Oh, he most certainly does. Although he got the supranational body that should be abolished wrong.
It’s the US.
If someone were to tackle that little bureaucracy and let its people go their seperate ways, those people might actually feel a positive impact.
And to top it off, the rest of the world won’t need to listen to everything Mr. Orange Clown says!
Well, that sounds very undue-processy of them. Obviously what a same, civilized society would allow.
I know I write essays which is a weak point of mine. One I should address, but I see the gist of my message didn’t get to you.
For one I use (and like) Inkscape and have strong negative feelings towards Adobe (and run Linux). Just like most of the folks here. That, however, should be pretty clear-cut from my original message.
They have a point.
I’m kind of the other way around:
I’m used to Inkscape since forever. I’m no graphics design expert, but do know my way around Inkscape for simple SVG editing, mostly stuff shamelessly taken off Wikimedia.
Way back in college, I enrolled in an elective “graphic design” course. Of course, being a course, they used Illustrator.
That thing works nothing like Inkscape. It was a long time ago, but I remember being baffled by it, to the point of being unable of doing basic stuff.
To be fair, I had no need for learning Illustrator and no wish to do it either, so I quit the course while I still could and exchanged it. I just felt like i’d be losing my nerves on switching, when I had better stuff to do than becoming dependant on Adobe and losing my minf in the process.
Both programs may indeed sport menus in the same spots, but the menus aren’t the same. They may look like the same thing, but they’re really not.
It’s kind of like a bus and a train. Illustrator (the bus) sports all the nice stuff (i assume) from other Adobe stuff. Just like a bus uses the same road like cars do, with the same signalization.
Inkscape is more like the train. It does things differently from say Krita or Gimp, but it also does other stuff than either Krita or Gimp. Which (dare I say) makes it more effective at what it’s meant to do.
Because historically (and for the most part today as well), it costs money.
Sure, today stuff like ChatGPT and the somewhat older Google Translate exists, but that doesn’t solve the cost issue. (And I’m skirting on the huge elephant in the room called quality for a bit of brevity).
There’s a huge chance someone paid a good chunk of money for all the books you find dirt-cheap at a flea market, check out at a library or happen to find in your own house.
Printing physical books is expensive. Publishers also want a margin, and a lot of authors want royalties.
In the end even if the publisher and author are both good souls demanding nothing, someone needs to foot the cost of printing. But before that, you’d need to go through non-trivial talks with most authors’ publishers and/or authors themselves.
Then you need to arange for translation, typesetting and printing if you’re not doing it yourself. That takes both time and money.
And if you were to do all that yourself, it’d be a huge time investment, with a potential lawsuit if you don’t do those damn talks. So most just don’t bother.
Businesses are incredibly inefficient, even though some are “successful” and have a lot of cash to burn. They need to pay workers, bills, buy and fix equipment, and of course, a cut needs to go to the top people. Usually the “golden” 80-20 rule applies to almost everything: 20% of books make 80% of money, 20% of employees make 80% of money, and a different 20% of people do 80% of the work, etc. And of course, in this world, it’s all about the money.
A translation is usually initiated by a publisher that has a manager who wants to get his section’s metrics up to go cry to his own manager about how good he is to get a raise or not get fired. This is a daily grind. Sometimes (but quite rarely), that leads the manager to the decision of publishing a new book. Usually such actions are guided by things like bestseller lists, reviews and personal biases of the manager and the company as a whole. Sometimes the publisher hires an agency to try to approximate the demand for such a book (even more money spent). Then they do the talks. This also costs money, and the result is also a cost of money (the royalties to be paid). Then comes translation, then printing, then distribution to bookstores, and finally advertising.
These are just the steps that come to mind. All cost money, and all the books you see for sale in a bookstore went through all of these steps. For a library, not as much (but still the vast majority) did.
Sure, not every situation is the same, so there are companies that specialize in providing translations of well-known works or companies whose manager at one point said they need to publish 25 translations yearly (instead of one individual one), so they kind of “flood” the market.
But sometimes it’s just the whim of a newspaper whose management thought printing classic works of shorter length and bundling them with their newspaper would drive up newspaper sales.
It’s incredible how each document (edition of a book or otherwise) has multiple stories (of the author, publisher, translator, seller, advertiser, buyer, worker in logistics/delivery driver,…) that shaped the life of it. Some lasted a few hours, and some took hundereds of man-hours. All of this somehow translates to money.
That’s the long answer.
The short one is: 80% the economy and 20% human laziness.
My main gripe with this travesty of a “Start menu” is that it isn’t the Tom Hanks movie of a similar name.
The other is that even if it were, it won’t just play, but rather send you to the shiniest new subscription service to subscribe.
It’s a both-ways situation.
They allow only the Fisher-Price version of phones so less-than-power-users don’t do something stupid.
They also allow only Fisher-Price so power users can’t beat Celebrite as easily.
It isn’t misleading (that’d be a technically true headline, which this isn’t). This is a downright lie, or as some might say, “fake news”.
Nor does it “read” its input. It doesn’t even process it.
It’s built/tuned using it. Or as AI techros would say, trained.
If you replace yours after every use, then go for it!
If you keep a more traditional schedule of toothbrush replacement, I’d strongly suggest one brush per person per month. You might get away with one brush per 2 people per month, or one brush per person per up to 3 months, but not both.
They shouldn’t.
Most include features such as a (subpar) news feed and weather.
These things are nice, but there’s no need for a launcher to have them. They can, and should be done by other, dedicated apps. Someone mentioned widgets, but the launcher doesn’t talk to the widget’s app via Internet… it talks to it via IPC (inter-process communication). Ergo, no Internet permission needed.
Same with keyboards. They give you access to stuff like “ID this song”, “get user-created themes” or “better swiping and handwriting recognition”, all the while doing god-knows-what with your data.
It’s basically a ruse. Give the users something thst needs the Internet permission, even if optional, so you can sensibly request it. Wheb you do, you get the unlimited, impossible-to-control permission (revokable only via ADB), allowing any and all Internet traffic.
As they say, “with power comes responsibility”. This is a lot of power. And most apps in the Play Store don’t give much confidence in their devs’ data responsibility.
You can try looking at Settings to disable Internet access, but YMMV depending on the exact flavour of Android.
It is a bit confusing.
Minecraft is a digital simulation of a physical (albeit blocky) world.
If we treat minecraft as a physical world (one simulated, but that’s beside the point), we can claim that it’s a (simulated) physical simulation.
He may very well be the personality to cause the Epstein files be released.
That is green gas. It isn’t green “natural” gas, because “natural” is exclusively the fossil fuel stuff. Stupid naming, probably some 19th century marketing thatfor some reason stuck.
Edit: 19th, not 18th.
“Natural gas” can never be green because it is specifically fossil-fuel gas.
Honor Charlie Krik by doing what he requested - RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!
No! You’re forgetting! It is Charlie who is the true martyr! \crocodile tears * - Someone, somewhere, for some fucking reason
The original Utopia of More is a dystopia in today’s standards.
Of course I (re-checked) the criteria on my own before commenting, and it stands.
Evidence of receipt of lesser nationally or internationally recognized prizes or awards for excellence
There are a bunch of international prises other than the Olympics. By the way, Oscars and Pulitzers aren’t inherently international - they’re made by the american film (newspaper) industry for that same industry. Awards juries are 90+% American, as are the awardees.
Anyway, more realistic would be to look at the International math olympiad, for example. There are about 10k contestants anually, and just under 50% recieve prizes. There are similar competitions for pretty much any school subject.
Then there’s sport. There are a bunch of sports, with each having a multitude of international competitions. The ATP Open for tennis, the FIFA/UEFA championships, for soccer, various regates for yachting especially - you name it.
And these are just of the top of my head, and the second level of prestige (after Nobels and Oscars). Saying there’s at least 20 international competitions per sport on average is an understatement.
All in all, for point one, aboit 5% of the population fit the bill, even discounting stuff like the France-Germany typists’ association anual speed typing competition, which just might fit the bill as well.
Evidence of your membership in associations in the field which demand outstanding achievement of their members
There’s Mensa, an international association - a special achievement required to join: IQ over 130. It has 150k members.
Similarily, there are: International Society for Philosophical Enquiry, World Federation of Neurology, European Mathematical Society - you name it.
Evidence of published material about you in professional or major trade publications or other major media
Not even that’s that hard. Every school shooter fits the bill.
Evidence that you have been asked to judge the work of others, either individually or on a panel.
Be a member of a society in (2) and you will.
Evidence of your original scientific, scholarly, artistic, athletic, or business-related contributions of major significance to the field
Another point for fittig the bill of (1), basically, since an award is, by definition, a recognition and evidence of achievment.
Evidence of your authorship of scholarly articles in professional or major trade publications or other major media
Work for a year at a university or a subset of (2), and it’ll happen.
Evidence that your work has been displayed at artistic exhibitions or showcases
This one’s for the more artsy types. There are literally millions of galleries and museums. Getting an exhibition also isn’t that impossible.
Evidence of your performance of a leading or critical role in distinguished organizations
Basically, have an important-sounding title of a (2)
Evidence that you command a high salary or other significantly high remuneration in relation to others in the field
So, be a CEO.
Evidence of your commercial successes in the performing arts
Be Taylor Swift, Rammstein, or any number of more “fringe” artists.
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To sum up, my point is: No, you don’t need to have an Oscar, Nobel or Olympic medal to qualify. Nor do you need to be Einstein.
Here’s someone who fits most criteria as an example:
Meet Andriei Ogushlow. He’s a polish CEO. He studied at and got a PhD in political science. He wrote 8 scolarly articles published in intenrational journals. In his free time he does photography, and had 15 exhibitions, of which 4 were in museums. He’s a member of Mensa and the European Accounting Association. While doing his MBA, he earned a bronze medal in the A4SIC competition.
He’d like US citizenship to be able to make his company have a strong and stable presence in the US.
(That’s 5 out of 10).
He’s not Einstein. But he fits the bill more than “good enough”.
Equally serious (and just a bit more deranged of an answer):
Humans are not meant to do work. Physical or otherwise. This slavery thing where everyone, regardless of race, gender, orientation (and almost even age) we have going on is just degrading and nonsensical.
Humans should live in tightly-knit families and tribes. Of course, the woman should do the simpler housework like cleaning, cooking and tidying, while the father should do the more manual stuff like fixing things, growing plants, keeping animals and hunting.
Women should likewise be seperated from books because they are more likely ro succumb to the words of the devil. I’m sorry, but that’s just how it is. Therefore men must educate their heirs (male, of course), while the wife should teach her daughters how to domthe chores.
If you can’t see how exposing a frail woman to the harsh reality of being the man of the house, try thinking of your own daughter.