What a bunch of horsepucky. The Internet has enabled slacktivism - but that in turn is a failure. Look at the failures of the Internet-enabled Arab Spring democracy uprisings as just one example. Egypt is once again a dictatorship. Libya? Syria? Yemen? Real beacons of democracy now, thanks to Internet protests - except they're all dangerous shitholes, not flourishing democracies.
Even the organizers of the 1% protests admit they failed. And online petitions are so ineffective (and such a pain in the ass when signing one gets you continually spammed about others) that they're just a distraction.
You want to change things, you've got to do stuff in the real world. Petitions to the courts against those you oppose, not petitions to those you oppose. Run for office, not beg favors from those in office, who have to think about their lobbyists. The Internet is a failure when it comes to effecting social change. It still has to happen in real life. Court judgments, not the judgment of faceless people on the internet, change things. One or two people going to court can effect more change than 1 billion signatures on 1 million petitions.
And yet none of those succeeded (set top boxes, email, etc) or are being done today (embedding an html 5 rendering engine into an app - which btw also violates Apple's terms of "no interpreters"). People will instead use the crappy rendering components in, for example Bloatroid, if full html5 support isn't required, or just embed it in a web page if it is - and even then it doesn't work, because even support for html4 and css results in stuff that's crap.
And yet other countries don't have that problem... just as other countries have had ways to send money electronically without my ever giving anyone except my bank my password. Paypal is just shit.
"Non discriminatory" doesn't mean what you think it means either. There are plenty of ways to charge different rates that can be deemed "non discriminatory." For a more familiar example, look at affirmative action - that's the definition of discriminatory, and yet it's not considered discriminatory.
The election is over, so Trump will do what he wants, doesn't matter how many protests, how many negative news stories there are. And logic, or even enlightened self-interest, doesn't work either.
Also, some of the things Trump is doing need doing. For example, even if it costs consumers more, manufacturing (even automated manufacturing) needs to be brought back on-shore, or when it comes to a pissing contest, China can just stop shipping critical components (or even just threaten to) and crater the American and global economies as well as make it impossible to maintain existing infrastructure.
Russia isn't the big threat now - it's China, and they're feeling their oats over Taiwan and, indirectly, Japan, plus the rest of Asia. Either those two countries get nukes and delivery systems or they're goners.
MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) works. Right now the Russians have an advantage - they could take over NATO members Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia in less than 60 hours (RAND Corporation report) and there's nothing NATO can do about it - but Putin doesn't. He knows the end result will be nuking the Kremlin. Russia has sufficient land that there's no population pressure - whereas China is severely over-populated, and losing a chunk of the population would almost be an acceptable trade-off... indeed, if it gave them territory to expand into, it would be seen as more than worth it if push comes to shove.
China wants to expand - into Asia, and into Africa. Not just economically either.
But neither of us is going to be able to do anything about any of this. Even if we were to produce a mathematically 100% provable solution to all the world's problems, it won't change anything. You'd need to change people - and unfortunately, only they can change themselves. So it's a waste of time, mental masturbation exercise, whatever, but nothing either of us says will have any effect.
Also, you are wrong to claim that the RCMP are charged with dealing with cyber crime. A lot of the stuff (cybertheft, online bullying, internet kiddie porn, etc.) is handled either by the municipal or provincial forces, though the option always exists to call in the RCMP if needed - for example, when the crime crosses borders.
And how does that change the fact that you do NOT report such crimes as theft to the RCMP directly in Cochrane, Alberta? It's Canada, not the US. You report to your local municipal cops (even in provinces that have provincial services) unless the population is under the threshold for having municipal services, or has contracted out municipal services directly to the RCMP for a fee in those provinces with no provincial police service where the municipality exceeds the population threshold entitled to free coverage - such individual municipal contracts are negotiated under the umbrella of provincial agreements with the RCMP, but any municipality is free to set up their own public police force instead.
Sturgeon's law. "Ninety percent of everything is crap". Derived from a quote by science fiction author Theodore Sturgeon, who once said, "Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud. That's because 90% of everything is crud."
My corollary: 90%? You're an optimist. 99.99% of everything on the internet is crud. And most of the rest is worse.
You can't convince someone who has an irrational belief by using common sense. It's just a waste of time. Applies both to the Clinton and Trump camps, who seem more fixated on destroying each other than in trying to do anything constructive. They will have to convince themselves - from the school of hard knocks. You or me trying to beat them with a clue-by-four will just make them more stubborn.
The next 2 decades are going to be awesome (probably awesomely horrible... or worse... but it will be what it will be).:-)
Like much of the networking and collaboration industry, Avaya is looking toward software-defined networking, IoT, and cloud-based platforms that work on many different devices and the web."
So, you failed as a business at what you specialized at, and now you're going to "pivot" to a field that's already over-crowded with others who've failed and are making the same pivot.
A couple of years ago it was Apps Apps Apps. Now it's IoT IoT IoT. Sturgeon was an optimist.
In this case it was obvious who the previous owner was, because it had never been wiped down. The "current owner" was the thief. And if she tries to allege that she bought it from someone else, she'd better be ready to (1) cough up the name, and (2) answer as to why the seller obviously didn't own the laptop because they couldn't log into the owner's account, just the guest account.
So he banned refugees from 7 Muslim countries, and that is supposed to raise alarms, when various European and Asian countries have done far worse? Japan rejects more than 99% of all refugee applicants, and nobody is getting their panties in a knot except the UN, and Japan told them to go suck an egg.
The numbers for 2015: Out of 7,586 refugee applicants from all over the world (not just the Middle East), they accepted 27. That's one out of every 280. The prime minister has told the UN that henceforth he will not accept ANY Syrian refugees - he needs to boost his own country's work force first.
Asked by reporters at the UN General Assembly last September whether Japan would join other countries in accepting Syrian refugees, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe replied that his country needed to boost its own workforce first by empowering more women and older people to work.
"As an issue of demography, I would say that before accepting immigrants or refugees, we need to have more activities by women, by elderly people and we must raise [the] birthrate," he said, according to the official translation of his comments.
"There are many things that we should do before accepting immigrants."
Some problems are not fixable. What are you going to recommend doing when two billion people are going to be seeking refugee status because of over-population and war and famine and disease over the next 35 years? At some point you need to do triage.
So what if Trump is acting like a bully? He's only doing openly what past presidents have done, perhaps with a bit less tact. Bullies lie. Clinton, with her "public vs private stance" was also a bully - look at her war hawk stance that has led to how many deaths in the middle east because of her screw ups?
The people who fall for bluster are the ones who are responsible for their own stupidity. Nothing anyone else can say or do will change that - and believing otherwise is equally stupid.
The sky is not falling - at least not any more or less than it has under previous administrations. Look at the whole fake Missile Gap under Kennedy, which as Senator Kennedy he pushed for political motives - he wanted to get elected and the truth was collateral damage, sacrificed for the win.
His push to get ahead of the non-threat of a massive fleet of non-existent nuclear-tipped Soviet ICBMs was what destabilized the world since WW2. The Russians had no choice except to start building the very fleet that Kennedy claimed to be worried about - and to make it appear in a very public fashion that they were trigger-happy.
Regarding your sig... isn't it reasonable to conclude that a man in drag (for purposes other than a gag like I once saw at a Halloween party) is someplace on the "transsexual spectrum", or at least is thinking about becoming a transsexual? After all men who identify as masculine and heterosexual generally don't dress in drag. Is "woman trapped in a man's body" the only criteria you recognize? How much commitment do you require before you grant the recognition: must the man take estrogen and grow breasts, or go all the way and modify the genitals with reassignment surgery?
Absolutely not. First - "men who identify as masculine and heterosexual generally don't dress in drag" - if you believe that, you're in for a REAL surprise. Some surveys put the number of males who have worn one or more pieces of woman's clothing for erotic pleasure at least once at 60%. cross-dressing is a sexual fetish, and has nothing to do with gender identity.
The APA specifically state that being gender variant is NOT the same as being transsexual. There are specific diagnostic criteria that only apply to transsexuals, and not to the "transgender community", who do not need treatment because they do not have a medical condition.
Gender dysphoria is not the same as gender nonconformity, which refers to behaviors not matching the gender norms or stereotypes of the gender assigned at birth. Examples of gender nonconformity (also referred to as gender expansiveness or gender creativity) include girls behaving and dressing in ways more socially expected of boys or occasional cross-dressing in adult men. Gender nonconformity is not a mental disorder. Gender dysphoria is also not the same being gay/lesbian.
The LGBT are pissed off that anyone would dare point out the distinction publicly, because they see it as a threat to the "unity of the community." To bad for them that 50% of female transsexuals are straight, and thus have no reason to be part of the gay "community" - or to be represented by people who continue to publicly confuse the difference between "transgender" and "transsexual" with such idiotic statements by leaders of the gay community such as "Of course we support transsexuals - we had drag queens on our Mardi Gras float."
Combine that with the far higher rates of violence, including domestic violence, in the gay community, higher rates of health-risk behavior such as smoking, higher rates of risky sex, especially among transgenders and transsexuals who are members of the LGBT community (the highest rate of HIV/AIDS of any group - 16% for latinos, 17% for whites, 56% of blacks, as well as very high rates of prostitution) - who the hell wants to be part of such a "community" if they're not gay or lesbian?
I've heard the excuses for the high rates (+50%) trans prostitution, and they don't wash. Being ridden bareback by gay men paying for anal sex is not "gender-affirming" behaviour. And the poverty argument also doesn't wash - 39% of single mothers live in poverty, but we don't see half of them engaging in prostitution as a career. But don't you dare point that out - you're somehow "transphobic" for pointing out that the "justifications" are bullshit in the face of statistics.
But to answer your question - a diagnosis of Gender Dysphoria from psychiatrists who are trained both to recognize it, and to recognize when what someone self-diagnoses as "being transsexual" is in fact not true, is the only acceptable standard. Why would you NOT want to get expert help anyway.
And no, I am not anti-LGB. Rights are rights, and everyone has a right to exist. What they don't have is a right to speak for non-gays, especially since they've proven over and over again that they just don't "get it."
And yet Trump HAS flip-flopped - a LOT - in his first week. The CIA are lying - the CIA are great. We'll build a wall and the Mexicans will pay for it - We'll build and pay for a wall, and get the money back from the Mexicans (somehow or other). Hillary Clinton is a crook - Standing ovation for Hillary Clinton. We're going to kick out all illegals - We're going to kick out all illegals who are criminals (far from the same thing). The ACA needs to go - Some parts of the ACA probably need to be preserved. And there's more.
Trump's policies are like a bus - wait 15 minutes, another one will come along. And this is like EVERY SINGLE PRESIDENT before. Not one of them has been 100% steadfast in their policies. It's part of the job - just that it's now much more transparent.
The definition of "fair" does not necessarily mean "the same price for everyone." Qualcom can easily make the argument that it's fair to charge a higher price on higher-margin items, since their chips allow Apple to make that money in the first place. So, fair can also be "a fixed percentage of the sale price per unit, irrespective of manufacturer."
From where I sit, there isn't much difference between the Clinton and Trump. I would never vote for either. Fortunately, neither one of them could ever be my president, because I'm part of the 95% that is looking at the US and thinking you should admit you all screwed up big time and just get over it and start working together to fix your latest, greatest, fuckup.
Standalone is NOT necessarily AIR. Not at all. AIR was a piece of bloated shitware. If you could write code, you didn't need AIR for ANY of your "flash objects", or for your "behaviours." HTML5 still requires a browser.
Asking for letters in your password is the opposite of security. Cuts down the search space by ~98% by each letter/position thus leaked. An 8-char password effectively becomes a 5-char password if they have the 3rd, 5th, and 7th letters.
Have you ever thought that the 95% of the world who isn't living in the USA are past "Peak Trump" and really don't want to hear shit about him any more? The guy flip-flops all the time, so any coherent discussion is impossible from the get-go anyway, so we don't want to encounter your publicity for his shitty reality show. And that if you believe everything he says, you need to seek help?
Why does't Amazon just buy a bank and start issuing its' own credit and debit cards? They could even cut Visa and MasterCard and Amex out of the loop, or offer those as alternatives to its' own in-house credit card. It's not like they don't have all this data on their customers...
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What a bunch of horsepucky. The Internet has enabled slacktivism - but that in turn is a failure. Look at the failures of the Internet-enabled Arab Spring democracy uprisings as just one example. Egypt is once again a dictatorship. Libya? Syria? Yemen? Real beacons of democracy now, thanks to Internet protests - except they're all dangerous shitholes, not flourishing democracies.
Even the organizers of the 1% protests admit they failed. And online petitions are so ineffective (and such a pain in the ass when signing one gets you continually spammed about others) that they're just a distraction.
You want to change things, you've got to do stuff in the real world. Petitions to the courts against those you oppose, not petitions to those you oppose. Run for office, not beg favors from those in office, who have to think about their lobbyists. The Internet is a failure when it comes to effecting social change. It still has to happen in real life. Court judgments, not the judgment of faceless people on the internet, change things. One or two people going to court can effect more change than 1 billion signatures on 1 million petitions.
And yet none of those succeeded (set top boxes, email, etc) or are being done today (embedding an html 5 rendering engine into an app - which btw also violates Apple's terms of "no interpreters"). People will instead use the crappy rendering components in, for example Bloatroid, if full html5 support isn't required, or just embed it in a web page if it is - and even then it doesn't work, because even support for html4 and css results in stuff that's crap.
And yet other countries don't have that problem ... just as other countries have had ways to send money electronically without my ever giving anyone except my bank my password. Paypal is just shit.
"Non discriminatory" doesn't mean what you think it means either. There are plenty of ways to charge different rates that can be deemed "non discriminatory." For a more familiar example, look at affirmative action - that's the definition of discriminatory, and yet it's not considered discriminatory.
The election is over, so Trump will do what he wants, doesn't matter how many protests, how many negative news stories there are. And logic, or even enlightened self-interest, doesn't work either.
Also, some of the things Trump is doing need doing. For example, even if it costs consumers more, manufacturing (even automated manufacturing) needs to be brought back on-shore, or when it comes to a pissing contest, China can just stop shipping critical components (or even just threaten to) and crater the American and global economies as well as make it impossible to maintain existing infrastructure.
Russia isn't the big threat now - it's China, and they're feeling their oats over Taiwan and, indirectly, Japan, plus the rest of Asia. Either those two countries get nukes and delivery systems or they're goners.
MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) works. Right now the Russians have an advantage - they could take over NATO members Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia in less than 60 hours (RAND Corporation report) and there's nothing NATO can do about it - but Putin doesn't. He knows the end result will be nuking the Kremlin. Russia has sufficient land that there's no population pressure - whereas China is severely over-populated, and losing a chunk of the population would almost be an acceptable trade-off ... indeed, if it gave them territory to expand into, it would be seen as more than worth it if push comes to shove.
China wants to expand - into Asia, and into Africa. Not just economically either.
But neither of us is going to be able to do anything about any of this. Even if we were to produce a mathematically 100% provable solution to all the world's problems, it won't change anything. You'd need to change people - and unfortunately, only they can change themselves. So it's a waste of time, mental masturbation exercise, whatever, but nothing either of us says will have any effect.
Also, you are wrong to claim that the RCMP are charged with dealing with cyber crime. A lot of the stuff (cybertheft, online bullying, internet kiddie porn, etc.) is handled either by the municipal or provincial forces, though the option always exists to call in the RCMP if needed - for example, when the crime crosses borders.
And how does that change the fact that you do NOT report such crimes as theft to the RCMP directly in Cochrane, Alberta? It's Canada, not the US. You report to your local municipal cops (even in provinces that have provincial services) unless the population is under the threshold for having municipal services, or has contracted out municipal services directly to the RCMP for a fee in those provinces with no provincial police service where the municipality exceeds the population threshold entitled to free coverage - such individual municipal contracts are negotiated under the umbrella of provincial agreements with the RCMP, but any municipality is free to set up their own public police force instead.
Sturgeon's law. "Ninety percent of everything is crap". Derived from a quote by science fiction author Theodore Sturgeon, who once said, "Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud. That's because 90% of everything is crud."
My corollary: 90%? You're an optimist. 99.99% of everything on the internet is crud. And most of the rest is worse.
You can't convince someone who has an irrational belief by using common sense. It's just a waste of time. Applies both to the Clinton and Trump camps, who seem more fixated on destroying each other than in trying to do anything constructive. They will have to convince themselves - from the school of hard knocks. You or me trying to beat them with a clue-by-four will just make them more stubborn.
The next 2 decades are going to be awesome (probably awesomely horrible ... or worse ... but it will be what it will be). :-)
Like much of the networking and collaboration industry, Avaya is looking toward software-defined networking, IoT, and cloud-based platforms that work on many different devices and the web."
So, you failed as a business at what you specialized at, and now you're going to "pivot" to a field that's already over-crowded with others who've failed and are making the same pivot.
A couple of years ago it was Apps Apps Apps. Now it's IoT IoT IoT. Sturgeon was an optimist.
In this case it was obvious who the previous owner was, because it had never been wiped down. The "current owner" was the thief. And if she tries to allege that she bought it from someone else, she'd better be ready to (1) cough up the name, and (2) answer as to why the seller obviously didn't own the laptop because they couldn't log into the owner's account, just the guest account.
You've obviously never heard of the SUV covered in parking tickets with a dead man in the driver's seat (Nov 2016). Or the cops continuing to issue tickets after you've reported the vehicle stolen and cancelled the plates. Or ticketing and towing a car with a murder victim's body in it.
So he banned refugees from 7 Muslim countries, and that is supposed to raise alarms, when various European and Asian countries have done far worse? Japan rejects more than 99% of all refugee applicants, and nobody is getting their panties in a knot except the UN, and Japan told them to go suck an egg.
The numbers for 2015: Out of 7,586 refugee applicants from all over the world (not just the Middle East), they accepted 27. That's one out of every 280. The prime minister has told the UN that henceforth he will not accept ANY Syrian refugees - he needs to boost his own country's work force first.
Asked by reporters at the UN General Assembly last September whether Japan would join other countries in accepting Syrian refugees, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe replied that his country needed to boost its own workforce first by empowering more women and older people to work.
"As an issue of demography, I would say that before accepting immigrants or refugees, we need to have more activities by women, by elderly people and we must raise [the] birthrate," he said, according to the official translation of his comments.
"There are many things that we should do before accepting immigrants."
Some problems are not fixable. What are you going to recommend doing when two billion people are going to be seeking refugee status because of over-population and war and famine and disease over the next 35 years? At some point you need to do triage.
So what if Trump is acting like a bully? He's only doing openly what past presidents have done, perhaps with a bit less tact. Bullies lie. Clinton, with her "public vs private stance" was also a bully - look at her war hawk stance that has led to how many deaths in the middle east because of her screw ups?
The people who fall for bluster are the ones who are responsible for their own stupidity. Nothing anyone else can say or do will change that - and believing otherwise is equally stupid.
The sky is not falling - at least not any more or less than it has under previous administrations. Look at the whole fake Missile Gap under Kennedy, which as Senator Kennedy he pushed for political motives - he wanted to get elected and the truth was collateral damage, sacrificed for the win.
His push to get ahead of the non-threat of a massive fleet of non-existent nuclear-tipped Soviet ICBMs was what destabilized the world since WW2. The Russians had no choice except to start building the very fleet that Kennedy claimed to be worried about - and to make it appear in a very public fashion that they were trigger-happy.
Regarding your sig ... isn't it reasonable to conclude that a man in drag (for purposes other than a gag like I once saw at a Halloween party) is someplace on the "transsexual spectrum", or at least is thinking about becoming a transsexual? After all men who identify as masculine and heterosexual generally don't dress in drag. Is "woman trapped in a man's body" the only criteria you recognize? How much commitment do you require before you grant the recognition: must the man take estrogen and grow breasts, or go all the way and modify the genitals with reassignment surgery?
Absolutely not. First - "men who identify as masculine and heterosexual generally don't dress in drag" - if you believe that, you're in for a REAL surprise. Some surveys put the number of males who have worn one or more pieces of woman's clothing for erotic pleasure at least once at 60%. cross-dressing is a sexual fetish, and has nothing to do with gender identity.
The APA specifically state that being gender variant is NOT the same as being transsexual. There are specific diagnostic criteria that only apply to transsexuals, and not to the "transgender community", who do not need treatment because they do not have a medical condition.
Gender dysphoria is not the same as gender nonconformity, which refers to behaviors not matching the gender norms or stereotypes of the gender assigned at birth. Examples of gender nonconformity (also referred to as gender expansiveness or gender creativity) include girls behaving and dressing in ways more socially expected of boys or occasional cross-dressing in adult men. Gender nonconformity is not a mental disorder. Gender dysphoria is also not the same being gay/lesbian.
The LGBT are pissed off that anyone would dare point out the distinction publicly, because they see it as a threat to the "unity of the community." To bad for them that 50% of female transsexuals are straight, and thus have no reason to be part of the gay "community" - or to be represented by people who continue to publicly confuse the difference between "transgender" and "transsexual" with such idiotic statements by leaders of the gay community such as "Of course we support transsexuals - we had drag queens on our Mardi Gras float."
Combine that with the far higher rates of violence, including domestic violence, in the gay community, higher rates of health-risk behavior such as smoking, higher rates of risky sex, especially among transgenders and transsexuals who are members of the LGBT community (the highest rate of HIV/AIDS of any group - 16% for latinos, 17% for whites, 56% of blacks, as well as very high rates of prostitution) - who the hell wants to be part of such a "community" if they're not gay or lesbian?
I've heard the excuses for the high rates (+50%) trans prostitution, and they don't wash. Being ridden bareback by gay men paying for anal sex is not "gender-affirming" behaviour. And the poverty argument also doesn't wash - 39% of single mothers live in poverty, but we don't see half of them engaging in prostitution as a career. But don't you dare point that out - you're somehow "transphobic" for pointing out that the "justifications" are bullshit in the face of statistics.
But to answer your question - a diagnosis of Gender Dysphoria from psychiatrists who are trained both to recognize it, and to recognize when what someone self-diagnoses as "being transsexual" is in fact not true, is the only acceptable standard. Why would you NOT want to get expert help anyway.
And no, I am not anti-LGB. Rights are rights, and everyone has a right to exist. What they don't have is a right to speak for non-gays, especially since they've proven over and over again that they just don't "get it."
And yet Trump HAS flip-flopped - a LOT - in his first week. The CIA are lying - the CIA are great. We'll build a wall and the Mexicans will pay for it - We'll build and pay for a wall, and get the money back from the Mexicans (somehow or other). Hillary Clinton is a crook - Standing ovation for Hillary Clinton. We're going to kick out all illegals - We're going to kick out all illegals who are criminals (far from the same thing). The ACA needs to go - Some parts of the ACA probably need to be preserved. And there's more.
Trump's policies are like a bus - wait 15 minutes, another one will come along. And this is like EVERY SINGLE PRESIDENT before. Not one of them has been 100% steadfast in their policies. It's part of the job - just that it's now much more transparent.
Yes and no - the insulating foam was iced over. A coating of ice at low enough temperatures is as hard as steel.
And in retrospect, it was insane. That's why the fire.
The definition of "fair" does not necessarily mean "the same price for everyone." Qualcom can easily make the argument that it's fair to charge a higher price on higher-margin items, since their chips allow Apple to make that money in the first place. So, fair can also be "a fixed percentage of the sale price per unit, irrespective of manufacturer."
From where I sit, there isn't much difference between the Clinton and Trump. I would never vote for either. Fortunately, neither one of them could ever be my president, because I'm part of the 95% that is looking at the US and thinking you should admit you all screwed up big time and just get over it and start working together to fix your latest, greatest, fuckup.
Standalone is NOT necessarily AIR. Not at all. AIR was a piece of bloated shitware. If you could write code, you didn't need AIR for ANY of your "flash objects", or for your "behaviours." HTML5 still requires a browser.
Amazon just wants a peek up Paypal's skirt before they move in to eradicate them and take over their clients.
Asking for letters in your password is the opposite of security. Cuts down the search space by ~98% by each letter/position thus leaked. An 8-char password effectively becomes a 5-char password if they have the 3rd, 5th, and 7th letters.
Have you ever thought that the 95% of the world who isn't living in the USA are past "Peak Trump" and really don't want to hear shit about him any more? The guy flip-flops all the time, so any coherent discussion is impossible from the get-go anyway, so we don't want to encounter your publicity for his shitty reality show. And that if you believe everything he says, you need to seek help?
Why does't Amazon just buy a bank and start issuing its' own credit and debit cards? They could even cut Visa and MasterCard and Amex out of the loop, or offer those as alternatives to its' own in-house credit card. It's not like they don't have all this data on their customers ...