FourPacketsOfPeanuts @ FourPacketsOfPeanuts @lemmy.world

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♫ .. Now don't be sad, 'cause two out of three ain't bad.. ♫

And as a result there are 8 or 9 rivers called "Avon" in the UK..

I've heard various explanations, I don't know how accurate the following is. I'd be interested to learn more:

• the very earliest colony settlements had to bargain hard and with precision in order to survive. It began a contractual culture that eventually extended into litigation
• due to high immigration from many differing backgrounds, disputes had to be settled in litigation rather than relying on social understanding
• the religious culture was largely inherited from the Puritans who had a legalistic and inflexible reading of the new testament. (This unwillingness to compromise is why they were persecuted in Europe and fled to the new world)
• the American identity is 'invented' (in the sense that's it's an abrupt mixing of many old world cultures) and so national identity was initially based on cerebral activities (the Constitution, Bill of Rights) rather than evolved from a very long history of social bonds found in old world 'nations'. This required a cerebral precision to be at the heart of identity which easily extended to legal rights and relations

As I say, take with a pinch of salt. But this is the gist of what I've heard from people who know more than me.

Have you tried talking in only short amounts that require a response? That could narrow down the specific thing that made them not want to respond. If this is happening all the time with all sorts of people that's unusual. In your example it's hard to tell if they were overwhelmed with your talking style or if you offended them or if you missed all signs they were uncomfortable and they felt entitled to be rude to you (without saying) or if you just happen to be encountering people who feel that's an ok thing to do and it doesn't really have anything specifically to do with you. Lots of possibilities.

If you want to try an 'old world' replacement, the England v France rugby match from 8th Feb (part of the six nations tournament) was great

Rotating barcode is the key here. Ties the purchase to a ticketmaster account and requires a phone be presented at the gate. All perfectly doable, if they were so inclined.

Just because some unnoticed game implemented some fairly easy to conceive game mechanic doesn't make that game influential. It just makes it first. To be influential you have to show that later game developers had played it and been inspired to build on it.

And I can confidently state that without 005, there would be no Metal Gear.

Ah c'mon

I mean, Ticketmaster are greedy bastards, that's why they do what they do. But I think a part of a the veneer of respectability they present is based on the truth that you'll never really be able to stop scalpers, so Ticketmaster might as well be the legal scalper of choice. There will always be a blackmarket for popular tickets (so the reasoning goes). Since reselling isn't illegal then it's hard to force eBay and gumtree to disallow it. And there's nothing to stop touts in person. So Ticketmaster says "fine, we'll host the reselling at whatever the bidding goes up to". They get to make some more money on it and disallowing isn't going to much improve things for the average concert goer..

I think probably one actual solution is to sell tickets linked to your mobile device (somehow). That's probably still vulnerable to being hacked / faked so maybe that's why they haven't done it (aside from them losing out on that resale margin, obvs).

How could it actually work though? Without checking ID at the gate you have no idea if the ticketholder is the original or has bought from a scalper?

Ask him to define cooking any way he likes => point out preparing toast falls into that definition => beans on toast is cooking QED

What are the top signs someone's having a stroke?

Oh I see, you mean ban legit reselling?.. could do. no chance of stopping unofficial reselling though (gumtree whatever). It's a terms of service thing not a legal thing. So gumtree, eBay etc are not obliged to take down such things. And of course they would never stop touts doing it in person on approaches to a venue..

Without ID on the ticket you don't know it's been resold. All a venue sees is someone presenting a valid QR code (or whatever)

Are you not very bright?

make tickets non transferable

This sounds sensible, but in practice ID checking however many tens of thousands of people on their way into a venue would take forever. (Not to mention now having to deal with the portion of genuine customers who've forgotten to bring Id etc)

Reads like someone took an English Lit major, switched to Philosophy, failed both, and is currently at a STEM major college party talking wank..

It's that after the wash cycle or after the drying? Pretty normal for towels that are heavy with water to be pinned to the drum after a high spin. But if they don't then tumble off during drying (or are physically caught on something) then yeah something's wrong. (You could just try a lower spin cycle)

There are plenty of portable second screens for laptops now. But it seems weird you can't just hardwire a second laptop without having to resort to internet based screen sharing solutions.

I'm pretty sure in that case the sound alone would kill us..