The ships go back to China anyway, so sending them back full of plastic waste instead of empty still makes sense from an environmental perspective. If trade weren't so imbalanced, your comment would be spot-on.
Except for the big fight scene at the end, the action was not really as you describe. Far more bullet dodging and hand-to-hand combat until the very end. But even so, that sort of action is expected at a bare minimum in a Superhero movie. I thought the story seemed OK - I mean, obviously you have to accept the alternate history and the supernatural stuff. The magic truth-telling lasso is certainly an interesting way to dodge the whole trust issue that would have naturally cropped up. You can pick stuff apart to death, but I found the character development interesting enough.
I was amazed at how surreal that movie was. The basic plot outline was OK. The sound and visual effects excellent. The acting wasn't bad. But the whole thing felt like no one was taking anything terribly seriously, all the way out to the credits. It was like they were a comedy troop or something, or like the actors themselves didn't even enter the suspension of disbelief. All that was missing were overt breakages of the 4th wall. Very strange way to spend hundreds of millions of dollars.
Tell you what, get back to me with your exhaustive list that shows "usually" being appropriate and I'll declare you right. Doubt it's worth the effort, but have at it. For now, I'm the only one to do any research at all.
Are you kidding, or have you just never lived in a cold area before?
I'm not kidding, and the reason I recognize that area as being relatively unpopular and the loss of half the stairway as insignificant is because I've lived only in cold areas.
Do you have a source for this or are you just spitballing? On occasion they have the close the brand new shiny PATH entrance below the brand new shiny Freedom Tower in NYC for falling ice, so I'm skeptical of your claim.
The space that is roped off is run by the company which owns the plaza. The stairs are slippery from the falling ice and snow, so they roped them off because they don't want to get their asses sued off.
It looks like the "solution" is a practical one - rope off the area directly under the falling ice. From the picture in TFA, it looks like this means roping off roughly half of the maybe 40 foot wide staircase, which itself is probably not so popular in the snow and ice. I like to laugh at stupidity as much as the next guy, but I'm not feeling it here. They sometimes close certain subway entrances in NYC because of falling ice - I imagine something similar happens in Chicago.
Security is one justification, but the real problem is that the old extension model allowed extensions to hook into every part of the GUI. This meant that any change to the GUI at all could potentially break an extension. They tried patching this by keeping track of what version an extension was developed against, but in the end they felt that the system was fundamentally broken and was holding the whole project back. Personally, I share your frustration as the new model can't even accommodate seamlessly shifting the tabs over to the side, or adding a button to pop open the password manager. I'm hoping they continue to add capability.
Converting to weight is always better. This works with ounces, too - any scale you buy in the US will have both grams and ounces. Grams for drugs, ounces for cooking:)
That sounds wasteful of packaging. You can buy quart (roughly a liter) bottles of milk in the US - and half-gallon (2-liter-ish) is pretty common. But gallons are the only way to go when you have a family - we already buy a gallon every other day and my understanding is that this gets worse in the teen years.
I was just trying to make a joke using units that no one uses anymore, so maybe I got the quantities wrong:)
Google says 16.5 feet to a rod, 22 yards to a chain, 4 rods to a chain, 10 chains to a furlong, and an acre is 1 furlong x 1 chain (long because it was hard to turn the plow around...).
Yeah I mean I'm an engineer and prefer to work in SI, but I can't come up with a reason to force people to buy a 4 liter jug of milk instead of a gallon of milk.
What tools are lacking in Android or Mac OS X? Neither is necessarily "kitchen sink" by default, but then neither is a minimal install of Debian - but I suspect the consensus is still that it is "unix". Similarly, if you used Debian in an embedded application (e.g. a kiosk) where the user was locked out of anything but a simple application, you'd probably still regard it as "unix". Why move the line just because Android has a super-fancy kiosk mode by default?
You got my curiosity up, and so I searched. It looks like if you don't want to spring for a Chromebook, you can run the ChromeOS on VirtualBox. This looks useful, though I don't think the kids actually use any packaged apps so just logging in to Chrome on a PC/Mac is usually sufficient for their school work.
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The ships go back to China anyway, so sending them back full of plastic waste instead of empty still makes sense from an environmental perspective. If trade weren't so imbalanced, your comment would be spot-on.
Except for the big fight scene at the end, the action was not really as you describe. Far more bullet dodging and hand-to-hand combat until the very end. But even so, that sort of action is expected at a bare minimum in a Superhero movie. I thought the story seemed OK - I mean, obviously you have to accept the alternate history and the supernatural stuff. The magic truth-telling lasso is certainly an interesting way to dodge the whole trust issue that would have naturally cropped up. You can pick stuff apart to death, but I found the character development interesting enough.
I was amazed at how surreal that movie was. The basic plot outline was OK. The sound and visual effects excellent. The acting wasn't bad. But the whole thing felt like no one was taking anything terribly seriously, all the way out to the credits. It was like they were a comedy troop or something, or like the actors themselves didn't even enter the suspension of disbelief. All that was missing were overt breakages of the 4th wall. Very strange way to spend hundreds of millions of dollars.
It's not all total crap. Wonder Woman was one of the more entertaining movies that I watched in the past year. But yeah, the rest were forgettable.
Tell you what, get back to me with your exhaustive list that shows "usually" being appropriate and I'll declare you right. Doubt it's worth the effort, but have at it. For now, I'm the only one to do any research at all.
Yeah, reading up on it you are still full of shit. "Usually" doesn't apply here. Modern buildings dominate the list.
OK, but its not really germane to my point, which was just an example.
So disabling half of the staircase is okay with you?
Well, yeah. Why wouldn't it be?
Just keep moving the bar.
Are you kidding, or have you just never lived in a cold area before?
I'm not kidding, and the reason I recognize that area as being relatively unpopular and the loss of half the stairway as insignificant is because I've lived only in cold areas.
ancient buildings
Do you have a source for this or are you just spitballing? On occasion they have the close the brand new shiny PATH entrance below the brand new shiny Freedom Tower in NYC for falling ice, so I'm skeptical of your claim.
The space that is roped off is run by the company which owns the plaza. The stairs are slippery from the falling ice and snow, so they roped them off because they don't want to get their asses sued off.
Lots of buildings in Chicago have roped-off sidewalks in the winter.
Why isn't this a valid point? If roping off the hazardous portion of the sidewalk is an accepted solution, what is the problem here?
It looks like the "solution" is a practical one - rope off the area directly under the falling ice. From the picture in TFA, it looks like this means roping off roughly half of the maybe 40 foot wide staircase, which itself is probably not so popular in the snow and ice. I like to laugh at stupidity as much as the next guy, but I'm not feeling it here. They sometimes close certain subway entrances in NYC because of falling ice - I imagine something similar happens in Chicago.
Security is one justification, but the real problem is that the old extension model allowed extensions to hook into every part of the GUI. This meant that any change to the GUI at all could potentially break an extension. They tried patching this by keeping track of what version an extension was developed against, but in the end they felt that the system was fundamentally broken and was holding the whole project back. Personally, I share your frustration as the new model can't even accommodate seamlessly shifting the tabs over to the side, or adding a button to pop open the password manager. I'm hoping they continue to add capability.
Ahh, the magic of the limited liability corporation...
Converting to weight is always better. This works with ounces, too - any scale you buy in the US will have both grams and ounces. Grams for drugs, ounces for cooking :)
Yeah, that's a funny conversion - I presume they didn't work much in feet when parceling out property... too small a unit.
That sounds wasteful of packaging. You can buy quart (roughly a liter) bottles of milk in the US - and half-gallon (2-liter-ish) is pretty common. But gallons are the only way to go when you have a family - we already buy a gallon every other day and my understanding is that this gets worse in the teen years.
That would last my family a single meal.
I was just trying to make a joke using units that no one uses anymore, so maybe I got the quantities wrong :)
Google says 16.5 feet to a rod, 22 yards to a chain, 4 rods to a chain, 10 chains to a furlong, and an acre is 1 furlong x 1 chain (long because it was hard to turn the plow around...).
Yeah I mean I'm an engineer and prefer to work in SI, but I can't come up with a reason to force people to buy a 4 liter jug of milk instead of a gallon of milk.
You made it worse by skipping 22 yards to a chain, 10 chains to a furlong (metric!), and 8 furlongs to a mile...
What tools are lacking in Android or Mac OS X? Neither is necessarily "kitchen sink" by default, but then neither is a minimal install of Debian - but I suspect the consensus is still that it is "unix". Similarly, if you used Debian in an embedded application (e.g. a kiosk) where the user was locked out of anything but a simple application, you'd probably still regard it as "unix". Why move the line just because Android has a super-fancy kiosk mode by default?
You got my curiosity up, and so I searched. It looks like if you don't want to spring for a Chromebook, you can run the ChromeOS on VirtualBox. This looks useful, though I don't think the kids actually use any packaged apps so just logging in to Chrome on a PC/Mac is usually sufficient for their school work.