There are a couple of things about this that bother me. If the package was delivered by the US Postal Service (USPS) then the theft is a Federal crime.
Once the package is on the doorstep, it's delivered and no longer a Federal crime to steal it.
Amazon reports the loss to their insurance provider and Amazon is reimbursed. Amazon is not the victim.
Wait...you mean stores where you live expect you to own and bring your own bags to the store each time you shop with them?
Yep, that's the California Hair-shirt environmentalist dogma nowadays. Go to the store, forget to bring your bags, get to the checkout... oh sorry no bags, you'll have to either carry in your arms or buy the reusable bags we have at a 1000% convenience markup.
Or just drop the stuff right there and walk out, which is what I'd do. But they probably made that illegal too.
Feed it the first part of Isaac Asimov's C-chute. If it doesn't insert a <a href="https://infogalactic.com/info/The_Monkey%27s_Finger">scene change</a>, DESTROY IT.
Google has a mole within its decision making hierarchy. A mole perhaps "planted", "bought" or "compromised" by one of its rivals.
Conquest's Third Law: The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies.
Big organizations act that way even when they're not actually controlled by such a cabal. It's principal-agent problems all the way down.
Get a computer, isolate it from your real net, and put some bogus designs. A pedestrian bridge overbuilt enough to handle a tank's weight. A high rise apartment with no provision for elevators. A bridge designed in Florida.
If you're in the US, you're not telling the truth. Whether you pay off your credit cards in full each month or not isn't even available in a credit report. It results in a lower balance reported (not necessarily zero), but lower balances are strictly a good thing by FICOs methodology.
I was talking to a woman who had this problem; she was always taught to pay cash and never borrow if she didn't have the money so she had almost no score.
She was taught wrong, or half-wrong anyway. Even 20-30 years ago it was common knowledge that it was good to build credit. For the past decade or so FICO has published the general criteria.
35% payment history: Pretty self-explanatory; you want a history of on-time payments
30% amounts owed: Not absolute amounts owed, but percentage of available credit. So it's good to have more credit available than you use.
15% length of credit history: Mostly length of time accounts have been open. So don't close your old accounts without a good reason.
10% credit mix: Having multiple different kinds of credit (cards, installment loans, mortgages, etc) is better. This is pretty minor and hard to do anything about when starting out
10% new credit: Opening new accounts or even getting "hard inquiries" (requests by a lender to see your score for the purpose of deciding whether to extend credit) temporarily lowers your score. Again, you have to take the hit sometime.
So... get credit cards as soon as you can. Use them, but stay comfortably below the credit limit. Pay them off within the grace period (doesn't matter to FICO whether you pay in full or pay the minimum, but the idea is to build credit, not pay interest). Keep it up, get credit line increases, and you'll have a decent score in a fairly short while. Not much you can do to game it, except possibly take advantage of the occasional 0-interest installment loan that stores sometimes offer as promotions (this gives you a temporary hit because of new credit, but a bump because of credit mix)
The fact you don't borrow does not mean you have no credit score. It just means you don't have a record of borrowing and repayment. Presumably other elements, like actual car/house ownership, holding a job, etc, contribute portions to the credit score.
The FICO credit score does not include employment, owning a car, or owning a house. If you have never borrowed, or haven't borrowed much, you will not have a score. If you have no open accounts in the past 6 months you have no score.
There may be other scores which take other things into consideration, but they aren't common.
Headline: "Your Credit Score Isn't a Reflection of Your Moral Character. But the Department of Homeland Security Seems To Think It Is. "
Summary: Homeland Security is considering using credit scores and other financial records as a reflection of someone's _financial_ character, not their moral character.
Setting aside the proposal's moral abdication when it comes to the needy
Eh, wot? The US is not morally required to accept new welfare recipients. Yes, there's that Emma Lazarus poem... but it pre-dates the welfare system. The tired, poor, and hungry yearning to be free were expected to work their asses off or starve.
Google's got over 85,000 employees. Probably half of them in the various south bay campuses. Two hundred being gone for a day isn't going to be noticed. Though I imagine eng-misc@ and industryinfo@ and memegen might be a little quieter.
A Georgian land value tax is nothing short of elimination of land ownership entirely. It's equivalent to the state owning all the property and renting it out to the highest bidder. It's an absolutely terrible tax, unless you're a literal communist.
For the uses to which property tax is usually put, any land value tax (not just the Georgian one) is especially bad. Property taxes cover schools and municipal expenditures. These things scale somewhat by area, but mostly per capita. So a single family house on 1/2 acre only imposes slightly less burden on the government than a single family house on 1 acre. A 60-unit apartment building on that same acre imposes a lot more burden than the single family house. But the land value tax misses this entirely, and charges both properties the same tax.
Yes, they are requiring you to take a test. And you will be required to have proof of passage on you (but they don't call it a "license", or even an "airman's certificate"; one important distinction would be that it's not revocable). But the seizure and forfeiture provisions aren't in that part of the bill, they're in a separate section that concerns UAS which threaten DHS-protected facilities. So if you fly your model into a nuclear plant or sewage plant or any of a number of other facilities, they can take it. But if you're just flying around in a field with your unregistered model airplane without having taken a test, this bill does not allow them to seize the equipment. They can, however, hit you with civil fines of up to $20,000 per violation, and it doesn't take much creativity to come up with a bunch of violations for a single act.
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Once the package is on the doorstep, it's delivered and no longer a Federal crime to steal it.
Are you sure Amazon doesn't self-insure?
Yep, that's the California Hair-shirt environmentalist dogma nowadays. Go to the store, forget to bring your bags, get to the checkout... oh sorry no bags, you'll have to either carry in your arms or buy the reusable bags we have at a 1000% convenience markup.
Or just drop the stuff right there and walk out, which is what I'd do. But they probably made that illegal too.
Whoa, calm down there Hitler.
Not so. Entry under visa waiver allows you to go to seminar for business.
Feed it the first part of Isaac Asimov's C-chute. If it doesn't insert a <a href="https://infogalactic.com/info/The_Monkey%27s_Finger">scene change</a>, DESTROY IT.
Yes, some of the CYOA books -- including #1, The Cave of Time -- you could get trapped in a loop. And "Inside UFO 54-40" had an unreachable ending.
The first (or at least an earlier one) would be the IBM MT/ST. Like the Redactron, it was based on an IBM Selectric.
Then: "Holy shit, the NSA is reading everything! Start encrypting more!"
Now: "The NSA is reading everything? Ridiculous! Another stupid conspiracy theory, bury it."
Get a computer, isolate it from your real net, and put some bogus designs. A pedestrian bridge overbuilt enough to handle a tank's weight. A high rise apartment with no provision for elevators. A bridge designed in Florida.
If you're in the US, you're not telling the truth. Whether you pay off your credit cards in full each month or not isn't even available in a credit report. It results in a lower balance reported (not necessarily zero), but lower balances are strictly a good thing by FICOs methodology.
She was taught wrong, or half-wrong anyway. Even 20-30 years ago it was common knowledge that it was good to build credit. For the past decade or so FICO has published the general criteria.
35% payment history: Pretty self-explanatory; you want a history of on-time payments
30% amounts owed: Not absolute amounts owed, but percentage of available credit. So it's good to have more credit available than you use.
15% length of credit history: Mostly length of time accounts have been open. So don't close your old accounts without a good reason.
10% credit mix: Having multiple different kinds of credit (cards, installment loans, mortgages, etc) is better. This is pretty minor and hard to do anything about when starting out
10% new credit: Opening new accounts or even getting "hard inquiries" (requests by a lender to see your score for the purpose of deciding whether to extend credit) temporarily lowers your score. Again, you have to take the hit sometime.
So... get credit cards as soon as you can. Use them, but stay comfortably below the credit limit. Pay them off within the grace period (doesn't matter to FICO whether you pay in full or pay the minimum, but the idea is to build credit, not pay interest). Keep it up, get credit line increases, and you'll have a decent score in a fairly short while. Not much you can do to game it, except possibly take advantage of the occasional 0-interest installment loan that stores sometimes offer as promotions (this gives you a temporary hit because of new credit, but a bump because of credit mix)
Why bother, when it takes so little effort to win (760+)?
The FICO credit score does not include employment, owning a car, or owning a house. If you have never borrowed, or haven't borrowed much, you will not have a score. If you have no open accounts in the past 6 months you have no score.
There may be other scores which take other things into consideration, but they aren't common.
Headline: "Your Credit Score Isn't a Reflection of Your Moral Character. But the Department of Homeland Security Seems To Think It Is. "
Summary: Homeland Security is considering using credit scores and other financial records as a reflection of someone's _financial_ character, not their moral character.
Eh, wot? The US is not morally required to accept new welfare recipients. Yes, there's that Emma Lazarus poem... but it pre-dates the welfare system. The tired, poor, and hungry yearning to be free were expected to work their asses off or starve.
Google's got over 85,000 employees. Probably half of them in the various south bay campuses. Two hundred being gone for a day isn't going to be noticed. Though I imagine eng-misc@ and industryinfo@ and memegen might be a little quieter.
What country is making the replica of the iceberg for it to hit?
It's just like the way Facebook got shut down when Facebook user Alex Minassian ran over a bunch of people with a van.
A Georgian land value tax is nothing short of elimination of land ownership entirely. It's equivalent to the state owning all the property and renting it out to the highest bidder. It's an absolutely terrible tax, unless you're a literal communist.
For the uses to which property tax is usually put, any land value tax (not just the Georgian one) is especially bad. Property taxes cover schools and municipal expenditures. These things scale somewhat by area, but mostly per capita. So a single family house on 1/2 acre only imposes slightly less burden on the government than a single family house on 1 acre. A 60-unit apartment building on that same acre imposes a lot more burden than the single family house. But the land value tax misses this entirely, and charges both properties the same tax.
Yes, they are requiring you to take a test. And you will be required to have proof of passage on you (but they don't call it a "license", or even an "airman's certificate"; one important distinction would be that it's not revocable). But the seizure and forfeiture provisions aren't in that part of the bill, they're in a separate section that concerns UAS which threaten DHS-protected facilities. So if you fly your model into a nuclear plant or sewage plant or any of a number of other facilities, they can take it. But if you're just flying around in a field with your unregistered model airplane without having taken a test, this bill does not allow them to seize the equipment. They can, however, hit you with civil fines of up to $20,000 per violation, and it doesn't take much creativity to come up with a bunch of violations for a single act.
They're not actually doing this, just planting stories at Business Insider to keep drivers from stealing packages.
Hey Sergey, I guess you've decided totalitarianism is A-OK after all?
For one, Linux is written in C already. For another, Rust comes with an ideology. C doesn't care.
Yep, the glimmer is gone. But go ahead, keep spitting bile, including bile at the mentally ill, in an attempt to claim the high ground.
I'll be goddamned, a glimmer of self-awareness. I don't suppose it will last.