Signatures are useless as currently used. Smart move for MasterCard to get rid of them.
Dumb move to get rid of them. They should be retained and exclusively used for "high value purchases". So anytime you have a sing;e item valued over say $500 or $1,000. Require the signature, and require it to be verified. This would do wonders.
For example, Leidos, a large government IT contracting firm, recently announced it's 2018 benefits package. It was noted that those employees with 10+ and 20+ years of service will now be losing 3-4 vacation/sick/PTO days and a few even more.
Essentially, corporations view older longer term employees not as notable for their loyalty, but as a burden. Why pay more, and give more vacation time to senior employees when we can hire someone fresh out of college or import an H1B Visa holder and pay them much less and give them half the vacation time.
Meanwhile, Leidos executive compensation went from $2 mil, $2mil, $4 mil, $7 mil, $14 mil, and now $35 mil. The CEO went from like $2 million to $7 million, to $14 million in compensation. Essentially, what we have is a group of elite who simply game the system to move the wealth and benefits of the laborers to their own pockets.
It's disgusting... but I doubt we'll see any change until we bring back the proverbial guillotine - granted it may be molecular disruption chambers in 2140.
Is that it is NOT the gun manufacturers driving the NRA. The number one gripe heard from gun owners regarding the NRA leadership, is that they compromise too much. Dead serious.
Okay, so $80,000 versus $3.15 billion dollars in lobbying money. Oh, that is just the official amount expended lobbying Congress. We're not even addressing the billions expended lobbying the American public on a multitude of issues.
Contemplate that...
Oh, and $80,000 expended on divisive issues. Is it possible that maybe Russians who do business in the U.S. have feelings on issues? Maybe a Russian is pro-2nd Amendment. Who knows.
But this is such a miniscule drop in the bucket it is laughable.
I drive around 50K miles a year. Nearly all of that time, except when I am transporting my children, I am utilizing the phone. Yet, in spite of that fact, I have had no significant accidents. And the deer I hit, was when I was not using my phone. But it's Pennsylvania, so deer sometimes fall from the sky in front of cars. If you're from PA, you understand.
That's always the conundrum in such metrics. For example, it is actually well known that more powerful motorcycles are safer than underpowered ones. WHY? Because they ensure the ability to move quickly when needed in order to avoid accidents.
Could the increase in accidents be due to the auto industries efforts to achieve better MPG in EPA testing? I've noticed that many newer vehicles, particularly those I've rented, have a trait where hitting the gas does not always move the vehicle. Often, you have to press the pedal down fully, and sometimes hold to really kick a newer car into high gear. It is like this plateau. I wager that acceleration pattern helps to achieve better fuel mileage. But it also means a lot lot lot lot lot more of the sort of accidents that occur when pulling out of parking lots or making left turns, and suddenly being confronted by an oncoming car - where you punch the gas to launch forward, only to find your vehicle is not responsive.
I mean for the most part, UltraViolet did this, granted I think Disney decided to venture on your own. But I pretty much have most things connected to VUDU.
So what is the issue? The industry doesn't want to all agree to use UltraViolet? It was costing studios too much? Or they just want to wipe the slate clean and think we'll re-buy rather than just decide to pirate after such loss.
Like I lost ones that were redeemed with iTunes and not transferrable.
Like all the licenses I bought for ringtone songs that were lost when my phone died under warranty.
It would be really really really nice if content providers, who claim they aren't selling products and that we are only licensed to view the content...
Every cell phone has unique identifiable attributes. They are using these now to identify.
So if you want to keep two distinct lives separate, you essentially need to have two separate phones. And I would go so far as to say on two separate plans. Keep your everday on a main service provider. Keep your incognito you, on a pre-paid phone.
First off, no, not every head of every agency. Rather, the single political head of the U.S. intelligence community, which includes around 17 various agencies claimed such.
Second, they published a report, it was a few dozen pages long. Did you read it? I did... their evidence largely amounted to the Russian Times publishing articles with a pro-Russia bent. Duh...it's the Russian Times. And on that point, compare the U.S. readership of the Russia Times to even Huffington Post, let alone CNN, NBC, etc. All of which were complicit in actively campaigning for Hillary Clinton.
Third, we have a constitutional protection of the press and free speech. Guess what, Kim Jong Un could start publishing a newspaper in the U.S. that has article after article praising him. And it's totally legit, not unconstitutional, nor does it count as altering the election anymore than it does the likes of CNN or HuffPo, publishing repeatedly false and misreprentative articles.
Fourth, as for the hard IT end of things. The only real evidence we have is that there was some Russian based malware on DNC servers, And probably on about 20% of the servers on the web. That two groups supposed to be Russian actors, and possibly in collaboration with the Russia government...mostly due to their activity during the Ukrainian/Russian conflict. However, in counterpoint to this, we also learned that several tools once thought to be of "foreign actors" turned out to be from U.S. NSA/CIA, and a couple of unnamed hacker groups once associated with Russia have not been recognized as state agents, just agents of the United States. The so-called sophisticated tools and methods only an agent state could be responsible for, was thoroughly debunked. And shown to in fact be outdated versions of hacker malware available on the dark web. And common hacking techniques.
So please....show me an actual single piece of evidence....thank you very much.
Okay, so tens of thousands of ads were bought thru Russia.
$80,000 (tens of thousands) = 0.000016% of $5 billion
= 0.00014149% $563,756,928 Hillary's direct funds
= 0.00024% 333,127,164 Trump's direct funds
If you think tens of thousands of dollars influenced the election in any decisive way, you're a moron. Second, these are merely adds purchased from Russian IP's. I would wager, that most of these were in fact purchases by American's who had donated their legal limits to campaigns, and went thru darknet options to buy them (routing thru Russia).
The fact that the media is working so so so so so hard to convince American's that the election was lost/altered due to the Russia's would almost be comical, if the media wasn't trying to take it so seriously.
They will largely dismantle the Sprint Network over the next decade. That it will primary be done to acquire more customers, for leveraging some of their deals like free Netflix. And for them to essentially acquire a bunch of spectrum for their upcoming 5G rollout.
T-Mobile seems to have it's goal set on becoming the Netcom of the Internet. (Remember Netcom? Back in the days when you paid by the hour to access the internet thru AOL, Prodigy, CompuServe, etc. Netcom came out with the flat $20/month rate and forever altered the industry.
T-Mobile seems to be attempting to do the same. Sprint while by far the cheapest cell network provider, is often routinely the lowest in coverage, etc. T-Mobile, while not always as competitive as Sprint has really pushed to provide an offering that can compete with Verizon and AT&T, while providing far greater cost to benefit ratio. Many user friendly industry firsts or standards:
> Taxes included in the pricing, up front you get to know how much you pay a month. > Unlimited Data > Unlimited Tethering options > No contracts etc
So in a rare case in point, I would actually support this merger as I think it would allow T-Mobile to press Verizon and AT&T to be more competitive.
I just bought like a $100 of bitcoin a couple months back. It was $1,500 a coin. How does something get labeled "plunging" when it's doubled in a mere few months.
I would say, BitCoin as "dipped" back down under $3,000 showing some likely minor correction in the BitCoin market.
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Signatures are useless as currently used. Smart move for MasterCard to get rid of them.
Dumb move to get rid of them. They should be retained and exclusively used for "high value purchases". So anytime you have a sing;e item valued over say $500 or $1,000. Require the signature, and require it to be verified. This would do wonders.
YUP
For example, Leidos, a large government IT contracting firm, recently announced it's 2018 benefits package. It was noted that those employees with 10+ and 20+ years of service will now be losing 3-4 vacation/sick/PTO days and a few even more.
Essentially, corporations view older longer term employees not as notable for their loyalty, but as a burden. Why pay more, and give more vacation time to senior employees when we can hire someone fresh out of college or import an H1B Visa holder and pay them much less and give them half the vacation time.
Meanwhile, Leidos executive compensation went from $2 mil, $2mil, $4 mil, $7 mil, $14 mil, and now $35 mil. The CEO went from like $2 million to $7 million, to $14 million in compensation. Essentially, what we have is a group of elite who simply game the system to move the wealth and benefits of the laborers to their own pockets.
It's disgusting... but I doubt we'll see any change until we bring back the proverbial guillotine - granted it may be molecular disruption chambers in 2140.
PESTICIDES
PESTICIDES
You can't drop tons of chemicals engineered to kill insects into a biosystem, and NOT expect it to kill insects.
- Jason
Is that it is NOT the gun manufacturers driving the NRA. The number one gripe heard from gun owners regarding the NRA leadership, is that they compromise too much. Dead serious.
The 0.002% of lobbyists.
Okay, so $80,000 versus $3.15 billion dollars in lobbying money. Oh, that is just the official amount expended lobbying Congress. We're not even addressing the billions expended lobbying the American public on a multitude of issues.
Contemplate that...
Oh, and $80,000 expended on divisive issues. Is it possible that maybe Russians who do business in the U.S. have feelings on issues? Maybe a Russian is pro-2nd Amendment. Who knows.
But this is such a miniscule drop in the bucket it is laughable.
I drive around 50K miles a year. Nearly all of that time, except when I am transporting my children, I am utilizing the phone. Yet, in spite of that fact, I have had no significant accidents. And the deer I hit, was when I was not using my phone. But it's Pennsylvania, so deer sometimes fall from the sky in front of cars. If you're from PA, you understand.
That's always the conundrum in such metrics. For example, it is actually well known that more powerful motorcycles are safer than underpowered ones. WHY? Because they ensure the ability to move quickly when needed in order to avoid accidents.
Could the increase in accidents be due to the auto industries efforts to achieve better MPG in EPA testing? I've noticed that many newer vehicles, particularly those I've rented, have a trait where hitting the gas does not always move the vehicle. Often, you have to press the pedal down fully, and sometimes hold to really kick a newer car into high gear. It is like this plateau. I wager that acceleration pattern helps to achieve better fuel mileage. But it also means a lot lot lot lot lot more of the sort of accidents that occur when pulling out of parking lots or making left turns, and suddenly being confronted by an oncoming car - where you punch the gas to launch forward, only to find your vehicle is not responsive.
I mean for the most part, UltraViolet did this, granted I think Disney decided to venture on your own. But I pretty much have most things connected to VUDU.
So what is the issue? The industry doesn't want to all agree to use UltraViolet? It was costing studios too much? Or they just want to wipe the slate clean and think we'll re-buy rather than just decide to pirate after such loss.
Like I lost ones that were redeemed with iTunes and not transferrable.
Like all the licenses I bought for ringtone songs that were lost when my phone died under warranty.
It would be really really really nice if content providers, who claim they aren't selling products and that we are only licensed to view the content...
WOULD GIVE US THE DAMN LICENSES
Every cell phone has unique identifiable attributes. They are using these now to identify.
So if you want to keep two distinct lives separate, you essentially need to have two separate phones. And I would go so far as to say on two separate plans. Keep your everday on a main service provider. Keep your incognito you, on a pre-paid phone.
First off, no, not every head of every agency. Rather, the single political head of the U.S. intelligence community, which includes around 17 various agencies claimed such.
Second, they published a report, it was a few dozen pages long. Did you read it? I did... their evidence largely amounted to the Russian Times publishing articles with a pro-Russia bent. Duh...it's the Russian Times. And on that point, compare the U.S. readership of the Russia Times to even Huffington Post, let alone CNN, NBC, etc. All of which were complicit in actively campaigning for Hillary Clinton.
Third, we have a constitutional protection of the press and free speech. Guess what, Kim Jong Un could start publishing a newspaper in the U.S. that has article after article praising him. And it's totally legit, not unconstitutional, nor does it count as altering the election anymore than it does the likes of CNN or HuffPo, publishing repeatedly false and misreprentative articles.
Fourth, as for the hard IT end of things. The only real evidence we have is that there was some Russian based malware on DNC servers, And probably on about 20% of the servers on the web. That two groups supposed to be Russian actors, and possibly in collaboration with the Russia government...mostly due to their activity during the Ukrainian/Russian conflict. However, in counterpoint to this, we also learned that several tools once thought to be of "foreign actors" turned out to be from U.S. NSA/CIA, and a couple of unnamed hacker groups once associated with Russia have not been recognized as state agents, just agents of the United States. The so-called sophisticated tools and methods only an agent state could be responsible for, was thoroughly debunked. And shown to in fact be outdated versions of hacker malware available on the dark web. And common hacking techniques.
So please....show me an actual single piece of evidence....thank you very much.
Actions like blaming everyone but herself, and her getting caught trying to cheat with the DNC.
Okay, so tens of thousands of ads were bought thru Russia.
$80,000 (tens of thousands) = 0.000016% of $5 billion
= 0.00014149% $563,756,928 Hillary's direct funds
= 0.00024% 333,127,164 Trump's direct funds
If you think tens of thousands of dollars influenced the election in any decisive way, you're a moron. Second, these are merely adds purchased from Russian IP's. I would wager, that most of these were in fact purchases by American's who had donated their legal limits to campaigns, and went thru darknet options to buy them (routing thru Russia).
The fact that the media is working so so so so so hard to convince American's that the election was lost/altered due to the Russia's would almost be comical, if the media wasn't trying to take it so seriously.
"An NSA contractor brought home highly classified documents"
^^^ THIS
They will largely dismantle the Sprint Network over the next decade. That it will primary be done to acquire more customers, for leveraging some of their deals like free Netflix. And for them to essentially acquire a bunch of spectrum for their upcoming 5G rollout.
No, I actually don't think it will.
T-Mobile seems to have it's goal set on becoming the Netcom of the Internet. (Remember Netcom? Back in the days when you paid by the hour to access the internet thru AOL, Prodigy, CompuServe, etc. Netcom came out with the flat $20/month rate and forever altered the industry.
T-Mobile seems to be attempting to do the same. Sprint while by far the cheapest cell network provider, is often routinely the lowest in coverage, etc. T-Mobile, while not always as competitive as Sprint has really pushed to provide an offering that can compete with Verizon and AT&T, while providing far greater cost to benefit ratio. Many user friendly industry firsts or standards:
> Taxes included in the pricing, up front you get to know how much you pay a month.
> Unlimited Data
> Unlimited Tethering options
> No contracts
etc
So in a rare case in point, I would actually support this merger as I think it would allow T-Mobile to press Verizon and AT&T to be more competitive.
16% approximately....
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Why a military copter was flying at 500 ft over a residential zone? THIS IS THE QUESTION WE SHOULD BE ASKING!!!!
Wait a minute????
Wait a darn minute...
I just bought like a $100 of bitcoin a couple months back. It was $1,500 a coin. How does something get labeled "plunging" when it's doubled in a mere few months.
I would say, BitCoin as "dipped" back down under $3,000 showing some likely minor correction in the BitCoin market.
Really, okay, so they targeted folks who were pro-gun, and pro-life, highly targeted....yada yada.
And do you think ANY of that demographic was going to vote for Hillary? Duh...
You are a Kool-Aid drinker if we ever saw one. Can you share some of that stuff you've been smoking?
Our own government is not our friend. Has engaged is far more of the above. And is probably now more of a danger to the U.S. than a foreign power.
By cheating, we mean the following:
- faked coin flips
- was given debate questions ahead of time
- removed Bernie supporters from the registration rolls
and more...
And we're only talking about the crap we know about.