They send the RENTAL CAR COMPANY the bill, which then deducts the toll amount with a $10 processing fee for each toll from your credit card.
You can use the rental car company's toll tag, but that usually comes with an extra fee as well. The way around it is to get your own pre-paid toll tag.
No: it started during the reign of G. W. Bush's idiot son. I grant you that Obama didn't do enough to roll it back.
BTW- I've taken commuter rail in the US regularly in the past 10 years, and have never been asked for ID and usually pay cash for tickets. I suspect the risk of being required to show ID is about as high as when walking in public -- some cop could harass you for "acting suspiciously" or whatever, but this isn't common.
Here, literally every pharmacy and cell store takes money for toll refills. You can also buy pre-paid toll tags and don't have to tie them to a plate # at all -- nice if you have a rental car and don't want to pay the exorbitant fees charged by the car company.
When driving out West, outside of major cities, I found there was little (or negative) benefit from booking online. You could book a motel for $50+tax online, or show up with cash and give the desk guy $40 for the night. After a while, I just started to look for "vacancy" signs. This was in 2015.
TVs still have antennas if you have over-the-air HDTV. I pay for a very basic Internet package, so I don't have a cable box. I have an HDTV antenna used to pick up signals -- gets the basics like CBS, NBC, FOX, ABC, and PBS.
I watch maybe an hour of TV per week, so dropping $60/mo+ on a cable package doesn't make sense to me.
Yep, these articles were from 2011-2012. TSA attempted to make themselves relevant in this area -- Amtrak politely told them to go fuck off, that they already have their own security and don't need more.
Well, we're already doing this by Draconian border rules for tourists to the US.
This being said, availability of cash payment options is one of the benefits of illegal immigration in the US. As long as there's an "unbanked" population, cash won't entirely disappear, especially not in areas that have a large such population.
I've used a manual phone as recently as the late 1990s. It didn't have a crank -- you picked it up and waited for the operator to go on the line. It looked like a normal 1970s desk phone with no dial.
Granted, this was in a rural part of Eastern Europe, not North America.
Pretty easy to take the train without ID in the US -- just buy Amtrak tickets using a pre-paid credit card. If you go up to the window, they might ask for ID -- last time, I pulled out an expired university ID just to fuck with the guy and he grunted something and sold me the ticket. I've never been asked for ID on the train itself.
Commuter trains never ask for ID, nor would it really be possible for them to do so due to time constraints.
Pagers: doctors and first responders still use them. Some work via satellite, meaning there are no network dead spots.
Pretty sure I've been in a car with manual windows (and manual transmission, even!) in the last year.
Busy signals? Pretty common when calling a business -- once there's a call on call waiting and one on the line, 3rd caller gets a busy.
Paper maps -- maybe road maps aren't as common, but any hiker typically gets a paper maps of a park, and maps of buildings like museums are often given out.
Maybe this is all a government plot to burn the traffickers, money launderers, and ransomware authors. Lure them deeper into the market, then pull the rug out from under them.:)
When the price of something that's not all that useful goes parabolic, it's a bubble. Bitcoin is energy-intensive to create, and not all that useful at present. I suspect a lot of hedgies and techbros will be in for a rude awakening in the near future.
Windows has a tabbed interface -- the tabs are just on the bottom of the screen, in the taskbar. Windowing has a lot of advantages -- you can choose how much real estate each program uses and use more than one at a time on a large screen.
This looks like another attempt at pushing Windows 8's failed interface on the public.
If the text in a.pdf is saved as text (as opposed to an image), these kind of programs usually handle pdfs just fine. Libre/Openoffice creates.pdfs that work fine in this situation.
Having taken some undergrad classes recently, LibreOffice works fine, even for scientific writing.
Note that the school actually offers Office 365, but since I run a Linux desktop primarily, I haven't been bothered to install it in a Windows VM. (I can get email via secure IMAP to the hosted Exchange.)
How does it determine screen size? Seems like this would be something fairly easy to spoof to "unlock" full functionality on devices with bigger screens.
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Illegal immigration provides an avenue for anonymity and a cash economy in an increasingly fearful and controlled society.
Maybe they want privacy, not a tracking device in their car.
Also, how do they hold you up? There are usually different lanes for cash pay and transponder.
Here's the problem with this: rental cars.
They send the RENTAL CAR COMPANY the bill, which then deducts the toll amount with a $10 processing fee for each toll from your credit card.
You can use the rental car company's toll tag, but that usually comes with an extra fee as well. The way around it is to get your own pre-paid toll tag.
VLC Player. Does video as well and has a plugin for most formats.
No: it started during the reign of G. W. Bush's idiot son. I grant you that Obama didn't do enough to roll it back. BTW- I've taken commuter rail in the US regularly in the past 10 years, and have never been asked for ID and usually pay cash for tickets. I suspect the risk of being required to show ID is about as high as when walking in public -- some cop could harass you for "acting suspiciously" or whatever, but this isn't common.
Here, literally every pharmacy and cell store takes money for toll refills. You can also buy pre-paid toll tags and don't have to tie them to a plate # at all -- nice if you have a rental car and don't want to pay the exorbitant fees charged by the car company.
When driving out West, outside of major cities, I found there was little (or negative) benefit from booking online. You could book a motel for $50+tax online, or show up with cash and give the desk guy $40 for the night. After a while, I just started to look for "vacancy" signs. This was in 2015.
TVs still have antennas if you have over-the-air HDTV. I pay for a very basic Internet package, so I don't have a cable box. I have an HDTV antenna used to pick up signals -- gets the basics like CBS, NBC, FOX, ABC, and PBS.
I watch maybe an hour of TV per week, so dropping $60/mo+ on a cable package doesn't make sense to me.
Yep, these articles were from 2011-2012. TSA attempted to make themselves relevant in this area -- Amtrak politely told them to go fuck off, that they already have their own security and don't need more.
Well, we're already doing this by Draconian border rules for tourists to the US.
This being said, availability of cash payment options is one of the benefits of illegal immigration in the US. As long as there's an "unbanked" population, cash won't entirely disappear, especially not in areas that have a large such population.
The NY Public Library telnet catalog used to be called NYPLgate ... pronounced "nipplegate." Someone had a sense of humor when they named the server.
I've used a manual phone as recently as the late 1990s. It didn't have a crank -- you picked it up and waited for the operator to go on the line. It looked like a normal 1970s desk phone with no dial.
Granted, this was in a rural part of Eastern Europe, not North America.
Not everyone has VoIP, especially not businesses that have been around for decades. So, yeah, plenty of busy signals.
More and more roads are going electronic toll only. Fortunately, there's still generally an option to buy and top up the toll tag itself with cash.
Pretty easy to take the train without ID in the US -- just buy Amtrak tickets using a pre-paid credit card. If you go up to the window, they might ask for ID -- last time, I pulled out an expired university ID just to fuck with the guy and he grunted something and sold me the ticket. I've never been asked for ID on the train itself.
Commuter trains never ask for ID, nor would it really be possible for them to do so due to time constraints.
Pagers: doctors and first responders still use them. Some work via satellite, meaning there are no network dead spots.
Pretty sure I've been in a car with manual windows (and manual transmission, even!) in the last year.
Busy signals? Pretty common when calling a business -- once there's a call on call waiting and one on the line, 3rd caller gets a busy.
Paper maps -- maybe road maps aren't as common, but any hiker typically gets a paper maps of a park, and maps of buildings like museums are often given out.
Maybe this is all a government plot to burn the traffickers, money launderers, and ransomware authors. Lure them deeper into the market, then pull the rug out from under them. :)
Search for "buy bitcoin" on Google's site.
The first suggestion will be "buy bitcoin with credit card."
If ordinary people are leveraging up at 10-20% per annum to buy a currency that's not accepted for most things, you know where this is going.
When the price of something that's not all that useful goes parabolic, it's a bubble. Bitcoin is energy-intensive to create, and not all that useful at present. I suspect a lot of hedgies and techbros will be in for a rude awakening in the near future.
Windows has a tabbed interface -- the tabs are just on the bottom of the screen, in the taskbar. Windowing has a lot of advantages -- you can choose how much real estate each program uses and use more than one at a time on a large screen.
This looks like another attempt at pushing Windows 8's failed interface on the public.
Ubuntu works fine.
No. They start at $200-300. Just buy a "refurb" end of lease business laptop.
If the text in a .pdf is saved as text (as opposed to an image), these kind of programs usually handle pdfs just fine. Libre/Openoffice creates .pdfs that work fine in this situation.
Having taken some undergrad classes recently, LibreOffice works fine, even for scientific writing.
Note that the school actually offers Office 365, but since I run a Linux desktop primarily, I haven't been bothered to install it in a Windows VM. (I can get email via secure IMAP to the hosted Exchange.)
How does it determine screen size? Seems like this would be something fairly easy to spoof to "unlock" full functionality on devices with bigger screens.