More likely they have a fund for 'masking surveillance vehicles' and someone up high said, "Put a car here and disguise it as something." Lowly peon thought it would be fun to disguise it as a Google car.
If the general population starts perceiving Google Maps cars as monitoring them without a warrant, anyone driving a Google Maps car will be subject to the same expressions of hate and violence as people wearing Google Glass did a couple of years ago.
You did not choose to live where there was bad internet access. You chose to live where you could get a (for the time) very decent connection. T1 was great in its time, when most of the world still connected by dialup and the internet was geared towards that.
Now? Download a game from Steam on that connection, it'll take you a week or so. Forget watching Youtube, forget streaming music (which has become the default means of listening to music in modern society) and so on.
You CHOSE to live where the net access was good - it just didn't get upgraded in those ten years. Meanwhile all of modern society has moved online, and websites have grown far heavier than they were in the early 2000s. Personally I WISH I could get a T1 line instead of my 448/96 kbps connection, but no dice so far.
Maybe this is not the prison system's first opportunity to see what happens to inmates who never have (in-person) contact with friends and family outside the prison.
There is no need for the sheepish mockery, mate. We are saying the same thing with slightly different words. There has never been any expectation in advertisement that 100% of the people being exposed to a given ad would pay attention to it; not on websites, not on TV, not on billboards or in newspapers or wherever else ads show up.
Once upon a time the idea was that you 'paid' for the content you consumed by looking at the ads.
Once upon a time the idea was also that if you paid a subscription you got the whole package, not a bunch of cherry-on-top paid DLCs for games etc., but like the above idea about ads those days are gone and will never be coming back.
Businesses will keep pushing and pushing for every last fraction of a cent they can get - and when they reach their absolute maximum possible earnings they start firing people because earnings aren't increasing. Just look at the abject terror a week ago when Apple's earnings weren't increasing like they had. Not that they were losing money, they just weren't earning MORE money than they used to.
Neither party should need to be kissing the other's ass literally or metaphorically for general manners to apply. Refer to the title of this comment thread for details.
Yeah, I noticed similar posts in other stories after commenting here. Some people have too much time.
As for the longest time in VR, not sure I'd call it scraping the barrel so much as seeing which way the wind is blowing (or at least thinking they do) and getting the records official before it really takes off, so they don't have to sift through hundreds of submissions of, "But I was there for three days two years ago!"
If you can't cite a single reputable source for the chicken wings and sandwiches being stolen at gunpoint (or with a knife or any other potentially lethal weapon) then we have no way of determining whether you are talking out of your ass or not. The fact that you are posting anonymously then points in the direction of not wanting to tarnish an otherwise proper reputation, and that only lends credence to assuming you are full of it.
I bet that at the same time as you have this opinion, you also blame parents whose kids buy SmurfBerries for their games. Through an app store.
Maybe, just MAYBE, parents would like a way to keep little Timmy from installing every single game from the app store onto the computer? Or should kids just be kept away from computers until they're 18 now?
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No, and you really shouldn't (see what I did there?) think that about me. I just don't like being TOLD what to think or feel.
I am personally much more concerned about strangers on the internet telling me how I should think, but maybe that's just me.
I don't know what everyone is getting so upset over. I mean, the "I am Grasshoppa!" badges were removed.
More likely they have a fund for 'masking surveillance vehicles' and someone up high said, "Put a car here and disguise it as something." Lowly peon thought it would be fun to disguise it as a Google car.
If the general population starts perceiving Google Maps cars as monitoring them without a warrant, anyone driving a Google Maps car will be subject to the same expressions of hate and violence as people wearing Google Glass did a couple of years ago.
They are linked in much the same way tumblr, imgur etc. are linked to inappropriate content. Slashdot too.
Yes, that will definitely make someone decide NOT to publicly broadcast their own suicide.
I counter with http://www.egscomics.com/index... which is a much more entertaining read.
Oh, my connection is solid - it's just not at a speed that makes the modern internet very useful.
The limitation preventing me from being able to spend ridiculous amounts of money is quite simply not having ridiculous amounts of money. .
This sounds a bit like a false dichotomy.
You did not choose to live where there was bad internet access. You chose to live where you could get a (for the time) very decent connection. T1 was great in its time, when most of the world still connected by dialup and the internet was geared towards that.
Now? Download a game from Steam on that connection, it'll take you a week or so. Forget watching Youtube, forget streaming music (which has become the default means of listening to music in modern society) and so on.
You CHOSE to live where the net access was good - it just didn't get upgraded in those ten years. Meanwhile all of modern society has moved online, and websites have grown far heavier than they were in the early 2000s. Personally I WISH I could get a T1 line instead of my 448/96 kbps connection, but no dice so far.
Maybe this is not the prison system's first opportunity to see what happens to inmates who never have (in-person) contact with friends and family outside the prison.
There is no need for the sheepish mockery, mate. We are saying the same thing with slightly different words. There has never been any expectation in advertisement that 100% of the people being exposed to a given ad would pay attention to it; not on websites, not on TV, not on billboards or in newspapers or wherever else ads show up.
Once upon a time the idea was that you 'paid' for the content you consumed by looking at the ads.
Once upon a time the idea was also that if you paid a subscription you got the whole package, not a bunch of cherry-on-top paid DLCs for games etc., but like the above idea about ads those days are gone and will never be coming back.
Businesses will keep pushing and pushing for every last fraction of a cent they can get - and when they reach their absolute maximum possible earnings they start firing people because earnings aren't increasing. Just look at the abject terror a week ago when Apple's earnings weren't increasing like they had. Not that they were losing money, they just weren't earning MORE money than they used to.
It is insanity.
Said someone so unknown he doesn't even have a name.
I guess I just don't get why it's illegal to carry large amounts of legal tender.
I guess since the tender is legal it is the 'carrying' that is illegal. Better stop lifting anything ever.
Neither party should need to be kissing the other's ass literally or metaphorically for general manners to apply. Refer to the title of this comment thread for details.
Look. Trolling is an art.
This is not art.
Art would have been calling it Cowic Book Day.
Yeah, I noticed similar posts in other stories after commenting here. Some people have too much time.
As for the longest time in VR, not sure I'd call it scraping the barrel so much as seeing which way the wind is blowing (or at least thinking they do) and getting the records official before it really takes off, so they don't have to sift through hundreds of submissions of, "But I was there for three days two years ago!"
DEFINITELY a better love story than Twilight!
Will there be a sequel?
Same way the Guiness Book of World Records affects you.
If you can't cite a single reputable source for the chicken wings and sandwiches being stolen at gunpoint (or with a knife or any other potentially lethal weapon) then we have no way of determining whether you are talking out of your ass or not. The fact that you are posting anonymously then points in the direction of not wanting to tarnish an otherwise proper reputation, and that only lends credence to assuming you are full of it.
TL,DR: Citation needed.
Probably the same as the telemetry - it bypasses even the HOSTS file.
I bet that at the same time as you have this opinion, you also blame parents whose kids buy SmurfBerries for their games. Through an app store.
Maybe, just MAYBE, parents would like a way to keep little Timmy from installing every single game from the app store onto the computer? Or should kids just be kept away from computers until they're 18 now?
Okay. So what we need to do is put a single solar panel on the Burj Khalifa, then build this power plant, and BOOM. Infinite power.
You mean an eye for an i.