Thats a really ass backwards way of putting it. They regulations were so bad, they instead broke regulations so they didn't have to follow the other regulations. thats gobbledy gook for they did the cheapest thing possible knowing it was shit and not safe because they were self regulated.

Fuck you. I most certainly do have a specific amount of regulation in mind. Absolutes are for dorks like you to use as strawmen.

But high props for your car 93 escort wagon was a hell of a car, that I aspire to own again some day.

No thats stupidity talking. There are meteorological seasons and astronomical ones. Why would we pay attention to where we are around the sun? Why? Isn't it a thousand more times important what it feels like for those that do experience seasons?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer#Meteorological_reckoning

Its stupid in the same way that a roller coaster is stupid, recreational scuba diving, mountain climbing, skydiving, skiing, running a marathon, playing an instrument, or playing video games is. Nothing practical is achieved, its a waste of time and money, right? Or maybe people like doing things, and you shouldn't pass judgment on what exactly people enjoy doing with their time and money.

If we are going to start judging people, who buddy buckle the fuck up Because there is NO FUCKING way I approve of what ever you do.

But that deviation from the Newtonian predication wasn't measured until after Newton was dead. His gravitational theory was correct for all the data he had a the time. Its kind of unfair to him to say he was wrong. As a scientist you should stop at the simplest explanation that meets all observable data. Thats what he did

There are four, not two. But Visa and mastercard are the biggest of the four.

There used to be two big American Plane Manufactores:

McDonald Douglass and Boeing.

Boeing was known for meticulously engineering their planes and testing. Heck they basically invented SGML a markup language and precursor to XML just for documentation purposes.

McDonald Douglass was known for barely spending enough to keep their planes from crashing, then the flew too close to the sun with the DC10 and basically became functionally bankrupt.

Then they merged. Guess which culture won out? The slow careful expensive one that was proven to build quality products? Or the one that tried to build them as cheaply as possible?

I mean broken clocks are right twice a day and this guy just might be.
You could take crypto for high risk processing, I guess. then all the risk would be on the merchant's side and they couldn't blame the processor. Different risk, but still. No charge backs, but risk of hacks and all your money disappearing, yes. or at least money not converted back to USD immediatly. Oh and high barriers of risk for customers as well who have to convert currency to whatever dumb crytpo they choose and spend before hack. Would that be preferrable? Not sure, but They could try.

Again.... Un-freaking believable. The concept of risk is not something they understand, which make sense as then invented crypto.

Yup no idea.

Slashdotters are old as dirt.

Next story: How to build your digital gravestone with Free software.

Yeah ok. I guess the scam makes sense now. I thought he might have been able to just keep the scamming to a minimum by selling Samsung with a cool gold sticker, but if he just took all the money and only made 1.3 million, I understand why he didn't stick to the low level scam. He made the right scummy choice. Its incredible that they bothered prosecuting him for 1.3 million.

I don't like that the police have access to this much computer surveillance at once. I'm not supporting a company thats making it happen. Police over and over again prove that they are basically Cartman from Southpark.

Yes that explains the complexity, but not the ongoing bad naming of the options.