GreyEyedGhost

1300 was the end for me, at least reading at a reasonable pace. I might have squeezed out another century or two, parsing together context and other clues, but that is only through the benefit of knowing the story being told.

But it is a valid counter-argument to the validity of the second amendment. Even if you got a thousand or two of your well-armed friends together to topple the tyranny, you would likely only win the battle and not the war.

As a non-American, I should be unsurprised I’m more familiar with International Morse Code.

I saw Crime 101. It’s a good enough movie, but I wouldn’t say it has much in the way of political or social commentary, except some basic Robin Hood philosophy.

That’s like saying sex isn’t illegal…except when it is.

Most compounds aren’t magnetic, some but not all alloys are, and there are a few advanced materials that aren’t really metallic but are still magnetic. As a general rule, non-metallic compounds aren’t magnetic, and our bodies can’t absorb most metals in their elemental state.

If you’d had those iron pills in your pocket, there’s a very good chance nothing would have happened. I wouldn’t try this on the sly for the sake of science, though. Those iron supplements would have been some iron compounds and would have as much in common with metallic iron as table salt does with metallic sodium.

Here’s a quote I stumbled across a couple decades ago.

I like paying taxes. With them I buy civilization.

A lot of these products used to be good. 25 years ago, Outlook was the only option for mail and calendar because they worked well and nothing else was as simple or integrated. Windows XP brought an enterprise-class OS with true multitasking to the consumer. MSN messenger didn’t have all the features of Teams, but it was a serious contender in the IM space. And now, I have Outlook every now and then telling me I have new mail but I cant see it until I restart the app, Windows gets shittier and more intrusive every day, and Teams on Android cant send me a notification about an upcoming meeting until the meeting actually starts, if I get a notification at all. I also wonder how they ended up this way given they were class leaders just decades ago.

Now if we can get alternatives that don’t have all the problems of Microsoft at its heyday, let alone now, that would be amazing. I already have my console alternative, just a few more pieces.

Well, you can keep going to the restaurant with hair in the food. It’s not a problem with their practices, my standards are just unreasonably high. Whatever you have to tell yourself to justify why you keep eating food with hair in it.

I feel like people who were never gonna buy it no matter what the price tag was just want something to be mad at.

So if no one responds, it’s because they have no rebuttal, but if they do, they’re proving your point. Quite the big brain theory there. My point was that it had nothing to do with the price tag, except that the value proposition isn’t there when they can just stop giving you access whenever it becomes inconvenient for them. Moreover, while I have regrets about buying stuff on the Wii store, I’m not angry at them. So it just sounds like you’re saying I’m not much of a customer for a restaurant that I don’t go to anymore just because I got food poisoning a few times. Must be me and not them. And you sound like you’re defending a shitty company because people say their product isn’t worth buying.

You’re right, because I’ve literally done it before with them and have nothing to show for it. So which of us is the fool?

It doesn’t matter that much if it’s based on open source if you can’t modify the the unregulated parts and have absolutely no privacy.

When I had a Wii, I bought games I had played and wanted to play on the NES when I was younger. Now I have nothing to show for it. Never again. At least with Steam, GOG, or pirating, the power is in my hands to keep those games for as long as I can. Nintendo doesn’t give me that option in any legal manner.

…so most were surprised.

Those numbers are meaningless. The population of Europe is about 750M, with a population density of 73/km². The population of the Americas is about 1000M with a population density of less than 25/km². So, if simple population was all that mattered, one would expect more in the Americas. However, if population density matters more, one would expect more transmission, and more cases in Europe. Also, measles vaccination in Europe is 94% while it is 88% in the Americas. That sounds close, but a better way of looking at it is twice as many people in the Americas are refusing the vaccine than in Europe.

This is a global issue, but it’s twice as bad in the Americas.

One definition of humor is pain plus distance. The pain is possibly moderate, and the distance for me to do that is impossible to bridge. Sounds pretty funny to me.

I’m willing to accept the idea of software patents, provided they follow the premise of “novel to an expert in the field”. So if you walk up to a software engineer, ask them how to do something, and they cobble together something that more or less performs the desired task in a similar manner, then the patent is rejected.

I figure 10 or 20 software patents would have made it past this kind of test. Rounded corners on rectangles? No. Gif compression algorithm? No. But maybe there are 10 or 20 truly novel ideas that were patented.

Plenty of people Trump has thrown under the bus have said nice things before then. All he cares about is himself and money. The second anyone gets between him and money (or power, which leads to money), under they go.

Why do you think Trump would care about this ‘journalist’ any more than he did the other journalist, when the other party is giving him money and/or power?

I’m kind of okay with bleeding heart liberal, and also pretty okay with bleeding neck conservative.