The 1000USD phones are there to make the 500 USDone look cheap. When I look, I look arounf 100 USD and even that hurts. Due to age, eyes are getting worse and I need a bit bigger screen.
All I do is SMS, whatsapp, minor surfing, banking and 5 other apps. No need for speed.
I have three displays. Having them bezzelless would be great. I have wanting that since I had my 2 17" CRT monitors back in 2000 or so. If they where avalable as 24" fullHD for a reasonable price of 500 EUR, I would buy them.
Not a gamer, so no need for speed. It would be more than double than what I pay now for a screen.
No, you don't. That is the vallue today. If the price goes to 0.000001 you won't have enough to pay her an hour. You do not have that money at this moment., Only when you sell do you have that money.
This is how many people get "rich". They think that shares they have are the money they have. When you bought 100 Bitcoins when they where 100 USD, the moment they where 20.000, you did not have 2.000.000 USD, you had 100 Bitcoins. If you have them now, you still have no USD, you have bitcoins.
OTOH if it goes to 0.5, you do not suddenly have 50 USD, you still have 100 bitcoins.
So when you say that you have enough for a few centuries, you must add 'if the value stays the same'
And unless you are a bank, it might be better, as a company, to invest that money into the bank by paying back loans or, if having loans is financially interesting, get better loans and pay less interest.
Because a few centuries is, say, 3 centuries, times 5.000 1.5MM at least. (as 3 is the lowest when looking at several) Having that on a USB key and not doing anything with it, is not the wisest financial decision. As this is pure profit, it is very easily to look at the ROI when looking at doing several different transactions over a period of several years and find ways to pay her in a different way.
And I am sure there are ways to do payments via a banktransfer to a bank in Pakistan.With all the monies you made, taking the cost of those transfers should be a non-issue (and those costs should have been calculated beforehand anyway)
The thing is that you are a willing participant in creating black money and try to figure out a way to talk yourself out of it. You should never have gone with payment in Bitcoin in the first place.
Both parties that sign the contract for a loan should do that ROI. If the bank gives the loan, they should be stuck with the risk. If not, they will giver everybody a loan, even if they KNOW they will not be able to get the money back from that student.
If there is one person who does this, that person is an idiot. If there are 100 people doing it. There might be an indication that something is going on, but mostly idiots.
If there are thousands, the problem isn't the idiots anymore, it is the system. Then you need to adapt the system.
The US has hacked Germany (and other allies) before. It is like fucking your best mates wife. There are things you should not do, even if it is legal. And if you do, you must not be upset if suddenly he does not trust you anymore and does not want to be your best mate anymore.
So why SHOULD Germany trust the USofA? The USofA does not trust its allies (and I am not even asking that they should.), so what is good for the goose is good for the other black pot.
When my dad was a Sales Director at some company selling B2B by the container load, the hardest discussions where not about what the price was now, when the customer bought things, but in 3 months, when the customer would pay. This when the valuta was not the same as it would be received in.
You can estimate fixed things, like inflation. So you add that to your price. But when the customer uses SAR (Saudi Arabia), you use BEF (Belgian Francs, now EUR) and payment is in USD, you need to be able to reasonably predict the price that the customer is paying in 3 months or more. (90 days after billing).
Calculate it wrong and you get shafted, as your production will be more expensive than the money you get. Calculate it wring the other way and you shaft the customer. They do not like that and will look elsewhere in the future, making you an initial sale, but not much more after that.
And this was relatively easy, as the differences where not that huge.
I could not imagine this to be realistic with Bitcoin. The only reason I see somebody accepting bitcoin for payment is to avoid paying taxes and thus creating illegal money.
International money transfers have been a thing for a long time and they work. OK, not as easy as in the EU where I can transfer money from my bank account to any SEPA bank account in Europe (all of them) for free and it is there the next day.
50 years ago? Pffft. People copied music long before that; copying the sheets of music. Some even went so far as to go to a concert, wrote down the music and sold it. And by long, I do mean more that a few years.
So how about going back to 1575 That was the year when it was written, so the copying of music has been happening long before that.
The fact that nobody has yet programmed it in into a user friendly interface should say enough.
That it might become usefull at some random point in the future is a bit meaningless.
As far as we have seen now is that it is useless as a payment method for various reasons. What these reasons are is irrellevant. The fact that there are so many reason only makes it even less likely that it will ever be usefull.
That is historically correct as the origin, but not true for a LOT of places. Even if you calculate the +- 30 minutes. No reason really to keep it that way.
Almost like that sleazy socialist idea of helping others, instead of taking what you want. One guy tried to make that popular. Long bearded hippy. I believe he is a South American. People wear his t-shirts, unknowing how many people died because of him.
First understand that Mastercard is basically a franchise system.
In Belgim the bank or financial instituation that gives you the card and handles your payment as a customer is unable to see what you bought. They will be able to see where you bought it.
So, in theory, they could sell that data to whomever paid for it. However this has been illegal for a while. In Belgium it is not even allowed to run a analysis of purchasing type (e.g. on the Internet or only trasactions in gastations) for marketing puroposes.
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Well, to be fair, around 50% of the polulation has a below average intelligence.
I resent that. After this, I will take away the Karma of this post.
I have mine 3 years and paid 150EUR. are you telling me I should oay more for the same usage?
The 1000USD phones are there to make the 500 USDone look cheap. When I look, I look arounf 100 USD and even that hurts. Due to age, eyes are getting worse and I need a bit bigger screen.
All I do is SMS, whatsapp, minor surfing, banking and 5 other apps. No need for speed.
Reddit is what Usenet was. With a worse interface and images. It also made it impossible to follow a discussion.
And the majority of groups are not interesting to you. So concentrate on the ones thar are, if you can find them.
I have three displays. Having them bezzelless would be great. I have wanting that since I had my 2 17" CRT monitors back in 2000 or so.
If they where avalable as 24" fullHD for a reasonable price of 500 EUR, I would buy them.
Not a gamer, so no need for speed. It would be more than double than what I pay now for a screen.
No, you don't. That is the vallue today. If the price goes to 0.000001 you won't have enough to pay her an hour.
You do not have that money at this moment., Only when you sell do you have that money.
This is how many people get "rich". They think that shares they have are the money they have.
When you bought 100 Bitcoins when they where 100 USD, the moment they where 20.000, you did not have 2.000.000 USD, you had 100 Bitcoins. If you have them now, you still have no USD, you have bitcoins.
OTOH if it goes to 0.5, you do not suddenly have 50 USD, you still have 100 bitcoins.
So when you say that you have enough for a few centuries, you must add 'if the value stays the same'
And unless you are a bank, it might be better, as a company, to invest that money into the bank by paying back loans or, if having loans is financially interesting, get better loans and pay less interest.
Because a few centuries is, say, 3 centuries, times 5.000 1.5MM at least. (as 3 is the lowest when looking at several)
Having that on a USB key and not doing anything with it, is not the wisest financial decision. As this is pure profit, it is very easily to look at the ROI when looking at doing several different transactions over a period of several years and find ways to pay her in a different way.
And I am sure there are ways to do payments via a banktransfer to a bank in Pakistan.With all the monies you made, taking the cost of those transfers should be a non-issue (and those costs should have been calculated beforehand anyway)
And if you are too dumb to figure that out Her is another way
The thing is that you are a willing participant in creating black money and try to figure out a way to talk yourself out of it. You should never have gone with payment in Bitcoin in the first place.
Both parties that sign the contract for a loan should do that ROI. If the bank gives the loan, they should be stuck with the risk. If not, they will giver everybody a loan, even if they KNOW they will not be able to get the money back from that student.
If there is one person who does this, that person is an idiot. If there are 100 people doing it. There might be an indication that something is going on, but mostly idiots.
If there are thousands, the problem isn't the idiots anymore, it is the system. Then you need to adapt the system.
It is not OR/OR it is AND/AND.
The US has hacked Germany (and other allies) before. It is like fucking your best mates wife. There are things you should not do, even if it is legal. And if you do, you must not be upset if suddenly he does not trust you anymore and does not want to be your best mate anymore.
So why SHOULD Germany trust the USofA? The USofA does not trust its allies (and I am not even asking that they should.), so what is good for the goose is good for the other black pot.
When my dad was a Sales Director at some company selling B2B by the container load, the hardest discussions where not about what the price was now, when the customer bought things, but in 3 months, when the customer would pay. This when the valuta was not the same as it would be received in.
You can estimate fixed things, like inflation. So you add that to your price. But when the customer uses SAR (Saudi Arabia), you use BEF (Belgian Francs, now EUR) and payment is in USD, you need to be able to reasonably predict the price that the customer is paying in 3 months or more. (90 days after billing).
Calculate it wrong and you get shafted, as your production will be more expensive than the money you get. Calculate it wring the other way and you shaft the customer. They do not like that and will look elsewhere in the future, making you an initial sale, but not much more after that.
And this was relatively easy, as the differences where not that huge.
I could not imagine this to be realistic with Bitcoin. The only reason I see somebody accepting bitcoin for payment is to avoid paying taxes and thus creating illegal money.
International money transfers have been a thing for a long time and they work. OK, not as easy as in the EU where I can transfer money from my bank account to any SEPA bank account in Europe (all of them) for free and it is there the next day.
With the size of their population? I think they can.
50 years ago? Pffft. People copied music long before that; copying the sheets of music. Some even went so far as to go to a concert, wrote down the music and sold it. And by long, I do mean more that a few years.
So how about going back to 1575
That was the year when it was written, so the copying of music has been happening long before that.
The music industry is really bad at dying.
The fact that nobody has yet programmed it in into a user friendly interface should say enough.
That it might become usefull at some random point in the future is a bit meaningless.
As far as we have seen now is that it is useless as a payment method for various reasons. What these reasons are is irrellevant. The fact that there are so many reason only makes it even less likely that it will ever be usefull.
Why not only choose between Samsung and Apple. More would confuse the people, right? /s
Getting companies involved in teaching is a bit like brain surgery. You let the companies decide what they should think.
Great plan.
That is historically correct as the origin, but not true for a LOT of places. Even if you calculate the +- 30 minutes.
No reason really to keep it that way.
Or just change the timezone while you ar at it.
Almost like that sleazy socialist idea of helping others, instead of taking what you want. One guy tried to make that popular. Long bearded hippy. I believe he is a South American. People wear his t-shirts, unknowing how many people died because of him.
Called Jesus, or something else Mexican.
Yeah and on the other side of the spectrum: Female nipples or not intended for little children.
Probably related to the Duch Dorp and the German Dorf.
Not so much linked to Octothorpe
I would say that journalism is good. No need for the faith part. As faith needs a complete trust or confidence in someone or something.
Unfortunately what we see most of the times goes from 'opinon feces' to 'reprinted press releases'. Not that much 'journalistic pieces'.
I don't know. How long in minutes does a daily restore of your working environment onto a Chromebook in developer mode take?
Protecting companies is more importand than protecting the democratic proces.
That said, I asume there already are laws about voting fraud. No need to ad 'using a computer'.
First understand that Mastercard is basically a franchise system.
In Belgim the bank or financial instituation that gives you the card and handles your payment as a customer is unable to see what you bought. They will be able to see where you bought it.
So, in theory, they could sell that data to whomever paid for it. However this has been illegal for a while.
In Belgium it is not even allowed to run a analysis of purchasing type (e.g. on the Internet or only trasactions in gastations) for marketing puroposes.
And this was all the case before GDPR.