Comment Re:Remember when (Score 2) 21
Netflix used to make all its money by snail-mailing DVDs?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
They still do that too. Blu-ray as well.
Netflix used to make all its money by snail-mailing DVDs?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
They still do that too. Blu-ray as well.
Meta is a generic term. Albeit not that common in english.
Could not be trademarked in a country like Germany.
Someone better tell Apple that they can't trademark their name because it's a generic term.
and why is 'Natick' important to this story? So many possibilities: Natick might be an exciting new form of sexual deviance or maybe a newly discovered tribe in the Amazon jungle or perhaps a persecuted religious group from the foothills in Tennessee. No don't tell me what it means; it's more fun to speculate.
The story is from the Boston Globe. Natick is a Boston suburb. Someone from Boston would understand the reference.
Yes, it's fucking out of fucking control. That money could be FAR better spent on social programs.
Or you could let the people keep their fucking money instead of letting politicians decide how it should be spent.
It would certainly be great if the power source is carbon-neutral. But suppose it isn't, and the carbon-capture plant emits 5 metric shit-tonnes of CO2 per year. But in doing so it captures 10 metric shit-tonnes per year. It's therefore producing a net negative 5 metric shit-tonnes. That's a win!
Can you convert that to imperial units for the Americans? We don't do that metric stuff here.
Does anyone here remember when this used to be a tech blog that wrote about IT stuff? I used to read stories about computers, Linux, IPv6 adoption, the very first bitcoin info. Now it's just another woke social justice warrior blog half the time.
No, I don't. The history of
Regardless of how well they can secure this pipeline or not going forward, it seems like having just one companies pipeline go down affect pretty much the entire supply of gasoline across the eastern coast is an incredibly fragile weak point for a country to have.
A large part of the problem was gas hoarding. It was the whole toilet paper thing all over again. As soon as the news broke people were lining up at gas stations with their gas cans to stock up.
Legal isnt the same as Moral. Just because they CAN doesnt mean they should.
Now do the government. It's not fair to judge the morality of the corporations without judging the morality of the government that you claim they are morally obligated to give their money to.
I always associated wordpress sites with undiluted idiocy. Maybe that's not fair and I apologize for that.
WordPress is used by more than 40.5% of the top 10 million websites as of March 2021.... Yeah, what a piece of crap that must be.
Since most of the world don’t use feet, the big question is: How much is that in footballfields?
If you don't know how to convert, or even use Google, you're on the wrong site. https://www.google.com/search?q=393+ft+in+meters
And, already, I am expected, as a matter of course, to know what "WFH" stands for.
Now that you've come out from under the rock you've been hiding under for the last year, let me tell you about this browser feature that you've been missing out on. You can highlight a term you don't know, like WFH, right-click it, and select "Search Google for WFH" from the context menu.
The NYT paywall that doesn't let you read the linked articles.
Just open it in an incognito/private window. You're welcome.
8 Catfish = 1 Octo-puss
