I've seen it done lots of times, and it doesn't make a difference. Zero rating data on a metered service doesn't change usage or affect the marketplace. It causes 1-5% of heavy users to switch carriers to one that makes it cheaper to use the service more, but that's all. That's what it's designed to do, and that's all it actually does.
Eliminate the tax breaks for them, and you'd see many disappear. Too many are operating as for profit businesses to support the leaders, rather than non-profit charitable organizations.
Drivers licenses did not always have pictures on them. We have become the enemy we once mocked.
It was our parents generation that screwed it up. They abused the pictureless licenses, passing them amongst friends and faking them. So when they got in power, they changed the rules and laws to what we have today. The hippies grew up into fascists, and blamed their children for their actions.
They are both as senseless and not accidental. "accident" implies "upreventable". 99% of crashes are preventable.
Most drivers, most of the time, drive well, or there would be accidents continuously, literally everywhere.
Nope. You can drive quite poorly and still not have a crash. It takes 2 or more drivers driving poorly to have a crash, or one driver driving quite negligently or maliciously. There are literally accidents continuously and everywhere. Over 100 deaths a day in the US, or 3200 per day world-wide. Over 6500 injured per day. Roughly 1% of Americans are injured in a crash each year. Continuously and everywhere.
http://www.oppo.com/en/technol... Faster charging doesn't make it into consumer products? 30 minutes for 75% charge. Though I find it charges faster than that (about twice as fast), but they don't advertise the best case, they advertise the worst case, so they'll always meet it.
The problems with heat were there, but were evidently solved well enough to sell it. And in over a year of use, the battery is holding up much better than my Galaxy S3 did after a year. Though I noticed a drop in standby time after one of the Android updates, but I even reverted to verify it was the update, not age that caused it to drop to standby under 48 hours.
Most people understand and accept the risks of accidental deaths for the sake of modern conveniences, like driving in cars, flying commercial airliners, and of course, taking trains like this. The reason we react the way we do to terrorism is because it's a deliberate, cold-hearted act of barbarity that takes the lives of innocent people
You've not driven much, have you? Crashes are about 95% human error. Deliberate errors are most of those. The act of running the red was quite deliberate. The act of speeding while doing it. The act of hitting the other car may not have been deliberate, but then, if you point a gun and fire at someone, nobody assumes it was unintentional until proven otherwise, but with cars, it's the opposite. But the large number of insanely poor drivers allowed on the road, killing a 9/11 worth of people every month for 30 years proves people don't care about death.
The tragedy of the Paris attacks is not that so many people died. As you point out, probably more people died in traffic accidents that day in Europe. The tragedy is that those people died so needlessly.
No, it's that so many white people died. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl... People don't care if Africans die in the same numbers in terrorist attacks. Black lives matters is that people don't care when the Africans die, but white people die, and it's 90% of the news for weeks.
Houston is still very red. They gerrymandered the Democrats, so there are a number of Democratic areas, but they are concentrated and separate. This makes for a very very redneck feel if you are in west Houston (like Katy), and other places, and less red around Clear Lake.
Obviously you like Texas.
But not all of us want to be surrounded by right wing gun toting rednecks, and if you have experience with Texas you know that is what makes up the majority of the Texas population.
But that's not Austin. Austin is the home of the liberal state Uni. As such, it has *always* been the liberal bastion in the state of conservatives. That you don't know what you are talking about doesn't change reality. You might as well say that gays shouldn't consider living in San Francisco because so much of the US is homophobic. Two true and unrelated statements. It's not like Katy, Texas, a very conservative suburb of Houston, or Alice, TX, which is very rednect, or Rockwall, TX, which is all trailer parks. Austin is no more gun toting rednecks than Manhattan or LA.
You don't sound like you have any actual experience with Texas.
Ah yes, the "do my research for me, so I can ignore it" compliant. Thanks for playing, but not worth my time to educate the uneducable. If you choose to not believe reality, it's not my job to fix your mental illness.
Who the fuck knows? I do. I told you. You refused to listen and insist that you win an argument. Fine, you win. You are too dumb to learn anything, so you win every argument. Because nobody could ever inform your closed mind.
That's not a duplicate. If both of those people petitioned the SSA for a re-printed SSN card, there would be no duplication. If someone walks into Bob Smith's bank and asks for his money, claiming to be Bob Smith, he hasn't just duplicated Bob Smith.
Duplicates are when the SSA give the same number to two concurrent people. That's the only useful definition of that word, and that's why this story was interesting. It wasn't about fraud or illegal activity, it was about the SSA having the same SSN on record for multiple people. A rare event.
I don't know, and I don't care. Your non sequitur would have been interesting to bring up when the laws were passed, but are irrelevant to this discussion about reality, not what "should be". Go ride off into the sunset on your unicorn. Some of us still live in the real world.
Yeah, so how large is the regulatory body of the banks? How does that compare to the FAA or FCC as bodies regulating other industries?
There are a lot of laws, and a lot of talk about it, but the actual hands-on regulation is completely missing. Otherwise the credit swap crash wouldn't have happened, as it happened 20 years before, in almost exactly the same way. If we had planes falling out of the sky the same way time after time, do you think the FAA would have done something about it? Probably. But not with banks. Because they aren't regulated.
Thus, "identity theft" is a misnomer. It should be called
Fraud. Nothing more, nothing less. Lies for gain. Why would there be any confusion on the matter? Oh yeah, if you call it bank fraud, the bank would pay for their loss. When you call it identity theft, you blame the victim for the bank's poor security and reduce the bank's loss.
None of the leases check mileage, until it's time to turn it in. Feel free to lease a car with 500 mi per year limit, and buy it out at the end. The buy out may even be less than the mileage penalty.
Leases are often good because they have complicated and confusing rules that can be gamed by buyers.
Where I am, we have one number for tax, one number for health care, one number for drivers license, one number for passports, and nobody uses any of them improperly. But they are all secret, and not known to anyone who doesn't need to know it.
SSN is supposed to be secure, but everyone has it and it isn't secure.
It's illegal for the banks to use SSN for the reasons they do. But nobody enforces the law against the financial sector. So it's not the SSN that's the problem, but laissez faire.
The number of edge cases is pretty small. And those exceptions have travel papers that are a passport, even if not an official passport. It's illegal for a state to allow someone to be stateless, so unless someone renounces without permission, like a refugee, and is granted asylum, they'll have a passport. That's about it for legal residents without a passport of any kind.
You use save games. Save when you start something new, then save it after completed. You lose a few minutes if he runs off a cliff. It autosaves every time you zone, so you don't even have to manually save that often, just don't trigger an autosave after you lose him.
But yes, things like that happen when you have a free world. I'd rather put up with an infinitely free world where not every infinite thing was 100% tested, as the game wouldn't be released until after the heat death of the universe. If you want a fully tested game, you'll get something no more complex than Super Mario Bros. Even Skyrim was a step back from F3 and F:NV, where the very open world was much more constrained in Skyrim. Rather than well defined zones with set entry and exit points, where each zone was quite finite, and very testable, and moves between zones were more disjoint, in F3/NV, you could walk from the bottom left corner to top right via multiple paths, and no set zone doors you get in most games. It's a refreshing feel and much more immersive and realistic, where you don't have a person who can smite dragons who can't climb a rock or jump a hedge because that would break the zone barriers.
But I can see how that much freedom wouldn't appeal to those who want small, well defined games. The ones that play like movie versions of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Nah. Every "good" CEO I've worked with sucked at strategy. The "good" CEOs are the ones that network and build relationships. And be a good COO for the times they feel like interfering with things they shouldn't. A better CEO wouldn't play COO for the stuff they feel like, but I've never met a single one of those. The "good" ones are more spokespeople, and don't need hourly catch-ups with everyone in the company to make sure it's running the way they'd like.
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I've seen it done lots of times, and it doesn't make a difference. Zero rating data on a metered service doesn't change usage or affect the marketplace. It causes 1-5% of heavy users to switch carriers to one that makes it cheaper to use the service more, but that's all. That's what it's designed to do, and that's all it actually does.
Eliminate the tax breaks for them, and you'd see many disappear. Too many are operating as for profit businesses to support the leaders, rather than non-profit charitable organizations.
One covers the face, preventing identification, the other does not.
Drivers licenses did not always have pictures on them. We have become the enemy we once mocked.
It was our parents generation that screwed it up. They abused the pictureless licenses, passing them amongst friends and faking them. So when they got in power, they changed the rules and laws to what we have today. The hippies grew up into fascists, and blamed their children for their actions.
You probably wanted the word "continually" here.
Just using the A/C's words as they used them.
If people were better drivers, we'd not only have fewer crashes, but no traffic.
Most drivers, most of the time, drive well, or there would be accidents continuously, literally everywhere.
Nope. You can drive quite poorly and still not have a crash. It takes 2 or more drivers driving poorly to have a crash, or one driver driving quite negligently or maliciously. There are literally accidents continuously and everywhere. Over 100 deaths a day in the US, or 3200 per day world-wide. Over 6500 injured per day. Roughly 1% of Americans are injured in a crash each year. Continuously and everywhere.
http://www.oppo.com/en/technol... Faster charging doesn't make it into consumer products? 30 minutes for 75% charge. Though I find it charges faster than that (about twice as fast), but they don't advertise the best case, they advertise the worst case, so they'll always meet it.
The problems with heat were there, but were evidently solved well enough to sell it. And in over a year of use, the battery is holding up much better than my Galaxy S3 did after a year. Though I noticed a drop in standby time after one of the Android updates, but I even reverted to verify it was the update, not age that caused it to drop to standby under 48 hours.
Most people understand and accept the risks of accidental deaths for the sake of modern conveniences, like driving in cars, flying commercial airliners, and of course, taking trains like this. The reason we react the way we do to terrorism is because it's a deliberate, cold-hearted act of barbarity that takes the lives of innocent people
You've not driven much, have you? Crashes are about 95% human error. Deliberate errors are most of those. The act of running the red was quite deliberate. The act of speeding while doing it. The act of hitting the other car may not have been deliberate, but then, if you point a gun and fire at someone, nobody assumes it was unintentional until proven otherwise, but with cars, it's the opposite. But the large number of insanely poor drivers allowed on the road, killing a 9/11 worth of people every month for 30 years proves people don't care about death.
The tragedy of the Paris attacks is not that so many people died. As you point out, probably more people died in traffic accidents that day in Europe. The tragedy is that those people died so needlessly.
No, it's that so many white people died. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl... People don't care if Africans die in the same numbers in terrorist attacks. Black lives matters is that people don't care when the Africans die, but white people die, and it's 90% of the news for weeks.
Houston is still very red. They gerrymandered the Democrats, so there are a number of Democratic areas, but they are concentrated and separate. This makes for a very very redneck feel if you are in west Houston (like Katy), and other places, and less red around Clear Lake.
Obviously you like Texas.
But not all of us want to be surrounded by right wing gun toting rednecks, and if you have experience with Texas you know that is what makes up the majority of the Texas population.
But that's not Austin. Austin is the home of the liberal state Uni. As such, it has *always* been the liberal bastion in the state of conservatives. That you don't know what you are talking about doesn't change reality. You might as well say that gays shouldn't consider living in San Francisco because so much of the US is homophobic. Two true and unrelated statements. It's not like Katy, Texas, a very conservative suburb of Houston, or Alice, TX, which is very rednect, or Rockwall, TX, which is all trailer parks. Austin is no more gun toting rednecks than Manhattan or LA.
You don't sound like you have any actual experience with Texas.
Ah yes, the "do my research for me, so I can ignore it" compliant. Thanks for playing, but not worth my time to educate the uneducable. If you choose to not believe reality, it's not my job to fix your mental illness.
Who the fuck knows? I do. I told you. You refused to listen and insist that you win an argument. Fine, you win. You are too dumb to learn anything, so you win every argument. Because nobody could ever inform your closed mind.
That's not a duplicate. If both of those people petitioned the SSA for a re-printed SSN card, there would be no duplication. If someone walks into Bob Smith's bank and asks for his money, claiming to be Bob Smith, he hasn't just duplicated Bob Smith.
Duplicates are when the SSA give the same number to two concurrent people. That's the only useful definition of that word, and that's why this story was interesting. It wasn't about fraud or illegal activity, it was about the SSA having the same SSN on record for multiple people. A rare event.
I don't know, and I don't care. Your non sequitur would have been interesting to bring up when the laws were passed, but are irrelevant to this discussion about reality, not what "should be". Go ride off into the sunset on your unicorn. Some of us still live in the real world.
Yeah, so how large is the regulatory body of the banks? How does that compare to the FAA or FCC as bodies regulating other industries?
There are a lot of laws, and a lot of talk about it, but the actual hands-on regulation is completely missing. Otherwise the credit swap crash wouldn't have happened, as it happened 20 years before, in almost exactly the same way. If we had planes falling out of the sky the same way time after time, do you think the FAA would have done something about it? Probably. But not with banks. Because they aren't regulated.
Thus, "identity theft" is a misnomer. It should be called
Fraud. Nothing more, nothing less. Lies for gain. Why would there be any confusion on the matter? Oh yeah, if you call it bank fraud, the bank would pay for their loss. When you call it identity theft, you blame the victim for the bank's poor security and reduce the bank's loss.
None of the leases check mileage, until it's time to turn it in. Feel free to lease a car with 500 mi per year limit, and buy it out at the end. The buy out may even be less than the mileage penalty.
Leases are often good because they have complicated and confusing rules that can be gamed by buyers.
The financial industry isn't heavily regulated. What are you smoking?
Where I am, we have one number for tax, one number for health care, one number for drivers license, one number for passports, and nobody uses any of them improperly. But they are all secret, and not known to anyone who doesn't need to know it.
SSN is supposed to be secure, but everyone has it and it isn't secure.
It's illegal for the banks to use SSN for the reasons they do. But nobody enforces the law against the financial sector. So it's not the SSN that's the problem, but laissez faire.
The number of edge cases is pretty small. And those exceptions have travel papers that are a passport, even if not an official passport. It's illegal for a state to allow someone to be stateless, so unless someone renounces without permission, like a refugee, and is granted asylum, they'll have a passport. That's about it for legal residents without a passport of any kind.
How do the illegals dupe the government into giving out the same SSN to multiple people?
Because there's no compelling reason to make it illegal.
You use save games. Save when you start something new, then save it after completed. You lose a few minutes if he runs off a cliff. It autosaves every time you zone, so you don't even have to manually save that often, just don't trigger an autosave after you lose him.
But yes, things like that happen when you have a free world. I'd rather put up with an infinitely free world where not every infinite thing was 100% tested, as the game wouldn't be released until after the heat death of the universe. If you want a fully tested game, you'll get something no more complex than Super Mario Bros. Even Skyrim was a step back from F3 and F:NV, where the very open world was much more constrained in Skyrim. Rather than well defined zones with set entry and exit points, where each zone was quite finite, and very testable, and moves between zones were more disjoint, in F3/NV, you could walk from the bottom left corner to top right via multiple paths, and no set zone doors you get in most games. It's a refreshing feel and much more immersive and realistic, where you don't have a person who can smite dragons who can't climb a rock or jump a hedge because that would break the zone barriers.
But I can see how that much freedom wouldn't appeal to those who want small, well defined games. The ones that play like movie versions of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Nah. Every "good" CEO I've worked with sucked at strategy. The "good" CEOs are the ones that network and build relationships. And be a good COO for the times they feel like interfering with things they shouldn't. A better CEO wouldn't play COO for the stuff they feel like, but I've never met a single one of those. The "good" ones are more spokespeople, and don't need hourly catch-ups with everyone in the company to make sure it's running the way they'd like.