"seemingly every entity required me to make an account, share my mailing address, often my passport information, etc., just to buy a ticket or secure a table." He further expands on this in the latest episode of Dithering, stating that 'every single EU entity requires me to have an account just to do something like book a table' (paraphrasing as I don't remember the exact line but the 'every single EU entity' stuck in my mind).
To me this feels like the sadly common misconception that every country in the EU is the same. I live in Ireland and have never once had to create an account to book a table in a restaurant. Nor a cinema ticket, nor visits to tourist attractions. And that includes while travelling abroad.
Thompson is either being hyperbolic in the extreme or just had really bad luck (or, went to an EU country where this is actually common - I won't make the mistake of assuming they are all the same).
That'll teach me to pay more attention to the details rather than going "Welp, there goes my start-up idea".
Yes, that doesn't look great - I assumed when I saw it was underwater that it was effectively looking up at the people on the surface and detecting people in distress from that angle. On closer inspection that doesn't seem to be the case.
Would this not become more of an issue if nuclear actually was embraced on a global scale? I mean, eventually we would run out of safe storage - the question would then be whether that would be in 20, 50, 100 years (and whether some better option would exist by then).
Disclaimer - I have no idea of the numbers involved so aware this may be a ridiculously trivial issue
According to their subscriber forums, their current subscription model counts as a 'paywall' as far as Conde Nast is concerned, and there are no plans to change that currently.
My son learnt how to play music on Alexa and stop it with "Alexa, stop". Unfortunately he now stops it playing music that my wife and I want to listen to - or tells me "Daddy, stop" if I am talking and he wants to say something...
To me this feels like the sadly common misconception that every country in the EU is the same. I live in Ireland and have never once had to create an account to book a table in a restaurant. Nor a cinema ticket, nor visits to tourist attractions. And that includes while travelling abroad.
Thompson is either being hyperbolic in the extreme or just had really bad luck (or, went to an EU country where this is actually common - I won't make the mistake of assuming they are all the same).