Getting behind the wheel of a car looks like an intent to drive. Note, there was *NO* indication here that the person was ever going to actually hurt anyone beyond a presumption of guilt by association.
Actually, it's happened to me. My banking card was replaced the next day, as soon as I could get to a bank, Not having my PIN, the attempts that were made by the thief (apparently 3, by the time I got home to report it stolen) to use my card did not succeed, and my funds were fine. I had to wait a few days for a replacement credit card to arrive, however. There were a shitload of inconveniences that I had to put up with for several weeks while I basically had to rebuild what seemed like my entire life, but I was without direct access to my banking funds for only about the first 12 hours.
Regardless of how fundamentalist he might have been becoming, there was no indication that he would have ever committed an actual crime. This is like arresting someone for drunk driving when all they have done is gotten drunk, and you never even gave the guy a chance to call a cab or friend to pick him up
Whose life are you suggesting that I am sabotaging exactly? The post to which I responded said thus:
Nobody wants a cashless society except the people who stand to skim a percent off every financial transaction and the government, who wants to be able to trace every credit and debit ever made.
My point is that this assertion is false. I do not work for a bank, nor the government, and I have no vested interest in such information being tracked by those organizations. My interests are driven by the additional convenience that it has offered me personally, and absolutely *nowhere* in my post did I even insinuate that people who are uncomfortable with such payment systems are somehow inferior to me or their opinions any less worthy of merit.
You're welcome to your opinions of these institutions, of course, but why did you feel compelled to tell me "fuck off" simply because I relayed my own experiences which happen to evidently differ from your own?
I've been in Vancouver for over 20 years now, and I'm still liking it just fine.
You aren't the first person I've heard gripe about RBC... but there are other financial institutions. That's the first time I've ever heard of anyone being unable to *receive* money, however.,.. unless the source of the money itself was considered untrustworthy.
Not denying I'm from Vancouver, nor was I trying to keep it a secret, but what about the wording that I used told you what part of the country I am from? I haven't always lived in BC, so I'm curious...
Direct payment is a huge deal here in Canada, and since it became the prominent means of paying for goods here about decade and a half ago, I've actually enjoyed the freedom of not needing to carry cash everywhere I go.... plus, I can also honestly tell people accosting me for money near where I work downtown or at the subway that I do not have any to give them and they'll have every reason to believe me (so it benefits people who don't use direct payment that much but want to lie about carrying cash too).
Do you want to try explaining how you think that works with something more elaborate than a vacuous claim, or should I conclude more or less the same thing about how much you know what you are talking about as I concluded about the AC to which I responded, earlier? If you are the same AC, then this already explains a lot, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
Serious question here.... I thought bitcoin was pretty anonymous when all is said and done, so how would they know which wallets belonged to Americans as opposed to people from other countries?
Seriously... you don't know what you are talking about. The 18th amendment established prohibition against alcohol, and was utterly repealed by the 21st amendment, so technically it is the 18th amendment itself that is unconstitutional, not the IRS.
... that the only way to keep everyone from being offended is to not have any content at all.
What one person thinks is offensive another will think is fine, and what the latter thinks is offensive the former may think is fine. There is no lowest common denominator here, any no one-size-fits-all solution can ever hope to work.
There are also people who realize, without being paid a penny, that Trump is actually just a bratty child in a man's body, and have dubious concerns that he is capable of performing his duties in a competent and responsible manner, wherein he will put the needs of the American people ahead of his own desires for personal recognition and gain.
Perhaps you hadn't noticed, but "enough" does not mean the same thing "as good as the other". It may very well be the case that mobile will get fast enough for most people... arguably, we are already there, but improvements that make mobile processing faster also result in faster desktop processing as well, and the demand for more power will *always* be there. Sure mobile might some day be able to run the cutting edge games of today, but by then there will be newer cutting edge games of tomorrow that *still* require the processing capability of the finest desktops of the day
As you said... it is an annoyance, and as such, something that people can justly be annoyed about. Worrying about crises that one cannot do anything about to change or prevent at best only results in lost sleep and at worst renders a person incapable of function in society in a normal capacity.
It is in fact, far more rational to be bothered by something like this than almost anything else.
Simply put, the severity of the other things that you mentioned is so vast that it is simply beyond the capacity for most people to reasonably worry about them and still function in society. Text message spam, therefore, is more likely to be taken as a serious concern by people than environmental disaster or even nuclear war.
Well, what the fuck else is anyone supposed to do about it? Serious question. He's elected now, and after the EC vote, it's a done deal. There's no backsies on US presidency elections.... so again... what else is anyone supposed to do?
I think when mobile matures to the point of being fully functional as a PC replacement
Which will be never.... advances to technology that might otherwise place mobile tech more in line with desktop pcs tend to improve the performance of desktop pc's as well, so the target of being on par with the desktop is a moving one that cannot be reached unless somehow progress was only being made to improve the mobile platform experience that didn't also improve the performance of desktops as well.
... so they can detect something for which there is no known cure sooner.
Thrilling.
So now you'll know even sooner that you're going to lose your eyesight eventually.... I suppose this might give you more opportunity to prepare for it, but I expect all that it will actually do is give you more time to be dreading the future.
You mean like an independent contractor does if they want to work for a client who has said how much they will pay and isn't willing to negotiate it? Presumably, an independent contractor who is unhappy about the rate will refuse to work for that person at all, but the contractor's willingness to take on even multiple jobs for the same person does not make them more likely to be considered an employee... more likely than not, it simply means that they are too desperate for the work to not accept whatever amount they are being offered.
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Getting behind the wheel of a car looks like an intent to drive. Note, there was *NO* indication here that the person was ever going to actually hurt anyone beyond a presumption of guilt by association.
Actually, it's happened to me. My banking card was replaced the next day, as soon as I could get to a bank, Not having my PIN, the attempts that were made by the thief (apparently 3, by the time I got home to report it stolen) to use my card did not succeed, and my funds were fine. I had to wait a few days for a replacement credit card to arrive, however. There were a shitload of inconveniences that I had to put up with for several weeks while I basically had to rebuild what seemed like my entire life, but I was without direct access to my banking funds for only about the first 12 hours.
Edmonton, the city I am originally from, has moderately large underground rapid transit as well.
Nor did I ever claim to be. To be perfectly honest I'm kind of taken aback by joe much hostility my remark has generated.
Regardless of how fundamentalist he might have been becoming, there was no indication that he would have ever committed an actual crime. This is like arresting someone for drunk driving when all they have done is gotten drunk, and you never even gave the guy a chance to call a cab or friend to pick him up
My point is that this assertion is false. I do not work for a bank, nor the government, and I have no vested interest in such information being tracked by those organizations. My interests are driven by the additional convenience that it has offered me personally, and absolutely *nowhere* in my post did I even insinuate that people who are uncomfortable with such payment systems are somehow inferior to me or their opinions any less worthy of merit.
They don't charge me that... would you still like cash if nobody accepted it anymore? The questions are equally hypothetical.
You're welcome to your opinions of these institutions, of course, but why did you feel compelled to tell me "fuck off" simply because I relayed my own experiences which happen to evidently differ from your own?
I've been in Vancouver for over 20 years now, and I'm still liking it just fine.
You aren't the first person I've heard gripe about RBC... but there are other financial institutions. That's the first time I've ever heard of anyone being unable to *receive* money, however.,.. unless the source of the money itself was considered untrustworthy.
Not denying I'm from Vancouver, nor was I trying to keep it a secret, but what about the wording that I used told you what part of the country I am from? I haven't always lived in BC, so I'm curious...
Direct payment is a huge deal here in Canada, and since it became the prominent means of paying for goods here about decade and a half ago, I've actually enjoyed the freedom of not needing to carry cash everywhere I go.... plus, I can also honestly tell people accosting me for money near where I work downtown or at the subway that I do not have any to give them and they'll have every reason to believe me (so it benefits people who don't use direct payment that much but want to lie about carrying cash too).
Do you want to try explaining how you think that works with something more elaborate than a vacuous claim, or should I conclude more or less the same thing about how much you know what you are talking about as I concluded about the AC to which I responded, earlier? If you are the same AC, then this already explains a lot, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
Serious question here.... I thought bitcoin was pretty anonymous when all is said and done, so how would they know which wallets belonged to Americans as opposed to people from other countries?
You have no idea what you are talking about.
Seriously... you don't know what you are talking about. The 18th amendment established prohibition against alcohol, and was utterly repealed by the 21st amendment, so technically it is the 18th amendment itself that is unconstitutional, not the IRS.
What one person thinks is offensive another will think is fine, and what the latter thinks is offensive the former may think is fine. There is no lowest common denominator here, any no one-size-fits-all solution can ever hope to work.
How? Serious question. What can the average person do now, but watch and wait?
And just, pray tell, how do you think that "regretting" anything will somehow make anything better?
There are also people who realize, without being paid a penny, that Trump is actually just a bratty child in a man's body, and have dubious concerns that he is capable of performing his duties in a competent and responsible manner, wherein he will put the needs of the American people ahead of his own desires for personal recognition and gain.
Perhaps you hadn't noticed, but "enough" does not mean the same thing "as good as the other". It may very well be the case that mobile will get fast enough for most people... arguably, we are already there, but improvements that make mobile processing faster also result in faster desktop processing as well, and the demand for more power will *always* be there. Sure mobile might some day be able to run the cutting edge games of today, but by then there will be newer cutting edge games of tomorrow that *still* require the processing capability of the finest desktops of the day
As you said... it is an annoyance, and as such, something that people can justly be annoyed about. Worrying about crises that one cannot do anything about to change or prevent at best only results in lost sleep and at worst renders a person incapable of function in society in a normal capacity.
It is in fact, far more rational to be bothered by something like this than almost anything else.
Simply put, the severity of the other things that you mentioned is so vast that it is simply beyond the capacity for most people to reasonably worry about them and still function in society. Text message spam, therefore, is more likely to be taken as a serious concern by people than environmental disaster or even nuclear war.
Well, what the fuck else is anyone supposed to do about it? Serious question. He's elected now, and after the EC vote, it's a done deal. There's no backsies on US presidency elections.... so again... what else is anyone supposed to do?
Which will be never.... advances to technology that might otherwise place mobile tech more in line with desktop pcs tend to improve the performance of desktop pc's as well, so the target of being on par with the desktop is a moving one that cannot be reached unless somehow progress was only being made to improve the mobile platform experience that didn't also improve the performance of desktops as well.
I was under the impression that it was not something that could be prevented by treatment If I am wrong about this then I misspoke
Thrilling.
So now you'll know even sooner that you're going to lose your eyesight eventually.... I suppose this might give you more opportunity to prepare for it, but I expect all that it will actually do is give you more time to be dreading the future.
You mean like an independent contractor does if they want to work for a client who has said how much they will pay and isn't willing to negotiate it? Presumably, an independent contractor who is unhappy about the rate will refuse to work for that person at all, but the contractor's willingness to take on even multiple jobs for the same person does not make them more likely to be considered an employee... more likely than not, it simply means that they are too desperate for the work to not accept whatever amount they are being offered.