So, are you saying that zoning laws are bad. Or are you saying that poor people can ignore them because they're poor? Can I, a-non-poor-but-not-rich-person, also ignore zoning and commerce laws at my discretion?
In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.
Anatole France: Le Lys Rouge [The Red Lily] (1894), ch. 7
1. Broadcast the soundtrack to the phone so you can wear earphones and not be bothered by idiots who aren't watching the movie.
2. Broadcast subtitles to VR glasses on the same phone with the focus distance == screen distance. One of the main reasons I don't go to movies is hearing problems. With current technology, subtitle focus distance and screen distance are literally yards apart.
Either the study sample is in complete, or people like me, who are professional proofreaders, are jerks. It's our JOB to point out spelling and grammatical mistakes, people.
The fact that I have, on record, one month where the publisher had me do every book they were publishing establishes their opinion of me.
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and two other locations in California to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. In 1922 and 1923, the leases became the subject of a sensational investigation by Senator Thomas J. Walsh. Fall was later convicted of accepting bribes from the oil companies and became the first Cabinet member to go to prison. No person was ever convicted of paying a bribe, however.
I've noticed that many of the comments refer to the advertising suppliers as not caring about the customers. That is simply not true. They care deeply about the customers.
The problem is that we the vict... er... recipients of their largess and viewers of the ads are not their customers.
Their customers are the companies who pay them to display the ads. They're selling OUR bandwith and eyeballs to those companies and they will use any means they can to make sure the precious revenue-generating message goes through, whether we want it to or not.
1. They don't care about user security and malware-exclusion. ("It's not OUR content after all.")
2. They don't care that WE are paying for any bandwidth usage they suck up on our end. (2MB pages with 10K the content the user wanted. Rest is advertising.)
3. For those systems where advertisers bid the suppliers for who gets displayed, the end user can sit doing nothing while the site owners wait for some "optimum" bid.
4. Most advertising is utterly irrelevant as far as the viewer is concerned.
For all of the above reasons, ad-blockers are our friends, and advertisers are the enemy.
Eh, speaking as someone who cut his teeth on optimizing DOS and Win3.11 for gaming, it's important to know why you shouldn't use it, which will help you appreciate alternatives like Linux and *BSD that much more.
Surveys can also be heavily gamed with simple framing:
"Should apple be required to support freedom, america, and apple pie by helping the troops root out and fight terrorism?"
If they can be, they have been. Every political poll I've ever talked to on the phone has had the questions loaded to get simple yes or no responses, with either answer given showing support for the sought-after result.
The story must be engaging and the audience must empathize with the characters, or even "100% realistic" CGI is a dead waste of time and money. There are dozens of classic science-fiction movies all the way back to the 1930s whose special effects are, by today's standards, primitive, but the stories still grip the mind and heart.
In fact, one of my personal all-time favorites had NO special effects, unless you count makeup. But the story and characters within "Creation of the Humanoids" will be with me to the end of my life. Now THAT is entertainment.
IMO, Hollywood needs to spend more money on writers and less on CGI.
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No. Merely pointing out that the menu has two options.
1. Justice and equity.
2. A legal system owned by the rich and powerful.
Pick one.
So, are you saying that zoning laws are bad. Or are you saying that poor people can ignore them because they're poor? Can I, a-non-poor-but-not-rich-person, also ignore zoning and commerce laws at my discretion?
In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.
Anatole France: Le Lys Rouge [The Red Lily] (1894), ch. 7
MPAA: But ... but... somebody will pirate the movie that way!!!!! Noooooooooooooo!
1. Broadcast the soundtrack to the phone so you can wear earphones and not be bothered by idiots who aren't watching the movie.
2. Broadcast subtitles to VR glasses on the same phone with the focus distance == screen distance. One of the main reasons I don't go to movies is hearing problems. With current technology, subtitle focus distance and screen distance are literally yards apart.
Either the study sample is in complete, or people like me, who are professional proofreaders, are jerks. It's our JOB to point out spelling and grammatical mistakes, people.
The fact that I have, on record, one month where the publisher had me do every book they were publishing establishes their opinion of me.
Teapot Dome
Data is not information.
Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
It decided not to hit the computer center it was sent to destroy and flew on to a maternity ward.
And just how do they prove out if you strangle them in the cradle with your fears?
Old age and vision problems will come to all of us, sooner or later.
Be careful what you ask for, Mr. Pickens. You WILL get it.
So who wrote the spider? Baidu or 3PLA?
No. They got rid of it and replaced it with "Do as we say, not as we do."
So really it is just a global scientific test of who's is bigger.
No, it's a multiplayer game of "You show me yours and I'll show you mine."
I've noticed that many of the comments refer to the advertising suppliers as not caring about the customers. That is simply not true. They care deeply about the customers.
The problem is that we the vict... er... recipients of their largess and viewers of the ads are not their customers.
Their customers are the companies who pay them to display the ads. They're selling OUR bandwith and eyeballs to those companies and they will use any means they can to make sure the precious revenue-generating message goes through, whether we want it to or not.
I just looked at the "mod history." It's been bouncing around like a ping-pong ball in a hurricane.
Did anybody even consider the possibility that this was intended as a snarky but not trollish joke????!!!!!
Advertisers have several blind spots.
1. They don't care about user security and malware-exclusion. ("It's not OUR content after all.")
2. They don't care that WE are paying for any bandwidth usage they suck up on our end. (2MB pages with 10K the content the user wanted. Rest is advertising.)
3. For those systems where advertisers bid the suppliers for who gets displayed, the end user can sit doing nothing while the site owners wait for some "optimum" bid.
4. Most advertising is utterly irrelevant as far as the viewer is concerned.
For all of the above reasons, ad-blockers are our friends, and advertisers are the enemy.
Eh, speaking as someone who cut his teeth on optimizing DOS and Win3.11 for gaming, it's important to know why you shouldn't use it, which will help you appreciate alternatives like Linux and *BSD that much more.
Rifle through the steps at: ... and you'll gain an intimate familiarity with how to handle many of its unwelcome advances.
https://github.com/dfkt/win10-...
https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Deb...
Difficulty: How can you be sure you've eliminated all the "telemetry" AKA "Microsoft Genuine Spyware(tm)"?
Agreed.
Get the best technical guides you can find for self-defense.
Unfortunately some of my software will be used on windows 10 machines.
Please accept my condolences.
One sentence: Don't use it.
Surveys can also be heavily gamed with simple framing:
"Should apple be required to support freedom, america, and apple pie by helping the troops root out and fight terrorism?"
If they can be, they have been. Every political poll I've ever talked to on the phone has had the questions loaded to get simple yes or no responses, with either answer given showing support for the sought-after result.
1: Does it require the subject's cooperation to erase the memories? 2: Can they be retrieved by some means later, if necessary?
If the answer to these questions is "No." Consider the following scenarios:
1. An accused criminal gets the key witnesses in the case wiped before the trial.
2. Cops "forcefully interrogate" a suspect, and when the suspect turns out to be innocent, wipe the victim's memories of their treatment.
And those are just Abuse 101.
It's called Rent Seeking.
It can also be called rent to own, where the owned property is the customer.
You need one for "stupidly uninteresting and irrelevant." Sorry, but I'm calling this one as I see it.
What matters are story and character.
The story must be engaging and the audience must empathize with the characters, or even "100% realistic" CGI is a dead waste of time and money. There are dozens of classic science-fiction movies all the way back to the 1930s whose special effects are, by today's standards, primitive, but the stories still grip the mind and heart.
In fact, one of my personal all-time favorites had NO special effects, unless you count makeup. But the story and characters within "Creation of the Humanoids" will be with me to the end of my life. Now THAT is entertainment.
IMO, Hollywood needs to spend more money on writers and less on CGI.