I guess if estimates say 5% of fuel, but...
- half or more of flights are in the winter, when there are no bugs or a lot less of them.
- most flights spend most of their time at bug free altitudes.
- many airports are in urban areas with reduced bug populations
Is this mostly a small plane phenomenon?
In my perception jQuery has basically become the JavaScript standard library.
Basically any combination of frontend toolkits has it included somewhere, so you don't even have to worry about doing that. It's the default for Joomla and Wordpress and there are a measurable amount of functions that take care of the gruntwork and normalize utility across browsers.
On top of that, the amount of JS projects relying on jQuery as a foundation is staggering. The secondary market has tools built around the jQuery ecosystem and the project as a whole does an excellent job at marketing and advocating.
I personally see the next generation in such avantgarde stuff as Googles Polymer (pretty amazing) but until everyone has moved to SPAs and web components - which is not happening any time soon - but until then it's not the worst idea to familiarize yourself with the concepts and the utility funcitons of jQuery.
My 2 cents.
No, we need a court to determine whether a company can block something for you.
Which seems odd considering that Net Nanny and the likes have been offering essentially the exact same service for years now and nobody bothered to complain.
While true, judges tend to follow the ruling on the table. If only to appear consistent and not wanting to contradict their peers.
Twice so in a matter where most judges don't have the slightest inkling of an idea what's going on. Like, say, "anything computer/internet".
I think silver has been a reasonable competitor to gold as a commodity metal. The Romans used it, I'm pretty sure the Pound Sterling is called that for a reason, the Americans used it, etc.
It was probably because its much lower scarcity that it was used as "change" versus higher denomination/value coinage made from gold.
Your faith in humanity is commendable, but misplaced. Your argument is that companies that abuse their users and the trust those users place into it will lose them.
And you even mention Facebook in your post...
Seriously. Companies actually used to be bothered by bad customer reviews and tried to appear like they're user friendly. But by now they learned that they can essentially treat their users like garbage and they'll still come back. Pick any large company and you'll notice that their customer policy at best just sucks. At worst it's outright hostile. They should go out of business. Yet they don't.
What does visiting the page have to do with viewing ads? Is this the early 90s?
Even a service, program or product I'm interesting in becomes quickly boring and soon after annoying when I get to see the same ad or trailer over and over and over and over.
Take your favorite show. Pick the 30 most interesting seconds of it. Now try to imagine another show you like being interrupted again and again to show you those same 30 seconds.
And then tell me that this isn't going to be annoying after no later than the fifth time.
I'd sell you a pound of bread for a pound of gold. I'm pretty sure nearly any shop would do so, too.
Fiat currencies are not an outright ponzi scheme, but they're essentially exactly the same as Bitcoins: They are accepted because people think they will still have value in some foreseeable future.
That's basically pretty much the general idea behind money. Be it Euros, Dollars, Bitcoins, gold or some shiny pebbles. And all of them have in common that they cannot be multiplied by the average person at leisure.
The huge advantage our current fiat money has over the others is that governments can multiply it at leisure. But that's at best an advantage for governments, not for us. Because we have to have faith in that government giving a shit about us trusting it.
And I don't really think that's currently really something I'd put my money on, so to speak.
HBO is the best value on my cable bill, right after the 100mbit internet.
Really!? you might ask. $15/month for that? Well, yes. I like the programming (this is the network that brought us "The Sopranos", "The Wire", "Game of Thrones", "True Detective", and I could go on and on ("Last Week Tonight", anyone?). All this with no commercials, because I paid for superior programming without commercials.
I get the HBO GO service for that same money, and I can time shift what I want to watch with a ChromeCast, and I can watch just about all of HBO's original programming with the HBO GO service -- not just the current stuff. Sure, I'd like it better if it was $10/month.
With HBO NOW, HBO has figured out how to cut the need to actually buy cable TV out of the picture. You can just subscribe and buy their content over the internet directly.
What I'm waiting for is true a-la-carte television, with real options. Pay $15 a month for HBO, or $3/episode for "Game of Thrones", or don't pay, but answer surveys or watch advertising to watch for free. People who don't want ads could pay, people who have the time but not the money could fill out survey or watch ads to watch for free.
And that's by no means any better than "normal" commercials.
Let's look at it and see if it looks, walks, swims and flies like a duck...
Does it interrupt the program I'm watching? Yes.
Is it something that does not interest me? Yes.
Is it repeated so often that you can speak along? Hell yes.
The fact that it's for a movie instead of some female hygiene product doesn't matter.
At least we get turned back to being the customer after having been the product far too long.
What you fail to address, at least in my understanding, is the difference in the premise. Golf players are on unequal grounding because of their abilities. Not someone else's prejudice or bias they depend on. They are unequal because of skill.
The purpose of the handicap in golf is also not to make the players equal but to make a game between them interesting. You will notice that it does not apply as soon as it's no longer "for fun" but actually in professional competition. Because it makes no sense altogether to do so. Why bother learning, training, practicing and pretty much spending your life honing your skill and getting better when we get to the PGA tour and I enter, get a handicap of half a billion so I can compete with the likes of Rory McIlroy or Jordan Spieth. I should be able to compete with them, right? It would be unfair if I couldn't, just 'cause they practiced all their life and I don't even know which end of that long metal thing to grasp and what end to swing.
Tell me about the time in the last 2500 years when gold wasn't valuable.
It has a value which has fluctuated over time, but it never seems to become valueless, either because of its history as a means of exchange, its intrinsic value as a material, or both.
With your bare hands?!?
