Hardly. I doubt we live any better than you do on a daily basis. Putting money away for the future is probably the only real difference. Granted, it is a big difference, but it does not affect day to day living.
Are you single? If so, you can at least double your household income by getting and staying married. It helps a lot. Good luck to you.
I spend that much EVERY DAY on sodas and snacks. Who fucking cares about $7/month.
As for sound quality - you are right. They are ear buds.How good can they sound? How good do they NEEd to sound? I use them for talk radio and conference calls, while out and about trying to carry as little shit with me as possible. They are just fine for this purpose.
If I cared about sound quality, I would buy a nice stereo, go home and listen to it.
I have three wireless chargers for my phone. All three put the phone in an upright position. One on my nightstand, one on my desk at home and one on my desk at work.
Slower charging via wireless is not an issue since I am in no hurry when it is on the nightstand anyway, and Iâ(TM)m at my desk for long enough periods of time that it just is not an issue. Everywhere else? Sure, Iâ(TM)ll charge with a cord.
I like the wireless because I can just grab the phone and go without futzing with a wire, and I can just drop it on the stand without trying to line up with a connector. I dunno, overall it just seems to work great.
Once the self-driving car problem is solved and is a reality...Speeding will become a thing of the past. Traffic jams will become a thing of the past. Vehicle accidents and fatalities will drop to near zero. DUI / DWI will become a thing of the past.
The carbon footprint of those living in cities is, in general, lower in western nations.
Really? I hope you're adding in the extra "footprint" of trucking in all that food that is produced in rural areas.
I also hope you're adding in the extra "footprint" of all the resource development happening in non-cities that make cities possible.
Rural areas and people can survive just fine without cities. Cities and people living there can't survive without rural areas. Given this truism, which is the more "natural" way to live?
I think that argument cuts both ways to be honest. People who want to commute long distances tend to pretty vocal about societies providing them with good roads, about having parking spaces in the other end, and asking the people in between to put up with the pollution, the noise and the risk of death that they cause.
It is also important to remember that people don't always have great choices here either.
When I bought my house, I bought one on the bus line (as shitty as it is), only a 15 minute (or so) bus ride to work downtown. Great, right? My wife's employer is ALSO only a 15 minute (or so) bus ride to work downtown. Even better, right?
Fast forward two years. That employer now tells me that I am working out of an office 30 minutes away (best case) by car, way out in the sticks somewhere, and I can like it or lump it.
So, what, I'm just going to quit my fucking job? Or maybe my can sell one house, buy another house close to the new office, and my wife can quit HER fucking job, since she still works downtown! Or maybe I can just keep the job long enough to find a new job downtown - however long that takes. But in the meantime, I still have to get to work!
Hey, and you want to guess why the employer moved the office out of downtown and way out into the sticks somewhere? Because rents in the city are a lot more expensive. Who'd a thunked it??
As a side note, I routinely find myself going 80 mph+ on the highway with a posted limit of 55 mph. Fuck speed limiter devices.
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Hardly. I doubt we live any better than you do on a daily basis. Putting money away for the future is probably the only real difference. Granted, it is a big difference, but it does not affect day to day living.
Are you single? If so, you can at least double your household income by getting and staying married. It helps a lot. Good luck to you.
Do you think it is at all possible that people simply find value and utility in different things?
Do you think it is at all possible that you spend money on shit I would view as a total waste and would not spent one penny on?
Or I could just have my wife whacked, collect life insurance and retire right now!
I do not ascribe status to Apple products. Why do you?
Right. So you would prefer a lot less products be in the market, and the ones that to cost a lot more than they do now.
Fees a family of For for $150 over a 2 year period? Maybe in the DPRK.
All you will accomplish with such a plan is to drive up prices and make products unaffordable to many who can afford them now.
My wife and I make $200K/year between us:
That breaks down like this:
Taxes: $60K
Retirement savings: $30K
Childcare: $16K
Mortgage (all-in): $12K
Utilities: $12K
Food: $12K
Education savings plan: $5K
Healthcare: $4K
We spend nothing on car payments or cable TV.
I think I can justify spending a whopping $7/month on some headphones.
I spend that much EVERY DAY on sodas and snacks. Who fucking cares about $7/month.
As for sound quality - you are right. They are ear buds.How good can they sound? How good do they NEEd to sound? I use them for talk radio and conference calls, while out and about trying to carry as little shit with me as possible. They are just fine for this purpose.
If I cared about sound quality, I would buy a nice stereo, go home and listen to it.
If that is the issue, better for everyone to not buy any headphones AT ALL.
Schmuck.
Still did not answer the question.
They are what, $160? Assuming you use for 2 years, that is under $7/month. I am not inclined to cry about replacing them after that 24th month.
I agree with previous poster. They are disposable - who cares?
They probably tampered with the election too.
I have three wireless chargers for my phone. All three put the phone in an upright position. One on my nightstand, one on my desk at home and one on my desk at work.
Slower charging via wireless is not an issue since I am in no hurry when it is on the nightstand anyway, and Iâ(TM)m at my desk for long enough periods of time that it just is not an issue. Everywhere else? Sure, Iâ(TM)ll charge with a cord.
I like the wireless because I can just grab the phone and go without futzing with a wire, and I can just drop it on the stand without trying to line up with a connector. I dunno, overall it just seems to work great.
You didnâ(TM)t answer my question.
Because they think socialism is good for them.
Just because your top speed is hard-limited by software doesn't mean your rate of acceleration is limited.....
If your top speed is limited, and you are going your top speed, how is your rate of acceleration not limited to 0?
Once the self-driving car problem is solved and is a reality...Speeding will become a thing of the past. Traffic jams will become a thing of the past. Vehicle accidents and fatalities will drop to near zero. DUI / DWI will become a thing of the past.
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...and yet, mental illness will continue.
Yes. I should make my career decisions based on other peoples' disapproval of my transportation arrangements. That seems reasonable.
Then you shouldn't be driving at all. Get the fuck out of my way!!!
The carbon footprint of those living in cities is, in general, lower in western nations.
Really? I hope you're adding in the extra "footprint" of trucking in all that food that is produced in rural areas.
I also hope you're adding in the extra "footprint" of all the resource development happening in non-cities that make cities possible.
Rural areas and people can survive just fine without cities. Cities and people living there can't survive without rural areas. Given this truism, which is the more "natural" way to live?
Yeah. That must be it. Since no one did.
I'd like to have a quiet, peaceful, unpolluted city...
Name ONE, anywhere on planet Earth.
Be sure to include your definitions of "city", "quiet" and "peaceful".
I think that argument cuts both ways to be honest. People who want to commute long distances tend to pretty vocal about societies providing them with good roads, about having parking spaces in the other end, and asking the people in between to put up with the pollution, the noise and the risk of death that they cause.
It is also important to remember that people don't always have great choices here either.
When I bought my house, I bought one on the bus line (as shitty as it is), only a 15 minute (or so) bus ride to work downtown. Great, right? My wife's employer is ALSO only a 15 minute (or so) bus ride to work downtown. Even better, right?
Fast forward two years. That employer now tells me that I am working out of an office 30 minutes away (best case) by car, way out in the sticks somewhere, and I can like it or lump it.
So, what, I'm just going to quit my fucking job? Or maybe my can sell one house, buy another house close to the new office, and my wife can quit HER fucking job, since she still works downtown! Or maybe I can just keep the job long enough to find a new job downtown - however long that takes. But in the meantime, I still have to get to work!
Hey, and you want to guess why the employer moved the office out of downtown and way out into the sticks somewhere? Because rents in the city are a lot more expensive. Who'd a thunked it??
As a side note, I routinely find myself going 80 mph+ on the highway with a posted limit of 55 mph. Fuck speed limiter devices.
No it isnâ(TM)t. Damn..the FCC doesnâ(TM)t even regulate credit cards.