Is this just a clever way to get everyone's money? Do the rollout and make it so everyone can tip and be tipped, get their bank details and permission to debit/credit them, wait six months till its at peak and everyone who will sign up has. Then rinse all the accounts and do a runner. Clever girls.
The further back you go the worse they get, that's why they got replaced in the first place but there's probably someone somewhere still listening to their wax cylinders.
I lived through the cassette era, and I really don’t get it. Setting aside the bad sound quality... it was not uncommon for the tapes to get “eaten” by players and recorders...
I wonder if the tapes come with a free pencil for winding them back in, hardly anyone carries them around these days.
The Console has one major advantage over the PC. Uniform Balanced Hardware.
Game makers know how fast the system is, how much RAM, what type of RAM. The Video Chips used.... A game made for the platform tends to run much better then on a PC with much higher specs in most areas. Because there is code that is needed to account for dealing with different drivers for a set of hardware. When a PC is built, they will often get the Expensive Video Card, but cheap on on RAM, or get a slow drive. Hardware makers don't make it easy for most people to make informed decisions. Core i3, i5, i7, i9 6th, 7th, 8th gen? Sure 8th Gen i9 is probably the fastest, but it is wicked expensive. But am I better off with the 8th gen i5 or a 7th Gen i7? Then you build something with a random bottle neck that will slow down the game further.
This. It's basically the same reason macs are thought of as being generally better for graphics type stuff. Because macs have set hardware compared to the myriad pc options they crash less. Or at least used to, macs seem just as crash happy nowadays but I suspect that's a different issue.
I can provide evidence. It would then be up to you to show why the evidence is insufficient.
I have a hunch that no evidence would be sufficient for you.
Let me ask you this: what proof would compel you to believe in a human soul? Anything I showed you you would dismiss as science we simply donâ(TM)t understand.
Maybe literally anything showing it to be a real thing and not just a concept we like because it makes us feel superior to the rest of the animals. Present your evidence but if that evidence is feelings then it's not going to get very far.
Are you going to be just as brave when the law is passed and you're potentially facing a large fine or a prison sentence?
I thought not.
Is this that fabled american spirit? Balk at authority and do exactly what they say because you're afraid of the consequences? Be a good little citizen now and move on.
"Plasma donation involves time, wnergy, and a minor risk to the donator." That's mostly bullshit. I donate both blood and platelets, the latter takes about 15 minutes longer or so. Overdraw risk is comparable either way.
It's no more painful or risky or anything like that. Almost entirely bullshit. And because they need plasma at such a clip and lightly encourage that, I give plasma mostly now. For free of course. Paying for tissues is sick.
Besides, you really think the people who need $30 to live and feed themselves are taking proper care of their plasma? There's all kinds of risks in taking just anyone's blood products. Frankly the screening is inadequate.
Paying people doesn't solve that problem either. It just incentivizes the lowest agency of society to be your almost exclusive donor pool.
The cost and scarcity will increase until artificial blood is a reality, and we're a pretty long way from that as a viable long-term option. So give if you care and are healthy and if you need $30... get a job?
Selling blood is a ridiculously bad idea all around even given the small artificial boost advertising a small financial incentive brings. Which is why most civilized places ban that. YMMV.
Economics 102, it doesn't stop at 101 derp.
I'm with the other guy, if you want my blood or plasma or whatever then show me the cash. I'm not dragging myself down to where ever and going through that for a warm fuzzy.
A drop in plasma prices is not a good thing. If billionaires like Peter Thiel pay even less to their penurious blood boys, that just increases income inequality in America.
Just seems like a good way to get yourself aids or hepatitis or god knows what other disease if you ask me.
So the movie companies (Columbia Pictures, Disney, Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Universal, and Warner Bros) are trying to get this tv streaming service (offers more than 70 live TV channels) shutdown? How does that work? Or are they saying they want this company to licence the films that the tv stations show? That wouldn't actually surprise me. What's the bet that before too long they want a flat out tax put on every internet connection to pay them for all this infringement.
It would be difficult to write such a comic though that wouldn't fall into one of three traps:
Preachy,
Blasphemous,
or Boring.
It would be hard to write one that didn't fall in to all three of those.
South Park managed to pull it off without falling into any of those three through the Super Best Friends. Nope, not blasphemous either; since you have to be religious to be able to commit blasphemy, due to it being a religious law and not secular.
Or was Seaman blasphemy against poor Aquaman?
True but that was one episode not a whole thing. the 200 and 201 double did get a little preachy though.
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Nanomachines, son!
Is this just a clever way to get everyone's money? Do the rollout and make it so everyone can tip and be tipped, get their bank details and permission to debit/credit them, wait six months till its at peak and everyone who will sign up has. Then rinse all the accounts and do a runner. Clever girls.
WTF?
As long as you call it deconstructed you should be able to get away with it.
We need a more direct way to get funds from a supportive user to a productive person.
Unless you're literally handing them the cash, someone is taking a cut.
The stealth fighter doesnt even have afterburners. They should call the F-117A a light bomber, really.
The F-117 isn't a fighter. It was just given that designation to confuse the russians.
As soon as one side cheats, the other side has every incentive to use actual nukes.
You'll have a lot less incentive to use nukes when my guys are running around your cities shooting the place up.
The further back you go the worse they get, that's why they got replaced in the first place but there's probably someone somewhere still listening to their wax cylinders.
I lived through the cassette era, and I really don’t get it. Setting aside the bad sound quality... it was not uncommon for the tapes to get “eaten” by players and recorders...
I wonder if the tapes come with a free pencil for winding them back in, hardly anyone carries them around these days.
100000 song music library onto something the size of a cassette now.
And no doubt apply a filter that puts that all the hiss, clicks and pops you want on top.
Just wait til they hear about the pirate bay.
You sexy bastard.
Is the organization in charge called the Miistry of Silly Walks?
Close
They are really running with this whole dystopia theme. Making the west look like slackers in comparison.
The Console has one major advantage over the PC. Uniform Balanced Hardware. Game makers know how fast the system is, how much RAM, what type of RAM. The Video Chips used.... A game made for the platform tends to run much better then on a PC with much higher specs in most areas. Because there is code that is needed to account for dealing with different drivers for a set of hardware. When a PC is built, they will often get the Expensive Video Card, but cheap on on RAM, or get a slow drive. Hardware makers don't make it easy for most people to make informed decisions. Core i3, i5, i7, i9 6th, 7th, 8th gen? Sure 8th Gen i9 is probably the fastest, but it is wicked expensive. But am I better off with the 8th gen i5 or a 7th Gen i7? Then you build something with a random bottle neck that will slow down the game further.
This. It's basically the same reason macs are thought of as being generally better for graphics type stuff. Because macs have set hardware compared to the myriad pc options they crash less. Or at least used to, macs seem just as crash happy nowadays but I suspect that's a different issue.
I can provide evidence. It would then be up to you to show why the evidence is insufficient.
I have a hunch that no evidence would be sufficient for you.
Let me ask you this: what proof would compel you to believe in a human soul? Anything I showed you you would dismiss as science we simply donâ(TM)t understand.
Maybe literally anything showing it to be a real thing and not just a concept we like because it makes us feel superior to the rest of the animals. Present your evidence but if that evidence is feelings then it's not going to get very far.
Because miserable staff do so much for a business.
If silence is a problem,
indeed, what's wrong with silence?
Tinnitus is what's wrong with it.
Yeah, hence the total rejection of Wonder Woman, Terminator, Aliens, etc.
Yeah and alita is just getting panned...
Let a private company maintain the database.
That seems like a brilliant plan with no obvious downsides.
Are you going to be just as brave when the law is passed and you're potentially facing a large fine or a prison sentence?
I thought not.
Is this that fabled american spirit? Balk at authority and do exactly what they say because you're afraid of the consequences? Be a good little citizen now and move on.
"Plasma donation involves time, wnergy, and a minor risk to the donator." That's mostly bullshit. I donate both blood and platelets, the latter takes about 15 minutes longer or so. Overdraw risk is comparable either way. It's no more painful or risky or anything like that. Almost entirely bullshit. And because they need plasma at such a clip and lightly encourage that, I give plasma mostly now. For free of course. Paying for tissues is sick.
Besides, you really think the people who need $30 to live and feed themselves are taking proper care of their plasma? There's all kinds of risks in taking just anyone's blood products. Frankly the screening is inadequate. Paying people doesn't solve that problem either. It just incentivizes the lowest agency of society to be your almost exclusive donor pool.
The cost and scarcity will increase until artificial blood is a reality, and we're a pretty long way from that as a viable long-term option. So give if you care and are healthy and if you need $30... get a job? Selling blood is a ridiculously bad idea all around even given the small artificial boost advertising a small financial incentive brings. Which is why most civilized places ban that. YMMV.
Economics 102, it doesn't stop at 101 derp.
I'm with the other guy, if you want my blood or plasma or whatever then show me the cash. I'm not dragging myself down to where ever and going through that for a warm fuzzy.
Hopefully this will lower young blood prices
A drop in plasma prices is not a good thing. If billionaires like Peter Thiel pay even less to their penurious blood boys, that just increases income inequality in America.
Just seems like a good way to get yourself aids or hepatitis or god knows what other disease if you ask me.
So the movie companies (Columbia Pictures, Disney, Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Universal, and Warner Bros) are trying to get this tv streaming service (offers more than 70 live TV channels) shutdown? How does that work? Or are they saying they want this company to licence the films that the tv stations show? That wouldn't actually surprise me. What's the bet that before too long they want a flat out tax put on every internet connection to pay them for all this infringement.
It would be difficult to write such a comic though that wouldn't fall into one of three traps: Preachy, Blasphemous, or Boring.
It would be hard to write one that didn't fall in to all three of those.
South Park managed to pull it off without falling into any of those three through the Super Best Friends. Nope, not blasphemous either; since you have to be religious to be able to commit blasphemy, due to it being a religious law and not secular.
Or was Seaman blasphemy against poor Aquaman?
True but that was one episode not a whole thing. the 200 and 201 double did get a little preachy though.