Hahaha, yeah I only buy books that I know I will be rereading down the line, because otherwise the foundations of my house would crumble under the weight.
My library allows requesting new books 3 months before they come out, so I usually try and be the guy requesting it and getting the first hold on it that way…
If you want to read something slightly closer to “normal” SF by him, The Embassy is good. Although my absolute favorite is still The City and The City, which is all about social mores and to a degree, castes.
HTML5 is a perfectly valid technology when used for good purposes though? Their zoomable charts are fine as long as it is enabled. I don’t think they’re using them for tracking, just to make it easier to enable certain technologies.
The company I work for does all our interactive lessons in HTML5 Canvas via Animate CC. When Flash was EOL’d it saved us from having to redo literally thousands of lessons completely.
Yeah, I guess to a degree? This all came about because I went to fingerprint.com and realized they could track across VPN etc. was trying to figure out how to block it and that came up. And since not many sites use HTML5 canvas, I had long forgotten I enabled it by the time I hit a corrupted looking graphics site.
I think in the end it shows they really need a better way to inform you what is going in than striped lines instead of a canvas graphic. Something that prompts you to either allow HTML5 canvas or that at least has a message/image you can google for further info in the issue easily.
I think iMessage and whatever Google had at the time were "good enough" here that WhatsApp never caught on? Like most people already had unlimited texting by the time it hit the scene, so It just felt like a scam back in the day and I remember it wanted my phone number to complete a sign-up and I was damned if I was going to give it to them.
Trying to unstick from a relationship with that country that has been far too close for far too long, IMHO. You see a lot of signs that they’re very unhappy with Israel’s actions, but the Israeli lobby is incredibly influential and aggressive. It is taking time to change course.
Still doesn’t negate the fact that Trump would simply be done and dusted of the whole thing and completely ignore Israeli actions, unless it caused more chaos. And those are the only two options we’ll see on the ticket in November.
More jobs created at this point in his presidency than any president in the last 40 years
First President to join workers on a picket line
Forgave $130+ billion in student loans
Record stock market.
Brokered MULTIPLE cease fires in The Middle East as well as between Hamas and Israel even with Hamas breaking the cease fires multiple times and also without Hamas releasing hostages as stipulated
Postal Service Reform Act
Provided over $369M to reduce greenhouse emissions by 40%/7years
Safer Communities Act (red flag laws against gun ownership I.e. domestic abusers)
Executive order against police using excessive force , emphasis on body cameras
Unemployment and inflation around 3% the best in the industrialized world
Added 13.2+ million job, a record and replacing and exceeding what was lost in COVID
Expanded NATO, adding countries who previously had no interest in joining, some along the Russian border have applied
How in the actual fuck is this douche blaming Biden when the GOP have fought tooth and nail against ANY kind of positive change in this country under a DEM president??
The fact he's managed the reforms and infrastructure and economic rebound that he has when the Supreme Court, every state GOP state attorney, and the GOP-led House have been walking anything he does accomplish back as fast as they can is practically a miracle, frankly. I mean, look at what he has accomplished despite the odds.
Infrastructure Law ($1BILLION for roads, rail and clean water, earmarks for public transit)
This is such clickbait. Let’s see, on the left, a candidate who is “old” but has done a ton of good studf in the last 4 years (but not all good stuff, obviously). On the right, a guy a couple years younger but obviously suffering a touch of dementia and Russian blackmail, who has promised to be a dictator on day 1, who has made extreme efforts to hold into classified documents, who has fraud cases, racketeering cases and various other cases pending against him, etc etc.
Someone still had faith in Google???