You certainly needed a credit card attached to an account to purchase games from the App Store. If they don't have one, it's probably their parents'. I'm pretty sure minors can have credit cards if their parents/guardian co-signs.
I'm pretty sure my cats, who are indoor only and have never been outside the house (except to the vet) have their DNA all over the city at the places I visit by now.
Why do you think the Police offer suspects a cup of coffee? Protip: It's not just good manners.
Police have been offering cups of coffee for far longer than the very short time that we've been processing DNA. It's good manners, because you want a suspect to be relaxed. For a successful good cop/bad cop routine, you need the good cop.
I know this is a joke, but I'm trying to figure out under what circumstance Hillary could POSSIBLY be President before 2020. It's some bizarre civics exercise, and I'm coming up with a blank for anything other than a Hillary-led government coup.
That's right, of course I do. Aaaaand, they get to sit in judgment over me. That's what having moral values means.
Your hood is over there, Grand Wizard. "But I'm not racist!" And yet, you're saying the same things that they do.
I think I'm done here. I don't particularly care anymore whether this is some grand trolling experiment on your part. You're just shitting on discussions now.
And I presume it's similar for women surrounded by male hunks.
Physical appearance typically matters less to females, on average. Money, power, status, and confidence matter more. Otherwise, the gyms would have 10x more customers.
Physical appearance absolutely matters, and a lot of time at the gym would greatly benefit many mens' chances. But the gym actually requires hard physical work, over a long period of time, and often other life/health/food changes. That's why gyms don't have 10x more customers.
Gyms always get customers around New Year's. They don't stick around because it's hard to commit like that, gym time gets in the way of other activities, and gains don't come quickly, so people drop out.
You got it wrong, war4peace. Discriminating in favour of women is positive and empowering. Discriminating against women is oppresive, regressive patriarchichal woman hating abuse..
I've come to realize that there's a definite "fight fire with fire" sense for diversity, where perceived injustices are corrected by giving that victim "more opportunity." They can have it both ways above, since they will say that woman are ALREADY discriminated against, routinely, and men are not.
My husband has one. He has a cheaper plan that still has a limit/month on the number of text messages. Any excess of that gets a charge/text. He could upgrade, but of course that's more expensive, and he almost never goes over that limit. Of course, it's an artificial charge, the actual cost/text for the phone company is pretty much negligible.
The most beautiful part is that it was so ridiculously out of character. I could have seen this as a sketch on Key and Peele where a diversity instructor just casually slipped in such a weird, egregious slang slur.
Well, you can blame capitalism for that. Two people working are more productive than one person. With all our automation, we as a society could easily have a 4 hour work week. But economic efficiency is measured by product produced, and leisure time is just waste.
Because productivity in that sense gets you ahead. You can outcompete the others by generating more product. That's why automation is such a big win for companies, it lets you do more with less. That means either cutting hours (and the salary), or it means cutting workers (averaged over society, it's the same thing). And that's why leisure time is "just a waste," because those who waste less, win. Obviously an oversimplification, there are of course other factors, but that's the primary factor. Whether it's far-removed ancestors back in the primordial ooze, to cave men, to modern-day society, those who do things better win, and displace those who do not. I'm not even sure I can conceive, theoretically, of a better way, or at least, a way that has more of a chance of success. It would be even far more of a societal change than a high universal basic income, and that's a pretty big fucking change.
If we don't accept all aspects of their cultures, then we don't cherish them. Cherish means "protect and care for (someone) lovingly"
When my son throws a tantrum in the middle of the department store, I'm not accepting that as a good thing, something to be encouraged or seen as a positive. That doesn't mean I don't protect or care for him with any less love.
We all have flaws. Us as people, and us together as cultures. I "accept" some aspects of other cultures in that I accept that they exist. But I can absolutely believe without problem that some aspects of other cultures are inferior and ought to change, just as other aspects of MY culture may need changing.
So white Westerners get to judge Chinese society and decide what's best for it?
Ummm, yes? They're also free to disagree with my society and criticize what they think I'm doing wrong and refuse
Jesus Christ, do you people even know the history of you doing this?
And I should give a shit?
And how strange, I don't remember going over there and helping set up a some colonization industry, or going over to kill communist sympathizers, or anything like that. You would think that such a big event in my life is something I would have remembered. Or are you talking about people who aren't me?
As I recall, you're responsible for hundreds of millions of deaths around the world with your failed collectivist experiments. Yes, you. After all, we're not individuals. You're just a part of the collective, and every piece of the collective is responsible for the collective's failing.
Netflix's selection sucks because they're blowing their wad on "original" content.
Netflix is blowing their wad on original content because the content companies want Netflix to double their rates so that people pay $6-10 per movie stream, on top of what Netflix needs to charge for overhead. They also want to charge enormous amounts of money for streaming just about anything, which is why Netflix's back catalog for streaming sucks (and is getting smaller). In a couple years, Disney will pull ALL content no matter the price so they can bolster THEIR proprietary service.
They couldn't pull this crap with DVDs because they didn't have the power to, thus Netflix was known for their excellent DVD selection. But the content companies have full power over streaming and can dictate the terms they want, and that leads to a lot more market segregation, especially with the content companies trying to give exclusive access to their own distribution channels. They don't want an independent distributor, in the age of the Internet, they want to do all the distribution themselves. Screws over the consumers, but the content companies do not have a "customer is always right" mindset.
Like gay marraige, birth control, where mosques can be built, what's allowable on TV or movies, violence in video games, recreational use of drugs, various levels of "obscenity" censorship laws, anti-porn stances - yeah the conservative element is SO TOTALLY open and FREE. You're retarded. You're a retarded motherfucker. We're done here.
I'd say there's a big difference between Republicans and libertarians (small l). Libertarians have a slightly different basket of crazy, but I would say the Republican ideology is less "freedom" and more "things should just be the way they used to be. And that includes not making things more free than they used to be."
Or just not use SMS at all anymore. There's no excuse for SMS and ridiculously-priced text messaging plans with greedy providers in the age of the smart phone.
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Son, if you were old enough to remember it, you wouldn't remember it. Take it from me: I'm old enough, but I don't remember it.
A variant on this: Judy Collins reportedly said if you remember the 60s, you weren't there.
That says more about Judy Collins and the sorts of people she hung out with than it does about people of the 60s as a whole.
You certainly needed a credit card attached to an account to purchase games from the App Store.
If they don't have one, it's probably their parents'.
I'm pretty sure minors can have credit cards if their parents/guardian co-signs.
Stand up, walk outside, and make use of the local stores.
Also often closed on Sunday.
If the gloves don't fit, you must acquit.
if the poo is pee you must agree
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I'm pretty sure my cats, who are indoor only and have never been outside the house (except to the vet) have their DNA all over the city at the places I visit by now.
Moran. This is not new law.
Why do you think the Police offer suspects a cup of coffee? Protip: It's not just good manners.
Police have been offering cups of coffee for far longer than the very short time that we've been processing DNA. It's good manners, because you want a suspect to be relaxed. For a successful good cop/bad cop routine, you need the good cop.
I know this is a joke, but I'm trying to figure out under what circumstance Hillary could POSSIBLY be President before 2020. It's some bizarre civics exercise, and I'm coming up with a blank for anything other than a Hillary-led government coup.
Its time we contemplated the possibility of and our reaction to...gay coal.
Would liberals be in favor of it for its homosexuality, or against it because it's coal?
I'll bet the latter, but heads will explode in the meantime.
So, you get to sit in judgment of the Chinamen.
That's right, of course I do. Aaaaand, they get to sit in judgment over me. That's what having moral values means.
Your hood is over there, Grand Wizard. "But I'm not racist!" And yet, you're saying the same things that they do.
I think I'm done here. I don't particularly care anymore whether this is some grand trolling experiment on your part. You're just shitting on discussions now.
Or, come to think of it, isn't it an Olive Newton John song?
And an Olivia Newton John movie. And it was totally awesome in a bad way. In an enjoyable way.
Physical appearance typically matters less to females, on average. Money, power, status, and confidence matter more. Otherwise, the gyms would have 10x more customers.
Physical appearance absolutely matters, and a lot of time at the gym would greatly benefit many mens' chances.
But the gym actually requires hard physical work, over a long period of time, and often other life/health/food changes. That's why gyms don't have 10x more customers.
Gyms always get customers around New Year's. They don't stick around because it's hard to commit like that, gym time gets in the way of other activities, and gains don't come quickly, so people drop out.
This is some master trolling.
I'm a little surprised you're not catching more flies with this honey.
You got it wrong, war4peace.
Discriminating in favour of women is positive and empowering.
Discriminating against women is oppresive, regressive patriarchichal woman hating abuse..
I've come to realize that there's a definite "fight fire with fire" sense for diversity, where perceived injustices are corrected by giving that victim "more opportunity." They can have it both ways above, since they will say that woman are ALREADY discriminated against, routinely, and men are not.
My husband has one. He has a cheaper plan that still has a limit/month on the number of text messages. Any excess of that gets a charge/text. He could upgrade, but of course that's more expensive, and he almost never goes over that limit. Of course, it's an artificial charge, the actual cost/text for the phone company is pretty much negligible.
The most beautiful part is that it was so ridiculously out of character. I could have seen this as a sketch on Key and Peele where a diversity instructor just casually slipped in such a weird, egregious slang slur.
Well, you can blame capitalism for that. Two people working are more productive than one person. With all our automation, we as a society could easily have a 4 hour work week. But economic efficiency is measured by product produced, and leisure time is just waste.
Because productivity in that sense gets you ahead. You can outcompete the others by generating more product. That's why automation is such a big win for companies, it lets you do more with less. That means either cutting hours (and the salary), or it means cutting workers (averaged over society, it's the same thing). And that's why leisure time is "just a waste," because those who waste less, win. Obviously an oversimplification, there are of course other factors, but that's the primary factor. Whether it's far-removed ancestors back in the primordial ooze, to cave men, to modern-day society, those who do things better win, and displace those who do not. I'm not even sure I can conceive, theoretically, of a better way, or at least, a way that has more of a chance of success. It would be even far more of a societal change than a high universal basic income, and that's a pretty big fucking change.
Having children is not a right.
I'd say it's... probably the most fundamental right that we can have, as people.
If we don't accept all aspects of their cultures, then we don't cherish them. Cherish means "protect and care for (someone) lovingly"
When my son throws a tantrum in the middle of the department store, I'm not accepting that as a good thing, something to be encouraged or seen as a positive. That doesn't mean I don't protect or care for him with any less love.
We all have flaws. Us as people, and us together as cultures. I "accept" some aspects of other cultures in that I accept that they exist. But I can absolutely believe without problem that some aspects of other cultures are inferior and ought to change, just as other aspects of MY culture may need changing.
And these cry bullies bitch about where the food might have come from and whop cooks it.
Oh man, the ethnic insults are flying fast and furious in this thread! :-D
You need to be sent back to Cultural Sensitivity Camp.
So white Westerners get to judge Chinese society and decide what's best for it?
Ummm, yes? They're also free to disagree with my society and criticize what they think I'm doing wrong and refuse
Jesus Christ, do you people even know the history of you doing this?
And I should give a shit?
And how strange, I don't remember going over there and helping set up a some colonization industry, or going over to kill communist sympathizers, or anything like that. You would think that such a big event in my life is something I would have remembered. Or are you talking about people who aren't me?
As I recall, you're responsible for hundreds of millions of deaths around the world with your failed collectivist experiments. Yes, you. After all, we're not individuals. You're just a part of the collective, and every piece of the collective is responsible for the collective's failing.
Netflix's selection sucks because they're blowing their wad on "original" content.
Netflix is blowing their wad on original content because the content companies want Netflix to double their rates so that people pay $6-10 per movie stream, on top of what Netflix needs to charge for overhead. They also want to charge enormous amounts of money for streaming just about anything, which is why Netflix's back catalog for streaming sucks (and is getting smaller). In a couple years, Disney will pull ALL content no matter the price so they can bolster THEIR proprietary service.
They couldn't pull this crap with DVDs because they didn't have the power to, thus Netflix was known for their excellent DVD selection. But the content companies have full power over streaming and can dictate the terms they want, and that leads to a lot more market segregation, especially with the content companies trying to give exclusive access to their own distribution channels. They don't want an independent distributor, in the age of the Internet, they want to do all the distribution themselves. Screws over the consumers, but the content companies do not have a "customer is always right" mindset.
Like gay marraige, birth control, where mosques can be built, what's allowable on TV or movies, violence in video games, recreational use of drugs, various levels of "obscenity" censorship laws, anti-porn stances - yeah the conservative element is SO TOTALLY open and FREE. You're retarded. You're a retarded motherfucker. We're done here.
I'd say there's a big difference between Republicans and libertarians (small l). Libertarians have a slightly different basket of crazy, but I would say the Republican ideology is less "freedom" and more "things should just be the way they used to be. And that includes not making things more free than they used to be."
Relevant XKCD: https://www.xkcd.com/792/
Aaaah, the naive days, back when we had a hard time believing that Google could ever do evil.
Or just not use SMS at all anymore. There's no excuse for SMS and ridiculously-priced text messaging plans with greedy providers in the age of the smart phone.
Who cares what the satellite's mass is?
Well, that can help determine if, when it plunges to earth, if it will just burn up or if there will be anything left to cause a real impact.