And the same goes for every other browser as well.
Firefox today is often pretty stable and reliable. What I go against is that there's a hard push for Google Chrome from many fronts and that causes me to hate it. Not as much as I hate IE though.
I'm myself satisfied with Thunderbird, it does what I expect it to do, it has a decent junk mail filter (better than Outlook, but that's not hard) and has an user interface that's not as messed up as the Outlook interface.
There are of course some details that can be better, but regardless of mail client you will suffer from that, just pick your poison.
Well, the basic idea of having an affordable healthcare for everybody is sound, then it went down the crapper by creating a half-baked solution that ended up being more expensive than effective.
The basic idea behind Romneycare/Obamacare is sound, the implementation of it seems to be painfully flawed. The rest of the modern world solves the major costs of healthcare through taxes and requires the pharmacies to offer the cheapest variant of a specific drug (different manufacturers have to compete) to push down costs.
I think that Alec Guinness did a lot for the original Star Wars movie, the experience of how to act and behave in a theatrical manner to make the best of a scene. A good actor is a lot more important than special effects ever can be. This because a good actor knows when and how to address the viewers.
I'm pretty neutral about it - it's a mostly redundant scene. The catch I have with it is that it's a CGI scene while all other scenes with Jabba aren't and it's too obvious.
I did watch the episode 4-6 last weekend, just to get a refreshment. What I think still is good with them is that they feel a lot more real than the prequels. Parts of actions interluded with some afterthought.
I agree, no need to tweak some scenes, the shooting scene, adding Jabba and the Sarlacc change are all completely unnecessary.
However I don't really mind the background effects where a few new animals were added in Mos Eisley, mostly since they were just side-effects.
I don't mind enhancements where mishaps are corrected like misplaced items, people in wrong clothing or obviously flawed special effects in the originals - but don't change the special effects too much, just polish off obvious potatoes.
It's not possible to take pictures, but variations in emission can be analyzed and matched to known objects like Jupiter to allow for most likely explanation.
It's not a perfect solution, but the best we have today.
Now back to the drawingboard to try to figure out how to make a probe that can have warp drive capability.
So you never heard of the "Microsoft Tax"? And they don't need to jail you, not physically at least. Just cut off your internet access and uninstall unwanted programs remotely in your computer if you happen to run the latest Win 10.
Notice that the corporations can afford to pay lawyers and lobbyists to bend the regulations their way. And add your name to a "no fly" list is simple.
We are already there in a world where we are monitored, controlled and manipulated. But we are held unaware. Also look at all the trackers that are accessed when you access a web page. Who do really benefit from them? In the early year of the web you had a page counter counting the number of visits to the page. Today that's done a hundred times over combined with data that's used to uniquely identify you as a person so that targeted ads can be served and they can probably identify you good enough to be able to see what kind of offers they shall provide through snail mail to your home address.
So corporations definitely know you - and probably every politician that has an important enough position to become manipulated. It's enough information collected today to get hooks into every political party that exists and then push for some support for some obscure legislation writing to get it through in a way that benefits the corporation.
Just realize that this is why many corporations hates ad-blockers because it hurts them when they try to collect data about you. The sharing of WiFi passwords in Win 10 isn't for your convenience either, it's there for them to be able to make the linking even stronger, since now you know which friends that you have - and how many outside marriage sexual relations you have.
We currently live in a world where we have a combination of Huxley's Brave New World, Orwells 1984 and Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. OK, we don't burn books directly, but we have electronic information that's forbidden to possess.
The other side of the coin is that if they are caught then it may be because they want to be caught and therefore actually want the idea to get killed.
Unfortunately the amount of bandwidth available for wireless is limited. It may work fine to some extent, but when too many subscribers shares the same space you will get problems.
Of course - allocation of new frequency bands might work, but that will also come at a cost since the new bands will be above 10GHz which would require new equipment.
Just call a hammer a hammer and a backdoor a backdoor.
Today I'd worry more about shortcomings in security on Chinese-made devices, but with the FBI involved it's going to be additional holes.
Meanwhile the terrorists just go on with their own ways of information exchange. It's also a huge information flood to sift through making it hard for authorities to ever figure out if something is serious or not. Even if they know they may not take action to avoid revealing their sources. Like the shootings in Paris - did someone know but considered that it was better to make it hapen because then their agency would profit? Same with the WTC attack in 2001. It's standard operating procedure in intelligence to not reveal how they work at The cost of lives.
If an intelligence agency did act upon every suspect message then the western world would be severely disrupted. Imagine the effect of a standstill on every case when "bomb has been planted" in Call of Duty or whatever game it's used has been sent. It's hard for algorithms to realize that it's a game since the context is also needed.
Another question is rather - is gravity a true force or a side-effect of the bending of spacetime?
Some people have tried to find the so called gravitons. However that may lead to the result that gravitation has a minimum quanta - and wouldn't that result in other problems?
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And the same goes for every other browser as well.
Firefox today is often pretty stable and reliable. What I go against is that there's a hard push for Google Chrome from many fronts and that causes me to hate it. Not as much as I hate IE though.
I'm myself satisfied with Thunderbird, it does what I expect it to do, it has a decent junk mail filter (better than Outlook, but that's not hard) and has an user interface that's not as messed up as the Outlook interface.
There are of course some details that can be better, but regardless of mail client you will suffer from that, just pick your poison.
What about Elm?
Well, the basic idea of having an affordable healthcare for everybody is sound, then it went down the crapper by creating a half-baked solution that ended up being more expensive than effective.
Burn the wrong person and you will get a backfire that makes a serious mark.
The basic idea behind Romneycare/Obamacare is sound, the implementation of it seems to be painfully flawed. The rest of the modern world solves the major costs of healthcare through taxes and requires the pharmacies to offer the cheapest variant of a specific drug (different manufacturers have to compete) to push down costs.
Healthcare in the US is a sick story.
Until the day the customs do an inspection and confiscate the meds because they aren't labeled right.
If he just get to share cell with someone with HIV he may learn a thing or two.
Well, we already have Swatting so it's not going to be a huge surprise there.
Add to it the possibility of having adbanners and a kiloton of other things involved in activating the links.
Daesh (IS) makes Lemonparty seem like eyebleach.
I think that Alec Guinness did a lot for the original Star Wars movie, the experience of how to act and behave in a theatrical manner to make the best of a scene. A good actor is a lot more important than special effects ever can be. This because a good actor knows when and how to address the viewers.
I'm pretty neutral about it - it's a mostly redundant scene. The catch I have with it is that it's a CGI scene while all other scenes with Jabba aren't and it's too obvious.
I did watch the episode 4-6 last weekend, just to get a refreshment. What I think still is good with them is that they feel a lot more real than the prequels. Parts of actions interluded with some afterthought.
I agree, no need to tweak some scenes, the shooting scene, adding Jabba and the Sarlacc change are all completely unnecessary.
However I don't really mind the background effects where a few new animals were added in Mos Eisley, mostly since they were just side-effects.
I don't mind enhancements where mishaps are corrected like misplaced items, people in wrong clothing or obviously flawed special effects in the originals - but don't change the special effects too much, just polish off obvious potatoes.
It's a virtual world so it doesn't count.
It's not possible to take pictures, but variations in emission can be analyzed and matched to known objects like Jupiter to allow for most likely explanation.
It's not a perfect solution, but the best we have today.
Now back to the drawingboard to try to figure out how to make a probe that can have warp drive capability.
You miss out on a large number of relatives in that scenario, komodo dragons, crocodiles etc.
Fish is never an alternative to a good beef.
What I think of when I see these new thinner steel variants is that they must be a lot more sensitive to rust.
So you never heard of the "Microsoft Tax"? And they don't need to jail you, not physically at least. Just cut off your internet access and uninstall unwanted programs remotely in your computer if you happen to run the latest Win 10.
Notice that the corporations can afford to pay lawyers and lobbyists to bend the regulations their way. And add your name to a "no fly" list is simple.
We are already there in a world where we are monitored, controlled and manipulated. But we are held unaware. Also look at all the trackers that are accessed when you access a web page. Who do really benefit from them? In the early year of the web you had a page counter counting the number of visits to the page. Today that's done a hundred times over combined with data that's used to uniquely identify you as a person so that targeted ads can be served and they can probably identify you good enough to be able to see what kind of offers they shall provide through snail mail to your home address.
So corporations definitely know you - and probably every politician that has an important enough position to become manipulated. It's enough information collected today to get hooks into every political party that exists and then push for some support for some obscure legislation writing to get it through in a way that benefits the corporation.
Just realize that this is why many corporations hates ad-blockers because it hurts them when they try to collect data about you. The sharing of WiFi passwords in Win 10 isn't for your convenience either, it's there for them to be able to make the linking even stronger, since now you know which friends that you have - and how many outside marriage sexual relations you have.
We currently live in a world where we have a combination of Huxley's Brave New World, Orwells 1984 and Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. OK, we don't burn books directly, but we have electronic information that's forbidden to possess.
Now we are talking, and we are heading full throttle 20 minutes into the future of the world of Max Headroom.
They don't lie, it's just Newspeak.
The other side of the coin is that if they are caught then it may be because they want to be caught and therefore actually want the idea to get killed.
Unfortunately the amount of bandwidth available for wireless is limited. It may work fine to some extent, but when too many subscribers shares the same space you will get problems.
Of course - allocation of new frequency bands might work, but that will also come at a cost since the new bands will be above 10GHz which would require new equipment.
And when the ISP gets too expensive then it's an opportunity for competition that can come in fresh. And so the cycle repeats itself.
Just call a hammer a hammer and a backdoor a backdoor.
Today I'd worry more about shortcomings in security on Chinese-made devices, but with the FBI involved it's going to be additional holes.
Meanwhile the terrorists just go on with their own ways of information exchange. It's also a huge information flood to sift through making it hard for authorities to ever figure out if something is serious or not. Even if they know they may not take action to avoid revealing their sources. Like the shootings in Paris - did someone know but considered that it was better to make it hapen because then their agency would profit? Same with the WTC attack in 2001. It's standard operating procedure in intelligence to not reveal how they work at The cost of lives.
If an intelligence agency did act upon every suspect message then the western world would be severely disrupted. Imagine the effect of a standstill on every case when "bomb has been planted" in Call of Duty or whatever game it's used has been sent. It's hard for algorithms to realize that it's a game since the context is also needed.
Another question is rather - is gravity a true force or a side-effect of the bending of spacetime?
Some people have tried to find the so called gravitons. However that may lead to the result that gravitation has a minimum quanta - and wouldn't that result in other problems?