It's weird when shops pivot. There was a record store in a neighboring village that went from vinyl to video game kiosks. Then the record store that became a candy store. Put couches in bookstores and people stop buying books. I guess they figure the rent is paid by benefactors. Then again, Barnes & Noble seems to have a partnership with Starbucks...
Malls are dying. Many are closed. Public libraries are daycare for the homeless and parents are afraid to leave their children. Your other options may be well-run, but all suffer from a lack of funding and staffing. Pools aren't a year-round thing, even in the South.
We are unfair to teenagers today; give them no place to go and then we feign surprise when they act up. According to Harper's, there's a 20% decline in kids playing baseball--their noses are in their iPads. You can't take children to the mall because malls are dying. Too many parks are places where bad things happen. I don't know what the solution is.
Libraries are daycare for the homeless. At one city's public library, one of the librarians was mopping up vomit and was heard to comment, "I didn't go to library school for this." Washrooms double as a place to shower, reading rooms a place to sleep.
No one knew how they could be monetized. The original idea was that they had to be curated: Yahoo led the way into grouping sites into categories. Later came Altavista and others. Again, the infrastructure was expensive and no one knew how all that could be paid for. Google's founders, while still at Stanford, released a picture of a server sitting on a table. That was Google. Later, someone figured out that search equals advertising and that's how search was monetized. At first, local search was useless and newspapers and other legacy media could have hung on to that slice. But Google got better and better...
I've been looking like this for a long time. It would be perfect for a knowledge base of documents. You could have contracts sorted by subject matter, torts, procedural rules, what have you. Recalls wandering in the stacks to find books whose title and author you didn't know.
How did you make it?
Adding the word "parody" to the prompt sometimes works.
ChatGpt's guidelines prohibit defamation, however, dead people cannot be defamed
Apparently the AI thinks Jeffrey Epstein is still alive.
A while ago, I posted an article along the same lines. Unfortunately, Kurt Vonnegut didn't live long enough to see Trump in the White House. Upload all of Vonnegut's work to an AI--which one?--I don't know. Vonnegut left an analysis of story forms, it was his Master's thesis at the University of Chicago. The prompt need not be complex. When the process is finished, you'd have "Vonnegut on Trump."
Micropayments (charged in mills, not cents) is the solution. Downloading books remains essentially "free" for the individual but the Internet scale is such that authors would receive compensation for their work. The Spotify model is better than downright piracy. It is very difficult to compete with free.
For a while, Arabizi was wildly popular and universally used on feature phones. When mobiles became smarter, it was used less. Japanese has romaji and Mandarin has pinyin. Arabic's Arabizi would increase literacy rates and solve all these digital problems.
For a while, Arabizi was wildly popular and universally used on feature phones. When mobiles became smarter, it was used less. Japanese has romaji and Mandarin has pinyin. Arabic's Arabizi would increase literacy rates and solve all these digital problems.
The article fails to mention that until the 1970's, the frog kick was a legal kick when swimming butterfly. After that, the dolphin kick became mandatory. Doc Councilman's _The Science of Swimming_ was not mentioned. I don't have a copy handy, band I would bet the stroke is discussed extensively.
You don't take possession of 600 pounds of gold without a plan. Putting it in a hole isn't putting it to work. Sell it to a country where jewelry is manufactured, that at least gets it into the banking system. Lebanon loves gold. So does India. If this guy is under investigation, everything linked to him will be discovered. He can't really spend it. Aldrich Ames bought a Jaguar and was caught.
It's not just the acquisition costs, it's the employee payroll--two pilots, one flight attendant, engine overhauls every six months, other maintenance. See the Amalfi Jets video on costs.
If you wait until age 60 before you start smoking, you'll get all the benefits of nicotine--weight loss, more energy, appetite suppression--and you won't live long enough to develop tobacco-related disease.
Of course, he will find US courts anxious to impose sanctions against US agents.
Dickens was right: better to suffer any injustice rather than come to the courts.
If you need a typewriter, there's a company in New Jersey that makes them for the prison trade in a lucite housing to prevent prisoners from hiding contraband inside.
Not sure if China manufactures new machines. India supposedly still manufactures them.
A dispute is one thing. A chargeback another.
My understanding is that under Visa/MC rules, a chargeback must be given effect.
That comes from testimony given by a Visa security officer in a criminal case.
If that is not true, I'd sure like to know.
The Stepan company in New Jersey is the only entity legally allowed to import coca leaves (aside from the DEA, ICE, the FBI and a few others that buy and sell all the time) and extract the illegal methyl benzoyl ecgonine (C17H21NO4) leaving the flavor compounds. Query whether they would sell the de-cocainized product to a soft drink hobbyist.
Friends in Colombia report that Sek Cola sold there has the ecgonine ingredient. Not sure how close the recipe replicates the original Atlanta beverage.