I just spent a week in beautiful Costa Rica. My family and I swim, sail, snorkel, communicate with wildlife, and parachute above the Pacific Ocean.

We didn’t see any Pokémon. That’s because, unlike much of the rest of humanity, we weren’t looking for anyone to use the app that has taken the world by storm: Pokémon Go.

Surprisingly, my pre-teen daughter didn’t object to our Pokémon-free existence. To my great satisfaction, he seems to enjoy more cerebral activities … mainly.

But even if he had begged me, I would have refused to give in. There is no Pokémon Go for us. That’s because I don’t feel like turning my family into negotiable data points … and neither should you.

Unfortunately, Pokémon Go is the least of our concerns in this regard …

Pokémon Go: the product is YOU

Veterans like me remember paying for software. Do you remember updating to a new version of Windows or Microsoft Office every year? In those days, getting complex apps for free, like those available for today’s smartphones, was unthinkable.

This is because, until about five years ago, the software itself was the product from which developers made a profit. It was no different from selling cars, refrigerators, or any other complexly manufactured product.

No more. I still pay a nominal fee each year to “subscribe” to updates for some software products, but many of the ones I use every day are completely free.

It is not that they are cheap to develop, quite the contrary. Today’s software is much more complex and powerful than the stuff we used to pay hundreds of dollars for.

This is because current software is not the revenue-generating part of the business model. It is not the main thing that is sold for profit.

You are.

Beware of gift-bearing geeks

In recent years, I have repeatedly warned that piracy is only part of the threat of the digital age. Less obvious, and more insidious, is the process by which you become a commodity that is marketed for profit by the companies whose products they use.

The best known examples are the large online groups such as Google and social networks such as Facebook. Both provide their services to the user for free. Both of you, however, spend most of their efforts not on improving those services, but on gathering information about you that can be sold to the highest bidder.

My favorite example is the poor guy who Googled “pancreatic cancer” and started seeing online advertisements for funeral homes. Another is the parent who received an email from some business with the words “DAUGHTER DEAD IN CAR ACCIDENT” printed on the envelope. Some idiot had misconfigured the marketing algorithm and the targeting criteria were being printed on thousands of emails.

Google and Facebook (and many others) started making money selling micro-targeted online ads to third parties like those funeral homes. But they quickly learned that they could make even more money selling the data that advertisers use to microtargeting. Precise figures are hard to come by, but with marketers reporting a 200% to 300% increase in revenue using such data, it’s safe to say that big data collectors are coining it by selling to them.

Pokémon Go takes this one step further. It does not have any ads. For the user, it seems completely ad-free. But advertisers will continue to pay to reach those users … in a much more dangerous way.

Go boldly where no app has gone before

Pokémon Go has been downloaded 20 million times in the US It just launched in Asia and Europe. Nintendo’s share price has soared more than 50% in two weeks. Pokémon Go has already surpassed Twitter in daily active users and is even closing in on Facebook.

While the app is free, users can make in-app purchases as lures to attract Pokémon to their location or “cages” to keep them. However, the game is about to unleash one of the most powerful ad campaigns in digital history … all selling frighteningly detailed information about its users.

For example, the app will soon offer “sponsored placements” to paid partners. Geolocation and geofence technology will allow advertisers to target specific buildings and match that with signals from mobile devices. Advertisers will know exactly where you are and will serve ads based on your precise location, much like the infamous scene from a shopping mall in Minority Report.

By paying Pokémon Go developers a large fee, a brand like McDonald’s (whose logo has already been seen in the Pokémon Go code) will be able to turn their stores into desirable locations in the virtual Pokémon universe. That will draw gamers to those places, where they will be tempted to buy “IRL” stuff, in real life. Advertisers will be charged based on “cost per visit,” similar to the “cost per click” that Google charges advertisers.

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Initial reports that Pokémon Go collects detailed information from the Google account, such as the content of emails, appear to have been incorrect.

But the app owners don’t need those things. They’re going for something bigger. They want to know your location at all times so they can sell that information to the highest bidder.

Judge Louis Brandeis once defined privacy as “the right to be left alone.” If that’s what you want, it’s up to you to make sure it happens.

The other day, while studying the wonderful word of God in Revelation 1:14 (NASB95), he says, “His head and hair were white like wool, like snow, and his eyes like a flame of fire.” Today I am going to refer only to “like snow”. I immediately thought of Snow White and Eternity, hence the title. A little twist on the words, but it got me thinking. When studying the scriptures, you should always adhere to the rule of interpreting the scriptures at the time they were written to obtain the proper meanings of the ancient language. The first thing that comes to mind is the fact that it is taking place on an island called Patmos, part of Asia Minor in the Middle East. How often does it snow there? Not much, like maybe every two or five years, where there is a build-up. The exception occurs at higher elevations where it snows more frequently.

The writing only refers to a few occasions when it snowed. This crystallized substance of water and moisture-laden air cools, forming a delicate scale that only appears in the northern lands of the Bible at the highest elevations: the mountains of Lebanon, northern Syria, and Turkey. It is very rare in Jerusalem and the Transjordan area. In the NASB version, the Bible only has two references where there was snow on the ground. Psalm 68:14, “When the Almighty scattered the kings there, it was snowing in Zalmon.” In Job 24:19, “Drought and heat consume the waters of snow, and Sheol also those who have sinned.” We now know that, according to the Scriptures, it didn’t snow much.

The other verses refer to snow. In Proverbs 25:13, “Like the cold of snow in harvest time, he is a faithful messenger to those who send him, because he refreshes the souls of his masters.” Psalm 51: 7, “Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.” Psalm 147: 16, “He gives snow like wool; He scatters frost like ash.” Psalm 148: 8, “Fire and hail, snow and clouds; a stormy wind that keeps his word.” Isaiah 1:18, “Come now, and let us reason together,” says the LORD, “Though your sins are as scarlet, they will be white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they will be as wool.” That has a lot to do with a snowflake.

Snow represented the color white as the standard for sickness in Scripture. Exodus 4: 6, “The LORD said to him further,” Now put your hand into your bosom. “Then he put his hand into her bosom, and when he pulled it out, behold, his hand was leprous like snow. Numbers 12:10,” But when the cloud had withdrawn from over the tent, behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as the snow. When Aaron turned to Miriam, behold, she was leprous. “2 Kings 5:27,” Therefore the leprosy of Naaman will stick to you and your offspring forever. “So a white leper came out of his presence Snow “.

Snow was also recognized as a seasonal event in all of these scriptures. It meant the hand of God. Job 37: 6, “For he says to snow, ‘Fall on the ground,’ And to downpour and rain, ‘Be strong.’ Job 38:22, “Have you entered the storehouses of snow, Or have you seen the deposits of hail? The snow was representative of purity, like white snow. Lamentations 4: 7,” His consecrated were purer than the snow, they were whiter than milk; they were more ruddy in body than corals, their polish was like lapis lazuli. “

From a scientific point of view, what is snow? It is a form of precipitation of crystallized water and ice, creating snowflakes that fall from the clouds. The flakes are of soft, granular material that form many sizes and shapes, but when subjected to pressure they change state and are fleeting. Snow crystals are formed from supercooled water droplets from freezing clouds, forming a unique ice network in the atmosphere that combines with other networks to create snowflakes. The ice in the flake is transparent, but the beam of light that passes through the crystalline lattices makes the light appear white depending on the angle. The location of the louvers can create amazing reflections, like the shine of a layer of fresh snow. There is much more to this and it is fascinating, but for our purposes we just need to know that this process creates unique individual structures of unlimited combinations.

I think you’re watching my drift. Sorry, I couldn’t resist. Seeing a drift of snow on the Midwestern plains while traveling in a warm and cozy car on a safe and comfortable highway is an incredible sight, especially when the sun is catching those flakes, causing the effect of thousands of bright stars as we we headed to our destination. . Incredible, unique and fleeting.

That is what I felt and visualized as I read Revelation 1:14, “His head and His hair were white like wool, like snow, and His eyes like a flame of fire.” Like snow, it is amazing, unique but not fleeting because snow represents the purity of our Lord Jesus Christ in His glorified state: the perfect God-man. In two words, “like snow”, the vision of our Lord to the apostle John shows the divine will of the plan and purpose of God the Father. It’s a rare Greek word, the noun [G5510 chiôn] which means “snow” means conversion, from one state to another. The historical Jesus who became human through the virgin birth, the Lamb of God, while on earth representing perfection, purity, the absence of sin and willingly going to the cross, bore the sins of all humanity, He dismissed His spirit, rose again, and then sat on the right hand of the Father, being the first-born, the God-man.

Christ did not resurrect himself. Christ received the resurrection of God the Father through God the Holy Spirit, who is available to us. John 10: 17-18, “That is why the Father loves me, because I give my life to take it again.” No one has taken it from me, but I give it on my own initiative. I have the authority to quit and I have the authority to take it back. This command I received from my Father. “Acts 2:24” But God raised him up, ending the agony of death, since it was impossible for him to be held in his power. “Romans 6: 4,” Therefore we were buried with him in death through baptism, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in newness of life. Ephesians 1:20, which He did in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places. Colossians 2:12, having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the work. of God, who raised him from the dead. “1 Thessalonians 1:10,” and wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, which is Jesus, who will deliver us from the wrath to come. “1 Peter 1:21,” who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that his faith and hope may be in God. “Romans 1: 4,” who cried out to the Son of God with power for the resurrection from the dead. according to the Spirit of holiness, Jesus Christ our Lord. “Romans 8:11,” But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His indwelling Spirit in you. “1 Peter 3:18,” For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that he could bring us to God, having been dead in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit. “

Just as raindrops form from clouds at a precise temperature in a certain way, the formation of a unique crystallized snowflake between the mounds of snow gives the ability to shine the light of God’s grace. This resplendent divine love, grace, and hope is available to all who are willing to go through the conversion process simply by believing in the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior through faith alone in Christ. Ephesians 2: 8-9, “For it is by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not from yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one can boast.” The difference between the believer in Jesus Christ and a snowflake is eternity. The believer becomes eternal in God’s plan and purpose as the snowflake melts. The decision is his, as John 3: 15-16 says, “so that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him. For God loved the world so much that he gave his only begotten Son, so that everyone who believes in him , do not lose yourself, but have eternal life “. White as snow is the eternal nature of God through the finished work of Christ on the cross.

Disciple of Khaine is one of the few races specifically included in the Warhammer Online game and is difficult to find anywhere in the Warhammer Universe. They are the career that is included in the armies of Dark Elves with the role of prototype support in the House of Uthorin. Disciples are considered healing fighters during combat and melee. Avid gamers have built Khaine’s WAR or Warhammer Online Disciple guides to help newbies and other players play and fight them.

They act on the alternative form of attack. First, they bother to assault the enemy with disputes obtaining the life energy and eventually delivering it to their allies and companions. They are marked by the elven god of war and murder, known as Khaine. They are trained throughout the dark shadow of Khaine with rituals that could steal the opponent’s soul power with just one bite of the disciples’ sharp weapons. His partner is none other than the Warrior Priest.

Disciple role play

Believe in the will of Khaine as your God. Who is he in the first place? Khaine known as the god of blood hands because he surrounds his world with wars and murders. They crushed their opponent as Khaine, harvesting their enemy’s souls mercilessly. They come during fights with their chalices and swords that are protected with perverse rituals. They are capable of performing dark rituals and during summons they invoke their god to bestow and favor the Druchii warriors. Much information is described in WAR or warhammer online disciple of khaine guide.

Disciple of Khaine Specialty

They are dual fighters that are beneficial to them and harmful to their enemies. It means that they have the ability to heal and resurrect fellow disciples and inflict great curses and damage on opponents. Top of the line during battle due to their amazing sharp swords and soul absorbing power that will increase your singing spells and take down your enemies. They are the known catalyst of the battle as they could change the direction of the game. They specialized in using action points to fuel their attacks and many of their basic abilities.

They gain Soul Essence the moment they deal damage and it is stored to fuel their other abilities. The main power revolves around destroying and rejecting enemies while simultaneously healing, healing, and enhancing your allies.

Other abilities include Rampant Siphon, Consume Essence, and other damaging but feeding attacks. However, his Soul Essence power is easily depleted. Disciple of Khaine has the power of Covenant of Vitality, which means that it could grant a 20 percent chance to add spirit damage to each attack they made and with the same amount they could heal. Only one pact is allowed at a time considering it must be active. They have a higher healing over fuel time compared to other healers. Having a WAR or Warhammer Online disciple of khaine guide will help you drastically improve your game.

“At 6:49 am CST, Hong Kong Gold reports indicate that gold is weaker against the US dollar.” You quickly phone your broker and place an order to sell gold “short” (that is, sell gold you don’t currently have assuming you can buy it at a lower price before you have to “deliver”). In SPECULATOR, you have the opportunity to interpret news reports and estimate their effect on market conditions. Unlike many simulations that reflect price changes over weekly or monthly periods, SPECULATOR pretty much puts you in the pot. Simulates trading in “real time” with a scale of 1 minute of game time equal to 6 minutes of “real time”. The charts even allow you the privilege of watching your broker answer the phone and seeing the floor broker moving to the appropriate position to execute your order on the exchange floor.

The realism used in this simulation is remarkable. It can be bought at the current market value; buy below market value using an MIT. (Market if touched: it becomes an active market order when a certain price is reached). sell at a preset MIT. order; sell at a certain price OB (or better, will sell at a certain price or a higher price); sell shorts; use a spread order (simultaneous buying and selling of related contracts that are related to each other); using GTC (Good till Canceled – the order remains with the specialist on the exchange floor until a certain price or contingency is reached), OCO (One cancels Other – a compensation mechanism in which if a part of the order is completed, the other party is canceled) orders; and have the flexibility to execute orders at the immediate beginning of the trading session (when opening) or at the end of the session (when closing).

The effect of all of these options (although not all are immediately available to the first-level or “newbie” player and should be earned as a performance bonus as the player improves to “Profiteer” and “Floor Trader”) is give the player a more intimate understanding of the mechanics of futures markets. It also seems to allow the player to feel more “in charge” of the situation because he is able to communicate the EXACT conditions for the investment.

It is also a multiplayer simulation and one of the few “realistic” simulations based on real market conditions that allow it. TYCOON reflects actual market conditions and an excellent degree of realism, but only 1 investor can compete in the same market environment. In SPECULATOR, up to 6 players can compete at the same time. However, this feature also presents a problem. It is very difficult for more than one player to use the keyboard at the same time. When the market is about to open, there is only 1 minute to enter “On Open” orders, whether there is 1 player or 6. Also, since the market keeps moving, even when 1 player is in trade mode, there is an inherent advantage in entering one’s orders first. The scaled “real time” is a vital ingredient for the feeling of being there within the simulation, but either there must be some other way to provide information from the players other than from the keyboard or there must be a function that allows the “freeze “from” real time “until all players can enter their orders.

Another important factor is the data disk. Because events, contingencies, and price fluctuations are geared toward a 45-day actual profile of market conditions on three different exchanges (Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and New York Commodity Exchange), there is a significant correlation between what you can consume orange juice. what she does the first time you play and what May’s orange juice does every other time you play. To circumvent this trend towards equality.

The software plans to market several different data discs to reflect different market histories. These will be a welcome addition to the game as it will keep the game fresh and playable. Despite the fact that SPECULATOR allows the investor to play much closer to the market than its closest competitor, TYCOON.

However, it is more difficult to be a fundamentalist at SPECULATOR, as you only have a 30-day history chart to work from where TYCOON offered yearly stories for each product in chart form. It’s easier to be a SPECULATOR technician; However, since one can place a buy-sell order immediately after the news that will affect the basic supply and demand for the basic product hits the ticker symbol. For example, you read that meteorologists predict a severe east coast winter (not an actual event). This indicates that there could be a freeze in Florida that would reduce the supply of orange juice. Reduced supply means higher demand, which means higher future prices. Therefore, you want to buy orange juice futures before anyone else. At TYCOON, there is a clear advantage to following the news, but the price fluctuation has already started when the player reads about it. In SPECULATOR, the player has to move in a hurry before losing the advantage that the news gives him.

SPECULATOR is the first investment program I have seen that overshadows the fine line of investment simulations from Blue Chip Software in tutorial value. The two documentation books that are included with the program (the Game Manual, which explains everything from starting the program to how to place an order, and the Market Reference Guide, which explains everything from the size of a contract even factors that influence prices) are understandable and a valuable resource for perusing the financial pages and / or publications distributed by brokerages. Between the two brochures, almost every imaginable order is defined from both a real trading and gaming perspective.

SPECULATOR compares favorably with any other investment simulation on the market to date. It’s competitively priced for the entry-level game and should be an especially worthwhile investment with the addition of new data discs. I look forward to the projected release of a stock market simulation in the near future.

Throughout the Seventh Hell, a hypermorbid

-Natural habitat, human remains

live with a slow plant life,

sharing each other’s parts in sub-animal

thought and activity: with seagull and audacity

in a heap of anomalous horticulture

of vileness and iniquities.

All parts are boredom: forked with ears and tongues,

Noses, murmurs, swings and trunks; to a spectator

this world would be thaumaturgy, for

its wonderful rarity, beyond redemption.

Within this loamy furrow bagged unburied,

In his oubliettes, devil like dwarves do

its plant and corpse graft and even

living human organizations, gathering

parts of fetus-sanguineous-found in graves, bought

in practices, clinics; one to another suture,

amid foul smells and garbage.

Deep in the seventh hell, deep in its arcane

grotto, resides the syrinx-the jinn

of all, once a river nymph, transformed into

a reed, and the reed in pieces of

decreasing lengths, joined with wax,

his bark-encrusted skin, his teeth

scholarly and pointed, forked. Reptilian tongue.

Head like a fairy, wings like a bat

seductive dwarfs, who suck the

Yellowish-red ichor, as if from the

the old men, the Titans, cursed in the plants,

taken out forming incisions,

in human torsos or stems from a hard wound.

Beneath this frank bag of earth, the

lair of the demon dwarf in boredom, wait for the

immense new surface emergence

devilish new age. The age of

seething fear, pandemonium, of debauchery

threats, no longer happy, hostile

her hair, waiting, waiting … to

enter the surface, waiting ten thousand

years. His dwarf demonic eyes spin in sockets

of bent pleasures to be, still bored with

She stands, her muscles knotted from the porch

inside his lair; but all with devilishly firmness.

So they wait, the last long night, the

last minute, halfway between the cobra activation,

and a door closed behind them to drag

the muffled tribulation of mankind.

Arms dangling like apes, almost touching the

earth, waiting for man to become bitter with God and

for God’s last break with humanity

as is, therefore they are ready for your

victims. Those who have cursed the will of God,

closed heart, indifferent to man,

but they are loaded with cats and dogs

and do not hold emotions for your neighbors:

mestizos and mutts among men; for politicians

They’ve got the rusted coffin hinge, ready.

“They will fall like the fall of gargoyles

from a cathedral “whispers the chief dwarf

demon, to the barking Syrinx inlay,

who will lead the dwarves out of the fleapit

of the marl of the Seventh Hell, for the condemnation of the earth.

And now he screams: “We come, we come with

our hot frenzied breath of crimson

hell, from our hell-born labyrinth! ”

You are no longer bored, hesitant, or doubtful.

Kill or be killed, with increasing heat, growing!

Arboreal, meat and stem masquerade:

of demon and mythological goddess.

Human offspring hid behind leaves, cloaks.

They change shape like instant delusions.

The undecorate disappearance of the syrinx

The Syrinx, with wasteful dread to spill

on the human race, its repulsive

I hate all mankind, she threatened

the world that would listen, its cruel with

demand, take the devil’s promise

of the mark of 666 (the mark of

the Beast, and Satan being so

metamorphosis, like Syrinx

transubstantiation, or transgenic …)

save, if not, just to be destined

little by little, to a desperate life and lack.

And a temple of ghoul gods was built.

On an idle stroll, he strolled through his marble

stone floors, celebrated their rituals and worship: and

thus came the priesthood of the dwarf demons that

had introduced much sadness into humanity in

his name: the food supplier of the

Titan gods, from long ago. However, she too

was an impersonal force similar to the

elements, of the supernatural, cosmos;

therefore subject to dark ebony ambiguities.

Nobody knew the way of its evaporation;

possibly his death, his execution-

Perhaps, brought to an even lower order

of subterranean terrestrial entities,

by Satan for his blasphemies in the temple. AND

thus fed and lived with the dead devourers.

It is not simply heresy, but truth, not a mere

hieratic invention, that once you join Satan

a lot, wants rivals, and therefore the livid

Syrinx, he must have forgotten, he was unauthorized

with satanic pious reprobation, by Lucifer.

She had not formed any conscious plan to do

in a hurry but dared to acknowledge her bindings

for lack of inhabited worship and fame.

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Once you’ve got a character of high enough level, head to Winterspring in search of a bunch of great potential spots to farm your gold.

1. Lake Kel’Theril (53.42) is a frozen lake in the center of Winterspring. The shores of the lake are home to the Ruins of Kel’Theril, which along with the lake itself are populated by many tormented spirits of the Highborne. These souls are level 54 and 55 ghosts that are relatively weak, drop up to 8 silver coins and also have a chance to drop green items and, if you are lucky, some epic item. For more fun, chests also appear (randomly?) In this area, and every week the entire lake is invaded by water elementals commanded by Princess Tempestria. You can do quite well just killing the elementals and selling their ‘Essence of Water’ drops, but if you’re up to the task (recommended by the group), kill the princess and help yourself to the blue items she tends to drop. The invasion lasts until the princess is killed.

Heading southeast from the lake to (57.50) you will find a bunch of cobalt dragons (56-58 elites) around a cave. Killing the little dragons (Wyrmkins, scalebanes and mageweavers) has a small chance to drop a ‘Mature Blue Dragon Sinew’. This is being sold to the highest bidder, and trust me they will bid as it is a very difficult item to obtain and necessary for a high level hunter quest.

2. Everlook is a trading post run by the goblins of the Steamwheedle Cartel. It is located at the crossroads of the main commercial routes of Cuna del Invierno. Head north and east to (67.40) and you’ll find an excellent area to farm Ice Thistle Yetis. In addition to throwing out vendor junk items and sometimes blue items, you can also skin them for sturdy, thick leather that consistently sells well.

3. Dark Whisper Gorge.

In addition to attacking the Frostmaul giants who have a 1/50 chance of dropping a ‘Greater Frost Protection Potion Recipe’, you can travel up to (60.75) and try your luck against some elite level 60 demons (grouping is HIGHLY recommended). You’ll get a bunch of Felcloth and Runecloth drops, as well as green items. There is a 1 in 50 chance of obtaining ‘Eye of Shadow’ which can be sold for several hundred gold coins.

Between these three locations you should be rolling in gold in no time!