You build your own floppotron of course
You build your own floppotron of course
I’ve put a shoji screen behind my workspace for these kind of situations. One client was really paranoid like that.
That’s “monetizing the user base” in corpo speak
Flight of the Navigator.
Oh, it’s now tied into Xbox Live so you need an Xbox account, get achievements, collectibles, challenges and making it ad free requires a subscription of €1.99 per month. Not shitting you.
And unskippable ads in solitaire
Bought by Burger King.
Today, yes. We’re dealing with a few billion people with stuff shipped across the planet now.
Barter was never a thing in daily life. No anthropogist found evidence for that. Trust based systems were used, but those don’t work well when they population increases and interaction with strangers happens more. That’s where currency takes over.
Why currency is the most important thing right now? Because currency at the moment is status and many people seek a high status on society.
That’s not exactly true. Barter was never used like that in the past. People used gift giving systems or other trust based systems in daily life. Barter was only used with strangers and that was not a common occurrence. These trust based systems do work in smaller settings but break down in large settings where interacting with strangers is the norm.
Why not just “retire” certain members of SCOTUS first. These people should be very afraid when the new president gets into office with these rules.
Some people can’t help themselves at the seafood buffet
I moved to a smaller company for certain services. Now that small company gets bought up by a big company and the services are discontinued. Back to big tech it is.
Some suspect that production will start to shift to worker owned enterprises and user owned services. These don’t work for profit like capitalistic enterprises and can provide cheaper goods and services, something desperately needed when money is tight.
Another trend is distributed production. Capitalism works with the central production and distribution. However solar and wind often generate local and go against that model. Likely more forms of local production and distribution of food and goods are going to happen.
That’s what they’ve been doing already. It already caused the 2008 financial crash with mortgages. The answer then was to throw around QE money to corporations like a socialist dressed up as Santa Claus and reduce interest rate to 0%.
The standard foreign affairs 4 step program to deal with atrocities:
Step 1: there is no genocide
Step 2: there might be a genocide but were should not be doing anything
Step 3: okay, there is a genocide but there is nothing we can do
Step 4: there was a genocide but it’s too late now to do anything
Then you ask a PM for specs before you start, or at least a brief with what needs to be done, and maybe a rough planning based on estimates and not what the customer said what are the deadlines, and they get really offended.
Yeah, scientists have been warning about that for a long time. You can find these on google if you want. They’ve always been ignored with the usual “but there is money to be made” argument. And when the infected excrement really hits the rotary air displacement device it’ll be “why did nobody stop us” and “how could we have known”.
Soon, no more meat because diseases. Forced veganism for everybody.
Nor is it the first battery powered train in the world or even first in Germany where this giga-train operates.