> Corporatocracy (tm).
We _already_ have a word; plutocracy, and/or oligarchy
There is no need to coin a new word -- although yours isn't bad.
See, I keep thinking of Mickey's good 'ol dog when I hear Plutocracy - I mean, who wouldn't like a world ruled by a cute, happy go lucky dog?
This is what democracy is all about.
You get what you pay for - oh, you're not paying? Then you're probably not getting. Welcome to the Corporatocracy (tm).
I despise Facebook but it's something of a necessary evil when you have friends scattered all over the world.
This is bullshit. Teach your friends how to interact with you and keep up your end of the bargain. Email is perfectly sufficient unless you're an attention whore or voyeur.
Facebook is a drug and you can live without it. You might even find your life more fulfilling without it.
That is a lie. Why would you pick classes that wouldn't transfer?
When I taught at Tri-County Tech, nearly all of my student's credits would transfer to real schools. Our classes were stupid easy and you got credit for some very hard college classes. It was a great scam for the students.
The real scam is that all this free and easy money doesn't go to education. It goes to educators -- educators all too willing to just take all that extra money to provide classes that are "stupid easy".
The students are just mules that move the money from tax payers to professional educators.
s/educator/educational institution/g
Seriously, you think the teachers aren't part of the "ones being scammed"? They get paid peanuts while the "administrators" keep growing their budgets and salaries. The institution however...
This matters to me more than your claims of "all modern operating systems taking full advantage of the RAM". If the operating system takes full advantage of the RAM, it may not be to my best benefit.
tl;dr: If you don't know what you're doing (or like me are too lazy to care) with respect to memory management (most Mac users) then the OS is likely a better steward than you. For everyone else, there are RAM drives
Why someone would criticize you for using a RAM drive
Actually, France has been dealing with a growing problem; namely, radical Islamists who have been busy turning entire neighborhoods within France into Sharia-run enclaves. No desire to integrate into society, and indeed, they'd prefer France become a caliphate.
Maybe it has something to do with continuing racism and lack of employment opportunities for French-born muslims. If employment opportunities (or the ability for these folks to be able to profitably self-employ) existed, the interest in extremist fundamentalism would probably be greatly dampened.
African Americans in the USA have the same problems that Muslims do in France - they were brought over for cheap/slave labor and were not repatriated (how do you do such a thing) after the work was no longer needed (or had been automated). However in France, the religion is different as well - and one that's been in violent conflict with Christianity for millennia.
I'm surprised there hasn't been more such incidents.
Have a good reputation by practicing ahinsa, and always helping and not hurting the civilizations one visits. Send a copy of your self to other civilizations and get them to build it, giving them detailed instructions. (Use error correcting codes for the instructions.) In return perform same service for others with good reputations! Using this method one can cross space at the speed of light or better. You can cross space at the speed a message can travel.
If you hurt anyone your reputation will be damaged and with it the ability to travel.
Right up until you meet a civilization that's intent on destroying your civ's reputation (and possibly going on a genocidal rampage) for whatever petty resource or idealistic goals they see fit.
And would you really want to create a set of instructions to build humans
Is it a standard us thing, that a merchant get access to any card data when the customer pays with a credit card in a physical shop?
Here in Denmark, a normal merchant newer has access to your card data even if you pay with a credit card.
The data is sent directly from the credit card terminal(The hardware which read the card and card code) to dibs/nets(The payment gateway for credit cards) which then reserve the money and sends a message back to the terminal about the status of the transaction. This transaction status is then send to the merchants cash register to together with the last 4 digits of the credit card number.
In short, yes. The USA is very behind most of Europe when it comes to credit card security, and is just now looking to catch up. By late 2015, credit card issuers can push liability for fraud to merchants if they haven't adopted EMV or some form of card tokenization. That's why there's such a push for things like Apple Pay.
(My emphasis.) In other words, AT&T has adopted the same billing practice as T-Mobile. Thanks for letting us know about this change.
They are NOT the same. The subscription is still there. The early termination fee doesn't go down in liability in regular increments - they monkey with it so that fee stays 80% intact after 1 year. Read up on Verizon's new schedule - you pay full ETF for 8 months. That' alike 8 months of your payments not paying down your loan.
with the old policy, you would see a substantial reduction in your ETF after completing up to eight months, but the new ETF policy lays out a much different schedule. In the new policy, you are stuck with the full $350 ETF on “advanced devices” for the first seven months of a contract. From months 8-18, you will then see the ETF decline by $10 per month. Then from months 19-23, it will decline by $20 per month. In the final month of your contract, your ETF will reduce by $60.
In TMO it's straight talk all the way - 18mo ago paid a $240 subsidy per phone and
Sucks you can't get good TMO service. They will improve it - these guys are itching for #2 spot or higher.
Not sure if it is an option for you, but can you take public transit?
Someone does the driving and you can read/sleep, etc.
Not really a good alternative for many folks.
Until recently, I was down to one vehicle, and the days the missus needed the car, I had to take public transportation. Here's how that went:
First she has to get me to the train station (I live in a rural area - nearest light rail station was 10 miles away), then I spent an hour on the thing going to the same place that I could reach in 30 minutes if I drove there by car (...why? Because the train has to stop at every station along the way). Then there's the whole idea of not wanting to bring out expensive gear (phone, laptop, whatever) in front of folks who might want that gear worse than you do, and would be more than willing to take it from you. I won't go in-depth on the subject of how crowded the trains get during morning rush, the singularly uncomfortable seats (which are designed not for comfort, but to be hosed-down on occasion), and etc.
You should have just stopped at the "rural" part. Unless you live in some socialist public-transport-paradise (i.e., parts of France, Russia, Brazil, Hong Kong, and the UK pre-Thatcher) public transport for rural areas is just pathetic, and even in some of those cases it's still never going to be good.
What's sad is that in many urban/suburban places there *could* be good rail service, but there won't be. Which is sad, even for folks who would never use public transit, as getting those grudging car commuters off the road you share will just make your drive better/faster/safer.
And you'd have to root it if you wanted to choose where to go yourself, rather than Google choosing your destination for you. (But that would still be better than the Apple car, which would only allow you to travel to Apple stores.)
To be fair, in the alternate universe where Apple is actually building a car, almost everyone would be working or shopping at an Apple store anyway.
What is the problem that a driverless car is going to fix?
To paraphrase Henry Ford, it sounds to me like google is actually trying to build a faster horse,
Uh - maybe auto accidents and deaths for a starter [1] ? Computer driven cars are much more ikely to be safer than manually driven ones in aggregate.
To flip the tables, lets use a computing analogy for cars: Imagine if each TCP-IP packet (or connection) were hand-driven or managed. Lots of collisions and traffic jams. Some packets/connections would have unbelievable latency/throughput. Others (most) would be stuck in traffic that was inherently preventable assuming some rules were in place that would need special permissions to override.
Now compare with our Internet (as sucky as it is, buffer-bloat and all) - it's a goddamned paradise in comparison to the above.
Now imagine the flip side analogy - cars "routed" by algorithms, protocols and, where applicable, user intervention. That's Google's vision - it's not a new one, just one where they're building it out. Actions >> Words.
I would love to commute to work not actually doing any of the driving (secretly I'd prefer public transport, but only if it were nearly as convenient as point-to-point driving that I can do now). A driverless car is a great idea - sure my commute might take a few min longer as "the system" routes me, but the likelihood of traffic incidents and the like would probably be lower, preventing those 2-3x longer commute days.
Sign me the fuck up.
I consider Apple Pay the same as I consider Google Wallet. It is like broadband availability in that it will be predominately a big city thing. In rural areas like where I live I don't see it working
Except Apple Pay is expressly designed to prevent what Google Wallet does - which is to correlate your purchases to a credit card. It even prevents the merchant from such correlation. Google Wallet does it differently - they issue a virtual card that, while protecting your CC number from the merchant, still allows you to be correlated by Google. Apple is simply implementing EMV payment tokenization - it's a standard [1].
The only company who retains this is the credit card issuer, who will have to authorize such payments and maintain the credit balance (which you're not going to get away from without going to decentralized trade systems like bitcoin, and even then the block chain retains payment details - it's not anonymous).
Between Apple Pay and cash, I can remain relatively protected against my personal information from being stolen by some retailer's crappy security model (I still have to worry about the CC issuers but I'll take what I can get). I also don't feed Google's insatiable desire to index me.
The FCC already has its orders. The 'comments' thing is just a pacification measure.
I'm guess it's more akin to "parallel construction" whereby if the comments provide sufficient cover for your existing orders, you can claim that it was a mandate of the constituency, and if not, then you have to do extra work to reframe it so that it is.
Still wondering why we can't have tax id used to authenticate messaging for such comment sites. I mean, like that's a guaranteed unique identifier, non? Its not like you're not putting your name/address on the comment anyway are you?
Prior to Gates, the idea of selling "licensed" software was really not taking off. Once IBM gave him the keys to their PC OS kingdom, Gates was able to push this licensing sales scheme into mainstream.
Were it not for Gates, we may see all software as free (or as a component cost of it's hardware) still today. You can't give Jobs/Apple credit for this. Gates and Microsoft were instrumental to the concept of paying for software.
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