You should have read the article rather than the click-bait headline.
They found gasoline on his clothing, the fire starting in multiple places in his house and the guy claimed to have packed up suitcases of his belongings and tossed them out of the house during the fire (while somehow not having time to bother rescuing his cat). The pacemaker data was not the primary evidence used to indict him.
And 16 hours later the editors still haven't bothered to fix the link.
In any other line of work resubmitting old articles as new, submitting error-filled work that you obviously never proofread, not fixing mistakes and committing all the other errors that/. editors make would get you fired within the first few days. Fortunately for the editors here, the standards for online publishing are so low that they would literally have to be illiterate toddlers to not be qualified for their positions.
the sale of "virtual real estate" and "virtual items" within a "virtual world."
There's a long history of people being willing to pay for access to something they enjoy or need.
The subscription business model has worked and continues to work for online games, streaming movies, cable TV, streaming music, internet access, satellite radio, cell phone service, fitness clubs, car washes and innumerable other products and services. Season tickets to operas, playhouses, sports teams and amusement parks are also a form of subscription.
Hell, taxes are a form of mandatory subscription that provides access to a wide range of goods and services ranging from garbage collection to law enforcement to highway maintenance and children's education.
Paying for access to something you enjoy or need does not automatically mean you are a sucker. Automatically dismissing something without realizing that you use every day without realizing it, on the other hand....
Hindsight is obviously 20/20, but I can say that just about everyone staring at the cosmos before the invention of the telescope was wasting their time.
Apparently your hindsight is legally blind. Celestial nagivation predates the telescope by over 2,000 years and had a huge impact on human civilization.
The vast majority of people are just looking at the brand name, interface, memory and user-facing features when shipping at a phone. If they spare any thought at all for the CPU, it's just a vague sense of satisfaction that the CPU running at a faster clock speed or has more cores than their current phone.
If the new phones are released with the same CPU as the current generation, nobody will give a shit and the people who were going to buy them will still buy them.
There's no contradiction in the two statements. The few white males they do hire are being given higher pay, but the majority of the jobs are going to lower-paid Asian workers.
Both of the linked articles say that it will get updates. The subscription walled article says that updates are guaranteed for at least two years from the sale date in the text that's visible even without a subscription.
But what the hell... we're living in the post truth world now. Being outraged by imaginary problems and not bothering to confirm anything before seems to be the new norm. You'll fit right in.
The Nielsen report says nothing about how people listen to music. The report is about how people directly pay for music (either through streaming subscriptions or more traditional sales) and does not include radio (the audience isn't paying a direct fee for those, after all) or any other form of listening that isn't directly paid for by the listener.
The only way the headline would ever be valid would be if people purchasing CDs and MP3s listened to them once and then destroyed them, which is almost never going to be the case.
the submission explains simply that "I'm looking for satisfying and rewarding work,"
What people consider satisfying and rewarding is entirely subjective. What works for me, helping people without them realizing it was me, would leave most other people feeling unappreciated. The submitter is going to have to decide for him/her self what would they would find satisfying and rewarding.
Search engine metrics are also flawed in another way; the worst examples of things often generate a lot of searches, but that doesn't mean they're popular. This metric would tell us that the most popular financial company is Wells Fargo. They're at the top because of the news that they created millions of fraudulent accounts, however, and not because they're popular.
When the universe sends its asteroids, they're not sending their best. They're not sending Pyornkrachzark. They're not sending Geodude. They're sending asteroids that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with them. They're causing fireballs. They're causing craters. They're causing extinctions. And some, I assume, are good asteroids.
"Rape by fraud" is a comment made here, not in any of the articles. Believe it or not,/. posters often post without reading the articles, leading to BS like this. Here's an example of what one article says about the actual charges:
Charging documents show that the accuser at the center of the third charge claims Hickey raped her after she agreed to shoot non-nude photographs with him when she was 17 years old. The documents say that Hickey gave her a drink after telling her "she looked nervous," and that she doesn't remember very muchâ"other than brief flashes of Hickey penetrating herâ"after that.
If you'd bothered looking at any of those links, you'd have seen that half of them are to statements by government organizations that are filled with politicians and bureaucrats which are about as far from academics as you can get.
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You should have read the article rather than the click-bait headline.
They found gasoline on his clothing, the fire starting in multiple places in his house and the guy claimed to have packed up suitcases of his belongings and tossed them out of the house during the fire (while somehow not having time to bother rescuing his cat). The pacemaker data was not the primary evidence used to indict him.
And 16 hours later the editors still haven't bothered to fix the link.
In any other line of work resubmitting old articles as new, submitting error-filled work that you obviously never proofread, not fixing mistakes and committing all the other errors that /. editors make would get you fired within the first few days. Fortunately for the editors here, the standards for online publishing are so low that they would literally have to be illiterate toddlers to not be qualified for their positions.
the sale of "virtual real estate" and "virtual items" within a "virtual world."
There's a long history of people being willing to pay for access to something they enjoy or need.
The subscription business model has worked and continues to work for online games, streaming movies, cable TV, streaming music, internet access, satellite radio, cell phone service, fitness clubs, car washes and innumerable other products and services. Season tickets to operas, playhouses, sports teams and amusement parks are also a form of subscription.
Hell, taxes are a form of mandatory subscription that provides access to a wide range of goods and services ranging from garbage collection to law enforcement to highway maintenance and children's education.
Paying for access to something you enjoy or need does not automatically mean you are a sucker. Automatically dismissing something without realizing that you use every day without realizing it, on the other hand....
That sentence does not change the fact that you implied that being able to navigate across large bodies was a waste of time.
Hindsight is obviously 20/20, but I can say that just about everyone staring at the cosmos before the invention of the telescope was wasting their time.
Apparently your hindsight is legally blind. Celestial nagivation predates the telescope by over 2,000 years and had a huge impact on human civilization.
The vast majority of people are just looking at the brand name, interface, memory and user-facing features when shipping at a phone. If they spare any thought at all for the CPU, it's just a vague sense of satisfaction that the CPU running at a faster clock speed or has more cores than their current phone.
If the new phones are released with the same CPU as the current generation, nobody will give a shit and the people who were going to buy them will still buy them.
a pity they didn't make a series based on the kind of background that Tasha Yar had
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that hiding from rape gangs wouldn't be the family-friendly entertainment that Star Trek is known for.
Okay. Here's a copy for sale on Amazon. Took about five seconds to find.
You seem to have forgotten that the internet also doubles as the world's largest junk shop.
There's no contradiction in the two statements. The few white males they do hire are being given higher pay, but the majority of the jobs are going to lower-paid Asian workers.
No problem. I can crank that out now.
Slide one:
tl;dr - A lot of shit happened. You won't care about most of it.
What do you think I meant by "not bothering to confirm anything"?
Confusing summary? Why look at the article and see if the summary is wrong when you can bitch about it in the comments!
Both of the linked articles say that it will get updates. The subscription walled article says that updates are guaranteed for at least two years from the sale date in the text that's visible even without a subscription.
But what the hell... we're living in the post truth world now. Being outraged by imaginary problems and not bothering to confirm anything before seems to be the new norm. You'll fit right in.
Of course no PC multiplayer games have ever closed down /s
It's just too bad that nobody ever created open source server replacements to allow those games to continue to be played, right? /s
The Nielsen report says nothing about how people listen to music. The report is about how people directly pay for music (either through streaming subscriptions or more traditional sales) and does not include radio (the audience isn't paying a direct fee for those, after all) or any other form of listening that isn't directly paid for by the listener.
The only way the headline would ever be valid would be if people purchasing CDs and MP3s listened to them once and then destroyed them, which is almost never going to be the case.
the submission explains simply that "I'm looking for satisfying and rewarding work,"
What people consider satisfying and rewarding is entirely subjective. What works for me, helping people without them realizing it was me, would leave most other people feeling unappreciated. The submitter is going to have to decide for him/her self what would they would find satisfying and rewarding.
I'll wait for the microfiche at midnight.
Search engine metrics are also flawed in another way; the worst examples of things often generate a lot of searches, but that doesn't mean they're popular. This metric would tell us that the most popular financial company is Wells Fargo. They're at the top because of the news that they created millions of fraudulent accounts, however, and not because they're popular.
They just need to remove a few more standard ports and add more adapters!
When the universe sends its asteroids, they're not sending their best. They're not sending Pyornkrachzark. They're not sending Geodude. They're sending asteroids that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with them. They're causing fireballs. They're causing craters. They're causing extinctions. And some, I assume, are good asteroids.
Lots of people liked the Mad Max films. It doesn't mean they want to live in a post-apocalypse world where people are constantly killing each other.
Drugging someone because "you just want sex" for example is not in fact considered "fair" and will in fact land you in prison.
Funny you should say that, because that is actually one of the things Hickey is accused of doing.
"Rape by fraud" is a comment made here, not in any of the articles. Believe it or not, /. posters often post without reading the articles, leading to BS like this. Here's an example of what one article says about the actual charges:
Charging documents show that the accuser at the center of the third charge claims Hickey raped her after she agreed to shoot non-nude photographs with him when she was 17 years old. The documents say that Hickey gave her a drink after telling her "she looked nervous," and that she doesn't remember very muchâ"other than brief flashes of Hickey penetrating herâ"after that.
If you'd bothered looking at any of those links, you'd have seen that half of them are to statements by government organizations that are filled with politicians and bureaucrats which are about as far from academics as you can get.
Apparently it matters enough for you to post 132 words going on about how much you don't care.
Seems you've confused Edward Snowden with Obama. This is not information that Obama released.