Many sites are just user hostile full stop. Take The Independent news site on mobile. Most stories have video, and to auto plays, and takes up more than half the screen, and the close button is the very last thing loaded and doesn't appear until after the video starts. Scrolling down doesn't help, the video follows you. They really, really want you to watch their video, and it's not even an ad.
Well what do you want me to do about it? I can't fly to America, get in a time machine and go back to fix it. I don't agree with what they did or support it. What more can I do?
I can only tell you what they told me. They refused to do the replacement at the lower price, only offering us the full rip-off price because they said to get the discounted rate you had to swap a genuine battery for another genuine battery. It was an Apple shop, Apple employees.
Given that he wants all of them out, and that the vast majority don't want to force their religion on anyone (except maybe their kids), I'll have to go with the former.
Tesla cars are the only ones you can drive remotely from your phone, which seems to make them uniquely vulnerable. Most cars have a hardware firewall between the telematics/infotainment systems and steering/drivetrain control, but obviously to support he remote control feature Tesla has to have comms between the two.
The UK doesn't have any of those problems, but the new nuclear plants are even more expensive, delayed and now being cancelled. We had to guarantee way above market rate for the lifetime of the plant, and even then only a French company with Chinese money was willing to build it.
1. Two to Three standard designs, vetted by some group of nuclear engineers as safe. Facilitates factory production of components 2. Processes to fast track environmental reviews
Those two alone will kill it. No investor is going to throw money at a design with dubious safety testing, and which might end up being built on some geologically problematic ground and have to be closed when the mistake is discovered.
People don't give you billions of dollars without doing due diligence.
If you removed all regulation and government involvement nuclear would be impossible to build because no-one could get insurance for it. The insurance policy would have to cover potentially trillions of dollars in damage. Even a relatively contained accident like Fukushima Daiichi is costing hundreds of billions to fix.
The truly bizarre part is the argument that we need to invest many many billions in nuclear power... But can't have renewables because we would we have to invest many many billions in it!
It's going to cost a lot in any case. But renewables are cheaper, and also democratize energy generation by allowing individuals to participate in the market just like big corporations can.
How many batteries did they refuse to replace, pissing off and losing customers?
They wouldn't do my wife's iPhone. Before the recall she had the battery replaced by a third party, and they would only replace the original cell. Fortunately I have managed to get her onto Android now.
It's a design defect. Most manufacturers design (and test!) their devices not to exceed the maximum current that the battery can supply through it's entire lifetime. Apple apparently didn't check that their battery choice would work when the battery aged.
Google actually had a similar problem. They replaced all the phones and switched to batteries that could meet the demands places on it.
Is it what people want, or are they stuck with it because they need/want iOS? If they are already invested in apps and cloud services and expensive Apple accessories it's not a simple matter to just move to a phone with replaceable battery.
I've organized male only events before. There are genuine reasons for doing so, just like how we have separate men's and women's facilities in lots of places.
So yes, my answer is that it's fine and you should stop being ridiculous about it.
The lawsuits are not over just what he did in the hotel room, they are over the fact that when women did run away he ruined their careers.
In the case of the tapes she wore a police wire and agreed to a meeting at the hotel to discuss her career and future opportunities. She wasn't willing to go to his room to see what would happen, because the police were not waiting to burst in on a naked Weinstein and she was worried she might not be safe.
Wow. They had a bit of time set aside for women and non-binary people, and the snowflakes went ape-shit. Never mind that the main panel was open to all and included a mix of genders. No, what matters is that someone had a discussion to which they were not invited.
I don't live in America, it wasn't news here. I heard something about it ages ago. According to Wikipedia most of the people there were peaceful, it was just a handful of idiots.
A handful of idiots I have no affiliation or association with. I've never been to the US, it's been a long time since I was on a university campus, I don't attend those kinds of events, and if I did I wouldn't use violence. So again, what does it have to do with me?
Right now there are yellow vest/Leave Means Leave supporters outside Parliament in the UK. They switched from chanting "Soubry is a Nazi" to "There's only one James Goddard". Goddard has called for millions of people to be deported because of their religion.
As for outrage, I checked Twitter and there isn't any. No SJW mobs, no long threads about it, nowt. Hop over to YouTube though and there are already dozens of hastily slapped together videos outraged about the imagined outrage.
If you look at this very story on Slashdot you can see that it's mostly people outraged about outrage they assume is happening somewhere else, mislead by a summary that conveniently forgets to mention that Riot has already been the subject of a lawsuit over this and suspended one exec due to his love of touching male subordinate's genitalia and farting in their faces.
Have you listened to the tapes? The ones that the police made.
They do not sound like someone negotiating a business transaction. Weinstein badgers the victim, repeatedly and persistently demanding she go to his hotel room even though she keeps strongly refusing.
And even if it was a deal of some kind, the fact that he demonstrably ruined other careers when women refused him means that any future "negotiation" was done under coercion.
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Many sites are just user hostile full stop. Take The Independent news site on mobile. Most stories have video, and to auto plays, and takes up more than half the screen, and the close button is the very last thing loaded and doesn't appear until after the video starts. Scrolling down doesn't help, the video follows you. They really, really want you to watch their video, and it's not even an ad.
I stopped going there because of that shit.
Are you perhaps also blocking Javascript by default?
Many sites override the autoplay setting by simply having Javascript start the video.
Well what do you want me to do about it? I can't fly to America, get in a time machine and go back to fix it. I don't agree with what they did or support it. What more can I do?
Interesting. Should be effective, but probably not compatible with VPNs etc.
This is starting to be a big problem that needs some new technique to resolve it.
I can only tell you what they told me. They refused to do the replacement at the lower price, only offering us the full rip-off price because they said to get the discounted rate you had to swap a genuine battery for another genuine battery. It was an Apple shop, Apple employees.
Given that he wants all of them out, and that the vast majority don't want to force their religion on anyone (except maybe their kids), I'll have to go with the former.
Tesla cars are the only ones you can drive remotely from your phone, which seems to make them uniquely vulnerable. Most cars have a hardware firewall between the telematics/infotainment systems and steering/drivetrain control, but obviously to support he remote control feature Tesla has to have comms between the two.
Does Hallmark appeal to all women, or just a subset of women who like that kind of thing?
At the moment it's still in the planning stage. All they have done is pass the Phase 1 review.
The UK doesn't have any of those problems, but the new nuclear plants are even more expensive, delayed and now being cancelled. We had to guarantee way above market rate for the lifetime of the plant, and even then only a French company with Chinese money was willing to build it.
1. Two to Three standard designs, vetted by some group of nuclear engineers as safe. Facilitates factory production of components
2. Processes to fast track environmental reviews
Those two alone will kill it. No investor is going to throw money at a design with dubious safety testing, and which might end up being built on some geologically problematic ground and have to be closed when the mistake is discovered.
People don't give you billions of dollars without doing due diligence.
If you removed all regulation and government involvement nuclear would be impossible to build because no-one could get insurance for it. The insurance policy would have to cover potentially trillions of dollars in damage. Even a relatively contained accident like Fukushima Daiichi is costing hundreds of billions to fix.
The truly bizarre part is the argument that we need to invest many many billions in nuclear power... But can't have renewables because we would we have to invest many many billions in it!
It's going to cost a lot in any case. But renewables are cheaper, and also democratize energy generation by allowing individuals to participate in the market just like big corporations can.
How many batteries did they refuse to replace, pissing off and losing customers?
They wouldn't do my wife's iPhone. Before the recall she had the battery replaced by a third party, and they would only replace the original cell. Fortunately I have managed to get her onto Android now.
It's a design defect. Most manufacturers design (and test!) their devices not to exceed the maximum current that the battery can supply through it's entire lifetime. Apple apparently didn't check that their battery choice would work when the battery aged.
Google actually had a similar problem. They replaced all the phones and switched to batteries that could meet the demands places on it.
Is it what people want, or are they stuck with it because they need/want iOS? If they are already invested in apps and cloud services and expensive Apple accessories it's not a simple matter to just move to a phone with replaceable battery.
Persistence is coercion, especially when the person being persistent holds your career in their hands. Coerced sex is rape.
I've organized male only events before. There are genuine reasons for doing so, just like how we have separate men's and women's facilities in lots of places.
So yes, my answer is that it's fine and you should stop being ridiculous about it.
Fascinating read, thank you. I'm very surprised at the result.
The lawsuits are not over just what he did in the hotel room, they are over the fact that when women did run away he ruined their careers.
In the case of the tapes she wore a police wire and agreed to a meeting at the hotel to discuss her career and future opportunities. She wasn't willing to go to his room to see what would happen, because the police were not waiting to burst in on a naked Weinstein and she was worried she might not be safe.
Wow. They had a bit of time set aside for women and non-binary people, and the snowflakes went ape-shit. Never mind that the main panel was open to all and included a mix of genders. No, what matters is that someone had a discussion to which they were not invited.
Grow the fuck up.
I don't live in America, it wasn't news here. I heard something about it ages ago. According to Wikipedia most of the people there were peaceful, it was just a handful of idiots.
A handful of idiots I have no affiliation or association with. I've never been to the US, it's been a long time since I was on a university campus, I don't attend those kinds of events, and if I did I wouldn't use violence. So again, what does it have to do with me?
They only call it a tan because it superficially resembles one
That's what the tell the emperor, at any rate.
Right now there are yellow vest/Leave Means Leave supporters outside Parliament in the UK. They switched from chanting "Soubry is a Nazi" to "There's only one James Goddard". Goddard has called for millions of people to be deported because of their religion.
As for outrage, I checked Twitter and there isn't any. No SJW mobs, no long threads about it, nowt. Hop over to YouTube though and there are already dozens of hastily slapped together videos outraged about the imagined outrage.
If you look at this very story on Slashdot you can see that it's mostly people outraged about outrage they assume is happening somewhere else, mislead by a summary that conveniently forgets to mention that Riot has already been the subject of a lawsuit over this and suspended one exec due to his love of touching male subordinate's genitalia and farting in their faces.
Meta-outrage is the cancer.
Have you listened to the tapes? The ones that the police made.
They do not sound like someone negotiating a business transaction. Weinstein badgers the victim, repeatedly and persistently demanding she go to his hotel room even though she keeps strongly refusing.
And even if it was a deal of some kind, the fact that he demonstrably ruined other careers when women refused him means that any future "negotiation" was done under coercion.