how long before we find out/realize most of "social media" is a self aggrandizing pit of bots and social media companies. I know people who operate thousands of followers/friends each, they may not outnumber the real users but they are following/friends with one.
The title implies that we should abandon gas as an alternative to diesel/petrol.
This is done by falsely implying that pollution due to methane leaks are an inherit part of the drilling process.
Instead, what we should really do is improve the drilling techniques to avoid/minimize leakage.
except that is nearly impossible, since we are actively making the area more porous with fracking in the first place. Even if we could perfect sealing the well casings(5%+ fail immediately) we'd have to account for each sites geology the costs to seal the possible impact of an entire site would be completely cost prohibitive. I think people might start asking harder question once drilling companies started laying down gas impermeable membranes across the countryside, instead of just polluting it.
How do you order cash over the phone? I know you can transfer cash like transactions, but someone has to physically show up at the other end...there's paypal et. al but they would have complete control until it leaves their system and they require a few layers of verification before it gets any where near cash.
But you could skim a bunch of mag stripes or trash a database of card info and clone a bunch of burner cards then mob a city of ATMs with Chip/Pin this is not feasible...
What does a chargeback have to do with mass credit card fraud? Chip/PIN would actually prevent this sort of behavior...chargebacks have almost nothing to do with liability, just some people are assholes and will try and get away with anything they can. If you are sober enough to enter a 4-6 digit code, end of story.
some places have the card reader/POS integrated for the sake of branding, like self serve kiosks at target and the like, but its all verified by the bank/processor behind the casing.
you don't have to show the screen to them....has nobody used a POS terminal in a restaurant???!!! Wait-staff leaves POS at table Verify bill amount, choose tip amt by % or direct input...put in PIN...wait for confirmation and take printout return POS to staff....its not that complicated...
ok outside of committing grand larceny and assault in public,...shit happens...was the bank justified? yes, thats what the police are for. You can't keylog PINs!!! you need the CHIP to complete the transaction along with a terminal/atm that verifies the process.
The other big change that come with C/P is the liability of fraud...before the processors/banks took the hit on 95% of systemic fraud but after C/P the retailer accepts liability. Sure with big breaches like Target they took the hit because of proof it was their system that was the point of fault. After 2015 its all on the retailer to make sure your system is secure; big or small you eat the losses, which can add up.
How does someone that observes the pin get the card needed to complete the transaction? You'd have to pickpocket/mug every person you observed as you can't simply skim the chip info like with mag stripe , that'd be a red flag . Every transaction is complex and unique, and nearly impossible to duplicate unless you have compromised the payment terminal itself. You would not be able to fool the system long enough to complete any significant amount of fraud compared to the amount of effort and money it would take to compromise a handful of accounts.
As to the system itself, its upgradeable, if they compromise the chips they can easily be changed using the same terminals but using completely different crypto.
you own/drive a car you have to by law get insurance, you chose to live in the USA you have to buy health insurance...works that way in every other major economy. Try moving to the UK and not pay health insurance, it'd be considered tax evasion technically, but you still have to pay - there is no opt out.
I don't care what silly argument he had to make to make it "legal". Pay for your healthcare system, you are not exempt.
In this line up Pigs are easier to raise, harvest and produce a more desirable product.
Chimps at least are not toxic to eat, they are just rare in most parts of the world and are really hard to breed in captivity...Dolphins, while not rare, are laced with dangerous levels of mercury due to their place in the ocean food chain and they are harder to breed.
sorry pigs, try being cuter...pork is really tasty and i don't even eat meat; even i would admit bacon/ham is pretty great....dolphin not so much.
and all those computers pre-win8 all used a pointer that has fidelity you cannot get with a finger, you can pinpoint single pixels with ease a mouse/touchpad pointer...try that with your finger
so you knew what they meant you just ignored it for the sake of arguing about the usage of a very broad term...
"The best way to approach nutrition is to look into the research on the digestive system (which consist of more than just epidemiological studies) and understand what is going on and going to go on in your body when you consume things (it is beneficial to eat sugar when your blood sugar levels are low, I repeat: beneficial). It's not easy (but doable), but it sure beats running around blurting out appeals to nature or evangelizing the Word of some food guru you like, which 99% of the people seem to do."
and then you went on with what ever the fuck this was supposed to mean. Is this really what passes for "I'm educated far above average when it comes to nutrition:" ./moves back to the learned side of the fence, ignorance; hit the nail on the head the first time.
'[Processed foods are bad]'? Really?? What the fuck is 'processed food' even? Next you're going to say that 'additives' and 'chemicals' are 'bad for you'.
when you have to break down and reassemble a food to make it similar to the food it was before processing( like enriched flour, modified milk ingredients) then yes that stuff is bad for you, replacing sucrose(glucose, fructose) with HFCS frankenfood is not the best thing to be eating...additives and chemicals are bad for you if they are the wrong ones....melamine is a terrible thing to feed babies and pets, GRAS http://www.fda.gov/Food/IngredientsPackagingLabeling/GRAS/ does not mean its been tested or even evaluated in any sort of way....like BPA and slew of other food additives(also does not mean they are bad like Xantham gum)
I know what your point is, but ignorance is not a defense...we're not here to educate you...you are responsible for that...your hyperbole is noted...and dismissed.
essentially because the body can produce Cholecalciferol from cholesterol when exposed to sunlight....but we give things silly inaccurate names all the time...blueberries are purple, red onions are purple(comon people call it purple ffs) we drive on parkways and park in driveways....language is a method of understanding and conveying meaning...strict taxonomy gets us no where for fringe events like are strawberries really a berry? are tomatoes a vegetable?... doesn't change how the function(or taste) nor does it change the effect of the study of it as a supplement...*Cholecalciferol does technically become a vitamin(essential) if the body has a defect or you are not exposed to sufficient sunlight to make your own
of course the methane is naturally occurring...i don't think anyone was disputing all the methane is naturally there....but there is a huge difference between biogenic and thermogenic methane....in nature one you find in aquifers(biogenic) and one you don't(thermogenic) guess what they found the well water they could light on fire was thermogenic methane....sooo....No to you... bad logic and ignorant nonsense is not a good argument
please don't call people "fucking moron"s when you have little knowledge of the differences between biogenic and thermogenic methane....yes well can be contaminated with biogenic methane, but they know this when they drill the well, and don't let people drink from it...that have done the testing for the differences between the 2 methanes and in a large majority of cases the methane is thermogenic coming from deep under the aquifer...and the reason the oil companies are supplying them with drinking water, not out of corporate kindness....
you'd think with all the subsurface methane floating around why would they be fraking at all???? interesting how there is no biogenic methane projects harnessing all this free floating methane right in the water table this whole time...you don't even have to use the water you can just recycle it back into the aquifer after the gas has separated itself once brought to the surface and then have the bacteria replenish the supply, so renewable...stupid humans...drilling giant holes in the ground and breaking up geological structures just to get something that is available in vast quantities just below the surface....except that's not true...at all...it may take a few critical thinking skills but if as many people got methane just from drilling water wells....fraking seems a little silly...yes there is biogenic methane in well water....you can rarely find enough to catch things on fire if vented properly and you wouldn't be able to do it more then once a year...
you think the state would just let people have free unfettered access to wells that are venting huge amounts of biogenic gas on their property uncapped?? as you said "main reasons that drinking wells are regulated and require specific equipment to remove the dissolved methane"...but the truth is the presence of biogenic methane is not the big of a deal first because of the pressures involved...its gas produced by bacteria, if bacteria were that efficient at producing methane that a water well bore would be sputtering and able to caught on fire more then once a year....then we would have found a source of natural gas that we wouldn't need fraking for...why would we drill all these wells thousands of feet down and thousands of feet outward, when we could just drill thousands of bores 100s of feet in a field and have the bacteria self replenish the methane....it'd be the perfect renewable resource....BUT...no such thing exists...the biogenic gas found in water well can be dangerous if let to build and pressurize over a long time, but water well are not built to be self pressurized in most cases and they are sealed to keep surface water from getting in... not to stop things from getting out....biogenic gases are not the issue, the contamination has been proven to be thermogenic, time and time again....if the gas companies had proof it was biogenic, why would they still be delivering water to the people affected...its simple, they wouldn't...they would tell them to go kick rocks get your own damn water.
This is still not an issue any reasonable person is worried about...fracking fluids are bad, yes, and are being disposed of improperly, yes...but the issue is the leaking of hydrocarbons and methane as a result of fracking getting into the water table from badly cased well bores. That are failing at 5% immediately and 5% more per year....the problem is they can't fail AT ALL...EVER....or the products released during fraking(not the fraking fluids) will migrate up and contaminate the surround substrates and eventually make it into the atmosphere, where methane is a greenhouse gas 105 times more potent then carbon dioxide and it outside of the planet's regular carbon cycle...so once there, controlling its effect is going to be difficult
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how long before we find out/realize most of "social media" is a self aggrandizing pit of bots and social media companies. I know people who operate thousands of followers/friends each, they may not outnumber the real users but they are following/friends with one.
The title implies that we should abandon gas as an alternative to diesel/petrol.
This is done by falsely implying that pollution due to methane leaks are an inherit part of the drilling process.
Instead, what we should really do is improve the drilling techniques to avoid/minimize leakage.
except that is nearly impossible, since we are actively making the area more porous with fracking in the first place. Even if we could perfect sealing the well casings(5%+ fail immediately) we'd have to account for each sites geology the costs to seal the possible impact of an entire site would be completely cost prohibitive. I think people might start asking harder question once drilling companies started laying down gas impermeable membranes across the countryside, instead of just polluting it.
How do you order cash over the phone? I know you can transfer cash like transactions, but someone has to physically show up at the other end...there's paypal et. al but they would have complete control until it leaves their system and they require a few layers of verification before it gets any where near cash.
But you could skim a bunch of mag stripes or trash a database of card info and clone a bunch of burner cards then mob a city of ATMs with Chip/Pin this is not feasible...
So how is it being circumvented?
What does a chargeback have to do with mass credit card fraud? Chip/PIN would actually prevent this sort of behavior...chargebacks have almost nothing to do with liability, just some people are assholes and will try and get away with anything they can. If you are sober enough to enter a 4-6 digit code, end of story.
how many mass fraud cases involved the loss of limbs for 10k+ people?
some places have the card reader/POS integrated for the sake of branding, like self serve kiosks at target and the like, but its all verified by the bank/processor behind the casing.
its not RFID its NFC, RFID is NFCs dumb cousin and has no business being anywhere near a financial transaction.
you don't have to show the screen to them....has nobody used a POS terminal in a restaurant???!!! Wait-staff leaves POS at table Verify bill amount, choose tip amt by % or direct input ...put in PIN...wait for confirmation and take printout return POS to staff....its not that complicated...
ok outside of committing grand larceny and assault in public,...shit happens...was the bank justified? yes, thats what the police are for. You can't keylog PINs!!! you need the CHIP to complete the transaction along with a terminal/atm that verifies the process.
The other big change that come with C/P is the liability of fraud...before the processors/banks took the hit on 95% of systemic fraud but after C/P the retailer accepts liability. Sure with big breaches like Target they took the hit because of proof it was their system that was the point of fault. After 2015 its all on the retailer to make sure your system is secure; big or small you eat the losses, which can add up.
How does someone that observes the pin get the card needed to complete the transaction? You'd have to pickpocket/mug every person you observed as you can't simply skim the chip info like with mag stripe , that'd be a red flag . Every transaction is complex and unique, and nearly impossible to duplicate unless you have compromised the payment terminal itself. You would not be able to fool the system long enough to complete any significant amount of fraud compared to the amount of effort and money it would take to compromise a handful of accounts.
As to the system itself, its upgradeable, if they compromise the chips they can easily be changed using the same terminals but using completely different crypto.
NFC not rfid, NFC payments are limited to small purchases at restaurants >20$ and >50$ at grocery/retail stores and require contact of less than 1/4"
how do you 3d print carbon fibre??? how is that even possible? and the sentence isn't poorly written in regards to CNC, its just nonsense.
you own/drive a car you have to by law get insurance, you chose to live in the USA you have to buy health insurance...works that way in every other major economy. Try moving to the UK and not pay health insurance, it'd be considered tax evasion technically, but you still have to pay - there is no opt out.
I don't care what silly argument he had to make to make it "legal". Pay for your healthcare system, you are not exempt.
In this line up Pigs are easier to raise, harvest and produce a more desirable product.
Chimps at least are not toxic to eat, they are just rare in most parts of the world and are really hard to breed in captivity...Dolphins, while not rare, are laced with dangerous levels of mercury due to their place in the ocean food chain and they are harder to breed.
sorry pigs, try being cuter...pork is really tasty and i don't even eat meat; even i would admit bacon/ham is pretty great....dolphin not so much.
so asked and answered, you do realize that this is actually an advantage...it just works because things are locked down...
and all those computers pre-win8 all used a pointer that has fidelity you cannot get with a finger, you can pinpoint single pixels with ease a mouse/touchpad pointer...try that with your finger
so you knew what they meant you just ignored it for the sake of arguing about the usage of a very broad term...
"The best way to approach nutrition is to look into the research on the digestive system (which consist of more than just epidemiological studies) and understand what is going on and going to go on in your body when you consume things (it is beneficial to eat sugar when your blood sugar levels are low, I repeat: beneficial). It's not easy (but doable), but it sure beats running around blurting out appeals to nature or evangelizing the Word of some food guru you like, which 99% of the people seem to do."
and then you went on with what ever the fuck this was supposed to mean. Is this really what passes for "I'm educated far above average when it comes to nutrition:" . /moves back to the learned side of the fence, ignorance; hit the nail on the head the first time.
you seem to have gotten the meaning quite well...your point?
'[Processed foods are bad]'? Really?? What the fuck is 'processed food' even?
Next you're going to say that 'additives' and 'chemicals' are 'bad for you'.
when you have to break down and reassemble a food to make it similar to the food it was before processing( like enriched flour, modified milk ingredients) then yes that stuff is bad for you, replacing sucrose(glucose, fructose) with HFCS frankenfood is not the best thing to be eating...additives and chemicals are bad for you if they are the wrong ones....melamine is a terrible thing to feed babies and pets, GRAS http://www.fda.gov/Food/IngredientsPackagingLabeling/GRAS/ does not mean its been tested or even evaluated in any sort of way....like BPA and slew of other food additives(also does not mean they are bad like Xantham gum)
I know what your point is, but ignorance is not a defense...we're not here to educate you...you are responsible for that...your hyperbole is noted...and dismissed.
essentially because the body can produce Cholecalciferol from cholesterol when exposed to sunlight....but we give things silly inaccurate names all the time...blueberries are purple, red onions are purple(comon people call it purple ffs) we drive on parkways and park in driveways....language is a method of understanding and conveying meaning...strict taxonomy gets us no where for fringe events like are strawberries really a berry? are tomatoes a vegetable?... doesn't change how the function(or taste) nor does it change the effect of the study of it as a supplement...*Cholecalciferol does technically become a vitamin(essential) if the body has a defect or you are not exposed to sufficient sunlight to make your own
of course the methane is naturally occurring...i don't think anyone was disputing all the methane is naturally there....but there is a huge difference between biogenic and thermogenic methane ....in nature one you find in aquifers(biogenic) and one you don't(thermogenic) guess what they found the well water they could light on fire was thermogenic methane....sooo....No to you... bad logic and ignorant nonsense is not a good argument
please don't call people "fucking moron"s when you have little knowledge of the differences between biogenic and thermogenic methane....yes well can be contaminated with biogenic methane, but they know this when they drill the well, and don't let people drink from it...that have done the testing for the differences between the 2 methanes and in a large majority of cases the methane is thermogenic coming from deep under the aquifer...and the reason the oil companies are supplying them with drinking water, not out of corporate kindness....
you'd think with all the subsurface methane floating around why would they be fraking at all???? interesting how there is no biogenic methane projects harnessing all this free floating methane right in the water table this whole time...you don't even have to use the water you can just recycle it back into the aquifer after the gas has separated itself once brought to the surface and then have the bacteria replenish the supply, so renewable...stupid humans...drilling giant holes in the ground and breaking up geological structures just to get something that is available in vast quantities just below the surface....except that's not true...at all...it may take a few critical thinking skills but if as many people got methane just from drilling water wells....fraking seems a little silly...yes there is biogenic methane in well water....you can rarely find enough to catch things on fire if vented properly and you wouldn't be able to do it more then once a year...
you think the state would just let people have free unfettered access to wells that are venting huge amounts of biogenic gas on their property uncapped?? as you said "main reasons that drinking wells are regulated and require specific equipment to remove the dissolved methane"...but the truth is the presence of biogenic methane is not the big of a deal first because of the pressures involved...its gas produced by bacteria, if bacteria were that efficient at producing methane that a water well bore would be sputtering and able to caught on fire more then once a year....then we would have found a source of natural gas that we wouldn't need fraking for...why would we drill all these wells thousands of feet down and thousands of feet outward, when we could just drill thousands of bores 100s of feet in a field and have the bacteria self replenish the methane ....it'd be the perfect renewable resource....BUT...no such thing exists...the biogenic gas found in water well can be dangerous if let to build and pressurize over a long time, but water well are not built to be self pressurized in most cases and they are sealed to keep surface water from getting in... not to stop things from getting out....biogenic gases are not the issue, the contamination has been proven to be thermogenic, time and time again....if the gas companies had proof it was biogenic, why would they still be delivering water to the people affected...its simple, they wouldn't...they would tell them to go kick rocks get your own damn water.
This is still not an issue any reasonable person is worried about...fracking fluids are bad, yes, and are being disposed of improperly, yes...but the issue is the leaking of hydrocarbons and methane as a result of fracking getting into the water table from badly cased well bores. That are failing at 5% immediately and 5% more per year....the problem is they can't fail AT ALL...EVER....or the products released during fraking(not the fraking fluids) will migrate up and contaminate the surround substrates and eventually make it into the atmosphere, where methane is a greenhouse gas 105 times more potent then carbon dioxide and it outside of the planet's regular carbon cycle...so once there, controlling its effect is going to be difficult