Not sure I'd be paying for it for just one or the other, but the free shipping on eligible items and Amazon Video on my Roku make it a sweet deal.
My coworkers get a laugh at how many packages I get, but for anyone who's busy, there are countless items that are just a pain to get in the store, but easy as pie to just show up in a box and bring home from work. (Have 'em shipped to work to avoid the whole randomness of where packages get left thing.)
I am afraid to the government of United Police State of America this is no longer enough.
What is going on in the supposedly Western Democracy nowadays is that it is marching towards fascism.
OK... that would make one Barack H. Obama the fascist leader for over five years now. Right? He is in charge of these agencies.
But at the very least, China and Russia never pretend to be "democratic".
Um, yeah they did... Communism always maintained that it was the "true" democracy, that it truly spoke for the will of the common people, who needed bold leaders to speak and act for them, and were incapable of successfully working their will through the regular machinery of democracy.
You might consider that the people who would be making use of this service won't be the poor undereducated ones who never go to the library because they're too busy working to feed their families, but the richer better-educated people who are already up the chain and have ample free time to do this.
Did you seriously just type that?
There are plenty of folks who have "ample free time" on their hands, and the vast majority of them are not richer better-educated people. We have a huge government funded idle-class.
Godwin's Law states: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1" It doesn't mean you automatically lose a debate, it just means that Hitler/Nazis will inevitably get dragged into the conversation.
But online language, like all language, evolves... in current usage, that's exactly what it does mean. "Dude, you lost, you brought up the Nazis".
When will product managers understand that trying to compete by stuffing features into products does not a better product make?
Well, that depends on the user interface, and what all those features are actually being used for.
I can't think of a use case for those features offhand (altitude?)... oh wait, yes I can. guiding you to the right office on the right floor. So it's possible.
Actually, The vote passed the senate 98-1-1 and only 64 members of the house voted no. The patriot act was bipartisian.
Yep.
It's time to get real, leftists. The guy in charge of the NSA and all your other nemesis-es (nemesi?) for more than half a decade now is not Dubya. He's your golden lightbearer hope and change guy.
These guys never take into consideration that you should never grant yourself any powers you wouldn't want your enemies to have...
That's an interesting way to look at it.
Another way to look at it would be that the Patriot Act seems almost quaint by now, and that those who voted for Obama, Pelosi, et al on the basis that they were somehow opposed to the surveillance state were complete fools.
But I can see why they would like your way of looking at it better... it's human nature. Somehow, it still must be all those wascally wepubwicans fault. Probably still will be after two terms of Hillary.
Being born out of wedlock isn't a problem unless you're a religious nut. A stable relationship is important, and marriage, by far, guarantees no such thing (as we've seen with divorce rates).
Which have gone nowhere but up, post sexual revolution. Along with all other indicators of dysfunction.
But why look at actual reality? That's for "religious nuts".
So your high tech utopia is, instead of jumping in your jalopy and going where you want to go immediately, will be call for the taxi, wait for it to arrive, pay fares at least as high as a taxi now, and probably have to pay extra to keep from having to share it with someone else going the same direction.
No thanks.
And that's the transit utopia.
Transit for the masses involves much more crowding, inconvenience, dirt, and crime.
I'll keep my car, thanks... maybe hide it in my uncle's country place that no one knows about...
One core aspect of the problem here is the Hollywood lobby has managed to turn a civil matter copyright infirgment into a criminal one and also got the public footing the bill for most of the investigative work.
These people are vipers.
I wonder if someone is in charge of federal agencies like the FBI.
I wonder if the Hollywood lobby supported and promoted him to no end.
I love all these Slashdot stories full of vague anger at... somebody or other... since we can't be angry at the One Who Must Not Be Named.
If you're that certain you do not wish the job, don't make peoples day any more difficult by being a dickhat. Just politely end the interview saying you are no longer interested in the position.
That kind of response sends the message loud and clear that it was their interview that drove you away and may push them to explain why they were asking such shitty questions. If nothing else it avoids creating an instant adversarial position where your indignation is written off as "you being a dickhat" not that there might be something wrong with their interview process.
We're adults, grow the hell up and stop assuming anyone gives a crap if you act like a smartypants.
Thank you! Finally an adult.
I've had a few questions like that. I try to handle them like an adult. "Probably the same weaknesses as any human. By the way, can you expand a bit on what you mean by "agile development"? It sometimes seems to mean different things in different places."
If the interviewer actually is someone you will be working for or with, it's usually not that hard to get them on track. They don't usually want to ask this stupid stuff either...
Now, what to his wondering eyes does he see? Under delivery options, there's a new 'IMMEDIATE DELIVERY' option for just $5. What? Are they going to use a rocket to send a can of boiled peanuts all the way from wherever the hell Amazon is all the way out here? He skeptically reads the 'more information' link about this new delivery option. All it says is they guarantee delivery in 30 minutes or less, or his peanuts are free. What the hell? Yeah, an extra $5 for a can of peanuts is ridiculous, but the thought of being able to eat some of those heavenly morsels within just a few minutes is too much. He selects IMMEDIATE DELIVERY and punches the buy button. The friendly Amazon truck, which just happens to have boiled peanuts among its cargo, adds Bubba's address to its current route. In 27 minutes, 30 seconds, an incredulous Mr. Hatfield is gazing, teary-eyed, at a can of purest dixie delight right there in his hands.
Nice (though you could write it just as well about some kind of hipster monkey poop coffee or something).
Well, if Bubba thinks it is worth an extra $5 to get his peanuts within the hour, or Pajama Boy thinks it's worth an extra $10 to get his fair trade monkey poop coffee faster, why not? It's no stupider than sometimes paying extra to just walk in a convenience store and grab some milk, instead of walking past 50 aisles and waiting in a long line to get it.
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Time to get rid of the TSA, the only organization that can still get funding with a 0% success rate.
You must be new around government.
Hey, I know a dark subterranean place where you can find lots of WIMPS ...
Not sure I'd be paying for it for just one or the other, but the free shipping on eligible items and Amazon Video on my Roku make it a sweet deal.
My coworkers get a laugh at how many packages I get, but for anyone who's busy, there are countless items that are just a pain to get in the store, but easy as pie to just show up in a box and bring home from work. (Have 'em shipped to work to avoid the whole randomness of where packages get left thing.)
Ah, California ... clearly with your thriving economy and bright future, even more regulation is what you need.
I am afraid to the government of United Police State of America this is no longer enough.
What is going on in the supposedly Western Democracy nowadays is that it is marching towards fascism.
OK ... that would make one Barack H. Obama the fascist leader for over five years now. Right? He is in charge of these agencies.
But at the very least, China and Russia never pretend to be "democratic".
Um, yeah they did ... Communism always maintained that it was the "true" democracy, that it truly spoke for the will of the common people, who needed bold leaders to speak and act for them, and were incapable of successfully working their will through the regular machinery of democracy.
You might consider that the people who would be making use of this service won't be the poor undereducated ones who never go to the library because they're too busy working to feed their families, but the richer better-educated people who are already up the chain and have ample free time to do this.
Did you seriously just type that?
There are plenty of folks who have "ample free time" on their hands, and the vast majority of them are not richer better-educated people. We have a huge government funded idle-class.
Great, a map! Everyone will have something to do during the Obama economy (hunt down and harass their political opponents). Forward!
It's not like there will be any pesky jobs getting in the way! Finally, priorities.
Godwin's Law states: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1" It doesn't mean you automatically lose a debate, it just means that Hitler/Nazis will inevitably get dragged into the conversation.
But online language, like all language, evolves ... in current usage, that's exactly what it does mean. "Dude, you lost, you brought up the Nazis".
Styx – Too Much Time On My Hands
... I can solve New England's problems without even try-ing ...
When will product managers understand that trying to compete by stuffing features into products does not a better product make?
Well, that depends on the user interface, and what all those features are actually being used for.
I can't think of a use case for those features offhand (altitude?) ... oh wait, yes I can. guiding you to the right office on the right floor. So it's possible.
That's all well and good, but what about the spec that really matters: does it beat Google Glass on dorkiness?
In the Navy we called 'em BC glasses (birth control). 'cause you sure weren't going to be fathering any babies wearing 'em ...
Actually, The vote passed the senate 98-1-1 and only 64 members of the house voted no. The patriot act was bipartisian.
Yep.
It's time to get real, leftists. The guy in charge of the NSA and all your other nemesis-es (nemesi?) for more than half a decade now is not Dubya. He's your golden lightbearer hope and change guy.
These guys never take into consideration that you should never grant yourself any powers you wouldn't want your enemies to have...
That's an interesting way to look at it.
Another way to look at it would be that the Patriot Act seems almost quaint by now, and that those who voted for Obama, Pelosi, et al on the basis that they were somehow opposed to the surveillance state were complete fools.
But I can see why they would like your way of looking at it better ... it's human nature. Somehow, it still must be all those wascally wepubwicans fault. Probably still will be after two terms of Hillary.
Bush = Emmanuel Goldstein
... Christmas Eve on Sesame Street gave me the chance to educate my children about typewriters :)
(Cookie monster thought that the round spools of ribbon looked like cookies, so he ate them.)
But if there's one thing people love, it's for an anonymous "black" guy to tell them that their racism is justified.
This is low, even by Slashdot standards.
It's "racist" to say that most sorting results in racial sorting? Even when that is very obviously true? (Have you seen the NBA, for example?)
Being born out of wedlock isn't a problem unless you're a religious nut. A stable relationship is important, and marriage, by far, guarantees no such thing (as we've seen with divorce rates).
Which have gone nowhere but up, post sexual revolution. Along with all other indicators of dysfunction.
But why look at actual reality? That's for "religious nuts".
So your high tech utopia is, instead of jumping in your jalopy and going where you want to go immediately, will be call for the taxi, wait for it to arrive, pay fares at least as high as a taxi now, and probably have to pay extra to keep from having to share it with someone else going the same direction.
No thanks.
And that's the transit utopia.
Transit for the masses involves much more crowding, inconvenience, dirt, and crime.
I'll keep my car, thanks ... maybe hide it in my uncle's country place that no one knows about ...
Like race, perhaps? Even if it works out to race by other proxy characteristics, this has a lot of potential to blow up in the merchants' faces.
Pretty much any sorting ends up inadvertently sorting by race as a side effect
Then we all get to run around in ever smaller circles with our hair on fire, freaking out about it.
I doubt much of our honey comes from bees in the wild and bee farmers have no reason to starting using plastic nests
Unless you are a designer hipster. Which might explain pajama boy ...
When you let government control everything, then everything (including data security) is at government standards.
Some people were suggesting that this was one of many reasons that letting government control everything wasn't such a good idea.
But whew, at least we don't have binders full of women, or whatever it was we were supposed to be so worried about instead ...
Where I once saw kids play Mario on a Nintendo DS, today I see kids play Minecraft of iPads.
I see my kids playing Mario on some website.
I have no idea if it is licensed in some way or not, but there is no licensed Mario for Windows ... or Steam ...
Revenue that Nintendo could have from our family: $some reasonable amount
Revenue that Nintendo does have from our family: $0
One core aspect of the problem here is the Hollywood lobby has managed to turn a civil matter copyright infirgment into a criminal one and also got the public footing the bill for most of the investigative work.
These people are vipers.
I wonder if someone is in charge of federal agencies like the FBI.
I wonder if the Hollywood lobby supported and promoted him to no end.
I love all these Slashdot stories full of vague anger at ... somebody or other ... since we can't be angry at the One Who Must Not Be Named.
If you're that certain you do not wish the job, don't make peoples day any more difficult by being a dickhat. Just politely end the interview saying you are no longer interested in the position.
That kind of response sends the message loud and clear that it was their interview that drove you away and may push them to explain why they were asking such shitty questions. If nothing else it avoids creating an instant adversarial position where your indignation is written off as "you being a dickhat" not that there might be something wrong with their interview process.
We're adults, grow the hell up and stop assuming anyone gives a crap if you act like a smartypants.
Thank you! Finally an adult.
I've had a few questions like that. I try to handle them like an adult. "Probably the same weaknesses as any human. By the way, can you expand a bit on what you mean by "agile development"? It sometimes seems to mean different things in different places."
If the interviewer actually is someone you will be working for or with, it's usually not that hard to get them on track. They don't usually want to ask this stupid stuff either ...
Now, what to his wondering eyes does he see? Under delivery options, there's a new 'IMMEDIATE DELIVERY' option for just $5. What? Are they going to use a rocket to send a can of boiled peanuts all the way from wherever the hell Amazon is all the way out here? He skeptically reads the 'more information' link about this new delivery option. All it says is they guarantee delivery in 30 minutes or less, or his peanuts are free. What the hell? Yeah, an extra $5 for a can of peanuts is ridiculous, but the thought of being able to eat some of those heavenly morsels within just a few minutes is too much. He selects IMMEDIATE DELIVERY and punches the buy button. The friendly Amazon truck, which just happens to have boiled peanuts among its cargo, adds Bubba's address to its current route. In 27 minutes, 30 seconds, an incredulous Mr. Hatfield is gazing, teary-eyed, at a can of purest dixie delight right there in his hands.
Nice (though you could write it just as well about some kind of hipster monkey poop coffee or something).
Well, if Bubba thinks it is worth an extra $5 to get his peanuts within the hour, or Pajama Boy thinks it's worth an extra $10 to get his fair trade monkey poop coffee faster, why not? It's no stupider than sometimes paying extra to just walk in a convenience store and grab some milk, instead of walking past 50 aisles and waiting in a long line to get it.