you do understand that purchasing things with a little piece of plastic is not a right right? they offer a service to their customers ie) allow for access and convenience to the customers of those customers. Last I checked, Amex charges a higher rate, but is also still present and profitable.
3 percent is what they charge retailers for being too small to demand something less, getting access to a larger customer pool, giving their customer pool more convenience, and assuming any and all risk associated with buying on credit. one is certainly not precluded from paying for things in cash or check, i believe it is quite common.
:) so that kid that got locked up for having a couple ounces of bud on him, gets to be ostracized and spat on for his entire life? his only crime being he was unlucky enough to get caught? way to parse and qualify your statements buddy.
you realize that incarceration really shouldn't be about justice either right? it's not about what the criminal deserves, but what most improves society. if that means killing the criminal, so be it. if it means incarceration for a day, on psychoactives that make it feel like a millenium, and the criminal thereafter becomes a productive member of society, that's fine too.
hold up, when the fuck did google turn into a game dev?
and they're in an app store, because there's nothing wrong with them, other than soul sucking shittiness.
as far as i know, google does not make games, google only really sreens for malicious software.
i'm fairly confident that you'd blame google for being overly restrictive if it didn't let those games onto the store, and they'd be incredibly more liable for screening them too.
yeah, and a society where the only scarcity is found in luxuries, would be by definition a utopia. I don't think anybody would mind the free market as a thought exercise.
scarcity reduced to a level where you need never worry of need, but only of want, is how i see society going.
what police? what money? what jurisdiction? what valuation? it's well and good to tell the police that someone stole your 10 million dollar mint condition starwars action figure... but do you have proof of purchase? do you have transaction details? do you have a third party appraisal?
you also forgot to mention that if an actual company scammed you out of your gold, you'd be able to sue for it, whereas nobody cares about bitcoins, and the very idea of these alt-currencies is to avoid a papertrail. Can you prove it in court, that they even had your 'money'? can you decide which court? do you think a judge will hear you?
Even if the current troubles are simply indicative of the growing pains of all currencies, this doesn't mean adopting it is a wise idea outside of the novelty. For a lot of people, the most important quality a currency can have is stability, in value, in storage, in utility.
it sounds fantastic in later years too, and I think we'll eventually progress to a socialist society... but not in my lifetime. when scarcity isn't a thing anymore. but not with the realities of the present.
because intentions matter, if nothing else than to distinguish good role models from bad.
do we want to teach the next generation that government responsibility and transparency are virtues, and that acting in service to the truth is good? that whistleblowing is something to be admired? or do we want to show them that it's a good way to serve attention-seeking narcissists?
Because motive counts, why we make a distinction between murder and manslaughter. or if that is too hyperbolic... how you would perceive a politician that's say, blackmailed into voting for better emissions standards less highly than one that believes in it himself, even though their votes mean the same things.
i've never liked the look of assange, he's always looked a bit sketch.
i'm paraphrasing the league there, poorly, but please, please stop being facetious and obtuse. conditional statements don't just automatically default to true.
i voted for obama. I felt i had no right to bitch, no matter the outcome if i didn't cast my ballot. Voting democratic in Texas... I've yet to live in a purple state.
no? how about claiming that an exemption in the embargo is a concession by the world powers and the embargo is weakening. you don't have to spin very hard to take credit for weakening sanctions.
i wasn't suggesting romulus and remus as historical fact, but apparently there are real feral children helped by real wild animals to a certain extent.
a sanction is a sanction, start making exceptions and you might as well tear the policy apart to begin with.
laws are never going to be anything but blunt, 600 elected officials are never going to come up with the different things 300 million will do, nuance is added later by the judiciary.
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not so much rooting for whalers, as rooting against the anti-whalers. an altruistic act does not make good a completely wretched person.
for example, being a dick doesn't invalidate what assange did, but at the same time, what he accomplished doesn't make him less of a dick.
you do understand that purchasing things with a little piece of plastic is not a right right? they offer a service to their customers ie) allow for access and convenience to the customers of those customers. Last I checked, Amex charges a higher rate, but is also still present and profitable.
3 percent is what they charge retailers for being too small to demand something less, getting access to a larger customer pool, giving their customer pool more convenience, and assuming any and all risk associated with buying on credit. one is certainly not precluded from paying for things in cash or check, i believe it is quite common.
:) so that kid that got locked up for having a couple ounces of bud on him, gets to be ostracized and spat on for his entire life? his only crime being he was unlucky enough to get caught? way to parse and qualify your statements buddy.
you realize that incarceration really shouldn't be about justice either right? it's not about what the criminal deserves, but what most improves society. if that means killing the criminal, so be it. if it means incarceration for a day, on psychoactives that make it feel like a millenium, and the criminal thereafter becomes a productive member of society, that's fine too.
that's incredibly worrying. she seems to have an incredibly despicable and base understanding of what the criminal justice system is fundamentally.
hold up, when the fuck did google turn into a game dev?
and they're in an app store, because there's nothing wrong with them, other than soul sucking shittiness.
as far as i know, google does not make games, google only really sreens for malicious software.
i'm fairly confident that you'd blame google for being overly restrictive if it didn't let those games onto the store, and they'd be incredibly more liable for screening them too.
yeah, and a society where the only scarcity is found in luxuries, would be by definition a utopia. I don't think anybody would mind the free market as a thought exercise.
scarcity reduced to a level where you need never worry of need, but only of want, is how i see society going.
... getting sued and or locked up. Money doesn't do you much good from inside a prison.
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thank you cracked.
what police? what money? what jurisdiction? what valuation? it's well and good to tell the police that someone stole your 10 million dollar mint condition starwars action figure... but do you have proof of purchase? do you have transaction details? do you have a third party appraisal?
yes, something where i can purchase physical goods or services based on the credible belief of a third party in my ability to pay off a resulting tab.
you also forgot to mention that if an actual company scammed you out of your gold, you'd be able to sue for it, whereas nobody cares about bitcoins, and the very idea of these alt-currencies is to avoid a papertrail. Can you prove it in court, that they even had your 'money'? can you decide which court? do you think a judge will hear you?
Even if the current troubles are simply indicative of the growing pains of all currencies, this doesn't mean adopting it is a wise idea outside of the novelty. For a lot of people, the most important quality a currency can have is stability, in value, in storage, in utility.
it sounds fantastic in later years too, and I think we'll eventually progress to a socialist society... but not in my lifetime. when scarcity isn't a thing anymore. but not with the realities of the present.
he just very much did
you just literally described socialism. from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
because intentions matter, if nothing else than to distinguish good role models from bad.
do we want to teach the next generation that government responsibility and transparency are virtues, and that acting in service to the truth is good? that whistleblowing is something to be admired? or do we want to show them that it's a good way to serve attention-seeking narcissists?
Because motive counts, why we make a distinction between murder and manslaughter. or if that is too hyperbolic... how you would perceive a politician that's say, blackmailed into voting for better emissions standards less highly than one that believes in it himself, even though their votes mean the same things.
i've never liked the look of assange, he's always looked a bit sketch.
fruit of a poisonous tree.
"say yes... ... um, yes?
consent, you guys heard it, that was consent"
i'm paraphrasing the league there, poorly, but please, please stop being facetious and obtuse.
conditional statements don't just automatically default to true.
if (a == 1)
b=1;
else
b=1;
is a pretty retarded statement.
it is useless because Republicans are really into gerrymandering and even if Obama had won by 15 points, we'd still have an obstructionist house.
i voted for obama. I felt i had no right to bitch, no matter the outcome if i didn't cast my ballot. Voting democratic in Texas... I've yet to live in a purple state.
now there was a politician who could get things done. a real doer that one.
no? how about claiming that an exemption in the embargo is a concession by the world powers and the embargo is weakening. you don't have to spin very hard to take credit for weakening sanctions.
yes, i can see it now, non-skippable popup ads spouting voltaire and locke... you can't give choice without sacrificing control.
i wasn't suggesting romulus and remus as historical fact, but apparently there are real feral children helped by real wild animals to a certain extent.
a sanction is a sanction, start making exceptions and you might as well tear the policy apart to begin with.
laws are never going to be anything but blunt, 600 elected officials are never going to come up with the different things 300 million will do, nuance is added later by the judiciary.
... i think you forgot that pesky thing called the thirteenth amendment, you know, the one dealing with slavery?
you basically proposed a system where candidates either win office, or sell themselves into slavery, or losing a contest becomes a criminal offense.
yay.