It sure sounds like you have never lived anywhere else in your life, certainly not anywhere in the developing world. It’s hard to conceive how much worse life is in a lot of places, unless you have lived there. Granted that people who can afford international student fees are in the upper class of most poor countries, but it doesn’t take away from the very real increase in the standard of living.
My only meeting was that the “they” who revolutionized gaming are not the same people who are in the company now. I have no doubt that they are absolutely top-tier game developers.
I doubt that I’m going to make you feel old, I started gaming in about 1980. I’m just saying that was the first time I saw those kind of phrases.
John Carmack, Adrian Carmack, John Romero, Tom Hall. These were the founders of ID software. None of them are there now. It’s a different company.
That’s not to say that Microsoft isn’t stupid and evil for this and many other things, but they didn’t lay off the people who revolutionized the game industry.
World of Goo, released in 2008, had a series of goofy progress messages like that. I don’t know if it was the first, but it was the first one that I noticed.
The first link you supplied is indeed about Graves that have been discovered. It doesn’t look like this is related to the stories that caught all the headlines five years ago. Ground-penetrating radar, anomalies that might be graves, etc.
It is somewhat mystifying to me why some people are resisting the process, saying that they wish the site to remain undisturbed. If they don’t know for sure that it is a burial site, why would it be sacred?
My wife’s Ioniq 6 turns on the brake lights when it is doing regeneration braking, so you are misinformed (unless it is a recent change; hers is a 2025). I can’t imagine that your version has ever been true, though.
One thing I don’t understand is why there has been no progress in excavating at least some of the anomalies that were reported as being possible graves. There has been federal government money supplied, and in at least one case it has been cut because of a lack of accountability.
The article doesn’t explain why, as far as I can see, not a single grave has been examined from any of the sites.
The VPN works because you can use the service in another country that doesn’t require digital ID.
My town has a population of 300. There is no way they could afford full-time employees managing the water treatment system.
The hydroelectric dam near my home runs with 14 employees on site, who work from 8:00 to 4:00. All control and monitoring is done remotely at an office about 300 km away.
You are right. And the traditional text that I saw in Japanese temples was written from right to left, top to bottom.
I suspect it’s because the characters in Japanese at least, all take up exactly the same sized box. We find English easier to read when it uses a proportional font, so different letters take up different widths.
Also, Japanese is commonly written top to bottom, left to right, in printed materials but left to right, top to bottom, when handwriting or for casual text. Once in a while, though, they do top to bottom, right to left. I’ve seen this in temples, so I think it’s a traditional format.
In my mind, left to right, top to bottom make sense when writing with ink, because then your hand doesn’t smudge the already-written characters. Unless you are a lefty, of course.
I haven’t cared about professional hockey for a couple of decades now.
I noticed that their business model turned into cultivating fans. Fans by tickets and merchandise at unreasonable prices, regardless of the quality of hockey and the way that the fans are treated. That’s the way you maximize the profit you can extract.
For example, take the Toronto Maple Leafs. I’m in my 60s, and I was 5 years old when they last won the Stanley Cup. Yet season tickets range from $2300 to $28,000 each, with an upfront fee that can be more than $100,000. And there is a 20-year waiting list. An extreme example, but also a perfect example of a franchise abusing its willing fans.
You see it with the marketing surrounding national teams as well. I first noticed this when I was living in japan, and my kids became confused about whether they should root for their father’s Canadian team, or their mother’s Japanese team. I wondered why they should have to choose, and why we shouldn’t just appreciate the beauty and thrill of competition rather than identifying with one side.
A this has happened because the military has shown itself incapable of and unwilling to handle the cases themselves
And how many of those ultra high-speed chargers do they expect to find between Milan and Hong Kong? I can’t even find one in the 500 km between Montreal and Toronto, Canada’s most densely populated stretch of land.
Edit: I can’t even find a 350 KV charger, the highest my car can handle, between Montreal and Toronto. Instead I am stuck charging at a third of that or less, taking well over an hour to fully charge.
I have a lot more respect fory Jodie W-R’s integrity than Christian F’s.
That would be fine if the book was to be an objective, historical approach. But how likely do you think that is, as opposed to a self-serving screed to push her own agenda?
Are we going to get an honest critique of the Liberal politicians with whom she worked and politicked? An exposé of things that should have been but weren’t, or that shouldn’t have been but were? People who should or shouldn’t have been successful, in either case to the detriment of the country?
Put simply, I don’t see that there could possibly be anything of value in this kind of first-person account.
the legislators who did nothing to protect the people they were elected to serve because of their own greed and self-interest.
Thanks, Citizens United!
I’m not sure. I have one tooth that is capped with a silver metal, but not gold. My dad had a couple of gold caps.
My guess is that composite materials were cheaper and easier to work with. And lasted almost as well (my metal cap was done 25 years ago and is still holding up fine).