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Cold on a Cob posted:i carry my debit card just in case my cc fails to work for some reason I recently took mine to Seattle just in case and when I tried to make a $500 purchase on my Amex I was glad to have it so what I'm saying is save me from occasionally have to use my debit card apple pay
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BiohazrD posted:I recently took mine to Seattle just in case and when I tried to make a $500 purchase on my Amex I was glad to have it the limit on your amex is less than $500? 
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Sep 11, 2014 22:52
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no retard I tried to make an abnormally large purchase in a city that is like 2000 miles away from where I live
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Sep 11, 2014 22:59
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Beeftweeter posted:same but ive never seen anything that actually accepts it lol i can't believe america is a 1st world country when i read poo poo like this
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Mightaswell posted:i can't believe america is a 1st world country when i read poo poo like this lmao this guy just cant handle the freedom
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Sep 11, 2014 23:14
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the freedom to have your car or possessions taken by the police if they "suspect" you might be a crimenal and YOU have to prove you got yor car legit and then you get it back after legal costs it's amazing the disdain your officials have for your constitution
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Sep 11, 2014 23:19
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Mightaswell posted:i can't believe america is a 1st world country when i read poo poo like this america is pretty low-tech about a lot of things but oh man do we have like so many cool guns and planes and stuff
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Sep 11, 2014 23:22
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Beeftweeter posted:also theres a bug in ios 8 ipad safari where if you switch tabs sometimes when you go back to the tab you clicked the link from the page will be blank and its annoying as gently caress it's been there since ios 7 at least, sometime it's just blank and you have to press refresh or go back to the original tab and reopen the link
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Sep 11, 2014 23:27
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Mightaswell posted:i can't believe america is a 1st world country when i read poo poo like this lol i'll bet you also don't pay your rent with a piece of official paper with your "i swear the money will be there when you go to the bank and ask for it" signature on it
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Sep 11, 2014 23:29
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echinopsis posted:the freedom to have your car or possessions taken by the police if they "suspect" you might be a crimenal and YOU have to prove you got yor car legit and then you get it back after legal costs http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/american-shakedown-police-won-t-charge-you-but-they-ll-grab-your-money-1.2760736 basically a news article warning canadians to be scared of american cops lmao FREEDOM
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Sep 11, 2014 23:37
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everyone should be scared of american cops
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Sep 11, 2014 23:41
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to be fair america is the highest amount of identity theft in the world and we are the only first world country to not adopt pin+chip yet
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Sep 11, 2014 23:46
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flyboi posted:to be fair america is the highest amount of identity theft in the world and we are the only first world country to not adopt pin+chip yet also health care but yeah that pin and chip is a real issue
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Sep 11, 2014 23:47
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rotor posted:everyone should be scared of american cops
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rotor posted:everyone should be scared of american cops its funny cause theyre all fat and bald and mainly killed by heart attacks but u r right
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Sep 11, 2014 23:53
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i don't even know what chip and pin is. wikipedia seems to suggest it's a credit card that i scan on a reader instead of swiping through a reader???
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Sep 11, 2014 23:55
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PuTTY riot posted:its funny cause theyre all fat and bald and mainly killed by heart attacks but u r right well the hell of the thing is that it's legal for them to kill anyone who makes them nervous, and also they are issued guns.
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Sep 11, 2014 23:57
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Nayato posted:i don't even know what chip and pin is. wikipedia seems to suggest it's a credit card that i scan on a reader instead of swiping through a reader??? you don't have to swipe but otherwise it's just like using a debit card also if someone ever steals your PIN the banks will just say "lol your fault, we're not doing anything"
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that sounds slightly more convenient but also worse
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Sep 11, 2014 23:58
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chip and pin means you put your card into a machine at the POS terminal then enter your pin and then your payment is authorised idk why you people have such difficulty with this concept
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Sep 12, 2014 00:01
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remember, always swipe front to back, never back to front
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computer parts posted:also if someone ever steals your PIN the banks will just say "lol your fault, we're not doing anything" source plz tia
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Sep 12, 2014 00:02
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rotor posted:remember, always swipe front to back, never back to front i swipe back to front
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computer parts posted:also if someone ever steals your PIN the banks will just say "lol your fault, we're not doing anything" this is a misconception
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Sep 12, 2014 00:04
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3d printed 6 ploos: 
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Sep 12, 2014 00:07
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computer parts posted:you don't have to swipe but otherwise it's just like using a debit card this hasn't been true since November 2009 but keep going im close to spurtin
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Sep 12, 2014 00:11
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kwinkles posted:3d printed 6 ploos: sometimes I wonder if i should have gotten a 3d printer instead of this giant grime fountain of a cnc machine and then i look at stuff like this and I feel better.
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Sep 12, 2014 00:15
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it is way mega bigrotor posted:sometimes I wonder if i should have gotten a 3d printer instead of this giant grime fountain of a cnc machine and then i look at stuff like this and I feel better. yeah that is from a makerbot, the company designs phone apps so they wanted an idea of how you would hold and use the phone before it ships, so it works for them but the finish is definitely garbage compared to my crappy little cnc mill.
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Sep 12, 2014 00:17
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kwinkles posted:it is way mega big fyi there is a hobby cnc thread in the diy forum
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Sep 12, 2014 00:20
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why is that turd shaped like a huge iphone
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rotor posted:sometimes I wonder if i should have gotten a 3d printer instead of this giant grime fountain of a cnc machine and then i look at stuff like this and I feel better. lol if you don't have both, obviously
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Sep 12, 2014 00:25
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sittin in the shop waiting on the cnc right now, as a matter of fact. got 24 identical pieces to cut out, each one milling six bearing holes with .001 precision required, total time per piece is 2m 35s on this haas booya
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Sep 12, 2014 00:26
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kwinkles posted:3d printed 6 ploos: reminds me of those 90's universal remotes 
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rotor posted:america is pretty low-tech about a lot of things but oh man do we have like so many cool guns and planes and stuff for real we made the fastest air breathing plane ever and then we were like 'eh, it's fast and all, no one doubts that, but let's just put them up in museums so anyone and come and pick over what make em tick'
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kwinkles posted:3d printed 6 ploos: now put it next to an xbox.... im curious which one is bigger
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Sep 12, 2014 00:38
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rotor posted:sometimes I wonder same OP
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also reminder that the shuttle could just take a salyut-sized space station in the cargo bay just because it was literally a space station with wings
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maniacdevnull posted:for real we made the fastest air breathing plane ever and then we were like 'eh, it's fast and all, no one doubts that, but let's just put them up in museums so anyone and come and pick over what make em tick' and it still hasn't been beaten in 50 years
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maniacdevnull posted:also reminder that the shuttle could just take a salyut-sized space station in the cargo bay just because it was more like a space semi with wings but yeah.
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echinopsis posted:lol if popping your hand into back pocket and grab wallet and open it and pull out card aren muscle memories you can complete in half a second
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