That's distortion. It's measurable and can be replicated even with a half-decent DSP.

and they have SIM trays just fine.

This is not something worth posting on /.

What reason do you have to attribute those deaths to a vaccination booster?

so that I could get a lot money by doing shit like this.

Do I _need_ a "happy, fulfilled life"? Is it even worth to live? How is "worth" defined?

A *person who happens to be an MS employee* submitting a patch is massively different to *MS* submitting a patch. I have no idea what kind of legal agreement one has signed when getting a job as a coder at microsoft, but it wouldn't surprise me if it included something along the lines of "any code, machine-executable or not, human-readable or not, you ever communicated or will ever communicate, is owned by us", so it _might/may_ be impossible to function as a free coder once you've been hired by microsoft.

Is there any vendor that gives _guarantees_ that their software works?

openshell and 7+taskbar tweaker are what allow me to have a reasonable taskbar and start menu. It's more or less how it was in w2k.

There it is, again. "Tax dodging."
Okay, _how_ ? You can't buy anything above â400 (or is it â600?) with cash. Employees have their salaries automatically taxed. I do not even _see_ money anymore. It is automatically added to my bank acct. The government knows more about my money and how I use it than _I_ do. Do you imagine, like, the majority of greeks being masters at laundering money or something?

Do you _know_ what is happening, why greece is a financial mess, or like everyone else, do you keep sucking on the same lollipop you've been handed decades ago?

I will die of old age. Google won't.

it's not that they consider the mirror itself as an object.

it's that they recognize _what_ they see, ignoring the phenomenon of reflection.

I can very reliably motion to my cat "here" through the reflection _on the stove's front glass_ and he comes to me, not towards the reflection.

the intricacies and metaphysical aspects of "perception" intrigue me a whole fucking lot. What we consider "vision" has nothing to do with optics. It's all _thought_. All of it. What we name "vision" is the *result* of whatever subconscious operation is done. It's an *after-effect*, it's only tangentially related to what is physically in front of our eyeballs.

Really weird shit, let me tell you.

The reason for our situation is that we never accept "good enough". Everything is considered a "problem" that should be solved.

I reject the notion that all difficulties in life are problems in need of a solution.

Heavily depends where that 2J is coming from. If it was not going to be used elsewhere, then neat.

Where'd you get the energy to do this?

Nevermind that, that's a _practical_ problem. There's a more serious problem: When will you accept that this approach is _exactly_ what has brought this mess upon us? That "oh, that's a _problem_ we gotta _fix_ it. With _more stuff_." mentality we have?

"Are you seriously suggesting we *stop solving problems*? Do you even realize how absurd this is?" OF COURSE it sounds absurd! It goes against our very nature! We _literally can not think of any other way_ to approach our environment! Which, coincidentally, is EXACTLY what has brought us here!

and we're getting closer to Maelstrom. Peter would be proud.