The Netherlands. And this military stuff comes from Eastern Europe mostly. Explosives, hand grenades (very popular to get the mayor to shut down competing businesses), and in recent raids on motorcycle clubs they found all manner of heavy weaponry including antitank rockets. But I feel safe ‘cause we have very strict gun laws.
Incorrect. A 3rd party can be given permission to execute a payment on your behalf, in which case you will have to approve each transaction individually. However for access to financial data, you only have to give permission once to a particular 3rd party in order for them to get access to everything (permission is valid for a certain nr of days). And giving that permission once the account holder asks for it absolutely is a requirement under PSD2. The law was enacted to allow entities other than banks to provide value-added financial services. Since this directly competes with the banks themselves, it would not have made sense to make compliance optional. No bank would have implemented 3rd party access in that case. details
Not that the EU cares. They have just signed a law (PSD2) that obliges banks to give 3rd parties access to their clients' financial transactions, if those clients give explicit permission. It means that anyone could write, say, a budget management app or offer a tax return service, and plug my financial data right into that. Why is that bad? Well, if you send me $10 and I gave my bank permission to share my data, whoever got that data now knows about you and your $10 as well. Not good. Worse: what if the local supermarket decides to share (sell) their data with a data analytics company. A company like Facebook, perhaps...
It is not your money. Your bank statement is a statement of debt, an IOU from the bank to you, and conditions apply to the way you can collect that debt.
The bigger ATMs make attractive targets. They still get blown up regularly: in the past they'd pump gas into the ATM and set it off when it hit the right air/fuel mix. Then ATMs got fitted with gas detectors and vents. Now, criminals started using C4, which over here is apparently available on every street corner...
So it seems. Over here (NL), notaries (who handle the change of ownership of real estate as well as the associated payments) may not accept more than €15k in cash in any deal. Banks are obliged to report cash transactions of over €10k but they will often ask the purpose of the transaction when you withdraw €5k or more (answer: hookers and blow. There is no obligation to answer truthfully). It gets better: anyone who buys and sells goods professionally, and when dealing with a cash transaction of €10k or more, is obliged to establish the identity of the client, establish the identity of the person ultimately selling or taking ownership of the goods, establish the purpose and nature of the transaction, and other stuff, and you must retain this info for 5 years. Cash transactions of over €20k have to be reported to the authorities. This includes someone buying an expensive car and paying for their auto loan in cash installments.
By the way, the relevant law is called "wet Witwassen en Terrorisme-Financiering" (law on money laundering and financing of terrorism). But for some reason they choose to abbreviate it "WFT" instead. A shame...
Not the exact same thing. LinkedIn asks for permission. It uses the contact list on your mobile phone rather than trawling through your emails, and it certainly doesn’t ask for the password to your email account. I’ve no idea how it makes the suggestions that it does but it doesn’t seem to use my contact list (which it can’t anyway). Perhaps you got those suggestions because you were on their address list (and they granted access to
It)?
As one guy wrote: "I got this far peeling it off before the display spazzed and blacked out." That sounds like pulling of the film wasn't all that easy, and caused the screen to break.
Glancing at the flight map is the silent equivalent of repeatedly asking “are we there yet?” from the back seat.
My personal favourite is the nose wheel cam that comes on during landing... though there seem to be only a few airlines that actually have this. I’ve personally only seen it on JAL and Thai flights.
Perhaps it’s also due to how engineering careers are perceived here. In countries like China or India, engineers are (somewhat) respected and engineering is perceived as a good and profitable career path. Over here, engineering is perceived as a long and difficult study with an iffy and poorly paid career at the end of it. “You could have been an engineer”, said no dad to his son in any movie, ever. The line is: “You could have been a doctor or a lawyer”. Science and engineering are no longer popular studies, many students are from abroad (India and China) and there are hardly any local PhD students left.
The what now?
Anyway, maybe that AC is a bit like me: not against everything popular just to be edgy, but utterly sick of these superhero movies. Every now and then there's one that is slightly interesting, but as a genre it has been done to death, with very few original ideas or angles. In fact it looks like they have ran out of decent source material to work with, given that so many of these movies are reboots, origin stories, or versus / league movies. Lazy, lazy writing. And the problem is that almost all dumb blockbuster action / SF movies (a category which I do enjoy) are superhero movies these days. That, and poorly done remakes.
Saying someone doesnâ(TM)t deserve their money after they take all the risk is a BS argument.
And where exactly did I say this? The point isn't that entrepreneurs don't deserve their riches (they do), but that it makes no sense to expect an entrepreneur's level of commitment from a regular employee who has no significant stake in the company's success. And no, being able to continue to draw a salary is not a "significant stake". If my boss wants me to commit over and above what can reasonably be expected from an employee (i.e. the hours I get paid for), then he can pay me over and above the norm for the work I am doing.
I've actually been in that situation: joining a startup where the founders expected everyone to work crazy hours as they did for a regular salary without paid overtime, and no stake offered in the company (neither on top of wages nor as a buy-in). The startup didn't go anywhere, but I learned my lesson: better not get involved in startups unless they offer an equity stake commensurate with your contribution to the success of the firm, and the risk you take betting your free time (and sanity) on that success. If you join a startup, you shouldn't expect to be paid like a founder, but you should come away with something better than a standard wage. And you'd better settle for an actual stake on top of a low initial wage if you can afford it, rather than BS stock options that won't vest for years and are lost if you get fired (Countless employees of startups have been fired before their options vested). Your stake should be secure unless you quit.
Your life, you’re living it wrong. Instead organise your life around the smartness of these apps, not the other way around.
(Jokes aside, there is an application that demands you do exactly that, and it’s not an Apple product. It’s called SAP)
That’s not what the “Friedman Doctrine” means. Even if you as a CEO work for only the shareholders’ interests, that in no way absolves you of responsibility for your own actions. The shareholders would share the responsibility only if they had actively called or voted for unlawful actions.
But every person must have the desire to push oneself to the limit!
That's great if you are running your own company where you get to enjoy all the fruits of your labour and then some. But for the vast majority of people, work is not a number one priority. This reminds me of one of those dumb-ass corporate slogans that got handed down from management: "Everyone should work and act like an entrepreneur". My answer: sure, then how about paying me like one?
I want to be challenged and I like pushing myself to my own intellectual limits, but that has absolutely nothing to do with the amount of hours I put in. Because I also like to be home early and pursue my own interests. How about rewarding people for their individual contribution rather than for keeping a seat warm? Oh I know... measuring output would be hard, a punch clock is installed in minutes.
Too much power? It's his company, and yours to choose whether to invest in it or not. Now I despise FB and everything it stands for as much as the next guy, but good on Zuck for having retained a controlling interest in his company. Maybe I've seen too much of the other extreme, with VCs asking for too large a piece of the pie in exchange for a pittance.
Targeted ads are not about sending specific ads to interested individuals (even though they try and sell them to us as such, with words like "improved experience" and "more relevant"). Data like this is merely used to place a bunch of demographic tags on us: age, interests, income, job, political leaning, sexual orientation etc. Advertisers then target specific demographic groups that might be interested in their products. If your product appeals to republican lesbians who haven't had a haircut in the last 4 weeks, then you can target them, pay for 1,000 impressions rather than 10,000,000, and still be likely to hit the 2 prospects who are actually interested in your stuff. The odds that you are one of those 2 are decidedly poor in both cases, that's why the ads don't seem any more relevant to you even though they are "targeted"
I think we need a law that says companies like Google are not allowed to retain this sort of intimate data for such a long time. Though I fully agree with the idea that if such data is allowed to be used, there needs to be sufficient cause, with access requiring a warrant.
Sure.
If you're a crooked politician, it will be easy enough to divert a substantial part of those billions into your own pockets, or those of your friends.
If you're an honest politician, or just genuinely concerned for the welfare of your people, wouldn't you sell one smelly foreigner down the river for a couple of billion added to your state budget?
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The Netherlands. And this military stuff comes from Eastern Europe mostly. Explosives, hand grenades (very popular to get the mayor to shut down competing businesses), and in recent raids on motorcycle clubs they found all manner of heavy weaponry including antitank rockets. But I feel safe ‘cause we have very strict gun laws.
Incorrect. A 3rd party can be given permission to execute a payment on your behalf, in which case you will have to approve each transaction individually. However for access to financial data, you only have to give permission once to a particular 3rd party in order for them to get access to everything (permission is valid for a certain nr of days). And giving that permission once the account holder asks for it absolutely is a requirement under PSD2. The law was enacted to allow entities other than banks to provide value-added financial services. Since this directly competes with the banks themselves, it would not have made sense to make compliance optional. No bank would have implemented 3rd party access in that case. details
Not that the EU cares. They have just signed a law (PSD2) that obliges banks to give 3rd parties access to their clients' financial transactions, if those clients give explicit permission. It means that anyone could write, say, a budget management app or offer a tax return service, and plug my financial data right into that. Why is that bad? Well, if you send me $10 and I gave my bank permission to share my data, whoever got that data now knows about you and your $10 as well. Not good. Worse: what if the local supermarket decides to share (sell) their data with a data analytics company. A company like Facebook, perhaps...
It is not your money. Your bank statement is a statement of debt, an IOU from the bank to you, and conditions apply to the way you can collect that debt.
The bigger ATMs make attractive targets. They still get blown up regularly: in the past they'd pump gas into the ATM and set it off when it hit the right air/fuel mix. Then ATMs got fitted with gas detectors and vents. Now, criminals started using C4, which over here is apparently available on every street corner...
So it seems. Over here (NL), notaries (who handle the change of ownership of real estate as well as the associated payments) may not accept more than €15k in cash in any deal. Banks are obliged to report cash transactions of over €10k but they will often ask the purpose of the transaction when you withdraw €5k or more (answer: hookers and blow. There is no obligation to answer truthfully). It gets better: anyone who buys and sells goods professionally, and when dealing with a cash transaction of €10k or more, is obliged to establish the identity of the client, establish the identity of the person ultimately selling or taking ownership of the goods, establish the purpose and nature of the transaction, and other stuff, and you must retain this info for 5 years. Cash transactions of over €20k have to be reported to the authorities. This includes someone buying an expensive car and paying for their auto loan in cash installments.
By the way, the relevant law is called "wet Witwassen en Terrorisme-Financiering" (law on money laundering and financing of terrorism). But for some reason they choose to abbreviate it "WFT" instead. A shame...
If we’re talking about restitution to victims rather than a fine, then it should be an amount for each contact stolen.
Not the exact same thing. LinkedIn asks for permission. It uses the contact list on your mobile phone rather than trawling through your emails, and it certainly doesn’t ask for the password to your email account. I’ve no idea how it makes the suggestions that it does but it doesn’t seem to use my contact list (which it can’t anyway). Perhaps you got those suggestions because you were on their address list (and they granted access to It)?
As one guy wrote: "I got this far peeling it off before the display spazzed and blacked out." That sounds like pulling of the film wasn't all that easy, and caused the screen to break.
You're folding it wrong.
I'll let myself out...
That would explain how those wankers in politics passed this law in the first place...
Glancing at the flight map is the silent equivalent of repeatedly asking “are we there yet?” from the back seat.
My personal favourite is the nose wheel cam that comes on during landing... though there seem to be only a few airlines that actually have this. I’ve personally only seen it on JAL and Thai flights.
Perhaps it’s also due to how engineering careers are perceived here. In countries like China or India, engineers are (somewhat) respected and engineering is perceived as a good and profitable career path. Over here, engineering is perceived as a long and difficult study with an iffy and poorly paid career at the end of it. “You could have been an engineer”, said no dad to his son in any movie, ever. The line is: “You could have been a doctor or a lawyer”. Science and engineering are no longer popular studies, many students are from abroad (India and China) and there are hardly any local PhD students left.
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The what now?
Anyway, maybe that AC is a bit like me: not against everything popular just to be edgy, but utterly sick of these superhero movies. Every now and then there's one that is slightly interesting, but as a genre it has been done to death, with very few original ideas or angles. In fact it looks like they have ran out of decent source material to work with, given that so many of these movies are reboots, origin stories, or versus / league movies. Lazy, lazy writing. And the problem is that almost all dumb blockbuster action / SF movies (a category which I do enjoy) are superhero movies these days. That, and poorly done remakes.
Saying someone doesnâ(TM)t deserve their money after they take all the risk is a BS argument.
And where exactly did I say this? The point isn't that entrepreneurs don't deserve their riches (they do), but that it makes no sense to expect an entrepreneur's level of commitment from a regular employee who has no significant stake in the company's success. And no, being able to continue to draw a salary is not a "significant stake". If my boss wants me to commit over and above what can reasonably be expected from an employee (i.e. the hours I get paid for), then he can pay me over and above the norm for the work I am doing.
I've actually been in that situation: joining a startup where the founders expected everyone to work crazy hours as they did for a regular salary without paid overtime, and no stake offered in the company (neither on top of wages nor as a buy-in). The startup didn't go anywhere, but I learned my lesson: better not get involved in startups unless they offer an equity stake commensurate with your contribution to the success of the firm, and the risk you take betting your free time (and sanity) on that success. If you join a startup, you shouldn't expect to be paid like a founder, but you should come away with something better than a standard wage. And you'd better settle for an actual stake on top of a low initial wage if you can afford it, rather than BS stock options that won't vest for years and are lost if you get fired (Countless employees of startups have been fired before their options vested). Your stake should be secure unless you quit.
Your life, you’re living it wrong. Instead organise your life around the smartness of these apps, not the other way around.
(Jokes aside, there is an application that demands you do exactly that, and it’s not an Apple product. It’s called SAP)
Shareholders do not issue orders.
That’s not what the “Friedman Doctrine” means. Even if you as a CEO work for only the shareholders’ interests, that in no way absolves you of responsibility for your own actions. The shareholders would share the responsibility only if they had actively called or voted for unlawful actions.
My pass phrase is 1kb long. Good fucking luck with that
Worst pickup line ever...
LWPA and NB-IoT networks already exist. They aren't part of the 5G standards, are they? Or have they been co-opted?
But every person must have the desire to push oneself to the limit!
That's great if you are running your own company where you get to enjoy all the fruits of your labour and then some. But for the vast majority of people, work is not a number one priority. This reminds me of one of those dumb-ass corporate slogans that got handed down from management: "Everyone should work and act like an entrepreneur". My answer: sure, then how about paying me like one?
I want to be challenged and I like pushing myself to my own intellectual limits, but that has absolutely nothing to do with the amount of hours I put in. Because I also like to be home early and pursue my own interests. How about rewarding people for their individual contribution rather than for keeping a seat warm? Oh I know... measuring output would be hard, a punch clock is installed in minutes.
Too much power? It's his company, and yours to choose whether to invest in it or not. Now I despise FB and everything it stands for as much as the next guy, but good on Zuck for having retained a controlling interest in his company. Maybe I've seen too much of the other extreme, with VCs asking for too large a piece of the pie in exchange for a pittance.
Targeted ads are not about sending specific ads to interested individuals (even though they try and sell them to us as such, with words like "improved experience" and "more relevant"). Data like this is merely used to place a bunch of demographic tags on us: age, interests, income, job, political leaning, sexual orientation etc. Advertisers then target specific demographic groups that might be interested in their products. If your product appeals to republican lesbians who haven't had a haircut in the last 4 weeks, then you can target them, pay for 1,000 impressions rather than 10,000,000, and still be likely to hit the 2 prospects who are actually interested in your stuff. The odds that you are one of those 2 are decidedly poor in both cases, that's why the ads don't seem any more relevant to you even though they are "targeted"
I think we need a law that says companies like Google are not allowed to retain this sort of intimate data for such a long time. Though I fully agree with the idea that if such data is allowed to be used, there needs to be sufficient cause, with access requiring a warrant.
Sure.
If you're a crooked politician, it will be easy enough to divert a substantial part of those billions into your own pockets, or those of your friends.
If you're an honest politician, or just genuinely concerned for the welfare of your people, wouldn't you sell one smelly foreigner down the river for a couple of billion added to your state budget?