From home mostly. Sometimes from public transport, or the shitter at work.

No, it didn’t “use” data.

Yeah at the time I had a Radeon HD 5850, which I think was a decent price-value balance, and that had 1GB.

Yeah, a table-top turn-based battle simulator. The units have ranges of movement and of fire and line of sight matters. People build interesting terrains and then pit armies of similar strength (I think by using a point buy system) against each other.

I played a round using a friend’s sister’s army against him and his once. I think his sister’s army was from the Imperial Army. I’m sure he had T’au, because I remember his Kroot fucked me up with their movement speed, or maybe a wood bonus, something like that. The game was not bad, but didn’t capture me either.

Yeah but not all of them are rectently made up by an individual person for the purpose of being posted here in order to mislead others about word that are in practical use.

Nice try, law firm trying to learn our tricks.

Not that I am aware of, sorry.

All the words posted before by the others in the thread are made up, and some of them aren’t even good at pretending to be German.

I don’t think this is comparable to descriptivism and prescriptivism in linguistics.

The predictive power of a classification doesn’t have anything to do chronological order of what you are now and how you will develop, but about if knowing one thing (the MBTI) allows to deduce another (age, socioeconomic status, interests, vocational suitability, whatever). In other words predictive power is about correlations and testable outcomes.

If a psychological test leads to a result that does not predict other statistical values about a person, it does not actually capture anything that person is, at least nothing that’s verifiable or falsifiable.

And if it’s not verifiable or falsifiable we might as well use zodiac signs.

lol that’s so stupid.

And the Myers-Briggs isn’t even a good one. Those two ladies just made it the fuck up during World War 2, based on some Carl Jung book. It has no predictive power.

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-28315137

Upgrades are usually done in-place without the need to reinstall everything.

Probably best to just follow this https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/upgrading-ubuntu-desktop

I also remember my mom driving over the boarder to shop there when I was a child, so that checks out for me

Not since December 2005

Looks like the “Voice of Retail Industry” survey the article cites only surveyed US-american stores.

The Australian Woolworth is a totally unrelated company.

In Germany the Woolworth GmbH was originally founded by the American Woolworth, but then sold off. The American one essentially died later.

Maybe depends on region.

In Switzerland the same stereotype is specifically about people from Berne.

I recently had a Bernese guy on the phone who was super quick and when I didn’t understand him (due to being in a datacenter room at the time) he apologized for being too fast haha.

Well I guess it’s good they patented it, at least that means the others can’t do it.

I question why they would give their own games such a disadvantage, but whatever

It depends on the tax system, Europe and North America have it work differently.

When I buy supplies in Europe for the (Swiss) company I work for I often get the B2B website that does not display the VAT, but then in the final checkout step and on the invoice the VAT is definitely there.

I’ll try to explain the differences the best I know them:

In Europe everyone along the value creation chain pays the VAT to their suppliers and collect the VAT from their consumers, and in the end only the collected tax minus the tax paid out to suppliers goes to the government. So in effect everyone pay the tax on their part of the value creation.

(Example: You buy inputs for 100€ and pay an additional 10% tax (10€) to suppliers. You turn them into products worth 500€ and when selling them collect an additional 10% tax (50€) from buyers. Then you send 50 - 10 = 40€ to the government, which is also 10% of the 400€ value you created. The other 10€ reach the government from your suppliers and their suppliers)

In the USA the sales tax is only charged on the final sale as it goes to the consumer market. As long as you can prove you aren’t a final consumer you don’t pay the sales tax.

(Example: You buy inputs for $100 and pay no tax since you are not an end customer. You turn them into products worth $500 and when selling them to end customers you collect an additional 10% tax ($50). The entire $50 goes from you to the government.)

The economic effect should be roughly identical, but one system could be easer to game, the other more complex to administer.

Edit: Another thought, maybe the European System makes it easier for the EU because the revenues are automaticually distributed fairly according to where the value creation happened in an integrated economy system with multiple countries.

Buying from the enemy’s closest ally was the best he could come up with in the first place?

I have a big decision coming up. Do I want to go in and annihilate them or do I not? It’s a big decision. Anything could happen with me.

Trump is trying the Madman Theory again. With his usual bluntness and terrible poker face. Why would it work this time? Is he stupid?

The way I see it is that the European style gives the government a monopoly on recording in public.

I’m not really sure how that follows, they too are bound by the laws protecting the privacy of those being filmed. For instance license plate readers are not legal and had to be taken back down in places where regional governments put them up. I’m quite glad of this recently as more and more bad news regarding Flock and Palantir comes out.

How does that work in Europe? You see someone committing a crime and you just keep your phone in your pocket? Because it’s against the law? “Excuse me, sir… May I have your permission to record you beating this person to death? Thanks!”

The weighing of legal interests applies in such cases. The violent person may have a legal interest in their informational self determination, but the victim has a legal interest in being aided against the violence, even if it’s only by the indirect measure of creating proof, and the public also has a legal interest in the prosecution of crime. The latter two are weighed more highly that the former.

It’s the same fundamental idea as the smashing of other’s car windows being illegal, but becoming legal if it is committed during aiding people in mortal danger.

Regarding police: Courts have determined that the public has a superior right in keeping police in check, compared to the right of privacy of the involved officers. And thus filming them during operations is allowed. On the other hand just filming them when nothing is happening, or if they are eating their bread rolls on break is not allowed, because then their privacy is the only issue at play.

It makes things a little more difficult to determine, I admit. But then I think we see police pushing their boundaries either way. We had a case go to the Federal Court (of Switzerland, we’re also a Federation) recently where the police were taken down a peg, after one of them blocked a camera claiming the bystander had to follow his order to stop filming even though she was not interfering with their operation and simply documenting.