I don't mind seeing advertising that pays for the content I browse, so long as it can be filtered to present ads that meet a standard for non-obtrusiveness: no popups, malware, or slow loads that restrict access to the site. This is especially a problem when I'm browsing mobile.
I installed an adblocker because to much of the above "bad" ads were interrupting browse, and now I've uninstalled it because every site I encounter requires me to 'disable adblock before proceeding'. Now I just avoid the sites with intrusive advertising. This defeats the whole purpose of your advertising.
If you're 64, you are entering a demographic that has an exceedingly favorable male-female ratio. Wanna meet lonely women? Offer to fix their computers.
This is not just an expression. If your problem with women is having esoteric interests that they don't share, humor is actually surprisingly good at breaking the ice. And if you're concerned about height, hit the gym. Change those things about you that you CAN change.
You've had fun living on the industrial legacy of your state's early innovators, but it's not going to be easy to live like the Jetsons when today's California requires ten years of impact studies and a hundred-lawyer HR staff before you can back your Prius out of your own driveway.
Thiel would not be a good fit for Los Angeles. He should come to Arizona, where we love his politics and where he would appreciate the lower rents and cost of housing for workers. The Phoenix area is a burgeoning tech scene that has grown up around Arizona State, Intel, Honeywell, and a host of newer and smaller tech enterprises. Hardly a Silicon Valley yet, but he can help make it one.
Right now, fish that are not farmed are advertised as "wild caught" because, you know, that sounds better. The term makes us think of pristine Alaskan streams. If farmed fish raised in filtered water canbe advertised as "plastic free," this will flip.
Because Comcast is being treated as a utility. Utilities are granted a state franchise to operate as a natural monopoly in exchange for having to maintain stipulated service standards.
This arrangement is standard procedure whenever there can only be one physical mesh of sewer pipes, power lines, etc.
My mother, who at 96 still runs a business out of her apartment, insists that computer files are not ârealâ(TM) unless printed out, so she puts more mileage on her low-end laser than the average law office. To save money she re-uses her paper, which is tolerable if you take the trouble to keep your discarded pages in as pristine a state as possible.
But every so often I get The Call. I have to go over there again and untangle six pages of recycled paper that were put through with a staple left in the corner.
I don't remember the last time I saw a handwritten prescription.
We have a perfectly good standard for digital prescriptions, but most doctors here think that handwriting over fax is the latest tech they wish to use.
Which is exactly why we should switch from handwritten medical records to online data. Let it give the privacy paranoids fits if they want, but I would rather take the chance on al Qaeda reading the results of my colonoscopy over being killed by an error in a handwritten prescription. And I want that record to contain all medical data that has been accumulated about me.
But for some reason the medical profession wants to keep their goddamn handwritten files.Perhaps they think it will stave off the threat of competition. This will have to be one more area in which we fall a generation behind the Asians.
Hows it feel to be bitten on the ass by your own bullshit?
This applies to the leftists who won't stop ranting that the most important and ultimate problem facing mankind is carbon. Suddenly, they are starting to realize that the only feasible way to get rid of fossil fuel usage is to replace it with nuclear. Their mirrors and pinwheels can never be more than part of the solution.
If the 14 million people of greater Los Angeles could desalinate their own water, the city would no longer have to suck it up from as far away as Wyoming. This would mean that water-short inland areas could keep more of their own supply.
Because the primary customer for desalination in this region is California, they are not going to consider nuclear as the energy supply - that's Arizona's job. Fortunately, desalination processes not requiring heat can tolerate fluctuating energy sources, which would make it a good use for those California windfields.
These are all problems inherent in human society as a whole. Social media just amplifies these problems, rather than creating them.
Let's try using social media to push human interaction in more desirable directions, supposing that we can even agree on what those directions should be.
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I don't mind seeing advertising that pays for the content I browse, so long as it can be filtered to present ads that meet a standard for non-obtrusiveness: no popups, malware, or slow loads that restrict access to the site. This is especially a problem when I'm browsing mobile.
I installed an adblocker because to much of the above "bad" ads were interrupting browse, and now I've uninstalled it because every site I encounter requires me to 'disable adblock before proceeding'. Now I just avoid the sites with intrusive advertising. This defeats the whole purpose of your advertising.
What do you think they feed the farmed fish?
When you farm fish, we have the opportunity to break oceanic pollution cycles by feeding them vegetables and grains:
https://phys.org/news/2016-06-...
If you're 64, you are entering a demographic that has an exceedingly favorable male-female ratio. Wanna meet lonely women? Offer to fix their computers.
Because in Silicon Valley, dating apps know not to ask about hobbies.
"I want someone who can make me laugh"
This is not just an expression. If your problem with women is having esoteric interests that they don't share, humor is actually surprisingly good at breaking the ice. And if you're concerned about height, hit the gym. Change those things about you that you CAN change.
What's striking is driving across from Arizona and seeing gasoline a full dollar higher on the California side.
But in Arizona, you can be a libertarian who golfs and hikes year round.
The advantage of gay neighbors is that their garage sales rock. Their stuff is higher quality, and it matches.
You've had fun living on the industrial legacy of your state's early innovators, but it's not going to be easy to live like the Jetsons when today's California requires ten years of impact studies and a hundred-lawyer HR staff before you can back your Prius out of your own driveway.
Who builds your cars, grows your food, makes your clothes?
Last time I checked it was...Japan, Mexico, Vietnam.
Thiel would not be a good fit for Los Angeles. He should come to Arizona, where we love his politics and where he would appreciate the lower rents and cost of housing for workers. The Phoenix area is a burgeoning tech scene that has grown up around Arizona State, Intel, Honeywell, and a host of newer and smaller tech enterprises. Hardly a Silicon Valley yet, but he can help make it one.
Right now, fish that are not farmed are advertised as "wild caught" because, you know, that sounds better. The term makes us think of pristine Alaskan streams. If farmed fish raised in filtered water canbe advertised as "plastic free," this will flip.
Mass shootings could never occur in Paris because guns are forbidden there.
Please let this be the one that Salon.com has started using!
lol,when has a Republican administration ever been "deficit hawks"?
Eisenhower. That was back when the Republicans had principles and the Democrats had vision.
Because Comcast is being treated as a utility. Utilities are granted a state franchise to operate as a natural monopoly in exchange for having to maintain stipulated service standards.
This arrangement is standard procedure whenever there can only be one physical mesh of sewer pipes, power lines, etc.
My mother, who at 96 still runs a business out of her apartment, insists that computer files are not ârealâ(TM) unless printed out, so she puts more mileage on her low-end laser than the average law office. To save money she re-uses her paper, which is tolerable if you take the trouble to keep your discarded pages in as pristine a state as possible.
But every so often I get The Call. I have to go over there again and untangle six pages of recycled paper that were put through with a staple left in the corner.
I don't remember the last time I saw a handwritten prescription.
We have a perfectly good standard for digital prescriptions, but most doctors here think that handwriting over fax is the latest tech they wish to use.
Which is exactly why we should switch from handwritten medical records to online data. Let it give the privacy paranoids fits if they want, but I would rather take the chance on al Qaeda reading the results of my colonoscopy over being killed by an error in a handwritten prescription. And I want that record to contain all medical data that has been accumulated about me.
But for some reason the medical profession wants to keep their goddamn handwritten files.Perhaps they think it will stave off the threat of competition. This will have to be one more area in which we fall a generation behind the Asians.
Note that GP was posting from Israel.
Hows it feel to be bitten on the ass by your own bullshit?
This applies to the leftists who won't stop ranting that the most important and ultimate problem facing mankind is carbon. Suddenly, they are starting to realize that the only feasible way to get rid of fossil fuel usage is to replace it with nuclear. Their mirrors and pinwheels can never be more than part of the solution.
Around here we have a saying that water flows uphill towards money.
If the 14 million people of greater Los Angeles could desalinate their own water, the city would no longer have to suck it up from as far away as Wyoming. This would mean that water-short inland areas could keep more of their own supply.
Because the primary customer for desalination in this region is California, they are not going to consider nuclear as the energy supply - that's Arizona's job. Fortunately, desalination processes not requiring heat can tolerate fluctuating energy sources, which would make it a good use for those California windfields.
These are all problems inherent in human society as a whole. Social media just amplifies these problems, rather than creating them.
Let's try using social media to push human interaction in more desirable directions, supposing that we can even agree on what those directions should be.
"Child slavery" that made it possible for your country to come into existence...