I have a 3D TV, but the glasses are still in the box. I have yet to see any content I would actually want to view. (Its rare to see any content on TV that is worth viewing at any resolution).
"The more the pixels, the crappier the content" is my experience.
If they ahve Dollars, they probably speak American. That is not English by a very long mile.
I speak very standard (Cambridge) English and none of the IVR systems I encounter ever understands me. However, everywhere I have ever worked (more than 30 different companies), people from all different backgrounds reported that I was the easiest to understand of all the people they had ever met.
I, on the other hand, cannot understand the dialogue in a lot of American movies, to the extent that I rarely watch any (not even pirate ones).
This means 75% of all food he eats is imported, which in turn means
the GBP he pays for the food must be converted to EUR, for which someone pays the bank 4% which means
3% of his food bill goes to the bank AND
the country has to export the value of that food (mostly through soliciting foreign investment in over-priced property and the bank takes 4% of that to convert the EUR back to GBP - SO
The bank gets 6% of the value of the food he eats ON TOP OF the 2% it takes when he pays for the food.
And the clever thing (from the bank's point of view) is: this also applies to pretty much everything else he buys except the rent - but of course, if he has a mortgage, the bank is probably taking about 5% of that as interest too.
But never fear, the government is probably taking 20% VAT on most stuff he buys AND 30% in income tax and national Insurance on what he is paid.
So, in summary:
If he lives in the UK, he is (financially) stuffed, regardless of Bitcoins! (Takes one to know one).
But, don't worry, it will be way worse after Brexit, when he will pay WTO tariffs of, on average 50% tax on anything he even thinks of buying. Get the facts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svwslRDTyzU&t=3s
Disclaimer: If I was a Russian troll, all the above figures would be even worse!
And your MAC address, and your router's MAC address, and quite probably hashes of your directories, and any other conceivable invasion of privacy they have not yet been caught doing.
Google's entire turnover depends on invading your privacy. You bet they are good at it.
Maybe it should be optional to give your phone number, but there should be no expectation that it would work for long. I live in the UK, and, like many others have a work phone, a private phone, and a pay-as-you-go SIM to call overseas - 3p a minute instead of 130p a minute that the large carriers charge. But pay-as-you-go SIMS for international calls operate a deal where it is cheaper to get a new SIM than to top up "sure we make a loss, but we will make it up with volume" (Their CFOs are probably leprechauns).
Meanwhile, like many others, I don't want to give out my home number or my personal number on the internet, because it would appear that a lot of people have yet to realise that security is something to be taken seriously.
When I forget the moderately secure passwords I use for the likes of Google and Yahoo, I have often lost the post-it note that used to be on my desk too, and have to ask to reset it. They insist I take a text on a number that I had for three months, over two years a go, and failing that, tell them what the number was: but I only ever used it for outgoing calls, so I probably have no way to check.
Mother's maiden name? Would I really use the real one that anyone with Facepalm can find in seconds? My first school? Facepalm risk too. Naturally I think of clever answers, but they are too clever, and I forget them.
We do need a good answer to "prove you are you" - but it needs to be a one-time method that will work without revealing who you are and without being tied to a phone number. And in inventing one, please remember that is worth Billions of dollars to the likes of Google and Yahoo (and quite a lot of hackers) to be able to prove you are exactly who you are, and link the information with your bank account and the person you would quite like to have had a secret affair with, your political opponents and the person whose road rage you have on video.
In short, if someone on the internet wants your ID, it is probably a dangerous threat - and possibly ought to be in the same category as threats of GBH. I am sure your political representatives will feel the same once they realise their own dirty little secrets could get out, but unfortunately, most of them are not too quick on the uptake.
And the Chinese government categorically refuses to accept the Australian edict that Pi = 3.000 despite the proclamation by the Aussie prime minister.
Surely the Chinese can understand that Aussie law supersedes the laws of Maths. It is a simple matter of sovereignty.
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And the students were not watching pornhub?
Fake news, I tell you!
I believe nuking Twitter from high orbit is the only way to be sure.
FTFY
You have something that needs to be cool, and you put it in Texas?
Not so much "cloud" as "smog".
You forgot dual SIM.
Should be a big seller then.
Never mind the features, just dump the bloat and unlock the boot loader.
If Microsoft's attempts at killing this are as successful as their attempts at software, then MS is toast!
"The more the pixels, the crappier the content" is my experience.
They don't award a Nobel prize for lying, so I do not expect it to be a problem.
I speak very standard (Cambridge) English and none of the IVR systems I encounter ever understands me. However, everywhere I have ever worked (more than 30 different companies), people from all different backgrounds reported that I was the easiest to understand of all the people they had ever met.
I, on the other hand, cannot understand the dialogue in a lot of American movies, to the extent that I rarely watch any (not even pirate ones).
Not so.
Many politicians go to great lengths to ensure their words have no meaning.
I put all my money on disintegration.
This means 75% of all food he eats is imported, which in turn means
the GBP he pays for the food must be converted to EUR, for which someone pays the bank 4% which means
3% of his food bill goes to the bank AND
the country has to export the value of that food (mostly through soliciting foreign investment in over-priced property and the bank takes 4% of that to convert the EUR back to GBP - SO
The bank gets 6% of the value of the food he eats ON TOP OF the 2% it takes when he pays for the food.
And the clever thing (from the bank's point of view) is: this also applies to pretty much everything else he buys except the rent - but of course, if he has a mortgage, the bank is probably taking about 5% of that as interest too.
But never fear, the government is probably taking 20% VAT on most stuff he buys AND 30% in income tax and national Insurance on what he is paid.
So, in summary:
If he lives in the UK, he is (financially) stuffed, regardless of Bitcoins! (Takes one to know one). But, don't worry, it will be way worse after Brexit, when he will pay WTO tariffs of, on average 50% tax on anything he even thinks of buying. Get the facts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svwslRDTyzU&t=3s
Disclaimer: If I was a Russian troll, all the above figures would be even worse!
This is the correct answer. I claim my Bitcoin.
Google's entire turnover depends on invading your privacy. You bet they are good at it.
Meanwhile, like many others, I don't want to give out my home number or my personal number on the internet, because it would appear that a lot of people have yet to realise that security is something to be taken seriously.
When I forget the moderately secure passwords I use for the likes of Google and Yahoo, I have often lost the post-it note that used to be on my desk too, and have to ask to reset it. They insist I take a text on a number that I had for three months, over two years a go, and failing that, tell them what the number was: but I only ever used it for outgoing calls, so I probably have no way to check.
Mother's maiden name? Would I really use the real one that anyone with Facepalm can find in seconds? My first school? Facepalm risk too. Naturally I think of clever answers, but they are too clever, and I forget them.
We do need a good answer to "prove you are you" - but it needs to be a one-time method that will work without revealing who you are and without being tied to a phone number. And in inventing one, please remember that is worth Billions of dollars to the likes of Google and Yahoo (and quite a lot of hackers) to be able to prove you are exactly who you are, and link the information with your bank account and the person you would quite like to have had a secret affair with, your political opponents and the person whose road rage you have on video.
In short, if someone on the internet wants your ID, it is probably a dangerous threat - and possibly ought to be in the same category as threats of GBH. I am sure your political representatives will feel the same once they realise their own dirty little secrets could get out, but unfortunately, most of them are not too quick on the uptake.
I think "The South" means Balham. Doesn't everybody?
It is not easy to squeeze so much phoning home into such a small footprint you know.
They are lawyers - sometimes they need a kick in the crotch.
And the Chinese government categorically refuses to accept the Australian edict that Pi = 3.000 despite the proclamation by the Aussie prime minister. Surely the Chinese can understand that Aussie law supersedes the laws of Maths. It is a simple matter of sovereignty.
Cobol is declining too.
However, once the code works, then it is probably a good idea not to piss with it. New "Features" are mostly just bugs anyway.
You mean like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Next year it will be 10 years for possession of a phone.