Oh man, I honestly didn't even realize the dual-meaning of my closing statement "The disease is bad and the cure is even worse." In that case "the disease" was supposed to be "misinformation." Not COVID-19. Now I sound like one of the spreaders of misinformation because of my distaste for censorship.
I'm really feeling like there isn't a way to win.
The only winning move is not to play.
So still kind of useless then. Not a lot of sunlight in trash bags and trash cans. Not a lot of sunlight or oxygen when it's buried under tons of other trash at the dump either.
Not all plastics end up at the dump or recycling. The benefit for disposable plastics that get casually thrown into the ocean or forests is immense.
The problem is the definition of "continues to function" has gotten pretty wide in many states.
It's not a problem since you can always move to another state, country or into the woods. If you do not like the society you are in then you are free to leave it. You may not have all the same nice things in your new location but that's part of the bargain.
Now that states like Massachusetts have passed a policy that remote workers are still taxed as if they live and work in the state, it makes it harder to live in the woods of another state. This is my experience and until the Supreme Court rules on the case I have no recourse to get tax relief. Unless I quit my job.
This has better optics for them
Yes and there are additional accounting costs that they are unwilling to pay.
>Neither have anything to do with Central or South America.
"The term was used also by Napoleon III's French government in the 1860s as Amérique latine to consider French-speaking territories in the Americas, along with the larger group of countries where Spanish and Portuguese languages prevailed, including the Spanish-speaking portions of the United States (Southwestern United States and Florida)."
This comment is referring to the historical usage of the word "Latin". Not the new word "Latinx" that was coined in 2007.
And what the fuck is "Latinx"? That isn't a real word.
It is a word, it's just not a Spanish word. It's a word that some people invented because they don't like the concept of a gendered language.
the irregular businesses that don't have bank accounts, so they can't easily establish relationships with credit card companies
There is no need to have a relationship with a CC Company. Here is how this works in Europe with IBAN.
Say you are a consultant or contractor, not so much a company. (Although the same goes for any company).
You open an account with any bank you desire. (free if you shop around for 10 minutes. Minimal fees if you don't take 10 minutes) If you want you can take a debit card. Most will, because that is easy. Credit cards is absolutely not a must. Now somebody need to pay you. They transfer the money from their bank account to your bank account. It will be with you in max 2 working days. Often faster. Done.
If you have a monthly billing, you have two options: Do the payments manually or have it done automatically. e.g. some bills might vary, like electricity, so you get your bill, it will say what amount will be deducted and that will be done at the stated date.
For rent you have a monthly recuring payment.
And if you are not selfemployed, it still all works identical. I get my payments monthly from the company I work at. Directly on my bank account.
What if you don't want to give out your banking details to your customer, or perhaps your customer enters the transfer details or amount incorrectly? Is there a fee for this service? The USA has a free service called the ACH network that allows direct bank-to-bank transfers, all you need is the bank account number. Many people don't want to give that number out.
This is the internet. You don't know anyone's gender, ever! You can only go based on how they identify in their profile. For all we know, they cold be a dog.
Dogs have genders too you insensitive clod!
Dogs certainly have genders. Studs and bitches.
Here is a nice article on the subject. https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-security/safety-of-plants/safety-of-nuclear-power-reactors.aspx The highlights are:
TFA says there were "inhuman" and "graphic" pictures, and they were of sufficient quantity and offensiveness to concern the border agent. It seems a pretty specific reason and not necessarily arbitrary. The outcome doesn't seem based on religion or religious practices.
Without knowing what the pictures were, we can only speculate. The lack of avenue for appeal is a cause for concern, indeed. That should be remedied. Perhaps there was simply a handful of offensive pictures sent by a friend and the border agent overreacted.
However, if this guy is getting thousands of inhuman pictures of people being executed, or in the process of being tortured, or children being raped... well I can't really feel bad for this outcome. He has the ability to take action to delete or block the sender, or remove the pictures. Hate isn't a protected class.
Here is a link I found analyzing wireless headphone bluetooth AAC codec differences across different phones. As a digital standard it is hardly consistent. https://www.soundguys.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-bluetooth-headphones-aac-20296/.
Nobody replaces batteries anymore, I have a 7 year old Macbook Pro and a few Dell's laying around with original batteries. Since we invented LiIon and especially LiPo batteries, they should last for longer than the useful life of your machine. And even then, they are replaceable, just requires a screwdriver.
Where do you come from that you never replace batteries in things? I've replaced batteries in my 10 year old ThinkPad, my iPhone SE, my friends Galaxy S8 and my Mom's phone just in the past year. It is wasteful to throw these away just because the battery charge is insufficient.
All wireless headphones do is add an unnecessary transcode to the chain using a crappy codec driven at insufficient bitrate that leads to unnecessary reduction in quality. It's not progress it's just stupid.
So you're saying you can hear the difference in 300 vs 500kbps (48kHz, 24 bit sound)? A2DP is just the profile, most halfway decent headphones (even cheap ones) will support at least AAC 320kbps. If it sounds like a telephone, then you just have a phone headset.
Why would you add a transcode? You stream digital 128-192kBps and your OS is just remuxing the signal, otherwise the processes involved with Bluetooth would require a bit of CPU if they have to re-encode raw audio into AAC/MP3 format. Matter of fact, once your audio program puts out the stream to the OS, it has entered into the same quality of stream the Bluetooth receives and the same quality your Realtek chip on the motherboard receives it which (unless explicitly changed low level) is compressed to a relatively high level, hence why pro setups require you to change those settings or even implement their own audio stacks (with limited hardware support) which consumes more I/O and CPU resources. There is no additional conversion being done to deliver it to the Bluetooth chip once it exits your audio application.
There is no direct passthrough for even AAC audio sources. The source material is decoded and re-encoded and transmitted through the negotiated bluetooth link. Even if there was some magic formula of source, transmit negotiation and decoding with equipment that all could transfer this specific stream type without any transcoding, it would be rare and specific enough to certainly not fit the general case we are talking about.
Similarly, if one cares enough about audio quality enough to have lossless files the transcoding will be required because bluetooth does not have enough bandwidth to transmit something like a FLAC file.
Also, lots of damages to pay for a minor head wound
Paying out thousands does not seem like a lot honestly for anything medical.
This is in the UK where I don't think it is typical to pay out thousands for a small medical issue. Isn't that the purpose of the NHS?
Can't trust Google routes when they constantly try to put me through $4+ in tolls to save a half mile and maybe 1 minute on a 15 minute drive. My time is valuable, but not whore me to the toll company at $250/hr valuable.
My favorite is when it routes me off the highway onto some back roads. I often ignore these "suggestions" and when it recalculates the new arrival time it often has me arriving early! Sometimes it increases by merely minute or two - time that is easily absorbed by a red light on a side road. It seems to me that Google Maps attempts to do some form of traffic shaping in addition to simply determining the shortest/fastest routes.
PURGE COMPLETE.
