We had those in Denmark, too. They were hilarious, right up until the effectively last one made. Never heard them again since.
The rhyme?
They rhymed 'mom and pa' to 'Scandinavian Star', a cruise liner that burned out with 159 dead.
Suddenly the jokes weren't all that funny anymore.
That was far far far from the worst of the jokes. It was for teenagers and get much sicker than that, and only stopped because there wasn't anywhere to go at some point, not because it got too real or overstepped any lines. It thrived on overstepping lines, and only died out when it ran out of lines to cross.
Until recently a company doing business in the EU paid VAT in their country of residence. This led to most bigger corporations being incorporated in Luxemburg (which had the lowest VAT).
To fight this the EU changed to law. Now companies have to pay VAT in the country of the buyer. The unfortunate side effect is, everyone has to reqister and pay taxes in every country they sell to. That's a massive burden to smaller companies. They either have to stop selling to other EU countries or outsource payment processing to third parties. Thus having to cut in yet another middleman.
No it has always been so that you paid VAT on the residence of the buyer. Trust me, I have been paying 25% VAT on things bought on Amazon.co.uk for 15 years, and the VAT on books in the UK is 0%.
What's really crazy about this is that the older ones of us will remember Reagan well.
If I told you in 88 that Reagan will be considered in hindsight to be a level headed, sensible, intelligent and fairly moderate Republican, you'd probably have looked at me like I had three heads.
That would be an insane statement to make. You forget the word "relative to modern idiots". He was still an belligerent dumbass, with fiscal policies so dangerous they are still running the US into the ground today. (loan money and spend them to prop up the economy, and just give tax cuts and ignore the giant hole in the budget they leave, people will love you for it!)
Does this canvas element in HTML5 have legitimate uses, or was it included specifically to help advertisers covertly track users?
Yes, but reading from it is much more questionable. Not only do a website rarely have use of encoded pixels, and if they want to copy a block they could just paint the commands again.
The only good use I can see of it, is when most webservers have it, you can make much more aggresive timeouts before trying one of the other IPs you were given due to DNS. This could dramatically improve responsiveness of content in where the primary route goes through a node that is overloaded or one of the servers are down, without relying on a separate service like cloudfire.
All any of this stuff does anyway is make the connection secure. The file system itself can still be wide open and unencrypted.
Encryption or no-encryption makes no difference to a filesystem while the system is still on. Especially if you are running spyware software.
Disk encryption ONLY kicks in if you fully powrer of your device, and only then. The rest of the time it is essentially unencrypted and just wasting more CPU power reading.
It because wealth is inherited but the skills, background and just random luck needed to make wealth is usually not. So the wealthy without a large estate tax, are inevitably just useless spoiled kids. See the current US president.
so if you have a dash cam in your car proving what happened - how the fuck are you liable??
oh wait - sorry - this is online - lets make shit up as fact
Killing someone even if you did it by accident and it was totally the victims fault, is a crime called accidental manslaughter. The punishment is usually low, but it is a crime.
"Computer Finds Court Broke Math For Secret Company" - Happens all the time "Apple vs. Biology Details" - Just a court case waiting to happen "Mac OS X Accused of the Business" - I accuse them of "the business" all the time... "Sexual Security To Allow Australia" - Is definitely an "in soviet russia joke", though I thought they only scanned headlines
I think this teaches us a great deal about what AI will actually be like when it inevitably arrives. It won't be r2d2 or c3p0 or data - it will be an alien mind that will be incomprehensible to the rest of us.
Except, of course, for the AIs that are trained to emulate human thought processes -- those will be comprehensible to us (or at least, we'll be able to pretend that they are;))
Well, it was, now it is trained to beat variants of itself.
Been hibernating a while? 6 and 6A have been ratified, 6e isn't a standard though.
Well, last I looked into it was 10 years ago when I bought a lot of cat6 cables, but had to use reviews as it didn't mean much at the time. Either that or I confused it with 6e;)
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We had those in Denmark, too. They were hilarious, right up until the effectively last one made. Never heard them again since.
The rhyme?
They rhymed 'mom and pa' to 'Scandinavian Star', a cruise liner that burned out with 159 dead.
Suddenly the jokes weren't all that funny anymore.
That was far far far from the worst of the jokes. It was for teenagers and get much sicker than that, and only stopped because there wasn't anywhere to go at some point, not because it got too real or overstepped any lines. It thrived on overstepping lines, and only died out when it ran out of lines to cross.
No, it's not.
Those are big words for "lying through omission" or rather "cheating taxes".
But these activities are not illegal, just immoral - smudging the actors a little bit.
That is what they said last time, which was since proven to be illegal....
So stop defending them. They are serial tax frauds, and I don't trust their new scheme anymore than the old one.. The one proven to be fraudulent.
To give you an example on the first point:
Until recently a company doing business in the EU paid VAT in their country of residence. This led to most bigger corporations being incorporated in Luxemburg (which had the lowest VAT).
To fight this the EU changed to law. Now companies have to pay VAT in the country of the buyer. The unfortunate side effect is, everyone has to reqister and pay taxes in every country they sell to. That's a massive burden to smaller companies. They either have to stop selling to other EU countries or outsource payment processing to third parties. Thus having to cut in yet another middleman.
No it has always been so that you paid VAT on the residence of the buyer. Trust me, I have been paying 25% VAT on things bought on Amazon.co.uk for 15 years, and the VAT on books in the UK is 0%.
What's really crazy about this is that the older ones of us will remember Reagan well.
If I told you in 88 that Reagan will be considered in hindsight to be a level headed, sensible, intelligent and fairly moderate Republican, you'd probably have looked at me like I had three heads.
That would be an insane statement to make. You forget the word "relative to modern idiots". He was still an belligerent dumbass, with fiscal policies so dangerous they are still running the US into the ground today. (loan money and spend them to prop up the economy, and just give tax cuts and ignore the giant hole in the budget they leave, people will love you for it!)
Does this canvas element in HTML5 have legitimate uses, or was it included specifically to help advertisers covertly track users?
Yes, but reading from it is much more questionable. Not only do a website rarely have use of encoded pixels, and if they want to copy a block they could just paint the commands again.
Emoticons are made from regular characters, such as :p and ;)
Emojis are unicode characters of their own, represented by a dedicated graphic for each character.
Are you sure it is not the other way around, and the icons being the -icons?
What is even worse is that in the text the describe the icons as smileys, where smiley is the original name for the western emojis.
The only good use I can see of it, is when most webservers have it, you can make much more aggresive timeouts before trying one of the other IPs you were given due to DNS. This could dramatically improve responsiveness of content in where the primary route goes through a node that is overloaded or one of the servers are down, without relying on a separate service like cloudfire.
All any of this stuff does anyway is make the connection secure. The file system itself can still be wide open and unencrypted.
Encryption or no-encryption makes no difference to a filesystem while the system is still on. Especially if you are running spyware software.
Disk encryption ONLY kicks in if you fully powrer of your device, and only then. The rest of the time it is essentially unencrypted and just wasting more CPU power reading.
" overall prices have dropped very slightly -- about 1 percent "
so the yes. /article
Though the past tense is important as the prices are going back up. They did lower it... By a single percent point. For a month or so.
In all of the EU, the warranty will be 2 years, even in GB, for now.
And it will cover a whole lot more than manufacturing errors. In fact those are covered perpetually, and have nothing to do with warranty.
Next folks are going to say that the parts on expensive cars are expensive too!
Show me a car that refuses to run because you installed an off-brand window
It because wealth is inherited but the skills, background and just random luck needed to make wealth is usually not. So the wealthy without a large estate tax, are inevitably just useless spoiled kids. See the current US president.
so if you have a dash cam in your car proving what happened - how the fuck are you liable??
oh wait - sorry - this is online - lets make shit up as fact
Killing someone even if you did it by accident and it was totally the victims fault, is a crime called accidental manslaughter. The punishment is usually low, but it is a crime.
I can imagine that conversation....
"So, you're a field researcher? What do you study?"
"Great tits!"
"Ah, you're an ornithologist?"
"What? Oh, uh... yeah, sure..."
=Smidge=
I have ehmm... found that the more I have studied great tits, the longer the uhm.. beak has grown.
There are lots of moons, space stations, security holes and software releases.
Dupes usually have different headline though. So how do you know they wouldn't have duplicated content?
There are many more quite (un)real ones:
"Computer Finds Court Broke Math For Secret Company" - Happens all the time
"Apple vs. Biology Details" - Just a court case waiting to happen
"Mac OS X Accused of the Business" - I accuse them of "the business" all the time...
"Sexual Security To Allow Australia" - Is definitely an "in soviet russia joke", though I thought they only scanned headlines
I think this teaches us a great deal about what AI will actually be like when it inevitably arrives. It won't be r2d2 or c3p0 or data - it will be an alien mind that will be incomprehensible to the rest of us.
Except, of course, for the AIs that are trained to emulate human thought processes -- those will be comprehensible to us (or at least, we'll be able to pretend that they are ;))
Well, it was, now it is trained to beat variants of itself.
It has gone on an extended excursion to meet Steve Jobs.
The Mac Mini is an X Box.... No wait, that's not right.
If they hadnt glued to a stick it would be pushing up the daisies.
Yes they do
Haha... No wait you really believe they don't get free "samples" from companies for " testing".
Jesus Christ
Been hibernating a while? 6 and 6A have been ratified, 6e isn't a standard though.
Well, last I looked into it was 10 years ago when I bought a lot of cat6 cables, but had to use reviews as it didn't mean much at the time. Either that or I confused it with 6e ;)
Cat5 can do 1gbs, just not as far as cat6. Though last I looked into it cat6 was still an unofficial standard that guaranteed nothing.
Try using a non-Crapple device. That is the example.