As someone who has been driven off of commercial radio by Clearchannel/IHeartRadio all I can say is "about damn time". They took on a ton of debt to buy out all of the local stations and convert them to bland corporate garbage and it's finally coming back to bite them in the ass. I hope the go Chapter 13 and local buyers have to step in to restore the radio stations. I know that will never happen in the real world but I can dream. Clearchannel killed radio.
This is so often the case with UFO conspiracies. You find one out of the ordinary situation and embellish the crap out of it to make it sound mysterious.
Claim: UFO was making impossible maneuvers!
Evidence: UFO appears to be flying in a straight line
Claim: UFO was moving at an impossible speed
Evidence: UFO was traveling at about Mach 0.5
Claim: UFO was at an impossible altitude
Evidence: UFO was flying low, possibly to avoid civilian radar.
Claim: UFO disappeared from RADAR suddenly
Evidence: UFO flew out of RADAR range.
This is why it is so hard to take these claims seriously. The people who make them have long since lost all credibility outside of their echo chamber.
The in-universe explanation is that every Kaiju death site becomes an instant superfund cleanup site. Crushing weapons and self-cauterizing weapons (like that painfully slow plasma cannon) were greatly preferred to reduce the environmental impact of Kaiju blood getting everywhere. The movie just happened to take place right as the Kaiju were re-designed to be able to absorb tremendous amounts of crushing damage. Of course some countries (like China) didn't seem to care as much about the environmental impact and went for Buzzsaws early. The implication is that for the most part earlier Kaiju were done in pretty easily with punches, so there wasn't a need to upgrade to the sword.
This is also why they went for giant robots. Putting a punching weapon on a tank is kind of awkward and near impossible to use on fast movie Kaiju. Tanks can kill them, but they make such a horrendous toxic mess that a better solution was needed.
Of course if you put real thought into it there are probably lots of better solutions. Giant steel net launchers and lots of fire perhaps. But probably not any that look as cool.
It's even worse when you consider the fighting that takes place in sandy coastal waters. The Jaegers should have sunk into the sand pretty much instantly.
But really, the giant robots made very little sense at all. It doesn't make it a bad movie. In fact it was an awesome movie.
Hell, if they do have $2.3 billion USD stashed away somewhere that just leads to more questions. But there's virtually no chance that's the case. They would have taken the money and run at this point if it got that big.
Here's the real giveaway. Look on their website and see how you sell your Tethers to get the USD. If they actually existed there should be a way to get them out, otherwise they would be useless. But there isn't. All you have is a lie on a webpage claiming that they're backed by real money.
Hands on experience beats textbooks pretty much every time. If your school has a computer lab (AKA you are in a first world country) then there isn't much point studying from the book instead of just doing it yourself and learning how it works. Later on when you start talking about making inductive proofs and the like then the books become necessary again, but for high school CS there is basically nothing that isn't best done directly on the computer.
Yeah, I knew I was going to be a CS major in college so I took the AB test and then discovered that basically no colleges I applied to gave it time of day. I still had to suffer through the stupidly easy "weed out" class like every other freshman in the program.
Buying all of the coins back with what? Do you seriously believe they have a bank account somewhere with 2.3 billion dollars worth of fiat currency in it that they can use to buy back Tethers? They're obviously just printing money and people are buying it up like crazy. The line on their homepage about Tethers being backed by USD is obvious bullshit. Their promise of "regular audits" has gone about as well as you would expect, with them being forced to fire the auditors before they finished their first audit because they had the sheer unmitigated gall to ask where the money was coming from on the balance sheet.
Since he was described as an executive of "Mobile Messenger" I'm guessing he ran those scammy text-you-shit services and then signed people up without their knowledge. Pretty much everybody I knew with a phone line (cell or land) got at least one of those damn services stuck on it at one time or another. It was the #1 reason you had to check your phone bill each month. The most irritating thing is that you would then have to call the phone company that would always give you the runaround about how you must have signed up for the thing because they're always legitimate and I'm a bad guy for trying to rip off this poor legitimate business. I mean they have the record of my signup right there showing how I personally clicked the "I want to sign up" box from my home in Moscow in the middle of the night.
A preliminary assessment indicates that condensation from heavy rainfall caused a flashover on one of the facility's transformers.
But the rain had been over for nearly 20 hours at that point. Why did the water take so long to short that transformer? On the other hand it is entirely believable that the roof leaked into that transformer room, since it was leaking everywhere else in the convention center. Apparently whomever built the thing didn't understand water at all.
This guy thought he was a l33t hacker because the police hadn't caught him, but it seems like the first time they tried they were able to roll him up in a few hours. He's an idiot with a vastly inflated sense of self worth, and it got an innocent person killed.
The problem with having no deadlines is that too often nothing gets done. Look at Valve for an example of what happens when management is too hands off. Half Life 2 Episode 3 is a full decade behind schedule now. I get that you can't rush greatness, but you gotta keep it motivated.
No my experience at all. The v6 version of a site iften loads faster according to my browser extension. The only problem thus far is Netflix, which blocks video streams to Hurricane Electric addresses. That and Windows store which stops working if you disable IPv6 support on a network that otherwise does support v6.
Yes, I too have full faith that Comcast will act only in my best interest and not attempt to use this as an ability to extract more money from the consumers. Why shouldn't I? They're the most trusted and loved company in America. They've certainly never acted unethically in the past, nor attempted to hold certain services hostage unless they paid a ransom.
Right now my view best possible solution is pushing for a clean legislative solution for NN and only NN.
The Republican controlled legislature will get right on that... I'd wager that more than half of the people in congress have no idea what Net Neutrality is or worse, believe what Comcast tells them about it.
Numbers like 1,000 and 4,000 are reasonably big for human scale things, but could be absolutely tiny in the microbe realm. IIRC humans have over a thousand different types of bacteria in our gut alone. That "super germy" figure could be the result of a single fart.
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In shocking news today apparently 19% of ICOs are not scams. Economists interviewed about this story are at a loss to explain the situation.
Although according to the summary the number is closer to 8%.
The 1/5 entering their password into the website is the buried lead IMHO. That's absolutely ridiculous.
As someone who has been driven off of commercial radio by Clearchannel/IHeartRadio all I can say is "about damn time". They took on a ton of debt to buy out all of the local stations and convert them to bland corporate garbage and it's finally coming back to bite them in the ass. I hope the go Chapter 13 and local buyers have to step in to restore the radio stations. I know that will never happen in the real world but I can dream. Clearchannel killed radio.
This is so often the case with UFO conspiracies. You find one out of the ordinary situation and embellish the crap out of it to make it sound mysterious.
Claim: UFO was making impossible maneuvers!
Evidence: UFO appears to be flying in a straight line
Claim: UFO was moving at an impossible speed
Evidence: UFO was traveling at about Mach 0.5
Claim: UFO was at an impossible altitude
Evidence: UFO was flying low, possibly to avoid civilian radar.
Claim: UFO disappeared from RADAR suddenly
Evidence: UFO flew out of RADAR range.
This is why it is so hard to take these claims seriously. The people who make them have long since lost all credibility outside of their echo chamber.
The in-universe explanation is that every Kaiju death site becomes an instant superfund cleanup site. Crushing weapons and self-cauterizing weapons (like that painfully slow plasma cannon) were greatly preferred to reduce the environmental impact of Kaiju blood getting everywhere. The movie just happened to take place right as the Kaiju were re-designed to be able to absorb tremendous amounts of crushing damage. Of course some countries (like China) didn't seem to care as much about the environmental impact and went for Buzzsaws early. The implication is that for the most part earlier Kaiju were done in pretty easily with punches, so there wasn't a need to upgrade to the sword.
This is also why they went for giant robots. Putting a punching weapon on a tank is kind of awkward and near impossible to use on fast movie Kaiju. Tanks can kill them, but they make such a horrendous toxic mess that a better solution was needed.
Of course if you put real thought into it there are probably lots of better solutions. Giant steel net launchers and lots of fire perhaps. But probably not any that look as cool.
As a former City of Heroes player, all I can say is Fuck You ESA.
It's even worse when you consider the fighting that takes place in sandy coastal waters. The Jaegers should have sunk into the sand pretty much instantly.
But really, the giant robots made very little sense at all. It doesn't make it a bad movie. In fact it was an awesome movie.
Hell, if they do have $2.3 billion USD stashed away somewhere that just leads to more questions. But there's virtually no chance that's the case. They would have taken the money and run at this point if it got that big.
Here's the real giveaway. Look on their website and see how you sell your Tethers to get the USD. If they actually existed there should be a way to get them out, otherwise they would be useless. But there isn't. All you have is a lie on a webpage claiming that they're backed by real money.
Hands on experience beats textbooks pretty much every time. If your school has a computer lab (AKA you are in a first world country) then there isn't much point studying from the book instead of just doing it yourself and learning how it works. Later on when you start talking about making inductive proofs and the like then the books become necessary again, but for high school CS there is basically nothing that isn't best done directly on the computer.
Yeah, I knew I was going to be a CS major in college so I took the AB test and then discovered that basically no colleges I applied to gave it time of day. I still had to suffer through the stupidly easy "weed out" class like every other freshman in the program.
Buying all of the coins back with what? Do you seriously believe they have a bank account somewhere with 2.3 billion dollars worth of fiat currency in it that they can use to buy back Tethers? They're obviously just printing money and people are buying it up like crazy. The line on their homepage about Tethers being backed by USD is obvious bullshit. Their promise of "regular audits" has gone about as well as you would expect, with them being forced to fire the auditors before they finished their first audit because they had the sheer unmitigated gall to ask where the money was coming from on the balance sheet.
Since he was described as an executive of "Mobile Messenger" I'm guessing he ran those scammy text-you-shit services and then signed people up without their knowledge. Pretty much everybody I knew with a phone line (cell or land) got at least one of those damn services stuck on it at one time or another. It was the #1 reason you had to check your phone bill each month. The most irritating thing is that you would then have to call the phone company that would always give you the runaround about how you must have signed up for the thing because they're always legitimate and I'm a bad guy for trying to rip off this poor legitimate business. I mean they have the record of my signup right there showing how I personally clicked the "I want to sign up" box from my home in Moscow in the middle of the night.
But the rain had been over for nearly 20 hours at that point. Why did the water take so long to short that transformer? On the other hand it is entirely believable that the roof leaked into that transformer room, since it was leaking everywhere else in the convention center. Apparently whomever built the thing didn't understand water at all.
I'm trying to imagine the person who goes "This screen doesn't have a bezel? But that's the best part of the phone! No sale!!"
One might get old and die before Firefox finishes building on a 33Mhz 486.
This guy thought he was a l33t hacker because the police hadn't caught him, but it seems like the first time they tried they were able to roll him up in a few hours. He's an idiot with a vastly inflated sense of self worth, and it got an innocent person killed.
The problem with having no deadlines is that too often nothing gets done. Look at Valve for an example of what happens when management is too hands off. Half Life 2 Episode 3 is a full decade behind schedule now. I get that you can't rush greatness, but you gotta keep it motivated.
No my experience at all. The v6 version of a site iften loads faster according to my browser extension. The only problem thus far is Netflix, which blocks video streams to Hurricane Electric addresses. That and Windows store which stops working if you disable IPv6 support on a network that otherwise does support v6.
Yep. There have never been stock market bubbles, it's the perfect system.
Yes, I too have full faith that Comcast will act only in my best interest and not attempt to use this as an ability to extract more money from the consumers. Why shouldn't I? They're the most trusted and loved company in America. They've certainly never acted unethically in the past, nor attempted to hold certain services hostage unless they paid a ransom.
The Republican controlled legislature will get right on that... I'd wager that more than half of the people in congress have no idea what Net Neutrality is or worse, believe what Comcast tells them about it.
I'm guessing they were also less obsessed with swirling and looking at the legs and all of that jazz.
It's only about self deception.
Everybody knows there is a bubble, but nobody wants to believe that it will ever pop.
Numbers like 1,000 and 4,000 are reasonably big for human scale things, but could be absolutely tiny in the microbe realm. IIRC humans have over a thousand different types of bacteria in our gut alone. That "super germy" figure could be the result of a single fart.