they had hundreds of thousands of employees, and they didn't need to deal with all the digital shit we gotta deal with now.
They needed hundreds of thousands of employees because they didn't have "digital shit". Today, the entirety of Discover Financial Services is around 21k, and probably falling.
If Valve did it, it wouldn't be under the Valve organization anyways. It would be a subsidiary, and Valve has plenty of cash-flow to build it out.
I think the point is that Valve has the reach to start their own credit card network. It might be far fetched, but I'm old enough to remember when Sears launched the Discover card. It's totally doable for a company that already has the technical capabilities of Valve.
Get over yourself. All I did was state a fact that was contradictory to the previous comment. I didn't even say anything about whether it was good or bad. Trump is trying to cut VoA.
The word "propaganda" is tricky. It has connotations of being lies, but that isn't always or even usually the case. Objectively true information can literally be propaganda. The mission of the VoA is to spread American propaganda. That's why it's funded. That can be truths that foreign governments want to suppress, it can be spin, or it can be lies. VoA is generally pretty truthful, especially compared to the privately run domestic versions like cable news outlets.
Government officials don't need to dictate content. As you pointed out, content can be controlled by who is appointed to manage the content. They know the mission.
He literally has control over it though.
Be that as it may, Trump is trying to dismantle it.
What's Jesus have to do with Christianity? Christianity has always been Paul's religion, not Jesus'.
I think that happens in any black hole formation. At least that's my understanding of how neutron stars are formed. The electrons get forced into the nucleus and turn the protons into neutrons. From there it's quark gluon plasma then a black hole.
In any case, I have no idea how either a grain of rice or a mountain could be made to do such a thing.
Theoretically you could make a black hole with a single grain of rice. You just have to figure out how to crush it down enough.
What payment terminals? They could go years just being an online credit card. Hell, initially it wouldn't be very different from any company that bills their customers. Start it as a Steam only thing, then add select partners one at a time. It doesn't have to be in your grocery store on day one, or ever really. Fraud detection is easy when you can just yank the game back. Sears couldn't do that when you bought a washing machine. I worked in banking infosec and I have no idea what "digital compliance" means in this context. The hardest compliance standards in this space are PCI, and those are defined and enforced on clients by the payment card industry itself.
Which is why I specifically said it would be run as a subsidiary.
Gosh, where on Earth could they find people with experience running a company that would look like 99% of the companies in existence?
You're just throwing shit on the wall and hoping something sticks. You could neigh say anything, and nothing in the world would ever be accomplished.