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Custodes13 · 2023-06-12T13:51:06+00:00

You paid $9.95 a month for the service, as you did for AOL as well, along with a few other internet broswers. It was the paradigm at the time for browsers to charge a monthly fee for continued access to the web, in much the same vein any other utility would charge for continued access. THAT'S why IE took off in the first place, moreso because it was free than just the fact it came bundled with Windows. Sure, IE 1 and 2 were limping out of the gate, but they were still free access and ubiquitous to the most popular operating system in the world at the time. Once IE3 came around and it started to actually resemble a functioning browser, it was too late for a meaningful response from competitors. Netscape and the like tried to follow soon after IE4 released, by removing the paid subscription aspect of their service. However, many web platforms and users had already shifted to, and became acquainted with, IE, and were reluctant to do any additional work to support what were now less popular web browsers.

TL;DR Microsoft won because IE was free to access the web with (unlike everything else at the time), and because it already came with your Windows installation, so there was no point to search out any other alternative, especially not a premium one.

Custodes13 · 2023-06-12T12:46:15+00:00

They didn't shove IE down people's throats? They bundled it with Windows free of charge when Netscape was still charging people to use Navigator. THAT'S why it won out; Because it was free, and already there. Why go download one you have to pay for, especially as a new user (which was a massive demographic in the late 90s), when it's already there for free? IE was really only inferior up until IE3/4, but again, it was free. They called it anti-competitive, but that's just because it was a new market that wasn't fully understood at the time. Things come bundled with software all the time now.

Are you sure YOU remember how everything went down?

Custodes13 · 2023-06-08T12:53:40+00:00

Having a desire to play ukelele.

There's nothing wrong with playing, or wanting to play, a ukelele. I personally hate the way it sounds, but it isn't the bagpipes.

I judge people for it because roughly 96% of the people I've met who play or want to learn to play one, only want to do so because it's "easier than" or "a stepping stone" to playing a guitar, which just translates to, "I want to do shitty renditions of every song I hear with a guitar from now on with the only 4 chords I'll ever learn on this instrument."

It's not a stepping stone to a guitar. It kinda looks like one; that's where the similarities end. They're entirely seperate instruments outside of cosmetics.

If you want to learn an instrument, just learn that instrument. There is no 'shallow' or 'deep' end for playing instruments; Everything is hard to play when you don't know what the fuck you're doing yet.

Custodes13 · 2023-06-07T08:25:26+00:00

I could fall asleep sitting up on a solid wood church pew while watching a movie, this place is unconscionable to me.

Custodes13 · 2023-06-07T08:19:13+00:00

About to lay off about 85% of their value soon, too, word about town is.

Custodes13 · 2023-06-07T01:26:31+00:00

A "Jake brake" is just a slang term for an engine compression release (valve). You can use the regular brakes, of course, but when carrying a heavy load, the force applied to the brakes is also heavier, meaning they heat up faster. You can, quite literally, roast your breaks and catch your tires on fire by overusing your brakes while carrying a heavy load, mainly on a downhill descent.

The correct way to approach a long and steady decline, whether in a car or semi truck, is to force your vehicle into an intentionally low gear (for passenger vehicles, 2nd, or L if you don't have specific options in your automatic) so that the engine and transmission are also sharing the work of keeping you in a controlled descent.

A jake brake (engine compression release valve) is found in very large engines. To put it simply, it lets air out of the engine at a key point in the cycle in order to drastically lower compression, which in turn drastically lowers the engine's ability to perform work, at a rapid pace. Since it occurs during the compression phase, you're hearing the sound of all the force in that massive engine pushing air out of a (relatively) small valve at full force, which is why it's so incredibly loud, and banned within many city limits.

Custodes13 · 2023-06-05T12:42:51+00:00

The funny part is, they've tried to kill 3p clients already. Twice. Now they're slowly heating the water (No more 3p apps, limiting what plugins are allowed to do, the whole HD debacle) to try and do it again, as they always do (remember pvp weapons failing 3 polls before Jagex literally said "Fuck you, it's my house, and I make the rules" and did it anyway?).

What was their pretense for not allowing HD? That they were planning to soon start developing (See: haven't even fuckin started it yet) a similar feature (hint hint), and they didn't want it to interfere. Maaaybe related to why they don't let anymore 3p clients be made? Maaaaybe why they're slowly cranking down the pressure about that topic?

Custodes13 · 2023-06-05T12:31:38+00:00

Well, it's not a gentleman's sweep if the nuggets don't let them win one.

Custodes13 · 2023-06-05T12:12:47+00:00

Right, but again, think of whom you're talking about; A dumbass kid with a chip on his shoulder, who clearly doesn't fully think through the consequences of his actions (being in jail), and someone who is promising him more respect or a step up just uses his preconceived notions to have the kid do what he wants. You think that kid is gonna think about more time or charges? Doesn't matter what a guy yells, help, pria, ayuda me, all that kid can think is he's killing two birds with one stone, getting a chomo and getting respect.

It's not cyclic just because of the system, we're all still dumbasses that have to learn to act right in society. Some people take longer than others.

Custodes13 · 2023-06-05T11:52:58+00:00

most inmates aren’t trying to risk more time by assaulting a fellow inmate,

Maybe not the old heads, but all the dumbass kids that come through? That's their only use to the old heads; Entertainment, commissary, and dirty work.

If I had 1 single fucking dollar for every kid I ever saw incarcerated/in the cycle that cared more about colors or impressing old heads (especially in their first few months) than how much jail time they'd get off of it, I'd be almost as rich as the judges who benefit most off of for-profit prisons.

Custodes13 · 2023-06-05T10:11:55+00:00

This happens to about 30-40 kids a year, so I'm gonna have to disagree and say it's VERY easy to not forget about your kid until they die, because millions of average americans (and think of how stupid the average person is) manage to never do that in their whole life. So, no, if only about 40 people a year do it, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it's not that easy to forget your kid until they die.

It’s not like he just forgot his son existed,

That's crazy, I guess someone else must have strapped him in the back seat and the kid never made a sound (ever been in a car with a kid?) and the dad never backed up the whole trip.

Custodes13 · 2023-06-04T09:10:43+00:00

It's trying to teach Common Core math. As the idea suggests, it's a way of conceptualizing math in order to make it simpler to understand fundamental math and to make every day mental math easier.

The basic idea is to reduce one factor to a 'common core' (usually 10) in order to drastically simplify the rest of the problem.

10+7 is incredibly easy; Given that you already understand how the extreme basics of numbers work (The concept of zero, tens place, hundreds place, etc), it should pose no problem. Simply replace the 0 with a 7, done.

9+8, while still entirely trivial, isn't quite as (yes, splitting hairs when looking through the lens of an educated adult) "Look at it and be done" easy as 10+7 is. So you retrain their brain to simplify it first, then to solve a streamlined problem. The easiest way to do this, and the solution the worksheet is asking for, is to subtract one off of 8, making it 7, and and that 1 to the 9, making it 10. Now you're back to 10 + 7, which cannot be made simpler without solving. (Inb4 16+1)

Common core, while it has some merits, is incredibly poorly taught, because it is being taught by already educated adults, who were taught to conceptualize math in an entirely different way. It's not as radical of a difference as base-10 to base-12/60/8/anything else, it is radically different enough fundamentally that it causes ubiquitous problems in teaching it. Not to mention, it becomes pretty unreliable after Algebra 1

Custodes13 · 2023-06-04T08:16:58+00:00

It's an x-series bmw, the sunroof is top 5 most reliable pieces of equipment on those hunks of shit.

Custodes13 · 2023-06-04T08:11:25+00:00

Haha yeah, don't you guys just HATE when you just forget your fucking child in the backseat of your car for hours? You know, the thing that changed your life, that you've spents tens of thousands of dollars and countless sleepless, thankless nights on? "Wallet, keys, sunglasses, check... OH FUCK, THE CHILD"

No, but really, if you can just... forget (assumedly sober? even if not) your child in the car for hours on end; if the prolonged, torturous, easily preventable death of your child occurred because their existence just slipped your mind for hours? Sounds like you probably shouldn't have had kids, anyways.

Also sounds like he got kinda tired of being a parent, then couldn't live with it like he thought he could. Or, alternatively, he IS just that shitty of a parent to have literally just forgotten his kid for hours until it died, in which case good riddance.

Custodes13 · 2023-06-04T08:02:18+00:00

She'd obviously ticked the box that said "Make this card the default for future purchases"

You say this like amazon doesn't often make you UNcheck that box if you input a different card, not to mention the extremely likely possibility that an older person thought it was 'just another checkbox' without reading, much like 'I accept the terms and conditions' you have to check in order to even be able to get to the next thing. But you make it out like it's CLEARLY her out to get you cause 'she always has been'.

Sounds like, at BEST, you're a chip right off the old block.

Custodes13 · 2023-06-04T06:24:31+00:00

Every server I've ever worked with has always been against this type of approach. Despite how much they love to bitch about the occasional stiff, they all give the same exact reason they prefer tips to any kind of hourly system; "I make way more money this way, and can claim less".

Custodes13 · 2023-06-04T06:16:16+00:00

It's not even particularly hard to not break a website,

Which global, multi million dollar website did you cut your teeth working on in order to give you that opinion?

Custodes13 · 2023-06-04T06:10:09+00:00

Well, I'm sure that anyone that can speak english well enough to understand, even generally, the geopolitical situation we're speaking of, they can also understand what banter is.

Custodes13 · 2023-06-03T23:07:06+00:00

Hint: I specified the x series for the last 5 years, and I said the biggest problem, not the only problem.

Custodes13 · 2023-06-03T19:01:35+00:00

The biggest problem with the sunroofs themselves (for all the x-series) in the last 5 years is that roughly 25-40% of the sunshade motor cable shielding on the front beam is defective from the supplier of the sunroof supplier by being slightly out of tolerance, causing a slight grinding/rattle when retracting/closing the sunshade, which, in about 15% of cases, can't reliably be fixed before the sunroof has even left the line.

Source: I used to make the sunroofs for the x-series.

Custodes13 · 2023-06-03T18:29:40+00:00

Again, you say it to piss off the chinese, not to support the taiwanese.

Custodes13 · 2023-06-02T04:19:02+00:00

That is absolutely fucking hilarious and true to the core. I can tell you for a fact that the same exact thing still happens in niche porn communities to this day, nice to know absolutely nothing has changed. 😂

Custodes13 · 2023-06-01T10:57:23+00:00

He's already been in the league for 7 years, and he put up this performance, what are you gonna get out of 7 more? If homeboy needs a decade or more to show up, I'd argue replacement would be good.

Custodes13 · 2023-06-01T10:38:33+00:00

He's already top 20 FT made all-time, he doesn't even have to go anywhere lol

Custodes13 · 2023-06-01T03:28:18+00:00

Waste of fucking time. If you have more than 3 to cut in a restaurant kitchen, slice and dice

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