It’s not law, but it is now a credit card company requirement in the US. Visa, Master Card, and American Express all required that issuing banks and participating vendors be chip compliant by October 2015. Retailers that do not provide chip readers at PoS are either unable to procure them from their equipment vendor…

From a liability standpoint they are certainly an improvement in security. At this point, any vendor in the US not offering a chip system is on the hook for fraud unless they are indemnified by their payment vendor (because they, in turn, have been unable to provide chip payments systems for some reason).

I’ve seen one (1!) Rey figure in the past few months, and I’m the nerd who always checks the Star Wars aisle. The single one I found was at a comic shop and priced for rarity - $16 for a 3 3/4” figure.

The residual value on Jaguars has been killing the lease market for these. Two years ago it was cheaper for a friend to get a lease on a new 911 than it was an F-Type. The $30k difference in sale price didn’t make a difference since the Jag was expected to lose so much value in that time.

You don’t. But they only pop up oocasionally, and even then it’s only when you’re fully stopped at an intersection. They disappear as soon as you start moving or it starts speaking (if you have audio instructions on).

Goodwill is a non-profit and I’ve never heard of whatever wind garden you refer to (so their publicity sucks even if they’re doing great work). Comparing for-profit public corporations to charitable ones is absurd. The motivations are completely different. For one thing, a public company is answerable to shareholders.…

Yeah. There is no company in the world doing it because they care. Everybody is in it for the money. So what? It’s not hug club and no company loves you. It’s still a dynamic which can create a self-improving process. Your complaint is just an adolescent cynicism without a real point to it.

Kids should negotiate. It’s a pretty universally applicable skill in the adult world. Whether you are a worker bee or management, if you can’t be flexible in negotiating for jobs and within jobs then you’re going to be very limited. All these people talking about absolute lines in the sand for their kids must have…

Wait...you think Netflix is concerned with how much of their service you watch? The don’t make more money if you watch more TV. They want subscribers and they don’t want people to find a reason to drop them in favor of a competing service. They do this through innovative experiments like this and being the first to…

Those clips are a good demonstration of why I can’t like Rosberg at all, no matter how well he can drive. Lighten up, Francis!

COTA has done a terrible job of promoting events other than the USGP. Sure, the hardcore racing fans know what’s going on there on a given weekend, but people in Austin a generally unaware that anything other than F1 runs there. They need do a much better job of promoting those other events in a way that tempts…

Wow. Well, you can’t fault them for not trying. It might have been the wrong direction, but it certainly was a bold one.

“Anywhere it doesn’t rain...” Why? Yesterday’s race was fantastic. Rain didn’t ruin it, it brought good teams that are down on power up to the front to actually race for a change.

Always lead with, “You probably should get a Toyota Camry if you want to minimize problems” before moving into “if you don’t mind risking trouble for something that’s actually fun...” It’s a useful disclaimer.

I disagree, the wait is always long at Franklin’s and always worth it. You didn’t have plans between 6am and 1pm that day anyway, did you?

Chevy Bel Air. It is the pinnacle of an era of American design I have always found very unattractive.

Wave was brilliant. Google just didn’t know how to describe the wonderful thing they’d built. They always ended up focusing on the least compelling features and made it seem like just another IM tool instead of an amazingly flexible collaboration tool.

The public threats. They aren’t contributing to a productive negotiation. You asked why people were mad at Bernie’s behavior and I pointed to his nasty press-release diplomacy.

Not gonna happen. He gets another year of life every time he eats a baby.

Becuase it isn’t helpful. Bernie, who really should be doing all he can to actually work toward a resolution, is just bitching. Red Bull understand that they’d be in breach if they pulled out. It clearly isn’t their first choice. But it costs a fortune to run an F1 team (and they’ve got two). It may be cheaper to pay…