whole foods is called, around here (bay area) 'whole paycheck'.
Around here, we call the coffee franchise Fivebucks, and I've heard the Big Box hardware store referred to as the Home Cheapo.
I don't go to the latter since they've automated the checkout process; i.e., made me their uncompensated checkout employee.
I only go to the former to order regular coffee. It flummoxes the baristas for an uncomfortable moment, and it provides the the folks waiting for more exotic caffeinated drinks an opportunity to feel smug.
I didn't even realize these Pop-Up stores existed, so their extinction event is somewhat less than devastating for me.
A bit of googling with rather middling skill appears to reveal this outcome is not extremely surprising:
The pop-up store is a store that opens suddenly and usually exists for a short amount of time. Or; A temporary pop-up store often appears when retailers take advantage of empty retail space.
The lack of success of the Whole Foods acquisition seems much more disturbing in Bezo's World.
The threat to your poor sickly mother has to at least be weighed against the threat to other drivers, including someone else's perfectly healthy mother headed down the autobahn to market.
That, and if your auto hits a fat rabbit at 112 mph, you and mother are going to arrive at the hospital in another vehicle... one with lights and a siren.
"Damn car manufacturers telling me what to Do... For who exactly, is 112 mph not fast enough?
In fact, unless you're the Madison Avenue stalwart professional driver on a closed course, why should you be able to drive that recklessly on the public highways and put the rest of us at risk of getting caught up in a vehicular altercation with you?
We've living in a privileged western representative that mostly provides safe water, regular food, and your Mom's internet... but yeah, youtube comments are such a buzzkill, of the like we haven't seen since 1998, when the Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table.
"What I've done is I've used, brilliantly, the laws of the country. And not personally, just corporate. And if you look at people like myself that are at the highest levels of business, they use -- many of them have done it, many times..."
Since the advent of the surveillance state, I just assume that speaking on a cell phone, texting on a cell phone, and carrying a cell phone with the battery in it is the technological equivalent of breadcrumbs... if anybody is highly motivated enough to want to track my movements.
The Stingray Tools are fairly easy for well-funded organisations to deploy, your cellie hits on towers it is closest to, and all manner of back doors for national security may be built in.
Don't take a knife to a gun fight, and don't take a cell phone anywhere that might be considered shady.
Do they think it's wise to bring an organic sample from the astroid down here to earth? Wouldn't it be safer to first check it out at ISS, so if something is wrong with the sample we won't have a big dissaster on our hands here on earth.
Damn Skippy. Why else do we pay these space canaries, errr, astronauts.
If anyone can do it like Benz and Cadillac, it's this guy. Musk gets it. He's a vocal proponent of off planet settlements to mitigate the likelihood of human extinction, and he understands how to get things done politically.
Precipitation enters the suddenly not so closed boot as it finds itself precariously in the open position, evidently, during a precipitous occasion involving the fall of magic water from the sky.
Embracing the rather obvious opportunity to troll this outcome, when the weather rock is wet, anything you open is subject to a wetting.
Just updated to Samsung's One UI this morning, after several days of prompting.... it's an ordeal. Short of pulling out the battery, there's no way to stop it once it begins, and the update takes three quarters of an hour.
You, and Godzilla, unless you are Godzilla, which renders moot my settled belief set regarding his/your ability to pay for internet and type legibly with those little dinosaur hands.
There will be some lawsuits coming out of this, as the plaintiff qualifications should only include had cancer and visited the Grand Canyon in the last 18 years.
This is unfortunate, idiotic, careless, and unlikely malevolent... mostly just dumb luck of the bad variety. To put it in perspective, there are likely millions of American homes with unhealthy levels of carcinogenic radon gas.
...they pull the plug on the computers during the weekend and holidays.
Good point. A Saturday transaction still pends electronically in seconds, but there is no posting until human oversight returns Monday, even though that posting typically happens at Midnight when human bankers are in short supply.
Bank credit is another instrument of profit for Banks. You either have the money at the time of the transaction or you don’t. The practice of “floating” a check is when the person writing a check knows they don’t have the money, but writes it anyway, hoping it’ll show up by the time the recipient cashes it. That worked back when The Good, The Bad and The Ugly first came out, but not today. Bank systems don’t work on paper, it’s all digital where things take seconds, not days, to “process”. In practice, checks “bounce” frequently. The consumer pays about $40 each time. It’s all avoidable. Banks should not be permitted to profit to this extent. What is the $40 for anyway? To fund their Cobol programmers’ pensions?
In economics, float is duplicate money present in the banking system during the time between a deposit being made in the recipient's account and the money being deducted from the sender's account.
This is why you read/. kids...they're not slinging knowledge like this on the twitter.
About one-third of all 285 data breach notifications had some variation of the line. It doesn't show that companies care about your data. It shows that they don't know what to do next.
"We take your privacy and security seriously" is the data tech equivalent of saying "We send out thoughts and prayers". It means nothing concrete, and is meant to end inquiry/discussion into what actions should in fact be taken (or should have been taken).
Well said. There's been not enough stick for the most egregious offenders, and there's the tasty carrot up front in the form of budgets for security in the neighborhood of what you tip the homeless if you worked at 7-11.
I ask you to take $5 from my bank account, and in under 10 seconds you have successfully resolved a transaction in a thorough, secure, and traceable away, even if my bank isn't on the same continent as your bank.
Which of these do I think you "take seriously"?
Interestingly enough, a credit to your bank account can take up to an order of magnitude more time to post than an instantaneous purchase.
Perhaps the banking powers that be are tipping their collective hand here... when it is in their financial interest to do so, they've developed the uncanny ability to be as fast as they need to be or as slow as necessary to maximize daily balance computations.
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whole foods is called, around here (bay area) 'whole paycheck'.
Around here, we call the coffee franchise Fivebucks, and I've heard the Big Box hardware store referred to as the Home Cheapo.
I don't go to the latter since they've automated the checkout process; i.e., made me their uncompensated checkout employee.
I only go to the former to order regular coffee. It flummoxes the baristas for an uncomfortable moment, and it provides the the folks waiting for more exotic caffeinated drinks an opportunity to feel smug.
I didn't even realize these Pop-Up stores existed, so their extinction event is somewhat less than devastating for me.
A bit of googling with rather middling skill appears to reveal this outcome is not extremely surprising:
The pop-up store is a store that opens suddenly and usually exists for a short amount of time. Or; A temporary pop-up store often appears when retailers take advantage of empty retail space.
The lack of success of the Whole Foods acquisition seems much more disturbing in Bezo's World.
The threat to your poor sickly mother has to at least be weighed against the threat to other drivers, including someone else's perfectly healthy mother headed down the autobahn to market.
That, and if your auto hits a fat rabbit at 112 mph, you and mother are going to arrive at the hospital in another vehicle... one with lights and a siren.
"Damn car manufacturers telling me what to Do... For who exactly, is 112 mph not fast enough?
In fact, unless you're the Madison Avenue stalwart professional driver on a closed course, why should you be able to drive that recklessly on the public highways and put the rest of us at risk of getting caught up in a vehicular altercation with you?
Mah rights!
Sufferin' succotash.
We've living in a privileged western representative that mostly provides safe water, regular food, and your Mom's internet... but yeah, youtube comments are such a buzzkill, of the like we haven't seen since 1998, when the Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table.
If you're only concerned with the human casualties.
Typical content from 8.0 years ago, though was just as whacky, and the Space Shuttle Discovery docked with the the Space Station for the 1st time.
The art of the bankruptcy:
"What I've done is I've used, brilliantly, the laws of the country. And not personally, just corporate. And if you look at people like myself that are at the highest levels of business, they use -- many of them have done it, many times..."
Since the advent of the surveillance state, I just assume that speaking on a cell phone, texting on a cell phone, and carrying a cell phone with the battery in it is the technological equivalent of breadcrumbs... if anybody is highly motivated enough to want to track my movements.
The Stingray Tools are fairly easy for well-funded organisations to deploy, your cellie hits on towers it is closest to, and all manner of back doors for national security may be built in.
Don't take a knife to a gun fight, and don't take a cell phone anywhere that might be considered shady.
But that's only $66 US per year. If all you need yo do is contact someone to call or come in, that's way cheaper than providing phones to employees.
Do they think it's wise to bring an organic sample from the astroid down here to earth? Wouldn't it be safer to first check it out at ISS, so if something is wrong with the sample we won't have a big dissaster on our hands here on earth.
Damn Skippy. Why else do we pay these space canaries, errr, astronauts.
If anyone can do it like Benz and Cadillac, it's this guy. Musk gets it. He's a vocal proponent of off planet settlements to mitigate the likelihood of human extinction, and he understands how to get things done politically.
I for one, welcome our musky overlords.
Precipitation enters the suddenly not so closed boot as it finds itself precariously in the open position, evidently, during a precipitous occasion involving the fall of magic water from the sky.
Embracing the rather obvious opportunity to troll this outcome, when the weather rock is wet, anything you open is subject to a wetting.
Tape costs money and has weight (only half joking). Also Spirit is planning to charge you extra for a tape-camera seat.
Unless there's something you likely brought on the plane.
"Oh look, a used chewing gum receptacle."
Saw this Change.org petition earlier this week.
Maybe my phone's a slow learner; like a dog, taking on the personality of its owner.
Just updated to Samsung's One UI this morning, after several days of prompting.... it's an ordeal. Short of pulling out the battery, there's no way to stop it once it begins, and the update takes three quarters of an hour.
You, and Godzilla, unless you are Godzilla, which renders moot my settled belief set regarding his/your ability to pay for internet and type legibly with those little dinosaur hands.
Damn the bad luck!
There will be some lawsuits coming out of this, as the plaintiff qualifications should only include had cancer and visited the Grand Canyon in the last 18 years.
This is unfortunate, idiotic, careless, and unlikely malevolent... mostly just dumb luck of the bad variety. To put it in perspective, there are likely millions of American homes with unhealthy levels of carcinogenic radon gas.
Precisely. Clever number-crunchers can shape the numbers to reinforce a wide spectrum of outcomes.
Employee diversity numbers can be made to look a great deal better at tech companies who employ onsite kitchen and janitorial personnel.
...they pull the plug on the computers during the weekend and holidays.
Good point. A Saturday transaction still pends electronically in seconds, but there is no posting until human oversight returns Monday, even though that posting typically happens at Midnight when human bankers are in short supply.
Why banks don't post transactions on weekends.
Bank credit is another instrument of profit for Banks. You either have the money at the time of the transaction or you don’t. The practice of “floating” a check is when the person writing a check knows they don’t have the money, but writes it anyway, hoping it’ll show up by the time the recipient cashes it. That worked back when The Good, The Bad and The Ugly first came out, but not today. Bank systems don’t work on paper, it’s all digital where things take seconds, not days, to “process”. In practice, checks “bounce” frequently. The consumer pays about $40 each time. It’s all avoidable. Banks should not be permitted to profit to this extent. What is the $40 for anyway? To fund their Cobol programmers’ pensions?
In economics, float is duplicate money present in the banking system during the time between a deposit being made in the recipient's account and the money being deducted from the sender's account.
This is why you read /. kids...they're not slinging knowledge like this on the twitter.
About one-third of all 285 data breach notifications had some variation of the line. It doesn't show that companies care about your data. It shows that they don't know what to do next.
"We take your privacy and security seriously" is the data tech equivalent of saying "We send out thoughts and prayers". It means nothing concrete, and is meant to end inquiry/discussion into what actions should in fact be taken (or should have been taken).
Well said. There's been not enough stick for the most egregious offenders, and there's the tasty carrot up front in the form of budgets for security in the neighborhood of what you tip the homeless if you worked at 7-11.
I ask you to take $5 from my bank account, and in under 10 seconds you have successfully resolved a transaction in a thorough, secure, and traceable away, even if my bank isn't on the same continent as your bank. Which of these do I think you "take seriously"?
Interestingly enough, a credit to your bank account can take up to an order of magnitude more time to post than an instantaneous purchase.
Perhaps the banking powers that be are tipping their collective hand here... when it is in their financial interest to do so, they've developed the uncanny ability to be as fast as they need to be or as slow as necessary to maximize daily balance computations.