Fortnite purchases are purely cosmetic and the store interface makes this clear.
One cannot purchase a better experience/advantage, it's a level playing field. It's a good system in my opinion.
That said, my son still bothers me to purchase the cosmetic stuff (and if I do then I deny actual physical purchases to drive home what "cosmetic" means - good ways to get him to do chores...).
And our colleges are great, a few years won't impact that.
We have a lot of smart people, but less are coming here than in recent decades.
I'm not knocking anyone on Earth here, just making some generalizations. My kids are in a US based International Baccalaureate program focused on French. I would like them to school in Europe (I've never been).
Anyway, we could see a party-reversal on certain issues as happened around the Civil War (tariffs as the cause I would guess, and propping up already insolvent coal/energy operations is not the best move fiscally): https://www.livescience.com/34...
Watch the debt and the short term interest rate. A higher interest rate helps savers (retired folk who have been suffering), but it hurts those who borrow (workers). Obviously it's not that simple, but it rhymes.
Oh, the Social Security program recently had to access the trust fund (first time since 1982), but it and Medicare are on the way to insolvency: https://www.marketwatch.com/st...
Don't get me started on bridges that need repairs... (I kid, I kid)
I thought Bush Jr. was going to destroy the Republican party with the wars and general ineptitude. But they hung on.
I wondered if Obama could take out the Democrats, but he was more of a centralist which I don't consider a bad trait of a President. I was hoping he would destroy the party.
Then we faced Trump vs. Hillary. The Giant Meteor (it's a bumper sticker, they are on Amazon, I had one) or Cthulhu would have been better options.
Hillary actually made great inroads towards destroying the Democrats (seriously, it was fixed to be her, mafia level stuff), they are still in disarray (who would they run for President???). And with Trump winning the nomination it showed the Republicans were venerable (he grabbed them by the... well, you know).
Given how it's been going, I believe Trump can make 3rd parties great again!
The only problem is where the US will be on the world stage (it's a tragic comedy at this point) by the end of his first term. Recovery won't be easy or cheap.
But it if takes a downfall of sorts to actually get a candidate worth voting for, I'm willing to suffer.
Facebook is the saliva mark you get on a hardback without the cover on when you pass out while reading.
Reddit has to be a brand of markers. I'm going to Amazon now to order some.
Alexa, she's mysterious, and supposedly a massive blabber-mouth who shares your personal conversations with others. I haven't invited her over and don't plan on it.
I carve my knives from wood, using steel. They actually work for dinner when camping.
And once covered in the blood and fat of an animal (more a piece of it, but we raised cows, chickens, and pigs and such when I was a kid, for food) that I'm consuming, they burn nice as well.
Actually it's a good lesson that browser based isn't always the best option. Unless you lock down which browser and which version (good luck with that).
Keeping up with Angular exposes browser compatibility issues, it's like the late 1990s again...
A lot of it is based on better training and club teams for younger players.
A coworker of mine has a 9 year old in a Premiere club league sponsored by a large company. Their soccer field area has about 15 fields and several buildings (it is professional level for adults, they have Dr.s on staff). And the team is very good, they play regular games and even tourneys with kids a year older (called "playing up", and they win 95%+ of the time).
They have been visited by Olympic representatives and other teams are trying to court her. She has a personal trainer and plays a soccer variant (futsal) in the winter (heavier ball, small hard court, focus on foot skills).
We have a Surface Hub 1. We use it everyday. It's nice to be able to switch from whiteboard (which has cool features like auto-tables and auto-shapes) to our intranet/internet, maybe fire up Excel.
The people we collaborate with don't have one, so we are missing out on some of the best features (other regional office).
It's nice that anyone at the Hub can just walk up and interact with others using it.
It's not perfect (horrible external keyboard/touch pad, we could use different hardware I imagine) but we've really enjoyed it. It's the first "collaborative" hardware that I've found effective. People have commented that it's nice to be able to see us as well.
A little back stabbing for Bernie? When your party is "behind the scenes" completely against you, one cannot win.
Regarding changes of support for things, Presidents always become centrists to some degree. The two party system enforces this.
And the two parties have billions upon billions of dollars (unlimited at this point, Supreme Court fail), they will continue to win unopposed at the levels that really matter.
Trump is an outlier for sure. But Hillary shouldn't have been nominated. Choosing between two very bad things isn't really a choice. It's like asking the prisoner: How would you like to die?
A 7 year ban on using US technologies, consider that. China will fund development of replacements, thus resolving the dependency (they probably already are/were).
And Europe is leaning against unilateral sanctions on Iran (this is as interesting as the Chinese stuff, Europe is a different beast): https://www.reuters.com/articl...
Yes, Greenshot FTW!!!! (set to copy to clipboard and also open in editor). When sharing my screen it amazes people how fast I can capture and markup an image.
My company gave me a paid license of SnagIt, but it's a trash heap of complexity. It Snags my brain.
It's nostalgia, but it's also something different, depending on the audience.
I'm over 40 and we had one of those tower audio systems (record player on top, two cassette decks, overly complicated AM/FM stuff, and storage on the bottom).
I grew up on Back in Black, Led Zeppelin 4, Tommy, Elton John, and Queen records (and Guess Who and other stuff from that period).
My mom still has them all, and I bought her a record player a couple of years ago (and a 21 Pilots album that was clear see-through vinyl). First thing I do when visiting is clean a record and put it on. Bohemian Rhapsody FTW!
That's nostalgia.
However, my kids (8 year olds) are fascinated by the record player. Especially since it can play 21 Pilots... It's a tremendous source of inquisitiveness and questions. It's awesome to point out that the dime sized USB drive I have in my car can hold more records that my mom has (she has about 100).
Long live the record, for it shows us the depth and range of our technical progress. Screw cassette tapes though...
And I do love the crackle sound before and between songs.
Slashdot Mirror
I also dropped the price...
True that, I was referring to individuals and personal motivations. These can, and are, certainly influenced by the wider society around us.
What is wrong with people?
They don't have meaningful goals driving their life decisions, combined with too much free time (that isn't being used towards meaningful goals).
Rather than invest in relationships with family and friends, they decide to hate.
Rather than try to make the world a better place by volunteering or something similar, they decide to hate.
Rather than work on a hobby or project (learn instruments, write stories, even just play games), they decide to hate.
Rather than worry about their own problems, they decide to hate.
With over 7 billion people on the Earth, not everyone can have a globally influential existence, but, we can have such for and with those around us.
But rather than that, they hate.
Fortnite purchases are purely cosmetic and the store interface makes this clear.
One cannot purchase a better experience/advantage, it's a level playing field. It's a good system in my opinion.
That said, my son still bothers me to purchase the cosmetic stuff (and if I do then I deny actual physical purchases to drive home what "cosmetic" means - good ways to get him to do chores...).
Country Time Lemonade is actually helping kids with stand related legal issues...
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/11...
Awesome photo!
Assuming an average cost/revenue of $700, $6.7M USD is just above 9,500 iPhones.
Per Google search, they sell about 590 per MINUTE (4th quarter last year on average).
So that's about 16 minutes of sales:
https://www.google.com/search?...
They were probably laughing while lounging on their yachts that cost more than the settlement.
The US "only" uses 500 million straws per DAY.
And straws pose certain threats to animal life than other shaped plastics.
Here's more info:
https://news.nationalgeographi...
Also considering the politically situation we are really close to Idiocracy being a documentary.
All we need now is for Fuddruckers to begin the name changes.
Enlightenment will come via suffering.
And we still have natural resources.
And our colleges are great, a few years won't impact that.
We have a lot of smart people, but less are coming here than in recent decades.
I'm not knocking anyone on Earth here, just making some generalizations. My kids are in a US based International Baccalaureate program focused on French. I would like them to school in Europe (I've never been).
Anyway, we could see a party-reversal on certain issues as happened around the Civil War (tariffs as the cause I would guess, and propping up already insolvent coal/energy operations is not the best move fiscally):
https://www.livescience.com/34...
Watch the debt and the short term interest rate. A higher interest rate helps savers (retired folk who have been suffering), but it hurts those who borrow (workers). Obviously it's not that simple, but it rhymes.
Oh, the Social Security program recently had to access the trust fund (first time since 1982), but it and Medicare are on the way to insolvency:
https://www.marketwatch.com/st...
Don't get me started on bridges that need repairs... (I kid, I kid)
I thought Bush Jr. was going to destroy the Republican party with the wars and general ineptitude. But they hung on.
I wondered if Obama could take out the Democrats, but he was more of a centralist which I don't consider a bad trait of a President. I was hoping he would destroy the party.
Then we faced Trump vs. Hillary. The Giant Meteor (it's a bumper sticker, they are on Amazon, I had one) or Cthulhu would have been better options.
Hillary actually made great inroads towards destroying the Democrats (seriously, it was fixed to be her, mafia level stuff), they are still in disarray (who would they run for President???). And with Trump winning the nomination it showed the Republicans were venerable (he grabbed them by the... well, you know).
Given how it's been going, I believe Trump can make 3rd parties great again!
The only problem is where the US will be on the world stage (it's a tragic comedy at this point) by the end of his first term. Recovery won't be easy or cheap.
But it if takes a downfall of sorts to actually get a candidate worth voting for, I'm willing to suffer.
It's just a misspelling (and a bad one at that, someone made a big mistake), it should be Syrinx.
It's a reference to song:
Rush - 2112: The Temples Of Syrinx
Facebook is the saliva mark you get on a hardback without the cover on when you pass out while reading.
Reddit has to be a brand of markers. I'm going to Amazon now to order some.
Alexa, she's mysterious, and supposedly a massive blabber-mouth who shares your personal conversations with others. I haven't invited her over and don't plan on it.
Screw solar and wind power.
I want my energy to come from the Earth itself, like my diamonds. Like diamonds, energy is forever.
I'm conflicted by hydro-power (on the Earth but not from the Earth), but geo-thermal is acceptable. Nuclear is fine since the fuel is mined.
Then use wooden knives!
I carve my knives from wood, using steel. They actually work for dinner when camping.
And once covered in the blood and fat of an animal (more a piece of it, but we raised cows, chickens, and pigs and such when I was a kid, for food) that I'm consuming, they burn nice as well.
At least it's not bugs.
Actually it's a good lesson that browser based isn't always the best option. Unless you lock down which browser and which version (good luck with that).
Keeping up with Angular exposes browser compatibility issues, it's like the late 1990s again...
Sorry about that.
A lot of it is based on better training and club teams for younger players.
A coworker of mine has a 9 year old in a Premiere club league sponsored by a large company. Their soccer field area has about 15 fields and several buildings (it is professional level for adults, they have Dr.s on staff). And the team is very good, they play regular games and even tourneys with kids a year older (called "playing up", and they win 95%+ of the time).
They have been visited by Olympic representatives and other teams are trying to court her. She has a personal trainer and plays a soccer variant (futsal) in the winter (heavier ball, small hard court, focus on foot skills).
We have a Surface Hub 1. We use it everyday. It's nice to be able to switch from whiteboard (which has cool features like auto-tables and auto-shapes) to our intranet/internet, maybe fire up Excel.
The people we collaborate with don't have one, so we are missing out on some of the best features (other regional office).
It's nice that anyone at the Hub can just walk up and interact with others using it.
It's not perfect (horrible external keyboard/touch pad, we could use different hardware I imagine) but we've really enjoyed it. It's the first "collaborative" hardware that I've found effective. People have commented that it's nice to be able to see us as well.
The wedge issues keep the two party system alive.
A little back stabbing for Bernie? When your party is "behind the scenes" completely against you, one cannot win.
Regarding changes of support for things, Presidents always become centrists to some degree. The two party system enforces this.
And the two parties have billions upon billions of dollars (unlimited at this point, Supreme Court fail), they will continue to win unopposed at the levels that really matter.
Trump is an outlier for sure. But Hillary shouldn't have been nominated. Choosing between two very bad things isn't really a choice. It's like asking the prisoner: How would you like to die?
Wait for the trade war, it is brewing.
77,000 Chinese workers learned about this last week (ZTE, who attempted to purchase Qualcomm).
http://money.cnn.com/2018/05/0...
A 7 year ban on using US technologies, consider that. China will fund development of replacements, thus resolving the dependency (they probably already are/were).
And Europe is leaning against unilateral sanctions on Iran (this is as interesting as the Chinese stuff, Europe is a different beast):
https://www.reuters.com/articl...
Avocado's are an interesting view as well:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...
The world is being pushed towards protectionism, through tariffs and/or sanctions.
This is very dangerous territory.
Yes, Greenshot FTW!!!! (set to copy to clipboard and also open in editor). When sharing my screen it amazes people how fast I can capture and markup an image.
My company gave me a paid license of SnagIt, but it's a trash heap of complexity. It Snags my brain.
I'm doing game development in Unity with Visual Studio integration (it's actually a very nice situation), so I'm stuck with Windows 10.
Oddly enough, the current game was suggested by my 8 year old son, and it involves the latter part of your user name...
His twin sister suggested something with cats, we are working on the design concepts while I code her brother's game.
I've got a stable system that I like. Other than security updates, I don't want other changes.
I wish MS had stopped at Windows 7. But, you know, money...
It's nostalgia, but it's also something different, depending on the audience.
I'm over 40 and we had one of those tower audio systems (record player on top, two cassette decks, overly complicated AM/FM stuff, and storage on the bottom).
I grew up on Back in Black, Led Zeppelin 4, Tommy, Elton John, and Queen records (and Guess Who and other stuff from that period).
My mom still has them all, and I bought her a record player a couple of years ago (and a 21 Pilots album that was clear see-through vinyl). First thing I do when visiting is clean a record and put it on. Bohemian Rhapsody FTW!
That's nostalgia.
However, my kids (8 year olds) are fascinated by the record player. Especially since it can play 21 Pilots... It's a tremendous source of inquisitiveness and questions. It's awesome to point out that the dime sized USB drive I have in my car can hold more records that my mom has (she has about 100).
Long live the record, for it shows us the depth and range of our technical progress. Screw cassette tapes though...
And I do love the crackle sound before and between songs.