Farscape, Firefly, Babylon 5, Stargate, Space: Above and Beyond, Star Treks, Battlestar Galactica, the list just keeps going of awesome scifi that ran from the late 1980s until the mid-2000s.
Falling Skies (just ended after 5 seasons - decent) Dark Matter (boring as all fuck) Killjoys (not bad) Defiance (Awesome first episode and then straight downhill... stopped watching after 8 episodes) Continuum (Couldn't get through season 1, need to check it out again) Under the Dome (Season 1 was decent but they didn't know what to do with it after that) Extant (Couldn't get through a single episode... just painful) Zoo (likes to think it's scifi but it's absolutely moronic) Minority Report (omg one of the worst leaked pilots of recent memory)
Fantasy/Fantastical Fiction or Horrorish is looking a little better
Dominion (really enjoying) Lost Girl (love it) Game of Thrones (last season sucked) Forever (really enjoyed it, so of course it's cancelled) The Whisperers (interesting concept) Strain (not bad if you can get into the editing/shooting style) All the teen crap (Beauty and the Beast, Teen Wolf, Vampire Diaries, and so on) Once Upon a Time & spin off (Enjoyed but got played out)
For me 'Firefly' hits on the answer. There is a complete lack of competition in the scifi genre. You have the comic book series and you have whatever mediocre "scifi" that SyFy/Space put out. Growing up there was a massive amount of scifi to choose from, from Star Trek to Lex and everything in between. There was an analysis done on imdb data, I can't find the link, however, it showed something like 7 times the historic average during the 90s. These shows have massive followings to this day and they create revenue streams outside of the show itself with toys/games/models/costumes/etc.
For me personally, I watch any scifi that comes out no matter how bad it is simply because I'm trying not to re-watch my library for the 8th or 9th time.
Yes, Canadian law is on the basis of "having regard to all the circumstances". That's been used by judges to keep evidence that should technically have been excluded but in doing so would "bring the administration of justice into disrepute". ie: where in the US you can "poison tree" evidence on clerical errors, improper procedures, etc. Canadian courts have the leeway to say "this was a minor infringement of the individual's rights without intent and we're not going to get rid of the only evidence that proves this guy raped kids." or the opposite and say "this guy was tortured for the information that led to the evidence and you wouldn't have found it otherwise, you can no longer use that evidence".
It's not, but up to the hack they strictly obeyed to the 11th commandments ("Thou shall not get caught").
But, how do you want to prove it; you can't use the hacked data ("Fruit of the poisonous tree")...
"Poison tree" argument also doesn't apply to Canadian law. Courts regularly use "poisoned" evidence here. That said, there's no case because they include this clause in their terms:
Other Aspects of the Ashley Madison Service – For Your Entertainment
Our Site and our Service gives users the opportunity to explore their fantasies and to interact with others in the Site. However, there is no guarantee you will find a date or partner on our Site or using our Service. Our Site and our Service also is geared to provide you with amusement and entertainment. You agree that some of the features of our Site and our Service are intended to provide entertainment.
In Canadian law as long as you disclose that it's for entertainment purposes only you can get away with a lot more. It's how psychic/erotic phone lines and such get around laws that would otherwise make it illegal.
Even with a big fine the cost of running a program like that would exceed a "poo pickup tax" easily. You've got the cost of the DNA test, someone to pick up the poo anyway for testing, mailing costs, fine collection, administration, etc. Doing it that way, everyone - including those without dogs, end up paying the very hefty price tag. Doing it as a yearly dog tag tax means you're targeting dog owners, you're eliminating all the costs of the DNA program except the employee picking up the poo, and the minority may not be incentivized but the responsible owners will want to keep the cost of the program as low as possible so they will act as 'poo police' in the sense that the social pressure they place on others to pickup after themselves becomes the deterrent/incentive for the minority.
Then you're telling people it's OK to let their dogs shit everywhere. [snip] Costs will go up every year, and the people who actually clean up after their dogs will be the ones who suffer the most.
You're not telling them it's OK, you're telling them that the more they let their dogs shit everywhere the more they're going to have to pay in tax every year. Want to pay a lower dog tag bill? Pick up after them otherwise, be prepared to pay for your pets shit.
It is your problem because there's shit everywhere. It may not be from your dog but it's likely going to end up under your foot. Kinda like saying "I shit at home so don't make paying for sewers my problem"
Employ individuals to clean up the waste and pay for it by requiring yearly dog tag renewal which includes the "poo pickup" tax. Owners don't need to worry anymore, it creates jobs, and it's paid for by the people who create the problem.
I trust Norwegian companies more than I trust American companies. Otherwise, there's no compelling reason. I'm not a fan of any of the offerings these days.
Like it or not, you pretty much have to use some version of windows. Whether it's at work or because of some windows-only software, there's really no way to avoid windows.
please tell us all what indispensible apps run on windows that have no equivalents on any other operating system
Management.
That's not a software title as far as I'm aware. Give a specific example of software that requires windows. The closest I know of is quickbooks but even that has a mac version so you still have some choice. Anything important or popular or expensive is going to be ported to at least mac. You don't have to run windows. I don't run windows or mac and haven't for over a decade.
I completely disagree that it isn't Mozilla's fault. The horrid UI changes, the decades old bugs, abandoning core products to dick around with crap no one wants, failing to improve their OSX/Linux offerings in a timely manner, and completely ignoring the community are all major mistakes. At one point they needed to be the same to make it easy for people to switch from IE but they never got out of that mentality. They needed a focus/direction on how they were going to be different from the big boys to make their offerings unique while still being standards compliant. They spent way too much time creating bureaucracy that never got used (like the privacy team that was supposed to meet once a month), making their websites pretty instead of functional, and generally doing everything possible to piss people off.
That wasn't the only factor, Google's tactics rivaled that of early IE in their bundling of Chrome/leveraging their websites to push it.
Honestly, if they went back to Firefox 3's UI, cleaned out all the advertising/Hello/other gimmicky crap and focused on being a light weight/secure/fast/privacy focused browser I would be excited about it again. As it stands, most of the addons I use will not be WebApplications compatible as they're mostly to fix Mozilla's fuckups - once that's gone I don't know what I'll do. Opera possibly?
You can easily disable most problematic parts of HTML5 in Firefox via about:config. The already mentioned, media.mediasource.enabled, a lot of the dom.* settings like dom.storage.enabled, and so on. It's just a matter of deciding what is right for you.
This. If I ever do use the other key it's with my left hand. Y is used less than T in English so my keyboard has the T/6 closer to the left index than the right.
I thought this was just common sense and public knowledge. How does this asinine bull make a slash headline?
It's not entirely obvious or necessarily true. I for one am a genre gamer to an extent. Tower Defense & 5x are my preferred games, RTS/Strategy next. The rest I play a bit of everything. I will spend the most time on games I enjoy but I'm always more willing to try those in my preferred genre over those I know I probably won't enjoy.
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Farscape, Firefly, Babylon 5, Stargate, Space: Above and Beyond, Star Treks, Battlestar Galactica, the list just keeps going of awesome scifi that ran from the late 1980s until the mid-2000s.
SciFi that's out right now
Falling Skies (just ended after 5 seasons - decent)
Dark Matter (boring as all fuck)
Killjoys (not bad)
Defiance (Awesome first episode and then straight downhill... stopped watching after 8 episodes)
Continuum (Couldn't get through season 1, need to check it out again)
Under the Dome (Season 1 was decent but they didn't know what to do with it after that)
Extant (Couldn't get through a single episode... just painful)
Zoo (likes to think it's scifi but it's absolutely moronic)
Minority Report (omg one of the worst leaked pilots of recent memory)
Fantasy/Fantastical Fiction or Horrorish is looking a little better
Dominion (really enjoying)
Lost Girl (love it)
Game of Thrones (last season sucked)
Forever (really enjoyed it, so of course it's cancelled)
The Whisperers (interesting concept)
Strain (not bad if you can get into the editing/shooting style)
All the teen crap (Beauty and the Beast, Teen Wolf, Vampire Diaries, and so on)
Once Upon a Time & spin off (Enjoyed but got played out)
For me 'Firefly' hits on the answer. There is a complete lack of competition in the scifi genre. You have the comic book series and you have whatever mediocre "scifi" that SyFy/Space put out. Growing up there was a massive amount of scifi to choose from, from Star Trek to Lex and everything in between. There was an analysis done on imdb data, I can't find the link, however, it showed something like 7 times the historic average during the 90s. These shows have massive followings to this day and they create revenue streams outside of the show itself with toys/games/models/costumes/etc.
For me personally, I watch any scifi that comes out no matter how bad it is simply because I'm trying not to re-watch my library for the 8th or 9th time.
I'm not sure Kazakhstan has some serious food quality controls /s Seriously though, it was a tinfoil hat joke not to be taken so seriously lol
You don't eat the meat of something that fell over and died of non-violent causes.
The reasons for this should be rather obvious.
Why would that stop a greedy corporation from trying to feed it to you anyway?
Yes, Canadian law is on the basis of "having regard to all the circumstances". That's been used by judges to keep evidence that should technically have been excluded but in doing so would "bring the administration of justice into disrepute". ie: where in the US you can "poison tree" evidence on clerical errors, improper procedures, etc. Canadian courts have the leeway to say "this was a minor infringement of the individual's rights without intent and we're not going to get rid of the only evidence that proves this guy raped kids." or the opposite and say "this guy was tortured for the information that led to the evidence and you wouldn't have found it otherwise, you can no longer use that evidence".
It's not, but up to the hack they strictly obeyed to the 11th commandments ("Thou shall not get caught").
But, how do you want to prove it; you can't use the hacked data ("Fruit of the poisonous tree")...
"Poison tree" argument also doesn't apply to Canadian law. Courts regularly use "poisoned" evidence here. That said, there's no case because they include this clause in their terms:
Other Aspects of the Ashley Madison Service – For Your Entertainment
Our Site and our Service gives users the opportunity to explore their fantasies and to interact with others in the Site. However, there is no guarantee you will find a date or partner on our Site or using our Service. Our Site and our Service also is geared to provide you with amusement and entertainment. You agree that some of the features of our Site and our Service are intended to provide entertainment.
In Canadian law as long as you disclose that it's for entertainment purposes only you can get away with a lot more. It's how psychic/erotic phone lines and such get around laws that would otherwise make it illegal.
You'd need something more detailed than parental testing and that's probably the cheapest part of such a program.
Even with a big fine the cost of running a program like that would exceed a "poo pickup tax" easily. You've got the cost of the DNA test, someone to pick up the poo anyway for testing, mailing costs, fine collection, administration, etc. Doing it that way, everyone - including those without dogs, end up paying the very hefty price tag. Doing it as a yearly dog tag tax means you're targeting dog owners, you're eliminating all the costs of the DNA program except the employee picking up the poo, and the minority may not be incentivized but the responsible owners will want to keep the cost of the program as low as possible so they will act as 'poo police' in the sense that the social pressure they place on others to pickup after themselves becomes the deterrent/incentive for the minority.
Citizens will do the jobs, merely that they may not do them as cheaply/be willing to take the abuse that immigrants do.
Then you're telling people it's OK to let their dogs shit everywhere. [snip] Costs will go up every year, and the people who actually clean up after their dogs will be the ones who suffer the most.
You're not telling them it's OK, you're telling them that the more they let their dogs shit everywhere the more they're going to have to pay in tax every year. Want to pay a lower dog tag bill? Pick up after them otherwise, be prepared to pay for your pets shit.
I doubt they could find enough people to hire. Do you know how much shit a dog can produce?
Watch "Pitbulls & Parolees" or "Dirty Jobs". There's not much people won't do for a paycheque.
It is your problem because there's shit everywhere. It may not be from your dog but it's likely going to end up under your foot. Kinda like saying "I shit at home so don't make paying for sewers my problem"
Employ individuals to clean up the waste and pay for it by requiring yearly dog tag renewal which includes the "poo pickup" tax. Owners don't need to worry anymore, it creates jobs, and it's paid for by the people who create the problem.
Palemoon?
Tried it, was underwhelmed to say the least.
I trust Norwegian companies more than I trust American companies. Otherwise, there's no compelling reason. I'm not a fan of any of the offerings these days.
Like it or not, you pretty much have to use some version of windows. Whether it's at work or because of some windows-only software, there's really no way to avoid windows.
please tell us all what indispensible apps run on windows that have no equivalents on any other operating system
Management.
That's not a software title as far as I'm aware. Give a specific example of software that requires windows. The closest I know of is quickbooks but even that has a mac version so you still have some choice. Anything important or popular or expensive is going to be ported to at least mac. You don't have to run windows. I don't run windows or mac and haven't for over a decade.
TimeMatters - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Meanwhile, complaints from users are met with little more than a thinly veiled FUCK YOU from Firefox developers.
Why is this happening with so many different projects lately? What happened?
Designers decided they knew better than the programmers and then the bean counters saw dollar signs where developers saw usability nightmares.
I completely disagree that it isn't Mozilla's fault. The horrid UI changes, the decades old bugs, abandoning core products to dick around with crap no one wants, failing to improve their OSX/Linux offerings in a timely manner, and completely ignoring the community are all major mistakes. At one point they needed to be the same to make it easy for people to switch from IE but they never got out of that mentality. They needed a focus/direction on how they were going to be different from the big boys to make their offerings unique while still being standards compliant. They spent way too much time creating bureaucracy that never got used (like the privacy team that was supposed to meet once a month), making their websites pretty instead of functional, and generally doing everything possible to piss people off.
That wasn't the only factor, Google's tactics rivaled that of early IE in their bundling of Chrome/leveraging their websites to push it.
Honestly, if they went back to Firefox 3's UI, cleaned out all the advertising/Hello/other gimmicky crap and focused on being a light weight/secure/fast/privacy focused browser I would be excited about it again. As it stands, most of the addons I use will not be WebApplications compatible as they're mostly to fix Mozilla's fuckups - once that's gone I don't know what I'll do. Opera possibly?
You can easily disable most problematic parts of HTML5 in Firefox via about:config. The already mentioned, media.mediasource.enabled, a lot of the dom.* settings like dom.storage.enabled, and so on. It's just a matter of deciding what is right for you.
If you ever work with numbers on a regular basis, like in a spreadsheet, it's SO much faster to use the numpad.
I use the numpad almost always.
This. If I ever do use the other key it's with my left hand. Y is used less than T in English so my keyboard has the T/6 closer to the left index than the right.
It's possible amazon has a problem in tech or another department but the people in the warehouse are treated fine
News Media, employee blogs, and other sources don't agree with you about Amazon warehouse workers. A simple Intertubes search reveals this reality.
Amazon still has workers in its warehouses? I thought they'd all be robots by now.
I thought this was just common sense and public knowledge. How does this asinine bull make a slash headline?
It's not entirely obvious or necessarily true. I for one am a genre gamer to an extent. Tower Defense & 5x are my preferred games, RTS/Strategy next. The rest I play a bit of everything. I will spend the most time on games I enjoy but I'm always more willing to try those in my preferred genre over those I know I probably won't enjoy.
I'm not referring to people quitting or being poached. I'm referring to companies firing these workers.