The alternative is speeding up to near freeway/motorway speed, realize no one is creating a gap large enough, slam on your brakes to come to a standstill (hoping everyone behind you does the same), then enter the freeway/motorway at no more than 20 mph and accelerating when there finally IS a gap. Laws of physics say you can't just go 0 to 100 in the blink of an eye.
Wrong for the area but not for all of the civilized world. In Denmark merging follows the zipper principle which basically means that merging into heavy traffic is possible because you take one car already on the road, one car on the on-ramp, one car on the road, one car on the on-ramp etc.
Having grown up with that I have a LOT of trouble getting used to driving in Germany where this does not seem to be the rule to follow.
Majora's Mask was actually the first Zelda game I did not complete; after getting about halfway through and resetting the world I don't KNOW how many times I realized... I wasn't saving anyone. Nothing I did mattered. It was a sad day, honestly.
Pretty much this. Tiny improvements aren't going to be enough to force the entire world to shift, we'd need to see something on the level of typing as fast as you can think/speak the words - without the distraction in an open office of everyone talking all at once.
You do realize that when it was declared eradicated we stopped vaccinating against it, right?
Anyone under the age of 30 (and probably a couple of years over, but 30 is a nice round number) is at direct risk if there's a smallpox outbreak - and if the virus was reverse-engineered it may be JUST different enough that even the people who WERE vaccinated would be at risk.
Full disclosure: I'm not American so I am not familiar with all these interstate laws from more than seeing them mentioned a lot on the internet.
Are your connections to servers in other states and countries any different from buying things that were made in other states or countries in your local grocery store? At least in my mind, my ISP is a local connection similar to a local store, and they provide ACCESS to goods that were made in a lot of other places.
Because the hassle of signing up for and possibly paying for a VPN for one person to give one vote is disproportionate to a Russian call center to give a thousand votes.
No, I am equating some guy in the media getting to decide what is politically correct for people to learn, and some guy in Microsoft or Google doing the exact same thing.
There is this website called NotAlwaysRight.com - you should give it a look and see how much managers care about the input of their peons. I'm sorry, I mean personnel. Simple typo.
Swedish media have been caught making the decision not to report on events regarding muslim immigrants because those reports would be beneficial for the (politically) unpopular part Sverigedemokraterna. This wasn't about racist memes - it was about choosing not to report factual truth about things that actually happened because it was not politically correct to do so.
Is that what you want the internet to become? In that case, quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
I think the point is being very selective with the data you use - which is incidentally also the hallmark of a believable lie. Stick to the truth as much as possible - just don't tell the whole truth.
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The alternative is speeding up to near freeway/motorway speed, realize no one is creating a gap large enough, slam on your brakes to come to a standstill (hoping everyone behind you does the same), then enter the freeway/motorway at no more than 20 mph and accelerating when there finally IS a gap. Laws of physics say you can't just go 0 to 100 in the blink of an eye.
Wrong for the area but not for all of the civilized world. In Denmark merging follows the zipper principle which basically means that merging into heavy traffic is possible because you take one car already on the road, one car on the on-ramp, one car on the road, one car on the on-ramp etc.
Having grown up with that I have a LOT of trouble getting used to driving in Germany where this does not seem to be the rule to follow.
"He touched my bits!"
Majora's Mask was actually the first Zelda game I did not complete; after getting about halfway through and resetting the world I don't KNOW how many times I realized ... I wasn't saving anyone. Nothing I did mattered. It was a sad day, honestly.
You seem to be having trouble understanding that different people think in different ways.
Would it help with a preamble saying that other people are different from you?
And then you boil it down to lowest common denominator, which is 1 in 10, yes.
Pretty much this. Tiny improvements aren't going to be enough to force the entire world to shift, we'd need to see something on the level of typing as fast as you can think/speak the words - without the distraction in an open office of everyone talking all at once.
You do realize that when it was declared eradicated we stopped vaccinating against it, right?
Anyone under the age of 30 (and probably a couple of years over, but 30 is a nice round number) is at direct risk if there's a smallpox outbreak - and if the virus was reverse-engineered it may be JUST different enough that even the people who WERE vaccinated would be at risk.
Wait. Why are you calling the guy who would PREFER to have regulations on ISPs in California a Trump supporter?
Headquartered, sure. Do you pay sales tax for the state your grocery store's headquarters is located in, or the one where the store is?
Full disclosure: I'm not American so I am not familiar with all these interstate laws from more than seeing them mentioned a lot on the internet.
Are your connections to servers in other states and countries any different from buying things that were made in other states or countries in your local grocery store? At least in my mind, my ISP is a local connection similar to a local store, and they provide ACCESS to goods that were made in a lot of other places.
Do you connect to an ISP in another state when you connect to the internet?
Better to jail an innocent than let a guilty man get away, huh?
Because the hassle of signing up for and possibly paying for a VPN for one person to give one vote is disproportionate to a Russian call center to give a thousand votes.
Hyperbole.
No solution is perfect, but if your solution creates more problems for the legitimate users than for the illegitimate ones your solution is bad.
See also DRM.
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No, I am equating some guy in the media getting to decide what is politically correct for people to learn, and some guy in Microsoft or Google doing the exact same thing.
You missed such a perfect chance to type 'moronmoron'.
At least the appers and luddites and even APK refer to the topic of a given article. You're not good at this trolling thing.
Yeah, I'm not sure how they went from 'common sense' to 'effects of photosynthesis'.
And they'll be authorized for deadly force if they see you holding a gun.
Don't worry, they'll totally stand down if you drop the gun.
You just outlawed computer games.
Well done.
Real currencies have the backing of material goods and the agreement of the entire world that these are real currencies with THIS value.
Cryptocurrencies were never much more than Monopoly money in a really big game of Monopoly.
There is this website called NotAlwaysRight.com - you should give it a look and see how much managers care about the input of their peons. I'm sorry, I mean personnel. Simple typo.
Swedish media have been caught making the decision not to report on events regarding muslim immigrants because those reports would be beneficial for the (politically) unpopular part Sverigedemokraterna. This wasn't about racist memes - it was about choosing not to report factual truth about things that actually happened because it was not politically correct to do so.
Is that what you want the internet to become? In that case, quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
I think the point is being very selective with the data you use - which is incidentally also the hallmark of a believable lie. Stick to the truth as much as possible - just don't tell the whole truth.