Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT strips 4301-4305 (6th July to 10 July 2020)
Farideh:
--- Quote from: chris73 on 12 Jul 2020, 03:00 ---Only if she had no extra development. We know she has issues going into relationships so that could be explored, we could see Claire grappling with the issue of children (if she wants any that is), we could see how Marten deals with a trans woman after the honeymoon period wears off, hell we could see any number of storylines around this without labelling Claire trans only but instead it seems to be mostly about a theoretical relationship between Faye and Bubbles which could be interesting by why go down that route when you already have an interesting relationship to focus on
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That'll probably happen soon, though. The honeymoon period is wearing off and Claire has graduated and is looking for a job. Given her personality, she'll want to plan out the next 10 years of her life, which will clash mightily with Marten's more... relaxed attitude to the future.
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: Theta9 on 12 Jul 2020, 11:09 ---
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 10 Jul 2020, 01:26 ---And regardless of either, there will always be those who are duped into going against change that would benefit everybody because incredibly selfish people tell them that whatever it is, "that's socialism" and they've been convinced 'socialism bad' without questioning just who it's "bad" for.
I've been dealing with relatives who wholeheartedly believe the current American healthcare system is socialized medicine despite it being the antithesis of socialized medicine. It's very frustrating.
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People like my mother (who I've recently informed of her cancellation) who grew up during the Red Scare of the '50s and are the target audience for FOX News Channel's poisonous lies.
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Unfortunately it's not just them.
My younger brother (early 30s) is amonsted them.
Tova:
--- Quote from: qiset on 12 Jul 2020, 06:25 ---Never liked pdf. Postscript is the way to go. That way it can be edited and changed provided you can program in postscript. (which I can).
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PDF is essentially postscript with extra bits.
You may not know this, but there is such a thing as a PDF file that you can edit with a text editor.
Here is an example I happened to have sitting on my computer. Copy the code below, paste it into a file using a text editor or whatever, give it a .pdf extension, and open it with your favourite PDF reader.
If you know postscript, then this should look very familiar.
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Here's another thing for you to try. Take some PDF you have sitting around (one that's not edit protected). Visit this site:
https://www.pdfyeah.com/decompress-pdf/
Submit the PDF and download a version you can edit with your favourite text editor.
Gamesman001:
I'm new here but thought this might be worth considering. May has an occasional weird sex partner Sven who has lots of money but is oblivious to other peoples problems. If he knew about May's issues he would probably go all in on a top of the line body with full options sex-wise. Unfortunately May would refuse because she doesn't want charity BUT if she was convinced he did it to use her as a sex toy she'd be into it. And if she thought she was paying it off by having sex she'd want to quit her job move in with him and wear him out everyday trying to pay it off as fast as she could but would probably settle for keeping her job and doing him on the regular. If I'm out of line sorry but this is how I read both characters.
Scarlet Manuka:
--- Quote from: qiset on 12 Jul 2020, 06:25 ---Never liked pdf. Postscript is the way to go. That way it can be edited and changed provided you can program in postscript. (which I can).
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But in many contexts the need is for a document that you can verify hasn't been edited or changed. Contracts, for example.
And yes, digital signatures can be applied to any document type. Until there's an easy to use common infrastruture to handle that for the average non-technical user, it's not a real solution.
Mind you, the common thinking (as indeed your post would also imply) seems to be "it can't be edited because it's a PDF", which is incorrect. It's just that most people don't want to spend the money for Adobe's PDF editing software and the free alternatives aren't very good (and aren't well known). So in practice PDF means "probably hasn't been edited, unless someone was willing to make an actual effort", which is often good enough.
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