The thing is, Firefox prohibits one of the most basic customizations:
You can't set the default new-tab page to be your own custom html file on your local disk.
They claim that it has something to do with security.
A better guess is that they want to control your access so they can serve advertising and customization suggestions.
I spent a few weeks in Vietnam this Winter.
Free enterprise was rampant.
The economy seemed to be doing very well.
On average, the people were happy. Probably happier than the average American.
I didn't see the desperate poverty that is common in third-world countries.
I didn't see beggars like you'd see in most third world countries and large American cities.
However, they apparently still punish people for thought crimes (As they do in Thailand, for
example, for saying bad things about the King, or in other countries for saying
bad things about their invisible superbeing in the sky).
So I probably won't be going back unless that changes.
See:
https://www.express.co.uk/news...
"SCIENTISTS have concluded a spike in banned chemicals which threatens to cause fresh damage to the ozone layer can be traced to badly recycled air conditioning units and fridges in China."
The reason for the spike is that 19/20 of the calls to my phone are spam.
You'd think the NSA could use this info to track down and terminate the spammers with extreme prejudice.
Define "Happy". I don't see lots of happy people in airports waiting an hour for a 90 minute flight.
Sure, there are a few people that use mass transit because they typically don't have a better alternative.
But there are many, many more people who have tried mass transit and discovered that they could get to their destination faster by car, even if they sit in traffic for 30 minutes. Typically because they don't have a better alternative.
The real selling point would be to make transit more efficient, and thus offer a better alternative.
The real selling point of Musk's plan was not the speed, but the plan to eliminate wait times and the first/last mile.
Especially for short-haul mass transit, there's not much benefit to traveling at 1 billion KPH when you have to wait for 15-30 minutes to catch a train.
An optimal system allows you to:
* Ride from your house to a local transit hub in your small electric pod
* Get bundled into a meta-pod and zipped off to your destination transit hub with low delay
* Ride (or walk) a short distance from the destination hub to your final destination
Creating a train that goes 600 MPH is a small part of this.
Sounds perfect for me.
I've been looking for a place with high tech jobs and good windsurfing and kiteboarding.
Last time I checked, tough, NZ didn't have any chip design jobs.
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The thing is, Firefox prohibits one of the most basic customizations: You can't set the default new-tab page to be your own custom html file on your local disk. They claim that it has something to do with security. A better guess is that they want to control your access so they can serve advertising and customization suggestions.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Useful and amusing to find a random group of 3 words that locates you house.
https://ai.googleblog.com/2015...
I spent a few weeks in Vietnam this Winter. Free enterprise was rampant. The economy seemed to be doing very well. On average, the people were happy. Probably happier than the average American. I didn't see the desperate poverty that is common in third-world countries. I didn't see beggars like you'd see in most third world countries and large American cities. However, they apparently still punish people for thought crimes (As they do in Thailand, for example, for saying bad things about the King, or in other countries for saying bad things about their invisible superbeing in the sky). So I probably won't be going back unless that changes.
See: https://www.express.co.uk/news... "SCIENTISTS have concluded a spike in banned chemicals which threatens to cause fresh damage to the ozone layer can be traced to badly recycled air conditioning units and fridges in China."
The reason for the spike is that 19/20 of the calls to my phone are spam. You'd think the NSA could use this info to track down and terminate the spammers with extreme prejudice.
Define "Happy". I don't see lots of happy people in airports waiting an hour for a 90 minute flight. Sure, there are a few people that use mass transit because they typically don't have a better alternative. But there are many, many more people who have tried mass transit and discovered that they could get to their destination faster by car, even if they sit in traffic for 30 minutes. Typically because they don't have a better alternative. The real selling point would be to make transit more efficient, and thus offer a better alternative.
The real selling point of Musk's plan was not the speed, but the plan to eliminate wait times and the first/last mile. Especially for short-haul mass transit, there's not much benefit to traveling at 1 billion KPH when you have to wait for 15-30 minutes to catch a train. An optimal system allows you to:
* Ride from your house to a local transit hub in your small electric pod
* Get bundled into a meta-pod and zipped off to your destination transit hub with low delay
* Ride (or walk) a short distance from the destination hub to your final destination
Creating a train that goes 600 MPH is a small part of this.
Sounds perfect for me. I've been looking for a place with high tech jobs and good windsurfing and kiteboarding. Last time I checked, tough, NZ didn't have any chip design jobs.