What's really fucked up is that most people see nothing wrong with that. I read all of the local news I can find daily, and 95% of people I talk to have no idea about 95% of important stuff going on in their local communities.
Are most people just hopelessly addicted, or are people just that dumb? Maybe they're just that lazy? I don't get it. It's like being in Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
I switched careers to something completely unrelated at 30-ish. After about 8 years, I felt like I was just fixing the same problems over and over again, and I wanted a bigger challenge.
I'll quickly check my emails on my phone, but I almost always end up with the same emails in Outlook on the desktop, so I can respond well, organize the conversation, and create tasks or appointments related to the email.
Yup. It's already too late. Nothing short of a full-out revolutionary war is likely to change the current situation that is legal bribery. Most of our elected officials would have to have the money taken from their cold, dead hands before they'd voluntarily give it up. It's a shame and it's scary, but I personally don't see a way that this problem can be fixed.
There's a slim possibility that if somehow education were improved, people could nominate and vote for honest people in a few generations, but education isn't going to be fixed for this very reason.
Why in the hell would anybody use Gmail for work email? Email is absurdly cheap. Why would somebody give away all of their work-related information for $2/month? No matter what line of work somebody is in, it seems like a very very bad idea.
You're not understanding what GMail is. Gmail is arguable the largest data harvesting application on the planet. They can't harvest data if it's encrypted. They will never allow encrypted emails.
He created a car company from scratch that actively builds cars that are decades ahead of every other car company on the planet. I'm going to go ahead and trust what he has to say over an EE, who, as far as I know, hasn't created a car company from scratch that makes cars decades ahead of the competition.
It was a great marketing coup by Mastercard and Visa to create the "debit" cards, make it work in their network, and muddle the lines and demand 2% commission from the merchants. The consumers never cared about the difference. Eventually all the merchants complied and since all of them do it they were able to pass on the cost to us. So we pay 2% more on every purchase.
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. Before debit, V/MC got 2-2.5% of all charges. With debit, like you said, they only get about $0.25/transaction (plus some more fees). Debit is significantly cheaper for merchants who do transactions that are larger than $40-$50.
Slashdot Mirror
Seriously, man: there are actual climate changes that we have to seriously cope with. That isn't being helped by alarmist bullshittery like this.
Then why are you posting alarmist bullshittery links?
Russians DO play a lot of hockey, comrade!
That video you linked to was remarkably accurate. ("More floods, more intense hurricanes, more fires") What point were you trying to make with that?
To the AC's that asked: I opened a retail store and ended up being really successful at that.
What's really fucked up is that most people see nothing wrong with that. I read all of the local news I can find daily, and 95% of people I talk to have no idea about 95% of important stuff going on in their local communities.
Are most people just hopelessly addicted, or are people just that dumb? Maybe they're just that lazy? I don't get it. It's like being in Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
I switched careers to something completely unrelated at 30-ish. After about 8 years, I felt like I was just fixing the same problems over and over again, and I wanted a bigger challenge.
I don't think it's nearly as creepy as those things that record everything going on.
99.99% of people don't give a shit.
I'll quickly check my emails on my phone, but I almost always end up with the same emails in Outlook on the desktop, so I can respond well, organize the conversation, and create tasks or appointments related to the email.
Yup. It's already too late. Nothing short of a full-out revolutionary war is likely to change the current situation that is legal bribery. Most of our elected officials would have to have the money taken from their cold, dead hands before they'd voluntarily give it up. It's a shame and it's scary, but I personally don't see a way that this problem can be fixed.
There's a slim possibility that if somehow education were improved, people could nominate and vote for honest people in a few generations, but education isn't going to be fixed for this very reason.
Oh, fuck off AC bot.
It's a vapor cloud made up of unknown substances. It's probably not harmless.
Your data is the product. GMail is just the tool they use to harvest the product.
Why in the hell would anybody use Gmail for work email? Email is absurdly cheap. Why would somebody give away all of their work-related information for $2/month? No matter what line of work somebody is in, it seems like a very very bad idea.
You're not understanding what GMail is. Gmail is arguable the largest data harvesting application on the planet. They can't harvest data if it's encrypted. They will never allow encrypted emails.
So, this company, whose service is providing chairs and tables and coffee, just bought a $850 million building? What. The. Fuck??
When price is all that matters, you'll get raped by that one company you love so much, sooner rather than later.
It's even easier to research on Newegg and then buy on Newegg.
... this is your fault. Fuck you.
He created a car company from scratch that actively builds cars that are decades ahead of every other car company on the planet. I'm going to go ahead and trust what he has to say over an EE, who, as far as I know, hasn't created a car company from scratch that makes cars decades ahead of the competition.
Too bad nobody can look at what you posted.
It was a great marketing coup by Mastercard and Visa to create the "debit" cards, make it work in their network, and muddle the lines and demand 2% commission from the merchants. The consumers never cared about the difference. Eventually all the merchants complied and since all of them do it they were able to pass on the cost to us. So we pay 2% more on every purchase.
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. Before debit, V/MC got 2-2.5% of all charges. With debit, like you said, they only get about $0.25/transaction (plus some more fees). Debit is significantly cheaper for merchants who do transactions that are larger than $40-$50.
No worries. Amazon has a lot more than your signature on file!
Retailers are supposed to check. Most don't. The retailer I work for certainly does.
they put all of their resources into backing a wildly corrupt, incompetent, serially lying, awful person up as the standard-bearer for their party
Are you fucking kidding?