They're no longer profitable for nations, but they are quite profitable for certain people/groups within nations, which is why they continue today. The rising cost of conventional warfare is also why drone strikes have become so popular; In the USA they began under Bush the second, expanded under Obama, and have expanded still more under Trump.
Of course you won't criticize the USSR for signing a neutrality pact with the Nazis, since commies are your kind of people. Nor would you criticize the Swedes for remaining neutral throughout the war, because that's just not a popular position.
I'd have criticized those things if the USSR or Sweden were the subject, but they aren't. That's why that shit is whataboutism. Maybe not skipping your meds would help you stay on topic?
I'm sorry, but remind me again how the U.S. is doing just fine without being a member of the EU?
The US is not doing just fine. Unemployment is vastly higher than claimed, and most American citizens don't have $400 in the bank in case an emergency comes up. Homelessness is skyrocketing.
With that said, the US is not Britain. We have orders of magnitude more natural resources to exploit. Try really hard not to ask such stupid questions.
The prosperity of the USA is based in part on our natural resources, and in part based on our behavior during WWII. We knowingly permitted war profiteering in the form of American companies selling war supplies like fuel and metals to the Axis powers, then selectively seized some of those companies and their profits after the conflict. We sat back while other nations bombed one another, then stepped in to bomb Japan since nobody else had done it, and we wanted a place to test our nukes. Nuclear dominance, a proliferation of American military bases, and the fact that everyone but us had been bombed to shit created America's dominant economic position that produced the wealth that the baby boomers enjoyed.
I have it on good authority that there are over 160 countries in the world that aren't part of the EU either. And yet somehow most of them have also found a way to get food, medicine, etc. and survive just fine without the EU telling them what to do.
Many of those other nations are highly dependent on foreign aid. Lots of them are not doing very well at all.
Again, you would think Britain hadn't existed just fine on its own for hundreds of years before 1973.
That's probably because it didn't. Its success was due to imperialism, which became less profitable for them in recent times, so they abandoned it and moved towards free trade instead. Brexit will interfere with free trade, and they can't realistically go back to imperialism...
Agreed./. needs to long duration site-bans for any IP address that posts the garbage parent is talking about, even if there are legit users from that IP address.
No, that's a terrible idea. Lots of small-to-medium-sized ISPs funnel all their web traffic through a single IP. I've been hit with IP bans before because of that kind of crap, and I'm not even in the same town as the offender.
The effort required to turn Apple laptops into top-quality tools is far lower than that required to turn a Windows laptop into a top-quality tool. That's why we don't switch.
If you buy an Apple laptop with a garbage keyboard and no card reader, you're a top-quality tool.
The fact is that you're an idiot who seems to think that IBM was part of the US government.
The USA knew what IBM was doing. They also knew Alcoa was selling Aluminum, and they knew about the corporation selling the fuel (used to have a nice reference for him) etc. And it also knew that the holocaust was occurring, but delayed entry into the war so that everyone else would be at a disadvantage, having been bombed repeatedly. Japan wasn't getting bombed, though, so we did it. Then we were in the ideal position to domination manufacturing for quite some years, which is where the prosperity that the boomers enjoyed came from.
No, bicycles really do have bigger wheels, and 29ers really are taking over, especially in MTBs.
If you look back to the penny farthing bicycles huge wheels and full size wheels have been common.
If the wheel is too large, then it causes other problems. But bicycle wheels come in a variety of sizes, and the wheels of relatively contemporary bicycles with two identically-sized wheels have been growing in diameter somewhat steadily.
Yet mountain bikes do better with a bit smaller and fatter wheels. Small, 20 inch wheels work fine and can be very strong but they are also slow and require more pedal effort at higher speeds.
All bollocks. Small 20 inch wheels are only used on BMX bicycles, and children's bikes, not on adult-sized MTBs.
Scooters have been around a long time but they have only ever been popular in countries where people can't afford vehicles with larger wheels. There's a reason for that, and it should be obvious. The smaller the wheel, the larger every road obstacle seems, and the harder they are to get over. In recent years, bicycle wheels have gotten bigger because of this factor.
Placing something like that in an USB cord is relatively easy, but in a power cord it is not.
If they've got supposed ferrite beads, the transformer is easily placed there. You also don't actually need a transformer. You would be able to find it by measuring capacitance, but you would have to be looking for it.
No customer at a casino wants to interact with a robot.
The casinos are chock-full of people sitting around pumping money into slot machines. You really think those people will give a shit if their free drinks come from a robot? They're already glued to one.
nobody who knows anything about drinking ever wants a drink measured by a machine.
If you knew anything about drinking, you'd know that most properties are already using measured shots. They've got pour nozzles that do it automatically.
That goes double when said machine gets to decide when you get to have a free drink in the first place
That's already how it works in many properties, and I'd be surprised if that wasn't how it worked at every MGM property already.
The bottom line is if you give me machines to interact with, I can just stay home.
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wars stopped being profitable in the 1800's.
They're no longer profitable for nations, but they are quite profitable for certain people/groups within nations, which is why they continue today. The rising cost of conventional warfare is also why drone strikes have become so popular; In the USA they began under Bush the second, expanded under Obama, and have expanded still more under Trump.
Of course you won't criticize the USSR for signing a neutrality pact with the Nazis, since commies are your kind of people. Nor would you criticize the Swedes for remaining neutral throughout the war, because that's just not a popular position.
I'd have criticized those things if the USSR or Sweden were the subject, but they aren't. That's why that shit is whataboutism. Maybe not skipping your meds would help you stay on topic?
I'm sorry, but remind me again how the U.S. is doing just fine without being a member of the EU?
The US is not doing just fine. Unemployment is vastly higher than claimed, and most American citizens don't have $400 in the bank in case an emergency comes up. Homelessness is skyrocketing.
With that said, the US is not Britain. We have orders of magnitude more natural resources to exploit. Try really hard not to ask such stupid questions.
The prosperity of the USA is based in part on our natural resources, and in part based on our behavior during WWII. We knowingly permitted war profiteering in the form of American companies selling war supplies like fuel and metals to the Axis powers, then selectively seized some of those companies and their profits after the conflict. We sat back while other nations bombed one another, then stepped in to bomb Japan since nobody else had done it, and we wanted a place to test our nukes. Nuclear dominance, a proliferation of American military bases, and the fact that everyone but us had been bombed to shit created America's dominant economic position that produced the wealth that the baby boomers enjoyed.
I have it on good authority that there are over 160 countries in the world that aren't part of the EU either. And yet somehow most of them have also found a way to get food, medicine, etc. and survive just fine without the EU telling them what to do.
Many of those other nations are highly dependent on foreign aid. Lots of them are not doing very well at all.
Amazing how Britain did just fine on its own before 1973, huh?
They weren't on their own, they were stealing resources from other nations.
I guess they must have been "asleep" for those hundreds of years prior, when they were helping to develop modern civilization,
...in their image, at gunpoint.
We really don't need advice from Americans, thanks anyway.
That's the attitude that's got you where you are today... at the brink of Brexit. But go on with your badself, it ought to be good for a laugh.
Again, you would think Britain hadn't existed just fine on its own for hundreds of years before 1973.
That's probably because it didn't. Its success was due to imperialism, which became less profitable for them in recent times, so they abandoned it and moved towards free trade instead. Brexit will interfere with free trade, and they can't realistically go back to imperialism...
a few days before the UK has to decide if they stay or leave. The UK is quite likely to stay in EU (rather than face a hard brexit).
I want to believe that too, but they've come this far...
Agreed. /. needs to long duration site-bans for any IP address that posts the garbage parent is talking about, even if there are legit users from that IP address.
No, that's a terrible idea. Lots of small-to-medium-sized ISPs funnel all their web traffic through a single IP. I've been hit with IP bans before because of that kind of crap, and I'm not even in the same town as the offender.
How is "parts that don't break before the warranty expires" _almost_ a given?
Courage? Thinking differently?
The effort required to turn Apple laptops into top-quality tools is far lower than that required to turn a Windows laptop into a top-quality tool. That's why we don't switch.
If you buy an Apple laptop with a garbage keyboard and no card reader, you're a top-quality tool.
Bicicle weels are getting bigger? [...] So no idea what you are talking about.
So why, uh, "contribute"? Just trying to make Slashdot grate?
The fact is that you're an idiot who seems to think that IBM was part of the US government.
The USA knew what IBM was doing. They also knew Alcoa was selling Aluminum, and they knew about the corporation selling the fuel (used to have a nice reference for him) etc. And it also knew that the holocaust was occurring, but delayed entry into the war so that everyone else would be at a disadvantage, having been bombed repeatedly. Japan wasn't getting bombed, though, so we did it. Then we were in the ideal position to domination manufacturing for quite some years, which is where the prosperity that the boomers enjoyed came from.
First you have to ask for permission to shut down the computer, remove and reflash a hard drive with bad wares
Why would you have to remove the HD to reflash it? Many if not most modern HDDs have user-upgradeable firmware.
They're also pretty popular on folding bikes, which often have 16 or 20 inch wheels.
True, although you can get folders with 27s. Also, I've ridden folding bikes, and the smaller wheels absolutely transmit more bumps into your bum.
The larger wheels seen on bicycles is a myth.
No, bicycles really do have bigger wheels, and 29ers really are taking over, especially in MTBs.
If you look back to the penny farthing bicycles huge wheels and full size wheels have been common.
If the wheel is too large, then it causes other problems. But bicycle wheels come in a variety of sizes, and the wheels of relatively contemporary bicycles with two identically-sized wheels have been growing in diameter somewhat steadily.
Yet mountain bikes do better with a bit smaller and fatter wheels. Small, 20 inch wheels work fine and can be very strong but they are also slow and require more pedal effort at higher speeds.
All bollocks. Small 20 inch wheels are only used on BMX bicycles, and children's bikes, not on adult-sized MTBs.
This seems to be be something the Consumer Product Safety Council should be doing instead.
Trump nerfed the CPSC.
Scooters have been around a long time but they have only ever been popular in countries where people can't afford vehicles with larger wheels. There's a reason for that, and it should be obvious. The smaller the wheel, the larger every road obstacle seems, and the harder they are to get over. In recent years, bicycle wheels have gotten bigger because of this factor.
It's a non-issue. Someone could put an underwater camera and mike in your toilet and record you jacking off and taking a shit too.
I just feel sorry for Mike.
Placing something like that in an USB cord is relatively easy, but in a power cord it is not.
If they've got supposed ferrite beads, the transformer is easily placed there. You also don't actually need a transformer. You would be able to find it by measuring capacitance, but you would have to be looking for it.
Also Remote Play DOES support more platforms now, which is what this article is about.
Yes, now. But it was hardly the first to do that, which was my point to begin with.
So instead of going all "Sony users are sheeple" like a dumbass neckbearded aspie,
Nobody who's not an aspie says aspie or neckbeard as an insult. Checkmate.
Centronics, or nothing!
As it happens, this device satisfies your condition. Are you one of the 29?
You left out quite a lot of information by cherry picking those parts.
Those facts, you mean. If you have a problem with those facts, then by all means counter them. Otherwise, in short,
Fuck off and die.
I give you facts, you mod them troll, then you have less modpoints. I'll get more karma tomorrow. Mod away!
Remember, you could use remote play on the PSP to connect to the PS3 and play PSone games and use media.
From Sony to Sony? Whee! Keep giving them money, I'm sure they'll respect you someday
No customer at a casino wants to interact with a robot.
The casinos are chock-full of people sitting around pumping money into slot machines. You really think those people will give a shit if their free drinks come from a robot? They're already glued to one.
nobody who knows anything about drinking ever wants a drink measured by a machine.
If you knew anything about drinking, you'd know that most properties are already using measured shots. They've got pour nozzles that do it automatically.
That goes double when said machine gets to decide when you get to have a free drink in the first place
That's already how it works in many properties, and I'd be surprised if that wasn't how it worked at every MGM property already.
The bottom line is if you give me machines to interact with, I can just stay home.
You've got slot machines in your home?