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 Just write a Czech. 
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Smart K8 wrote: What does being based in Prague supposed to imply?
Most of the banks in the United States, not all, have blacklisted online purchases with companies in "hacker rich" territories of Russia, Ukraine, Czechoslovakia Czech Republic, etc...
All I have to do is tell the bank that this company is alright and not criminal, then they will white-list the company and let me place the purchase (this takes like 15 minutes to do). Good for me, just a pain in the butt if you are in a hurry.
modified 14-May-15 13:31pm.
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Czechoslovakia, really? 
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It's only been 22 years since the dissolution. That's nowhere near long enough for people who don't live there to get used to using the new names. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: That's nowhere near long enough for people who don't live there to get used to using the new names.
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Czechoslovakia ... was a sovereign state in Central Europe that existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until its peaceful dissolution into the Czech Republic and Slovakia on 1 January 1993.
For 16 years of my childhood, it was called "Czechoslovakia".
It's now been over 22 years since it became "the Czech Republic" and "Slovakia".
And I still sometimes find my self about to refer to it as "Czechoslovakia". 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I bought some concert tickets in Venice (italy) online, and 10 minutes after, I got a call from my Credit card company asking me if I really bought them (I'm from Canada).
I think they are becoming, maybe, more pro-active when trying to detect fraud.
I'd rather be phishing!
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The banks actually do seem to be more paranoid lately...I sent my Dad some money via Interac last week, which I have done many times, and this time it got blocked for 'security reasons'. Took a couple of phone calls and some days to sort it out.
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Never gonna work. I will eat my hat if it does.. and also register a perpetuum mobile device one day later. But I'm not planning on it anytime soon. Why can't people understand that it violates the basic laws of physics - thoroughly tested laws of physics?
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Smart K8 wrote: Why can't people understand that it violates the basic laws of physics
It wouldn't.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive[^]
The relevant bit:
Quote: Rather than exceeding the speed of light within a local reference frame, a spacecraft would traverse distances by contracting space in front of it and expanding space behind it, resulting in effective faster-than-light travel.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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This is not Alcubierre drive.
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Yep, I mistakenly wired Karels post to the possibly discovered warp bubble.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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This is about EmDrives, which are entirely different beasts. They violate the conservation of momentum, why they are most probably nonsense.
The Alcubierre drive also has its rough edges. First, we will the energy equivalent (as in E=mc^2) of a large gas giant or a small star (and that's a lot of m to be multiplied with c^2), Then, everything in the spacecraft's path will be destroyed and inside the 'warp bubble' will be a temperature similar to that in the core of the sun. Fried astronauts, anyone?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
modified 14-May-15 12:46pm.
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Yep, I mistakenly wired Karels post to the possibly discovered warp bubble 
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Actually, if these things would work, I would not have trouble with simple mechanics and vibration right now. I have a small helicopter here on my table which suffers from stronger vibrations. The gears appear to be ok, the shafts are straight, I tried different rotor blades, the tail rotor does not seem to be responsible. Perhaps a bad bearing? Or has the rotor head been damaged?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Resonance, maybe?
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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A worn out bearing, a bent shaft, some inbalance in the rotor blades, gears which lost some teeth, or (most expensive) some part of the rotor head has been deformed. The main rotor runs with about 4000 rpm, the tail rotor almost 20000. There is only little margin for error.
Now it's something like debugging and eliminating all possible causes until the vibrations are gone.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I read that a week ago. I still stand by my comment. My hat is made of hemp.
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Hats and Caps [^]
You better start saving... of course it won't violate the laws of physics as we currently understand them.
BTW: don't you think it a real shame that there is a whole universe out there that we'll never get to explore unless we do find a way to traverse interstellar space at more than the snail's pace we do now?
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Our (current) inability of not being able to explore universe without being able to do FTL travel (or at least without Earth aging really significantly in the process), doesn't change the fact that we should accept these wild concepts. NASA doesn't mean "cannot make a mistake in an experiment". Either the laws of physics are broken or they made a mistake. What's more likely? 
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Smart K8 wrote: doesn't change the fact that we should accept these wild concepts
Luddite.
Smart K8 wrote: Either the laws of physics are broken or they made a mistake
Neither need be true.
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