This isn't trolling, this is state intelligence level psi-ops and stirring up civil unrest in other countries. This is Russia subverting US politics (BLM is a political movement, seeking political change) and causing distrust and unrest among the population.
Look at how often BLM are labelled terrorists right here. Look at how people post complaints about fake groups like "Antifa Boston", citing fake news articles. It's not even all Russia, a lot of it is just useful idiots who got suckered in and started generating their own fake news because they think that the "mainstream media" is lying to them.
I don't doubt that people on the left also fall for this sort of thing now and again too, by the way. I'm not partisan on this, I'm just against this kind of state level subversion of western societies.
Mashiki, I know we rarely see eye-to-eye, but come on... Are you really saying that renewables are cheaper because there's "only" 100 years of coal left in the UK, not to mention the cheap imports that are what killed our local coal industry?
Hakko make some U shaped tips that are ideal for removing SMT components. Some caps are too large but I think the Amiga ones are fine. Then again, hot air rework stations are so cheap now...
Maybe they are using the radar to microwave the TV dinners that the car is front is taking home. Imagine how cool that would be, your car asks the one behind to prepare your evening meal ready for when you get home!
The only major issue I have with maps is that it's too easy to rotate when trying to zoom. Otherwise I find the UI clean and quick to navigate, with clear instructions when I'm driving or glancing at the screen.
They use a left triangle for back, the same as your web browser and your VCR and your tape deck.
One of the core parts of Material design is an accent colour and/or border to highlight things you can interact with. This is similar to web browsers that colour links, although browsers are worse because you can have clickable images and the like with no indication.
High contrast is another staple of Material design.
Maybe you are mixing it up with other flat designs, like Apple's (which does use a lot of low contrast). I'm not saying Google are perfect but a lot of the complaints about Material design are addressed in the spec, the criticism should really be that Google don't always follow their own guidelines.
As you can see, when there is any confusion about things being buttons you use a box to make it clear. If apps fail to do that and you are confused, they are doing Material design wrong.
Unfortunately, there are some poor imitations out there.
Gmail uses black text on a white background by default. Hard to get more contrast than that. In general material design is high contrast, the basic tenet being to use black+white and a high contrast accent colour.
Photos sorts by date by default, that's pretty logical. The AI is used for automatic photoshopping and to make natural language search work ("show me photos of my cat").
The Calendar UI on desktop is quite annoying, mostly because clicking anything tries to create new events or change something.
To be fair a lot of machines from that era are dying now. Batteries became more and more common in the 80s, and of course they leak. ROMs are starting to die too, especially EPROMs. I had to replace a few when restoring an Amiga 4000 recently.
Capacitors commonly go, even good ones of that age. Storage media are a problem too - tapes are generally fairly reliable but the tape decks die, usually the drive belt. C64 floppy drives were unreliable even back in the day, so actually these days they are probably more reliable if they still work as they dodgy bits will have been replaced. Cartridges and partridge ports get dirty and corroded of course.
Keys are another common failure from that era. The carbon contacts gets dirty or wears out, and the pads corrode. They are likely to have come into contact with skin and skin oil. Chips also become unseated if they are socketed, a quick clean and re-seat fixes that.
Sometimes oscillators age too and go out of spec. It's usually fine, TVs are fairly tolerant.
If Google were trying to hide this they went about it in a strange way - you can simply go to your Google account and review everything you have ever said to any Google/Android device if you have voice history turned on (which it is by default). That's how this journalist noticed.
This sort of thing happens all the time. You design a new product, you buy in some touch sensors and test them out. Maybe they need calibration during manufacturing, so you design that in too. But then when production ramps up to the tens of thousands you find that a significant proportion are flakey or the calibration was incorrect.
I've had this happen where some microcontrollers where supposed to be factory calibrated by the manufacturer, but any made between certain dates weren't.
People use social media to organize social events. If you don't want to participate your only option is to keep bugging them for updates (because they will forget to text/email/call you).
The best I've been able to manage is to convince them to use WattsApp because at least it is encrypted and semi-private.
Next to zero natural resources? We had a massive coal industry that only closed because coal demand went down and cheap imports went up. There is still estimated to be ~100 years worth left in the ground. We also have gas from the North Sea and potentially via fracking. We were also one of the first to start using nuclear power, after the US screwed us over on the bomb and we had to build our own.
We also have quite a bit of hydro power. Up north the wind resources are some of the best in the world, although it's actually solar farms with battery storage that are going subsidy free now. And we are in the north of Europe, supposedly terrible for solar, and yet...
Um, you realize that more than one person on Facebook can have the same name, right?
The only thing unique about a Facebook account is the email address used to create it. Everything else can be cloned wholesale from another account, making it extremely hard to know which one is the real one.
They might be using canvas fingerprinting. There are add-ons to block it. I use CanvasFingerprintBlock.
Canvas fingerprinting works in incognito mode, works with ad-blockers, works if you block cookies, works if you use a VPN... And if you install a blocker you will quickly find that a large proportion of sites are trying to use it.
In the UK renewables are now going subsidy free, the only source of electricity available that can do so. There is simply nothing cheaper, nothing else with zero subsidy.
Maybe you should be asking why it's gone so badly wrong in Ontario when other places have benefited hugely. Also less important but still worth pointing out, I said "now" and your article is about things that started happening in 2003.
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This isn't trolling, this is state intelligence level psi-ops and stirring up civil unrest in other countries. This is Russia subverting US politics (BLM is a political movement, seeking political change) and causing distrust and unrest among the population.
Look at how often BLM are labelled terrorists right here. Look at how people post complaints about fake groups like "Antifa Boston", citing fake news articles. It's not even all Russia, a lot of it is just useful idiots who got suckered in and started generating their own fake news because they think that the "mainstream media" is lying to them.
I don't doubt that people on the left also fall for this sort of thing now and again too, by the way. I'm not partisan on this, I'm just against this kind of state level subversion of western societies.
So is it big oil trolls or Trump trolls modding this down?
They aren't building 700 coal plants. There were plans for to to 700, but they have largely stopped approving them now so most won't ever get started.
http://mobile.reuters.com/arti...
https://unearthed.greenpeace.o...
Similarly all new nuclear approvals were stopped in 2011 after Fukushima. The only ones being built were approved before then.
We have Metcal irons at work, and I really dislike them. I think it's just a personal preference, but I find Hakko much easier to use.
~100 years worth? That's massive?
Mashiki, I know we rarely see eye-to-eye, but come on... Are you really saying that renewables are cheaper because there's "only" 100 years of coal left in the UK, not to mention the cheap imports that are what killed our local coal industry?
Hakko make some U shaped tips that are ideal for removing SMT components. Some caps are too large but I think the Amiga ones are fine. Then again, hot air rework stations are so cheap now...
Maybe they are using the radar to microwave the TV dinners that the car is front is taking home. Imagine how cool that would be, your car asks the one behind to prepare your evening meal ready for when you get home!
On the one hand, Google monoculture and lack of choice sucks.
On the other hand, Google has too many choices.
The only major issue I have with maps is that it's too easy to rotate when trying to zoom. Otherwise I find the UI clean and quick to navigate, with clear instructions when I'm driving or glancing at the screen.
They use a left triangle for back, the same as your web browser and your VCR and your tape deck.
One of the core parts of Material design is an accent colour and/or border to highlight things you can interact with. This is similar to web browsers that colour links, although browsers are worse because you can have clickable images and the like with no indication.
High contrast is another staple of Material design.
Maybe you are mixing it up with other flat designs, like Apple's (which does use a lot of low contrast). I'm not saying Google are perfect but a lot of the complaints about Material design are addressed in the spec, the criticism should really be that Google don't always follow their own guidelines.
Guidelines for Material buttons here: https://material.io/guidelines...
As you can see, when there is any confusion about things being buttons you use a box to make it clear. If apps fail to do that and you are confused, they are doing Material design wrong.
Unfortunately, there are some poor imitations out there.
Gmail uses black text on a white background by default. Hard to get more contrast than that. In general material design is high contrast, the basic tenet being to use black+white and a high contrast accent colour.
Photos sorts by date by default, that's pretty logical. The AI is used for automatic photoshopping and to make natural language search work ("show me photos of my cat").
The Calendar UI on desktop is quite annoying, mostly because clicking anything tries to create new events or change something.
To be fair a lot of machines from that era are dying now. Batteries became more and more common in the 80s, and of course they leak. ROMs are starting to die too, especially EPROMs. I had to replace a few when restoring an Amiga 4000 recently.
Capacitors commonly go, even good ones of that age. Storage media are a problem too - tapes are generally fairly reliable but the tape decks die, usually the drive belt. C64 floppy drives were unreliable even back in the day, so actually these days they are probably more reliable if they still work as they dodgy bits will have been replaced. Cartridges and partridge ports get dirty and corroded of course.
Keys are another common failure from that era. The carbon contacts gets dirty or wears out, and the pads corrode. They are likely to have come into contact with skin and skin oil. Chips also become unseated if they are socketed, a quick clean and re-seat fixes that.
Sometimes oscillators age too and go out of spec. It's usually fine, TVs are fairly tolerant.
If Google were trying to hide this they went about it in a strange way - you can simply go to your Google account and review everything you have ever said to any Google/Android device if you have voice history turned on (which it is by default). That's how this journalist noticed.
This sort of thing happens all the time. You design a new product, you buy in some touch sensors and test them out. Maybe they need calibration during manufacturing, so you design that in too. But then when production ramps up to the tens of thousands you find that a significant proportion are flakey or the calibration was incorrect.
I've had this happen where some microcontrollers where supposed to be factory calibrated by the manufacturer, but any made between certain dates weren't.
How many John Smiths do you think there are on Facebook? It's more than one.
I'd love to see a break down of the return on investing $1bn in education.
Oh, and don't forget to disable WebRTC as well. uBlock Origin has an option to do that.
All you need to do is visit one site in common with both laptops and they can link the two accounts.
People use social media to organize social events. If you don't want to participate your only option is to keep bugging them for updates (because they will forget to text/email/call you).
The best I've been able to manage is to convince them to use WattsApp because at least it is encrypted and semi-private.
Next to zero natural resources? We had a massive coal industry that only closed because coal demand went down and cheap imports went up. There is still estimated to be ~100 years worth left in the ground. We also have gas from the North Sea and potentially via fracking. We were also one of the first to start using nuclear power, after the US screwed us over on the bomb and we had to build our own.
We also have quite a bit of hydro power. Up north the wind resources are some of the best in the world, although it's actually solar farms with battery storage that are going subsidy free now. And we are in the north of Europe, supposedly terrible for solar, and yet...
Um, you realize that more than one person on Facebook can have the same name, right?
The only thing unique about a Facebook account is the email address used to create it. Everything else can be cloned wholesale from another account, making it extremely hard to know which one is the real one.
They might be using canvas fingerprinting. There are add-ons to block it. I use CanvasFingerprintBlock.
Canvas fingerprinting works in incognito mode, works with ad-blockers, works if you block cookies, works if you use a VPN... And if you install a blocker you will quickly find that a large proportion of sites are trying to use it.
Translation:
"Simple fix: Don't have a social life."
In the UK renewables are now going subsidy free, the only source of electricity available that can do so. There is simply nothing cheaper, nothing else with zero subsidy.
Maybe you should be asking why it's gone so badly wrong in Ontario when other places have benefited hugely. Also less important but still worth pointing out, I said "now" and your article is about things that started happening in 2003.
Perhaps the "retard with a flamethrower" comment lowered my opinion of the GP's post.