1) You mean, the price drops so quickly because they've realized that a lower price means more sales, which means more money. Gee, who'd have thought that. It's like people have realized that you can make more money with honey instead of sawdust.
2) In 2nd and 3rd world, console gamers are incredible pirates. You can walk down just about any street and buy the latest titles for consoles at half of what it costs for a PC copy. Including paying for someone to jail break your console for a couple of bucks, if they're not already sold as that.
A lot cheaper? In many cases you can find them upwards of 25% off before they hit release day. They'll be waiting a year or so before their console games drop $20.
The derangement must be pretty wide-spread. A few examples: In Oxford County(Ontario, Canada), they have 3 open limestone quarries that are nearly exhausted that the county was considering to make into landfills(the area is roughly 21sq km, and 400-900m deep -- they've been digging limestone out of there since the early 1800's for cement). Environmentalists protest it, which is fine. But don't offer any solutions, and when someone suggests Waste-to-energy, they go even more insane. And would rather the garbage trucked to far northern ontario to shutdown open-pit granite and iron quarries. It's not any different with pipelines, read up on the general insanity on Line-9(Ontario). Been used for decades, suddenly it's a problem because they've changed the flow direction...
Al Gore made a comment that sea levels would rise 20 feet in his 2006 movie, "An Inconvenient Truth," that the global warming critics like to hype to death. Any comment by Al Gore should be taken with a hefty amount of sea salt.
We just finished dealing with one here in Canada, who was living in the US and are in the process of shipping him back. His parents of course are well-off living in Egypt and have paid not once(from Egypt to the US) but twice(US to Canada) to try and get a claim in. Not only are countries dealing with "I'm a 14yr old boy..." when they're 25. They're also dealing with refugee shoppers.
The rest of us just want a less polluted world. So spare me your talk of "agendas".
If that was true, many environmentalists would be the first ones lining up for waste-to-energy facilities instead of protesting them being built, and instead of wanting to ship their garbage to the middle of no-where, they'd want it being handled locally.
Its no different to an undercover cop pretending to be a drug dealer and engaging in a drug deal so the hidden cops can spring forth and bust the bad guy.
Except the use of drugs for the purposes of busting said dealers happens in only very rare circumstances. Usually where the suspect is highly suspicious that it's going to be a sting. In this case, they ran in, claimed the site and kept running it.
As we say on the West Coast, "What are you smoking and where can I get some?"
Why not ask the environmentalists that were parroting it in the 80's and 90's. David Suzuki and Al Gore are my favorites, especially since the media likes to claim that they're scientists.
A smart speculator would look at the scientific data for rising water levels and buy worthless properties that will eventually become new water front properties.
Which explains all of those ocean front purchases right? You know, like what happened along the US east coast in the 1980's and 90's when the "sea level will be 20ft higher" by 1990 and 2000'.
To design their camera, Baraniuk and his colleagues looked to the past for inspiration.
"Back to really the very first cameras, pinhole cameras," Baraniuk says.
Pinhole cameras have been here for quite a while. According to some scholars, they were first described by the Chinese philosopher Mo Ti around 400 B.C
No, you didn't get it right. But that's not surprising, clearly you didn't read the article.
Apparently I did. How the hell your comment got to informative I have no clue.
So, let's see if I get this right. They rediscovered something, that everyone from the 1990's and 80 years prior learned to make as part of science class...and simply applied modern technology to it.
Part of parenting is letting go. Having some basic restrictions in place in society is part of that.
Part of parenting is also explaining something, even when you know they're going to do it anyway. Instead of saying "I don't want to do it, I'll let xyz government organization take care of it for me."
Or would you also argue to lift any age restrictions on things like driving, so parents can send their kids for driving lessons the moment they've grown tall enough to look over the dashboard?
Some of us learned to drive at that age. So yeah, I guess our parents knew they could trust us with some things, explained why we couldn't go floating down the street in their car but going around on the xyz family members farm was fine. You know, the same reason why they let us watch slasher flicks because we could understand the difference between fiction and non-fiction.
So, instead, you suggest me to become a helicopter parent and never leave the kid out of sight until they turn 18 or so?
Dear Son/daughter/idiot that shares my genes, I understand that xyz is interesting to you. So here's some xyz things I want to explain to you, and even though I'm explaining xyz things to you and don't want you to do it...you're still going to do it. Just don't do xyz things because looking at them are illegal in this country, if you don't understand something ask...even though you'll be embarrassed to hell, you can always ask me via email/text/whatever embarrassing thing you can think of. If you can't follow xyz rules, then I'll just do xyz thing when I'm not home but you are, and you'll only have internet access/restricted access when I'm in the house. And I know that even if I do that, you'll likely go over to abc persons house and look anyway. So to head you off, if it comes to that I'll talk to their parents too.
It's not that hard to come up with something is it? Unless you're trying to avoid personal responsibility of raising your kid(s). You know, that's how people used to raise their kids ~30+ years ago...
And yet there is no access without internet, electricity, or the computer which they're paying for. So yes, it is happening in their home, and in turn they're responsible.
The difference between "outdoor" and "internet" is with kids, there are ways to stop them from doing things on the internet. Outdoors? Not so much. And there are ways to stop them from doing things on the internet without saying "hey government, I'm a fucking retard...do my job as a parent."
Here I fixed it for you: "A talking politician wants my credit card number via 3rd party companies to make sure I'm an adult? Sounds legit!"
I don't know where ever I said that I wanted the government do the checking. Read again. The government only comes in play where it comes to verifying information, the checking itself as I describe it is done by the various companies.
If the government is instituting a law, then the government in some form is going to be overseeing it. In turn, you're allowing the government to do the checking and doing your job. Or are you really that naive to believe that even "various companies" that would be doing it wouldn't have the government looking over their shoulder to ensure compliance.
If it's happening in your home, you're responsible. Those places such as "bars, amusement centres, casino's, liquor shops" are all the place of someone else, and they are responsible.
In other words, you're happy to let the government do your job.
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Oh look, console talking points.
1) You mean, the price drops so quickly because they've realized that a lower price means more sales, which means more money. Gee, who'd have thought that. It's like people have realized that you can make more money with honey instead of sawdust.
2) In 2nd and 3rd world, console gamers are incredible pirates. You can walk down just about any street and buy the latest titles for consoles at half of what it costs for a PC copy. Including paying for someone to jail break your console for a couple of bucks, if they're not already sold as that.
A lot cheaper? In many cases you can find them upwards of 25% off before they hit release day. They'll be waiting a year or so before their console games drop $20.
Apparently oppressed people can also be used as weapons against civilian people. Therefore we showed ban oppressed people. Ugh, ok, suggestions?
Sure, tell them to start dragging/shooting/blowing up/dragging through the streets, hamas/hizbullah/etc instead.
The derangement must be pretty wide-spread. A few examples: In Oxford County(Ontario, Canada), they have 3 open limestone quarries that are nearly exhausted that the county was considering to make into landfills(the area is roughly 21sq km, and 400-900m deep -- they've been digging limestone out of there since the early 1800's for cement). Environmentalists protest it, which is fine. But don't offer any solutions, and when someone suggests Waste-to-energy, they go even more insane. And would rather the garbage trucked to far northern ontario to shutdown open-pit granite and iron quarries. It's not any different with pipelines, read up on the general insanity on Line-9(Ontario). Been used for decades, suddenly it's a problem because they've changed the flow direction...
With many companies like Yelp? Venture capitol.
There is nowhere in the United States where $8.15 per hour is a living wage.
Depends, is the person living alone? If so $8.15/hr is just fine in quite a few places as a living wage.
Al Gore made a comment that sea levels would rise 20 feet in his 2006 movie, "An Inconvenient Truth," that the global warming critics like to hype to death. Any comment by Al Gore should be taken with a hefty amount of sea salt.
Just like the pro-agg like to make the claims "warmest weather since record keeping." Which in countries like Canada means 1970...most recent example? "Warmest weather in Waterloo, Ontario...since records started in 1967..."
We just finished dealing with one here in Canada, who was living in the US and are in the process of shipping him back. His parents of course are well-off living in Egypt and have paid not once(from Egypt to the US) but twice(US to Canada) to try and get a claim in. Not only are countries dealing with "I'm a 14yr old boy..." when they're 25. They're also dealing with refugee shoppers.
The rest of us just want a less polluted world. So spare me your talk of "agendas".
If that was true, many environmentalists would be the first ones lining up for waste-to-energy facilities instead of protesting them being built, and instead of wanting to ship their garbage to the middle of no-where, they'd want it being handled locally.
Its no different to an undercover cop pretending to be a drug dealer and engaging in a drug deal so the hidden cops can spring forth and bust the bad guy.
Except the use of drugs for the purposes of busting said dealers happens in only very rare circumstances. Usually where the suspect is highly suspicious that it's going to be a sting. In this case, they ran in, claimed the site and kept running it.
As we say on the West Coast, "What are you smoking and where can I get some?"
Why not ask the environmentalists that were parroting it in the 80's and 90's. David Suzuki and Al Gore are my favorites, especially since the media likes to claim that they're scientists.
A smart speculator would look at the scientific data for rising water levels and buy worthless properties that will eventually become new water front properties.
Which explains all of those ocean front purchases right? You know, like what happened along the US east coast in the 1980's and 90's when the "sea level will be 20ft higher" by 1990 and 2000'.
Uh, no. Southern Florida is supposed to be underwater in the next half-century.
Well that sure explains all those millionaires buying up property in Florida, who knew they'd be buying into a worthless investment.
That's because they don't. They even state they don't disclose the gender of users.
As a policy, eBay does not reveal the gender of users.
Just more SJW make-believe garbage.
J.C Denton: What good's an honest soldier if he can be ordered to behave like a terrorist?
It was a game a head of it's time.
Cripple the internet to the point that global economy can no longer happen, and force a global economic collapse.
In other words, all you network engineers and people running the backbones need to step up and protest.
Tracer Tong: Hello JC, could you overload the experimental anti-matter reactors?
Don't worry, they're busy listening to the serial harasser Randi Harper on how to save twitter, and ignoring the plebs.
To design their camera, Baraniuk and his colleagues looked to the past for inspiration.
That's effectively rediscovering it.
TFA:
To design their camera, Baraniuk and his colleagues looked to the past for inspiration.
"Back to really the very first cameras, pinhole cameras," Baraniuk says.
Pinhole cameras have been here for quite a while. According to some scholars, they were first described by the Chinese philosopher Mo Ti around 400 B.C
No, you didn't get it right. But that's not surprising, clearly you didn't read the article.
Apparently I did. How the hell your comment got to informative I have no clue.
So, let's see if I get this right. They rediscovered something, that everyone from the 1990's and 80 years prior learned to make as part of science class...and simply applied modern technology to it.
Part of parenting is letting go. Having some basic restrictions in place in society is part of that.
Part of parenting is also explaining something, even when you know they're going to do it anyway. Instead of saying "I don't want to do it, I'll let xyz government organization take care of it for me."
Or would you also argue to lift any age restrictions on things like driving, so parents can send their kids for driving lessons the moment they've grown tall enough to look over the dashboard?
Some of us learned to drive at that age. So yeah, I guess our parents knew they could trust us with some things, explained why we couldn't go floating down the street in their car but going around on the xyz family members farm was fine. You know, the same reason why they let us watch slasher flicks because we could understand the difference between fiction and non-fiction.
So, instead, you suggest me to become a helicopter parent and never leave the kid out of sight until they turn 18 or so?
Dear Son/daughter/idiot that shares my genes, I understand that xyz is interesting to you. So here's some xyz things I want to explain to you, and even though I'm explaining xyz things to you and don't want you to do it...you're still going to do it. Just don't do xyz things because looking at them are illegal in this country, if you don't understand something ask...even though you'll be embarrassed to hell, you can always ask me via email/text/whatever embarrassing thing you can think of. If you can't follow xyz rules, then I'll just do xyz thing when I'm not home but you are, and you'll only have internet access/restricted access when I'm in the house. And I know that even if I do that, you'll likely go over to abc persons house and look anyway. So to head you off, if it comes to that I'll talk to their parents too.
It's not that hard to come up with something is it? Unless you're trying to avoid personal responsibility of raising your kid(s). You know, that's how people used to raise their kids ~30+ years ago...
A porn site is not his home.
And yet there is no access without internet, electricity, or the computer which they're paying for. So yes, it is happening in their home, and in turn they're responsible.
The difference between "outdoor" and "internet" is with kids, there are ways to stop them from doing things on the internet. Outdoors? Not so much. And there are ways to stop them from doing things on the internet without saying "hey government, I'm a fucking retard...do my job as a parent."
Here I fixed it for you: "A talking politician wants my credit card number via 3rd party companies to make sure I'm an adult? Sounds legit!"
I don't know where ever I said that I wanted the government do the checking. Read again. The government only comes in play where it comes to verifying information, the checking itself as I describe it is done by the various companies.
If the government is instituting a law, then the government in some form is going to be overseeing it. In turn, you're allowing the government to do the checking and doing your job. Or are you really that naive to believe that even "various companies" that would be doing it wouldn't have the government looking over their shoulder to ensure compliance.
If it's happening in your home, you're responsible. Those places such as "bars, amusement centres, casino's, liquor shops" are all the place of someone else, and they are responsible.
In other words, you're happy to let the government do your job.