We know where Taytay stands on various subjects (e.g. Lavender Haze, You Need To Calm Down), but it's never intrusive. Her music comes first. Fans respect that.
I saw her in Seattle back in July. A spectacular show, worth every penny.
...laura
Give people what they want and they'll pay money to see it. Don't, and they won't.
Taylor Swift's home movie was the second-highest-grossing concert film before it even opened.
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Why bother hiring a room full of actors when you can just re-use some digital ones?
You say this like it's a bad thing.
Even though extras get paid breadcrumbs, the costs of using them is incredibly high due to all of the work required to prep and manage them. Replacing them with CGI, when tastefully done, would greatly improve efficiency on the set. It would be the film equivalent of getting rid of the secretarial pool and giving executives computers.
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It's right up there with uBlock Origin in terms of essential extensions for keeping the Web usable.
4. The hold on re-opening Tesla was in the hands of a single county-level official (Alameda country) who refused to state when and how the county permit would be re-issued. The attitude was she would get to it when she felt like it and you are no better than anybody else.
Now this has me curious. Given some of the other government corruption issues involving tech companies in the bay area (e.g. Apple and concealed carry licenses), was this a case of misplaced safety ideals? Or was the official looking for a bribe?
The Beatles were enormously influential in their day - and, arguably, still are - but they broke up when I was 9 years old. I'm 62 now. A lot has happened since then.
Like all modern recordings/reissues/remasters this one sounds more like a really good tribute band than the Fab Four themselves. Nor are they breaking any new ground: Now and Then sounds like a B side from Abbey Road or Let It Be.
...laura
If an electric car meets my needs at a price I can afford, I'll consider it. If it doesn't, I won't.
At the moment no EV meets my needs. They're interesting, but (for me) just not there yet. If I had somewhere to plug one in at home I'd consider a low-end EV as an around-town runabout. They're good for that. Since I don't - I live in an apartment and the building management aren't interested - I won't be driving an EV any time soon.
...laura
How are transmission rates a useful metric? Testing positive isn't a death sentence and never was. It's no joke, but it's not ebola. COVID really fucked some people up. That's the metric that matters.
People just didn't like masks. Scientific results were beside the point.
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I work from home, and have done so for a long time. I have to be really sick to not be able to work. Maybe once in the last 10 years?
I used to have colleagues who viewed their sick time as extra personal time to be taken at will. I didn't. I don't.
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It's already in the works, at least for Comcast and Charter. They already offer TV boxes that don't even have QAM tuners; just Wi-Fi/Ethernet as a backhaul to the combined modem/router. No further QAM box designs are planned. And in Comcast's case, they stopped distributing boxes with local storage in favor of cloud DVR service years ago (which allows up to 6 simultaneous recordings).
QAM TV isn't going away overnight. But all of the groundwork has been laid to start reclaiming the spectrum as cord cutting continues.
Imagine someone being able to wirelessly "update" your phone to a hacked version.
This seems to hinge on the assumption that attackers have a way to pass the phone's firmware validation, never mind any further layers of validation that may be involved with Apple's update pads.
Apple's private firmware signing key is the holy grail of iPhone hacking. If you have that (or an exploit to bypass it) then there are far more insidious things you could be doing to the billion iPhones that are already deployed in the world.
And that's essentially the angle Comcast is working.
DOCSIS 4.0 will be able to attain download speeds of over 10Gbps (the precise value depends on a few things, such as the spectral width), with upload speeds upwards of 5Gbps. However, that's basically using most of the spectrum within the cable. Coincidentally, you're going to see a lot of cable operators switching to pure IP networks, getting rid of dedicated cable TV QAMs in favor of using the entire pipe for passing IP data, and then making CATV an IP service on top of that.
It's a short article, so I'd encourage you to read it. But, in short, the concern is that their entire semiconductor unit is hemmoraging money.
Analysts see its semiconductor business â" typically Samsung's cash cow â" reporting a more than 3 trillion won ($2.2 billion) loss for the third quarter./blockquote
DRAM and NAND manufacturing is a black hole for money right now. Everyone has cut back production and is still having to sell it for less than it's worth. That's not just bad for business, but it's unsustainable.
It's the other elements of Samsung Electronics, such as the displays business, which is keeping them afloat right now. But that's a concerning thing, as that's like the life boats being used to hold up a ship.
Did Newsome suddenly sign or veto something like several dozen bills?
Yes. He had a stack of bills from the most recent legislative session on his desk that he finally signed/vetoed. This was done in quick succession, so there are a bunch of new laws that are suddenly passing or failing.
Here in western Canada the temperatures were seasonal this summer, despite the OMG WERE ALL GOING TO DIE narrative.
The drought, on the other hand, is serious. Low snow pack over the winter, bone dry spring. We've had a really bad forest fire season. I know the fire people are working their asses off, but if we're spending that much with that little to show for it, maybe we need to rethink things?
What are we supposed to do about it?
...laura
"Take that, you hostile sons-of-bitches!" -- James Coburn, in the finale of _The_President's_Analyst_
