Not indicating paid advertisements as such is unacceptable.
They indicate sponsored ads, but do so by using a small, grey banner (not much darker than the background white) right below the product name. It's underhanded, but in terms of internet sponsored ads/content sadly par for the course. The issue is inserting them into what are essentially private lists. That's where the line has been crossed. If they want to have at the bottom of the list a clearly demarcated section of "related" or "suggested" products, fine, but paid listings should not be interspersed through the list.
I avoid loud restaurants; I'm sure I'm not the only one. They may look nice, and maybe their looks attract more people than their loudness scares off; but, I do take note if a place is too loud and I don't return- so there is a downside to being loud, they do lose some customers... unless I'm just a unique freak.
Plus, those loud trendy places (like the kind of place that would use a refurbed fire station) tend to have food that is, while decent, also usually over-priced and proportionately small. If I'm eating it's because I don't want to cook (unless I'm eating korean bbq) or want something I can't cook/cook well, and since I know eating out is always more expensive than cooking at home, I want my money's worth. So I stay away from loud trendy places (bonus points for not having to deal with a server with a handlebar pushing their latest offering of seasonal microbrews with ironic or pun filled names) anyway.
You CAN'T ask a government to "solve your problems" and unless you want that government to suppress you.
That's precisely the role of government, though: solve your problems. There are many problems that are impracticable or inefficient for individuals to solve, so government steps in. The government is also expected to solve these problems in ways that benefit the whole. In some cases those solutions may be suboptimal for some individuals, but those individuals still benefit indirectly as society as a whole benefits. The issues arise when government abdicates its duty to the whole and enacts solutions that benefit an individual(s). That's where you get oppression, suppression, cronyism, corruption, despotism, autocratism, and good ol' fashioned modern American politics.
Has Google given any thought to what eliminating mosquitoes does to the food chain? Bats eat them. Some birds eat them. I'd guess that spiders eat them. What happens to the creatures who have a (potentially) major source of their food just disappear?
There are 3500 known species of mosquito. This plan is going after aedes aegypti, which feeds primarily on humans. Most other species of mosquitos (many of whom cohabitate with aedes aegypti) do not feed on humans. The food chain will do just fine with 3499 species instead of 3500.
if you don't want your brain pumped full of advertisements just don't walk into the advertising zones.
Now if you'll excuse me it's time for a smoke and a shot of popsi. Ah, the circle of consumption...
Leela: "Didn't you have ads in the 21st century?"
Fry: "Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games... and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams, no siree."
Most prisons already are for profit. That's why they are all overcrowded, spend $1per prisoner per meal, and we lock people up for more and more minor crimes for longer.
Get a bill from a regular supplier with a different payment location? Call them with the phone number you have on file (not the one in the email), to confirm the new details. Will stop that phishing right there.
Hell, I keep a knife in my car with builtin seatbelt cutter and window breaker. You never know when you will be in/witness a wreck and need to get yourself/someone out of a car quick and the doors/seatbelt are jamned
Oh good, India's Nationalists are not only bribing voters but doing so in a way that they can keep can keep an eye on them.
Heaven help their minorities with this kind of nationalist bullshit.
Can the 'Oh the poor Muslim "minorities" are targeted' crap.
It's not just Muslims that are targeted by the BJP. Dalits are a favorite target as well. Heaven forbid you get caught by a "cow protection group" transporting a cow you just bought to add to your farm. They assume you are going to butcher it, so they butcher you. And they have the tacit and sometimes explicit permission from the BJP to do so. Don't forget that there is a minority population of Christians as well. If the Hindu nationalists get their way, Indian Christians will be a target as well.
If only there was someone in charge who had a friendly acting attorney general and could direct him to open up a Justice Department investigation into Clinton...
Last I checked, every senior government position is "voluntary". Any of then can resign at any time. Ivanka has still been acting in official capacities, even if she doesn't have an official title or office.
The American taxpayer should never be in the business of enriching for profit companies. Those companies should be required to sell to the US at cost + a % of overhead provided they meet deadlines and cost estimation projections. It's unfair and totally prone to abuse for for-profit companies to make profit off of taxpayers. We need to end corporate subsidies and return to the era of a separation of state and corporations. Companies are not people. Until Texas executes a company, they're not alive.
OK, so the parent company and final supplier creates independent subsidiaries to provide them with components/base materials at inflated costs, the proceeds of which are funneled back to the parent through licensing deals. Or are you going to enforce that all levels of the chain, and anyone dealing with a company involved in a government contract, work at cost-plus.
Anyone with sense limits the amount of money in their ATM / online banking accessible account to a small amount, like 15-20k, unless a large purchase is coming. This is a simple way to protect yourself.
The majority of people in the US don't even have enough liquid money to afford a $1000 emergency and you think 15-20k is a small amount?
It's also that as people move on or progress up the chain of command, you have new people taking over or joining the group that want to add new things or features. Because you don't get promoted by maintaining, you get promoted by creating or bringing in customers or revenue. Plus maintaining something is boring. So you inevitably get bloat as people just keep throwing on more and more.
The F-35's Greatest Vulnerability Isn't Enemy Weapons. It's Being Hacked.
Although we should not discount the danger of such hacks, I doubt, it is the greatest vulnerability of the weapon.
TFA goes to great length explaining the potential dangers, but offers no justification for using "the greatest" in the title... Seems like a cheap sensationalism...
Right now the biggest danger to the F-35 fleet are pilots passing out due to oxygen flow issues.
The University of YouTube still delivers excellent education on a wide variety of subjects
I'm currently watching card magic tutorials, but in the past I've watched..
Graduate-level physicsWeldingKnifemaking
Glassblowing
Gunsmithing
And many more
I prefer learning over most "entertainment"
And that combination's probably got you on some terror watchlist somewhere, too
A radio announcer promoting products and reading advertising is far from anything new. Unless you were born in the last decade and wasn't aware of radio(A type of podcast broadcasted wirelessly to radios(old school iPodlike devices which didn't hold music internally, but rather "streamed" it wirelessly)).
This was my thought. Especially back in the pre-tv days wasn't just about every program sponsored by a company/product and it would be announced both before and during the broadcast? This is like being shocked that celebrities don't actually use the products they endorse/advertise (for example, ever notice that, in all those Sprite commercials he does, you never see Lebron actually drink?).
2) I have seen this stuff play out in the corporate world. His staff will have to go buy new Android phones; but its not like Apple loses anything on the phones they have already sold those users; or any of their cut on the apps those users already bought. Meanwhile Mark's anger will at some point find a new target. At which point most of those people will go back to their preferred device. They may even end up buying a new one having given their old one away to friends or family (there by bringing some new people into the apple fold) and increasing Apples sales even more.
Zuck is being short sighted and stupid here.
It wasn't everyone, it was just executives who most likely have two phones: a personal phone and a work issued phone . Zuckerberg simply ordered them to change their work phone to Android. They could still keep their personal phones which were most likely iPhones. In fact, the link article even states that tweets from the accounts of executives still showed them using iPhones. It's not really that big of a deal, corporations switch all the time-my company switched from Blackberries to iPhones a few years ago.
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Not indicating paid advertisements as such is unacceptable.
They indicate sponsored ads, but do so by using a small, grey banner (not much darker than the background white) right below the product name. It's underhanded, but in terms of internet sponsored ads/content sadly par for the course. The issue is inserting them into what are essentially private lists. That's where the line has been crossed. If they want to have at the bottom of the list a clearly demarcated section of "related" or "suggested" products, fine, but paid listings should not be interspersed through the list.
I avoid loud restaurants; I'm sure I'm not the only one. They may look nice, and maybe their looks attract more people than their loudness scares off; but, I do take note if a place is too loud and I don't return- so there is a downside to being loud, they do lose some customers... unless I'm just a unique freak.
Plus, those loud trendy places (like the kind of place that would use a refurbed fire station) tend to have food that is, while decent, also usually over-priced and proportionately small. If I'm eating it's because I don't want to cook (unless I'm eating korean bbq) or want something I can't cook/cook well, and since I know eating out is always more expensive than cooking at home, I want my money's worth. So I stay away from loud trendy places (bonus points for not having to deal with a server with a handlebar pushing their latest offering of seasonal microbrews with ironic or pun filled names) anyway.
You CAN'T ask a government to "solve your problems" and unless you want that government to suppress you.
That's precisely the role of government, though: solve your problems. There are many problems that are impracticable or inefficient for individuals to solve, so government steps in. The government is also expected to solve these problems in ways that benefit the whole. In some cases those solutions may be suboptimal for some individuals, but those individuals still benefit indirectly as society as a whole benefits. The issues arise when government abdicates its duty to the whole and enacts solutions that benefit an individual(s). That's where you get oppression, suppression, cronyism, corruption, despotism, autocratism, and good ol' fashioned modern American politics.
South Parks anime rip looked pretty good.
Has Google given any thought to what eliminating mosquitoes does to the food chain? Bats eat them. Some birds eat them. I'd guess that spiders eat them. What happens to the creatures who have a (potentially) major source of their food just disappear?
There are 3500 known species of mosquito. This plan is going after aedes aegypti, which feeds primarily on humans. Most other species of mosquitos (many of whom cohabitate with aedes aegypti) do not feed on humans. The food chain will do just fine with 3499 species instead of 3500.
if you don't want your brain pumped full of advertisements just don't walk into the advertising zones. Now if you'll excuse me it's time for a smoke and a shot of popsi. Ah, the circle of consumption...
Leela: "Didn't you have ads in the 21st century?"
Fry: "Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games... and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams, no siree."
Most prisons already are for profit. That's why they are all overcrowded, spend $1per prisoner per meal, and we lock people up for more and more minor crimes for longer.
Get a bill from a regular supplier with a different payment location? Call them with the phone number you have on file (not the one in the email), to confirm the new details. Will stop that phishing right there.
Hell, I keep a knife in my car with builtin seatbelt cutter and window breaker. You never know when you will be in/witness a wreck and need to get yourself/someone out of a car quick and the doors/seatbelt are jamned
Oh good, India's Nationalists are not only bribing voters but doing so in a way that they can keep can keep an eye on them.
Heaven help their minorities with this kind of nationalist bullshit.
Can the 'Oh the poor Muslim "minorities" are targeted' crap.
It's not just Muslims that are targeted by the BJP. Dalits are a favorite target as well. Heaven forbid you get caught by a "cow protection group" transporting a cow you just bought to add to your farm. They assume you are going to butcher it, so they butcher you. And they have the tacit and sometimes explicit permission from the BJP to do so. Don't forget that there is a minority population of Christians as well. If the Hindu nationalists get their way, Indian Christians will be a target as well.
some Instagram accounts are making serious money (> $10,000 per post) according to a story on Wired (may be paywalled, sorry).
Even money those accounts are some of the ones most heavily engaged in purchasing likes/followers/etc.
If only there was someone in charge who had a friendly acting attorney general and could direct him to open up a Justice Department investigation into Clinton...
Last I checked, every senior government position is "voluntary". Any of then can resign at any time. Ivanka has still been acting in official capacities, even if she doesn't have an official title or office.
The American taxpayer should never be in the business of enriching for profit companies. Those companies should be required to sell to the US at cost + a % of overhead provided they meet deadlines and cost estimation projections. It's unfair and totally prone to abuse for for-profit companies to make profit off of taxpayers. We need to end corporate subsidies and return to the era of a separation of state and corporations. Companies are not people. Until Texas executes a company, they're not alive.
OK, so the parent company and final supplier creates independent subsidiaries to provide them with components/base materials at inflated costs, the proceeds of which are funneled back to the parent through licensing deals. Or are you going to enforce that all levels of the chain, and anyone dealing with a company involved in a government contract, work at cost-plus.
While the Hellmouth is in California, everyone knows it's not in SFO.
will uber blacklist drivers who sell them? force them to sell though the uber app?
Why? This proves they're contractors. Normal employees would get fired if they tried to do a side job on the clock.
Anyone with sense limits the amount of money in their ATM / online banking accessible account to a small amount, like 15-20k, unless a large purchase is coming. This is a simple way to protect yourself.
The majority of people in the US don't even have enough liquid money to afford a $1000 emergency and you think 15-20k is a small amount?
What kind of company has a GDP?
It's only a matter of time before you get Fiji Apple or Amazon Brazil. They'll have to do something with their endless pools of cash.
It's also that as people move on or progress up the chain of command, you have new people taking over or joining the group that want to add new things or features. Because you don't get promoted by maintaining, you get promoted by creating or bringing in customers or revenue. Plus maintaining something is boring. So you inevitably get bloat as people just keep throwing on more and more.
Although we should not discount the danger of such hacks, I doubt, it is the greatest vulnerability of the weapon.
TFA goes to great length explaining the potential dangers, but offers no justification for using "the greatest" in the title... Seems like a cheap sensationalism...
Right now the biggest danger to the F-35 fleet are pilots passing out due to oxygen flow issues.
The University of YouTube still delivers excellent education on a wide variety of subjects I'm currently watching card magic tutorials, but in the past I've watched ..
Graduate-level physics Welding Knifemaking Glassblowing Gunsmithing And many more
I prefer learning over most "entertainment"
And that combination's probably got you on some terror watchlist somewhere, too
A radio announcer promoting products and reading advertising is far from anything new. Unless you were born in the last decade and wasn't aware of radio(A type of podcast broadcasted wirelessly to radios(old school iPodlike devices which didn't hold music internally, but rather "streamed" it wirelessly)).
This was my thought. Especially back in the pre-tv days wasn't just about every program sponsored by a company/product and it would be announced both before and during the broadcast? This is like being shocked that celebrities don't actually use the products they endorse/advertise (for example, ever notice that, in all those Sprite commercials he does, you never see Lebron actually drink?).
2) I have seen this stuff play out in the corporate world. His staff will have to go buy new Android phones; but its not like Apple loses anything on the phones they have already sold those users; or any of their cut on the apps those users already bought. Meanwhile Mark's anger will at some point find a new target. At which point most of those people will go back to their preferred device. They may even end up buying a new one having given their old one away to friends or family (there by bringing some new people into the apple fold) and increasing Apples sales even more.
Zuck is being short sighted and stupid here.
It wasn't everyone, it was just executives who most likely have two phones: a personal phone and a work issued phone . Zuckerberg simply ordered them to change their work phone to Android. They could still keep their personal phones which were most likely iPhones. In fact, the link article even states that tweets from the accounts of executives still showed them using iPhones. It's not really that big of a deal, corporations switch all the time-my company switched from Blackberries to iPhones a few years ago.
Which means Facebook employees have to use the Facebook App for Android, right? Maybe this will motivate them to fix it.
Like most drug dealers, I would assume many Facebook employees don't use their own product.
I just want graphics cards to be reasonably priced again