Religion is not a choice in most instances where religious persecution actually becomes relevant.
That's not a realistic issue in England though; honor killings, etc. aren't really a practical fear there, any more than getting murdered by Mormon Danites was for me when I left the Mormons. Yeah, you def. lose your family and friends, but that would also be the results I would have if I defected from rational thought to MAGA.
The difference between all of the others--excepting religion--and hunting, is that the other statuses are ones that you have by virtue of being born, rather than through choices you make, or the way you're raised. That is, you can't choose the family that you're born to, nor can you choose your sexual orientation. You choose to be a hunter though, and you can choose to not hunt. (Religion is much the same, but for some reason we've put religion on a different moral pedestal, even though it's clearly a choice rather than inherent.)
I've personally found that I can hear a sound difference in 320kpbs .mp3s, depending on whether or not it was encoded with a constant bit rate, or a variable bit rate.
The RICO case against the Stop Cop City protestors in Atlanta is using blank phones of protestors--who are all American citizens--as proof of criminal intent and conspiracy. It's a catch-22; lack of evidence is evidence of guilt.
You really need a critical mass to break Adobe's stranglehold. I hope that someone can, because I hate their software-as-a-service model. But for now, I have to suck it up and deal with it.
Their refusal to pay to integrate PANTONE colors has really fucked up my workflow. :(
Nothing is going to effectively hurt their bottom line, because they own the market. There are no other viable alternatives to Adobe if you are working in the graphics profession. Everyone, and I mean everyone, in graphic design/visual communication uses Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Acrobat. If you do any work with designers and receive files from them, you'll need to use Adobe products in order to access the files and all the information in the files.
This is the sector I work in. There is absolutely no getting away from it, and until someone comes up with a product suite that is better right out of the gate, and is completely compatible with Adobe, no one is going to switch.
Beat me to this.
Advertisers tend to be strongly opposed to measuring advertising effectiveness, because if they're not effective, then they're out of a job.
Interesting. I wonder if I'm going to end up getting this or not? My guess is that I won't, but we'll see.
I have Windows 11 on my new computer, yes (and I needed Windows because some of the things I want to do require it), but I installed Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC, and it doesn't really come with much of anything out of the box. It's supposed to only get security updates, no features updates.
Why not use a fiber that's not not stretchy, and also not smooth? How would using a synthetic fiber affect the sound?
When I go to that right now, from my desktop, I get:
"Your Session Has Been Suspended
Something about your browsing behavior or network made us think you were a bot.
What can I do to resolve this?
Try again from a different device or a different location
Ensure you have enabled JavaScript in your web browser
Remove any third party browser plugins that may be running"
This is because I run all my traffic through a VPN, and Ticketmaster isn't able to harvest information from me that it wants. It expects me to allow them full access to who I am and where I am, rather than just giving me what I'm paying for.
I dunno about this. Most of the artists I give a shit about have their music up for free on Bandcamp. The ones I've asked point-blank about it have said that they don't care about piracy; they see it as free advertisement for their live shows, which is where they make most of their money (and on merch sales). This might be true of some of the largest acts, where sales might make up more than a few hundred dollars in total annual revenue, but probably a lot less true for most mid-sized or smaller acts.
OTOH, given that the labels are the ones making money off sales of music, they probably care quite a lot.