Honestly interested why this was downvoted, which yes makes for boring reading but I hope it results in some interesting argument. If you need a cookie banner it means you are collecting users' personal information. For many websites this is totally unnecessary. I do not like it if a website tells me how important my privacy is to them and then asks me to accept sharing all the information they can about me with other commercial entities. For no functional reason. I don't want to press accept that. As a insignificant little protest I want press reject. I want their statistics to show that some people don't like data being shared.
"I do not care about cookies", when it cannot just hide a popup will accept the terms and removes the option for this small protest from me. That is why I do not use it. Is this somehow wrong, offensive, off-topic?
"Block nags to accept cookies and privacy invasive tracking"
Took me a couple of tries to parse the senetence. Is this blocking or accepting privacy invasive tracking? Guess the former but kept reading it as the latter.
I guess the allure of physical events is twofold, to feel a connection with other fans and to feel a connection with the players. I wonder if this diminishes the latter. Maybe put the players somewhere else entirely and stream it in the form of these stage holograms.
The record can technically be correct but not in "pursuit of a legitimate interest". In that case the negative record can be "corrected".
So, in my case. When I was a teenager I opened a second bank account with credit card. In only used the card once for something small and forgot about it. Throughout the years the cost of this card started to built up, messages to pay back where not received because I already had a different address and phone number.
Years later this resulted in a negative BKR registration for me. I explained the situation to the bank (that could technically let the registration be removed) but they refused. Later I had a lawyer order them to remove the registration, on grounds that me forgetting about a credit card when I was young was no reason to believe I wouldn't be paying my mortgage. The registration was therefor not in "pursuit of a legitimate interest". The bank honored this.
Brave gives me a strong negative gut reaction. I really doubt crypto goes well with ethics. Looking at some of Brave's past transgressions confirms it for me. Sure, you can turn it off, just like you can remove the pineapple from pizza, the pizza is still ruined though.
In a way it became the complete opposite of how it started. At first one OS for many users, ea with many processes. Now, with containers, micro services etc. we have an OS per service/process. Still the original abstractions work surprisingly well though makes it me wonder how a complete redesign of would look like aimed at modern usage.
I have used Magic Mushrooms on occasion. They provided me with very valuable insights that led to make meaningful changes and choices in live. Insights that have stops my panic attacks, made me more appreciative and empathetic to others. I really believe I am at a better place in live because of those experiences. I am however very careful with taking them. Only when I feel very stable mentally and physically. Only when me and my environment is well prepared and not too often. I had a friend that took them after he split up with his girlfriend and went to the fair on them. Yes, ... don't do that.
I now come to understand that the technobable in Star Trek wasn't that well predicted, in the future we will not be reversing polarities by alligning field cores. Picard will have us align our llamas with chiwawas to get an alpacafied chinchilla model.
Starting from 1996 we had ChipKnip in the Netherlands. When it came out you could already pay with debitcards in most shops. The added benefit was that it was suited for small purchases and worked in places without a phoneline, like the bus.
One problem is that if you break or lose the card your money will be gone. I remeber that when I was a child more then once I broke my card and had to tape it togheter in aome wild fashion in order to use my money.
If you are on Android I can recommend Orgzly. It ties in with Emacs' org-mode but is fully usable on its own with a sensible very convinient UI. It is open source and everything is saved in plain text that can optionally be kept in sync with Dropbox or WebDAV.
This is the problem I have with long form articles. They are promoted as a counter reaction to short shallow articles without substance. Though most of these long form articles are just as shallow. Starting a articles on physics by the description on how a professor wiped his horn rimmed glasses that shimmered in the morning light only to have them steam up again by his first sip of chocolade brown coffee.
If not the state, the free market will fill the gap and tell us what is for our own benefit, bet a lot more boundaries get crossed when the tobacco industry, pharmaceutical industry etc. get free reign.
How susceptible to tolerance would the positive effect be? Would a long term smoker still have any benefit? Or is it like coffee, very quickly giving no benefit at all.
The most annoying to me is that the elapsed time element doesn't have a fixed size. It constantly changes size and pushes all other elements from left to right. It is very distracting. I can thing of so many easy fixes for this yet it is there since at least 3 years. This comes across as very amateurish for a product of a multi billion company.
I had a book with these patterns once. The last few pages explained how you could make them yourself. Basically you make grid of lines with repeating patterns, like XXYYZZXXYYZZXXYYZZ. Then at certain places you can either make the pattern longer or shorter, like XXYYZZXYYZZXXYYZZ, or XXYYZZXXXYYZZXXYYZZ. One of them makes it appear to come forward, the other backward (forgot which ones). You can remove/add more elements to make them appear further or closer away.
I used to make this as a child on graphic paper with colored pencils. You cannot do that anymore with a job and children ;)
I wonder how this works, if I buy a laptop in the EU as a EU citizen and travel to for example the US, I still expect them to adhere to the rules where I bought it.
That is very interesting. I had a similar experience when I was I child. I had a toy electronics set and thought of using an outlet instead of the weak battery. Of course I got a nasty shock. I was sure I would die know. I wasn't really scared or upset about that. More about how my parents would feel. It wouldn't be fair that my father had to carry his dead son out of the house so I sat outside against the wall of the house waiting to die. Reading your report makes me wonder if this is just the state of mind of a child.
To be fair, when I visited New York for a couple of months, I traveled all over with their metro and haven't been robbed, assaulted or experienced anything too bad either. Except that on two occasions somebody shat in carriage, that's just gross.
The thing is, what if your parents aren't educated. Because of lots of reasons, my parents didn't even attend high school, they wouldn't have been able to tutor me after I was 10. I really think tutoring should be done in school else it would be very difficult to rise above your previous generations. Also, children should play after school, not do more work IMHO.