I'm not a serious gamer (Heck, I have a Mac--how serious can I be?), but I did look into it because I liked Call of Duty back when it took place in WW II.
One of the things that supposedly made Call of Duty a great game was the realistic environments and scenarios. You didn't find BFG-9000s sitting in a corner that could take out an enemy pillbox with one shot.
But with "Infinite Warfare," it seems that the folks at Activision are coming out with sci-fi weapons and spaceships and scenarios that aren't particularly realistic and getting away from what the whole "Call of Duty" series is supposed to be about. Heck, if I want that, I'll fire up Quake or Doom or something like that.
Let's face it, though: The same technology that allows me to work from home also allows someone in a place with an extremely low cost-of-living to compete with me, whether that location is Murrieta, CA or Memphis, TN, or Mumbai, India. If someone has the skills that I have and will work for half the price, why wouldn't a company take advantage of that?
Frankly, I have no problem with this. I don't like it, sure, but it's something I can compete against. I can move to a less expensive area. I can boost my skills. And if a company is looking for the cheapest workers, I'm not sure that's the kind of company I want to work for, anyway.
Where I have the problem is the, "Oh, we need H1B Visas so these people can come to the US and can be trained to do the work you do now." Uh, no. The idea behind H1Bs is that these people have skills that American workers don't have. If I have to train my replacement, then he obviously does not have skills that I, as an American worker, have.
My parents have the adorable baby picture of me which, as an adult, would be highly embarrassing if it were to see the light of day. My parents, of course, save this picture for when I bring home a sweetheart so that they can embarrass me in front of her. It's wonderful entertainment for them--revenge for all those years I made their lives miserable.
If you post these pictures on the Internet, you ruin your opportunity for this kind of entertainment in the child's later years.
I live in the city and got tired of the ad barrage about government overreach. What Prop 1 would have done is not have regulations that apply to taxi drivers apply to them [...]
This is what torques me off about Uber/Lyft.
It's not ride-sharing. It's a taxi service.
Ride-sharing is, like, "Hey, I'm going to work and I happen to drive past the airport. If anyone needs a lift to the airport and it's not too inconvenient, I'll give you a ride." Taxis, conversely, drive around to areas and wait for people who need rides and then take them where they want to go. When they drop off that person, they wait for someone else.
I would be more than willing to bet that the majority--even the vast majority--ascribe more to the taxi model than the ride-sharing model. Sorry--they're taxis. Uber/Lyft are, essentially, nationwide taxi companies.
It should even protect "someone should take care of him." That should be above investigation.
As always, it depends on the situation.
Suppose I list all the evils of a particular person and I encourage others to go kill that person. Someone in the crowd decides to do so. Having said that, I bear a certain responsibility for inciting. Again, free speech does not absolve me from responsibility for the actions that my speech may have provoked.
I do agree, though, that in some ways, it seems we're trying to "pre-crime" these situations. "Oh, he said that and people could take him seriously and somebody might act on what he said and then there'd be a crime, so let's just nip this in the bud by arresting him now."
There are usually thunderstorms daily in the USA, and [...] airplanes go right through that.
You don't fly much, do you?
First, airports will close in bad weather. That means airplanes either have to wait for the airport to reopen or they will land elsewhere.
Second, airplanes will go around bad weather. This means that the flight might arrive late, which affects the flight after it, and so on and so forth. Airlines hate bad weather because it messes up their schedules.
IANAL, but interesting angle could also be that the filter is an Attractive Nuisance.
Basically, "Attractive Nuisance" is the reason that you have to put up appropriate signs and fences and such around your pool. The idea is that young children could sneak onto your property on a hot day to go swimming and drown. The argument is that the child is not old enough to understand the concepts of private property and is unable to comprehend the dangers of a swimming pool. It's history goes back to the late 1800s, when it was deemed that things like railroad yards and the like had to put up protective fencing because trains and such are extremely cool things for children to check out and they can be injured. Construction sites and the like have fences around them for that purpose also.
There are issues with claiming that the filter is an Attractive Nuisance, though. First, the law has never been applied in this way, so you'd definitely be breaking new ground. Second, the person using the filter was 18--she was not legally a child. Third, there is a warning which appears when you use it saying that you shouldn't be using this in dangerous situations. To go back to the swimming pool analogy, if I have a sign up that says, "Private Property: No Swimming in the Poo Without Permissionl" and an illiterate four year-old drowns in my pool, I can be liable. However, if a literate 14 year-old drowns in my pool, I may not be because it's reasonable to assume that a 14 year-old can read a sign. So it'd be tough to show that an 18 year-old couldn't read the warning dialog that comes up in the Snapchat App.
Still, it'd be an interesting angle for them to take.
All your music is in the cloud, so it doesn't have to sit there taking up space on your computer or phone (and Apple can get away with selling computers and phones with fast but paltry storage).
And as long as you pay your $9.99 a month, you can keep listening to them. In fact, you'd better pay your $9.99 a month because, if you don't, you've lost all your music.
That's a nice music collection you have there. It'd be a shame if something happened to it...
So, okay, I'll be nice to Apple and rationalize it. According to Apple, the advantage to things like Apple music is that all my music is in the cloud, automatically updating across my plethora of Apple devices and giving me access even when I use a non-Apple device via the web(?). I'm freeing up space on my computer and my iPhone, which I can use for more Apps. This is a good thing!
Okay, fine. I'll agree.
But what happens if I stop my subscription? I call up Apple and say, "Hey, Apple, I'm not paying you $9.99 anymore." What happens to the music that I bought? Okay, I can understand that I lose access to the songs that I rented via the Apple Music service and that, if I want to listen to them, I have to go out and buy them. But what about that music that Apple "synced" to the cloud and removed from my machine. I should be able to get that back, right?
Dare I say underage driving when one of the kids figures out how to command the vehicle?
Depends on what you mean by "Command."
If the command is, "Hey, car, take out that pedestrian over there," then yes. On the other hand, "Hey, car, stop for ice cream!" means that the car will safely stop at the next ice cream shop and let the kids out. Maybe Mom and Dad won't approve, but it's hardly a danger to the rest of us out there.
Maybe child endangerment laws? Neglect laws?
This one I could actually see. Not that I'd agree with it, but I could see it happening...
Did they have a battery compatible with your car? I recently had a similar situation (at home, fortunately) and AAA wouldn't sell me a battery because they didn't stock batteries for my kind of car. Of course, they jumped the car and I drove to the battery store.
My bet would be "No." Apple is the one that decides these things. Unlike Cortana, there's no way for an app to say, "Hey, Siri, if someone says this, I know how to handle it."
In Siri's case, I can say, "Hey Siri, Google kumquats." It will launch Safari and give me back info on kumquats. If I say, "Hey Siri, Bing kumquats," it will return the results inside Siri. If I say, "Hey Siri, DuckDuckGo kumquats," it will return the results of a Bing search for "DuckDuckGo kumquats."
Trump needs to get 1237 delegates to win in the first round. If he doesn't and it goes to a second round, Cruz has a chance, though not necessarily a good one. If he doesn't make it, the wheeling-and-dealing begin.
Personally, I'm rooting for Trump to come up just shy--like 1200+. Then we'll see some fireworks.
Yup, you'll be paying $1.00 a month to store your music in the cloud. You'll be paying $10 a month to listen to music. And whatever other services that Apple can think of (or copy, in order to monetize).
When it came to hours, "Exempt" employees usually were paid a bit more than the standard hourly rate because there was an assumption that there would occasionally be overtime but nobody really wanted to run around and track it.
On the other hand, I've known businesses where the "exempt" employees earn a bit less than the hourly employees because the hourly employees are contract/temp workers who will be gone when the work is finished.
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I'm not a serious gamer (Heck, I have a Mac--how serious can I be?), but I did look into it because I liked Call of Duty back when it took place in WW II.
One of the things that supposedly made Call of Duty a great game was the realistic environments and scenarios. You didn't find BFG-9000s sitting in a corner that could take out an enemy pillbox with one shot.
But with "Infinite Warfare," it seems that the folks at Activision are coming out with sci-fi weapons and spaceships and scenarios that aren't particularly realistic and getting away from what the whole "Call of Duty" series is supposed to be about. Heck, if I want that, I'll fire up Quake or Doom or something like that.
It's an interesting opinion.
Let's face it, though: The same technology that allows me to work from home also allows someone in a place with an extremely low cost-of-living to compete with me, whether that location is Murrieta, CA or Memphis, TN, or Mumbai, India. If someone has the skills that I have and will work for half the price, why wouldn't a company take advantage of that?
Frankly, I have no problem with this. I don't like it, sure, but it's something I can compete against. I can move to a less expensive area. I can boost my skills. And if a company is looking for the cheapest workers, I'm not sure that's the kind of company I want to work for, anyway.
Where I have the problem is the, "Oh, we need H1B Visas so these people can come to the US and can be trained to do the work you do now." Uh, no. The idea behind H1Bs is that these people have skills that American workers don't have. If I have to train my replacement, then he obviously does not have skills that I, as an American worker, have.
Actually...
My parents have the adorable baby picture of me which, as an adult, would be highly embarrassing if it were to see the light of day. My parents, of course, save this picture for when I bring home a sweetheart so that they can embarrass me in front of her. It's wonderful entertainment for them--revenge for all those years I made their lives miserable.
If you post these pictures on the Internet, you ruin your opportunity for this kind of entertainment in the child's later years.
I live in the city and got tired of the ad barrage about government overreach. What Prop 1 would have done is not have regulations that apply to taxi drivers apply to them [...]
This is what torques me off about Uber/Lyft.
It's not ride-sharing. It's a taxi service.
Ride-sharing is, like, "Hey, I'm going to work and I happen to drive past the airport. If anyone needs a lift to the airport and it's not too inconvenient, I'll give you a ride." Taxis, conversely, drive around to areas and wait for people who need rides and then take them where they want to go. When they drop off that person, they wait for someone else.
I would be more than willing to bet that the majority--even the vast majority--ascribe more to the taxi model than the ride-sharing model. Sorry--they're taxis. Uber/Lyft are, essentially, nationwide taxi companies.
It should even protect "someone should take care of him." That should be above investigation.
As always, it depends on the situation.
Suppose I list all the evils of a particular person and I encourage others to go kill that person. Someone in the crowd decides to do so. Having said that, I bear a certain responsibility for inciting. Again, free speech does not absolve me from responsibility for the actions that my speech may have provoked.
I do agree, though, that in some ways, it seems we're trying to "pre-crime" these situations. "Oh, he said that and people could take him seriously and somebody might act on what he said and then there'd be a crime, so let's just nip this in the bud by arresting him now."
Okay, okay. So I 3D print a shark and then use my inkjet to print a disposable laser...
Perhaps a different design--like a Flying Wing--might give more aerodynamic area and other options.
There are usually thunderstorms daily in the USA, and [...] airplanes go right through that.
You don't fly much, do you?
First, airports will close in bad weather. That means airplanes either have to wait for the airport to reopen or they will land elsewhere.
Second, airplanes will go around bad weather. This means that the flight might arrive late, which affects the flight after it, and so on and so forth. Airlines hate bad weather because it messes up their schedules.
IANAL, but interesting angle could also be that the filter is an Attractive Nuisance.
Basically, "Attractive Nuisance" is the reason that you have to put up appropriate signs and fences and such around your pool. The idea is that young children could sneak onto your property on a hot day to go swimming and drown. The argument is that the child is not old enough to understand the concepts of private property and is unable to comprehend the dangers of a swimming pool. It's history goes back to the late 1800s, when it was deemed that things like railroad yards and the like had to put up protective fencing because trains and such are extremely cool things for children to check out and they can be injured. Construction sites and the like have fences around them for that purpose also.
There are issues with claiming that the filter is an Attractive Nuisance, though. First, the law has never been applied in this way, so you'd definitely be breaking new ground. Second, the person using the filter was 18--she was not legally a child. Third, there is a warning which appears when you use it saying that you shouldn't be using this in dangerous situations. To go back to the swimming pool analogy, if I have a sign up that says, "Private Property: No Swimming in the Poo Without Permissionl" and an illiterate four year-old drowns in my pool, I can be liable. However, if a literate 14 year-old drowns in my pool, I may not be because it's reasonable to assume that a 14 year-old can read a sign. So it'd be tough to show that an 18 year-old couldn't read the warning dialog that comes up in the Snapchat App.
Still, it'd be an interesting angle for them to take.
I mean, why would you?
Because that's one of the advantages!
All your music is in the cloud, so it doesn't have to sit there taking up space on your computer or phone (and Apple can get away with selling computers and phones with fast but paltry storage).
And as long as you pay your $9.99 a month, you can keep listening to them. In fact, you'd better pay your $9.99 a month because, if you don't, you've lost all your music.
That's a nice music collection you have there. It'd be a shame if something happened to it...
QuickTime wasn't so bad...
...on a Mac.
Actually, that's an interesting argument!
So, okay, I'll be nice to Apple and rationalize it. According to Apple, the advantage to things like Apple music is that all my music is in the cloud, automatically updating across my plethora of Apple devices and giving me access even when I use a non-Apple device via the web(?). I'm freeing up space on my computer and my iPhone, which I can use for more Apps. This is a good thing!
Okay, fine. I'll agree.
But what happens if I stop my subscription? I call up Apple and say, "Hey, Apple, I'm not paying you $9.99 anymore." What happens to the music that I bought? Okay, I can understand that I lose access to the songs that I rented via the Apple Music service and that, if I want to listen to them, I have to go out and buy them. But what about that music that Apple "synced" to the cloud and removed from my machine. I should be able to get that back, right?
Nope. Sorry. Hope you had a back-up.
Dare I say underage driving when one of the kids figures out how to command the vehicle?
Depends on what you mean by "Command."
If the command is, "Hey, car, take out that pedestrian over there," then yes. On the other hand, "Hey, car, stop for ice cream!" means that the car will safely stop at the next ice cream shop and let the kids out. Maybe Mom and Dad won't approve, but it's hardly a danger to the rest of us out there.
Maybe child endangerment laws? Neglect laws?
This one I could actually see. Not that I'd agree with it, but I could see it happening...
Did they have a battery compatible with your car? I recently had a similar situation (at home, fortunately) and AAA wouldn't sell me a battery because they didn't stock batteries for my kind of car. Of course, they jumped the car and I drove to the battery store.
My bet would be "No." Apple is the one that decides these things. Unlike Cortana, there's no way for an app to say, "Hey, Siri, if someone says this, I know how to handle it."
In Siri's case, I can say, "Hey Siri, Google kumquats." It will launch Safari and give me back info on kumquats. If I say, "Hey Siri, Bing kumquats," it will return the results inside Siri. If I say, "Hey Siri, DuckDuckGo kumquats," it will return the results of a Bing search for "DuckDuckGo kumquats."
So, yeah, Siri is kind of tied to Bing.
After experimenting with [...] cowbells and camels [...]
That would have worked, except they needed... ...More cowbells!
Thanks, I'll be here all week.
I usually spell it "Michiganer." But that's just me...
Why do you think you should have a voice in what candidate a party puts forward for election when you aren't a member of that party?
Because my tax dollars are paying for that primary.
Science, tech, math, and computing are all greatly influenced by US government policies. (Okay, maybe math not as much.)
Pi is 3, dammit!
I wouldn't be too sure.
Trump needs to get 1237 delegates to win in the first round. If he doesn't and it goes to a second round, Cruz has a chance, though not necessarily a good one. If he doesn't make it, the wheeling-and-dealing begin.
Personally, I'm rooting for Trump to come up just shy--like 1200+. Then we'll see some fireworks.
Actually, I saw an interesting graphic on the use of shell companies. It had some pretty legitimate uses for shell companies.
Services!
Yup, you'll be paying $1.00 a month to store your music in the cloud. You'll be paying $10 a month to listen to music. And whatever other services that Apple can think of (or copy, in order to monetize).
What about the SEx--excuse me, SE/30?
I gotta admit, I chuckled when Apple announced that name. I guess it goes to show that you won't ever see an "X-Treme!" version of the phone...
It can depend on how much work there is.
When it came to hours, "Exempt" employees usually were paid a bit more than the standard hourly rate because there was an assumption that there would occasionally be overtime but nobody really wanted to run around and track it.
On the other hand, I've known businesses where the "exempt" employees earn a bit less than the hourly employees because the hourly employees are contract/temp workers who will be gone when the work is finished.