I have a German ID and EU drivers license with me all the time. Being German (as well as US-Citizen), the police don't care a shit about my US passport the moment they realize I am German. It actually is felony to identify myself with my US passport in the EU; likewise it is a felony to immigrate on my German passport into the US. So no, I do not need to be close to my passport, since as long as I am in the EU it almost meaningless.
I think many people misjudge it that an expensive wine is the better wine. All these "the expert can't spot the cheap wine" and similar things just show us this over and over again. Nobody that really is into these things is surprised about it; the only people who are surprised/appealed are the snobs, who just got robed of their superiority.
The cork thing is a bit more difficult. Yes uncorking a bottle of wine is nice and all. The reason why I prefer whine in a corked bottle and in the case of red wine, with the bottom of bottle indented inwards, is because these are the inside tip for a better wine. Granted some wine producers are engaged in deception in the effort of rising their profit margin, but on average this works out quite good.
Interestingly, in France much wine is either sold directly or through wholesale vendors. In these cases the wine actually never gets into a bottle. It transported in large steal or plastic vats and sold in 5l brown/read plastic canisters, that are refilled. But the wine is never served directly form these canisters, it is always filled into a decanter or flask.
So yea the mode of transportation has nothing to do with the quality, even though most people prefer specific "presentation".
By the way whats up with all the Americans insisting of having plastic cups at their parties?! You know, because glass is so unsafe...
As far as I see it, the mic is basically there so you can sync up the external sound recording latter on. The sole focus of camera maker is on picture fidelity, they know if you have the money to pay 5K for just a camera body and need good sound, you will pay a few K on proper sound recording hardware, like for example a boom mic.
Do not underestimate the complexity of grammatically correct sentences. With the average 1.3 bits of entropy per character the pass phrase "The blue none jumped over the red fence." comes out at around 56 bits of entropy. Add to the fact that the low 1.3 value comes from sentences that only make sense, so the more nonsensical the phrase the higher the entropy. This is all under the assumption that the attacker knows exactly the password scheme you are using, if he goes towards more traditional dictionary attacks or even brute force, he will completely luck out; the chances are higher that he find a hash collision, than the actual password.
The ID is really easy, like I posted somewhere else you need about two other people with IDs to swear that you are the person that you claim to be and you get your ID reissued. The other bit of the puzzle is the key. Each safe deposit box I know works with the two key system. You need two keys to open the box, one the bank has, the other you have. The result is that even with your ID, but no key you are out of luck.
Even though the deposit box does not help you with your ID, it helps mitigate the risk for other documents. Especially if they are things like contracts where people owe you money. (The other way around is no big deal, they will gladly hand you a new copy of the contract.)
How does not being in debt make you have a low credit score. As far as I know, missing on payments means you get a lower credit score, likewise raking up large amounts of dept lower the score. But actually paying your bills on time or before that, why should that give you a low score. It sounds like you go into debt on purpose to "keep your score up". That sound like en expensive undertaking.
I had an odd similar situation. I live in Karlsruhe Germany and help move my girlfriend, now wife move from Berlin to my place. So we rented a transporter, the requirements where a valid ID and drivers license with at least 2 years driving experience. At the time I was 19 and had a Texas drivers license since around 16, the the experience qualified, but I also had a European (French) drivers license since 18. (Yes, it's complicated.) So I came to them with with my German ID and my two drivers licenses. The one documenting that I had the required experience, the other on which I would actually be driving. But the bozos at rental company said, we can only accept the US license if you can show us your US passport as ID. Guess what, my passport was 800 km away in Karlsruhe. We got them to accept the situation, if I could provide some official paper that would document I was an US citizen. (They probably though it would not work out.) So we went to the US Services in the US consulate and of course they could produce my file with picture. After some probing about when and where I got my passport and some other random questions the issued my the letter and it worked out. In addition that was on a Saturday where they are normally closed, so thank you again!
Basically all your documents are on file with the issuing government agency. Likewise I had my birth certificate reissued, all it took me was filling out a form and a couple stamps on a return envelope.
My father had this sort of. While visiting his mother in California, his bag was stolen while at the beach and this included his passport and wallet. The result was he had absolutely no ID whatsoever. The solution to the problem was to get two people that where related to him, with ID to swear he was how he claimed to be. End of story, yes it was a huge hassle, but in the end it worked out.
I mean abnormal in the sense that it is not part of an average diet. Like fried crickets, you and I would probably not eat them, but that does not lower their nutritional value.
Technically raw meat is processed food. Buy a live cow or chicken and then that assumption makes sense. But the term processed foods as meant in the TFA are complete packaged meals. And that is what the colloquial definition is. Yes cheese is processed, but nobody will put it on the same level as frozen pizzas, microwave macaroni and cheese or instant noodles.
How much tofu is on your or any American/European diet? Exactly almost none, save the occasional Chinese restaurant visit. That is what I mean by deviating from a "normal" diet. An other example, though not for proteins are yest flakes. Yes they are sort of "normal", except outside of the health food isle you will not see them.
5$/plate what extravagance is that? Oh yea, GP added meat. Since apparently we are all eating meat to much, one of the tenants is to reduce the times you eat meat. spagetti genovese will offset you around 2$/plate a mixed salad will offset you around 3$/plate, rice with onion cream sauce will offset you at around 2$.
What is this "no time" argument? Everybody has about the similar time constraint and in most cases people that earn more also work more. You have a fridge and you do not need to go more often than once a week. All it takes is some planing. There a few shortcuts you can take, you can buy frozen vegetables, they actually are better quality, than fresh. They work everywhere where you cook them and you can buy them in larger batches. I have the impression that your food just magically appears at your house, good for you.
Baking also takes long on a total scale, but there is no reason you can't watch a movie while you wait. Simple things like pizza are just the right length for your average youtube video.
2 min?! More like 30s. The longest time is spent finding the onions in fridge. Using a chopper is loosing time, all you need is one good kitchen knife. That solves 95% of you cutting needs. It takes a little practice but that comes naturally as you do it.
+1 If you eat organic food because of the quality you are doing it wrong. Organic was never about the food, but about the environment. The idea that organic food is better is and always was a myth.
Do you know how far you get with 20 $ of food? For a single person, if properly spent that would stretch to about 2 weeks. Try doing that with processed food. Nobody said you have to eat steak every day. There are some thinks like rice or noodles that almost cost nothing and make up the better part of the meal, add a few vegetables maybe a little meat and you have full and healthy meal. It is a myth that raw foods are more expensive, in most cases they are similar or even cheaper, if you know what you are doing.
That is a good question, and one my technologically illiterate stalker should ponder as well. It's probably good in that case for the browser to take the hint and use a monospace font, but it's certainly not required, and there is a reason we have the ability to change the default fonts. If a particular font looks bad on your browser the obvious answer is to choose a different font that does not have this problem.
Actually you are mixing up concepts here. The tt tag is not part of the current HTML standard. This website sais it is compliant with that standard, why is my browser interpreting a tag that does not exist in the standard. If my browser stopped interpreting the blink why does it retain compatibility with the equally meaningless tt tag. If you wanted to denote code or preformed blocks, you would use the code or pre tags. These would then normally be formatted using a mono space font, you know in CSS as the standard describes...
Then again, you all beat the average at the fact that you probably do allot of handwriting. Like precision watches that are actually used by skilled professionals and there they are needed. Although I own an awesome fountain pen, the actual use of the pen declined significantly since I graduated. If you write allot, it is true that fountain pens are better, but in recent years you can split the spectrum in luxury items and writing tools. While the wiring tools tend to become cheaper as demand declines the luxury items rise as they become more and more a status symbol.
Then again it isn't POST really anyway. In the "developed world" even if you have a POTS line it will probably me digitized and handled over ATM or similar. The backbone infrastructure isn't analog since at latest the 90s. I think this is only a question until the last mile also gets ATM or similar technologies.
I actually know a few long term vegans and they take great care to eat sufficient proteins. "how do you get enough protein" sounds like a stupid question, until you talk to people that not do this as a fad but for the rest of their life. It is a real issue they need to consider. They start to eat things, like tofu, that you would not consider part of a normal diet. Becoming a vegan does not mean removing meat, eggs and cheese from your diet, it also means finding substitutes. Vegetarians on the other hand, no big deal, a few chicken eggs and some cheese will do the trick.
Add to that the fact that basically you have the choice of buying raw food, processed food or paying someone to cook for you. Properly cooked food, starting with raw ingredients, without fail tastes better. The problem is either you have money and can dine out or you need the skill to cook. If you where raised, like me, on the concept of buying raw food and cooking it, you will have learnt how to actually cook. But as it turns a good few people's cooking skill stops with scrambled eggs and as a result they buy processed food.
Processed food in itself is not bad and you can buy quite good quality food, but that costs. Competition in the food industry means sacrificing quality for profit/lower price and they will continue to "optimize" until the product stops selling. The interesting bit is that in recent decades there is a gap between the sensory experience of the food and the actual nutritional quality.
If people would realize how easy it actually is to cook...
Except that this "trade in ideas" totally meaningless. Yes we are seeing growth in the "digital" economy, but that is because the things sold are doing something in the real world. Let us take the example of those stupid hats in Team Fortress for example. It took someone real effort to create a hat, then he sells it to a bunch of people for a few cents. The people buy that hat because it provides them enjoyment or status. Although the transaction was digital, it required real world effort and provided real world enjoyment.
A different example would be the trade of personal information, yes people pay money (less and less it turns out) for your contact information and preferences. But that only furthers the goal to sell you something physical. Again it ends up being bound to a physical property.
A third example, a piece of office software. You buy that software because it makes some task easier, which means you save time. (In some cases you just think that is the case, but that is a different issue.) This is a clear trade of pay money to get time.
You probably see what I am getting at, the digital economy is just a means of satisfying some physical urge. Since these are bound by the number of people around and their disposable income, there is a very hard upper bound.
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I have a German ID and EU drivers license with me all the time. Being German (as well as US-Citizen), the police don't care a shit about my US passport the moment they realize I am German. It actually is felony to identify myself with my US passport in the EU; likewise it is a felony to immigrate on my German passport into the US. So no, I do not need to be close to my passport, since as long as I am in the EU it almost meaningless.
I think many people misjudge it that an expensive wine is the better wine. All these "the expert can't spot the cheap wine" and similar things just show us this over and over again. Nobody that really is into these things is surprised about it; the only people who are surprised/appealed are the snobs, who just got robed of their superiority.
The cork thing is a bit more difficult. Yes uncorking a bottle of wine is nice and all. The reason why I prefer whine in a corked bottle and in the case of red wine, with the bottom of bottle indented inwards, is because these are the inside tip for a better wine. Granted some wine producers are engaged in deception in the effort of rising their profit margin, but on average this works out quite good.
Interestingly, in France much wine is either sold directly or through wholesale vendors. In these cases the wine actually never gets into a bottle. It transported in large steal or plastic vats and sold in 5l brown/read plastic canisters, that are refilled. But the wine is never served directly form these canisters, it is always filled into a decanter or flask.
So yea the mode of transportation has nothing to do with the quality, even though most people prefer specific "presentation".
By the way whats up with all the Americans insisting of having plastic cups at their parties?! You know, because glass is so unsafe...
As far as I see it, the mic is basically there so you can sync up the external sound recording latter on. The sole focus of camera maker is on picture fidelity, they know if you have the money to pay 5K for just a camera body and need good sound, you will pay a few K on proper sound recording hardware, like for example a boom mic.
Do not underestimate the complexity of grammatically correct sentences. With the average 1.3 bits of entropy per character the pass phrase "The blue none jumped over the red fence." comes out at around 56 bits of entropy. Add to the fact that the low 1.3 value comes from sentences that only make sense, so the more nonsensical the phrase the higher the entropy. This is all under the assumption that the attacker knows exactly the password scheme you are using, if he goes towards more traditional dictionary attacks or even brute force, he will completely luck out; the chances are higher that he find a hash collision, than the actual password.
The ID is really easy, like I posted somewhere else you need about two other people with IDs to swear that you are the person that you claim to be and you get your ID reissued. The other bit of the puzzle is the key. Each safe deposit box I know works with the two key system. You need two keys to open the box, one the bank has, the other you have. The result is that even with your ID, but no key you are out of luck.
Even though the deposit box does not help you with your ID, it helps mitigate the risk for other documents. Especially if they are things like contracts where people owe you money. (The other way around is no big deal, they will gladly hand you a new copy of the contract.)
How does not being in debt make you have a low credit score. As far as I know, missing on payments means you get a lower credit score, likewise raking up large amounts of dept lower the score. But actually paying your bills on time or before that, why should that give you a low score. It sounds like you go into debt on purpose to "keep your score up". That sound like en expensive undertaking.
I had an odd similar situation. I live in Karlsruhe Germany and help move my girlfriend, now wife move from Berlin to my place. So we rented a transporter, the requirements where a valid ID and drivers license with at least 2 years driving experience. At the time I was 19 and had a Texas drivers license since around 16, the the experience qualified, but I also had a European (French) drivers license since 18. (Yes, it's complicated.) So I came to them with with my German ID and my two drivers licenses. The one documenting that I had the required experience, the other on which I would actually be driving. But the bozos at rental company said, we can only accept the US license if you can show us your US passport as ID. Guess what, my passport was 800 km away in Karlsruhe. We got them to accept the situation, if I could provide some official paper that would document I was an US citizen. (They probably though it would not work out.) So we went to the US Services in the US consulate and of course they could produce my file with picture. After some probing about when and where I got my passport and some other random questions the issued my the letter and it worked out. In addition that was on a Saturday where they are normally closed, so thank you again!
Basically all your documents are on file with the issuing government agency. Likewise I had my birth certificate reissued, all it took me was filling out a form and a couple stamps on a return envelope.
My father had this sort of. While visiting his mother in California, his bag was stolen while at the beach and this included his passport and wallet. The result was he had absolutely no ID whatsoever. The solution to the problem was to get two people that where related to him, with ID to swear he was how he claimed to be. End of story, yes it was a huge hassle, but in the end it worked out.
I mean abnormal in the sense that it is not part of an average diet. Like fried crickets, you and I would probably not eat them, but that does not lower their nutritional value.
Technically raw meat is processed food. Buy a live cow or chicken and then that assumption makes sense. But the term processed foods as meant in the TFA are complete packaged meals. And that is what the colloquial definition is. Yes cheese is processed, but nobody will put it on the same level as frozen pizzas, microwave macaroni and cheese or instant noodles.
How much tofu is on your or any American/European diet? Exactly almost none, save the occasional Chinese restaurant visit. That is what I mean by deviating from a "normal" diet. An other example, though not for proteins are yest flakes. Yes they are sort of "normal", except outside of the health food isle you will not see them.
By your definition steak is also processed. If you buy the cow alive and slaughter yourself it then we are in business with your definition.
5$/plate what extravagance is that? Oh yea, GP added meat. Since apparently we are all eating meat to much, one of the tenants is to reduce the times you eat meat. spagetti genovese will offset you around 2$/plate a mixed salad will offset you around 3$/plate, rice with onion cream sauce will offset you at around 2$.
What is this "no time" argument? Everybody has about the similar time constraint and in most cases people that earn more also work more. You have a fridge and you do not need to go more often than once a week. All it takes is some planing. There a few shortcuts you can take, you can buy frozen vegetables, they actually are better quality, than fresh. They work everywhere where you cook them and you can buy them in larger batches. I have the impression that your food just magically appears at your house, good for you.
Baking also takes long on a total scale, but there is no reason you can't watch a movie while you wait. Simple things like pizza are just the right length for your average youtube video.
2 min?! More like 30s. The longest time is spent finding the onions in fridge. Using a chopper is loosing time, all you need is one good kitchen knife. That solves 95% of you cutting needs. It takes a little practice but that comes naturally as you do it.
+1 If you eat organic food because of the quality you are doing it wrong. Organic was never about the food, but about the environment. The idea that organic food is better is and always was a myth.
Do you know how far you get with 20 $ of food? For a single person, if properly spent that would stretch to about 2 weeks. Try doing that with processed food. Nobody said you have to eat steak every day. There are some thinks like rice or noodles that almost cost nothing and make up the better part of the meal, add a few vegetables maybe a little meat and you have full and healthy meal. It is a myth that raw foods are more expensive, in most cases they are similar or even cheaper, if you know what you are doing.
That is a good question, and one my technologically illiterate stalker should ponder as well. It's probably good in that case for the browser to take the hint and use a monospace font, but it's certainly not required, and there is a reason we have the ability to change the default fonts. If a particular font looks bad on your browser the obvious answer is to choose a different font that does not have this problem.
Actually you are mixing up concepts here. The tt tag is not part of the current HTML standard. This website sais it is compliant with that standard, why is my browser interpreting a tag that does not exist in the standard. If my browser stopped interpreting the blink why does it retain compatibility with the equally meaningless tt tag. If you wanted to denote code or preformed blocks, you would use the code or pre tags. These would then normally be formatted using a mono space font, you know in CSS as the standard describes...
Except that the iPhone pales in comparison to watches that the TFA refers to.
Then again, you all beat the average at the fact that you probably do allot of handwriting. Like precision watches that are actually used by skilled professionals and there they are needed. Although I own an awesome fountain pen, the actual use of the pen declined significantly since I graduated. If you write allot, it is true that fountain pens are better, but in recent years you can split the spectrum in luxury items and writing tools. While the wiring tools tend to become cheaper as demand declines the luxury items rise as they become more and more a status symbol.
Then again it isn't POST really anyway. In the "developed world" even if you have a POTS line it will probably me digitized and handled over ATM or similar. The backbone infrastructure isn't analog since at latest the 90s. I think this is only a question until the last mile also gets ATM or similar technologies.
Well I work for a global company and we still have POTS, but then again I never use it.
I actually know a few long term vegans and they take great care to eat sufficient proteins. "how do you get enough protein" sounds like a stupid question, until you talk to people that not do this as a fad but for the rest of their life. It is a real issue they need to consider. They start to eat things, like tofu, that you would not consider part of a normal diet. Becoming a vegan does not mean removing meat, eggs and cheese from your diet, it also means finding substitutes. Vegetarians on the other hand, no big deal, a few chicken eggs and some cheese will do the trick.
Add to that the fact that basically you have the choice of buying raw food, processed food or paying someone to cook for you. Properly cooked food, starting with raw ingredients, without fail tastes better. The problem is either you have money and can dine out or you need the skill to cook. If you where raised, like me, on the concept of buying raw food and cooking it, you will have learnt how to actually cook. But as it turns a good few people's cooking skill stops with scrambled eggs and as a result they buy processed food.
Processed food in itself is not bad and you can buy quite good quality food, but that costs. Competition in the food industry means sacrificing quality for profit/lower price and they will continue to "optimize" until the product stops selling. The interesting bit is that in recent decades there is a gap between the sensory experience of the food and the actual nutritional quality.
If people would realize how easy it actually is to cook...
Except that this "trade in ideas" totally meaningless. Yes we are seeing growth in the "digital" economy, but that is because the things sold are doing something in the real world. Let us take the example of those stupid hats in Team Fortress for example. It took someone real effort to create a hat, then he sells it to a bunch of people for a few cents. The people buy that hat because it provides them enjoyment or status. Although the transaction was digital, it required real world effort and provided real world enjoyment.
A different example would be the trade of personal information, yes people pay money (less and less it turns out) for your contact information and preferences. But that only furthers the goal to sell you something physical. Again it ends up being bound to a physical property.
A third example, a piece of office software. You buy that software because it makes some task easier, which means you save time. (In some cases you just think that is the case, but that is a different issue.) This is a clear trade of pay money to get time.
You probably see what I am getting at, the digital economy is just a means of satisfying some physical urge. Since these are bound by the number of people around and their disposable income, there is a very hard upper bound.