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If I still ate at KFC, my first though would be, do they use special, separate fryers for this?
Because I don't want this fake food on my real food.
If I still ate at KFC, my first though would be, do they use special, separate fryers for this?
Because I don't want this fake food on my real food.
DNS may be temporarily unreachable, so you cannot do that. And most certainly, SMTP is 100% allowed to tempfail, so you cannot insist on a valid y/n on that front for hours or days even.
Was excited for The Wheel of Time. But within 20 minutes, I just had to abort the series.
Jiggle cam, making fight scenes incomprehensible and untrackable, along with wild panning of the camera and shaking it around for no reason, is just absurd, annoying, and a crazy turn off.
I prefer immersion, and seeing the world the way humans do, not being pulled out of the scene to watch gibberish.
I've been in car accidents, engaged in all manner of activities where I get jostled about, and have never experienced weird shaky views like the jiggle cam effect. That's because in the real world, one's brain and eyes track and deal with rapid motion all the time. So great job asshats, pulling me out of what is supposed to be immersive.
It's literally a crutch for people incapable of filming action, thus hide it with crap.
Bah.
I hope Fallout isn't this way.
You're leaving out a very important part here.
First, you need no app on your phone. You do not need to install any government written app on your phone.
It's a QR code, which can be displayed via the app, or you can download a PDF of it. You can carry around a paper copy of it. That's what I do.
The QR code is electronically signed by the Government of Quebec. If you want to verify it, for example if you're a restaurant, you can download a government app. However, you don't need a live internet connection, for all the app does is validate against a cert, then print out the verified information.
This method means no internet required. No phoning home. No tracking of citizens required.
Is it?
NTUA continues to provide basic utility services to the mine. Moalemi said that tax revenue to the Navajo Nation for these utilities over three years is approximately $48,000 USD, not including worker pay. He added that the land lease revenue for the nation over five years is approximately $60,000 USD.
So instead of "This is generating local revenue", the result is "Give us all the power you're using and generating"?
Or is the result "Now that you've setup, and leased the land, and become revenue profitable, we want to change the deal and want more"? After all, setup costs were:
MacLean estimated that the build cost between three and five million dollars, and that the mine now holds equipment valued at $20 million USD.
So they spent $25M US to build and buy equipment, AND there are ongoing employee + energy costs, along with other incidentals. EG, equipment replacement / maintenance, taxes, land leasing, etc etc. They're making 1.5M per month, *right now*, because bitcoin is high *right now*.
It could have been at $20k right now. When they setup, bitcoin wasn't at almost $70k either. The article says the project began in 2018, and bitcoin was between $6k and $4k then.
And this complaint is beyond bizarre:
I donâ(TM)t even have a water line to my home.
I live in rural Canada, and guess what! I don't either! I have a well, because no one runs water lines in rural areas. No one. Yes, the desert is probably not a place for a well, and that's why people truck water in. But you're *not* going to get water run to places miles apart, for crying out loud!!
What they should be doing, is not complaining, and suggesting *more* projects like this. Locals are getting paid as workers, there's lease land revenue for a place in the *middle of a desert*, the most useless of land except for special usage cases.
What you don't want to be doing is, sign a deal, then bankrupt companies after they've shown up, by trying to change the deal after. Do so, and *no one* will setup there. You want to attract business, instead of complaining that businesses are setting up there!
Even worse, when a company goes out on a limb, and manages to gamble long and succeed (note the price of bc when they setup, listed above!), you want to take their profits because "they're doing well, gimme". OK, sure, but what about investors which paid for all of this infra? I guess they don't get the profits? Or 1/2 the profits because "the deal has changed"?
I mean, what do people want? The article sounds like *no one* running a business on their land?! Ok... so.... how is that helping?
Other posters are correct. For-profit is how you get out of this hole. Not complaining that profit is happening around you.
I hope they see this. I hope they stop this, and instead attract more companies like this.
Well, of the three, the most desperate, incompetent and most disingenuous is Mozilla.
*and they know that the majority of people who still use Firefox won't stop using it because of this.*
They are at their pitiful current market share, for making 1000 decisions just like this.
For each they lost a few users. Now, they have almost none.
There is a problem with this though process though. It applies to a small corp, but not a large.
A large corporation has a CEO, and that CEO is in touch with virtually all employees. Certainly, with even the lowest level manager. That CEO's vision, is the corporate vision, hands down. Even though elements may enact change, that change often goes through the office of, or is overseen by, the CEO.
Think of a local garage with 15 employees, or a locally owned grocery store with 40.
Meanwhile, in a large corp, entire divisions of thousands of people are under control of VPs of this and that, and even those VPs cannot keep track of what each department manager is up to. Combine this with profit motive, AND with "you get a raise if your department accrues $x additional revenue per month" + "cost savings", and you get not a single corp, with a single vision, but a myriad of little corps all vying for power within an org.
Put another way, Microsoft does indeed want to preserve its brand. However elements within know just how lucrative it is to sell Pii. If you've worked in any large corp, you'll see how often management is fighting with each other, over policy, direction, and more.
Wait, that's awesome! Thanks for the idea!
(yes, what happens next is your fault, THANKS!)
The problem is, there a 2% of conservatives and liberals that are nutbars. The rest just want to live in peace, and hash out minor, tiny differences without hate.
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It is perfectly logical, although hes changed over the years.
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Or how about wearing gloves, when it is -40C out.
My car is parked in the driveway, and I want to back up. There is nothing in front, or behind it. Now I have to drive gloveless, so I can control basic, essential functionality? It takes 10 minutes to heat a car when that cold, and with an EV, and already reduced winter range, I'd prefer gloves over toasty warm.
And no, touchscreen capable gloves don't cut it at that temp.
What about parking? All the other blather in this story? Frankly, it may not even be legal in many places, to do away with manual controls for this.
There's always ICF, which to me is far better than this, and really just as quick to build.
It comes with insulation attached, and already has interior points to attach drywall/cabinets/etc over the insulation layer.
This product requires attaching interior and exterior insulation after the fact, and creating interior attach points, or building an interior frame, to put drywall on the inside. So ICF does all that, which negates the day or so it takes to assemble the "blocks" for the pour. And once the pour starts, it should be faster than a 3D robot laying down layer after layer.
Concrete is way more expensive than wood. Way more. Why?
Well, you still have to frame the entire inside of the house, and insulate, the roof has to be there, so you're only replacing the 2x6 walls with interior framing. And you still need to exterior clad the walls on something, and you still need to insulate.
So is concrete cheaper than a bunch of 2x6 or 2x8 load bearing walls? No.
I agree it's better though.
A better idea, might have been to protest the inane concept of needing a protest permit.
People protest masks, yet are OK with needing a permit to protest?!? You guys have a strange country.
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