A drone that delivers can also spy on you and then use for commercial reasons. Film everything around your house, backyard, inside the house unless you have the blinds on and store it...forever. Multiply it by hundreds of drones that pass each day and you have a nightmare in your hands. F that.
Keep the drones limited to just killing people from 10000 feet up.
I consciously try not to use Google but when I do it's with ad blockers. For products is Amazon directly--they are usually #1 anyway after the many ads Google puts on top. Ironically Google is training people to go directly to the top sites by putting them on top for virtually anything.
They work on razor thin margins so they shoot first and ask questions later. They don't have the resources to provide top notch customer service or investigate in depth, or prices would be much higher.
So you get what you pay for, I wouldn't move my money making sites to a service like that.
wrong comparison Larry. Now a few entrenched players (not always the best choice or cheapest) can outbid you and hide your ads AND free listing. Not many people scroll down and on top is all ads. Small business is going broke thanks to Google, as Google's earnings keep going up.
Without having to spend money it ends up being confusing for consumers because it's like craigslist and inevitably results in people not being able to find what they want.
So Google without ads, when it first started, was worse than other search engines? Nope. The advertiser that bids the highest might not be the best option for the user at all
I'm surprised they didn't have their their government emails. But they should know that if NSA really wants them, suitcases of cash will exchange hands to get the key...
So the person born in the current Gates' situation would prolly have achieved what Gates did - given that Gates is who he is because he won the ovarian lottery.
If he had a twin brother he's be, say Larry Ellison or Warren Buffet?
No doubt knowing that daddy is there for you if you fail and that Harvard will take you back is a huge relief and fall back strategy but Gates did make some amazingly good decisions. Some forty years later his company is worth close to $300 Billion and makes over $20 Billion in profit, year after year.
Ads are fine, up to a point. If the page is almost all ads and not marked clearly as so, then F that company.
But these AdBlock PLUS guys are extortionists. Google paid and their ads are "acceptable." all of the sudden.
(Disclaimer: not a fan of Google at all)
Google being the world's largest advertiser is leading the way in putting the entire business model at risk, ruining ads for everyone. They started with no ads, then a few ads on the side, then on top, then 2-5 on top and 12 on the sides, now ads everywhere and just a few results hidden by ads. Now the product search is 100% ads and I doubt that most people know (not everyone reads HN and Ars)
I posted them before but this is a disgrace and it's not receiving the needed attention from the media:
All I know comes from trying to help via the internet a cousin find a place to live around that area.
Bullshit. I have friends that lived in Surreal Estate (a Bushwick artists' loft) five years go for 150/_month_.
Apparently Surreal Estate is some sort of experimental commune so I don't see how this makes my argument invalid. Oh, and it's in Brooklyn, not Manhattan. And apparently it was five years ago.
No, what's fishy is the $135/week rent, even a small room can cost more than that--unless it's a really, really bad area. But you can live on $540, for a while. Food can be very cheap in the bodegas and the rest can largely be controlled by only getting what's really needed. Of course a hospital visit will set you back 1-5 years of living expenses but that's different.
If it's anything like Africa has been over the past 100 years, agricultural tribes and hunter-gatherer tribes simply don't mix.
You are missing the point IMO. Back then, it wasn't like today, where you check their LinkedIn profile, FB pictures, date them a few dozen times and then decide.
Food, shelter and protection were even more important than now. And 2000 years is a long time not to mix, imagine what the world goes through in 2 millennia.
"A system provides a periodically changing story line and/or a special event company logo to entice users to access a Web page"...or change logo and upload the new one to the website. Revolutionary!
Keep the drones limited to just killing people from 10000 feet up.