Is the EU really trying to be that anti-business? Do mom and pops have to open stores throughout the EU if they open one up in, say, Germany? Are they required to be online retailers? The EU is kind of being a little stupid.
I mean that's clearly not what they require, it's kindof mental to even ask. It's a price discrimination rule.
"can't be charged a higher price when buying products or services in the EU just because of your nationality or country of residence."
There is no requirement to operate over multiple countries, but if you do you have to offer the same prices to everybody, excluding delivery costs. Since delivery doesn't apply to streaming, then it's must just be the same price.
My god you have an over-inflated sense of your country's importance. Just keep chanting "murica, murica" to yourself, I'm sure you'll feel better. You might be more convincing if you were clever enough to put more than one sentence in each paragraph. It must be that amazing American education system.
I mean, yeah, those things could happen, but I really think the likelyhood is overplayed these days. We lived with cassettes for decades before nicer portable formats came along... if they were really as bad as all that nobody would have bothered. I had 10s of cassettes and I can only remember a handful of times the tapes got tangled, and they were all fixable fairly easily. I never had one break.
Sure things are better now, but on the other hand they weren't *that* bad...
Violence and child abuse is now the same as dehumanising speech?
Probably depends on how much and how often you have to deal with it. Speech matters.
Having to deal day-in-day-out with the conspiracy nuts, literal nazis, threats of violence etc., after a while, little by little, that's going to change you. That's exactly what they're talking about. Since you or I haven't done that job we aren't in a good position to judge what it's like.
I agree completely, but this... call me cynical, but...
There are 10s of thousands of people who have gone on a site to register their *disinterest* in a film that they can't know anything about. Who does that? Disinterest is just that, don't care. This is just negative caring. If I don't care about a film i don't go around telling people.
Perhaps, in our hyper sensitive, over victimized culture, people are tired of changes made solely in the name of "equality". The original Captain Marvel was a white man,,, we certainly can't have another successful movie featuring a white male, we need to change things up a bit. . Like "Ghost Busters for girls" (Ghostbusters 2016) or Ocean's 8 - the sound of flopping can still resounds.
Go count the number of Marvel movies with a white male protagonist, and count the number with the main protagonist being either not white, or not a man, and then come back and tell me how victimised you are. There is a whole world of other interesting perspectives and stories that you are frightened of for some reason.
Fuck my life, do you not want to see any films with different sorts of people in them? Why would you pretend that there are no women Captain Marvels in the comics, do you think it helps your victim-status?
It's the "want to see" rating that's low, not the review. Not that that matters, seems obvious that there's a concerted effort to try to damage the film going on, but would be nice not to give a "well, actually" out to distract the issue.
Still, if ever there you need evidence of the pathetic weakling manbabies that inhabit the internet, here's another one. Marvel make one film with a black cast, or one film with a female lead, and they lose their fucking minds. "Quick, suppress anything that isn't exclusively aimed at me!" The film isn't released yet, there are no reviews and we know very little. Marvel have a great track record, so if you have enjoyed their past films the only reason for railing so hard against this is sexism. Sorry, it is actually pathetic.
I'm extremely good at my job. I'm not some interchangeable worker-drone. (Almost no one is — it’s not 1895 anymore.).
Oooo... someone thinks they're a special unique flower....
If you've ever left a job, and that company has done ok without you, you're replaceable. Perhaps for your own sake it would be worth reconsidering how interchangeable you are.
Careful, you're dangerously close to suggesting that other countries might be legitimately better at some things than the States, and that the USA isn't the best country evarrrr in all possible measures.
The wages argument really comes with this ugly inference that the *only* reason other countries can do things is because they are poorer.
I'm sure you know all about it, I mean it's not exactly rocket science is it.
The response to someone making impossible demands isn't OKAY LET'S FUCKING DO IT. Less than 2 years absolutely is impossible, of course it is. Hell it takes about 7 months to travel there. It's not a case of not being ambitious enough, it's not a case of being scared, it's a case of the very clever person in the room who knows how hard things are knows that trying to do that would be folly, waste a lot of money, and people will die.
Fuck this macho bullshit. Hard things are hard, serious people respect that.
I mean also how much developer time can you buy for $14/ month or whatever it is. You only have to waste 30 minutes faffing about and you're immediately making a bad choice financially. I *can* self-host, but I'm an app developer, I'm probably better off improving the product instead.
Can we _please_ remove the political slant from this site?
Could the AC (or indeed any of the mods that moderated parent up) explain to this person how such a bland summary has a political slant? How exactly has your poor sensitive ears been offended this time?
Yeah I'm not seeing the problem here apart from "people always react against change". The old tab design was really specific hit areas and I was constantly changing tabs rather than closing them because the crosses were too small. Feels like a positive change to me.
What struck me was the fact that he used about $2000 worth of phones to do each package. Ridiculous. No one one do that because you probably wouldn't get them back.
Yeah, but he's not providing a realistic project suggesting that people do this, it's an engineering challenge / attempt to make some entertainment for some sweet Youtube dollars.
Apart from anything the 10s of hours of skilled custom work to make it would probably dwarf the hardware costs, if you're totting up. It sucks that he pushed the 'entertainment' so far as to make the engineering aspect questionable, because it's a neat little build.
How many users of phones without notches or holes drilled though the screen are going to have to suffer with unusable screen space on their phones due to app developers and content developers having to develop for the lowest common denominator. Were pretty much getting to the point you have to assume the edges of 5-10% of a phone's screen are unusable because you dont know what kind of notch, hole, curved corner or other bullshit might be in the screen.
So much for a bezel free phone, when now that 5-10% of the screen itself is now the bezel and has to be assumed to be unusable, lest some part of your content gets cut off.
Clearly you aren't a developer, and are talking out of your arse, or you'd know this sort of stuff is easy to deal with.
That's completely false. Even in areas where the electricity is generated by coal, they still result in lower emissions than gas cars. And as the electric grid gets cleaner, the cars get cleaner. Also, a significantly higher percentage of EV owners install solar, so much of the power is completely emissions free.
Not when you add battery waste and the pollution cost of shipping the batteries. The EV people only ever see one side of the equation. If electric vehicles were viable and car companies could make money on them they would be the default by now. Period.
Citation?
You also obviously don't understand economies of scale. "Period."
If you care about photo quality, forget phones, get a real camera!
Absolutely. But the best camera in the world is no use if you don't have it with you - which is going to be most of the time. I always have my phone though... If you care about photography during all the times you're not carrying your dedicated device, then yes you should also be getting the best photography phone that you can.
From what I've read it has the same hardware / software for the camera as the 3 / 3XL, so this could easily be a good compromise. I don't need the latest most awesomest phone but having had a Pixel 2, I'd really struggle to give up the camera.
Android's memory management has got way better in the last few releases
Yeah, really. And that's why Android OS occupies close to or even more than 1,5GB of RAM in modern Android releases?
Argh. "power management". I meant power management.
Maybe next time research a little bit more before spewing out BS.
Oh, you're an arsehole! You didn't have to be, you could be civilised, but no. I'm not 100% agreeing with you, so you immediately resort to insults. How disappointing.
At least in regard to Android Google is obsessed with adding new background daemons which wake up your phone a lot more frequently than it was done in the past and, consequently, your battery life starts to suck a lot.
I'm not sure I buy this reason - Android's memory management has got way better in the last few releases, I'm sure I see noticably better standby life in Oreo & Pie on the same physical hardware. Which makes sense, doze and app standby are specifically there to reduce wakeups.
The problem I think is in the screen-on time. And for that I blame constantly larger screens that have to emit more light, with ridiculous pixel densities. 300 DPI was perfectly fine, I really can't see why we're pushing to 600DPI and all the associated GPU costs.
I think you're right generally, in that the money-out is one of the biggest problems, but I think your targets might be misplaced. Malpractise isn't a significant cost, neither is salary compared with what would be expected - the biggest cost is down to the separately privately run businesses that run the healthcare, that all make their cut, and can't negotiate collectively to get the best price.
What do you mean by "coerced"? "Coerced" as in he forced an employee to give him a blowjob or "coerced" as in he convinced an employee to give him a blowjob? There is a huge difference between the two. If it's the latter definition, then there is no issue. Adults can do what they want.
And when that sex act gets implicitly linked to your continued employment or career progression? As it would be with your boss? It's sketchy, at the very least.
Don't have sex with people that you have power over. How complex is that? What happened to independent adults coming (heh) together consensually? If you have life-altering power over another human then they aren't ever going to have the chance to make an independent decision. A 'no' could mean consequences for their actual livelihood -- how is that healthy?
'threats' was a bit strong in retrospect, I was being pissed-off, not clear.
The 'threat' I was referring to was the assertion that he wouldn't make any changes until some random group that he picked stopped doing something that he didn't like. That improving a particular community is contingent on some nebulous culture war that's happening.
Unless we think that online communities cannot be improved, that somehow everything's perfect.... surely atleast that we can agree isn't the case? Communities can be improved? Whether you approve should depend on what is being suggested, not on what a "SJW" might possibly want.
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Is the EU really trying to be that anti-business? Do mom and pops have to open stores throughout the EU if they open one up in, say, Germany? Are they required to be online retailers? The EU is kind of being a little stupid.
I mean that's clearly not what they require, it's kindof mental to even ask. It's a price discrimination rule.
"can't be charged a higher price when buying products or services in the EU just because of your nationality or country of residence."
There is no requirement to operate over multiple countries, but if you do you have to offer the same prices to everybody, excluding delivery costs. Since delivery doesn't apply to streaming, then it's must just be the same price.
My god you have an over-inflated sense of your country's importance. Just keep chanting "murica, murica" to yourself, I'm sure you'll feel better. You might be more convincing if you were clever enough to put more than one sentence in each paragraph. It must be that amazing American education system.
Go manifest destiny somewhere else.
I mean, yeah, those things could happen, but I really think the likelyhood is overplayed these days. We lived with cassettes for decades before nicer portable formats came along... if they were really as bad as all that nobody would have bothered. I had 10s of cassettes and I can only remember a handful of times the tapes got tangled, and they were all fixable fairly easily. I never had one break.
Sure things are better now, but on the other hand they weren't *that* bad...
Violence and child abuse is now the same as dehumanising speech?
Probably depends on how much and how often you have to deal with it. Speech matters.
Having to deal day-in-day-out with the conspiracy nuts, literal nazis, threats of violence etc., after a while, little by little, that's going to change you. That's exactly what they're talking about. Since you or I haven't done that job we aren't in a good position to judge what it's like.
Not everything is a social screed.
I agree completely, but this... call me cynical, but...
There are 10s of thousands of people who have gone on a site to register their *disinterest* in a film that they can't know anything about. Who does that? Disinterest is just that, don't care. This is just negative caring. If I don't care about a film i don't go around telling people.
Perhaps, in our hyper sensitive, over victimized culture, people are tired of changes made solely in the name of "equality". The original Captain Marvel was a white man,,, we certainly can't have another successful movie featuring a white male, we need to change things up a bit. . Like "Ghost Busters for girls" (Ghostbusters 2016) or Ocean's 8 - the sound of flopping can still resounds.
Go count the number of Marvel movies with a white male protagonist, and count the number with the main protagonist being either not white, or not a man, and then come back and tell me how victimised you are. There is a whole world of other interesting perspectives and stories that you are frightened of for some reason.
Fuck my life, do you not want to see any films with different sorts of people in them? Why would you pretend that there are no women Captain Marvels in the comics, do you think it helps your victim-status?
It's the "want to see" rating that's low, not the review. Not that that matters, seems obvious that there's a concerted effort to try to damage the film going on, but would be nice not to give a "well, actually" out to distract the issue.
Still, if ever there you need evidence of the pathetic weakling manbabies that inhabit the internet, here's another one. Marvel make one film with a black cast, or one film with a female lead, and they lose their fucking minds. "Quick, suppress anything that isn't exclusively aimed at me!" The film isn't released yet, there are no reviews and we know very little. Marvel have a great track record, so if you have enjoyed their past films the only reason for railing so hard against this is sexism. Sorry, it is actually pathetic.
I'm extremely good at my job. I'm not some interchangeable worker-drone. (Almost no one is — it’s not 1895 anymore.).
Oooo... someone thinks they're a special unique flower....
If you've ever left a job, and that company has done ok without you, you're replaceable. Perhaps for your own sake it would be worth reconsidering how interchangeable you are.
This is bullshit and you know that.
From the grandparent:
Ordering from China isn't nearly as easy as you make it sound. I do this for a living.
Repeat after me: "I don't know what I'm talking about, so I will listen to the guy who does"
Careful, you're dangerously close to suggesting that other countries might be legitimately better at some things than the States, and that the USA isn't the best country evarrrr in all possible measures.
The wages argument really comes with this ugly inference that the *only* reason other countries can do things is because they are poorer.
I'm sure you know all about it, I mean it's not exactly rocket science is it.
The response to someone making impossible demands isn't OKAY LET'S FUCKING DO IT. Less than 2 years absolutely is impossible, of course it is. Hell it takes about 7 months to travel there. It's not a case of not being ambitious enough, it's not a case of being scared, it's a case of the very clever person in the room who knows how hard things are knows that trying to do that would be folly, waste a lot of money, and people will die.
Fuck this macho bullshit. Hard things are hard, serious people respect that.
so I save myself the hassle of opening a new account every time I need to submit an email.
In this example the domain is owned, so you'd get all email delivered sent to *@smith.com. No hassle necessary.
I mean also how much developer time can you buy for $14/ month or whatever it is. You only have to waste 30 minutes faffing about and you're immediately making a bad choice financially. I *can* self-host, but I'm an app developer, I'm probably better off improving the product instead.
Can we _please_ remove the political slant from this site?
Could the AC (or indeed any of the mods that moderated parent up) explain to this person how such a bland summary has a political slant? How exactly has your poor sensitive ears been offended this time?
Yeah I'm not seeing the problem here apart from "people always react against change". The old tab design was really specific hit areas and I was constantly changing tabs rather than closing them because the crosses were too small. Feels like a positive change to me.
What struck me was the fact that he used about $2000 worth of phones to do each package. Ridiculous. No one one do that because you probably wouldn't get them back.
Yeah, but he's not providing a realistic project suggesting that people do this, it's an engineering challenge / attempt to make some entertainment for some sweet Youtube dollars.
Apart from anything the 10s of hours of skilled custom work to make it would probably dwarf the hardware costs, if you're totting up. It sucks that he pushed the 'entertainment' so far as to make the engineering aspect questionable, because it's a neat little build.
How many users of phones without notches or holes drilled though the screen are going to have to suffer with unusable screen space on their phones due to app developers and content developers having to develop for the lowest common denominator. Were pretty much getting to the point you have to assume the edges of 5-10% of a phone's screen are unusable because you dont know what kind of notch, hole, curved corner or other bullshit might be in the screen.
So much for a bezel free phone, when now that 5-10% of the screen itself is now the bezel and has to be assumed to be unusable, lest some part of your content gets cut off.
Clearly you aren't a developer, and are talking out of your arse, or you'd know this sort of stuff is easy to deal with.
https://developer.android.com/...
That's completely false. Even in areas where the electricity is generated by coal, they still result in lower emissions than gas cars. And as the electric grid gets cleaner, the cars get cleaner. Also, a significantly higher percentage of EV owners install solar, so much of the power is completely emissions free.
Not when you add battery waste and the pollution cost of shipping the batteries. The EV people only ever see one side of the equation. If electric vehicles were viable and car companies could make money on them they would be the default by now. Period.
Citation?
You also obviously don't understand economies of scale. "Period."
If you care about photo quality, forget phones, get a real camera!
Absolutely. But the best camera in the world is no use if you don't have it with you - which is going to be most of the time. I always have my phone though... If you care about photography during all the times you're not carrying your dedicated device, then yes you should also be getting the best photography phone that you can.
From what I've read it has the same hardware / software for the camera as the 3 / 3XL, so this could easily be a good compromise. I don't need the latest most awesomest phone but having had a Pixel 2, I'd really struggle to give up the camera.
Yeah, really. And that's why Android OS occupies close to or even more than 1,5GB of RAM in modern Android releases?
Argh. "power management". I meant power management.
Maybe next time research a little bit more before spewing out BS.
Oh, you're an arsehole! You didn't have to be, you could be civilised, but no. I'm not 100% agreeing with you, so you immediately resort to insults. How disappointing.
At least in regard to Android Google is obsessed with adding new background daemons which wake up your phone a lot more frequently than it was done in the past and, consequently, your battery life starts to suck a lot.
I'm not sure I buy this reason - Android's memory management has got way better in the last few releases, I'm sure I see noticably better standby life in Oreo & Pie on the same physical hardware. Which makes sense, doze and app standby are specifically there to reduce wakeups.
The problem I think is in the screen-on time. And for that I blame constantly larger screens that have to emit more light, with ridiculous pixel densities. 300 DPI was perfectly fine, I really can't see why we're pushing to 600DPI and all the associated GPU costs.
I think you're right generally, in that the money-out is one of the biggest problems, but I think your targets might be misplaced. Malpractise isn't a significant cost, neither is salary compared with what would be expected - the biggest cost is down to the separately privately run businesses that run the healthcare, that all make their cut, and can't negotiate collectively to get the best price.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
What do you mean by "coerced"? "Coerced" as in he forced an employee to give him a blowjob or "coerced" as in he convinced an employee to give him a blowjob? There is a huge difference between the two. If it's the latter definition, then there is no issue. Adults can do what they want.
And when that sex act gets implicitly linked to your continued employment or career progression? As it would be with your boss? It's sketchy, at the very least.
Don't have sex with people that you have power over. How complex is that? What happened to independent adults coming (heh) together consensually? If you have life-altering power over another human then they aren't ever going to have the chance to make an independent decision. A 'no' could mean consequences for their actual livelihood -- how is that healthy?
'threats' was a bit strong in retrospect, I was being pissed-off, not clear.
The 'threat' I was referring to was the assertion that he wouldn't make any changes until some random group that he picked stopped doing something that he didn't like. That improving a particular community is contingent on some nebulous culture war that's happening.
Unless we think that online communities cannot be improved, that somehow everything's perfect.... surely atleast that we can agree isn't the case? Communities can be improved? Whether you approve should depend on what is being suggested, not on what a "SJW" might possibly want.