Haven't brushed my teeth yet today. I'm gonna have to decline.
Adderbox76
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That was sassy? I thought it was hilarious.
I thought you had actually taken the time to look at my comment history, discovered that I majored in Near Eastern Classical Archaeology and was making a riff on that. I thought it was great!
I stand corrected. Learn something new every day. Thanks.
edit: I don't know why you are getting downvotes. You corrected me with a proper source. and I stood corrected. That's the proper civilized way of doing things.
They didn't ban weapons. They banned generals leading independent armies.
Roman military was, at that time at least, privatised. The generals were the elites and the rich who would often pay for their own armies. When Caesar for example wanted to go campaigning in Gaul, he'd pay for a lot of the cost or of his own pocket. This resulted in armies that were generally more loyal to their general than to Rome.
That could naturally be a problem, so to prevent a general from getting ideas, the law mandated that they would have to disband their armies before crossing into Italy proper (or at least leaving their army encamped outside the territory)
That point was traditionally just before the army would cross the Rubicon river, hence the phrase "crossing the Rubicon" denoting a kind of "red line" or "point of no return".
When Caesar made the decision to March on Rome and incite a civil war, his army "crossed the Rubicon".
"most"?
Try "all". Everything always eventually comes down to someone, somewhere, trying to make more profit for themselves.
That's why "Follow the money" is the surest way to solve any crime.
I was legitimately sad when LG left the market. It feels like nowadays, the only company left making "high-end phones at mid-range prices" is Motorola, while every other company is following the Apple/Samsung trend of charging literally whatever they can get away with.
We used to live in a world where a company would make a product "X", calculate how much it costs to manufacture, factor in a 30 percent profit margin to cover reinvestment into the company, and call that the "price".
Now, largely thanks to Apple, the "price" is whatever the marketing department can convince people to pay with advertising heavily on FOMO and "coolness", regardless of the manufacturing cost. It's a shitty way to do business (in my opinion). LG was one of the last of the good ones sticking to the old ways. Now it's just Moto.
Might is doing a lot of the heavy lifting in that sentance.
The reality is, in the vast majority of cases, it's simply easier to just wait for them to fucking die. It won't take long since a lot of them are already old. And it saves my mental health in the mean-time.
Bridges only matter when we're talking about opinions.
A belief in basic human rights is not an opinion; it's a non-negotiable requirement in order to take part in a civilized society.
We need to stop talking about building bridges with bigoted fucks who think that "all brown people should be shot" is just an opinion like "I like pickles".
I did not sign up to that.
Yeah. He did. At no point did Trump or MAGA lie about their intentions. From the beginning they said exactly what they were going to do.
And he signed on. Maybe its because he didn't believe they would actually do it and now he regrets it. That's fine.
But regardless, he literally "signed up to that" and he has to own that.
I'm intelligent, but not nearly intelligent enough for whatever this is...
Is this just another way of talking about the Teleological framework of time (like the heptapods in Arrival)?
Around here, we just call that freezing rain.
Oil rigger. I'm simply not built for that level of manual labour day in day out. I wouldn't last a day.
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Still in the early early stages. Can be a little slow going since I'm treating this like a training project to strengthen my Python skills. Typing mechanics are nailed down, basic UI is in place.
Next is to get the functionality working for new-page, save, export, etc... and the correction tape mode.
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What exactly does Apple think that they're brining to the equation in order to deserve that 30? Is it simply that they're hosting an app on their store, so therefore they're entitled to a cut?
So if I write a novel, and get it published, Microsoft can say "We deserve 30% because you used our product to produce your product?
I'm so fucking tired of corporations. It's well past guillotine-o-clock.