ApplePay is just Apple's brand name for their implementation of NFC-based payment standards. The reason why ApplePay worked at CVS & Rite Aid was they supported the NFC standard, not just ApplePay. ApplePay just happened to get more traction in the first week than Google Wallet had gotten in however many years that's been available.
What the hell happened to the series of Crusade, what the hell happened? books?
Example - the locals in our apartment building told us if there was a fire to order a pizza before calling the fire dept. and tell the fd to follow the pizza delivery guy - they now the neighborhoods much better than the authorities.
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Final example - fire drills in the company were typically over-organized. We were instructed to gather at a pre-detemined location with our assigned fire monitor, and then leave the building in order. We told them that in our country, we simply get the hell out...
To be fair, they need to get everybody together in order to get the pizza order straightened out before they call it in...
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Paul Erlich
