I was pretty much expecting that. He made the promise assuming Manning wouldn't be pardoned (talk is cheap), and then got caught out when she was. I would have been pretty shocked if he had turned himself in, it's not the way he operates.
Bread is not a good measure of currency valuations, because it is based on only a single commodity and is mass produced, thus failing to reflect the cost of services that make up a much bigger portion of modern economies.
It's also heavily subsidised in some countries. In the East German worker's paradise, bread cost 5 pfennig (a couple of US cents), which certainly wasn't its real cost.
You find this a lot more in the US than elsewhere, it's an artefact of the use of bath + shower vs. a standalone shower, which is more common outside the US. What you describe is very true though, every hotel you go to presents a new puzzle in how to make water come out of the shower head. Sometimes it's relatively easy (turn or pull a locking knob on the bath faucet, typically), other times I've come close to calling the front desk to report a faulty shower until I finally figured it out (turn the decorative moulding around the front of the faucet about 45 degrees, then pull it down to lock it into place). The problem with the latter is that a well-disguised switchover mechanism is indistinguishable from a fixture that looks like it might do the job if you just push/pull/twist it a bit harder.
It depends on how they track the issues. At the moment when you're offered update XYZ, which always comes with zero information as to what it does ("this is to address security and stability issues" or whatever), you can click on a link, and then another link, and then scroll down, and then expand some text, and them click on yet another link, and maybe find out what it is the update is addressing. If you can still go from totally-zero-information to at least some information, whether it's a bulletin or CVE, then that's fine. However it seems like what this is announcing is the removal of even the current hard-to-find information about what an update actually does, which is also in line with MS's ongoing policy of removing user control over updates.
Change for the sake of change, lacking any legitimate reason
There's a perfectly legitimate reason for doing this. As everyone knows, Windows 2000^H^H^H XP^H^H^H Vista^H^H^H 7^H^H^H 8^H^H^H 10 is the most secure version of Windows ever, so there's no need for security bulletins any more because it's so secure.
Has anyone examined a random sample of similar ties from the 1970s? Given a single sample, you can always find something novel there, until you realise that it was contamination from the shipping container, or manufacturing, or the environment, or whatever, and a bazillion other samples show the same traces.
I've run into exactly the same problem, I went to Ashley Madison and talked to dozens of attractive young women online, but it turned out they were all fake. And now my credit card is getting charges on it from Romania. Do Hamas operate there too?
Same with amiton. OTOH that was one they should have kept, it's one of the few things that'll deal with things like passion vine hoppers, which are almost unkillable with other insecticides.
And now for a less facetious reply: I've seen something like this before when working on audio processing algorithms that are evaluated subjectively, after hearing the same type of audio sample for the millionth time in a row, and having heard 900,000 less-good versions, you start to think that it's sounding pretty decent. It isn't until you either measure it objectively or find a fresh test subject who's never listened to any of the previous attempts to listen to it and provide a subjective rating that you realise it's actually not so good. There's a technical name for this problem which escapes me at the moment... anyone?
They're not that bad. It's a human voice codec, and for more than half the samples I could tell that I was probably listening to a human voice. All you'd need to add is subtitles so you can tell what's being said and it'd be pretty good.
It's not the roundup that's doing it, it's neonicotinoid insecticides. If you wanted to specifically design something to genocide bees, neonic insecticides would be about as close to ideal as you could get. So the solution to the problem would be to put neonics on the endangered-species list, and hope they fade out of the environment before the bees do.
Microsoft refers to this as "Windows Goodbye" internally
"Windows 10 Goodbye"? How about Windows 10 F**k Off, I'd certainly want that as a feature of Windows. Followed by something involving a Linux Mint ISO.
just take care of the people that gotta deal with this, i suppose?
It's easier to pretend that it doesn't cause problems. We've had the same problem here, police staff who had to examine pr0n and, in another branch, smoke weed during undercover work, were told they had no basis for a claim because neither pr0n nor weed are harmful to anyone. Which was kinda interesting because the basis for prosecuting people for owning weed was that it was harmful and they needed to be protected from it. Unless they were undercover cops, in which case it wasn't harmful.
What they don't mention is that once the first lot of Samsung batteries have finished burning you need to feed more into the firebox or you lose steam pressure and therefore range.
It's a lot more complicated than that. This is another Gamergate-style shitfight that's been dragging on for a long time, with everyone in very entrenched positions and convinced they're right. Here's one side, here's the other.
We will build a great firewall -- and nobody builds firewalls better than us, believe me --and we'll build them very inexpensively. We will build a great, great firewall in our IT department, and we will make India pay for that firewall. Mark my words.
And how can this monstrosity be described as an upgrade? It's the same shit look as Windows 10, which is somewhere below that of the Windows Vista Basic UI that was activated in Windows Vista to punish people who'd pirated it.
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I was pretty much expecting that. He made the promise assuming Manning wouldn't be pardoned (talk is cheap), and then got caught out when she was. I would have been pretty shocked if he had turned himself in, it's not the way he operates.
Bread is not a good measure of currency valuations, because it is based on only a single commodity and is mass produced, thus failing to reflect the cost of services that make up a much bigger portion of modern economies.
It's also heavily subsidised in some countries. In the East German worker's paradise, bread cost 5 pfennig (a couple of US cents), which certainly wasn't its real cost.
You find this a lot more in the US than elsewhere, it's an artefact of the use of bath + shower vs. a standalone shower, which is more common outside the US. What you describe is very true though, every hotel you go to presents a new puzzle in how to make water come out of the shower head. Sometimes it's relatively easy (turn or pull a locking knob on the bath faucet, typically), other times I've come close to calling the front desk to report a faulty shower until I finally figured it out (turn the decorative moulding around the front of the faucet about 45 degrees, then pull it down to lock it into place). The problem with the latter is that a well-disguised switchover mechanism is indistinguishable from a fixture that looks like it might do the job if you just push/pull/twist it a bit harder.
As said by God himself at the end of We Are the Road Crew, Hammersmith, 1985.
Well, fuck me! Who woulda thought it?
It depends on how they track the issues. At the moment when you're offered update XYZ, which always comes with zero information as to what it does ("this is to address security and stability issues" or whatever), you can click on a link, and then another link, and then scroll down, and then expand some text, and them click on yet another link, and maybe find out what it is the update is addressing. If you can still go from totally-zero-information to at least some information, whether it's a bulletin or CVE, then that's fine. However it seems like what this is announcing is the removal of even the current hard-to-find information about what an update actually does, which is also in line with MS's ongoing policy of removing user control over updates.
Change for the sake of change, lacking any legitimate reason
There's a perfectly legitimate reason for doing this. As everyone knows, Windows 2000^H^H^H XP^H^H^H Vista^H^H^H 7^H^H^H 8^H^H^H 10 is the most secure version of Windows ever, so there's no need for security bulletins any more because it's so secure.
I once went to LV and came back with 10x more than I took. It was the only time I've been there and no desire to go back
Same thing happened to me, Shit, I was on intravenous antibiotics for a month, my dick nearly fell off. Never going back there again.
The fact that bits of the Central Valley keep sinking out from under it probably isn't making the construction any cheaper...
Well, stay out of the girls who work there. Nevada itself isn't so bad.
Has anyone examined a random sample of similar ties from the 1970s? Given a single sample, you can always find something novel there, until you realise that it was contamination from the shipping container, or manufacturing, or the environment, or whatever, and a bazillion other samples show the same traces.
I've run into exactly the same problem, I went to Ashley Madison and talked to dozens of attractive young women online, but it turned out they were all fake. And now my credit card is getting charges on it from Romania. Do Hamas operate there too?
Same with amiton. OTOH that was one they should have kept, it's one of the few things that'll deal with things like passion vine hoppers, which are almost unkillable with other insecticides.
And now for a less facetious reply: I've seen something like this before when working on audio processing algorithms that are evaluated subjectively, after hearing the same type of audio sample for the millionth time in a row, and having heard 900,000 less-good versions, you start to think that it's sounding pretty decent. It isn't until you either measure it objectively or find a fresh test subject who's never listened to any of the previous attempts to listen to it and provide a subjective rating that you realise it's actually not so good. There's a technical name for this problem which escapes me at the moment... anyone?
They're not that bad. It's a human voice codec, and for more than half the samples I could tell that I was probably listening to a human voice. All you'd need to add is subtitles so you can tell what's being said and it'd be pretty good.
It's not the roundup that's doing it, it's neonicotinoid insecticides. If you wanted to specifically design something to genocide bees, neonic insecticides would be about as close to ideal as you could get. So the solution to the problem would be to put neonics on the endangered-species list, and hope they fade out of the environment before the bees do.
Microsoft refers to this as "Windows Goodbye" internally
"Windows 10 Goodbye"? How about Windows 10 F**k Off, I'd certainly want that as a feature of Windows. Followed by something involving a Linux Mint ISO.
just take care of the people that gotta deal with this, i suppose?
It's easier to pretend that it doesn't cause problems. We've had the same problem here, police staff who had to examine pr0n and, in another branch, smoke weed during undercover work, were told they had no basis for a claim because neither pr0n nor weed are harmful to anyone. Which was kinda interesting because the basis for prosecuting people for owning weed was that it was harmful and they needed to be protected from it. Unless they were undercover cops, in which case it wasn't harmful.
They were holding it wrong.
Does anyone stream videos in original cinemascope? I have stacks of blu-ray discs and only a few of them are in 2.4:1.
I use an old Pentium PC for video streaming. For some reason the videos all come out 2.3999999957:1.
What they don't mention is that once the first lot of Samsung batteries have finished burning you need to feed more into the firebox or you lose steam pressure and therefore range.
It's a lot more complicated than that. This is another Gamergate-style shitfight that's been dragging on for a long time, with everyone in very entrenched positions and convinced they're right. Here's one side, here's the other.
We will build a great firewall -- and nobody builds firewalls better than us, believe me --and we'll build them very inexpensively. We will build a great, great firewall in our IT department, and we will make India pay for that firewall. Mark my words.
And how can this monstrosity be described as an upgrade? It's the same shit look as Windows 10, which is somewhere below that of the Windows Vista Basic UI that was activated in Windows Vista to punish people who'd pirated it.
And most of the lung cancer risk associated with smoking can be mitigated with a daily vitamin C supplement.
Linus Pauling, is that you?