I will learn what the roads look like and feel like as well as what the coastline of every Great Lake will look like from my motorcycle. I'm going to ride around every single one of them.
Next year I get to learn what it feels like to ride from Chicago to Anchorage, Alaska and back. And I assume how to dodge bears and elk.
"but when has pre-adult portion of our society ever been smart when it comes to drugs?"
how about the post adult? A large segment of the population is not smart their entire life. 2 out of every 5 people you meet has an IQ below 100. and 3 out of 5 have a very poor "common sense" ability.
I have friends that will lick a light socket when drunk, and they are fortune 500 management.
You can't protect stupid people from acting stupid.
In fact, want to make the world a better place? pass laws that make it impossible for someone stupid, that did something stupid, from using the legal system to sue anyone for their act of stupid.
I personally wish we allowed more of the stupid people to kill themselves, it would help the humanity gene pool immensely.
Mostly because of idiot bosses that think they need to be able to walk up to you and poke you with a stick to make sure you are working.
A large number of jobs can be done at home over the network. Maybe someday we will start getting Executives and managers at businesses that have IQ's over 80 that will start allowing it or even require it.
Videoconferencing is trivial, always on high speed internet is getting to be common. There is zero reason for many people to go and sit in a cubicle for 8 hours a day to do work they can easily do at home.
Russian made cars might get 13,000 miles to a tank of gas, but us capitalist pigs have to stop every 400 miles for gas. Even if it was a train tunnel, no train on this planet can go 13,000 miles on one load of fuel. Then you have the pesky problem of ventilation.
"Any method of getting in from the passenger compartment would be vulnerable to coercion."
not if you have an air marshall with an AA12 shotgun full of beanbag rounds right there. There are very simple answers, the airlines are whiny bitches that claim they cant afford it, and that is the center of the problem.
3 crew on flight deck for all aircraft, Let the pilots rest and get good sleep, and2 very well armed angry air marshalls on every flight. Solves 100% of all "terrorisim" problems.
Sadly the people in charge of security that have zero clue as to what to do, and the airlines whiny executives disallow the correct answer.
Dont worry, next year will be ruined by the hotels. They already announced there will be a 20% increase in hotel prices next year.
2 years ago it was a lot better, this year is probably my last year as I just cant afford $600 a night for a 4 night minimum stay anymore Plus $80 a day parking at the hotel. Makes my VIG passes look cheap in comparison.
Gencon consumes all of indy that weekend. you cant get a hotel within 30 miles. Every single hotel room is already booked for that weekend. Every restaurant in a 10 mile radius of the center is packed full of people.
I honestly hope they move because Indy is too dinky of a town for Gencon. I want them to move to Vegas. Cheaper and better hotels, cheaper and easier flights. And a shitload more to do outside of the convention.
It's a hobby that makes me $102,000 ish a year. (actually more if you include the company car and benefits)
I design and install the real stuff and program homes and even freaking hospitals with Lutron,Vantage, Crestron and AMX control systems. using real sensors and systems to do some amazing stuff. A major hospital in michigan has my code running the lighting on all 12 floors using sensors on the roof and each room, hallway, etc and floor for light harvesting and lighting control. I even adjust the color kenetics RGB accent lighting based on the current weather conditions outside.
Hell the last home theater I did cost more than 90% of the people posting here will make in 10 years. The very rich and corperations all use the real stuff extensively. The consumer items are exactly what you called them, Toys for someone's hobby.
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I was told that moose were soft and cuddly....
I knew I should not have trusted that guy in the red jacket and big hat.
XOR used with a 1 time pad is unbreakable, so the claims that XOR is worthless is uninformed.
Granted the app doesn't use a one time pad the size of the item to encrypt, which is the actual flaw.
I will learn what the roads look like and feel like as well as what the coastline of every Great Lake will look like from my motorcycle. I'm going to ride around every single one of them.
Next year I get to learn what it feels like to ride from Chicago to Anchorage, Alaska and back. And I assume how to dodge bears and elk.
"but when has pre-adult portion of our society ever been smart when it comes to drugs?"
how about the post adult? A large segment of the population is not smart their entire life. 2 out of every 5 people you meet has an IQ below 100. and 3 out of 5 have a very poor "common sense" ability.
I have friends that will lick a light socket when drunk, and they are fortune 500 management.
You can't protect stupid people from acting stupid.
In fact, want to make the world a better place? pass laws that make it impossible for someone stupid, that did something stupid, from using the legal system to sue anyone for their act of stupid.
I personally wish we allowed more of the stupid people to kill themselves, it would help the humanity gene pool immensely.
Amazon.com is doing just fine with retail over the internet.
All you have to do is walk into any police station and say, "I am an american and Castro is the devil"
Instant free room!
Mostly because of idiot bosses that think they need to be able to walk up to you and poke you with a stick to make sure you are working.
A large number of jobs can be done at home over the network. Maybe someday we will start getting Executives and managers at businesses that have IQ's over 80 that will start allowing it or even require it.
Videoconferencing is trivial, always on high speed internet is getting to be common. There is zero reason for many people to go and sit in a cubicle for 8 hours a day to do work they can easily do at home.
It seems far too many people have too low of self control to follow traffic laws and speed limits.
No they ground up the composite panels to reclaim the cocaine it was pressed out of.
It seems that the head crabs are a side effect of a discovery that Doctor Spock from the USS enterprise made late last year.
Let the OCD nerds start foaming at the mouth!
Stayed the same. IT productivity went way up.
And speechless with the jaw dropping. Cant forget those!
It's already replaced workstations for half the office employees here. All of the Sales staff have been moved over to Chromebooks completely.
Russian made cars might get 13,000 miles to a tank of gas, but us capitalist pigs have to stop every 400 miles for gas. Even if it was a train tunnel, no train on this planet can go 13,000 miles on one load of fuel. Then you have the pesky problem of ventilation.
"hat are we left with? keep the door open and we have murderous hijacking? "
Yes we have to accept that 0.001% risk of a MURDEROUS HIJACKING
You have a better chance of dying in your bathtub at home by a terrorist hiding behind your shampoo.
"Any method of getting in from the passenger compartment would be vulnerable to coercion."
not if you have an air marshall with an AA12 shotgun full of beanbag rounds right there. There are very simple answers, the airlines are whiny bitches that claim they cant afford it, and that is the center of the problem.
3 crew on flight deck for all aircraft, Let the pilots rest and get good sleep, and2 very well armed angry air marshalls on every flight. Solves 100% of all "terrorisim" problems.
Sadly the people in charge of security that have zero clue as to what to do, and the airlines whiny executives disallow the correct answer.
Ot that they haven't slept. I know several airline pilots, they are told to fly even when they are very tired or when sick.
It's a single switch. Dont make it sound like he pushed a dresser in front of the door.
Dont worry, next year will be ruined by the hotels. They already announced there will be a 20% increase in hotel prices next year.
2 years ago it was a lot better, this year is probably my last year as I just cant afford $600 a night for a 4 night minimum stay anymore Plus $80 a day parking at the hotel. Makes my VIG passes look cheap in comparison.
Plus the bonus of chicago is if you take the red line to far south, you get murdered for free in your costume!
Gencon consumes all of indy that weekend. you cant get a hotel within 30 miles. Every single hotel room is already booked for that weekend. Every restaurant in a 10 mile radius of the center is packed full of people.
I honestly hope they move because Indy is too dinky of a town for Gencon. I want them to move to Vegas. Cheaper and better hotels, cheaper and easier flights. And a shitload more to do outside of the convention.
It's already this way. Amazon uses Dematic handling systems and robots.
you have to buy those on ebay.
It's a hobby that makes me $102,000 ish a year. (actually more if you include the company car and benefits)
I design and install the real stuff and program homes and even freaking hospitals with Lutron,Vantage, Crestron and AMX control systems. using real sensors and systems to do some amazing stuff. A major hospital in michigan has my code running the lighting on all 12 floors using sensors on the roof and each room, hallway, etc and floor for light harvesting and lighting control. I even adjust the color kenetics RGB accent lighting based on the current weather conditions outside.
Hell the last home theater I did cost more than 90% of the people posting here will make in 10 years. The very rich and corperations all use the real stuff extensively. The consumer items are exactly what you called them, Toys for someone's hobby.