Are you seriously bitching about $1,200 over 10 years? What are you, a barista at Starbucks?
I can bill that in 3 hours, and my staff is pretty much required to bill that much every single day. If you're business is such shit that you can't afford $1,200 over 10 years, well - guess what? Microsoft is not the company for you.
For the rest of us in the real world, it's a damned pittance, especially with the cloud storage thrown in.
That I can earn it in 1 or 2 days doesn't mean I want to spend it on stuff I don't want to upgrade to in the first place. While moving to a "services" (hah! try to get service of any kind) model will make sure my Microsoft stock will continue to rise at a very fast pace, I prefer not to be the sucker who pays for their profits in the first place.
I didn't say voice chat wasn't toxic. I said chat is toxic. This thing about voice chat is you can turn it off. I guess you could also put tape over your screen on the chat window though. Fair enough.
Okay... I don't know what games *you* play, but I play CS:Go and it's usually Russian teenagers screaming "Suck my balls" at high volume at each other. But do tell what in-game paradise of intellectually stimulating discourse you discovered in voice chat. I'm very curious.
Case in point, the heist of the Bangladesh Central Bank. They laundered that money through the casino's in the Philippines, who didn't track the money as well as they should have. So you enter with money, buy chips, lose a bit and then move your chips to your pal. He cashes out and now he has legit money.
They did catch the money mules, but they were very unwilling to talk. Later they discovered it was probably North Korea doing the robbing, so that was understandable. The money will never be recovered.
But it sounds way better when they call it "espionage methods used by intelligence agencies" instead of "abusive communication methods used daily by banking employees to sell you loans you don't need".
So it's perfectly ok to collect funds to be sent to nigerian scammers so they can continue their business? I don't think it is the best kind of aid to Africans.
Arguably, it's one of the best forms of aid. You are directly helping Nigerian locals, who know best where to spend their money. Their money is in turn spent by others that receive that money. And while they can only consume so much, they do not get such an amount that they can never spend it, so all of the money ends up in the local economy. And in direct contrast with standard aid, it comes with no strings attached: no forced consumption of obsolete western goods, no-one telling them to buy Monsanto seeds (or the opposite: to not buy them). They're free to make their own choices and by doing so improve the local economy. At a certain point in time this will lead to a flywheel effect if the money is not used only for extra consumption of goods, but invested by some of the providers of goods and services.
Hah, this system exists in Europe (notably: Eastern Europe) and people who didn't realize that were surprised by the opposite of the Nigerian Prince scam.
They received money, in exchange for goods and/or services, but the sender "overpaid" them and asked for a refund (claiming to have clicked twice or whatever). Of course, after a few weeks the original transactions disappear, the money you sent is not going to be refunded (because your bank doesn't pull money back from other banks) and instead of getting paid, you have now paid the scammers for your goods.
So you are correct: it's quite bad to have this system in place.
Everything is inferior to using a sous-vide and then grilling it. Very tender steak, well done on the outside. Even the worst steak can be made extremely tender.
And I bet it could be automated based on the volume. It just wouldn't be fast, but it would be quite insensitive to the exact time in the bath and grilling it afterwards would also be easy.
My criteria are: - must be eligible for tax incentives or reduced standard taxes - price after tax incentives needs to be around 35000 euro max. otherwise the additional taxes become too expensive. - needs to cost less than 50000 euro for EV otherwise no tax incentives - reliable - does not use much gas so low operating costs - usable for holidays. Most of my destinations are about 800 km. away and I split up the travel in blocks of 400-500 km already with my current car. Splitting to blocks of 200-300 km is not a showstopper. And happens "organically" anyway:) - comfortable transport for 4 people - usable for every day commutes (so: cruise control (preferably adaptive), automatic transmission, decent safety) - the lower the road tax, the better
So for me, the Prius is an alternative. I'm open to other suggestions but very few cars come close to Toyota's reliability on the Prius.
Don't start about Mercedes or other German car makers. I worked for one of them for a decade. There have been some real lemons built by them. I could name a few.
Although various provincials who do not live in the two most important provinces in the country dispute the fact that Holland suffices as designation for The Netherlands, people of distinction (who of course live in either South or North Holland) know that this is a false idea that needs to be disputed at every opportunity.
Yep. The model 3 alternative for me is the Prius 4. That's not an unaffordable car by any means. And one of the most reliable cars as well - my Prius 2 is extremely cheap in maintenance, with the main expenses being new tires.
You're confusing a kickstarter with listed shares. If Elon wants to use shares to raise capital, in a capitalist society, he's playing by the rules of capital. If he doesn't like that he can damn well crowdfund it. But if he goes for shares, he basically promises investors real money later in return for theirs now. If he reneges on that promise after receiving their money, well, there's more than one prison full of people like that.
They compete for the same real estate. Lawsuits have been started over this already. But time will tell. Most carmakers are switching to EV and Hybrid options, while Toyota still thinks hydrogen is going to be the next big thing, for some reason.
Two things: 1) The only relevant numbers are Year-on-Year because all carmakers sell a lot more in december than in january. 2) Holland had no change in incentives and no change in sales. I don't know about the other countries but Norway did change the incentives. At this point in time, electric cars still need the incentive - they still need the fact that the other cars don't have to pay for their pollution translated into cash to remain competitive. For now, because things are changing quite fast. 3) People are waiting with purchasing S and X now that the model 3 seems to finally become a reality. Same thing happens whenever Mercedes announced a new model A or C or whatever: the old stock became an immediate problem.
So: no worries yet, but model 3 production speed and conversion will be make or break for Tesla.
You must work for Standard & Poor's. Yeah, they have a great track record when it comes to assessing the quality of investments. Mortgage Backed Securities, anyone?
But seriously, this is why I treat everyone with a respectful attitude until proven otherwise. I cannot judge people I do not know, and only when I know them I know whether they deserve my respect and admiration, or whether I should just ignore them because most of what they say is nonsense. Most people I meet deserve respect, some assholes do not.
To clarify: people that bully others, try to hide incompetence by lashing out at others, intimidate and harass those weaker than them... lose my respect rapidly. There are few other things that piss me off as well, but these things are a zero-respect fast track for me.
I think due diligence here means covering your ass with a few formal warnings here and there. You know it will all come down crashing at some point, and then everyone will look downward for someone to blame and they end up with the IT people as potential scapegoats.
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Are you seriously bitching about $1,200 over 10 years? What are you, a barista at Starbucks?
I can bill that in 3 hours, and my staff is pretty much required to bill that much every single day. If you're business is such shit that you can't afford $1,200 over 10 years, well - guess what? Microsoft is not the company for you.
For the rest of us in the real world, it's a damned pittance, especially with the cloud storage thrown in.
That I can earn it in 1 or 2 days doesn't mean I want to spend it on stuff I don't want to upgrade to in the first place. While moving to a "services" (hah! try to get service of any kind) model will make sure my Microsoft stock will continue to rise at a very fast pace, I prefer not to be the sucker who pays for their profits in the first place.
I didn't say voice chat wasn't toxic. I said chat is toxic. This thing about voice chat is you can turn it off. I guess you could also put tape over your screen on the chat window though. Fair enough.
Okay, I deserved that :)
Okay... I don't know what games *you* play, but I play CS:Go and it's usually Russian teenagers screaming "Suck my balls" at high volume at each other. But do tell what in-game paradise of intellectually stimulating discourse you discovered in voice chat. I'm very curious.
In Soviet Russia, credit card disposes *you*!
Extremely hard, actually.
Case in point, the heist of the Bangladesh Central Bank. They laundered that money through the casino's in the Philippines, who didn't track the money as well as they should have. So you enter with money, buy chips, lose a bit and then move your chips to your pal. He cashes out and now he has legit money.
They did catch the money mules, but they were very unwilling to talk. Later they discovered it was probably North Korea doing the robbing, so that was understandable. The money will never be recovered.
I wish that it all gets out in the open.
And also, popcorn. Lots of it. I think I'll be needing it.
They mean social engineering... duh.
But it sounds way better when they call it "espionage methods used by intelligence agencies" instead of "abusive communication methods used daily by banking employees to sell you loans you don't need".
I just bookmarked this. I'm too tired right now to know if this makes sense or not, but it certainly looks interesting.
So it's perfectly ok to collect funds to be sent to nigerian scammers so they can continue their business? I don't think it is the best kind of aid to Africans.
Arguably, it's one of the best forms of aid. You are directly helping Nigerian locals, who know best where to spend their money. Their money is in turn spent by others that receive that money. And while they can only consume so much, they do not get such an amount that they can never spend it, so all of the money ends up in the local economy. And in direct contrast with standard aid, it comes with no strings attached: no forced consumption of obsolete western goods, no-one telling them to buy Monsanto seeds (or the opposite: to not buy them). They're free to make their own choices and by doing so improve the local economy. At a certain point in time this will lead to a flywheel effect if the money is not used only for extra consumption of goods, but invested by some of the providers of goods and services.
Hah, this system exists in Europe (notably: Eastern Europe) and people who didn't realize that were surprised by the opposite of the Nigerian Prince scam.
They received money, in exchange for goods and/or services, but the sender "overpaid" them and asked for a refund (claiming to have clicked twice or whatever). Of course, after a few weeks the original transactions disappear, the money you sent is not going to be refunded (because your bank doesn't pull money back from other banks) and instead of getting paid, you have now paid the scammers for your goods.
So you are correct: it's quite bad to have this system in place.
Even flat earthers annoy me less, at least they try!
That, they do! https://www.popularmechanics.c...
You saw that episode too, eh? :)
It makes it more tender.
Everything is inferior to using a sous-vide and then grilling it. Very tender steak, well done on the outside. Even the worst steak can be made extremely tender.
And I bet it could be automated based on the volume. It just wouldn't be fast, but it would be quite insensitive to the exact time in the bath and grilling it afterwards would also be easy.
Good points :)
My criteria are: :)
- must be eligible for tax incentives or reduced standard taxes
- price after tax incentives needs to be around 35000 euro max. otherwise the additional taxes become too expensive.
- needs to cost less than 50000 euro for EV otherwise no tax incentives
- reliable
- does not use much gas so low operating costs
- usable for holidays. Most of my destinations are about 800 km. away and I split up the travel in blocks of 400-500 km already with my current car. Splitting to blocks of 200-300 km is not a showstopper. And happens "organically" anyway
- comfortable transport for 4 people
- usable for every day commutes (so: cruise control (preferably adaptive), automatic transmission, decent safety)
- the lower the road tax, the better
So for me, the Prius is an alternative. I'm open to other suggestions but very few cars come close to Toyota's reliability on the Prius.
Don't start about Mercedes or other German car makers. I worked for one of them for a decade. There have been some real lemons built by them. I could name a few.
Although various provincials who do not live in the two most important provinces in the country dispute the fact that Holland suffices as designation for The Netherlands, people of distinction (who of course live in either South or North Holland) know that this is a false idea that needs to be disputed at every opportunity.
Thanks... I'll have to remember that one :)
Yep. The model 3 alternative for me is the Prius 4. That's not an unaffordable car by any means. And one of the most reliable cars as well - my Prius 2 is extremely cheap in maintenance, with the main expenses being new tires.
You're confusing a kickstarter with listed shares. If Elon wants to use shares to raise capital, in a capitalist society, he's playing by the rules of capital. If he doesn't like that he can damn well crowdfund it. But if he goes for shares, he basically promises investors real money later in return for theirs now. If he reneges on that promise after receiving their money, well, there's more than one prison full of people like that.
They compete for the same real estate. Lawsuits have been started over this already. But time will tell. Most carmakers are switching to EV and Hybrid options, while Toyota still thinks hydrogen is going to be the next big thing, for some reason.
Two things:
1) The only relevant numbers are Year-on-Year because all carmakers sell a lot more in december than in january.
2) Holland had no change in incentives and no change in sales. I don't know about the other countries but Norway did change the incentives. At this point in time, electric cars still need the incentive - they still need the fact that the other cars don't have to pay for their pollution translated into cash to remain competitive. For now, because things are changing quite fast.
3) People are waiting with purchasing S and X now that the model 3 seems to finally become a reality. Same thing happens whenever Mercedes announced a new model A or C or whatever: the old stock became an immediate problem.
So: no worries yet, but model 3 production speed and conversion will be make or break for Tesla.
You must work for Standard & Poor's. Yeah, they have a great track record when it comes to assessing the quality of investments. Mortgage Backed Securities, anyone?
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Many people do not deserve respect.
I believe that everyone deserves respect
Make up your minds, people :)
But seriously, this is why I treat everyone with a respectful attitude until proven otherwise. I cannot judge people I do not know, and only when I know them I know whether they deserve my respect and admiration, or whether I should just ignore them because most of what they say is nonsense. Most people I meet deserve respect, some assholes do not.
To clarify: people that bully others, try to hide incompetence by lashing out at others, intimidate and harass those weaker than them... lose my respect rapidly. There are few other things that piss me off as well, but these things are a zero-respect fast track for me.
You're welcome.
Hmm okay. I understand. It still makes me cringe.
I think due diligence here means covering your ass with a few formal warnings here and there. You know it will all come down crashing at some point, and then everyone will look downward for someone to blame and they end up with the IT people as potential scapegoats.