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Due to failure in the IT system, it is not possible to run any trains today

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Post by shapefrog »

Tepix wrote: post #264
shapefrog wrote: post #253

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> When is being apologetic became politically correctness? When it became insincere or boarderline fradulent. "We deeply regret this one incident" - you regret getting caught and it has happened many times before and will happen many times again. "We are sorry, we have learnt the lessons and it will never happen again" - no you havent and yes it will. "Thank you so much this is delicious" - umm try tasting the food b…

The cynicism runs deep. Did you know that cynicism is linked to depression? " The study was conducted on a group of 3,399 individuals, all from London and aged between 35 and 55. The personality traits that were observed included cynicism, suspicion, resentment and distrust. After the study period was completed, it was found that the majority of individuals who expressed these particular personality traits that were…

> from London and aged between 35 and 55

Check and check.

> cynicism, suspicion, resentment and distrust

Its london - if you are not suspicious and distrusting your phone will be removed from your possession as a you walk down the street. Resentment - from the council estates to mayfair.

Cynical, I would say I am 100%, however, as per your article Being cynical essentially means you are unable to trust the intensions of those around you. I trust their intentions, I dont trust what they say their intentions are.

The intention of the politician (or child) who gets caught lying is not to appologise and make amends, its to get out of trouble. The intention of the diner who says this is delicious before tasting a dish is to ingratiate themselves to the host or appear the "polite one" at the dinner party - otherwise they would find out how the food actually tasted before claiming it is the finest they have ever tasted.

As for the 5* uber rating - The bottom line is if you give your driver less than 5 stars, you have screwed him over. So, unless they fuck up, give 5 stars.

Take care not to slide so far to the other side where there is another trait - toxic positivity ... With toxic positivity, negative emotions are seen as inherently bad. Instead, positivity and happiness are compulsively pushed, and authentic human emotional experiences are denied, minimized, or invalidated.

Re: Due to failure in the IT system, it is not possible to run any trains today

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Post by traceroute66 »

tazjin wrote: post #186
Freak_NL wrote: post #175

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This is Europe. Credit card imprinters are rare if they were ever used at all. I've never seen one. The most resilient back up (especially in the face of national crises) is cash of course, but a growing group of people have stopped carrying any cash at all, and a lot of people in power are doing their best to make sure a cashless future is nearer each day. I don't mind paying with a debit card; I just want to have a…

Most credit or debit cards support offline transactions, so a shop can keep a battery powered terminal that reconciles when it comes online. Imprinters don't exist in Europe to my knowledge - the first time I saw one was on a visit to NYC a few years ago and I thought they were pranking me.

> Most credit or debit cards support offline transactions, so a shop can keep a battery powered terminal that reconciles when it comes online.

Almost....

Its been a while since I have been involved in POS payments, but IIRC there is a clear protocol which goes something like this:

     1. If the card machine is online and working, use that
     2. If the card machine is not working *AND* the business is willing to take on the risk, record an offline transaction for later reconciliation
     3. If the card machine is not working *AND* the business *IS NOT* willing to take on the risk, call bank $phone_number for manual transaction validation and record the validation code provided at the end of the call.

Re: Due to failure in the IT system, it is not possible to run any trains today

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Post by GekkePrutser »

niels8472 wrote: post #237
GekkePrutser wrote: post #208

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Some EU countries don't issue credit/debit cards by default but they have their own system. The Netherlands is one of them. Such cards don't have embossing. You can get a MasterCard/Visa compatible card but it's not standard, though I believe this will change soon. But of course the imprinting system is ancient and extremely prone to fraud. As is the magstripe. I wish we had a choice not to have the latter anymore. I…

The Dutch debit cards are Maestro (Mastercard) or V Pay (Visa) cards which are a pretty standard systems. There is no point in embossing because transactions need to be authorized immediately by the issuing bank for obvious reasons.

They are pretty standard but not accepted where credit cards normally are. In particular Maestro, I'm not sure about V Pay as I've never had it.

But when I lived in the Netherlands I had to get a credit card to do stuff like book flights or order on foreign sites.

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Post by diarrhea »

ngcc_hk wrote: post #257
valvar wrote: post #214

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An absolute legend! My favourite of his jokes: "when I moved to Sweden from Norway, the average IQ went up in both countries".

Take a bit time to understand this joke. Crazy. Especially the new host would not be very appreciated of that la.

To be fair, a great joke, but not an original one (unless he is the original author -- I've heard it before in different contexts).

Re: Due to failure in the IT system, it is not possible to run any trains today

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Post by shapefrog »

adhesive_wombat wrote: post #170
usr1106 wrote: post #78

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The government made extra payments to their typical supporters like pensioners and rural areas. Economically strong regions and younger professionals pay the bill and are free to vote against, but they remain a minority.

Yes, but the question was about Hungary, not the UK. Though since there's no election for a while and they don't apparently get elected based on promises delivered, just promised made, they haven't shied away from breaking the pensioner-bait promises anyway for this year and removing the triple lock (pensions rise at least as fast as the largest of inflation, earnings or 2.5%).

> they haven't shied away from breaking -- promises anyway for this year

Non-election year actions, while unironically promising that they are going to give away money in the upcoming election year.

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Post by d1sxeyes »

klausjensen wrote: post #206
Freak_NL wrote: post #175

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This is Europe. Credit card imprinters are rare if they were ever used at all. I've never seen one. The most resilient back up (especially in the face of national crises) is cash of course, but a growing group of people have stopped carrying any cash at all, and a lot of people in power are doing their best to make sure a cashless future is nearer each day. I don't mind paying with a debit card; I just want to have a…

I am in Europe as well, but I am probably older than you, so I actually have seen the imprinters in Denmark. However, that was probably 20+ years ago. :)

UK too, which is arguably still part of Europe. I remember them being used at less professionally organised events (street parties, church outings etc.).

We had one at work as well 15 years ago as part of a contingency strategy in case of a power outage, but don't remember it ever being used. I left retail so no idea if they still have it.

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Post by aloisdg »

diarrhea wrote: post #275
ngcc_hk wrote: post #257

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Take a bit time to understand this joke. Crazy. Especially the new host would not be very appreciated of that la.

To be fair, a great joke, but not an original one (unless he is the original author -- I've heard it before in different contexts).

Read it when new zealander move to australia
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