Onomatopoeia

Currently watching Poirot (the series) for the first time. Hard to believe it started in the 80's - the film quality is so high, it looks great even on a large TV today.

And the production values overall are amazing. The cars, the clothes, the buildings, etc - they really captured the 1930's. I really appreciate the clear, well-balanced colors, too, none of today's high-contrast, over-saturated crap.

Baywatch was so bad, I couldn't even watch it for the slo-mo girls running down the beach.

Now the movie - that was a riot.

Check out the apps Hermit and Native Alpha. They make web pages run like an app. I've only run into a couple sites where they don't work right.

I vaguely recall a recent-ish article that an average web page is 30mb. That's right, thirty megabytes.

It's amazing how much faster web browsing becomes when I run PiHole and block most of it.

Suddenly the TV is pretty snappy, and all browsers feel so much smoother.

They're already making gobs. You're asking them to change to potentially make more at the risk of losing control of rights.

Unhenged?

Also this is telling:

She said she was unable to discuss details of the case due to privacy requests from the affected families.

Were they Chinese who had immigrated, got their Canadian citizenship, then used that to enable easier movement of such large quantities?

The devil is in the details, and no one is providing any.

Do I disagree with the death penalty, especially for drugs? Yes. But it's not like China isn't very clear about this.

Then there's stuff like fentanyl, which kills in minuscule quantities - if you just touch it. Yea, that quickly gets into manslaughter territory, at a minimum.

Why was this news in 2006 when it had first been exposed in 1996? Did I miss something in between those years?

Thanks for the link OP - it's been a few years since I read about this.

Oh, neat!

Like I said, my theory class was a long time ago, it's cool to hear stuff like this - what people who are way more knowledgeable have come up with.

You're advising a technical solution to a technical person.

OP's not looking for a solution to his specific problem, he's showing that as a technical person he's faced with an issue he's unsure how to resolve - now imagine the average person facing this problem.

OP's right - the sign-up process is clumsy and problematic on any instance for the average user.

Typical snobbery.

The Sinclair was rather ridiculed at the time as "not a real computer".

Nothing ever changes - Instead of being excited by someone having the skills to implement chess in 670k of memory by using freakin' machine language, and appreciating the Sinclair for what it is, they compared to what they had.

I mean wow, if you've never done machine language coding... I'm flabbergasted.

EVERY vendor does this, I can't imagine why you'd think otherwise.

I can go to a vendor I bought one piece of hardware from 20 years ago, and just give them my name, phone number, anything, and they can find my orders.

My local community theater has a record of me buying tickets from them, one time, 15 years ago.