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cjk1701 replied to your post “Answers About Chip Cards”

That's such a cultural dissonance. Here in Germany the ship thing is so omnipresent that I can't even imagine thinking of it as inconvenient.

Yeah, but I bet in Germany the readers actually function and take less than 15 seconds, yes? I mean, even if it doesn’t improve in the US, I’m sure in five years I’ll be accustomed to it. That doesn’t mean it’s not stupid.  It’s...people seem to think I’m objecting to the chip qua chip, which I’m not. I’m objecting to the fact that it’s barely functional at doing what it’s MEANT to do, let alone providing any additional convenience or benefit. youneedtolookatthis replied to your post “Answers About Chip Cards”

It prevents a certain kind of fraud very well - the kind where someone puts a second card reader on the card reader and swipes your information as you slide your card through it. Not sure so much about anything else.

But all our cards still have mag stripes on them and you still have to insert them when using an ATM. So the fraud you described, which I agree is very common, still happens and has no induction to stop happening. In fact, chip cards which have the tap function removed (like all of mine) now HAVE to be swiped rather than tapped, which increases the risk.

Additionally of course, our cards still have the numbers printed right on ‘em, so even if we got rid of the mag stripe, you could build a rig that had a camera instead of a mag reader and just recorded the numbers on one side and the 3-digit security codes on the other as the card was inserted.

Visa apparently said in January that fraud was down 26% from the previous January’s numbers (not, it should be noted, from the previous year on the whole) but while they credit the chip for that, they haven’t exactly been forthcoming about how the chip has managed that or where the fraud has dropped. In the meantime, I’m seeing a lot of articles about how fraud has dropped sharply in Europe in brickspace stores, but has just moved online (where there’s less likelihood of the perpetrators being recorded on video or caught in the act). 

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youneedtolookatthis replied to your photo:Yes. This is my Avengers team. We’ll be called The...

What do you use to get that functionality? I feel I am using Tumblr at a less than optimal level.

I think it's an inherent Tumblr function. I don't actually use it, the related tags just amuse me once in a while. It might be an xkit thing, IDK.

Basically, you have to be at a tag tracking page, which is harder than it used to be. In the upper right corner of your dash there's a search function; search for the tag you want and then in the url replace "searched" with "tagged". Or just click on a tag to get everything tagged with that post. Basically you just need to get to where the url looks like this:

http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/your-tag-here

Then if you look at the upper right, under the tag, it will list three other tags that are the ones most closely associated with the tag you're looking at.

I've now said "tag" so much it has ceased to be a real word.

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youneedtolookatthis replied to your post “the guy on the left" excuse you, that's bruce campbell! :p”

....... What? You don't know who Bruce Campbell is? Evil Dead, Army of Darkness, Brisco County Jr.?

Never seen, never seen, never seen. Aren't the first two zombie films? I have no truck with zombie films. :D

I looked at his IMDB. He's had bit parts in the Spider-man films, so I may have seen him in one of those, but I wouldn't have known it. I've never seen anything he had a major role in, as far as I can tell. 

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Answers about Namorbatch

You guys are suggesting that they put Bumblebunch Crumplepants in a scaly speedo?  Is that what your suggesting?

Because I like the internet.  I like the internet to be functional.  And that, I suspect, would lead to a global meltdown of our communications network. 

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Unfortunately, FF is off the table as a Disney/Marvel property since those are still held by Fox.  And, well, I still want The Rock as Namor for ever and ever.

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sumeriasmith replied to your post “cabell replied to your post: If they were typecasting from Sherlock,...”

They've been trying to get a Dr. Strange movie together for a while now; I could endorse that casting also.

He's a bit young for Strange, isn't he? He'd look hilarious with the white streaks. Unless they were aging him down, which would probably really be the ideal thing to do.

untitledbychoice replied to your post “cabell replied to your post: If they were typecasting from Sherlock,...”

Please no. Daniel far Kim is much more perfect for Namor. (Though isn't he a mutant?)

He's half-mutant half-Atlantean (all asshole). I don't believe I know Daniel Far Kim and google just keeps showing me Daniel Dae Kim. Link? Or is that another name for Daniel Dae Kim? Hahahaha autocorrect, why u do us like this. Daniel Dae Kim: also eminently acceptable as Namor. 

Balls, I forgot Fox has the rights.

Dwayne Johnson's a bit...large for Namor, I think.

I would enjoy watching the mushroom cloud rise from the cheap seats, though.

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youneedtolookatthis replied to your post: After all this time, I still instantly recognize...

The first picture … the light, the carpet… the sign… Yeah. SDCC.

My reaction to the first picture was uncertain. It looked a lot like those old halls I used to haunt, but the escalator? Yeah, I know those escalators. I miss running events in that venue.

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Answers About Everything:

THANOS: 

three-sixth replied to your post: 

Arn’t the other phase 2 films suppose to be happening at the same time?

I was given to understand that MCU functions in near-to-realtime, so Iron Man debuted in 2008, Avengers happened in 2012, Tony blew his suits in 2013, Captain America 2 is set in 2014, etc. Evans does an interview where he says Steve's been out of the ice for over two years in CA2, which seems to bear that out. 

youneedtolookatthis replied to your post: ...

I honestly think he’s really going to get going in Guardians of the Galaxy and then be the supreme bad guy in Avengers 3, bringing the first MCU Act (Phases 1 -3) to a close

See, now that would make a lot of sense, I like that idea. He's tied in closely with GotG in the comics right now, and if they were shooting for a possible take on the Infinity War, even....yes. I like. 

PETER PARKER: 

jabberwockypie replied to your post: IJS, Peter Parker supports so...

Did Peter’s Spider Sense just remind him about the awesome of Socialized Medicine? Because I know he smacked himself but it doesn’t look THAT different from when his Spider Sense tingles.

Those are wavy lines of joy! Joy that he doesn't have to sell his ass to get money to pay his aunt's hospital bills! Because: 

mooseman13579 replied to your photo:

I guess it's nice to have something paid for instead of having to patch up your ribs in a back alley and risk them healing wrong. Like everything that happens to Peter later in his life.

Seriously, Peter's money problems in the early comics are truly depressing. He spends like two years failing to ever make enough money to take Gwen somewhere nice, he lives at Harry's apartment because Harry's dad pays for it so he doesn't have to pay rent, and Aunt May's always collapsing or some damn thing. 

NEAL AND NAZIS: 

untitledbychoice replied to your post: ...

It makes no sense after the episode where Neal FORGED A PORTRAIT so that the original would go back to the family instead of the museum who refused to give it back after the war was over.

radiophile asked you:

it went against everything they set up for neal's character up until that point re: his personal code of ethics/honor.

In some ways I really don't object to it in the sense that it's illogical or out of character. Yes, he did pull that shenanigan earlier with the portrait, but let's be real: the person he did it for was a very pretty, very charming woman with a very sad story. Neal's an emotional creature; he doesn't have a moral code that dictates his life (the way his antihero antecedents like Jim DiGriz and AJ Raffles do), he just has immediate reactions. 

I think Eastin wanted to remind us that Neal and Mozzie are crooks, this is what they do, they take advantage of people for their own gain. But it was a very poorly timed reminder, and situationally I do think Neal had the wrong emotional reaction. I also wish we'd dug a LOT deeper into Alex's feelings over her grandfather being a Nazi, because that's something that's rarely addressed in media. 

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they tried to justify it w/ a throwaway line about how the art was from museums instead of personal homes (how is this better) but honestly i don't think they cared enough to think thru all the implications. one of the biggest letdowns was falling in love with a character as interesting and nuanced as neal caffrey, only to have the writers give up completely on his arc :|

The throwaway line was actually added post-production, too, because of the absolute uproar of fandom over Neal and Mozzie keeping the art. Everyone was outraged. Eastin is a really clever writer but he tends to let his passion for a neat trick or a great film (in this case, he was explicitly basing off the Indiana Jones films) take him away from the core of the story. You cannot write a story about hero criminals without knowing where your own ethical lines, and especially those of your audience, are drawn. I don't think White Collar ever truly recovered from the denouement of season two. 

STORYTELLING:

jabberwockypie replied to your post: ...

Yeah, Neal, Mozzie, not cool, guys. I think I kinda got bored of WC and wandered off after that. BUT NOW I AM SCARED OF WHAT MARVEL WILL DO THAT WILL MAKE YOU LOSE INTEREST. I LOVE Sam-written Marvel fic! I don’t want to lose it!

LOL. Well, Marvel has some things going for it that other fandoms don't; there's like five new stories a week, nothing ever goes on hiatus, and nobody ever permanently dies....

lisechen asked you:

You said the only thing Warren Ellis ever did that you liked was Extremis. I must ask: Have you read Planetary? (Because I can forgive Warren Ellis a shitload of things for the sake of Planetary.)

I have not. I haven't read a lot of his work because what I have read was so offputting, in general. It's not badly written, it's not offensive, it's perfectly fine if you like the subject matter; it's just really unpleasant to read and often rather difficult to parse, at least for me.