United States coins and currency... are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues.
This statute means that all United States money as identified above is a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person, or an organization must accept currency or coins as payment for goods or services.
Further translation: all the statute says is that US currency is one (of possibly many) legal ways in which to pay for something. It does not say that it's required to be accepted. Note that there is no mention of whether payment occurs before or after said good are transferred or services are rendered.
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While a creditor is _required_ to accept _legal tender_
No they're not. Plenty of places no longer accept cash. Well before that, many more places didn't accept bills at or above a certain denomination, $100 bills.
I made my appointment to get my iPhoneâ(TM)s battery replaced via Appleâ(TM)s web site. The form specifically asks the purpose of the appointment and iPhone battery replacement is one of the choices. After selecting that, making the appointment, and showing up at the appointed time, Iâ(TM)m told that they donâ(TM)t actually have a battery in stock due to âoehigh demand.â
Well then why the hell did their web form allow me to make an appointment for a suggested date and time knowing Iâ(TM)d want a battery replaced if there were no batteries in stock? Youâ(TM)d think their inventory system could be coupled with their Genius Bar appointment system, but apparently not.
Android phones without Play Services aren't very useful and to get Play Services you have to abide by Google's rules.
To nerds, stuff like that matters. Joe Sixpack likely has no idea what Play Services is or why he would want it. Joe just cares about calls, texting, maybe e-mail, web browsing, and streaming TV or sports. And the typical phone store drone just wants to make a sale. There are far more many eyeballs to serve ads to like those of Joe than there are of nerds who are savvy enough to install ad-blockers anyway.
Stop pointing fingers at manufacturers, and solve the upgrade mess.
How? With Android being open, both manufacturers and carriers are free to do as they please. Remember, Google is an advertising company. Unlike Apple, their goal with Android was mass adoption to get pervasive (inexpensive) smart phones in as many hands as possible to drive as many Google searches as possible to serve ads to as many eyeballs as possible. Through that lens, they've been very successful.
Neither the fragmentation nor the slow update adoption apparently really affect their bottom line. So they have no financial reason to care enough to do anything serious about it.
It's only the big manufacturers like Samsung that have a financial reason to care to drive brand loyalty. And it's only the big manufacturers who have enough clout to make the carriers bend a knee. The smaller manufacturers are at the mercy of the carriers to be carried at all.
Of course itâ(TM)s paid for with taxes. An enlightened country realizes that an educated population is a good thing for everyone. Just like you pay taxes for your local police and fire department.
Objective-C was created primarily by Brad Cox and Tom Love in the early 1980s at their company Stepstone. It was then later licensed by NeXT, then Apple bought NeXT and released MacOS X that still used Objective-C as its implementation language.
Companies that big can locate their offices anywhere they want.
Pick almost any city along route 5, and the housing prices for your employees would be an order of magnitude less.
Yes. First, I use a 3rd-party client so I never see any ads. Second, I primarily follow my local major metropolitan transit agency that broadcasts system status updates that might affect my commute. (They also often respond in near real-time to issues I report.) Third, I follow a very small number of people I find interesting. I never interact with any of the crackpots.
The Mission is one of the largest districts in SF. Not all parts of the Mission are the same. Valencia Street is a world away from Mission Street even though theyâ(TM)re only a block apart.
They are correct: their processors are working as intended. The problem is that their intent did not take this scenario into consideration. Whether you call that a "bug" or not is debatable, but you don't really expect their PR department to call it that, do you?
Yep. The taxi companies prevented the VTA (Santa Clara Valley Transportation Agency) from building a light rail line to San Jose airport. I I am still amazed that BART (Bay Area Regional Transport) managed to get a line built to San Francisco International Airport.
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The cars had human back-up drivers in them as still required by California law, so no, the cars were not unattended.
Cite a federal law that supports your claim. Unless you can, itâ(TM)s sinply not true.
This entire story and thread is in the context of the state of Arizona (which is in the USA) accepting Bitcoin for payment.
I never wrote anything to the contrary.
See my other reply here.
See my other reply here.
Further translation: all the statute says is that US currency is one (of possibly many) legal ways in which to pay for something. It does not say that it's required to be accepted. Note that there is no mention of whether payment occurs before or after said good are transferred or services are rendered. Source.
For example, if someone posts "Climate change is a serious threat," I could dislike it because either:
People will use Dislike for both. Note that the existing Angry emoji option has the same problem. Also note that Like doesn't have the problem.
No they're not. Plenty of places no longer accept cash. Well before that, many more places didn't accept bills at or above a certain denomination, $100 bills.
Well then why the hell did their web form allow me to make an appointment for a suggested date and time knowing Iâ(TM)d want a battery replaced if there were no batteries in stock? Youâ(TM)d think their inventory system could be coupled with their Genius Bar appointment system, but apparently not.
To nerds, stuff like that matters. Joe Sixpack likely has no idea what Play Services is or why he would want it. Joe just cares about calls, texting, maybe e-mail, web browsing, and streaming TV or sports. And the typical phone store drone just wants to make a sale. There are far more many eyeballs to serve ads to like those of Joe than there are of nerds who are savvy enough to install ad-blockers anyway.
How? With Android being open, both manufacturers and carriers are free to do as they please. Remember, Google is an advertising company. Unlike Apple, their goal with Android was mass adoption to get pervasive (inexpensive) smart phones in as many hands as possible to drive as many Google searches as possible to serve ads to as many eyeballs as possible . Through that lens, they've been very successful.
Neither the fragmentation nor the slow update adoption apparently really affect their bottom line. So they have no financial reason to care enough to do anything serious about it.
It's only the big manufacturers like Samsung that have a financial reason to care to drive brand loyalty. And it's only the big manufacturers who have enough clout to make the carriers bend a knee. The smaller manufacturers are at the mercy of the carriers to be carried at all.
Except "crypto" has little to do with digital currencies.
Of course itâ(TM)s paid for with taxes. An enlightened country realizes that an educated population is a good thing for everyone. Just like you pay taxes for your local police and fire department.
Perhaps if you lived in an enlightened country with free college, you wouldnâ(TM)t be in your current situation.
Objective-C was created primarily by Brad Cox and Tom Love in the early 1980s at their company Stepstone. It was then later licensed by NeXT, then Apple bought NeXT and released MacOS X that still used Objective-C as its implementation language.
Read this guy's post.
Nothing in the linked-to article says Apple did that.
Yes. First, I use a 3rd-party client so I never see any ads. Second, I primarily follow my local major metropolitan transit agency that broadcasts system status updates that might affect my commute. (They also often respond in near real-time to issues I report.) Third, I follow a very small number of people I find interesting. I never interact with any of the crackpots.
A total shithole is the Tenderloin.
They are correct: their processors are working as intended. The problem is that their intent did not take this scenario into consideration. Whether you call that a "bug" or not is debatable, but you don't really expect their PR department to call it that, do you?
Yep. The taxi companies prevented the VTA (Santa Clara Valley Transportation Agency) from building a light rail line to San Jose airport. I I am still amazed that BART (Bay Area Regional Transport) managed to get a line built to San Francisco International Airport.
There is nothing more useless than a lock with a voiceprint. -- Fourth Doctor, The Invasion of Time.
You mean genetics, not evolution.
Clearly you do not. If you did (like I do), you would know that one typically has to go out wearing a jacket and hat -- in July.
BTW: Apple is in Cupertino, about 40 miles south of San Francisco, where it is about 10 degrees (F) warmer.
You have that now, although you have to select to hide the ad first.