In order to process transaction, POS device must pass certification from each one. Certification process greatly differs for all of them and has different costs associated with it. It is entirely possible (but economically stupid) to have POS device certified for only for VISA and it would only deny payment with other cards. Since AMEX is nearly non-existent in my country my company only bothered with VISA and MC.
By the way, what do you mean by agreement between merchant and MC/VISA/AMEX? In my country credit card companies have agreements with middle men called acquirers, and those middle men have agreement with merchants. Is it any different in USA?
As someone who used to work with EFT terminals I'll tell you, that they do differ: VISA has better (as in: more secure) certification procedures for endpoint devices, while MC focuses on payment processing servers. Which means jack shit for a consumer, but I a lot for developers such as myself:)
The only people capable of following your advice are those protected by the umbrella of superior firepower of police and military. When you repay evil with good from the position of weakness you will end up dead or enslaved. When you do so from position of strength, you can change the world for the better. In modern world this strength comes from the government, but it changes nothing.
Alternatively: a weak man fights back, because only weak men are attacked. Strong people have nothing to worry about and do what you suggest.
You assume that 40 years is a long time. Now, it is for a human, but we have here on Earth organisms that routinely reach 1000 years. Now, they may not be the sharpest tools in the drawer and I don't expect them to come up with space travel any time soon, but it suggests, that we should not apply our own limitations to others. For aliens 40 years may be like a day to us.
Nah, every once in a while I hear that "Vatican already has strategy in case aliens contact us". Hell, they allegedly even have passages from Bible that can be interpreted as proof that on only aliens exist, but after his crucifixion Jesus went to other planets to die for THEIR sins. You so much underestimate adaptability of religious people.
Actually, that may be more interesting problem than you think: we know very little about how gravity actually works. What if it does to our bodies something MORE than providing 1G downward acceleration?
Who knows, maybe building a rotating space state station would teach us something new about gravity itself?
"Spooky action" only works if you transfer the information first by slower-than-light channel, Chad Orzel explained it nicely in his books for dogs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That said, I totally agree: ignorance is not an argument and our inability to go FTL doesn't prove it's impossible.
I seem to vaguely remember the episode where Captain Picard got stuck in an elevator with a bunch of kids as an episode that worked reasonably well. In fact, I'm really hoping that the show involving Patrick Steward is the "teen-oriented" show. He could play an academy teacher or headmaster or similar, after having retired from active duty. I think the interaction between him and young people would play very well on TV when it isn't being forced by a character who doesn't really fit the context (Wesley).
So pretty much "Star Trek: Hogwarts" with sir Patrick as Dumblecard? I'm in and I have some more suggestions:
1. Emma Watson as science teacher
2. David Tennant as humanities teacher, making him Keating (from Dead Poets Society) IN SPACE
3. Ian McKellen as Dumblecard's husband
4. Nathan Fillon as Hagrid-type character
5. Claudia Christian as McGonagall-type character
6. Sarah Michelle Gellar as janitor
7. Mark Hamill as one-time villain reprising his role as Joker, with obligatory Star Wars reference
In case of a PC I have a huge stash of Linux install CDs/DVDs to use in case of broken/malicious updates, so my machine will be up and running in a matter of hours (and most of it spent on restoring from backups). Can I have the same thing for a car (regardless of brand)?
And the first time I've heard about MS adding spyware to Win7 I literally pulled the Ethernet cord from my only non-Linux machine and it hasn't been online ever since. Precisely for the reason that it's supposed to be MY machine, not Microsoft's.
...after they got their asses kicked out of there, and had to be reinstalled by force substantially later? That sounds a lot like failure to me.
They got kicked out by religious, but pagan, Roman Empire. That only proves, that a religion with more gods is better than a religion with one. And I definitely second that opinion - paganism caused significantly less religious wars than monotheism and produced much funnier mythology.
As to the rest of your points... religion was created on the fly as a tool used by witch doctors and such to keep their less enlightened tribesmen from eating poisonous mushrooms and wandering off from safe camps, and kinda snowballed from there. All things considered it's a miracle in itself it didn't turn out even worse, and actually managed to create something good.
I have an elderly family member who bought his first PC when XP was still fresh and new, and that's the only thing he learned. He states he is to old to try anything new. When XP was no longer supported I gave him a new hardware with dual boot Win7/Linux, so he can choose whatever suits him better. As a result he still uses old machine and only logs to Linux when some site he needs refuses to load because of TLS failure, but that's about it. Win7 is dead to him. Tablets/smartphones are a no go, unless there is 20' tablet I don't know about somewhere out there.
Perhaps you think there is some precious legacy software he uses? Nope. He literally uses three applications (ordered by frequency):
1. Firefox
2. Spider Solitaire
3. LibreOffice Writer
Yes, you read correctly: he jumped ship from MS Office to LibreOffice, but XP to anything else is too much of a hassle. Old people are weird.
You mean "try countries that build their wealth on capitalism, and now are eating up the fruits of their grandfathers' labour, leaving nothing but debts to future generations"? Except for Norway, of course, they are basically Kuwait of the north - they drill, sell, distribute the income, and have no feasible plan for the inevitable day the oil well dries out.
"Lances against tanks" was German propaganda. In reality cavalry was mostly used for recon and disrupting supply lines by hit-and-run attacks with machine guns and anti-tank rifles by both sides. Polish cavalry was more numerous and more effective (due to better training and home-turf advantage), but German wasn't anything to spit on too.
The whole "apples vs oranges" comparison stems from the facts that Tesla calls its oranges "apples" and then clearly explains that you shouldn't expect them in any way to behave like apples. More like oranges. Definitely like oranges. In fact, they ARE oranges, just under a different name. You should never treat their oranges as apples. They are definitely the best oranges in town. The best and the most orange. Definitely those apples are not apples. They are, in fact, oranges. Do not let the name "apples" mislead you. Those apples are in fact oranges.
And this is repeated several times, in manuals, by sales people, by marketing people, by Elon himself and his dog. After hearing it so many times only a total moron would treat Tesla's apples like apples. Because, as it is clearly stated in all sources, they are, in fact, oranges.
It may be a failure of their marketing department, but in my area the charging stations I've seen are few and far between. Alas, I don't live in USA, so that may be a factor. And particularly I don't see any of them in my preferable place to take a break - in the middle of a forest:D
Generally speaking I think you are right - the bigger EV market becomes, the more solutions will appear. But that's the future, and for now ICE remains the king.
It's true you need a break, but I prefer to take it when where and when I want it, not where charger station just happens to be. Another thing is that most people these days have driving license, so it's possible to change person behind the wheel every two hours or so.
Another important factor is that if you run out of gas (never happened to me, but it may one day) it's possible to get to the nearest station, buy a canister of fuel, travel back and refill in the field. How do you do that with electric vehicle? Take the battery with you?
And who do think should be crowned as a king to temporarily replace democracy until we manage to create a generation trained in critical thinking and systems thinking?
Just out of curiosity: when are you required to inform that office that you moved in? When you want to, or every time you move?
For example, if I move, but for some reason I still want all mail to go old address (so nobody needs to know, as far as they are concern I'm still reachable there, I'm physically elsewhere) am I required by law to register under new location anyway? And if so, what is the punishment for disobedience?
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Also, I'd be more impressed if heavy makeup of the sort I see on some women and professional football (soccer) players was a factor.
Fixed that for you
Population increases, sum of IQ remains constant. I forgot who said it first...
In order to process transaction, POS device must pass certification from each one. Certification process greatly differs for all of them and has different costs associated with it. It is entirely possible (but economically stupid) to have POS device certified for only for VISA and it would only deny payment with other cards. Since AMEX is nearly non-existent in my country my company only bothered with VISA and MC.
By the way, what do you mean by agreement between merchant and MC/VISA/AMEX? In my country credit card companies have agreements with middle men called acquirers, and those middle men have agreement with merchants. Is it any different in USA?
As someone who used to work with EFT terminals I'll tell you, that they do differ: VISA has better (as in: more secure) certification procedures for endpoint devices, while MC focuses on payment processing servers. Which means jack shit for a consumer, but I a lot for developers such as myself :)
Probably. But I'd like to see it verified by an experiment, and rotating spacecraft/spacestation is perfect for it.
The only people capable of following your advice are those protected by the umbrella of superior firepower of police and military. When you repay evil with good from the position of weakness you will end up dead or enslaved. When you do so from position of strength, you can change the world for the better. In modern world this strength comes from the government, but it changes nothing.
Alternatively: a weak man fights back, because only weak men are attacked. Strong people have nothing to worry about and do what you suggest.
You assume that 40 years is a long time. Now, it is for a human, but we have here on Earth organisms that routinely reach 1000 years. Now, they may not be the sharpest tools in the drawer and I don't expect them to come up with space travel any time soon, but it suggests, that we should not apply our own limitations to others. For aliens 40 years may be like a day to us.
Nah, every once in a while I hear that "Vatican already has strategy in case aliens contact us". Hell, they allegedly even have passages from Bible that can be interpreted as proof that on only aliens exist, but after his crucifixion Jesus went to other planets to die for THEIR sins. You so much underestimate adaptability of religious people.
Actually, that may be more interesting problem than you think: we know very little about how gravity actually works. What if it does to our bodies something MORE than providing 1G downward acceleration?
Who knows, maybe building a rotating space state station would teach us something new about gravity itself?
Surely you meant Uranus!
"Spooky action" only works if you transfer the information first by slower-than-light channel, Chad Orzel explained it nicely in his books for dogs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That said, I totally agree: ignorance is not an argument and our inability to go FTL doesn't prove it's impossible.
I seem to vaguely remember the episode where Captain Picard got stuck in an elevator with a bunch of kids as an episode that worked reasonably well. In fact, I'm really hoping that the show involving Patrick Steward is the "teen-oriented" show. He could play an academy teacher or headmaster or similar, after having retired from active duty. I think the interaction between him and young people would play very well on TV when it isn't being forced by a character who doesn't really fit the context (Wesley).
So pretty much "Star Trek: Hogwarts" with sir Patrick as Dumblecard? I'm in and I have some more suggestions:
1. Emma Watson as science teacher
2. David Tennant as humanities teacher, making him Keating (from Dead Poets Society) IN SPACE
3. Ian McKellen as Dumblecard's husband
4. Nathan Fillon as Hagrid-type character
5. Claudia Christian as McGonagall-type character
6. Sarah Michelle Gellar as janitor
7. Mark Hamill as one-time villain reprising his role as Joker, with obligatory Star Wars reference
Ultimate geekgasm!
In case of a PC I have a huge stash of Linux install CDs/DVDs to use in case of broken/malicious updates, so my machine will be up and running in a matter of hours (and most of it spent on restoring from backups). Can I have the same thing for a car (regardless of brand)?
And the first time I've heard about MS adding spyware to Win7 I literally pulled the Ethernet cord from my only non-Linux machine and it hasn't been online ever since. Precisely for the reason that it's supposed to be MY machine, not Microsoft's.
...after they got their asses kicked out of there, and had to be reinstalled by force substantially later? That sounds a lot like failure to me.
They got kicked out by religious, but pagan, Roman Empire. That only proves, that a religion with more gods is better than a religion with one. And I definitely second that opinion - paganism caused significantly less religious wars than monotheism and produced much funnier mythology.
As to the rest of your points... religion was created on the fly as a tool used by witch doctors and such to keep their less enlightened tribesmen from eating poisonous mushrooms and wandering off from safe camps, and kinda snowballed from there. All things considered it's a miracle in itself it didn't turn out even worse, and actually managed to create something good.
Sometimes it's age.
I have an elderly family member who bought his first PC when XP was still fresh and new, and that's the only thing he learned. He states he is to old to try anything new. When XP was no longer supported I gave him a new hardware with dual boot Win7/Linux, so he can choose whatever suits him better. As a result he still uses old machine and only logs to Linux when some site he needs refuses to load because of TLS failure, but that's about it. Win7 is dead to him. Tablets/smartphones are a no go, unless there is 20' tablet I don't know about somewhere out there.
Perhaps you think there is some precious legacy software he uses? Nope. He literally uses three applications (ordered by frequency):
1. Firefox
2. Spider Solitaire
3. LibreOffice Writer
Yes, you read correctly: he jumped ship from MS Office to LibreOffice, but XP to anything else is too much of a hassle. Old people are weird.
You mean "try countries that build their wealth on capitalism, and now are eating up the fruits of their grandfathers' labour, leaving nothing but debts to future generations"? Except for Norway, of course, they are basically Kuwait of the north - they drill, sell, distribute the income, and have no feasible plan for the inevitable day the oil well dries out.
Why stop at browser? A separate VM is much better choice.
"Lances against tanks" was German propaganda. In reality cavalry was mostly used for recon and disrupting supply lines by hit-and-run attacks with machine guns and anti-tank rifles by both sides. Polish cavalry was more numerous and more effective (due to better training and home-turf advantage), but German wasn't anything to spit on too.
The whole "apples vs oranges" comparison stems from the facts that Tesla calls its oranges "apples" and then clearly explains that you shouldn't expect them in any way to behave like apples. More like oranges. Definitely like oranges. In fact, they ARE oranges, just under a different name. You should never treat their oranges as apples. They are definitely the best oranges in town. The best and the most orange. Definitely those apples are not apples. They are, in fact, oranges. Do not let the name "apples" mislead you. Those apples are in fact oranges.
And this is repeated several times, in manuals, by sales people, by marketing people, by Elon himself and his dog. After hearing it so many times only a total moron would treat Tesla's apples like apples. Because, as it is clearly stated in all sources, they are, in fact, oranges.
You're wrong, three is the perfect number. I can't believe we still have to educate people on the importance of making backups on site like Slashdot!
It may be a failure of their marketing department, but in my area the charging stations I've seen are few and far between. Alas, I don't live in USA, so that may be a factor. And particularly I don't see any of them in my preferable place to take a break - in the middle of a forest :D
Generally speaking I think you are right - the bigger EV market becomes, the more solutions will appear. But that's the future, and for now ICE remains the king.
It's true you need a break, but I prefer to take it when where and when I want it, not where charger station just happens to be. Another thing is that most people these days have driving license, so it's possible to change person behind the wheel every two hours or so.
Another important factor is that if you run out of gas (never happened to me, but it may one day) it's possible to get to the nearest station, buy a canister of fuel, travel back and refill in the field. How do you do that with electric vehicle? Take the battery with you?
Another example: German http://theweek.com/articles/46...
And who do think should be crowned as a king to temporarily replace democracy until we manage to create a generation trained in critical thinking and systems thinking?
Just out of curiosity: when are you required to inform that office that you moved in? When you want to, or every time you move?
For example, if I move, but for some reason I still want all mail to go old address (so nobody needs to know, as far as they are concern I'm still reachable there, I'm physically elsewhere) am I required by law to register under new location anyway? And if so, what is the punishment for disobedience?