If I told young people how much sex we had in the seventies, they wouldn't even believe it.
I was there in the 70/80's and I have a job to believe it too. The girlfriends I had then were all resolute virgins. At least they acted as virgins when it came to me.
These basement dwelling neckbeards just to get out of their "aparentments" and get laid. The main obstacle is money:
No, the main obstacle is shortage of women willing to get laid. Large numbers of women have turned away from men entirely, so there are too many men chasing too few women - so women can be fussy. I believe that the neckbeard syndrome is the result not the cause of this.
I cannot imagine any woman liking a neckbeard (or any sort of beard) anyway. My first advice would be to shave it off. However, beards are only one of many ways in which some men contrive to make themselves revolting to most women (obesity, smoking, drinking, attitude are others). Jeez, I found dating hard enough and I was not bad looking, athletic, well-off and have no bad habits; I hate to think how difficult it must be for men who seem to make obstacles for themselves deliberately.
As for "getting out of their apartments and get laid", perhaps you would like to fill us in with more detail on the intermediate steps. It isn't easy, I found.
As women move further up the ladder economically they are less and less dependent on men. While women still have their own inherent sexual drive, their sex drive is lower than men.
This is right, but you do not mention all the implications. One result is that a significant proportion of women (in the West at least) can and do reject men entirely, or have a brief sexual fling around the mid-20s, and then no more. This means that while males and females are born in roughly equal numbers, by their late 20's there are too many potentially active men for the number of active women. I have read it claimed that "90% of the sex is had by 10% of the men" - probably an overstatement but you get the point.
Add to this (in the UK at least) the fact that many working class girls (who usually make better partners than career women TBH) have an illegitimate child as a result of which they withdraw from society as they cannot afford baby care - but meanwhile the absentee father carries on in the dating game from the very next day.
Add to this the fact that the majority of immigrants (H1Bs in the USA for example) are male, only partly balanced by the fact that the proportion of prostitutes among female immigrants (again, in the UK at least) is significantly higher than among females as a whole.
I think if I had my time again I would not bother with Western women at all; I would look for a recent Indian or Oriental immigrant girl. I've heard that they like Englishmen.
.... we have bigots here that think Indians are Iranian and can't tell the difference between Sikhs and Muslim extremists. I would say get to know a group of people before you start hating them, but then that might make it too hard to actually hate them.
It usually makes it easier. Civil wars are between sides who know each other's ways very well - too well. The more I know people the less I like them in general, irrespective of race etc. I find that the majority of people are actually shits under a civilised veneer. In the UK people are now very familiar with all these different immigrant groups, thanks to SJWs' aim of "multi-culture" being rammed down our throats all the time. The more time goes on, the more that the original UK people are getting fed-up with the newcomers (and the overcrowding that they are causing), and the newcomer groups don't like each other either. I have a Chinese friend who hates black people with a vengence for example.
I think we are heading for a big crunch within the next generation or two, even civil war, which mis-guided idiots like this Browder douchbag are only fuelling.
No, spam is UNSOLICITED commercial email. When you did whatever action you did on their site to receive it, you solicited them to send it
Bullshit. My "action" is to buy something online (it is getting hard to find some types of stuff any other way). Buying something is not "soliciting" for email adverts for ever after.
Anyway, I use disposable email addresses for purchasing. After it's delivered, I turn off the address and their spam is going into a black hole somewhere, not even as far as my spam directory. But I can look at the stats and see that some companies I have bought from (including a gardening supplier I bought a $10 item from 5 years ago) have sent me thousands of emails - a situation that is ridiculous
During the Publix pilot program, the produce they shipped was only the best stuff.
Of course - for a pilot program.
Remember, the produce is coming direct from the warehouse to your kitchen, it doesn't have to sit in the retail bins being fondled by everyone and sprayed every 5 minutes to stay looking fresh.... mostly, the warehouse doesn't ship bad stuff to the store - the stuff goes bad while on the store shelves.
But if this idea takes off, the grocery store will send stuff back to the warehouse when it is getting close to its expiry date, and then the warehouse will send it out to people who have remote-ordered a delivery. That's because on a shop shelf people tend to avoid the stuff close to its date and the shop finds it difficult to shift it. Dumping it on remote customers (instead of trashing a lot of it as now) will be a God-send to the grocery compnaies.
my shopping basket mostly consists of fresh produce and other perishables like meat and dairy..... I pay close attention to the quality and freshness of the things I buy,... I closely look at the Best Before dates. None of this will work too well if some could-care-less minimum wager selects items for me
But those pickers will care very much what they pick for you. They will be under strict instructions to pick the stuff with the closest expiry date - or be fired.
In years past to use some web based software supplied by vendor you HAD to use IE or it wouldn't work.
Or the website nagged you to use IE, even though it worked fine in other browsers. Back then, to get the website to STFU, non-IE users arranged spoofing to make the website think they were using IE even though they were not.
Shouldn't the level of quality be up to the customer?
You don't know the quality of the driver's English until he turns up or even until after the ride starts.
Sounds like you follow the Thatcher theory that the market decides best because people are "all-knowing" - so it assumes. But people are not all-knowing.
This is a TERRIBLE IDEA!..... the manufacturer will close all authorized service in that state. Require shipping the device out of state for repair. They could go as far as requiring shipping out of the US for repair.
What BS. There will always be a proportion of the population who will be prepared to pay more for an authorised dealer repair. I have a top-of-the range Pentax camera needing repair. In the UK there is no restriction on anyone repairing a camera but I still took it to a Pentax authorised repairer. But I repair my own cars and computers.
There are some good reasons why an authorised repairer should cost more than an unauthorised one, such as having attended the manufacturer's training course. There are also some no-good reasons : I approaced an "authorised repairer" for my phone (listed as such on the phone maker's website) and it transpired that they were not even aware that they were one. I guess some previous manager had paid the maker for the right to say they were one, and there was nothing more to it than that.
I bought something. It stopped working. It had to be shipped to China for warranty repair. It wasn't expensive and I threw it out. Lesson learned.
Since this would require 2 copies of the OS and firmware to be stored in the unit (which will have to be stored somewhere that won't be overwritten accidentally), this will just bump the price up.
Of course it does not have to be stored in the unit. In any case storage is cheap, an my laptop does have a restore/repair partition as it happens.
This is a technical site you are posting to. Don't insult our intelligence.
I would honestly be happy to trade able-to-repair for free-repair rules on a lot of things that I am just not competent or equipped to repair with or without a manual.
It would not be "free", it would be in the cost of the lease. Hiring/leasing things more than occasionally costs far more than owning them, unless you are the sort of person who is forever busting things and cannot repair them (which characteristics usually go together). The leaser also controls what you get, which in the case of IT equipment will include adverts constantly stuffed down your throat (to "enrich" your experinece).
Conspicuous by its absence is "Repair", despite the fact that it would have made a nice 4th "R". A lot of the problem is that politicians are the sort of people (PPE graduates mostly) who have never repaired anything in their lives and regard repairing as doing something dodgy and disreputable
I actually had some of my most enjoyable dates with women I met on Craigslist personals -- where half the time, they didn't even share a photo. I just went by what they wrote and how they wrote it, to determine if they seemed intelligent, relatively honest, and if we had some things in common.
I gave up looking for "ideal" profiles (same interests etc) because I found that the more "ideal" they sounded the less likely they were to respond. As you said:-
When I put in the effort to really read through detailed profiles, compare "compatibility percentages" based on tests we both took, and contact people who shared mutual interests and beliefs.... I generally got no response at all.
In the end I did not worry if "they seemed intelligent, relatively honest" etc and I just contacted those which were (1) shorter than me (I'm a guy); (2) 0-8 years younger then me; (3) reasonably near to me ( I was in a big city anyway); and (4) not ugly in their photo if there was one. That way I met some girls from utterly different backgrounds from mine (including, believe it or not, an ex- Playboy Club Bunny Girl, but she was not as hot as that might sound) and found that whether we clicked or not was orthogonal to commonalities on paper. I never expected nor wanted an intellectual sparring partner.
This. What I find hilarious is I buy an item online, let's use the new router....... for the next 3-4 months I will see only adds for that item I'm happily using at home now.
You are lucky. 6 months ago I signed up a spamming company to a website for Thai Brides. Now ads for Thai brides keep popping on my screen. I have to shield the screen from my wife.
Sure the advertisers disagree, or they'd fire themselves.
A few brands in the past thought this and stopped advertising. "People" forget quickly - and even more quickly when a competitor keeps advertising.
Not necessarily. For example in the UK (and maybe the World) Stihl is the best brand of outdooor machinery. But I have never seen an advert for Stihl in the media. Yet they dominate the professional market because of their reputation which people do not "forget".
1 - People are born and people die.
Adverts are not the only way that people learn of a brand. They learn from other users, reviews on the web (amateur and profesional) and simply Googling for makers' web sites. If I want to buy a camera I would Google for "cameras" and find the web sites for Nikon, Canon etc. I don't think anyone is complaining about advertising in the form of makers' websites describing their range of stuff.
2 - People who do use XYZ product are likely to use more or choose a specific brand if they are constantly exposed to it. Think "Bud/Coors/XYZ light please" at the bar. You are more likely to choose something that is "top of mind" and advertising keeps it top of mind.
Nope. Talking beer, what is top of my mind is the beer I like. I've tried many beers and II prefer London Pride - but never seen it advertised.
[the advert] crosses the threshold into annoyance status. In which case the target is irritated by the brand, and actively or passively avoid it.
Agreed.
Some brands I avoid (in the UK) because of annoying ads - Karcher (pressure washing kit), Quality Street (chocolates), Microsoft (lots of other reasons to avoid them too), GoCompare (insurance), Blackthorn (cider).
Knowing how expensive advertising is, if a brand is heavily advertised I know that less money is going on the quality of the product itself.
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If I told young people how much sex we had in the seventies, they wouldn't even believe it.
I was there in the 70/80's and I have a job to believe it too. The girlfriends I had then were all resolute virgins. At least they acted as virgins when it came to me.
These basement dwelling neckbeards just to get out of their "aparentments" and get laid. The main obstacle is money:
No, the main obstacle is shortage of women willing to get laid. Large numbers of women have turned away from men entirely, so there are too many men chasing too few women - so women can be fussy. I believe that the neckbeard syndrome is the result not the cause of this.
I cannot imagine any woman liking a neckbeard (or any sort of beard) anyway. My first advice would be to shave it off. However, beards are only one of many ways in which some men contrive to make themselves revolting to most women (obesity, smoking, drinking, attitude are others). Jeez, I found dating hard enough and I was not bad looking, athletic, well-off and have no bad habits; I hate to think how difficult it must be for men who seem to make obstacles for themselves deliberately.
As for "getting out of their apartments and get laid", perhaps you would like to fill us in with more detail on the intermediate steps. It isn't easy, I found.
As women move further up the ladder economically they are less and less dependent on men. While women still have their own inherent sexual drive, their sex drive is lower than men.
This is right, but you do not mention all the implications. One result is that a significant proportion of women (in the West at least) can and do reject men entirely, or have a brief sexual fling around the mid-20s, and then no more. This means that while males and females are born in roughly equal numbers, by their late 20's there are too many potentially active men for the number of active women. I have read it claimed that "90% of the sex is had by 10% of the men" - probably an overstatement but you get the point.
Add to this (in the UK at least) the fact that many working class girls (who usually make better partners than career women TBH) have an illegitimate child as a result of which they withdraw from society as they cannot afford baby care - but meanwhile the absentee father carries on in the dating game from the very next day.
Add to this the fact that the majority of immigrants (H1Bs in the USA for example) are male, only partly balanced by the fact that the proportion of prostitutes among female immigrants (again, in the UK at least) is significantly higher than among females as a whole.
I think if I had my time again I would not bother with Western women at all; I would look for a recent Indian or Oriental immigrant girl. I've heard that they like Englishmen.
.... we have bigots here that think Indians are Iranian and can't tell the difference between Sikhs and Muslim extremists. I would say get to know a group of people before you start hating them, but then that might make it too hard to actually hate them.
It usually makes it easier. Civil wars are between sides who know each other's ways very well - too well. The more I know people the less I like them in general, irrespective of race etc. I find that the majority of people are actually shits under a civilised veneer. In the UK people are now very familiar with all these different immigrant groups, thanks to SJWs' aim of "multi-culture" being rammed down our throats all the time. The more time goes on, the more that the original UK people are getting fed-up with the newcomers (and the overcrowding that they are causing), and the newcomer groups don't like each other either. I have a Chinese friend who hates black people with a vengence for example.
I think we are heading for a big crunch within the next generation or two, even civil war, which mis-guided idiots like this Browder douchbag are only fuelling.
Spam is UNWANTED e-mail.
No, spam is UNSOLICITED commercial email. When you did whatever action you did on their site to receive it, you solicited them to send it
Bullshit. My "action" is to buy something online (it is getting hard to find some types of stuff any other way). Buying something is not "soliciting" for email adverts for ever after.
Anyway, I use disposable email addresses for purchasing. After it's delivered, I turn off the address and their spam is going into a black hole somewhere, not even as far as my spam directory. But I can look at the stats and see that some companies I have bought from (including a gardening supplier I bought a $10 item from 5 years ago) have sent me thousands of emails - a situation that is ridiculous
During the Publix pilot program, the produce they shipped was only the best stuff.
Of course - for a pilot program.
Remember, the produce is coming direct from the warehouse to your kitchen, it doesn't have to sit in the retail bins being fondled by everyone and sprayed every 5 minutes to stay looking fresh.... mostly, the warehouse doesn't ship bad stuff to the store - the stuff goes bad while on the store shelves.
But if this idea takes off, the grocery store will send stuff back to the warehouse when it is getting close to its expiry date, and then the warehouse will send it out to people who have remote-ordered a delivery. That's because on a shop shelf people tend to avoid the stuff close to its date and the shop finds it difficult to shift it. Dumping it on remote customers (instead of trashing a lot of it as now) will be a God-send to the grocery compnaies.
my shopping basket mostly consists of fresh produce and other perishables like meat and dairy. .... I pay close attention to the quality and freshness of the things I buy, ... I closely look at the Best Before dates. None of this will work too well if some could-care-less minimum wager selects items for me
But those pickers will care very much what they pick for you. They will be under strict instructions to pick the stuff with the closest expiry date - or be fired.
Stuff the food.. Free Robot!
Steal enough of them and build yourself an army
Be prepared for a fight. These robots may be built like the Terminator.
Home delivery has existed for years. Tried it once and it failed - robots instead of vans would make no difference.
1) They send you the least fresh stock they have. Maybe doesn't matter if you only eat canned beans.
2) If you choose something advertised at reduced price, they charge you full price "because the reduced price stock ran out".
3) Half the time they send you an alternative "because what you ordered ran out". Once I got six (!) cabbages instead of 1kg carrots.
Maybe you "have a right to complain", but fuck that hassle.
[citation needed]
The GP asked a question. Why do you need a citation for a question?
In years past to use some web based software supplied by vendor you HAD to use IE or it wouldn't work.
Or the website nagged you to use IE, even though it worked fine in other browsers. Back then, to get the website to STFU, non-IE users arranged spoofing to make the website think they were using IE even though they were not.
Anytime you visit Google with a non-Chrome browser it tries to push Chrome on you.
You prompted me to try it, went to Google's home page (with Firefox 45.7.0). What you claim did not happen. Sorry.
Now I want to run my car past it made up to look like the batmobile, see what it does with THAT...
They will reckon that you are a nutjob, and they'd be right.
This is just more right wing racist bs guised as a legitimate concern.
Transport for London, which is pushing this, is chaired by the Mayor of London. He looks just like a right wing racist, doesn't he?
Some English people feel terribly distressed when they see foreigners wearing their foreign clothing in the street.
Not me. I'd rather be able to recognise a foreigner.
ShanghaiBill wrote
Shouldn't the level of quality be up to the customer?
You don't know the quality of the driver's English until he turns up or even until after the ride starts.
Sounds like you follow the Thatcher theory that the market decides best because people are "all-knowing" - so it assumes. But people are not all-knowing.
This is a TERRIBLE IDEA!..... the manufacturer will close all authorized service in that state. Require shipping the device out of state for repair. They could go as far as requiring shipping out of the US for repair.
What BS. There will always be a proportion of the population who will be prepared to pay more for an authorised dealer repair. I have a top-of-the range Pentax camera needing repair. In the UK there is no restriction on anyone repairing a camera but I still took it to a Pentax authorised repairer. But I repair my own cars and computers.
There are some good reasons why an authorised repairer should cost more than an unauthorised one, such as having attended the manufacturer's training course. There are also some no-good reasons : I approaced an "authorised repairer" for my phone (listed as such on the phone maker's website) and it transpired that they were not even aware that they were one. I guess some previous manager had paid the maker for the right to say they were one, and there was nothing more to it than that.
I bought something. It stopped working. It had to be shipped to China for warranty repair. It wasn't expensive and I threw it out. Lesson learned.
WTF has that got to do with this discussion?
Since this would require 2 copies of the OS and firmware to be stored in the unit (which will have to be stored somewhere that won't be overwritten accidentally), this will just bump the price up.
Of course it does not have to be stored in the unit. In any case storage is cheap, an my laptop does have a restore/repair partition as it happens.
This is a technical site you are posting to. Don't insult our intelligence.
I would honestly be happy to trade able-to-repair for free-repair rules on a lot of things that I am just not competent or equipped to repair with or without a manual.
It would not be "free", it would be in the cost of the lease. Hiring/leasing things more than occasionally costs far more than owning them, unless you are the sort of person who is forever busting things and cannot repair them (which characteristics usually go together). The leaser also controls what you get, which in the case of IT equipment will include adverts constantly stuffed down your throat (to "enrich" your experinece).
The US Government (the UK's too) says "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" to save the planet.
Conspicuous by its absence is "Repair", despite the fact that it would have made a nice 4th "R". A lot of the problem is that politicians are the sort of people (PPE graduates mostly) who have never repaired anything in their lives and regard repairing as doing something dodgy and disreputable
This is how politicians see DiY repairs
King_TJ wrote :
I actually had some of my most enjoyable dates with women I met on Craigslist personals -- where half the time, they didn't even share a photo. I just went by what they wrote and how they wrote it, to determine if they seemed intelligent, relatively honest, and if we had some things in common.
I gave up looking for "ideal" profiles (same interests etc) because I found that the more "ideal" they sounded the less likely they were to respond. As you said :-
When I put in the effort to really read through detailed profiles, compare "compatibility percentages" based on tests we both took, and contact people who shared mutual interests and beliefs.... I generally got no response at all.
In the end I did not worry if "they seemed intelligent, relatively honest" etc and I just contacted those which were (1) shorter than me (I'm a guy); (2) 0-8 years younger then me; (3) reasonably near to me ( I was in a big city anyway); and (4) not ugly in their photo if there was one. That way I met some girls from utterly different backgrounds from mine (including, believe it or not, an ex- Playboy Club Bunny Girl, but she was not as hot as that might sound) and found that whether we clicked or not was orthogonal to commonalities on paper. I never expected nor wanted an intellectual sparring partner.
This. What I find hilarious is I buy an item online, let's use the new router ....... for the next 3-4 months I will see only adds for that item I'm happily using at home now.
You are lucky. 6 months ago I signed up a spamming company to a website for Thai Brides. Now ads for Thai brides keep popping on my screen. I have to shield the screen from my wife.
The advertisers would disagree..
Sure the advertisers disagree, or they'd fire themselves.
A few brands in the past thought this and stopped advertising. "People" forget quickly - and even more quickly when a competitor keeps advertising.
Not necessarily. For example in the UK (and maybe the World) Stihl is the best brand of outdooor machinery. But I have never seen an advert for Stihl in the media. Yet they dominate the professional market because of their reputation which people do not "forget".
1 - People are born and people die.
Adverts are not the only way that people learn of a brand. They learn from other users, reviews on the web (amateur and profesional) and simply Googling for makers' web sites. If I want to buy a camera I would Google for "cameras" and find the web sites for Nikon, Canon etc. I don't think anyone is complaining about advertising in the form of makers' websites describing their range of stuff.
2 - People who do use XYZ product are likely to use more or choose a specific brand if they are constantly exposed to it. Think "Bud/Coors/XYZ light please" at the bar. You are more likely to choose something that is "top of mind" and advertising keeps it top of mind.
Nope. Talking beer, what is top of my mind is the beer I like. I've tried many beers and II prefer London Pride - but never seen it advertised.
[the advert] crosses the threshold into annoyance status. In which case the target is irritated by the brand, and actively or passively avoid it.
Agreed.
Some brands I avoid (in the UK) because of annoying ads - Karcher (pressure washing kit), Quality Street (chocolates), Microsoft (lots of other reasons to avoid them too), GoCompare (insurance), Blackthorn (cider).
Knowing how expensive advertising is, if a brand is heavily advertised I know that less money is going on the quality of the product itself.
Ha! As if anyone uses general-purpose search engines for media, rather than going straight to their favorite torrent or nzb index.
But they keep closing down and re-opening under a different names and IP addresses.