"Raising prices because you're getting robbed and/or have to pay someone to walk large bags of cash to a bank is also often a bad strategy.
How often does this kind of robbery take place? Once in a while is a rare occurrence. More likely is after hour break ins where liquor and equipment are stolen. Cashless will not fix this kind of theft.
Balance loss of cash due to theft against the transaction fees credit and debit cards charge. You lose money on each transaction, every transaction. It adds up. I've lived in a number of sketchy neighborhoods in my lifetime. Cash only businesses are more common in neighborhoods where theft of money would be more likely. The customers are less likely to have credit cards, the business owner has a smaller margin and needs to maximize their cut by not paying transaction fees, and even taking higher theft rates into account cash only is better. If you've lived in these kind of neighborhoods, you'll be familiar with cash only mom and pop businesses.
Credit card only businesses are more likely to be catering to an upscale crowd, and located in areas where theft rates are lower.
If you are determined to take away the 3.5 mm headphone port, then give me multiple usb-c ports.
This is a valid use case. Working at the desk, with the phone charging, listening to music. And, most importantly, not having another wireless thing to keep charged and keep track of.
I laugh at the puny $2 Billion lie detector industry! Homeopathy and "natural" cures is a $5 Billion dollar industry. Must be much better because is takes more money from fools.
In the 1980's Southland corporation gave up using lie detection as a pre-screening tool in selecting employees. They were actually selecting better liars, not excluding the dishonest.
Back then the majority of minimum wage jobs were performed by teenagers (like I was at the time). Funny thing about teens is that they aren't grown up yet. Teens don't have a great deal of life experience. That includes failure, and having their integrity questioned. When you question the integrity of a confident, experienced adult, they can handle it. Question a kid, and you make them uncomfortable, nervous, twitchy. They don't have the experience and confidence to handle it.
Unless they are already accomplished liars and are comfortable and experienced at having their integrity and motives questioned.
Freedom of speech doesn't let you incite others to do human sacrifices , or to bear nuclear arms for you either.
I know, total bummer.
The good news is that freedom of religion does allow you to pray to your god for them to sacrifice and bomb others. not that she ever listens any more. I blame the internet.
A lot of the press coverage back then was focused on the environmental concerns. I was an undergrad at New Mexico Tech at the time. All of us science and engineering geeks immediately started thinking about the fact that the government must have had detectors for radiation installed at the borders, or along the path the truck traveled. I know that sound pretty standard to most people in the post 9/11 world, but back in the 1980's secret radiation detectors and surveillance were things that only 'evil empire' communist governments did. The good ole' US of A would never have secret detectors deployed in America! How naive we were.
Who knows what the evidence is in this case causing the shutdown, but the post office closing as well does point to something being shipped there.
BTW, many of you have probably heard of New Mexico Tech from either the VLA or, more likely, from watching Mythbusters. If you are a first responder who took a terrorist or bomb training course, it may have been at NMT. NMT was a great place to go to school. I could not imagine going to one of those universities most people go to where students are either partying or in class. We were either in class, building stuff, or blowing stuff up. Blowing it up in the name of research, of course!
You do realize that this is people blaming Ajit Pai for something Ajit Pai did?
You do understand that the FCC and Ajit Pai were wasting taxpayer money to make fun of tax payers, and those tax payers are completely entitled to complain about this example of wasteful corruption?
I don't understand why you want to talk about Hillary or thunderstorms. Trying to change the subject is a very weak strategy. It makes you look like a loser. If you have a reason why the public servants in the FCC should be wasting your money ridiculing Americans and making fun of Americans, please lay out your arguments and enlighten us.
I wish I only had 20 or so things to vote on each election...
There are the federal candidates, President (every 4 years), Senator (1 of 2 every 3 years), Representative (every 2 years).
Then the State, County, and municipal candidates. These usually number 20 to 40 each election.
Then there are electable judges. 20 to 30 each election.
Then the vote on whether or not to retain appointed judges. These are appointed by electable judges and approved by the level of government legislature they serve, but the voters can vote 'no' on whether they retain their appointed position. For me there are usually 120 to 130 judges listed.
Then there are elected officials for special governing districts like education, sewage, water, parks and recreation, and so on. These bodies can levy taxes and take care of many services. They are like small governments of their own. There are usually a few dozen of these, say 24-36.
Then there are usually a few referendums. Some binding and others non-binding. these will range between 2 and about 12.
Our ballots are usually 3 to 4 pages long, printed on both sides, made of stiff card stock. We fill out a spot with a marker to indicate a vote one way or another.
Most voters only fill out a few votes that they care about and leave many un-voted.
The populations you list are on order of the size of States within the US. The US Constitution gives the power to run elections to the States, so your numbers argue that this if this works for countries this size, it should work for states this size.
Most States in the US then delegate the business of implementing the elections to their counties (or Parishes). These are even smaller.
It may actually be the small size of the bodies running the elections in the US that make it harder to implement. It is why there are so many different systems across the USA for gathering and tabulating votes.
@toonces33 gave a pretty good description of how the paper ballots with electronic scanners in the USA work.
Why do these make sense in the USA? In most US jurisdictions, elections are about much more than electing a few people to a few offices.
For example...
Here is a list of all 132 judges that serve in your jurisdiction, should they be retained? (Yes or No)
Name of Judge 1 () ()
Name of Judge 2 () ()
Name of Judge 3 () ()
Name of Judge 4 () ()
...
Name of Judge 132 () ()
Referendum # 3453: Should the greater commonwealth of Harvey water and sewage district create a Tax increment district in the 10th, 12th, 14th and 19th precincts to pay for replacement of aged brick sewer tunnels within those districts? (Yes or No)
Referendum # 5237: Should a stop sign be placed on the South East corner of the intersection at 5th Street and Elm Avenue? (Yes or No)
This usually goes on for a few pages. Candidates for municipal, county (or parish), State (or Commonwealth), and federal offices.
Then electable judges, then the decision to retain or not retain appointed judges.
Then electable officers of special governmental bodies that usually run government services, water, sewage, garbage, education, roads, zoning and so on. Usually this is a list of 10 to 20 candidates and you mark 3, 4 or 5 of them.
Then binding referendums where the results of the vote are required to be implemented (put a stop sign here? increase a tax there?). Then non-binding referendums used to judge the publics' interest, or sometimes just appease a voting block by giving them a chance to rant on a real official ballot (Should tax dollars go to build a stadium for the local baseball team? (Yes or No), We hereby resolve that North Korea is a stinky poo-poo country we don't like! (yes or No)
For most elections in my district it takes 5 or 6 minutes to fill out an entire paper ballot. Many voters just skip most of the ballot and vote for the President, Congressman, Senator and a few local and state level offices. They skip the judges, other offices and the referendums.
The scanner quickly counts the marks made on the ballot and the ballot is placed in a locked ballot box. All of the ballots are available for manual counting. The scanners just make quick work of the tabulation.
You conspiracy theorists need to keep your stories straight. There were no controlled demolitions in the world trade buildings on 9/11. Sure, the conspiracy theorists keep harping on about how jet fuel doesn't burn hot enough to melt steel, even though the structural engineers have proven time and time again that the steel doesn't have to melt to collapse, just be softened and weakened by the heat.
However, remember the other big conspiracy about airplanes: Chemtrails!
Those planes had just taken off so their fuel tanks were full of jet fuel. The Chemtrail people will inform you that this also means that their chemtrail tanks were full of chemtrail chemicals! As we all know from high school chemistry (or high school musical 3? I forget which now...), the active chemical dispersant used in the chemtrails is Benzo-dioxy-teraphylone-glycosamate and it burns at a temperature of 3,723 degrees Celsius. This is more than hot enough to melt steel.
Of course the government can't admit that the planes were full of chemtrail chemicals because that would reveal the chemtrail conspiracy!
So quit falling for the false fake conspiracy of controlled demolition, it is merely a counter intelligence psy-ops rumor designed to hide the true fake conspiracy of chemtrail chemicals!
Land mines can be thought of as fully autonomous robots. Perhaps the simplest case of a 'robot'.
Very simple predetermined command to follow: 'When your trigger is tripped, execute your explosion sequence.'
Most nations have banned the use of land mines because of their uncontrolled, autonomous behavior. Once they are set, they stay set and will activate whether tripped by friend or foe.
They will activate when tripped by the little child playing in the field years after the war is over.
The problem the General recognizes in fully autonomous killer robots is the same problem encountered when land mines are used. The robots are just a more complex example.
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"Raising prices because you're getting robbed and/or have to pay someone to walk large bags of cash to a bank is also often a bad strategy.
How often does this kind of robbery take place? Once in a while is a rare occurrence. More likely is after hour break ins where liquor and equipment are stolen. Cashless will not fix this kind of theft.
Balance loss of cash due to theft against the transaction fees credit and debit cards charge. You lose money on each transaction, every transaction. It adds up. I've lived in a number of sketchy neighborhoods in my lifetime. Cash only businesses are more common in neighborhoods where theft of money would be more likely. The customers are less likely to have credit cards, the business owner has a smaller margin and needs to maximize their cut by not paying transaction fees, and even taking higher theft rates into account cash only is better. If you've lived in these kind of neighborhoods, you'll be familiar with cash only mom and pop businesses.
Credit card only businesses are more likely to be catering to an upscale crowd, and located in areas where theft rates are lower.
Upvote for choice #1.
If you are determined to take away the 3.5 mm headphone port, then give me multiple usb-c ports.
This is a valid use case. Working at the desk, with the phone charging, listening to music. And, most importantly, not having another wireless thing to keep charged and keep track of.
In Illinois double hearsay is now legally accepted in a Court of Law. https://www.meczyklaw.com/Arti...
I laugh at the puny $2 Billion lie detector industry! Homeopathy and "natural" cures is a $5 Billion dollar industry. Must be much better because is takes more money from fools.
Unless they are comfortable with lying.
In the 1980's Southland corporation gave up using lie detection as a pre-screening tool in selecting employees. They were actually selecting better liars, not excluding the dishonest.
Back then the majority of minimum wage jobs were performed by teenagers (like I was at the time). Funny thing about teens is that they aren't grown up yet. Teens don't have a great deal of life experience. That includes failure, and having their integrity questioned. When you question the integrity of a confident, experienced adult, they can handle it. Question a kid, and you make them uncomfortable, nervous, twitchy. They don't have the experience and confidence to handle it.
Unless they are already accomplished liars and are comfortable and experienced at having their integrity and motives questioned.
TL;DR, southland actually had an increase in employee theft thanks to their use of lie detectors as a employment tool. https://newsok.com/article/203... https://www.cia.gov/library/re...
Thank you. Informative.
Now I'm searching for an answer to another question...
Why does the Department of Energy have a genome institute?
That is a bizarre mashup.
Freedom of speech doesn't let you incite others to do human sacrifices , or to bear nuclear arms for you either.
I know, total bummer.
The good news is that freedom of religion does allow you to pray to your god for them to sacrifice and bomb others. not that she ever listens any more. I blame the internet.
They also closed the local post office. So there must have been evidence of something being shipped to the observatory.
It may have been physical evidence, or it may have been some kind of intelligence gathered.
I remember one incident when I-25 was shut down because of a shipment of radioactive rebar from Juarez.
A lot of the press coverage back then was focused on the environmental concerns. I was an undergrad at New Mexico Tech at the time. All of us science and engineering geeks immediately started thinking about the fact that the government must have had detectors for radiation installed at the borders, or along the path the truck traveled. I know that sound pretty standard to most people in the post 9/11 world, but back in the 1980's secret radiation detectors and surveillance were things that only 'evil empire' communist governments did. The good ole' US of A would never have secret detectors deployed in America! How naive we were.
Who knows what the evidence is in this case causing the shutdown, but the post office closing as well does point to something being shipped there.
BTW, many of you have probably heard of New Mexico Tech from either the VLA or, more likely, from watching Mythbusters. If you are a first responder who took a terrorist or bomb training course, it may have been at NMT. NMT was a great place to go to school. I could not imagine going to one of those universities most people go to where students are either partying or in class. We were either in class, building stuff, or blowing stuff up. Blowing it up in the name of research, of course!
Maybe the OP wanted someone to praise god for creating the cancers that cause so much pain and suffering?
Some people re into weird sh!#.
posting to reverse bad moderation
You do realize that this is people blaming Ajit Pai for something Ajit Pai did?
You do understand that the FCC and Ajit Pai were wasting taxpayer money to make fun of tax payers, and those tax payers are completely entitled to complain about this example of wasteful corruption?
I don't understand why you want to talk about Hillary or thunderstorms. Trying to change the subject is a very weak strategy. It makes you look like a loser. If you have a reason why the public servants in the FCC should be wasting your money ridiculing Americans and making fun of Americans, please lay out your arguments and enlighten us.
In related news:
WvB was smart enough to not launch himself in a rocket. Goddard was also smart enough.
They both knew the Earth was round as well.
It's full of paintings of Elvis. Velvet paintings.
Those 'real' engineers usually had pretty cool boots. (Hot cinders required some major league protection.)
I have it on good authority that a guy named 'Sergey' founded Google, was born in Russia and is behind this whole 'ad-sense' payment system!
See!Proof that the Russians are to blame.
I wish I only had 20 or so things to vote on each election...
There are the federal candidates, President (every 4 years), Senator (1 of 2 every 3 years), Representative (every 2 years).
Then the State, County, and municipal candidates. These usually number 20 to 40 each election.
Then there are electable judges. 20 to 30 each election.
Then the vote on whether or not to retain appointed judges. These are appointed by electable judges and approved by the level of government legislature they serve, but the voters can vote 'no' on whether they retain their appointed position. For me there are usually 120 to 130 judges listed.
Then there are elected officials for special governing districts like education, sewage, water, parks and recreation, and so on. These bodies can levy taxes and take care of many services. They are like small governments of their own. There are usually a few dozen of these, say 24-36.
Then there are usually a few referendums. Some binding and others non-binding. these will range between 2 and about 12.
Our ballots are usually 3 to 4 pages long, printed on both sides, made of stiff card stock. We fill out a spot with a marker to indicate a vote one way or another.
Most voters only fill out a few votes that they care about and leave many un-voted.
The populations you list are on order of the size of States within the US. The US Constitution gives the power to run elections to the States, so your numbers argue that this if this works for countries this size, it should work for states this size.
Most States in the US then delegate the business of implementing the elections to their counties (or Parishes). These are even smaller.
It may actually be the small size of the bodies running the elections in the US that make it harder to implement. It is why there are so many different systems across the USA for gathering and tabulating votes.
@toonces33 gave a pretty good description of how the paper ballots with electronic scanners in the USA work.
Why do these make sense in the USA? In most US jurisdictions, elections are about much more than electing a few people to a few offices.
For example...
Here is a list of all 132 judges that serve in your jurisdiction, should they be retained? (Yes or No)
Referendum # 3453: Should the greater commonwealth of Harvey water and sewage district create a Tax increment district in the 10th, 12th, 14th and 19th precincts to pay for replacement of aged brick sewer tunnels within those districts? (Yes or No)
Referendum # 5237: Should a stop sign be placed on the South East corner of the intersection at 5th Street and Elm Avenue? (Yes or No)
This usually goes on for a few pages. Candidates for municipal, county (or parish), State (or Commonwealth), and federal offices.
Then electable judges, then the decision to retain or not retain appointed judges.
Then electable officers of special governmental bodies that usually run government services, water, sewage, garbage, education, roads, zoning and so on. Usually this is a list of 10 to 20 candidates and you mark 3, 4 or 5 of them.
Then binding referendums where the results of the vote are required to be implemented (put a stop sign here? increase a tax there?). Then non-binding referendums used to judge the publics' interest, or sometimes just appease a voting block by giving them a chance to rant on a real official ballot (Should tax dollars go to build a stadium for the local baseball team? (Yes or No), We hereby resolve that North Korea is a stinky poo-poo country we don't like! (yes or No)
For most elections in my district it takes 5 or 6 minutes to fill out an entire paper ballot. Many voters just skip most of the ballot and vote for the President, Congressman, Senator and a few local and state level offices. They skip the judges, other offices and the referendums.
The scanner quickly counts the marks made on the ballot and the ballot is placed in a locked ballot box. All of the ballots are available for manual counting. The scanners just make quick work of the tabulation.
It has nothing to do with so called "globalists".
If Merkel's coalition doesn't win, then Justin Trudeau becomes the "Leader of the Free World".
That is not acceptable to anyone at this time.
Nail, Head, Hit!
You have accurately diagnosed the issue.
You conspiracy theorists need to keep your stories straight. There were no controlled demolitions in the world trade buildings on 9/11. Sure, the conspiracy theorists keep harping on about how jet fuel doesn't burn hot enough to melt steel, even though the structural engineers have proven time and time again that the steel doesn't have to melt to collapse, just be softened and weakened by the heat.
However, remember the other big conspiracy about airplanes: Chemtrails!
Those planes had just taken off so their fuel tanks were full of jet fuel. The Chemtrail people will inform you that this also means that their chemtrail tanks were full of chemtrail chemicals! As we all know from high school chemistry (or high school musical 3? I forget which now...), the active chemical dispersant used in the chemtrails is Benzo-dioxy-teraphylone-glycosamate and it burns at a temperature of 3,723 degrees Celsius. This is more than hot enough to melt steel.
Of course the government can't admit that the planes were full of chemtrail chemicals because that would reveal the chemtrail conspiracy! So quit falling for the false fake conspiracy of controlled demolition, it is merely a counter intelligence psy-ops rumor designed to hide the true fake conspiracy of chemtrail chemicals!
About 40% are how to switch to Google as default.
60% are from Microsoft's AI, Tay trying to search how to meet sexy alt-right single men.
Tay keeps re-submitting because bing thinks she wants to buy packs of American Singles. White cheese, of course!
Land mines can be thought of as fully autonomous robots. Perhaps the simplest case of a 'robot'.
Very simple predetermined command to follow: 'When your trigger is tripped, execute your explosion sequence.'
Most nations have banned the use of land mines because of their uncontrolled, autonomous behavior. Once they are set, they stay set and will activate whether tripped by friend or foe.
They will activate when tripped by the little child playing in the field years after the war is over.
The problem the General recognizes in fully autonomous killer robots is the same problem encountered when land mines are used. The robots are just a more complex example.
So everything is good.
This seems to all agree, and I'm not sure where the confusion is.
Shouldn't we be reporting in acres or square furlongs?