"Mine too (a debit card in my case), although you'll probably find that it's a contactless smart card, not RFID.
I would get rid of it entirely, but it's my ATM card as well so I kinda need it."
It isn't a problem at all. My bank tried sending me those too...not only that, they changed it to a combination ATM/Debit card.
I called them up and stated I did not want a Debit card...only ATM, and I absolutely did NOT want a RFID or contactless smart card, I just wanted a simple, old fashioned ATM card.
They were quite nice, apologized and my new simple ATM card came in the mail about a week later.
You just have to ask them for exactly what you want.
In addition to the Feds taking over our Internet, and other fun stuff...looks like Senate Bill SB 510 apparently passed.
The he Food Safety Modernization Act is so broadly worded...that it could really kill out local farmer's markets, organic farmers....and the parts I don't like, may make it legal only for big companies like our friends at Monstanto, to be in charge of storing and distributing seeds.
Man...what is the deal these days with the Feds and the intrusiveness? I mean..it doesn't get much more basic that FOOD.
Who's to say WHAT is a critical business infrastructure? Sure, it may start now with financial institutions, the power grid, etc...things I think many people could agree upon. But as with all govt. regulations....you will get scope creep, it is just the nature of the beast.
Look at the recent discussion here about the move to force many if not most websites to conform to new ADA guidlines?!?!
In that argument, they said the *MIGHT* not force private, small websites to comply....might not??
Once the Feds can get into private companies and tell them what to do...it is kinda like the mob, they get more and more and more involved. Once this starts spilling over into small businesses...the cost of regulations will likely knock a lot of the smaller guys off, and close the market to new competition from smaller businesses.
I didn't even have to finish reading the synopsis here before clearly thinking:
Not A Chance In Hell
Geez...I don't want identifying RFID's on my tires, clothes, credit cards or passports, why the fsck would I want them for my phone and to actively contribute to corporations data stores on me and my habits?
I still prefer good old cash for most transactions.
"They saying "If you find a job you love you will never work a day in your life." is false. There will be boring parts or parts that you will not enjoy for your job."
I dunno. Tell that to the guy that auditions new pr0n talent.
I'd think you'd never get tired of the 'screening' process for new chicks cuming in the office to get into the biz.
Someone should attach an amendment to this bill that if passed, rolls back copyright terms to 15yrs from publication retroactively, and then let's see how much they are for it?
If they rolled back copyright length, they there'd be much less likely hood any site would need to be blocked.
You know..I could see a use for just a fscking phone...BUT...I'd need text I think.
I never really even knew much about it...till just after Katrina, and then discovered it was about the only way to communicate with anyone via cell phone who had a 504 area code.
I've steadily gotten more and more hooked on it, even with the extra cost. Hell, these days...I txt pretty much everything, and rarely use the voice call unless I need a quick clarification or am driving.
"It's about respect. If you can't respect the dead body, you wouldn't respect it when it was walking and talking. If you're going to covertly play Invasion of the Body Snatchers with people's deceased loved ones, it's not that far of a leap to do it to a living human being."
I dunno...I think there is a pretty easy to see difference between removing a liver from a dead guy, and removing one from a living human being.
The living guy still needs his to live...the dead guy? Not so much...
"After all drinking while driving is illegal and so is drinking while being a passenger "
Actually, only until just a few years ago....that too was legal down here in NOLA (maybe even greater LA).
But, MADD (or DAMM as I like to call them)...helped push it through.
Used to, if you had a drink in your hand and got pulled over, all you had to do was hand it to your passenger and they couldn't get you for driving with a drink. I'm not sure now tho....I've not read the law in awhile, but even now, I don't think the passenger with an open container is all THAT bad...some type of fine I think.
On the positive side, we do STILL have to-go cups for drinks to go at bars here in NOLA, and also have drive thru daiquiri shops.
"Alcatel-Lucent will use the GPS chip in smart phones and estimate the speed at which these phones are traveling and also the text typing patterns and pauses and correlate it with the zigs and zags of the GPS trace. Once it determines it is the case of texting-while-driving it will automatically call 9-1-1 and have an ambul^H^H^H^H^H mortuary van following the car to scrape the remains of the driver off the road."
Err....but what if it is one of the passangers that is doing the texting while in the car?
One that came to mind, is the one in Scarface..where they show the car outside with the guy flirting with the girl...and pans around inside the hotel to where Al Pacino is tied up in the shower and the guy from Colombia is threatening him with the chain saw.
That was some pretty powerful stuff there...I think that is what almost got them an X rating back in the day.
"Sure, you don't want wasted time in film. Long cuts, however, don't need to have wasted time -- especially if the screenplay is tight. (Of course, that also requires the actors to be sharp, and everything else to be done right the first time.)"
Yep..one of my favorite "Long Shot" movies...is composed ONLY of long shots, edited to try to make the whole movie look like one long shot. That is Alfred Hitchcock's Rope.
It is a classic film...and strangely enough, it was my first exposure to Hitchcock. Definitely different, but entertaining.
I'm a bit surprised they didn't mention this one in the article, it is the long cuts long cut.
"Humans are emotional beings. This is wrong in the same way that them walking over to the grave and literally shitting on it would be. It really wouldn't make sense to argue that the body is dead and beyond being affected by human excrement. For that matter, by this reasoning the government could steal the bodies and eat them. Again, the body doesn't care."
I agree that people are emotional about LOSING a friend/relative. But that is being sad about them as a person being gone.
Who gets upset about the leftover body tho...that isn't the person any more when they're dead.
I guess I just don't get what the hangup is with people over what happens to the body after a person has 'left' it. It is only useless meat once that occurs.
And with that in mind..I don't see anything sue-able here. I mean...c'mon, the family found out later, after they either burned or buried the body, that not quite 100% of it got burned or buried, and that causes emotional stress and they want monetary compensation for that?@!?!?
"But, are these companies planning on using local talent or importing talent from other areas?"
Well, by definition, once 'imported' talent comes to live and work there, it becomes 'local' talent.
I'm sure they'll be happy to hire anyone already there that fits the bill, but if nothing else, it can bring in an influx of new people that will help the area with a better tax base, etc.
"I wonder how hard it'll be to find employees in those areas. I doubt there's a glut of high tech workers looking for jobs in those rural areas and if I were a knowledgeable tech worker I wouldn't really want to move to such a rural area... If you're not into country music and you prefer dance clubs over small bars you would *not* want to move to those areas!"
Maybe not extremely young workers...but perhaps slightly older people, who are wanting to buy a house, and perhaps raise a family?
Places like this can be DIRT cheap to live. Cheap to buy property and build a home, and actually have some land for it to sit on.
Even if you do get a bit less of a bill rate than you would, say on the west coast...with the extremely LOW cost of living, lower taxes, etc, you can really sock some money away. Sure, it will be a bit different lifestyle, but slowing down a bit, getting out of all of the air polution, and actually being able to see some stars at night....well, sometimes, that ain't all bad.
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I would get rid of it entirely, but it's my ATM card as well so I kinda need it."
It isn't a problem at all. My bank tried sending me those too...not only that, they changed it to a combination ATM/Debit card.
I called them up and stated I did not want a Debit card...only ATM, and I absolutely did NOT want a RFID or contactless smart card, I just wanted a simple, old fashioned ATM card.
They were quite nice, apologized and my new simple ATM card came in the mail about a week later.
You just have to ask them for exactly what you want.
I didn't get mine till some time in like 9th grade..and my whole typing class signed up for SSN.
Kinda wish I'd have known then what I know now...and never have signed up for that fucker...
I don't want anything personally identifying information on my passport that can easily be read by anyone with enough electronic gear in the area.
In addition to the Feds taking over our Internet, and other fun stuff...looks like Senate Bill SB 510 apparently passed.
The he Food Safety Modernization Act is so broadly worded...that it could really kill out local farmer's markets, organic farmers....and the parts I don't like, may make it legal only for big companies like our friends at Monstanto, to be in charge of storing and distributing seeds.
Man...what is the deal these days with the Feds and the intrusiveness? I mean..it doesn't get much more basic that FOOD.
Who's to say WHAT is a critical business infrastructure? Sure, it may start now with financial institutions, the power grid, etc...things I think many people could agree upon. But as with all govt. regulations....you will get scope creep, it is just the nature of the beast.
Look at the recent discussion here about the move to force many if not most websites to conform to new ADA guidlines?!?!
In that argument, they said the *MIGHT* not force private, small websites to comply....might not??
Once the Feds can get into private companies and tell them what to do...it is kinda like the mob, they get more and more and more involved. Once this starts spilling over into small businesses...the cost of regulations will likely knock a lot of the smaller guys off, and close the market to new competition from smaller businesses.
Not A Chance In Hell
Geez...I don't want identifying RFID's on my tires, clothes, credit cards or passports, why the fsck would I want them for my phone and to actively contribute to corporations data stores on me and my habits?
I still prefer good old cash for most transactions.
Hey...at least you still had tunes while you waited for help to arrive!!
I know, I know.
I heard it put once that the best definition of the lottery was: " A voluntary tax for those that can't do math".
But when I buy $5 worth every once in awhile....it buys me about 2 days or so of daydreaming of what I'd do if I won all that money....
But....does it run Linux?
I dunno. Tell that to the guy that auditions new pr0n talent.
I'd think you'd never get tired of the 'screening' process for new chicks cuming in the office to get into the biz.
Is it difficult to get a work visa to come over there for awhile?
I've always wanted to hang out in Amsterdam for awhile...it sounds like a fun place!!
Powerball jackpot winner!!
All I need is a few million dollars to invest...live off the dividends...and NEVER have to work again a day in my life.
I'd never be bored...I'd like to have the Charlie Harper lifestyle...
Except, I think it is against the law to sell or otherwise make money from selling body parts or fluids, isn't it?
When I had sprint...post Katrina...I could hardly get a signal in most parts of the city.
Guess it is really location dependent.
If they rolled back copyright length, they there'd be much less likely hood any site would need to be blocked.
I never really even knew much about it...till just after Katrina, and then discovered it was about the only way to communicate with anyone via cell phone who had a 504 area code.
I've steadily gotten more and more hooked on it, even with the extra cost. Hell, these days...I txt pretty much everything, and rarely use the voice call unless I need a quick clarification or am driving.
I dunno...I think there is a pretty easy to see difference between removing a liver from a dead guy, and removing one from a living human being.
The living guy still needs his to live...the dead guy? Not so much...
Actually, only until just a few years ago....that too was legal down here in NOLA (maybe even greater LA).
But, MADD (or DAMM as I like to call them)...helped push it through.
Used to, if you had a drink in your hand and got pulled over, all you had to do was hand it to your passenger and they couldn't get you for driving with a drink. I'm not sure now tho....I've not read the law in awhile, but even now, I don't think the passenger with an open container is all THAT bad...some type of fine I think.
On the positive side, we do STILL have to-go cups for drinks to go at bars here in NOLA, and also have drive thru daiquiri shops.
Passengers I mean...geez, I gotta start using the preview.
Err....but what if it is one of the passangers that is doing the texting while in the car?
Nothing illegal about that is there?
One that came to mind, is the one in Scarface..where they show the car outside with the guy flirting with the girl...and pans around inside the hotel to where Al Pacino is tied up in the shower and the guy from Colombia is threatening him with the chain saw.
That was some pretty powerful stuff there...I think that is what almost got them an X rating back in the day.
Yep..one of my favorite "Long Shot" movies...is composed ONLY of long shots, edited to try to make the whole movie look like one long shot. That is Alfred Hitchcock's Rope.
It is a classic film...and strangely enough, it was my first exposure to Hitchcock. Definitely different, but entertaining.
I'm a bit surprised they didn't mention this one in the article, it is the long cuts long cut.
I agree that people are emotional about LOSING a friend/relative. But that is being sad about them as a person being gone.
Who gets upset about the leftover body tho...that isn't the person any more when they're dead.
I guess I just don't get what the hangup is with people over what happens to the body after a person has 'left' it. It is only useless meat once that occurs.
And with that in mind..I don't see anything sue-able here. I mean...c'mon, the family found out later, after they either burned or buried the body, that not quite 100% of it got burned or buried, and that causes emotional stress and they want monetary compensation for that?@!?!?
Please..get real.
Well, by definition, once 'imported' talent comes to live and work there, it becomes 'local' talent.
I'm sure they'll be happy to hire anyone already there that fits the bill, but if nothing else, it can bring in an influx of new people that will help the area with a better tax base, etc.
Maybe not extremely young workers...but perhaps slightly older people, who are wanting to buy a house, and perhaps raise a family?
Places like this can be DIRT cheap to live. Cheap to buy property and build a home, and actually have some land for it to sit on.
Even if you do get a bit less of a bill rate than you would, say on the west coast...with the extremely LOW cost of living, lower taxes, etc, you can really sock some money away. Sure, it will be a bit different lifestyle, but slowing down a bit, getting out of all of the air polution, and actually being able to see some stars at night....well, sometimes, that ain't all bad.