Thank you.
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Thank you.
Owning a physical copy is not helping me play the game as Bliz has decided that license is no good.
An NFT could have the same experience. Nothing forcing the vendor to honor it.
Seems if NFT game licenses worked the way they are being talked about in this thread then there would be no way to ban players for bad behavior because it would be out of the hands of the developer. Which clearly isn't true.
When I was young I would hurt myself somehow and go to my mother saying
Me - My arm hurts when I do THIS (bend arm at elbow, back and forth)
Mom- Don't do that and it won't hurt.
Me - (Pikachu meme face)
https://www.wired.com/2011/10/iphone-keylogger-spying/
"The accelerometers in many smartphones could be used to decipher what you type into your PC keyboard. "
It is amazing to see every other type of animal come back stronger with the waning of industry.
WV lost a seat in the 2020 census. Would move seats from Maryland to WV. From Blue to Red.
I like to idea just to square off WV's eastern panhandle. It would look nice on a map with a flat top.
I can't turn that shit off fast enough.
Also, I really like Keri Byron from Myth busters, etc. This is not a complaint about a personality or whatever. Just this delivery that seems to be everywhere in tech sales pitches and time shares.
Among the list of nasty things we are doing, fracking stands out. Fresh water is scarce in much of the world. Ground water is drying up and massive aquafers are eroding.
Simultaneously we are pumping cancer directly in the ground, breaking up rocks, and mixing the cancer stuck in the rocks into the ground water. Pumping that cancer back out and ... god only knows what is really happening to it.
My town, which relied on well water for as long as it has been a town, had city water installed in 2005~. Right around the time all the well heads were going up. I would guess that my well is no longer safe/usable - though I have never had it tested.
Seems a real shame and extremely short sighted.
Muscle memory is a thing and moving buttons around makes using the app harder.
Similarly, I want apps to realize that is not the only app I have on my phone and my life is not going to revolve around using it.
I long for a culture of Software as a Tool, like the hammer in my garage, it exists for when I need it. It does not beckon me for attention or email me about how the handle got updated. It will not need a huge update the moment I pick it up. I do not want to log into my hammer.
Perhaps I am nostalgic for pre-fast internet software. You acquire some bit of software and install it and it is what it is until you, the person using the thing, goes and installs the newest version.
You would get used to the bugs in the version you had - knowing they wouldn't go away - but the software still had utility and you kept using it. Now I get used to something and it changes every 2 weeks and every not and then it breaks something I liked leaving me frustrated and complaining into the void.
Of course there are times hands-on action was taken but the vast majority was no touch communication and de-escalation followed by a whole lot of documentation coordinated with video surveillance.
Working on a communication (will call and email) to Ohio reps now, but they have less than zero reason to care about my opinion on the subject.
I contacted my ISP to see if they think it would impact them and asked if I can help in some way.
Apparently something similar passed in PA recently https://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadbloc...
That is to say, A municipal service exists as CompanyA and they started a private CompanyB to service people outside of the municipal service area. To the best of my knowledge it uses the same core infrastructure for both companies.
If they shutdown I will have no options in my area besides dish. It is a good product too; 400/10 with 40ms latency and very stable at a decent price.
Honestly, I would have to move to keep my job unless Starlink became available.
EDIT - I called my ISP and I am wrong. Both company A and B are private and this ruling will not impact them. While this news is still terrible, it should not impact me as directly as I had originally thought.
Not sure magnetic fields reach between planets, but between a planet and a moon?
Got me thinking about it again.
Trying to imagine how an object in space made mostly of iron moving around in the coldest parts of the universe might act or interact with other objects around it. Seems like if it is cold enough and there is enough metal around it might force some clumping of material.
Maybe nothing happens or it can't because where space is that cold there is also not much there to interact with? I am a casual consumer of science info, I don't know anything really. Just thinking out loud.
It seems to fit very well there.
In WV we have tons of old strip mine - we should fill them up with plants and bury it.
If we did something like that I imagine the biomass under the earth would compress over time and the land above would end up shifting and causing issues for anyone that wants to use it.
Edit - Daydreaming about this scenario and I am imagining trying to sell the idea of refilling the old coal mines with biomass to folks living in coal country. An interesting and funny situation.
Just found this as I was attempting to figure out what the bright light is off Newfoundland.