That's a good point. Re "you missed one", I left out quite a few. There are checks we do as soon as you land on the page, before you even fill in form.

It's easy to make the ammo (and the gun) from readily available materials found at your local hardware store.

The garden department has the three ingredients for black powder and the plumbing department has most of the rest . A few items like springs come from the hardware section.

Ammo is short piece of copper tube from plumbing, filled with black powder mixed in gardening, topped with whatever little chunk of metal - a short hex bolt would do fine.

If you're asking that something be shipped to Toronto and you want to charge someone living in Florida, that's -3 points. If you enter the CVV2 from the back of the card, that's +3 points and they balance out.

If you've had prior transactions at least 90 days ago that weren't disputed, that's +2 points. Using an OPEN proxy -4. Business CC +1.

Depending on the value of the transaction, it could be immediately approved, you could be asked for more information, or the merchant could manually check and approve or decline. For example, the merchant can ask for the bank phone number that's also printed on the back off the card.

TFA painstakingly explained how you can check it yourself. I'm sure several people will, including enough people that I trust enough. Especially given that there is zero evidence of a backdoor. Nobody is claiming there is a backdoor, so it's a question if yyou trust the testers more than you trust - nobody.

> The fact that multiple conflicting patents exist for the same invention means either:
>
> 1: The patent lawyers who "honestly" did the patent search are incompetent, or,
>
> 2: The patent lawyers who did the patent search did not do it honestly

or
3: They missed one. It's kind of hard to read and fully understand every patent ever issued and how it might relate to your client's invention.

I've seen some higher income people do this same idiocy, renting furniture and electronics
I have to laugh at this story. "Furniture rental store screws customers" - no shit.

This is a discussion about billing models.
If my 6GB of usage is billed at $50 flat or $10 + $10 / GB. It really has nothing to do with the physical medium used to connect. It applies to cable internet, phone line DSL, satellite, and fiber.

No matter which kind of wire is used, they can offer 10 GB for $X and 100GB for $Y, or unmetered for $Z.
   

Yes, people see that since the republicans took the house in 2011 after the 2010 election they haven't been real cooperative.

Some people also realize nothing got done for the years that Obama had his own democrats in charge of the house and senate.

A few people remember that Reagan got things done while the opposing party controlled both house and senate.

You're probably just propagandizing, but in case you believe that:

http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000

What that's showing you is that 3% if the population have used up their benefit. They are still unemployed, they just aren't getting benefits anymore. In 2008, 66% of the population was either working or eligible for umployment. 2013, 63% are - 3% have either used up their two years of unemployment benefits or simply given up.

7.2% are getting unemployment benefits, 3% are no longer eligible = 10.2% real unemployment.

A contractor I did gigs for me got me a general security clearance before a job that paid (me) about $300.
As I recall, it was a one page form.

The National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying sets the standards for licensing engineers.
Their certification tests include:
Architectural
Chemical
Civil: Structural
Civil: Transportation
Electrical and Computer: Computer Engineering
Electrical and Computer: Electrical and Electronics
Nuclear
Petroleum
SOFTWARE
Structural

> And why the fuck are they pushing it into laws?

What are you talking about? What laws? The story is that the head of the industry association said internet providers should offer plans that bill customers based on usage. I don't see anything about any change in law here.

I called to order FIOS. The sales rep told me it's not just shared, it's way over sold, so during business hours I typically wouldn't get nearly the "up to" speed I was paying for. I see elsewhere that they have 64 customers per fiber, that you're sharing with 63 other people. That's less sharing than cable, but it's not dedicated.

> the question is, how much does the engine produce, how much is needed to propel the vehicle.

The engine is mechanically connected to the wheels, so whatever the engine produces propels the vehicle. There cannot be any "extra" energy.

The system can produce more energy by pressing the gas pedal further, using more gas.

There is exactly one energy "leak" in all systems - heat. If you could set something on top of the muffler to convert that heat to something usable ...

What you say is true for small purchases of consumer goods. For a multi-million dollar infrastructure, the cost is the same each month. I realize that's counter-intuitive if you've never managed a business.

The provider sets up a deal with Netflix and they see they'll need $100 million of equipment to upgrade the city. They figure th. e equipment will be replaced in five years. They can get that equipment in any of three ways. They can lease the equipment. You may have noticed that businesses lease a lot of stuff - copiers, cars, all kinds of things. You wouldn't lease a home computer, but businesses often lease computers. The reason will soon be apparent. If they lease the equipment, they pay $X per month every month, from the first month to the last. Since the equipment will need to be replaced in five years, they do a five year lease.

Instead of leasing, they can put $100 million on their Visa card and make monthly payments. ;). They borrow $100M from the bank and make monthly payments. They'll need to do it again in five years, so they need to pay this loan off in five years so they can afford the new one. The payment is the same every month.

Lastly, they can use the cash they have in the bank. They know that they'll need to replace the equipment in five years, so they better start saving up so they'll have $100M to do it again in five years. Every month, they put aside some money for the next upgrade. They set aside the same amounteqcheach month.

This isn't pocket change, they don't just get $100M from their wallet. They either borrow and pay back monthly or they save up monthly but either way it's a long term expense paid for over time.

You can see that all of the three options end up like a lease - they pay five years to use stuff for five years. The lease just makes the exact term and cost explicit. That's one reason why businesses lease more than individuals - it clarifies, simplifies what's going to happen anyway, and that clarity is good for the accounting and taxes. (No need to argue with the IRS over the value of five year old SFP modules).

So that's how capital expenses like upgrading a city wide network end up being paid as steady monthly expenses, no matter how the deal is structured.