Opt-out is for transactions initiated by the credit issuers. This is a business need (fulfilling the terms of the class-action settlement or suit) of the vendor of something the customer bought. Those are two entirely different things.
At Circuit City once they asked for my phone number. I asked why they needed it. The clerk said it was to tell where their customers were from. I said I'd give my ZIP code, which is more accurate what with number portability and all. She said they couldn't do that and it'd have to be my phone number. I told her I didn't have a phone and asked if I should go elsewhere to make my purchase. She looked down at the cell phone clipped to my belt, sighed, and completed the sale.
BTW, I wasn't lying. It was a company phone, for a company in a completely different town than where I lived anyway. The number was issued to a different branch in a third city, IIRC. My ZIP code would have been much better for their stated purpose.
This is why many gas stations are prepay or prepay after dark. Not only does it keep you from driving off with their gas, but they can also refuse to authorize the pump and allow you to create the debt if they don't like your method of payment.
Don't break the roll and handle the individual coins, though, if it's the police you're concerned about rather than Samsung. Coins take prints really well.
Congress acts far too much. The country is safer and more productive when the clueless fat cats are not dictating conditions of life for people they would never deign to have at their dinner tables.
I initial every page and sign the last. Otherwise, I don't sign. More people should do this. I'm certain some of my friends who say they've been swindled by contracts changing were because they a) didn't initial every page and b) didn't demand and keep their own copy of the paperwork.
There's an old saying that fish rot from the head first. Perhaps no dead specimens have been found with the eyes intact, and they've not yet cut the live specimen up to test the eyes.
Production capacity for what? Sure, the middle class is huge in China but so are its economic problems. Despite most consumer goods in the US being increasingly likely to be made in China, I know people who sell things in China from US plants. The Chinese very often refuse Chinese-made parts from companies that have both US and Chinese factories. Quality control has a long way to go before that will change, too.
I see someone modded you funny, but IME 2600 has been just as informative and educational as DDJ if not more so. Including PC Magazine as a professional developer's magazine in the summary is what should be modded "funny".
The Atlas V may or may not be the most advanced heavy LV currently available for routine non-weaponized military launches. However, the most advanced US military technology tends to start in exotic missions and trickle down to the routine ones. We have many missile and rocket programs designed for weapons payloads, too. Not all of the technology may be suitable for NASA's needs, but it certainly wouldn't hurt to see the propulsion and control technology put to civilian use if it can be.
As I understand it he doesn't plan to borrow it. He just plans to print money to pay for infrastructure. The economic growth from the improved infrastructure and short-term job creation will hopefully outpace the inflation that policy causes. It's a gamble, but it seemed to work for his party in the 1930s until the real economic growth of World War II kicked in.
Actually, what led directly to the Challenger incident was determined probably to be launching well outside the rated ambient temperature range of the O-rings on the solid rocket boosters.
My mother's department assembled heating elements used in the liquid fuel external tank, so my family remembers the investigation into the incident from a somewhat more personal perspective. Incident investigators repeatedly questioned the engineers and assemblers of all the components and subcomponents listed as possible issues in the reports.
So if GWB had been sitting behind a podium from his not-yet-in-office office on YouTube making promises during Clinton's lame-duck months then 9/11 wouldn't have happened? Or are you saying that undermining the president currently in office is inherently a good thing?
The USAF would love to put boots on Mars, and no doubt the Army and Marines more so. There's just no excuse for sending them there unless you have some yellow cake uranium data on the Martians.
Why do you think the bumbling fool (at least as bad as Palin and with no experience as the chief executive of even a state as Palin has) was chosen? People around the Clintons tend to end up dead in parks anyway (whether through the actions of some rabid fans, divine providence, or whatever...). Can you imagine if she stood to become president from it? Who's going to do that for Biden?
All the paper has always been worthless. It's the stuff that the paper will buy that has value. Sometimes less paper buys more stuff and sometimes more paper buys less stuff. The stuff is what matters, though.
All currency does is create a neutral third party in a trade so that relative need doesn't rule as it does in barter. Is your bushel of oats worth two chickens to you today or four? It's probably worth the same number of dollars today as tomorrow, within some small variation. Those chickens are probably the same price in dollars within some small variation tomorrow as today as well.
Removing intrinsic value from the currency itself can actually be a good idea during times of mild inflation, because people melting down gold coins undermines the currency system and can lead to rapid deflation. Manufacturers really hate rapid deflation. Investing a whole lot of money in machinery and raw materials only to get less money back sounds like a very bad deal, especially when you can't very well ask your factory workers to take a cut in absolute dollars just because the value of a dollar has risen.
Innocent Japanese? During WWII? Do you not understand the concept of total war? The manufacturing capacity of the industrial cities of Japan was entirely utilized to kill Allied forces. Destroying factories and breaking the Japanese will to fight avoided a devastating invasion that would have impacted the Japanese and US populations in the million on each side. What else was there to do?
The only way for a police and court action to arrest and convict people to work is if there's a government present willing to do that work. The Taliban was funding and sheltering al Qaeda as well as murdering and oppressing the Afghan people. By removing that government and bringing the rule of law to that land, whether under a Western-style democracy or not, is the only way police and courts can do anything to the criminals there.
Oh, how about Israel or Switzerland? Hamas rockets and IDF retaliation aside, there is very little violence in Israel, yet everyone must serve two years in a military or equivalent role and the populace is armed to the teeth. It has one of the lowest homicide rates in the world.
Switzerland requires all men to be issued arms most of their lives. Private ownership among men and women in encouraged. Gun crimes are so low that statistics are not regularly kept.
Perhaps the level of gun crimes in the US has more to do with the intersection of guns and crime than with some causal relationship between one and the other.
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Opt-out is for transactions initiated by the credit issuers. This is a business need (fulfilling the terms of the class-action settlement or suit) of the vendor of something the customer bought. Those are two entirely different things.
At Circuit City once they asked for my phone number. I asked why they needed it. The clerk said it was to tell where their customers were from. I said I'd give my ZIP code, which is more accurate what with number portability and all. She said they couldn't do that and it'd have to be my phone number. I told her I didn't have a phone and asked if I should go elsewhere to make my purchase. She looked down at the cell phone clipped to my belt, sighed, and completed the sale.
BTW, I wasn't lying. It was a company phone, for a company in a completely different town than where I lived anyway. The number was issued to a different branch in a third city, IIRC. My ZIP code would have been much better for their stated purpose.
From TFS: "The player has sat happily in my living room without ever being networked or registered."
This is why many gas stations are prepay or prepay after dark. Not only does it keep you from driving off with their gas, but they can also refuse to authorize the pump and allow you to create the debt if they don't like your method of payment.
You need a better class of pusher and whore.
Don't break the roll and handle the individual coins, though, if it's the police you're concerned about rather than Samsung. Coins take prints really well.
Congress acts far too much. The country is safer and more productive when the clueless fat cats are not dictating conditions of life for people they would never deign to have at their dinner tables.
I initial every page and sign the last. Otherwise, I don't sign. More people should do this. I'm certain some of my friends who say they've been swindled by contracts changing were because they a) didn't initial every page and b) didn't demand and keep their own copy of the paperwork.
There's an old saying that fish rot from the head first. Perhaps no dead specimens have been found with the eyes intact, and they've not yet cut the live specimen up to test the eyes.
Production capacity for what? Sure, the middle class is huge in China but so are its economic problems. Despite most consumer goods in the US being increasingly likely to be made in China, I know people who sell things in China from US plants. The Chinese very often refuse Chinese-made parts from companies that have both US and Chinese factories. Quality control has a long way to go before that will change, too.
I see someone modded you funny, but IME 2600 has been just as informative and educational as DDJ if not more so. Including PC Magazine as a professional developer's magazine in the summary is what should be modded "funny".
The Atlas V may or may not be the most advanced heavy LV currently available for routine non-weaponized military launches. However, the most advanced US military technology tends to start in exotic missions and trickle down to the routine ones. We have many missile and rocket programs designed for weapons payloads, too. Not all of the technology may be suitable for NASA's needs, but it certainly wouldn't hurt to see the propulsion and control technology put to civilian use if it can be.
In a strict linguistic sense, it is "lunacy". After all, the decisions are influenced strongly by matters of the moon. ;-)
As I understand it he doesn't plan to borrow it. He just plans to print money to pay for infrastructure. The economic growth from the improved infrastructure and short-term job creation will hopefully outpace the inflation that policy causes. It's a gamble, but it seemed to work for his party in the 1930s until the real economic growth of World War II kicked in.
Actually, what led directly to the Challenger incident was determined probably to be launching well outside the rated ambient temperature range of the O-rings on the solid rocket boosters.
My mother's department assembled heating elements used in the liquid fuel external tank, so my family remembers the investigation into the incident from a somewhat more personal perspective. Incident investigators repeatedly questioned the engineers and assemblers of all the components and subcomponents listed as possible issues in the reports.
So if GWB had been sitting behind a podium from his not-yet-in-office office on YouTube making promises during Clinton's lame-duck months then 9/11 wouldn't have happened? Or are you saying that undermining the president currently in office is inherently a good thing?
If you see no value in the US economy, then you should have warned us all about the stock market and housing bubbles bursting.
The USAF would love to put boots on Mars, and no doubt the Army and Marines more so. There's just no excuse for sending them there unless you have some yellow cake uranium data on the Martians.
We have always been at war with East Asia.
Why do you think the bumbling fool (at least as bad as Palin and with no experience as the chief executive of even a state as Palin has) was chosen? People around the Clintons tend to end up dead in parks anyway (whether through the actions of some rabid fans, divine providence, or whatever...). Can you imagine if she stood to become president from it? Who's going to do that for Biden?
All the paper has always been worthless. It's the stuff that the paper will buy that has value. Sometimes less paper buys more stuff and sometimes more paper buys less stuff. The stuff is what matters, though.
All currency does is create a neutral third party in a trade so that relative need doesn't rule as it does in barter. Is your bushel of oats worth two chickens to you today or four? It's probably worth the same number of dollars today as tomorrow, within some small variation. Those chickens are probably the same price in dollars within some small variation tomorrow as today as well.
Removing intrinsic value from the currency itself can actually be a good idea during times of mild inflation, because people melting down gold coins undermines the currency system and can lead to rapid deflation. Manufacturers really hate rapid deflation. Investing a whole lot of money in machinery and raw materials only to get less money back sounds like a very bad deal, especially when you can't very well ask your factory workers to take a cut in absolute dollars just because the value of a dollar has risen.
Innocent Japanese? During WWII? Do you not understand the concept of total war? The manufacturing capacity of the industrial cities of Japan was entirely utilized to kill Allied forces. Destroying factories and breaking the Japanese will to fight avoided a devastating invasion that would have impacted the Japanese and US populations in the million on each side. What else was there to do?
The only way for a police and court action to arrest and convict people to work is if there's a government present willing to do that work. The Taliban was funding and sheltering al Qaeda as well as murdering and oppressing the Afghan people. By removing that government and bringing the rule of law to that land, whether under a Western-style democracy or not, is the only way police and courts can do anything to the criminals there.
The same cities fifty years ago decided that allowing a black man in town after sunset was a dangerous activity.
Oh, how about Israel or Switzerland? Hamas rockets and IDF retaliation aside, there is very little violence in Israel, yet everyone must serve two years in a military or equivalent role and the populace is armed to the teeth. It has one of the lowest homicide rates in the world.
Switzerland requires all men to be issued arms most of their lives. Private ownership among men and women in encouraged. Gun crimes are so low that statistics are not regularly kept.
Perhaps the level of gun crimes in the US has more to do with the intersection of guns and crime than with some causal relationship between one and the other.