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Or they're just being awkwardly disingenuous here, that's also a possibility.
Says who? First of all, it really is debatable if animated gif even is a movie. It has no sound, is usually far shorter than the usual video clip, etc. Second, animated gifs are very often created solely for the purpose of displaying them in a short looping fashion. Third, the fact that all this can be done in a single image format makes them ideal for sharing through the web as well as private chat applications. And fifth, and this is what this is of course all about, sharing short animated gifs gives the user the possibility to share rich content not tied to any private business or entity. You can share 'em via Whatsapp, Telegram, e-mail, usb-stick, have a collection of them stored somewhere, without the need for a Facebook/Google/Amazon account and internet connectivity. You can look lovingly at them, even when your phone is in flight mode. Let's keep it that way. Let's not kill one of the nicest image formats around, and make everybody visit your website to see the embedded movie including horrid player that's supposed to be better but just isn't and never will be. Lot's of companies already did this (hi Twitter) and it's really disheartening to know that while I was able to collect a nice bunch of animated gifs over the years, my kids will probably never have that chance because the file format will just be walled off by the internet giants.
Who needs a shortcut to Ease of Access settings, or to the narrator? Who needs Start+, if you already have Start+D?
Start+Ctrl+D opens a new virtual desktop? Despite me never using virtual desktops? And now I have to learn all about virtual desktops (while I don't need them) to correct my accidentally pressing the Start button too when I was typing Ctrl+D. Thanks guys, for making every key-combo some or the other shortcut for stuff I don't need. My windows experience is quite good but for the growing fear of accidentally hitting some unknown shortcut and screwing things up.
Microsoft, please start removing shortcuts that no one needs, you surely must have all the telemetry data to support my point by now.
After a few years of course it was concluded that it wasn't the pilots fault.
I find it appalling that Boeing is always and every time trying its damndest to blame the crew, even before the investigation has concluded. This is a pattern, and imho should be penalized by law. Its disgusting to blame people who are dead and cannot defend themselves against the allegations, when there's no conclusive evidence. I wonder if they apologize to the crews family when they do that and are later found out the be in the wrong. I suspect they couldn't care less though.
Leaves me wondering if it varies in size much, because electron flow is quite easy.
And also, I think science is never settled. Science is a never ending stream of questions, with every answer evoking multiple new questions to be answered. The idea that the "science is settled" has reared it's ugly head multiple times in the past, to be proven wrong every single time. What if bloodletting was as some point considered "settled science" and no discussion of alternatives was allowed? We would still be doing bloodletting, wouldn't we?
For example: Let's implement authentication, where a user logs in to your api and receives a session id to send along with every api call for authentication. The session should automatically be invalidated after x hours of inactivity.
How would you track that inactivity time, if you're not allowed to change state on get requests?