You write this as if Google Analytics is the only ad service out there.
Google Analytics is pretty responsive. Very responsive if you compare to a lot of other ad services.
Another thing that has bogged down browsers over the years is the sheer amount of JS that dwarfs the amount of HTML on a web page, leading to an arms race to see who wins - the web page devs or the browser JS engine devs. The engine devs lose most of the time, and when the rare occasion happens that there is a breakthrough in JS speed, web devs tack on even more crap, because they can. Add to this the ridiculous amount of JS that ad services and trackers throw in, and you have a fucking nightmare of inefficiency. Adblock is the only real way to combat this for now.
But this has nothing to do with video playback once the stream is started. Once the ads are loaded or blocked locally, the video itself should play and the server should keep the buffer full for the player, which often times fails. QOS for video is atrocious from the viewer's POV. While it's amazing that Youtube is able to stream as many videos as it does without completely imploding, this does not matter to the viewer. What matters to the viewer is that the video starts playing, and then a minute or so into it, the buffer goes away, because the video server forgot all about the stream and "will get back to it in a bit." Then the viewer bails unless it's really compelling and he hits pause and waits for the buffer to fill again, or the viewer(a very small percentage of the total) uses a downloader to save the file locally and later viewing, which I do sometimes (I do this for videos on wimp.com).
From the viewer's POV, video on the Internet sucks for the most part. It's not good enough for non-casual watching and is unlikely to be so for quite some time unless infrastructure becomes better.
I support the ethics of Ayn Rand in two senses. One, I believe I should act in my rational self-interest (prescriptive sense). Two, I believe I and others do attempt to act in our rational self-interest (descriptive sense) whether or not we/they/you agree with this as a philosophy.
1. People rarely act in their own rational self interest. 2. You are an element of the set {People} 3. Ayn Rand wrote fiction. Bad fiction.
Pla, you are hearby notified of a gathering at LCZ's in Narragansett, RI on Wotan's Day the 19'th of December.
Z would like an RSVP
I would have mailed you but you haven't checked your mail on Entropy since the Sep 23rd and I don't know of any social media that you might participate in outside of here.
So you've never called in while on the bike path on a bright sunny spring morning and said "It's a bright sunny day and I'm on the bike path and I'm calling in well"?
>Further, "they need to be riduculed and made embarrassed" used to be a popular method for teaching kids. I'd hazard a guess that I'm ringing a bell...
>How many children subjected to such an ethos grow up to respect those who would claim authority over them
You're not going to see this, but I'll answer anyway.
We're not talking about children here. We're talking about full grown adults who grew up given the reasonable argument about vaccines and science and rejected them.
They are willfully stupid and deserve to be ridiculed and embarrassed.
I think that if there really is an autoimmune disorder that maybe we might be able to treat it some day.
But there are no studies that compare unvaccinated children with vaccinated that show an increase in the rate of autism among vaccinated children. There are none. With such a volatile topic and the chance to make a name for yourself in immunology, by showing that there is a measurable risk and how it might be mitigated, that people would be trying to "beat Fred" and publish studies corroborating Wakefield.
But Wakefield's results were irreproducible, much like Pons and Fleichmann's paper on cold fusion. The difference between Wakefield and P&F is that P&F did not cause the deaths of thousands of kids through misinformation that continues to this day.
>We all need an education in what is really information, and what is unfounded speculation.
I agree.
And the "mmr vaccine and thimerosol causes autism" is completely unfounded speculation.
>so let's all keep an open mind.
This statement is always trotted out by people who equate true facts with lies, that everyone's opinion has equal weight, whether true or not.
It's bullshit.
The anti-vaxxer stuff is bullshit and fraud by Andrew Wakefield, repeated by celebrities and quacks worldwide, who no longer has a license to practice medicine because not only what he did was wrong, but evil too.
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Then what would you have?
No government at all?
Point out a country that has no government or ineffective government or that doesn't pay its workers enough that is not a hellhole.
Go ahead. Fine one. I'll wait right here.
And your last sentence is a non-sequitur and nonsense.
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Stuff like gifts and whatnot, is out of pocket for the President (unless it's for diplomatic purposes). So is food.
While my cousin who is a lawyer gets food delivered at work on the company dime, the Presidential family has to pay for their own.
Your post is a troll and stupid.
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You write this as if Google Analytics is the only ad service out there.
Google Analytics is pretty responsive. Very responsive if you compare to a lot of other ad services.
Another thing that has bogged down browsers over the years is the sheer amount of JS that dwarfs the amount of HTML on a web page, leading to an arms race to see who wins - the web page devs or the browser JS engine devs. The engine devs lose most of the time, and when the rare occasion happens that there is a breakthrough in JS speed, web devs tack on even more crap, because they can. Add to this the ridiculous amount of JS that ad services and trackers throw in, and you have a fucking nightmare of inefficiency. Adblock is the only real way to combat this for now.
But this has nothing to do with video playback once the stream is started. Once the ads are loaded or blocked locally, the video itself should play and the server should keep the buffer full for the player, which often times fails. QOS for video is atrocious from the viewer's POV. While it's amazing that Youtube is able to stream as many videos as it does without completely imploding, this does not matter to the viewer. What matters to the viewer is that the video starts playing, and then a minute or so into it, the buffer goes away, because the video server forgot all about the stream and "will get back to it in a bit." Then the viewer bails unless it's really compelling and he hits pause and waits for the buffer to fill again, or the viewer(a very small percentage of the total) uses a downloader to save the file locally and later viewing, which I do sometimes (I do this for videos on wimp.com).
From the viewer's POV, video on the Internet sucks for the most part. It's not good enough for non-casual watching and is unlikely to be so for quite some time unless infrastructure becomes better.
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I support the ethics of Ayn Rand in two senses. One, I believe I should act in my rational self-interest (prescriptive sense). Two, I believe I and others do attempt to act in our rational self-interest (descriptive sense) whether or not we/they/you agree with this as a philosophy.
1. People rarely act in their own rational self interest.
2. You are an element of the set {People}
3. Ayn Rand wrote fiction. Bad fiction.
Your argument is invalid.
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No, I disagree with you calling pla an anti-semite.
You know nothing of him. You are a jerk.
>Trying to say "anti-semite" applies to non-Jews.
He is fucking with you and being pedantic, because you are a jerk.
> Implying Jews have not lived in Israel since biblical times.
Not the ones that are living there now that are the result of massive immigration policies established after 1948.
I know pla in real life. You don't. Your accusations are baseless and moronic.
I reiterate, remove your head from your rectum.
Bye.
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Have you been surfing deviant porn sites again?
Religious sites have been serving up malware more than porn sites now.
Indeed, I belong to a financial site whose ads were serving up malware at one point. It wasn't them, but the ad service.
Your point of view is outdated.
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>lack of neutrality
I believe that having neutrality makes one a milquetoast.
I'll let the gang know if you can make it if you get back to me.
I know you are anathema to Facebook, but that's where everybody is. Obviously, I am there under a nom-de-net.
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If there was anything that defined psychosomatic illness, that's it.
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> How about when you come home with a paycheck that's eight hours short?
It's called budgeting for it.
Sometimes personal time is worth a lot more than a day's pay.
>rich prick
Yeah. Whatever. You're just an asshole.
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Pla, you are hearby notified of a gathering at LCZ's in Narragansett, RI on Wotan's Day the 19'th of December.
Z would like an RSVP
I would have mailed you but you haven't checked your mail on Entropy since the Sep 23rd and I don't know of any social media that you might participate in outside of here.
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Pla probably knows more about the situation in the middle east than you (and me, probably), and he's hardly a stormfront idiot.
I suggest you remove your head from your rectum.
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>Spoken like a true 1%-er.
Yeah, because you can discern all that from me calling in not being sick.
>Let me guess, you've never had to fill out an unexcused absence slip at your employer in your entire working life, eh?
Actually, no, I haven't, not even when I worked retail or pumping gas.
Fuck you.
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BMO - a bike snob who can't afford the bikes he's snobby about.
So you repair laptops and you *don't* have a hot air station for SMD and BGA?
Why?
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>Much better is call in sick 'cough cough' then show-up the next day with sunburn/snowburn and a hangover.
When you call in "healthy" you don't have to worry about this.
"I'm on the bike path. I'm not coming in. Seeya tomorrow."
What can they do? You didn't lie.
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For once I agree with RS.
>what has this to do with W8
Nothing.
Bad journalism is bad journalism.
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Revisiting this thread.
>I don't want my 2 year old getting a vaccine for sexually a transmitted disease.
So you don't want your kid being vaccinated against HPV?
The one that causes cancer?
Why do you hate your child?
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So you've never called in while on the bike path on a bright sunny spring morning and said "It's a bright sunny day and I'm on the bike path and I'm calling in well"?
Mental health days. Take them.
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>I'll be frank, I've never fully understood the basic concept of a flu vaccine.
So your entire argument is based around your ignorance about the subject.
Nice.
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>Further, "they need to be riduculed and made embarrassed" used to be a popular method for teaching kids. I'd hazard a guess that I'm ringing a bell...
>How many children subjected to such an ethos grow up to respect those who would claim authority over them
You're not going to see this, but I'll answer anyway.
We're not talking about children here. We're talking about full grown adults who grew up given the reasonable argument about vaccines and science and rejected them.
They are willfully stupid and deserve to be ridiculed and embarrassed.
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>italy
Did you read your own link? They *suspended* *only* *novartis'* vaccine. They did not ban vaccines. They suspended over foreign matter.
In light of your other post, I have to conclude that you're nuts.
Lastly, learn how to make your wall of text readable.
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>natural news
They will print the most stupid stuff. You may as well have cited World Net Daily about geology (they are YECs) Cite a peer reviewed paper or GTFO.
Also
Explain why, when Thimerosol was banned in Denmark, why autism rates did not go down.
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I think that if there really is an autoimmune disorder that maybe we might be able to treat it some day.
But there are no studies that compare unvaccinated children with vaccinated that show an increase in the rate of autism among vaccinated children. There are none. With such a volatile topic and the chance to make a name for yourself in immunology, by showing that there is a measurable risk and how it might be mitigated, that people would be trying to "beat Fred" and publish studies corroborating Wakefield.
But Wakefield's results were irreproducible, much like Pons and Fleichmann's paper on cold fusion. The difference between Wakefield and P&F is that P&F did not cause the deaths of thousands of kids through misinformation that continues to this day.
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>So, bottom line is this: you heard on the 10 o'clock news about some fellow named Wakefield
No, I have been following this since Andrew Wakefield published his bogus study in The Lancet.
There is nothing that I care hearing from him, or the people who support him.
Feel free to foe me.
Talk to the hand.
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>We all need an education in what is really information, and what is unfounded speculation.
I agree.
And the "mmr vaccine and thimerosol causes autism" is completely unfounded speculation.
>so let's all keep an open mind.
This statement is always trotted out by people who equate true facts with lies, that everyone's opinion has equal weight, whether true or not.
It's bullshit.
The anti-vaxxer stuff is bullshit and fraud by Andrew Wakefield, repeated by celebrities and quacks worldwide, who no longer has a license to practice medicine because not only what he did was wrong, but evil too.
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I made that remark after going to the Wikipedia page on Mercola.
Mercola is a fucking quack, and he's interviewing a fucking quack and a scientific *criminal* who perpetrated fraud against children everywhere.
The fact that you support these two idiots make you just as idiotic as they are.
You are a moron. Full stop.
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