Deimos is upset at you for forgetting about it.

By your logic, payday lenders and the Prosper Marketplace are banks.

It’s the fall sale. Fall sales have always sucked.

Typo: “thanks to cheap hydroelectric power; Washington generates 30% of all hydroelectrically-generated power in the U.S.”

The roadmap was announced four years ago, the terminal manufacturers started selling the necessary equipment three years ago, and credit card processors were required to be able to handle EMV transactions by mid-2013. Small businesses are one thing, but any medium- to large-sized chain that still isn’t done really…

It isn’t. It got out of the banking business years ago.

The MX925 was available since the beginning of 2012. Visa and MasterCard announced the October 2015 deadline at the end of 2011/start of 2011, followed shortly by AmEx. All processors were required to be able to accept EMV payments by mid-2013. That was a full two years before the deadline, and it’s not like EMV was a…

However all this is mute with chip readers being federally required

Sorry, it seemed like you were saying “You doofus, I can see the connection between Niigata 48, NGT48, and AKB48.” But yeah, NGT stands for Niigata. There are 4 of them in Japan now, plus one in China and one in Indonesia.

Vampiric gadgets are pretty common. Many TVs, for example, do not turn off completely; only the display part gets shut off. How much is this adding to your power bill? Math time:

Your logic would dictate that you’re not getting enough dip onto your chip, cracker, or plate. That has nothing to do with double-dipping.

Anecdotally, double-dippers are less likely to wash their hands after using the restroom. Enjoy your E. coli, Shigella, and S. aureus.

Snark all you want, but I was pointing out that “they probably are from that Japanese idol girl group AKB48” is incorrect. NGT48

The type of person who double-dips is not the type of person who would change their behavior after learning of an experiment like this.

“If it’s stupid and it works, it ain’t stupid.”

Sure. You just need to finish what you get first.

I’ve seen enough porn to know where this is going.

You forgot to mention that different buckets have different idols on them, and they come with different idol cards. So you’d have to buy it multiple times to collect the whole set.

NGT48 is an affiliate group of AKB48.