For sure. I canceled my subscription three or four years ago when I thought their content selection had gone downhill quite a ways. I'm not into big-time Hollywood movies, I enjoy a certian niche of show, and there was lots for me to watch for a while. Then it started disappearing. Discs in my queue were just not there anymore. Some would appear on the side-queue for unavailable titles, some wouldn't. When my queue got short and I couldn't find anything in the library to watch I stopped service.
I don't have a hell of a lot of time to watch videos anyway. I don't have cable and don't own a TV because of advertisements. If Netflix started showing ads I would not even begin to consider subscribing. What the hell are you paying $$ for if they are also showing you ads? When I open my wallet the entire point is to not see ads.
In 2008 I bought my second iPod after the first one broke. I plugged in my video cable to export a show to my TV, just like I'd done with my first iPod, but an error message told me I needed Apple branded cables. I learned that despite being physically compatible, Apple had made a software change which made my cables useless.
I looked up the cables. On that day, the cables I owned were selling for (not a typo) six cents (I had paid several dollars when I bought them), and Apple's cables were selling for $49.99.
It was the last purchase I ever made from Apple and was the day I swore never to buy anything with proprietary cables ever again. I have kept that promise to myself and I do miss the Mac OS but not nearly enough to go back. In my life, genericness is the top priority when buying equipment.
This sounds like a shitty change to the iPhone. I have a dozen pairs of headphones and all of them have 3.5mm jacks. I wouldn't buy any audio product without the compatible jack and neither should anyone else.
"the Clinton foundation was accepting multi-million dollar gifts from mideastern countries while she was arranging arms deals as Secretary of State."
Was it intentional or unintentional that you forgot to mention the two separate oversight processes to approve those contributions in order to avoid conflict of interest? There was one approval process in State and one in the White House.
I'm still angry about the browser in Windows 95. Have they ever apologized for that? I haven't listened to any of their claims about browsers since then and I'm not going to start now.
GM made shitty cars in the 80s and apologized for it in the 00s. I owned a Jeep a few years ago and would consider another GM vehicle.
Domino's made shitty pizza in the 90s and 00s and apologized for it in ~2009. I would consider eating Domino's pizza, although I haven't since the apology.
Microsoft made shitty software in the 80s and 90s and 00s. Recent versions have been substantially less shitty but I won't consider using Microsoft software until they apologize.
Yeah totally she set up the email server to hide secrets!
Okay, so we have the emails, right? What do they say about the secret meetins of the Lizard People Illuminati? Is there anything about Area 51 or the NAFTA highway? Did Putin confer with her about overthrowing the government?
Oh... no? No secrets? Just normal Sec of State stuff?
So...... I don't get it. What's the scandal? That she had her own email server? I have my own email server and it's super convenient. I have a few actually. I use some of them to aggregate others. Wow, how handy.
Never in my life have I ever cared how a politician configures his email. I've never asked and never thought about it. Why would I start now? Does Trump use POP3 or SMTP? Does Bernie prefer Yahoo! Mail or Gmail?
"Oh, she's perfect in every way, but did you know she set up her own email system?" "She did? Wow, so she can do that too? What an amazing woman!" "No, no, I mean that in a bad way." "...a bad way? You're going to have to explain." "Well, she could have been hiding secrets." "Sounds nefarious. So what were the secrets?" "Well, there weren't any after all." "Okaaaaaaay. So..... what's the scandal?"
Why would "conducting the job of Secretary of State" land her in jail?
You and the other haters make no sense. Sending emails isn't corruption. Receiving political donations isn't corruption. Giving speeches isn't corruption. Those are all normal things that political leaders do.
Give me a break. Grow up. Adults need to run the store.
Did Netflix add any movies or TV shows back to their catalog? When I quit my subscription a few years ago they had cut everything I cared about and it looked like they were headed toward zero content. I figured by now it was just that one show they produced for themselves, whatever it was.
I got divorced from Apple in 2009 but it was just last year that I gave up custody of our bastard child, iTunes.
Ubuntu is mostly better than MacOS, but WHY CAN'T THEY FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET SOUND TO WORK? Seriously, I had trouble with sound on Linux in 1999 and now it's almost 20 years later and have the same problems.
Maybe in some cases I would agree but in this case I don't. The new sense of whitewash is very similar to the old one -- covering up an undesirable thing in a light-colored covering. Even without the racial pun on 'white' it would still be a meaningful phrase, and with that pun it's really quite cromulent.
I looked at all the side-by-side comparisons I could find on that page and to me it looks like simple color correction. People were taking a bunch of dark photos and the filter corrected them to be medium lightness. It didn't lighten their skin; it lightened the entire photo which their skin is part of. Look at the first example, she has dark hair which is completely washed-out black in the original, with no detail visible, and then in the filtered version you can see some more detail because they lightened the colors.
I'd like to see someone take a photo, do color correction first, then run it through this filter. Does it pick out brown skin tones and turn them whiter? I doubt it but if so then that might be a little bit offensive.
It would be hard to levy charges when there were two separate oversight processes, one in State one in the White House, based on an explicit memorandum specifying the ethical rubric to which Clinton signed.
If only she thinks it's okay, that's questionable, but not evidence of wrongdoing. If she thinks it's okay and an appointed overseer thinks it's okay, that's covered. If she thinks it's okay and an appointed overseer thinks it's okay and a second appointed overseer also thinks it's okay, that's responsible management of conflicts of interest.
I bet you read an article in International Business Times. Go read it again and pay attention to the part where they talked about these multiple layers of oversight.
At best Trump would be an embarrassment like Berlesconi. At worst he'd make history the way Caesar did: by killing a great democracy and remaking it in his tyrannical image.
Clinton isn't a "globalist" except insofar as she lives in 2016 on planet earth which is a globally connected unit.
You don't "spoil" water, you "spill" it. The only way to "spoil water" is to have a cow drink it, then milk the cow, then let the milk sit out on the counter.
If you want to practice grammar trolling, learn to double-check your posts.
A couple weeks ago something shifted and YT videos mostly stopped working for me. I don't know which one, but one of my ad blockers (in the browser, the other one in the browser, the hosts file, the WiFi DNS filter, maybe something else) began blocking all content on YouTube. The videos just remain dark when I press play. A few videos still work -- the ones without ads, I assume.
I was excited when they announced Red because "pay for content" is what I want to do. But $10 a month to watch maybe 20 videos during that month didn't seem worth it to me.
So... okay. I won't watch YouTube videos. That's a small bummer but much smaller than the bummer of watching ads or overpaying.
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For sure. I canceled my subscription three or four years ago when I thought their content selection had gone downhill quite a ways. I'm not into big-time Hollywood movies, I enjoy a certian niche of show, and there was lots for me to watch for a while. Then it started disappearing. Discs in my queue were just not there anymore. Some would appear on the side-queue for unavailable titles, some wouldn't. When my queue got short and I couldn't find anything in the library to watch I stopped service.
I don't have a hell of a lot of time to watch videos anyway. I don't have cable and don't own a TV because of advertisements. If Netflix started showing ads I would not even begin to consider subscribing. What the hell are you paying $$ for if they are also showing you ads? When I open my wallet the entire point is to not see ads.
In 2008 I bought my second iPod after the first one broke. I plugged in my video cable to export a show to my TV, just like I'd done with my first iPod, but an error message told me I needed Apple branded cables. I learned that despite being physically compatible, Apple had made a software change which made my cables useless.
I looked up the cables. On that day, the cables I owned were selling for (not a typo) six cents (I had paid several dollars when I bought them), and Apple's cables were selling for $49.99.
It was the last purchase I ever made from Apple and was the day I swore never to buy anything with proprietary cables ever again. I have kept that promise to myself and I do miss the Mac OS but not nearly enough to go back. In my life, genericness is the top priority when buying equipment.
This sounds like a shitty change to the iPhone. I have a dozen pairs of headphones and all of them have 3.5mm jacks. I wouldn't buy any audio product without the compatible jack and neither should anyone else.
"the Clinton foundation was accepting multi-million dollar gifts from mideastern countries while she was arranging arms deals as Secretary of State."
Was it intentional or unintentional that you forgot to mention the two separate oversight processes to approve those contributions in order to avoid conflict of interest? There was one approval process in State and one in the White House.
I'm still angry about the browser in Windows 95. Have they ever apologized for that? I haven't listened to any of their claims about browsers since then and I'm not going to start now.
GM made shitty cars in the 80s and apologized for it in the 00s. I owned a Jeep a few years ago and would consider another GM vehicle.
Domino's made shitty pizza in the 90s and 00s and apologized for it in ~2009. I would consider eating Domino's pizza, although I haven't since the apology.
Microsoft made shitty software in the 80s and 90s and 00s. Recent versions have been substantially less shitty but I won't consider using Microsoft software until they apologize.
Yeah totally she set up the email server to hide secrets!
Okay, so we have the emails, right? What do they say about the secret meetins of the Lizard People Illuminati? Is there anything about Area 51 or the NAFTA highway? Did Putin confer with her about overthrowing the government?
Oh... no? No secrets? Just normal Sec of State stuff?
So...... I don't get it. What's the scandal? That she had her own email server? I have my own email server and it's super convenient. I have a few actually. I use some of them to aggregate others. Wow, how handy.
Never in my life have I ever cared how a politician configures his email. I've never asked and never thought about it. Why would I start now? Does Trump use POP3 or SMTP? Does Bernie prefer Yahoo! Mail or Gmail?
"Oh, she's perfect in every way, but did you know she set up her own email system?"
"She did? Wow, so she can do that too? What an amazing woman!"
"No, no, I mean that in a bad way."
"...a bad way? You're going to have to explain."
"Well, she could have been hiding secrets."
"Sounds nefarious. So what were the secrets?"
"Well, there weren't any after all."
"Okaaaaaaay. So..... what's the scandal?"
You might be a young'n, but we had "an election to vote for a third party", in fact we had it twice, and Perot lost both times.
As it turns out, the two parties cover most Americans. That's the real reason we have them.
So, you're saying thanks to democracy the world didn't have to deal with a situation even worse than Hitler? ...then what's the problem exactly?
Why would "conducting the job of Secretary of State" land her in jail?
You and the other haters make no sense. Sending emails isn't corruption. Receiving political donations isn't corruption. Giving speeches isn't corruption. Those are all normal things that political leaders do.
Give me a break. Grow up. Adults need to run the store.
Did Netflix add any movies or TV shows back to their catalog? When I quit my subscription a few years ago they had cut everything I cared about and it looked like they were headed toward zero content. I figured by now it was just that one show they produced for themselves, whatever it was.
News For Herds, Stuff That Cattles?
It might be racist but it's not whitewashed. I assume Pac-Man is Asian based on his skin color, plus he eats a lot of fish right?
I got divorced from Apple in 2009 but it was just last year that I gave up custody of our bastard child, iTunes.
Ubuntu is mostly better than MacOS, but WHY CAN'T THEY FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET SOUND TO WORK? Seriously, I had trouble with sound on Linux in 1999 and now it's almost 20 years later and have the same problems.
Maybe in some cases I would agree but in this case I don't. The new sense of whitewash is very similar to the old one -- covering up an undesirable thing in a light-colored covering. Even without the racial pun on 'white' it would still be a meaningful phrase, and with that pun it's really quite cromulent.
I looked at all the side-by-side comparisons I could find on that page and to me it looks like simple color correction. People were taking a bunch of dark photos and the filter corrected them to be medium lightness. It didn't lighten their skin; it lightened the entire photo which their skin is part of. Look at the first example, she has dark hair which is completely washed-out black in the original, with no detail visible, and then in the filtered version you can see some more detail because they lightened the colors.
I'd like to see someone take a photo, do color correction first, then run it through this filter. Does it pick out brown skin tones and turn them whiter? I doubt it but if so then that might be a little bit offensive.
Nigerian dollars don't count.
"Riddle me this... do you want your heart surgeon on mind effecting drugs?"
Um, yeah, of course I do, so long as the effect is positive. Why wouldn't you want your surgeon to have the best possible performance?
Oh, gosh, sorry, I forgot to make the same baseless assumptions that you built into your argument. Silly me.
Huh, maybe they should run their own mail servers...
This is democracy in action. It isn't perfect, but good luck trying to get a King to change like that.
I grew up in Anchorage in the 1990s. We were so fed up with overzealous parking enforcement that we disbanded the parking authority by referendum.
After that only uniformed police officers could write tickets. That was a much more tolerable and balanced level of enforcement.
When you invest in something, you take a risk of whether you'll get it.
I bought an Ergodox EZ and luckily it turned out well -- very well. But it was a risk.
"The Private Email Server was set up so that she could exclude herself, in her official capacity as Secretary of State, from the official record."
Was it though? She said it was for convenience, which is the same reason I and many Slashdotters run our own mail servers.
But you think she just wanted to hide secrets? Okay, well now you've read all of her emails, so what were the secrets she was hiding? Oh, none at all?
If you think there's dirt in a certain place, and you look but find no dirt, then that's positive evidence that there is no dirt. Accept the evidence.
It would be hard to levy charges when there were two separate oversight processes, one in State one in the White House, based on an explicit memorandum specifying the ethical rubric to which Clinton signed.
If only she thinks it's okay, that's questionable, but not evidence of wrongdoing. If she thinks it's okay and an appointed overseer thinks it's okay, that's covered. If she thinks it's okay and an appointed overseer thinks it's okay and a second appointed overseer also thinks it's okay, that's responsible management of conflicts of interest.
I bet you read an article in International Business Times. Go read it again and pay attention to the part where they talked about these multiple layers of oversight.
At best Trump would be an embarrassment like Berlesconi. At worst he'd make history the way Caesar did: by killing a great democracy and remaking it in his tyrannical image.
Clinton isn't a "globalist" except insofar as she lives in 2016 on planet earth which is a globally connected unit.
"The reason that she isn't being indicted isn't because she's some innocent little angel"
That's right. She's not a little angel. But she is innocent.
You don't "spoil" water, you "spill" it. The only way to "spoil water" is to have a cow drink it, then milk the cow, then let the milk sit out on the counter.
If you want to practice grammar trolling, learn to double-check your posts.
A couple weeks ago something shifted and YT videos mostly stopped working for me. I don't know which one, but one of my ad blockers (in the browser, the other one in the browser, the hosts file, the WiFi DNS filter, maybe something else) began blocking all content on YouTube. The videos just remain dark when I press play. A few videos still work -- the ones without ads, I assume.
I was excited when they announced Red because "pay for content" is what I want to do. But $10 a month to watch maybe 20 videos during that month didn't seem worth it to me.
So... okay. I won't watch YouTube videos. That's a small bummer but much smaller than the bummer of watching ads or overpaying.