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fishmech posted:Also at that time a ton of ATMs didn't do touchscreen lol, you used the side buttons and the keypad! There were some touchscreen ATMs about but the majority were physical buttons only. I live in the middle of nowhere Kansas and one of our banks still has an atm like this! I like to use it now and again since it takes me right down memory lane. Why, if I try hard enough to can even remember when people used to use that big sliding machine that went cha-chunk! to take imprints of credit cards for receipts.
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Hot Dog Day #82 posted:I live in the middle of nowhere Kansas and one of our banks still has an atm like this! I like to use it now and again since it takes me right down memory lane. Why, if I try hard enough to can even remember when people used to use that big sliding machine that went cha-chunk! to take imprints of credit cards for receipts. I had a JFK airport cab driver pull out one of those imprint sliders in the last five years or so. Blew my mind; hadn't seen one since the mid-90s in Kansas as well.
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Honestly I think the vast majority of ATMs I use are side-button based. Granted I live in Wales, so basically the back of beyond, but at the same time if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Never seen something that takes an impression of a card, though. Train ticket buying things are generally touch-screen though, possibly because they're a newer concept.
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fishmech posted:And that's how several different methods of "DVD that only plays a little while" came to be, including DIVX and the several "dye that blocks the laser eventually" discs. And all of that poo poo died out for good when people started switching to streaming, or at least had Redboxes all over the place so it was much easier to return. Seems like this concept died the second it came out, even before streaming or Redbox was ever a thing. The wikipedia article about Flexplay fees like a list of "no one wanted this poo poo". quote:Test marketing of EZ-D discs began on August 2003 but was canceled early when consumers rejected the concept You'd think just a couple of focus group tests would have given enough warning that this thing was doomed, yet some bonehead execs decide to release it anyway to predictable results. I didn't hear about DIVX until long after it was dead, and that was because there was a popular PC media player with the same name. I think I was searching for the media player and kept finding these articles talking about the format.
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Mar 28, 2018 13:46
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Speaking of Blockbuster, here's a quite poignant image:
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Crow Jane posted:Speaking of Blockbuster, here's a quite poignant image:  Looks like there's a late fee on outdated business models! OH HO HO HO HO HO HO
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Mar 28, 2018 15:27
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It's the end of late fees forever.
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Original_Z posted:I didn't hear about DIVX until long after it was dead, and that was because there was a popular PC media player with the same name. I think I was searching for the media player and kept finding these articles talking about the format.
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Jethro posted:As you may have guessed, the media player was named after the disc format. "This closed format that locks you out of media is stupid. Let's name our hacked video codec that we can use for pirating movies after it." If I'm remembering correctly DivX was always the commercial codec, the open source piracy form was XviD.
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OnceIWasAnOstrich posted:If I'm remembering correctly DivX was always the commercial codec, the open source piracy form was XviD. Goes like this: DIVX disc format: 1998 "DivX ;)" video format based on modified MPEG 4: 1999, made by some guy and basically for piracy Divx company and commercialized redone format (because original method was wildly breaking some IP laws being stolen from Microsoft documentation): ~2001-2002 XviD clone of commercial format/player: also 2001/2002 or so
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Yeah the codec was DivX;) with the winking smiley.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Yeah read police blotters from very suburban, very white neighborhoods. It's simultaneously hilarious, depressing, and infuriating.
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Halloween Jack posted:There was an article in a local paper written by a local farmer, wherein he said that he no longer rents other plots of land to farm, because being constantly reported to the police for Existing While Black was too much of a hassle. This is a very liberal city, and he made a point of saying that it was probably mostly people who consider themselves tolerant liberals who were doing this. What was he doing? He'd rent random plots of land to farm and in his travels from plot to plot he'd get a lot of run-ins with police as locals would call about some strange man they'd never seen messing about in the field no it's not because he's black it's because he was a stranger and better safe than sorry you know there's been a lot of farm equipment thefts lately...
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Halloween Jack posted:There was an article in a local paper written by a local farmer, wherein he said that he no longer rents other plots of land to farm, because being constantly reported to the police for Existing While Black was too much of a hassle. This is a very liberal city, and he made a point of saying that it was probably mostly people who consider themselves tolerant liberals who were doing this. Not much of a city if it's got a bunch of land all over to farm on.
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Hot Dog Day #82 posted:I live in the middle of nowhere Kansas and one of our banks still has an atm like this! I like to use it now and again since it takes me right down memory lane. Why, if I try hard enough to can even remember when people used to use that big sliding machine that went cha-chunk! to take imprints of credit cards for receipts.
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So I had to get a prescription filled a few weeks ago and the reader was down. I had to actually pay with paper. Paper! I almost forgot what those green pieces of funny paper with dead dudes on it were for. But then after I handed the nice lady the one paper she gave me back other papers with smaller numbers on them and these funny little metal discs. I get that the papers are worth less than the one I handed here but what are the discs for? I've never seen a DVD player that small so it can't just be free movies or information about the script or something like that.
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Seems kinda weird that Sears spiked up ~45% in the last week or so because Eddie "LOLbertarian douchebag" Lampert gave a freaking interview.
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Horseshoe theory posted:Seems kinda weird that Sears spiked up ~45% in the last week or so because Eddie "LOLbertarian douchebag" Lampert gave a freaking interview. The market has never been rational.
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Inescapable Duck posted:The market loving loves lolbertarian douchebags, and will only take a step back briefly after repeated reality checks
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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ToxicSlurpee posted:So I had to get a prescription filled a few weeks ago and the reader was down. I had to actually pay with paper. Paper! I almost forgot what those green pieces of funny paper with dead dudes on it were for. Please don’t try being funny any more.
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My first economics professor was a retired hospital manager who sounded like Lawrence Tierney, and like the first thing he taught us was "The market is emotional."Baronjutter posted:What was he doing? He'd rent random plots of land to farm and in his travels from plot to plot he'd get a lot of run-ins with police as locals would call about some strange man they'd never seen messing about in the field no it's not because he's black it's because he was a stranger and better safe than sorry you know there's been a lot of farm equipment thefts lately...
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Horseshoe theory posted:Seems kinda weird that Sears spiked up ~45% in the last week or so because Eddie "LOLbertarian douchebag" Lampert gave a freaking interview. the stock market has no basis in reality
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Halloween Jack posted:Do you think leasing farmland is a rare and esoteric practice? 
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I think it is in a "city" as was originally posted, yes.
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Oh, and for the folks expressing incredulity at something you can Google:
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fishmech posted:I think it is in a "city" as was originally posted, yes. Oh is this one of those times where you take the claim of “city” at face value and don’t write 1000 words about what does and doesn’t constitute a city?
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HEY NONG MAN posted:Oh is this one of those times where you take the claim of “city” at face value and don’t write 1000 words about what does and doesn’t constitute a city? Let's just throw out the oldest adage this thread gets from me again, is Yellowknife a city, and is it rural?
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Playstation 4 posted:Let's just throw out the oldest adage this thread gets from me again, is Yellowknife a city, and is it rural? I live in a “city” of 2000 people - surely municipalities can choose to self identify as whatever they want in the 21st century!
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:the stock market has no basis in reality Alternatively Lampert and friends bought up shares to drive up the price and create their own dead cat bounce.
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https://twitter.com/MrClintDavis/status/979817175224672258 ToysRUs.com now shut down.
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fishmech posted:I think it is in a "city" as was originally posted, yes. Leave the northeast sometime. Most cities in Wisconsin have farm fields dotted throughout.
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Paul.Power posted:Honestly I think the vast majority of ATMs I use are side-button based. Granted I live in Wales, so basically the back of beyond, but at the same time if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Never seen something that takes an impression of a card, though. I don't think touch screen ATMs ever caught on in the UK, I don't think I've seen one anywhere in the last 15 years in any part of Britain I've visited.
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fishmech posted:I think it is in a "city" as was originally posted, yes. Phoenix is the 5th largest city in the nation and has numerous farmland areas within city limits. Even more if you count the entire metropolitan area. An outlier yes, but it's not unknown.
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KiteAuraan posted:Phoenix is the 5th largest city in the nation and has numerous farmland areas within city limits. Even more if you count the entire metropolitan area. An outlier yes, but it's not unknown. Phoenix is only the fifth largest if you're going by sq milage, in which case Jacksonville, FL is the biggest city in America and that's absurd.
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Elizabeth Mills posted:Phoenix is only the fifth largest if you're going by sq milage, in which case Jacksonville, FL is the biggest city in America and that's absurd. Nope, by population as well, as hosed up as that seems. 1.6 million. Granted the next largest up (Houston) is 600,000 people larger, but yeah, Phoenix actually has an extremely high population, especially since the carrying capacity is 200,000 at most. Edit: Seems to have dropped to 6th, trading spots with Philly, as it tends to do. Honestly can't blame people for leaving, it's a terrible city with no prospects for anyone, and I'd leave if I had the means (thanks entire social support network and family deciding to live here).
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KiteAuraan posted:Edit: Seems to have dropped to 6th, trading spots with Philly, as it tends to do. Honestly can't blame people for leaving, it's a terrible city with no prospects for anyone, and I'd leave if I had the means (thanks entire social support network and family deciding to live here). Your quote applies to both cities equally as well.
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