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I'm not saying this with any certainly, just suggesting that it's a possibility: in the early days of cell phone service, people had to pay a fixed amount for each SMS sent (and, I…

This is quite a surprise. Germany is currently reeling from poor economic conditions including high inflation rates, skyrocketing energy costs, a measure of pessimistic disillusion…

I've run into problems repeatedly when it came to DP cables. The issue is always the same: lack of enforcement and no barrier to entry allows for too many entrants, whose motives a…

Although I confess I haven't completely kept up with this development (meaning, what I am about to say may be entirely due to my own lack of relevant knowledge in this case), I hav…

Interestingly, race relations were at their peak in 2008. The trends of seeing racism everywhere and reading it into everything, people's personal views (notably, those of minority…

A very similar event happened to me in the beginning of this year, involving the USPS (rather than the UPS). Actually, it was on the 5th of January, come to think of it. Instead of…

All Affinity software (AFAIK) these days makes extensive use of 3D graphics hardware. The problems you're experiencing may be due to insufficient systems memory, or perhaps insuffi…

Affinity was accepting and incorporating so much feedback from users like myself after releasing version 1 of their software suite--which were subsequently added to incremental ver…

There is not a single person in existence, who would reasonably (or otherwise) insist that China should not have their own domestic, organically developed semiconductor industry. W…

I wanted to say that what you say seems to confirm your claim regarding your past. But the last thing you stated makes me wonder. It's not that I'm calling you a liar; it's just th…

It's not a matter of "deserve" and "right to." What use is having a site, that places an artificial hurdle for no acceptable reason? What use is having visitors rage-close the tab …

It's a bit ironic, that most of the text on that site is too small to read on a smartphone, for my aging eyes.

..."irregardless," anyone? :-)

Given how well the porn industry does regardless of the rest of the economy, it would be interesting to see how they would do if a sizeable portion of "users" actually paid for the…

If you're from the US, then they're the same thing. For the average person (again, from the US), it means an inflation rate more directly coupled to money supply (i.e. the opposite…

It was the Greens who campaigned throughout the 80s and beyond to instill irrational fear in German kids in the 80s, so they would opt for an impulsive solution, instead of a ratio…

They've no more "reproduced" his copyrighted content, than a student studying photography or other art did, when they saw the picture online and made a mental note to imitate aspec…

Population replacement rate is 2.1 children per woman--meaning, in order for a population's size to remain the same, on average child births have to come out to 2.1 for every woman…

Moreover, omitting said qualifiers from the title manifestly falsifies the claim it makes.

Disclaimer: I am unaffiliated with the developer/company/product mentioned below. When I was still on Windows 10, I used Start10. After...overwriting my Windows 10 image with Windo…

I remember the day when the car I'd been driving in college finally broke down sufficiently that the various repairs exceeded the value of the car. By that time, I'd been working f…

Here is a bulleted GPT summary of the "Practical Validity" section of the "g factor" Wikipedia article ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics) ): -General intell…

The Pacific, for one, meaning control of shipping lanes—and with these, economic/political leverage over Japan (which, as internal PLA documents for senior staff have already revea…

Apropos Lars von Trier's auteurist style, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZfM1lkLuMI

> I’m totally convinced that a new idea or a new plan or a new technique is never really understood when you just explain it. > People will often think they understand, and they’ll…