But can you charge not only your device but also a device that a relative on vacation has brought? My Nexus 7 (2012) tablet needs the teeth facing the screen, but on Christmas, I discovered that a couple Android phones belonging to family members needed them facing away.
Except a title like "Switzerland Harmonizes Phone Power Plug Rule to EU" might have a negative ring among Slashdot users because "harmonizing rules to the EU" was the excuse to push things like the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998.
Should say: "travel in North America" surge protectors...
North America or Japan, I guess, as a lot of appliances intended for North American 115 V have little or no trouble adapting to Japanese 100 V. The Republic of Korea, on the other hand, uses 230 V euro-power.
Governments are supposed to look out for the needs of the common good.
Supposed to. But they end up looking out for the needs of large contributors to their campaigns and friendly IEOPACs* more often.
Industry looks out for the needs of the shareholder.
Then get your behind onto E*Trade and become a shareholder:-p
* An IEOPAC is an independent-expenditure-only political action committee, sometimes called a "super PAC". Under U.S. election law, an IEOPAC has no donation cap so long as it doesn't donate to or directly coordinate with a candidate's official campaign organization.
Natural monopoly of utilities is a myth created by a history of inefficient allocation of rights of way. It's possible for government-owned rights of way to remain competitive. All a local government has to do is bury several conduits under a road or sidewalk, with the intent to sell the conduits later to competing utilities.
Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations condemned monopoly. So a market ought to be regulated to the extent that regulations preserve opportunity for competition. People say they want a free market, but what they probably want is a competitive market.
I'm not sure what you meant by your first sentence, but the Treasury quote supports my claim that creditors are required to take cash and non-creditors aren't required. A merchant offering goods or services on a prepaid basis is a non-creditor.
2% the cost of a TV or car for about a microsecond of computer time?
In part it probably serves as prepayment for the cost of investigating a chargeback should one prove necessary. Perhaps this is why banks charge a smaller swipe fee to merchants in chargeback-prone lines of business.
But if you pay with a credit card in [northern Europe,] the merchant will not get your name, or any other personal information. All he will get is [...] the part of your credit card number which is also printed on your credit card receipts.
Here in the USA, receipts from card-operated gasoline pumps often include the cardholder's name.
Here in the USA, an account such that "You cannot withdraw more than you actually have on it" is called a "demand deposit account" or a "checking account", and the bank card used to withdraw what you have on it is called a "debit card". It is distinct from a "credit card", which represents a loan from the bank, but debit cards can be used to make purchases virtually anywhere that takes credit cards because each one carries a MasterCard or Visa logo.
I was under the impression a minor had to get a parent or other adult to co-sign a demand deposit account.
Let me guess: your employer deducts health insurance from your paycheck before it lands in your bank, or you are exempt from shared responsibility because you make less than four-thirds of the poverty wage in a state that has not expanded Medicaid.
A merchant, such as the government, can structure transactions to avoid the creation of debt in the first place. Acceptable forms of payment for a prepaid transaction are covered under invitation to treat law rather than legal tender law.
True. But sticking to them will likely give you the false impression that the world hasn't changed since December 31, 1922, when the last clearly public domain book was published.
there is no law of any kind that requires me to do business with any specific store of business, either
Specific business? No. Specific kind of business? Yes. Zoning laws require you to buy food rather than growing it. Indecency laws require you to buy clothing. Sit/lie laws require you to buy or rent housing rather than sleeping on public property. And shared responsibility laws require you to buy health insurance or face drastic tax hikes.
If the grocery store I habituate decided tomorrow to start taking plastic only, I'd find somewhere else to shop on principle alone.
So what happens once all grocery stores within walking distance go cashless?
In that case, will it be a crime to buy something before becoming an adult? I was under the impression that only an adult could hold a bank account in his own name; anyone younger than 18 (or thereabouts depending on jurisdiction) has to make do with cash.
I don't know how it is in other countries, but in the United States, accepting legal tender is mandatory only for repayment of "DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE". To avoid this, a shop can require prepayment for all goods and services so that the customer never incurs debt.
You use journalctl to read them, or any other program that can read the well-defined on-disk format.
Say you're trying to troubleshoot problems with a machine by booting to a different operating system in order to read the logs of the machine's primary operating system. This works for plain text logs because support for ASCII text is ubiquitous, modulo some line ending weirdness in Windows. Do such "other programs" exist for all PC operating systems that can read ext2/3/4 file systems?
As for echo chambers, it's both the nature of the beast (people tend to prefer sites that are compatible with their views), and also a matter of choice.
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We're coming up on the 11th generation of iPhone (1, 2, 3, 3GS
The iPhone went straight from iPhone to iPhone 3G, then 3GS. There was no 2.
But can you charge not only your device but also a device that a relative on vacation has brought? My Nexus 7 (2012) tablet needs the teeth facing the screen, but on Christmas, I discovered that a couple Android phones belonging to family members needed them facing away.
Except a title like "Switzerland Harmonizes Phone Power Plug Rule to EU" might have a negative ring among Slashdot users because "harmonizing rules to the EU" was the excuse to push things like the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998.
It's to correct for another government intervention, namely that of granting a patent to Apple for the Lightning cable.
It's not a perfect analogy, as it's common to own a house longer than the 20 year lifetime of a patent.
Should say: "travel in North America" surge protectors...
North America or Japan, I guess, as a lot of appliances intended for North American 115 V have little or no trouble adapting to Japanese 100 V. The Republic of Korea, on the other hand, uses 230 V euro-power.
Governments are supposed to look out for the needs of the common good.
Supposed to. But they end up looking out for the needs of large contributors to their campaigns and friendly IEOPACs* more often.
Industry looks out for the needs of the shareholder.
Then get your behind onto E*Trade and become a shareholder :-p
* An IEOPAC is an independent-expenditure-only political action committee, sometimes called a "super PAC". Under U.S. election law, an IEOPAC has no donation cap so long as it doesn't donate to or directly coordinate with a candidate's official campaign organization.
Natural monopoly of utilities is a myth created by a history of inefficient allocation of rights of way. It's possible for government-owned rights of way to remain competitive. All a local government has to do is bury several conduits under a road or sidewalk, with the intent to sell the conduits later to competing utilities.
Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations condemned monopoly. So a market ought to be regulated to the extent that regulations preserve opportunity for competition. People say they want a free market, but what they probably want is a competitive market.
I'm not sure what you meant by your first sentence, but the Treasury quote supports my claim that creditors are required to take cash and non-creditors aren't required. A merchant offering goods or services on a prepaid basis is a non-creditor.
2% the cost of a TV or car for about a microsecond of computer time?
In part it probably serves as prepayment for the cost of investigating a chargeback should one prove necessary. Perhaps this is why banks charge a smaller swipe fee to merchants in chargeback-prone lines of business.
But if you pay with a credit card in [northern Europe,] the merchant will not get your name, or any other personal information. All he will get is [...] the part of your credit card number which is also printed on your credit card receipts.
Here in the USA, receipts from card-operated gasoline pumps often include the cardholder's name.
Here in the USA, an account such that "You cannot withdraw more than you actually have on it" is called a "demand deposit account" or a "checking account", and the bank card used to withdraw what you have on it is called a "debit card". It is distinct from a "credit card", which represents a loan from the bank, but debit cards can be used to make purchases virtually anywhere that takes credit cards because each one carries a MasterCard or Visa logo.
I was under the impression a minor had to get a parent or other adult to co-sign a demand deposit account.
Let me guess: your employer deducts health insurance from your paycheck before it lands in your bank, or you are exempt from shared responsibility because you make less than four-thirds of the poverty wage in a state that has not expanded Medicaid.
A merchant, such as the government, can structure transactions to avoid the creation of debt in the first place. Acceptable forms of payment for a prepaid transaction are covered under invitation to treat law rather than legal tender law.
there is no law of any kind that requires me to do business with any specific store of business, either
Zoning laws require you to buy food rather than growing it.
Want to grow your own food? Move to a zone without laws prohibiting it.
Trespass laws require you to purchase real estate on which to do so.
Note there are drm free ebooks too.
True. But sticking to them will likely give you the false impression that the world hasn't changed since December 31, 1922, when the last clearly public domain book was published.
there is no law of any kind that requires me to do business with any specific store of business, either
Specific business? No. Specific kind of business? Yes. Zoning laws require you to buy food rather than growing it. Indecency laws require you to buy clothing. Sit/lie laws require you to buy or rent housing rather than sleeping on public property. And shared responsibility laws require you to buy health insurance or face drastic tax hikes.
If the grocery store I habituate decided tomorrow to start taking plastic only, I'd find somewhere else to shop on principle alone.
So what happens once all grocery stores within walking distance go cashless?
In that case, will it be a crime to buy something before becoming an adult? I was under the impression that only an adult could hold a bank account in his own name; anyone younger than 18 (or thereabouts depending on jurisdiction) has to make do with cash.
I don't know how it is in other countries, but in the United States, accepting legal tender is mandatory only for repayment of "DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE". To avoid this, a shop can require prepayment for all goods and services so that the customer never incurs debt.
You use journalctl to read them, or any other program that can read the well-defined on-disk format.
Say you're trying to troubleshoot problems with a machine by booting to a different operating system in order to read the logs of the machine's primary operating system. This works for plain text logs because support for ASCII text is ubiquitous, modulo some line ending weirdness in Windows. Do such "other programs" exist for all PC operating systems that can read ext2/3/4 file systems?
As for echo chambers, it's both the nature of the beast (people tend to prefer sites that are compatible with their views), and also a matter of choice.
At least on Slashdot, I've found that one effective tool against the echo chamber effect is to tactfully present the opposite side, even if it's not the side with which you personally agree.
Even if CBC removes its own comment section, how does that affect users of third-party comment sections, such as Reddit, SoylentNews, and Slashdot?
Once you have blown through your monthly data allowance watching cat videos, you have no more monthly data allowance with which to educate yourself.
That's why I opened up a separate discussion off Slashdot for people to try to prove APK wrong.