Man-Man sex and Abortion (and meaningful gun control) are all settled issues barring a constitutional amendment, so I urge anyone not to vote on the basis of these issues, because they aren't changing anytime soon.
I'm a pretty typical American liberal in the sense that I am pro-choice, pro marriage equality, and fuck if I wouldn't like to round up all the guns and throw them in the sewer. But it's not going to happen, so I would happily vote for someone who opposed all of these things if they were in favor of single payer healthcare or fucking over this Treaty, or something else achievable that I'd like to see fixed.
Even better, you can send Christians into a murderous rage by submerging a crucifix of Jesus Christ in urine.
Oh, wait. No you wouldn't.
he work was vandalized at the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia, and gallery officials reported receiving death threats in response to Piss Christ.[15]
Those companies did a lot of stuff right though, that couldn't be had anywhere else. This is like saying people don't want an open source Photoshop alternative because look at the GIMPs adoption rate. People *would* like that, but they aren't willing to wade through the GIMPs shortcomings in order to make a political statement.
I think you're kidding yourself if you don't think there would be a market for an open tablet/smartphone with iPhone level hardware design and a polished OS to match. They just aren't going to put up with unpolished clunky UIs in order to not be tracked and monetized, which is sad, but I understand it.
Oh, people would pay for them if there was no alternative in the app store. This is kind of what I'm hoping to happen -- adblocking kills that industry, and people can start charging real money for software again. More money in my industry (software development), and a better user experience. I'd really have no issue spending $5-$50 for most of the apps on my phone if they aren't showing me ads or tracking me, and having them compete on features.
Until that day comes I have no problem blocking ads to do my part to kill this monster.
I'm not even going to enter the 'is a sport'/'is not a sport' argument, the problem I see is lack of historical consistancy.
Basketball, Chess, Hockey, rugby and rowing all exist throughout the decades with minor rules tweaks at most. Will students in 20 years still be joining LoL club? Or playing some other video game?
I mean good on them, but this means about as much as having a rollerblade club in 1990. Maybe some colleges did and had races and then the fad died any they stopped.
Thank you. I'd already purchased this and just got the refund for it. Total dishonest bait and switch maneuver.
The sad part is that I'd really throw down 10, 20, maybe 50 bucks for a well developed ad blocker that really was on my side in this fight and went out of its way to ad new features / combat the ad companies. It doesn't have to be 99 cents, iOS developers -- if you need more money, raise the price, a lot of us will still pay if you deliver a high quality solution.
What's to say I didn't "suddenly" have 5 million uniques the week a high-paying advertiser decides to buy ad space? That's what the javascript portions of ads were supposed to do; simply certify visitors were real. I understand that a good portion of networks abused that trust. But it wasn't always like that.
I really appreciate your interesting and detailed take on this topic. I think the answer here is that the advertiser needs to do the research themselves, because they are frankly not entitled to this information by tracking my computer.
The example I like to give is a print newspaper or magazine. The New York Times is able to sell its ad space based on circulation -- and some weeks things might be slow and there might be tens of thousands of copies left unsold on newsstands, and other weeks there might be a terrorist attack where every copy of the paper sells out.
I think websites should do the same, sell local ad space based on average traffic over a window of time. If your site blows up into some megasite -- renegotiate your ad rates the next time they come up.
Paxil got me out of the house when I was 24, bumming around playing WoW in depression with while my girlfriend worked after my mom died.
The tapering off was a bitch though, but I'm super grateful for it. Stopped having panic attacks and anxiety, built a career in software that fulfills me 10 years later.
Would a placebo have worked the same or even better? Quite possibly.
This is more like a modern-day peeping Tom placing upwards facing upskirts camera on the **very** edge of his own property where his grass meets the sidewalk.
This seems like a non-issue to me? How did they come to trust the New York Times or Des Moines' hot rock 104.5 or Sports Illustrated when they were selling ad space in 1975?
They ran surveys, demographic groups, advertised their circulation, right? They were using perfect invasive metrics that tracked every impression and conversion, and yet, the ad space sold and the world kept turning.
They should just go back to doing that. Why is it that they will trust Sports Illustrated's circulation numbers but not ESPN.COMs?
I play (intermediate level) competitive scrabble and this is how my wife and friends handicap me if we want to play at home. Frankly I don't mind it -- as a mere mortal without Nigel's photographic memory, it helps me a lot to keep the funky words memorized if I actually learn what they mean. Plus, learning that something is a noun vs a verb makes it a lot easier to infer if you can stick an S or ING or whatever on it.
However, I've found that people still passive aggressively rage when you're beating them by 200 points and explain that AA is a type of lava or that ZA is just shitty slang for pizza that no one actually uses, so it is an imperfect solution....
You keep saying these things, but remain unable to explain, why these very same racist police do not treat Asians just as badly as they (supposedly) do Blacks
Because they are racist specifically against black people, you thick moron. They are not Racist Robots out to treat anyone with non-white skin equally poorly.
Interesting. I wonder how easy it would be to prove intent to defraud, short of someone who is financially fucked just buying a bunch of stuff right before bankruptcy.
It seems like if you strung along nominal payments for a while, and really truly were financially fucked, you could show intent to make repayment and that it just overwhelmed you.
I would argue it's not theft, and that the credit card company should have done its due diligence before lending money to him. It's not his fault that they made a bad investment in his loan.
It sucks but morons, on all sides, are entitled to their vote too. Wishing otherwise strikes is kind of unrealistic like magicking away religion in order to make the world more peaceful tomorrow. Sure, it would work, and maybe it will happen in the Star Trek future if we ever get there, but it's really neither here nor there for the real, actual world that we are all going to live and die in.
I think the best solution to it is compulsory voting (with a 'no preference' option, of course) so at least all of the poor morons with no GED will hopefully balance out the rich morons who have a high school level education but are exactly as susceptible to convincing liars nonetheless...
I only mean non-mandatory in the 'government can't penalize you for choosing not to participate' sense. I'm perfectly fine with making them mandatory for voting itself, that would be the point.
I do think it is a bit of a solution looking for a problem (there is very little actual voter fraud going on from people without indentification, especially when compared to bigger voting issues like gerrymandering) but really I have no issue with mandatory voter ID -- you just need to severely over-engineer the solution to ensure it's not a burden on those in society with the least time/money/options/eduction.
Not racist so much as classist. It just so happens that we have a very but not exclusive racial disparity when it comes to social class in this country.
As long as the government fully subsidizes identification cards for the entire populace, makes them non mandatory, and gives a legally-protected full day's floating vacation to be used to procure and update said cards, then i really have no problem with voter ID.
Right, thus my quotes. This is the reason I enjoy to gamble!
Maybe *I* will be the guy who is there when two six sided dice roll an '8' 10 times in a row. Maybe I will see a lot more blackjacks than I statistically should during a 3 day trip to Vegas.
You won't make a living off of it, but it's a satisfying hobby with good people, and you don't have to put in world champion hours to win money and have fun.
Not really. Scrabble Players buy in to tournaments like poker players. There is no 'house' rake, but oftentimes money is taken out for things like renting a hotel ballroom to or catering the event.
Add on top of that the amount of variance in Scrabble, and you're really not likely to make a consistent living unless you are *very* frugal.
I mean there is Nigel Richards, who undoubtedly the best player the game has ever seen, and he's 'only' won $200,000 since 1997: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If we got some sponsorship money in the game, then sure, but not until then -- we're just trading money around in the community.
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Man-Man sex and Abortion (and meaningful gun control) are all settled issues barring a constitutional amendment, so I urge anyone not to vote on the basis of these issues, because they aren't changing anytime soon.
I'm a pretty typical American liberal in the sense that I am pro-choice, pro marriage equality, and fuck if I wouldn't like to round up all the guns and throw them in the sewer. But it's not going to happen, so I would happily vote for someone who opposed all of these things if they were in favor of single payer healthcare or fucking over this Treaty, or something else achievable that I'd like to see fixed.
Even better, you can send Christians into a murderous rage by submerging a crucifix of Jesus Christ in urine.
Oh, wait. No you wouldn't.
he work was vandalized at the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia, and gallery officials reported receiving death threats in response to Piss Christ.[15]
?????
Those companies did a lot of stuff right though, that couldn't be had anywhere else. This is like saying people don't want an open source Photoshop alternative because look at the GIMPs adoption rate. People *would* like that, but they aren't willing to wade through the GIMPs shortcomings in order to make a political statement.
I think you're kidding yourself if you don't think there would be a market for an open tablet/smartphone with iPhone level hardware design and a polished OS to match. They just aren't going to put up with unpolished clunky UIs in order to not be tracked and monetized, which is sad, but I understand it.
Oh, people would pay for them if there was no alternative in the app store. This is kind of what I'm hoping to happen -- adblocking kills that industry, and people can start charging real money for software again. More money in my industry (software development), and a better user experience. I'd really have no issue spending $5-$50 for most of the apps on my phone if they aren't showing me ads or tracking me, and having them compete on features.
Until that day comes I have no problem blocking ads to do my part to kill this monster.
I'm not even going to enter the 'is a sport'/'is not a sport' argument, the problem I see is lack of historical consistancy.
Basketball, Chess, Hockey, rugby and rowing all exist throughout the decades with minor rules tweaks at most. Will students in 20 years still be joining LoL club? Or playing some other video game?
I mean good on them, but this means about as much as having a rollerblade club in 1990. Maybe some colleges did and had races and then the fad died any they stopped.
Can I port my Adblock Plus Element Hiding Rules into uBlock? And does it have a similar element hiding helper?
Thank you. I'd already purchased this and just got the refund for it. Total dishonest bait and switch maneuver.
The sad part is that I'd really throw down 10, 20, maybe 50 bucks for a well developed ad blocker that really was on my side in this fight and went out of its way to ad new features / combat the ad companies. It doesn't have to be 99 cents, iOS developers -- if you need more money, raise the price, a lot of us will still pay if you deliver a high quality solution.
such as?
What's to say I didn't "suddenly" have 5 million uniques the week a high-paying advertiser decides to buy ad space? That's what the javascript portions of ads were supposed to do; simply certify visitors were real. I understand that a good portion of networks abused that trust. But it wasn't always like that.
I really appreciate your interesting and detailed take on this topic. I think the answer here is that the advertiser needs to do the research themselves, because they are frankly not entitled to this information by tracking my computer.
The example I like to give is a print newspaper or magazine. The New York Times is able to sell its ad space based on circulation -- and some weeks things might be slow and there might be tens of thousands of copies left unsold on newsstands, and other weeks there might be a terrorist attack where every copy of the paper sells out.
I think websites should do the same, sell local ad space based on average traffic over a window of time. If your site blows up into some megasite -- renegotiate your ad rates the next time they come up.
Paxil got me out of the house when I was 24, bumming around playing WoW in depression with while my girlfriend worked after my mom died.
The tapering off was a bitch though, but I'm super grateful for it. Stopped having panic attacks and anxiety, built a career in software that fulfills me 10 years later.
Would a placebo have worked the same or even better? Quite possibly.
This is more like a modern-day peeping Tom placing upwards facing upskirts camera on the **very** edge of his own property where his grass meets the sidewalk.
ugh, proofreading:
They were *NOT* using perfect invasive metrics....
This seems like a non-issue to me? How did they come to trust the New York Times or Des Moines' hot rock 104.5 or Sports Illustrated when they were selling ad space in 1975?
They ran surveys, demographic groups, advertised their circulation, right? They were using perfect invasive metrics that tracked every impression and conversion, and yet, the ad space sold and the world kept turning.
They should just go back to doing that. Why is it that they will trust Sports Illustrated's circulation numbers but not ESPN.COMs?
I play (intermediate level) competitive scrabble and this is how my wife and friends handicap me if we want to play at home. Frankly I don't mind it -- as a mere mortal without Nigel's photographic memory, it helps me a lot to keep the funky words memorized if I actually learn what they mean. Plus, learning that something is a noun vs a verb makes it a lot easier to infer if you can stick an S or ING or whatever on it.
However, I've found that people still passive aggressively rage when you're beating them by 200 points and explain that AA is a type of lava or that ZA is just shitty slang for pizza that no one actually uses, so it is an imperfect solution....
Tournament Scrabble player here (much worse than Nigel, lol): LEARNT is a valid scrabble word string.
You keep saying these things, but remain unable to explain, why these very same racist police do not treat Asians just as badly as they (supposedly) do Blacks
Because they are racist specifically against black people, you thick moron. They are not Racist Robots out to treat anyone with non-white skin equally poorly.
Interesting. I wonder how easy it would be to prove intent to defraud, short of someone who is financially fucked just buying a bunch of stuff right before bankruptcy.
It seems like if you strung along nominal payments for a while, and really truly were financially fucked, you could show intent to make repayment and that it just overwhelmed you.
Brilliantly fraudulent. It is illegal to take credit when you intend not to pay it back.
Under what law?
I would argue it's not theft, and that the credit card company should have done its due diligence before lending money to him. It's not his fault that they made a bad investment in his loan.
It sucks but morons, on all sides, are entitled to their vote too. Wishing otherwise strikes is kind of unrealistic like magicking away religion in order to make the world more peaceful tomorrow. Sure, it would work, and maybe it will happen in the Star Trek future if we ever get there, but it's really neither here nor there for the real, actual world that we are all going to live and die in.
I think the best solution to it is compulsory voting (with a 'no preference' option, of course) so at least all of the poor morons with no GED will hopefully balance out the rich morons who have a high school level education but are exactly as susceptible to convincing liars nonetheless...
I only mean non-mandatory in the 'government can't penalize you for choosing not to participate' sense. I'm perfectly fine with making them mandatory for voting itself, that would be the point.
I do think it is a bit of a solution looking for a problem (there is very little actual voter fraud going on from people without indentification, especially when compared to bigger voting issues like gerrymandering) but really I have no issue with mandatory voter ID -- you just need to severely over-engineer the solution to ensure it's not a burden on those in society with the least time/money/options/eduction.
Not racist so much as classist. It just so happens that we have a very but not exclusive racial disparity when it comes to social class in this country.
As long as the government fully subsidizes identification cards for the entire populace, makes them non mandatory, and gives a legally-protected full day's floating vacation to be used to procure and update said cards, then i really have no problem with voter ID.
Right, thus my quotes. This is the reason I enjoy to gamble!
Maybe *I* will be the guy who is there when two six sided dice roll an '8' 10 times in a row. Maybe I will see a lot more blackjacks than I statistically should during a 3 day trip to Vegas.
You should come to some tournaments! We're a small community but always in need of new blood.
http://www.cross-tables.com/
You won't make a living off of it, but it's a satisfying hobby with good people, and you don't have to put in world champion hours to win money and have fun.
Not really. Scrabble Players buy in to tournaments like poker players. There is no 'house' rake, but oftentimes money is taken out for things like renting a hotel ballroom to or catering the event.
Add on top of that the amount of variance in Scrabble, and you're really not likely to make a consistent living unless you are *very* frugal.
I mean there is Nigel Richards, who undoubtedly the best player the game has ever seen, and he's 'only' won $200,000 since 1997: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If we got some sponsorship money in the game, then sure, but not until then -- we're just trading money around in the community.