Austerity because it makes bringing up children so much 'er' 'um' who the fuck can afford to bring up children in the west, screw it, just too fucking hard, find your slaves else where, the only way to ensure you descendants are safe from the raging rich and greedy is not to have any.
The timing puts it in the last ice age. In 45,000 years ice does not stay still but moves about a bit and the end of the last ice age many interesting things would have been happening with regard to mass flooding, break down of debris and methane generation. Most of civilised human ice age history would be logically under water. The more ice melts, the more water rises and the more readily coastal civilisations are inundated. Do you want to invest in underwater front, go right ahead but don't expect the rest of us to bail you out when you investment quite literally goes under water. If you can hold your breath for long enough, don't worry the next ice age will dry out you land but damn, it wont be water front any more but a few kilometres away from the new shore line. You can waffle shit all you want but when we build cities on the coast we have to protect them and do what ever it takes to do so.
Far, far simpler than that. Sell phones without any encryption at all and then as part of the initial boot up allow download of encryption security from a free open source provider of phone security encryption, which the manufacturer for some strange reason chooses to donate to, code and cash, this from numerous international sources. Problem with back doors, once digitally broken, you now have completely insecure devices that must be trashed as the back door is hard wired, can not be fixed and that the manufacturer would be forced to take back.
They are not really talking about protecting the general public, they don't give a crap about the general public. This is about protecting specific people from targeted assassinations. The simplest attack, coating a drones blades with a toxin and flying it at the targets head, a very small drone but still logically very effective, the infamous poisoned blade.
It is far trickier than the current anti-drone technology implies. Consider the flight path of a drone attacking a public speaker. All hovering and manoeuvring is done at a distance to get the drone in the best position for a final run. A path as close to people as possible and just out of reach, on a direct vector as possible. That final run will be done a maximum forward speed, giving seconds as reaction time. The laser will end up being aimed at spectators heads as well as the drone, so now you have, " we had to permanently blind spectators including children but that's okay because they are nobodies and we had to protect the extra special person, also the four peoples heads we blew off when we exploded the drone doesn't count for shit either". That doesn't even take into account destructive lasers being used in metropolitan areas with lots and lots of very reflective windows.
So something more along the lines of say a chameleon, where a sticky bundle of fibres on the end of a strong line, is fired at the drone and it is reeled in. The unit mounted on fairly high poles around the zone to be temporarily or permanently protected. That way the drone is caught and should it contain explosives it will detonate at a safer range to the public. A compressed air shotgun with rapidly degrading pellets would logically be required for more intensely protected zones. That final attack run is really quick and does not leave much time.
People doing stupid things near airports or other places is much easier to deal with with the drones moving more slowly and spending considerable time in the location as well as the locations usually having very deep safety zones, this allows capture drones or crash drones with sharp stainless steel blades to be used.
Marketing, yeah, how about the latest box office revenue scam, included the full bundle price of food and drinks as part of box office revenue in order to inflate the numbers, especially useful when it comes to premium cinemas where people are spending ten to twenty times as much, as just a plain cinema ticket, really lets you inflate those numbers, pretty much double them in fact;D. By the way you are attempting to argue with me about what I, mind you, I do not like or like, seriously:|.
Yeah that new viral marketing meme, I watching it again and again and again, so you should watch it at least once makes no real sense. The Cheetos crowd this movie is aimed at, do not watch content again and again, typical whine from them when a typical geek or nerd wants to share their favourite flicks is the nasal whine but I have already seen it (no matter how long ago or in what format). Me, I just read a bunch of user reviews that panned it, decided to skip the cinema cost without checking a quick stream to make sure it was worth it and based upon that skipped it and will skip the DVD even when I own the others (even Rebels cartoon presents a better story and I did but the first season). I do actually watch the same content over and over again and not just lamely pretend to do so for marketing purposes.
Let me guess, you work for a company that demands a corporate tax upon every transaction on the planet, a tax you don't pay if you pay with cash, basically billions lost to those corporations when people pay with cash instead, well billions lost to those corporations and billions saved by every one else. Credit cards companies are basically financial parasites and regardless of ad hominem attacks, I'll stick with cash for the bulk of my purchases.
You do understand the difference between a whole family watching the same movie at the same time and just one member of the family playing a game whilst the rest wait, the conflict that generates can be quite intense. That of course has nothing to do with consumers being expected to foot the bill for facebook to end up getting oculus rift for free. Basically screw the, don't spend you money on an inflated price just so some dick company can buy another company and expect someone else to foot the bill. You are not buying the head mount headache you are buying oculus rift for facebook.
Some advertisements are OK, as long as they are truthful, informative, not overly intrusive and in more non jarring fashion aligned to the content that delivers them. Those ads are fine, drop outside of that and those web sites, advertising agencies and advertisers deserve script blocking. Some advertisers end up suffering pretty badly for going with the wrong agencies and producing the worst sort of intrusive ads. Remember people, it is the internet and not the store and people will remember exactly why about you ad that drove them to hate a product.
Which Jar Jar are you talking about, that cartoon character that George Lucas introduced or the Jar Jar that directed this remake of Star Wars. Let's be honest in real consumer terms with regard to long term value the movie is not doing so well, hence lame viral marketing attempts continue due to real consumer to real consumer reviews being pretty bad, especially amongst star wars fans who were expecting a whole new story. The only interesting thing in Jar Jar efforts with this production is how quickly post opening the viral marketing attempts are fading, including PR=B$ reviews. Lame planted stories, basically advertising pretending to be journalism, the sheer volume of bullshit on youtube. Youtubers remains the best cheap ass way of driving viral marketing. Gaming publishers do better with them, because they can put them on an extended cheap stipend with those youtubers desperate to please, consider that annual cost of tens of thousands of dollars versus just one idiot box commercial shown just once, now you get the idea of why so many fake arse youtubers are flooding review channels with commercials pretending to be reviews. It in the end it fails, crap is crap and a pretty bad crap story poorly told simply builds nothing into the future and completely burns out the value of story worlds, quick cash in but limited or no future value.
The price gouging model you mean. This is old, really old, not even the previous century the one before the eighteenth century. You drop the prices to put all competitors out of business and then you ramp them up, way way up when ever you can and once competitors are out of business the price stays up permanently and of course what drivers are paid also drops. Other business opportunities you can guarantee will occur, regional extortion, either pay an under table contribution to the company or face a permanent regional price hike. As for new competitors wait till they have invested enough, whilst you hold up your inflated prices to build a war chest and then hugely drop prices to put them out of business and as per 'FLEXIBLE' pricing rules raise them right back up again, which is why price gouging is against the law as being an anti-competitive practice.
Just been reminded on the internet, what you are paying of course is not the development cost but Facebook attempting to recover a way over the top $2 Billion buyout and that debt dumped straight back on top and you suckers now have to pay for it. The logical move is not to buy until the halve the price, see who weakens first. Those desperate to recover the $2 billion out of your pocket or those who refuse to pay for that greed.
Don't worry next time M$ Lookout and it's server decide to exchange you communications data for a corrupt file, you can always contact M$ for a new copy of the data because you can bet inside the next user agreement will be "You agree to a copy of all data, communications, calender details and contacts, will be forwarded to M$ servers and by using this software you agree that M$ gains full copyright ownership". Of course you can bet the charge to send you back the information you used to own will be quite steep.
Idjiot, generally people who prefer cash, prefer cash because that's what that have plenty of and dislike credit because they don't need it. Delude yourself all you want but make no mistake it's "Please sir may I have another" and should they develop a dislike to you for what ever political reason, not only does it become a no but they will track you down, beat you up and throw you in a cage. A freeman uses cash, a slave presents a permission slip provided by their master.
Only so many hours in the day mate. So the pigoplists can carry on any way they want, in the end people will have only so many hours to waste on sucking down content. So they want to dick around, big whoop, people will just skip that content and send producers bankrupt due to lack of reach. So how is netflix complete with the oft annoying youtube, all kinds of weird content, who gets the most hours of consumer eye balls.
Yep, the can run up all the crazy pscyho ideas they want of unlimited profits but it does not mean they will get any of it. Right now, at this time, interactive content is slowly but surely chewing away more and more consume time away from empty passive content. Netflix did not gain market share by what it did, Netflix gained that share because of how consumer demands have shifted and what they are willing to tolerate. So reality, meh crap on cable, turn on the gaming machine and play instead, that happens often enough and they simply uplug the cable and use netflix because it provides enough to fill the gap and they simply do not care about content they might have missed ie so what, what a few years until the series finishes and binge watch it, from start to finish, fresh and never watched.
Problem is the larger the data set, the easier it is to poison with false results produced. So anal tics (who could resist that) the over obsessive use of data by autistic types who have fallen in love with meaningless data manipulations, watching them cycle over and over again, seeing things that are simply not there.
Problem with student learning anal tics, is there are simply too many external variables, genetics of the student, student family life, student social life, current news and events, students diet, students sleep patterns, learning demands of other classes and current assignment load (want to improve that give students more choice, do a report or do an exam). Want to evaluate a teachers performance, spend the time and monitor the teacher student interaction bearing in mind the nature of what is being taught at that particular time. A good teacher adjusts to the nature of particular group of students as well as the material being taught, a good teacher makes an empathic adjustment to suit that class, for not only what is being taught now but for what was taught yesterday and what will be taught tomorrow (sometimes teaching more, sometimes teaching less, sometimes generally discussing stuff not even associated with the lesson).
Cash and buying in person will always be better. Why, because you choose, cash in pocket and you choose whether to spend it or not. Electronic payments breaks down to this, "Please sir, may I have this", this is the begging plea, each and every time you ask permission to have something. Every time I make a credit card purchase in store I always laugh with the comment, "my card still loves me". I limit my credit card purchases because it inherently irritates to plead for permission to have something and stand pathetically waiting for approval from my credit card master.
Nothing at all to do with privacy and everything to do with who is the master and who is the slave, I refuse to spend my fucking life asking for permission to do stuff every single fucking day of it and waiting pathetically for approval.
You really do not get it at all. Typical consumer digital spend, smart phone, big screen TV, game console, content to feed this, now you have to stretch that further with a gaming PC and then and only then can you buy the limited use hugely overpriced VR screen. So meh, fuck it, wont buy it, I would rather spend $600 on say games that do not need it. Now that is what those sucked in developers are complaining about, too many people will just say no.
This is really, really bad pricing, it is by no stretch of the imagination a luxury item, it is a fad gaming item and needed mass penetration driven by low pricing to make it into mosts living rooms to become an acceptable, only one member of the family can ever use it at the same time, one and only one and the others just sit there and fume, either that or a family of four buy four gaming PCs and four PR head sets this versus just one gaming console, as the TV is already there (don't be a moron and suggest a family can use just one to watch TV). So smart arse what decision will most families make.
To be blunt the entire reason for production into Asia is because Asian are willing to roll over and can willingly accept screwed over by their bosses. Western workers just need to suck it up, move themselves and their families to a one room hovel and learned to love a minimalist diet, be proud of the $1 per hour salary and be ready to grovel at the bosses feet at any moment. Then those worthless scum workers could have kept their jobs.
What a crock. Reality is the western workers were slack, lazy and indifferent and allowed their rights to be eroded away, allowed their protections to be diminished and meekly pathetically allowed future generations of workers to pay the price for the current generations cowardice.
No matter how much you give up, the insane psychopaths running corporations will always want more, so give the fuckers nothing, fuck em. They want class conflict, give it to them.
Simply not fast enough, you need an accelerated process otherwise you are claiming, meh so what if million brain damaged children occur in the interim. So the faster the better and you need to do many things at once. Population control around high human populations with concentrated releases just outside that zone. Searching for a cure. Evaluating methods of mitigating symptoms. So you do everything you can at the same time because the risks are so high. You simply can not wait for a few hundred thousands generations to occur.
The virus takes up space in the digestive system of the affected mosquito and as it does not aid the mosquito, it must logically hamper the mosquito, an identical mosquito that resist the infection will have a minor advantage. Also the genome resistance should also be dominant, so it a pairing between a resistant and non resistanct variant the resistance would be passed on.
Also in a plus for conspiracy theorists the development of the spread of the infection and it's sporadic localised spread. It would be interesting to find out whether it is the original virus in all instances or whether changes in it's makeup and affect have changed over time. Did it always result in microcephaly and brain damage in the unborn children or is that just a recent development of the current variant.
You left out a bit, evidently yes because "the crew would take cards to ATMs and withdraw money, or use them in stores, the DoJ said. Hall, Goodman, and Coleman were arrested last month on a number of charges related to the scam, including mail fraud and conspiracy to commit bank fraud." It is called separation of powers and it exists because who watches over the government, other departments whose duty is to watch over the actions of government and when necessary investigate and prosecute those government employees who break the law. In private enterprise watching over itself, the response is STFU we are making money and the penalties will be far lower than the profits and that is 99% of responses made by the 1% in control of private industry.
Perhaps snark might not be accurate as wilful blindness might be far more accurate, as it was the government that caught the government cheating and prosecuted it, so the point of sarcasm in this case being a complete lack of RTFA.
More likely a pack of ass clowns stupidly hooked up an essential service to the internet because 'er' 'um', ass clowns. It was just a matter of time before it was taken down, nationality of black hats is pretty much arbitrary as black hats from all over the globe would have taken it down including those from inside the Ukraine but outside of course outside the affected region, especially if they were having a digital spat with those in that particular region. The attack nothing fancy at all, a MS Office document macro attack, where the hell is the security. A emailed document macro taking down a power station, talk about fucking amateur ass clowns being in charge, all those involved in not securing those system properly should be fired. Using fancy smancy names like BlackEnergy and KillDisk just really pathetic lame attempts at retaining employment ie not out fault really professional Russian government hackers, nope really lame security and amateur hackers who got in with an attempt that should have totally failed. Sure a system I was looking after got hacked by a document macro but that was near two decades ago and security services were just coming into force and I swapped from windows to Linux servers there and then and ran a full suite of security tools on top, never got hacked again on that system. Let me guess those Ukrainian system admins car pool to work in a clown car, all tumbling out when the car runs into the buildings back door, they one they leave open for easy access. In this case you have to be cruel to be kind, the only response for a admin team who fails to properly secure a power stations systems in this day and age is a thorough and very public firing.
How about the reality, if M$ can not track you 24/7 via your phone and prying into every part of your life, they will track you via the PC, the TV and your car. As far as they are concerned, fuck you, if you think you can be free of their invasion of your privacy. With M$'s currently privacy invasive policies they should simply be barred from all electronic devices you own. Manufacturers want to steal your right to privacy by selling it to M$, well, fuck em. Buy elsewhere or buy an old anal probe free car and get it refurbished back to new with electronics that you chose and control.
M$ are really working themselves up to a new meme, something like people taking pictures of your toilet deposits and sending M$ a copy so they can analyse it as well as they probe further and further into your life.
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Austerity because it makes bringing up children so much 'er' 'um' who the fuck can afford to bring up children in the west, screw it, just too fucking hard, find your slaves else where, the only way to ensure you descendants are safe from the raging rich and greedy is not to have any.
The timing puts it in the last ice age. In 45,000 years ice does not stay still but moves about a bit and the end of the last ice age many interesting things would have been happening with regard to mass flooding, break down of debris and methane generation. Most of civilised human ice age history would be logically under water. The more ice melts, the more water rises and the more readily coastal civilisations are inundated. Do you want to invest in underwater front, go right ahead but don't expect the rest of us to bail you out when you investment quite literally goes under water. If you can hold your breath for long enough, don't worry the next ice age will dry out you land but damn, it wont be water front any more but a few kilometres away from the new shore line. You can waffle shit all you want but when we build cities on the coast we have to protect them and do what ever it takes to do so.
Far, far simpler than that. Sell phones without any encryption at all and then as part of the initial boot up allow download of encryption security from a free open source provider of phone security encryption, which the manufacturer for some strange reason chooses to donate to, code and cash, this from numerous international sources. Problem with back doors, once digitally broken, you now have completely insecure devices that must be trashed as the back door is hard wired, can not be fixed and that the manufacturer would be forced to take back.
They are not really talking about protecting the general public, they don't give a crap about the general public. This is about protecting specific people from targeted assassinations. The simplest attack, coating a drones blades with a toxin and flying it at the targets head, a very small drone but still logically very effective, the infamous poisoned blade.
It is far trickier than the current anti-drone technology implies. Consider the flight path of a drone attacking a public speaker. All hovering and manoeuvring is done at a distance to get the drone in the best position for a final run. A path as close to people as possible and just out of reach, on a direct vector as possible. That final run will be done a maximum forward speed, giving seconds as reaction time. The laser will end up being aimed at spectators heads as well as the drone, so now you have, " we had to permanently blind spectators including children but that's okay because they are nobodies and we had to protect the extra special person, also the four peoples heads we blew off when we exploded the drone doesn't count for shit either". That doesn't even take into account destructive lasers being used in metropolitan areas with lots and lots of very reflective windows.
So something more along the lines of say a chameleon, where a sticky bundle of fibres on the end of a strong line, is fired at the drone and it is reeled in. The unit mounted on fairly high poles around the zone to be temporarily or permanently protected. That way the drone is caught and should it contain explosives it will detonate at a safer range to the public. A compressed air shotgun with rapidly degrading pellets would logically be required for more intensely protected zones. That final attack run is really quick and does not leave much time.
People doing stupid things near airports or other places is much easier to deal with with the drones moving more slowly and spending considerable time in the location as well as the locations usually having very deep safety zones, this allows capture drones or crash drones with sharp stainless steel blades to be used.
Marketing, yeah, how about the latest box office revenue scam, included the full bundle price of food and drinks as part of box office revenue in order to inflate the numbers, especially useful when it comes to premium cinemas where people are spending ten to twenty times as much, as just a plain cinema ticket, really lets you inflate those numbers, pretty much double them in fact ;D. By the way you are attempting to argue with me about what I, mind you, I do not like or like, seriously :|.
Yeah that new viral marketing meme, I watching it again and again and again, so you should watch it at least once makes no real sense. The Cheetos crowd this movie is aimed at, do not watch content again and again, typical whine from them when a typical geek or nerd wants to share their favourite flicks is the nasal whine but I have already seen it (no matter how long ago or in what format). Me, I just read a bunch of user reviews that panned it, decided to skip the cinema cost without checking a quick stream to make sure it was worth it and based upon that skipped it and will skip the DVD even when I own the others (even Rebels cartoon presents a better story and I did but the first season). I do actually watch the same content over and over again and not just lamely pretend to do so for marketing purposes.
Let me guess, you work for a company that demands a corporate tax upon every transaction on the planet, a tax you don't pay if you pay with cash, basically billions lost to those corporations when people pay with cash instead, well billions lost to those corporations and billions saved by every one else. Credit cards companies are basically financial parasites and regardless of ad hominem attacks, I'll stick with cash for the bulk of my purchases.
You do understand the difference between a whole family watching the same movie at the same time and just one member of the family playing a game whilst the rest wait, the conflict that generates can be quite intense. That of course has nothing to do with consumers being expected to foot the bill for facebook to end up getting oculus rift for free. Basically screw the, don't spend you money on an inflated price just so some dick company can buy another company and expect someone else to foot the bill. You are not buying the head mount headache you are buying oculus rift for facebook.
Some advertisements are OK, as long as they are truthful, informative, not overly intrusive and in more non jarring fashion aligned to the content that delivers them. Those ads are fine, drop outside of that and those web sites, advertising agencies and advertisers deserve script blocking. Some advertisers end up suffering pretty badly for going with the wrong agencies and producing the worst sort of intrusive ads. Remember people, it is the internet and not the store and people will remember exactly why about you ad that drove them to hate a product.
Which Jar Jar are you talking about, that cartoon character that George Lucas introduced or the Jar Jar that directed this remake of Star Wars. Let's be honest in real consumer terms with regard to long term value the movie is not doing so well, hence lame viral marketing attempts continue due to real consumer to real consumer reviews being pretty bad, especially amongst star wars fans who were expecting a whole new story. The only interesting thing in Jar Jar efforts with this production is how quickly post opening the viral marketing attempts are fading, including PR=B$ reviews. Lame planted stories, basically advertising pretending to be journalism, the sheer volume of bullshit on youtube. Youtubers remains the best cheap ass way of driving viral marketing. Gaming publishers do better with them, because they can put them on an extended cheap stipend with those youtubers desperate to please, consider that annual cost of tens of thousands of dollars versus just one idiot box commercial shown just once, now you get the idea of why so many fake arse youtubers are flooding review channels with commercials pretending to be reviews. It in the end it fails, crap is crap and a pretty bad crap story poorly told simply builds nothing into the future and completely burns out the value of story worlds, quick cash in but limited or no future value.
The price gouging model you mean. This is old, really old, not even the previous century the one before the eighteenth century. You drop the prices to put all competitors out of business and then you ramp them up, way way up when ever you can and once competitors are out of business the price stays up permanently and of course what drivers are paid also drops. Other business opportunities you can guarantee will occur, regional extortion, either pay an under table contribution to the company or face a permanent regional price hike. As for new competitors wait till they have invested enough, whilst you hold up your inflated prices to build a war chest and then hugely drop prices to put them out of business and as per 'FLEXIBLE' pricing rules raise them right back up again, which is why price gouging is against the law as being an anti-competitive practice.
Just been reminded on the internet, what you are paying of course is not the development cost but Facebook attempting to recover a way over the top $2 Billion buyout and that debt dumped straight back on top and you suckers now have to pay for it. The logical move is not to buy until the halve the price, see who weakens first. Those desperate to recover the $2 billion out of your pocket or those who refuse to pay for that greed.
Don't worry next time M$ Lookout and it's server decide to exchange you communications data for a corrupt file, you can always contact M$ for a new copy of the data because you can bet inside the next user agreement will be "You agree to a copy of all data, communications, calender details and contacts, will be forwarded to M$ servers and by using this software you agree that M$ gains full copyright ownership". Of course you can bet the charge to send you back the information you used to own will be quite steep.
Idjiot, generally people who prefer cash, prefer cash because that's what that have plenty of and dislike credit because they don't need it. Delude yourself all you want but make no mistake it's "Please sir may I have another" and should they develop a dislike to you for what ever political reason, not only does it become a no but they will track you down, beat you up and throw you in a cage. A freeman uses cash, a slave presents a permission slip provided by their master.
Only so many hours in the day mate. So the pigoplists can carry on any way they want, in the end people will have only so many hours to waste on sucking down content. So they want to dick around, big whoop, people will just skip that content and send producers bankrupt due to lack of reach. So how is netflix complete with the oft annoying youtube, all kinds of weird content, who gets the most hours of consumer eye balls.
Yep, the can run up all the crazy pscyho ideas they want of unlimited profits but it does not mean they will get any of it. Right now, at this time, interactive content is slowly but surely chewing away more and more consume time away from empty passive content. Netflix did not gain market share by what it did, Netflix gained that share because of how consumer demands have shifted and what they are willing to tolerate. So reality, meh crap on cable, turn on the gaming machine and play instead, that happens often enough and they simply uplug the cable and use netflix because it provides enough to fill the gap and they simply do not care about content they might have missed ie so what, what a few years until the series finishes and binge watch it, from start to finish, fresh and never watched.
Problem is the larger the data set, the easier it is to poison with false results produced. So anal tics (who could resist that) the over obsessive use of data by autistic types who have fallen in love with meaningless data manipulations, watching them cycle over and over again, seeing things that are simply not there.
Problem with student learning anal tics, is there are simply too many external variables, genetics of the student, student family life, student social life, current news and events, students diet, students sleep patterns, learning demands of other classes and current assignment load (want to improve that give students more choice, do a report or do an exam). Want to evaluate a teachers performance, spend the time and monitor the teacher student interaction bearing in mind the nature of what is being taught at that particular time. A good teacher adjusts to the nature of particular group of students as well as the material being taught, a good teacher makes an empathic adjustment to suit that class, for not only what is being taught now but for what was taught yesterday and what will be taught tomorrow (sometimes teaching more, sometimes teaching less, sometimes generally discussing stuff not even associated with the lesson).
Cash and buying in person will always be better. Why, because you choose, cash in pocket and you choose whether to spend it or not. Electronic payments breaks down to this, "Please sir, may I have this", this is the begging plea, each and every time you ask permission to have something. Every time I make a credit card purchase in store I always laugh with the comment, "my card still loves me". I limit my credit card purchases because it inherently irritates to plead for permission to have something and stand pathetically waiting for approval from my credit card master.
Nothing at all to do with privacy and everything to do with who is the master and who is the slave, I refuse to spend my fucking life asking for permission to do stuff every single fucking day of it and waiting pathetically for approval.
You really do not get it at all. Typical consumer digital spend, smart phone, big screen TV, game console, content to feed this, now you have to stretch that further with a gaming PC and then and only then can you buy the limited use hugely overpriced VR screen. So meh, fuck it, wont buy it, I would rather spend $600 on say games that do not need it. Now that is what those sucked in developers are complaining about, too many people will just say no.
This is really, really bad pricing, it is by no stretch of the imagination a luxury item, it is a fad gaming item and needed mass penetration driven by low pricing to make it into mosts living rooms to become an acceptable, only one member of the family can ever use it at the same time, one and only one and the others just sit there and fume, either that or a family of four buy four gaming PCs and four PR head sets this versus just one gaming console, as the TV is already there (don't be a moron and suggest a family can use just one to watch TV). So smart arse what decision will most families make.
To be blunt the entire reason for production into Asia is because Asian are willing to roll over and can willingly accept screwed over by their bosses. Western workers just need to suck it up, move themselves and their families to a one room hovel and learned to love a minimalist diet, be proud of the $1 per hour salary and be ready to grovel at the bosses feet at any moment. Then those worthless scum workers could have kept their jobs.
What a crock. Reality is the western workers were slack, lazy and indifferent and allowed their rights to be eroded away, allowed their protections to be diminished and meekly pathetically allowed future generations of workers to pay the price for the current generations cowardice.
No matter how much you give up, the insane psychopaths running corporations will always want more, so give the fuckers nothing, fuck em. They want class conflict, give it to them.
Simply not fast enough, you need an accelerated process otherwise you are claiming, meh so what if million brain damaged children occur in the interim. So the faster the better and you need to do many things at once. Population control around high human populations with concentrated releases just outside that zone. Searching for a cure. Evaluating methods of mitigating symptoms. So you do everything you can at the same time because the risks are so high. You simply can not wait for a few hundred thousands generations to occur.
The virus takes up space in the digestive system of the affected mosquito and as it does not aid the mosquito, it must logically hamper the mosquito, an identical mosquito that resist the infection will have a minor advantage. Also the genome resistance should also be dominant, so it a pairing between a resistant and non resistanct variant the resistance would be passed on.
Also in a plus for conspiracy theorists the development of the spread of the infection and it's sporadic localised spread. It would be interesting to find out whether it is the original virus in all instances or whether changes in it's makeup and affect have changed over time. Did it always result in microcephaly and brain damage in the unborn children or is that just a recent development of the current variant.
You left out a bit, evidently yes because "the crew would take cards to ATMs and withdraw money, or use them in stores, the DoJ said. Hall, Goodman, and Coleman were arrested last month on a number of charges related to the scam, including mail fraud and conspiracy to commit bank fraud." It is called separation of powers and it exists because who watches over the government, other departments whose duty is to watch over the actions of government and when necessary investigate and prosecute those government employees who break the law. In private enterprise watching over itself, the response is STFU we are making money and the penalties will be far lower than the profits and that is 99% of responses made by the 1% in control of private industry.
Perhaps snark might not be accurate as wilful blindness might be far more accurate, as it was the government that caught the government cheating and prosecuted it, so the point of sarcasm in this case being a complete lack of RTFA.
More likely a pack of ass clowns stupidly hooked up an essential service to the internet because 'er' 'um', ass clowns. It was just a matter of time before it was taken down, nationality of black hats is pretty much arbitrary as black hats from all over the globe would have taken it down including those from inside the Ukraine but outside of course outside the affected region, especially if they were having a digital spat with those in that particular region. The attack nothing fancy at all, a MS Office document macro attack, where the hell is the security. A emailed document macro taking down a power station, talk about fucking amateur ass clowns being in charge, all those involved in not securing those system properly should be fired. Using fancy smancy names like BlackEnergy and KillDisk just really pathetic lame attempts at retaining employment ie not out fault really professional Russian government hackers, nope really lame security and amateur hackers who got in with an attempt that should have totally failed. Sure a system I was looking after got hacked by a document macro but that was near two decades ago and security services were just coming into force and I swapped from windows to Linux servers there and then and ran a full suite of security tools on top, never got hacked again on that system. Let me guess those Ukrainian system admins car pool to work in a clown car, all tumbling out when the car runs into the buildings back door, they one they leave open for easy access. In this case you have to be cruel to be kind, the only response for a admin team who fails to properly secure a power stations systems in this day and age is a thorough and very public firing.
How about the reality, if M$ can not track you 24/7 via your phone and prying into every part of your life, they will track you via the PC, the TV and your car. As far as they are concerned, fuck you, if you think you can be free of their invasion of your privacy. With M$'s currently privacy invasive policies they should simply be barred from all electronic devices you own. Manufacturers want to steal your right to privacy by selling it to M$, well, fuck em. Buy elsewhere or buy an old anal probe free car and get it refurbished back to new with electronics that you chose and control.
M$ are really working themselves up to a new meme, something like people taking pictures of your toilet deposits and sending M$ a copy so they can analyse it as well as they probe further and further into your life.