Are you fucking serious? Those are the two of the largest retailers in the United States. You think every goddamn quick-stop has a cash register that will send email?
It literally will do nothing to reduce human traffic. The people coming in are presenting themselves to request asylum.......
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* The people that live along the border don't even want it.
Excuse me? Who the holy fuck are you to say what we want? I want the wall. I'm within' 5 miles of the border. Illegals are still flooding across the border. Saw a group of 5 of them yesterday (you bet your ass I called them a CBP taxi). If they were here to request asylum, why were they sneaking through the bushes? People who want asylum cross at a point of entry and present themselves to the authorities.
You know quite a lot of humanity considers mountain bike riding douche bags to be sharing their bag with prius driving douche bags..
Yeah? How the fuck did you come to that conclusion? You take any polls? Are you assuming the arbitrary number of people you know, and whom consider mountain bike riders to be douche bags, are representative of the population as a whole? Or did you just make that shit up on the spot? Yeah, that's what I thought....
Where are you getting your figure of 1 million years? Modern humans evolved around 200,000 years ago. The humans prior to that weren't us. Different species. That species no longer exists. Including them in the results is bullshit.
As the quote goes, "the planet doesn't need our help to survive, the planet needs our absence."
Why? It's not humans that cause mass extinctions... We've driven some species extinct. So what? Why do all you idiots have so much self hatred? 99.9%... That's the percentage of species that have existed at some point on Earth and are now extinct. We didn't do it..
You people are weird.. You blame all humanity for some few small errors in judgement. If we disappeared tomorrow, how long for Earth to forget us? 1,000 years? 10,000? An eye blink in relation to how long life has existed.
Ultimately Earth is doomed anyhow.. Sun goes nova in maybe 4 to 5 billion years.. Life will be gone way before that.. Maybe 1 billion more years until the Sun swells to the point life is no longer possible on Earth. Humans are the only species that currently has any hope of escaping that fate.
Quit acting like humans are some aberration. We are the currently the pinnacle of evolution and, unlike any other animal on the planet, we alone can recognize our mistakes, as a species, and correct for them. We, alone, are the only hope that life has of existing beyond the death of the Sun.
Yeah, nothing like jumping in the car and driving for 10 minutes to purchase some fucking batteries.. If you think that's better than clicking a button there is something wrong with YOU.
And if someone ELSE gets hold of your physical button there's zero authentication, fraud is a click away. Someone wanders in the office and presses it 5 times, nobody notices right away... it's 100% stupid.
You had it right up until the moment you started flapping on about pressing it 5 times. I don't have a Dash button, but even I know that you can only press it once every 24 hours (or something close to that). Stick to what you know and don't make shit up on the fly. Furthermore, all the shit is going to be delivered to YOU, and Amazon has a pretty fantastic return policy.. So, really, the worst case scenario is 1 or 2 orders before shit starts showing up and you can return most items for free...
The problem is, the user can't agree to this, without actually being shown what they are supposed to agree with. The relevant eCommerce laws say that the full and current price/ amount must be shown to the user, with an explicit acknowledgement that they are now ordering this quantity of items for this specified cost.
This button would be legal if it were equipped with an eInk display showing the current price/ quantity (and the legal fine print making it obvious that hitting the button will order it now).
Thanks for the explanation (seriously). After hearing that Amazon can substitute other items and also that the price can fluctuate, I get why the Germans aren't keen on this.. I don't have any Dash buttons, but if I can't be sure I'm going to get what I want, at a price I know about beforehand, I don't think I'll be getting any..
You fucked up border and you fucked up your. You are the uneducated sack of shit here.
Also, a full 75% of all Canadian exports are sent to the USA. So... if our economy tanks.. guess who's next? You don't live in a bubble, moosefucker, you live in an igloo:P
How much is appropriate when they pay more taxes than anyone else currently? How much until they stop working? How much until they fold their businesses up and move somewhere else? How much is fair 20%, 50%, 80%, 90%? If you believe all men are created equal. Wouldn't it be fair to say all men should pay an equal tax.
Taxing the rich appropriately != socialism. Just to clear that up for some folks confused by your leap there.
Uh, yeah it does. Taxing anyone more (percentage wise) than anyone else is socialism, fuck face. I'm so tired of you leftist cunts trying to redefine words. YOU do not get to define socialism. It already has a definition.
So? It's not a democracy. It's a republic. The system was set up to prevent the tyranny of the majority. Just because "most people" (insert whatever you want here) doesn't count for shit.
Are you simple? Do you think any of those things are as easy to supply as free wifi?
Are you simple? You have to be if you think there is such a thing as "free" wifi. Someone is paying for a line. It might not be the end user, but someone is paying someone else. Even at wholesale rates, it's still not cheap. Sure, you can get a residential 100mbit line downtown for under $100/month but you are prohibited from sharing it (contractually). So you have to buy the commercial line, at that will set you back at least $500/month.
I think you've answered your own question. In absence of competition, a sole supplier is free to charge whatever the market will bear.
It's only the absence of competition through law. In most parts of California, for example, it is illegal for you to hang your own lines on existing telephone poles and you will NEVER get permission to set your own. Oh sure, they claim you can get access to the poles but, in reality, unless you are also a mega-player you won't. It's lip service to keep the peasants quiet.
Meh, there's a middle ground : We're a first world country supposedly, why do we have "second world" internet with these robber-baron ISP monopoly situations that charge double the rate for a quarter the bandwidth?
100% true. But, you can directly blame the government for these problems. Local / state governments at least.. They have arranged, through law, the exclusion of competing internet services to maintain the monopoly or duopoly of the current system / incumbents.. The United States, today, doesn't really have much that resembles free capitalism. We have crony capitalism at best and an outright oligarchy at worst.
I disagree.. It's because we (Americans) eat crap food and don't exercise.. If you're working your ass off it's a hell of a lot harder to get fat even if you are eating fatty crap foods.
I like crap food as much as the next guy so I try to make up for it by being as active as possible. If something is walking distance, I walk... I'm not getting in the car for a 200 yd drive (yes, I've seen fat fucks do this).
Moderation doesn't hurt either.. Have a burger once in a while. If you eat that shit everyday.....
Scientifically inaccurate joke. Sperm is mostly water and sugar (your little swimmers need energy to keep up their efforts), and consists of less than 1% actual sperm cells, resulting in very low protein content.
Pretty sure Sperm are mostly protein. I think you mean semen. Sperm is 100% sperm cells.. Semen may be 1% sperm..
That's because you haven't got a clue. AT&T tried this shit back in the 1930's (or thereabouts). They actually tried charging more, per call, depending on your target. I don't mean different cities either. I mean they wanted more money based on whom you were calling in the same city. i.e. trying to call the grocery store? that's one price.. Trying to call a hospital? That's a little more.
The Feds shut down that shit under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
THAT is what net neutrality is about. If you don't understand that, then I dunno what to tell you...
Listen, "literally" has a meaning. It means "literally". How about you and yours quit being cunts and use a word(s) that actually means what you are trying to convey? I suggest "not actually" or "in all falseness"?
The term has a strict use. It's meant to assure reality in the face of skepticism. There is no shortage of words you could use that aren't self contradicting slang.
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I get e-receipts from Walmart and Home Depot.
If they can do it, why can't others?
Are you fucking serious? Those are the two of the largest retailers in the United States. You think every goddamn quick-stop has a cash register that will send email?
It literally will do nothing to reduce human traffic. The people coming in are presenting themselves to request asylum.......
......... * The people that live along the border don't even want it.
Excuse me? Who the holy fuck are you to say what we want? I want the wall. I'm within' 5 miles of the border. Illegals are still flooding across the border. Saw a group of 5 of them yesterday (you bet your ass I called them a CBP taxi). If they were here to request asylum, why were they sneaking through the bushes? People who want asylum cross at a point of entry and present themselves to the authorities.
You've just been proven to be a liar. Carry on.
Sure thing buddy.. Sure thing...
You know quite a lot of humanity considers mountain bike riding douche bags to be sharing their bag with prius driving douche bags..
Yeah? How the fuck did you come to that conclusion? You take any polls? Are you assuming the arbitrary number of people you know, and whom consider mountain bike riders to be douche bags, are representative of the population as a whole? Or did you just make that shit up on the spot?
Yeah, that's what I thought....
Where are you getting your figure of 1 million years? Modern humans evolved around 200,000 years ago. The humans prior to that weren't us. Different species. That species no longer exists. Including them in the results is bullshit.
As the quote goes, "the planet doesn't need our help to survive, the planet needs our absence."
Why? It's not humans that cause mass extinctions... We've driven some species extinct. So what? Why do all you idiots have so much self hatred? 99.9% ... That's the percentage of species that have existed at some point on Earth and are now extinct. We didn't do it..
You people are weird.. You blame all humanity for some few small errors in judgement. If we disappeared tomorrow, how long for Earth to forget us? 1,000 years? 10,000? An eye blink in relation to how long life has existed.
Ultimately Earth is doomed anyhow.. Sun goes nova in maybe 4 to 5 billion years.. Life will be gone way before that.. Maybe 1 billion more years until the Sun swells to the point life is no longer possible on Earth. Humans are the only species that currently has any hope of escaping that fate.
Quit acting like humans are some aberration. We are the currently the pinnacle of evolution and, unlike any other animal on the planet, we alone can recognize our mistakes, as a species, and correct for them. We, alone, are the only hope that life has of existing beyond the death of the Sun.
Yeah, nothing like jumping in the car and driving for 10 minutes to purchase some fucking batteries.. If you think that's better than clicking a button there is something wrong with YOU.
And if someone ELSE gets hold of your physical button there's zero authentication, fraud is a click away. Someone wanders in the office and presses it 5 times, nobody notices right away... it's 100% stupid.
You had it right up until the moment you started flapping on about pressing it 5 times. I don't have a Dash button, but even I know that you can only press it once every 24 hours (or something close to that). Stick to what you know and don't make shit up on the fly. Furthermore, all the shit is going to be delivered to YOU, and Amazon has a pretty fantastic return policy.. So, really, the worst case scenario is 1 or 2 orders before shit starts showing up and you can return most items for free...
The problem is, the user can't agree to this, without actually being shown what they are supposed to agree with. The relevant eCommerce laws say that the full and current price/ amount must be shown to the user, with an explicit acknowledgement that they are now ordering this quantity of items for this specified cost.
This button would be legal if it were equipped with an eInk display showing the current price/ quantity (and the legal fine print making it obvious that hitting the button will order it now).
Thanks for the explanation (seriously). After hearing that Amazon can substitute other items and also that the price can fluctuate, I get why the Germans aren't keen on this.. I don't have any Dash buttons, but if I can't be sure I'm going to get what I want, at a price I know about beforehand, I don't think I'll be getting any..
You fucked up border and you fucked up your. You are the uneducated sack of shit here.
Also, a full 75% of all Canadian exports are sent to the USA. So... if our economy tanks.. guess who's next? You don't live in a bubble, moosefucker, you live in an igloo :P
How much is appropriate when they pay more taxes than anyone else currently? How much until they stop working? How much until they fold their businesses up and move somewhere else? How much is fair 20%, 50%, 80%, 90%? If you believe all men are created equal. Wouldn't it be fair to say all men should pay an equal tax.
Good to see reasonable people still exist..
Taxing the rich appropriately != socialism. Just to clear that up for some folks confused by your leap there.
Uh, yeah it does. Taxing anyone more (percentage wise) than anyone else is socialism, fuck face. I'm so tired of you leftist cunts trying to redefine words. YOU do not get to define socialism. It already has a definition.
under miming the international order
What the? Undermining..
Compared to other countries the US is unique in having a Large Population, with a low Population Density..
Unique doesn't mean what you think it means.. 'cause Russia... Brazil.... Large population / low density.. Mexico probably even qualifies..
So? It's not a democracy. It's a republic. The system was set up to prevent the tyranny of the majority. Just because "most people" (insert whatever you want here) doesn't count for shit.
..says the privileged white person
And now you can fuck off, you racist asshole. The left.. it's all about race. Has been since day 1.
Are you simple? Do you think any of those things are as easy to supply as free wifi?
Are you simple? You have to be if you think there is such a thing as "free" wifi. Someone is paying for a line. It might not be the end user, but someone is paying someone else. Even at wholesale rates, it's still not cheap. Sure, you can get a residential 100mbit line downtown for under $100/month but you are prohibited from sharing it (contractually). So you have to buy the commercial line, at that will set you back at least $500/month.
I think you've answered your own question. In absence of competition, a sole supplier is free to charge whatever the market will bear.
It's only the absence of competition through law. In most parts of California, for example, it is illegal for you to hang your own lines on existing telephone poles and you will NEVER get permission to set your own. Oh sure, they claim you can get access to the poles but, in reality, unless you are also a mega-player you won't. It's lip service to keep the peasants quiet.
Meh, there's a middle ground : We're a first world country supposedly, why do we have "second world" internet with these robber-baron ISP monopoly situations that charge double the rate for a quarter the bandwidth?
100% true. But, you can directly blame the government for these problems. Local / state governments at least.. They have arranged, through law, the exclusion of competing internet services to maintain the monopoly or duopoly of the current system / incumbents.. The United States, today, doesn't really have much that resembles free capitalism. We have crony capitalism at best and an outright oligarchy at worst.
Excellent answer.. We start with the liberals... It's gotta be like eating a cow... Grass fed and all that jazz.
I disagree.. It's because we (Americans) eat crap food and don't exercise.. If you're working your ass off it's a hell of a lot harder to get fat even if you are eating fatty crap foods.
I like crap food as much as the next guy so I try to make up for it by being as active as possible. If something is walking distance, I walk... I'm not getting in the car for a 200 yd drive (yes, I've seen fat fucks do this).
Moderation doesn't hurt either.. Have a burger once in a while. If you eat that shit everyday.....
Scientifically inaccurate joke. Sperm is mostly water and sugar (your little swimmers need energy to keep up their efforts), and consists of less than 1% actual sperm cells, resulting in very low protein content.
Pretty sure Sperm are mostly protein. I think you mean semen. Sperm is 100% sperm cells.. Semen may be 1% sperm..
That's because you haven't got a clue. AT&T tried this shit back in the 1930's (or thereabouts). They actually tried charging more, per call, depending on your target. I don't mean different cities either. I mean they wanted more money based on whom you were calling in the same city. i.e. trying to call the grocery store? that's one price.. Trying to call a hospital? That's a little more.
The Feds shut down that shit under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
THAT is what net neutrality is about. If you don't understand that, then I dunno what to tell you...
Until you linguistic monkeys steal that one too.
Listen, "literally" has a meaning. It means "literally". How about you and yours quit being cunts and use a word(s) that actually means what you are trying to convey? I suggest "not actually" or "in all falseness"?
The term has a strict use. It's meant to assure reality in the face of skepticism. There is no shortage of words you could use that aren't self contradicting slang.
Yeah? Then how the fuck are we going to convey the idea we are currently using the term "literally" for?
I don't care what Oxford says. They're wrong.