Seems a bit much to me. When the Soviets put undesirables and political prisoners into gulags they didn't give them fabulous salaries and incredible perks.
I think the intent is for it to be over the top. Poking fun at something with excessive force with a catchy name works really well for branding. Works right in the meme culture.
I don't even buy anything that is not sold via Prime. I assume anything non-prime is of the lowest possible quality or a scam. For some reason I feel comfortable with prime thinking that the items have had some sort of quality approval. (at least getting my item as described and expected.)
Prime doesn't mean it's sold by Amazon. It can be a third party seller using Fulled by Amazon services. And in that case, the item may not even come from the specific seller you're buying from, because of inventory commingling - they put all of the sellers' inventories into one big bin and send you any of them.
What you may be looking for is "Ships from and sold by Amazon.com". But there have been reports that even those products may be commingled with third-party inventory. (I don't have any personal knowledge on that one way or the other.)
> the item may not even come from the specific seller you're buying from, because of inventory commingling - they put all of the sellers' inventories into one big bin and send you any of them.
Yeah, but in that case you're at least very likely to be getting the item you ordered. I've got the same policy for ordering stuff from Amazon - if it's prime and does from their warehouse I'll trust it. Haven't been burned yet, and the occasional mistake is always cleared up, usually with a 1 month credit to my prime subscription.
I've had issues with Amazon Essential products (keyboard and mouse).... they are probably sold via Prime but I refuse to get Prime. The replacement was easy to get but the quality was low.
I've had pretty good results buying inexpensive old CD releases from non-prime third party sellers on Amazon. No scams (so far - knock on wood), items were as described.
I'm at the point now where I only buy Prime Free Same Day, Fulfilled (or Sold by) Amazon. Anything else and I may as well walk to Target/Best Buy/Etc.
Amazon's prices aren't usually any better than local retail, or if so, not by much. The benefit to me is ordering an item mid-morning and having it on my doorstep by dinner.
Decent read. I bought this game on the switch as soon it was release, and stopped playing probably 60 minutes into it because the difficulty really did my it less fun. I'll definitely play again once the patch comes out.
Overall the game has an amazing and original design, and I hope the patch improves sales.
1. "Only inhabited by ISIS" - Really? Says who? There were no villages or civilians within the kill perimeter?
2. What's the aftermath of a 21,000 pound munition on the environment and resources of the region. Do a google search for the impact of bombing in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc on local cancer rates.
Maybe you still don't object...but at least we can be clearer on the true impact of the bombing.
Besides its concussive pulse, the weapon is designed to draw in air from underground/fortified structures in the blast radius. E.g. asphyxiate people hiding in tunnels. It no doubt will leave a crater, but my understanding is that the crater would be less than that left by a similar quantity of TNT.
How would you verify it then? Do you have the coordinates for where the bomb dropped and recent maps of the area? A year ago we said that all ISIL soldiers had been removed from the area, verification seems tricky.
You don't think blowing bits of a building in a twenty mile radius would cause cancer?
Do you think letting ISIS operate freely in the region is better than the speculative notion that building debris will cause cancer someday? Do you think the US should merely inform the local governments and hope they will do something?
Regardless, I agree that the US should never get involved in the Middle East militarily. There is NO way to prevent civilian deaths, there is no way to prevent people on the Left from reducing ALL military action to American imperialism.
I didn't realize dropping this bomb or doing nothing were the only possible options, the whole 26 day campaign with two wounded US soldiers they did last year led me to believe there may be more options.
What reason is there for a war of aggression beyond imperialism?
Our goal was removing the Taliban, and taking the right to police residents of the country, particularly Bin Laden, without the need of jurisprudence. Set up a friendly government, take over sovereign right. What am I missing here?
Starting the war for those aims is a war of aggression, removing the Taliban is setting up a friendly government, removing their right to police is a removal of sovereignty.
Really confused what you're going on about, you keep saying I'm wrong but don't try to say why.
Precedent? This isn't a court case. I begin to see the problem here: You're misapplying a historical template. This isn't 19th Century British Empire - the US had an iron-clad casus belli in Afghanistan, and to ignore that is to completely mischaracterize the situation.
"This isn't a court case, they had an iron-clad case for war." The only point of a cassus belli is to justify your war of aggression, if someone declares war on you the case for it is clear.
And no, the cassus belli was not iron-clad. There are only three legal ones under current law. Defense, defense of an ally, and a UN approval. First two don't work, Afghanistan hadn't declared any wars, and the third never happened.
Buildings are made of things like lead and asbestos, blowing small bits of a building over a huge radius seems like a likely hazard. Plus, whatever the hell the bomb is made of.
Ah, I see. Well, that's kind of true, but it's like saying that earthquakes cause cancer, because when the building collapses in an earthquake, it also spreads things like asbestos into the air. I mean, it's still true, but it's so much a smaller effect than the other problems, it's pretty much ignored.
DU is used in warheads >> DU releases radiation >>> radiation causes cancer. Therefore, you could link the bombs that use DU to cancer.
In this case, maybe they didn't have DU, but there are still other nasty contaminants that come with 22,000 pounds of explosives dropped in a relatively small area (not to mention the 10s of thousands of smaller bombs being dropped throughout that country and other war zones).
>DU is used in warheads >> DU releases radiation >>> radiation causes cancer. Therefore, you could link the bombs that use DU to cancer.
All that is true and totally irrelevant, since DU is used almost exclusively in anti-armor kinetic rounds. This is just a really big firecracker.
>In this case, maybe they didn't have DU, but there are still other nasty contaminants that come with 22,000 pounds of explosives dropped in a relatively small area...
Are there? Do you have some reason to think that's true?
Wikileaks posted this excerpt from an NYT article, saying that these strikes hit a network of tunnels originally funded by the CIA for the mujahedeen. The Tora Bora tunnels are in the same region as the recent airstrike, but I haven't been able to ascertain if it's the exact same tunnel complex.
"The first time bin Laden had seen the Tora Bora caves, he had been a young mujahedeen fighter and a recent university graduate with a degree in civil engineering. It had been some 20 years before, during Washington's first Afghan war, the decade-long, C.I.A.-financed jihad of the 1980's against the Soviet occupation. Rising to more than 13,000 feet, 35 miles southwest of the provincial capital of Jalalabad, Tora Bora was a fortress of snow-capped peaks, steep valleys and fortified caves. Its miles of tunnels, bunkers and base camps, dug deeply into the steep rock walls, had been part of a C.I.A.-financed complex built for the mujahedeen."
The library is designed to be loaded async, so it shouldn't affect load performance. And it uses new APIs (e.g. IntersectionObserver) and techniques like throttle/debounce for all of its event tracking, so it will likely have no noticeable impact on runtime performance.
Have had major issues with reporting using this tool with an "infinite scroll" or single page app type of setup. Serious under-reporting of the history state change.
As a small but growing site, I've been meaning to get on the AMP train and essentially steal some SEO before my competitor sites get in on it. Having a 50k page and dynamic site that lives in the database proves to be a challenge to create AMP optimized pages.
On the topic of AMP being a problem for web standards, I agree. I also can't afford to miss opportunities to get ahead either.
Edit: This is more memeish if anything. Google is obviously not comparable to a gulag, its just the closest negative pun.