To live like the Joneses, you need two incomes in 2019, and American employers demand 50+ hour work weeks. I mean, you can get around this bullshit by having one income and living in a duplex, driving used cars, not buying electronics every year,
There's only one income in our house, and it's not a duplex. Granted, I have a decent income. But I refuse to by new cars, and my wife and I use older phones. I have a Samsung S5 and my wife is using my daughter's iPhone 5s. I hate upgrading phones because I don't like figuring where everything is and the new icons, etc. The S5 has a removable battery, SD slot and does everything I need. My wife was happier with her old Windows phone. I think my daughter conned her into taking her old phone so she could get a new one. I generally try to buy better quality items and keeping them until they wear out, or there's a good reason to update. I think the newest TV in the house is from 2009. But it was a previous year model when I bought it. It's a full array LED and was the top of the line Sony XBR for that year. I could get a bigger 4k TV, but I don't see the point if my current TV works.
I'm in full support of metric units elsewhere, but that doesn't look, nor sound, nearly so exciting... C is just a terrible unit of measurement for expressing temperature. Even more true of weather ranges.
Maybe if you're a dullard...
Says the guy backing the system that's based off of the number of fingers humans have. Converting between cm, meters, km is done by moving a decimal point. Converting between inches, feet, yards and miles isn't some simple shit you can do on your fingers. Plus you have to know how many inches are in a foot, how many feet in a yard and how many yards are in a mile. And none of those are some base 10 crap you can do on your fingers. Hell, it's not even the same from one unit to the next. 12 inches to a foot, 3 feet to a yard, 1760 yards to a mile.
Then if you think you have that figured out, you go to a horse race and they measure distances in furlongs, nose, head, neck, and lengths. A furlong is 660.001 feet. A length is 8 feet, a Nose is 0.05 of a length or 4.8 inches, a Short Head is 0.1 of a length or 9.6 inches , a Head 0.2 of a length or 19.2 inches, a Short Neck 0.25 of a length or 24 inches, a Neck 0.3 of a length or 28.8 inches.
Then you think land would be sold in some square of those units, but it's not. That's done in acres or partial acres.
Imperial units may be a pain in the ass, but they're not easy for a lot of people to use. If anything, metric is more suited to dullards than imperial.
Chicken pox has a vaccine these days and it's not on the same tier as other diseases (though why risk it?).
I wish my wife and I would have given the chicken pox vaccine more thought before agreeing to it. We knew there were some questions about it at time, but we weren't told it was one of the vaccines to be administered that day. Naturally we were told it was great and all of the issues were blown out of proportion.
Of course now most in the field are saying that it's probably going to need a booster, or even two as its effectiveness is going to diminish after 20 to 30 years. So it's possible that those who had it could now get chicken pox as adults, which is much more dangerous. But as far as I've been able to find, there's still no booster. And in all honesty, I don't think most people in their 20's or early 30's are going to think about this. I know I wouldn't have at that age.
Same as Land in the US, only tiny fraction is used while 100% is owned by someone.
Actually you'd be surprised that there are minuscule amounts of land that don't belong to anyone. Most, if not all of it, is useless. There are tiny islands of land in rivers that are not owned in many places. I don't know how it works now, but I knew someone who found an island in a river in Pennsylvania 30 years ago that was not owned. He just had to pay the property taxes on it and it was his. Of course these islands become partially, or totally submerged during heavy rain. So you probably don't want to live on them.
Don't want mass biometric surveillance in prison? Don't do something that would put you in prison, dumb ass. If I had my way, you wouldn't get out again.
That would be all well and good if the laws and justice system in the US were a little more sane. The population of the US is currently 326 million (2017). The population of the world is 7.5 billion(2017). The 2016 US prison population was 2.3 million including federal, state, local, immigration, military, juvenile. and civil detention facilities. The 2016 prison population for the entire world was 10.35 million. The US has 4.3% of the worlds population but houses 22% of the prisoners in the world. There are also 3.8 million people on probation and 820K on parole. That works out to 6.92 million people who are actively registered in the criminal justice system. That's a little over 2% of the US population.
With the number of laws on the books in the US, damn near the entire population could be arrested on any given day for an infraction. It just matters if you get caught, of if a police officer feels like finding something to charge you for. There are many states that have laws about which positions are legal to have sex with your spouse, in the privacy of your own home. In one of the Carolinas it's illegal to sing off key. There's a town in Arizona that it's illegal to wear suspenders, and another that it's illegal for a woman to wear pants.
There are 646K people incarcerated in local jails. Of those, 70% haven't been convicted yet as the justice system is backed up. There are almost 5500 people who are in civil detention centers in over a dozen states. These are people who were convicted of sexual crimes and have already served their entire sentence. But they are still confined, well, because.
All of the consoles that you mentioned worked by mashing the game directly into the motherboard. In fact, if I recall correctly, none of those consoles that you mentioned would boot without a game in the slot.
You are correct. But they would boot without an internet connection. And some server being down halfway across the country, or world, wouldn't cause you to not be able to play the game you paid for.
Interesting. I'm glad rodents are too lazy to go the extra acre. All those people with less than 4 acre properties must be absolutely infested.
To be fair, the OP said they were surrounded by hay fields. So I would guess that they are in a rural area.
Have you been to Chicago, NYC, LA or DC? I was in Baltimore a couple years ago and rat ran out of an overgrown yard crossed the street and climbed the rain spout of another house. This was in the middle of the day. It looked like it weighed at least 3 lbs.
It's has to be more than that. I feel like I had 2.6 billion myself.
In all seriousness, I get an insane number of them. My home landline typically receives 5 calls before 10am every morning lately.
But my favorites are the ones that come to my work mobile. I can't figure out why my social security number keeps getting canceled. Or the warranty, that I don't have, on my car keeps expiring. My student loans are also past due, even though I don't recall ever getting any. It's been quite a few decades since I was in school though, so maybe dementia is kicking in.
Microdosing, or regular use of normal doses of LSD, is less innocent then it looks. It can lead to or amplify an heart condition.
Given enough time between doses, the heart has time to recover. Long-term microdosing does sabotage that repair process. Read https://thethirdwave.co/psyche... [thethirdwave.co] for more detailed information.
The risks of LSD in regards to heart damage, even at normal dose, is still unknown. MDMA and Fen Phen do appear to carry risks for heart disease. The link that you provided shows that the LSD binds to the same receptors that cause heart issues with MDMA and Fen Phen usage. However even at a high dose of LSD, it's going to be incredibly smaller than the amount of MDMA or Fen Phen.
I'm not talking about the 'next day' hangover when you're still a bit tired from the experience,
It's been well over 30 years since I've tripped, but I always found that taking Valium once I came down always helped with being able to sleep and feeling better the next day.
I rather have the full trip, than building immunity for the hallucinogen effect.
That's one of the issues with acid. Even when I was young I eventually realized that I needed to plan ahead before taking acid. You're going to have to make sure you have 24 hours without needing to do anything other than trip. You usually have an hour after first taking it until it kicked in and then 8+ hours peeking and then that strung out feeling a couple hours later. That's the best time to take the Valium and sleep for the next 8 hours or so.
Or it has something to do with the fact that a shit load of people have seen Black Panther since the site existed
But aren't the percentages they're using, or at least showing, based off of the professional movie critics score? If you click on Black Panther the critic score is 97% but the audience score is 79%. The critics score is based off of 448 review while the audience score is based off of 84,175 reviews.
The Wizard of Oz is in the number 2 spot with 111 critic reviews at 98% while 875,492 people on the audience side rated it at 89%.
Lady Bird is number 3 and the 349 critics rated it for an average of 99%. While on the audience side it's at 79% from 20,663 people.
I haven't seen Lady Bird, but have seen both Black Panther and Wizard of Oz. While I enjoy both movies for different reasons, I don't think I'd place either as better than Citizen Kane. Not that I would ever be likely to try to personally rate all three of those movies on a single list. They are all much different in my mind and which I would prefer to watch would depend on what kind of mood I happen to be in at the time.
I forgot about the Pioneer 10 and 11 probes. Pioneer 10 launched in 1972 and remained functional until 2003. Pioneer 11 was launched in 1973 and was functional until 1995.
Hubble has been kicking since 1990, and Mars Odyssey since 2001,
I wish NASA made consumer electronics and home appliances.;-)
Agreed, the two rovers were well engineered and survived numerous "near misses" along their way that could have shut them down prematurely
I'm not disagreeing with the phenomenal engineering, but in hindsight there is no way that anyone would say were at risk of been shutdown prematurely.
Both Spirit and Opportunity landed on Mars in January of 2004 and were each scheduled for 90 (martian) days (92.5 earth days) missions.
Spirit got stuck on May 1, 2009 and remained so until NASA lost contact with it in May of 2011. That amount of time past it's planned mission would have been amazing if it wasn't for Opportunity making it another 7 years. I just checked the Wikipedia page for Opportunity. It went 14 years, 277 days past it's original planned mission.
It's kind of a shame that the Soviet Lunkhod rovers don't get more recognition. Both were launched over thirty years prior to the MER program. One of those rovers remained functional for over 300 days with late 1960's technology.
Still, the rovers didn't come close to the still functioning Voyager 1 and 2 probes in terms of time or distance. They've both been functioning to some degree for over 40 years now.
I misaligned my satellite dish the other night. The first program I saw showed Opportunity and these little green guys were messing with it. At the end of the hour they had put new 22 inch rims with spinners and low profile tires, a crazy new stereo with a coupe big ass subwoofers, neon lights on the undercarriage, lambo doors and shag carpet inside. I think it must have been the martian version of pimp my ride.
I can just see it now... your new iPhone arrives in a wooden create, along with a complimentary iCrowbar to help with the unboxing...
Actually the iCrowbar will be $49.99 extra. And if you use a non-iCrowbar to open the package your warranty will be void.You'll also need a different iCrowbar for Mac, iPhone, iPad, and the Apple Watch packaging. I guess that accessories will use the same one. I'm not sure about software packaging, that may need its own iCrowbar. But one iCrowbar will only be able to open 3 packages. And of course the end of the iCrowbar will change periodically. So an iCrowbar that works on and iPhone X, may work on a XS, and if you're lucky the 11. But it will most certainly be a different one by the time you are 4 generations out.
I was thinking something similar. But Tfs stated that they asked if the participants noticed any effects like this.
Perhaps they should have had a 3 x3 foot panel with a hundred or so LEDs on it and asked the participants to shake their head back and forth to check for trails.
Read that sentence out loud to yourself. ".. it was to make sure that the majority couldn't impose their will on the minority."
So they made sure a minority could impose its will on a majority. An elitist solution to a populist problem. Call it a "democratic republic", but make sure to strip out all the "democratic" parts.
You seem to be confused. If the majority of the population wants to do something that the minority doesn't want, it doesn't mean that the opposite is true. If the coastal states want to raise taxes to 90% federally, they need enough votes to do so. If enough of the minority isn't on board with it, then it won't pass. But the opposite is not true. If the mid-western states want to lower taxes to 5% on a federal level, they won't have the votes needed to do so either. The minority can't force their will on everyone else either.
And now that same system has ensured that our politicians cannot compromise.
No, that's because our politicians have become children. I'm starting to fear that this may be the case with too many people in general judging by some of the news stories in the last decade or so.
It was to protect an aristocracy and make sure only rich guys were in charge.
No, it was to make sure that the majority couldn't impose their will on the minority. In the case of how thing are today, the majority of the population is on the coasts of the US. Those in "flyover country" don't want to live like, or be ruled by the coastal population.
I would think this wouldn't be as much of an issue it the states had the sovereignty they once did. But that's not the case anymore. I live on the east coast, but would not want to see the senate dissolved.
The government was set up so that nothing happens too quickly. In the past our politicians at least knew how to compromise. Which is how the government was supposed to work. I don't think our founding fathers ever thought we would have all of the children in charge that we do on both sides of the aisle in these modern times.
While this seems like a no-brainer, there should be cause for concern. We're not even sure if we have been able to secure our elections. What happens if some one manages to fake that they are a congressman? Or a congressman realizes that his constituency doesn't like the way they voted and claims that they were hacked?
If it does become possible to secure this type of thing, why do we even need congressmen any longer? At what point does it get decided that the people themselves can vote on what they want? That's entirely different, and scary discussion.
Once they become as unusable as the old services, we'll simply see the next batch emerge. In capitalism, what's outdated will be crushed by new technology that replaces it. Why do you hate capitalism?
Yes, that's how capitalism is supposed to work. Unfortunately that's no longer how it is in the US. Once a company gets to a certain size, the rules change. They can buy politicians and get them to put forth bills that were written by the company. Or tack them on to other bills. If we had true capitalism, then "to big to fail" would not be an issue.
Avast's PC Trends Report 2019 found [PDF] that users are making themselves vulnerable by not implementing security patches and keeping outdated versions of popular applications on their PCs. From a news report:
The applications where updates are most frequently neglected include Adobe Shockwave (96%), VLC Media Player (94%) and Skype (94%).
There are a lot of applications that the newer versions are considerably worse. It's funny that they mention Skype. It worked much better and was more intuitive 10 years ago in comparison to what is currently available.
I'm surprised that Shockwave is on the list. I didn't know that it was still in use.
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To live like the Joneses, you need two incomes in 2019, and American employers demand 50+ hour work weeks. I mean, you can get around this bullshit by having one income and living in a duplex, driving used cars, not buying electronics every year,
There's only one income in our house, and it's not a duplex. Granted, I have a decent income. But I refuse to by new cars, and my wife and I use older phones. I have a Samsung S5 and my wife is using my daughter's iPhone 5s. I hate upgrading phones because I don't like figuring where everything is and the new icons, etc. The S5 has a removable battery, SD slot and does everything I need. My wife was happier with her old Windows phone. I think my daughter conned her into taking her old phone so she could get a new one. I generally try to buy better quality items and keeping them until they wear out, or there's a good reason to update. I think the newest TV in the house is from 2009. But it was a previous year model when I bought it. It's a full array LED and was the top of the line Sony XBR for that year. I could get a bigger 4k TV, but I don't see the point if my current TV works.
See you in 50 years.
FTFY
I'm in full support of metric units elsewhere, but that doesn't look, nor sound, nearly so exciting... C is just a terrible unit of measurement for expressing temperature. Even more true of weather ranges.
Maybe if you're a dullard...
Says the guy backing the system that's based off of the number of fingers humans have. Converting between cm, meters, km is done by moving a decimal point. Converting between inches, feet, yards and miles isn't some simple shit you can do on your fingers. Plus you have to know how many inches are in a foot, how many feet in a yard and how many yards are in a mile. And none of those are some base 10 crap you can do on your fingers. Hell, it's not even the same from one unit to the next. 12 inches to a foot, 3 feet to a yard, 1760 yards to a mile.
Then if you think you have that figured out, you go to a horse race and they measure distances in furlongs, nose, head, neck, and lengths. A furlong is 660.001 feet. A length is 8 feet, a Nose is 0.05 of a length or 4.8 inches, a Short Head is 0.1 of a length or 9.6 inches , a Head 0.2 of a length or 19.2 inches, a Short Neck 0.25 of a length or 24 inches, a Neck 0.3 of a length or 28.8 inches.
Then you think land would be sold in some square of those units, but it's not. That's done in acres or partial acres.
Imperial units may be a pain in the ass, but they're not easy for a lot of people to use. If anything, metric is more suited to dullards than imperial.
Chicken pox has a vaccine these days and it's not on the same tier as other diseases (though why risk it?).
I wish my wife and I would have given the chicken pox vaccine more thought before agreeing to it. We knew there were some questions about it at time, but we weren't told it was one of the vaccines to be administered that day. Naturally we were told it was great and all of the issues were blown out of proportion.
Of course now most in the field are saying that it's probably going to need a booster, or even two as its effectiveness is going to diminish after 20 to 30 years. So it's possible that those who had it could now get chicken pox as adults, which is much more dangerous. But as far as I've been able to find, there's still no booster. And in all honesty, I don't think most people in their 20's or early 30's are going to think about this. I know I wouldn't have at that age.
In the basement of MIT's Building 3
Shoot, a guy could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that..
Just how big is this robot?
Same as Land in the US, only tiny fraction is used while 100% is owned by someone.
Actually you'd be surprised that there are minuscule amounts of land that don't belong to anyone. Most, if not all of it, is useless. There are tiny islands of land in rivers that are not owned in many places. I don't know how it works now, but I knew someone who found an island in a river in Pennsylvania 30 years ago that was not owned. He just had to pay the property taxes on it and it was his. Of course these islands become partially, or totally submerged during heavy rain. So you probably don't want to live on them.
Don't want mass biometric surveillance in prison? Don't do something that would put you in prison, dumb ass. If I had my way, you wouldn't get out again.
That would be all well and good if the laws and justice system in the US were a little more sane. The population of the US is currently 326 million (2017). The population of the world is 7.5 billion(2017). The 2016 US prison population was 2.3 million including federal, state, local, immigration, military, juvenile. and civil detention facilities. The 2016 prison population for the entire world was 10.35 million. The US has 4.3% of the worlds population but houses 22% of the prisoners in the world. There are also 3.8 million people on probation and 820K on parole. That works out to 6.92 million people who are actively registered in the criminal justice system. That's a little over 2% of the US population.
With the number of laws on the books in the US, damn near the entire population could be arrested on any given day for an infraction. It just matters if you get caught, of if a police officer feels like finding something to charge you for. There are many states that have laws about which positions are legal to have sex with your spouse, in the privacy of your own home. In one of the Carolinas it's illegal to sing off key. There's a town in Arizona that it's illegal to wear suspenders, and another that it's illegal for a woman to wear pants.
There are 646K people incarcerated in local jails. Of those, 70% haven't been convicted yet as the justice system is backed up. There are almost 5500 people who are in civil detention centers in over a dozen states. These are people who were convicted of sexual crimes and have already served their entire sentence. But they are still confined, well, because.
All of the consoles that you mentioned worked by mashing the game directly into the motherboard. In fact, if I recall correctly, none of those consoles that you mentioned would boot without a game in the slot.
You are correct. But they would boot without an internet connection. And some server being down halfway across the country, or world, wouldn't cause you to not be able to play the game you paid for.
Atari 2600 never had this problem. I don't remember waiting for updates to finish or long boot times either.
Same for Magnavox Odyssey, Intellevision, Colecovision, NES, TurboGrafix or Sega Genesis.
Interesting. I'm glad rodents are too lazy to go the extra acre. All those people with less than 4 acre properties must be absolutely infested.
To be fair, the OP said they were surrounded by hay fields. So I would guess that they are in a rural area.
Have you been to Chicago, NYC, LA or DC? I was in Baltimore a couple years ago and rat ran out of an overgrown yard crossed the street and climbed the rain spout of another house. This was in the middle of the day. It looked like it weighed at least 3 lbs.
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Quebec?
Americans Got 26.3 Billion Robocalls Last Year
It's has to be more than that. I feel like I had 2.6 billion myself.
In all seriousness, I get an insane number of them. My home landline typically receives 5 calls before 10am every morning lately.
But my favorites are the ones that come to my work mobile. I can't figure out why my social security number keeps getting canceled. Or the warranty, that I don't have, on my car keeps expiring. My student loans are also past due, even though I don't recall ever getting any. It's been quite a few decades since I was in school though, so maybe dementia is kicking in.
Microdosing, or regular use of normal doses of LSD, is less innocent then it looks. It can lead to or amplify an heart condition.
Given enough time between doses, the heart has time to recover. Long-term microdosing does sabotage that repair process. Read https://thethirdwave.co/psyche... [thethirdwave.co] for more detailed information.
The risks of LSD in regards to heart damage, even at normal dose, is still unknown. MDMA and Fen Phen do appear to carry risks for heart disease. The link that you provided shows that the LSD binds to the same receptors that cause heart issues with MDMA and Fen Phen usage. However even at a high dose of LSD, it's going to be incredibly smaller than the amount of MDMA or Fen Phen.
I'm not talking about the 'next day' hangover when you're still a bit tired from the experience,
It's been well over 30 years since I've tripped, but I always found that taking Valium once I came down always helped with being able to sleep and feeling better the next day.
I rather have the full trip, than building immunity for the hallucinogen effect.
That's one of the issues with acid. Even when I was young I eventually realized that I needed to plan ahead before taking acid. You're going to have to make sure you have 24 hours without needing to do anything other than trip. You usually have an hour after first taking it until it kicked in and then 8+ hours peeking and then that strung out feeling a couple hours later. That's the best time to take the Valium and sleep for the next 8 hours or so.
Or it has something to do with the fact that a shit load of people have seen Black Panther since the site existed
But aren't the percentages they're using, or at least showing, based off of the professional movie critics score? If you click on Black Panther the critic score is 97% but the audience score is 79%. The critics score is based off of 448 review while the audience score is based off of 84,175 reviews.
The Wizard of Oz is in the number 2 spot with 111 critic reviews at 98% while 875,492 people on the audience side rated it at 89%.
Lady Bird is number 3 and the 349 critics rated it for an average of 99%. While on the audience side it's at 79% from 20,663 people.
I haven't seen Lady Bird, but have seen both Black Panther and Wizard of Oz. While I enjoy both movies for different reasons, I don't think I'd place either as better than Citizen Kane. Not that I would ever be likely to try to personally rate all three of those movies on a single list. They are all much different in my mind and which I would prefer to watch would depend on what kind of mood I happen to be in at the time.
I forgot about the Pioneer 10 and 11 probes. Pioneer 10 launched in 1972 and remained functional until 2003. Pioneer 11 was launched in 1973 and was functional until 1995.
Hubble has been kicking since 1990, and Mars Odyssey since 2001, I wish NASA made consumer electronics and home appliances. ;-)
Agreed, the two rovers were well engineered and survived numerous "near misses" along their way that could have shut them down prematurely
I'm not disagreeing with the phenomenal engineering, but in hindsight there is no way that anyone would say were at risk of been shutdown prematurely.
Both Spirit and Opportunity landed on Mars in January of 2004 and were each scheduled for 90 (martian) days (92.5 earth days) missions.
Spirit got stuck on May 1, 2009 and remained so until NASA lost contact with it in May of 2011. That amount of time past it's planned mission would have been amazing if it wasn't for Opportunity making it another 7 years. I just checked the Wikipedia page for Opportunity. It went 14 years, 277 days past it's original planned mission.
It's kind of a shame that the Soviet Lunkhod rovers don't get more recognition. Both were launched over thirty years prior to the MER program. One of those rovers remained functional for over 300 days with late 1960's technology.
Still, the rovers didn't come close to the still functioning Voyager 1 and 2 probes in terms of time or distance. They've both been functioning to some degree for over 40 years now.
Why isn't Win10 affected?
I thought Windows 10 didn't include, nor run WMP without some kind of hack. If that's the case, then no Win 10 will not be affected.
I misaligned my satellite dish the other night. The first program I saw showed Opportunity and these little green guys were messing with it. At the end of the hour they had put new 22 inch rims with spinners and low profile tires, a crazy new stereo with a coupe big ass subwoofers, neon lights on the undercarriage, lambo doors and shag carpet inside. I think it must have been the martian version of pimp my ride.
I can just see it now ... your new iPhone arrives in a wooden create, along with a complimentary iCrowbar to help with the unboxing ...
Actually the iCrowbar will be $49.99 extra. And if you use a non-iCrowbar to open the package your warranty will be void.You'll also need a different iCrowbar for Mac, iPhone, iPad, and the Apple Watch packaging. I guess that accessories will use the same one. I'm not sure about software packaging, that may need its own iCrowbar. But one iCrowbar will only be able to open 3 packages. And of course the end of the iCrowbar will change periodically. So an iCrowbar that works on and iPhone X, may work on a XS, and if you're lucky the 11. But it will most certainly be a different one by the time you are 4 generations out.
I was thinking something similar. But Tfs stated that they asked if the participants noticed any effects like this.
Perhaps they should have had a 3 x3 foot panel with a hundred or so LEDs on it and asked the participants to shake their head back and forth to check for trails.
Read that sentence out loud to yourself. ".. it was to make sure that the majority couldn't impose their will on the minority."
So they made sure a minority could impose its will on a majority. An elitist solution to a populist problem. Call it a "democratic republic", but make sure to strip out all the "democratic" parts.
You seem to be confused. If the majority of the population wants to do something that the minority doesn't want, it doesn't mean that the opposite is true. If the coastal states want to raise taxes to 90% federally, they need enough votes to do so. If enough of the minority isn't on board with it, then it won't pass. But the opposite is not true. If the mid-western states want to lower taxes to 5% on a federal level, they won't have the votes needed to do so either. The minority can't force their will on everyone else either.
And now that same system has ensured that our politicians cannot compromise.
No, that's because our politicians have become children. I'm starting to fear that this may be the case with too many people in general judging by some of the news stories in the last decade or so.
It was to protect an aristocracy and make sure only rich guys were in charge.
No, it was to make sure that the majority couldn't impose their will on the minority. In the case of how thing are today, the majority of the population is on the coasts of the US. Those in "flyover country" don't want to live like, or be ruled by the coastal population.
I would think this wouldn't be as much of an issue it the states had the sovereignty they once did. But that's not the case anymore. I live on the east coast, but would not want to see the senate dissolved.
The government was set up so that nothing happens too quickly. In the past our politicians at least knew how to compromise. Which is how the government was supposed to work. I don't think our founding fathers ever thought we would have all of the children in charge that we do on both sides of the aisle in these modern times.
While this seems like a no-brainer, there should be cause for concern. We're not even sure if we have been able to secure our elections. What happens if some one manages to fake that they are a congressman? Or a congressman realizes that his constituency doesn't like the way they voted and claims that they were hacked?
If it does become possible to secure this type of thing, why do we even need congressmen any longer? At what point does it get decided that the people themselves can vote on what they want? That's entirely different, and scary discussion.
Once they become as unusable as the old services, we'll simply see the next batch emerge. In capitalism, what's outdated will be crushed by new technology that replaces it. Why do you hate capitalism?
Yes, that's how capitalism is supposed to work. Unfortunately that's no longer how it is in the US. Once a company gets to a certain size, the rules change. They can buy politicians and get them to put forth bills that were written by the company. Or tack them on to other bills. If we had true capitalism, then "to big to fail" would not be an issue.
Avast's PC Trends Report 2019 found [PDF] that users are making themselves vulnerable by not implementing security patches and keeping outdated versions of popular applications on their PCs. From a news report:
The applications where updates are most frequently neglected include Adobe Shockwave (96%), VLC Media Player (94%) and Skype (94%).
There are a lot of applications that the newer versions are considerably worse. It's funny that they mention Skype. It worked much better and was more intuitive 10 years ago in comparison to what is currently available.
I'm surprised that Shockwave is on the list. I didn't know that it was still in use.