In Argentina,central bank regulations require a separation between ATMs, and they should have dividers (like bathroom stalls? just much smaller. Enough for the next person not seeing you).
And out of curiosity, human tellers are now facing a wall, not the whole bank. You have to wait outside and only enter after they call NEXT (or your number). So if you're withdrawing a lot of cash into a purse no one else can see you.
At my shop the bulk of card operations is Debit mastercard, which in Argentina has a PIN. And most of those people are low level government employees. Dumb as they come. The dumber the people, the more they spend. And they can easily remember their 4-digit PIN.
> Have the world's most secure currency made of plastic. > People refuse to use it
wtf australia.
also, i love those city dweller types. One day they leave the city, stop at some place not even 10 minutes away from it, and find the place is cash only.
I stand behind you in the line, see you type your PIN into the terminal, wait for you outside, mug you, then use your card.
Really? You couldn't think of that one? It is that easy. They sell little "shades" for CC terminals to avoid this, but they are accessories. Most CC terminals don't have them.
In Argentina, Visa has magstripe (or chip, in newer cards) + signature. Debit Mastercard (called Maestro for some reason), have magstripe, pin, and signature. The PIN is the same as your ATM PIN.
And for both you have to show ID (required by law, which shocks a lot of US clients in tourist areas).
I'm in Argentina. My CC terminal (VeriFone VX520, issued by Visa since visa has this racket that you can only rent, and not own, CC terminals from them or Mastercard) has an EMV reader. Only really new cards in Argentina have this, and out of pure curiosity I tried it with a client's instead of the mag stripe and it worked fine.
Visa has been issuing these units for a couple of years and before that they had another model which also had an EMV reader. It's right under the keyboard. You stick the card in (like you do on an ATM) and you feel it "clicks" on a little switch that enables the chip.
So probably you have seen EMV readers. You just don't know you have.
i wonder what the public opinion would be if the true "horrors of war" were shown on TV? You know, soldiers massacrating people (which is what war is, literally).
Would they still call them "boys" as in "bring our boys back home"? Will they be received as heroes?
The Epson 1430 I bought last year has the same print head and driver as the R220 I bought 10 years ago. It's exactly the same quality. Nothing has changed. They are incredibly good images with a 6-color ink set (even better if you get 11-color printers but that's over the top).
Well, you know, when everyone has a problem with you, the problem isn't everyone. The problem is you.
Sorry to break it to ya, dude, but you're the "special little snowflake". Your points are just anecdotical. Not everyone is a miserable loser like you, who (still) blames the school system for all their problems.
They have an office in Argentina. But that's not the point here.
We're talking about a US company, selling a product in/from the US to Argentina, but paying taxes in Ireland. If the product was made in the US, with US technology, from a US datacenter, manned by US people... why does the income go to Ireland?
I live in Argentina. I pay Facebook Ads to a company called Facebook Ireland. I'm dealing with a US company (Facebook, Inc.) which provides me a service in Argentina (targeted ads), from the US (where their servers are located), and yet my money goes to Ireland.
and i think this is the whole point of it. These companies (Facebook, Apple, WhatsApp, Google, etc), all want you to use their dumbed down, one-size-fits-all product. There are no options to customize anything. Everything else is not available to the user, or is hidden. Firefox is also jumping in on this idea that people don't want any buttons, and that you should just remove everything from the UI. Now you can't even turn off JS from the GUI without a plugin (sorry, an add-on).
So, facebook comes in boring blue. All images are the same size. all text is the same color. You get out of your 9-to-5 work at a cubicle and go into your facebook cubicle.
But the thing is: a lot of people want to customize things. Guys just loooove slick blue-on-black. Girls love iOS omg white with cute handwritten font. But no. These companies don't let you take that decision. It's not up to you. Do people suck at "theming" their computers? GOD YES, "menu bar" background images are just horrible. but some people like it. Even if it's horrible, it looks good to them, and guess what? Just let it be. Let the user be able to skin their stuff. Why go all soviet on them?
So people find ways to do this with "alternative" apps that do more harm than good (like those facebook "plugins" that let you add emoticons and shit - guess what! Facebook had to incorporate that. )
And yes. I remember MySpace. I remember what a pain it was. how truly AWFUL those profiles looked like. Completely unreadable, just garbage. But that's how the owner of the profile liked it. So, let it be. What's next? Municipalities telling people what color they should paint their house? (oh yes, that already exists in some "communities" in the US)
He used an euphemism, and he's right. You're being a pedantic idiot. peering, management, power and data centers are STILL THERE. It doesn't cost more money to transfer more data. Capital costs and operational costs are THE SAME wether you transfer 400 terabytes or 400 megabytes. In the end there's just consumers paying a monthly fee for a service wether they use it or not. And you want to serve those clients for PEAK demand. Just like you do with power. That kid downloading torrents really is just a drop in the ocean compared to the thousands of people NOT torrenting but still paying for their service.
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hah, and "actual calculations" open the possibility of "creative accounting"...
This is going to put many a libertarian in a hissy fit.
You know, your typical 100K/yr libertarian that has no chance of ever getting hit by a tax like this.
The typical libertarian who wants complete deregulation of *everything* but complains when Comcast is their only broadband choice.
Yes. That's why I refuse service to blacks.
If a black walks into my shop he is very likely to carry a gun and rob me.
It's about avoiding unnecessary risk.
TFA says 160MB. Which is reasonable considering the CPU is 20MHz
It's 128K nowadays. And the SIMs here in Argentina are free if you buy a phone, or $1 if you buy the SIM at any random store on the street.
In Argentina,central bank regulations require a separation between ATMs, and they should have dividers (like bathroom stalls? just much smaller. Enough for the next person not seeing you).
And out of curiosity, human tellers are now facing a wall, not the whole bank. You have to wait outside and only enter after they call NEXT (or your number). So if you're withdrawing a lot of cash into a purse no one else can see you.
You're just a special little snowflake.
At my shop the bulk of card operations is Debit mastercard, which in Argentina has a PIN. And most of those people are low level government employees. Dumb as they come.
The dumber the people, the more they spend. And they can easily remember their 4-digit PIN.
> Have the world's most secure currency made of plastic.
> People refuse to use it
wtf australia.
also, i love those city dweller types. One day they leave the city, stop at some place not even 10 minutes away from it, and find the place is cash only.
I stand behind you in the line, see you type your PIN into the terminal, wait for you outside, mug you, then use your card.
Really? You couldn't think of that one? It is that easy. They sell little "shades" for CC terminals to avoid this, but they are accessories. Most CC terminals don't have them.
In Argentina, Visa has magstripe (or chip, in newer cards) + signature. Debit Mastercard (called Maestro for some reason), have magstripe, pin, and signature. The PIN is the same as your ATM PIN.
And for both you have to show ID (required by law, which shocks a lot of US clients in tourist areas).
I'm in Argentina. My CC terminal (VeriFone VX520, issued by Visa since visa has this racket that you can only rent, and not own, CC terminals from them or Mastercard) has an EMV reader. Only really new cards in Argentina have this, and out of pure curiosity I tried it with a client's instead of the mag stripe and it worked fine.
Visa has been issuing these units for a couple of years and before that they had another model which also had an EMV reader. It's right under the keyboard. You stick the card in (like you do on an ATM) and you feel it "clicks" on a little switch that enables the chip.
So probably you have seen EMV readers. You just don't know you have.
How about me? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Better video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
This is what I did, exactly for what OP wants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
This is what I did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
You mean like, when the United States massacrated the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, right?
i wonder what the public opinion would be if the true "horrors of war" were shown on TV?
You know, soldiers massacrating people (which is what war is, literally).
Would they still call them "boys" as in "bring our boys back home"? Will they be received as heroes?
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The Epson 1430 I bought last year has the same print head and driver as the R220 I bought 10 years ago. It's exactly the same quality. Nothing has changed. They are incredibly good images with a 6-color ink set (even better if you get 11-color printers but that's over the top).
Well, you know, when everyone has a problem with you, the problem isn't everyone. The problem is you.
Sorry to break it to ya, dude, but you're the "special little snowflake". Your points are just anecdotical. Not everyone is a miserable loser like you, who (still) blames the school system for all their problems.
Sorry.
They have an office in Argentina. But that's not the point here.
We're talking about a US company, selling a product in/from the US to Argentina, but paying taxes in Ireland. If the product was made in the US, with US technology, from a US datacenter, manned by US people... why does the income go to Ireland?
I live in Argentina. I pay Facebook Ads to a company called Facebook Ireland. I'm dealing with a US company (Facebook, Inc.) which provides me a service in Argentina (targeted ads), from the US (where their servers are located), and yet my money goes to Ireland.
I wonder why.
and i think this is the whole point of it. These companies (Facebook, Apple, WhatsApp, Google, etc), all want you to use their dumbed down, one-size-fits-all product. There are no options to customize anything. Everything else is not available to the user, or is hidden. Firefox is also jumping in on this idea that people don't want any buttons, and that you should just remove everything from the UI. Now you can't even turn off JS from the GUI without a plugin (sorry, an add-on).
So, facebook comes in boring blue. All images are the same size. all text is the same color. You get out of your 9-to-5 work at a cubicle and go into your facebook cubicle.
But the thing is: a lot of people want to customize things. Guys just loooove slick blue-on-black. Girls love iOS omg white with cute handwritten font. But no. These companies don't let you take that decision. It's not up to you. Do people suck at "theming" their computers? GOD YES, "menu bar" background images are just horrible. but some people like it. Even if it's horrible, it looks good to them, and guess what? Just let it be. Let the user be able to skin their stuff. Why go all soviet on them?
So people find ways to do this with "alternative" apps that do more harm than good (like those facebook "plugins" that let you add emoticons and shit - guess what! Facebook had to incorporate that. )
And yes. I remember MySpace. I remember what a pain it was. how truly AWFUL those profiles looked like. Completely unreadable, just garbage. But that's how the owner of the profile liked it. So, let it be. What's next? Municipalities telling people what color they should paint their house? (oh yes, that already exists in some "communities" in the US)
He used an euphemism, and he's right. You're being a pedantic idiot. peering, management, power and data centers are STILL THERE. It doesn't cost more money to transfer more data. Capital costs and operational costs are THE SAME wether you transfer 400 terabytes or 400 megabytes. In the end there's just consumers paying a monthly fee for a service wether they use it or not.
And you want to serve those clients for PEAK demand. Just like you do with power.
That kid downloading torrents really is just a drop in the ocean compared to the thousands of people NOT torrenting but still paying for their service.