We cannot populate the galaxy...because distance. The nearest star outside of our system is way too far away. We could never reach there. And no, we cannot build a spaceship that can go any appreciable fraction of the speed of light and there is no such thing as wormholes we can travel through.
With our current understanding of the universe. Christ, are you people so arrogant that you think we understand anything? I mean really understand it? Hell, quantum mechanics was only discovered less than 200 years ago, and before that we though we knew everything. You think we know it all now? Nothing can go faster than the speed of light? I say bull shit. We just haven't figured it out yet. We are still infants crawling around on the floor shitting in our diapers as far as knowledge of the universe goes. Hell, we may only have our head crowning out of our mothers womb.
It's incredibly easy to insert a micro USB connector into the slot of a power outlet, however nothing will happen if you do so. The USB connector isn't long enough to touch the contacts. Even if it did, you wouldn't be completing any circuits, so you wouldn’t be freeing any smoke.
That's not actually accurate in this case. The product in question isn't a TV. It's a "Smart TV". As in, a television with other functions. A person who buys one of these paid a premium for those extra functions.
You've obviously not been TV shopping recently. You're hard pressed to find one without smarts in anything considered a decent size today (above 32"), and the non-smart models are becoming the premium.
There are millions of miles of roads in the rural U.S., both paved and unpaved, with no lines what so ever, most barely wide enough for two cars. The same goes for suburbia, and people aren't running into the ditch or into each other in droves because we know how to stay on the road and on our side. If you need a little white line to tell you where your side of the road ends, then you should probably not be on the road to begin with.
You've just described about 40% of the "articles" I read on c|net, and it's only getting worse. They're pretty easy to spot, but pointing it out in the comments still brings on a multitude of readers who don't believe it's an add.
The sheeple of this world are who's ruining things for the intelligent.
$160k sounds like a pretty low price for builting a house. In 2013 the average construction costs for a new home in the USA seemed to be just shy of $250k
It looks like materials cost about half of this ($146k) according to http://www.fixr.com/costs/buil... so even if you did everything yourself, building a typical house for $160k seems like a bargain.
Good god. I don't need a 2500 sqft mansion, and $125 per is including total contracted out. I'd do most of the work myself so I can get a house better than contractor grade for at least half that. Really the only thing I'd need to contract out would be the foundation and brickwork if I wanted brick.
$165,000.00 for a 972 sqft mobile home on 1.08 acres? Christ, I could buy over 200 acres for less than that around here, and still have plenty left over to build a house.
Free state my ass. More like rip you off on cost of living state.
No sewage runs, just water lines. In fact, they've even had to put water towers out there to keep pressure up. There are some house out there, so that was probably the main justification for water lines and towers, but the camp lines are miles away from any house and on dead-end lines. They end the line at the end of the road or last camp that paid to have the line connected. My uncles camp is about a quarter mile from the previous camp. The next camp out wanted to stick to his well, so the line ends right in front of my uncles camp. He only paid around $100 to have it run down there and a meter put in. Three camps on that five or six mile stretch had water connected. That's $300 or so for six miles of trench and pipe laying.
I don't know about where you're from, but here in Arkansas they are piping water and running power lines all over the place. They've wired electricity and piped water out to hunting camps where no houses have ever been. This is all due to government subsidies, and is cheep as hell for the customers. Around $100 or so for the connection back when they were laying the pipe. My cousin inherited his grandfathers farm out in the middle of nowhere. His grandmother didn't have the water connected when they were piping it, so it's now going to cost him over $800 to connect to the line.
Being the majority of the population lives in larger population centers, that is the correct solution.
No, it's not. The large population centers don't need subsidies to get the latest and greatest, the ISPs can afford to up grade due to the large number of subscribers per line. It's the people out in the boonies that need the subsidies, just like in the days they were rolling out electricity, then phones, then water lines.
Does it really matter? With or without an afterlife, once the brain is dead you are no longer in that body. Funerals and corps preserving are for the living, the dead are dead, and no longer care. I say let body decompose and return to the earth, just like every other living thing.
And this douche is why we're perpetually wondering if this year will be the year of the Linux desktop. Way too many attitudes like this can be found amongst the Linux Elite.
Isn't it obvious to you yet? They don't want normal people to use Linux.
It's not that we don't want normal people to use Linux, it's that we don't want Linux dumbed down to a normal level with no way to turn the dumbness off, which is what usually happens.
My fridge is networked, so is my chest freezer in the basement. I have an ESP8266 in each reporting the temperatures and if it's running the compressor or not for power consumption graphing.
It allows me to get an alarm if the temps rise or if the compressor stays running and does not shut off.
But you don't need the temperature readings reported to, stored and data mined by a third party over the internet before being available to you. This IoT crap is nothing less than a data grab by the corporations. If they were truly interested in helping the customer, they'd agree on a standard for an Network of Things that report to a local server and allow us to do what we want with our data.
Firmware updates on each bulb, switch, outlet and appliance is going to be non existent after realise, and you can bet your ass there will be breaches, and they will have the potential to cost lives.
Or perhaps he keeps most of his cash in a higher yielding savings account,...
Ha! "Higher yielding" Good one.:-) The amount of interest one can earn is pretty minuscule - even one over-draft or maintenance fee could kill any earnings. It's not really worth the hassle to have to monitor and move money around like that.
If you use a bank, you're right. I use a credit union with free overdraft protection, no maintenance fees, and interest on checking, although it's about a quarter of the interest on savings. I may make only $30 to $40 a year in interest, but it's that much more a year I'd not have otherwise. I'm considering keeping it all (or 90% or so) in the savings account and using a credit card, paying off at the end of the month, to make an additional two to three percent. Even at only $100 or so a year, it's a win.
A savings account is not a place for savings, it's a place to make a little bit of interest on quickly accessible cash. Then comes a money market for a bit of emergency cash at a slightly higher interest, then investments to put your money to work with capital gains.
More to the point, if you need to actually check your bank balance at all, you might be doing something wrong.
Like the TV commercial where a guy is looking at new flat screen TVs, checks his bank account with his mobile app, then buys the expensive TV. If you're running that close to the red, perhaps a new TV shouldn't be top on your to-do list.
Or perhaps he keeps most of his cash in a higher yielding savings account, and has to check to see if he needs to transfer over some funds before using his debit card.
And the Westboro Baptist Church is proof we need to get rid of all Christians too, right? People like you are who we need to get rid of. You think exactly like the radical Muslims, just in the opposite direction.
I had a high school friend who was a fan of LSD. Saying it isn't addictive is a lie. He was constantly touting the benefits, which I didn't see in his life.
Having a negative impact on your life is not the same as being addictive. Eating candy bars can have a detrimental impact if you do it enough, but that doesn't make them addictive substances. Sounds like your friend was just a big fan.
Just because it's a popular food additive doesn't mean it's not addictive. There is evidence that that sugar is addictive, so your candy bar comparison may be moot.
While I agree that acronyms, regardless of how popular and well known they should be, should be spelled out in summary’s, any moronically incompetent moron should know that OPT, by and of itself, can have a multitude of meanings, STEM OPT, however, has but one.
Learn to Google, or get the fuck off the internet.
It does give additional recourse to the consumer if they get scammed. They Scum Scammers may have enough legal prescience to cover a lot of the parts of the scam, such as selling a low quality product as high quality, or just offering some sort of lame service for money. But if they are doing the illegal money transfer it gives them one more thing to get them on.
You go to jail for breaking the law, you don't go to jail because you are a waste on human society.
You seriously think this will change anything, or cause anyone to go to jail? "Rob", sitting in a call center on some subcontinent somewhere, while not helping you figure out why your Start Menu doesn't pop up when you press the Windows key, is making spoofed-CID calls to you claiming to be a MS representative that has been informed you're computer has a serious problem, and for a quick $20, they can fix it right up for you.
None of these scammers gives a rats ass about U.S. laws and regulations. They don't apply to them.
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It would be realistic, to 90% of the people watching.
We cannot populate the galaxy...because distance. The nearest star outside of our system is way too far away. We could never reach there. And no, we cannot build a spaceship that can go any appreciable fraction of the speed of light and there is no such thing as wormholes we can travel through.
With our current understanding of the universe. Christ, are you people so arrogant that you think we understand anything? I mean really understand it? Hell, quantum mechanics was only discovered less than 200 years ago, and before that we though we knew everything. You think we know it all now? Nothing can go faster than the speed of light? I say bull shit. We just haven't figured it out yet. We are still infants crawling around on the floor shitting in our diapers as far as knowledge of the universe goes. Hell, we may only have our head crowning out of our mothers womb.
It's incredibly easy to insert a micro USB connector into the slot of a power outlet, however nothing will happen if you do so. The USB connector isn't long enough to touch the contacts. Even if it did, you wouldn't be completing any circuits, so you wouldn’t be freeing any smoke.
That's not actually accurate in this case. The product in question isn't a TV. It's a "Smart TV". As in, a television with other functions. A person who buys one of these paid a premium for those extra functions.
You've obviously not been TV shopping recently. You're hard pressed to find one without smarts in anything considered a decent size today (above 32"), and the non-smart models are becoming the premium.
There are millions of miles of roads in the rural U.S., both paved and unpaved, with no lines what so ever, most barely wide enough for two cars. The same goes for suburbia, and people aren't running into the ditch or into each other in droves because we know how to stay on the road and on our side. If you need a little white line to tell you where your side of the road ends, then you should probably not be on the road to begin with.
You've just described about 40% of the "articles" I read on c|net, and it's only getting worse. They're pretty easy to spot, but pointing it out in the comments still brings on a multitude of readers who don't believe it's an add.
The sheeple of this world are who's ruining things for the intelligent.
You could always go and dig the trench to lay fiber from your home to whatever internet node you want to be connected to.
That's assuming I could get the right of way, and could afford the fiber.
$160k sounds like a pretty low price for builting a house. In 2013 the average construction costs for a new home in the USA seemed to be just shy of $250k
http://eyeonhousing.org/2014/0...
It looks like materials cost about half of this ($146k) according to http://www.fixr.com/costs/buil... so even if you did everything yourself, building a typical house for $160k seems like a bargain.
Good god. I don't need a 2500 sqft mansion, and $125 per is including total contracted out. I'd do most of the work myself so I can get a house better than contractor grade for at least half that. Really the only thing I'd need to contract out would be the foundation and brickwork if I wanted brick.
The trouble with cheap land is that it's a long way from where you want to be.
Unless where you want to be is away from everybody, which is exactly where I want to be if I could get decent internet
Yeah, that may be a bit of an exaggeration, but for $160,000.00 I could get way more than a tad over an acre and build nice a house.
$165,000.00 for a 972 sqft mobile home on 1.08 acres? Christ, I could buy over 200 acres for less than that around here, and still have plenty left over to build a house.
Free state my ass. More like rip you off on cost of living state.
No sewage runs, just water lines. In fact, they've even had to put water towers out there to keep pressure up. There are some house out there, so that was probably the main justification for water lines and towers, but the camp lines are miles away from any house and on dead-end lines. They end the line at the end of the road or last camp that paid to have the line connected. My uncles camp is about a quarter mile from the previous camp. The next camp out wanted to stick to his well, so the line ends right in front of my uncles camp. He only paid around $100 to have it run down there and a meter put in. Three camps on that five or six mile stretch had water connected. That's $300 or so for six miles of trench and pipe laying.
I don't know about where you're from, but here in Arkansas they are piping water and running power lines all over the place. They've wired electricity and piped water out to hunting camps where no houses have ever been. This is all due to government subsidies, and is cheep as hell for the customers. Around $100 or so for the connection back when they were laying the pipe. My cousin inherited his grandfathers farm out in the middle of nowhere. His grandmother didn't have the water connected when they were piping it, so it's now going to cost him over $800 to connect to the line.
Being the majority of the population lives in larger population centers, that is the correct solution.
No, it's not. The large population centers don't need subsidies to get the latest and greatest, the ISPs can afford to up grade due to the large number of subscribers per line. It's the people out in the boonies that need the subsidies, just like in the days they were rolling out electricity, then phones, then water lines.
How do you know?
Does it really matter? With or without an afterlife, once the brain is dead you are no longer in that body. Funerals and corps preserving are for the living, the dead are dead, and no longer care. I say let body decompose and return to the earth, just like every other living thing.
And this douche is why we're perpetually wondering if this year will be the year of the Linux desktop. Way too many attitudes like this can be found amongst the Linux Elite.
Isn't it obvious to you yet? They don't want normal people to use Linux.
It's not that we don't want normal people to use Linux, it's that we don't want Linux dumbed down to a normal level with no way to turn the dumbness off, which is what usually happens.
Yes, thank god for this IoT. How have we all not starved to death without our appliances telling us what we need to purchase?
For christ's sake, open the fridge/pantry and have a look at what you need.
My fridge is networked, so is my chest freezer in the basement. I have an ESP8266 in each reporting the temperatures and if it's running the compressor or not for power consumption graphing.
It allows me to get an alarm if the temps rise or if the compressor stays running and does not shut off.
But you don't need the temperature readings reported to, stored and data mined by a third party over the internet before being available to you. This IoT crap is nothing less than a data grab by the corporations. If they were truly interested in helping the customer, they'd agree on a standard for an Network of Things that report to a local server and allow us to do what we want with our data.
Firmware updates on each bulb, switch, outlet and appliance is going to be non existent after realise, and you can bet your ass there will be breaches, and they will have the potential to cost lives.
Or perhaps he keeps most of his cash in a higher yielding savings account, ...
Ha! "Higher yielding" Good one. :-) The amount of interest one can earn is pretty minuscule - even one over-draft or maintenance fee could kill any earnings. It's not really worth the hassle to have to monitor and move money around like that.
If you use a bank, you're right. I use a credit union with free overdraft protection, no maintenance fees, and interest on checking, although it's about a quarter of the interest on savings. I may make only $30 to $40 a year in interest, but it's that much more a year I'd not have otherwise. I'm considering keeping it all (or 90% or so) in the savings account and using a credit card, paying off at the end of the month, to make an additional two to three percent. Even at only $100 or so a year, it's a win.
A savings account is not a place for savings, it's a place to make a little bit of interest on quickly accessible cash. Then comes a money market for a bit of emergency cash at a slightly higher interest, then investments to put your money to work with capital gains.
More to the point, if you need to actually check your bank balance at all, you might be doing something wrong.
Like the TV commercial where a guy is looking at new flat screen TVs, checks his bank account with his mobile app, then buys the expensive TV. If you're running that close to the red, perhaps a new TV shouldn't be top on your to-do list.
Or perhaps he keeps most of his cash in a higher yielding savings account, and has to check to see if he needs to transfer over some funds before using his debit card.
And the Westboro Baptist Church is proof we need to get rid of all Christians too, right? People like you are who we need to get rid of. You think exactly like the radical Muslims, just in the opposite direction.
I had a high school friend who was a fan of LSD. Saying it isn't addictive is a lie. He was constantly touting the benefits, which I didn't see in his life.
Having a negative impact on your life is not the same as being addictive. Eating candy bars can have a detrimental impact if you do it enough, but that doesn't make them addictive substances. Sounds like your friend was just a big fan.
Just because it's a popular food additive doesn't mean it's not addictive. There is evidence that that sugar is addictive, so your candy bar comparison may be moot.
It was very easy to find. Since you and he both seem to be too lazy to interenet properly, let me help.
While I agree that acronyms, regardless of how popular and well known they should be, should be spelled out in summary’s, any moronically incompetent moron should know that OPT, by and of itself, can have a multitude of meanings, STEM OPT, however, has but one.
Learn to Google, or get the fuck off the internet.
It does give additional recourse to the consumer if they get scammed. They Scum Scammers may have enough legal prescience to cover a lot of the parts of the scam, such as selling a low quality product as high quality, or just offering some sort of lame service for money. But if they are doing the illegal money transfer it gives them one more thing to get them on. You go to jail for breaking the law, you don't go to jail because you are a waste on human society.
You seriously think this will change anything, or cause anyone to go to jail? "Rob", sitting in a call center on some subcontinent somewhere, while not helping you figure out why your Start Menu doesn't pop up when you press the Windows key, is making spoofed-CID calls to you claiming to be a MS representative that has been informed you're computer has a serious problem, and for a quick $20, they can fix it right up for you.
None of these scammers gives a rats ass about U.S. laws and regulations. They don't apply to them.