Because we are not all English majors. Because we are not all worried about some universal never changing definition of a word. Because we are not all pedants. Because people do understand what bribe means.
And should we decide to go full pedant, here is what Mirriam Webster has to sat about the matter:
Full Definition of bribe
1: money or favor given or promised in order to influence the judgment or conduct of a person in a position of trust
2: something that serves to induce or influence
Okay, it seems like it has 100 percent to do swith this incident.
Examples of bribe in a sentence
I offered the children a bribe for finishing their homework.
that judge refused a huge bribe to dismiss the charges against the wealthy defendant
So take it up with them if you have a problem, because the word bribe fits, we all know exactly why it fits, it is an excellet word to use in this matter, and you performed a fine act of wasting our time while being completely wrong in your rigid pedantry.
And some of us are smart enough ot figure that out.
Does this mean that you are the annoying people who don't respond to emails and have to eventually be called about something that I needed a week ago?
As I told one of them once,"You can either respond right away, or I will pay you a visit in person. And since I have to go by the office of the guy I'm working for - the Director - I'll bring him with me. And neither of us will be very happy.". That shot over the bow message was delivered by me in person, and not very happy. At some level, a week is a week too long to wait for the answer to a simple question or two.
The guy figured out he was mistaken, and it was a good idea to pay attention to my phone calls and emails.
Not many can. They stand up to get something, and forget what it was they needed. They need to look back at what they were doing to remember what other item they had to get.
Or is that just me?
Nope, not just you. Throughout my career and personal life, I've been called on to multitask, and efficiency just drops off terribly as more tasks are added. To the point where I found that I have to get away, turn off the cell phone or leave a service area for a plausible excuse, and allow myself to work a problem without distraction. As well, I very often dream solutions. I call that neurotic dreams, as opposed to erotic ones.
So for multitasking, you can sortakinda do it, but anyone claiming great success is probably not doing much of importance.
Though I did see a young lady yesterday driving a car while putting on makeup and using her smartphone. I got as far away from her as I could.
Both candidates are corrupt scum. BUT, Assange's actions in this are deployable, he has gone from someone fighting for open and honest government to someone that is using information he has access too in a manner to influence an election. timing the releases of information to the political happenings in order to influence people makes him no better than those he is supposedly against, actually it probably makes him worse as he "was" supposedly fighting for something better.
Yeah, and his alleged online alleged sexual grooming of an alleged 8 year old kinda makes him an alleged creepshow.
But worry not, this will all be part of a twisty turney conspiracy plot that will have at it's core, the infernal terror baby and the grandma from hell at it's center.
Remember - just because someone is against something you are againstr doesn't necessarily make then an angel in white, coming to rescue the world.
It must get lonely living in an embassy for years. Then again, there's a world full of actual adult women that you can do this with without getting into trouble.
A lot of smoke around some people's online hero. 8 years old? Jeezuz, that's gross.
Let's try to use words with some integrity; bribery is a criminal offence, whereas what Samsung allegedly did was to try to buy the guy's silence, which is merely odious, but not a crime.
Oh geesh, Do you think that anyone equated bribing an elected official with giving a private citizen money in exchange for keep ing their yap shut?
Marketing managers need to answer to the physicists and engineers and chemists, not command them.
And the engineers that are responsible for the SoC in the S7 need to be fired, for making a design that eats nearly TWICE the power for a given set of tasks as the iPhone 7, and still delivers sub-par performance.
I hear people are warming up to it though.........
And I could buy Stolichnya at the height of the civil war.
Fact Check. We investigate the claim made by a Slashdot poster "Ol Olsoc", that he could buy Stolichnaya at the height of the civil war.
Apologies, I meant "Cold War". The one between the US and the old USSR. That's about as much weirdness of your post I care to reply to, other than I have no idea why you think I was against buying the Russian engines. They are good engines.
By the way, that's usually the flowery language that gets sent to marketing, after everyone has a good laugh and a guessing game at what they might be smoking when they came up with the MRD.
In my first ever "real" job, I was working on some wideband RF amps. These were high performance CATV trunking amps. Our VP was one of these marketing types. Well we were having trouble making the Cross modulation and second order specs on a batch. He comes down to visit, and asks what the problm is.
"Whats th issue with those amplifiers?"
They can't quite make the specs for Cross mod and second order."
Oh - that's simple then. Just get them to make the specs for cross mod and second order."
I wanted to say "Thanks for the tip, dumbass", but just said "Okay"
This is a problem of fundamental design, or else it would have been fixed and they would still be on the market.
Some times we press the limits, some time we go past them. This is one of those times.
There are some chemistry physics that we are pressing up against, and when dealing with energy density, the more we put into something, the more it wants to get out. So as we incorporate more energy, the effort to contain it becomes paramount. And we are hamstringing ourselves as we try to reduce all the other parameters - Thickness, weight, wireless charging - while increasing the stored energy. Yikes! A recipe for great warmth! Marketing forces are dictating the laws of physics these days. That seldom works.
Marketing managers need to answer to the physicists and engineers and chemists, not command them.
While lower-level Democrats are gleefully spreading rumours about Trump being a Putin's man, the Democratic Administration continues to buy this high technology from the adversary.
And I could buy Stolichnya at the height of the civil war.
Rather importantly, Russia is not exactly an adversary. Putin to the US is probably kind of like G.W. Bush was to the rest of the world 15 years ago.
The engines, which are sound technology, are irrelevant to the relationship between Mr Putin and Mr Trump. The politics of their relation is a different matter entirely.
Exile won't work on Trump because democrats are such idiots they'll let alone back in. If Dems could just do a decent job at making their people feel safe instead of taking away their self protection, inviting back convicted murderers and rapists, starting race wars etc... Trump would have never bothered to even run for leadership.
Pepe'! Crime is down, the economy and the stock market are up, private gun ownership is through the roof, and you live in fear as your way of life is changing as you and your folks have trouble adapting.
Well, they either smoked a hell of a lot, or they had civilization and burned up wood and all their fossil fuels, leading to the runaway greenhouse effect the article mentions.
While Venus serves as an interesting example of the greenhouse effect, the liklihood of that happening on earth is pretty slim indeed.
Wouldn't it be ironic if humanity is searching the vastness of space with the most powerful telescopes for extraterrestrial intelligence, all the while the remnants of a fallen civilization reside on the planet right next to us, somewhere under layers of dirt and dust?
It better be made of pretty tough stuff! Venus isn't a material friendly place. I think the longest lasting Venera probe made it for two hours. Pretty much anything that we make would be dissolved fairly quickly.
What a gloomy, foreboding picture that makes.
Perhaps they sent probes and robots to Earth, like we do to Mars, and life on Earth is the descendant of the microorganisms that made the trip on them.
While an interesting thought experiment about Venus harboring oceans and possibly life, What I would be interested in is working our way backwards to find out what caused the extremely dense atmosphere, and what made it the concentration that it is. I do not see that as the future of earth, because I don't think we have enough CO2.
You don't seem to understand. Everyone now knows that Samsung is the evil devil and Apple is their saviour who could do no wrong.
Would that it was that simple. But operating systems aside, lets look at the situation. Its no doubt that people are really addicted to their smartphones, whatever their brand is.
So disregarding the brand or OS, just how favorably are you going to look upon a phone that easily combusts, that you have to send it back in a special box, and worst of all, you have to be without a phone for a little while.
I fell badly for Samsung. The battery aspect of all phones is a big problem, especially with marketing pressures such as a thin body shell and wireless charging taking up precious internal real estate, but dammit customers want a long battery life. So one of the safest ways of getting battery life is taken away.
So high end phones are tickling the dragon's tail, there is so little room for error. Samsung just happened to be the manufacturer that got hammered.
Of course. I would have preferred to work hard 20 years ago and be rich now. I would have preferred to put in the hard work 10 years ago and now speak 10 different languages. There are lots of things I would have wanted to do in the past to reap the benefit now, casually glazing over the fact that means I'd have the benefit now and not be facing the real work to get there.
There lies the rub of the whole thing. Perspective and temperament. I have always taken the long view, and delight in planning and saving. Not everyone is like that, and it isn't a sin if a person isn't like that. I knew I probably wasn't going to keel over, and my better half is a wizard with money. Not everyone can do that.
I'd be more curious if in retrospect if those people would have taken the extra hours and stress for the money. I'm guessing many fewer would be as eager if you made them re-live their lives, including all the pain and suffering, and no guarantee they would live as long as they did.
That was another thing. I didn't find it all that stressful. I managed to raise a family and not neglect them either. I not only did the long workweeks and on call situation, but I was a Ice Hockey Coach and president of a Hockey League, and captain of my own Hockey team. That is sooo awesome for burning off a long day at the office.
Some think I'm a maniac. Could be.
Anyhow, I don't even promote my style as smarter , or a "Wanna be wealthy? just be wealthy!" setup. I nly offer it as an alternative to the standard I hate my job, I refuse to poop on my own time, and whatever the excuse is for not saving for retirement is at the time - when I entered the workforce it was "What's the point of saving? Inflation will just eat it up and you won't have anything. They were wrong.
Trumpster already said it was a 400 pound guy sitting on his bed, or maybe didn't happen at all.
In the 90s, the NSA supposedly measured its computing power in acres. If Trump becomes president, they'll have to measure their hacking prowess in tonnage. ("Get thirty tonnes of hackers on this 'Politico' site! Make sure they fail like the New York Times!")
One of the issues with the Don, is that many of his solutions are quite far outside the law, either through direct illegality, or unconstitutional in nature. Even his threat to put his opponent in jail and th emethod of doing so (presumably orders to once upon a time respectable Chris Christie, his presumptive Attorney General, are very interesting. The last time a sitting President attempted to nail his political opponent was Richard Nixon, who ordered Elliot Richardson to fire the special prosecutor for the Watergate scandal, Archibald Cox. Richardson resigned rather than do that. Nixon then ordered the Deputy AG William Ruckleshaus to fire Cox. Ruckleshaus also resigned. Now the pickings were getting slim. The solicitor General who was third in commandGeneral Robert Bork was in a bit of a fix. He made up a plan to fire Cox, then resign. Richardson Pursuaded him not to resign, because that would leave a nasty power vacuum. This was called the Saturday Night Massacre.
Later on, a Federal Judge found the firing an illegal and improper act as specified by the regulations.
Congress went batshit crazy. In the end, Leon Jaworski was appointed, continued just as Cox had done, except Nixon couldn't fire him. The rest is history.
Point is after all that, we have precedence, and even mainstream Republicans might find that the US slipping into complete extralegal chaos just a little too much to abide.
And that's just one example. The problem with the Don's plans, is that they require scrapping the constitution, and dictatorial powers.
a) If a camera isn't activated during an incident then the officer puts his own word in doubt.
b) Police need privacy too. They have to pee and stuff, just like other people.
I'm not certain how it works in GB, but here in the states, the policeman's word is golden unless there are some pretty serious reasons to believe otherwise.
Not much of a life then if you can't make simple plans because you are always on call...
I was "allowed" to go on vacation - although many were cancelled then taken later.
No one says you have to do as I did. And if I dropped dead before I retired, it would have been wasted. But as a person who is presumably still working - even if you refuse to work a minute past 40 a week, what do you think about those 24 thousand hours you get to work (12 years with two weeks vacation from 55 to 67 year normal retirement age) that I'm not working?
I can tell ya that while I don't have an issue with hard work, long hoirs when needed, and professional attitude, this beats the hell out of working for a living.
That's still a good sized fuel tank. My Saturn four-door has a ten gallon tank that goes from dry to past-full with only 9.8 gallons.
SIde note - there were some 1980's vehicles that went from full to half a tank using maybe two-three gallons. I had an S10 pickup and 87 Pulsar that did that, and even now have an old 86 Toyota RV that does the same.
People are scared of random things. I drive a diesel car (in the US) and can't count how many times people have showed grave concerns about my ability to find fuel.
~700 miles (1100 km) per tank I think I should manage to find a station that carries diesel.
I get people who are scared about me hiking and 4 wheeling alone, so I know the situation. I've come to the conclusion over the years that lot of people are just inherently scared and like to find outlets for that fear. I like my outlook better, I'm only fearful enought to want to live to do hte crazy shit I do tomorrow.
P.S. did you know there are a few AC's who think you and I are one and the same?
No. Most have smartphones just like the rest of us, but there are certain groups who need that one way communication. Doctors, people who work in sensitive locations where phones are not allowed, and a few others. We still have an annoying Paging system near us. RF splatter all over the place.
Slashdot Mirror
Didn't Apple have some ipods that caught fire a ways back? And there was a nano recall because I sent in my first gen and got a brand new one before.
Any Li based battery system can catch fire. The Samsungs are just a whole lot better at it.
Give us some credit for a little intelligence.
Give me a good reason.
Because we are not all English majors. Because we are not all worried about some universal never changing definition of a word. Because we are not all pedants. Because people do understand what bribe means.
And should we decide to go full pedant, here is what Mirriam Webster has to sat about the matter:
Full Definition of bribe
1: money or favor given or promised in order to influence the judgment or conduct of a person in a position of trust
2: something that serves to induce or influence
Okay, it seems like it has 100 percent to do swith this incident.
Examples of bribe in a sentence
I offered the children a bribe for finishing their homework.
that judge refused a huge bribe to dismiss the charges against the wealthy defendant
So take it up with them if you have a problem, because the word bribe fits, we all know exactly why it fits, it is an excellet word to use in this matter, and you performed a fine act of wasting our time while being completely wrong in your rigid pedantry.
And some of us are smart enough ot figure that out.
Does this mean that you are the annoying people who don't respond to emails and have to eventually be called about something that I needed a week ago?
As I told one of them once,"You can either respond right away, or I will pay you a visit in person. And since I have to go by the office of the guy I'm working for - the Director - I'll bring him with me. And neither of us will be very happy.". That shot over the bow message was delivered by me in person, and not very happy. At some level, a week is a week too long to wait for the answer to a simple question or two.
The guy figured out he was mistaken, and it was a good idea to pay attention to my phone calls and emails.
Not many can. They stand up to get something, and forget what it was they needed. They need to look back at what they were doing to remember what other item they had to get.
Or is that just me?
Nope, not just you. Throughout my career and personal life, I've been called on to multitask, and efficiency just drops off terribly as more tasks are added. To the point where I found that I have to get away, turn off the cell phone or leave a service area for a plausible excuse, and allow myself to work a problem without distraction. As well, I very often dream solutions. I call that neurotic dreams, as opposed to erotic ones.
So for multitasking, you can sortakinda do it, but anyone claiming great success is probably not doing much of importance.
Though I did see a young lady yesterday driving a car while putting on makeup and using her smartphone. I got as far away from her as I could.
Both candidates are corrupt scum. BUT, Assange's actions in this are deployable, he has gone from someone fighting for open and honest government to someone that is using information he has access too in a manner to influence an election. timing the releases of information to the political happenings in order to influence people makes him no better than those he is supposedly against, actually it probably makes him worse as he "was" supposedly fighting for something better.
Yeah, and his alleged online alleged sexual grooming of an alleged 8 year old kinda makes him an alleged creepshow.
http://www.inquisitr.com/36092...
But worry not, this will all be part of a twisty turney conspiracy plot that will have at it's core, the infernal terror baby and the grandma from hell at it's center. Remember - just because someone is against something you are againstr doesn't necessarily make then an angel in white, coming to rescue the world.
They might even be worse.
It must get lonely living in an embassy for years. Then again, there's a world full of actual adult women that you can do this with without getting into trouble.
A lot of smoke around some people's online hero. 8 years old? Jeezuz, that's gross.
Let's try to use words with some integrity; bribery is a criminal offence, whereas what Samsung allegedly did was to try to buy the guy's silence, which is merely odious, but not a crime.
Oh geesh, Do you think that anyone equated bribing an elected official with giving a private citizen money in exchange for keep ing their yap shut?
Give us some credit for a little intelligence.
Marketing managers need to answer to the physicists and engineers and chemists, not command them.
And the engineers that are responsible for the SoC in the S7 need to be fired, for making a design that eats nearly TWICE the power for a given set of tasks as the iPhone 7, and still delivers sub-par performance.
I hear people are warming up to it though.........
The simple truth is, of course, the OP meant "Cold War" not "civil war" (in any country). Woosh-woosh-woosh.....
Who knew?
Fact Check. We investigate the claim made by a Slashdot poster "Ol Olsoc", that he could buy Stolichnaya at the height of the civil war.
Apologies, I meant "Cold War". The one between the US and the old USSR. That's about as much weirdness of your post I care to reply to, other than I have no idea why you think I was against buying the Russian engines. They are good engines.
By the way, that's usually the flowery language that gets sent to marketing, after everyone has a good laugh and a guessing game at what they might be smoking when they came up with the MRD.
In my first ever "real" job, I was working on some wideband RF amps. These were high performance CATV trunking amps. Our VP was one of these marketing types. Well we were having trouble making the Cross modulation and second order specs on a batch. He comes down to visit, and asks what the problm is.
"Whats th issue with those amplifiers?"
They can't quite make the specs for Cross mod and second order."
Oh - that's simple then. Just get them to make the specs for cross mod and second order."
I wanted to say "Thanks for the tip, dumbass", but just said "Okay"
This is a problem of fundamental design, or else it would have been fixed and they would still be on the market.
Some times we press the limits, some time we go past them. This is one of those times.
There are some chemistry physics that we are pressing up against, and when dealing with energy density, the more we put into something, the more it wants to get out. So as we incorporate more energy, the effort to contain it becomes paramount. And we are hamstringing ourselves as we try to reduce all the other parameters - Thickness, weight, wireless charging - while increasing the stored energy. Yikes! A recipe for great warmth! Marketing forces are dictating the laws of physics these days. That seldom works.
Marketing managers need to answer to the physicists and engineers and chemists, not command them.
While lower-level Democrats are gleefully spreading rumours about Trump being a Putin's man, the Democratic Administration continues to buy this high technology from the adversary.
And I could buy Stolichnya at the height of the civil war.
Rather importantly, Russia is not exactly an adversary. Putin to the US is probably kind of like G.W. Bush was to the rest of the world 15 years ago.
The engines, which are sound technology, are irrelevant to the relationship between Mr Putin and Mr Trump. The politics of their relation is a different matter entirely.
Exile won't work on Trump because democrats are such idiots they'll let alone back in. If Dems could just do a decent job at making their people feel safe instead of taking away their self protection, inviting back convicted murderers and rapists, starting race wars etc... Trump would have never bothered to even run for leadership.
Pepe'! Crime is down, the economy and the stock market are up, private gun ownership is through the roof, and you live in fear as your way of life is changing as you and your folks have trouble adapting.
The problem is your's, not the rest of society's.
Well, they either smoked a hell of a lot, or they had civilization and burned up wood and all their fossil fuels, leading to the runaway greenhouse effect the article mentions.
While Venus serves as an interesting example of the greenhouse effect, the liklihood of that happening on earth is pretty slim indeed.
Wouldn't it be ironic if humanity is searching the vastness of space with the most powerful telescopes for extraterrestrial intelligence, all the while the remnants of a fallen civilization reside on the planet right next to us, somewhere under layers of dirt and dust?
It better be made of pretty tough stuff! Venus isn't a material friendly place. I think the longest lasting Venera probe made it for two hours. Pretty much anything that we make would be dissolved fairly quickly.
What a gloomy, foreboding picture that makes.
Perhaps they sent probes and robots to Earth, like we do to Mars, and life on Earth is the descendant of the microorganisms that made the trip on them.
While an interesting thought experiment about Venus harboring oceans and possibly life, What I would be interested in is working our way backwards to find out what caused the extremely dense atmosphere, and what made it the concentration that it is. I do not see that as the future of earth, because I don't think we have enough CO2.
You don't seem to understand. Everyone now knows that Samsung is the evil devil and Apple is their saviour who could do no wrong.
Would that it was that simple. But operating systems aside, lets look at the situation. Its no doubt that people are really addicted to their smartphones, whatever their brand is.
So disregarding the brand or OS, just how favorably are you going to look upon a phone that easily combusts, that you have to send it back in a special box, and worst of all, you have to be without a phone for a little while.
I fell badly for Samsung. The battery aspect of all phones is a big problem, especially with marketing pressures such as a thin body shell and wireless charging taking up precious internal real estate, but dammit customers want a long battery life. So one of the safest ways of getting battery life is taken away.
So high end phones are tickling the dragon's tail, there is so little room for error. Samsung just happened to be the manufacturer that got hammered.
Of course. I would have preferred to work hard 20 years ago and be rich now. I would have preferred to put in the hard work 10 years ago and now speak 10 different languages. There are lots of things I would have wanted to do in the past to reap the benefit now, casually glazing over the fact that means I'd have the benefit now and not be facing the real work to get there.
There lies the rub of the whole thing. Perspective and temperament. I have always taken the long view, and delight in planning and saving. Not everyone is like that, and it isn't a sin if a person isn't like that. I knew I probably wasn't going to keel over, and my better half is a wizard with money. Not everyone can do that.
I'd be more curious if in retrospect if those people would have taken the extra hours and stress for the money. I'm guessing many fewer would be as eager if you made them re-live their lives, including all the pain and suffering, and no guarantee they would live as long as they did.
That was another thing. I didn't find it all that stressful. I managed to raise a family and not neglect them either. I not only did the long workweeks and on call situation, but I was a Ice Hockey Coach and president of a Hockey League, and captain of my own Hockey team. That is sooo awesome for burning off a long day at the office.
Some think I'm a maniac. Could be.
Anyhow, I don't even promote my style as smarter , or a "Wanna be wealthy? just be wealthy!" setup. I nly offer it as an alternative to the standard I hate my job, I refuse to poop on my own time, and whatever the excuse is for not saving for retirement is at the time - when I entered the workforce it was "What's the point of saving? Inflation will just eat it up and you won't have anything. They were wrong.
Trumpster already said it was a 400 pound guy sitting on his bed, or maybe didn't happen at all.
In the 90s, the NSA supposedly measured its computing power in acres. If Trump becomes president, they'll have to measure their hacking prowess in tonnage. ("Get thirty tonnes of hackers on this 'Politico' site! Make sure they fail like the New York Times!")
One of the issues with the Don, is that many of his solutions are quite far outside the law, either through direct illegality, or unconstitutional in nature. Even his threat to put his opponent in jail and th emethod of doing so (presumably orders to once upon a time respectable Chris Christie, his presumptive Attorney General, are very interesting. The last time a sitting President attempted to nail his political opponent was Richard Nixon, who ordered Elliot Richardson to fire the special prosecutor for the Watergate scandal, Archibald Cox. Richardson resigned rather than do that. Nixon then ordered the Deputy AG William Ruckleshaus to fire Cox. Ruckleshaus also resigned. Now the pickings were getting slim. The solicitor General who was third in commandGeneral Robert Bork was in a bit of a fix. He made up a plan to fire Cox, then resign. Richardson Pursuaded him not to resign, because that would leave a nasty power vacuum. This was called the Saturday Night Massacre.
Later on, a Federal Judge found the firing an illegal and improper act as specified by the regulations.
Congress went batshit crazy. In the end, Leon Jaworski was appointed, continued just as Cox had done, except Nixon couldn't fire him. The rest is history.
Point is after all that, we have precedence, and even mainstream Republicans might find that the US slipping into complete extralegal chaos just a little too much to abide.
And that's just one example. The problem with the Don's plans, is that they require scrapping the constitution, and dictatorial powers.
Believe it or not, there are total gobshites who need to take those falls - people who spit in policeman's faces, etc.
And there are people who deserve molten iron enemas, too.
That's why we have the rule of law, not just someone who is pissed off at someone dispensing instant justice.
Not 100% true.
a) If a camera isn't activated during an incident then the officer puts his own word in doubt.
b) Police need privacy too. They have to pee and stuff, just like other people.
I'm not certain how it works in GB, but here in the states, the policeman's word is golden unless there are some pretty serious reasons to believe otherwise.
Not much of a life then if you can't make simple plans because you are always on call...
I was "allowed" to go on vacation - although many were cancelled then taken later.
No one says you have to do as I did. And if I dropped dead before I retired, it would have been wasted. But as a person who is presumably still working - even if you refuse to work a minute past 40 a week, what do you think about those 24 thousand hours you get to work (12 years with two weeks vacation from 55 to 67 year normal retirement age) that I'm not working?
I can tell ya that while I don't have an issue with hard work, long hoirs when needed, and professional attitude, this beats the hell out of working for a living.
That's still a good sized fuel tank. My Saturn four-door has a ten gallon tank that goes from dry to past-full with only 9.8 gallons.
SIde note - there were some 1980's vehicles that went from full to half a tank using maybe two-three gallons. I had an S10 pickup and 87 Pulsar that did that, and even now have an old 86 Toyota RV that does the same.
People are scared of random things. I drive a diesel car (in the US) and can't count how many times people have showed grave concerns about my ability to find fuel.
~700 miles (1100 km) per tank I think I should manage to find a station that carries diesel.
I get people who are scared about me hiking and 4 wheeling alone, so I know the situation. I've come to the conclusion over the years that lot of people are just inherently scared and like to find outlets for that fear. I like my outlook better, I'm only fearful enought to want to live to do hte crazy shit I do tomorrow.
P.S. did you know there are a few AC's who think you and I are one and the same?
I can't wait to read all the "Help! Help! I'm too mentally weak to survive for an hour without my phone!!!!" whining.
Looks like that wish has been granted in spades!
I love their what if scenarios. Maybe we can do a what if subthread - I'll start
What if a farrier throws a refrigerator at my third cousin and they are waiting in a Best Buy store for me?
Have doctors really gotten rid of their pagers?
No. Most have smartphones just like the rest of us, but there are certain groups who need that one way communication. Doctors, people who work in sensitive locations where phones are not allowed, and a few others. We still have an annoying Paging system near us. RF splatter all over the place.