Some merchant processing agreements contain language like this:
For VISA and MasterCard, a signature panel bearing the words "See I.D." or equivalent language shall be deemed to be blank.
This means that they cannot accept your card (procedure for accepting a blank card requires that it be signed, which you can't do if it already has text on it), and if they do, they won't get any money if the transaction later turns out to be fraudulent. Whereas they will if they check for a valid signature and don't check ID.
What you want is irrelevant to them. Visa/MC want to make the most money possible, and they get a cut of every transaction made with your card. Requiring ID is just a barrier to use of the card, so Visa/MC doesn't want that. Since cardholders are indemnified against theft of more than $50 (and usually that is waived if the card is reported stolen promptly), it shouldn't matter to them. And Visa/MC have determined that the losses through theft to them are far outweighed by the extra money they get from transaction fees and finance charges.
Personally, we don't live in a police state YET, and I don't want to show ID every time I make a purchase. When I come to a store that requires this, I report them to MasterCard, who usually gets the merchant back into compliance with their agreement. Sorry if you don't like that.
The WMD used to justify the Iraq invasion most certainly did not exist (at least according to current evidence). Using WMD that were destroyed in response to sanctions and inspections as a justification for saying that the sanctions and inspections were ineffective is just silly.
Mind you that the way the Central and Victoria Lines are automated is fairly unsophisticated. There are fixed signals on the track telling the train where to speed up and slow down. If anything is out of the ordinary then driver intervention is necessary. The DLR is newer and more sophisticated.
Implementing this on the scale of the entire National Rail network would be prohibitively expensive.
In European countries there may be concepts that replicate part of the idea of "fair use" but not its totality.
I know here in Britain, what you can do with copyrighted material you do not own falls far short of what you can do in the U.S. under fair use exemptions.
For many governmental services and welfare programs you will need things like a social security number and a physical address. Possibly in addition to a form of ID, of which a driver's license is only one.
Anyway, since the driver's license is NOT currently a national ID card it is not justified to use it as the only evidence for eligibility. You cannot say that the ACLU thinks undocumented immigrants should have access to all services--the ACLU would likely say that driver's licenses aren't the things that should be checked here anyway.
Actually, most biological journals require submission to either GenBank (U.S.), EMBL-Bank (European), or the DNA Data Bank of Japan. The members of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration exchange data every night, but that doesn't mean they are the same thing, or that it is run by NIH.
A special agent is a federal investigative employee who has powers of arrest and is usually armed. This is "special" when compared to the powers of an ordinary federal employee, not to other agents within the FBI.
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Politician-style sophistry: "Your honor, I didn't mean he was ACTUALLY a criminal or to imply that he had ACTUALLY committed a crime. I just meant that his spamming was a criminal waste of talent that he could have used to improve GNU/Linux!"
Well there are other things that are good too, such as FrameMaker, InDesign.
P.S. It's QuarkXPress.
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No, he would be a criminal if he had been convicted by a court. In the U.S. you are innocent until proven guilty. Calling someone a criminal is grounds for a prima facie libel case.
That's not even right. I have personally seen the term used well before CD-ROMs were in wide usage, and the Jargon File reports that it is old enough that "golden tape" was used.
Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity; those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound: it is so timid and dislikes going into the water.
I don't smoke, but I had a lot of stoner friends at the time. I felt that watching that movie was like listening to them philosophize. They all think it's interesting and "deep" under the influence, and all the sober people are bored out of their mind. Plus they would do this for free, and I had to pay $7 or something at the movie theater!
The worst part is that I am from Austin, where Linklater lives and filmed the movie. So everyone thought the movie was cool because they knew someone in it (I knew at least two people in the movie, which did not increase my enjoyment of it in the least). Don't even get me started on the neverending hagiography of local moviemakers by the alternative weekly paper, either. They gave it 3.5 stars, which is almost their minimum for a local film (they gave that many to Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams).
I should really end this rant and go do something.
I would have walked out on it if I hadn't been on a date, who was running her fingers over my hand during the movie. When it was over, I asked her what she was doing. She told me she was spelling "I want to leave." I could have screamed. I think she did when I told her I hated it too.
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What you want is irrelevant to them. Visa/MC want to make the most money possible, and they get a cut of every transaction made with your card. Requiring ID is just a barrier to use of the card, so Visa/MC doesn't want that. Since cardholders are indemnified against theft of more than $50 (and usually that is waived if the card is reported stolen promptly), it shouldn't matter to them. And Visa/MC have determined that the losses through theft to them are far outweighed by the extra money they get from transaction fees and finance charges.
Personally, we don't live in a police state YET, and I don't want to show ID every time I make a purchase. When I come to a store that requires this, I report them to MasterCard, who usually gets the merchant back into compliance with their agreement. Sorry if you don't like that.
The WMD used to justify the Iraq invasion most certainly did not exist (at least according to current evidence). Using WMD that were destroyed in response to sanctions and inspections as a justification for saying that the sanctions and inspections were ineffective is just silly.
Every DLR train has a Passenger Service Agent who can override the automatic system and drive the train if necessary. It usually isn't.
Mind you that the way the Central and Victoria Lines are automated is fairly unsophisticated. There are fixed signals on the track telling the train where to speed up and slow down. If anything is out of the ordinary then driver intervention is necessary. The DLR is newer and more sophisticated.
Implementing this on the scale of the entire National Rail network would be prohibitively expensive.
In European countries there may be concepts that replicate part of the idea of "fair use" but not its totality.
I know here in Britain, what you can do with copyrighted material you do not own falls far short of what you can do in the U.S. under fair use exemptions.
For many governmental services and welfare programs you will need things like a social security number and a physical address. Possibly in addition to a form of ID, of which a driver's license is only one.
Anyway, since the driver's license is NOT currently a national ID card it is not justified to use it as the only evidence for eligibility. You cannot say that the ACLU thinks undocumented immigrants should have access to all services--the ACLU would likely say that driver's licenses aren't the things that should be checked here anyway.
Where do they say "all services?"
Actually, most biological journals require submission to either GenBank (U.S.), EMBL-Bank (European), or the DNA Data Bank of Japan. The members of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration exchange data every night, but that doesn't mean they are the same thing, or that it is run by NIH.
See my above comment.
I think there ought to be a Privoxy module to do that. As an added bonus, it would s/virii/viruses/g.
You should log a bug at bugzilla.mozilla.org.
A special agent is a federal investigative employee who has powers of arrest and is usually armed. This is "special" when compared to the powers of an ordinary federal employee, not to other agents within the FBI.
Huh?
Politician-style sophistry: "Your honor, I didn't mean he was ACTUALLY a criminal or to imply that he had ACTUALLY committed a crime. I just meant that his spamming was a criminal waste of talent that he could have used to improve GNU/Linux!"
Also, irrelevant to the law.
Once the "open source people" can produce a decent Microsoft Word clone, then I'll start looking to them for a professional-quality DTP publication.
Well there are other things that are good too, such as FrameMaker, InDesign.
P.S. It's QuarkXPress.
No, he would be a criminal if he had been convicted by a court. In the U.S. you are innocent until proven guilty. Calling someone a criminal is grounds for a prima facie libel case.
That's not even right. I have personally seen the term used well before CD-ROMs were in wide usage, and the Jargon File reports that it is old enough that "golden tape" was used.
He has allowed the university to publish his directory information which says he is a philosophy major.
This shows that Apple really does want to be taken seriously.
As opposed to before, when they really wanted to be taken as a joke.
This post is an excellent example of what he was talking about.
I don't smoke, but I had a lot of stoner friends at the time. I felt that watching that movie was like listening to them philosophize. They all think it's interesting and "deep" under the influence, and all the sober people are bored out of their mind. Plus they would do this for free, and I had to pay $7 or something at the movie theater!
The worst part is that I am from Austin, where Linklater lives and filmed the movie. So everyone thought the movie was cool because they knew someone in it (I knew at least two people in the movie, which did not increase my enjoyment of it in the least). Don't even get me started on the neverending hagiography of local moviemakers by the alternative weekly paper, either. They gave it 3.5 stars, which is almost their minimum for a local film (they gave that many to Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams).
I should really end this rant and go do something.
I would have walked out on it if I hadn't been on a date, who was running her fingers over my hand during the movie. When it was over, I asked her what she was doing. She told me she was spelling "I want to leave." I could have screamed. I think she did when I told her I hated it too.