You could "fill up" your car in one location, drive home, and pump that power in to your local grid. If the local prices were high enough it could be affordable. You could get some sort of "energy truckers", hauling batteries across territory from grid to grid.
That would make things interesting, though I can't imagine it would be terribly efficient. It would encourage companies and governments not to build out proper electrical grids.
This is an opportunity for Congress to pretend to be mean to Zuck to show their voters that the bribe money means nothing. It will also ensure FB keeps the bribe money coming in.
Your poor friend that is unable to work any other job can go fuck himself. And YOU can go fuck yourself too for demanding that we be pleasant to people that are trying to scam us.
A work phone has the facebook app on it? You should probably report that to your security team as that is a massive security flaw. If they don't give a shit, push it up the chain until someone does.
I wouldn't want to be responsible if facebook decides to leak company secrets.
I get these a lot and I don't have the facebook app, or any other social media app. I think what is going on is we tend to talk about things we have done searches for.
Today, most of the ads on Slashdot (mobile, of course) were for Logic Supply industrial computers. I just bought a computer from them last week and had been researching it the past couple weeks. Previously I get a lot of ads for a specific Olympus Camera... that I also already own.
In fact most of the ads I see are for things I already own. I think Slashdot's ad network is brain-dead.
I only see ads on mobile, but I will occasionally see ads on mobile for things I did a search for on the desktop.
It encourages reviewers to give good reviews of bad products. If they say "this sucks, don't buy it" few people will follow the link and make the reviewer cash.
Yeah, 1 message per day communication will confuse things.:)
I get you now, the success criteria needs to be a more overreaching thing. Instead of "give x items to y people", its "produce a product that sells for $z". That would do it. People generally interested in making real products would thrive. People just trying to make money, or people so confused about what their buisness model is, would not. But that is a good thing.
I think that would be a step backwards. Few people would fund a prototype without a reasonable expectation of getting a product. It might well encourage more kickstarter scams. "See, we never promised to make anything at all!"
As far as raffling off the prototype, that makes it sound more like gambling. "Back our kickstarter and you might>get something in return!
Yeah, you nailed it right there. I get repeated emails from Kickstarter pimping random campaigns that have nothing to do with things I have bought before, and many of which appear to be thinly veiled scams. I'd block emails from Kickstarter, but then I would miss updates from products I have backed.
In this respect Kickstarter reminds me of those scam "bidding" sites like QBids or DealDaash. "Bids are not an auction, they are for entertainment purposes only. We do not promise that you will get any products in exchange for your money."
I might simply stop using kickstarter altogether. Anything that I buy usually ends up as a normal product that I can buy post-campaign for not much more.
You will never get someone on Kickstarter to walk away from money. The money cult there encourages people to make absurd claims to try to get as big a pile as possible. Even if those claims are impossible.
I've never understood the stretch goals thing. Even a big Kickstarter is such a small yield that unit costs are not going down much for physical products.
They are literally promising more features for free, and none of those features are in the prototype/demo. And then people wonder why they can't deliver.
This is why you look at the app permissions before installing and app. I was the only person I know that said, "Hmm, why does Facebook need to read my call history and contact lists?"
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You could "fill up" your car in one location, drive home, and pump that power in to your local grid. If the local prices were high enough it could be affordable. You could get some sort of "energy truckers", hauling batteries across territory from grid to grid.
That would make things interesting, though I can't imagine it would be terribly efficient. It would encourage companies and governments not to build out proper electrical grids.
This is an opportunity for Congress to pretend to be mean to Zuck to show their voters that the bribe money means nothing. It will also ensure FB keeps the bribe money coming in.
Note: My phone keeps autocorrecting Zuck to Fuck.
Are you stupid or just a big government apologist?
Michael Bolton: I always miss some mundane detail.
Peter Gibbons: This is not a mundane detail, Michael!
Yeah, but foot-stamped means something entirely different.
Besides, you won't be meeting anyone from your mom's basement.
> huddled around flaming barrels of obsolete O'Reilly Manual editions.
Love That. Really do
O'Really?
Your poor friend that is unable to work any other job can go fuck himself. And YOU can go fuck yourself too for demanding that we be pleasant to people that are trying to scam us.
I am glad that talking on the phone will be dead by the time I am that age. I already never answer the phone if the number is recognized.
Wait impatiently? No, they just interrupt as soon as they have something to say.
Now chatbots can do the same. Great.
A work phone has the facebook app on it? You should probably report that to your security team as that is a massive security flaw. If they don't give a shit, push it up the chain until someone does.
I wouldn't want to be responsible if facebook decides to leak company secrets.
Get a new phone/carrier.
You put up with ads in notifications from an app on your phone?
That app would immediately be uninstalled on my phone. I have had a few free apps do this, exactly once, then they were gone.
I get these a lot and I don't have the facebook app, or any other social media app. I think what is going on is we tend to talk about things we have done searches for.
Today, most of the ads on Slashdot (mobile, of course) were for Logic Supply industrial computers. I just bought a computer from them last week and had been researching it the past couple weeks. Previously I get a lot of ads for a specific Olympus Camera... that I also already own.
In fact most of the ads I see are for things I already own. I think Slashdot's ad network is brain-dead.
I only see ads on mobile, but I will occasionally see ads on mobile for things I did a search for on the desktop.
It encourages reviewers to give good reviews of bad products. If they say "this sucks, don't buy it" few people will follow the link and make the reviewer cash.
Maybe they plan to test on private tracks.
Yeah, corporations are worth more than people. In your corporateocracy, corporations should be allowed to run down as many people as they want.
This is what happens when the Phoenix Coyotes became the Arizona Coyotes.
Yeah, 1 message per day communication will confuse things. :)
I get you now, the success criteria needs to be a more overreaching thing. Instead of "give x items to y people", its "produce a product that sells for $z". That would do it. People generally interested in making real products would thrive. People just trying to make money, or people so confused about what their buisness model is, would not. But that is a good thing.
I think that would be a step backwards. Few people would fund a prototype without a reasonable expectation of getting a product. It might well encourage more kickstarter scams. "See, we never promised to make anything at all!"
As far as raffling off the prototype, that makes it sound more like gambling. "Back our kickstarter and you might>get something in return!
Yeah, its much easier to get the drug user on charges, turn him into an informant, then give him no support when the drug dealer kills him.
Much easier to convict on a murder charge than a drug dealing one.
Yeah, you nailed it right there. I get repeated emails from Kickstarter pimping random campaigns that have nothing to do with things I have bought before, and many of which appear to be thinly veiled scams. I'd block emails from Kickstarter, but then I would miss updates from products I have backed.
In this respect Kickstarter reminds me of those scam "bidding" sites like QBids or DealDaash. "Bids are not an auction, they are for entertainment purposes only. We do not promise that you will get any products in exchange for your money."
I might simply stop using kickstarter altogether. Anything that I buy usually ends up as a normal product that I can buy post-campaign for not much more.
You will never get someone on Kickstarter to walk away from money. The money cult there encourages people to make absurd claims to try to get as big a pile as possible. Even if those claims are impossible.
I've never understood the stretch goals thing. Even a big Kickstarter is such a small yield that unit costs are not going down much for physical products.
They are literally promising more features for free, and none of those features are in the prototype/demo. And then people wonder why they can't deliver.
I bet you are proud that you don't have a TV, and bring that up constantly.
This is why you look at the app permissions before installing and app. I was the only person I know that said, "Hmm, why does Facebook need to read my call history and contact lists?"