I get the feeling that the Apple family refuses to own or operate any vehicle that doesn’t have a carburetor. As far as they’re concerned the Model AA was good enough when it came out and that means it’s good enough today.
You might be able to talk Applejack into an older Hilux but a 2001 Civic is probably way too modern.
Definitely one of the best Windows 3.1 screensavers. Bethesda’s adaptation didn’t do it justice.
Eh, they’re overrated. Every time a station wagon passes by the markings and ocean just despawn and that ruins them for me.
I’m not saying they are saints. There’s definitely room for improvement; their excellent reputation mainly stems from the fact that everyone else makes no effort at all to deliver anything worthwhile. Hit-and-miss looks damn attractive next to miss-every-single-time.
Valve do give the impression of actually putting thought into what people want from their platform even if they don’t always get it right and even if they’re not consistently on the side of the gamers.
Epic walk in and make a copy of Steam as it was in the late 2000s then wonder why nobody praises them for their amazing retail service. It’s as if someone showed up to a car show with a straight clone of the original Volkswagen Beetle, 1930s tech and all, and wondered why nobody liked their car. It’s literally patterned on the most widely sold car in the world!
Of course Epic are purely MBA-driven and only consider that people should purchase games as quickly as possible as often as possible. They don’t see any value in anything besides maximally efficient value extraction by means of a streamlined purchasing workflow.
Valve, meanwhile, turned Steam from a glorified auto-updater into a marketplace when they saw demand for one, then kept reacting to customer requests because they realize that happy customers are returning customers. (Also, they actually give a shit about their platform beyond how much money it makes them.)
No, each EU country has its own electoral system. The EU is currently a federation of mostly independent countries. Most or all of these countries have voter ID laws. This is usually not a problem since everyone can be reasonably assumed to have a government-issued ID document.
To give an example, in Germany your birth is always documented. As a citizen you always receive an ID card when you turn 16; in fact, you are legally required to have a valid one that includes current information. For example, if you move you have to make an appointment with the citizens’ center in your new municipality to change your registration and they’ll put a correction sticker with your new address on the ID card. If you change your name you have to get a new one, which costs about 50 bucks; same if you lose yours or if it expires. People under 24 and poor people get rebates, in the latter case of up to 100%.
We don’t have a voter roll per se; all citizens receive voting invitations by mail several weeks in advance of an election. These are used in conjunction with your ID card to get access to your assigned polling place. The law mandates a certain density of polling places so nobody has to travel too far or wait for too long. The invitation also includes everything needed to register for mail voting including a postage-paid return envelope so poverty isn’t a factor in whether you can vote by mail.
So a lot of the criticism about voter ID laws you hear in the United States doesn’t apply here because ID cards are ubiquitous (and have been for a long time) and we go out of our way to make sure poor people aren’t disadvantaged.
Same for Germany. I can imagine they restrict it to markets with weaker privacy laws for now.
Look, they’re just bringing GitHub’s signature nine-fives reliability to the rest of their cloud stack.
Just waiting for the RAM crisis to price everyone into thin clients that connect to Azure Virtual Desktop; then we can get that special enterprise feeling every time we try to use a computer!