My parents only helped me pay for school (half me half them). Other than that, I made my own wealth.
Yeah, and Warren Buffet gave me a million dollars to invest in the stock market. Other than that, I made my own wealth.
Starting your adult life with $1M in the bank is a far cry from getting help from your parents to fund school. Most parents cover school costs for their kids through grade 12 in the U.S. Many parents continue to help for a few years after if they're able. Sure it's an advantage, but it's a world away from a "Warren Buffet gave me a million dollars" advantage. My dad helped a little bit while I was in school, but you're off by multiple orders of magnitude. Do you only consider people who start as parentless street urchins self-made? Getting free formula or milk as a baby is a shameless handout and clearly a sign of privilege.
His first 100 shows or so were ok.... Then he sold out.
Sold out? Are you suggesting that during the first 100 shows he didn't care about his sponsors? Making TV shows is a business - Shows are made to be sold.
I am of course making the assumption that these "vertiports" would be much smaller and more common than existing helipads. Otherwise, what's the point?
It's a feature for the advertisers. I'm going to be severely annoyed when an ad pauses when my phone gets tossed under a pillow. My typical ad-watching experience is to focus on whatever I've got on TV until the noise under the pillow stops.
So... Juicero Inc. makes a juice machine and that juice machine makes juice...
It makes both the juicer & the bags that go in it, containing the juicing material. It appears that Juicero makes both juicers and juice. The question might have been about which their focus was on. At $400, they're not giving away the shaver to sell blades, but it's clear that they're partly counting on the subscription model.
But I suspect the technical solution here is to add a direct feed of known non-human audio sources (TV, radio, stereo system) to devices like Google Home or Alexa.
Are you suggesting that we add a bunch of miscellaneous ports to the Home/Echo and wire in every audio source in the house? Or maybe you're picturing small wireless mics next to all those sources to isolate their audio and counter it? I see no obvious, practical way to implement this technical solution. How do you picture this "direct feed of known non-human audio sources" working?
I guess I spoke too quickly - I've seen a similar situation. We were contractors working on LANL property. When the LANL employees got holidays that we didn't, our employees were unable to work and burned vacation hours for the day. They weren't "prohibited from working due to company holiday policy", but they were prohibited from working due to another company's policy. I'd still be upset if it was my company declaring the holiday and not paying me for it, but for I guess it's different for hourly employees whose employers close for the day. Apparently I'm spoiled. I have worked hourly jobs that provided paid vacation days, the exception being a convenience store that never closed. I also worked as a calc tutor for a university center that wouldn't pay hours on holidays, but I wouldn't really classify that as a "real job". Still not sure I agree with GP's assertion that paid winter holidays are "rare", although week-long stretches probably are. I got Dec 22 & 25 this year. Personally, I wouldn't call forced unpaid time off "vacation".
Most people also get a week or two of vacation around the winter holidays, but it's rare for it to be a paid vacation.
Really? That doesn't fit my definition of a vacation. At every job I've held I've been paid for any days that I was prohibited from working due to company holiday policy. I'd be pissed as hell if I was forced to take unpaid time off. Where are you working that you're being forced to take unpaid holidays?
There is a new MacGyver. I loved the original, so I watched part of one new ones. I quickly came to the conclusion that it was made for children. It was ridiculous. Then, reflecting back, I had the revelation that the original was also geared toward children. It was ridiculous too. The difference is that 30 years ago I was a child and Mac was fun. I've aged considerably since then. Most of us have.
Mac wouldn't need to build a spare parts computer. He'd just use his shoelaces and a pulley to bend the bars and escape.
If 3 million people is enough to consider that Hillary 'really won' the election then is 30 million people enough to consider these diseases worth fighting?
That's 25-30 million people with 7,000 different diseases. That's about 4k people per disease. They're not researching a single cure for all those 30 million people.
WTF does this have to do with the election or number of votes cast? There's only one person still obsessed with the election results and TFA isn't about him.
Are you implying that with the T2 revision, they installed the ability to be bargained and reasoned with, an understanding of pity, remorse, and fear, and programmed it to eventually stop even if I'm not dead?
For a few limited cases, those precautions aren't over-reaching. For the rest of us, though, it's a matter of "good enough." Personally I use a VPN, but in many other situations I could be described as lax on avoiding tracking. There's some common sense, and then there's trading convenience for privacy.
...if everyone were to post as AC, then it would be the content of their posts that would be rated and nothing else.
Which is why I don't typically post AC. When a/. user sees my sig, they know that whatever preceded it must have been pure gold and any deviation from its goldiness must have been a misunderstanding.
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My parents only helped me pay for school (half me half them). Other than that, I made my own wealth.
Yeah, and Warren Buffet gave me a million dollars to invest in the stock market. Other than that, I made my own wealth.
Starting your adult life with $1M in the bank is a far cry from getting help from your parents to fund school. Most parents cover school costs for their kids through grade 12 in the U.S. Many parents continue to help for a few years after if they're able. Sure it's an advantage, but it's a world away from a "Warren Buffet gave me a million dollars" advantage. My dad helped a little bit while I was in school, but you're off by multiple orders of magnitude. Do you only consider people who start as parentless street urchins self-made? Getting free formula or milk as a baby is a shameless handout and clearly a sign of privilege.
His first 100 shows or so were ok.... Then he sold out.
Sold out? Are you suggesting that during the first 100 shows he didn't care about his sponsors? Making TV shows is a business - Shows are made to be sold.
I am of course making the assumption that these "vertiports" would be much smaller and more common than existing helipads. Otherwise, what's the point?
The ruling class already use helicopters to travel above the masses for short distance trips.
Only between helipads. This would change that.
MULTIPLE local retailers competing with one another on selection, price, location and service.
And all of them paying brick-and-mortar overhead. Competition has evolved, but we've gotten more efficient at getting products to the customer.
It's a feature for the advertisers. I'm going to be severely annoyed when an ad pauses when my phone gets tossed under a pillow. My typical ad-watching experience is to focus on whatever I've got on TV until the noise under the pillow stops.
So ... Juicero Inc. makes a juice machine and that juice machine makes juice ...
It makes both the juicer & the bags that go in it, containing the juicing material. It appears that Juicero makes both juicers and juice. The question might have been about which their focus was on. At $400, they're not giving away the shaver to sell blades, but it's clear that they're partly counting on the subscription model.
You want to know what web pages I visit? Fire up a script that visits all of them.
You're only a couple of steps away from inventing tor.
Bladerunner was a classic that in no way needed a sequel. That said, I'm all kinds of excited for the sequel.
But I suspect the technical solution here is to add a direct feed of known non-human audio sources (TV, radio, stereo system) to devices like Google Home or Alexa.
Are you suggesting that we add a bunch of miscellaneous ports to the Home/Echo and wire in every audio source in the house? Or maybe you're picturing small wireless mics next to all those sources to isolate their audio and counter it? I see no obvious, practical way to implement this technical solution. How do you picture this "direct feed of known non-human audio sources" working?
I guess I spoke too quickly - I've seen a similar situation. We were contractors working on LANL property. When the LANL employees got holidays that we didn't, our employees were unable to work and burned vacation hours for the day. They weren't "prohibited from working due to company holiday policy", but they were prohibited from working due to another company's policy. I'd still be upset if it was my company declaring the holiday and not paying me for it, but for I guess it's different for hourly employees whose employers close for the day. Apparently I'm spoiled. I have worked hourly jobs that provided paid vacation days, the exception being a convenience store that never closed. I also worked as a calc tutor for a university center that wouldn't pay hours on holidays, but I wouldn't really classify that as a "real job". Still not sure I agree with GP's assertion that paid winter holidays are "rare", although week-long stretches probably are. I got Dec 22 & 25 this year. Personally, I wouldn't call forced unpaid time off "vacation".
So the lesson is... Never save anything because your savings might lose value? That seems like terrible advice.
Most people also get a week or two of vacation around the winter holidays, but it's rare for it to be a paid vacation.
Really? That doesn't fit my definition of a vacation. At every job I've held I've been paid for any days that I was prohibited from working due to company holiday policy. I'd be pissed as hell if I was forced to take unpaid time off. Where are you working that you're being forced to take unpaid holidays?
What in the world did "Raspberry Pi in the bum" mean before??
There's a new MacGyver?
There is a new MacGyver. I loved the original, so I watched part of one new ones. I quickly came to the conclusion that it was made for children. It was ridiculous. Then, reflecting back, I had the revelation that the original was also geared toward children. It was ridiculous too. The difference is that 30 years ago I was a child and Mac was fun. I've aged considerably since then. Most of us have.
Mac wouldn't need to build a spare parts computer. He'd just use his shoelaces and a pulley to bend the bars and escape.
All of this has happened before and will happen again.
Was there a writer's strike in 2009? I didn't notice.
You didn't notice? The last writers' strike gave us Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. That was a win in my book.
If 3 million people is enough to consider that Hillary 'really won' the election then is 30 million people enough to consider these diseases worth fighting?
That's 25-30 million people with 7,000 different diseases. That's about 4k people per disease. They're not researching a single cure for all those 30 million people.
WTF does this have to do with the election or number of votes cast? There's only one person still obsessed with the election results and TFA isn't about him.
Are you implying that with the T2 revision, they installed the ability to be bargained and reasoned with, an understanding of pity, remorse, and fear, and programmed it to eventually stop even if I'm not dead?
I really don't remember any impact from the last strike, aside from the Starbucks on Douglas being busier...
The last writer's strike gave us Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. That was a win.
For a few limited cases, those precautions aren't over-reaching. For the rest of us, though, it's a matter of "good enough." Personally I use a VPN, but in many other situations I could be described as lax on avoiding tracking. There's some common sense, and then there's trading convenience for privacy.
If one is going to try to be rational and believe in religion then one has to accept that most religions demand some pretty irrational beliefs.
One man's trash...
...if everyone were to post as AC, then it would be the content of their posts that would be rated and nothing else.
Which is why I don't typically post AC. When a /. user sees my sig, they know that whatever preceded it must have been pure gold and any deviation from its goldiness must have been a misunderstanding.
And now, folks, it's time for "Who do you trust!" Hubba, hubba, hubba! Money, money, money! Who do you trust?
And where is the Batman? He's at home washing his tights!
I trust my VPN provider. Why? Because if I don't, what other options do I have?