Sounds like you had a bad experience with a church. Every church I've ever gone to even without me being very religious has been very accepting and nice.
Making blanket statements after one or even a handful of experiences doesn't help anyone and can be said about things also not relating to churches as well.
I wonder if a type of 'restocking' fee can be applied to games.
It happens where you get a game try it and it doesn't work on your hardware or it just wasn't what you expected.
I'd gladly pay a 10-20% restocking fee for whatever process they need to do to recycle that key and issue a refund rather than be stuck with a game that will never be played again in my library.
After playing a game more than 2 hours good luck getting a refund on steam, and good luck finding out how much you really enjoy a game in 2 hours.
30 days seems a bit extreme and I do see it ripe for abuse.
Milk does not go bad a week after opening. Eggs don't spoil after two to four weeks in the fridge. A bag of bacon in the freezer isn't going to end you because it sat there for three months. Fruit juice doesn't go bad in 3 days. Butter doesn't go bad after two weeks at room temperate, let alone in a fridge.
That really does depend upon your definition of room tempreature. I'm pretty sure anything above about 30 degrees C will put pay to many food stuffs in fairly short order. Everybodies storage conditions differ, tempreature, humidity and light exposure all have an impact on how long foods will safely store.
The other element is how the item is handled. Traditional bacon stored in brine can last for months in most conditions however I would not attempt to store opened bacon for more than a week or so. Likewise if you have raw meat, it is all about what it has been exposed to that can make it dangerous. Cooked meat, if uncontaminated and cooked through can last for quiet a while and still be safe. Once contaminated it can become dangerous quiet quickly.
If eggs are oiled and refrigerated, they'll last more like 8 or 9 months. I think the oiling is an old maritime technique, but came across it wintering at South Pole.
Of course, 3 months is plenty for the present discussion.
> because they remove the outer antibiotic coating before sending them to stores.
The coating is oil from the chicken, and they wash it and replace it with mineral oil, which works just as well.
I speak from experience: I have not refrigerated US bought eggs for around 10 years. Not a single problem.
If you keep them un-refrigerated for more than 2 months (which I did because there was a really good deal, so I bought a lot), the eggs are not fresh, the yolk falls apart easily. (So not great in certain recipes.)
However they are not spoiled or anything like that, and the taste is unchanged.
Find a few 'influencer' types who are popular at the school. Get them to sell your app by either paying them as an advertiser or tell them for each student they get on the app you will give them x amount of money.
Good suggestion, problem is how do I know if influencer is big or at least watched by enough people a specific schools. Don’t need a couple people at 50 schools, need 20 people at 5 schools.
I recall recently some animated thing was on a top of a Cam site and the girls were up in arms upset that people were watching a cartoon over them.
Would it fall on the creator of the cartoon? What is the creator of the cartoon is literally an advanced A.I.? Would it then fall on the creators of the AI?
It's actually interesting to talk about AI "taking over this job", because porn's legal solely because it's "artistic expression" protected by the first amendment. There's not a fit quota of work to be done, it's a matter of people deciding what art they want to pay for (or not pay for, as the case usually is). Some people may prefer AI-generated art over human-generated art someday.
But I would have to imagine AI would change this more than you'd expect. One might think AI would give you deepfake-like "performers" that could film 24/7 and have potentially superhuman traits. Celebrity and personality probably plays into areas an AI performer may not excel though, there's still probably room for a narrower field of celebrities in the space, even if there was a large mix of AI-generated content. (I also wonder if people would sell rights to their 3D scans for this, which could provide revenue long after the industry considered them "too old" or they moved on to other careers.)
But one wonders why, in an AI-generated world, you'd have video performers at all, when you could have a completely personalized one? Think about stuff you may have seen about people having "virtual girlfriends" and the like. Add in AR/VR technologies and the world for lonely people has a bright future.
i mean this is going to eventually happen. and not only watching. augmented reality + advances in VR are going to transform tech (including this industry)
I used to smoke a pack a day, and when I switched to vaping I personally felt much better. I was able to do things a bit better than when I was smoking cancer sticks.
Looking back I was lying to myself thinking it was just as good as quitting. I didn't feel the heavy tar on my lungs like cigarettes. I still noticed when pushing myself on work outs or hiking or biking or anything requiring aerobic activity that I would get sick to my stomach and almost puke like when you run long distance and are not used to it. I could go further than when I smoked but I would always hit this "wall" where I would get sick.
Quit 100% 3 months ago and took up XC Skiing. I could only do 2 miles when I first started. Just last week I did 10 miles and I have been going once on the weekend every week so in 12 sessions I was able to 5x my aerobic ability.
Starting at 0%, switching to vaping I would say made me feel/perform overall 15-20% better compared to cigarettes.
Quitting vaping filled in that other 80% and the difference is like night and day and so obvious I was lying to myself to keep the habit alive longer than I needed to.
Smoking timeline:
Smoked 18-30, transitioned to vaping.
30-31 vaped 12mg juice.
31-32 vaped 6mg juice.
32-33 vaped 3mg juice.
33-34 vaped 0 mg juice.
Quit Vaping 100% last Thanksgiving cold turkey (really was just mental habit at this point smoking 0 mg juice) 3 months vape free!
I worked at a company during college who at the end of the year would give every employee a "Shrink" check depending how well/poor their store performed over the course of the year.
If you came in mid year they just pro rated the amount you would have gotten if you stayed the whole year.
I remember this helped employees keep an eye on each other as you were essentially stealing from everyone else's shrink check.
First year we received close to $1200 and in 2004 being a poor college kid this was an amazing bonus.
The 2nd year there was a series of high value thefts so we only ended up getting like $250 or so.
Our Lost Prevention employee who was just some guy who looked at security cameras all day, went out of his way on his own time to research all the same stolen items looking for them in local craigslist/pawn shops and finally e-bay.
He found one account on e-bay that coincidentally was selling all the same items our store kept missing! (Some of these were brand new laptops)
The account name of the seller was firstinitial+lastname+numbers
He took that account name, and cross referenced it with our employees and found a match. He then forwarded all this information to the police.
I remember one day going to our monthly manager's meeting (once a month had a store wide meeting where managers went over everything with all employees)
We did the entire meeting, free pizza and donuts, talked numbers shrink etc, and the best part was that on the last page of the presentation they had the guy running the Lost Prevention department come up to talk shrink. He explained everything above and then flipped the presentation paper to the last page which had the e-bay account giant sized on the paper. He said this is the person who has been caught selling everything and they will be taken care of.
We all turned around from our meeting and there were police offers waiting to arrest the perpetrator on the spot.
Said person was a 20 year old who had everything handed to him on a silver platter. He drove a $40,000 car his parents paid for type of thing where most of us had rusted beaters to drive around.
He was doing it only for the thrill, worked in the electronics department so he was able to steal things from the cages when trucks came in and you are supposed to unload all the pallets.
I just remember that meeting so vividly because they let the kid go through everything, thinking everything is normal and I wish I was able to see his face when his username was shown right away.
I won't forget his face and cries as he was being arrested saying, "You cannot prove that is me!" even though it was his first initial + last name and year he was born in.....
They aren't docking the employees pay for shrinkage (which is illegal), they are paying out a bonus based on company performance (the performance being level of shrinkage).
Making blanket statements after one or even a handful of experiences doesn't help anyone and can be said about things also not relating to churches as well.