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Is this some sort of joke? Do we expect the Taliban to care or to be affected in any way by this? It's not like the USA or anyone else is going to support an ICC prosecution

Cuts both ways however:

It's common to encounter, especially HR Portals, trying to enforce a 'valid' address. Trouble is it's often an American developer and they have no idea about other countries. Here in the UK they like to insist on a 'county ' field for postal address, despite it being over thirty years since postal addresses here even had counties (which didn't match the actual counties but anyway). The drop down list they like to give isn't a list of counties either, it's an out of date list of local authorities, which were never part of anyone's address.

I worked at a place once where we had to use an internally developed form to order supplies. Form checked user name against company active directory (fine) but also checked that surname+first initial was at least 6 characters. No idea why and very resistant to changing it but my surname is 4 characters and a lot of Chinese ones are only 2...

"Something, something, talk softly and carry a big stick"

The core problem is that many movies have the audio mixed for a movie theatre with multiple separately controllable audio channels. You might see this marked as 5.1 ; DTS; etc. In a typical home environment, you only have stereo sound. This means that the multiple audio channels have to be mixed down to two unless there is a separate stereo audio mix channel provided - basically never except commentary tracks. The shitty way to do it is to just take the left and right front channels which are mainly meant for sound effects and not bother to mix in the center channel which covers the dialogue. It's still hard even if you mix in some of the centre channel.

Short version: asshole movie makers mix only for movie theatres, not stereo.

So what's his laying off 5% of staff?

I think anyone familiar with the history of the region would disagree with the statement that 'this is the first time that Sweden has sent armed forces into the Baltic sea'.

I fail to understand what disabilities this could help with

Fundamentally the only unique attribute for these goggles is 3D and that comes at a significant expense in terms of user experience. It's the same story as it has been over the last two centuries.

Stereographic photos in the 19th century worked perfectly well but required a special headset and only one person could look at them at a time. Didn't take off. People prefer to be able to look at two-dimensional photos perhaps casually and to be able to point the things to other people looking at the same photo or to compare it with other things at the same time.

3d movies in the 1950s required special red, blue or red green glasses. Didn't take off beyond a gimmick. 3d movies could not be watched without the goggles.

3d movies in the theatre in the early 2000s. Didn't really get beyond the gimmick level. Lots of people complain about headaches.

3d TVs in the early 2000s required special glasses and the 3D could not be used if other people were trying to watch without the glasses.

The conclusion I draw from this is that people don't like having to wear special glasses or a device strapped to their face, even if it is relatively cheap to produce. Although 3D is nice, it simply doesn't seem to be sufficient incentive to put up with the isolation from other people and the surrounding environment that the viewing equipment invariably requires.

Unless you have some actual data to back this up then, yes, this is personal bias. I'm my own case I have:

• A personal account with three calendars
• A shared Google account with two calendars
• Read only access on someone else's account calendar

Don't forget that there are any number of public calendars that you can share to your Google account, e.g. 'public holidays' or events groups

So engineered stone is equivalent to MDF. It's a dust of the material mixed with resin. You can mould it like plastic but it has the appearance of stone. When you cut it you get a fine dust. Engineered stone is very cheap compared to granite.

As opposed to what, lightning? Laptop DC barrel connectors? Micro USB?

And flag claims 'A Complete Success' lol