I did it not too long ago, so I could listen to an album in the car. Until... very recently the car had a sound system would could play CDs, but it had no aux jack. It did have a USB jack, but it only understood Apple iPod/iPhones (and recently, it looks like Google or Samsung or whoever disabled outputting USB audio). So... CD it was!
I've had this stupid "load all comments" problem for a year now. It used to be there was a preference that would load all comments, but that seems to have disappeared. If I'm clicking on a story, I want to read the comments.
For ten bucks a month I can stream almost anything I want legally.
"Buying" songs in any format is an obsolete model.
Assuming your service is even legal, it won't be around much longer. The industry is aggressively moving towards pay-per-view/pay-per-listen. On the movie side, they detest Netflix and their all-you-can-eat for a low price model and have been doing everything in their power to kill them. On the music side, the royalty system is already firmly in place, but I guarantee you that every single music industry decision maker thinks that your $10/month music service is at waaaaaaay too low of a price.
"Buying" songs in any format is an obsolete model.
Well, you have that part mostly right.
Dragon's Den is Shark Tank's parent show. Dragon's Den was based on/inspired by the Japanese show "Money Tigers."
Some of those strangers are interesting people. You can talk to a dozen different people, each with a unique perspective on the world, some of them quite insightful or funny, during lunch
Most of them are not, and there are enough who are completely crazy or sociopaths to make the occasional bright spot not worth it.
My favorite part is the use of the third person, as if he's trying to convince us that APK is not the author of those posts.
Because they all still suck compared to face to face communication.
In three paragraphs he bitches about what we really wants to complain about, tosses in a snide reference to Americans investigating corruption, and then insinuiates that maybe there are other pieces of history for which the Americans have also acted corrupt and dishonorably. There's not even a pretense of denying Russia was corrupt.
This is pretty much how Russians argue, from top officials to media pundits to paid Internet trolls. Deflect the conversation away from your own corruption, however you can.
After all, if person X is indicted for corruption, but unrelated persons Y and Z aren't ALSO indicted for unrelated matters at the same time, well then it's just not fucking fair and the whole thing has to be dropped!
Rhetoric that you don't have to follow up on is very cheap.
Look at all the stupid shit American politicians say, seriously stupid shit that doesn't even hint of benign as the FIFA investigation. Every time any Russian says anything it is Putin's fault or the whole Russian governments fault. Yet the endless stream of bullshit spouting out from the whackddoodles that infest the US congress and senate is considered as not being from the US government at all this by the US government.
Well that's what happens when you crack down on the media that doesn't toe your particular brand of bullshit. People tend to assume that the stuff you let through has your seal of approval. It's hardly a "Russian" problem either, it's fairly common in any country where the media is strictly controlled by the state. Plenty of people elsewhere think Fox News does Obama's bidding just because their news outlets are controlled by their government.
this echoes what I've always thought. There were too many people involved too keep it a secret
That never, ever stops a conspiracy theorist.
I think he just likes playing Godzilla. He's a Wookiee bully.
I see your triangle and I'll raise you one Timecube.
Can you give me an example? Because right now this ability looks like the tiger-repellent rock to me.
The United States vs the Soviet Union, for one. There are many examples, but a notable one was the secret communication that Chairman Khrushchev made to President Kennedy. It was a very long and emotional. While the two leaders were brash with each other in public speeches, privately Khrushchev begged Kennedy:
"It is thus that we, Soviet people, and, together with US, other peoples as well, understand the questions of war and peace. I can, in any case, firmly say this for the peoples of the Socialist countries, as well as for all progressive people who want peace, happiness, and friendship among peoples. [...] Consequently, if there is no intention to tighten that knot and thereby to doom the world to the catastrophe of thermonuclear war, then let us not only relax the forces pulling on the ends of the rope, let us take measures to untie that knot. We are ready for this. [...] There, Mr. President, are my thoughts, which, if you agreed with them, could put an end to that tense situation which is disturbing all peoples. These thoughts are dictated by a sincere desire to relieve the situation, to remove the threat of war." *
I think it's pretty certain that Krushchev and Kennedy being able to talk to each other helped diffuse a situation that brought the superpowers closest to the nuclear brink.
It was after the Cuban Missile Crisis that the Moscow Washington direct hotline was installed so that the leaders could communicated directly to resolve crises.
What's the difference between posting as AC or using a random nickname?
You leave a history with that nickname. The longer the history is, the more chances you will have of leaving something identifiable. Idiom usage and sentence construction at first, but as months turn to years, chances grow that you start mentioning enough things about the place where you live to narrow things down to a geographic location. And if you mention specific events or things that only you or a few others know, you're really setting yourself up for trouble.
You are in a maze of little twisting passages, all alike.
