The difference there is that when DVDs came out, you didn't have to buy a new TV to get the most out of 'em. Having an old skool TV, I'm totally uninterested in HD content. Check back with me in 5-10 years when it's time to replace my TV.
It's precisely for this reason that I never use one click on Amazon. Also, I like to see an order summary with shipping costs, etc. *before* I commit to buying.
>You're all too stupid to know what to do. Let us educate you monkeys on the correct decision to make, so >that we can keep doing the stuff we want to.
Generally, politicians *are* too stupid to know what to do about tech.
If the British had managed to put down the American revolution, George Washington would certainly have been tried for treason, convicted, and hung. And he knew it.
BTW: toilet set tops are often very clean. But less so the undersides where women want men to put their fingers to raise and lower toilet seats! Default=up might be more sanitary.
You shouldn't publicize this, or the wimmenfolk will have us sitting down to pee.
As a fellow Arizonan, I also find DST to be puzzling.
I once worked for a company who had certain people who worked outside. To spare the workers some of the summer heat, they simply changed the work schedule for summer, starting an hour earlier than the non-summer schedule.
Also it's a minor PITA trying to figure out when to call out of state since their start/quit time relative to us is always changing.
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TSA isn't there to catch terrorists, it's there to deter them.
Then, musicians would starve.
Or they'd make their money by performing and selling t-shirts
The difference there is that when DVDs came out, you didn't have to buy a new TV to get the most out of 'em. Having an old skool TV, I'm totally uninterested in HD content. Check back with me in 5-10 years when it's time to replace my TV.
You were modded insightful. I would have chosen "Insightful and Trolly".
Your point is a good one, but you needlessly come across as hostile to OSS.
I'd write "CHA" on the moon. With a big laser. Powered by a flashlight.
heh, he said "grass roots"
It's precisely for this reason that I never use one click on Amazon. Also, I like to see an order summary with shipping costs, etc. *before* I commit to buying.
If I were paid to be paranoid, I'd trust something made in Taiwan a lot sooner than I'd trust something made in mainland china.
>You're all too stupid to know what to do. Let us educate you monkeys on the correct decision to make, so >that we can keep doing the stuff we want to.
Generally, politicians *are* too stupid to know what to do about tech.
Yeah, we're Legacy code.
I prefer INS news. Carl Kolchak tells it straight.
Yeah, and content will be heavily regulated. Not just pr0n content, I bet, political speech too.
If the British had managed to put down the American revolution, George Washington would certainly have been tried for treason, convicted, and hung. And he knew it.
Geez. He said he's a republican, not a fundamentalist. The one does not imply the other.
BTW: toilet set tops are often very clean. But less so the undersides where women want men to put their fingers to raise and lower toilet seats! Default=up might be more sanitary.
You shouldn't publicize this, or the wimmenfolk will have us sitting down to pee.
There *are* socially recognized limits, and the hypotheticals you present are clearly beyond those limits.
Within those limits is the obligation of an institiution to protect their reputation and image.
In this case, it's China doing the censoring, and Microsoft is their mechanism.
Unfortunately they do - for checking credit and so forth.
So you potentially save "a few" kids while exposing the info on countless others to Jeebus knows who.
If Social Services are indeed "hugely incompetent", will the availability of this database really help to the extent intended?
Chicken poop.
It's all about where to store the cat.
My cat loves sleeping behind the LCD. Right next to the transformer for extra cat warming action.
When I had a CRT there just wasn't enough desk space for cat storage, and not enough heat generated for cat warming.
It's made the extra cost, loss of resolution and loss of color fidelity all worthwhile!
As a fellow Arizonan, I also find DST to be puzzling.
I once worked for a company who had certain people who worked outside. To spare the workers some of the summer heat, they simply changed the work schedule for summer, starting an hour earlier than the non-summer schedule.
Also it's a minor PITA trying to figure out when to call out of state since their start/quit time relative to us is always changing.
Bing! He said the 'H' word!
Granted. But social security isn't an investment either. It is wealth redistribution.
I grant you that some people will screw up their retirement accounts.
It doesn't necessarily follow that they must then starve.