If you can't seek support from your library vendors, then it's completely understandable to drop support for the platform. This is exactly what anyone with half a mind knew was going to happen when Apple announced they were dropping support for OpenGL.
People have been so strongly indoctrinated that they honestly believe work is good for them. What pathetic lives people have that can't seem to fill them with anything but labor.
Because my community has laws, and one of those laws is you can't say you take credit card on the window, then provide a service and now claim - ex post facto - that you only accept cash. If you can't accept credit card, then you must say that up front.
My local McDonald's has no trouble with this; they post a sign to let people know. For some reason (fraud), every single taxi driver lies about their credit card machine not working at the end of the ride.
Sounds like you live in a place most people wouldn't want to live.
In modern Western civilization, payment networks go down about once a decade. If you live in a place where people actually like living, your local restaurants with have 0 difficulty splitting a bill. And maybe your local infrastructure is too crappy or cheap, but my area has plenty of automated kiosks, and no humans.
So, continue to use taxis if you live in such a place. The rest of us in the wide, wide world will use the right tools for our community, and we don't have to care if the other prefers cash or credit.
So, I'm sitting here wondering what kind of commentary will be engendered by posts with 1000 likes and -1000 downvotes. Each social network design choice tends to compel different types of conversation.
It's not about privacy. It's about not having to deal with criminal cab drivers. Every single taxi I've been in is driven by someone who tried to swindle me with their cash-only scam. The look on their face when I tell them I don't have cash so I'm just not going to pay them makes it clear this is a criminal hussle they are operating, and I want no part in funding the organized crime syndicates that operate taxi medallions.
I have no desire to feed into a system where 1-3% of the wealth of nations flows into the financial industry just because people are really bad with small numbers.
No, those photos are derivative works, especially if they are creative, and so are protected. Copying a ROM byte for byte is not a work, it's a copy of someone else's work.
It's not competition. It's not even close. The choice is to use Uber or use nothing, because there's no fucking way I'm going to make a phone call to wait an hour and fifteen minutes for a taxi in a downtown area, only to be told by the driver at the end of the ride that he only accepts cash, not credit, ever though the MasterCard logo is printed on the window.
The limited resource which is addressed by Uber is not traffic congestion, it's parking. Cities have used limited parking as a stick to make driving unbearable in cities. The market found a way around the bad planning.
Ummm... where are they supposed to park when there are no parking spot? The whole point of using Uber in the city is to avoid parking. Uber helps address the parking problem. Talk to your bus operators if you want to address congestion. Talk to your city council if you think it should be illegal to build a place that draws 1000 people but only has two public parking spots.
And the reason we don't plan cities is because it's often a waste of resources. There's no way to accurately predict the future use of the city. The best you can do is be continuously planning for various contingencies, but that becomes complex and expensive.
Then you're putting your public works under the thumb of lenders. When capital dries up in a bad economy, you don't want that to impact your ability to improve things.
Make content publishers operating in news spaces responsible for facts they publish, but allow them to push the blame if they can come up with the author. No need to force it, let the market work it out.
Even the most conservative copyright regimes have always granted protections for the lifetime of the artist. When Shigeru Miyamoto dies, we can START having that discussion. Not just because you're nostalgic for a child hood that was enriched by the artists you want to take advantage of.
If an artist wants to throw up an art installation, then take it down the next day, that's their prerogative. You don't have a right to someone's work.
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Because the OS vendor has made it more expensive to support their users.
If you can't seek support from your library vendors, then it's completely understandable to drop support for the platform. This is exactly what anyone with half a mind knew was going to happen when Apple announced they were dropping support for OpenGL.
Don't know why it's different for you, but Chromium most definitely respects hosts file on Ubuntu.
People have been so strongly indoctrinated that they honestly believe work is good for them. What pathetic lives people have that can't seem to fill them with anything but labor.
Because my community has laws, and one of those laws is you can't say you take credit card on the window, then provide a service and now claim - ex post facto - that you only accept cash. If you can't accept credit card, then you must say that up front.
My local McDonald's has no trouble with this; they post a sign to let people know. For some reason (fraud), every single taxi driver lies about their credit card machine not working at the end of the ride.
Sounds like you live in a place most people wouldn't want to live.
In modern Western civilization, payment networks go down about once a decade. If you live in a place where people actually like living, your local restaurants with have 0 difficulty splitting a bill. And maybe your local infrastructure is too crappy or cheap, but my area has plenty of automated kiosks, and no humans.
So, continue to use taxis if you live in such a place. The rest of us in the wide, wide world will use the right tools for our community, and we don't have to care if the other prefers cash or credit.
So, I'm sitting here wondering what kind of commentary will be engendered by posts with 1000 likes and -1000 downvotes. Each social network design choice tends to compel different types of conversation.
It's not about privacy. It's about not having to deal with criminal cab drivers. Every single taxi I've been in is driven by someone who tried to swindle me with their cash-only scam. The look on their face when I tell them I don't have cash so I'm just not going to pay them makes it clear this is a criminal hussle they are operating, and I want no part in funding the organized crime syndicates that operate taxi medallions.
Why WOULD you want to carry cash? With Uber I don't even have to carry my wallet...
I throw away the device and make a note to never again buy one of their products.
Look up what an open standard is...
I have no desire to feed into a system where 1-3% of the wealth of nations flows into the financial industry just because people are really bad with small numbers.
No. If you read it with your comprehension enabled this time, you will see that institutional operators help protect the network integrity.
So, you have enough in your bank account at any given time to cover a week of bank errors without any issue...
Not sure you understand the point I was making.
No, those photos are derivative works, especially if they are creative, and so are protected. Copying a ROM byte for byte is not a work, it's a copy of someone else's work.
It's not competition. It's not even close. The choice is to use Uber or use nothing, because there's no fucking way I'm going to make a phone call to wait an hour and fifteen minutes for a taxi in a downtown area, only to be told by the driver at the end of the ride that he only accepts cash, not credit, ever though the MasterCard logo is printed on the window.
The limited resource which is addressed by Uber is not traffic congestion, it's parking. Cities have used limited parking as a stick to make driving unbearable in cities. The market found a way around the bad planning.
Ummm... where are they supposed to park when there are no parking spot? The whole point of using Uber in the city is to avoid parking. Uber helps address the parking problem. Talk to your bus operators if you want to address congestion. Talk to your city council if you think it should be illegal to build a place that draws 1000 people but only has two public parking spots.
So we should tax people who use mass transit because they should be walking instead?
And the reason we don't plan cities is because it's often a waste of resources. There's no way to accurately predict the future use of the city. The best you can do is be continuously planning for various contingencies, but that becomes complex and expensive.
If rich people at VC firms want to pick up the tab for my ride, who am I to argue?
It would probably cost hundreds of millions of dollars to get a subway ticket in my town.
Then you're putting your public works under the thumb of lenders. When capital dries up in a bad economy, you don't want that to impact your ability to improve things.
Make content publishers operating in news spaces responsible for facts they publish, but allow them to push the blame if they can come up with the author. No need to force it, let the market work it out.
Even the most conservative copyright regimes have always granted protections for the lifetime of the artist. When Shigeru Miyamoto dies, we can START having that discussion. Not just because you're nostalgic for a child hood that was enriched by the artists you want to take advantage of.
If an artist wants to throw up an art installation, then take it down the next day, that's their prerogative. You don't have a right to someone's work.