I was thinking of something similar, have a script that makes a subtle change to each copy of the memo. Double space after a word, changing or randomizing an inconsequential number, refer to a random non-existing company, refer to a random "proposed" feature that was never really proposed.
I now think decriminalizing prostitution for sex workers, while keeping it illegal for Johns, might be a better solution. I used to be hopeful that legalization would be the answer. Then I saw that study and I've seen nothing to really contradict it (except your example of New Zealand). (To be fair, the legal, on the books sex workers would see improvements under legalization. Possibly at the cost of the trafficked, however.)
Legalizing prostitution drives up demand for sex workers, which drives up sex trafficking. Thwarting access to sex workers drives demand down for sex workers, and thus less sex trafficking.
Start reading on page 57. For the lazy, start on page 61.
For the even lazier:
Our interconnect strategy these days, is more about how we manage our backbone and especially edge resources with the enormous growth in content. The transit costs are rounding errors compared to impacts to the edge of making the wrong decisions. We really want content networks paying us for access and right now we force those through transit that do not want to pay.
Their strategy was to neglect network upgrades so that they could hold the feet of content providers over the flames until they gave in and paid. This did result in the literal "Spectrum-TWC promised reliable access to online content that it knew it could not deliver to subscribers." However, it is also clearly a net neutrality issue as well.
It would also be helpful to draw a distinction between pure nicotine and the other chemicals that tobacco consists of. Something in tobacco, not nicotine, supposedly acts as an MAOI. Many people are unable to switch from cigarettes to e-cigarettes and stick with it, and it would be good to know just what it is that's got people hooked.
I feel like part of this is due to each side trying to establish their version of reality. Monsanto is bad. But if my goal is no GMO, and I'm trying to establish a future free of GMO, anything short of banning GMO is a compromise that I don't have to make.
I'm certain that the data was in an easy to read format, tailored perfectly for him to write his report./s
If it took 15 minutes to process each financial aid application and get the relevant data (age, race, sex, location of origin, economic background, acceptance status), that would be 1280 hours. (At 17.6 minutes, you reach 1500 hours). There were probably other data points on the applications that he initially had to take into considering and then ultimately rule out.
Sex trafficking would largely go away if we legalized prostitution between consenting adults -- it would be regulated and anyone forced into it could openly go to the police and seek help.
I'm not so sure that this is true. I used to believe it at one point, but then I came across this study:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/p...
It finds that legalizing prostitution drives up demand for sex workers so much that sex trafficking increases.
There was a study done on the effects legalized prostitution has on sex trafficking. The study found that legalizing prostitution resulted in both increases in demand for sex workers (duh) as well as increases in human trafficking. I'm no longer convinced that simply legalizing prostitution is the answer.
Maybe decriminalizing being a prostitute, while criminalizing being a John? I'm open to ideas.
I don't know if you're going to find anything these days that matches that experience.
I think a number of suggestions by other posters are good. Half-Life (1 specifically) was a very good game, on a versatile engine that became used for multiple community efforts. The Half-Life mod Counter-Strike was very popular, and the derivative Counter-Strike : Global Offensive is currently popular. Team-Fortress 2 is another game with roots in a Half-Life mod. Portal and Portal 2 are must play first person...err... puzzlers, with gobs of community content. While nothing is particularly nostalgic about Portal, it is somewhat of a gamer staple. As an afterthought, Borderlands might be worth looking into as well. Lots of humor and generally just a good FPS experience overall.
That's true until you have to have 15 subscriptions for competing services to see the content you want to see. HBO for Game of Thrones, Neflix for Victoria, Disney for Star Wars, etc. This isn't what consumers are asking for.
Wait, a la carte isn't what consumers are asking for?
This, to me, seems more or less like the natural evolution of what we wanted. As HBO (et al) hemorrhage with every cord cut, they have to find a way to stay profitable. They seem to think they can do better on their own than with Netflix. A little more granularity would be nice, like being able to subscribe to all "Science Fiction" shows for $15 / month, rather than all of Netflix or HBO. Alternatively, it would be nice to buy a season pass to a show for $15-$30 and get a digital copy of the show on an episode by episode basis.
Would be interesting if they all worked for the same employer, and at least one of them was a microbiologist and surreptitiously got samples from the suspected third party.
That you had to do a wall-clock measurement to determine that Firefox startup time has ballooned is evidence of a greater problem. The focus has been on the rapid release schedule with little to no thought towards user experience.
Pro-tip: Make my shit fast. Make it super fucking responsive. I don't need the shine, I don't need the glitter. That's where I can rely on a mod/extension community to fill in the short comings. I can't rely on them to put in extensive multicore support. Make the engine that everyone wants to use, and worry about what color to paint the car later.
I don't "hear" the words in my mind, and I suspect many others do not, either. Words are pictographs that convey meaning, and do not necessarily trigger a simulation.
Also worth noting that their UI is atrocious.
I dare you to try to find something to watch.
It's a struggle to sift out Prime content from rental content from digital purchase content.
The entire time you're trying to find something, you have to be vigilant to ensure that the things you are looking at are in fact included with Prime. Just browsing to find something interesting isn't an option, like with cable TV.
While you're at it, why not ask pedophile doll users about their feelings and urges before and after using a child doll, and follow up? Throw in pedophile doll users with adult dolls, non-pedophiles with adult dolls, pedophiles without dolls, and non-pedophiles without dolls.
To anon parent: GP's comment, possibly half tongue-in-cheek, was alluding to American's being focused on powerful cars and high stakes driving, and it being reflected in movies that will accurately portray skillfully driving expensive cars. The Fast and the Furious moviegoer will not, in fact, expect the driver to shift three times while driving backwards, because there is only one gear for going backwards. (For the record, I have not seen a Fast and the Furious movie).
Likewise, GP is claiming that Russian media accurately portrays hacking because it would be insulting to Russian viewers (who are more knowledgeable about hacking) for the hacker to bang out the hack while getting a blowjob, as in Swordfish (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfy5dFhw3ik).
I think it is also worth considering that if Obama had gone public about the hacking, and Hillary won, there would have been endless complaining by Trump (who was already complaining of rigged elections) about the election results being illegitimate.
And before I get a "You mean what the Dems are complaining about right now?!?", the hacking that Obama kept hidden didn't help his party.
Standing by to be modded down by cowards who refuse to realize the implications of things like federally mandated education standards, mass surveillance, media consolidation, etc.
They want to create a clear distinction by which GTA VI is "better" than GTA V. How better to do that than crushing the mod scene?
By *gasp* making a better game.
I guess maybe you can only rehash the same idea before you achieve perfection.
Shadowrun, while probably not nearly as popular as GTA, is a game with a good modding community. The long story short is that somehow, copies of the game still sell, despite the prevalence of modders.
Oh boo hoo hoo cry me a river. You have been as profitable as a pure golden turd and it is the fans and modders who made that possible.
For anyone not experienced in gaming, modding can turn a good game into a great game, and a great game into a timeless game.
It's sort of like open source software. Community members put in time and effort to create custom content, and everyone benefits from it (including the publisher, who now has an awesome game on their hands with sales through the roof.) Often, modifications go above and beyond content like extended campaigns or additional characters - engine hacks and patches are often necessary to incorporate new content and functionality that simply did not exist previously.
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I was thinking of something similar, have a script that makes a subtle change to each copy of the memo. Double space after a word, changing or randomizing an inconsequential number, refer to a random non-existing company, refer to a random "proposed" feature that was never really proposed.
Elsewhere it seems that legalization and rise in demand/trafficking are tied together.
Study: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/p...
Article summarizing study: https://journalistsresource.or...
I now think decriminalizing prostitution for sex workers, while keeping it illegal for Johns, might be a better solution. I used to be hopeful that legalization would be the answer. Then I saw that study and I've seen nothing to really contradict it (except your example of New Zealand).
(To be fair, the legal, on the books sex workers would see improvements under legalization. Possibly at the cost of the trafficked, however.)
Legalizing prostitution drives up demand for sex workers, which drives up sex trafficking. Thwarting access to sex workers drives demand down for sex workers, and thus less sex trafficking.
Start reading on page 57. For the lazy, start on page 61.
For the even lazier:
Our interconnect strategy these days, is more about how we manage our backbone and especially edge resources with the enormous growth in content. The transit costs are rounding errors compared to impacts to the edge of making the wrong decisions. We really want content networks paying us for access and right now we force those through transit that do not want to pay.
Their strategy was to neglect network upgrades so that they could hold the feet of content providers over the flames until they gave in and paid. This did result in the literal "Spectrum-TWC promised reliable access to online content that it knew it could not deliver to subscribers." However, it is also clearly a net neutrality issue as well.
It would also be helpful to draw a distinction between pure nicotine and the other chemicals that tobacco consists of.
Something in tobacco, not nicotine, supposedly acts as an MAOI.
Many people are unable to switch from cigarettes to e-cigarettes and stick with it, and it would be good to know just what it is that's got people hooked.
I feel like part of this is due to each side trying to establish their version of reality. Monsanto is bad. But if my goal is no GMO, and I'm trying to establish a future free of GMO, anything short of banning GMO is a compromise that I don't have to make.
I'm certain that the data was in an easy to read format, tailored perfectly for him to write his report. /s
If it took 15 minutes to process each financial aid application and get the relevant data (age, race, sex, location of origin, economic background, acceptance status), that would be 1280 hours. (At 17.6 minutes, you reach 1500 hours). There were probably other data points on the applications that he initially had to take into considering and then ultimately rule out.
Why should students come here to work only to have their earnings taken from them endlessly for 1000 things in the name of "health care" for others?
Compared to the countries they came from, with similar levels of taxes, and socialized health care?
Sex trafficking would largely go away if we legalized prostitution between consenting adults -- it would be regulated and anyone forced into it could openly go to the police and seek help.
I'm not so sure that this is true. I used to believe it at one point, but then I came across this study: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/p...
It finds that legalizing prostitution drives up demand for sex workers so much that sex trafficking increases.
There was a study done on the effects legalized prostitution has on sex trafficking. The study found that legalizing prostitution resulted in both increases in demand for sex workers (duh) as well as increases in human trafficking. I'm no longer convinced that simply legalizing prostitution is the answer.
Maybe decriminalizing being a prostitute, while criminalizing being a John? I'm open to ideas.
A source (there are other news articles, and the study is out there somewhere as well): https://journalistsresource.or...
Interesting. This makes me wonder, have all the pro-Russia astroturfing trolls disappeared, or are they being filtered out?
I don't know if you're going to find anything these days that matches that experience. I think a number of suggestions by other posters are good. Half-Life (1 specifically) was a very good game, on a versatile engine that became used for multiple community efforts. The Half-Life mod Counter-Strike was very popular, and the derivative Counter-Strike : Global Offensive is currently popular. Team-Fortress 2 is another game with roots in a Half-Life mod. Portal and Portal 2 are must play first person...err... puzzlers, with gobs of community content. While nothing is particularly nostalgic about Portal, it is somewhat of a gamer staple. As an afterthought, Borderlands might be worth looking into as well. Lots of humor and generally just a good FPS experience overall.
That's true until you have to have 15 subscriptions for competing services to see the content you want to see. HBO for Game of Thrones, Neflix for Victoria, Disney for Star Wars, etc. This isn't what consumers are asking for.
Wait, a la carte isn't what consumers are asking for?
This, to me, seems more or less like the natural evolution of what we wanted. As HBO (et al) hemorrhage with every cord cut, they have to find a way to stay profitable. They seem to think they can do better on their own than with Netflix.
A little more granularity would be nice, like being able to subscribe to all "Science Fiction" shows for $15 / month, rather than all of Netflix or HBO.
Alternatively, it would be nice to buy a season pass to a show for $15-$30 and get a digital copy of the show on an episode by episode basis.
Roaming charges to be renamed to roving charges.
Would be interesting if they all worked for the same employer, and at least one of them was a microbiologist and surreptitiously got samples from the suspected third party.
That you had to do a wall-clock measurement to determine that Firefox startup time has ballooned is evidence of a greater problem. The focus has been on the rapid release schedule with little to no thought towards user experience.
Pro-tip: Make my shit fast. Make it super fucking responsive. I don't need the shine, I don't need the glitter. That's where I can rely on a mod/extension community to fill in the short comings. I can't rely on them to put in extensive multicore support. Make the engine that everyone wants to use, and worry about what color to paint the car later.
I don't "hear" the words in my mind, and I suspect many others do not, either. Words are pictographs that convey meaning, and do not necessarily trigger a simulation.
Also worth noting that their UI is atrocious.
I dare you to try to find something to watch.
It's a struggle to sift out Prime content from rental content from digital purchase content.
The entire time you're trying to find something, you have to be vigilant to ensure that the things you are looking at are in fact included with Prime. Just browsing to find something interesting isn't an option, like with cable TV.
While you're at it, why not ask pedophile doll users about their feelings and urges before and after using a child doll, and follow up? Throw in pedophile doll users with adult dolls, non-pedophiles with adult dolls, pedophiles without dolls, and non-pedophiles without dolls.
To GP: Your post is frightening and enlightening.
To anon parent: GP's comment, possibly half tongue-in-cheek, was alluding to American's being focused on powerful cars and high stakes driving, and it being reflected in movies that will accurately portray skillfully driving expensive cars. The Fast and the Furious moviegoer will not, in fact, expect the driver to shift three times while driving backwards, because there is only one gear for going backwards. (For the record, I have not seen a Fast and the Furious movie).
Likewise, GP is claiming that Russian media accurately portrays hacking because it would be insulting to Russian viewers (who are more knowledgeable about hacking) for the hacker to bang out the hack while getting a blowjob, as in Swordfish (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfy5dFhw3ik).
I think it is also worth considering that if Obama had gone public about the hacking, and Hillary won, there would have been endless complaining by Trump (who was already complaining of rigged elections) about the election results being illegitimate.
And before I get a "You mean what the Dems are complaining about right now?!?", the hacking that Obama kept hidden didn't help his party.
Standing by to be modded down by cowards who refuse to realize the implications of things like federally mandated education standards, mass surveillance, media consolidation, etc.
You must be new here.
A Beta male pretending to be an Alpha male.
It is one thing to wield power, it is another thing to wield it artfully.
They want to create a clear distinction by which GTA VI is "better" than GTA V. How better to do that than crushing the mod scene?
By *gasp* making a better game.
I guess maybe you can only rehash the same idea before you achieve perfection.
Shadowrun, while probably not nearly as popular as GTA, is a game with a good modding community. The long story short is that somehow, copies of the game still sell, despite the prevalence of modders.
Oh boo hoo hoo cry me a river. You have been as profitable as a pure golden turd and it is the fans and modders who made that possible.
For anyone not experienced in gaming, modding can turn a good game into a great game, and a great game into a timeless game.
It's sort of like open source software. Community members put in time and effort to create custom content, and everyone benefits from it (including the publisher, who now has an awesome game on their hands with sales through the roof.)
Often, modifications go above and beyond content like extended campaigns or additional characters - engine hacks and patches are often necessary to incorporate new content and functionality that simply did not exist previously.