They might as well have just put a Lada Riva on stage, because they’re not making that either.

The analogy is decidedly not as ridiculously flawed as you imagine. The point is, if this sort of thing happened with tangible ads in the physical world, it would simply not be tolerated. The bad actors would be punished and the companies who do business with them would be held accountable. But, for some reason,…

Don’t try to tell me that there’s no ethical argument for blocking ads just because the ad industry has set itself up as a blameless, malware ridden circle-jerk cesspool, and the websites I like to read have set themselves up to make their money from it. Each of those things are choices that people make.

The problem with OCR is that when you need to use it, it needs to be perfect. If I had a multi-page document to scan and edit, It’s just as hard to go try to find the spelling errors or transcription glitches as it would be to just type the thing out in the first place. And god help you if the page has any formatting…

Yeah, because I know which sites have ads on them before I browse to them.

Little to no risk of malware except on shitty sites huh? Mainstream news site Huffpo disagrees:

So I should “not” use my browser because the sites I visit (having never seen many of them before) are full of ads? Ads which can possibly infect my device with malware, make it run poorly, take a long time to load, and cost me data and therefore money?

I don’t hear any “shifting in reverse.” All I hear is lots and lots of throttle modulation.

There is no controversy. Stop making me pay (via my data consumption) for broken, shitty, malware-infused ads and then kicking the blame for how they got there down the line; and I’ll stop blocking them on all of my devices. Deal? Deal.

Yeah because what the fuck are turn signals?

“Just go around them.”

You can buy a package for about $15 extra that comes with a pre-loaded OS. So yes. And, you get a full-featured OS with tons of expandability, 4 USB ports, Ethernet for hard-wiring, and a well-established user and support base.

You can buy a package for about $15 extra that comes with a pre-loaded OS. So yes. And, you get a full-featured OS…

For $85 I can buy 2 Raspberry Pi 3's. No thanks.

For $85 I can buy 2 Raspberry Pi 3's. No thanks.

Cheaper (and much easier) than building a full-on cabinet or buying a retro cabinet.

For the diagonal method It’s crucial to remember to mark the halfway point from the same side (over or under) the tape measure that you lined up on the edge.

I didn’t know that. I just kept it on the default setting, which didn’t speak street names. Indeed there’s a voice in there that does. Cool!

Waze doesn’t speak street names, Google maps does. This is critical when I’m driving because I can’t always safely divert my attention from the road, and “Turn Left in 500 ft” is kinda useless.

Semi-freelance teleprompter op. Can confirm.

How about when you’re using HDMI to drive a monitor with no speakers, and the startup chime goes that way and dies rather than out the speakers connected to the headphone plug?

Yeah they do, holy hell. I might drive down there over the weekend just to snag one even though I don’t have anything I need to do with it.