Comment Re:J.J. Abrams is a fucking idiot (Score 1) 504
He did the Star Trek reboots... those are kind of fun.
He did the Star Trek reboots... those are kind of fun.
No, no... he's not black. George Lucas simply cast a Caribbean-descended (Barbados and St. Thomas) voice actor to give him a Jamaican-flavored accent. To the most ridiculous character in the movie, who's behavior just happens to strongly resemble the blackface minstrel characters.
I just want to know how "ganjadude" was still available to a 30-year-old with a user id pushing 1 million.
I'm on lollipop and I just tried it. When you first run the app it lets you toggle the setting from the app - it does not shortcut you to the same menu that you encounter when you take the Settings path that I described earlier.
It's not quite that straightforward... the app sets the setting, it does not redirect you to the Accounts setup. I can see where the confusion arises, but at the same time if you have a Google account setup on the phone then I'm not sure why you'd be so infuriated at the phone sending information to Google.
I understand the confusion - the user was given a shortcut to a system function (sort of... it's actually an "accounts" function). The user did not know this was a system function. This is because apps are are allowed to mess with the accounts settings directly - a no-no for most other system functions. Android should probably find a way to make this explicit - the most straightforward (though less user-friendly way) might be to do what they do with the other system functions: the app can send you there, but can't actually change the setting. Another option would be to keep track of which apps have access to an account, and when one of those apps is deleted prompt the user to warn that the account is not being deleted, only the app.
It's there, unless I'm being dense:
Settings -> Accounts -> Google -> (click on your account name) -> Google+ Photos.
I have both liability and collision.
The original bids almost certainly would have been higher if insurance was required. It's also not clear that insurance would be available (at a reasonable price) for such a new spacecraft. There is no way that one can save money by purchasing insurance unless they aren't in the game long enough to average out the catastrophic events. NASA should be in the space game for a while, I think.
How would insurance save money? Another middle man to pay. The only justification for insurance is when you need to smooth out the bumps in your spending - an individual may not have $30,000 sitting around to replace their crashed car. NASA can almost always slip a schedule; self insurance makes a lot of sense for them.
"Wacking Day" is one of the best things that ever happened on television. Also, gay steel mills.
I think the scripts could be improved immensely with the money they now pay voice actors. The writing is the important part of that show, not the voices.
His show doesn't bother me so much for his views, which are common (though I agree not very thoughtful - he just parrots tired old arguments). But his delivery is just awful. Long, awkward pauses followed by mouth-smacking into the microphone when he thinks he's said something profound. Nothing even remotely entertaining happens. I switch over to regular radio and listen to mattress commercials.
They are there not to make the world a better place
Like all tools, the military can be used for good and bad things. If you don't like what the military has done over the last few years, take it up with the guys in charge - but it doesn't necessarily follow that we need shittier tools.
They are very newsworthy. Now we get to find out where he disagrees with the administration and how influential he really was. He clearly disagrees strongly with the President on this issue and this will put pressure on him. He did not wait long to "step out of line".
What the gods would destroy they first submit to an IEEE standards committee.