No problem for people like you and me. But I get called on from time to time to help non computer illiterate friends and family do things on their computer. For people like this any change is a problem.
So less than an hour after the automatic disconnect, it was fixed. And they wiped the balance, thus eating the cost increase. Plus the time spent trying to reach her ahead of time.
Such a bullshit nonstory..
I agree it isn't much of a story, but what moron design such a system? And is this the same people writing the software for autonomous cars?
As an example of how it could've been done, my insurance company simply absorbs any transaction under $10. I'm sure they just add all of these up and spread them across everyone's premium next year, but it makes small fry shit like this a non-problem.
We've seen this Reaganomics voodoo before, and it doesn't work because it was never intended to "work", it was intended to enrich the owner class further so they could extend their grasp over a duly uneducated captive electorate that doesn't care to study macroeconomics and prefers bullshit six word slogans instead.
Trickle down economics works reasonably well in a non-globalised economy. In the old days, most money stayed in the country so the wealthy used it to grow their local business which in turn trickled down to employees and their families.
But when modern transport and comms networks opened up borders, the money no longer trickled down, it trickled away overseas to cheaper labour and tax havens.
The idea is sound, but like most conservative policy it was just 20 years too late.
I do freelance/contract/consulting work. However, I never work through an agency. I always form an agreement directly with my client.
Do you do work for the government? To supply services to my government you have to be on a list of pre-approved government suppliers (this process is vetted to try and prevent fat govt contracts going to friends and family of ministers/secretaries etc). To get on the supplier list is an effort, so your average freelancer doesn't have the time or patience to endure this, but recruitment agencies do, so they act as a middleman. Gov uses agencies to recruit contingent labour, freelancers apply via agency.
If you are big enough you would apply to be a direct supplier, but most contractors simply go through an agency.
I can't tell you when this tide will turn; but I can virtually guarantee that the media will be interviewing somebody sobbing over how much they lost. That person will be a latecomer. Don't be that guy.
Sure but the news will also show you somebody sobbing over how much they missed out because they didn't get in fast enough.
That guy is also a loser.
So do you sob over missing out, or sob over getting stuck with a lemon?
It's the opposite, actually. They didn't have it reinforced to them day in and day out that only someone who didn't look like them was fit to do something. What they could aspire to was more of a blank canvas, because there wasn't an established trope of only X can do Y.
You really just said that? Oh Jesus this takes the cake for stupidest post I've read all day...
Because *everything* needs to be about achieving purported social justice agendas?
Um, you should hang out with some nerds sometime. Looking around my project room right now of a few dozen $1000/day contractors I can count the whiteys on one hand.
I also happen to work across the road from a leading technology university where I go for cheap lunches and the campus could easily be in Asia based on the student population.
So yeah, inaccurate....
Having it be openly purchasable is if anything refreshingly honest. It's the equivalent of vanity licence plate "ooh, I'm special!"
What Instagram should now do is offer the blue tick for sale for $50k each, then after the initial buzz starts to wane release a new exclusive invite-only red tick that is the new must have tick of approval.
Rinse/repeat for a bunch of other colours and profit!
In case you hadn't noticed by the scores of brainless idiots making six figures doing nothing more than whoring themselves out on social media, it pays to be a narcissist these days.
Yeah but it's pretty much like regular whoring. You can make some money but you end up with a lot less self esteem at the end of it all.
As a boy, my chance of growing up to be Steve Jobs or Elon Musk or similar was only very, very little more than my chance of growing up to be Spiderman. Fewer people get into the Jobs/Musk/Gates category than win the lottery.
Still more than becoming a fictional character though...
Care to explain why having shift in culture tide is 'real and disturbing'? Why a cultural shift is 'disturbing'? Sounds racist to me.
Of course it does, because simpletons can't deal with anything that's not black and white.
If you don't know the difference between culture and race then there's not much point continuing.
And if you are unaware of the concept of civil war, when two different cultures of the same race kill each other over ideals, then you will accept that rapid cultural changes can be disturbing.
I mean Gal Gadot is pretty bad ass in real life... She was in the Israeli military you know.
Israel has compulsory military service, so that's hardly anything 'bad-ass'. And let's not pretend we're celebrating her for anything other than being hot and in an action movie. Hardly the shining beacon of feminism that the GP is trying to portray...
...Gal Gadot has become quite a role model for young girls and women, so if that's not a female-positive message, the very essence of feminism, then I don't know what is.
Um, maybe a woman who isn't pretend?
I mean do you prefer your son take on a role model like Elon Musk or Steve Jobs, (or Gandhi or Tom Brady, whoever it is you admire as a male role model). Or would you prefer they aspire to being Spiderman?
Most ignorantly racist post I've read on slashdot all fucking day.
The fact that, at time of posting, it's +3 insightful, is deeply saddening.
Don't confuse culturism with racism. I'm neither American nor Chinese, but it's obvious that the target market for Hollywood producers is shifting away from the local market.
And this is not just movies, there is cultural tide moving away from European origin cultures toward foreign markets. It's real and it's disturbing to a lot of people. And as long people keep brushing it off as simple racism, people like Donald Trump will thrive.
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It's far past time we allow these people to languish in their refusal to use critical thinking to solve their own problems.
Let them eat cake!
No problem for people like you and me. But I get called on from time to time to help non computer illiterate friends and family do things on their computer. For people like this any change is a problem.
I have three for various purposes, none of which are me or are connected to anyone I actually know...
Australia has recently done a full five yearly census, so census data is NOT just estimated.
And if you knew how well that went you wouldn't be so confident in the numbers...
I'm thinking the Facebook numbers are closer to reality.
And people like you get to vote...
So less than an hour after the automatic disconnect, it was fixed. And they wiped the balance, thus eating the cost increase. Plus the time spent trying to reach her ahead of time.
Such a bullshit nonstory..
I agree it isn't much of a story, but what moron design such a system? And is this the same people writing the software for autonomous cars? As an example of how it could've been done, my insurance company simply absorbs any transaction under $10. I'm sure they just add all of these up and spread them across everyone's premium next year, but it makes small fry shit like this a non-problem.
And when it busts you don't even have anything in your hand to show for your effort.
This is the same as everything, so what's your point?
We've seen this Reaganomics voodoo before, and it doesn't work because it was never intended to "work", it was intended to enrich the owner class further so they could extend their grasp over a duly uneducated captive electorate that doesn't care to study macroeconomics and prefers bullshit six word slogans instead.
Trickle down economics works reasonably well in a non-globalised economy. In the old days, most money stayed in the country so the wealthy used it to grow their local business which in turn trickled down to employees and their families.
But when modern transport and comms networks opened up borders, the money no longer trickled down, it trickled away overseas to cheaper labour and tax havens.
The idea is sound, but like most conservative policy it was just 20 years too late.
I do freelance/contract/consulting work. However, I never work through an agency. I always form an agreement directly with my client.
Do you do work for the government? To supply services to my government you have to be on a list of pre-approved government suppliers (this process is vetted to try and prevent fat govt contracts going to friends and family of ministers/secretaries etc). To get on the supplier list is an effort, so your average freelancer doesn't have the time or patience to endure this, but recruitment agencies do, so they act as a middleman. Gov uses agencies to recruit contingent labour, freelancers apply via agency.
If you are big enough you would apply to be a direct supplier, but most contractors simply go through an agency.
I can't tell you when this tide will turn; but I can virtually guarantee that the media will be interviewing somebody sobbing over how much they lost. That person will be a latecomer. Don't be that guy.
Sure but the news will also show you somebody sobbing over how much they missed out because they didn't get in fast enough. That guy is also a loser.
So do you sob over missing out, or sob over getting stuck with a lemon?
, logically so too, why should there even be more than 1 digital currency?
Why should there be more than one model of car?
Why is there more than one brand of rice?
Yes these people really believe that.
It's called nostalgia goggles, or as Wikipedia has it Rosy Retrospection
It's the opposite, actually. They didn't have it reinforced to them day in and day out that only someone who didn't look like them was fit to do something. What they could aspire to was more of a blank canvas, because there wasn't an established trope of only X can do Y.
You really just said that? Oh Jesus this takes the cake for stupidest post I've read all day...
So it's not INACCURATE, just uninspiring.
Because *everything* needs to be about achieving purported social justice agendas?
Um, you should hang out with some nerds sometime. Looking around my project room right now of a few dozen $1000/day contractors I can count the whiteys on one hand.
I also happen to work across the road from a leading technology university where I go for cheap lunches and the campus could easily be in Asia based on the student population.
So yeah, inaccurate....
The target market is stupid people and they don't care. It's exactly why Apple are so rich. Fools and money etc...
Having it be openly purchasable is if anything refreshingly honest. It's the equivalent of vanity licence plate "ooh, I'm special!"
What Instagram should now do is offer the blue tick for sale for $50k each, then after the initial buzz starts to wane release a new exclusive invite-only red tick that is the new must have tick of approval.
Rinse/repeat for a bunch of other colours and profit!
In case you hadn't noticed by the scores of brainless idiots making six figures doing nothing more than whoring themselves out on social media, it pays to be a narcissist these days.
Yeah but it's pretty much like regular whoring. You can make some money but you end up with a lot less self esteem at the end of it all.
If so I had better click on it to find out more....
As a boy, my chance of growing up to be Steve Jobs or Elon Musk or similar was only very, very little more than my chance of growing up to be Spiderman. Fewer people get into the Jobs/Musk/Gates category than win the lottery.
Still more than becoming a fictional character though...
Care to explain why having shift in culture tide is 'real and disturbing'? Why a cultural shift is 'disturbing'? Sounds racist to me.
Of course it does, because simpletons can't deal with anything that's not black and white.
If you don't know the difference between culture and race then there's not much point continuing.
And if you are unaware of the concept of civil war, when two different cultures of the same race kill each other over ideals, then you will accept that rapid cultural changes can be disturbing.
Not to use, but to access the online account you do. Or maybe you just live in country with third world banking standards (cough*USA*cough)...
In what universe do you get a pin with a purchase of a gift card?
In my universe. I used to work in retail, and all the gift cards had a scratch off PIN on the back for accessing online balances and stuff...
I mean Gal Gadot is pretty bad ass in real life... She was in the Israeli military you know.
Israel has compulsory military service, so that's hardly anything 'bad-ass'. And let's not pretend we're celebrating her for anything other than being hot and in an action movie. Hardly the shining beacon of feminism that the GP is trying to portray...
...Gal Gadot has become quite a role model for young girls and women, so if that's not a female-positive message, the very essence of feminism, then I don't know what is.
Um, maybe a woman who isn't pretend? I mean do you prefer your son take on a role model like Elon Musk or Steve Jobs, (or Gandhi or Tom Brady, whoever it is you admire as a male role model). Or would you prefer they aspire to being Spiderman?
Most ignorantly racist post I've read on slashdot all fucking day.
The fact that, at time of posting, it's +3 insightful, is deeply saddening.
Don't confuse culturism with racism. I'm neither American nor Chinese, but it's obvious that the target market for Hollywood producers is shifting away from the local market.
And this is not just movies, there is cultural tide moving away from European origin cultures toward foreign markets. It's real and it's disturbing to a lot of people. And as long people keep brushing it off as simple racism, people like Donald Trump will thrive.