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seanismorris said:

Congratulations ladies!  The women are the most fun to watch!

Question:  Does the governments pay their World Cup players to participate? Or, is it FIFA and backed by advertising? Or, a bit of both...

The vast majority of the players’ money comes from sponsorship deals and the contracts they have with their club teams. The average national team player makes around $40,000, and the teams have a salary cap of $800,000, so there’s not a lot of relative money to go around. Even the best women’s players like Megan Rapinoe and Alex Morgan probably are multi-millionaires in the sense that they have around $2 million. It’s why they fight so hard for equal pay, because at least in their case, they are a more attractive draw for fans than our men’s team is for sure.

dedgecko said:

The Marriot Bon Voy App seems to be doing this as well, or at least it appears to be. I open the app, tell it that I want to unlock my hotel room door, it says it’s ready, and I place my X against the door sensor - rrrrr-click!  And I’m in!  Slick shit!

The Hilton app does this too, it’s awesome! Another nice benefit is that I can check in to my hotel room the day before, even pick my room in some cases, and never have to see the front desk! Everything is done in the app. It even allows access to the parking garage through the app too!

melgross said:

My question involves that card itself. Apple said that it was for when in an establishment that didn’t (yet) accept Apple Pay. But, with nothing on the card other than the chip, we’re (see, I already committed to getting this) going to have a problem for all of those places that are tardy enough to have not yet gotten chip readers. And despite the deadline having passed last year, I think, I still encounter places, mostly small, that can’t use a chip card.

well, still carrying other cards would be wise for a time.

The promo video clearly shows a mag strip on the back, so I think we’ll be okay.

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ihatescreennames said:

The black option will function exactly the same but cost $100 more, right?

  

So… you rushed to make that joke about Apple pricing because… all their other black versions of anything have a higher pricepoint… or…?

I'm sure he meant it in a lighthearted way but the meme is getting ridiculous.

As if Apple offers nothing in their pricing.

To be fair, that’s exactly what Apple did with the black MacBook back in the day. Exact same internal specs, but higher price strictly because of color. Although that is the one and only product I know of that they’ve ever done that. (And to be fair to Apple, it did look super cool!)

sflocal said:

Google does do a lot more in the background in terms of collecting information about users and selling them out to 3rd-party people.

You seem to be pretty uneducated too. Google sells ad-space, which they can charge a premium for because they hold all the data. Why on earth would Google then sell that data to any third parties? Ask any advertiser that works with google, they receive very generic, anonymous information about their ad targets, and Google does the rest. He’s, they collect data, but they are one of the most responsible companies with that data that’s out there.