The fact that big companies collect and sell your data is common knowledge now, definitely not something esoteric that only people in privacy-conscious bubbles know of. However, “normal” people refuse to not follow every trend or get inconvenienced.
Can you cash out the gold for real money? I doubt it, so it will not be the “poor guy trying to earn some cents” type of spam, it will be the classic redditors trying to farm awards circlejerk which has plagued reddit for a long time
What’s that, a cloud gaming service?
Imagine the following scene straight out of the science fiction storybook,” he writes. “You are beamed into a town full of people going about their business, trading in gadgets, clothes, shoes, books, songs, games and movies. At first everything looks normal. Until you begin to notice something odd. It turns out all the shops, indeed every building, belongs to a chap called Jeff.
Isn’t this analogous to company towns that paid you in scrip? It seems to me that more people would get behind him if he argued that we’ve “regressed” to worse capitalist practices than saying that capitalism is dead.
I remember reading a quote about how coalitions are essentially agreeing on the least-radical platform, with nothing taken from the more radical members. I thought it was in the state and revolution, but I couldn’t find it. If someone knows what I’m talking about, please post it here.
If 95% of ford owners were satisfied with their black cars, vs 40% for another manufacturer that provides cars in multiple colors, then ford would be the better manufacturer.
Enough for them to believe that they live in a democracy, it seems (and I don’t say that sarcastically).
It’s not like people in liberal democracies have more influence. We can’t choose who runs, and each individual’s vote is negligible. I don’t know the specifics of China’s government, but I suspect they value being able to influence local policy and higher official elections via the Communist Party more than a direct vote on its leader – I would too, honestly.
I’d say that it has confidence in that, but their elections and government are structured in a different way.
The CCP has higher approval rates than western governments and the vast majority of Chinese believe they are living in a democracy. This is confirmed by western studies; latest one I’ve seen was from Harvard.
Honestly English is a solid language: no conjugations, no gendered nouns, minimal articles – the only problem I (and most other people) have with it is that words are not written phonetically.
The program itself is actually called paint.net
Not really, since bits and bytes represent the same dimension of data.
Your argument is like saying “why say a car can do km/h when it is really m/s”
Belly? That illustration is (far) slimmer than the average middle-aged American
How so? You get a detailed bill each 2-3 months, and the percentage each apartment pays is always the same. It’s not a random dude pooling together money each month, there’s a detailed process involved. There are managerial firms that take over the process if the people at building decide so, at like 1 euro or so per apartment (per month)
The issues with this system are people not paying and that it’s harder to maintain the building before something breaks (plus “aesthetic” expenses, such as painting it) because people don’t want to pay more
That’s true if one person owns every other apartment in the building, but it could be the case that every apartment is owned by different people.
That’s usually the case here in Greece. No one owns the building itself and everyone pays a monthly amount towards the building’s utility bills (the costs of running the elevator, entrance lights etc). The larger your apartment the more you contribute. When the apartment is rented, the renter usually pays the bill, but when there’s maintenance costs involved (for example, the building’s elevator broke), the landlord pays that part.
You’re equating monthly cloud storage payments to paying 40$ per TB of external HDD storage?
For reference, 200GB of iCloud storage are 3$/month, so 36$ per year.
Check prices before you make comments like this.
Competition is good, unless it’s competition from [enemy country] on [critical industry].
Same BS as with the WSJ opinion article that didn’t want Chinese electric cars on Europe because European car manufactures wouldn’t be able to compete.
He is coming from a country that suffered terrorist attacks organized by the US (Operation Mongoose), being ready to fire his country’s deterrent weapons if they don’t stop receiving such attacks makes sense to me.
And at over one thousand pages long, one can also say it’s infinite