Her hair looks so nice, I'd have a hard time not wanting to touch it, even knowing it's ~~venomous~~ poisonous. Maybe rather than a stone gaze, her gaze inflicts a variant of Command, compelling you to touch her hair. I've been afflicted. Additionally: Maybe she can't control it, and she hates that about herself; she can never form meaningful relationships without inadvertently poisoning everyone she grows attached to. She's a sympathetic character and the adventure revolves around trying to find a way to lift her curse without falling victim to it yourselves.
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The answer can be found by looking at how most of the commercial open source products are monetized. Software hosting and technical support are quite lucrative if the software is valuable.
This only applies to some software, though, no? Like, let's say a group of folks make a game or something, and release it as FOSS. Assuming they're not hobbyists, and this is their career, how are they covering costs and making a living on that?
How do content creators get paid?
Largely through sponsorships, I think, right? Sponsorships and crowdfunding, but both of those require some measure of notoriety. It's an unfortunate case where you have to spend a lot of effort doing it effectively unpaid until you get a following large enough to bring in sponsorship money or ad revenue or donations. Or you need to be a pretty woman who's willing to monetize that, that seems to have a much lower barrier to entry.
My favorite moment from the whole thing was when Harris offhandedly mentioned that his rallies were bad, and he spent a full minute of his rebuttal time insisting that his rallies were awesome, then started arguing with the moderators when they fact checked him. You could see that that, above everything else that went on, rankled him. It really highlighted the narcissism.
Out of curiosity, under this system, how do the people writing the software get paid? Are they all dependent on donations?
I don’t think there was much that will hurt Harris from it. She performed very well.
She was articulate, well-spoken, performed well unscripted, and next to Trump she looked like she had her shit very together.
"Better half of billionaires" is a pretty low bar.
Simmons (the woman who murdered the guy) was not the one he had the relationship with. Her trauma (as described in the article) was that she believed her stepfather (whom she stabbed 5 years ago) abused her daughter. As far as the article covers, she had no involvement with the guy she shot and dismembered at all. He had a warrant for failing to register as a sex offender; Simmons apparently saw that and, because of her "disdain for pedophiles", murdered him.
Whatever your feelings on the guy, we simply can't condone extrajudicial killings. I know it feels good sometimes to think "Yeah, that guy deserved it!", and in some cases, maybe they do, but it doesn't matter - it's still vigilantism.
In this case, it seems that she's just a violent woman. If I'm reading it right, she stabbed one person, and murdered two (three separate unrelated incidents) so she deserves the life sentence she got, however you slice it.
I feel like if we just required them all to be at work, every day, until these problems were resolved, they'd sort themselves out real quick. The fact that they get to not do their jobs and still take 6-week vacations every summer - and I mean every summer, because as you note, this always happens - is fucking ludicrous.
Wasn't suggesting you couldn't. The obvious interpretation is that he's reading the Bible; I was just suggesting an alternate scenario that subverts the obvious expectation and allows for a different, less wholesome interpretation of his thought bubble. No offense intended.
Plot twist: He's looking at a notebook of Jesus porn, crushing hard.
The Daily Show did a piece on it, if you don't mind a distinctly left-leaning focus and want to be entertained while still getting the highlights, rather than seeing an objective summary of the whole thing.