Other than having to *get* the cash, then carry around the cash, then arrange to meet the person and give them the cash. Or i could just txt and use the phone i already have.
Oh yeah, getting cash is SO hard! Because ATMs don't exist and you can't get change from a store. There's just no way to get actual money, that must be why nobody uses it!
And yes, you're right- carrying around all that paper money is difficult because it's SO heavy, OMG, it's such a burden to carry around a few slips of paper, I never noticed before how ungodly heavy it is!
And yes yes yes, you hit the nail on the head- it's SO hard to meet someone in person, I mean, how the hell do I even do that?? It's like we'd have to be in the same room or something, and we all know that just never happens!
And another thing you're absolutely right about- giving someone cash is just incredibly hard; I actually have to extend my hand while holding all that monstrously heavy cash!
Given all of that incredible obstacles, it's a wonder than anyone ever uses cash at all!
I don't know about Bill, but I know his father was wetting his pants trying to drum up support for an income tax in Washington state. Amazingly enough, it would have reduced his taxes, funny how that works, huh? No one bought his bullshit, though. He's given money to both parties but he sure walks and talks like a Republican.
It happens every few years here- some dickweasel scumbag tries to float an income tax proposal and it gets totally shot to pieces, the voters reject it out of hand and bury it a thousand feet deep with a resounding "FUCK NO!" at the polls.
Nope, because all 23,846 examples refer to electronic-only devices which are the easiest to build in a soft-upgrade path. With mechanical devices,
Trust me, Scantron TSM (test score machines) have plenty of mechanical parts, more than you might think. So do some a lot of copiers, practically every brand made does this now. And in case you weren't aware, copiers have a shitload of mechanical parts. Oodles of them.
Even some electron microscopes these days are coming with mildy-crippled firmware that an upgrade can unlock. Hell, way back in the 90s some x-ray spectrometers had control boxes that were crippled (hello, J.E.O.L., Hitachi, and Zeiss) and they could be magically upgraded by swapping a few chips. Ask me how I know.
So yeah, it's not just consumer gadgets or electronic-only devices that do this.
No, it's purified neutronium, lovingly rolled into shape on the thighs of Swedish virgins. The seams are hand-sewn by little old Italian widows listening to Verdi.
How would that really be different from their Lumias today?
The only thing I know about Lumias (and WP devices in general) is that the "app store" is a barren wasteland.
And that's fine with me, I'm not an appaholic but I still don't want a Windows phone. They try to push them on us on the Redmond campus and my stock response is "No, no no no no no no no."
It's also not possible, which is why we have courts. Rather than simply guessing, we get each side to present actual, verifiable evidence rather than pure speculation...
For small transactions, we do need a technological solution to provide anonymity.
I rest my case, thanks for playing.
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We need a digital equivalent of this; it's possible -- my digital wallet has a token (a cookie which denotes the $10) and I can transfer it to yours. Of course the central bank has to track this...
Aaaaaaaaaaaand you fail. Sorry, but that's what this is all about. I mean, hello?
I am really worried about people who think of the government as some super-powerful and super-skilled organization you can pull off perfect conspiracies without anyone noticing, especially if you are talking about Sweden.
That's not how I think of the government. Quite the opposite, actually- they're ham-handed and overt and rarely subtle. They don't need to be.
From the summary: "Capossela has been with Microsoft for over two decades. He used to write speeches for Bill Gates..." That indicates: 1) Bill Gates wasn't able to write his own speeches. 2) What Bill Gates said in a speech was not what he actually thought.
#1 seems to be a given, but I don't know about #2.
It may just be that Capossela was able to craft a better speech or was a better writer, but it doesn't necessarily follow that he wasn't expressing what Gates wanted expressed. It's likely Gates gave him direction on what he wanted said and that they worked together on the final text. That's often the way it's done.
I hear you, and I have the same complaints/concerns.
My guess is that I'll be running Linux Mint or possibly Ubuntu once they force the Win10 upgrade down my throat.
Barring that, I'll run Win 7....until my PC dies or drivers are no longer available for whatever new gadget I buy...and I'm thinking tat will happen within a year or so, maybe sooner.
So? There are half a dozen competitors already, and they'd be happy to pick up this business if Amazon were stupid enough to do this. Even if there weren't, it would take a few days to set up a new platform. How is anybody "locked out of" anything?
You're pretty skilled at missing the point, aren't you?
if Slashdort is actually an illusion produced by psychedelic microtoads that live parasitically in our ears?
I have wondered that, but I've worked for Microsoft and in my experience they couldn't pour piss out of a boot with the instructions written on the heel, so I don't give that theory much weight.
voluntary interactions between people are good, forcing people to do stuff against their will in order to profit is evil.
And...what's your point?
According to you, locking people out of a market and creating a near-monoply so you can make a few more dollars is fine, right? After all, you're not forcing them to do anything, so what's the problem?
They just can't sell stuff and compete with you, but you're not forcing them to do anything, so this should be perfectly fine, correct?
You can send money directly from your mobile to someone else Swish app.... Many street vendors are using it, and it makes it super easy to give money to someone.
You know what's even easier? Handing someone some cash. Doesn't get any fucking easier than that.
If you don't know why they're doing this, you haven't been paying attention This is how the government manages to track and control every aspect of your life, and I do mean every.
The government??? What does the government have to do with what private shops and private individuals do? The shops and banks are encouraging it because it means they can track every aspect of your life and hope to monetize you better that way, people are doing it because it is convininient.
Oh gosh, you're such a genius- you're so right, the government wouldn't have any interest in that kind of thing, now would they? They wouldn't have the slightest desire to be able to track and tax every single transaction that every person or business makes.
It may not prove what he exactly said, but it does prove a similar point. The whole justification that "I was born this way, so that makes it okay" is flawed. You are provably born a boy or a girl or black or white. You are not provably born gay.
I don't give a shit if it's learned or not. If it's between two or more consenting adults, that's all I care about.
That's all anybody should care about unless they're a busybody who likes to poke their nose into someone else's business.
The fact is that most of us don't get to pick what we like, including our attraction for sex. If you disagree, tell me- when did you decide to be straight? You didn't. You were born with a heterosexual attraction, and are incapable of understanding that some other people weren't.
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Other than having to *get* the cash, then carry around the cash, then arrange to meet the person and give them the cash. Or i could just txt and use the phone i already have.
Oh yeah, getting cash is SO hard! Because ATMs don't exist and you can't get change from a store. There's just no way to get actual money, that must be why nobody uses it!
And yes, you're right- carrying around all that paper money is difficult because it's SO heavy, OMG, it's such a burden to carry around a few slips of paper, I never noticed before how ungodly heavy it is!
And yes yes yes, you hit the nail on the head- it's SO hard to meet someone in person, I mean, how the hell do I even do that?? It's like we'd have to be in the same room or something, and we all know that just never happens!
And another thing you're absolutely right about- giving someone cash is just incredibly hard; I actually have to extend my hand while holding all that monstrously heavy cash!
Given all of that incredible obstacles, it's a wonder than anyone ever uses cash at all!
Republicans like Bill Gates? 8D
I don't know about Bill, but I know his father was wetting his pants trying to drum up support for an income tax in Washington state. Amazingly enough, it would have reduced his taxes, funny how that works, huh? No one bought his bullshit, though. He's given money to both parties but he sure walks and talks like a Republican.
It happens every few years here- some dickweasel scumbag tries to float an income tax proposal and it gets totally shot to pieces, the voters reject it out of hand and bury it a thousand feet deep with a resounding "FUCK NO!" at the polls.
Nope, because all 23,846 examples refer to electronic-only devices which are the easiest to build in a soft-upgrade path. With mechanical devices,
Trust me, Scantron TSM (test score machines) have plenty of mechanical parts, more than you might think. So do some a lot of copiers, practically every brand made does this now. And in case you weren't aware, copiers have a shitload of mechanical parts. Oodles of them.
Even some electron microscopes these days are coming with mildy-crippled firmware that an upgrade can unlock. Hell, way back in the 90s some x-ray spectrometers had control boxes that were crippled (hello, J.E.O.L., Hitachi, and Zeiss) and they could be magically upgraded by swapping a few chips. Ask me how I know.
So yeah, it's not just consumer gadgets or electronic-only devices that do this.
Oh great, now I can be a more stylish Glasshole.
Ha ha ha ha ha...wait, what the FUCK?
Nice hat.
Kinda shiny.
Is that foil?
No, it's purified neutronium, lovingly rolled into shape on the thighs of Swedish virgins. The seams are hand-sewn by little old Italian widows listening to Verdi.
How would that really be different from their Lumias today?
The only thing I know about Lumias (and WP devices in general) is that the "app store" is a barren wasteland.
And that's fine with me, I'm not an appaholic but I still don't want a Windows phone. They try to push them on us on the Redmond campus and my stock response is "No, no no no no no no no."
I'd pay good money to have a Windows 7 with the internals of 10 but I guess Microsoft thinks we're too few to be worth it.
Same here, but the whole "telemetry on every mouse-click and keystroke" thing is a little off-putting to me.
... returns us to a medieval level of extremely local economies, but works passably well for individuals.
Well, shit, a medieval level of extremely local economies? Sign me up, that sounds fantastic.
Oh, wait, no it doesn't. It sounds like shit, frankly.
Thanks, but if I want to travel backwards in time to a feudal shithole of a society, I'll just move to Alabama.
One more thing - they need to discontinue all their phones that have just 8GB of storage, and start at 16GB. 8GB fills up too fast.
If they had half a brain they'd start at 32GB or even 64GB. That might help set them apart at least a little bit.
It's also not possible, which is why we have courts. Rather than simply guessing, we get each side to present actual, verifiable evidence rather than pure speculation...
Ain't nobody got time fo' dat shit!
For small transactions, we do need a technological solution to provide anonymity.
I rest my case, thanks for playing.
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We need a digital equivalent of this; it's possible -- my digital wallet has a token (a cookie which denotes the $10) and I can transfer it to yours. Of course the central bank has to track this...
Aaaaaaaaaaaand you fail. Sorry, but that's what this is all about. I mean, hello?
The difference is that you then have to meet them physically. The Swish transaction don't require you to meet.
Gee, handing cash to another person requires that you meet? No shit.
I am really worried about people who think of the government as some super-powerful and super-skilled organization you can pull off perfect conspiracies without anyone noticing, especially if you are talking about Sweden.
That's not how I think of the government. Quite the opposite, actually- they're ham-handed and overt and rarely subtle. They don't need to be.
From the summary: "Capossela has been with Microsoft for over two decades. He used to write speeches for Bill Gates..." That indicates: 1) Bill Gates wasn't able to write his own speeches. 2) What Bill Gates said in a speech was not what he actually thought.
#1 seems to be a given, but I don't know about #2.
It may just be that Capossela was able to craft a better speech or was a better writer, but it doesn't necessarily follow that he wasn't expressing what Gates wanted expressed. It's likely Gates gave him direction on what he wanted said and that they worked together on the final text. That's often the way it's done.
And this is different from what it's always been - how?
Because if we meet and we exchange cash, there's no record and no tracking. That's how it's different.
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Egotistical, I know, but that is the capitalist way, isn't it? "Enlightened self-interest" and all that crap
Forget it, I don't go for that libertarian horsecrap. I'm not a libertarian. That's not what this is about.
I hear you, and I have the same complaints/concerns.
My guess is that I'll be running Linux Mint or possibly Ubuntu once they force the Win10 upgrade down my throat.
Barring that, I'll run Win 7....until my PC dies or drivers are no longer available for whatever new gadget I buy...and I'm thinking tat will happen within a year or so, maybe sooner.
So? There are half a dozen competitors already, and they'd be happy to pick up this business if Amazon were stupid enough to do this. Even if there weren't, it would take a few days to set up a new platform. How is anybody "locked out of" anything?
You're pretty skilled at missing the point, aren't you?
I'm referring to Amazon potentially blocking sellers of new or used books from using their platform, not Lightning connectors.
if Slashdort is actually an illusion produced by psychedelic microtoads that live parasitically in our ears?
I have wondered that, but I've worked for Microsoft and in my experience they couldn't pour piss out of a boot with the instructions written on the heel, so I don't give that theory much weight.
And I'm sure it'll be another stunning success, just like the last 5 failed phones they tried to force into the market.
voluntary interactions between people are good, forcing people to do stuff against their will in order to profit is evil.
And...what's your point?
According to you, locking people out of a market and creating a near-monoply so you can make a few more dollars is fine, right? After all, you're not forcing them to do anything, so what's the problem?
They just can't sell stuff and compete with you, but you're not forcing them to do anything, so this should be perfectly fine, correct?
You can send money directly from your mobile to someone else Swish app. ... Many street vendors are using it, and it makes it super easy to give money to someone.
You know what's even easier? Handing someone some cash. Doesn't get any fucking easier than that.
If you don't know why they're doing this, you haven't been paying attention
This is how the government manages to track and control every aspect of your life, and I do mean every.
The government??? What does the government have to do with what private shops and private individuals do?
The shops and banks are encouraging it because it means they can track every aspect of your life and hope to monetize you better that way, people are doing it because it is convininient.
Oh gosh, you're such a genius- you're so right, the government wouldn't have any interest in that kind of thing, now would they? They wouldn't have the slightest desire to be able to track and tax every single transaction that every person or business makes.
It may not prove what he exactly said, but it does prove a similar point. The whole justification that "I was born this way, so that makes it okay" is flawed. You are provably born a boy or a girl or black or white. You are not provably born gay.
I don't give a shit if it's learned or not. If it's between two or more consenting adults, that's all I care about.
That's all anybody should care about unless they're a busybody who likes to poke their nose into someone else's business.
The fact is that most of us don't get to pick what we like, including our attraction for sex. If you disagree, tell me- when did you decide to be straight? You didn't. You were born with a heterosexual attraction, and are incapable of understanding that some other people weren't.