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Making blanket statements after one or even a handful of experiences doesn't help anyone and can be said about things also not relating to churches as well.
It happens where you get a game try it and it doesn't work on your hardware or it just wasn't what you expected.
I'd gladly pay a 10-20% restocking fee for whatever process they need to do to recycle that key and issue a refund rather than be stuck with a game that will never be played again in my library.
After playing a game more than 2 hours good luck getting a refund on steam, and good luck finding out how much you really enjoy a game in 2 hours.
30 days seems a bit extreme and I do see it ripe for abuse.
Let them work for you!
I recall recently some animated thing was on a top of a Cam site and the girls were up in arms upset that people were watching a cartoon over them.
Would it fall on the creator of the cartoon? What is the creator of the cartoon is literally an advanced A.I.? Would it then fall on the creators of the AI?
I used to smoke a pack a day, and when I switched to vaping I personally felt much better. I was able to do things a bit better than when I was smoking cancer sticks.
Looking back I was lying to myself thinking it was just as good as quitting. I didn't feel the heavy tar on my lungs like cigarettes. I still noticed when pushing myself on work outs or hiking or biking or anything requiring aerobic activity that I would get sick to my stomach and almost puke like when you run long distance and are not used to it. I could go further than when I smoked but I would always hit this "wall" where I would get sick.
Quit 100% 3 months ago and took up XC Skiing. I could only do 2 miles when I first started. Just last week I did 10 miles and I have been going once on the weekend every week so in 12 sessions I was able to 5x my aerobic ability.
Starting at 0%, switching to vaping I would say made me feel/perform overall 15-20% better compared to cigarettes.
Quitting vaping filled in that other 80% and the difference is like night and day and so obvious I was lying to myself to keep the habit alive longer than I needed to.
Smoking timeline:
Smoked 18-30, transitioned to vaping.
30-31 vaped 12mg juice.
31-32 vaped 6mg juice.
32-33 vaped 3mg juice.
33-34 vaped 0 mg juice.
Quit Vaping 100% last Thanksgiving cold turkey (really was just mental habit at this point smoking 0 mg juice) 3 months vape free!
First year we received close to $1200 and in 2004 being a poor college kid this was an amazing bonus.
The 2nd year there was a series of high value thefts so we only ended up getting like $250 or so.
Our Lost Prevention employee who was just some guy who looked at security cameras all day, went out of his way on his own time to research all the same stolen items looking for them in local craigslist/pawn shops and finally e-bay.
He found one account on e-bay that coincidentally was selling all the same items our store kept missing! (Some of these were brand new laptops)
The account name of the seller was firstinitial+lastname+numbers
He took that account name, and cross referenced it with our employees and found a match. He then forwarded all this information to the police.
I remember one day going to our monthly manager's meeting (once a month had a store wide meeting where managers went over everything with all employees)
We did the entire meeting, free pizza and donuts, talked numbers shrink etc, and the best part was that on the last page of the presentation they had the guy running the Lost Prevention department come up to talk shrink. He explained everything above and then flipped the presentation paper to the last page which had the e-bay account giant sized on the paper. He said this is the person who has been caught selling everything and they will be taken care of.
We all turned around from our meeting and there were police offers waiting to arrest the perpetrator on the spot.
Said person was a 20 year old who had everything handed to him on a silver platter. He drove a $40,000 car his parents paid for type of thing where most of us had rusted beaters to drive around.
He was doing it only for the thrill, worked in the electronics department so he was able to steal things from the cages when trucks came in and you are supposed to unload all the pallets.
I just remember that meeting so vividly because they let the kid go through everything, thinking everything is normal and I wish I was able to see his face when his username was shown right away.
I won't forget his face and cries as he was being arrested saying, "You cannot prove that is me!" even though it was his first initial + last name and year he was born in.....
If you came in mid year they just pro rated the amount you would have gotten if you stayed the whole year.
I remember this helped employees keep an eye on each other as you were essentially stealing from everyone else's shrink check.
Can't wait for thought crime to be a thing.
I heard the sugar industry lobbied very hard to remove this because a typical adult only needs 30 grams of sugar or so and if soda companies had to put 150-200% per serving next to the sugar it may hinder sales.
>Five British citizens contracted the virus in the French Alpine town of Contamines-Montjoie, health authorities said Sunday. On Monday, the U.K. said it confirmed new cases linked to a British man who went a conference in Singapore.
Literally the next paragraph they say that they were linked to a British man who traveled to Singapore, such poor reporting from cnbc to make it seem otherwise.
Best would be to take everyone off cruise ship, assume everyone is infected and keep them in quarantine on land for observation before being released.
I think it is more known now about how long it takes to show symptoms so I would say if someone exceeds that period by 35-50% they should be free to go from quarantine.
I have no experience at all in the medical field or know anything other than what is being regurgitated in the media so take my opinion less than a grain of salt.
The owners liked the vehicles so much they offered to buy them outright from the company so they could at least keep the cars they liked.
They raised the few million needed to pay off everyone's lease.
Company refused and took all the cars away anyway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_the_Electric_Car%3F
Driving down a country road where it snowed 12 inches overnight....and there are drifts up to 2 feet in some parts in your 4WD car and let me know how plowing snow with your bumper goes.
I do agree that the situation where you need this type of vehicle is quite niche and for the majority of people it's about status and not functionality.
That is a great idea, in cities there shouldn't be a need to have these types of vehicles.
I remember when I visited Germany back in 2005, it was strange not seeing a single truck anywhere! If you went to the country you would see trucks on farms and for people to personally use on their property.
In the 21 days I was there we drove around from city to city in a rental car, and I think other than freight vehicles, I saw probably 4 truck type vehicles.
Probably also due to the fact that Gasoline was the same price per liter as it was per gallon in the USA.
In this article I totally agree, that a Hummer, or type of vehicle that simply fulfills one's ego is a little silly and inherently selfish.
However trying to say that all big SUV's are inherently selfish without looking at the reasons someone who has a family may purchase one is quite disingenuous.
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3519708/has-your-win10...
>What really sticks out for me with some of these newer Search versions, is that they use a ton of memory. Click on the Search box and it immediately consumes 120+ MB of memory on my machine.
>I did a little digging around I think I figured out why … the entire search box is now a web application built with JavaScript & React. This of course means that some kind of web rendering engine is required … it’s probably Edge.
>There is a lot of evidence in the JavaScript source to suggest that it was built by the Bing team. If I had to guess, I’d say that what happened here was that the desktop search experience was moved from the Windows team to the Bing web team, and they just don’t have the skills to build desktop programs with efficient C++.
>And, it looks like there is a mechanism to update the JavaScript code from a remote server, without actually upgrading the Search application itself.
>Maybe this also explains why the bugs with the new Windows Explorer search bar haven’t been acknowledged by the Windows team … could very well be that the Windows team doesn’t even own that code anymore!
All the above is not confirmed just one person's idea.
The fix described in the article was to open up regedit as the current user.
C:\Windows\System32\regedt32
Go to
Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search
Right click -> New -> DWORD (32-bit)
Name this BingSearchEnabled - make sure value is set to 0.
Find CortanaConsent key and also check/make value set to 0.
Reboot machine.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/3/18293526/adobe-after-effec...
- Roman philosopher Seneca
https://www.ibm.com/blockchain/solutions/world-wire
https://www.stellar.org/papers/stellar-consensus-protocol.pd...