> It's hysterical though to watch Americans talk about freedom while having civil forfeiture laws that lets cops steal money and put it literally in their own pockets as wages.
Says butt hurt weenie whose ancestors were deported to a giant penal colony.
> This was 1998. I'm pretty sure you maxed out the RAM and hard drive there. > > The HDD and RAM you quoted were only common a year or two later.
It doesn't matter "what is common". The white box PC vendors have always been much more flexible. Lower overall prices mean that you can get much more box for the same money (or even less).
The real value of a "user serviceable" device is to avoid the assinine markup on storage and ram imposed by a lot of box builders. This is even a problem with Linux vendors. I "built" my last couple of NUCs because of this.
Getting into one is trivial. Finishing assembly is pretty trivial.
If I ever wanted more RAM, that would be no big thing either.
If the drive dies, it's trivial to fix. A suitable expert at least has a chance of rescuing the machine from the trash heap.
Systems that are difficult to maintain are fodder for landfills. It's much like using your own yard as a latrine.
I have several boot SSDs that are older than that.
Tell us what brands you are using so we can avoid them.
The most I've gotten out of spinning rust is about 7 years. If you choose poorly, you can't hope for a drive to last that long. (looking at you Seagate)
That's like saying that 99.9% of Apple users can't put together a small Lego kit. This stuff has always been pretty simple. Open the box and find a suitable socket. The only really difficult part is the artificial difficulty in getting into a Mac.
People just love to intimidate themselves when it comes to computers.
You can get anything you want in the PC market. You always could get all sorts of weird shit that would put any Apple options to shame. What Apple did was to heavily market this stuff and then pretend they were the one's that invented it (or the only ones that had it).
Except this pretty much never happens. It's up to you to track this stuff down and chances are you will find that there's some bits the reporter left out.
Pretty much any "Trump said" narrative falls into this category. I stopped paying attention to this bogus nonsense during the campaign. Forget about now.
> Were you demanding actual EVIDENCE of any wrong doing from Hillary Clinton before declaring her corrupt and criminal ?
Didn't need too. She promised a direct military confrontation with Russia during the debates. I understood this was what she was promising because I read the military press. I don't limit my sources to CNN.
The MSM gets basic verifiable facts wrong. That's not even getting into their political agenda or editorial narrative.
The thing that really intrigues me is how liberals can still screech about giving the government a monopoly on their future cancer treatment when the government is currently in the control of a hated enemy. You basically want Bernie and Trump to put your life in the hands of Trump and Ryan. That's utterly deranged.
> Let me ask you a question: why do you need semi-automatic weapons that fire high-powered rounds? This isn't a rhetorical question.
You are deeply confused and highly ignorant about guns.
The AR-15 doesn't fire a particularly high powered round. It's a varmint rifle. It's not even powerful enough to be considered legal for hunting in some places because of this.
Lay off the media narrative.
The AR-15 has the advantage of being less random and destructive than a shotgun and much easier to handle than some pea shooter like a 38 special. A 9mm round actually has more penetrating power when it comes to human bodies.
> I don't think it's fair to conflate anti-prostitution with anti-sex.
The same people that are against prostitution are generally against many of the choices you would make about your own body. This goes for both political factions.
This strange confluence of fundies and feminists has been in force since the 80s when Gloria Steinem first picketed against porn.
> I'm sure you wouldn't mind citing your sources, right?
Have you ever tried to grow anything in your life? I suspect not.
A good, location appropriate crop can almost be treated like a weed. Water is free. Light is free. The real world examples of this kind of thing are restricted to expensive cash crops like pot and kale for good reason. They aren't economical for anything else.
Wake me when they are using this stuff to grow potatoes, onions, carrots, and cabbage.
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> limited, enumerated roles and responsibilities
The Feds get to regulate interstate commerce. That easily covers this, especially once consumer and provider are in different states.
> But Australia has a higher quality of life
Disraeli would be proud of you.
Tell yourself whatever you need to in order to get through the day.
> It's hysterical though to watch Americans talk about freedom while having civil forfeiture laws that lets cops steal money and put it literally in their own pockets as wages.
Says butt hurt weenie whose ancestors were deported to a giant penal colony.
If you are using a laptop as nothing more than a terminal, then what's the point of paying for an Apple product?
If your PC or laptop is not intentionally crippled, it can do it's own number crunching. No need to treat it as a glorified VT-100.
You never know when you are going to come across a DVD. This is especially true if you actually travel OUTSIDE of your silicon valley cocoon.
Having a machine with what you need BUILT IN is far more portable and clunky.
A laptop is supposed to be neither of these things.
I have recent versions of Ubuntu installed on much less powerful machines of that vintage. I might even have an old AIO lying around with 10 on it.
> ... where you didn't need to know how to connect or adjust a monitor.
It's plugging in a cable, not rocket surgery.
Using a TV with anything other than the built in rabbit ears requires about the same skill level.
Apple users take helplessness to an entirely new level.
> This was 1998. I'm pretty sure you maxed out the RAM and hard drive there.
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> The HDD and RAM you quoted were only common a year or two later.
It doesn't matter "what is common". The white box PC vendors have always been much more flexible. Lower overall prices mean that you can get much more box for the same money (or even less).
They had a real shot in the 90s. Either you weren't there or you are kidding yourself.
The real value of a "user serviceable" device is to avoid the assinine markup on storage and ram imposed by a lot of box builders. This is even a problem with Linux vendors. I "built" my last couple of NUCs because of this.
Getting into one is trivial. Finishing assembly is pretty trivial.
If I ever wanted more RAM, that would be no big thing either.
If the drive dies, it's trivial to fix. A suitable expert at least has a chance of rescuing the machine from the trash heap.
Systems that are difficult to maintain are fodder for landfills. It's much like using your own yard as a latrine.
I have several boot SSDs that are older than that.
Tell us what brands you are using so we can avoid them.
The most I've gotten out of spinning rust is about 7 years. If you choose poorly, you can't hope for a drive to last that long. (looking at you Seagate)
That's like saying that 99.9% of Apple users can't put together a small Lego kit. This stuff has always been pretty simple. Open the box and find a suitable socket. The only really difficult part is the artificial difficulty in getting into a Mac.
People just love to intimidate themselves when it comes to computers.
You can get anything you want in the PC market. You always could get all sorts of weird shit that would put any Apple options to shame. What Apple did was to heavily market this stuff and then pretend they were the one's that invented it (or the only ones that had it).
The liberal hate in the mainstream press over Breitbart is a classic case of "fake news".
"and the reporter then runs the tape of them "
Except this pretty much never happens. It's up to you to track this stuff down and chances are you will find that there's some bits the reporter left out.
Pretty much any "Trump said" narrative falls into this category. I stopped paying attention to this bogus nonsense during the campaign. Forget about now.
> Because not reacting due to shock or fear is clearly the same as consent in your mind? You are part of the problem.
Groupies are a pretty mundane thing in show business. You want to assume facts not in evidence because it suits your political agenda.
> Were you demanding actual EVIDENCE of any wrong doing from Hillary Clinton before declaring her corrupt and criminal ?
Didn't need too. She promised a direct military confrontation with Russia during the debates. I understood this was what she was promising because I read the military press. I don't limit my sources to CNN.
The MSM gets basic verifiable facts wrong. That's not even getting into their political agenda or editorial narrative.
The thing that really intrigues me is how liberals can still screech about giving the government a monopoly on their future cancer treatment when the government is currently in the control of a hated enemy. You basically want Bernie and Trump to put your life in the hands of Trump and Ryan. That's utterly deranged.
> Let me ask you a question: why do you need semi-automatic weapons that fire high-powered rounds? This isn't a rhetorical question.
You are deeply confused and highly ignorant about guns.
The AR-15 doesn't fire a particularly high powered round. It's a varmint rifle. It's not even powerful enough to be considered legal for hunting in some places because of this.
Lay off the media narrative.
The AR-15 has the advantage of being less random and destructive than a shotgun and much easier to handle than some pea shooter like a 38 special. A 9mm round actually has more penetrating power when it comes to human bodies.
> I'm sure those pesky rules are being repealed as we speak. All this consumer protect^h^h^h^h over regulation is killing the industry.
Those rules date to Teddy Roosevelt. They have nothing to do with Obama. Although Obama was happy to ignore them too.
Trump make a silly side by side comparison between the 60s and now. The 60s was a small pile and the current regulations were a much biger pile.
The rule we're talking about here is in the small pile.
You are peddling a distinction without a difference.
I actually voted for the stupid Cheeto and I think this is shameless corporate shilling.
> Meanwhile somewhere in Europe I pay 29.90 euros per month for 1gbps internet access (ftth) and 15 euros per month for unlimited 4G.
That's more of a consolation prize than anything else.
That's a pretty weak. Excuse. Buy a cheap streamer and you're done.
Don't be coy. You just don't want to pay. It doesn't matter how easy it is.
Disks are easy to rip even under Linux. Blurays are minor annoyances. DVDs are ridiculously trivial.
You just don't want to bother because that would mean parting with money.
> I don't think it's fair to conflate anti-prostitution with anti-sex.
The same people that are against prostitution are generally against many of the choices you would make about your own body. This goes for both political factions.
This strange confluence of fundies and feminists has been in force since the 80s when Gloria Steinem first picketed against porn.
> I'm sure you wouldn't mind citing your sources, right?
Have you ever tried to grow anything in your life? I suspect not.
A good, location appropriate crop can almost be treated like a weed. Water is free. Light is free. The real world examples of this kind of thing are restricted to expensive cash crops like pot and kale for good reason. They aren't economical for anything else.
Wake me when they are using this stuff to grow potatoes, onions, carrots, and cabbage.
> Also don't forget shipping thousands of miles by ship, train and trucks.
Not a problem if you are willing to farm close to where you want to sell using more conventional means.