> Now, almost all have come from privileged backgrounds, went to Ivy League institutions, live in gated communities, are completely detached from the reality of what the average American knows about the law, and certainly aren't going to be taken advantage of by the cops. It's no surprise we've seen such an assault on our constitutional rights: they don't understand what life is like outside the ivory tower.
In Brazil we have a problem with the Judiciary too, most of it is completely detached from reality, due to these exact same reasons.
Because in some countries you must run some government sanctioned apps that require a "blessed" device, or you are a de facto non-citizen?
If Americans had anything like BankID or MitID which would refuse to run on their devices and they would be prevented from paying a bill, transferring money, buying tickets, or reading their mail they would go apeshit in 5 seconds.
Some apps are no longer optional in the world we are living in.
And yet if some other country bans US-controlled social media exactly for the same reasons, this works as a data point to label them as "lacking freedom of speech", "axis of evil", "undemocratic", etc.
But I do appreciate the honesty of at least admitting the hypocrisy.
It's not a "stretch", it is exactly that. It's widely known by anyone familiar with the hardware that Gamecube and Wii are basically the same console: it's the exact same architecture but the Wii has upgraded/faster components and (this whas the key:) different peripherals and bet on the motion controls. It's more or less like comparing the Intel 386SX with 20 MHz and the AMD 386DX with 40 MHz.
You could just ask the developers of Dolphin (Gamecube/Wii emulator). There's a reason for why the same emulator can emulate both consoles.
I don't doubt that it's the way you have been taught, but it doesn't make any sense. The whole point of blinkers/indicator lights in cars are to signal your intentions before you do them: if you're going to signal at the same time that you do the action you're signalling, you might as well not bother.
As I understand it they come from Muslim heritage, from the 700 years of Al-Andalus in the Iberian peninsula. The word clearly points to "Persian".
I know them from Spain, but I'm not surprised that they came to Brazil from Portugal, and I assume they are popular in many places around the Mediterranean and the Middle East.
Exactly. The traditional design language is that an arrow besides a button indicates that the button will show a drop-down when pressed (traditionally without a line separating the two), or that clicking on the button will do the default action while clicking on the arrow will show all the actions (traditionally with a thin line separating the two).
Reusing that design language but making the button and the arrow two completely different buttons with their own actions sets wrong expectations for no good reason.
Not exactly. It was heavily inspired by Joda Time, but it also improved the design in a lot of ways. You could think of it as Joda Time if the designer could go back in time and design it again with all the hindsight.
Actually it happens. I live in Sweden and I travel to Brazil to visit family. If I get a SMS on my Swedish number, I get charged the equivalent of a 1-minute phone call. The reason is that the Brazilian telecom I'm roaming in sees a foreign number from Europe as a perfect opportunity to get some easy money, and charges my provider, which passes on to me.
Note that the law in Brazil forbid telecoms from charging to receive phone calls or messages, even when roaming. But I guess the regulations don't extend to foreign users that are on international roaming, or companies do it anyway counting that the person will only find out after returning home and won't know how to fight it. Authorities are not set up as well to receive complaints from non-residents.
I'm just the messenger and I'm not claiming it's fair, but this is standard procedure everywhere in the world: when you buy a round-trip ticket (single PNR), if you are a no-show for any leg then you're forfeiting the whole ticket. If the ticket for example includes a train ride to the airport, and you don't show up for the train ride, you're forfeiting the flight as well.
Some airlines might not enforce that if you're deemed an important enough customer for them, but I just want to bring this up because being a no-show in the outbound flight and keeping the return flight is not a right that customers have in general, basically in any IATA airline. It's not really Lufthansa specific, those are rules that the whole industry applies.
In Brazil we have a problem with the Judiciary too, most of it is completely detached from reality, due to these exact same reasons.