Posts by Purple-Stater 137 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Apr 2014
In the USA there is no government-recognized registry of service animals, nor support animals. Support animals are not service animals and are afforded no special benefits at all. Service animals are generally dogs only, but there is a very limited exception for some miniature horses.
Since they're planning on charging for the use of their VPN, how do you propose that they regulate this without having people create an account of some sort?
If you don't want to use it, you don't need an account. It's hardly an imposition.
Why wouldn't people still use Yahoo! for e-mail? It might not have all of the pretty bells and whistles of more modern providers but, for the vast majority of users, it functions exactly the same as any other e-mail provider.
Changing your e-mail provider just because your current one is old, is about as senseless as replacing your 6-month old smartphone because a newer model's been released.
I completely understand why manufacturers avoid the larger platter, but am surprised that they don't use the full-height format again, to simply double the number of platters. If weight/resistance is an issue on the motor, it shouldn't be that big of a deal to use two motors (one for each half of the platters). Has any HD manufacturer ever tried using more than one set of read/write heads, in order to have more data throughput with lower spin speeds?
The changes aren't massive, and I slightly like it better as a picture can help decide if an article is relevant to my interests, though that leads to a bigger problem as Reg hasn't been all that big on relevant pictures. That also kinda makes the entire page look like "sponsored" material.
For me, ribbon-loathing is due to icons being less intuitive than text labels; the fact that it takes up more valuable horizontal space when vertical space is more available, then combine that with the fact that our eyes scan text vertically more efficiently (or mine do, anyways); plus the layout of icons/labels on the ribbon is rather haphazard.
I also have no problems with the concept of advertising paying for our time on the internet; provided that said advertising is static, not installing cookies, viruses, or general malware.
This sentence: "Since this generation has decided not to pay for anything, least of all for factual information investigated by salaried journalists..." is bollocks though, at least the specification of "this generation," and especially since the paragraph it appears in continues to detail that the problem basically existed since the very first internet generation. As the phrase "this generation" typically refers to the youngest generation of adults/consumers, this generation has never been the target audience of salaried journalists, unless you're specifically talking about gaming hardware.
If the acquisition does go through, expect Amazon/Whole Foods to skyrocket to the top. Prime members will be more than happy to jump on getting free (and probably same-day) delivery of their groceries, even if they cost a little more. No more big shopping trips, just order a couple items every day and watch landfills explode.
"Tip #1. Don't read Facebook for your news!"
Are you trying to tell me that the "news" articles on Facebook that I ready by following the Guardian and BBC are different that the articles I read directly on their websites?
Certainly, I don't follow Facebook News (basic ad-blockers seem to weed that mess out quite nicely), but Facebook itself is a great place to read your news, you just have to be smart enough to not follow those groups that spew the fake garbage in the first place.
"Curiously, when Mythbusters had a go at this the only way they could persuade a CD to shatter was with a modified angle grinder to spin it up."
That was the very first episode I ever watched, and it put me off the show for years. Eventually I accepted (my wife helped a lot) the idea that, as in the more typical sciences, some proven experiments simply don't like being reliably reproduced.
"Ploy all along, I think he knew it wouldn't fly, that it'd get struck down, but now, it's not his fault, he's tried, he's done what he said he would on the campaign trail, and the elite have stopped him, the liberals are holding the nations safety back. It plays into his narrative perfectly."
For any normal politician this would be both perfect and correct. But Trump is neither normal, nor a politician. His personality cannot tolerate the impression that he might be wrong, or might have failed at something. Well, at least not unless it's somebody else's fault.
A couple decades back, when there weren't many sources for little computer odds and ends, and I had made a couple purchases of kit from a mail order company called CyberGuys, via a catalog.
One day at work, on my lunch break, I decided to check out their website and discovered, due to poor memory, that there was an entire universe of difference between cyberguys.com (PC parts) and cyberdudes.com (people parts).
"But why specifically tallow? Who not something vegetable based like a shortening?"
Amongst other properties, tallow is a solid at a fairly high temperature, with a melting point of approx. 42C (107F). In the realm of transport and processing I could see that being a factor.
"That is the single most stupid argument for meat eating that exists, unless you're a cannibal."
Surely it would be much sillier to eat a cow because she was spying on you via telepathy, or hadn't trimmed her hooves properly? I must admit great difficulty in finding a better reason to eat something than "it is food"; one does not eat a rock simply because it tastes better than an onion (I speak in generalities, your tastes may vary).
"If listening to audio doesn't work for you then podcasts are not for you. Not that complicated."
Perhaps they asked about transcripts specifically because listening to audio doesn't work for them. Some people simple do not process audio very well and many radio services do provide transcripts as a service to the hearing impaired. It's not that complicated.
@JOHN 104
>>And I don't have contempt for poor people. I have contempt for lazy fucks who won't do anything to change their circumstances and blame others for their problems.<<
But you're completely happy & self-righteous condemning and punishing 100% of those in need just because 1% of them are lazy.
@JOHN 104
I'm sick to death of those who constantly blame "lazy fucks" when they've managed to live a magical life and automatically assume that everyone one else in the entire freakin' world has the same access to assistance when life gets tough (either via the government, family or friends) and the same access to education and employment when life is otherwise carefree.
I'm also sick to death of asshats who automatically think that if you, as an individual or politician, give a single flying fuck about anybody in the world besides yourself, then you're a "libtard". And in case you missed it, the "libtard" that initially approved the free phones was the patron saint of conservatives, Reagan, who ironically would be labelled a libtard if he was involved in politics today.
It's a tough world when the people who benefit more from a country's resources have pay a bit more than others for that privilege, rather than sit back and laugh while the less fortunate whither off from disease and starvation. Poor you.
"A common tactic used to stamp out individual bad behaviour within a group is to punish the group as a whole. The idea being that the group will then begin self-police to remove the bad behaviour.
It often works quite well."
Please, the next you are having a problem with a co-worker, let your boss know that you approve of this method of punishment.
"Sounds like an improvement over ObamaCare where you have all the above plus ~$5,000 bill."
That's the American healthcare system in general, before and after Obamacare. Except that, generally speaking, Obamacare has slowed the rate of increase in insurance premiums, on average.
" the dinosaur was so far north that it would have lived in darkness for months at a time"
From the points of darkness, and frigid cold... even beyond the likelihood that they were actually warm-blooded, and the fact that the planet was a lot warmer overall back then, perhaps they simply had seasonal migrations.
Good games, and good memories, but for now I'll just wait for Total War: Kings of War instead. I won't be holding my breath for it though. Games Workshop has made it perfectly clear that they are not a games company, and as a gamer I'll put my money into the IP of companies that are.
or it's somebody with no sense of humour who will point out in an imminent post that women can produce breast milk without becoming pregnant.
To be technical, so can men, it just takes longer.
I've always been a bit annoyed by the term "breast milk"; it's simply milk. Human milk if there's a need to specify the species of origin. We don't say cow's udder milk, and human's aren't the only species with breasts (vs udders).
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