This seems like they're desperate to keep this idea from gaining traction so it doesn't happen in other markets. It also seems ludicrous given Brussels.
Man, this Social Media echo chamber is too noisy, I think I'll make my own smaller one that doesn't ever challenge my broader views and just wants to argue the finer details that we can all agree are difficult to get right.
The cable companies did the same shit here, but that was to pad out 22 minutes of content into a 30 minute slot; why pay for showing 3 episodes of a show when you can pay for 2? Then they slid across to actual paid advertisements, because hey, you've already accepted you're paying for TV AND getting ads.
If Amazon don't start at least having an ad supported version of Prime, then I would be very surprised, and I'd expect whatever you're paying now for TV with interstitial ads to be what you pay for the ad supported non-premium service.
In the words of Frito: I can't believe you like money too. We should hang out.
I'm more worried about the other drivers lack of skill and "taking on" the mantle of what I see happen every day for illustrative purposes, but thanks for playing.
You're confusing what you perceive as reality with actual reality and could probably use some training on exactly how much split focus and multitasking you're actually capable of; for most humans it's SFA..
Lucky you, I've seen people 10kph under the limit brake on every stretch of road imaginable.
It's possibly just the zealous speed enforcement around here (they WILL ticket you for 1MPH over the limit) but the percentage of nervous/hesitant drivers is really high.
When you combine driving significantly slower than the person closing in on you behind with the massively reduced braking distance of a car doing 50kph vs 60kph, it's really easy for them to cause an accident.
Estimate on that page is 10meters or a little over 2 car lengths, which a lot of people (mistakenly) think is a reasonable following distance in traffic. If it's 40kph, you're talking 4-5 car lengths, and people are really bad at judging the speed of a vehicle traveling directly toward or away from them.
I tend to leave enough room between myself and the car in front that I've never actually hit anyone that brakes unexpectedly, or anyone else in 30ish years, but there's plenty of evidence that red-light cameras increase rear end accidents, so not everyone is leaving enough room.
There's plenty of people that clearly shouldn't be allowed on the road, and my point is that you can't solve their lack of skill with cameras and absolute speed enforcement.
"So you're going to go slowly and cautiously through there which, lo and behold, is actually what we want."
Nope, what I'm going to be doing is looking at my speedometer instead of the road because that's what they've trained me to do. They've also trained some idiots to break on green lights. So while I'm distracted by my speedo, there's a good chance someone ahead of me is breaking for no reason.
Which is why the red light/speed/ cameras see an almost universal increase in minor rear-end collisions, and a reduction in catastrophic t-bone collisions.
They love pretending they can shape everyone's behaviour in the same fashion, but the tighter they grip the wider they make gap between the aggressive and the nervous drivers.
It's all very effective, so far this year that's lead to a 55% increase in the death toll on the roads from their "towards zero" campaign.
On the Nokia 8 the home button is the fingerprint scan button, like an iPhone I guess.
When the banking app asks you to verify your thumb print, half the time it works, half the time it goes to the home screen. Maybe more than half, so then it's a few guestures/presses to get back to the banking app, and try and work out if it wants a short, medium, or long press, and is the pressure the issue or is it just the length of contact? Nope, wrong guess, go around again, etc, ad nauseum.
Overloading things is "cool" and "clean" but it's not easier.
I think it's more like the poor in developed countries with lots of cheap processed food are able to afford enough of it to make themselves quite fat and unwell.
We've had processed food for a while now and life expectancy for people who aren't enormous hasn't gone down.
If the rat studies supplied endless quantities of tasty processed food and bland unprocessed food, the might be closer to these results.
24 June 1812 – 14 December 1812, Russia, Napoleon?
Who and where might be a minimum to look up the date, but are the exact numbers as important as the realities of continuing to invade Russia in winter, or what lessons other "determined leaders" might learn from not being able to reassess your goals in changing circumstances?
The tax code has always considered "in kind" donations as taxable income.
Always is a long time, and I would suggest in this case it's definitely bullshit. But the kind of Family Trust shenanigans that I was thinking of were exploited here for a long time, and there's still some exceptions built into the US law to make things convenient for the wealthy; like live-in nannys don't have to pay tax on their "free" room since they need access to the kids.
And again - this is NOT about Google's domestic income - this is foreign income, earned overseas..
Not sure how I care about the difference between where Google is dodging tax, is morality exclusively applicable in the US?
Not even close to comparable, for an individual this is closer to family trust arrangements.
Me? No I don't make any money, my family trust charges for my time and pays me a modest salary of 20% of the charge rate, the remaining 80% is paid to my wife and three children, after the trusts expenses of paying for the mortgage, utilities, etc. All perfectly legal and above board.
Yeah, they worked out how to shut that down pretty fast once it was used for a lot less than billions a year.
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The PC isn't fading. Its MATURE. The tech sector has never dealt with product maturity well.
I think you'll find that's MBAs and other acolytes of Keynes, regardless of the sector.
How can you possibly expect shareholders to be happy if you only made the same $30 billion in Q4 that you made in Q3? Madness!
This seems like they're desperate to keep this idea from gaining traction so it doesn't happen in other markets. It also seems ludicrous given Brussels.
You're confusing Mueller and Barr.
Maybe you're not as smart as you think you are either.
Is Trump Derangement Syndrome when you lie and believe it? Or when you lie and expect people to ignore it?
Plenty of examples in this article: https://www.washingtonpost.com...
You're confusing Muller not having access to information with, as I said, the King's Man being willing to prosecute it.
The report has not been released.
The King's Man has declared the King to be good and kind.
We saw the King on television obstructing justice on a nightly basis.
Have you ever contemplated embracing reality?
Man, this Social Media echo chamber is too noisy, I think I'll make my own smaller one that doesn't ever challenge my broader views and just wants to argue the finer details that we can all agree are difficult to get right.
Amazon's ads are the thin edge of the wedge.
The cable companies did the same shit here, but that was to pad out 22 minutes of content into a 30 minute slot; why pay for showing 3 episodes of a show when you can pay for 2? Then they slid across to actual paid advertisements, because hey, you've already accepted you're paying for TV AND getting ads.
If Amazon don't start at least having an ad supported version of Prime, then I would be very surprised, and I'd expect whatever you're paying now for TV with interstitial ads to be what you pay for the ad supported non-premium service.
In the words of Frito: I can't believe you like money too. We should hang out.
Why would you even do the firmware upgrades?
I've had several Smart TVs because they were the only ones w/ the size/features I wanted, and none of them have ever needed a firmware update.
I'm more worried about the other drivers lack of skill and "taking on" the mantle of what I see happen every day for illustrative purposes, but thanks for playing.
No, I really don't, but thanks for your input.
You're confusing what you perceive as reality with actual reality and could probably use some training on exactly how much split focus and multitasking you're actually capable of; for most humans it's SFA..
Lucky you, I've seen people 10kph under the limit brake on every stretch of road imaginable.
It's possibly just the zealous speed enforcement around here (they WILL ticket you for 1MPH over the limit) but the percentage of nervous/hesitant drivers is really high.
When you combine driving significantly slower than the person closing in on you behind with the massively reduced braking distance of a car doing 50kph vs 60kph, it's really easy for them to cause an accident.
https://www.qld.gov.au/transpo...
Estimate on that page is 10meters or a little over 2 car lengths, which a lot of people (mistakenly) think is a reasonable following distance in traffic. If it's 40kph, you're talking 4-5 car lengths, and people are really bad at judging the speed of a vehicle traveling directly toward or away from them.
I tend to leave enough room between myself and the car in front that I've never actually hit anyone that brakes unexpectedly, or anyone else in 30ish years, but there's plenty of evidence that red-light cameras increase rear end accidents, so not everyone is leaving enough room.
Chicago: http://time.com/3643077/red-li...
Houston: https://www.scientificamerican...
There's plenty of people that clearly shouldn't be allowed on the road, and my point is that you can't solve their lack of skill with cameras and absolute speed enforcement.
Yeah, but they're also full of shit.
"So you're going to go slowly and cautiously through there which, lo and behold, is actually what we want."
Nope, what I'm going to be doing is looking at my speedometer instead of the road because that's what they've trained me to do. They've also trained some idiots to break on green lights. So while I'm distracted by my speedo, there's a good chance someone ahead of me is breaking for no reason.
Which is why the red light /speed/ cameras see an almost universal increase in minor rear-end collisions, and a reduction in catastrophic t-bone collisions.
They love pretending they can shape everyone's behaviour in the same fashion, but the tighter they grip the wider they make gap between the aggressive and the nervous drivers.
It's all very effective, so far this year that's lead to a 55% increase in the death toll on the roads from their "towards zero" campaign.
http://www.tac.vic.gov.au/road...
I can't be the only one that read about 1/3 of TFS before working out I'd be reading saliva instead of salvia... /mutter
Not sure if joking, but that was telegraphed so hard it might as well have been on the box art.
But it also boots a hell of a lot faster
I really wish people would stop pretending this matters a damn in most production systems where uptime is measured in years.
There's an edge case around cloud, but until they stop billing in 1 minute blocks I can't see how 20ms matters a damn there either.
How do gestures require more effort?
Oooh, that's an easy one.
On the Nokia 8 the home button is the fingerprint scan button, like an iPhone I guess.
When the banking app asks you to verify your thumb print, half the time it works, half the time it goes to the home screen. Maybe more than half, so then it's a few guestures/presses to get back to the banking app, and try and work out if it wants a short, medium, or long press, and is the pressure the issue or is it just the length of contact? Nope, wrong guess, go around again, etc, ad nauseum.
Overloading things is "cool" and "clean" but it's not easier.
Humans aren't as controlled as rats...
I think it's more like the poor in developed countries with lots of cheap processed food are able to afford enough of it to make themselves quite fat and unwell.
We've had processed food for a while now and life expectancy for people who aren't enormous hasn't gone down.
If the rat studies supplied endless quantities of tasty processed food and bland unprocessed food, the might be closer to these results.
Important to remember? Not really.
24 June 1812 – 14 December 1812, Russia, Napoleon?
Who and where might be a minimum to look up the date, but are the exact numbers as important as the realities of continuing to invade Russia in winter, or what lessons other "determined leaders" might learn from not being able to reassess your goals in changing circumstances?
Not that I bothered often w/ it, but I just had a look...
"Transferred" my licenses to Flixter which I'd already created an account on due to another of these services shuttering.
Of the 5 movies that I have listed, only one is "available" on Flixter.
So yay, I have preserved my license to view 4 movies that don't exist.
Worked for us: https://www.abc.net.au/news/20...
The tax code has always considered "in kind" donations as taxable income.
Always is a long time, and I would suggest in this case it's definitely bullshit. But the kind of Family Trust shenanigans that I was thinking of were exploited here for a long time, and there's still some exceptions built into the US law to make things convenient for the wealthy; like live-in nannys don't have to pay tax on their "free" room since they need access to the kids.
And again - this is NOT about Google's domestic income - this is foreign income, earned overseas..
Not sure how I care about the difference between where Google is dodging tax, is morality exclusively applicable in the US?
Sure, sure, and do you think that was how the tax code always was or .... ?
It's a moral failing by Google and a Neglect of Duty by government to let it continue. The present day legality of it is completely beside the point.
Not even close to comparable, for an individual this is closer to family trust arrangements.
Me? No I don't make any money, my family trust charges for my time and pays me a modest salary of 20% of the charge rate, the remaining 80% is paid to my wife and three children, after the trusts expenses of paying for the mortgage, utilities, etc. All perfectly legal and above board.
Yeah, they worked out how to shut that down pretty fast once it was used for a lot less than billions a year.
They call the police all the time to report the theft of their stash, so yeah, some might.