OK, from now on I am accepting all your $100's as $1 bills
If you can find someone to agree to that arrangement then great. Else we don't have a meeting of the minds and no valid contract can be formed.
The denomination is not legally binding to either party, it's just some stuff the US Treasury puts on our bills.
Let me be clear, I did not say fiat money is not valuable. That's not the argument here. What I attempted to describe is that "for all debts public and private" is not legally binding to the individuals using or in this case, explicitly refusing to use our money.
The contract doesn't necessarily have to allow cash payments. What is written on your money is not legally binding to either party, it's just some stuff the US Treasury puts on our bills. You could argue that cash is binding to the US Treasury and perhaps to other parts of the government, because they are the ones that marked our money with the notice. So maybe you could pay the IRS in $1 bills, and win any protest they might make about it, maybe...
If the terms of the contract are not clear to either party, the not a valid contract of course. So if I assumed it was a normal store that I could use cash at like any other store, then owner doesn't get to seemingly arbitrarily decides to demand payment in a special way. If the store owner puts a sign up somewhere or tells you before you make the transaction, you can either accept the terms or walk out without partaking in goods and services.
Plastic only is a dumb policy for a store, restaurant, or bar. But you don't have a right to use cash anywhere you wish. At least not in the jurisdiction I'm familiar with (US). A municipality could require accepting cash to be part of operating a business, that would be very easy for your city, county, or state to pass. I'm not aware of any requirement by the government today, but I would be interested in being shown some references to the relevant legal code.
That's not how universal commercial code works. At least not in detail. There is either a contract between both parties under agreed to terms, or there is no contract an no exchange of goods or services is possible. If you accept service then you are bound by the contract. If there is a dispute, you don't get to declare victory, you get to sort it out in front of a judge. Now for example, if a sign in the store is plainly visible that indicates cash is not accepted, then you're out of luck. Have fun with debt collectors.
Stock prices aren't a measure of performance. They are an indicator of investor confidence or an side effect of when day traders are farting around with your stock.
There is real information to be had during quarterly reports. It's not necessarily a complete picture, and varies in quality between companies. But it's still usually less vapid than the garbage Mary Barra recently vomited forth.
What are the measurements for "highly agile" and "resilient"? Can this "flexibility" be demonstrated? And a normal business invests in more business not in a vague "future".
When some of us read platitudes and inanities that smell like bullshit, we are immediately skeptical of the claims. I think our only hope is that more and more people fine tune their bullshit sensors and start rooting out charlatans in charge our of largest corporations.
Something they should have mentioned in the article. I'm guessing they did not because it doesn't instantly make it portable and they currently do not have it working.
There are lot of people who use the headphones that come with their product and not aftermarket products. If the Apple store sells some Apple ear buds that work with Apple iPhone, then that is seemingly good enough for many people.
Think of the last few decades where people bought a walkman or CD player and most only ever used the shitty bundled in headphones? Market forces are at work here, and the theory tells us the selective pressure is not high for 3.5mm headphone jacks.
Americans are often way too cautious on the cleanliness of food.
An E. Coli outbreak every year or two, like in the romaine lettuce outbreak, tells me that Americans are rightfully cautious of the cleanliness of their food.
Unless you're a senior citizen you shouldn't aim for 10% being normal.
If you are unhappy with having to tip at least 15%, then write your congressperson and fix the minimum wage for tipped employees.
It's worth mentioning that if tips plus cash wages don't meet the $7.25/hour minimum wage then the employer is required to make up the difference. When people say that waiters only get $2.13/hour it's not strictly true, because if they got zero tips they're legally entitled to compensation to at least hit minimum wage. Now minimum wage isn't great and most waiters in large cities make significantly more than minimum wage.
Paranoia isn't a very strong argument. Plenty of parents don't seem to care if a computer knows what cartoons and videos their children likes. It's exactly how YouTube works.
I would find the whole process less creepy if it were anonymized better. Collecting data on a population is not quite as invasive as associating information with an individual.
'Molestation' can take many forms.
Let's not be hyperbolic here. It does disrespect to real victims of molestation.
Perhaps the information collected on children isn't of much interest or value to their parents. If something has no value to you personally then what do you care if someone "exploits" it?
I do think it's problematic that there is little to no disclosure on these tracking schemes, what is done with the date, who it is sold to, or how to get your data permanently removed from the data set. Consumers are unable to make an informed choice right now because of a totally unregulated market for data collection.
Finally, is all this data collection even necessary? Does big data marketing tactics benefit our society in any way? I can't imagine a scenario where it does. If we had no marketing of any kind would people still buy toys? Yes, and that's easily proven. We can make laws to remove behaviors in our society that we find disruptive, harmful, or pointless.
if costly benefits like healthcare and retirement savings are foisted onto employers, then having fewer employees that do the work of two or three is a savings. And hard working employees are simple to replace because "right to work" laws means no notice, no severance, and no reasons need to be given for termination.
We operate a highly efficient serfdom, and it boggles my American brain that Europeans aren't doing the same.
NetBSD was more like a hobby for guys playing with obsolete gear one step away from the landfill.
It's what makes NetBSD so lovable. Why does everything have to have some market motive or ride the bleeding edge of academic research? Sometimes you and your friends want to build a mini-bike out of an old weed-wacker engine you found in the dump.
And as the few developers drifted away to other projects, what was left resembled someone's garage museum of abandoned computers.
Sound like taking a trip to DigiBarn. I highly recommend checking it out if you have spare hours in your life that you aren't using for anything. Several miles away are some old obsolete trains you can ride. You can make a day with your family of seeing obsolete useless junk.
As an American I'd argue that UK English is a minor dialect that we can safely ignore. Commonwealth English is more prominent and essentially the same as UK English with the most speakers in India, Nigeria, and UK. If we only count those who speak Commonwealth English as a first language then I believe the UK has the most speakers. Jamaica wins as a percentage of Commonwealth English as a first language (beating UK and Ireland).
Thank you for listening to my ridiculous reductionist rhetoric.
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OK, from now on I am accepting all your $100's as $1 bills
If you can find someone to agree to that arrangement then great. Else we don't have a meeting of the minds and no valid contract can be formed.
The denomination is not legally binding to either party, it's just some stuff the US Treasury puts on our bills.
Let me be clear, I did not say fiat money is not valuable. That's not the argument here. What I attempted to describe is that "for all debts public and private" is not legally binding to the individuals using or in this case, explicitly refusing to use our money.
And have the right to pay with cash.
The contract doesn't necessarily have to allow cash payments. What is written on your money is not legally binding to either party, it's just some stuff the US Treasury puts on our bills. You could argue that cash is binding to the US Treasury and perhaps to other parts of the government, because they are the ones that marked our money with the notice. So maybe you could pay the IRS in $1 bills, and win any protest they might make about it, maybe...
If the terms of the contract are not clear to either party, the not a valid contract of course. So if I assumed it was a normal store that I could use cash at like any other store, then owner doesn't get to seemingly arbitrarily decides to demand payment in a special way. If the store owner puts a sign up somewhere or tells you before you make the transaction, you can either accept the terms or walk out without partaking in goods and services.
Plastic only is a dumb policy for a store, restaurant, or bar. But you don't have a right to use cash anywhere you wish. At least not in the jurisdiction I'm familiar with (US). A municipality could require accepting cash to be part of operating a business, that would be very easy for your city, county, or state to pass. I'm not aware of any requirement by the government today, but I would be interested in being shown some references to the relevant legal code.
That's not how universal commercial code works. At least not in detail. There is either a contract between both parties under agreed to terms, or there is no contract an no exchange of goods or services is possible. If you accept service then you are bound by the contract. If there is a dispute, you don't get to declare victory, you get to sort it out in front of a judge. Now for example, if a sign in the store is plainly visible that indicates cash is not accepted, then you're out of luck. Have fun with debt collectors.
Stock prices aren't a measure of performance. They are an indicator of investor confidence or an side effect of when day traders are farting around with your stock.
There is real information to be had during quarterly reports. It's not necessarily a complete picture, and varies in quality between companies. But it's still usually less vapid than the garbage Mary Barra recently vomited forth.
What are the measurements for "highly agile" and "resilient"? Can this "flexibility" be demonstrated? And a normal business invests in more business not in a vague "future".
When some of us read platitudes and inanities that smell like bullshit, we are immediately skeptical of the claims. I think our only hope is that more and more people fine tune their bullshit sensors and start rooting out charlatans in charge our of largest corporations.
Something they should have mentioned in the article. I'm guessing they did not because it doesn't instantly make it portable and they currently do not have it working.
both Spectre and Meltdown can apply to non-x86 processors like POWER9. There are patches to help on POWER9 but it did have a performance cost.
And this time explain what it is and why I, as a user of a paint program, should care about .NET Core?
..and the long sad march to the capitalist drums continue.
I don't think that shitty headphones is a sign of the end of western civilization.
Most desktop computers are used to piss around on the Internet. A lot depends on your definition of doing "work".
There are lot of people who use the headphones that come with their product and not aftermarket products. If the Apple store sells some Apple ear buds that work with Apple iPhone, then that is seemingly good enough for many people.
Think of the last few decades where people bought a walkman or CD player and most only ever used the shitty bundled in headphones? Market forces are at work here, and the theory tells us the selective pressure is not high for 3.5mm headphone jacks.
Americans are often way too cautious on the cleanliness of food.
An E. Coli outbreak every year or two, like in the romaine lettuce outbreak, tells me that Americans are rightfully cautious of the cleanliness of their food.
Unless you're a senior citizen you shouldn't aim for 10% being normal.
If you are unhappy with having to tip at least 15%, then write your congressperson and fix the minimum wage for tipped employees.
It's worth mentioning that if tips plus cash wages don't meet the $7.25/hour minimum wage then the employer is required to make up the difference. When people say that waiters only get $2.13/hour it's not strictly true, because if they got zero tips they're legally entitled to compensation to at least hit minimum wage. Now minimum wage isn't great and most waiters in large cities make significantly more than minimum wage.
Killer Muni busses.
Actual intelligence is pretty rare too.
Expert systems, deep learning, etc are all very useful tools and do work today.
Paranoia isn't a very strong argument. Plenty of parents don't seem to care if a computer knows what cartoons and videos their children likes. It's exactly how YouTube works.
I would find the whole process less creepy if it were anonymized better. Collecting data on a population is not quite as invasive as associating information with an individual.
'Molestation' can take many forms.
Let's not be hyperbolic here. It does disrespect to real victims of molestation.
Perhaps the information collected on children isn't of much interest or value to their parents. If something has no value to you personally then what do you care if someone "exploits" it?
I do think it's problematic that there is little to no disclosure on these tracking schemes, what is done with the date, who it is sold to, or how to get your data permanently removed from the data set. Consumers are unable to make an informed choice right now because of a totally unregulated market for data collection.
Finally, is all this data collection even necessary? Does big data marketing tactics benefit our society in any way? I can't imagine a scenario where it does. If we had no marketing of any kind would people still buy toys? Yes, and that's easily proven. We can make laws to remove behaviors in our society that we find disruptive, harmful, or pointless.
It is possible to manipulate people's emotions and encourage them to buy a product without lying about it.
if costly benefits like healthcare and retirement savings are foisted onto employers, then having fewer employees that do the work of two or three is a savings. And hard working employees are simple to replace because "right to work" laws means no notice, no severance, and no reasons need to be given for termination.
We operate a highly efficient serfdom, and it boggles my American brain that Europeans aren't doing the same.
The stress must be getting to you. Because we've saw it only days ago.
NetBSD was more like a hobby for guys playing with obsolete gear one step away from the landfill.
It's what makes NetBSD so lovable. Why does everything have to have some market motive or ride the bleeding edge of academic research? Sometimes you and your friends want to build a mini-bike out of an old weed-wacker engine you found in the dump.
And as the few developers drifted away to other projects, what was left resembled someone's garage museum of abandoned computers.
Sound like taking a trip to DigiBarn. I highly recommend checking it out if you have spare hours in your life that you aren't using for anything. Several miles away are some old obsolete trains you can ride. You can make a day with your family of seeing obsolete useless junk.
When you keep lying to us.
what is an "infliencd" ? I get "mattrt" through context.
The real "pussy" here is a turbine engine that can't handle a strike from a carbon fiber drone.
Pesky nanny state, always trying to keep idiots alive.
and knob.
As an American I'd argue that UK English is a minor dialect that we can safely ignore. Commonwealth English is more prominent and essentially the same as UK English with the most speakers in India, Nigeria, and UK. If we only count those who speak Commonwealth English as a first language then I believe the UK has the most speakers. Jamaica wins as a percentage of Commonwealth English as a first language (beating UK and Ireland).
Thank you for listening to my ridiculous reductionist rhetoric.