No, under California law you do not need ID to register to vote. They ask you your ID number, but it is not a required field, and the online form even has a checkbox for "I do not have a California driver license or California identification card."
That's lame... I share clickbait headlines all the time because I think they're funny. The posts always include a comment from me explaining why I'm posting it. Why shouldn't I be allowed to do that? Why assume that the people who ask to be my Facebook friends don't want to see my posts?
Alcohol takes away inhibitions and the fear of consequences, but it doesn't radically alter the things you're already feeling inside.
I've known people who get violent when they're drunk. Hell, it's happened to me. Doesn't mean a propensity for violence is part of your "true self." Generally, people who lash out at their friends when they're drunk usually feel ashamed of it the next day.
Alcohol alters your thinking. Some of the ways it alters it might be positive. Others, not so much. True, it doesn't take your entire personality away and turn you into a different person, so of course the things you think when you're drunk will be your own thoughts, and the things you say will be things that only you would think up. But to say that drinking reveals your inner self is a romantic notion -- the kind of thing that wannabe musicians and failed novelists cling to -- that doesn't jibe with reality.
One of the benefits of using a Microsoft account is that the computer can automatically back up all her documents to OneDrive, which offers 5GB of free storage, or (naturally) paid plans if she needs more. If you don't want to do this, will you also take responsibility for setting up the computer with an alternative backup service?
One more time: cloud sync is not a backup service.
If I can delete my files on my PC or have them corrupted and my "backup" also gets automatically deleted or corrupted, that is useless as a backup service. Cloud sync is very useful for making sure I have access to my files on my multiple PCs and my Android phone, but it is not a substitute for doing proper backups. The only reprieve OneDrive gives you is that when you delete files on one PC, they only get moved to the Trash on your other PCs, rather than being completely deleted.
Reliability is not so great an issue with raid systems being what they are today.
At the scale Backblaze is talking about, I would say it's an issue. Somebody has to keep all those drives in stock and walk back to a cage to replace them. It's not data loss we're worried about here, it's costs.
I said the figures are public. Netflix does not lose money on streaming overall, only overseas. Netflix does not make more money from DVD rentals than it does from streaming. Even the article you linked does not say streaming is not profitable for Netflix, which was your own assertion.
Maybe these are recent developments; I leave that research to you.
The surprising part, though, is not just that many people think disks by mail is old fashioned, but that people think that despite the fact that Netflix makes their profit from DVDs in the mail, not from streaming.
That's not true. Netflix loses money on streaming internationally, but in its most recent quarter its profits from domestic streaming were double its profits from DVD rentals. It also had five times as many domestic streaming subscribers than DVD plan subscribers. These figures are public.
Meanwhile, conservative America still has its head up its ass insisting that climate change is a liberal conspiracy and evolution the thing of the devil.
Not here to refute climate change, just to point out that this particular data point doesn't necessarily support it. The fact that the record in the western hemisphere was set in 1913 and has yet to be exceeded suggests that record temperatures are just, you know, kinda rare.
It’s true, the 2008 crisis forced plenty of people to look for additional sources of income, not least of all the recent graduates who, with little experience and limited networks, were confronting the job market for the first time.
Really? I thought the 2008 crisis was when the housing bubble burst. Are people who are "confronting the job market for the first time" really looking to get home loans? Or was it just that their first jobs didn't pay all that great?
Statements like this one just reinforce in a lot of older people's heads the idea that Millennials, as a group, are the "everyone deserves everything" generation. What did these people expect when they had "little experience and limited networks"? Did they honestly think anything had changed about first jobs since the dawn of time? My first job was at a goddamn 7-Eleven, FFS. No reason to go looking for some bullshit armchair economist's theory of why that was.
In California, you'd better have pretty good documentation of the times you reprimanded those employees before firing them, or you could still be subject to a wrongful termination suit.
Above and beyond that... so you're telling me a Hollywood movie... was financed... using accounting tricks... that could be defined as money laundering.
The camera mail order market is the absolute worst. Knockoffs and versions intended only for foreign markets abound.
Ironically, Amazon is one of the only mail order vendors I do trust for camera stuff. But I only buy Prime-eligible items that ship direct from Amazon, never any of those super-discount bundles from market sellers.
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It says a lot about the state of US news consumers if you think an advertisement for a brand loyalty program is "hard news."
Did we really think companies wouldn't charge money for advertising?
No, under California law you do not need ID to register to vote. They ask you your ID number, but it is not a required field, and the online form even has a checkbox for "I do not have a California driver license or California identification card."
Appear less frequently = buried?
That's a generally accepted term, as in a newspaper: "Bury the story on page 4."
Well if the Facebook algorithm is going to bury the posts so they're never seen, isn't that about the same thing?
That's lame ... I share clickbait headlines all the time because I think they're funny. The posts always include a comment from me explaining why I'm posting it. Why shouldn't I be allowed to do that? Why assume that the people who ask to be my Facebook friends don't want to see my posts?
You could even argue that what runaway success the Amiga did have can be attributed not to the machine itself, but to the Video Toaster.
Alcohol takes away inhibitions and the fear of consequences, but it doesn't radically alter the things you're already feeling inside.
I've known people who get violent when they're drunk. Hell, it's happened to me. Doesn't mean a propensity for violence is part of your "true self." Generally, people who lash out at their friends when they're drunk usually feel ashamed of it the next day.
Alcohol alters your thinking. Some of the ways it alters it might be positive. Others, not so much. True, it doesn't take your entire personality away and turn you into a different person, so of course the things you think when you're drunk will be your own thoughts, and the things you say will be things that only you would think up. But to say that drinking reveals your inner self is a romantic notion -- the kind of thing that wannabe musicians and failed novelists cling to -- that doesn't jibe with reality.
"They say alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only disease you can get yelled at for having.
Try catching gonorrhea sometime.
Make sure you go back and check for updates again after it installs. Another Firmware Update came out today, too.
One of the benefits of using a Microsoft account is that the computer can automatically back up all her documents to OneDrive, which offers 5GB of free storage, or (naturally) paid plans if she needs more. If you don't want to do this, will you also take responsibility for setting up the computer with an alternative backup service?
One more time: cloud sync is not a backup service.
If I can delete my files on my PC or have them corrupted and my "backup" also gets automatically deleted or corrupted, that is useless as a backup service. Cloud sync is very useful for making sure I have access to my files on my multiple PCs and my Android phone, but it is not a substitute for doing proper backups. The only reprieve OneDrive gives you is that when you delete files on one PC, they only get moved to the Trash on your other PCs, rather than being completely deleted.
Reliability is not so great an issue with raid systems being what they are today.
At the scale Backblaze is talking about, I would say it's an issue. Somebody has to keep all those drives in stock and walk back to a cage to replace them. It's not data loss we're worried about here, it's costs.
Luddite.
I said the figures are public. Netflix does not lose money on streaming overall, only overseas. Netflix does not make more money from DVD rentals than it does from streaming. Even the article you linked does not say streaming is not profitable for Netflix, which was your own assertion.
Maybe these are recent developments; I leave that research to you.
The surprising part, though, is not just that many people think disks by mail is old fashioned, but that people think that despite the fact that Netflix makes their profit from DVDs in the mail, not from streaming.
That's not true. Netflix loses money on streaming internationally, but in its most recent quarter its profits from domestic streaming were double its profits from DVD rentals. It also had five times as many domestic streaming subscribers than DVD plan subscribers. These figures are public.
Netflix needs to secure a couple of sitcoms to survive:
* Big Bang Theory
* Friends
* Seinfeld
Interestingly enough, Netflix is now offering 10 seasons of Friends for streaming.
Meanwhile, conservative America still has its head up its ass insisting that climate change is a liberal conspiracy and evolution the thing of the devil.
Not here to refute climate change, just to point out that this particular data point doesn't necessarily support it. The fact that the record in the western hemisphere was set in 1913 and has yet to be exceeded suggests that record temperatures are just, you know, kinda rare.
Real life called, it said good luck with that.
This part interested me:
It’s true, the 2008 crisis forced plenty of people to look for additional sources of income, not least of all the recent graduates who, with little experience and limited networks, were confronting the job market for the first time.
Really? I thought the 2008 crisis was when the housing bubble burst. Are people who are "confronting the job market for the first time" really looking to get home loans? Or was it just that their first jobs didn't pay all that great?
Statements like this one just reinforce in a lot of older people's heads the idea that Millennials, as a group, are the "everyone deserves everything" generation. What did these people expect when they had "little experience and limited networks"? Did they honestly think anything had changed about first jobs since the dawn of time? My first job was at a goddamn 7-Eleven, FFS. No reason to go looking for some bullshit armchair economist's theory of why that was.
He's a Rust programmer. The elegance and beauty of his code speaks for itself.
In California, you'd better have pretty good documentation of the times you reprimanded those employees before firing them, or you could still be subject to a wrongful termination suit.
Moving a mountain one grain of sand at at time isn't really proving you can move a mountain.
It isn't? I mean ... that wouldn't impress you? WTF would?
Above and beyond that ... so you're telling me a Hollywood movie ... was financed ... using accounting tricks ... that could be defined as money laundering.
Wait a sec.
Give me a minute to process this.
Pressure ... in skull ... building .... NHGH
The camera mail order market is the absolute worst. Knockoffs and versions intended only for foreign markets abound.
Ironically, Amazon is one of the only mail order vendors I do trust for camera stuff. But I only buy Prime-eligible items that ship direct from Amazon, never any of those super-discount bundles from market sellers.
If this keeps up, we'll have to only RTFA from now long! /. will be turned on its head!