Without patent protection it would be impossible to bring anything new on the market unless you were allready one of the big companies.

Expertise, brand, speed, know-how, first-mover position, customer trust etc. are wothless if multinational mega conglomerate can just copy your homework and use their wealth to quickly massproduce your thing and spread it to every market of the world.

Thank you!

I also find it strange how easily everybody just abandoned their traditions and started to support Black Panther.

Killmonger was the legitimate heir both because of his lineage and because of the right of combat

I mean if there was an impartial historian writing about what happened, they would write Black Panther took the power back by an coup.

Same. Got a tablet when i changed mobile operator.

Only good use i found for it was to look recepies when cooking.

Largest market chain where i live is run like this.

A consumer cooperative (or customer-owned cooperative).

Its a business owned directly by its customers, who usually become members by paying a small membership fee. Profits are returned to members as bonuses, discounts, or dividends, and major decisions are made democratically, but there is the normal corporate hierarcy running the day to day operations.

I get the dumb little point you are trying to make, that would leave the companies only stagnate while competition keeps growing.

Hmm. What could industry producing millions of jobs world wide offer for working class. What a tough nut. You got me stumped. Maybe we should have just stayed using pen and paper.

No. I think the computer industry is more expensive and creates more jobs than all the paper and pen industries have trough the history.

You know companies have whole branches deticated to computer support and cyper security, right?

Or do you think that before laptops businesses had their own divisions of Quill-Certified Problem Solvers and Paper-Based Troubleshooting Engineers?

Thats fair.

Ill revoke my argument.

You are right, but its not like we use the word that much anymore. With quick look i did not find any restaurant near me selling nakkisämpylä. Only hot dogs or one grill with hodari.

Same with the stores. Only hot dogs and hot dog sämpylä.

Well in any case. RIP in peace Spirit Airlines.

Guess my view is little unreasonable. I mean building something new and expect it to work is demanding awful lot.

But stopping with the snark. Africa has it problems with countries weaponizing cellphone and internet connections and that would not be solved even if every tower had its own nuclear reactor powering them.

You say it would take a volcano eruption to cloud the sky. Intense Sahara dust events can lower the PV output and the soil landing on the panels can make them useless. Cleaning these panels is laborius and uses water that can be hard to get in some areas. These are happening more frequently as climate change is doing its thing. There has been studies showing solar energy drop up to 50% as far as Greece because of the sand in atmosphere.

I think using solar for powering those towers is a great. I just dont see logic behind building a system that can with a bad luck just stop working, when you could instead build some failsafe option.

Only thing in solar that worries me is the reliability. It almost always needs some auxialary power to reliable smooth the lows and ups.

That said Afrika as a continent is pretty reliable for solar power all year around. Average is something like 325 days of bright sunlight annually. Cell network is pretty critical system tough, so as long as there is some fallback plan in case of failure i think this is excelent use for solar.

Personally i dont like religions and if there was some greater power out there, i think they would not need some random church as an antenna to reach me.

That being said your take is the most moronic and anectodal i have heard in a some time.

I mean it weights just as much as somebody saying “All the jews i have met were greedy.” or “All the mexicans i have met were lazy”

Dont you consider Mr. Rogers as a good person? He was an presbyterian minister.

Or Florence Nightingale? The woman who basically created modern nursing and hospital sanitation. She was a devout cristian.

What about Stephen Curry? He is very openly christian and beside basketball, is known for humility, charity work, and community programs.

What about Dolly Parton, Simone Biles, Jeremy Lin, Neal McDonough? All bad persons?

Those are just few celebrities, there are good and bad persons from every religion, race and country out there.

I have always loved the saying: Lie, outrageous lie, statistic.

Data is a wonderfull thing, but it often can be really easily to be presented in a way, that while being true, is not representing the truth.

Like if we would just look the numbers containing just necessities and remove the luxury products it would not be that lopsided.

Trivia time: Chimpanzees are the best primates after man at throwing.

At best they can throw things at the level of semi-athletic child.

Humans have unique rotating shoulder joint that just gives us a huge edge over any other species, when it comes to throwing things.

Not the original commentor, but i think they meant more narrative failure than mechanical failure.

Like “You failed to save person from burning house, and the failure changes how the story unfolds.” Not “You died to a boss and you need to try again.”

First example of narrative failure that came to mind is from Deus Ex: Human Revolution. There is objective where you need to protect a chrashed pilot from enemies, but if you fail the game does not fail and load previous save. The game goes on and characters death effects the dialogue and a certain story point later in the game.

In souls games, no matter how many times you die, the narrative does not change. Dying effects you only in mechanical sense, where you might loose some recources, but you will never lose them permanently, but there are narrative moments that you can fail. Like in bloodborne if you summon certain npc to your haven, he starts to murder other people you have brought there.

I really love the game desing behind this system. The game is on a timer, but instead of time going foward all the time, the quest “cost” time.

Way of the samurai games did this kind of trick back in the day. In those games the day was divided in to four parts, morning, noon, evening and night. Player had unlimited time to wander the game world, but once they did something big, the time would go foward and depending on what you did the story would go in to different direction. After 5 full days the game would come to a finale, but how you acted, effected who was alive and wich side of the final conflict you would be.

The game ending and story coming to a finale does not necessarily mean you win.

If the game is fun to play and one play trough does not take forever to finish, i can see my self playing the game multible times trough and trying to find the way to make everything end the way i want.

But the man still speaks the truth.

I mean yes. Everything he says about the super girl should be taken with a pinch of salt, but i did not stop watching marvel movies because they were superhero movies. I stopped whatching them because they were bad movied. Predictable, uninspired and predigested slop.

It was pretty rough at start. Especially when we were not sure whats happening and after we did, we did not know how the medication was going to effect as it varies a lot person to person, but luckily it has been effective for my dad.

It has also been tough because the cancer effects the immune system, so if i have made plans to travel to home and i get runny nose i need to cancel the trip. Especially because when the medicine stops being effective the cancer will develope quickly, so every time i miss a birthday or christmas, there is possibility that it could be the last one we get.

Since mom has retired now too, they have beem doing lots of travelling and they have come to terms with the disease they are pretty much living to the fullest while his is still fit to travel.

Big suprice was that the disease actually revealed useful side of facebook. There is support group of people having the same disease. It helped dad a lot to understand he should not just stop living his life because of the sickness. The group is little eerie tough as for the obvious reason people in there may suddenly just disapear.