Checks have a "PAY TO THE ORDER OF" field naming the addressee. The bank matches the name against the ID presented by the person presenting the check or against the name of the owner of the account associated with the deposit slip or ATM card.

That's fine when you're at home. But checks work even where there is no Wi-Fi, and even if you aren't carrying a tablet or laptop.

U.S. banks take check deposits the same way.

Agreed 100 percent. Checks happen to be the most convenient payment method in certain circumstances in the United States. It's just that there's a perception among certain experienced Internet users that the U.S. culture is inherently "backward" in this respect.

I guess my experience is colored by the Catholic, evangelical, and JW groups I grew up in at various parts of my life. Substitute any other charity that takes donations in person.

For the record, I met her on the job. Bitter? Me? Never.

If she cheated on her last fiancee, she'll cheat on you too, eventually.

"It pissed me off to a considerable degree." - by

Yes product placement is unobtrusive but it's expensive and cannot replace normal advertising, if it could it would have done so back in the 1920's. The sponsor's wallet controls how the ad will be displayed, forcing people to sit thru ads to get to the meat is just fucking rude behaviour from penny pinching sponsors, I'm trying to train my own wallet to avoid doing business with them.

Umm, no. CATV stands for Community Antenna TeleVision; it evolved because people in areas without OTA reception (i.e., valleys) put up a shared antenna to receive OTA signals.

Yep, I grew up in a country town that is now an outer suburb of Melbourne. Saturday afternoons was the "$0.20 children's matinee" at the local theater, first we got a couple of cartoons, then everyone stood quietly to attention for "god save the queen", then John Wayne would come on and there was a roar of delight from the crowd, then we all start playing cowboys and indians in the theater. The adult staff did not try to control our behaviour, except to make sure we all stood quietly for the national anthem ( if you were silly enough to be sitting down an usher would come over and lift you to your feet by your ear), no child was ever thrown out, and we took full advantage of that policy. :).

Somewhat ironic that my first memory of "freedom".is being locked in a large padded room with 100 kids and John Wayne. Still, it worked out great from a social POV, everyone shopped on Saturday morning because the shops were closed Saturday afternoon and all day Sunday, so after "shopping with the kids", the kids got to burn off their energy and mum and dad got a quiet afternoon to restore theirs.

Thanks for the link.

I seem to remember reading speculation that Hulu would have to charge $20 or more per month for ad-free service in order to pay for its infrastructure and royalties.

Just so you know, the average malware jockey makes money that makes me wonder why I remain on this side of the fence. So much for "getting a good job that pays well".

Don't worry. He already has one.

Sure, technically its not "not speech" it's "not protected speech". But I believe that point is often to fine to make when communicated over the internet.

Congress(or the government) totally can preemptively muzzle people... I find it bizarre that anyone would believe that it's okay to punish a criminal, but not prevent the crime. It's just that it has to be worthy of stopping ahead of time, to justify the greater risk of injustice, etc. Usually state secrets, etc.

Your correctly found the origin of the phrase, but totally missed the point. The point is not what is forbidden (your all-caps "FALSELY") but that it's not merely speech. It's a call to action. Just as your last example demonstrates. No one assumed Abbie was literally yelling about a fire. Context is important.

Actually, no.

I've learned one thing: Never ever touch the hot topic everyone else seems to avoid. Not even with a ten foot pole. There are exactly three things that can happen. Either it resolves itself. This is the norm and gets you off the hook. Or someone else is stupid enough and tackles it, gets burned and loses his job. That's fine as well. Or it blows up and the blame is shared within the department. That's ok as well since nobody gets fired for it.

Since promotion happens today by tenure and not by merit, what you do is less important than what you don't do.

Attaching a gift of money to a birthday card, for one. And major banks in the United States have deployed ATMs that use handwriting recognition to allow depositing a check by inserting it into the ATM.

The bank doesn't charge anything to process a check. Here in the United States, "wire transfer" refers to services like Western Union, which charges a hefty percentage to process a wire transfer. Even if a bank offers a wire transfer for no fee, you still have to know your recipient's bank account number, and you still have to either "go to the bank IN PERSON" or subscribe to cellular Internet service to set one up.

To obtain this, you "have to go to the bank IN PERSON".

Yes. Some have a donation box near each of the auditorium's exits; this is the common practice for Jehovah's Witnesses. Others pass around a bag or tray into which members of the congregation drop cash or checks.

A check is a paper bank-to-bank transfer instrument. You write an order for a bank-to-bank transfer on a piece of paper, you give the order to someone, and she takes that order to her bank and executes the transfer.

You are correct that I misremembered the behavior of LibreOffice Calc. But both Gnumeric and Excel failed to treat an exported CSV as having been "saved". Gnumeric's alert after I exported CSV and closed a worksheet was as follows:

Save changes to workbook 'test.csv' before closing?

If you close without saving, changes will be discarded.

Excel's was as follows when I exported:

test.csv may contain features that are not compatible with CSV (Comma delimited). Do you want to keep the workbook in this format?

*To keep this format, which leaves out any incompatible features, click Yes.
*To preserve the features, click No. Then save a copy in the latest Excel format.
*To see what might be lost, click Help.

Followed by this when I closed:

Do you want to save the changes you made to 'test.csv'?

LibreOffice Calc's was as follows when I exported:

This document may contain formatting or content that cannot be saved in the currently selected file format "Text CSV".

Use the default ODF file format to be sure that the document is saved correctly.
[X] Ask when not saving in ODF format

I assume these programs are referring to changes to column widths, formulas, and other things not typically represented in CSV.

Any of the morons who reported "What happened to my layers?" through support channels.

The same morons who pass around PSD files made in Photoshop. At least XCF has a reference implementation distributed under a free software license. Has Adobe released a spec or free library for manipulating PSD files? Which interoperable multilayer raster format were you recommending?

If the names of the "Export" items on the File menu were changed to "Flatten and Save", would that satisfy you?

Then you must have edited your keyboard shortcuts. My copy of GIMP 2.8.10 has keyboard shortcuts for export:

Export (Ctrl+E)
Export As... (Ctrl+Shift+E)
Create Template...