Do you really think merchants don't have manual backup for the extremely rare occasions when that happens?
or you forgot your pin.
So you can't remember a 4-digit number? Must suck to be you.
Also, you are a bit of an arse if you use your card on anything less than 5 bucks these days.
And why is that, exactly?
FWIW, I usually carry the equivalent of US$20-30, and use it for little things like a takeaway lattè. But plenty of people here just use their card for that sort of thing, and I do, too, if I happen not to have cash. And nobody so much as blinks at that. Which leads us back to the question above--why should they?
Three cash transactions can be done in the time it takes for you to use your slow-ass method.
I don't know where you shop for groceries, but where I live the "slow-ass method" consists of: Slide card into reader, enter PIN, wait for cashier to finish ringing everything up, hit OK, remove card.
Before you make that claim you need to prove that location tracking is somehow incredibly detrimental to the life of people.
If you were to emerge from your little bubble of safety with eyes open and brain engaged, I think you'd very quickly find plenty of cases in which it could be incredibly detrimental to some people.
Contrast that with Mandarin, where you could have a sentence where carelessly raising, then dropping, the pitch of some word in the middle of the sentence instead of simply dropping it could transform it from something a parent might say to their child into something that could be interpreted as crude, inflammatory sexual slang that would make guys in an American locker room cringe because it's *so* bad.
Not nearly as likely as it might seem. (To my relief, I might add.) For one thing, although each Chinese *character* represents a syllable, Chinese *words* are not necessarily monosyllables. While there are pairs that can be easily confused (e.g. mãi "buy" and mài "sell"), these tend not to be used in isolation for just that reason ("buy" is usually gòumãi, and "sell" is often shòumài). In addition, there's a lot of variation--even amongst Mandarin speakers, some words are spoken with different tones in different localities, so Mandarin speakers tend to have a very forgiving ear, just as most English speakers have no trouble recognising any of "ai", "ah", and "oi" as the first person singular pronoun that all English speakers write as "I".
(I'm using the tilde to represent the low tone, BTW, because fucking Slashdot won't let me fucking use anything with a fucking caron. Idiots.)
Interesting. I had a fellow on the the train yesterday ask me for food. When I told him I didn't have any money (true), he said he didn't want money, just a loaf of bread. I had just spent nearly the last of the money in my bank account at the grocery shop (due to a banking stuff-up, payday was delayed a couple of days this month). I didn't have any bread, but I gave him one of the two bricks of cheese I'd just purchased and wished him luck in finding some bread to go with it.
Civilised people have learned how to deal with those who kill without descending to their level.
It wasn't so long ago that the Germans attempted to exterminate quite a few of their neighbours. Yet it proved possible to prevent this without exterminating the Germans.
This makes me glad, as I've a number of good friends today who are German.
Brazil is a favourite of mine. Been ages since I watched it, though--might have to do something about that sometime soon.
If I didn't take my job seriously, I could deal with the office. I could go there 9-5 every day and go through the motions and likely get away with it indefinitely. And get almost nothing done, because I simply can't think when random people are constantly walking by and/or talking to each other or on the phone. I am simply very much more productive at home.
My wife doesn't often work at home, but when she does, it's not usually a problem--she has her own desk, etc., in another room. Occasionally she's off work when I'm not--on those days I usually just resign myself to doing administrative busywork or whatever, as they tend not to be such great days for writing or coding. And I can't deny that it's sometimes nice to have her as a distraction.
On the contrary, that's *exactly* what the link shows (and your response as well)--it's one huge exercise in filtering and colouring data in order to "prove" a very specific and narrow viewpoint. One that is very obviously rooted in hatred and selfishness.
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Define "normal people".
Until it does not work due to a networks error
Do you really think merchants don't have manual backup for the extremely rare occasions when that happens?
or you forgot your pin.
So you can't remember a 4-digit number? Must suck to be you.
Also, you are a bit of an arse if you use your card on anything less than 5 bucks these days.
And why is that, exactly?
FWIW, I usually carry the equivalent of US$20-30, and use it for little things like a takeaway lattè. But plenty of people here just use their card for that sort of thing, and I do, too, if I happen not to have cash. And nobody so much as blinks at that. Which leads us back to the question above--why should they?
Since the rest of us are well aware that Oracle have and sell actual products? No, it's probably just you.
You are an idiot.
Three cash transactions can be done in the time it takes for you to use your slow-ass method.
I don't know where you shop for groceries, but where I live the "slow-ass method" consists of: Slide card into reader, enter PIN, wait for cashier to finish ringing everything up, hit OK, remove card.
Before you make that claim you need to prove that location tracking is somehow incredibly detrimental to the life of people.
If you were to emerge from your little bubble of safety with eyes open and brain engaged, I think you'd very quickly find plenty of cases in which it could be incredibly detrimental to some people.
Contrast that with Mandarin, where you could have a sentence where carelessly raising, then dropping, the pitch of some word in the middle of the sentence instead of simply dropping it could transform it from something a parent might say to their child into something that could be interpreted as crude, inflammatory sexual slang that would make guys in an American locker room cringe because it's *so* bad.
Not nearly as likely as it might seem. (To my relief, I might add.) For one thing, although each Chinese *character* represents a syllable, Chinese *words* are not necessarily monosyllables. While there are pairs that can be easily confused (e.g. mãi "buy" and mài "sell"), these tend not to be used in isolation for just that reason ("buy" is usually gòumãi, and "sell" is often shòumài). In addition, there's a lot of variation--even amongst Mandarin speakers, some words are spoken with different tones in different localities, so Mandarin speakers tend to have a very forgiving ear, just as most English speakers have no trouble recognising any of "ai", "ah", and "oi" as the first person singular pronoun that all English speakers write as "I".
(I'm using the tilde to represent the low tone, BTW, because fucking Slashdot won't let me fucking use anything with a fucking caron. Idiots.)
A language where "I love you" and "I love sausages" only differ in the object can never be elegant.
I hate to break this to you, but your example translates word-for-word (correctly) into a whole slew of languages.
...whatever useless encoding Slashdot uses...
Hmmmmmm.....
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
"('T' and 'V' sold separately.)"
Unlike Twitter itself, which has been making money hand over fist.
Oh, wait--
Thank you for explaining the joke to us. I'm sure no-one would have understood that, otherwise.
Ornithopters FTW!
(Yeah, yeah, I know--not really VSTOL, I just think they're cool.)
Chastity is not the opposite of reproduction.
That's only been true since 1960 or so.
Projection much? That's not what OP said.
More economically advanced countries tend to have lower birth rates.
When they no longer need 8 or 10 kids to help out on the farm, that's when folks tend to start thinking about ways not to have so many of them.
He's using it while making the arduous climb from his mother's basement, of course.
Interesting. I had a fellow on the the train yesterday ask me for food. When I told him I didn't have any money (true), he said he didn't want money, just a loaf of bread. I had just spent nearly the last of the money in my bank account at the grocery shop (due to a banking stuff-up, payday was delayed a couple of days this month). I didn't have any bread, but I gave him one of the two bricks of cheese I'd just purchased and wished him luck in finding some bread to go with it.
The word exterminate was not chosen for rhetorical effect.
Civilised people have learned how to deal with those who kill without descending to their level.
It wasn't so long ago that the Germans attempted to exterminate quite a few of their neighbours. Yet it proved possible to prevent this without exterminating the Germans.
This makes me glad, as I've a number of good friends today who are German.
Brazil is a favourite of mine. Been ages since I watched it, though--might have to do something about that sometime soon.
If I didn't take my job seriously, I could deal with the office. I could go there 9-5 every day and go through the motions and likely get away with it indefinitely. And get almost nothing done, because I simply can't think when random people are constantly walking by and/or talking to each other or on the phone. I am simply very much more productive at home.
My wife doesn't often work at home, but when she does, it's not usually a problem--she has her own desk, etc., in another room. Occasionally she's off work when I'm not--on those days I usually just resign myself to doing administrative busywork or whatever, as they tend not to be such great days for writing or coding. And I can't deny that it's sometimes nice to have her as a distraction.
Open plan is a complete concentration killer. Thank goodness I can work from home.
Civilised folk don't look for new justifications to kill.
You're pretending to take issue with an argument that I did not make.
As for "CTR", I have no idea what you're talking about, and thus it and I most likely have nothing whatsoever to do with one another.
On the contrary, that's *exactly* what the link shows (and your response as well)--it's one huge exercise in filtering and colouring data in order to "prove" a very specific and narrow viewpoint. One that is very obviously rooted in hatred and selfishness.