What needs to change is the billing model - outside of Trumpistan, the caller pays a few cents/min to call a mobile phone. Why the fukk is it different in the land of caravan attacks?
If your phone rings, and you don't know the calling number - just let it go into voicemail. If it's important, they will leave a message which you can retrieve at your convenience (or if like me you use Google Voice, the voicemail is transcribed to quasi-accurate text). Almost always it's some marketing scam. Fuk Them.
I agree it's a PITA to change stores, but I occasionally do a [change store/update apps/change store/.....] procedure. Never have been locked out. 99.99% of the time I'm logged in my home-country's store. A handful of apps I use frequently are not available in my home-country store.
Totally - just create a Twitter list of sources (or multiple topical lists) and group your interests there (Sports / Tech / General News / Sleaze). Virtually all info sources (real and clickbait) publish regularly there with links to content. For most users at least as good as RSS readers.
The only problem with microwave links is that if the area is subject to frequent rain, you will have frequent brown-outs due to signal fade. I know people in Seattle on normally-great microwave-linked apartment connectivity which goes to shit in bad weather.
My Telmisartan (technically generic now, but Big Pharma is delaying it) is 6x cheaper overseas. Fuck the corporate kleptocracy and their politcal enablers with a rusty rake.
The 16-digit system is ridiculous. If you're going to use your card online, or in restaurants, etc. your card number is quasi-public.
Two of my cards have an option which sends email and/or SMS and/or app-notifications upon every transaction, accepted or denied.
I caught a bogus attempted charge last month - this saved a lot of exposure & aggravation. It also informed me last week when my personal activity caused my card to be suspended ( several international charges, different countries in the same hour). CapitalOne, Discover, & Chase offer this, and I assume some other competitors do so as well.
I live in Queen Anne, to get anything broadband-ish I have a choice of Comcast or Comcast. I won't go into detail here, but their business practices are... questionable. Century Link DSL need not apply, I have too many friends that have been screwed by them and their 'fiber' service.
In most places in Crony Capitalismland, a given location has a choice of identically one broadband provider. Thus you pay far more for far less than one does in regulated Europe, where the local last-mile proprietors *must* offer access to customers at a decent rate, so you get (trumpets blaring) competition. That is a scary word in the US, at least to corporate oligarchs and the politicians they buy so cheaply.
Really? The year 2016, and still butthurt about hundreds of millions of slobbering idiots who don't agree with your choice of mobile phone. Get a fucking life already.
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Wow, Yet Another Branded Credit Card.
No fees? I'll get one just to get the 3 percent rebate on Apple stuff.
Otherwise - excuse me, my recycle bin is full of credit card solicitation letters.
What needs to change is the billing model - outside of Trumpistan, the caller pays a few cents/min to call a mobile phone. Why the fukk is it different in the land of caravan attacks?
#Corporate_Kleptocracy
You are describing ALMOST ALL of the world. Other than in Trumpistan, it DOES cost 5 cents/min (or so) to call a mobile phone.
In The Land of Freedom, the recipient pays to receive a robo-call (or any call).
Don't you just love your corporate kleptocracy?
I would be all for this, but sometimes I interact with a website which insists that I receive a call to get a 2FA code. Or similar.
But in general, yeah, fukk'em.
If your phone rings, and you don't know the calling number - just let it go into voicemail. If it's important, they will leave a message which you can retrieve at your convenience (or if like me you use Google Voice, the voicemail is transcribed to quasi-accurate text). Almost always it's some marketing scam. Fuk Them.
I hope their incel status becomes a lifelong badge of honor for these dipshirts.
Agreed.... My favorite version of this is Elasticsearch, but there are numerous others, all optimized for various use cases.
Because 'blockchain' sounds better than 'redundant distributed database', a term (and technology) that's been around & constantly improved for ages.
Buzzword bullshit does not create reality, unless you are in the Cult of the Orangutan.
Wow, someone actually read the click-wrap T & C!
I agree it's a PITA to change stores, but I occasionally do a [change store/update apps/change store/.....] procedure. Never have been locked out. 99.99% of the time I'm logged in my home-country's store. A handful of apps I use frequently are not available in my home-country store.
Their top employee here in FreedomLand only drinks Diet Coke.
I just switched between four different countries in under 10 minutes to upgrade local apps. Where did you get this 30/90 number from?
Nothing stops Rooskis from getting App Store accts in any country they choose. Telegram is my messaging app of choice.
-ex-Rooski
Totally - just create a Twitter list of sources (or multiple topical lists) and group your interests there (Sports / Tech / General News / Sleaze). Virtually all info sources (real and clickbait) publish regularly there with links to content. For most users at least as good as RSS readers.
I'll just stay on AIM and ICQ, while listening to my 8-track tapes.
Just when you think we've reached Peak Buzzword Hype, somebody takes it up to Twelve.
Can't wait to hear what the chemtrails loonies have to say about this one.
The only problem with microwave links is that if the area is subject to frequent rain, you will have frequent brown-outs due to signal fade. I know people in Seattle on normally-great microwave-linked apartment connectivity which goes to shit in bad weather.
Canada-drugs-dot-com (remove hyphens). Honest, reliable, good prices. You still need to provide a prescription.
But my erection only lasted three hours!
Exhibit A: Comcast.
My Telmisartan (technically generic now, but Big Pharma is delaying it) is 6x cheaper overseas. Fuck the corporate kleptocracy and their politcal enablers with a rusty rake.
The 16-digit system is ridiculous. If you're going to use your card online, or in restaurants, etc. your card number is quasi-public.
Two of my cards have an option which sends email and/or SMS and/or app-notifications upon every transaction, accepted or denied.
I caught a bogus attempted charge last month - this saved a lot of exposure & aggravation. It also informed me last week when my personal activity caused my card to be suspended ( several international charges, different countries in the same hour). CapitalOne, Discover, & Chase offer this, and I assume some other competitors do so as well.
I live in Queen Anne, to get anything broadband-ish I have a choice of Comcast or Comcast. I won't go into detail here, but their business practices are... questionable. Century Link DSL need not apply, I have too many friends that have been screwed by them and their 'fiber' service.
In most places in Crony Capitalismland, a given location has a choice of identically one broadband provider. Thus you pay far more for far less than one does in regulated Europe, where the local last-mile proprietors *must* offer access to customers at a decent rate, so you get (trumpets blaring) competition. That is a scary word in the US, at least to corporate oligarchs and the politicians they buy so cheaply.
Yow, you'd think it would be banned by now, it's such a shack of sit.
Really? The year 2016, and still butthurt about hundreds of millions of slobbering idiots who don't agree with your choice of mobile phone. Get a fucking life already.