Furthermore, what "opposing argument"? Who made the "psychology and sociology are bunk" argument?
I can't be arsed to look it up now, but it's not an uncommon opinion in these discussions to find people who find the social studies degrees/classes to be politically-driven bullshit. I might actually agree to an extent with that myself, but I have seen that the opinion corresponds fairly well with a dislike for 'SJWs,' and vice versa.
The second one didn't even have a technology related degree. Her degree was in English composition, and she did not have an additional one, yet she wrote code all day
Huh? That's hardly unusual in the valley, I don't think I've ever seen another non-labor industry where a college degree means less. The place is full of the self-taught. Why hold that against them?
Sure. But pretending it's still the cold war or blaming him for literally everything bad that happens in the world or relentlessly isolating him internationally isn't helping anything.
It's not the Cold War anymore? So certain of that, are you?
You should tell the homeless white guys I see every day about their privileged existence. I'm sure they'd love to hear from you.
Everyone is capable of pissing away their advantages. The Olson Twins, Kardashians, any sports player or music artist who blew through all their money on houses/cars, etc. Being white doesn't mean there's any limit to hard the fall to rock bottom can be.
The 1% are thriving by convincing everyone that it's all the white males fault. Most white males aren't part of the 1% however by protecting themselves they keep the mob somewhat at bay and by extension protect the 1%.
The greatest con of 2016 was 1%ers like Trump convincing people that he really cares for the underclass and will totally fight for them. And the underclass was dumb enough to believe him his nonsense, despite being shown time and time and time again that this is bullshit.
Are you trying to argue that there are no differences, no differences at all on average between the sexes than the equipment between the legs? Do you seriously want to go there?
It's funny you object to other people using the term "SJW", saying things like how the term has no meaning other than "people I don't like"... until you use it yourself.
It should be patently obvious that he's paraphrasing the opposing argument.
the heck is the point? We're back to square one: It's too damn expensive,
That IS the point -- to make content more expensive. The content cartels were crying for years and years that the Netflix model was unfair and in the age of the Blu Ray they were getting cheated, CHEATED out of billions because people weren't paying ridiculous pay-per-view fees. Well copyright gives them the power to own any distribution, and they know people will pay up.
How is this a blow to Netflix. No shot in hell I'm paying for another streaming service just for Disney's dinky library
Maybe, but it also lessens the value of Netflix's library, again. The content companies have been chipping away at it as best they can in the last few years.
Netflix's value was built on two things: original series, and being the one-stop-shop for all content. I always found the latter far far more valuable. Without it, they become just another hbo or disney or amc. A much more precarious situation. Worse yet, the customers lose what had been an incredibly useful service.
What - wait - I thought you couldn't afford the rising cable/satellite rates! Now you can't afford a la carte?
If you think these various streaming offerings mean that you're not going to pay a hell of a lot more for them than cable, you're a sucker. People were open and honest with what they really wanted with the success of Netflix: they wanted everything in one nice place for a reasonable price. For a number of years that's what we got. It wasn't customers who killed this model, it was the content companies.
The big "fake news" event that CNN ablsolutely RAN with when they should have known better was the Trump "pee party with prostitutes" bullshit that they should have attempted to vet. They didn't. They believed what they wanted to believe, even though they ought to have known it was just too awesome to be true.
and the DNC have been claiming that Russia was responsible for John Podesta's falling for a phishing scam,
When someone is hacked, the primary fault is with the hacker. There is some secondary fault for those who fell for the scam, didn't protect themselves enough, etc. But it is always the hacker who chooses to hack. So yes, if Russia hacked by using a phishing scam, then the primary fault lies with Russia.
Which is not a crime. It's not even against party rules. Have you read the parties' bylaws? I have. If you read carefully you'll see that the national committees are not intended to be neutral and fair. They're *power centers*. The way you deal with them is you seize them. The way you seize them is you court the people who put sweat into the party: who worked their way up from precinct captain to state committee, or who stood for office and won. In other words the party establishment.
For all that we hear from right-wingers about how we're not a direct democracy and how we should shut up about the electoral college and how one man, one vote should not be the order the day, they seem to absolutely demand such thing from a private organization like the Democratic or Republican Party.
A lot of us thought that line was crossed with Pussygate. We were wrong.
I assumed (hoped) that Trump was going to lose a lot of the evangelical vote with that. Turns out their hatred for that sort of chicanery only extends to when a Democrat does it with consenting women. So much for their moralizing.
So does that mean almost 4 in 10 Americans would cut off their nose to spite their face instead of admitting they're idiots and had their asses handed to them?
Cutting off their nose to spite their face made up the mentality of a good chunk of Trump voters. "You hate us, you demean us? Well we're not going down without a fight. We're taking you with us."
The Leaf's lack of a TMS causes their battery to degrade rapidly, losing as much as 40% of its capacity in 2-3 years
That was only the case in earlier models in particularly hot areas (IE, the Southwestern US). There's little evidence of that sort of capacity loss with modren batteries.
But it doesn't change the fact that ~90% of bittorrent traffic involves copyright infringement.
Saying something is a fact doesn't make it a fact.
That's true, but it's a better number than other people have been able to give. How much non-copyright-infringement torrents do you think their are? You think all that torrent traffic is people sharing their Linux ISOs?
I actually donâ(TM)t buy the supercharger argument. I took a quick look at the number of dc fast chargers around the bay and found an order of magnitude more stations than Tesla super chargers *just* looking at EVgo. Sure, thereâ(TM)s only typically 2 chargers at each, rather than 20 at a supercharger station, but that still means that EVgo alone has as many charging plugs as Tesla deployed. Add in the charge point ones etc, and I recon the CCS1 charging infrastructure is much more advanced than teslaâ(TM)s
Those DC fast chargers are often placed where you don't need them. I don't need DC fast charging when driving in the Bay Area. I DO need DC fast charging when driving along the freeway heading through the wilderness between city areas. I'm heading to Yosemite this weekend. The closest DC fast charger to the west entrance is in Modesto, 107 miles from the valley floor. The Leaf nominally has a 110-mile range, but the route is fairly uphill the whole way, so I wouldn't trust it to go further than 60m before I'd really need to recharge. All the DC fast chargers along that area of California are on Interstate 5.
Tesla, on the other hand, put a supercharger in Groveland, CA, about 47 miles from the valley floor. Even discounting the superior range of the Telsa (the next Leaf will have equivalent range), the supercharger stations are better placed. You don't just need superchargers where you work and normally drive to. You need them to provide full driving coverage so you can go anywhere. Anywhere.
So that's why I'm driving my older gas-guzzler to Yosemite in a few days. It's a four-hour drive in that. Using DC fast chargers, augmented by the regular chargers the rest of the way, that would add an additional 2hr, 35minutes of charge time, and that's being very optimistic on the charging times.
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The greatest con is not realizing that if you make 30k$ per year you are in the global 1%
Only if you count all cost-of-living to be equal, and all currencies to be equivalent.
Furthermore, what "opposing argument"? Who made the "psychology and sociology are bunk" argument?
I can't be arsed to look it up now, but it's not an uncommon opinion in these discussions to find people who find the social studies degrees/classes to be politically-driven bullshit. I might actually agree to an extent with that myself, but I have seen that the opinion corresponds fairly well with a dislike for 'SJWs,' and vice versa.
The second one didn't even have a technology related degree. Her degree was in English composition, and she did not have an additional one, yet she wrote code all day
Huh? That's hardly unusual in the valley, I don't think I've ever seen another non-labor industry where a college degree means less. The place is full of the self-taught. Why hold that against them?
Sure. But pretending it's still the cold war or blaming him for literally everything bad that happens in the world or relentlessly isolating him internationally isn't helping anything.
It's not the Cold War anymore? So certain of that, are you?
It's a great phrase, and perfectly describes what is happening. It's so great that people are already misusing it,
Is "virtue signalling" the next phrase to be absolutely ruined by overuse, just like SJW was?
New York Yankee fans are fucking hated for existing (because they're pricks).
Moderators, please mod up! Parent poster shows uncommon wisdom.
You should tell the homeless white guys I see every day about their privileged existence. I'm sure they'd love to hear from you.
Everyone is capable of pissing away their advantages. The Olson Twins, Kardashians, any sports player or music artist who blew through all their money on houses/cars, etc. Being white doesn't mean there's any limit to hard the fall to rock bottom can be.
Thank you AC. Too afraid to post this shit on your real account? You just like stalking creimer wherever he goes?
The 1% are thriving by convincing everyone that it's all the white males fault. Most white males aren't part of the 1% however by protecting themselves they keep the mob somewhat at bay and by extension protect the 1%.
The greatest con of 2016 was 1%ers like Trump convincing people that he really cares for the underclass and will totally fight for them. And the underclass was dumb enough to believe him his nonsense, despite being shown time and time and time again that this is bullshit.
Are you trying to argue that there are no differences, no differences at all on average between the sexes than the equipment between the legs? Do you seriously want to go there?
It's funny you object to other people using the term "SJW", saying things like how the term has no meaning other than "people I don't like"... until you use it yourself.
It should be patently obvious that he's paraphrasing the opposing argument.
the heck is the point? We're back to square one: It's too damn expensive,
That IS the point -- to make content more expensive. The content cartels were crying for years and years that the Netflix model was unfair and in the age of the Blu Ray they were getting cheated, CHEATED out of billions because people weren't paying ridiculous pay-per-view fees. Well copyright gives them the power to own any distribution, and they know people will pay up.
How is this a blow to Netflix. No shot in hell I'm paying for another streaming service just for Disney's dinky library
Maybe, but it also lessens the value of Netflix's library, again. The content companies have been chipping away at it as best they can in the last few years.
Netflix's value was built on two things: original series, and being the one-stop-shop for all content. I always found the latter far far more valuable. Without it, they become just another hbo or disney or amc. A much more precarious situation. Worse yet, the customers lose what had been an incredibly useful service.
What - wait - I thought you couldn't afford the rising cable/satellite rates! Now you can't afford a la carte?
If you think these various streaming offerings mean that you're not going to pay a hell of a lot more for them than cable, you're a sucker.
People were open and honest with what they really wanted with the success of Netflix: they wanted everything in one nice place for a reasonable price. For a number of years that's what we got. It wasn't customers who killed this model, it was the content companies.
People have been clamoring for a la carte cable channel subscriptions. Now we've got it in the form of a streaming service for each channel.
What they were clamoring for was "I don't want X channels for Y dollars per month, I want X/10 channels for Y/10 dollars."
So now with all these pay streaming services they will pay 3x the amount they used to for the same TV watching. Yay, progress.
The big "fake news" event that CNN ablsolutely RAN with when they should have known better was the Trump "pee party with prostitutes" bullshit that they should have attempted to vet. They didn't. They believed what they wanted to believe, even though they ought to have known it was just too awesome to be true.
and the DNC have been claiming that Russia was responsible for John Podesta's falling for a phishing scam,
When someone is hacked, the primary fault is with the hacker. There is some secondary fault for those who fell for the scam, didn't protect themselves enough, etc. But it is always the hacker who chooses to hack. So yes, if Russia hacked by using a phishing scam, then the primary fault lies with Russia.
Which is not a crime. It's not even against party rules. Have you read the parties' bylaws? I have. If you read carefully you'll see that the national committees are not intended to be neutral and fair. They're *power centers*. The way you deal with them is you seize them. The way you seize them is you court the people who put sweat into the party: who worked their way up from precinct captain to state committee, or who stood for office and won. In other words the party establishment.
For all that we hear from right-wingers about how we're not a direct democracy and how we should shut up about the electoral college and how one man, one vote should not be the order the day, they seem to absolutely demand such thing from a private organization like the Democratic or Republican Party.
A lot of us thought that line was crossed with Pussygate. We were wrong.
I assumed (hoped) that Trump was going to lose a lot of the evangelical vote with that. Turns out their hatred for that sort of chicanery only extends to when a Democrat does it with consenting women. So much for their moralizing.
So does that mean almost 4 in 10 Americans would cut off their nose to spite their face instead of admitting they're idiots and had their asses handed to them?
Cutting off their nose to spite their face made up the mentality of a good chunk of Trump voters.
"You hate us, you demean us? Well we're not going down without a fight. We're taking you with us."
The Leaf's lack of a TMS causes their battery to degrade rapidly, losing as much as 40% of its capacity in 2-3 years
That was only the case in earlier models in particularly hot areas (IE, the Southwestern US). There's little evidence of that sort of capacity loss with modren batteries.
Company dedication: Makes EVs as a side project to their main business vs. fully invested in EVs.
Ehhhh, I don't know about that. I mean, sure, it's technically true, but it's worked out extremely well so far with Nissan.
> i don't understand it and don't like it
> therefore nobody should be able to have it
Or maybe he really does understand it and realizes that with some upsides come a number of downsides that shouldn't just get shrugged away.
But it doesn't change the fact that ~90% of bittorrent traffic involves copyright infringement.
Saying something is a fact doesn't make it a fact.
That's true, but it's a better number than other people have been able to give. How much non-copyright-infringement torrents do you think their are? You think all that torrent traffic is people sharing their Linux ISOs?
I actually donâ(TM)t buy the supercharger argument. I took a quick look at the number of dc fast chargers around the bay and found an order of magnitude more stations than Tesla super chargers *just* looking at EVgo. Sure, thereâ(TM)s only typically 2 chargers at each, rather than 20 at a supercharger station, but that still means that EVgo alone has as many charging plugs as Tesla deployed. Add in the charge point ones etc, and I recon the CCS1 charging infrastructure is much more advanced than teslaâ(TM)s
Those DC fast chargers are often placed where you don't need them. I don't need DC fast charging when driving in the Bay Area. I DO need DC fast charging when driving along the freeway heading through the wilderness between city areas. I'm heading to Yosemite this weekend. The closest DC fast charger to the west entrance is in Modesto, 107 miles from the valley floor. The Leaf nominally has a 110-mile range, but the route is fairly uphill the whole way, so I wouldn't trust it to go further than 60m before I'd really need to recharge. All the DC fast chargers along that area of California are on Interstate 5.
Tesla, on the other hand, put a supercharger in Groveland, CA, about 47 miles from the valley floor. Even discounting the superior range of the Telsa (the next Leaf will have equivalent range), the supercharger stations are better placed. You don't just need superchargers where you work and normally drive to. You need them to provide full driving coverage so you can go anywhere. Anywhere.
So that's why I'm driving my older gas-guzzler to Yosemite in a few days. It's a four-hour drive in that. Using DC fast chargers, augmented by the regular chargers the rest of the way, that would add an additional 2hr, 35minutes of charge time, and that's being very optimistic on the charging times.