A chinese friend recently complained to me that while life in china has gotten good, and wages not that far from what he was making when he was working in spain, so has the rent, cost of living etc and now manufacturers are picking up and moving to factories in India, the Philipines and Africa.
Welcome to the first world China. Might I suggest leaning on your government to get some sort of welfare thing going, now that you've made it, all the jobs are going bye bye.
In Australia, "STAN" (Local Netflix clone with a lot of reality TV junk, but a pretty great movie selection), got the rights to the disney catalogue, and honestly, it kept me entertained for all of about 2 weeks aand then nothing. I've seen all the marvel and star wars films, multiple times. The only Marvel TV shows worth watching belong to Netflix and got murdered by corporate suits. And theres a few decent non-genre films. But beyond that, there just isn't enough content to make a streaming service out of.
Ehh.... its not the end of the world. Most of the other platforms work this way, so Artists generally sign up with a service like CD Baby which handles all that for a one off fee of , like $50 or whatever for all platforms. So most independent artists would already have an account with a third party provider to get their stuff on iTunes, amazon, etc. For most indy musicians they won't even notice this one.
And that minoritywho are affected , probably didn't actually realise there was services that could get them on iTunes, amazon, etc.
Apple is not going into bankerupcy any time soon lol. Even if apple completely shut its operations but kept everyone on the payroll and kept paying its rent it could survive for decades simply on cash in hand. It's a company with astronomical wealth
Um. No. Before Bandcamp and Facebook, MySpace was *the* social network used by musicians for promotion and putting out music. Sure it was an absolute crime against good taste, but it was where you had to be. Shit, towards the end, if you didn't have a bunch of thousand followers, no bar would give you a gig (Guess where the "Buy likes" industry came from). It was a horrible system, BUT, there was a lot of important music from bands that had finished so never set up a bandcamp, soundcloud or facebook account. And now its gone. Millions of songs from bands around the world.
Its a modern day burning of the Alexandria Library, A lot of history just got killed.
An old friend of mine who had always been a bit gullible , when his father was sick from Melanoma, convinced his father to stop the chemo and radiotherapy and instead start on "miracle minerals", aka drinking bleach. The poor old guy died in incredible agony , and its not clear it was the cancer that got him in the end, as he died of liver failure, a common outcome of drinking bleach.
Last thing I heard he had nearly hospitalized his wife in a beating beause she had their todler vaccinated.
These beliefs can destroy peoples lifes. And we can pontificate all we want about these hypothetical scenarios , but the material circumstances in front of our eyes are people being convinced of dangerously stupid ideas leading to horrific outcomes.
Do yourself a favor and do a google image search on Black Salve injuries, then come back and tell me if you think civil society should not intervene
They've crafted their arguments so that warmer temperatures are evidence of global warming, and cooler temperatures are also evidence of global warming.
Why do you want them to lie? The science is very simple, observable and repeatable. Energy enters the system and warms air. The heat , following very basic and predictable thermodynamic increases the differential between high and low pressure regions, and thus thermal energy is converted to kinetic energy. Again, as predicted with simple high school level physics. You get storms. Storms give you cold regions, as any child can tell you.
Why keep asking for evidence. There are tens of thousands of extensive studies, hundreds of thousands of papers. Millions of hours of work.
The evidence is so conclusive, and it has been conclusive since the 1800s when scientists first worked out what was going on when they realised CO2 created banding in the IR spectra and started warning that the industrial era, at the time in its full coal belching swing could create rises of 4 or 5 degrees over time. 150 years later those earliest models have been shown to be somewhat accurate, and as more discoveries have come on line , importantly from ice cores, tree ring studies and geological studies, observational evidence and physics have lined up to provide a picture of a future with extreme highs and lows and vastly more turbulent climate and acidified ocean.
You can be skeptical, but it doesn't matter, the laws of physics don't care about your opinion, because science is not a democracy. Its up to you if you want to be deluded. The earth isn't flat. Vaccines wont give you autism, evolution is real and the climate is warming, and those facts are utterly independent and indifferent to your personal whacky belief system.
Because New Zealand has records going back hundreds of years, eh?
Correct..
Written records going back to the 1700s, physical evidence from Tree ring samples going back over a thouand years, geological records going back millions.
Can you imagine a world where you had to actually have some first-hand knowledge of something before you could express an opinion?
How is this relevant?
If you haven't seen the film, you have no business leaving a review. People rely on Rotten Tomatoes for reviews of films. If the reviews are being spammed by gibberish non-reviews by weirdos pushing a political agenda on a movie review site, then they stop being useful.
The only real surprise is this should have been the policy from day one. Because *of course* this sort of shit should be banned.
Ok. Genuine curiosity. I thought Fermions and Bosons refered to elemental particles and quasiparticles in the standard model. But these are Atoms, a large (by comparison) structures comprised of subatomic particles.
Am I missing something fundamental here? I'm sure I am, but I'm failing to understand it.
...have no problem collecting 100% of the ad money. They will still run the ad and bill for it, it's just a new way to stiff you out of the money.
Your making a critical mistake in understanding this. Youtube viewers are not the consumer. Youtube viewers are the product. Your eyeballs , watching youtube advertisements are what is sold to the real consumer, Youtube Advertisers.
This is true of almost all entertainment economies since we first learned to reproduce performance with the advent of the printing press.
But the only difference between a Bribe and a campaign competition, is you just have to tell people you accepted the contribution and its all hunky dory.
Yep. I suffered terrible Anemia a couple of years back due to an undiagnosed internal hemorage from an ulcer. Twice I had been taken in , in a stretcher, and twice I refused blood infusions and went for the iron infusion instead (Which actually work really well).
In my view the risks just where not worth it. If the Anemia was much worse, I might not have had a choice in it, but at that point I was still within range that an Iron infusion was sufficient.
I think this is why Defenders never really hit the mark as well as the individual character shows did. You didn't really get to spend the time with the individual characters, and while it did have a few great things (The interactions between Rand and Cage where a great callback to the Heroes for Hire comics) it lacked the real local feel of the others. It was an epic world-ender scenario with a magical foe and the stuff that makes the movies fun, but the movies are fun because its the massive overkill cinema experience where you leave your brain at the door and just enjoy Iron man punching bad guys heads off. What makes the Netflix shows work is the local scale of things, the personal peril and the neighborhood, and Defenders just didn't feel like that. Frankly the final battle against the hand and the stakes involved is the kind of thing where the Avengers ought have swooped in and said 'Thanks for holding the fort kids, but this is a job for the big green guy. By the way, Luke, you need to send us your resume. The rest of you, keep being you!". It was just the wrong scale for Netflix.
Jon Bernthal was amazing. An absolute fireball of rage and violence but still able to portray a character that at heart is big hearted lonely guy who just wants to protect people , even if by means of killing everything that moves. It can't be easy to make such a contradictory character believable let alone relatable
Punisher was fantastic for both seasons. Jessica Jones first season was amazing, but the second season while not BAD just wasnt the same,largely down to the villain. Daredevil was predictably pretty good but never quite gripped me. Iron man, terrible first season, fantastic second season.
Luke cage was my man. I frigging loved everything about those two seasons and I'm sad it had to end. It really felt like there was more of that story to tell (Particularly with the semi-cliffhanger S2 ends up in with Cage compromised and potentially falling from grace)
Regardless, I would love to see Cage brought into the broader MCU. A Black Panther/Luke Cage buddy film would be amazing. You could picture it. Danny Rand introduces his friend Cage to his new Billionaire buddy Black Panther, the two hit it off, with Panther thinking Cage would be good to have on staff for his US outreach. Then the big bad happens and the two of them go off to save the world. I'd watch the *shit* out of that.
I've seen two that where off out of a whole tonne of them. One was a small girl who had what looked like a bullet hole in her forehead. Or some sort of obvious puncture wound. Weird.
The other was a woman on a side profile and one of her eyes was distorted and blured out in a strange way, and her nose was wrong. But it was the only one I saw with a side profile so presumably the algorithm is less well trained on those.
God knows where the bullet hole girl came from though.
This does seem to be something American and Euro/Australian courts kind of differ on a bit.
By definitions, a Contract isn't the piece of paper an agreement is written on, its the agreement itself. The piece of paper is just the evidence for that agreement. This might seem trivial but its an important concept to remember when interpreting a contract document. Many judges in Australian and Europe have basically said that EULAs and Contracts with incomprehensivel or contradictory terms are unenforcable because theres no proof that THAT was the ACTUAL agreement both parties went into with full knowledge, unless its made abundantly clear to the person signing it what that ball of latin and capital letters actually means. This is particularly the case when the advertising text is "Purchase this product and you'll also get YYY" and the fine text i, in latin, and 3 point font is "YYY offer is only valid for north pole residents named Santa Klaus".
Unfortunately there seems to be a lot of cases in the US where its abundantly obvious the plantif couldn't possibly have understood the fine print, and yet the agreement is still held valid.
It's probably also worth noting OpenColorIO has been open sourced for a very long time. The ACTUAL story is that SONY are handing it over to community management
It's reasonably well understood because in essence it's just basic thermodynamics. You add energy to a weather system and there's some things could happen 1) thermal: ocean warm up 2) thermal: atmosphere warms up 3) weather and tidal behaviour gets more kinetic. 4) some combination of the above
4 is the correct answer , of course , the question in the air is how that combination plays out. Will we get the 4+ Celsius rise (4 is optimistic but political pressures have tended to force scientists to understate risks) or do we get the hurricanes, flooding , polar vortexes and the like. That's where the bulk of the research is going
Those questions are the real focus of research. Calculating Co2 is largely rudimentary math although the clathrate problem exasperates uncertainty for the worse. Once we know what that energy contribution is likely to be the next stage is the harder part. Working out if we melt, drown or both
Its hard to really answer these without having access to the paper. One has to assume the actual paper itself is a bit more careful in its wording.
But often these studies have to be taken as part of a bigger picture when translated into policy simply because accounting for all variables is statistically hard. Differentiating cause , correlation and effect can be hard work! How many of these surgeries are on Cancer patients who are going to die regardless of the surgery. Often those surgeries are simply meant to ease suffering (Ie if a tumor is pressing up on a nerve bundle or causing painful breathing). Chemo is notorious for this. It absolutely is somewhat poisonous to the body, its how the stuff works (remember folks Cancer is made of people!) , its also the best treatment we have to fighting the damn disease.
People often die as a result of chemotherapy side effects. But is it strictly the chemo, is the cancer itself making the side effects worse? Theres an awful juggle of priorities and probabilities a oncologist and patient have to make in evaluating these things that strikes deep into the heart of medical ethics. Is it right to shorten a life to ease pain? Is withdrawing medication actively or merely passively contributing to death? How much autonomy should the patient have. Can a doctor refuse to give medications he feel are counterproductive to the doctors particular priority or set of ethics.
Nothing is easy in medical decision making, and nothing is easy in medical statistics. Humans are insanely complicated machines. So many variables, and so many ways to interpret them.
Over heavy Javascript wasn't that uncommon back then, although sometimes it was vbScript (Which i rarely saw since Netscape Navigator didnt support it)..
The major things that jump out to me. 1) The JS was almost always inline (I still actually do this. Honestly sometimes throwing the glue script at the end just makes more sense). 2) Div layouts. Back then Table layouts where the norm. Partly because after netscape introduced Div layers, the implementation was confusing as hell and inconsistent across versions 3) CSS. CSS was rare as hell. Things mostly used inline attributes. 4) Wheres the Marquee and Blink tags!!? 5) Needs more jeffk!!!!!!111one
The gif stuff actually was pretty common, and generally irritating as hell, and lead to some stupidly long load times. You kind of developed a habit of learning to read a page as it loaded then.
But yeah,,the design, rings pretty true to me. I'm getting a giggle out of it, so mission accomplished.
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A chinese friend recently complained to me that while life in china has gotten good, and wages not that far from what he was making when he was working in spain, so has the rent, cost of living etc and now manufacturers are picking up and moving to factories in India, the Philipines and Africa.
Welcome to the first world China. Might I suggest leaning on your government to get some sort of welfare thing going, now that you've made it, all the jobs are going bye bye.
In Australia, "STAN" (Local Netflix clone with a lot of reality TV junk, but a pretty great movie selection), got the rights to the disney catalogue, and honestly, it kept me entertained for all of about 2 weeks aand then nothing. I've seen all the marvel and star wars films, multiple times. The only Marvel TV shows worth watching belong to Netflix and got murdered by corporate suits. And theres a few decent non-genre films. But beyond that, there just isn't enough content to make a streaming service out of.
Ehh.... its not the end of the world. Most of the other platforms work this way, so Artists generally sign up with a service like CD Baby which handles all that for a one off fee of , like $50 or whatever for all platforms. So most independent artists would already have an account with a third party provider to get their stuff on iTunes, amazon, etc. For most indy musicians they won't even notice this one.
And that minoritywho are affected , probably didn't actually realise there was services that could get them on iTunes, amazon, etc.
Apple is not going into bankerupcy any time soon lol. Even if apple completely shut its operations but kept everyone on the payroll and kept paying its rent it could survive for decades simply on cash in hand. It's a company with astronomical wealth
If Oracle went supernova it wouldnt just spread new engineering to the galaxy. It'd be showering the galaxy with f***ing lawyers too
Um. No. Before Bandcamp and Facebook, MySpace was *the* social network used by musicians for promotion and putting out music. Sure it was an absolute crime against good taste, but it was where you had to be. Shit, towards the end, if you didn't have a bunch of thousand followers, no bar would give you a gig (Guess where the "Buy likes" industry came from). It was a horrible system, BUT, there was a lot of important music from bands that had finished so never set up a bandcamp, soundcloud or facebook account. And now its gone. Millions of songs from bands around the world.
Its a modern day burning of the Alexandria Library, A lot of history just got killed.
These conspiracy theories destroy lives.
An old friend of mine who had always been a bit gullible , when his father was sick from Melanoma, convinced his father to stop the chemo and radiotherapy and instead start on "miracle minerals", aka drinking bleach. The poor old guy died in incredible agony , and its not clear it was the cancer that got him in the end, as he died of liver failure, a common outcome of drinking bleach.
Last thing I heard he had nearly hospitalized his wife in a beating beause she had their todler vaccinated.
These beliefs can destroy peoples lifes. And we can pontificate all we want about these hypothetical scenarios , but the material circumstances in front of our eyes are people being convinced of dangerously stupid ideas leading to horrific outcomes.
Do yourself a favor and do a google image search on Black Salve injuries, then come back and tell me if you think civil society should not intervene
Why do you want them to lie? The science is very simple, observable and repeatable. Energy enters the system and warms air. The heat , following very basic and predictable thermodynamic increases the differential between high and low pressure regions, and thus thermal energy is converted to kinetic energy. Again, as predicted with simple high school level physics. You get storms. Storms give you cold regions, as any child can tell you.
Why keep asking for evidence. There are tens of thousands of extensive studies, hundreds of thousands of papers. Millions of hours of work.
The evidence is so conclusive, and it has been conclusive since the 1800s when scientists first worked out what was going on when they realised CO2 created banding in the IR spectra and started warning that the industrial era, at the time in its full coal belching swing could create rises of 4 or 5 degrees over time. 150 years later those earliest models have been shown to be somewhat accurate, and as more discoveries have come on line , importantly from ice cores, tree ring studies and geological studies, observational evidence and physics have lined up to provide a picture of a future with extreme highs and lows and vastly more turbulent climate and acidified ocean.
You can be skeptical, but it doesn't matter, the laws of physics don't care about your opinion, because science is not a democracy. Its up to you if you want to be deluded. The earth isn't flat. Vaccines wont give you autism, evolution is real and the climate is warming, and those facts are utterly independent and indifferent to your personal whacky belief system.
Correct..
Written records going back to the 1700s, physical evidence from Tree ring samples going back over a thouand years, geological records going back millions.
Like, how far back do you really want to go?
How is this relevant?
If you haven't seen the film, you have no business leaving a review. People rely on Rotten Tomatoes for reviews of films. If the reviews are being spammed by gibberish non-reviews by weirdos pushing a political agenda on a movie review site, then they stop being useful.
The only real surprise is this should have been the policy from day one. Because *of course* this sort of shit should be banned.
Ok. Genuine curiosity. I thought Fermions and Bosons refered to elemental particles and quasiparticles in the standard model. But these are Atoms, a large (by comparison) structures comprised of subatomic particles.
Am I missing something fundamental here? I'm sure I am, but I'm failing to understand it.
Your making a critical mistake in understanding this. Youtube viewers are not the consumer. Youtube viewers are the product. Your eyeballs , watching youtube advertisements are what is sold to the real consumer, Youtube Advertisers.
This is true of almost all entertainment economies since we first learned to reproduce performance with the advent of the printing press.
Well, campaign contributions, to be honest.
But the only difference between a Bribe and a campaign competition, is you just have to tell people you accepted the contribution and its all hunky dory.
Yep. I suffered terrible Anemia a couple of years back due to an undiagnosed internal hemorage from an ulcer. Twice I had been taken in , in a stretcher, and twice I refused blood infusions and went for the iron infusion instead (Which actually work really well).
In my view the risks just where not worth it. If the Anemia was much worse, I might not have had a choice in it, but at that point I was still within range that an Iron infusion was sufficient.
I think this is why Defenders never really hit the mark as well as the individual character shows did. You didn't really get to spend the time with the individual characters, and while it did have a few great things (The interactions between Rand and Cage where a great callback to the Heroes for Hire comics) it lacked the real local feel of the others. It was an epic world-ender scenario with a magical foe and the stuff that makes the movies fun, but the movies are fun because its the massive overkill cinema experience where you leave your brain at the door and just enjoy Iron man punching bad guys heads off. What makes the Netflix shows work is the local scale of things, the personal peril and the neighborhood, and Defenders just didn't feel like that. Frankly the final battle against the hand and the stakes involved is the kind of thing where the Avengers ought have swooped in and said 'Thanks for holding the fort kids, but this is a job for the big green guy. By the way, Luke, you need to send us your resume. The rest of you, keep being you!". It was just the wrong scale for Netflix.
By iron man read iron fist. Slashdot really needs the ability to edit posts especially in the mobile era
Jon Bernthal was amazing. An absolute fireball of rage and violence but still able to portray a character that at heart is big hearted lonely guy who just wants to protect people , even if by means of killing everything that moves. It can't be easy to make such a contradictory character believable let alone relatable
Punisher was fantastic for both seasons. Jessica Jones first season was amazing, but the second season while not BAD just wasnt the same ,largely down to the villain. Daredevil was predictably pretty good but never quite gripped me. Iron man, terrible first season, fantastic second season.
Luke cage was my man. I frigging loved everything about those two seasons and I'm sad it had to end. It really felt like there was more of that story to tell (Particularly with the semi-cliffhanger S2 ends up in with Cage compromised and potentially falling from grace)
Regardless, I would love to see Cage brought into the broader MCU. A Black Panther/Luke Cage buddy film would be amazing. You could picture it. Danny Rand introduces his friend Cage to his new Billionaire buddy Black Panther, the two hit it off, with Panther thinking Cage would be good to have on staff for his US outreach. Then the big bad happens and the two of them go off to save the world. I'd watch the *shit* out of that.
I've seen two that where off out of a whole tonne of them. One was a small girl who had what looked like a bullet hole in her forehead. Or some sort of obvious puncture wound. Weird.
The other was a woman on a side profile and one of her eyes was distorted and blured out in a strange way, and her nose was wrong. But it was the only one I saw with a side profile so presumably the algorithm is less well trained on those.
God knows where the bullet hole girl came from though.
This does seem to be something American and Euro/Australian courts kind of differ on a bit.
By definitions, a Contract isn't the piece of paper an agreement is written on, its the agreement itself. The piece of paper is just the evidence for that agreement. This might seem trivial but its an important concept to remember when interpreting a contract document. Many judges in Australian and Europe have basically said that EULAs and Contracts with incomprehensivel or contradictory terms are unenforcable because theres no proof that THAT was the ACTUAL agreement both parties went into with full knowledge, unless its made abundantly clear to the person signing it what that ball of latin and capital letters actually means. This is particularly the case when the advertising text is "Purchase this product and you'll also get YYY" and the fine text i, in latin, and 3 point font is "YYY offer is only valid for north pole residents named Santa Klaus".
Unfortunately there seems to be a lot of cases in the US where its abundantly obvious the plantif couldn't possibly have understood the fine print, and yet the agreement is still held valid.
It's probably also worth noting OpenColorIO has been open sourced for a very long time. The ACTUAL story is that SONY are handing it over to community management
It's reasonably well understood because in essence it's just basic thermodynamics. You add energy to a weather system and there's some things could happen
1) thermal: ocean warm up
2) thermal: atmosphere warms up
3) weather and tidal behaviour gets more kinetic.
4) some combination of the above
4 is the correct answer , of course , the question in the air is how that combination plays out. Will we get the 4+ Celsius rise (4 is optimistic but political pressures have tended to force scientists to understate risks) or do we get the hurricanes, flooding , polar vortexes and the like. That's where the bulk of the research is going
Those questions are the real focus of research. Calculating Co2 is largely rudimentary math although the clathrate problem exasperates uncertainty for the worse. Once we know what that energy contribution is likely to be the next stage is the harder part. Working out if we melt, drown or both
"KEEP SUMMER SAFE."
Its hard to really answer these without having access to the paper. One has to assume the actual paper itself is a bit more careful in its wording.
But often these studies have to be taken as part of a bigger picture when translated into policy simply because accounting for all variables is statistically hard. Differentiating cause , correlation and effect can be hard work! How many of these surgeries are on Cancer patients who are going to die regardless of the surgery. Often those surgeries are simply meant to ease suffering (Ie if a tumor is pressing up on a nerve bundle or causing painful breathing). Chemo is notorious for this. It absolutely is somewhat poisonous to the body, its how the stuff works (remember folks Cancer is made of people!) , its also the best treatment we have to fighting the damn disease.
People often die as a result of chemotherapy side effects. But is it strictly the chemo, is the cancer itself making the side effects worse? Theres an awful juggle of priorities and probabilities a oncologist and patient have to make in evaluating these things that strikes deep into the heart of medical ethics. Is it right to shorten a life to ease pain? Is withdrawing medication actively or merely passively contributing to death? How much autonomy should the patient have. Can a doctor refuse to give medications he feel are counterproductive to the doctors particular priority or set of ethics.
Nothing is easy in medical decision making, and nothing is easy in medical statistics. Humans are insanely complicated machines. So many variables, and so many ways to interpret them.
Over heavy Javascript wasn't that uncommon back then, although sometimes it was vbScript (Which i rarely saw since Netscape Navigator didnt support it)..
The major things that jump out to me.
1) The JS was almost always inline (I still actually do this. Honestly sometimes throwing the glue script at the end just makes more sense).
2) Div layouts. Back then Table layouts where the norm. Partly because after netscape introduced Div layers, the implementation was confusing as hell and inconsistent across versions
3) CSS. CSS was rare as hell. Things mostly used inline attributes.
4) Wheres the Marquee and Blink tags!!?
5) Needs more jeffk!!!!!!111one
The gif stuff actually was pretty common, and generally irritating as hell, and lead to some stupidly long load times. You kind of developed a habit of learning to read a page as it loaded then.
But yeah, ,the design, rings pretty true to me. I'm getting a giggle out of it, so mission accomplished.