“Regulatory commissions soon turned into creatures of the industries they regulated—and discouraged (at first) or stifled (later) all new competition. This was much aided by a tax structure heavily weighted against the middle class. After a while, the great bankers were not just handling money, they were creating it, with a vested interest in inflation. Union leaders, with enormous funds to invest, fitted cozily into the system; if you did not enroll, you did not work, and the leaders and the managers between them set the conditions under which you must work. Antitrust actions penalized efficient management to the satisfaction of the less enterprising. Likewise did quotas, tariffs, wage and price limits, preferential contract policies. A set of ineffective but self-perpetuating welfare programs helped produce the votes useful for maintaining the corporate state.”
— Mirkheim, Poul Anderson, 1977
Dear Apple,
So, let me see if I’ve got this straight: all your remarkably expensive phones are soooo thin and light that they have terrible battery life, so now you’ve released big chunky battery packs that make them even more expensive, but also clumsier to use and store in pockets.
Y’know, product design isn’t just about fashion and marketing bullet points. Sometimes ya have to provide value for the price…
Dear Fallout 76...
Your appeal is becoming more selective. This is rarely a way to improve sales.
Seriously, do you honestly think there’s a large potential audience that has passed this game over because the PvP isn’t obnoxious enough? That’s the hill you choose to die on in this franchise?
"P4V considered harmful..."
…to my sanity.
Manager set up a Perforce client on his Windows box, then we changed
the directory that was set for its root. We could not get p4v to
use the new directory. Even deleting the workspace, restarting the
client, refreshing the workspaces, and creating a brand new workspace
with the same name didn’t work. It still thought the files should be
located in the non-existent directory from the earlier incarnation of
the client.
We had to use a different client name to avoid this over-aggressive local cache of data it had no business caching in the first place.
Also, to make the process more funtedious, the client-editing
window kept spontaneously resizing itself to be slightly taller than
the screen, every time we opened it or tried to resize it to fit.
Hats!
M.E.T.A. = Make Eloi Tasty Again
M.E.G.A. = Make Emos Grovel Again
M.E.L.T. = Mock Every Leftist Trigger
U.F.A.P. = Use Force Against Pussyhats
H.A.I.T. = Help ‘Activists’ Into Traffic
H.G.W.T. = Have Gun, Will Trigger
Update
M.A.R.S. = Make Abortion Retroactive for Socialists
Trailer much?
About half of the Amazon reviews for Once Upon A Deadpool are complaints that it’s a PG-13 version of Deadpool 2 with the framing device from The Princess Bride.
Which was the entire point, and was made painfully clear in the trailers. I’ve completely lost my ability to even.
3D Cheesecake 12
I either need to stop downloading or post faster. I’m up to 3.4 GB of living girls and nearly 6 GB of Pixiv. Maybe I’ll schedule a bunch of cheesecake for while I’m on vacation in April.
Update:
Names added for all but 5.5 pictures; the half is the cover photo of an AV film that doesn’t name the actresses. The other five stumped both Google and TinEye.
