Comment Re:Environmental damage? (Score 0) 90
I was going to say this, but you beat me to it.
I was going to say this, but you beat me to it.
If I end up having to pay for your lack of preparedness, which I am, yes.
They have enough other characters that Mickey and Minnie have become obsolete. I was just there and we saw those two in only very limited circumstances.
Quantum is the new climate change
He's destroying that which makes it actually scarce. He's putting it on the blockchain, which means that no one, even the owner, will have an authentic original. They'll just be able to say that they paid for it. And, nothing he's creating is custom made. The only positive thing you can say about him is that his art was shite in the first place, and he's doing a great job swindling morons.
I see single use plastic as being similar to if I gathered firewood, built a fire, carved a stick into a spoon, ate with the spoon, and then burned the spoon to stay warm. The only problem is that we aren't burning our plastic waste for energy.
I'm not sure, but I don't think my parents thought I would actually do it. Straight A's in school, and raising over a hundred dollars by myself at the age of 7. We lived in the woods, half way between a town and a village. Money making opportunities were not plentiful.
My first computer was a Commodore VIC-20. I wrote my Mom a program to store her recipes on cassette tapes, but she didn't want to use it. I was really upset. Switched to writing games. Hey, come play the game I wrote! This is taking forever to load off a cassette tape, my Atari loads the game instantly, this sucks, let's do something else.
I was so happy to get my first floppy drive. I had to get straight A's for my parents to cover half the cost, and I raised the rest of the money delivering newspapers, mowing lawns, raking leaves and shovelling snow.
My second computer was a Commodore 64.
I even taught myself assembly. Haven't used it since I was a child, though.
I'm in my 40s and in a leadership role at my company; I refuse to use or accept business cards from anyone and have for more than 20 years. There is absolutely no reason, whatsoever, that anyone should use them in 2022.
The program never should have existed in the first place. The leadership should have been fired and sued for implementing it at all. They violated the core values of the project as defined by the mission statement and used money donated for a specific and clearly articulated purpose to further their own personal political goals. They're thieves.
Blame the feminists and the transgender activists for that.
Seriously.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/...
They created the Outreach Program for Women in 2014, disregarded their responsibilities to act as stewards to the project and almost drove the Gnome Foundation into bankruptcy wasting money that was in short supply on "gender issues".
This is the context which should have been added to the blurb IMHO. Over the course of 2021, Google was doing ~5.6B per day.
While 2.5B in a year is admirable, particularly because competition in the search space is incredibly important; Brave isn't even making a dent.
So, the death toll was 0.5% of the population. In a building housing 1000 people, the 5 oldest and sickest died.
That was worth the sacrifices made.
They're not inexpensive in the least (an S90 starts at 52K) and are quite comparable in price to BMW and Mercedes. I am not claiming those are 'rich person's toys' but there are plenty of folks who make good money and are driving them.
1. Netflix used to have popular movies and TV shows that were either more prominent (unsearchable/algorithmically curated view is NOT advantageous) or simply are no longer available due to planning or competition from other services.
2. HBO Max is absolutely destroying Netflix (and other services) in quality content--both created as well as curated.
3. HBO Max started coming 'free' with my mobile phone plan whereas Netflix is raising its prices and offering me less quality content.
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I realize it's not an easy solution on the content side, but there are other opportunities for Netflix to really make a dent in their losses, but for whatever reason they're just not doing it.
"He don't know me vewy well, DO he?" -- Bugs Bunny