Actually, since CSS lets you specify a list of fallbacks, why does the browser have to report fonts anyway? I have neglected to look into this little corner of madness...
I looked into this years ago, and there is absolutely 0 reason for this function to exist in today's world. If all browsers returned 0 fonts, the same style sheets still get served in 99.999999....% of the cases. So other than fingerprinting the machine, what purpose does this function serve?
[2] Apple charges a fee to gain access to their marketplace. As a consumer, you must buy Apple hardware; as a producer, you must buy Apple hardware*and pay an annual fee. That is a barrier to market entry.
As a consumer, you must buy Android hardware. (We'll ignore the side projects with various applications that pretty much only hobbyists would tolerate) That Google gives away the IDE, an IDE you must otherwise purchase BTW, and supports its Play store with no developer cost is only an indication of how absolutely crappy and terrible the situation for Android was at its beginning. Once the precedent was set, it becomes very difficult to take things away from your core supporters, and whatever you may think, Android still has revenue problems around its entire eco-system which iOS does not.
All that said, you can start with iOS development at no cost. You can even micro-publish (up to 100 or 500 devices, I don't recall specifically) an app at no cost. It's not until you want to avail yourself of the App Store that you start incurring a rather modest $99 yearly charge.
Apple is the ONLY computer OEM that can LEGALLY run pretty-much ANY OS and its Applications.
That's only true because Apple doesn't allow us to legally run their OS on non-Apple hardware. That "advantage" is an artificial result of Apple being dicks. If you want to use iOS or Mac OS legally, you are very much locked in to buying Apple hardware; are you seriously trying to frame that as an advantage?
If you read that EULA very carefully, using an apple keyboard, mouse, trackpad or monitor is enough to get you "legal";) Unless that thing has materially changed its definition of equipment to be a lot more specific in the past 3 years.
There's nothing special about their hardware, aside form a shiny apple-shaped logo with a bite taken out of it, that allows this. Or have you forgotten?
I'd have disagreed with that until 2 years ago as Apple's hardware was definitely several notches better. It took the competition years to get up to speed on parts quality. Even today, the total package from Apple, if you want that package, is better IMNSHO than the competition. If you don't want what Apple's selling then obviously it's not the best solution for you. In the desktop space, I will state outright that the 2014 minis are crap and the mac pros were an amazingly wrong turn.
While micorsoft is not 'evil', historically their priorities, objectives, and business model have not aligned well with the FOSS community and its needs.
I think you might want to revisit your history books. MS is definitely evil for the things they pulled in their quest to crush all competition.
The green house effects of CFCs or even methane, are generally unknown by the public at large
Are you serious? Even my redneck brother-in-law, with an IQ of about 80, makes a joke about "contributing to global warming" every time he burps or farts.
Rednecks aren't necessarily ignorant nor stupid, although the stereotype certainly paints them that way. That's why there are also stupid rednecks and dumbass rednecks, not to mention the "hold my beer, hey y'all, watch this" redneck.
Anyone ignorant of these issues is certainly not "well read".
Now that's a different argument and a lot more subjective, and I'll grant you that well-read in this context seems out of place given how much has been written about these various contributors to global warming.
Spray into atmosphere under pressure with oil in a system, similar to R-12 leaking out of a car's AC. Creates nice poisonous clouds as the bonds are broken.
College isn't job/software training. The theory I learned decades ago is _still_ not obsolete.
I'm not sure where people get this idea? That's my major complaint about software graduates - they don't know the theory at all, nor any useful basics. Just Java(Script) syntax and how to make a 10MB web page.
I'd have to agree that the health insurance industry has infected not only health care, but industry in general in the US. Imagine being told by HR that your next 2 hires must be under 30! I kid you not. The reason? Our health insurance is going to hit the next price tier if we hire anyone older.
I'd love to say you're wrong. I can only throw more fuel on top of what you wrote: Pretty much all the computer tech workers coming out of college over the past 20 years are almost universally clueless (explains all the JS frameworks and the state of the web....) and require massive training to do anything more than drag and drop controls on a screen. For engineers, I get it. There was at least a 15 year window where you couldn't get a job as an engineer. Take MEs for example. In the 90s I was made aware there were only 6 jobs posted nationwide for MEs in a 2 month window. That's nationwide! Friends graduating with engineering degrees in the 90s/2000s don't work in engineering. Out of a large group that graduated with various engineering degrees, the only one still working in non computer related engineering is a EE. All the rest jumped to other careers that did not involve their original fields.
Sometimes this happens. I can speculate as to why, especially given some of your indicated means of applying. I personally was out for about 6 months, and that was in 2009, and only because I limited myself to certain jobs and salaries.
Well, let's see, it was $100B a year for 5 years to get us supposedly 100Mbps plus broadband in the 90s, but the telecoms just inflated their profits instead. So, given that there's at least 4 major ISPs with those types of profits, perhaps we could get it rolled out nationwide in 5 or 6 years? Granted, we won't be able to hire that many contractors to lay cable, but given that kind of cash, we could certainly start upgrading huge segments of the population.
To be fair, CFCs were banned due to ozone depletion, the initial causality that was proven. The green house effects of CFCs or even methane, are generally unknown by the public at large, because those topics never really made headline news. With CFCs already out of the picture, and only CO2 being the major anthropogenic component of global warming, that's all most read about, provided they read anything about global warming at all. (Yes, it can be argued that methane has a large anthropogenic component as well due to cattle raising, but we'll gloss over that fact)
You don't have a clue. It's end to end encryption. Public/Private key setups. If it's done right, no one sees the keys used, so theoretically only the intended recipient and the sender can see the decrypted mail. There's no SSL required to keep this secure. No MitM required, in fact, they can hand you a disk with the email being sent. You won't be able to read it. If they used 4096 bit keys, you won't be able to read it for something like 10B years, or true quantum computers are built, or you find an exploit in the encryption used.
Luke would never have abandoned the order - he was defined by being hopeful in the face of reality. He never would have seriously considered killing his student - I know you didn't like RTJ, but the second half of the movie was about him taking an extreme risk for the longshot chance that the most evil man he knew was redeemable.
The entire first three movies covered roughly 3-4 years of Luke's life, tops. He was a teen starting out. How many people do you know changed their idealistic viewpoints between 20 to 40? All of them? It's been a while so I my memory might be hazy but the second half of RotJ seemed to be about a bunch of short wannabe wookies throwing wooden weapons at ATATs, and winning Power Rangers style.;)
I agree with the credible threat. Right now, there doesn't seem to be one, but that doesn't mean there isn't one. Again, the storyline has been reset. It will be interesting to see where they take it. I'd have to watch TFA/TLJ again to see about the rest of what you said. The interesting fact is that I can actually state that with no trepidation, unlike the prequels (I only bring that up to state how unabashedly terrible those movies were and likely could have been condensed into a reasonably decent 20 minute short that wouldn't offend everyone) FWIW, I didn't think much of Kylo in TFA and that didn't improve in TLJ. The same can be said for Rey, IMHO Daisy's not really committed to the role.
Not sure why you keep bringing up the prequels - no one wanted to see more of those, and anyway all those characters were long dead.
There's a whole bunch of characters that are referenced or affect the characters in Ep 4-6. The main reason, however, is that I don't know what canon you're talking about Disney violating because it's not what's laid out in Ep 4-6 (the first 3 movies). In fact, so far, I'd claim that Disney has been more true to the canon than Lucas.
But you're missing the whole point of why TLJ was a steaming pile. It's not that it killed off Luke: that was inevitable. It's that that fucking wasn't Luke! You can listen to Mark Hamill explain why, if it's unclear. Character by character, old and new, the arcs were so bad and unbelievable that there was no watchable movie left.
So Mark didn't like the hermit Luke because it wasn't the hero Luke he played in the first 3 movies? Give me a break. This was an exact replication of Obi Wan Kenobi's storyline. You're going to have to go a lot further than point to someone's dislike of who he became (in a movie story arc, no less) Luke's story arc was perfectly believable, and necessary to kill off the last of the Jedi.:) But, it sounds like we're at an impasse, much like Mark was with Johnson. However, the bigger story won over the lone hero. Perhaps that's why he was crushed?
Now don't get me wrong, I dislike quite a few of the new characters, including Finn, Kylo in TLJ and Rey. Chewie should be in an old folks home, he's something like 280 by now, since Lucas totally wrote out all the wookie storylines.
I just think people over-emphasize Yoda vs Ewoks. The Yoda scenes were great and the Ewok scenes were a vision of things to come, but each was a small portion of its respective movie. I find everything in ESB except Yoda and Vader forgettable, while I find the majority of RTJ very good. Jabbas palace, the space combat, the final confrontation - all great stuff.
Maybe I need to revisit it. It's been years, I think I've only seen RotJ twice. The Ewoks were definitely a movie destroying experience that was majorly reinforced on the second viewing. It's like if you stuck JarJar in as the main android in BladeRunner. They didn't fit anywhere in the movie except maybe as a 3s pet shot in a cantina.
That does effectively destroy the canon and I can understand why some would be upset. I hold it's a good thing.
Firm proof you were never a Star Wars fan, and probably liked the Transformers movies.
I mean, really, make a different SciFi franchise if you're rejecting the SW canon, but don't make a SW film.
First, there's a special place under the ninth circle for Michael Bay, who through some devilish voodoo somehow got hold of a consumer camera. (I think that pretty much defines what I think about those "movies")
As for the canon, perhaps you missed all the details in our first 3 SW movies. I hold that everything outside of those first 3 movies that involved Lucas was outside the SW canon, because other than paying lip service to what was referenced in the first 3 movies, the rest was just crap.
What am I implying? Well, note that the Jedi were dying out, almost gone. In fact, they were so far gone, that only Luke and Leia remained, and Luke never finished his training. So in reality, the Jedi died with Yoda, the last remaining true Jedi master. Or did they? Apparently Luke achieved Jedi mastery as we found out in TLJ. But note that his only surviving trainee is Kylo Ren, not exactly a Jedi.
So the canon, if you'll excise all the BS commercial crap Lucas belched over the years reduces to a dead religion and dying belief system with a renewed discovery of underlying raw truth which is ready to rush to the fore. The force still is what it is, and one can do all the things that could be done before, but you see that the potential is far greater than what's been revealed up to now. There still seems to be a required balance, and it will be interesting to see how that balance plays out in the next few movies, as I suspect they'll run at least 3 or 4 more in this particular story arc.
In the end, I suppose it matters how and when you entered the SW canon and what you hold to be the canon. Those that experienced the movies like I did and who pretty much all skipped the cartoons have the same basic feelings as I do about all the movies and shows since the original 3 came out. One of the best stories was Splinter of the Mind's Eye, which never became a movie but would have done very very well had they filmed it prior to ESB. I suppose you can make the case that since Lucas created it, he could "build" the canon to include all the bs in ep 1-3 and the clone wars cartoons, but my take on all that was it was purely commercial junk pushed out to keep the money wheels rolling. Watch the first two movies, and then try to reconcile all the rest of the stuff after the third until Disney came in and rescued it. It's just a pedestrian commercial cartoon/action movie series like He-Man or Transformers.
So, yeah, if Trump colluded (still waiting on Mueller to show some evidence), by all means give him hell. But, don't pretend that it's all one sided...where did that dossier come from that the DNC bought?
Had the 2016 Trump Tower meeting resulted in the confirmed handing over of any documentation originally proffered, collusion would have already been proven, at least for the 3 folks in attendance. If you doubt that Trump wouldn't have used such information, well, we have a little over 2 years worth of history to show he'd use anything factual and quite a few manufactured in attempting to harm, slander, libel, or otherwise damage others. So the only question on collusion is whether any was successful. The jury is still out on that. As far as a collusion conspiracy, at this point I'd say you'd have to be working for Trump's legal team to deny it.
That dossier was first formed at the request of Republicans. It was then sold to someone purportedly working for the DNC. It's amazing how nothing in that dossier came out prior to the election, isn't it? It's almost like it was planted. Do we actually know who authorized that dossier? Who physically took possession of it? I looked early on and couldn't successfully trace it. Maybe there's more on it now and we can have those answers. Note that none of these types of questions exist for the various meetings undertaken by members of the Trump campaign. We know who, with whom, and when and for what purpose.
Still qualifies as "rare", though. I never claimed it never happens.
That said, the phones lasting longer actually lowers the amortized monthly increase in TCOO, further strengthening the point I was making, so, thanks, I guess?
You're welcome? I was just reinforcing that the iphones do appear to last longer, in general, and that a 2 year lifespan for these phones isn't realistic since the 4, really. To be perfectly fair, I strongly suspect the Samsungs will start lasting longer as well, probably with the 8 series. There were a few quality control issues with the 7's, and too many updates/changes from the 6 and before, at least IMHO.
I guess it depends on where you fell in the target audience? And, there's always the fact that not everyone likes the same things.
TLJ ruined Luke Skywalker, ruined every character on the Empire side, ruined Finn's arc, total BS with Admiral Akbar, most of the heroic moments went to new characters introduced in the film that we had no emotional attachment to at all.
Rogue One was boring and bland, but at least showed some respect for the canon.
Rogue One could admittedly have been more, but after being subjected to Lucas' shockingly amazing lack of vision, it was nice and refreshing.
Finn IMHO was a character experiment that failed. The sooner they kill him off, the better. He was TFA's JarJar, but not quite as idiotically offensive. The movies would have been better with less of him.
TLJ ended Luke. And with his end, a whole new start was enabled. Yes, the entire point was to effectively lay open the hypocrisy and false beliefs of the previous canon. That does effectively destroy the canon and I can understand why some would be upset. I hold it's a good thing. I believe 9 will be the start of a new story line, a new canon. There will be new evil, and new good. Given Disney's hints, there won't be black and white good and evil, it's going to be shades of grey with multiple actors working in a more complex world. Will they be able to pull it off without going all BG soap opera? I hope so.
One day I would understand why people hate The Last Jedi, I really enjoyed it.
It shat all over the classic Star Wars characters.
It shat all over the new Star Wars characters.
It made no kind of damn sense, and ruined the canon.
It was very visually appealing.
It was basically "Ass", the movie from Idiocracy.
I hold that "honor" for Episode 1. What a steaming pile of dino shit that was. As for shitting on the characters, that happened in RotJ. The only reason that movie did remotely well was because of the strength of the first two movies and people wanting some kind of closure. But the moment the Ewoks stepped onscreen was definitely a WTF, and it went downhill from there. SW was teens and up. ESB was teens and up. RotJ was targeted at 8 year olds. Ep1 went for broke for 5 year olds and managed to completely destroy anything remotely resembling a storyline in the SW universe.
To me, TLJ cleared the slate. All the old characters are now wrapped up, since we knew Leia's end was going to happen shortly, even before Carrie's unexpected death. More than a few hints on the Jedi were given opening up new story lines for the future. I was actually hoping they'd kill off Finn, for one, along with a few others. Maybe that'll happen in 9. Essentially, Disney is taking the base set of ideas and making something new from it. As you might be able to tell, or maybe not, I feel that's saving SW. Rogue One was certainly awesome and was the only prequel we needed instead of that absolute tripe masquerading as Ep 1-3. Maybe Disney can rename those Reptilian Makeup Mash or something equally inane and more fitting. Or maybe the Adventures of Peg as He Breaks into Acting.
My family's iPhones were in use for 3 years minimum, with 2 hitting 6 years. Wound up replacing about 60% at 4 years, mostly because of people dropping them too many times. That means we skipped from 5/5S all the way to 8's.
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Actually, since CSS lets you specify a list of fallbacks, why does the browser have to report fonts anyway? I have neglected to look into this little corner of madness ...
I looked into this years ago, and there is absolutely 0 reason for this function to exist in today's world. If all browsers returned 0 fonts, the same style sheets still get served in 99.999999....% of the cases. So other than fingerprinting the machine, what purpose does this function serve?
Disabling JS makes the web browsable again for 99% of its pages. 99% of the web does not need JS, and never should have had JS installed with it.
[2] Apple charges a fee to gain access to their marketplace. As a consumer, you must buy Apple hardware; as a producer, you must buy Apple hardware* and pay an annual fee. That is a barrier to market entry.
As a consumer, you must buy Android hardware. (We'll ignore the side projects with various applications that pretty much only hobbyists would tolerate) That Google gives away the IDE, an IDE you must otherwise purchase BTW, and supports its Play store with no developer cost is only an indication of how absolutely crappy and terrible the situation for Android was at its beginning. Once the precedent was set, it becomes very difficult to take things away from your core supporters, and whatever you may think, Android still has revenue problems around its entire eco-system which iOS does not.
All that said, you can start with iOS development at no cost. You can even micro-publish (up to 100 or 500 devices, I don't recall specifically) an app at no cost. It's not until you want to avail yourself of the App Store that you start incurring a rather modest $99 yearly charge.
Apple is the ONLY computer OEM that can LEGALLY run pretty-much ANY OS and its Applications.
That's only true because Apple doesn't allow us to legally run their OS on non-Apple hardware. That "advantage" is an artificial result of Apple being dicks. If you want to use iOS or Mac OS legally, you are very much locked in to buying Apple hardware; are you seriously trying to frame that as an advantage?
If you read that EULA very carefully, using an apple keyboard, mouse, trackpad or monitor is enough to get you "legal" ;) Unless that thing has materially changed its definition of equipment to be a lot more specific in the past 3 years.
There's nothing special about their hardware, aside form a shiny apple-shaped logo with a bite taken out of it, that allows this. Or have you forgotten?
I'd have disagreed with that until 2 years ago as Apple's hardware was definitely several notches better. It took the competition years to get up to speed on parts quality. Even today, the total package from Apple, if you want that package, is better IMNSHO than the competition. If you don't want what Apple's selling then obviously it's not the best solution for you. In the desktop space, I will state outright that the 2014 minis are crap and the mac pros were an amazingly wrong turn.
While micorsoft is not 'evil', historically their priorities, objectives, and business model have not aligned well with the FOSS community and its needs.
I think you might want to revisit your history books. MS is definitely evil for the things they pulled in their quest to crush all competition.
The green house effects of CFCs or even methane, are generally unknown by the public at large
Are you serious? Even my redneck brother-in-law, with an IQ of about 80, makes a joke about "contributing to global warming" every time he burps or farts.
Rednecks aren't necessarily ignorant nor stupid, although the stereotype certainly paints them that way. That's why there are also stupid rednecks and dumbass rednecks, not to mention the "hold my beer, hey y'all, watch this" redneck.
Anyone ignorant of these issues is certainly not "well read".
Now that's a different argument and a lot more subjective, and I'll grant you that well-read in this context seems out of place given how much has been written about these various contributors to global warming.
Spray into atmosphere under pressure with oil in a system, similar to R-12 leaking out of a car's AC. Creates nice poisonous clouds as the bonds are broken.
College isn't job/software training. The theory I learned decades ago is _still_ not obsolete.
I'm not sure where people get this idea? That's my major complaint about software graduates - they don't know the theory at all, nor any useful basics. Just Java(Script) syntax and how to make a 10MB web page.
I'd have to agree that the health insurance industry has infected not only health care, but industry in general in the US. Imagine being told by HR that your next 2 hires must be under 30! I kid you not. The reason? Our health insurance is going to hit the next price tier if we hire anyone older.
I'd love to say you're wrong. I can only throw more fuel on top of what you wrote: Pretty much all the computer tech workers coming out of college over the past 20 years are almost universally clueless (explains all the JS frameworks and the state of the web....) and require massive training to do anything more than drag and drop controls on a screen. For engineers, I get it. There was at least a 15 year window where you couldn't get a job as an engineer. Take MEs for example. In the 90s I was made aware there were only 6 jobs posted nationwide for MEs in a 2 month window. That's nationwide! Friends graduating with engineering degrees in the 90s/2000s don't work in engineering. Out of a large group that graduated with various engineering degrees, the only one still working in non computer related engineering is a EE. All the rest jumped to other careers that did not involve their original fields.
Sometimes this happens. I can speculate as to why, especially given some of your indicated means of applying. I personally was out for about 6 months, and that was in 2009, and only because I limited myself to certain jobs and salaries.
Well, let's see, it was $100B a year for 5 years to get us supposedly 100Mbps plus broadband in the 90s, but the telecoms just inflated their profits instead. So, given that there's at least 4 major ISPs with those types of profits, perhaps we could get it rolled out nationwide in 5 or 6 years? Granted, we won't be able to hire that many contractors to lay cable, but given that kind of cash, we could certainly start upgrading huge segments of the population.
To be fair, CFCs were banned due to ozone depletion, the initial causality that was proven. The green house effects of CFCs or even methane, are generally unknown by the public at large, because those topics never really made headline news. With CFCs already out of the picture, and only CO2 being the major anthropogenic component of global warming, that's all most read about, provided they read anything about global warming at all. (Yes, it can be argued that methane has a large anthropogenic component as well due to cattle raising, but we'll gloss over that fact)
CFC-11, trichloromonofluoromethane, commonly known as Freon (tm).
NOT toxic.
Try breathing some. Or burning it. It's quite toxic.
How much will that cost US tax payers again?
Well, let's see, subtract something like $20B a year from AT&Ts profits, and I think you have your answer.... $0 more.
You don't have a clue. It's end to end encryption. Public/Private key setups. If it's done right, no one sees the keys used, so theoretically only the intended recipient and the sender can see the decrypted mail. There's no SSL required to keep this secure. No MitM required, in fact, they can hand you a disk with the email being sent. You won't be able to read it. If they used 4096 bit keys, you won't be able to read it for something like 10B years, or true quantum computers are built, or you find an exploit in the encryption used.
You misunderstand how Proton works. Email remains encrypted on their servers, only your client decrypts it.
Luke would never have abandoned the order - he was defined by being hopeful in the face of reality. He never would have seriously considered killing his student - I know you didn't like RTJ, but the second half of the movie was about him taking an extreme risk for the longshot chance that the most evil man he knew was redeemable.
The entire first three movies covered roughly 3-4 years of Luke's life, tops. He was a teen starting out. How many people do you know changed their idealistic viewpoints between 20 to 40? All of them? It's been a while so I my memory might be hazy but the second half of RotJ seemed to be about a bunch of short wannabe wookies throwing wooden weapons at ATATs, and winning Power Rangers style. ;)
I agree with the credible threat. Right now, there doesn't seem to be one, but that doesn't mean there isn't one. Again, the storyline has been reset. It will be interesting to see where they take it. I'd have to watch TFA/TLJ again to see about the rest of what you said. The interesting fact is that I can actually state that with no trepidation, unlike the prequels (I only bring that up to state how unabashedly terrible those movies were and likely could have been condensed into a reasonably decent 20 minute short that wouldn't offend everyone) FWIW, I didn't think much of Kylo in TFA and that didn't improve in TLJ. The same can be said for Rey, IMHO Daisy's not really committed to the role.
Not sure why you keep bringing up the prequels - no one wanted to see more of those, and anyway all those characters were long dead.
There's a whole bunch of characters that are referenced or affect the characters in Ep 4-6. The main reason, however, is that I don't know what canon you're talking about Disney violating because it's not what's laid out in Ep 4-6 (the first 3 movies). In fact, so far, I'd claim that Disney has been more true to the canon than Lucas.
But you're missing the whole point of why TLJ was a steaming pile. It's not that it killed off Luke: that was inevitable. It's that that fucking wasn't Luke! You can listen to Mark Hamill explain why, if it's unclear. Character by character, old and new, the arcs were so bad and unbelievable that there was no watchable movie left.
So Mark didn't like the hermit Luke because it wasn't the hero Luke he played in the first 3 movies? Give me a break. This was an exact replication of Obi Wan Kenobi's storyline. You're going to have to go a lot further than point to someone's dislike of who he became (in a movie story arc, no less) Luke's story arc was perfectly believable, and necessary to kill off the last of the Jedi. :) But, it sounds like we're at an impasse, much like Mark was with Johnson. However, the bigger story won over the lone hero. Perhaps that's why he was crushed?
Now don't get me wrong, I dislike quite a few of the new characters, including Finn, Kylo in TLJ and Rey. Chewie should be in an old folks home, he's something like 280 by now, since Lucas totally wrote out all the wookie storylines.
I just think people over-emphasize Yoda vs Ewoks. The Yoda scenes were great and the Ewok scenes were a vision of things to come, but each was a small portion of its respective movie. I find everything in ESB except Yoda and Vader forgettable, while I find the majority of RTJ very good. Jabbas palace, the space combat, the final confrontation - all great stuff.
Maybe I need to revisit it. It's been years, I think I've only seen RotJ twice. The Ewoks were definitely a movie destroying experience that was majorly reinforced on the second viewing. It's like if you stuck JarJar in as the main android in BladeRunner. They didn't fit anywhere in the movie except maybe as a 3s pet shot in a cantina.
That does effectively destroy the canon and I can understand why some would be upset. I hold it's a good thing.
Firm proof you were never a Star Wars fan, and probably liked the Transformers movies.
I mean, really, make a different SciFi franchise if you're rejecting the SW canon, but don't make a SW film.
First, there's a special place under the ninth circle for Michael Bay, who through some devilish voodoo somehow got hold of a consumer camera. (I think that pretty much defines what I think about those "movies")
As for the canon, perhaps you missed all the details in our first 3 SW movies. I hold that everything outside of those first 3 movies that involved Lucas was outside the SW canon, because other than paying lip service to what was referenced in the first 3 movies, the rest was just crap.
What am I implying? Well, note that the Jedi were dying out, almost gone. In fact, they were so far gone, that only Luke and Leia remained, and Luke never finished his training. So in reality, the Jedi died with Yoda, the last remaining true Jedi master. Or did they? Apparently Luke achieved Jedi mastery as we found out in TLJ. But note that his only surviving trainee is Kylo Ren, not exactly a Jedi.
So the canon, if you'll excise all the BS commercial crap Lucas belched over the years reduces to a dead religion and dying belief system with a renewed discovery of underlying raw truth which is ready to rush to the fore. The force still is what it is, and one can do all the things that could be done before, but you see that the potential is far greater than what's been revealed up to now. There still seems to be a required balance, and it will be interesting to see how that balance plays out in the next few movies, as I suspect they'll run at least 3 or 4 more in this particular story arc.
In the end, I suppose it matters how and when you entered the SW canon and what you hold to be the canon. Those that experienced the movies like I did and who pretty much all skipped the cartoons have the same basic feelings as I do about all the movies and shows since the original 3 came out. One of the best stories was Splinter of the Mind's Eye, which never became a movie but would have done very very well had they filmed it prior to ESB. I suppose you can make the case that since Lucas created it, he could "build" the canon to include all the bs in ep 1-3 and the clone wars cartoons, but my take on all that was it was purely commercial junk pushed out to keep the money wheels rolling. Watch the first two movies, and then try to reconcile all the rest of the stuff after the third until Disney came in and rescued it. It's just a pedestrian commercial cartoon/action movie series like He-Man or Transformers.
So, yeah, if Trump colluded (still waiting on Mueller to show some evidence), by all means give him hell. But, don't pretend that it's all one sided...where did that dossier come from that the DNC bought?
Had the 2016 Trump Tower meeting resulted in the confirmed handing over of any documentation originally proffered, collusion would have already been proven, at least for the 3 folks in attendance. If you doubt that Trump wouldn't have used such information, well, we have a little over 2 years worth of history to show he'd use anything factual and quite a few manufactured in attempting to harm, slander, libel, or otherwise damage others. So the only question on collusion is whether any was successful. The jury is still out on that. As far as a collusion conspiracy, at this point I'd say you'd have to be working for Trump's legal team to deny it.
That dossier was first formed at the request of Republicans. It was then sold to someone purportedly working for the DNC. It's amazing how nothing in that dossier came out prior to the election, isn't it? It's almost like it was planted. Do we actually know who authorized that dossier? Who physically took possession of it? I looked early on and couldn't successfully trace it. Maybe there's more on it now and we can have those answers. Note that none of these types of questions exist for the various meetings undertaken by members of the Trump campaign. We know who, with whom, and when and for what purpose.
Still qualifies as "rare", though. I never claimed it never happens. That said, the phones lasting longer actually lowers the amortized monthly increase in TCOO, further strengthening the point I was making, so, thanks, I guess?
You're welcome? I was just reinforcing that the iphones do appear to last longer, in general, and that a 2 year lifespan for these phones isn't realistic since the 4, really. To be perfectly fair, I strongly suspect the Samsungs will start lasting longer as well, probably with the 8 series. There were a few quality control issues with the 7's, and too many updates/changes from the 6 and before, at least IMHO.
Actually, that's 14 data points... we also have a couple of Android users. They do replace their phones on average every other year.
I liked RTJ better than ESB. Come at me bro!
I guess it depends on where you fell in the target audience? And, there's always the fact that not everyone likes the same things.
TLJ ruined Luke Skywalker, ruined every character on the Empire side, ruined Finn's arc, total BS with Admiral Akbar, most of the heroic moments went to new characters introduced in the film that we had no emotional attachment to at all.
Rogue One was boring and bland, but at least showed some respect for the canon.
Rogue One could admittedly have been more, but after being subjected to Lucas' shockingly amazing lack of vision, it was nice and refreshing.
Finn IMHO was a character experiment that failed. The sooner they kill him off, the better. He was TFA's JarJar, but not quite as idiotically offensive. The movies would have been better with less of him.
TLJ ended Luke. And with his end, a whole new start was enabled. Yes, the entire point was to effectively lay open the hypocrisy and false beliefs of the previous canon. That does effectively destroy the canon and I can understand why some would be upset. I hold it's a good thing. I believe 9 will be the start of a new story line, a new canon. There will be new evil, and new good. Given Disney's hints, there won't be black and white good and evil, it's going to be shades of grey with multiple actors working in a more complex world. Will they be able to pull it off without going all BG soap opera? I hope so.
One day I would understand why people hate The Last Jedi, I really enjoyed it.
It shat all over the classic Star Wars characters.
It shat all over the new Star Wars characters.
It made no kind of damn sense, and ruined the canon.
It was very visually appealing.
It was basically "Ass", the movie from Idiocracy.
I hold that "honor" for Episode 1. What a steaming pile of dino shit that was. As for shitting on the characters, that happened in RotJ. The only reason that movie did remotely well was because of the strength of the first two movies and people wanting some kind of closure. But the moment the Ewoks stepped onscreen was definitely a WTF, and it went downhill from there. SW was teens and up. ESB was teens and up. RotJ was targeted at 8 year olds. Ep1 went for broke for 5 year olds and managed to completely destroy anything remotely resembling a storyline in the SW universe.
To me, TLJ cleared the slate. All the old characters are now wrapped up, since we knew Leia's end was going to happen shortly, even before Carrie's unexpected death. More than a few hints on the Jedi were given opening up new story lines for the future. I was actually hoping they'd kill off Finn, for one, along with a few others. Maybe that'll happen in 9. Essentially, Disney is taking the base set of ideas and making something new from it. As you might be able to tell, or maybe not, I feel that's saving SW. Rogue One was certainly awesome and was the only prequel we needed instead of that absolute tripe masquerading as Ep 1-3. Maybe Disney can rename those Reptilian Makeup Mash or something equally inane and more fitting. Or maybe the Adventures of Peg as He Breaks into Acting.
My family's iPhones were in use for 3 years minimum, with 2 hitting 6 years. Wound up replacing about 60% at 4 years, mostly because of people dropping them too many times. That means we skipped from 5/5S all the way to 8's.