A few years ago I used to know a guy in college who was part of the RC Patrol on Wikipedia. He often would show me hilarious and dumb vandalism/trolling on Wikipedia articles.
One thing I always remember about it though is that they frequently had articles for various Indian guys who were just... office workers.? Maybe some minor programmers, but none of them had any kind of notable achievements. These articles put up daily about these guys whose names showed up pretty much nowhere on the Internet.
This reminds me of a few years ago when Nintendo had one of the E3 press conferences. They announced several games that it seemed like a ton of fans went crazy for. Lots of people online were excited, unless they just didn't like Nintendo.
Meanwhile their stocks dropped a large amount, the reason from investors was basically : They didn't quit video games and focus 100% on mobile gaming. Mobile games are the future so we're dropping Nintendo.
I seem to recall several comments and posts about working there still being awful and mostly a "Now I've got this on my resume, time to get the Hell out of this place" for most people.
But Fortnite players seems unhealthily obsessed with the game. I saw something in the past week about this being the most profitable game at the moment, taking up something around 7% of the entire digital market's spending?
So I imagine Fortnite players would have no problem doing anything to keep the game on them even more. I saw an image recently of a guy who had taken his computer and monitor onto a train/bus/whatever so he could play Fortnite the entire time.
Also I imagine you'd be hard pressed to get people to wash all their recyclables when there is a drought and they are under various water restrictions and higher costs in their area. I never really buy any kind of bottled drinks or anything of that nature.... too bad any time I go to the store I'll always see some 400lb person walking out with about 500 soft drinks in their cart.
Wish I could edit, but I meant to add - the guy at the door was new and told me they still took TVs and didn't mention the fee. So this is why it was mentioned to me that no one could stop me from walking out, not that she just said I could leave it there.
Sounds like something was wrong with the headphones or Bluetooth for it to be that bad. I use my headphones every time I go to the gym, and listen to them for 55-75 minutes or so. I'm often leaving the phone near the squat rack and walking 20ish feet away to the water fountain or doing loaded carries walking across the whole gym and rarely ever have connection issues unless I go a long ways and go around a corner.
That being said I did also get water damage to my phone, and rather than replace it right away I used it for 3-4 more weeks..... And one of the issues it had was Bluetooth no longer worked beyond 5-7 feet very well. But as soon as I got a new phone it was fine. Granted, I do have a 1 second or so delay like in the comment below this one... just not issues with connection breaking.
Why did they so desperately need to use this specific browser, that they were willing to kill over a ID requirement?
It's not like they were having to provide ID for Chrome, Firefox, IE, Edge, Opera, or whatever. Was there some "special promise" from this new browser???
I'm confused as to why they are so offended and say it is some kind of personal offense against them. Is there some hidden horrid offense in "east cut"? It's not like they called it some racial term, some other word for crap, etc.
In addition to being easier/lazier for many, I could see a big benefit for this being that you could also just take it over to other people's places and plug it straight into their TV - bam, old video game time.
This just reminds me of the gym I joined in college. They had a really nice sauna, but a bunch of baby customers. They would complain about it being too hot, and after a workout I'd wander into the sauna and find it at 98F (?!?!?!) Thankfully I realized where the thermostat was and their box around it had little vent holes. I'd just splash water into the box and keep the thermostat cool until the room reached over 125-130F+. Then I just made sure to keep putting water on the rocks or thermostat as needed.
I'd like an actual sauna rather than most of the sissy ones we have here.
I seem to remember when my (small) city got cable back in 2001 or so. I'd been reading about DSL and cable a few years before that and desperately wanted either one. My impression back then was always that DSL was only slightly slower than cable, but dependent on your distance from the phone company.
And thankfully now we can get way faster internet and I'm no longer a 15 year old thinking about online gaming and...videos.
They will instead bring a sandwich and an apple in a paper sack and eat at their desk.
I've always brought my own food regardless of what was at/near work. And this just reminds me of when I had to work crappy jobs like a warehouse one. Everyone I worked with in the warehouse would complain constantly about money... but every day would run out and grab $10-15 of food.... eat what they could during the 30 minute lunch break... then just trash the rest of it. (in addition to also spending $3-4 at the vending machine throughout the day)
Reminds me of those chat bots forever ago. They very obviously would be a bot, and I'd always just test it by saying: "Are you a bot?" Or whatever, anything saying bot. And the response was always stuff like: "BOT? BOT?! WHAT THE HECK IS A BOT!"
Wouldn't being told they are not allowed to work due to the cap be bad as well? Instead of making crap pay, make none! (though with poor pay I can see working for Uber in NYC being negative income....)
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Mud Creek's total population as of the 2010 census was fewer than 2,000 souls (men, women and children).
Are you trying to say that the soul-less aren't allowed to vote? :(
A few years ago I used to know a guy in college who was part of the RC Patrol on Wikipedia. He often would show me hilarious and dumb vandalism/trolling on Wikipedia articles.
One thing I always remember about it though is that they frequently had articles for various Indian guys who were just... office workers.? Maybe some minor programmers, but none of them had any kind of notable achievements. These articles put up daily about these guys whose names showed up pretty much nowhere on the Internet.
Sounds like a good way to destroy Musk's Roadster!
"But it's the mineral in Glover's bag -- snowy white grains, soft as powdered sugar -- that is by far the most important these days."
Sounded like we were about to start discussing something else here.
This article writer sounds like they are trying to be a novelist instead.
This reminds me of a few years ago when Nintendo had one of the E3 press conferences. They announced several games that it seemed like a ton of fans went crazy for. Lots of people online were excited, unless they just didn't like Nintendo.
Meanwhile their stocks dropped a large amount, the reason from investors was basically : They didn't quit video games and focus 100% on mobile gaming. Mobile games are the future so we're dropping Nintendo.
I seem to recall several comments and posts about working there still being awful and mostly a "Now I've got this on my resume, time to get the Hell out of this place" for most people.
But Fortnite players seems unhealthily obsessed with the game. I saw something in the past week about this being the most profitable game at the moment, taking up something around 7% of the entire digital market's spending?
So I imagine Fortnite players would have no problem doing anything to keep the game on them even more. I saw an image recently of a guy who had taken his computer and monitor onto a train/bus/whatever so he could play Fortnite the entire time.
Also I imagine you'd be hard pressed to get people to wash all their recyclables when there is a drought and they are under various water restrictions and higher costs in their area. I never really buy any kind of bottled drinks or anything of that nature.... too bad any time I go to the store I'll always see some 400lb person walking out with about 500 soft drinks in their cart.
Wish I could edit, but I meant to add - the guy at the door was new and told me they still took TVs and didn't mention the fee. So this is why it was mentioned to me that no one could stop me from walking out, not that she just said I could leave it there.
I know they will no longer take monitors or TVs for free, but I don't know of anywhere that does.
That being said - I had someone at Best Buy tell me they couldn't stop me from just leaving the TV there.
Sounds like something was wrong with the headphones or Bluetooth for it to be that bad. I use my headphones every time I go to the gym, and listen to them for 55-75 minutes or so. I'm often leaving the phone near the squat rack and walking 20ish feet away to the water fountain or doing loaded carries walking across the whole gym and rarely ever have connection issues unless I go a long ways and go around a corner.
That being said I did also get water damage to my phone, and rather than replace it right away I used it for 3-4 more weeks..... And one of the issues it had was Bluetooth no longer worked beyond 5-7 feet very well. But as soon as I got a new phone it was fine. Granted, I do have a 1 second or so delay like in the comment below this one... just not issues with connection breaking.
Why did they so desperately need to use this specific browser, that they were willing to kill over a ID requirement?
It's not like they were having to provide ID for Chrome, Firefox, IE, Edge, Opera, or whatever. Was there some "special promise" from this new browser???
I'm confused as to why they are so offended and say it is some kind of personal offense against them. Is there some hidden horrid offense in "east cut"? It's not like they called it some racial term, some other word for crap, etc.
I can't believe they didn't call it AI, like everything else.
In addition to being easier/lazier for many, I could see a big benefit for this being that you could also just take it over to other people's places and plug it straight into their TV - bam, old video game time.
This just reminds me of the gym I joined in college. They had a really nice sauna, but a bunch of baby customers. They would complain about it being too hot, and after a workout I'd wander into the sauna and find it at 98F (?!?!?!) Thankfully I realized where the thermostat was and their box around it had little vent holes. I'd just splash water into the box and keep the thermostat cool until the room reached over 125-130F+. Then I just made sure to keep putting water on the rocks or thermostat as needed.
I'd like an actual sauna rather than most of the sissy ones we have here.
Elon's already out there making more odd taunts. "I'll send him boxes of short shorts." Back to the 80's, I see.....
Perhaps your next DSLR might identify your subjects on the fly and post the tagged image to your Facebook timeline.
No thank you.
I seem to remember when my (small) city got cable back in 2001 or so. I'd been reading about DSL and cable a few years before that and desperately wanted either one. My impression back then was always that DSL was only slightly slower than cable, but dependent on your distance from the phone company.
And thankfully now we can get way faster internet and I'm no longer a 15 year old thinking about online gaming and ...videos.
Let's ban sharp plastic objects, because bad people can use them to do bad things!
Suddenly.... I seem to recall something about someone in UK wanting to pass a law that all knives had to have their tips filed off??
They will instead bring a sandwich and an apple in a paper sack and eat at their desk.
I've always brought my own food regardless of what was at/near work. And this just reminds me of when I had to work crappy jobs like a warehouse one. Everyone I worked with in the warehouse would complain constantly about money... but every day would run out and grab $10-15 of food.... eat what they could during the 30 minute lunch break... then just trash the rest of it. (in addition to also spending $3-4 at the vending machine throughout the day)
Every day.
Amazon was provided these estimates at a discounted or free price in exchange for their fair and honest dispute(s).
Reminds me of those chat bots forever ago. They very obviously would be a bot, and I'd always just test it by saying: "Are you a bot?" Or whatever, anything saying bot. And the response was always stuff like: "BOT? BOT?! WHAT THE HECK IS A BOT!"
Wouldn't being told they are not allowed to work due to the cap be bad as well? Instead of making crap pay, make none! (though with poor pay I can see working for Uber in NYC being negative income....)
I swear I remember facebook a few years back saying they wouldn't put in an official down vote system.... because it might HURT FEELINGS! :(