Why are US lawmakers so bad at their jobs that these kinds of work-arounds are a thing? Don't they get experts to write the laws, and then fire them if they screw up this badly?
I've noticed that a lot of US tech companies don't understand how this isn't normal, and when they discover that the same work-arounds don't work in Europe, they get very upset.
Their model seems to be people who don't use a car enough to warrant owning one, but want the convenience of having access to one and are willing to pay a premium for it.
Premium? As a (former I suppose) member, it was very much the not premium option, rather the cheap option. For occasional use, way cheaper than owning a car, way cheaper for odd jobs than hiring one too. Also hiring cars is an obnoxious pain in the arse on the whole.
... that it "falls victim to a cost of living crisis", then maybe something was severely wrong with the business model to begin with. Sharing cars should be substantially cheaper than "owning one's own" - if it is not, then why would anyone want to "share" it with strangers?
OK, not being an Angry Individualist American On The Internet(tm) I'm not pathologically allergic to "strangers". With that aside, it is a lot cheaper. The alternative to zipcar is generally speaking not using a car at all. The alternative is therefore largely speaking free. I have had good use out of a cargo bike hire, which is also much much cheaper.
Before you argue about the necessity of a car, just remember that fully one third of Americans do not have a license, and in the UK that number is one half. In the area of London, where I am, over 65% of households don't have regular access to a car.
Or just head over to The Pirate Bay and grab everything in a DRM-free format to enjoy.
To be fair, they don't. They want to slightly reduce the sun's output, so that it offsets the greenhouse effect we have caused. So no famine, just less catastrophic climate change (which causes famine) than we would otherwise experience.
The two biggest dangers are that we screw it up and dim too much, with no way to undo it, and that we use it as an excuse to keep polluting.
The UK just agreed a "deal" with the US where the cost of medication will rise by at least 25%. The cost of living crisis is not going away, it's getting worse.
Their model seems to be people who don't use a car enough to warrant owning one, but want the convenience of having access to one and are willing to pay a premium for it.
Yeah probably. I'm on Firefox with ublock, no script and privacy badger. I never see obnoxious ads.
I don't really understand the nerd rage against Firefox. Sure they've made some missteps, and I don't really like where the management of Mozilla is heading these days, but literally every alternative is objectively worse.
Translation: Microsoft has outsourced its QA to volunteers.
You mean MS has outsourced QA to AI. I would think volunteers would have found that issue quickly.
Depends on what "preview” means. If it means an alpha build meant to be internal, such a bug is fine. To me this build was meant to be shown and tested by customers and closer to a beta build. Nothing ruins testing like the inability to test anything.
One time my company was asked to test some software for a supplier. The software would not run after install on any of our computers. There were no errors displayed to give us hints about what could be wrong. Despite weeks of correspondence with their development team, we could never get the software to run. After the testing period was over, they sent us a questionnaire. Unfortunately we could not answer most of the questions as we could never get it to run. One final question was about the readiness of the software for production. We said the software was not ready for production.
The development team was not happy about that and emailed asking for reasons why we said that. I assume their supervisors read the questionnaire responses. We told them that any software that would not work after weeks of correspondence and no hint about what to fix was not production ready. They responded they had since fixed all installation issues in the latest version. We answered back that we could only test the version we were given and that version did not work.
Works fine for me... Try noscript?
I'm not a US lawyer, but I'd interpret that as they need to block commercial VPN services advertised for circumventing blocks.
They have given us a bit of a masterclass in engineering here. Identified a rare but important issue, took decisive action to ensure safety, and engineered a fix very quickly to get the aircraft back into service.
"Protozoa are small, and bacteria are small, but viruses are smaller than the both put together."
