This kind of abuse of power makes my blood boil. It's an utter shame things like this are allowed to happen, and the TSA, police, and DEA agents involved should be ashamed. This should have never needed to be resolved in court.
Common sense to me would have been to record her identity, do a quick criminal background check, and if nothing came up let her go on her way (with the cash). Then if necessary, the DEA could keep a closer eye on her future travels or business dealings to watch for suspicious patterns. But to just take someone's money with no justification is ludicrous!
Someone from the Azure team actually just reached out to me and said they had raised my critique internally. Kudos to MS for listening to their users and reacting quickly!
Yeah, I'd recommend it. Although you CAN do all the ceremony you referred to and setup a complicated build environment, etc... Vue doesn't require it and can be used fairly effectively using a simple setup.
I made a little jsFiddle for you to demonstrate. This is just including the Vue.js library on the page and using it to do stuff. No build environment or anything.
Yeah the nice thing about Vue is you can basically add it to existing HTML and import it via CDN, you can skip the build step entirely. This makes it really easy to get started.
If you're not planning on building a large app, I'd say it's a better choice than React for that alone. React excels at scale versus its rivals, but Vue is much easier to jump into and be immediately productive with.
First off, his eCommerce business might be some custom software app, not an online store or informational website. So being "knee deep in frameworks" might be necessary for his business.
That said, the ADA is all about accommodating disabled persons within reason. Depending on the scope and functionality of his software, fully supporting such with a single developer on staff MIGHT be an undue burden - it all depends on the specifics of the situation and we don't know his.
Notice the usage of "Undue Burden" from the official ADA documentation below.
"The rules are also flexible for communicating effectively with customers who are blind or have low vision. For example, a restaurant can put its menu on an audio cassette or a waiter can read it to a patron. A sales clerk can find items and read their labels. In more complex transactions where a significant amount of printed information is involved, providing alternate formats will be necessary, unless doing so is an undue burden."
"It is a business's responsibility to provide a sign language, oral interpreter, or VRI service unless doing so in a particular situation would result in an undue burden, which means significant difficulty or expense. A business's overall resources determine (rather than a comparison to the fees paid by the customer needing the interpreter) what constitutes an undue burden."
TLDR: they lost 71% of their traffic overnight due to the Google update. They argue changes that large should have forewarning because people's livelihoods depend on that traffic and Google has zero transparency on the whole process.
They couldn't get answers about the drop in traffic, so they are giving up on that site and moving their staff to work on another:
"We are shutting down CCN.com. Google has made that choice for us. We are moving the entire team over to HVY.com to at least try and save modern journalism the way we see it. HVY Journalists is a news platform made by and for journalists."
I was thinking the same thing. The article states that the auction items "also appeared to include material confiscated from Palestinians and Israeli settlers who built without authorization."
Which seems to imply this wasn't targeted specifically at the Palestinians but rather anyone who built without permits. Which begs the question... who built the classrooms and why wouldn't they have gotten building permits before doing so?
Rather than just synthetic fur - imagine a coat (furry or not) that is "alive" and generates it's own heat to keep you warm. Maybe it "feeds" on your sweat and dead skin cells? Or you feed it at night in some manner?
Every time I see one of these articles on "bio-robotics" or whatever you want to call them, I always think back to sci-fi like Dune (Axlotl "technology") and/or Blade Runner (replicants, artificial eyes, etc); a future where the line between the artificial and the natural is very, very blurry.
Sweat happens when your body needs to remove excess heat, so using it to heat your body back (even if thermodynamics allowed for it) would be... kind of counterproductive. But being able to feed it with something overnight and have it slowly radiate out the heat would be a nice thing for winter months. Beats electric heating.
As long as this new synthetic fur is cheaper than the real thing... If I'm to believe a random outrage post I've seen on Facebook, apparently real fur is cheaper at scale than synthetic, so some companies ended up selling clothes from real fur but advertised them as synthetic, to cash in on the extra money you can get from people caring about animal suffering.
I wonder what the economic impact to local economies would be if we could be rid of the bribes, cronyism, and nepotism that goes into civil maintenance.
I know my local tire shop would be out of business. I go through an average of 1 tire each month from potholes, and a bent rim at least twice per year.
Common sense to me would have been to record her identity, do a quick criminal background check, and if nothing came up let her go on her way (with the cash). Then if necessary, the DEA could keep a closer eye on her future travels or business dealings to watch for suspicious patterns. But to just take someone's money with no justification is ludicrous!