The driver wasn't an idiot for being unable to hear, likely the driver was an idiot by assuming the law didn't apply to him. I often see drivers not pulling over when an emergency vehicle with sirens blaring is behind them.
Idiocy is everywhere and it seems to be on the rise. I saw a cyclist yesterday attempting a left turn against oncoming traffic after the light had turned red for him. Rather than just stop and wait he just kept going slowly weaving his way through the cars. Last week I saw a guy going along the crosswalk while oncoming traffic had the green light, all the while staring down at a phone and not looking up or acknowledging the presence of cars that were slamming on their brake. Same intersection a month ago, a car was stuck after having not turned into the automobile lane and instead had driven onto the tracks at a light rail station. I saw this also happen a month before that at a different location.
It's not a new word, it's just part of a confusing notational system that arose from the philosophical attitudes of English teachers to not give such words the same ontological status as words from a dictionary.
No one's going to cut their $80 cable bill just to get a $50 youtube bill, with or without the ISP charges. $50 is just too damn high. Cord cutters started when you could get most of what you wanted for under $10 for a decent streaming service, or $20 for two, whereas Youtube TV is still just a wannabe with amazingly limited offerings compared to Netflix, Amazon, or Hulu.
These browsers all work for the ad industry, directly or indirectly. They want the business from web sites that make their money from ads. They won't do anything to hurt that golden goose.
We don't use adblock and noscript and turn on privacy settings because we want all those web site developers to lose money or their jobs. We use these tools in self defense! To reduce that wasted bandwidth that ads take up, to block against the primary vector of malware, and to stop tracking and other privacy intrusions.
The Right is also the censorship movement. The Left and Right are both highly in favor of restricting speech that they disapprove of, it's just not the same speech that they want suppressed.
On the Right I see many who want to suppress right to have a free choice of religion (ie, anti-muslim), the right to give advice on abortions, and so forth. Historically the Right was for suppressing free speech with obscenity cases and pornography. Right wing governments across the planet are restricting the free press.
To claim that only the Left favors censorship just labels you as a partisan who is more interested in dividing than uniting.
Companies are required to obey the laws of the countries that they do business in, that is true. There is no requirement however that a company must to business in all countries. There's a greed factor that keeps Apple in China.
There's also a sort of middle ground. Be slow and lax to respond to the law. They could let these songs be available for one or two weeks before shutting them off, letting them get out there while still being able to say "whoops, we had some internal process issues preventing us from complying instantaneously." After all this is what many companies in the US do when they don't want to comply with US law, they delay, hold things up in court, drag their feet, and hope the next administration will just issue dicates absolving them.
Stepping back a bit, Apple will likely never make money from military defense even if they wanted to, so avoiding that market doesn't hurt Apple very much. However telling China to go shove off will cost them billions in profits. It's easy to hold up to one's own ideals when money is not involved.
When there's a lot of money on the table is becomes much easier to rationalize things away, justify your actions, blame others, and do forth. Such as saying that the board of directors is giving the orders and not yourself, saying that by being in the Chinese market it helps to promote democracy as a long game, and so forth.
This isn't Roku's content at all. They also get no direct revenue from it that I see, though having more easily findable free content may be a way to encourage sales. The movies are free because they're not recent releases and other streaming services probably don't have them.
They still allow all the other apps that they always did, and there's more stuff than you will find with Amazon or Apple streaming boxes. So I really don't see how this is "no longer a neutral platform" or what the controversy is.
Why do you need to run rings around one or the other? If it streams the content then it's fast enough, period. And when I got my Roku, the Amazon offering was still new and overpriced.
I had one tax form I did in the 90s while in graduate school, or possibly immediately after while my income was very low. It wasn't 1040EZ, it was simpler. Large type, one page, less than 10 lines, and when done I filed this in on a touch-tone phone and punched in the final number directly to the IRS.
After that I used 1040EZ a lot and it was straight forward as nothing was complicated if all your income was salary and interest. It could have been simpler, but in any way that it was simpler it meant removing someone's tax benefit. (I believe that any simplification that keeps the same tax rate is essentially a tax increase for someone)
It only got complicated really once I had a mortgage and larger investments. (possibly in the past I failed to include income from mutual funds...) Then the tax prep software was very useful and helpful. However the most complicated parts were never the itemized deductions (mortgage, charities, etc), the complex parts were always the minutiae of your income. Detailing all the interest, dividends, capital gains, figuring out the basis, and such. Where I've got most of the money it won't import into tax software, and the places I did import this year it didn't report basis to IRS so I had to still manually enter the numbers.
The stuff that drives me the most nuts getting exactly correct is data that is already reported to the IRS. If I get those numbers wrong they'll notice immediately and have interesting questions for me. And that data is very often highly detailed. I'd rather just report what they don't know.
The overall trajectory here is that the more money I made the more complex the taxes were. If you're poor the taxes are already simple! If you're really rich then you just pay someone to do taxes for you to take advantage of all the loopholes. So when politicians are calling for simpler taxes I would think that this is not done for the benefit of the poor or the rich.
I've found that people are not shy whatsoever about assigning you to an 8AM meeting, since they think that is a "normal" work hour, but they absolutely refuse to assign someone to a 5PM meeting time even if the other person is agreeable and it's better overall for the workers. In some instances I've seen a meeting at 6am Pacific time even though there was only one person that was in a different time zone. When a day is completely full of meetings, I've had someone give me a meeting for 7am because he said it was the only time available (and he said it was for my convenience).
Morning people annoy me, especially in a multinational company. They need to realize that most people aren't productive at certain hours, and most meetings don't actually accomplish anything and so are worthless.
Although I think television consumption might be going down in general (maybe with an uptick for online stuff like youtube). Because once you get over that first hurdle and cut the cord to cable then it's a much easier hurdle to cut back on hours-per-week of television viewing.
Ha, saw some idiotic post on facebook that warned that more and more muslims were moving and would be able to vote and we should do something about it. Except that you can't do anything about it legally, because the constitution grants the right to choose your own religion. So are these kooks proposing the change the constitution, are they ignorant of it, or do they just want to ignore it?
People are freaking out about muslims in much the same way that people used to freak out about all those catholic immigrants being able to vote and that we'd be controlled by the pope if we didn't nip this in the bud. They're also freaking out about muslims gaining power in much the same ways that some southern states were freaking out about negroes gaining political power.
Don't forget, they used to put the PIN numbers on the magnetic stripe on the bank card so that there wouldn't be lengthy delays between the ATM and the back office. The rationale was that better security was more expensive and more inconvenient, and since most people wouldn't have the knowledge or means to read the mag stripe that this was ok. This lax attitude towards security is sort of built into the system, as in that it's cheaper to deal with a low level of fraud than to revise the whole system to be more secure.
I could do everything with automatic paymens, but I choose to do some bills with checks. It makes sure that I actually read the statements when they arrive. I also paid my state taxes with a check because it cost $20 to file online (ya, its stupid). I send checks to charities because I don't want to use a credit card number for that (it's an extra cost and just a little more insecure). It's a nice alternative to cash and credit card without going all hipster and using the smart phone to do dumb things.
I use checks and I'm not a little old lady. And surprise, they still have checks in other countries (and cheques too), they're just not as commonly used. All "advances" beyond checks are not necessarily better things and come with their own drawbacks and flaws.
One of least secure part of checks are also the primary way to avoid using checks - the account and routing numbers. A way for a bank to transfer money without you standing there and directing the transfer or providing a piece of paper to do so. No one buys a home with a smart phone (hopefully) but they will use the equivalent of account and routing numbers even outside of the US.
We're only descending into civil war because there are people who think that its citiens are a mix of Americans and Unamericans. The descent will stop once most people stop thinking that way and realize that they're all Americans even if they may hold different viewpoints.
Most US resident grew up under constant indoctrination that it is the best country in the world, with a whitewashed version of history. Someone saying something like "Sweden seems like a nice place" would get told told all the reasons why it isn't The group think is that it's the best ever and that you're not allowed to think otherwise. Of course that makes things like "Make America Great Again" a confusing thing since it implies it is not great. Oh ya, and the constitution was divinely inspired, cant' forget that part of the dogma.
So the snag here is that there are so many people utterly unable to imagine that someone else is better. If you get good internet in some cities then that's great, and if they have bad internet in other cities or in rural areas well then at least it's better than all those other countries that have the government do important things instead of corporations. Some people honestly think that way, but they have no other points of reference and can't tell that we just have a few good points, a few bad points, and a lot of average in other areas.
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Laugh if you want, but it was better than Facebook.
The driver wasn't an idiot for being unable to hear, likely the driver was an idiot by assuming the law didn't apply to him. I often see drivers not pulling over when an emergency vehicle with sirens blaring is behind them.
Idiocy is everywhere and it seems to be on the rise. I saw a cyclist yesterday attempting a left turn against oncoming traffic after the light had turned red for him. Rather than just stop and wait he just kept going slowly weaving his way through the cars. Last week I saw a guy going along the crosswalk while oncoming traffic had the green light, all the while staring down at a phone and not looking up or acknowledging the presence of cars that were slamming on their brake. Same intersection a month ago, a car was stuck after having not turned into the automobile lane and instead had driven onto the tracks at a light rail station. I saw this also happen a month before that at a different location.
It's not a new word, it's just part of a confusing notational system that arose from the philosophical attitudes of English teachers to not give such words the same ontological status as words from a dictionary.
It is silly. For this $50 a month to Youtube TV, you could get Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, plus some extra movies.
No one's going to cut their $80 cable bill just to get a $50 youtube bill, with or without the ISP charges. $50 is just too damn high. Cord cutters started when you could get most of what you wanted for under $10 for a decent streaming service, or $20 for two, whereas Youtube TV is still just a wannabe with amazingly limited offerings compared to Netflix, Amazon, or Hulu.
I subscribe to just one service at a time, far far less than $50 which used to be what you could get cable or satellite for less than ten years ago.
Right now my TV watching is so low that $50 a month would be more expensive than going to the movies.
Yes, just the same as the president's hair.
Because if you link to the Guardian it can get ad revenue and you're helping out all your advertising industry buddies?
These browsers all work for the ad industry, directly or indirectly. They want the business from web sites that make their money from ads. They won't do anything to hurt that golden goose.
We don't use adblock and noscript and turn on privacy settings because we want all those web site developers to lose money or their jobs. We use these tools in self defense! To reduce that wasted bandwidth that ads take up, to block against the primary vector of malware, and to stop tracking and other privacy intrusions.
The Right is also the censorship movement. The Left and Right are both highly in favor of restricting speech that they disapprove of, it's just not the same speech that they want suppressed.
On the Right I see many who want to suppress right to have a free choice of religion (ie, anti-muslim), the right to give advice on abortions, and so forth. Historically the Right was for suppressing free speech with obscenity cases and pornography. Right wing governments across the planet are restricting the free press.
To claim that only the Left favors censorship just labels you as a partisan who is more interested in dividing than uniting.
Companies are required to obey the laws of the countries that they do business in, that is true. There is no requirement however that a company must to business in all countries. There's a greed factor that keeps Apple in China.
There's also a sort of middle ground. Be slow and lax to respond to the law. They could let these songs be available for one or two weeks before shutting them off, letting them get out there while still being able to say "whoops, we had some internal process issues preventing us from complying instantaneously." After all this is what many companies in the US do when they don't want to comply with US law, they delay, hold things up in court, drag their feet, and hope the next administration will just issue dicates absolving them.
Stepping back a bit, Apple will likely never make money from military defense even if they wanted to, so avoiding that market doesn't hurt Apple very much. However telling China to go shove off will cost them billions in profits. It's easy to hold up to one's own ideals when money is not involved.
When there's a lot of money on the table is becomes much easier to rationalize things away, justify your actions, blame others, and do forth. Such as saying that the board of directors is giving the orders and not yourself, saying that by being in the Chinese market it helps to promote democracy as a long game, and so forth.
This isn't Roku's content at all. They also get no direct revenue from it that I see, though having more easily findable free content may be a way to encourage sales. The movies are free because they're not recent releases and other streaming services probably don't have them.
They still allow all the other apps that they always did, and there's more stuff than you will find with Amazon or Apple streaming boxes. So I really don't see how this is "no longer a neutral platform" or what the controversy is.
Why do you need to run rings around one or the other? If it streams the content then it's fast enough, period. And when I got my Roku, the Amazon offering was still new and overpriced.
I had one tax form I did in the 90s while in graduate school, or possibly immediately after while my income was very low. It wasn't 1040EZ, it was simpler. Large type, one page, less than 10 lines, and when done I filed this in on a touch-tone phone and punched in the final number directly to the IRS.
After that I used 1040EZ a lot and it was straight forward as nothing was complicated if all your income was salary and interest. It could have been simpler, but in any way that it was simpler it meant removing someone's tax benefit. (I believe that any simplification that keeps the same tax rate is essentially a tax increase for someone)
It only got complicated really once I had a mortgage and larger investments. (possibly in the past I failed to include income from mutual funds...) Then the tax prep software was very useful and helpful. However the most complicated parts were never the itemized deductions (mortgage, charities, etc), the complex parts were always the minutiae of your income. Detailing all the interest, dividends, capital gains, figuring out the basis, and such. Where I've got most of the money it won't import into tax software, and the places I did import this year it didn't report basis to IRS so I had to still manually enter the numbers.
The stuff that drives me the most nuts getting exactly correct is data that is already reported to the IRS. If I get those numbers wrong they'll notice immediately and have interesting questions for me. And that data is very often highly detailed. I'd rather just report what they don't know.
The overall trajectory here is that the more money I made the more complex the taxes were. If you're poor the taxes are already simple! If you're really rich then you just pay someone to do taxes for you to take advantage of all the loopholes. So when politicians are calling for simpler taxes I would think that this is not done for the benefit of the poor or the rich.
You haven't read or understood the constitution, have you?
I've found that people are not shy whatsoever about assigning you to an 8AM meeting, since they think that is a "normal" work hour, but they absolutely refuse to assign someone to a 5PM meeting time even if the other person is agreeable and it's better overall for the workers. In some instances I've seen a meeting at 6am Pacific time even though there was only one person that was in a different time zone. When a day is completely full of meetings, I've had someone give me a meeting for 7am because he said it was the only time available (and he said it was for my convenience).
Morning people annoy me, especially in a multinational company. They need to realize that most people aren't productive at certain hours, and most meetings don't actually accomplish anything and so are worthless.
Although I think television consumption might be going down in general (maybe with an uptick for online stuff like youtube). Because once you get over that first hurdle and cut the cord to cable then it's a much easier hurdle to cut back on hours-per-week of television viewing.
Ha, saw some idiotic post on facebook that warned that more and more muslims were moving and would be able to vote and we should do something about it. Except that you can't do anything about it legally, because the constitution grants the right to choose your own religion. So are these kooks proposing the change the constitution, are they ignorant of it, or do they just want to ignore it?
People are freaking out about muslims in much the same way that people used to freak out about all those catholic immigrants being able to vote and that we'd be controlled by the pope if we didn't nip this in the bud. They're also freaking out about muslims gaining power in much the same ways that some southern states were freaking out about negroes gaining political power.
Don't forget, they used to put the PIN numbers on the magnetic stripe on the bank card so that there wouldn't be lengthy delays between the ATM and the back office. The rationale was that better security was more expensive and more inconvenient, and since most people wouldn't have the knowledge or means to read the mag stripe that this was ok. This lax attitude towards security is sort of built into the system, as in that it's cheaper to deal with a low level of fraud than to revise the whole system to be more secure.
I could do everything with automatic paymens, but I choose to do some bills with checks. It makes sure that I actually read the statements when they arrive. I also paid my state taxes with a check because it cost $20 to file online (ya, its stupid). I send checks to charities because I don't want to use a credit card number for that (it's an extra cost and just a little more insecure). It's a nice alternative to cash and credit card without going all hipster and using the smart phone to do dumb things.
I use checks and I'm not a little old lady. And surprise, they still have checks in other countries (and cheques too), they're just not as commonly used. All "advances" beyond checks are not necessarily better things and come with their own drawbacks and flaws.
One of least secure part of checks are also the primary way to avoid using checks - the account and routing numbers. A way for a bank to transfer money without you standing there and directing the transfer or providing a piece of paper to do so. No one buys a home with a smart phone (hopefully) but they will use the equivalent of account and routing numbers even outside of the US.
Switzerland? Not sure, help me out here.
We're only descending into civil war because there are people who think that its citiens are a mix of Americans and Unamericans. The descent will stop once most people stop thinking that way and realize that they're all Americans even if they may hold different viewpoints.
Most US resident grew up under constant indoctrination that it is the best country in the world, with a whitewashed version of history. Someone saying something like "Sweden seems like a nice place" would get told told all the reasons why it isn't The group think is that it's the best ever and that you're not allowed to think otherwise. Of course that makes things like "Make America Great Again" a confusing thing since it implies it is not great. Oh ya, and the constitution was divinely inspired, cant' forget that part of the dogma.
So the snag here is that there are so many people utterly unable to imagine that someone else is better. If you get good internet in some cities then that's great, and if they have bad internet in other cities or in rural areas well then at least it's better than all those other countries that have the government do important things instead of corporations. Some people honestly think that way, but they have no other points of reference and can't tell that we just have a few good points, a few bad points, and a lot of average in other areas.