"My phone is primarily for calls, texting, taking photos/videos and putting on social media and a limited number of emails (mostly in the cases of business emergencies). I'm not a big app guy."
Ditto here and I don't even do calls. It's good enough and now I even can get a new battery for around 20 bucks.
"But why do film makers need to lift so much footage from other films? Does this happen a lot outside of stock footage situations? Documentaries sure but there's an exemption for that it seems."
An exemption that cannot be used without ripping a Blu-ray, that's sort of the point of this article. Where else could you get a scene in high quality for free?
"that would be prohibitively expensive at current prices."
That's one of the good things of 'the future'. I doesn't have to pay 'current' prices. Also, wind energy doesn't need any subsidies anymore, unlike coal, gas, oil and nukes.
"I often need to whack a broken cookie for a single site"
Me too. Mostly to kill those ludicrous 'paywalls' of the New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, etc.
If this is real, I'll switch.
It's bad enough that I have to delete the Google News app on my phone and reload it every day to kill the paywalls, because it doesn't allow deleting the cookies, but I'm sure not going to delete and reinstall FF just to continue reading.
High class AI cars obviously can only be washed in high class AI car washes.
New business opportunities.
Also, since in the future you'll hail such a car with your phone for a ride, you will care just as much where it gets washed as the Uber car you use now.
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All those English Majors not finding any job will now end 'putting' burgers instead of flipping them.
"Du brauchst absolut keine Vorerfahrungen und auch keine Kenntnisse. Denn ich hatte sie auch nicht."
Kein Wunder, du bist ja auch dumm wie Brot.
Apple just spent 30.000$ I guess.
Both of them?
"They are charging $12 for an injection molded silicone rubber hook."
Exactly! And if somebody sells something similar for $1.50 they cry us a river and throw a tantrum like the content mafia.
You made me leave my mom's basement, I hate you!
Way too much time on their hands and they do nothing but playing video games.
"My phone is primarily for calls, texting, taking photos/videos and putting on social media and a limited number of emails (mostly in the cases of business emergencies). I'm not a big app guy."
Ditto here and I don't even do calls. It's good enough and now I even can get a new battery for around 20 bucks.
" For me it's simple. Put back the audio jack, make it a bit thicker and stronger."
There are rugged sleeves with an audio jack and even an additional battery.
"Big Tech needs to stop the tortious interference or Congress is going to pass anti-censorship laws"
It's only censorship when the government does it.
You wouldn't want a law that forbids you to do something about me putting a Bernie billboard in your front-yard, wouldn't you?
"But why do film makers need to lift so much footage from other films? Does this happen a lot outside of stock footage situations? Documentaries sure but there's an exemption for that it seems."
An exemption that cannot be used without ripping a Blu-ray, that's sort of the point of this article.
Where else could you get a scene in high quality for free?
"Only the use of "n" as a standalone character."
Gives the N-word a complete new meaning.
But OTOH the complete lower classes hang out there.
"I'm all for robots, but only if they do something, this one has a cute face and chats"
But astronauts have to listen to the cue words when being ordered to do stuff the robot wants: "Cimon says..." :-)
Which such a shitty health system, people use whatever they can to save some extortion money.
Hundreds of thousands also drive to Canada/Mexico or even Cuba (not drive:-) to get drugs and hospital care.
"that would be prohibitively expensive at current prices."
That's one of the good things of 'the future'. I doesn't have to pay 'current' prices.
Also, wind energy doesn't need any subsidies anymore, unlike coal, gas, oil and nukes.
"By the time you guys grow up, there won't be one book left,"
It will all be Kindles and Kobos.
Film at 11
"I often need to whack a broken cookie for a single site"
Me too. Mostly to kill those ludicrous 'paywalls' of the New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, etc.
If this is real, I'll switch.
It's bad enough that I have to delete the Google News app on my phone and reload it every day to kill the paywalls, because it doesn't allow deleting the cookies, but I'm sure not going to delete and reinstall FF just to continue reading.
The Content Mafia will want compensation for galactic distribution rights.
I read "Trump Administration Cracks" and I already had my hopes up when I read the rest in the next line.
High class AI cars obviously can only be washed in high class AI car washes.
New business opportunities.
Also, since in the future you'll hail such a car with your phone for a ride, you will care just as much where it gets washed as the Uber car you use now.
"That's why he's armed."
He's armed to protect _himself_.
"He failed miserably and that's why he quit in disgrace before he was fired."
No, he quit, because he was still alive and hadn't shot any of the thousand kids behind the shooter.
"There surely are laws about falsely calling 911 repeatedly?"
No-BODY- calls. These are phones without simcards sent in for repairs, battery changes. I guess it's some glitch or short-cicuit doing this.
Unless it's the battery-changing monkeys calling to be rescued.
There's lots of those, here's one open source example.
http://www.openmaint.org/en