't go in the red or under zero or in debt.
Doesn't help me with the $30k that the thieves might have pulled out of the bank already! I don't think any banks here let you withdraw more money than is in the actual account.
Protections for debit cards are poor in the US. Credit cards are generally well protected, but it's a huge mistake to treat a debit card like a credit card. Individual banks may extend protections to debit cards (mine does), but you'd have to read your agreement with the bank to ensure that's the case.
yeah because a lot of people who are on the fence about carrying even a phone never mind a smartphone really are just dying to have all the features that you or I might add to a rooted phone.
Like being able to put music and other media on an external SD card, something of which Samsung** loves to throw frustrating roadblocks in the way?
**or is it google? I can never tell where the bad decisions on the Galaxy S series come from.
Correct. Nimby bullshit keeps the rents artificially high in SF.
Well, plenty of people don't think that, say, tearing down the Painted Ladies and replacing them with high-rises is that great of an idea either. There's only so many people you can pack into an area before a lot of them feel like they're becoming rats packed together, and that's no way to live. So yeah, expect opposition from them when outsiders come in and want to develop on top of them.
Is it really Necessary to throw in random caps where They serve no Purpose?
Aside from the capitalization of MIR and MAC, two words that are not acronyms, I thought the GP was refreshingly accurate with the capitalization. Certainly far more than most, and I found it less distracting than the posts where people don't bother capitalizing at all.
Finally! Someone finally calls me an SJW. I hoped that someday it would come down to this. Sadly, it's well after the whole "SJW" thing died, but it was nice to be included, at least after the fact.
Cool. So if I use it in a non-racist context (like randomly in a video game) then you'll understand that intent.
Right? Right?
Because I would seriously doubt your non-racist tendencies at that point. To be clear, if you're using it as an insult, your protests that you're not a racist would fall a bit flat.
I say whatever the fuck I want to whomever the fuck I want. If that person decides to get violent, I will end their life by putting a bullet into their face. Nobody has the right to not be offended or to assault someone else.
Yeah, you sound like a real peach.
Who the fuck are you to judge someone else ? Try that shit with me in person and I will break your fucking jaw, mister.
Oh yes, the mighty keyboard warrior has me shaking in my boots!
Yeah, someone who doesn't give half a fuck about the left's ever-escalating PC insanity. Once you start rioting over pronouns, you lose all reasonable expectation that anyone will take you seriously ever again.
My God, ever since the Civil Rights movement, being an open racist used to mean you'd get the deserved disgust and shunning even from those close to you. That word and what it represents used to be anathema, and deservedly so. Now it's "left-wing PC insanity" to get pissed as someone who calls someone else a ni**er. And not cutely/affably, even if tone-deaf. No, it's meant as an insult, as derogatory, and still you're pretending this is some "left-wing" issue. At least you didn't go full moron and say SJW.
The problem is that the racism behind the word n*g**r is is being selectively applied. A person of African descent can apparently use it among friends, but non African descent cannot use it ever.
That's right. Context absolutely matters. So does intent.
I say whatever the fuck I want to whomever the fuck I want. If that person decides to get violent, I will end their life by putting a bullet into their face. Nobody has the right to not be offended or to assault someone else.
People act like saying "ni**er" will summon the ghost of Robert E Lee who'll use his supernatural powers to round up all nearby black people and force them to work on his haunted cotton plantation for all eternity.
Obviously not. It's just that it reveals who you really are, not what you say you are. Someone who deep down feels himself superior to black people, that pointing them out as suck is an insult, derogatory, that it's something someone should be ashamed of. That's all.
Both the extreme left AND extreme right hate the Jews. For different reasons, of course... but it's one thing that they can both agree on.
For what though, not being extreme enough?
The extreme left hates the Jews for reasons of Israel's Zionism, the taking of Muslim lands to create and expand a Jewish state, and of course... that a state would be "Jewish" in the first place. Really, left-wing opposition is more opposition to Israel than it is to "Jews" in general, though supporters of the state of Israel like the ADL find it convenient to conflate the two.
The extreme right hates the Jews for reasons of traditional racism, the theories of Jews controlling the money supply, Jews controlling politics, the old "stab in the back" Nazi theories, Nazism and racism in general, all that stuff we're familiar with.
Of course the obvious problem is WHAT you teach and WHO is teaching it. If the school is run by radical Jihadists, then the whole "education" thing isn't going to work out like you think.
The ideal goal of education is to have the curriculum and the educator as unbiased as realistically possible. The more bias they have, the more that education strays towards propaganda and indoctrination.
I might trust a jihadist teacher with lessons on Algebra, but certainly not for sociology, history, or religion.
In countries with severe censorship, the rumor mill allows fringe ideas to spread rapidly, and they are more easily believed because nobody believes the official denials of the authorities. So, if you are calling for censorship, we already know from experience that your plan won't work. To confirm what I'm saying, all you have to do is look at the extremely paranoid theories about Jews held by Muslims living under authoritarian governments.
Most of those Muslim authoritarian governments find great political and moral advantage to those Jewish theories because blaming an 'other' is a time-tested technique to boost your own strength. Most of those theories are spread with the support of, not in spite of, those authoritarian governments.
I don't think there are actually that many jew-hating nutbags, but the opportunity anonymnity presents encourages and amplifies their hooting and hollering.
Also, many don't actually hate Jews (and certainly not all Jews), but they like the outrage that generates and do it for the lulz.
You are the reason movies suck these days. You steal from those making movies and wonder why movies are so bad these days.
Every time you BitTorrent a movie, the next movie gets just that much worse in quality.
I hope you're kidding. In terms of effects and the actual work that goes into films, there's more money being spent on them than any other time in history, with the occasional Cleopatra as an outlying counter-example. "Oh, if only they'd been able to afford a good effects budget" is not something said in Hollywood.
Then Jedi are idiots. Imagine how much of a better fighter a Jedi (or Sith) could be if they mastered both lightsabers and blasters.
It seems like in a Jedi's hands, a lightsaber beats a blaster, every time. But that doesn't mean that jedis only use lightsabers -- Luke did pretty well with an X-wing that didn't just have a lightsaber mounted on the front side.
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We use PIN in Europe, so not a real issue.
Is this a name/acronym for a particular system, or are you talking about using a pin number when you use your card? We have the same system in the US and it has always been easily hackable and vulnerable.
You can ask your bank to make your account that you do not go in debit. That way you can't go in the red or under zero or in debt.
Doesn't help me with the $30k that the thieves might have pulled out of the bank already! I don't think any banks here let you withdraw more money than is in the actual account.
Protections for debit cards are poor in the US. Credit cards are generally well protected, but it's a huge mistake to treat a debit card like a credit card. Individual banks may extend protections to debit cards (mine does), but you'd have to read your agreement with the bank to ensure that's the case.
yeah because a lot of people who are on the fence about carrying even a phone never mind a smartphone really are just dying to have all the features that you or I might add to a rooted phone.
Like being able to put music and other media on an external SD card, something of which Samsung** loves to throw frustrating roadblocks in the way?
**or is it google? I can never tell where the bad decisions on the Galaxy S series come from.
Death sentence for making 1.8 million between 3 people. Not even stealing from people,
It is stealing, but from many many people.
The AC keeps posting this in multiple threads, and no one is really sure what he's talking about.
Correct. Nimby bullshit keeps the rents artificially high in SF.
Well, plenty of people don't think that, say, tearing down the Painted Ladies and replacing them with high-rises is that great of an idea either. There's only so many people you can pack into an area before a lot of them feel like they're becoming rats packed together, and that's no way to live. So yeah, expect opposition from them when outsiders come in and want to develop on top of them.
Although now I'm noticing Productivity, Software, Phone, Hardware, etc. I'm not sure why it took careful scanning for me to realize that.
Is it really Necessary to throw in random caps where They serve no Purpose?
Aside from the capitalization of MIR and MAC, two words that are not acronyms, I thought the GP was refreshingly accurate with the capitalization. Certainly far more than most, and I found it less distracting than the posts where people don't bother capitalizing at all.
Macbook Pros don't need hardware service
If you say this, then you do not have very much experience with computers.
Finally! Someone finally calls me an SJW. I hoped that someday it would come down to this.
Sadly, it's well after the whole "SJW" thing died, but it was nice to be included, at least after the fact.
Cool. So if I use it in a non-racist context (like randomly in a video game) then you'll understand that intent.
Right? Right?
Because I would seriously doubt your non-racist tendencies at that point. To be clear, if you're using it as an insult, your protests that you're not a racist would fall a bit flat.
You fucking imbecile.
I sense some real intent here! :-D
So all the black people on the subway calling people crackers is objectionable to you
Sure. Black people can totally be racist.
they should have their transportation rights removed as they are racists right?
And for that, see the other respondent's followup.
I say whatever the fuck I want to whomever the fuck I want. If that person decides to get violent, I will end their life by putting a bullet into their face. Nobody has the right to not be offended or to assault someone else.
Yeah, you sound like a real peach.
Who the fuck are you to judge someone else ? Try that shit with me in person and I will break your fucking jaw, mister.
Oh yes, the mighty keyboard warrior has me shaking in my boots!
You sound like a weak little faggot.
I may be a faggot, but I'm strong enough.
Yeah, someone who doesn't give half a fuck about the left's ever-escalating PC insanity. Once you start rioting over pronouns, you lose all reasonable expectation that anyone will take you seriously ever again.
My God, ever since the Civil Rights movement, being an open racist used to mean you'd get the deserved disgust and shunning even from those close to you. That word and what it represents used to be anathema, and deservedly so. Now it's "left-wing PC insanity" to get pissed as someone who calls someone else a ni**er. And not cutely/affably, even if tone-deaf. No, it's meant as an insult, as derogatory, and still you're pretending this is some "left-wing" issue. At least you didn't go full moron and say SJW.
The problem is that the racism behind the word n*g**r is is being selectively applied. A person of African descent can apparently use it among friends, but non African descent cannot use it ever.
That's right. Context absolutely matters. So does intent.
Because it's not just "a fucking word."
I say whatever the fuck I want to whomever the fuck I want. If that person decides to get violent, I will end their life by putting a bullet into their face. Nobody has the right to not be offended or to assault someone else.
Yeah, you sound like a real peach.
People act like saying "ni**er" will summon the ghost of Robert E Lee who'll use his supernatural powers to round up all nearby black people and force them to work on his haunted cotton plantation for all eternity.
Obviously not.
It's just that it reveals who you really are, not what you say you are. Someone who deep down feels himself superior to black people, that pointing them out as suck is an insult, derogatory, that it's something someone should be ashamed of. That's all.
Both the extreme left AND extreme right hate the Jews.
For different reasons, of course... but it's one thing that they can both agree on.
For what though, not being extreme enough?
The extreme left hates the Jews for reasons of Israel's Zionism, the taking of Muslim lands to create and expand a Jewish state, and of course... that a state would be "Jewish" in the first place. Really, left-wing opposition is more opposition to Israel than it is to "Jews" in general, though supporters of the state of Israel like the ADL find it convenient to conflate the two.
The extreme right hates the Jews for reasons of traditional racism, the theories of Jews controlling the money supply, Jews controlling politics, the old "stab in the back" Nazi theories, Nazism and racism in general, all that stuff we're familiar with.
Of course the obvious problem is WHAT you teach and WHO is teaching it. If the school is run by radical Jihadists, then the whole "education" thing isn't going to work out like you think.
The ideal goal of education is to have the curriculum and the educator as unbiased as realistically possible. The more bias they have, the more that education strays towards propaganda and indoctrination.
I might trust a jihadist teacher with lessons on Algebra, but certainly not for sociology, history, or religion.
Let me guess. You are a euro socialist or one of These Soros victims.
I love the George Soros conspiracy theories. Hard right-wingers seriously believe the guy is some sort of all-powerful anti-Christ.
In countries with severe censorship, the rumor mill allows fringe ideas to spread rapidly, and they are more easily believed because nobody believes the official denials of the authorities. So, if you are calling for censorship, we already know from experience that your plan won't work. To confirm what I'm saying, all you have to do is look at the extremely paranoid theories about Jews held by Muslims living under authoritarian governments.
Most of those Muslim authoritarian governments find great political and moral advantage to those Jewish theories because blaming an 'other' is a time-tested technique to boost your own strength. Most of those theories are spread with the support of, not in spite of, those authoritarian governments.
I don't think there are actually that many jew-hating nutbags, but the opportunity anonymnity presents encourages and amplifies their hooting and hollering.
Also, many don't actually hate Jews (and certainly not all Jews), but they like the outrage that generates and do it for the lulz.
Allowing placement of any ad based on a keyword hit that includes "hate" is just unethical.
So my ads based on the phrase "I hate housework!" should be prohibited?
They certainly shouldn't be automatically generated.
What about ads for "The pharmaceutical industry hates this one weird trick anyone can do to have better health!"
Maybe a bad example.
You are the reason movies suck these days. You steal from those making movies and wonder why movies are so bad these days.
Every time you BitTorrent a movie, the next movie gets just that much worse in quality.
I hope you're kidding. In terms of effects and the actual work that goes into films, there's more money being spent on them than any other time in history, with the occasional Cleopatra as an outlying counter-example. "Oh, if only they'd been able to afford a good effects budget" is not something said in Hollywood.
Then Jedi are idiots. Imagine how much of a better fighter a Jedi (or Sith) could be if they mastered both lightsabers and blasters.
It seems like in a Jedi's hands, a lightsaber beats a blaster, every time.
But that doesn't mean that jedis only use lightsabers -- Luke did pretty well with an X-wing that didn't just have a lightsaber mounted on the front side.