Exactly. For example if I am playing poker and have a lousy hand, but bid high to trick the other players into folding, then that's fraud too. If I use that trick to make money then I'm stealing from the house.
>Now what sort of progress is it that results in modern devices being so irritatingly fragile and having such poor battery life ?
The kind that has you buying a new device every few years, instead of spending twenty or more years using the same one and selfishly holding onto money that you really should be giving to Your Local Electronics Retailer.
Then you have to insert the same card into a card reader, authenticate with a PIN and then approve the transaction. For smaller payments you can skip all that.
I get charged $0.50 when I use my debit card. So I never use it as debit.
The problem isn't with the concept of debit payments, the problem is that your bank sucks.
Not only are you now all talking about a game that you otherwise never have heard about, the presence of a "cracked" version gives the authors a built-in answer to any bad reviews that might be published.
"The game is too hard? Noooo... that's just the cracked version which seems that way. It crashes ten minutes in? We put that there to deter pirates, and that would never happen in the real version. There's no replayability and it's even less fun than Cat Litter Simulator 2013 in hardcore campaign mode? Sounds like that reviewer was too cheap to buy the game and must haven playing a pirated copy. When you give us money, it will be much better. I promise!"
Cheers to the Klug brothers for thinking of everything.
Right. Because the whole concept of "Making Computer Games For A Living" is so obscure that no one else could have ever thought of it, especially not someone who makes computer games for a living.
It does surprise me that AmEx wouldn't reverse the charge, though - They have one of the most consumer-friendly (and practically merchant-hostile) dispute policies out there. You ask, they reverse it and ask questions later, with the burden of proof on the merchant.
An article I once read about this case stated that that was exactly what happened:
Furlong subsequently disputed the $125,000 charge with American Express, and Salesforce.com credited back the amount
It wasn't until later that the questions were asked and proof provided by the merchant:
Furlong's card was subsequently re-charged for the $125,000 but this time American Express refused to credit his account, saying that Salesforce.com had provided "authorization for the charge and a signed contract and order form stating that no cancellations or refunds would be allowed,"
But these jobs provide guaranteed, rapid advancement
So does serving in the Imperial navy under Darth Vader, but having a plentiful supply of rapidly cooling and slightly bloodstained shoes to fill isn't always a good sign.
Just like the IT staffers are morons who wouldn't know how to run a successful business from their own asshole. Really, it's that simple. Fuck convenience, usabilty, and all that other crap customers want! I KNOW that SECURITY is the most important thing.
And that's how you just bought someone who stood next to you on the subway a couple of new iPhones.
If we had single payer, every Tom, Dick, and Harry would be going to the doctor every time they got a sniffle and the bill would be Trillions.
Good thinking there.
Let's say that 100 of these freeloading parasites wuss out and just go to the doctor like whiny little babies when they start feeling sick. The overworked medical offices are forced to spend half an hour seeing each of them, and hand out prescriptions for over-the-counter medications, a couple antibiotics, and a few dozen of the lazy little weasels are advised to stay home from work for a day or two.
Total cost to the country as a whole: 50 hours of time for local doctor's offices, a few hundred dollars in medication, and about a dozen people are out a day of work.
Or all 100 of them could be unwilling to seek help because they can't afford it. 80 of them feel like crap for a week and then get better, 10 wind up losing a few days of work due to a nasty flu, but not before spreading it around to their coworkers because they can't afford to miss even one day, and the other ten end up with pneumonia, spend eight hours in an ER and spend a week recovering.
Total cost: 20 days of missed work for the minor cases, 80 hours of ER time and another fifty days of missed work for the lucky 10%.
Tell me again how taking care of all this _before_ it became a serious problem will cost trillions of dollars more.
How about "Longhorn"? A grossly overweight beast who is destined for the slaughterhouse but will endeavour to leave massive piles of bullshit on your fields before it goes. There's a good code name for a product.
On the other hand, Windows XP Embedded had the code name of Mantis, which fit it nicely.
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Of course it's not an IED. The proper government term is "WMD".
[...] the House Committee on Science.
I think if you look in the House Rules you will find that that group is officially called the "House Committee vs. Science".
This isn't a case of someone doing science. It is a case of someone recklessly mixing chemicals.
The only difference between "Science" and "Recklessly mixing chemicals" is whether or not you take notes and share your results after you're done.
Exactly. For example if I am playing poker and have a lousy hand, but bid high to trick the other players into folding, then that's fraud too. If I use that trick to make money then I'm stealing from the house.
Right?
>Now what sort of progress is it that results in modern devices being so irritatingly fragile and having such poor battery life ?
The kind that has you buying a new device every few years, instead of spending twenty or more years using the same one and selfishly holding onto money that you really should be giving to Your Local Electronics Retailer.
...They didn't get Al Capone for murder, they got him for distributing LGPL code without attribution.
So how do you buy something larger than $50?
Then you have to insert the same card into a card reader, authenticate with a PIN and then approve the transaction. For smaller payments you can skip all that.
I get charged $0.50 when I use my debit card. So I never use it as debit.
The problem isn't with the concept of debit payments, the problem is that your bank sucks.
Not only are you now all talking about a game that you otherwise never have heard about, the presence of a "cracked" version gives the authors a built-in answer to any bad reviews that might be published.
"The game is too hard? Noooo... that's just the cracked version which seems that way. It crashes ten minutes in? We put that there to deter pirates, and that would never happen in the real version. There's no replayability and it's even less fun than Cat Litter Simulator 2013 in hardcore campaign mode? Sounds like that reviewer was too cheap to buy the game and must haven playing a pirated copy. When you give us money, it will be much better. I promise!"
Cheers to the Klug brothers for thinking of everything.
Right. Because the whole concept of "Making Computer Games For A Living" is so obscure that no one else could have ever thought of it, especially not someone who makes computer games for a living.
Shh! If word gets out that I read those, my credibility will be destroyed forever.
It does surprise me that AmEx wouldn't reverse the charge, though - They have one of the most consumer-friendly (and practically merchant-hostile) dispute policies out there. You ask, they reverse it and ask questions later, with the burden of proof on the merchant.
An article I once read about this case stated that that was exactly what happened:
Furlong subsequently disputed the $125,000 charge with American Express, and Salesforce.com credited back the amount
It wasn't until later that the questions were asked and proof provided by the merchant:
Furlong's card was subsequently re-charged for the $125,000 but this time American Express refused to credit his account, saying that Salesforce.com had provided "authorization for the charge and a signed contract and order form stating that no cancellations or refunds would be allowed,"
And you can't find a good doughnut unless you head for the Canadian border.
You provided the per-capita murder rate. Can you also provide the per-capita for people beat up by police and for illegal searches?
According to publicly available police records, both rates have been at or below zero since 1776.
But these jobs provide guaranteed, rapid advancement
So does serving in the Imperial navy under Darth Vader, but having a plentiful supply of rapidly cooling and slightly bloodstained shoes to fill isn't always a good sign.
Just like the IT staffers are morons who wouldn't know how to run a successful business from their own asshole. Really, it's that simple. Fuck convenience, usabilty, and all that other crap customers want! I KNOW that SECURITY is the most important thing.
And that's how you just bought someone who stood next to you on the subway a couple of new iPhones.
Wasn't that convenient?
Sometimes you're forced to watch commercials on the web too.
Really? I always thought they chose that because "Silverfish" was already trademarked by someone else.
OIC.
Send this article to your CEO and recommend that they fire all the young, single, childless (white) males.
But then who will make all of your games?
If we had single payer, every Tom, Dick, and Harry would be going to the doctor every time they got a sniffle and the bill would be Trillions.
Good thinking there.
Let's say that 100 of these freeloading parasites wuss out and just go to the doctor like whiny little babies when they start feeling sick. The overworked medical offices are forced to spend half an hour seeing each of them, and hand out prescriptions for over-the-counter medications, a couple antibiotics, and a few dozen of the lazy little weasels are advised to stay home from work for a day or two.
Total cost to the country as a whole: 50 hours of time for local doctor's offices, a few hundred dollars in medication, and about a dozen people are out a day of work.
Or all 100 of them could be unwilling to seek help because they can't afford it. 80 of them feel like crap for a week and then get better, 10 wind up losing a few days of work due to a nasty flu, but not before spreading it around to their coworkers because they can't afford to miss even one day, and the other ten end up with pneumonia, spend eight hours in an ER and spend a week recovering.
Total cost: 20 days of missed work for the minor cases, 80 hours of ER time and another fifty days of missed work for the lucky 10%.
Tell me again how taking care of all this _before_ it became a serious problem will cost trillions of dollars more.
"FBI Seeks Help In Finding Pair"
Talk amongst yourselves, you can make up your own jokes here.
How about "Longhorn"? A grossly overweight beast who is destined for the slaughterhouse but will endeavour to leave massive piles of bullshit on your fields before it goes. There's a good code name for a product.
On the other hand, Windows XP Embedded had the code name of Mantis, which fit it nicely.
What exactly would be the outcome of a "GPL-only" world?
When someone says they're taking their ball and going home, they need to leave the ball behind so that everyone else can keep on playing without them.
Republicans would see the U.S changed into a society where the rich and powerful are immune to laws
Ironically, such a country already exists. It's called Russia.
Indeed. There are three kinds of mistakes that all programmers make at some time: Errors in program logic, and off by one errors.