I want a phone with a 4.5" screen (5" is theabsolute maximum), multiple day battery life, a proper headphone jack, good performance (sadly that probably means at least 3GB RAM) and an OS free from OEM bloatware.

I don't care about wireless charging, fingerprint/face recognition nonsense, "digital assistants" or any of that bullshit.

It's AzeHosting, a Danish hosting provider. You get a full cPanel hosting package with a big line of available packages you can install, plus email accounts with full IMAP and calendar etc.

I have nothing but praise for them.

Seriously. I pay less than $2.50/month for a personal domain and a hosting package with 5GB storage, unlimited traffic, Roundcube webmail, full support for Wordpress and bunch of other software I can install, at a reputable and very well-regarded hosting provider.

My email is mine.

There's plenty of good music still, you just won't find it in the pop genres.

Free speech is not freedom from consequences or immunity from judgment.

EmuParadise just got nuked, they've removed all ROMs from their site, and will now focus solely on emulators and discussion, no game downloads.

I guess people will simply move back to torrenting ROMs.

A bunch of useless crap that doesn't do a damn fucking thing to make the user experience any better, just a bunch more baked-in spyware.

In the real world, companies running company towns would severely underpay their workers, and then fleece them on prices at the company stores, hotels and restaurants, the only places that would accept company scrip.

You have to be real goddamn deep in corporate pockets to even think that would somehow improve worker's rights and influence over the company.

I grew up in the countryside, I saw plenty of animals being put down and slaughtered. Heck, I even poked at pig carcasses with a stick, for fun. I still eat meat, but I'm not a fanatic about it or anything.

I think more people should learn and observe where their food comes from. Not just meat, I mean everything. Especially processed food. If they're OK with something, they can eat it. If they freak out, they're free to avoid that food in the future. But at least they've been informed.

Absolutely. I certainly hope no one eats meat specifically because they want more animals to be slaughtered. We eat meat because we like the taste (and texture and other properties). If that can be replicated in a reasonable way using a vegetarian method instead, I'm 100% for that and certainly wouldn't mind ordering it regularly.

Minced meat like hamburgers is a good first effort to tackle, because it's much easier than replicating all the features of a steak. Make vegetarian lasagna or bolognese with currently available stuff like quorn or Naturli' or something, and I bet most people wouldn't notice. Burger patties are a bit more complicated, but Impossible Foods seem to have it handled pretty well.

Replicating roast beef or ribeye or a pork chop is going to be more complicated, but it's an interesting problem to tackle.

I object to the term "meat junkies", as I don't think anyone is actually addicted to meat.

For me, I like the taste of a burger. If I can get the same taste without meat, that's great! That's what the impossible burger promises, and I would love to give it a go.

The biggest thing about the Impossible Burger is that it shows you can make a burger that tastes like a burger, without using beef. The target market is not vegetarians/vegans, as I presume they're already well-satisfied with portobello mushrooms and chickpea patties, or similar alternatives. They have plenty of veg* choices that play on their ingredients' own strengths, instead of trying to imitate meat.

For the people who like the taste of burgers, but would prefer not to contribute to factory farming practices or have other ethical reasons, this is a good alternative. Personally, I don't care if my burger has beef or not, or whether it has real bacon or not. If it tastes like it has beef or bacon (or sufficiently similar), bring it on. I love the taste of a burger, but it is absolutely not a requirement for me that it actually contains beef. If they can give me the same taste without using beef, bring it on!

They were also very protective of their design, and refused to license it, or sell tubes to other TV manufacturers.

Bang & Olufsen used to have a reputation for simply rebadging Philips TVs. Sure, they used Philips tubes, but that was because Philips was one of the best CRT makers in the business. Everything else was B&O designed and built.

However when it came to plasma TVs in particular, in some cases they literally took a Panasonic plasma display (meant for use with an external control box), glued aluminum trim to the front and supplied their own control box. And charged 5-10x as much for it as the exact same panel from Panasonic.

Honestly, VGA quality on the monitor I'm using is really damn good, it surprised me a little bit. It's an Eizo FlexScan EV2416W and it just locks on perfectly to the test pattern at lagom.nl that I use for auto sync on VGA-connected monitors. Very solid-feeling stand as well, and the best TN panel I've ever seen.