Comment Re:Pseudonymity (Score 1) 361
You can delete your comments if you want anonymity.
You can delete your comments if you want anonymity.
I'm curious to know what percentage of foodborne illnesses are caused by "didn't wash hands" and what percentage are caused by "saved money someplace in the food supply chain."
"didn't wash hands" = "saved money someplace in the food supply chain"
Seriously, what is the advantage of this over a removable insulating jacket?
Also, what are the relevant time constants? Once switched on, surely this material cannot maintain low thermal emmisivity forever when strapped to a hot object?
Come on Apple.
How about a new Mac Pro and Mac Mini? And adding the headphone jacks back into your products?
Just because you bought Beats, we don't all need $200 headphones.
We certainly don't need them in place of not refreshing your stagnant computer lineup.
Make them help around the house on chores beyond what you would normally expect from them to earn money. Then it's their choice what they ultimately spend it on. You may have to hold your nose, but if you have done it right and given them real life money for the work, they will come to understand how useless those purchases are versus the work they needed to do to get that money.
Below a certain age, children have poor impulse control and it gradually gets better as they get older. There have been studies indicating, in fact, that males do not fully mature in this area until about 30.
So they will not relate doing chores to spending money IRL to spending money in a game, particularly when young.
But they will to habitually learn to spend money on loot boxes, a habit that may not serve them well when they are older and in a casino.
It's less about the money, and more about the bad habits being ingrained in their psyche.
Yes.
Some people are very comfortable with the idea that others are lessor than they are and some are not. Not trying to be snarky, but that's the truth.
Had a friend with a pretty good business going who was involved in a patent lawsuit. They hired some fancy Beverly Hills attorney who was supposed to be the best. They were at a dinner at some nice place in Beverly Hills when, after dinner was over, his wife started collecting up the dishes and making neat piles for the waiter to take away. The attorney made a point of saying, "they have people for that".
If you have ever thought or uttered those words, you should consider partaking in some very deep self reflection.
You are incorrect. Some managers would fire waitstaff if they saw a customer stacking dishes.
For one, it IS the waitstaff's job to collect dishes. (Actually, technically it's the barback's.) For two, it sends the wrong message to the other diners in the restaurant. Thirdly, it sends a message to the waitstaff (intended or not) that the diner doesn't think that they are competent. Finally, if the diner has time to stack dishes, is means the waitstaff were not watching her closely enough.
It's like when you decline a bellhop or open the door yourself while the doorman is trying to get to it. You are trying not to treat them like they're lessor than you, but you are actually insulting them by even thinking this. They are there to do a job as a professional, and you are doing it for them in an amateur way in their workplace.
That's just about the most insulting thing you can do.
This is clearly not a long term solution, the oceans are warming and that is already causing concerns. Sticking a bunch of immersion heaters in the ocean is not exactly going to help.
You're totally right! We should put them in the arctic and antarctic instead! It's colder there!
Seems to assume all Twitter users are U.S. citizens.
That not allowing someone to talk to you is a violation of their right to free speech.
And that digital forums are 'public', despite plenty of homeless and impoverished citizens lacking access to them.
No, it assumes that the onus of proving that they aren't US citizens is on the President, not the citizen.
By using Twitter, President Trump is effectively creating a forum where US citizens can interact directly with the him as president. He cannot legally choose to selectively block citizens from that.
If he doesn't like that, he is free to not use Twitter. Honestly, that might be better for everyone in this situation.
So 'Free Returns' means 'Infinite number if Free Returns'?
Non-defective returns cost retailers money, retailers are not in the business of loaning out their products.
Obviously, the people banned did not get infinite number of free returns!
The point is that there is no limit discussed in Amazon's terms of service for either their Prime membership OR their Free Returns section. So if there IS a limit, there is a reasonable expectation that customer would be made aware of that limit before they exceed it and get banned for life from Amazon.
That said, Amazon appears to disagree. Here is the termination section of their Prime Membership terms
Termination by Us:
We may terminate your Prime membership at our discretion without notice. If we do so, we will give you a prorated refund based on the number of full months remaining in your membership. However, we will not give any refund for termination related to conduct that we determine, in our discretion, violates these Terms or any applicable law, involves fraud or misuse of the Prime membership, or is harmful to our interests or another user. Our failure to insist upon or enforce your strict compliance with these Terms will not constitute a waiver of any of our rights.
You have just re-invented the established concept of panspermia!
Pieces of Mars blown into space from (large) meteorite impacts on Mars are also considered candidates for this type of genesis. Geologists believe the have actually found meteorites on Earth that originated from Mars.
Let me ask about a different situation.
Every day there are private airplanes flying around in our US airspace, who interact with air traffic control (of course), and who can ask that afterwards the records of their tail numbers not get published -- by the government. It could be that a person or company doesn't want people to know where they're going, who they belong to.
Now there are also people who make it their hobby to record the airplanes they see taking off + landing, and share this info with others. There are probably companies who do this too.
Is that illegal? How are you to pass a law against someone getting access to information that could completely legitimately be obtained by someone observing it in person? Does public information fall under the domain of privacy?
That is the problem with privacy -- I don't know that the definition of it is something that can cover purely public information. Not talking about Social Security numbers or personal health data or credit card info.
Is someone's observation of your activities in public, private information?
Your analogy isn't great because the hobbyists don't have a contract with the pilots.
In this situation, you are paying your cell provider for a service with the (apparently unwarranted) expectation of privacy. They are then selling that information to companies, who profit from your history by reselling that information to others or targeting you with advertising.
So a better analogy would be more like your doctor selling your medical history to a company, which then spammed you with STD antibiotic ads right after you got a little problem taken care of.
Technically, you cannot travel in a straight line for ANY distance on the surface of a sphere, right?
At best you can have a single point of tangency.
I mean, come on, if you're going to be pedantic, let's really be pedantic!
No one wants to lug around a PC computer to play a multiplayer game.
There is a place for everything for everybody,
BTW, I have been playing games since the 80's on all devices and still do, including PC.
If no one wants to lug around a PC, then there really isn't a place for everybody, eh?
If you RTFA and look at last figure (I know, I know...), you will see that console and PC game units ($ of market) have actually kept their shares or possibly even grown slightly. However, mobile gaming use has exploded.
So your assessment isn't really correct. Some people like to play on PCs. Some like to play consoles. An increasing number of people are playing games on their mobiles, which implies that mobile gaming is actually exploiting new customers or situations, not taking away from the existing gamer pool.
Personally, I think mobile gaming is great, but only when I am sitting on the toilet. Basically, it's good for me to poop on!
In my country its up to the parents to buy textbooks and materials for their children. Why isn't it like that in the USA? Or do only rich White or Asian parents do that, not the poor or Black or Hispanic parents?
I like how you worked a racist comment into that last (incomplete) clause.
But it's a little different when China is on your Northern border and likes the buffer that you provide from Democracy.
Kind of like how the US feels about Canada.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso
