They're part of the EU, and no doubt the US and EU have some back scratching deals to ensure everyone pays taxes to some degree or another. While we can debate who gets the better end of the deal, it is a natural solution to multinats trying to be above the law.
... until the primary products sold there are legalized. Several more states legalized pot this month. I expect it will be sold on Amazon in my lifetime
I still can't even buy alcohol on Sunday mornings. Queue the Texas conservative jokes, however when I lived in the liberal northeast my town did not allow ANY alcohol sales.
Getting rid of these laws is going to take a long time.
I would pay $5k tomorrow for fiber provided that the fiber installed could be serviced by any number of providers that i can select at will, without contract or obligation.
If comcast or att want it, I will not line up at town hall with torches and pitchforks, I will ram them up the offending CEOs more intelligent end while slapping the other end across the face with my terms of service.
Don't give up your fingerprint without having hired a lawyer to represent you. For the most part they can't just go looking for new crimes, although for sure they'll try particularly if no one is watching your back.
Absolutely. I don't even own google glass on the premise that it might make me violently nauseous, but if I saw someone kicked out for it I'd make a shit-storm, UNLESS he was also bothering other people, then he's on his own. I'm not about to enable anyone to set policy like this or set a precedent for toleration.
Since I live in Austin, and visit the Alamo Drafthouse, I would argue two things:
1) Their "popcorn money" isn't sold until the bill is cashed out (15 minutes before credit roll, usually). Thus they have more supervision, assuming people are using that somewhat expensive service. This model will never be "normal". 2) They tend to ignore you unless you're disturbing someone, or else the manager happens to be filling in for someone on break.
The only person I've ever seen thrown out was a) being a blatant asshole and b) made such a huge scene and distraction at being tossed that they ended up giving out free passes to everyone.
While I don't object to why that person was tossed out in the least, if I were tossed out for Google Glass I would basically require them to call the police. They would lose as much money as I could arrange. I'm willing to sit quietly and silence anything on me that is making noise or light, but the rest is fascist bullshit.
or the belief that movie theaters care very much about what happens after the popcorn money has been collected unless someone makes a huge deal out of it. I do my level best to ignore everyone else in the theater, I certainly won't notice google glass unless it's blinking like a discoball and singing stay'in alive...
even that won't cut it for anything Michael Bay...
I agree it is confusing, as this is not exactly a competition free space. "CurrentC Allegedly Breached" would have been a more appropriate headline, that also doesn't necessarily expose anyone to a lawsuit if it turns out to be bullshit.
You must not work in the corporate world. If you were not a confident idiot before joining, you will be after (or you'll be laid off). The guy who marches in the room with all the answers -> high value employee who knows his job and gets shit done. The guy who has more questions than answers? Incompetent idiot who ratholes meetings and deviates from the issue.
The irony is that usually the second guy is the more knowledgeable person, he knows enough to know he doesn't know shit. Unfortunately as in politics, the person with the snappy answer sets policy.
Is this 1852? Isn't technology supposed to be eliminating ancient, slow, outdated practices?
But in point of fact, yes, I did. And because of that, EVENTUALLY, the issue was resolved and I got my money back. I would much rather have used a CC, it's a lot easier to kill a transaction there.
I'm aware, but I still have my original checkbook from 10 years ago and it has plenty of checks left. While security is low, this kind of fraud comes with very heavy penalties (if caught). So it's not a great solution but a) it's becoming a thing of the past and b) it is treated harshly.
However when you voluntarily allow someone to deduct from your account, it's a vampire scenario. It's a lot harder to get the bank to undo the transaction. It's not a crime anymore, it's a billing issue... even if it's a blatantly abusive billing issue.
I definitely do not want to maintain the status quo when there are plenty of better ways. Apple Pay, if it works as advertised, seems like a big step forward. If CurrentC wants any love it all, it has to at least beat its competition.
Worst, have you ever tried to block a transaction made against your bank account? It's next to impossible. I had allowed a private health insurance company to deduct my monthly premium from my bank account. I cancelled and they still billed me, I called again to reiterate my cancellation and demand my money back, and they billed me again. I finally screamed at the bank until they locked the account, my health insurance company called about non-payment and I finally got it fixed.
I'm never allowing that again. I don't care about the final solution, but it is never going to be to give anyone access to my bank account. I personally think CurrentC will fail because it's not what Apple or Google wants, but whatever, they can all duke it out.
Would it diminish the credibility of physics research in the least if there were a Star Trek convention being held nearby? It's made up bullshit that some people take way too seriously.
I would rather we just rage that some company is deciding what we can/cannot run, regardless of their reasons. I won't argue that there is a value in pulling apps from a trusted source, and that I trust the apple app store more than say, the Android marketplace. But if I want an app that Apple has rejected, that I know to be good but simply goes against the grain of some legal/marketing/social worldview (like say a drone app) then nobody should decide I can't run it. Unless you jailbreak your iPhone, Apple gets to decide.
But if you are willing to let Apple be your sole decider of good taste, you really can't complain about their decisions. By definition they are arbitrary, good taste frequently is.
Life is life. Maximize the odds of maximal survival. That's an easy choice if you're willing to suppress any particular emotional attachment to children. At least if someone programmed the machine that way I can live with it, even if it isn't a comfortable choice.
Here's the "hard" one, if you work with insurance companies. You have 4 occupants and a child walks in front of the car. 100% chance of saving all 5 lives, with various injuries (likely grouped in some statistic a bucket of severity) versus killing the child and having no other injuries. Killing the child is much, much cheaper. A casket, a minor legal proceeding, children have very few estate liabilities to close out. Nice and clean.
It's not about AI, it's about humans using AI. The AI will have the capability of instantly drawing on the statistics of various types of collision data from safety testing and elsewhere and can reliably act in some prescribed way. Who is doing the prescription?
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Corporations avoid them because it is profitable to do so.
They're part of the EU, and no doubt the US and EU have some back scratching deals to ensure everyone pays taxes to some degree or another. While we can debate who gets the better end of the deal, it is a natural solution to multinats trying to be above the law.
... until the primary products sold there are legalized. Several more states legalized pot this month. I expect it will be sold on Amazon in my lifetime
I still can't even buy alcohol on Sunday mornings. Queue the Texas conservative jokes, however when I lived in the liberal northeast my town did not allow ANY alcohol sales.
Getting rid of these laws is going to take a long time.
tl; dr: It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
I would pay $5k tomorrow for fiber provided that the fiber installed could be serviced by any number of providers that i can select at will, without contract or obligation.
If comcast or att want it, I will not line up at town hall with torches and pitchforks, I will ram them up the offending CEOs more intelligent end while slapping the other end across the face with my terms of service.
Like, how do you even reach this point of reasoning.
Hurrrr I ride a hoers!
Don't give up your fingerprint without having hired a lawyer to represent you. For the most part they can't just go looking for new crimes, although for sure they'll try particularly if no one is watching your back.
Absolutely. I don't even own google glass on the premise that it might make me violently nauseous, but if I saw someone kicked out for it I'd make a shit-storm, UNLESS he was also bothering other people, then he's on his own. I'm not about to enable anyone to set policy like this or set a precedent for toleration.
Since I live in Austin, and visit the Alamo Drafthouse, I would argue two things:
1) Their "popcorn money" isn't sold until the bill is cashed out (15 minutes before credit roll, usually). Thus they have more supervision, assuming people are using that somewhat expensive service. This model will never be "normal".
2) They tend to ignore you unless you're disturbing someone, or else the manager happens to be filling in for someone on break.
The only person I've ever seen thrown out was a) being a blatant asshole and b) made such a huge scene and distraction at being tossed that they ended up giving out free passes to everyone.
While I don't object to why that person was tossed out in the least, if I were tossed out for Google Glass I would basically require them to call the police. They would lose as much money as I could arrange. I'm willing to sit quietly and silence anything on me that is making noise or light, but the rest is fascist bullshit.
or the belief that movie theaters care very much about what happens after the popcorn money has been collected unless someone makes a huge deal out of it. I do my level best to ignore everyone else in the theater, I certainly won't notice google glass unless it's blinking like a discoball and singing stay'in alive...
even that won't cut it for anything Michael Bay...
And what stops you from attaching it to your dog or your 5 yo?
Has there been some change over recent years that has made phones hard to get out of your pocket?
Skinny jeans.
I agree it is confusing, as this is not exactly a competition free space. "CurrentC Allegedly Breached" would have been a more appropriate headline, that also doesn't necessarily expose anyone to a lawsuit if it turns out to be bullshit.
Shh, nerd baiting makes the universe explode.
You must not work in the corporate world. If you were not a confident idiot before joining, you will be after (or you'll be laid off). The guy who marches in the room with all the answers -> high value employee who knows his job and gets shit done. The guy who has more questions than answers? Incompetent idiot who ratholes meetings and deviates from the issue.
The irony is that usually the second guy is the more knowledgeable person, he knows enough to know he doesn't know shit. Unfortunately as in politics, the person with the snappy answer sets policy.
Is this 1852? Isn't technology supposed to be eliminating ancient, slow, outdated practices?
But in point of fact, yes, I did. And because of that, EVENTUALLY, the issue was resolved and I got my money back. I would much rather have used a CC, it's a lot easier to kill a transaction there.
I'm aware, but I still have my original checkbook from 10 years ago and it has plenty of checks left. While security is low, this kind of fraud comes with very heavy penalties (if caught). So it's not a great solution but a) it's becoming a thing of the past and b) it is treated harshly.
However when you voluntarily allow someone to deduct from your account, it's a vampire scenario. It's a lot harder to get the bank to undo the transaction. It's not a crime anymore, it's a billing issue... even if it's a blatantly abusive billing issue.
I definitely do not want to maintain the status quo when there are plenty of better ways. Apple Pay, if it works as advertised, seems like a big step forward. If CurrentC wants any love it all, it has to at least beat its competition.
Worst, have you ever tried to block a transaction made against your bank account? It's next to impossible. I had allowed a private health insurance company to deduct my monthly premium from my bank account. I cancelled and they still billed me, I called again to reiterate my cancellation and demand my money back, and they billed me again. I finally screamed at the bank until they locked the account, my health insurance company called about non-payment and I finally got it fixed.
I'm never allowing that again. I don't care about the final solution, but it is never going to be to give anyone access to my bank account. I personally think CurrentC will fail because it's not what Apple or Google wants, but whatever, they can all duke it out.
We make great pets.
Every seat is the friendship seat for you, isn't it?
Amen. But perhaps that is the threat. Either make things better or they will make sure it happens.
Would it diminish the credibility of physics research in the least if there were a Star Trek convention being held nearby? It's made up bullshit that some people take way too seriously.
I would rather we just rage that some company is deciding what we can/cannot run, regardless of their reasons. I won't argue that there is a value in pulling apps from a trusted source, and that I trust the apple app store more than say, the Android marketplace. But if I want an app that Apple has rejected, that I know to be good but simply goes against the grain of some legal/marketing/social worldview (like say a drone app) then nobody should decide I can't run it. Unless you jailbreak your iPhone, Apple gets to decide.
But if you are willing to let Apple be your sole decider of good taste, you really can't complain about their decisions. By definition they are arbitrary, good taste frequently is.
Life is life. Maximize the odds of maximal survival. That's an easy choice if you're willing to suppress any particular emotional attachment to children. At least if someone programmed the machine that way I can live with it, even if it isn't a comfortable choice.
Here's the "hard" one, if you work with insurance companies. You have 4 occupants and a child walks in front of the car. 100% chance of saving all 5 lives, with various injuries (likely grouped in some statistic a bucket of severity) versus killing the child and having no other injuries. Killing the child is much, much cheaper. A casket, a minor legal proceeding, children have very few estate liabilities to close out. Nice and clean.
It's not about AI, it's about humans using AI. The AI will have the capability of instantly drawing on the statistics of various types of collision data from safety testing and elsewhere and can reliably act in some prescribed way. Who is doing the prescription?
No! No! No!
start->shut down
"Application Life Support is taking longer than expected to...."
Page fault. Auto-reboot. Millions dead.