Excuse the overdramatization, but it feels a lot like Frodo going to the Grey Havens. They did something great and now their reward is to disappear forever and be well taken care of.
Excuse the overdramatization, but it feels a lot like Frodo going to the Grey Havens. They did something great and now their reward is to disappear forever and be well taken care of.
When asked if he was sure that Albion couldn’t be copyrighted due to its historical context, he replied: “I don’t know if I’m honest, I don’t really know… I hope so. I mean you would think that the responsible person I should be, I would’ve spent the last six months in lawyers’ offices…”
Bold strategy, Cotton.
I had to look it up. It was called Guardian of Atlas and Sean left the company right after the beta launched and then the game got cancelled. My guess as to why it went poorly is just that it was inexperienced devs making a game at a time when SC2 was still actually relatively popular. There was no space in the already tiny genre of RTS.
Now that Blizzard has essentially abandoned StarCraft, it might be possible for some folks to carve some of that tiny market away.
Day9 did consult on the design of an RTS like ten years ago and it didn’t amount to anything.
Showing all the balls by immediately coming out to say no to Medicare for All, yes to the border wall, and yes to genocide.
This is the shit you like to see? Or is it perhaps that you believe in nothing and care only about aesthetics?
Tearing down the properties has reduced their local property tax base and also no doubt reduced the values of the properties across the streets as well. It’s creating a downward spiral of local tax revenue while no doubt increasing state maintenance obligations.
Decisions like this are why small towns like this are going broke. They make themselves easier to drive through and tear down the properties that constitute their tax base.
City or state would have had to pay to buy the properties anyway, though. Then the money spent on the widening could easily have been spent to modernize and update (or otherwise improve) the buildings.
The issue, to be clear, is not who makes the surveillance cameras. It’s the surveillance cameras being installed in the first place.
Alarmism about Chinese surveillance cameras is missing the forest for the trees.
Except if the side of the truck says “U-Haul” or “Home Depot” people understand you’re not the kind of asshole who buys and drives a fuckoff huge truck every day of the week.
They had really extensive plans in 1984 that accomplished amazing things. And then immediately got rid of them after the Olympics.
https://la.curbed.com/2018/6/7/17419270/olympics-2028-los-angeles-1984-traffic
Mt. Moran. Grand Tetons National Park in Wyoming.
If you have an older coin-op washer in your building you can usually look up the model number and either buy a master key or learn the default programming code to set the price.
For context: In the US, CBP can search your phone without a warrant if you live within 100 miles of a border or coast (2/3rds of the population).
The researchers conclude that the EU should use its strong bargaining power due to the single market to induce the Chinese government to abandon the most harmful subsidies.
This is their advice? Make the technology for the green transition more expensive rather than enact your own subsidies?
Capitalists are going to burn this planet.
As someone who views prison as rehabilitative and not punitive, I could not disagree more.
Whether the road space is dedicated to cars or bikes, it’s still dedicated to people.
That accepts the framing that we’re designing for cars/bikes/peds. We’re not. We’re designing for people, whether they’re in a car, on a bike, etc.
In that sense it’s very much not zero-sum.
It’s only a zero sum game if they view driving as an essential and immutable part of themselves, and even then, not really.
Charging adequate prices for street parking, for example, guarantees that you’ll always be able to park easily if you need to, a luxury not provided by free parking.
And then, of course, they could always just get out of their cars and immediately start benefitting from the changes.
It’s Idaho, so I can only assume someone with MAGA brainworms will attempt to roll coal through the middle of it in a giant lifted truck.