So we can file away your smug nonsense along with other smug nonsense like "I've never had cable" or "I've never had a TV".
Netflix is nice but they "expire" stuff. They also mess around with aspect ratios of content. They're not quite as bad as cable channels that mutilate old shows, but they're close.
"Custom setups" really aren't that bothersome. Although dealing with modern encryption nonsense with cable and PVRs can be quite bothersome.
I finally ditched cable because it was a bother, much more of a bother than a large hoard of personally curated content and the devices to enjoy it.
If something isn't worth watching again, you probably shouldn't have bothered the first time around.
> What, paying a mortgage, taxes and repairs is better? You're just existing between paychecks.
I haven't had a mortgage on my house for a number of years now.
Even if I did, I would still be ahead of trying to work and live in any "glamour city". Rent in coastal cities can't even compete with buying a McMansion in flyover country. Plus rent goes up constantly.
Even if I still had a mortgage, it would reflect prices when I first got it without anything added by year over year inflation or sudden insane real estate bubbles.
> It's less smugness and more earthquake protection. Building anything taller than 2 floors in San Francisco is a regulatory nightmare AND a civil engineering nightmare,
Nonsense. Pre-industrial Japanese built wood buildings larger than that and they were perfectly earthquake proof.
There are high rise laden cities in other earthquake zones. San Francisco just chooses to be snooty about building higher.
Sure, tech is advanced. However, you're lucky if the kinds of people running companies are current when it comes to business end of things. Forget about tech.
Plus most American corporations any more treat everyone like shit (including customers) and distrusts everyone (likely for good reason).
American corporate culture has been going down the crapper for decades, possibly before you were even born.
...except encoding takes DAYS rather than hours. This is a detail that you even mentioned yourself but chose not to acknowledge as meaningful.
Also, declaring that the settings were "comparable" is a bit disengenuous. Even back in the bad old days when I used divx for better encode speed, an h264 did not take DAYS.
> not for the enrichment of mankind it is for the enrichment of Googles stock.
That's the beauty of capitalism. It's acknowledged that the two are one and the same and that people are greedy bastards that won't do things for free.
> Maybe you might share with us which science and/or useful art Mr King's work embodies?
History. Literature.
> You may not like those limits but they do exist.
No they don't. Those limits haven't effectively worked in your lifetime. Chances are they won't ever either. Disney will just keep on retroactively changing the expiration of 50+ year old copyrights.
There was recently a viral video where a professional football player was beating up his wife in an elevator. It turned out that SHE started it and did so in a very public place. The only part of the fight that made it into the press is when the guy fought back.
No. The dimwit just doesn't know anything because he's probably never done so much as boil water in his life.
The summary noted that the time spent on "chores" is down. I was originally going to comment that this is probably because people mostly eat out now or indulge in pre-packaged snacks.
People aren't enjoying home automation, they are avoiding the process entirely and just "outsourcing" it all.
While Postgres seems to be built by people that seem to understand the requirements for a production RDBMS, MySQL comes off like a toy made for lazy developers.
Absolutely nobody should be surprised by this kind of thing. The whole industry has problems managing licensing. This has nothing to do with Oracle. You can get bit the same by Microsoft. All it takes is one disgruntled ex-employee to trigger an audit.
The fact that Oracle doesn't have an annoying license manager doesn't mean it's freeware.
"Well regulated" in this context means that people are trained and skillful enough to immediately serve alongside the regular Army. This occurred both before the revolution and during it.
Also, the regular Army of the US as well as a number of other nations (England, Finland, USSR) have benefited greatly from having civilians well trained in the use of weapons.
Being "well regulated" means that I can operate the current infantry rifle and consistently hit a target at 200m.
Again, you are committing historical fail and probably doing it on purpose.
The existence of the militia was never dependent on the existence or lack of existence of a national army. Even when a standing Army existed on this side of the pond, it was not considered unnecessary.
The original purpose of the NRA aligns nicely with what a colonial would think of the 2nd Amendment.
If anything, the founding fathers would get rid of the US Army rather than the 2nd Amendment. The state of modern tech probably would not change that.
As a parent I would say nope... or rather FUCK NO.
If I want mindless liberals to whine at me about guns, I have plenty of other sources for that. The fact some people only choose to fixate on one kind of stupidity in no way constitutes "stuff that matters".
Even "child proofing" your home is not relevant for this forum.
I figure that the real problem here is idiots who breed. How are you going to solve that problem really? I doesn't matter if it's pools, dogs or detergent pods. Even if you remove the gun, the idiot parent is still an idiot.
It's just that guns are sexy and exciting from a yellow journalism point of view.
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...I also time shift old school Netflix DVD/BD rentals.
Although, with HBO Now I might do less of that.
MythTV used as a video jukebox with large redundant storage arrays and HTPCs next to the TVs.
Roku's next to the HTPCs to deal with the streaming services.
So we can file away your smug nonsense along with other smug nonsense like "I've never had cable" or "I've never had a TV".
Netflix is nice but they "expire" stuff. They also mess around with aspect ratios of content. They're not quite as bad as cable channels that mutilate old shows, but they're close.
"Custom setups" really aren't that bothersome. Although dealing with modern encryption nonsense with cable and PVRs can be quite bothersome.
I finally ditched cable because it was a bother, much more of a bother than a large hoard of personally curated content and the devices to enjoy it.
If something isn't worth watching again, you probably shouldn't have bothered the first time around.
Even some of the initial media reports indicated that the father was an activist. I even commented about it at the time.
If your father is the Sudanese version of Al Sharpton, it spins things in a different direction.
Did you even read the summary?
This program specificially has "non-immigrant" in it's title and it's intended to take up the slack for another non-immigrant program (namely H1-B).
A "guest worker" is by definition not an "immigrant".
> What, paying a mortgage, taxes and repairs is better? You're just existing between paychecks.
I haven't had a mortgage on my house for a number of years now.
Even if I did, I would still be ahead of trying to work and live in any "glamour city". Rent in coastal cities can't even compete with buying a McMansion in flyover country. Plus rent goes up constantly.
Even if I still had a mortgage, it would reflect prices when I first got it without anything added by year over year inflation or sudden insane real estate bubbles.
> It's less smugness and more earthquake protection. Building anything taller than 2 floors in San Francisco is a regulatory nightmare AND a civil engineering nightmare,
Nonsense. Pre-industrial Japanese built wood buildings larger than that and they were perfectly earthquake proof.
There are high rise laden cities in other earthquake zones. San Francisco just chooses to be snooty about building higher.
It also ignores the fact that 30-44% of homicides are committed without a gun.
Plus Sweden has it's own police state crime and commitment issues.
How is that whole "war on drugs going"?
It should be simple. Just find anyone with drugs and lock them up.
You are starting with a conclusion and then trying to justify it.
THAT is about as dishonest as it gets. Unscientific too.
A proper hypothesis is more than just just pulling a politically correct sounding idea out of your posterior.
Sure, tech is advanced. However, you're lucky if the kinds of people running companies are current when it comes to business end of things. Forget about tech.
Plus most American corporations any more treat everyone like shit (including customers) and distrusts everyone (likely for good reason).
American corporate culture has been going down the crapper for decades, possibly before you were even born.
...except encoding takes DAYS rather than hours. This is a detail that you even mentioned yourself but chose not to acknowledge as meaningful.
Also, declaring that the settings were "comparable" is a bit disengenuous. Even back in the bad old days when I used divx for better encode speed, an h264 did not take DAYS.
> not for the enrichment of mankind it is for the enrichment of Googles stock.
That's the beauty of capitalism. It's acknowledged that the two are one and the same and that people are greedy bastards that won't do things for free.
You just have to have some balance.
> Maybe you might share with us which science and/or useful art Mr King's work embodies?
History. Literature.
> You may not like those limits but they do exist.
No they don't. Those limits haven't effectively worked in your lifetime. Chances are they won't ever either. Disney will just keep on retroactively changing the expiration of 50+ year old copyrights.
Building up is terribly expensive. See New York or any other city where high rise (non-tenements) are commonplace.
> No one is being constripted in the US. So that's more than a slightly moot point.
No it isn't. This is more about today and right now.
The last draft was not that long ago in the US. There was a good half century where women had the vote but were exempt from the draft.
There was recently a viral video where a professional football player was beating up his wife in an elevator. It turned out that SHE started it and did so in a very public place. The only part of the fight that made it into the press is when the guy fought back.
No. The dimwit just doesn't know anything because he's probably never done so much as boil water in his life.
The summary noted that the time spent on "chores" is down. I was originally going to comment that this is probably because people mostly eat out now or indulge in pre-packaged snacks.
People aren't enjoying home automation, they are avoiding the process entirely and just "outsourcing" it all.
While Postgres seems to be built by people that seem to understand the requirements for a production RDBMS, MySQL comes off like a toy made for lazy developers.
Absolutely nobody should be surprised by this kind of thing. The whole industry has problems managing licensing. This has nothing to do with Oracle. You can get bit the same by Microsoft. All it takes is one disgruntled ex-employee to trigger an audit.
The fact that Oracle doesn't have an annoying license manager doesn't mean it's freeware.
You can't.
I believe that point 3 is what humans call humor.
More great historical fail...
"Well regulated" in this context means that people are trained and skillful enough to immediately serve alongside the regular Army. This occurred both before the revolution and during it.
Also, the regular Army of the US as well as a number of other nations (England, Finland, USSR) have benefited greatly from having civilians well trained in the use of weapons.
Being "well regulated" means that I can operate the current infantry rifle and consistently hit a target at 200m.
Again, you are committing historical fail and probably doing it on purpose.
The existence of the militia was never dependent on the existence or lack of existence of a national army. Even when a standing Army existed on this side of the pond, it was not considered unnecessary.
The original purpose of the NRA aligns nicely with what a colonial would think of the 2nd Amendment.
If anything, the founding fathers would get rid of the US Army rather than the 2nd Amendment. The state of modern tech probably would not change that.
As a parent I would say nope... or rather FUCK NO.
If I want mindless liberals to whine at me about guns, I have plenty of other sources for that. The fact some people only choose to fixate on one kind of stupidity in no way constitutes "stuff that matters".
Even "child proofing" your home is not relevant for this forum.
This article represents editorial fail.
I figure that the real problem here is idiots who breed. How are you going to solve that problem really? I doesn't matter if it's pools, dogs or detergent pods. Even if you remove the gun, the idiot parent is still an idiot.
It's just that guns are sexy and exciting from a yellow journalism point of view.