If you don't want to put your name to what you say then you're not worth giving a shit about. The AC thing has run it's course. There's no point in having it anymore. All it does is allow fuckwits to unleash their most fuckwitttest version of themselves.

In some cases the world is better off with restraints, and that applies to 99.9% of shit posted by ACs. You bucked the trend this time. But one post that isn't complete and utter shit doesn't change this.

By the way your opinion isn't controversial. If anything it's a discussion worth having. Why did you post AC? Do you have that little faith in yourself?

No the point is the problem is fundamentally misunderstood. The concept of secret filming wasn't invented with Metas glasses, but we-the-stupid chose this hill to suddenly die on (and when we do so videos of our stupidity will be all over the internet ... not recorded by such glasses).

This sounds like the fundamental problem of the entire US banking system. They have an idea, a concept of what good could look like, and get 90% of the way through the implementation and then proceed to fuck it up.

E.g. Create a system to digitally scan a shared thing describing a transfer, but instead of using a standard QR code, keep using cheques.
Or Adopt a system that finally eliminates the use of unsecured magnetic stripes on credit cards, but then keep the completely unsecure signature for verification.
Develop systems to allow transfers of money between parties, but administer them in companies like Paypal that aren't covered by banking laws.

It's like a competition to see how close they can get to a good idea while still fucking up the implementation.

You just fuck other guys like them?

I'm blown away by your comment. You started by saying when the payee is small, yeah makes perfect sense (though I'm surprised you can't find services that offer far smaller fees than the $25 example). But then you mentioned ... property taxes. That is government... how THAT hasn't been resolved is mindblowing.

I'm curious as to why businesses would prefer them? The entire concept seems rife for fraud as they are nothing more than a promise of payment backed by nothing. Credit Cards are promises of payments backed by an intermediary. Debit Cards are direct payments. Cash are direct payments. Cheques on the other hand... I can't imagine the risk beats the cost of doing business a different way, especially when that cost is usually passed on to consumers anyway.

This is a classic case of mixing with the plausible with the unknowable. IV to administer drugs causing bruising? Yeah absolutely. But to jump to Alzheimer's drugs specifically rather than the many 1000s of drugs that could be administered this way is an attempt to push an unverified and usually politically biased narrative.

It could just as well be cancer.

The point being newly wrong doesn't mean medically relevant. Except you won't know that until you cut it out of your body. How many times do you go under the knife looking for things that are not related to symptoms? The pain and risk of going after ghosts in your MRI are often worse than the symptoms of you experience of actual problems that would prompt you to go look for something.

Live your life, listen to your body. When something is wrong with you, go get yourself checked out (don't be a man and say you're too manly to go to the doctor just because you've felt sick for a week or two, that's how you die).

The only thing that a full body preventative MRI will cause is light wallet syndrome and a dependency on Xanax.

To draw a parallel, as an engineer we measure specific things for specific purposes. We don't measure everything at every point because it would be prohibitively expensive and potentially detrimental to the device being observed.

To be fair TFS postulates a situation where the language has better alternatives for literally every scenario. I'd argue that Cobol and Fortran have carved out a niche where they *are* the best in their class. Comparing the three sort of shows you missed that point of that second sentence.

Err you're talking about a car made in a country that literally is just hills coming out of a fault line in the ocean. Kei cars don't struggle on hills. They may not accelerate as quickly. They may not be able to tow a heavy load up them, but they'll do perfectly fine. Hell they are far better than the Fiat 500 - staple of the South Tirol alps.

There's cars significantly less powerful that had no problem maintaining speed. You weren't maintaining speed. You were accelerating - and yes that may happen slightly better. But don't pretend the cars aren't perfectly fine.

No one is suddenly slowing down. Especially not at a speed that a truck or car behind them causes them to rear-end them. Please stop being hysterical.

What went wrong in your life that you rage about not *checks notes*, not being on a highway 2-3 seconds faster? Ask your doctor if Xanax is right for you.

That are all the things which describes impatient drivers who feel the need to be on the highway a second or two faster. Another term that often comes up is "dead". Seriously man, Xanax. It may just stop someone from laying a flower wreath on the side of the highway for your moronic arse.

Technically incorrect. The term engagement was *created* by those monetising the use of media services. It was fundamentally a measure of the ability to monetise.

We didn't have that term back when Facebook was used to send pokes to each other on campus.

No. That's the answer. Even with just one side of the story no it wasn't legal... well more of a civil case. People may not like it, but property destruction is generally not looked on favourable by the courts simply because someone didn't like something.

Actually... still illegal... well... more of a civil case.

I'm not sure if whomever wrote that knows people in general but no one defends people on a subway. At best people will just watch. Or worse, film it. People are desperate to see action play out.

However fucking horrible: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/u...

I know we often make jokes about America and their cheques (especially their spelling of it), but at some point in the past decade I thought it had been relegated to just that, a joke. I hear nothing but talk about credit cards and cash lovers, I actually thought cheques disappeared. Are they still a thing? It's been legit 3 decades since I've seen a cheque book.