My wife and I both had debit cards, and hers was exactly mine + 1. In reality that means the last two digits were changed since the last digit is the checksum. I always wondered, though, if all their cards were numbered serially, since it would then be trivial to come up with a list of card numbers. With a three digit CVV it would be as easy to guess card numbers based on a single CVV value as vice versa.
When I visit their store once every few months, part of the experience is avoiding the sales drones so I can get out of there as quickly as possible. The idea of inviting one of them to my house?
@Trailer Trash: "The contract entered provided for the smartphones at no cost. It also allowed for the NYPD to replace the smartphones with devices of our choosing two years later, also at no cost."
Do you have a link to the exact contract and do you know who was responsible for developing the original apps that would have to to be totally rewritten for Windows 10?
I don't. This piece was just ass-covering by her, posted to the NYPD's propaganda site with no way to comment or find out more info. You'll notice it ends with a snarky line.
This is what I came to say. Not sure how they're doing it, but it makes sense to use information that's available to try to find people who are obviously hiding income. The alternative is random audits, which have a pretty low chance of catching tax-evaders. And I have no sympathy for someone who makes their information publicly available and then thinks the IRS - or government in general - shouldn't have access to it.
"Actually, according to the documents I have on my new car, once I have paid at least 50% of the balance, it's mine and they can't take it from me. If they want to recover from there, they can only pursue me as per a normal debt."
That's weird. In the US, you own the car immediately but the entity who loaned you the money has a lien on the car. If you get behind on payments the lien might make it possible for them to repossess the car and sell it to help pay off the loan.
The main function of the lien is to make it impossible for you to sell the car without notifying the lender, as the title can't be transferred until the lien is removed. And pretty much the only way they'll remove the lien is for you to pay off the loan.
You missed several points. The biggest one is ownership. Until you pay the car off, the dealership is the actual owner
That is not how it works at all! At least not in the US and I doubt it works that way anywhere else in the world. When you purchase a car, even if the manufacturer loans you the money, the car is yours.
Time to learn to read. I'll help you:
"Bury, Quebec resident Daniel Lallier signed a four-year lease"
When you lease a car, you don't own it. It's owned by a third party and you lease it from them. A lease is a rental agreement with a specified time period. They later bought the car.
The device was likely on the car to facilitate remotely disabling the car if they got behind on lease payments, and should have been mentioned in the leasing contract. Since they were no longer bound by that contract due to the ownership change, they have no right to remotely disable the car. If the dealership has a smart lawyer they're already mowing the guy's yard, sucking him off, and asking how many 0's he'd like on the settlement check.
"The contract entered provided for the smartphones at no cost. It also allowed for the NYPD to replace the smartphones with devices of our choosing two years later, also at no cost."
She also claims that they're already neck deep in Windows, so the Windows phones were easier to roll out. Plus, iOS and Android didn't allow "us to cost-effectively utilize prior investment in custom Windows applications."
As others have noted, she's a political appointee. It would be interesting to find out why or how the contract provided for the smartphones at no cost.
We live in Franklin, TN, just south of the edge of the zone of occlusion. Actually, we could hit the south edge of the zone with a 15 minute drive. But I wanted to be closer to center line.
We went to Gallatin, TN, and decided to go to Bledsoe Creek State Park. I would realize later that the center line passes through the north side of the park, which explained the large number of people there. The park was closed with police guarding the entrance, and cars parked along the road outside.
We found a historic school house with a few other folks there, large open yard, and no street lights. Perfect. Cario, TN:
Getting there was easy, getting out took a lot longer.
We had maximum time there, over 2 and a half minutes. I got a couple of pictures, but mostly just looked at it. It reminds you of what the word "awesome" was made for.
Government is really on a hell of a fishing expedition here.
I highly doubt there's any planning of violence/vandalism on the site. That sort of stuff sounds like spur of the moment stuff. Do they really think protesters, in general, go out with malicious intent?
Obviously not. I mean, they bring baseball bats in case a game breaks out (odd, nobody remembered to bring a ball!) and urine-filled balloons in case a water balloon fight breaks out. What fun!
Electronic payment systems would go a long way to solving that problem.
Problem? This isn't a bug, it's a feature. Look: it channels vast amounts of tax dollars into the pockets of US corporations, while also propping up the government of Afghanistan so as to channel even more tax dollars into the US military-industrial complex.
Or just wait until it comes out on netflix. The only movies I see now in the theatre are really good movies where the big screen makes a difference. That amounts to me seeing a movie every few years outside my house.
Recurring revenue is all companies can think about and it is destroying things
What really bothers me about it isn't the recurring revenue, but the fixed pie. Looking at streaming media services, as an example, we now pretty much have a fixed pie in the music world. It's a zero-sum game now. If I make a dollar with my music, someone else doesn't. If 5 extremely good albums come out this year, people will spend no more on music.
Ultimately, this is the problem with a system like this. If a couple of really good movies come out, that means that everybody else will simply make less (I know, that's not how it works now,but it'll quickly head toward a Netflix model). Zero-sum games suck.
There's plenty of garbage on netflix. So I hit the back button and watch something else. Try that in the theatre after you've driven 20 minutes and paid $50 for the family to be there, not even including the food & drinks.
You have to go to the drive-in to "get it". It's not just the movie - it's the atmosphere. When I lived in Indiana there was a drive-in outside of Bloomington. Imagine seeing a movie with your friends, with a grill, your own chairs, whatever food you want, etc. The sound sucks, as a given. But it's a cultural experience kind of like tailgating.
There haven't been many deaths, yet. (And, no, right wing terrorists haven't committed more attacks than Islamic nutjobs since 9/11 - that's been thoroughly debunked everywhere)
We do know that an "antifa" idiot was whacking people over the head with a bicycle lock at one violent event. We know that a left-wing kook shot and tried to kill Republican congressmen a couple of months ago. We know that one used the SPLC's map to find the family research council and go in looking to kill people. The left-wing violence in Charlottesville was over the top - the white supremacists were forced by the police to walk through the crowd of left-wingers, who then attacked them.
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My wife and I both had debit cards, and hers was exactly mine + 1. In reality that means the last two digits were changed since the last digit is the checksum. I always wondered, though, if all their cards were numbered serially, since it would then be trivial to come up with a list of card numbers. With a three digit CVV it would be as easy to guess card numbers based on a single CVV value as vice versa.
They wont.
When I visit their store once every few months, part of the experience is avoiding the sales drones so I can get out of there as quickly as possible. The idea of inviting one of them to my house?
Are they kidding?
@Trailer Trash: "The contract entered provided for the smartphones at no cost. It also allowed for the NYPD to replace the smartphones with devices of our choosing two years later, also at no cost."
Do you have a link to the exact contract and do you know who was responsible for developing the original apps that would have to to be totally rewritten for Windows 10?
I don't. This piece was just ass-covering by her, posted to the NYPD's propaganda site with no way to comment or find out more info. You'll notice it ends with a snarky line.
He's desperate to keep his finances hidden. I wonder why?
Why do you think he's "desperate"? He looks perfectly happy with his decision to not expose his finances.
This is what I came to say. Not sure how they're doing it, but it makes sense to use information that's available to try to find people who are obviously hiding income. The alternative is random audits, which have a pretty low chance of catching tax-evaders. And I have no sympathy for someone who makes their information publicly available and then thinks the IRS - or government in general - shouldn't have access to it.
It just disables the starter, so it's not going to cause a problem on the highway.
"Actually, according to the documents I have on my new car, once I have paid at least 50% of the balance, it's mine and they can't take it from me. If they want to recover from there, they can only pursue me as per a normal debt."
That's weird. In the US, you own the car immediately but the entity who loaned you the money has a lien on the car. If you get behind on payments the lien might make it possible for them to repossess the car and sell it to help pay off the loan.
The main function of the lien is to make it impossible for you to sell the car without notifying the lender, as the title can't be transferred until the lien is removed. And pretty much the only way they'll remove the lien is for you to pay off the loan.
You missed several points. The biggest one is ownership. Until you pay the car off, the dealership is the actual owner
That is not how it works at all! At least not in the US and I doubt it works that way anywhere else in the world. When you purchase a car, even if the manufacturer loans you the money, the car is yours.
Time to learn to read. I'll help you:
"Bury, Quebec resident Daniel Lallier signed a four-year lease"
When you lease a car, you don't own it. It's owned by a third party and you lease it from them. A lease is a rental agreement with a specified time period. They later bought the car.
The device was likely on the car to facilitate remotely disabling the car if they got behind on lease payments, and should have been mentioned in the leasing contract. Since they were no longer bound by that contract due to the ownership change, they have no right to remotely disable the car. If the dealership has a smart lawyer they're already mowing the guy's yard, sucking him off, and asking how many 0's he'd like on the settlement check.
http://nypdnews.com/2017/08/de...
Interesting part:
"The contract entered provided for the smartphones at no cost. It also allowed for the NYPD to replace the smartphones with devices of our choosing two years later, also at no cost."
She also claims that they're already neck deep in Windows, so the Windows phones were easier to roll out. Plus, iOS and Android didn't allow "us to cost-effectively utilize prior investment in custom Windows applications."
As others have noted, she's a political appointee. It would be interesting to find out why or how the contract provided for the smartphones at no cost.
My guess is that Microsoft would take care of her, if they haven't already.
Yeah, if I could just pause that moment. Glad you enjoyed your visit to TN.
Ah, that feeling when you went for "Funny" and ended up with "Insightful" and "Interesting".
They're now within one order of magnitude of the prices at Publix.
We live in Franklin, TN, just south of the edge of the zone of occlusion. Actually, we could hit the south edge of the zone with a 15 minute drive. But I wanted to be closer to center line.
We went to Gallatin, TN, and decided to go to Bledsoe Creek State Park. I would realize later that the center line passes through the north side of the park, which explained the large number of people there. The park was closed with police guarding the entrance, and cars parked along the road outside.
We found a historic school house with a few other folks there, large open yard, and no street lights. Perfect. Cario, TN:
https://goo.gl/maps/EDBEDPj1XY...
Getting there was easy, getting out took a lot longer.
We had maximum time there, over 2 and a half minutes. I got a couple of pictures, but mostly just looked at it. It reminds you of what the word "awesome" was made for.
Or, don't participate in riots. That's been my personal plan and it's worked out pretty well for the last 50 years.
Government is really on a hell of a fishing expedition here.
I highly doubt there's any planning of violence/vandalism on the site. That sort of stuff sounds like spur of the moment stuff. Do they really think protesters, in general, go out with malicious intent?
Obviously not. I mean, they bring baseball bats in case a game breaks out (odd, nobody remembered to bring a ball!) and urine-filled balloons in case a water balloon fight breaks out. What fun!
Problem? This isn't a bug, it's a feature. Look: it channels vast amounts of tax dollars into the pockets of US corporations, while also propping up the government of Afghanistan so as to channel even more tax dollars into the US military-industrial complex.
Related:
https://www.opensecrets.org/or...
Looks like your typical DC "company" - donate to Democrats and get lucrative government contracts in return.
Oblig: This is He-Man!
Yeah, I can't imagine how much time he's spending at the gym to get his calves that big.
And in Charlottesville all they sell are white hoods and crosses. And Slim Jims.
And tiki fuel.
Or just wait until it comes out on netflix. The only movies I see now in the theatre are really good movies where the big screen makes a difference. That amounts to me seeing a movie every few years outside my house.
Recurring revenue is all companies can think about and it is destroying things
What really bothers me about it isn't the recurring revenue, but the fixed pie. Looking at streaming media services, as an example, we now pretty much have a fixed pie in the music world. It's a zero-sum game now. If I make a dollar with my music, someone else doesn't. If 5 extremely good albums come out this year, people will spend no more on music.
Ultimately, this is the problem with a system like this. If a couple of really good movies come out, that means that everybody else will simply make less (I know, that's not how it works now,but it'll quickly head toward a Netflix model). Zero-sum games suck.
There's plenty of garbage on netflix. So I hit the back button and watch something else. Try that in the theatre after you've driven 20 minutes and paid $50 for the family to be there, not even including the food & drinks.
You have to go to the drive-in to "get it". It's not just the movie - it's the atmosphere. When I lived in Indiana there was a drive-in outside of Bloomington. Imagine seeing a movie with your friends, with a grill, your own chairs, whatever food you want, etc. The sound sucks, as a given. But it's a cultural experience kind of like tailgating.
Just saw this:
http://legalinsurrection.com/2...
Again, they're escalating their attacks.
There haven't been many deaths, yet. (And, no, right wing terrorists haven't committed more attacks than Islamic nutjobs since 9/11 - that's been thoroughly debunked everywhere)
We do know that an "antifa" idiot was whacking people over the head with a bicycle lock at one violent event. We know that a left-wing kook shot and tried to kill Republican congressmen a couple of months ago. We know that one used the SPLC's map to find the family research council and go in looking to kill people. The left-wing violence in Charlottesville was over the top - the white supremacists were forced by the police to walk through the crowd of left-wingers, who then attacked them.