comply with the US banking secrecy laws
You mean US banking disclosure laws, right? Such as FATCA.
Long story short: The test worked. We found out what that system was used for. Rather quickly.
But what was it used for?!?!? What a cliffhanger.
Maybe a few, if Beetlejuice is playing...
There's normally two different fees when doing a card payment: the interchange fee (Visa, Mastercard, and the couple others), and the processing fee (Square, Stripe, PayPal, whatever).
Nowadays, interchange fees are capped to like 0.3% in the EU, but this wasn't always the case. And for non-EU, the interchange fees are usually much higher.
So even if both a store and their payment processor is EU-based, Visa/MC is still giving at least 0.3% of your payment sum in most cases.
...so that he'll need to be driven by you to be able to hang out with any of his friends? Sorry, I don't really understand.
...German?
It's maybe some kind of circular logic, but my brain doesn't recognize a picture of Satya Nadella = "Microsoft's CEO" for some reason.
several thousand more ballots by overseas voters who didn’t provide their photo ID with their absentee ballots
Since when does FPCA require sending photo ID?
The problem is, he left Diet Coke. What an evil man.
But where do you think the money in your pension fund lies? Even this isn't making a dent on the elite.
Many think that Windhund/vinthund is referring to wind (sighthounds are fast), but it's most likely folk etymology. It's believed the name most likely originated in lower German from the Wends - as sighthounds were mainly known from that region at the time.
they don't allow VPNs
Most likely to reduce the risk of ban-evading cheaters/griefers. Plus that most people usually avoid using a VPN when playing such games, due to the risk of increased latency.
For some reason, my steam ID wasn't banned.
All of these plugins initiate only an IP ban, so the person is able to rejoin with their "real" IP address.
But you've actually tried asking for your Steam ID to be whitelisted? Shame that their admins don't know how to/don't want to do it.
Why not ask the server admin to whitelist your Steam ID? If you're apparently a "regular" and don't cause problems, I don't see why they wouldn't whitelist you.
It also draws attention and could make you a target. Like, I disdain the whole "what do you have to hide" fallacy, but that's the impression that'd be broadcast to anyone who sees your place on streetview if you were to blur it out.
I think the lack of profile-wide "karma" is one benefit, so there's not as much incentive to farm imaginary internet points and such with the same old zingers. Who knows, but hopefully not.
How many of those thousands are actual good comments though? Last time I was there, I swear the majority of comments were from bots reposting the same comments that were in previous threads. It felt peak dead-internet.
The defense alliance is doing patrol missions, well within their own airspace. And when Russian pilots "get lost" and violate our airspace, is that also NATO's fault? What's the problem?
I never would have thought that Jim Cramer was a Lemmy user.