I can confirm they grow back after burns (had a smooth spot on my finger for a while), but it was a relatively minor surface burn. I would assume a 2nd and definitely a 3rd degree burn would not grow back.
Seems an expensive way to do it anyway, especially storing the data off site at a third party(and paying them to do so). 2 locations, presumably 2 shifts a day, maybe 25-30 workers per shift per location? Have a camera synced up with the card-scanner. When they scan, take a picture of their face and then have someone go back and match them visually with photos on file. Should take no more than 5-10 minutes per shift. No data stored, no paying third parties, no lawsuits.
Came here to say the same thing, only a light acid might be more practical...:-)
I'm reminded of the movie Smokin' Aces(great movie by the way if you love over the top ridiculousness and want to see Ben Affleck get killed) where the one assassin chewed off his fingerprints when he got arrested so the couldn't fingerprint him.
Call their bluff. It's a sawmill, right? What happens if he has an OJI and no longer has fingerprints? Sometimes you gotta make sacrifices to keep your privacy.
Having just been to NYC and experienced this first hand over the holidays, my belief is a bigger reason for businesses going cashless is to avoid problems like register skimming (i.e. employees pocketing cash from the till). Businesses lose anywhere from 3-6 billion dollars a year in the U.S. from their own employees, and for some of these smaller establishments that might not trust all of their workers and in general are just looking for efficient methods for minimizing this type of theft, removing the temptation of ready cash around just seems like a reasonable tradeoff.
If you can't trust your employees, why do they still have a job? There are plenty of people out there still looking for jobs. Also, instead of going cashless, you could even just pay your employees a little better so that they don't steal (and higher wages would also attract people less likely to steal from you). Or just make the employees make up any difference between the till and the receipts from their own paycheck (I thought that was already done in many retail places?).
I don't understand why this is an issue in the US. Most of Europe has contactless debit cards by this time. No income discrimination whatsoever. You get the card when you open your bank account. It works as long as you have enough balance. Depending on the place, popping-up a fancy credit card may even be frowned upon as showing off.
A lot of people don't have regular or sufficient sources of money to maintain enough balance for a bank account, or have necessary documentation (or funds) to open one in the first place. For example the bank I use requires a $100 minimum deposit just to open an account.
What about Kenny and his family...are they also not included because they're low-income, or are you going to be racist and exclude them because they're white? He wasn't able to enjoy Halloween like the rest of Southpark, because he lacked a cellphone to ride a scooter. F'n stuck up New Yorker, you need some Tegridy.
ManBearPig is real!
They do get to live in SoDoSoPa for really cheap though. Of course, SoDoSoPa did die out when Shi Tpa Town got a Whole Foods....
Politician wants you to give up your choices, want to use the police to force his own choices upon you.
Um, how is forcing restaurants to take cash making you "give up your choices"? They aren't forcing you to pay with cash, only forcing them to accept cash.
By winning a couple boxing matches and now only fighting people past their prime (Pacquiao) or aren't even boxers at all (McGregor). He won't fight a credible, formidable opponents anymore.
I don't want to cook (unless I'm eating korean bbq) or want something I can't cook/cook well
to mean that you can cook Korean BBQ, but sometimes prefer to let someone else do it for you. If this reading is correct, then that means you can actually cook, which gives you more options on a given evening than those who can't or who fear what's good enough for them may not be good enough for others.
You're misreading. I prefer cooking my own food, but there are plenty of nights where I am either 1. too lazy/tired to cook/clean up, or 2. want something that I cannot satisfactorily or easily fix myself. Korean BBQ is an exception to #1 because cooking your meat at the table is half the point; however I try not to eat that too often because me and all you can eat do not go well together, as like I said I like to get my money's worth. I literally was hungover the next day after eating at a Brazilian steakhouse once because I ate so much.
If you are "paying off 3 credit cards" you have already failed. Only put on credit what you can pay when the bill arrives.
I agree with you. We have no CC debt. The only CC we have has a 2k limit and only for emergencies/foreign travel/places that won't take debit(or Mastercard).
How long have you had those BMWs? Expensive cars are never cheap, especially when old. Enjoy your $1000 brake jobs.
You are right, it isn't what you make, it's what you keep. But old German cars (but not old enough to be collectable) aren't a good plan outside Germany.
The 01 was the only car my wife had had up until this summer. At worst we would spend a couple hundred in repairs each year, still cheaper than a car note. The 2011 only had 70k miles on it, should last another decade or so as well.
What? That makes no sense. Being "poor" is not "how much you spend". No wonder Millenials are poor if they think like that.
Correct. Being poor is "not having money" not "not spending money". But the only way for other people to know you have money is to spend it. If you don't spend it, people assume you don't have it. American society is built upon conspicuous consumption. My argument is that a lot of people of my generation have decided not to play that game. Take the way I dress or the car my wife used to drive but still owns (a 2001 BMW 330i, we replaced it this year with a used 2011 X3 that cost less than my 14 Ford Focus cost brand new) and you'd assume our combined income is about 1/3 of what it really is, and our house (that we were lucky enough to buy when we did a few years ago, prices rose so fast we couldn't afford to buy it now) is just big enough for us and a kid or 2 that we are hoping to have and affordable on just one of our salaries.
You do know that college costs have soared because of subsidies and guaranteed student loans, right? So it's the "we have to help people go to college" crowd who are responsible for the soaring costs.
Yes, I do. That is why I am a big proponent of a more European style educational system. I am fully aware that plenty of people either don't want to or don't need to go to college, yet they have been pushed to do so, often by colleges themselves who want the free federal/bank money. Break it off, don't send everyone to college, and these colleges will have to start cutting back on the ridiculous amenities and massive administrative overhead to cut costs and reduce tuition prices. Makes for more manageable prices for those who go to college, and an economy with more trained plumbers, welders, hvac techs, cnc operators, A&P qualified mechanics, mechanics, electricians, etc. Like I said, fortunately my student loans are less that what many people take out for a car loan, but my wife and I try to stay in as little debt as possible.
He did have WMDs. Just ask the Kurds of Halabja. And I'm not blaming Republicans, I supported Bush.
It certainly has nothing to do with good ol' fashioned modern American politics because Americans want nothing to do with foreign affairs.
That's the thing about good ol' fashioned modern American politics. It doesn't care about what Americans want. It only cares about what the political and financial elite want. Americans don't matter in American politics anymore except as a means to get either yourself or your puppet elected/reelected
I make better money at my age than I would as a tradesman, and I did my time doing outdoor manual labor already (my experience of being underemployed). I have enough disposable income to pay someone to do it, but I won't because I know I won't always have that disposable income and would rather pay down recurring debt while I can. My debt's not enormous-less than what many people do for a car-but in my house we consider my wife's $150 car payment to be a "big" payment. Live below your means and those means last a lot longer.
So how did the government precisely solve my problems by invading Iraq?
I believe Iraq falls under the sections of "cronyism", "corruption", and "good ol' fashioned modern American politics". Iraq was about oil, defense contracts, and Bush wanting to finish what his dad started in 91.
The group born between 1981 and 1997 has fallen behind because many of them came of age during the financial crisis.
We aren't poor. We've just seen what happens when the financial markets collapse and don't see the need to be leveraged out the ass with 2 car notes, a second mortgage (for those of us who were even lucky enough to find housing while it was still actually reasonably priced), and paying off 3 credit cards. We're spending less than we have so we aren't completely screwed come the next bust cycle. We'd love to be able to spend money, but we remember being un- or under-employed and how much that sucked while the Boomers with guaranteed pensions and social security (both being paid for by us with us likely to see no benefit or payout ourselves) trying to grab more and more.
Besides, any extra money we would have to spend on consumer goods that our parents bought with credit card debt is most likely wrapped up in another type of debt: student loans. The bonuses I've gotten from my company the last few years, instead of helping the local economy by being spent on house repairs/upgrades has gone towards paying off student loans. And this years'll be no different.
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Wait...they shutdown? I have a lot of Flooz still. No one told me they shut down.
The A/C is lying to you. He's just trying to trick you into giving him your Flooz for nothing.
Maybe you are wrong and the people funding them know better. Do you think people like to lose money?
Maybe they assume they can just funnel some money to their buddies in power to make sure they make a profit.
I can confirm they grow back after burns (had a smooth spot on my finger for a while), but it was a relatively minor surface burn. I would assume a 2nd and definitely a 3rd degree burn would not grow back.
That's what FaceID is for
Seems an expensive way to do it anyway, especially storing the data off site at a third party(and paying them to do so). 2 locations, presumably 2 shifts a day, maybe 25-30 workers per shift per location? Have a camera synced up with the card-scanner. When they scan, take a picture of their face and then have someone go back and match them visually with photos on file. Should take no more than 5-10 minutes per shift. No data stored, no paying third parties, no lawsuits.
Sawmill accidents don't erase fingerprints. They do, however, liberate the finger for anyone to use, if they can't find it for re-attachment.
Eh, with a wide enough blade and right on the tip there wouldn't be enough left for someone to use.
Came here to say the same thing, only a light acid might be more practical... :-)
I'm reminded of the movie Smokin' Aces(great movie by the way if you love over the top ridiculousness and want to see Ben Affleck get killed) where the one assassin chewed off his fingerprints when he got arrested so the couldn't fingerprint him.
Call their bluff. It's a sawmill, right? What happens if he has an OJI and no longer has fingerprints? Sometimes you gotta make sacrifices to keep your privacy.
Having just been to NYC and experienced this first hand over the holidays, my belief is a bigger reason for businesses going cashless is to avoid problems like register skimming (i.e. employees pocketing cash from the till). Businesses lose anywhere from 3-6 billion dollars a year in the U.S. from their own employees, and for some of these smaller establishments that might not trust all of their workers and in general are just looking for efficient methods for minimizing this type of theft, removing the temptation of ready cash around just seems like a reasonable tradeoff.
If you can't trust your employees, why do they still have a job? There are plenty of people out there still looking for jobs. Also, instead of going cashless, you could even just pay your employees a little better so that they don't steal (and higher wages would also attract people less likely to steal from you). Or just make the employees make up any difference between the till and the receipts from their own paycheck (I thought that was already done in many retail places?).
I don't understand why this is an issue in the US. Most of Europe has contactless debit cards by this time. No income discrimination whatsoever. You get the card when you open your bank account. It works as long as you have enough balance. Depending on the place, popping-up a fancy credit card may even be frowned upon as showing off.
A lot of people don't have regular or sufficient sources of money to maintain enough balance for a bank account, or have necessary documentation (or funds) to open one in the first place. For example the bank I use requires a $100 minimum deposit just to open an account.
What about Kenny and his family...are they also not included because they're low-income, or are you going to be racist and exclude them because they're white? He wasn't able to enjoy Halloween like the rest of Southpark, because he lacked a cellphone to ride a scooter. F'n stuck up New Yorker, you need some Tegridy.
ManBearPig is real!
They do get to live in SoDoSoPa for really cheap though. Of course, SoDoSoPa did die out when Shi Tpa Town got a Whole Foods....
There are cards you can get that are reloadable. It does not need to be tied to a bank account. I do not believe using card is exclusionary...
Those cards also aren't free, whereas in many instances credit/debit cards are.
Politician wants you to give up your choices, want to use the police to force his own choices upon you.
Um, how is forcing restaurants to take cash making you "give up your choices"? They aren't forcing you to pay with cash, only forcing them to accept cash.
The guy is worth north of 100 million.
By winning a couple boxing matches and now only fighting people past their prime (Pacquiao) or aren't even boxers at all (McGregor). He won't fight a credible, formidable opponents anymore.
Was really disappointed this wasnt a link to the distance Musks Tesla that he shot into space has gone
I am reading your
to mean that you can cook Korean BBQ, but sometimes prefer to let someone else do it for you. If this reading is correct, then that means you can actually cook, which gives you more options on a given evening than those who can't or who fear what's good enough for them may not be good enough for others.
You're misreading. I prefer cooking my own food, but there are plenty of nights where I am either 1. too lazy/tired to cook/clean up, or 2. want something that I cannot satisfactorily or easily fix myself. Korean BBQ is an exception to #1 because cooking your meat at the table is half the point; however I try not to eat that too often because me and all you can eat do not go well together, as like I said I like to get my money's worth. I literally was hungover the next day after eating at a Brazilian steakhouse once because I ate so much.
If you are "paying off 3 credit cards" you have already failed. Only put on credit what you can pay when the bill arrives.
I agree with you. We have no CC debt. The only CC we have has a 2k limit and only for emergencies/foreign travel/places that won't take debit(or Mastercard).
How long have you had those BMWs? Expensive cars are never cheap, especially when old. Enjoy your $1000 brake jobs.
You are right, it isn't what you make, it's what you keep. But old German cars (but not old enough to be collectable) aren't a good plan outside Germany.
The 01 was the only car my wife had had up until this summer. At worst we would spend a couple hundred in repairs each year, still cheaper than a car note. The 2011 only had 70k miles on it, should last another decade or so as well.
What? That makes no sense. Being "poor" is not "how much you spend". No wonder Millenials are poor if they think like that.
Correct. Being poor is "not having money" not "not spending money". But the only way for other people to know you have money is to spend it. If you don't spend it, people assume you don't have it. American society is built upon conspicuous consumption. My argument is that a lot of people of my generation have decided not to play that game. Take the way I dress or the car my wife used to drive but still owns (a 2001 BMW 330i, we replaced it this year with a used 2011 X3 that cost less than my 14 Ford Focus cost brand new) and you'd assume our combined income is about 1/3 of what it really is, and our house (that we were lucky enough to buy when we did a few years ago, prices rose so fast we couldn't afford to buy it now) is just big enough for us and a kid or 2 that we are hoping to have and affordable on just one of our salaries.
You do know that college costs have soared because of subsidies and guaranteed student loans, right? So it's the "we have to help people go to college" crowd who are responsible for the soaring costs.
Yes, I do. That is why I am a big proponent of a more European style educational system. I am fully aware that plenty of people either don't want to or don't need to go to college, yet they have been pushed to do so, often by colleges themselves who want the free federal/bank money. Break it off, don't send everyone to college, and these colleges will have to start cutting back on the ridiculous amenities and massive administrative overhead to cut costs and reduce tuition prices. Makes for more manageable prices for those who go to college, and an economy with more trained plumbers, welders, hvac techs, cnc operators, A&P qualified mechanics, mechanics, electricians, etc. Like I said, fortunately my student loans are less that what many people take out for a car loan, but my wife and I try to stay in as little debt as possible.
It certainly has nothing to do with good ol' fashioned modern American politics because Americans want nothing to do with foreign affairs.
That's the thing about good ol' fashioned modern American politics. It doesn't care about what Americans want. It only cares about what the political and financial elite want. Americans don't matter in American politics anymore except as a means to get either yourself or your puppet elected/reelected
I make better money at my age than I would as a tradesman, and I did my time doing outdoor manual labor already (my experience of being underemployed). I have enough disposable income to pay someone to do it, but I won't because I know I won't always have that disposable income and would rather pay down recurring debt while I can. My debt's not enormous-less than what many people do for a car-but in my house we consider my wife's $150 car payment to be a "big" payment. Live below your means and those means last a lot longer.
All of these studies trying to figure out millennials. No one thought to ask one why they do the things they do?
Maybe they think we are too busy rolling the points of our old-fashioned mustaches with the grease from our avocado toast to answer a survey?
So how did the government precisely solve my problems by invading Iraq?
I believe Iraq falls under the sections of "cronyism", "corruption", and "good ol' fashioned modern American politics". Iraq was about oil, defense contracts, and Bush wanting to finish what his dad started in 91.
The group born between 1981 and 1997 has fallen behind because many of them came of age during the financial crisis.
We aren't poor. We've just seen what happens when the financial markets collapse and don't see the need to be leveraged out the ass with 2 car notes, a second mortgage (for those of us who were even lucky enough to find housing while it was still actually reasonably priced), and paying off 3 credit cards. We're spending less than we have so we aren't completely screwed come the next bust cycle. We'd love to be able to spend money, but we remember being un- or under-employed and how much that sucked while the Boomers with guaranteed pensions and social security (both being paid for by us with us likely to see no benefit or payout ourselves) trying to grab more and more.
Besides, any extra money we would have to spend on consumer goods that our parents bought with credit card debt is most likely wrapped up in another type of debt: student loans. The bonuses I've gotten from my company the last few years, instead of helping the local economy by being spent on house repairs/upgrades has gone towards paying off student loans. And this years'll be no different.