I personally don't recall having seen any ads for Cryptocurrency, but there again I don't pay attention to ads. When an app on my phone plays a video I always turn my phone away from my face to not watch it... I'd rather watch a wall.
That said, don't see the harm in ads for Cryptocurrency. One's that mine from the ad... now those are bad.
Do you know why they concentrate on sports, most people do not realise why. Universities have a tax exempt status, so sporting revenues, advertising and ticket sales are tax exempt and hence the major source of profits for insiders, investors and staff with inflated salaries, why sport in US universities, greed not education,
I always find it amusing that any public spending on medicine in the US is decried as "Socialized Medicine" and yet public run and supported institutions have these huge sport programs.
"Socialized Medicine" is bad but people don't have a problem with "Socialized Sport" from college/university teams. Minor league sports teams rarely stay solvent for long in the US, they constantly open and close, relocate, etc... trying to eek out a meager existence because they can't compete with Socialized Sports teams. A University team has a bad year... that's OK... there's more government money to keep them afloat for a while- or another influx of students next year. Minor league teams have no such protection.
15 years is ancient for a minor league team in the US- you go to Europe and there are MANY small teams that have been playing on the same grounds since the 19th Century- they're the norm not the exception. They're not being crushed by socialized sport.
Well, I for one have exactly zero confidence this won't eventually (if not currently) be used to deny entirely legitimate returns as they push harder to reduce costs-- eventually that will result in increasing improper denials. "Oh sorry, you've exceeded your return quota of 1 item every 3 months, so this must be fraudulent as that's excessive."
Stores don't want to go too far because then they will lose customers to other stores that don't have such policies. It's a fine line stores have to walk. They want to catch people abusing the system (because they don't make a profit from them) but they want to keep customers who they do make a profit from.
If you don't abuse returns, I doubt you'll ever have anything to worry about. Remember- 30-40 years ago a lot of stores did not have such generous return policies as they do now. Stores had to adapt because the Walmart way of letting people return everything would steal customers away from them if they didn't offer it too.
I know I won't buy from stores online if they don't have a free return policy. I always check the return policy before buying.
Indeed it is. Which is why you're a moron to compare it to someone who paid money for a product and is trying to get money in a return for said product.
If someone is abusing the system of returns and returning something that they have used and not in good faith purchased in the first place (always intending to return- as a large number of returns indicate) then they are committing fraud themselves.
I fully support stores implementing these rules as long as there is plenty of wriggle-room for legitimate returns.
They guy who buys a suit, wears it to a wedding and then returns it... then buys a big screen TV to watch the super bowl and then returns it afterwards are costing the rest of us money. Who do you think pays for these fraudulent uses? We do, it raises the cost of doing business which causes us to pay more.
I fully support Best Buy trying to cut out on fraud. It helps keep the costs down for me.
Sure, VXX7+39 might be slightly shorter than 38.8973,-77.0364 - but it doesn't give me information, for example how far away QXW5+38 is. 38.8039,-77.022 does.
VXX7+39 is a lot easier for a human to remember than 38.8973,-77.0364. You can remember that and punch it in for your Dominos delivery 3 years from now. Also, being able to calculate distances easily isn't really the point. This is a system to make it easier for computers and computer driven systems. They likely have no difficulty calculating the distance between VXX7+39 and QXW5+38. Stupid human need only remember his/her own code and plug it in.
Didn't click the link, not expecting to find "we wanted our own snowflake system that does exactly what we want, and is less useful outside our organization than existing standards that may already be in use"
Plus, if they expect this to take over for street addresses such as the headline suggests, they should think again. "Oh, it's on Walnut Street, just past 5th" is far more useful than "Oh, it's at CMXR+X6" which has everyone scrambling for Google Maps just to decode what the fuck you just said.
It's more useful than a US Zip Code because it is more precise. (and more logical). There are different uses for either system. A computer would find CMXR+X6 more useful, but a human who is looking for your house will find the street address more useful (actually, ideally, a human would want both)- get in the ballpark with maps and the code and then the address so they can confirm visually when they see your house.
Neer saw something like this in a European plane. You basically can not bring more hand luggage than what would fit over your head (or below the seat in front of you).
Didn't use to be a problem in the States until they added more seats (but no extra bins) and also started charging $25 per checked bag. Now people try to check as few bags as possible and put as much into carry on as possible because if it saves you $25 or $50 to do that... then that's what you do.
Trump's not a politician. He's never held elected office in his life and after leaving office never will again. Contrast to Obama or Hillary or Bernie Sanders, people who never had straight jobs in their lives.
Trump might not be a politician, but the average Joe off the street has more common sense and diplomacy than Donald Trump. Most of the time that Trump says something bad and sticks his foot in his mouth (even if the press read into it more than he meant), it's the kind of thing 95% of people would know is a stupid thing to say in front of a microphone.
Supply and demand will sort it out. Once a gallon costs 10 bucks you, too, can live on less than 10 gallons a day.
Once a gallon costs 10 bucks, the poor will live on less than a gallon a day, have poor sanitation, worse diets as they can't cook for themselves and eat cheap fast food, disease, etc... whereas the rich live on pretty much the same as they always have.
Water is one of the essentials of life; it's not something you can just allow the rich to have.
Teenagers hate to speak on the phone, they only use texting via various apps (SMS, Messenger, whatever), or facetiming with iFacetime or Messenger.
My daughter can use 1GB per day of data but 0 minute per month:)
This Nokia phones are for old farts like me or OP who wanted to be cool in 1999 but had no money for a 8110:)
That's got nothing to do with being a teenager. I have teenage children of my own and I can use 0 minutes of talktime a month and 1GB of data a day. (although usually my allocated 5GB lasts me a month). I hate talking on the phone, and most people I know do too.
Well, seems to bbe either an american or a white men problem. Where ever I was flying people put their hand luggage over their head. Why would Input my $2k somewhere in the fromt rows luggafe compartment and sit myself in the rear of the plane? How one can be so stupid not to put his own luggafe above his own head is beyond me.
It's because there isn't enough room in the overhead. If one row of seats takes up two rows of overhead space, then the next row, if they take more space than they need... by the time you get to row 35- you've got no free space anywhere near you. The last people to board have to play tetris in order to find a spot to put their luggage.
No one WANTS to put their overhead luggage half a plane-distance away from them. If you're one of the last on though it is a fate you're doomed with.
Personally, I wouldn't pay for first class if it didn't give priority boarding. I want my decompression time prior to the flight.
Even in the slums out back with the rest of the hoi polloi I find there is plenty of "decompression time". Even after I board last, I still sit waiting forever before we take off... of course, in the back there it is more like "Compression" time than "Decompression" time. I always find myself next to the 6'2" wide man whose enormous belly flops over onto my armrest and lap.
Not true, they do not size the overhead baggage compartments to the number of seats entirely correctly.
Oh... the overhead baggage compartments are correct to the number of seats INTENDED for the aircraft. It's just they crammed extra seats in relative to how the plane was initially intended and didn't increase storage space.
Honestly, except for needing to stuff an oversize bag in the overhead no one should want to be crammed into the stuffy airborne-infection-enabling metal tube any sooner than absolutely necessary to take off on time. Yet so many seem to treat it like trying to grab a seat on the subway.
That's the only reason I want to board quicker.
If I'm first on, I get to place my bag close to me. If I'm last on, I have to place my bag frequently far from my seat. I always carry my luggage carry on. I'm rarely gone for more than a week (and I can get a week's clothes in carry on). I don't want to pay extra to check luggage, so I get the maximum carryon size allowed (I do check), and I stuff it full.
Usually though, routes I fly, they check my "carry on" free at the gate because flights are always overcrowded and they give free checking to people at the gate. I don't remember the last flight I had where they didn't check for free at the gate. I laugh at the suckers who paid to check their baggage.:)
Back to front, windows to aisle, and actually enforce carry on size.
Kind of hard to sell upgrades then, though.
Exactly, boarding from front to back, as they do it now, is actually the worst way to do it. It causes blockages. The back should board first and the front should exit first. That's the most logical approach. Of course they don't want their precious first class people waiting longer though so they board first despite that being the slowest, most inconvenient way to board.
The only diet that works is one that you are happy sticking with. Sure, it's easy to lose a bunch of weight. I've lost 30lbs+ three times. That weight comes back if it's "a diet." The only diet that works though is the one that ceases to be a diet and becomes the lifestyle.
If you hate your diet- you're never going to stick on it. If you're happier leaving out carbs- leave out carbs. If you're happier counting calories- count calories. If you want to cut fat, cut fat.
Overall though, if this isn't something you can do for the rest of your life, the weight will come back. Everyone needs to find the diet that they are happy with. That's the only way they can reach their ideal weight. You can never stop being on "a diet" so it has to be something you love.
No houghi, fast food is bad. It's unhealthy pure and simple.
You know you're a privilidged 21st century 1st world twat when you can look at a plate of insanely inexpensive, safe, tasty, and sustaining food... and declare that it's horribly "unhealthy" garbage.
Safe is an amusing word choice for fast food. It's only safe in the short-term. Ronald McDonald has probably killed more people than all other clowns in history combined.
Also "inexpensive" is misleading. You can probably buy a burger for 99cents, but there is a lot of hidden cost there. For one, you're missing out the mind-boggling subsidies we pay each year to farmers to grow (specifically) maize to feed those animals. Fast food is heavily subsidized (indirectly) in the US. The cost you pay for that burger in the drive through window is just a part of the overall money that has come out of your pocket to produce that burger. It also ignores how much more it costs us in health care because of the obesity epidemic in America.
For each $1 you pay eating a low-quality McDonald's burger it's probably costing you another $2 in hidden costs elsewhere.
Where are the Asians? The Native Americans? The Middle Easterns? The Hispanics? Considering the cast is 97% Black, this is hardly the bastion of diversity you think it is. Unless the definition of diversity has come to mean "more Blacks, only!", don't talk to me about "diversity" in Black Panther.
It diversifies Marvel's content by finally having a black lead in one of their films. Overall, they're still pretty white-washed, but this diversifies their portfolio some.
What amuses me is BBC content (well British content in general). Their idea of diversity seems to be based upon US racial makeup. The BBC has no problem including black actors, in fact, I think black actors probably make up a higher percentage of actors on TV shows in Britain than they do the British population as a whole. However, Asians (specifically South Asians) make up a lot larger percentage of Britains demographic (twice as many people from Indian peninsula in Britain than there are black people) and yet they're hardly represented on British TV at all.
It's good that British TV is good at promoting black actors- it's amusingly sad how bad they are at recognizing the existence of other races.
" Why the hell would they even bother to CGI that, you ask? "
I think a better question to ask is why anyone over the age of 15 goes to watch this sort of cookie cutter content free derivative crap with people in silly costumes doing not even suspension of disbelief believable stuff in the first place.
Don't get me wrong, this isn't a get off my lawn rant, I love action films as much as the next guy, but the utter dross that are the "stories" from comics (no, they're NOT "graphic" novels, they're comics - for kids) don't deserve to be on daytime kids TV, never mind $100M+ spent on them per film.
Whereas, I don't like superhero movies either and think they're pretty dumb; really, it's for each their own. Most people on here won't like my taste in music, and I won't like theirs. We probably like different books. If people get a kick out of superhero movies- I don't have a problem with that. I'm more bothered by the commercial blasting I get everytime one is released than the movies themselves. That's more a product of our society than anything else though.. If it weren't superhero movies it would be some other movie being overly commercialized and advertised.
I don't really disagree with what you're saying but don't label illegal copying as stealing because while similar on the surface they really aren't the same thing.
I won't disagree that there are subtle differences between the two; but it is still theft in my (and many people's) mind. You are "stealing" potential revenue from the company. The difference is the theft is intangible rather than tangible.
Whether you call it theft or not is semantics really; language interpretation.
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I personally don't recall having seen any ads for Cryptocurrency, but there again I don't pay attention to ads. When an app on my phone plays a video I always turn my phone away from my face to not watch it... I'd rather watch a wall.
That said, don't see the harm in ads for Cryptocurrency. One's that mine from the ad... now those are bad.
Do you know why they concentrate on sports, most people do not realise why. Universities have a tax exempt status, so sporting revenues, advertising and ticket sales are tax exempt and hence the major source of profits for insiders, investors and staff with inflated salaries, why sport in US universities, greed not education,
I always find it amusing that any public spending on medicine in the US is decried as "Socialized Medicine" and yet public run and supported institutions have these huge sport programs.
"Socialized Medicine" is bad but people don't have a problem with "Socialized Sport" from college/university teams. Minor league sports teams rarely stay solvent for long in the US, they constantly open and close, relocate, etc... trying to eek out a meager existence because they can't compete with Socialized Sports teams. A University team has a bad year... that's OK... there's more government money to keep them afloat for a while- or another influx of students next year. Minor league teams have no such protection.
15 years is ancient for a minor league team in the US- you go to Europe and there are MANY small teams that have been playing on the same grounds since the 19th Century- they're the norm not the exception. They're not being crushed by socialized sport.
Well, I for one have exactly zero confidence this won't eventually (if not currently) be used to deny entirely legitimate returns as they push harder to reduce costs-- eventually that will result in increasing improper denials. "Oh sorry, you've exceeded your return quota of 1 item every 3 months, so this must be fraudulent as that's excessive."
Stores don't want to go too far because then they will lose customers to other stores that don't have such policies. It's a fine line stores have to walk. They want to catch people abusing the system (because they don't make a profit from them) but they want to keep customers who they do make a profit from.
If you don't abuse returns, I doubt you'll ever have anything to worry about. Remember- 30-40 years ago a lot of stores did not have such generous return policies as they do now. Stores had to adapt because the Walmart way of letting people return everything would steal customers away from them if they didn't offer it too.
I know I won't buy from stores online if they don't have a free return policy. I always check the return policy before buying.
Indeed it is. Which is why you're a moron to compare it to someone who paid money for a product and is trying to get money in a return for said product.
If someone is abusing the system of returns and returning something that they have used and not in good faith purchased in the first place (always intending to return- as a large number of returns indicate) then they are committing fraud themselves.
I fully support stores implementing these rules as long as there is plenty of wriggle-room for legitimate returns.
They guy who buys a suit, wears it to a wedding and then returns it... then buys a big screen TV to watch the super bowl and then returns it afterwards are costing the rest of us money. Who do you think pays for these fraudulent uses? We do, it raises the cost of doing business which causes us to pay more.
I fully support Best Buy trying to cut out on fraud. It helps keep the costs down for me.
Sure, VXX7+39 might be slightly shorter than 38.8973,-77.0364 - but it doesn't give me information, for example how far away QXW5+38 is. 38.8039,-77.022 does.
VXX7+39 is a lot easier for a human to remember than 38.8973,-77.0364. You can remember that and punch it in for your Dominos delivery 3 years from now. Also, being able to calculate distances easily isn't really the point. This is a system to make it easier for computers and computer driven systems. They likely have no difficulty calculating the distance between VXX7+39 and QXW5+38. Stupid human need only remember his/her own code and plug it in.
Didn't click the link, not expecting to find "we wanted our own snowflake system that does exactly what we want, and is less useful outside our organization than existing standards that may already be in use"
Plus, if they expect this to take over for street addresses such as the headline suggests, they should think again. "Oh, it's on Walnut Street, just past 5th" is far more useful than "Oh, it's at CMXR+X6" which has everyone scrambling for Google Maps just to decode what the fuck you just said.
It's more useful than a US Zip Code because it is more precise. (and more logical). There are different uses for either system. A computer would find CMXR+X6 more useful, but a human who is looking for your house will find the street address more useful (actually, ideally, a human would want both)- get in the ballpark with maps and the code and then the address so they can confirm visually when they see your house.
Theory and practice are the same in theory, but not in practice.
Theory and practice are different in practice, but not in theory
I'm not in the field either
I'm in the field and just stepped in cow poop.
Neer saw something like this in a European plane.
You basically can not bring more hand luggage than what would fit over your head (or below the seat in front of you).
Didn't use to be a problem in the States until they added more seats (but no extra bins) and also started charging $25 per checked bag. Now people try to check as few bags as possible and put as much into carry on as possible because if it saves you $25 or $50 to do that... then that's what you do.
Trump's not a politician. He's never held elected office in his life and after leaving office never will again. Contrast to Obama or Hillary or Bernie Sanders, people who never had straight jobs in their lives.
Trump might not be a politician, but the average Joe off the street has more common sense and diplomacy than Donald Trump. Most of the time that Trump says something bad and sticks his foot in his mouth (even if the press read into it more than he meant), it's the kind of thing 95% of people would know is a stupid thing to say in front of a microphone.
Supply and demand will sort it out. Once a gallon costs 10 bucks you, too, can live on less than 10 gallons a day.
Once a gallon costs 10 bucks, the poor will live on less than a gallon a day, have poor sanitation, worse diets as they can't cook for themselves and eat cheap fast food, disease, etc... whereas the rich live on pretty much the same as they always have.
Water is one of the essentials of life; it's not something you can just allow the rich to have.
Teenagers hate to speak on the phone, they only use texting via various apps (SMS, Messenger, whatever), or facetiming with iFacetime or Messenger.
My daughter can use 1GB per day of data but 0 minute per month :)
This Nokia phones are for old farts like me or OP who wanted to be cool in 1999 but had no money for a 8110 :)
That's got nothing to do with being a teenager. I have teenage children of my own and I can use 0 minutes of talktime a month and 1GB of data a day. (although usually my allocated 5GB lasts me a month). I hate talking on the phone, and most people I know do too.
Well,
seems to bbe either an american or a white men problem.
Where ever I was flying people put their hand luggage over their head.
Why would Input my $2k somewhere in the fromt rows luggafe compartment and sit myself in the rear of the plane?
How one can be so stupid not to put his own luggafe above his own head is beyond me.
It's because there isn't enough room in the overhead. If one row of seats takes up two rows of overhead space, then the next row, if they take more space than they need... by the time you get to row 35- you've got no free space anywhere near you. The last people to board have to play tetris in order to find a spot to put their luggage.
No one WANTS to put their overhead luggage half a plane-distance away from them. If you're one of the last on though it is a fate you're doomed with.
Personally, I wouldn't pay for first class if it didn't give priority boarding. I want my decompression time prior to the flight.
Even in the slums out back with the rest of the hoi polloi I find there is plenty of "decompression time". Even after I board last, I still sit waiting forever before we take off... of course, in the back there it is more like "Compression" time than "Decompression" time. I always find myself next to the 6'2" wide man whose enormous belly flops over onto my armrest and lap.
Not true, they do not size the overhead baggage compartments to the number of seats entirely correctly.
Oh... the overhead baggage compartments are correct to the number of seats INTENDED for the aircraft. It's just they crammed extra seats in relative to how the plane was initially intended and didn't increase storage space.
Easy fix - put First Class at the back.
Then first class would be next to the toilets and last to get off... that would upset first class even more.
Honestly, except for needing to stuff an oversize bag in the overhead no one should want to be crammed into the stuffy airborne-infection-enabling metal tube any sooner than absolutely necessary to take off on time. Yet so many seem to treat it like trying to grab a seat on the subway.
That's the only reason I want to board quicker.
If I'm first on, I get to place my bag close to me. If I'm last on, I have to place my bag frequently far from my seat. I always carry my luggage carry on. I'm rarely gone for more than a week (and I can get a week's clothes in carry on). I don't want to pay extra to check luggage, so I get the maximum carryon size allowed (I do check), and I stuff it full.
Usually though, routes I fly, they check my "carry on" free at the gate because flights are always overcrowded and they give free checking to people at the gate. I don't remember the last flight I had where they didn't check for free at the gate. I laugh at the suckers who paid to check their baggage. :)
Back to front, windows to aisle, and actually enforce carry on size.
Kind of hard to sell upgrades then, though.
Exactly, boarding from front to back, as they do it now, is actually the worst way to do it. It causes blockages. The back should board first and the front should exit first. That's the most logical approach. Of course they don't want their precious first class people waiting longer though so they board first despite that being the slowest, most inconvenient way to board.
to get some media attention.
Worse than that, it's the only way he could get anyone to look at his naked bottom.
The only diet that works is one that you are happy sticking with. Sure, it's easy to lose a bunch of weight. I've lost 30lbs+ three times. That weight comes back if it's "a diet." The only diet that works though is the one that ceases to be a diet and becomes the lifestyle.
If you hate your diet- you're never going to stick on it. If you're happier leaving out carbs- leave out carbs. If you're happier counting calories- count calories. If you want to cut fat, cut fat.
Overall though, if this isn't something you can do for the rest of your life, the weight will come back. Everyone needs to find the diet that they are happy with. That's the only way they can reach their ideal weight. You can never stop being on "a diet" so it has to be something you love.
he replaced her with a CGI model or pointed the camera at Gal Gadot's arse and it sucked.
Isn't that the main reason the movie sold so well?
No houghi, fast food is bad. It's unhealthy pure and simple.
You know you're a privilidged 21st century 1st world twat when you can look at a plate of insanely inexpensive, safe, tasty, and sustaining food ... and declare that it's horribly "unhealthy" garbage.
Safe is an amusing word choice for fast food. It's only safe in the short-term. Ronald McDonald has probably killed more people than all other clowns in history combined.
Also "inexpensive" is misleading. You can probably buy a burger for 99cents, but there is a lot of hidden cost there. For one, you're missing out the mind-boggling subsidies we pay each year to farmers to grow (specifically) maize to feed those animals. Fast food is heavily subsidized (indirectly) in the US. The cost you pay for that burger in the drive through window is just a part of the overall money that has come out of your pocket to produce that burger. It also ignores how much more it costs us in health care because of the obesity epidemic in America.
For each $1 you pay eating a low-quality McDonald's burger it's probably costing you another $2 in hidden costs elsewhere.
Where are the Asians? The Native Americans? The Middle Easterns? The Hispanics? Considering the cast is 97% Black, this is hardly the bastion of diversity you think it is. Unless the definition of diversity has come to mean "more Blacks, only!", don't talk to me about "diversity" in Black Panther.
It diversifies Marvel's content by finally having a black lead in one of their films. Overall, they're still pretty white-washed, but this diversifies their portfolio some.
What amuses me is BBC content (well British content in general). Their idea of diversity seems to be based upon US racial makeup. The BBC has no problem including black actors, in fact, I think black actors probably make up a higher percentage of actors on TV shows in Britain than they do the British population as a whole. However, Asians (specifically South Asians) make up a lot larger percentage of Britains demographic (twice as many people from Indian peninsula in Britain than there are black people) and yet they're hardly represented on British TV at all.
It's good that British TV is good at promoting black actors- it's amusingly sad how bad they are at recognizing the existence of other races.
" Why the hell would they even bother to CGI that, you ask? "
I think a better question to ask is why anyone over the age of 15 goes to watch this sort of cookie cutter content free derivative crap with people in silly costumes doing not even suspension of disbelief believable stuff in the first place.
Don't get me wrong, this isn't a get off my lawn rant, I love action films as much as the next guy, but the utter dross that are the "stories" from comics (no, they're NOT "graphic" novels, they're comics - for kids) don't deserve to be on daytime kids TV, never mind $100M+ spent on them per film.
Whereas, I don't like superhero movies either and think they're pretty dumb; really, it's for each their own. Most people on here won't like my taste in music, and I won't like theirs. We probably like different books. If people get a kick out of superhero movies- I don't have a problem with that. I'm more bothered by the commercial blasting I get everytime one is released than the movies themselves. That's more a product of our society than anything else though.. If it weren't superhero movies it would be some other movie being overly commercialized and advertised.
I don't really disagree with what you're saying but don't label illegal copying as stealing because while similar on the surface they really aren't the same thing.
I won't disagree that there are subtle differences between the two; but it is still theft in my (and many people's) mind. You are "stealing" potential revenue from the company. The difference is the theft is intangible rather than tangible.
Whether you call it theft or not is semantics really; language interpretation.