Cash is totally anonymous and its use can't be restricted. If you have cash, you can go anywhere you want, any time you want, and do anything you want without having to ask permission from some faceless agency. An electronic payment can be denied if some faceless agency decides that you aren't allowed to do whatever it is you're trying to pay for. By the same token, electric cars are a slippery slope. As long as you have cash, you can buy gasoline and go wherever you want, whenever you want. But if you have to use some internet-connected machine to charge an electric car, the aforementioned faceless agency can decide that no, as a matter of fact, you aren't allowed to charge your car. To be sure, restricting your movement is easier when the car has to get permission to move at all via wireless internet but even if you manage to disable that aspect of it, eventually, you'll have to charge the battery and no charging station takes cash.
There is no fundamental difference between "free" money and a "guaranteed" job. Make no mistake. There is ALWAYS a price to pay and when something is free, YOU are the product being bought and sold by someone else. "Free" money or a tenured job just means that those giving it to you expect your total loyalty.
"We apologize for the inconvenience." bullcrap. I had the same exchange with the morons at Sears appliance service. They kept transferring me to god-awful call centers in Bangalore or some other place where their accents are so thick that talking to someone in the Deep South would be easier. After talking to six different people, I realized that they are all working off the same set of rules: Ask for the same damn information over and over, Try to sympathize, Pretend your computer is frozen, Blow off the customer.
These bastards had the balls to try to sell me a whole-home warranty. Why the eff would I buy that when I can't get you bastards to come fix my dishwasher? No wonder your company is going down in flames and good effing riddance.
I look into this crap too particularly because they're pitching this insane peak demand plan where you get dinged for spikes in usage such as when your air conditioner compressor fires up. That can be a spike of 20 KW and they ding you for something like $17 per KW. So if the stupid meter happens to be sampling when the A/C turns on, look out because you're going to get a bill for several hundred dollars. But they don't tell you this. They say, "Oh, well don't turn your pool pump or irrigation pump on between 3 and 8 pm." Yeah, um, I don't have those. What's my A/C which I would use during the hottest part of the day going to cost? They won't tell you. Total B.S.
You remove said 128TB card from your computer. Being the butter-fingers that you are, you drop it on the floor. While trying to find it, you roll over it with your office chair thus breaking it in half.
Witness the pointlessness of politicians at work. Wildfires are declared a TFR (Temporary Flight Restriction) area by the FAA. Flying in one without authorization is already a crime. Try making it stick though. Last summer during the Goodwin Fire here in Arizona, some asshat flew his Phantom around one of the fire observation towers. He was caught later and arrested but the Sheriff's Office was unable to determine for sure when he was flying because DJI has the stupid thing encrypted.
This is the kind of B.S. that's been around for years. Here's a list of the fees on my electric bill: Cost of electricity you used Customer account charge $15.12 Delivery service charge $1.62 Environmental benefits surcharge $0.47 System benefits charge $0.11 Power supply adjustment* $0.18 Metering* $44.31 Meter reading* $0.27 Billing* $0.90 Generation of electricity* $3.36 Federal transmission and ancillary services* $0.32 Federal transmission cost adjustment* $0.01 LFCR adjustor $0.12 Tax Expense Adjustor -$0.20
Ridiculous, right? That "metering" fee for a whopping $44.31 is for a fancy shmansy meter capable of handling three-phase service. Here's the kicker: I don't have three-phase service. But the electric company refuses to come change out the meter.
60% of Americans have no emergency fund. A lot have no savings at all. Bullsh*t like laundry lists of fees and getting addicted to a rental economy is why.
I'm old enough to remember a) when straws were paper and b) when milk came not only in glass bottles but was delivered by a milk truck from the local dairy. I'll see your bullsh*t weekly famer's market with all the gourds and beeswax you want and raise you not one but three full-time farm markets with permanent structures, their own bakeries, and their own butcher shops.
Also, paper straws sucked...or didn't as the case may be. Pfft.
It's pretty obvious that this is coming from the group of people who are hell-bent on restricting people's freedom of movement. How are people supposed to be able to move freely about the country if they can't eat and drink while driving?
If what you're doing isn't written about in the 1984 book, you're not hacking. You're misappropriating other people's coolness and need to cut the crap.
Nope. The bubble is people's interest in climate change. People aren't giving a sh*t about it because they have come to the realization that solving it is too expensive for them.
Because the chat area is uncensored. I was watching one of those live streaming train channels and happened to glance over at the chat stream. Holy cow! There is some of the most racist, vile people on there. I guess people love the thrill of relative anonymity and the fact that nobody is going to physically kick their ass.
This is all you need to know about any global environmental agreements "...with only temporary exception of a few economically developing countries." "If everyone fulfills their end of the deal..."
If people are spending tons of money on equipment and electricity to mine bitcoin, what's to stop people from using the hardware to crack the private key?
When a city government can't keep it in their fiscal pants, they always find someone else to blame and foot the bill. Pension fund broke because they trusted a financial adviser who screwed the pooch and then said "Not my problem"? No worries, just raise taxes or create new ones. Nice work if you can get it.
Of course, the only people getting rich on this are the lawyers who get paid stupid amounts of money whether they win or lose. THOSE are the people who should be taxed heavily. But, of course, the lawyers run the government so they aren't going to tax themselves.
None of this would be happening if Hillary won the election. These same people calling for Facebook's head on a platter would be cheering the use of social media as a major factor in electoral politics and heralding whomever they used as their social media coordinators. You would never hear the words "collusion" or "dossier" or "Stormy Daniels."
It's funny when people are hoist by their own petar.
When political opponents say that whatever their political rival is doing is the "wrong approach" but neglect to offer a realistic alternative, my ass begins to twitch.
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Cash is totally anonymous and its use can't be restricted. If you have cash, you can go anywhere you want, any time you want, and do anything you want without having to ask permission from some faceless agency. An electronic payment can be denied if some faceless agency decides that you aren't allowed to do whatever it is you're trying to pay for. By the same token, electric cars are a slippery slope. As long as you have cash, you can buy gasoline and go wherever you want, whenever you want. But if you have to use some internet-connected machine to charge an electric car, the aforementioned faceless agency can decide that no, as a matter of fact, you aren't allowed to charge your car. To be sure, restricting your movement is easier when the car has to get permission to move at all via wireless internet but even if you manage to disable that aspect of it, eventually, you'll have to charge the battery and no charging station takes cash.
There is no fundamental difference between "free" money and a "guaranteed" job. Make no mistake. There is ALWAYS a price to pay and when something is free, YOU are the product being bought and sold by someone else. "Free" money or a tenured job just means that those giving it to you expect your total loyalty.
Designed by Deep Thought to calculate the ultimate question.
Wake me when it can auto-fast-forward through the commercials.
When they get to 300, sh*t's gonna get real.
Seriously, in DAILY life? I call major B.S. on this.
That paragon of journalistic integrity?
"We apologize for the inconvenience." bullcrap. I had the same exchange with the morons at Sears appliance service. They kept transferring me to god-awful call centers in Bangalore or some other place where their accents are so thick that talking to someone in the Deep South would be easier. After talking to six different people, I realized that they are all working off the same set of rules: Ask for the same damn information over and over, Try to sympathize, Pretend your computer is frozen, Blow off the customer.
These bastards had the balls to try to sell me a whole-home warranty. Why the eff would I buy that when I can't get you bastards to come fix my dishwasher? No wonder your company is going down in flames and good effing riddance.
I look into this crap too particularly because they're pitching this insane peak demand plan where you get dinged for spikes in usage such as when your air conditioner compressor fires up. That can be a spike of 20 KW and they ding you for something like $17 per KW. So if the stupid meter happens to be sampling when the A/C turns on, look out because you're going to get a bill for several hundred dollars. But they don't tell you this. They say, "Oh, well don't turn your pool pump or irrigation pump on between 3 and 8 pm." Yeah, um, I don't have those. What's my A/C which I would use during the hottest part of the day going to cost? They won't tell you. Total B.S.
You remove said 128TB card from your computer. Being the butter-fingers that you are, you drop it on the floor. While trying to find it, you roll over it with your office chair thus breaking it in half.
Witness the pointlessness of politicians at work. Wildfires are declared a TFR (Temporary Flight Restriction) area by the FAA. Flying in one without authorization is already a crime. Try making it stick though. Last summer during the Goodwin Fire here in Arizona, some asshat flew his Phantom around one of the fire observation towers. He was caught later and arrested but the Sheriff's Office was unable to determine for sure when he was flying because DJI has the stupid thing encrypted.
This is the kind of B.S. that's been around for years. Here's a list of the fees on my electric bill:
Cost of electricity you used
Customer account charge $15.12
Delivery service charge $1.62
Environmental benefits surcharge $0.47
System benefits charge $0.11
Power supply adjustment* $0.18
Metering* $44.31
Meter reading* $0.27
Billing* $0.90
Generation of electricity* $3.36
Federal transmission and ancillary services* $0.32
Federal transmission cost adjustment* $0.01
LFCR adjustor $0.12
Tax Expense Adjustor -$0.20
Ridiculous, right? That "metering" fee for a whopping $44.31 is for a fancy shmansy meter capable of handling three-phase service. Here's the kicker: I don't have three-phase service. But the electric company refuses to come change out the meter.
60% of Americans have no emergency fund. A lot have no savings at all. Bullsh*t like laundry lists of fees and getting addicted to a rental economy is why.
I'm old enough to remember a) when straws were paper and b) when milk came not only in glass bottles but was delivered by a milk truck from the local dairy. I'll see your bullsh*t weekly famer's market with all the gourds and beeswax you want and raise you not one but three full-time farm markets with permanent structures, their own bakeries, and their own butcher shops.
Also, paper straws sucked...or didn't as the case may be. Pfft.
It's pretty obvious that this is coming from the group of people who are hell-bent on restricting people's freedom of movement. How are people supposed to be able to move freely about the country if they can't eat and drink while driving?
If what you're doing isn't written about in the 1984 book, you're not hacking. You're misappropriating other people's coolness and need to cut the crap.
Pick a time and say and get millions of people to jump.
You're going to get it. So what good is a test if it can't tell you if you're going to get it early on?
Nope. The bubble is people's interest in climate change. People aren't giving a sh*t about it because they have come to the realization that solving it is too expensive for them.
Because the chat area is uncensored. I was watching one of those live streaming train channels and happened to glance over at the chat stream. Holy cow! There is some of the most racist, vile people on there. I guess people love the thrill of relative anonymity and the fact that nobody is going to physically kick their ass.
This is all you need to know about any global environmental agreements
"...with only temporary exception of a few economically developing countries."
"If everyone fulfills their end of the deal..."
If people are spending tons of money on equipment and electricity to mine bitcoin, what's to stop people from using the hardware to crack the private key?
When a city government can't keep it in their fiscal pants, they always find someone else to blame and foot the bill. Pension fund broke because they trusted a financial adviser who screwed the pooch and then said "Not my problem"? No worries, just raise taxes or create new ones. Nice work if you can get it.
Of course, the only people getting rich on this are the lawyers who get paid stupid amounts of money whether they win or lose. THOSE are the people who should be taxed heavily. But, of course, the lawyers run the government so they aren't going to tax themselves.
None of this would be happening if Hillary won the election. These same people calling for Facebook's head on a platter would be cheering the use of social media as a major factor in electoral politics and heralding whomever they used as their social media coordinators. You would never hear the words "collusion" or "dossier" or "Stormy Daniels."
It's funny when people are hoist by their own petar.
It's amazing to see how often different environmental chicken littles clash.
When political opponents say that whatever their political rival is doing is the "wrong approach" but neglect to offer a realistic alternative, my ass begins to twitch.